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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBill Moyers on why the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade agreement is death for democracy
11/5/2013 10:05am by Gaius Publius 25 Comments
Many of you know Ive been covering TPP (the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement) for a while now for example, here. Obama and the rest of the neoliberal (free-trade) Democrats are dying to implement it, and the Republican servants of the same fine CEOs are not far behind.
But the TPP is complicated at least in appearances and the public is having a hard time bottom-lining it, in between taking kids to soccer and paying bills in the evening. By comparison, characterizing Keystone is easy Want to drink goo from your faucet and watch the earth cook? Support Keystone.
Its not really hard to understand TPP though, once you see the pattern TPP puts the ruling class (and the corporations they control) in charge of most aspects of our economic and regulatory life. It rewrites the laws of every nation that signs it, all to increase the wealth of our pathological betters. We just need more people saying that.
Now comes Bill Moyers with an excellent, listenable primer on what TPP is and why it spells death to democracy (literally) and breathes even more life into the predator 1% of the 1%.
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much more at link: http://americablog.com/2013/11/bill-moyers-trans-pacific-partnership-free-trade-agreement-death-democracy.html
polichick
(37,152 posts)progressoid
(49,988 posts)We don't even know what's in it. We should wait until its signed into law before we pass judgement.
There goes silvershadow being a hair on fire Democrat. Obama's totally got it handled don't cha know.
just in case
Excellent job silvershadow, this needs to be repeated over and over and over till it's permanently etched onto the frontal lobe of every citizen.
-p
woo me with science
(32,139 posts)Too many people are completely unaware of what our own supposed representatives are planning to do to us, and to this country, for the profit of a few.
Please distribute this everywhere
WillyT
(72,631 posts)silvershadow
(10,336 posts)L0oniX
(31,493 posts)Fuckers are fucking us fucked fucks. FFS!
zeemike
(18,998 posts)And I am afraid when he is gone there will be no journalist left to do it.
K&R...and thanks for keeping this going.
SaveOurDemocracy
(4,400 posts)YoungDemCA
(5,714 posts)etc. ad nauseam.
Uncle Joe
(58,355 posts)Thanks for the thread, silvershadow.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)Excellent program. People had better wake up and voice their disapproval for the TPP before it's too late.
cali
(114,904 posts)thanks for the post.
KoKo
(84,711 posts)Was at a gathering of long time voting Dems in one of the most liberal areas in my State last night. The focus of discussion was a to increase awareness and begin work on strategy to try to reverse the extreme Gerrymandering of Districts and the new Voter ID Laws and restrictions on Voting/Polling hours and facilities in our State by the Repugs who took over the State Legislature in the last election.
Towards the end of the meeting the conversation drifted and someone mentioned the TPP. No One else had heard about it except myself and the person who brought it up. No one had seen the Moyers show because our PBS Station has dropped Moyers & Company.
This is how we've been dumbed down by lack of Diverse Media even by our inability to view in some cities or states our so-called "Public Broadcasting" and how quiet our Democratic Party has been about this terrible Trade Agreement.
I'm sending the link to the Moyers Interview to the leader of the group that met last night, so that she can send it to everyone who attended.
TheKentuckian
(25,026 posts)leftstreet
(36,107 posts)marmar
(77,080 posts)whatchamacallit
(15,558 posts)Dreamer Tatum
(10,926 posts)TheKentuckian
(25,026 posts)Dreamer Tatum
(10,926 posts)silvershadow
(10,336 posts)I would think. But, that's just me.
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)Dreamer Tatum
(10,926 posts)rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)written as not in favor of the TPP and you were mocking the OP, I had to assume you favored the TPP.
If there is a stand that isnt in favor and isnt against, I would love to hear about it.
Dreamer Tatum
(10,926 posts)Or both.
Probably both.
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)You apparently arent interested in decent discussion here. Well good luck.
Dreamer Tatum
(10,926 posts)Bradical79
(4,490 posts)rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)1000words
(7,051 posts)Democracy, as a concept, never dies. It is abandoned.
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)further reduce our freedoms and liberties?
1000words
(7,051 posts)As for freedoms and liberties, that ship sailed long ago.
colsohlibgal
(5,275 posts)I play tennis with a lady who is as left as I am and stays informed. When I brought this up to her a short time ago I got a blank stare from her. She had no idea what I was talking about.
It's getting little or no play on MSNBC, you have to go to places like Democracy Now to hear about it - and Moyers indeed is up on it and explains well the danger in it's passing. Obamabots need to check it out and I'd love to her them rationalize, as they always do, his support for this evil bill.
solarhydrocan
(551 posts)but many people don't like RT. Here's Hartmann anyway
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)The conservatives like their CNN and ABC.
solarhydrocan
(551 posts)Russia Today is a hybrid Kremlin mouthpiece and loony conspiracy theory source.
The closest analog is Bush/Cheney era Fox News.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023691313#post1
And yet there are people here who will declare it reveled truth.
More true than if God Came down from the heavens and told each of them personally, because Putin and Russia and Assad are the only honest brokers in a world dominated by the vile, evil, wicked Corporate States of America.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023691313#post5
The news source of choice for useful idiots. nt
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023691313#post6
RT is propaganda
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023691313#post7
But...but....many here claim RT is legit and have no problem linking to it.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023691313#post10
Always the same bullshit from RT...nt
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023691313#post25
Nah, they're versatile and can produce a wide range of bullshit. (nt)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023691313#post30
The Teabaggers' New Hero
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023691313#post32
Maybe now people will understand why RT is not allowed in LBN.
Well at least the one's that don't drink the kool-aid from RT.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023691313#post38
That's from ONE THREAD. The search showed many more but you get the idea.
While "conservatives" and "liberals" bash each other the 1% is stealing everything not nailed down, and they're coming with nail pullers.
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)That thread was a great example of the non-liberals with their hair on fire. They want so badly to believe that CNN and the Wall Street Journal are really looking out for us.