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The Sick & Dying Victims of BP Speak Out! Listen... (Original Post) thomhartmann Aug 2016 OP
This is an example... LakeVermilion Aug 2016 #1
^^This! TPP is both NAFTA on Steroids and ALEC on Steroids stuffmatters Aug 2016 #3
RT lol uhnope Aug 2016 #2
Do you give a s...? saidsimplesimon Aug 2016 #5
NALCO makes Corexit whose largest shareholder during spill was Warren Buffet stuffmatters Aug 2016 #4
There's Blood On That Oil! panfluteman Aug 2016 #6

LakeVermilion

(1,044 posts)
1. This is an example...
Tue Aug 2, 2016, 12:33 PM
Aug 2016

of the way the TPP will impact all countries. Corporations will by-pass any environmental or social concerns and destroy society for profits.

stuffmatters

(2,574 posts)
4. NALCO makes Corexit whose largest shareholder during spill was Warren Buffet
Tue Aug 2, 2016, 02:42 PM
Aug 2016

At the time of this disaster, EPA had approved 12 other oil retardants some with 10-20 times less toxicity and almost 100% more effectiveness. Why Corexit? NALCO's a spin off of Exxon and owned by Goldman Sachs, Apollo and Blackstone, with largest shareholder Warren Buffet. NALCO's shares soared.

panfluteman

(2,067 posts)
6. There's Blood On That Oil!
Tue Aug 2, 2016, 10:51 PM
Aug 2016

And when will the politicians ever make good on their promises to move us to a clean energy economy? And when will they finally do so in a humane way in which human lives really matter?

If there's a media blackout, then all these sick and dying Correxit victims need to muster up every last ounce of strength they have left and do a mass march on Washington!

Yep - the TPP would put this kind of stuff on steroids, and multinational corporations would walk all over the American people with impunity. There would be no more need for pitiful, sellout apologies like the one made by that senator whats his name, because the American people and their government would have totally surrendered their sovereignty to the corporation's right to make a profit and cut corners and trample on whoever and whatever necessary to do so. Disasters like the Deepwater Horizon would become so commonplace that they would happen about every week, and there would be a total media blackout because these terrible disasters would hardly raise an eyebrow any more.

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