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1StrongBlackMan

(31,849 posts) Fri Nov 6, 2015, 03:54 PM Nov 2015

Now that the full text of the TPP Agreement has been released ...

but with scant technical analysis by trade experts, from the right or the left ... All I've seen is rehashed pre-release analysis by folks that took a position before the final text was released, despite there being significant differences in the leaked text and the final version.

Any one care to post a list of trade experts that are likely to do an objective/unbiased analysis of the agreement that a lay person can rely on to form an opinion on the agreement?

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Now that the full text of the TPP Agreement has been released ... (Original Post) 1StrongBlackMan Nov 2015 OP

You didn't listen to Thom Hartmann today then... berni_mccoy Nov 2015 #1

No ... I didn't listen to Thom Hartmann. Did he name some trade experts ... 1StrongBlackMan Nov 2015 #2

Actually ... ananda Nov 2015 #3

While I agree ... 1StrongBlackMan Nov 2015 #4

berni_mccoy

(23,018 posts)

1. You didn't listen to Thom Hartmann today then...

Reply to 1StrongBlackMan (Original post)

Fri Nov 6, 2015, 03:56 PM

Nov 2015

Alan Grayson had a few good points on the deal.

Believe me, people have read it. The fact you are nervous about it for your candidate of choice has you posting this kind of bunk. Please, proceed.

1StrongBlackMan

(31,849 posts)

2. No ... I didn't listen to Thom Hartmann. Did he name some trade experts ...

Reply to berni_mccoy (Reply #1)

Fri Nov 6, 2015, 04:31 PM

Nov 2015

that could be trusted to provide an objective/unbiased analysis of the TPP Agreement?

BTW, Alan Grayson is not a trade expert.

And BTW, who do you think is MY candidate? Hint ... my candidate came out against the TPP, somewhere around the 2nd of April.

The fact that you would attack the sincerity of my question ... with incorrect ASSumptions (making the non-partisan, partisan) is so typical of the worst of your candidate's supporters. Please, proceed.

ananda

(28,874 posts)

3. Actually ...

Reply to 1StrongBlackMan (Original post)

Fri Nov 6, 2015, 04:32 PM

Nov 2015

I think a person can read the agreement and form their own assessment.

1StrongBlackMan

(31,849 posts)

4. While I agree ...

Reply to ananda (Reply #3)

Fri Nov 6, 2015, 05:43 PM

Nov 2015

there are technical components that lay people might understand the words; but, not their impact.

In the various TPP threads, appearing on DU since the release, there are many, many examples of this ... (see: DU discussion on the Investor-State Dispute Settlement sections)

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