phillip morris on the other hand, disagreed. what phillip morris did as a result of trade language which is included in the tpp, is went to an international tribunal and said to the tribunal, what berg uruguay is doing is harming our future profits. phillip morris said -- we can make a lot of money by a digging children to nicotine and killing them over the years and you are taking away our ability to look at kids on cigarettes. and what the trade agreement -- we will see how that resolves itself. it is still in the tribunal. australia is in the same boat. but that tells you anything you need to know about these trade agreements. the bottom line, very clearly is what is good for future profits is what trade agreements are all about. not the health, not the environment, not the well-being of the people and that is why we have to defeat the tpp. [applause] let me be as blunt as i can be. in telling you come if i have not been blunt already, and tell you something that i think many of you already know. and that is, as a result of a

but phillip morris disagrees. what phillip morris dead is a result of trade language which is included in this he went to an international tribunal and sent to the tribunal that what uruguay's doing is in violation of the trade agreement because they all are harming our future process. that is right. so phillip morris said that we can make a lot of money by addicting children to nicotine and they are taking our ability to take away them getting hooked on cigarettes. so we will see how that resolves itself but that tells you everything that you need to know about these trade agreement. and the bottom line is very clearly is what is good for future profits is what trade agreements are about. [applause] [cheers] [applause] >> let me be as blunt as i can be in telling you if i have a midland already. let me tell you something that i think many of you already know. that is a result of the disastrous supreme court decision at the citizens united case. and by a five to four decision the supreme court rendered one of the

largest consumer of cigarettes of tobacco, not only from chiens companies but also from bat or phillip morris the country has seen a lot of costs associated with this in terms of public health. the government is trying to make a couple of changes. they have done in the past. in 2011, but that smoking ban wasn't very effective because there weren't financial penalties associated with it. this time there are. there are fines of $33 for individuals or $1,600 for businesses that are found to allow people to smoke on their premises. the government is trying to get the public involved to report violators, not only does the government -- has the government sent out 1,000 inspectors but they have also encouraged people to post photos of those who have violated this law on the government's -- the paging government's social media app. they have also said that they are hoping people will call in on their government hot line and so far today, there's already been some reporting going on. we've heard that a hot pot restaurant has violated this law. it's being reported in the chinese media that people have

but they back off because they can't afford to go to court against the deep pockets of phillip morris. this is big tobacco strategy. litigate bankrupt companies into submission. what we are facing is huge corporations using trade was to blackmail countries. call it another work you want but blackmail is as close as he gets into overturning laws passed by their legislature usually ratified by their court system and people from another country the very rich country one of the richest industries in that country represented by some of the most privileged harvard yell trained lawyers say we are going to overturn your democratically-elected law because our problems are more important than protecting your children in togo or your children in uruguay and protecting her children's health. so i vote today since we haven't fixed tobacco a vote today on fast-track essentially saying unless the people voting for it are going to go to bat for a change against big tobacco fundamentally we are saying it's okay for big tobacco in the privilege of the big tobacco lawyers to go to court and choose big t

what phillip morris did as a result of trade language included in the tpp is went to an international tribunal and said to the tribunal, what uragay is doing is in violation of our trade agreement because they are harming our future profits. that's right. so phillip morice said look, we can make a lot of money by addicting children to nicotine and killing them over the years and you're taking away our ability to hook kids on cigarettes. and what this trade agreement will see how that resolves itself. australia is in the same boat. but that tells you everything you need to know about these trade agreements. the bottom line, very clearly is what is good for future profits is what trade agreements are about. not the health, not our environment, not the well being of the people. and that is why we've got to defeat soundly this tpp. now, let me be as blunt as i can be. telling you, if i haven't been blunt already and tell you something i think many of you already know. and that is as a result of the disastrous supreme court decision in the citizens united case make that loud so that suprem

forced to give up its tobacco labeling laws falling under pressure from phillip morris a companies philip morris companies whose sales are larger than the gdp of togo bowed under pressure which threatened the incalculable amount of trade litigation. here are us trade lawyers that threatened to sue a poor african or in some cases latin american government which once exercised sovereignty and protect children against potential addictive tobacco marketing, marketing that will lead to children being addicted to tobacco. they backed off because they cannot afford to go to court against the deep pockets of philip morris. this is big tobacco strategy litigate bankrupt countries into submission. we are facing his youth corporations using trade loss to blackmail countries. call countries. call it what you want. i thi rich country, one of the richest industries in that country represented by some of the most privileged, harvard-yale trained lawyers saying we're going to overturn your democratically elected law because our profits are more important than protecting your children in togo or your chil

philip morris, marathon petroleum, hess corporations phillips 66 those were all in the bottom ten corporationsis that because these companies are basically commodity companies? >> yeah and they haven't needed to be that adaptable. itch you're pumping oil you want to do the same thing again and again and don't need to change very much. but with the advent of solar coming along, we predicted in 23 or 25 years, 100% of world energy supply will be deliverable by solar. deliverable by solar because -- >> it may not be the most effective or cost efficient. >> solar is on a doubling pattern where we're doubling every 22 to 30 months in its price performance. at that pace we will hit that point. more importantly because it's on a doubling pattern, in two years after that it's 200% and two years after that it's 400%. >> but you're not predicting the world will be powered solely by solar. >> the vast majority will because by then home small business, cars et cetera will all be powered by solar. i give a talk to all the ceos of the electric companies in the company and they're kind of panicking right now