DFA: Ask the White House to oppose a lame-duck TPP vote

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13. You are right I haven't read every single word

But I have read enough of it to recognize a large majority of the criticism has been complete hogwash.. For example just last night I responded to this bit of bs

The TPP does not allow disputes to be settled in a court of law.

Instead, disputes go to non-court "arbitrators" in which international corporate lawyers who are called "arbitrators" will rule on cases, not real judges.

There almost is no appeal of the corporate lawyers' decisions to a real court with real rules on evidence and procedure.

The little guy or small company or your town that wants to buy local will lose every time and the big international corporations will always win.

The TPP should be called the Corporate Profits Protection Treaty 'cause that's the only thing that it does.

Complete nonsense the panels are appointed by the parties that are party to the case. One from each side with the third, the chair, agreed upon by both parties. Nothing even close to what the poster described.

Just one example of the BS being spread about this agreement. I have no Idea where the poster got the idea that was true but having read many of the posts here on this subject my guess is he read it here right on DU.