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Locrian

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11. best definition

Reply to Faryn Balyncd (Original post)

Sat Dec 6, 2014, 08:40 PM

Dec 2014

The best definition for TPP was that if "Citizens United" made corporations "people" then TPP gives corporations "SOVEREIGNTY"

Sovereignty, in layman's terms means, a state or a governing body has the full right and power to govern itself without any interference from outside sources or bodies. In political theory, sovereignty is a substantive term designating supreme authority over some polity.

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How the Trans-Pacific Partnership Would Undermine Internet Freedom [View all] Faryn Balyncd Dec 2014 OP

Thank you and people are blindly supporting this because of partisan loyalty without even sabrina 1 Dec 2014 #1

Thanks for posting these Faryn. wavesofeuphoria Dec 2014 #2

Our internet tubes would get Politicalboi Dec 2014 #3

Thank you. djean111 Dec 2014 #4

goal of obama,s TPP is to eliminate state and local regulatioNs that corporations don,t want nt msongs Dec 2014 #5

The TPP is the Mother Rat of all trade agreements period. appalachiablue Dec 2014 #6

Guess that's what we get when the folks who wrote it are the same folks who put malware in CDs ... Faryn Balyncd Dec 2014 #7

120 years! Far, far, far, far, far, far, far too long. JDPriestly Dec 2014 #8

TPP is a vehicle for the corrosive policies corporations could never achieve through legislation. pa28 Dec 2014 #9

These two ought to be up there with Jefferson & Lincoln : Faryn Balyncd Dec 2014 #10

best definition Locrian Dec 2014 #11

Thanks Faryn Dont call me Shirley Dec 2014 #12

Thank you K/R 840high Dec 2014 #13

k/r nationalize the fed Dec 2014 #14

K&R Odin2005 Dec 2014 #15

Just watched segment on MSNBC's Ed Schultz on TPP, NAFTA on Steroids with VT Rep. Difazio, appalachiablue Dec 2014 #16