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Thu Jun 13, 2013, 04:20 PM Jun 2013

Talk Nation Radio: Here Comes Corporate Nationhood TPP and SOPA

And you thought corporate personhood was bad enough! Lacey Kohlmoos, Senior Field Organizer, Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch, tells us that the TPP (Trans Pacific Partnership) will create corporate nationhood by empowering corporations to sue and overrule real nations, as well as incentivizing the offshoring of jobs, hurting food safety, damaging environmental protections, enriching drug companies at the expense of human health, banning some generic drugs, further deregulating banks, forbidding the breaking up of too-big-to-fail financial firms, and creating SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) despite its failure in Congress as a result of strong public opposition.


http://davidswanson.org/node/4026



While were deciding if we want private corporations and their employees to data mine our banking accounts, e-mails, health care, etc.. some other problems..

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Talk Nation Radio: Here Comes Corporate Nationhood TPP and SOPA (Original Post) midnight Jun 2013 OP
The details of which are "classified"! Catherina Jun 2013 #1
The corporations are allowed to read our e-mails but JDPriestly Jun 2013 #2

JDPriestly

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2. The corporations are allowed to read our e-mails but
Fri Jun 14, 2013, 12:50 AM
Jun 2013

we aren't allowed to know how they are bargaining away our living standard, our jobs and our health.

We are getting a bad deal. Let's hope that Congress will defeat this.

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