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Corporate Media FAILS us (again) on TPP coverage

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Channel: Representative Press ☞ · 2015 · News & Politics

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They Don't Want You to See TPP text! Demand to Here! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFOJVPM9HzI&list=PLfrlsC1yJ2dRyLoGJxPD62t5tF8n-oje1
The THREATS posed by the TPP & TTIP. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N78lJL7aIqk&list=PLfrlsC1yJ2dRkGLA0eWMDHW2vvwQpGmNi
Please use the Youtube tools to share these video. http://representativepress.blogspot.com/2015/04/take-action.html I find it incomprehensible that, to the best of my knowledge, ABC,CBS, NBC and CNN have had zero coverage of the TPP - U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.)

"STUDY: TV News Shows Largely Ignore Historic Trade Negotiations
Trans-Pacific Partnership Barely Noticed By Weeknight News Over The Past 18 Months Weeknight television news programs have given little attention to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a sweeping trade agreement between the United States, Canada, and 10 nations from the Asia-Pacific region. Although the nations involved in the negotiations create a huge amount of economic activity, only PBS and MSNBC have devoted any significant coverage to the TPP since August 2013." http://mediamatters.org/research/2015/02/04/study-tv-news-shows-largely-ignore-historic-tra/202403
"As TPP Opposition Soars, Corporate Media Blackout Deafening
Opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership—dubbed 'NAFTA on steroids'—is receiving unprecedented popular opposition and nearly no news coverage by major outlets" http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/02/06/tpp-opposition-soars-corporate-media-blackout-deafening

A Bad Trade Deal
Sen. Bernie Sanders today slammed the introduction of a bill that would move Congress closer to giving the president fast-track authority to approve a massive and secretive trade deal known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership. “The TPP is another corporate-backed agreement that is the latest in a series of failed trade policies which have cost us millions of decent-paying jobs, pushed down wages for American workers and led to the decline of our middle class,” said Sanders. “We want American companies to create decent-paying jobs in America, not just in low-wage countries like Vietnam, Malaysia or China. The TPP must be defeated. http://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/recent-business/a-bad-trade-deal
Sanders: Slow Down Fast Track
WASHINGTON, April 22 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today opposed an effort to rush legislation through a Senate committee in order to hurry congressional approval of a controversial trade deal known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
Sanders invoked a Senate rule to stop a morning meeting of the Finance Committee to mark up the so-called fast-track bill.
“This job-killing trade deal has been negotiated in secret. It was drafted with input by special interests and corporate lobbyists but not from the elected representatives of the American people. Instead of rubber stamping the agreement, Congress and the public deserve a fair chance to learn what’s in the proposal,” Sanders said.
Sanders also sent a letter today to U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman outlining serious concerns about the proposed trade agreement.
Sanders worried that the agreement would force Americans to compete with workers in low-wage nations like Malaysia and Vietnam. “Americans should not be forced to compete against desperately poor workers like those in Vietnam who make as little as 56 cents an hour,” Sanders said.
He voiced concern that the document was negotiated largely in secret but with input from hundreds of special interests and corporations. “It is absurd that a trade agreement of such enormous consequence has had so little transparency.”
He expressed serious reservations that the agreement could give foreign corporations the right to challenge U.S. laws in international courts. “It is beyond belief that this agreement would let corporations sue over laws to protect public health and the environment.”
Sanders’ stand against the 12-nation Pacific Rim trade agreement builds on his opposition of the North American Free Trade Agreement, Permanent Normal Trade Relations with China and other trade deals that contributed to closing some 60,000 U.S. factories and the disappearance of more than 4.7 million American manufacturing jobs since 2001. Proponents claimed that NAFTA would create 200,000 American jobs, but the 1994 deal led to the loss of some 680,000 jobs. The China trade agreement six years later was touted as way to create hundreds of thousands of American jobs but in fact cost 2.7 million U.S. jobs. http://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/sanders-slow-down-fast-track
'It is incomprehensible to me that the leaders of major corporate interests are actively involved in the writing of the TPP, while the elected officials of this country have little or no knowledge as to what is in it,' says senator
by Deirdre Fulton, staff writer
http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/01/05/incomprehensible-secrecy-sanders-demands-release-trade-agreement-text

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