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3 Things About the TPP You Need to Know and Share (Original Post)
limpyhobbler
Jun 2013
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midnight
(26,624 posts)1. TPP gives corporations more powerful than governments-No wonder this agreement is so secret.
That's what Senator Warren said too.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=3055088
midnight
(26,624 posts)5. No transparency because opposition would be significant- That's the truth...
I have heard the argument that transparency would undermine the Trade Representatives policy to complete the trade agreement because public opposition would be significant,
fasttense
(17,301 posts)2. T-Pee-Pee will make our Constitution obsolete.
We wont need it because corporations will be running our country through corporate controlled tribunals.
90-percent
(6,829 posts)3. Fascism, pure and simple
Somebody please tell me why it isn't!
We are all corporate serfs now.
-90% Jimmy