(2015/10/27) The corporate takeover under our noses (Trans-Pacific Partnership)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 27 October 2015
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Edition #963
Show Notes
Ch. 1: Opening Theme: A Fond Farewell - From a Basement On the Hill
00:00:30 Ch. 2: Act 1: Crony Capitalism Goes Global: The TPP & ISDS Explained - Follow the Money #2 - @RepresentDotUs - Air Date: 04-01-15
Ch. 3: Song 1: The Redemption Of Zounds - Zounds
00:06:27 Ch. 4: Act 2: TPP Signed...So What the F&%$ Is In It? - @davidpakmanshow - Air Date: 10-07-15
Ch. 5: Song 2: She Said - Stray Dogg
00:11:25 Ch. 6: Act 3: TPP will Allow Corporations to Sue Countries! - @Thom_Hartmann - Air Date: 5-14-15
Ch. 7: Song 3: Nightwalker Vol. 1 - Boogie Belgique
00:16:01 Ch. 8: Act 4: Don't Expect The Master's Media To Cover the Master's Trade Deal - The F Word with @GRITlaura Flanders - Air Date: 4-28-15
Ch. 9: Song 4: Greek Tragedy - Plusplus
00:19:07 Ch. 10: Act 5: TPP vs. Human Rights Groups Express Concern Over Record of Member Nations - @democracynow - Air Date 06-11-15
Ch. 11: Song 5: Afraid New World - Easter and the totem
00:24:11 Ch. 12: Act 6: TPP Grants Banks Terrifying Secret Powers - @theyoungturks - Air Date: 06-20-15
Ch. 13: Song 6: Sneeuwland - Oskar Schuster
00:34:05 Ch. 14: Act 7: Obama Rams Through TPP With Little Democratic Support, Even from Black Caucus - @blkagendareport - Air Date: 6-24-15
Ch. 15: Song 7: Ennio - Silence Is Sexy
00:38:36 Ch. 16: Act 8: Breast Cancer Patient Arrested for Protesting TPP: "This is Price Gouging at the Cost of Lives" - @democracynow - Air Date: 10-06-15
Ch. 17: Song 8: Adventure, Darling - Gillicuddy
00:48:12 Ch. 18: Act 9: Disaster: TPP Kills Internet Freedom, Bomb-Throwing Begins - @davidpakmanshow - Air Date: 10-13-15
Ch. 19: Song 9: Horfid (Live @ KEXP) - Lay Low
00:54:24 Ch. 20: Act 10: #FallRising to #StopTPP via @EFF & @FlushtheTPP — Best of the Left Activism
Ch. 21: Song 10: Activism - Shihan
00:57:22 Ch. 22: Act 11: Not too early to doubt the motivations of secretive, corporate trade deal - CounterSpin (@FAIRmediawatch) - Air Date 10-9-15
01:00:13 Ch. 23: Final comments asking what we can do better here at BotL
Closing Music: Here We Are - Everyone's in Everyone
Activism: #FallRising to #StopTPP via @EFF & @FlushtheTPP
Update!
Terms on the Trans-Pacific Partnership were finalized: "Trade Officials Announce Conclusion of TPP—Now the Real Fight Begins” via Electronic Frontier Foundation
Follow-up/new Action!
ATTEND the #FallRising to Stop TPP, TTIP, & TISA by registering through Flush the TPP: Call to Action Against Global Corporate Domination: November 14-18 & RSVPing to the Facebook event
Find out projected job loss & more expected in your area using the Public Citizen state-by-state outcome map: 50 Reasons We Cannot Afford the TPP’s Expansion of the NAFTA Model.
Then use ContactingTheCongress.org to directly lobby your representatives to vote no on passage of the TPP.
Sources:
What Is the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP)? via Electronic Frontier Foundation
WATCH: "U.S., Other Nations Reach Agreement On Trans-Pacific Partnership” via NPR
The Trans-Pacific Partnership: Leveling the playing field for American workers & American businesses. via Office of the US Trade Representative
Summary of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement via Office of the US Trade Representative
"TPP deal: US and 11 other countries reach landmark Pacific trade pact” via The Guardian
"TPP or not TPP? What's the Trans-Pacific Partnership and should we support it?” via The Guardian
"Trans-Pacific Partnership Is Reached, but Faces Scrutiny in Congress” via The New York Times
"Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP): Job Loss, Lower Wages and Higher Drug Prices” via Public Citizen
Written by BOTL social media/activism director Katie Klabusich
Produced by Jay! Tomlinson
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors to the show. |
| 0:04.0 | If you'd like to support the work we're doing, please visit the Contribute tab at BestOfAleft.com. |
| 0:08.0 | Now, welcome to the award-winning BestOfAleft podcast with Cups Today from Represent Us, |
| 0:13.0 | the David Pakman show, the Tom Hartman program, the F-word with Laura Flonders, |
| 0:17.0 | Democracy Now, the Young Turks, Black Agenda Radio, |
| 0:20.0 | Counter-Span and Activism from the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Flush the TPP. |
| 0:26.0 | Hey, liberals, what if I told you that Congressional Republicans supported a plan that |
| 0:34.0 | gives multinational corporations enormous new power to threaten everything from Internet Freedom to Affordable Healthcare? |
| 0:40.0 | That would make you pretty angry, right? |
| 0:42.0 | And hey, conservatives, what if I told you that President Obama supported a plan that deliberately |
| 0:48.0 | sees congressional power to the executive branch and undermines US sovereignty by allowing |
| 0:52.0 | UN Tribunals to overturn US law? That's pretty infuriating, right? |
| 0:56.0 | Well, everybody gets to be angry today because we're actually talking about the same plan. |
| 1:01.0 | It's a massive international trade agreement called the Trans-Pacific Partnership or TPP |
| 1:06.0 | and both the Obama administration and Republicans in Congress are trying to get it passed before the public can figure out what's in it. |
| 1:13.0 | Given all that, it is no surprise that the Obama administration is trying to keep the details of the TPP negotiation secret. |
| 1:20.0 | The only way the public has any idea what's in this thing is because some unidentified saint has been leaking drafts to the press. |
| 1:27.0 | The TPP is one of the largest trade deals in history and it would establish a trade block that includes roughly 800 million people |
| 1:34.0 | and accounts for 40% of the global economy. |
| 1:36.0 | It would also put huge decisions that would directly affect the day-to-day lives of those 800 million people |
| 1:42.0 | in the hands of a mind-bogglingly small group of lawyers by establishing a system called Investor State Dispute Settlement or ISDS. |
| 1:50.0 | ISDS cases allow foreign companies to bypass the US legal system and go straight to an international trade tribunal to demand compensation |
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