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FYI, Liz Warren explains the problems with the TPP trade deal & ISDS (Video) (Original Post) RiverLover Apr 2015 OP
Brilliant. Good research and good conclusions. JDPriestly Apr 2015 #1

JDPriestly

(57,936 posts)
1. Brilliant. Good research and good conclusions.
Mon Apr 27, 2015, 04:57 PM
Apr 2015

The TPP is a threat to our national sovereignty and our Constitution.

No to the TPP.

It is a corporate coup. Nothing more. It is simply a corporate coup.

The Investor courts could even trump our Bill of Rights. It's that bad. It really is.

Think about Philip Morris suing to stop the enforcement of laws that try to discourage people from smoking. They are trying to silence a government. Think what they could try to do to our speech rights.

Just allowing corporations to force the US or another country to defend some absurd claim in the investor courts is wrong. It is a waste of money. We just don't need those courts, and we don't need the TPP.

I repeat. The TPP is a corporate coup.

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