TPP Trade Agreement Finalized: Corporations Agree On How To Best Screw Everyone...
The United States and 11 other countries have officially reached an agreement in the
Trans-Pacific Partnership or
TPP. If you're thinking there is going to be more transparency now that they've reached a deal, think again.
Cenk Uygur and
Ana Kasparian of
The Young Turks break down this historic agreement.
Read more here:
http://www.theguardian.com/business/
2015/oct/05/trans-pacific-partnership-deal-reached-pacific-countries-international-trade
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Trade ministers from 12 countries announced the largest trade-liberalizing pact in a generation on Monday. In a press conference in
Atlanta, trade ministers from the US,
Australia and
Japan called the the Trans-Pacific Partnership an “ambitious” and “challenging” negotiation that will cut red tape globally and “set the rules for the
21st century for trade”.
The deal – in the works since 2008 – is a major victory for the
US president,
Barack Obama. “This partnership levels the playing field for our farmers, ranchers and manufacturers by eliminating more than 18,
000 taxes that various countries put on our products,” the president said in a statement. “It includes the strongest commitments on labor and the environment of any trade agreement in history, and those commitments are enforceable, unlike in past agreements.”
While it still faces major hurdles, not least in
Congress, the deal could reshape industries and influence everything from the price of cheese to the cost of cancer treatments. It is expected to set common standards for 40% of the world’s economy, become a new flashpoint for the 2016 presidential campaign, and could become a legacy-defining agreement for the
Obama administration."*
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The Young Turks
October 5, 2015
Hour 1
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTpcK80irdQhAKP3shBVb8SUvNO5dziLs
TPP Trade
Agreement Passed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kO2XVCOS1c&list;=PLTpcK80irdQhAKP3shBVb8SUvNO5dziLs&index;=
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Huckabee: "Sin And Evil" To
Blame For
School Shootings
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPNxX52oesA&list;=PLTpcK80irdQhAKP3shBVb8SUvNO5dziLs&index;=2
Doctors Without Borders Hospital Bombed During
U.S. Airstrike
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQYEoYW2VlI&list;=PLTpcK80irdQhAKP3shBVb8SUvNO5dziLs&index;=3
Hillary Clinton's
Plan To Reduce
Gun Violence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MQtcZHKRlE&list;=PLTpcK80irdQhAKP3shBVb8SUvNO5dziLs&index;=4
Study Proves More
Guns = More
Police Deaths
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTYukNeomfQ&list;=PLTpcK80irdQhAKP3shBVb8SUvNO5dziLs&index;=5
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