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mother earth

(6,002 posts) Sat Jan 11, 2014, 07:42 PM Jan 2014

Why TPP Matters, Fast Tracking for Deregulation

Cliff Schecter joins us to explain why the TPP trade deal is getting resurrected by the Obama Administration and Congress, why trade deals are a fraud, why they are all about corporate deregulation and how House Democrats fight back against Fast Track trade authority... This clip from the Majority Report, live M-F at 12 noon EST and via daily podcast at http://Majority.FM Subscribe to us on YouTube: http://youtube.com/user/SamSeder

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Why TPP Matters, Fast Tracking for Deregulation (Original Post) mother earth Jan 2014 OP

Why what would be NAFTA times... TheBlackAdder Jan 2014 #1

TPP will bring us more incidents like the water contamination crisis in West Virginia. factsarenotfair Jan 2014 #2

I was just thinking that myself. Deregulation for what is already exploitation and callous mother earth Jan 2014 #3

TheBlackAdder

(28,183 posts)

1. Why what would be NAFTA times...

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Sat Jan 11, 2014, 08:11 PM

Jan 2014

factsarenotfair

(910 posts)

2. TPP will bring us more incidents like the water contamination crisis in West Virginia.

Reply to mother earth (Original post)

Sat Jan 11, 2014, 08:14 PM

Jan 2014

I wish someone in the "MSM" would make the connection.

mother earth

(6,002 posts)

3. I was just thinking that myself. Deregulation for what is already exploitation and callous

Reply to factsarenotfair (Reply #2)

Sat Jan 11, 2014, 08:23 PM

Jan 2014

disregard for the environment and people.

As though it's not bad enough all risks are calculated at the monetary level, judging if the fines they'd have to pay are smaller than the profit to be made, knowing every step of the way the human risk factors. What if that is no longer a consideration?

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