TPP "Worse Than We Thought": A Total Corporate Power Grab Nightmare. <--Bernie is NOT the ONLY one. [View all]

[99th_Monkey]

But Bernie is, was -- and always has been -- unequivocally AGAINST the TPP disaster when others
were silent, or calling it a "gold standard". This cuts to the very heart of what true leadership is, or isn't.

Just in this one Common Dreams article, ALL these environmental and pro-democracy progressive groups
are going public, about how the actual TPP text is even WORSE than anyone ever imagined.
* Friends of the Earth
* Citizen's Global Trade Watch
* Global Justice Now
* Democracy for America
* Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch
* Food & Water Watch
* Center for Food Safety
* Fight for the Future
* 350.org
* Sierra Club

We need a POTUS in the WH who gets it right the first time, and who is not funded by the very same mega-corporate interests that are trying to shove this poison pill down our throats.

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'Worse Than We Thought': TPP A Total Corporate Power Grab Nightmare
'President Obama has sold the American people a false bill of goods,' says Friends of the Earth
by Deirdre Fulton, staff writer * Common Dreams * Nov. 5, 2015

"Worse than anything we could've imagined."
"An act of climate denial."
"Giveaway to big agribusiness."
"A death warrant for the open Internet."
"Worst nightmare."
"A disaster."

As expert analysis of the long-shrouded, newly publicized TransPacific Partnership (TPP) final text continued to roll out on Thursday, consensus formed around one fundamental assessment of the 12-nation pact: It's worse than we thought. ~snip~

On issues ranging from climate change to food safety, from open Internet to access to medicines, the TPP "is a disaster," declared Nick Dearden of Global Justice Now.

"Now that we’ve seen the full text, it turns out the job-killing TPP is worse than anything we could’ve imagined," added Charles Chamberlain, executive director of Democracy for America. "This agreement would push down wages, flood our nation with unsafe imported food, raise the price of life-saving medicine, all the while trading with countries where gays and single mothers can be stoned to death."

Major climate action groups, including 350.org and the Sierra Club, were quick to point out that the text was notable as much for what it didn't say as what for what it did. "The TPP is an act of climate denial," said 350 policy director Jason Kowalski on Thursday. "While the text is full of handouts to the fossil fuel industry, it doesn’t mention the words climate change once."

What it does do, however, is give "fossil fuel companies the extraordinary ability to sue local governments that try and keep fossil fuels in the ground," Kowalski continued. "If a province puts a moratorium on fracking, corporations can sue; if a community tries to stop a coal mine, corporations can overrule them. In short, these rules undermine countries’ ability to do what scientists say is the single most important thing we can do to combat the climate crisis: keep fossil fuels in the ground."

http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/11/05/worse-we-thought-tpp-total-corporate-power-grab-nightmare