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Triana

(22,666 posts)
Tue Dec 9, 2014, 10:54 AM Dec 2014

Trans-Pacific Trade Talks Resume With Almost No Media Coverage

Shouldn’t it be a trade violation to threaten to move someone’s job to another country? Shouldn’t we negotiate trade agreements that increase people’s wages on both sides of a trade border? These are the kinds of agreements we would make if We the People were negotiating trade agreements with representatives of the working people in other countries. Unfortunately that is not the kind of trade agreements that our current trade negotiation process produces.

The secret Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations resumed this week, this time in Washington. TPP is a massive agreement that sets up new rules for over 40 percent of the global economy. It will have profound effects on our jobs, our standard of living now and in the future and our ability to make a living as a country. Oddly, though, as of Monday morning you have to read about it in Japan Times because few-to-no U.S. media outlets are covering it.

In spite of the lack of American media coverage of this tremendously important agreement, representatives of labor, environmental, family farm, consumer, Internet freedom, public health, faith, human rights and community organizations held a rally Monday outside the office of the U.S. Trade Representative. These organizations represent “stakeholders” from all countries that are denied a seat at the TPP negotiating table.

Here’s what the Japan Times reported, in “TPP talks get back underway in Washington“:

Chief negotiators from 12 countries involved in the Trans-Pacific Partnership initiative resumed negotiations in Washington after their leaders reaffirmed last month they will conclude an agreement as soon as possible.

Media Blackout:



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http://ourfuture.org/20141208/trans-pacific-trade-talks-resume-with-almost-no-media-coverage
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Trans-Pacific Trade Talks Resume With Almost No Media Coverage (Original Post) Triana Dec 2014 OP
TPP not in the unified MSM script? I am SHOCKED...it will be, once they get the spin worked out. mother earth Dec 2014 #1
And "The Torture Report" fredamae Dec 2014 #2
K & R !!! WillyT Dec 2014 #3
What? Corporations who control the media & our govt & will benefit from TPP are blacking this out? RiverLover Dec 2014 #4
^ nationalize the fed Dec 2014 #5

mother earth

(6,002 posts)
1. TPP not in the unified MSM script? I am SHOCKED...it will be, once they get the spin worked out.
Tue Dec 9, 2014, 11:08 AM
Dec 2014

Who needs foreign networks for propaganda? We've got it covered, by silence and unified talking points to please the overlords.

When important labor components of a democratic society are denied access to the negotiating table, it speaks volumes.
Yeah, fast tracking for greed & corruption on steriods. The silence of our MSM is deafening and completely telling.

fredamae

(4,458 posts)
2. And "The Torture Report"
Tue Dec 9, 2014, 11:20 AM
Dec 2014
Focus Distracts from Other Major Issues of Concern for an indefinite period of time.............

RiverLover

(7,830 posts)
4. What? Corporations who control the media & our govt & will benefit from TPP are blacking this out?
Tue Dec 9, 2014, 12:41 PM
Dec 2014

It isn't shocking. But it should be.

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