TPP is the largest--and worst--trade deal you've never heard of

[progressoid]

Published on Jan 29, 2015

The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is the largest--and worst--trade deal you've never heard of and Republicans in Congress want to work with the Obama administration to "fast track" its passage.

[ctsnowman]

1. K & R

[SamKnause]

2. K&R

Simple, concise, and very easy to understand.

...........1 2 3 here come the Obama defenders.

[Johnny Rash]

3. I wonder where they got the idea for conducting those Secret Meetings from?

Could it be that the G8 & G20 meetings, which kept the "Public in the Dark" each time they happened, may have something to do with it?



I have noticed this "Disturbing Trend" unfolding itself out during the last 30 yrs or so; I guess ENOUGH is ENOUGH!

[Enthusiast]

4. K&R! This post should have hundreds of recommendations!

Hundreds!

We must unite in our opposition to the TPP.

[navarth]

5. Anybody hear NPR pumping it the other morning?

They were using protection of wildlife to try and sell it. I was driving so I couldn't throw anything at the radio.

NPR is, IMO, pretty damn compromised. When its support was cut down from D.C. it was only a matter of time before they'd have to start selling off their credibility.

[rurallib]

8. more than pretty damned compromised

let's start with Fox News commentator Mara Liason as their main Washington political reporter............

[KoKo]

16. I can't listen to them, anymore. Even Diane Rheem caved a couple of years ago

and she was the only one left that I could listen to.

[TBF]

6. TPP ~

NAFTA on steroids and that's just the beginning. Privacy - gone. Internet - sold to the highest bidder (corporate control). We as activists have to keep fighting. Just the little bits of TPP that have been leaked have been horrible. It only benefits corporations - like everything else politicians do in this country.

[potone]

7. This may sound naive, but it is a sincere question.

Why is Obama supporting this? I haven't followed this closely, but I truly don't get it. Admittedly, I don't know the details, but it sounds like a terrible deal, and I trust Robert Reich.

[rurallib]

9. my opinion only - follow the money

who were his major contributors for his campaigns? IIRC, finance industry was #1

[daleanime]

10. K&R....

And bookmarked.

[chknltl]

11. S.H.A.F.T.A.

Southern Hemisphere Asian Free Trade Agreement is how I believe Thom Hartmann labels it. Bottom line: Republicans in Congress are for this deal.....too.

[FiveGoodMen]

12. And on another thread

the man who's pushing to fast-track this into existence was hailed as the best president and 'our Reagan'.

Makes you wonder if ANYONE is on our side.

[Paka]

13. K&R

Love Reich's instant info vids. Right to the point!

[bvar22]

14. DURec.

The TPP will be the Ring that Binds Them,
and it is being forged as we speak.

[panfluteman]

15. Yep - TPP is the Last Nail in the Coffin

for all of Obama's "Hope and Change" campaign slogans. Yes, we can - send our country down the fast track to total disaster - economically and environmentally, as well as in terms of privacy and civil rights, employment, health and safety standards, national sovereignty, and in any other way you can think of. Who of us here remembers Obama lecturing the members of the Supreme Court on the negative repercussions of the disastrous Citizens United decision in his State of the Union speech? He said that the special interests that buy our elections don't even have to be American. But here he is, supporting the TPP, and selling our national sovereignty down the river in a way that even circumvents the electoral process - that certainly is rabid, disingenuous hypocrisy on Obama's part, if not outright lying. Follow the money is damn right. Wake up America! Amend the constitution to get money out of politics once and for all! Otherwise, we'll be reeling from one outrageous crisis to the next, with no breathing room in between, and totally unable to get down to the urgent business of fixing our nation and restoring our democracy.