Sneak Attack: Mass Shooting Distracts from TPP Fast Track Approval
(Truthstream Media) While the media are busy stoking the latest mass shooting to further racial tensions and societal divide, Washington politicians moved in stealth to rapidly pass the very fast track trade authority in the House that Congress had rejected days before.
The previous failure of the bill garnered big media attention celebrating a victory for Americans, but the second try got muted media time at best with most outlets ready to give more airtime and headline space to the sensation and tragic South Carolina race-tinged shooting.
The violent death of Rev. Clementa Pinckney and at eight others is no less tragic, but the timing is too suspect to go unnoticed or be believable on its face.
But while the death of nine people captures the nation’s conscience, the TPP trade authority stands to affect billions of lives – negotiated in secret, the deal stands to destroy millions of American jobs and opens special loopholes for corporations to dominate business here and abroad.
