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The TPP - The More We Know, The Worse It Gets
We already knew that the Trans Pacific Partnership is a threat to our jobs, our civil rights, and our national sovereignty, and now we know it's also a danger to our environment. On Wednesday, Wikileaks published a leaked version of the environmental chapter of the TPP, and it's just another example of putting corporate power ahead of public interest. In their review of this chapter, Wikileaks said that the section is “a toothless public relations exercise” that lacks “mandated clauses or meaningful enforcement measures.”
Because mega-corporations took part in negotiating the deal, the purpose of environmental chapter is first and foremost to protect trade, not our environment. It relies on so-called corporate accountability, and emphasizes “flexible, voluntary mechanisms, such as voluntary auditing and reporting, market-based incentives, voluntary sharing of information and expertise.” Because – you know – corporate self-regulation has worked out so well for us in the past. This chapter does nothing to mandate that our environment is protected from the destructive nature of corporate greed, and nothing to punish trading partners or corporations who violate environmental standards.
Just like the other leaked sections of the TPP, the environmental chapter alone should be enough to make our lawmakers reject this deal. Instead, they're pushing forward, trying to take away Congress members' right to debate it, and keeping Americans in the dark about negotiations. For the sake of our jobs, our civil rights, our national sovereignty, and now also our environment, we must demand that our legislators reject the TPP.
-Thom
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 9pm... Time for a new WPA? (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT, and catch past shows on Youtube)
Watch the video 'Last Hours' narrated by Thom Hartmann about the "time bomb" that is ticking underground, underwater and under ice… frozen methane that is now escaping and could trigger runaway climate change. www.lasthours.org
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Geeky Science - Scientists now know what cats think of humans
Daily Take: Tracking the "Multiplier Effect"
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Wednesday's Daily Stack 
Hour One: The privatization of the net has begun- C. Edmund Wright, WTF? How Karl Rove and the Establishment Lost...Again
Plus, Hunter heals a life lost in the system - A Hunter School mom talks about her daughter
Hour Two: Progressive Democrats Rule!- Tim Carpenter, Progressive Democrats of America (PDA)
Hour Three: TPP - The fast track to poverty?- Leo Gerard, United Steelworkers
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Thursday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
Hour Two: Isn't it time for the WPA?
Plus, Geeky Science - Your cat's tail and what it's telling you!
Hour Three: What does the right have against America's public schools?- Bob Bowdon, ChoiceMedia.tv
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The internet is dead...long live the internet!
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America's real welfare queens...
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Why Scotland is Lowering the Voting Age to 16
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Thom talks to McAfee Inc's founder John McAfee about his efforts to create software that would prevent the NSA from spying on Americans. Tonight's "Lone Liberal Rumble" discusses whether Chris Christie should be impeached, the government's $53 billion surplus from last month and Ohio's latest voter suppression efforts. Tonight's "Daily Take" discusses why the end of net neutrality could mean the end of the internet as we know it.
The Thom Hartmann Program - January 15, 2014
Hunter Heals a Life Lost in the System
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Progressive Democrats Rule!
TPP: Fast Track to Poverty
The Privatization of the Net Has Begun
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