Obama in Germany: 35,000 Protest TTIP Trade Deal in Hannover

[IDemo]

Source: NBC News

HANNOVER, Germany - About 35,000 protestors marched Saturday against the proposed Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), a day ahead of Barack Obama's visit, police said.

The president will use the annual CEBIT international trade fair in Hannover, northern Germany, to promote the deal, which would create the world's largest free trade area with approximately 800 million people.

"A convoy with 30 tractors already started this morning and will be met by a large number of protestors in the city center," police spokeswoman Martina Stern told NBC News.

The protest was organized by the so called 'anti-free-trade alliance', made up of numerous associations, including trade unions, environmental activists and church groups, who fear the TTIP could threaten Germany's environmental and legal standards.

Read more: http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/obama-germany-25-000-protest-ttip-trade-deal-hannover-n560956

[Skink]

1. Bbonama is done. Thank you for the ACA and other things.

[bjo59]

2. Why do so many Democrats sill think this guy can do no wrong?

Expanded violent interventions in foreign countries, a health care bill that the insurance industry basically wrote, the TPP.... Human beings are so disappointing in their marked preference for believing in what they want to be true rather than what is actually true. A coping strategy for sure, but, in the end, a highly self-destructive one.

[George II]

3. Why do so many Bernie supporters still think Obama can do no right?

[wildbilln864]

19. a false premise! n/t

[ananda]

5. Got me.

Especially since Obama governs like a moderate, corporate Reep.

[Ferd Berfel]

9. They are obligated to keep up the illusion because Clinton

says she is going to continue this crap.

eg: put social security on the chopping block and of course the end of US Government sovereignty - TPP

She is a neo-con a neo-Dem. It's where the disenfranchised republicans went when they created the DLC Third Way

[Major Hogwash]

11. Yup. And her globalization plan isn't going to work.

And then I wonder why Hillary's supporters hate FDR so much.

[Ferd Berfel]

17. disenfranchised republicans

and low information folks. The Party of FDR is now the party of Wall Street and owned by the Koch bros.

[Overseas]

4. K&R. Yes please! Glad they're protesting the TTIP vigorously!

[840high]

12. me 2

[bbgrunt]

6. good!

[scottie55]

7. TPP Destroying Obama's Legacy

Is he that stupid he doesn't see it?

Does he care?

Negotiating the TPP with no labor or environmentalists involved.

Americans, prepare to be screwed again.

This is getting old PBO.

The 1% is happy though.

[Ferd Berfel]

10. he's making his bones

for life after the Wh

[840high]

13. Yep. At any cost to us.

[Ferd Berfel]

18. That's how the neo-cons roll

and Clinton wants to continue that

[LiberalLovinLug]

21. Thats the brunt of it

Just as Tony the poodle Blair set himself up with a position at the Carlyle Group arms dealers for all the $ he brought to them for pushing through the Iraq War. Its sickening to watch.

[wildbilln864]

20. he does not care! of course he knows it but...

he's set for life now. He's in "The Club".

[IDemo]

8. "essen Ihre Erbsen"

"Eat your peas" in German (Google translation).

[chapdrum]

14. What is it about the Europeans?

That has them turning out to protest in consistently far greater numbers than the U.S.

[senz]

16. Media. We have a media monopoly, corporate owned.

We rarely ever hear about the TPP in the news. Plus, our politicians are afraid of corporate power.

[senz]

15. I hope Obama will hear of this and think about it.

[Skittles]

22. LOL

those are not the people he listens to