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Octafish

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12. Corporate Power = State Power = Secret Power = Insider Power

Reply to MindMover (Original post)

Mon Apr 7, 2014, 03:43 PM

Apr 2014

Greg Palast says that is how the game is played, via the World Trade Organization, International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. His source, Joseph Stiglitz.

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HOW THE TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP WOULD IMPACT INTERNET FREEDOM [View all] MindMover Apr 2014 OP

Sorry, I think this is highly slanted. All the provisions i've seen only talk about copyrighted okaawhatever Apr 2014 #1

So what is your position on TPP ..? nt MindMover Apr 2014 #2

That doesn't matter. What does matter is that the owners of the site STOPTPP.com have okaawhatever Apr 2014 #7

My reading matches the conclusion of linked piece. pa28 Apr 2014 #8

It is not "chasing down the individual activities of users". It is enforcing copyrights. Maybe the okaawhatever Apr 2014 #9

So then we are in agreement the article's claim is not BS. pa28 Apr 2014 #11

That's OK. Obama will veto the TPP if it includes anything so egregiously anti-freedom. Tierra_y_Libertad Apr 2014 #3

Um, I don't think he'll veto it. He's pushing it! n/t CaliforniaPeggy Apr 2014 #4

in secret behind our backs. his big $$ best friends know what's in it tho cause they are msongs Apr 2014 #5

Exactly. But, "we must look forward" rather than backward to the days when the internet was free. Tierra_y_Libertad Apr 2014 #6

The internet provisions are one of my main concerns davidpdx Apr 2014 #10

Corporate Power = State Power = Secret Power = Insider Power Octafish Apr 2014 #12