(2015/05/19) Resisting a secret corporate takeover (Trans-Pacific Partnership)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 19 May 2015
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Edition #923
Show Notes
Ch. 1: Opening Theme: A Fond Farewell - From a Basement On the Hill
Ch. 2: Act 1: This is Obama Pretending to Talk About the Merits of a Horrible Trade Deal - @majorityfm - Air Date: 04-24-15
Ch. 3: Song 1: What Is Your Secret - Nada Surf
Ch. 4: Act 2: More Proof Obama's TPP Deal Favors The Rich - @theyoungturks - Air Date: 5-10-15
Ch. 5: Song 2: If I Was President - Single - Wyclef Jean
Ch. 6: Act 3: TPP secrecy is wrong for a democracy - @dccommonsense - AIr Date: 3-29-15
Ch. 7: Song 3: Secret - The Pierces
Ch. 8: Act 4: Obama is too proud to beg for the TPP - Le Show (@theharryshearer) - Air Date: 5-17-15
Ch. 9: Song 4: N/A
Ch. 10: Act 5: Who's Writing the TPP? - @Thom_Hartmann - Air Date: 5-12-15
Ch. 11: Song 5: The Chance I Deserve - Club 8
Ch. 12: Act 6: Revolt over TPP- Senate Dems Rebuke Obama by Blocking Debate on Secretive Trade Deal - @democracynow - Air Date: 5-13-15
Ch. 13: Song 6: The Warpath - Conner Youngblood
Ch. 14: Act 7: Reject #Medicare cuts and reject #TPP Fast Track via @DFAaction — Best of the Left Activism
Ch. 15: Song 7: "This fickle world" - Theo Bard
Ch. 16: Act 8: Obama Is Blatantly Lying About the Trans-Pacific Partnership - @RedactedTonight w/ @LeeCamp - Air Date: 5-5-15
Voicemails
Ch. 18: Thanks for Bruce Jenner episode - Chris from Colorado Springs
Ch. 19: Considering starting a coop - Scott from Brooklyn
Ch. 20: A Woman Like Me - Adreana Langston
Voicemail Music: Loud Pipes - Classics
Ch. 21: Final comments in the need for gender subcategories
Closing Music: Here We Are - Everyone's in Everyone
Activism: Update: Trans Pacific Partnership!
New Action: Reject #Medicare cuts and reject #TPP Fast Track via @DFAaction
SIGN: "U.S. Senate: Reject Medicare cuts and reject Fast Track” from Democracy For America
h/t Daily Kos: "ALERT: DFA Warning New TPP Provision Would Cut Medicare $700 Million to Help Pay for Trade Aid”
Use ContactingTheCongress.org to tell your senators not to support this new provision or the TPP.
Sources/additional info:
"Who’s down with TPP?: Big business wins and democracy loses as both parties lie about free trade” by Bill Curry at Salon
"The TPP Could Have Disastrous Results For The Climate, Environmental Groups Warn” by Samantha Page at ThinkProgress Climate
"A Trade Deal Read In Secret By Only A Few (Or Maybe null)” by Alisa Change at NPR Politics
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| 0:15.1 | the left podcast with clips today from the majority report, The Young Turks, Common Sense with Dan |
| 0:19.9 | Carlin, and the show, The Tom Hartman Program, Democracy Now, Activism from Democracy for America, |
| 0:26.6 | and Redacted Tonight with Comedian League Camp. I'm going to play a click of, uh, thank you, |
| 0:33.0 | of, of President Obama at some round table that is being hosted by Chris Matthews. |
| 0:43.4 | I don't know who else was on that round table, but I'm willing to bet that those tech people |
| 0:50.4 | who want their intellectual property protected, that the other people, I don't know that there was |
| 0:55.1 | any critics on there. Some small business people, supposedly, Elizabeth Warren came out and |
| 1:10.0 | bashed the TPP. And let me tell you what's going on now. Elizabeth Warren is trying to do, |
| 1:16.1 | and the Democrats in the Senate are trying to do what Ted Cruz did with Republicans in the House. |
| 1:22.9 | Now Ted Cruz is not coming to the rescue, even though he, uh, President Obama is a dictator, |
| 1:28.8 | you're not going to hear Ted Cruz say we're not going to give FastTrack authority to President Obama, |
| 1:32.9 | or to Hillary Clinton for that matter. Remember this, this TPA, the FastTrack authority exists for |
| 1:41.3 | three to six years. So it's into the next administration either way. So Elizabeth Warren comes out and |
| 1:51.5 | says this trade deal, you're negotiating it in secret, you're not even allowing Congress people |
| 1:57.1 | to know what's in it before they give you this authority to basically just ram it through. |
| 2:04.0 | We don't do this with anything else. Talk about jamming it down our throats. |
| 2:10.2 | And President Obama had this to say on this panel, it's long. Come up with a specific, |
| 2:17.2 | come up with one measure that he's talking about, and he won't, because they won't show us what's in it, |
| 2:23.3 | because none of this is the case. This is about some fanciful notion of we've got to isolate China, |
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