https://www.rallypoint.com/answers/getting-the-trans-pacific-partnership-snuck-through-dc-under-the-false-smokescreens-of-confederate-flag-buzz-your-thoughts <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I am partially sniffing out the depth levels of the perceived intentional smoke-screening by media, (presumably pushed by DC), and wondering what you think of this TPP stuff... Sun, 28 Jun 2015 02:40:09 -0400 https://www.rallypoint.com/answers/getting-the-trans-pacific-partnership-snuck-through-dc-under-the-false-smokescreens-of-confederate-flag-buzz-your-thoughts <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I am partially sniffing out the depth levels of the perceived intentional smoke-screening by media, (presumably pushed by DC), and wondering what you think of this TPP stuff... Cpl Christopher Bishop Sun, 28 Jun 2015 02:40:09 -0400 2015-06-28T02:40:09-04:00 https://www.rallypoint.com/answers/getting-the-trans-pacific-partnership-snuck-through-dc-under-the-false-smokescreens-of-confederate-flag-buzz-your-thoughts?n=775715&urlhash=775715 <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>It is difficult to follow the twists and turns in this issue.<br /><br />The left hates it and the president is a creature of the left - but the president was pushing the deal.<br /><br />The right generally likes free trade and was instrumental in its passage, but they don't trust the president and were upset about the loss of sovereignty the TPP mandates.<br /><br />Nobody seems to be following their principles.<br /><br /><br /><a target="_blank" href="http://neweconomicperspectives.org/2015/05/fasttracktpp-the-death-of-national-sovereignty-state-sovereignty-separation-of-powers-and-democracy.html">http://neweconomicperspectives.org/2015/05/fasttracktpp-the-death-of-national-sovereignty-state-sovereignty-separation-of-powers-and-democracy.html</a> <div class="pta-link-card answers-template-image type-default"> <div class="pta-link-card-picture"> <img src="https://d26horl2n8pviu.cloudfront.net/link_data_pictures/images/000/016/800/qrc/Little-Fishy.png?1443046382"> </div> <div class="pta-link-card-content"> <p class="pta-link-card-title"> <a target="blank" href="http://neweconomicperspectives.org/2015/05/fasttracktpp-the-death-of-national-sovereignty-state-sovereignty-separation-of-powers-and-democracy.html">Fast/Track/TPP: The Death of National Sovereignty, State Sovereignty, Separation of Powers, and...</a> </p> <p class="pta-link-card-description">Most of the critical attention given to the Fast Track Trade Agreement legislation and to the associated Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Congressional – Executive Agreement on mainstream corporate media and by politicians and establishment interest groups</p> </div> <div class="clearfix"></div> </div> Capt Seid Waddell Sun, 28 Jun 2015 03:21:21 -0400 2015-06-28T03:21:21-04:00 https://www.rallypoint.com/answers/getting-the-trans-pacific-partnership-snuck-through-dc-under-the-false-smokescreens-of-confederate-flag-buzz-your-thoughts?n=775727&urlhash=775727 <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>It seems to me that the TPP may be a good measure of who is completely bought off by corporate interests and those who still have the interests of the American people at heart. If we can't stop it, we will at the very least have a list of politicians (on the right and left) who should not be re-elected. SSG Private RallyPoint Member Sun, 28 Jun 2015 03:28:36 -0400 2015-06-28T03:28:36-04:00 https://www.rallypoint.com/answers/getting-the-trans-pacific-partnership-snuck-through-dc-under-the-false-smokescreens-of-confederate-flag-buzz-your-thoughts?n=775882&urlhash=775882 <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Standard government play: Pass something that will get people heated (gay marriage or Confederate Flag) and then slip past something that supports their corporate buddies and their own fortunes behind the scenes. <br /><br />The media is complicit in it as well. CPT Zachary Brooks Sun, 28 Jun 2015 07:39:17 -0400 2015-06-28T07:39:17-04:00 https://www.rallypoint.com/answers/getting-the-trans-pacific-partnership-snuck-through-dc-under-the-false-smokescreens-of-confederate-flag-buzz-your-thoughts?n=775937&urlhash=775937 <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>"Snuck"?<br />It's been all over NPR news.<br />What are you listing to? SPC Jan Allbright, M.Sc., R.S. Sun, 28 Jun 2015 08:42:42 -0400 2015-06-28T08:42:42-04:00 2015-06-28T02:40:09-04:00