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Thom's blog
What the Corporate Media Isn’t Telling You About The TPP
The Trans-Pacific Partnership, or TPP as it’s more commonly known, is a public health disaster waiting to happen.
For hundreds of millions of people all over the world, generic drugs are a cheaper alternative to the more expensive drugs sold by Big Pharma. So if the TPP goes through, real live breathing people ( Doctors Without Borders estimates about half a billion of them) will effectively lose affordable access to the medicine they need to survive. And that's just one small provision of SHAFTA - pretty much every major industry in the world has their own little honeypot in there.
The TPP would also let corporations sue countries in international courts owned and run by corporations, with judges handpicked from corporate law firms. In other words, if a corporation doesn't like a regulation, or thinks it'll diminish their profits, they can sue your town, state, or our federal government over it - and that would gut environmental and financial rules without any input from “We the People” or our elected representatives in Congress.
Considering what’s at stake here, you’d think that the media would want to fill its broadcasts with wall-to-wall TPP coverage. I mean, half a billion people losing access to life-saving drugs just so Big Pharma can boost its profit margins? Corporate controlled courts? That’s ripe material for a primetime special!
Apparently, though, the mainstream media could not care less about the TPP or its disastrous effects on public health, the economy, and the environment. According to Media Matters for America, during the 17 month period between August 2013 and February 2015, only one nightly network news show, PBS Newshour, mentioned the trade deal - and they only mentioned it just eight times. ABC, CBS, and NBC didn’t mention the TPP once.
-Thom
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 10pm... Will the internet be reclassified as a utility? (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT or Free Speech TV, and catch past shows on Youtube)
Best of the Rest: Will the internet be reclassified as a utility?- Matt Wood, Free Press 
Daily Take: Why is the mainstream media silent on SHAFTA?
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Wednesday's Daily Stack 
Hour One: George W. Bush is responsible for Jordanian pilot's horrific death...
Letter: " Letter to John Holmes" by Thomas Jefferson, Monticello, Apr. 22, 1820. " ...we have the wolf by the ear, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go ... my only consolation is to be, that I live not to weep over it" Clip: " Iraq sits on top of 10 percent of the world’s oil reserves, very significant reserves, second only to Saudi Arabia." Vice President Dick Cheney, Meet the Press, September 14, 2003.
Hour Two: The real voter suppression no one is talking about
Bible: " Hosea 8:7". " They sow the wind and reap the whirlwind"
Quote: " They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution." - The Danger of American Fascism" by Henry A. Wallace.
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Tom Wheeler: Reclassify the Internet as a Utility
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