(2014/01/24) Don't get down with TPP (Corporate Takeover)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 25 January 2014
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Summary
Edition #792
Don't get down with TPP
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Corporations Determined To Rule The World - Disorderly Conduct (@Dis_Con) - Air Date 10-31-13
Ch. 3: Song 1: Comin' back for more - Robert Crew
Ch. 4: Act 2: Chomsky on the Trans Pacific Partnership - @grittv - Air Date: 6-19-13
Ch. 5: Song 2: Seen this before - Jason and the Punknecks
Ch. 6: Act 3: The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP): A Threat to Affordable Medicines for Millions - MSFCanada - Air Date: 5-16-13
Ch. 7: Song 3: Protect & Serve - Stiff Little Fingers
Ch. 8: Act 4: New Corporate Powers In Secret Trade Deal - @theyoungturks - Air Date: 12-10-13
Ch. 9: Song 4: Kill the poor - Dead Kennedys
Ch. 10: Act 5: WikiLeaks Leaks Controversial Secret Trans Pacific Partnership Documents - @dennistrainorjr - Air Date: 11-13-13
Ch. 11: Song 5: Dawn departure, Jefferson County - Black Prairie
Ch. 12: Act 6: Caller: How will TPP Effect our Sovereignty? - @Thom_Hartmann - Air Date: 11-16-13
Ch. 13: Song 6: The lion's roar - First Aid Kit
Ch. 14: Act 7: Trans-Pacific Partnership is Hugely Troubling - @davidpakmanshow - Air Date: 01-16-14
Ch. 15: Song 7: What we've got - Emilyn Brodsky & Anthony da Costa
Ch. 16: Act 8: How To Kill TPP: Stop Fast Track - @majorityfm - Air Date: 01-16-14
Ch. 17: Song 8: Slow it down - Amy Macdonald
Ch. 18: Act 9: Expose the TPP - Best of the Left Activism
Ch. 19: Song 9: Activism - Shihan
Ch. 20: Act 10: Leaked TPP Document Reveals No Regard for Environment in Trade Agreement - @therealnews - Air Date: 1-17-14
Voicemails:
Ch. 21: Disappointed in two parts of the reproductive rights episode - Zach from San Francisco
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Voicemail Music:
Loud Pipes - Ratatat
Ch. 22: Final comments finishing up my response to Zach about Thom Hartmann not actually body-shaming and thanking those who donated to my plunge
Closing Music:
Here We Are - Patrick Park
Activism: Expose the TPP
Additional Activism:
Flush the TPP
Don't let congress fast-track the TPP - Electronic Frontier Foundation Petition
Write your representative to oppose fast-track trade authority - Public Citizen
Speak out against the TPP agreement - Electronic Frontier Foundation
Join Keith Ellison and DFA to help the TPP fast-track
Information for this segment can be found at:
What is the Trans Pacific Partnership? - Electronic Frontier Foundation
TPP: Job loss, lower wages and higher drug prices - Public Citizen
Who backs the TPP and a 'NAFTA on steroids'? A.L.E.C. - The Nation
h/t John Nichols
The top secret deal between 11 countries that will affect your life
h/t Lee Camp
Written by BOTL social media/activism director Katie Klabusich
Produced by:
Jay! Tomlinson
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| 0:13.2 | Now welcome to the award-winning Best of the Left podcast with Cups today from Disorderly |
| 0:16.7 | Conduct, Grit TV with Oraflanders, MSF Canada, the Young Turks, Dennis Trainer Jr., the |
| 0:22.6 | Tom Hartman program, the David Pakman showed the majority report, activism from Best of |
| 0:26.8 | Left and the Real News Network. |
| 0:30.0 | Senator Ron Wyden, the Democrat representing the Great State of Oregon, chairs the Senate |
| 0:34.4 | Finance Subcommittee on International Trade, Customs, and Global Competitiveness. |
| 0:39.5 | In that capacity, you would expect Mr. Wyden to be up to date on the terms of the Central |
| 0:43.4 | International Trade Pact President Obama's Trade Delegation has been negotiating for years. |
| 0:48.5 | But you would be wrong. |
| 0:50.5 | The Trans-Pacific Partnership, or TPP, which the U.S. is cooking up with most of the rest |
| 0:56.0 | of the Pacific Ram, namely Australia, Brunei, Brunei, Chile, Canada, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, |
| 1:02.4 | New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, and Vietnam, is being negotiated in such secrecy that even |
| 1:08.0 | Mr. Wyden, the Senator who chairs the committee that oversees trade, is prohibited from knowing |
| 1:13.0 | its emerging terms. |
| 1:15.2 | But it is not a secret from everyone, according to the Citizens Trade Campaign, although policy |
| 1:19.8 | makers are to be kept in the dark about the policy until it's been made, quote, approximately |
| 1:24.5 | 600 corporate lobbyists have been named as official advisors, granting them steady access |
| 1:29.2 | to the negotiating texts. |
| 1:32.5 | If an international pact, whose terms are known to corporate lobbyists and unknown to |
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