Here is a wonderful new partnership for you courtesy of our corporate overlords.

[Elwood P Dowd]

Trans-Pacific Partnership

The American people are waking up to these devastating scams masquerading under the name of "free trade". They are waking up so fast that the corporate crooks who write these deals and the bought and paid for politicians who vote for them have a new name -- "partnership". How clever. Too bad George Carlin is no longer around to compare a "partnership" to "free trade" like he did with baseball and football.

"TPP would offshore American jobs, increase medicine prices, flood us with unsafe imported food and empower corporations to attack our laws before foreign tribunals."

Here is todays email from Public Citizen..........


http://action.citizen.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=10295

Do you know what “TPP” stands for?

A. Taking People’s Power
B. Toxic Poisonous Products
C. Terribly Pricey Pharmaceuticals
D. Trans-Pacific Partnership
E. All of the above

The right answer, unfortunately, is E. And today in Dallas, Texas, a throng of corporate lobbyists are gathering behind closed doors to begin what they’ve branded “trade” negotiations.

In reality, the TPP is a stunning backdoor corporate attack.

Unlock the secret of the TPP — the Trans-Pacific Partnership “trade” ruse.

Watch our “TPP: The Ultimate Corporate Power Tool” video, a parody based on the Jackson 5 classic song “ABC.”

Then sign the petition to open up the negotiation process — this is a deal that cannot survive public scrutiny.

TPP would offshore American jobs, increase medicine prices, flood us with unsafe imported food and empower corporations to attack our laws before foreign tribunals.

The audaciousness of TPP is overwhelming. That’s why we decided to poke some fun at this stealthy corporate power grab as we raise the alert.

For months, negotiators from the U.S. and eight Pacific Rim countries have been meeting behind closed doors. The public, Congress and the press have been locked out.

Yet over 600 official corporate “advisors” have access to draft texts of TPP — a deal that would create a system of corporate rule designed to crush our most basic rights.

Get the facts on the TPP. Watch our video. Then sign our petition to demand that the draft TPP texts be made public.

Leaked texts show how TPP would roll back Wall Street re-regulation and increase drug prices. It would ban “Buy American” and green procurement preferences and undermine food safety protections. Worst of all, it would empower corporations to attack our health and environmental laws before foreign tribunals — with corporate lawyers as arbiters — and demand taxpayer compensation for alleged lost future profits.

It’s up to all of us to shine on a light on this dangerous deal dreamed up by the 1%. With your help, it can be stopped.

Watch our video. Laugh, get mad, then sign our petition to stop the TPP corporate power grab.

Thank you for watching the video and taking action.

Sincerely,

Robert Weissman — President, Public Citizen
Lori Wallach — Director, Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch

P.S. Please forward this email to your friends, family and fellow activists.

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