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Related: About this forumProgressives Expose Truth About TPP — Obama Is Terrified
As supporters and opponents of the Trans-Pacific partnership continue to battle it out in Washington, citizens at home are still trying to figure out what this trade-deal is all about. And now, a huge round of progressive opponents to the deal have emerged, including Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and Alan Greyson.
Ring of Fire's Mike Papantonio and The Big Pictures Thom Hartmann discuss this.
840high
(17,196 posts)appalachiablue
(41,145 posts)to extract resources for profit as Pap says is an accurate way of looking at it. Two of the Best, Thom and Mike.
As to the TPP, don't forget President Obama recently said it "won't open the Gates of Hell" on Sunday, April 26, 2015.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)More of us have to see this.
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)appalachiablue
(41,145 posts)They devour everything, leave nothing-
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)My god, people, wake up before it is too late.
appalachiablue
(41,145 posts)prolific stink tank propagandists the only way to inform people is through independent, alternative news media reporting by Thom, Mike and many others.
FlatBaroque
(3,160 posts)the people must do all they can to prevent this lunge towards one world government run by the corporations.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)FlatBaroque
(3,160 posts)You cannot because you can never know his incentives and motivations. You can only be for or against based upon the evidence. Stop TPP and localize your economy.
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)RufusTFirefly
(8,812 posts)There was a reason for that.
Ultimately we saw in him what we hoped to see, not what he actually was.
Many of us (if not most of us) were hoodwinked. It's time to wake up. And to grow up.
Joe Chi Minh
(15,229 posts)jwirr
(39,215 posts)appalachiablue
(41,145 posts)especially in his profession. Love it! And he resembles some of my uncles and relatives in appearance and manner so much it's amazing.
jwirr
(39,215 posts)appalachiablue
(41,145 posts)would be awesome! They got the title of Pap's program right, "Ring of Fire", for the firebrand!
Much credit to wonderful Thom Hartmann who dubbed him 'America's Lawyer'. TH also started referring to Bernie Sanders as 'America's Senator'.
GoneFishin
(5,217 posts)pocoloco
(3,180 posts)chev52
(71 posts)I've asked around and the average person has never heard about the TPP. The media is obliging Obama by not making the TPP well known. It probably wouldn't make any difference. Nafta was well hated by the average person and another backstabbing democrat, Clinton, ramrodded it through anyway. Wouldn't surprise me if slick willy is advising Obama how to handle this. This is what we get with corporate dems. One step forward and two steps back.
raindaddy
(1,370 posts)It became obvious from the beginning that Obama was a moderate, but it's pretty weird to watch him refuse to negotiate with the progressives in his own party over a trade bill that undermines the public's welfare especially after offering up Social Security to the Republicans.....
tiptonic
(765 posts)Johnson, Nixon, Bushs, Clinton now Obama. What sheep we are.