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marmar

(77,078 posts) Wed Jun 5, 2013, 07:57 PM Jun 2013

TPP: A Corporate Coup D'état

Published on Jun 4, 2013

Abby Martin talks to Kevin Zeese, attorney and co-director of 'It's Our Economy', about the secrecy surrounding the Trans-Pacific Partnership, regarded as the most secretive trade negotiations in history, the possibility of China joining the trade partnership, and what can be done to stop Obama from bypassing congress to push the TPP deal through.

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TPP: A Corporate Coup D'état (Original Post) marmar Jun 2013 OP

TPP is how one gets to retire on a million dollars per speech, guaranteed. Octafish Jun 2013 #1

Yeah, but even if the 99% get wind of it, they won't be able to do shit about it anyway. scarletwoman Jun 2013 #2

Sen. Frank Church warned us about what would happen if NSA got to spy on Americans... Octafish Jun 2013 #4

We are well across that bridge. nm rhett o rick Jun 2013 #7

your president and congress are gonna eff you over big time nt msongs Jun 2013 #3

Change you can beLIEve in! blkmusclmachine Jun 2013 #5

K & R !!! WillyT Jun 2013 #6

k&r for exposure. This is very important. n/t Laelth Jun 2013 #8

Octafish

(55,745 posts)

1. TPP is how one gets to retire on a million dollars per speech, guaranteed.

Reply to marmar (Original post)

Wed Jun 5, 2013, 08:07 PM

Jun 2013

Of course, these opportunities are limited. So act now, in case the 99-percent get wind of it.

scarletwoman

(31,893 posts)

2. Yeah, but even if the 99% get wind of it, they won't be able to do shit about it anyway.

Reply to Octafish (Reply #1)

Wed Jun 5, 2013, 08:10 PM

Jun 2013

That's the way the world works these days.

Octafish

(55,745 posts)

4. Sen. Frank Church warned us about what would happen if NSA got to spy on Americans...

Reply to scarletwoman (Reply #2)

Wed Jun 5, 2013, 08:14 PM

Jun 2013

From 1976:

“That capability at any time could be turned around on the American people and no American would have any privacy left, such is the capability to monitor everything: telephone conversations, telegrams, it doesn’t matter. There would be no place to hide. If this government ever became a tyranny, if a dictator ever took charge in this country, the technological capacity that the intelligence community has given the government could enable it to impose total tyranny, and there would be no way to fight back, because the most careful effort to combine together in resistance to the government, no matter how privately it was done, is within the reach of the government to know. Such is the capability of this technology.

I don’t want to see this country ever go across the bridge. I know the capability that is there to make tyranny total in America, and we must see it that this agency and all agencies that possess this technology operate within the law and under proper supervision, so that we never cross over that abyss. That is the abyss from which there is no return.”

- Sen. Frank Church, (D-Idaho and a combat veteran of World War II)