{"id":909,"date":"2012-05-18T23:43:25","date_gmt":"2012-05-19T03:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/?p=909"},"modified":"2012-05-18T23:43:25","modified_gmt":"2012-05-19T03:43:25","slug":"pranksters-toilet-paper-free-trade-negotiations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/2012\/05\/18\/pranksters-toilet-paper-free-trade-negotiations\/","title":{"rendered":"Pranksters Toilet Paper &#8220;Free Trade&#8221; Negotiations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Dallas, TX) Prankster group The Yes Men disrupted a meeting of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade negotiations in Dallas by posing as businessmen and presenting Ron Kirk, U.S. Trade Representative with the &#8220;2012 Corporate Power Tool Award.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5curJyngiDI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/tppAward.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/tppAward.jpg\" alt=\"Yes Men prankster gives out &quot;Corporate Power Tool Award&quot;\" title=\"Yes Men prankster gives out &quot;Corporate Power Tool Award&quot;\" width=\"545\" height=\"266\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-911\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/tppAward.jpg 545w, https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/tppAward-300x146.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 545px) 100vw, 545px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAfter Kirk accepts the award, Haversall commends the TPP, saying to applause: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The TPP agreement is shaping up to be a fantastic way for us to maximize profits, regardless of what the public of this nation\u00e2\u20ac\u201dor any other nation\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthinks is right.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Yes Men also replace the regular toilet paper in the hotel with custom rolls ridiculing the Trans-Pacific Partnership.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/TPPToiletPaper.jpg\" alt=\"Toilet Paper saying What is TPP?\" title=\"Toilet Paper saying What is TPP?\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-910\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/TPPToiletPaper.jpg 640w, https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/TPPToiletPaper-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What is the TPP?  According to the group <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tpp2012.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Public Citizen<\/a: \n\n\n\n\n\n<blockquote>&#8220;It is the dream of the 1%. With 600 U.S. corporations as officials advisors, this stealthy international agreement has been negotiated behind closed doors over the past two years \u00e2\u20ac\u201c with talks heading to Dallas in May.<\/p>\n<p>What would TPP mean for the 99%? Millions more American jobs offshored. Backdoor deregulation for financial firms to wreck the economy again. Floods of unsafe food and products. Higher medicine prices. A ban on Buy America policies needed to create green jobs and rebuild our economy. Foreign corporations empowered to attack our environmental and health policies in foreign tribunals.<\/p>\n<p>Closed-door talks are on-going between the U.S. and Australia, Brunei, Chile, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, Malaysia and Vietnam; with countries like Japan and China potentially joining later.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Are they right?  Is the TPP basically a NAFTA for Asia?  Are the Yes Men hippie crazies?<\/p>\n<p>Maybe.  I think Trade Rep. Ron Kirk should be glad they didn&#8217;t egg the place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Dallas, TX) Prankster group The Yes Men disrupted a meeting of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade negotiations in Dallas by posing as businessmen and presenting Ron Kirk, U.S. Trade Representative with the &#8220;2012 Corporate Power Tool Award.&#8221; After Kirk accepts &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/2012\/05\/18\/pranksters-toilet-paper-free-trade-negotiations\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194,135],"tags":[570,569,568],"class_list":["post-909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-videos","category-troutboysblog","tag-ron-kirk","tag-trans-pacific-partnership","tag-yes-men"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}