{"id":5046,"date":"2014-03-03T08:27:33","date_gmt":"2014-03-03T13:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/?p=5046"},"modified":"2021-11-18T10:22:12","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T15:22:12","slug":"the-transpacific-partnership-economix-comix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2014\/03\/03\/the-transpacific-partnership-economix-comix\/","title":{"rendered":"The Transpacific Partnership| Economix Comix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/economixcomix.com\/home\/tpp\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Free-Trade-pg2-revised.jpg\" width=\"332\" height=\"454\" \/><\/a>So, I&#8217;ve mentioned TPP before, and I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ve advertized my love of educational comics.\u00a0 Of course I love <a href=\"http:\/\/economixcomix.com\/\">Economix:\u00a0 How our economy works (and doesn&#8217;t work) in words and pictures<\/a>.\u00a0 And economics is important because it has a lot to do with trade and intellectual property laws, laws that often include strange little bits about internet monitoring, whether people own what they buy, and how much the government and other organizations can snoop on the casual consumer through what they buy. <a href=\"http:\/\/economixcomix.com\/home\/tpp\/\">Included in the book<\/a> is a nifty segment on TPP:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I&#8217;ve mentioned TPP before, and I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ve advertized my love of educational comics.\u00a0 Of course I love Economix:\u00a0 How our economy works (and doesn&#8217;t work) in words and pictures.\u00a0 And economics is important because it has a lot to do with trade and intellectual property laws, laws that often include strange little bits&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2014\/03\/03\/the-transpacific-partnership-economix-comix\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Transpacific Partnership| Economix Comix<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[6,76,185],"class_list":["post-5046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-comics","tag-privacy","tag-reading"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4813,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2013\/11\/15\/tpp-bad-government\/","url_meta":{"origin":5046,"position":0},"title":"TPP = bad government","author":"leems","date":"November 15, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"If you want a rundown on why TPP is bad and why fast tracking it through Congress is bad then read:\u00a0 The Most Nefarious Part Of The TPP Proposal: Making Copyright Reform Impossible | Techdirt. 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