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In reply to the discussion: WikiLeaks Reveals Global Trade Deal Kept More Secret Than the Trans-Pacific Partnership [View all]merrily
(45,251 posts)36. They are keeping their actions secret because they are trying to hide their actions from us.
Republicans are not ratting out Democrats on these things, or vice versa.
And Pelosi and Boehner just held hands to tell Obama he did not need to ask Congress for approval to send troops to Iraq (just like no one needed Congress for the Vietnam "Era" or the Korean "Police Action." What is left of the Constitution, I wonder?
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WikiLeaks Reveals Global Trade Deal Kept More Secret Than the Trans-Pacific Partnership [View all]
Joe Shlabotnik
Jun 2014
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Once the Tea Party realize they've been manipulated by the Koch brothers, they'll be pretty pissed
Jack Rabbit
Jun 2014
#6
Yep. Food and farmland an open secret, too. If they could privatize air, they would.
merrily
Jun 2014
#34
TPP is/was just the distraction from what the 1% REALLY wants: Total Global Domination
blkmusclmachine
Jun 2014
#19
All of the governments involved have kept this secret from their people.
Joe Shlabotnik
Jun 2014
#25
They are keeping their actions secret because they are trying to hide their actions from us.
merrily
Jun 2014
#36
The Framers feared the common herd almost as much as any dictatorial monarch did.
merrily
Jun 2014
#50
Every time I ask myself that question, I think of the barn wall in "Animal Farm."
LuvNewcastle
Jun 2014
#53