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Showing Original Post only (View all)Want to know just how fake some pro-TPP people really are? [View all]
Inspired by the poster brentspeak.
How much they are simply the product of astro-turfing efforts such as the Progressive Coalition for American Jobs" and the usual in-house online propaganda spammings run by the US Chamber of Commerce, the Heritage Foundation, and the Business Roundtable?
Check out the number of public rallies in support of the TPP:
Zero.
None.
There haven't been any.
There won't be any.
How could there be? There is no actual public support for the TPP.
On the other hand, there have been protests against the TPP (and similar deals such as the TTIP) throughout the USA and throughout the world:
http://www.oregonlive.com/beaverton/index.ssf/2015/05/obama_in_portland_anti-tpp_pro.html
http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/5/7/immigration-activists-press-clinton-on-trans-pacific-partnership.html
http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/local-papers/hutt-news/68784921/antitppa-posters-a-sticking-point-with-hutt-council
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dave-johnson/tpp-negotiators-hit-with_b_6295402.html
http://www.dw.de/german-activists-turn-out-in-force-to-protest-ttip-trade-deal/a-18391723