TTIP - the trade treaty that will kill democracy

Introduction

It was almost too late when the world woke up to the realities of the Trans Atlantic Trade And Investment Partnership (TTIP), this so called free trade treaty which really amoints to a licence for corporations to do as they like, was being negotiated in secret between the USA and the EU, with security surrounding it so tight that even our elected represenatives were not allowed to know what it contained. Needless to say what it contained was very nasty and undemocratic. TTIP has an equally evil twin, TPP, the Trans Pacific Partnership. Our coverage because ae are a European site mainly govers TTIP, but most of what you read here goes for TPP too, but more so because most South East Asian nations are not as well equipped as Germany, france, Britain etc. to stand up to American bullying.

Contents

TTIP - The Anything But Free Trade Agreement

Keynote Posts

TTIP - USA and EU Putting Trade And Profit Before Liberty And Choice
Leaked TPP Chapter Exposes goodies for global corporations and US Bullying Crushing Smaller States.



If you love good food & farming: Stop TTIP!
Thousand of Indian farmers protest against corporate imperialism and Government promotion of GMO seed.
European Union Bosses Mad For TTIP Trade-Deal, Even Though Obama Vetos Publication Of Its Terms
Regulatory Cooperation’ and TTIP: Opening The Floodgates For Corporate Plunder
Trade Treaties Fast Track Not A Done Deal, The People Will Stop It
TTIP Trade Deal Will Be A Disaster For Democracy And British Economy
Secret WTO Trade Deal Leaked - Threatens Internet Freedom, E - Commerce, Free Speech
TTIP Tries To Dump US Frankenfoods On Europe; Left and Right Unite To Back States' Right To Ban Them.
France’s President Hollande Says 'Non' To Obama’s Demand for Corporate Global Oligarchy
Protesters Gather Around Europe To Demonstrate Against Undemocratic Secret Agreement With USA
Hidden Agenda Behind the new Free Trade Deals
American Bankers And Private Healthcare Firms Already Buying GP Practices
More Truth About Undemocratic TTIP
EU Kommisar Admits Brussels Is At War With DemocracyWAKE UP! TTIP Free Trade Treaty Will Enslave You
WAKE UP! TTIP Free Trade Treaty Will Enslave You
European Union Euro - Nazis Block Democratic Challenge To TTIP Travesty
This Kind Of Fascism Is What The Anti UKIP Whiners Want For Us
Hundreds of protesters arrested in Brussels as leaders debate 'maintaining citizen's trust'
TTIP - USA and EU Putting Trade And Profit Before Liberty And Choice
German EU Kommissar Admits Brussels Is At War With Dermocracy

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Can 1 Million People Stop a Bad Trade Deal for Europe?

President Obama pushes for secretive trans-Pacific trade deal in China

A brief history of the TTIP: Stop this corporate plunder

Little Nicky Machiavelli on the TTIPcorporate licence to do anything deal


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If you love good food & farming: Stop TTIP!

Chef Jamie Oliver rages against corporate - friendly trade treaty

March 6th, 2015
by Stephanie Danielle Roth, stop-ttip.org

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The EU Commission upholds that the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) will not lower EU standards; including on food and farming. But the US government, or the deal’s other half, also has concrete ideas on what it wants from TTIP. It wants lower standards! Cecilia Malmstroem, the EU commissioner for trade tweets that she “will not lower any environmental standards, the precautionary principle still holds.” That’s wishful thinking. If concluded TTIP will likely reflect a compromise between the US and EU. Whether by then EU standards and the precautionary principle still hold is doubtful indeed.

In 2013 US exports of agricultural products to the EU were at $11.9 billion and imports at $17.6 billion. The US exports soybeans, soybean meal, wine and beer to the EU which in return exports back wine and beer, oils, snack foods, processed fruits and vegetables.

The US government’s TTIP goal is to overcome that deficit and “help U.S. agricultural sales reach their full potential by eliminating tariffs and quotas.” It aims to achieve this with tools such as ‘mutual recognition’ and ‘regulatory co-operation.’ By mutual recognition governments agree to recognize one another’s compliance assessment for standards. Regulatory co-operation foresees for existing and future EU regulation having to go through investigations, dialogues and negotiations via a new institution, the Regulatory Cooperation Body (RCB) to which business would contribute. There would be compulsory impact assessments for proposed regulation which would be checked for their potential impact on trade. Business lobbies would influence new regulations in the very first stage of decision-making, before it even comes to parliament. In 2012-2013 the US government organised hearings and consultations to gather ‘negotiating objectives for TTIP.’ Taken together they make up something like 500 contributions from business, trade associations and NGOs. Those related to food and farming take-up roughly a quarter. In calling for the removal of unscientific and discriminatory trade barriers the former two share common aims: Purging the precautionary principle tops this list. In the EU if a product is suspected of causing harm but extensive scientific knowledge is lacking then it can be banned via this legal principle. It is applied in matters ranging from waste incineration, product safety, the use of additives in animal nutrition, and the regulation of genetically modified organisms (GMOs). Through its application in precedent-setting case law, it has also become a general principle of EU law. According to CropLife a trade association whose members include agri-giants such Bayer, BASF “science-based risk assessment as the foundation for regulatory decisions must not be overruled by an incorrect and politically driven application of the precautionary principle.” Roughly 85% of the above trade groups and businesses call for its riddance. They view it as the single largest obstacle to US agricultural imports into the EU. Because of it commercially meaningful tolerances of biotechnology-derived commodities are excluded and so are neonicotinoid treated products such as soybean meal. It also impacts related legislation such as the EU’s mandatory traceability and labelling policies for products containing biotech ingredients. It is also the basis for the EU’s ban on ractopamine, a growth hormone banned in 160 countries around the world. US meat trade associations’ such as the Pork Producers’ Council which use this growth hormone and would like to export their products into the EU claim that “the EU’s ban on ractopamine is not based on sound science” recommending that “If there is a U.S.-EU FTA, this trade barrier should be eliminated.” Meats treated with antimicrobial rinses (PRTs) —including chlorine dioxide used on meat such as chicken or pork are also banned via this principle. “The EU’s restrictions on PRTs are not based on science and must be eliminated through the TTIP negotiations,” concludes the Pork Producers Council. The above are just few out of many examples showing what some, albeit powerful, hope to gain from TTIP. Their calls have been readily taken up in this year’s report on technical barriers to trade by the US Trade Representative. One of its paragraphs reads as follows: “Ractopamine is an animal drug approved for use in feed for cattle and swine, which results in increased weight gain, an increase in the yield of red meat, and leaner meat production. The Codex standards, which are based on science and a risk assessment, provide clear guidance to countries on the safe use of ractopamine. Ractopamine has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and is being used safely in the United States and 25 other countries.” During TTIP negotiations the US government underlined that it’s not about lowering standards, but that it’s all about agreeing to science-based regulation. Business has been anxious in supplying business-funded references that placate their ‘sci-vision’ to discredit relevant EU legal provisions. On a related note: the US trade negotiator considers the EU’s approach to animal welfare a ‘moral issue that is not ‘science-based.’ If food & farming multinationals get their way then this will not only lead to lower food & farming standards but to more factory farms and monopolies. Their prices and increased lobby power will undermine farmers who produce good & healthy food. To ensure that their aims are enforced food multinationals, agri-traders and seed producers also lobbied the EU Commission. According to Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) these groups had more contacts with the Commission’s trade department (DG Trade) during the preparation phase for TTIP’s negotiations than the pharmaceutical, chemical, and financial and car industry put together. “Agribusiness lobbies such as the pesticide industry have strongly pushed their agenda via the TTIP negotiations with the aim of undermining current EU food regulations. Trade tools such as ‘mutual recognition’ and ‘regulatory co-operation’ are likely to lead to an erosion of food safety standards in the long run,” says Nina Holland, agribusiness campaigner with CEO. If you love good food & good farming, act today and sign our ECI to make TTIP a thing of the past! Written by Stephanie Danielle Roth for Stop TTIP
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Thousand of Indian farmers protest against corporate imperialism and Government promotion of GMO seed.

In India the deeply unpopular Modi government is facing a massive revolt against possibly corrupt and certainly undemocratic collaboration with biotech giants like Du Pont and Monsanto in trying to use legislative power to force farmers to accept the introduction of Genetically Modified seed. Protests against the Government and ruling coalition took place in Delhi on 18 March, 2015 ...(take a trip over to our International News site to read the rest of this)



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European Union Bosses Mad For TTIP Trade-Deal, Even Though Obama Vetos Publication Of Its Terms

by Ian R Thorpe

As we have reported many time, the Trans-Atlantic Trade And Investment Partnership (TTIP) is a 'free trade' treaty negotiated in conditions of strictest secrecy between the U.S.A and the unelected bureaucrats in Brussels who run the EU. None of the terms and conditions of TTIP have been made public, all we know of what it will impose on our sovereign nations has been the results of leaks via Wikileaks and other whistleblower web sites.

And the little information these diligent whistleblowers have managed to obtain is worrying enough to warrant calling a halt to the progress of this corrupt and one sided, corporate friendly farrago now. Unless of course you think it is a good idea to give global corporations the right to sue governments and overturn the democratically enacted laws of sovereign governments.

All indications are that TTIP will replace each nation’s drug-safety, product-safety, food-safety, environmental, and worker-protection, regulations and laws, placing them into the hands of panels composed of appointees of large international corporations, no longer in the hands of publicly officials, no longer in the hands of elected politicians, who need to face voters periodically in order to stay in power.

Basically: U.S. President Barack Obama, ex rent-boy and drug user and surely the sleaziest and most corrupt leader any democratic nation has ever had, is demanding that European nations weaken their regulations, but has been encountering stiff resistance from some national assemblies, which has delayed implementation of the treaty.

It has to be said that the ruling bureaucrats of the EU have been busy collaborating with this betrayal of democracy,

German financial newspaper Deutsche Wirtschafts Nachrichten headlined, on 4 February 2015, “TTIP: civil rights complaint alleging secret negotiations,” and reported that Europe’s Ombudsman, Emily O’Reilly, said: "American objection to the publication of certain TTIP documents is not a sufficient reason, alone on its own, to withhold information from the European public. The Commission will at all times ensure that exceptions to the basic rights of EU citizens are justified and reasonable whenever there is a limitation on access to documents."

It was a snub for Obama and his Corporate buddies, but O'Reilly didn’t do anything to enforce her statement; the non-disclosure continued.

Furthermore, in July, the European Court had to decide whether the public should have access to institutional documents. The conclusion: Only in exceptional cases would a refusal be possible. The judges ruled at that time that documents of international scope (such as TTIP) are not automatically excluded from the European Transparency Requirements.

Obama lost on that one too. Yet the EU Bureaucrats continue to ignore representatives of member states and continue signing away our democratic rights to American corporations behind closed doors.

Nothing has yet been made public about the TTIP terms; and the many consumer, worker, and other organizations, that have demanded to see what is in the agreement, have faced a stone wall of inaction, even after court decisions in their favor. Furthermore, as is reported elsewhere in this document, France's President Hollande and the Greek finance minister have said they will veto the treaty. That could trigger a battle between democracy and bureaucratic dictatorship that would tear Europe apart.

Another significant trend may be the increasing atmosphere of detente between France, Germany and the Russian government. Are the two major Euro zone powers starting to realise that the biggest threat to their future independence comes from the USA.

Whatever, despite this secrecy and reluctance to allow the public and media to know what the likely effects of TTIP will be, Europe’s public seem to be waking up to what is happening, there have been demonstrations against TTIP organised and supported by trade unions, civil rights groups, anarchists, socialists and right wing groups.

In response to that, the EU has published a survey according to which citizens are downright euphoric about the free trade agreement TTIP. In all, 25 Member States [of the 28] report sheer enthusiasm over the completely secretly negotiated agreement, but for one small exception: Germans are mostly against the TTIP.” Actually, however, tiny Austria was even more strongly against it, and was the only nation to be majority-opposed to TTIP.

The only English-language publication of the results of that EU poll has been the 6 January 2015, “Eurobarometer: who’s for and against TTIP in EU”; and national

What that site does not tell you is that it was an online, opt-in poll, the site was an obscure EU web page for EU politics wonks and the question asked was vague highly misleading.

Question: "What is your opinion on each of the following: Are for it or against a free trade and investment agreement between the EU and the USA": FOR/AGAINST/DON’T KNOW

You may have noticed the question does not mention TTIP or the numerous constitutional issues ratification of the treaty would raise. Nor is the U.S. demand that the treaty be approved in secret by unelected bureaucrats raised. Does this change your mind about what is might actually going on here? The only independent economic analysis that has been done of TTIP concluded that, even without considering the lowered safety-standards for drugs and other products, and for the environment, etc., it would very much harm European economies, and that it would probably even harm people in the lower 99% of America’s economy; but this economic analysis was never publicized.

As for the poll, it was a sham, an exercise in manipulating information to give the impression that there was little opposition to TTIP, with the aim of having mainstream media misreport the story

If this deal is ratified in both Europe and America (and in the USA, Obama wants it fast tracked i.e. for both houses of congress to approve it on his say so without the elected senators and representatives having read it for themselves) without any authentic public discussion on either side of the Atlantic, without serious reporting in the press or coverage by broadcast news then what would that tell us about the meaning of the term ‘democracy’ as applied in and to Europe, and in and to America? But if it happens that way, it will be too late to protest, democracy will be gone and the only was to oppose TTIP will be by bloody insurrection.

Has the term ‘democracy’ become then merely a sham? Is it now merely propaganda, a reassuring reference to a golden age that slipped from the future to the past without ever touching the present.

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by Andrea Germanos, staff writer Common Dreams (Creative Commons Licence, share freely with attibution and all links)

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Threat comes amid continued grassroots opposition to proposed trade deal

An official with Greece's newly elected Syriza party may have sounded the death knell for a proposed EU-U.S. trade deal that has faced a mountain of opposition from civil society.

The deal is the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), now facing its eighth round of talks between negotiators this week in Brussels.

The TTIP, which would be the biggest trade deal ever, has been criticized as a corporate-friendly deal that threatens food and environmental safety under the guise of "harmonization" of regulations.

Georgios Katrougkalos, now deputy minister for administrative reform, confirmed what he had told EurActiv Greece ahead of his Syriza party's victory last week: that his parliament would not ratify the trade deal.

"I can ensure you that a Parliament where Syriza holds the majority will never ratify the deal. And this will be a big gift not only to the Greek people but to all the European people," EurActiv reported Monday.

Because Syriza's coalition partner also appears to share the anti-TTIP views, EurActiv reports, this means the Greeks could issue a veto, thereby threatening to block the deal.

Among Katrougkalos' concerns with the trade deal, shared by many of the deal's critics, is the Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) mechanism. As author Glyn Moody explained, it "enables companies to sue for alleged losses caused by government actions." He adds:

ISDS would introduce external tribunals that allowed companies to bypass national laws. It would open up the EU (and US) to the risk of ISDS claims on an unprecedented scale. If TTIP includes ISDS, there are 14,400 US-based corporations owning more than 50,800 subsidiaries in the EU, all of which could use the mechanism to sue the EU and its Member States. Even without TTIP, European nations are already facing claims of at least €30 billion because of ISDS chapters in existing agreements - we don't know exactly, since many cases are still secret. With TTIP, it's easy to imagine that figure multiplied by ten or even more. Moreover, this is money that must be paid by the public, making a mockery of any claims that TTIP will bring benefits to ordinary people.

Several European organizations are mobilizing to show their opposition to the trade deal during this latest round of negotiations.

Among them is Friends of the Earth Europe, which plans to hold a demonstration Wednesday to highlight how the TTIP is a "Trojan treaty."

Also joining the demonstration is Guy Taylor, trade campaigner for Global Justice Now and an organizer for actions Wednesday, who said in a statement: "It’s unheard of to see so many people traveling to Brussels to lobby their MEPs like this, and that’s testament to just how hugely controversial and unpopular TTIP has become. David Cameron waxes lyrical about national sovereignty, but in pushing for this deal he is willfully handing sovereignty to big business. The deal is not really about trade, it’s about entrenching the position of the one percent. It should be abandoned."

Underscoring similar concerns is 31-year-old Ross Mackay, who will be joining the actions in Brussels. He told the Scotland Herald, "TTIP is not really about opening up trade and harmonizing tariffs and regulations; it's about a race to the bottom, locked-in privatization, and a seismic shift in power away from people and their elected governments towards corporations."

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A new leak concerning the talks around the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) indicates that the floodgates could be opened even further for corporate influence. The leak has been analysed by the corporate watchdogs CEO and LobbyControl and shows that corporate influence on EU and US policies might dramatically increase via the chapter on so-called ‘regulatory cooperation’.

The leak of the EU draft negotiating proposal dated January 23rd makes unmistakably clear that the EU is seeking a very ambitious chapter that strengthens the role of business in future regulatory legislation possibly via a new institution, the Regulatory Cooperation Body (RCB). Its role would be to coordinate the process of regulatory coherence between the US and the EU and would effectively limit policy space and sideline the public and civil organisations.

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The fast tracking of two trade treaties, TTIP and TPP that the corporate gofor, President Barack Hussein Obama, is pushing in the hope that the deals, negotiated in strictest secrecy with not even the elected represeantatives of the people allowed to know what is in them, will enable him to complete the task he was shoehorned into office for by transferring control of national laws from elected governments to corporate lawyers, looks to be stalling.

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TTIP Trade Deal Will Be A Disaster For Democracy And British Economy

by Arthur Foxake - 11 November, 2014

Analysts looking at the far reacing effects of the Trans Atlantic Trade And Investment Partnership (TTIP) have concluded that the controversial agreement negotiated between US and EU officials in conditions of such complete secrecy that even elected representatives of voters in EU member nations have not beel allowed to know what it provisions contains could become an absolute disaster for the British economy. And yet leaders of The Conservative / Lib Dem coalition government and the Labour opposition are wholly and unequivocally in favour of it.

The TTIP is being hyped by David Cameron, Nick Clegg, Ed Miliband and their equally spinesless, sycophantic, anti - British sidekicks as a way of providing a boost to the UK economy. A peer- reviewed research paper authored by Jeronim Capaldo of Tufts University, Massachusetts, predicts that over a ten-year period the treaty's effects would include:

• The average wage or salary earner in Britain becomic over £3,300 worse off as migrant labour and offshoring of jobs drove down wages.

• The European Union as a whole could see nearly 600,000 jobs disappear – greater losses than at the height of the financial crisis in 2010 and 2011.

• Ordinary workers would be caught in the jaws of a vice as inflation eroded the buying power of their earnings while consumer prices, profits and housing costs increased. An estimated 7% of GDP would be transferred from labour to capital.

A statement from World Development Movement, a UK based group formed to campaign against TTIP, stated: "TTIP falls down even on its own terms, as it’s supposed to bolster growth in the EU, but in fact it will result in fewer jobs and lower wages. This is truly a deal for the 1%, and we have to stop it."

The Europe - wide Stop TTIP Coalition, an alliance of over 300 anti - TTIP campaign groups, has filed a legal action against the European Commission over its authoritarian decision in September 2014 to dismiss a European Citizens’ Initiative against TTIP even though a petition signed by over a million EU citizens and supported by many national political parties was presented in support of it.

In spite of the European Commissioners high handed rejection of the European Citizen’s Initiative, campaign groups and trade unions in all European nations immediately began campaigning in support of a second petition calling on the EU Commission to abandon the trade deal. This has so far attracted around 850,000 signatures in the first month of its campaign. CLICK HERE TO SUPPORT THE CAMPAIGN

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Leaked TPP Chapter Exposes Sweet Deals for Big Pharma, Big Media and US Bully Tactics Crushing Smaller States Objections

by Arthur Foxake, 17 October 2014

Yesterday (17/10/2014) WikiLeaks released an updated version of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Intellectual Property Rights chapter, along with a statement accusing those involved in the secret negotiations of creating a Big Pharma fiendly deal that would will hinder access to affordable medicines globally for those earning average wages or less, remove most of the remaining safeguards against online surveillance, and erode civil liberties while benefiting corporate and other governmental interests.

“Our first impression in reading the document is the extent to which the United States has sought hundreds of changes in intellectual property norms, some small and subtle, others blunt and aggressive, nearly of all of which favor big corporate right holders, and undermine the public’s freedom to use knowledge,” declared James Love of Knowledge Ecology International.

Why is a UK based shit stirring website interested, you might well ask. Well TPP is the near identical twin of TTIP, the Trans Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership which will tie britain and the EU into a similarly one sisded and anti-democratic agreement with the USA. We have already reported extensively on TTIP, TPP and CETA a Canadian - European agreement. All will give corporate businesses the powerr to overturn laws made by sovereign parliaments for the protection of their citizens if corporate bosses feel those laws restrict their ability to make profits.

The TPP will, if implemented, be the world’s largest economic trade agreement and will bind into a single trading community more than 40 percent of the world’s GDP. The Intellectual Property section covers business involving pharmaceuticals, patent registrations, and copyright issues to digital rights.

All the trade treaties have been mostly negotiated in secret, with only select government officials and corporations allowed to study the proposals. Even our elected representatives have been barred from having sight of the document and their complains about the secrecy and high handedness of the bureaucrats have been dismissed in a way reminiscent of Barack Obama's response to US Senators and Representatives who complained about not being allowed to study his 1500 page healthcare bill in advance of the debate on it. "If you want to know what's in it, you'll have to vote it through first," The Emperor Obama told them. To try to avoid similar episodes with the trade treaties, WikiLeaks has released several draft chapters. A previous draft of the IP chapter was leaked in November 2013 and caused widespread dismay among businessmen and libertarian politicians.

“Since that point, some controversial and damaging areas have had little change; issues surrounding digital rights have moved little,” according to a WikiLeaks press release. “However, there are significant industry-favoring additions within the areas of pharmaceuticals and patents (our emphasis). These additions are likely to affect access to important medicines such as cancer drugs and will also weaken the requirements needed to patent genes in plants, which will impact small farmers and boost the dominance of large agricultural corporations like Monsanto.”

In their comments on the latest version, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and editor Sarah Harrison point out that the U.S. government is pushing for automatic monopolies on biotech, drugs or biologics, including most new treatments for cancer. Additionally, the revised chapter contains expansions and extensions of patent protections as well as a provision proposed by the U.S. and Japan that would require granting of patents for new drugs that are slightly altered from a previous product. This technique which the pharmaceutical industry uses to prolong market monopoly is known as “evergreening”.

“In short, the TPP will greatly reduce the ability for creating more affordable drugs to save more lives, and increase the pharmaceutical industry’s ability to retain monopolies,” Assange and Harrison write.

A more extensive analysis of the latest Free Trade Agreement leaks that show such deals are about anything but free trade but really amount to licences to print money for corporate businesses has been published by Public Citizen

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This web page and its links to many posts around the internet has mainly focused on the Trans Atlantic Trade And Investment Treaty (TTIP), an allegedly benign deal to promote free trade between the USA and EU, and its equally evil twin the Trans Pacific Partnership, which proposes the same for the Pacific Trading Area. In reality what both these treaties do is further the global hegemony that US Corporate business and the US Government have been collaborating to achieve since the fall of the Soviet Union. Read much more about these deals and how they will hit small business, individual freedoms and curtail the right of sovereign nations to make their own fair trade, consumer protection, labour relations and civil rights law.elsewhere on the page.

This story is about another nasty little deal corporate business has been cooking up with Washington and The United Nations and with the full complicity of mainstream media.

Governments of nations around the world have for two years been secretly negotiating a little-known mega trade deal that poses a threat to internet freedoms and will serve only corporate interests, analysts have warned, citing a U.S. proposal leaked by a whistleblower.

The Trade in Services Agreement (TISA), currently being negotiated in conditions of the highest secrecy between a 50-country committee of World Trade Organization members. Negotiations have been in progress for nearly two years, but have been so secretive that it was unheard of in the public domain until the news was published by Wikileaks in June 2014, making it even more shadowy than the Trans Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).

The given reason for the public being kept in the dark about this deal is that ordinary people will not undertstand it, in fact there is nothing complicated about the fact that internet freedom will disappear as governments take control of all online activity. The freedoms citizens in democracies have enjoyed will simply disappear, free speech, free (as in unrestricted by law if you can afford to buy a newspaper or rent an internet connection will be massively impacted if we the people this undemocractic treaty to be pushed through by the people who have for decades now been advocating global totalitarian government.

“What these closed-door negotiations do is cement in place rules for global governance—rules that affect a whole host of issues that aren’t about trade at all, such as privacy, financial stability and much more,” Melinda St. Louis, International Campaigns Director for Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch, told Common Dreams:

“There is extreme industry influence in this closed-door trade negotiation process. On the U.S. side there are more than 500 corporate advisers who have access to these texts while the public and many elected officials are locked out.” (our emphasis)

Despite the leaks little is known about the content of the TISA treaty and what reached the public domain has done so through leaks (see above). one of the most disconcerting clauses revealed in the leaked draft shows that negotiators aim to further deregulate global financial markets.

Among subsequent leaks is information that shows negotiators are aiming to curtail internet freedoms.

TISA’s clauses on “E-Commerce, Technology Transfer, Cross-border Data Flows and Net Neutrality,” proposed by the U.S. Trade Representative in April, was published on 17 December, 2014 by Associated Whistleblowing Press, a non-profit organization with bases in Iceland and Spain.

According to an analysis of the text from watchdog organization Public Citizen:

With respect to privacy protections, the leaked text reveals that the U.S. negotiators are pushing for new corporate rights for unrestricted cross-border data flows and prohibitions on requirements to hold and process data locally, thus removing governments’ ability to ensure that private and sensitive personal data is stored and processed only in jurisdictions that ensure privacy.

Such measures are considered critical to ensuring that medical, financial and other data provided protection by U.S. law are not made public when sent offshore for processing and storage, with no legal recourse for affected individuals. Numerous U.S. organizations are pushing for improvements in such policies, which are considerably stronger in other countries. If the proposed TISA terms on free data movement were to become binding on the United States, such needed progress would be foreclosed.

Lori Wallach, director of Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch, declared: “Given the raging domestic debate over net neutrality,(USA, where the Obama administration has been sucking up to corporate money, the EU has done much better at preserving internet freedom - editor) the growing demands for more data privacy and the constantly changing technology, a pact negotiated in secret that is not subject to changes absent consensus of all signatories seems like a very bad place to be setting U.S. Internet governance policies.”

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France’s President Hollande Says 'Non' To Obama’s Demand for Corporate Global Oligarchy

http://rinf.com/alt-news/editorials/frances-president-hollande-refuses-accept-u-s-president-obamas-demand-international-oligarchy/

by Ian R Thorpe, 29 November, 2014

The French Government, reeling from the upopularity of socialist President Francois Hollande has belatedly found the guts to stand up the the global bullies in Washington and say a resounding 'Non' to the demand by the US Administration of President Barack Obama that in the new Trans Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), negotiated in conditions of strictest secrecy with EU leaders and being pushed by Obama himself, panels of international corporations' representatives will be given the power to override the laws made by elected governments of sovereign nations and rewrite individual countries’ regulations regarding workers’ rights, consumer protections, investor protections, and other matters. International corporations have for many years been carrying out an global race to achieve corporate hedgemony in order to gain control over national governments and maximize the profits of international corporations and thus the wealth and power of their controlling (i.e., oligarchic) stockholders, virtually all of whom are billionaires.

So George Orwell's prediction made in his novel 1984 is about to come true. A global tyranny dressed in the guise of cultural Marxism, which Orwell called Oligarchical Collectivism, is being imposed on us by stealth. So far the only resistance has come from Russia and China but now, as the world wakes up to what is going on, the French have joined in too:

EurActiv France reports.

Matthias Fekl, France's Secretary of State for Foreign Trade, has made it clear that France will not support the inclusion of the Investor State Dispute Settlement mechanism (ISDS) in a potential TTIP agreement. The ISDS is a point of heated debate between the EU and the United States.

Europe’s fears over the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) are not abating, while America is beginning to show signs of impatience. Europe and the United States have reached a standoff in the TTIP negotiations, over the question of the Investor State Dispute Settlement.

This mechanism could give companies the opportunity to take legal action against a state whose legislation has a negative impact on their economic activity. euractiv.com.

Surprisingly perhaps in view of the current US President, Barack Hussein Obama, the most right wing and most corporate friendly US leader ever being nominally a Democrat (some of us did try to warn you back in 2008, but most of you refused to look deeper than the colour of Obama's skin) the leader of the Democratic Party in the U.S. Senate had also said no to it, but the few conservative Democrats favor it as do virtually all Republicans, and so when Republicans take control over both houses of Congress in January, President Obama, the New World Order's Manchurian Candidate) will then be able to command congressional support for TTIP and two other proposed international-trade treaties: TPP for Asia, and TISA for all trade in services, all three of which deals include this subordination of national sovereignty to international-corporate panels.

TISA is especially key for financial services (Wikileaks), such as accounting-standards (so as to enhance corruption, so as to deceive outside investors, with increased advantages accruing to corporate executives and board-members, the insiders who control international corporations).

President Obama, who in 2008 I said would be more Neocon that the Bush administration, suports the idea that competition should drive down wages and drive up the value of corporate stock and bond values (upon which his billionaire backers rely for maintaining their wealth), though as a politician and especially as a ‘Democrat’ and 'liberal' (which George W. Bush, unlike Obama, never pretended to be) he cannot afford to say this. all his policies however are consistently moving in that direction and towards outsourcing all government services to corporate contractors such as SERCO. (“Proof of the pudding is in the eating” is the phrase for that, though Obama claims that only Republicans are to blame for this result.) Under such pressure from public opinion in France that political commentators speculate abouth whether his Presidency can last a fuill term, President Hollande has not so much drawn a line as raised a Game Of Thrones type wall, by saying no to the TTIP treaty. Hollande might be an inept President but he's a shrewd enough politician to know French citizens will never accept giving America’s oligarchs the prize they are demanding: the replacement of French sovereignty over French affairs by sovereignty from panels that are appointed by international corporations.

Now that American voters have rejected the 'Big Government' political philosophy of the Democrats, they may find the ideology of Republicans even less to their taste. Current US Republicanism is not in line with 'The american Dream' and the stubbornly self reliant individualism many Americans think it is. The Democrats have done the dirty work of making the majority of voters dependent to some extent on government, now Obama with a solidly Republican Congress, can finish the job of engineering a global system that is geared to helping the oligarchs plunder the world.

The pro-oligarchy movement (Oligarchy is a government under which sovereignty rests in the wealthy and powerful, in this case the meritocrats who control global corporatiobs, a new elite even more contemptuous of the rights of ordinary people than the aristocracies that were overthown in the first half of the twentieth century,) will almost certainly pass into law whatever Obama can wrangle out of America’s major trading-nations (albeit without France and possibly Germany where there is similar disquiet about TTIP, so he could go down in history as the most-effective fascist dictator ever.

U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, though the opposite ideological direction from Obama, talked of the need for some kind of global governmenty, as did Winston Churchill and other leaders after World War Two, they were anti-oligarchic and thought such a system was the only way to avoid future conflicts. So where did it all go wrong?

The propagandists (paid heavily by oligarchs) in both the Democratic and Republican Parties, in the UK's Conservative and Labour parties, Germany's Christian and Social Democrats, France's Socialists and Republicans, have portrayed globalism and world government as being good for everybody, but to any true liberal, libertarian or socialist (all of which in their pure form are about liberty and justice), the inevitable outcome, human nature being what is is, had to be oppressive authoritarianism on a par with anything seen in Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia or Communist China.

Only a Democrat or someone who could successfully portray himself as a left leaning Democrat, would be able to pull off such a sharp turn to the political right. Obama needed to be a ‘Democrat’ in order to be able to achieve that; so he was transformed by propaganda into the most left wing ‘Democratic’ candidate ever. Only time will tell how successful the plan hatched by his billionaire backers was. Obama’s global anything-but-free-trade-deals would be the coup de grace, the death of democracy, the establishment of corporate hegemony. Because to undo the deals, once they are signed, would be far more difficult even than the UK negotiating its way out of the EU or Texas seceding from The Union. Obama’s achievement (if the destruction of a civilisaion can be called an achievement) would change the world forever and the name barack hussein Obama (not even his real name) would never be forgotten. Not a bad reult for a highly damaged individual from a weird family background whose only work experience was scoping ice cream as a high school student and whose only business experience was was selling his arse to fund his cocaine habit (allegedly).

What the world is left with is not the kind of ‘world government’ that Franklin Delano Roosevelt or Winston S. Chuchill and their follower had in mind. Instead it would in effect be a return to medieval feudalism, but on a global scale: internationalized fascism — exactly what Churchill and FDR went to war to defeat. Seventy years after the US / UK / Soviet alliance emerged victorious of World War II, it seems to be the direction in which the world is again heading; this time it looks as if the fascists intend win though more subtle means.

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Protesters Gather Around Europe To Demonstrate Against Undemocratic Secret Agreement With USA

by Ed Butt, 11 October, 2014

Protests against the secretive Trans Atlantic Trade And Investment Partnership (TTIP) will take place today in cities all over Europe. The deal, the terms of which will give Corporate businesses the power to sue governments and overturn any laws made by the UK Parliament (or any elected elected assembly in nations that sign the treaty) which the corporate lawyers see as obstructing their ability to steal taxpayers' money make a retun on their investment, has been largely negotiated in conditions ofr such secrecy that even our Members of Parliament and other elected representatives in European Unions and the USA have not been allowed to know what its clauses contain.

That which we do know of has only reached the public domain thanks to leaks and whistleblowing.

Today's demonstrations will be held in fifteen locations across the UK including London, Bristol, Edinburgh and Bognor Regis to voice opposition to the deal. Those against it say it could lead to the privatisation of the NHS (see below) and the removal of food safety regulations to allow the sale of produce from GM crops and chlorine washed chicken to be sold in European shops without any legal requirement for labelling to inform consumers of what they are buying.

The European Commission (Euronazis) has done its best to suppress opposition to TTIP particularly in the UK by ruling out the involvement of public services in the deal. However, the UK Trade Minister Lord Livingston has admitted to the Huffington Post that talks about the NHS were still on the table. This is due to those enemies of democracy, The Labour Party having taken large chunks of the NHS outside the public sector by setting up independent health trusts and making General (family doctor) Practices into private businesses.

Another major concern for believers in democracy is the provisions in the treaty that would enable foreign investors - for example American firms investing in the NHS Trusts privatised by Blair's Labour government - to sue a host government if they think their profits are affected by a change in policy.

The campaign against TTIP has been activly opposed by the usual suspects, the Occupy movement, the Unions and worker rights organisations and fringe left wing groups but has also aligned these groups with nationalist political movements that have seen an upsurge in popularity in the past few years as European nations surrendered more sovereign powers to unelected bureaucrats in Brussels while in the USA thatre has been an erosion of powers held by legislatures of the fifty states as more laws have centralized power in Washington D.C.

The controversial ACTA (Counter-terrorism) legislation, which was booted out of the European Parliament by MEPs after millions campaigned against it, is also said to have ben shoe-horned into the agreement at the insistence of the Obama administration. Plans to complel internet providers to monitor customers’ online activity and other breaches of an individual’s privacy and hand over data to security agencies, one of the core elements of ACTA, is rumoured to be included in TTIP.

These ssneaky tacics to get authoritarianh legislation onto the statute books by the back door when it has been thrown out by democratically elected lawmaking bodies is something brissels has a track record for. The unpopular European Constitution, which would have been a massive step towards the creation of a single European superstate, was repackaged as ‘The Lisbon Treaty’ after convincing 'No' votes in the French and Dutch referendums in 2005. Two years later, when Ireland, the only European nation constitutionally bound to hold a referendum on any treaty affecting sovereign powers, voted down the Lisbon Treaty, the bureaucratic dictators said, "Wrong, vote again."

And to give the Irish a clue as to what they could expect if they got it wrong again, the European Central Bank (ECB) engineered the collapse of the Irish economy in the months before the second vote.

With Members Of The European Parliament making more noise that previously and the managers of the European Union under the closer scrutiny than previously (a European Commission candidate already rejected for conflicts of interest), campaigners hope they can repeat the success of ACTA and get TTIP kicked into touch as well.

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Hidden Agenda Behind the new Free Trade Deals

posted by Phil. T. Looker

In this post from Wolf Street and others in this composite article, along with our many standalone posts on the so called Free Trade Agreements, TTIP (Trans Atlantic Trade And Investment Partnership) and TPP (Trans Pacific Partnership) we have stressed again and again that the seemingly benign phrase "free trade" is not used to signify the opening of markets dominated by global corporations to competition from small, efficient local businesses.

Rather it is about freeing the global coprporations from those irritating consumer protection, civil rights and labour relations laws implemented by elected governments that so often stand in the way of malpractices and downright criminality that can do so much to swell corporate profits and help them crush competition.

from Wolf Street

“Free trade” is at best a misnomer, at worst an oxymoron: these trade pacts contain surprisingly little related to trade. So, what are they really about?

On Saturday, people hit the streets of Europe to protest the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Deal (TTIP), a hyper-secret, so-called “free” trade agreement that aims to bind together two of the world’s biggest markets that together represent more than 800 million consumers and 45% of global trade.

But “free trade” is at best a misnomer, at worst an oxymoron: TTIP contains surprisingly little related to trade, as Ben Beachy of the Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch explains.

In the TPP deal (DQ: TPP stands for the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which is currently stalled in the U.S. Congress but which Obama seeks to revive during the lame duck session)… only five of 29 chapters have anything to do with what is traditionally defined as trade (i.e. customs, tariffs and other barriers to trade). [Most are] so-called “non-traditional” trade issues, which would include, for example, the right of a corporation to have a monopoly patent over some drug that it produces, a right that is fundamentally antithetical to free trade.

Indeed, what gets rarely mentioned in the debate is the fact that trade between the U.S. and Europe has never been freer, with the average tariff between the two regions already as low of 3%. Which begs the question: why the sudden need for a new, game-changing transatlantic trade agreement? Especially when you take into account that the TTIP is forecast (by a study commissioned by the European Commission, no less) to provide a paltry 0.1% boost to economic growth in Europe… over a 10-year-period – the equivalent of a rounding error!

So, if it’s not about trade, what is the TTIP really about? As I previously reported (here and here), one of the primary goals of 21st century trade deals like TTIP is to enshrine into law the corporate takeover of the political, cultural, economic, financial, agricultural, scientific, digital and public space, as well as remove any remaining barriers on the ability of multinational corporations to exploit the world’s resources – including, of course, its human resources.

But that’s just part of the story, albeit a very important one. There is also a more subtle agenda at work: namely to secure Western domination of the global economy and geopolitical landscape for the foreseeable future.

To achieve that goal, the U.S. and its allies have just one trick left up their sleeve: launching the mother of all trade wars.

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American Bankers And Private Healthcare Firms Already Buying GP Practices

Not a TTIP story, but a related issue in that it predicts what will happen to the NHS should we allow the bureaucratic Dictatorship in Brussels to impose TTIP on us.

Prime Minister David Cameron might have hoped he'd convince voters that the NHS was safe in the hands of the Conservatives when at the recent Party Conference he announced the backbone of the Health Service, General Practices would open 7 days-a-week . Ironically, because this would force GPs to operate a rota system, it would become even harder to see the GP of your choice. It would also encourage larger GP group practices to move towards providing GP services over a wider area with less personalised services, in the same way as corporate dental health companies have bought out indpendent local dentists.

While Cameron and Ed. Miliband shout "Yah! Boo! at each other over the future of the NHS, thanks to laws passed by the last Labour governments under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown which turned the NHS General Practicioner service into separate, quasi autonomous private businesses, some American healthcare companies funded by US banks and investors have already started to buy up British GP practices. Until Labour reformed the NHS this would not have been possible, although practices doctors were 'partners' rather than employees, the business was owned by the National Health Service.

Dr Maureen Baker, the Chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners, says that GP services have been providing a “dam wall” protecting the rest of the NHS from the worst impacts of the government’s reforms, but that dam wall is now at breaking point with increased pressures on GPs and a workforce crisis. Many left wing screechers are eager to blame the 'evil Conservatives' for this, but although the Conservative led coalition have done nothing to reverse it or safeguard essential health services from profiteers, the laws that have made it possible were Labour's.

It is reported that many GPs are now taking early retirement to avoid the pressures being imposed by the government reforms, and recruiting full-time GPs is becoming increasingly problematic. Many people will have noticed the increased difficulties in getting a GP appointment.

Dr Baker said, “So far much of the damage to the dam wall has been hidden from the public – they see the flooding downstream in A&E departments and in hospital pressures – but they haven’t been aware that GPs, nurses and practice teams have been absorbing that pressure by trying to do more and more with less and less. But if we let that situation continue we will see whole chunks of the dam fall apart when practices have to shut their doors.”

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More Truth About Undemocratic TTIP

by Ian R Thorpe

When I posted a link to my recent article in the Transatlantic Trade and Inestment Partnership (TTIP) to Facebook, my mate Graham (Major Lear to you) sent this reply. Unfortunately I can't link to the article he mentions as gather.com is currently defunct. But the reply Graham left on Facebook covers the most important parts of the threat to liberty and British sovereignty posed by thisso called 'free trade treaty' which is about anything but free trade as it would give global corporations the ability to legally circumvent laws passed by the parliaments of sovereign nations. Globalisation is fascism, simples.

In reply to WAKE UP warning of the nature of TTIP, Graham wrote:


"Yes, I have heard of it and more to the point we are going to get meat and poultry from America that is contaminated with poison something that our meat and poultry does not have at the moment.

First let me explain to you that when we British buy our meat from the local supermarket all packaged up we know what is exactly in that meat and by law our law and European law no meat can contain any hormones such as pig growth hormone ractopamine and milk hormone BST.

When we British buy our meat from the local supermarket all packaged up we know what is exactly in that meat and by law our law and European law no meat can contain any hormones such as pig growth hormone ractopamine and milk hormone BST. Chicken can be pumped with water to make it seem more succulent but as for hormones, it is a big no, no. Even out fruit and vegetables cannot be washed in chemicals and pesticides that is a big no, no as well.

However, it's not like that in America I am afraid meat such as beef, pork, lamb is awash with hormones that are given to the animals in the form of food and injections to make the animals larger than they normally are, chickens when being prepared are washed in a solution containing arsenic and pesticide is used in fruit and vegetables. That is why when we British go to our supermarkets to buy our groceries we see no North American produce in any form.

However, that is all about to change, because America and the European Union have come to an agreement to have American food imported to Europe and Europe to export food to America under an agreement called the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership.

I know who will be getting the better deal when this agreement comes to fruition and I can assure you that I will like many more British citizens be scrutinizing the labels on the food that I buy that says where the food is coming from, that's something else that we have in Europe all food sold must have the place of origin on the packaging. I wrote this, it was one of my last articles on Gather, I wrote a little more on the subject as well.

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EU Kommisar Admits Brussels Is At War With Democracy

by Ian R Thorpe



The German EU Commissioner Günther Oettinger, in an astonishing rant accused "bishops, non-governmental organizations and "Ami-Go-Home-Altgruppen" (whatever they are) of undemocratic agitation against the EU's free trade agreements.

Oettinger was referring of course to the Trans Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) the undemocratic deal being negotiated in secret between the unelected bureaucrats of the European Union and the corporate paymasters who control the US Administration of the rent-boy President Barack Obama.

Democracy loving Eurosceptics are deeply concerned that the TTIP will, in its Investment Protection clauses, give global (i.e. American owned, tax-haven domiciled) corporate businesses the power to overturn laws made by the governments of sovereign nations for the protection of consumers, workers and small businesses of America's 'partners' in this one sided agreement. The EU needs the controversial investor protection,because of "Bulgaria" and "Sicily", the German Euro rat said.

Gauleiter Commissioner Oettinger called on the EU to reject changes to the draft treaty proposed by Federal Economics Minister Sigmar Gabriel (SPD) required changes to the EU's free trade agreement with Canada (CETA) which will be a template for the eventual US / EU treaty. "CETA is nothing new," he raved in best Nuremburg rally style.

"If Germany wakes up late, then I can only say 'Good morning", "Oettinger said in Berlin on Monday before the CDU Presidium meeting. "This is thoroughly negotiated, fair and transparent agreement", the CDU-politician said. "I can only advise you to support the agreement with Canada."

Oettinger was responding to the call from Gabriel to change the investment protection chapter in the agreement yet, although the European Commission and Canada's New World Order puppet government has declared negotiations complete, national governments, trade unions, civil rights groups and professional associations have been frozen out of the negotiations. Gabriel had stressed that he broadly supported CETA, but was not able to consent to the investment protection chapters in it. These are the clauses which would giver corporate interests the ability to challenge laws they see as obstructing their ability to steal from and cheat taxpayers.

Oettinger defended the investment protection part in the intended economic agreements, CETA and the TTIP with the United States. The . Because of functioning legal system in Germany United States had no problem with the abandonment of an investment protection agreement;

"But with Bulgaria, Sicily?" He added. "It is just not a Germany-USA agreement, but a US-EU agreement. The excitement of bishops, non-governmental organizations and Ami-Go-Home-Altgruppen is fatal," Oettinger raved in a press conference. Germany carries on Free Trade with many other States . It is therefore difficult to understand why it should just be a problem with the United States."

Oettinger obviously does not understand why people are concerned: The "problem" is not citizens who mock politicians as stupid enough to let American Corporations steal our tax money ...

The "problem" is functionaries like Oettinger, fat arsed smooth cheeked pen pushers who have no experience of business or industry but have kiss-arsed their way to top posts in the EU bureaucracy, who now hide behind bureaucratic processes to avoid being held accountable for their actions, who are unelected and therefore effectively only supervised by those who share the same goals, i.e, building ever greater bureaucratic empires, and who now presume to tell us voters and our elected representatives how to run nations.

It is obvious that citizens will become suspicious and wonder whose interests the massive secrecy surrounding the negotiations of TTIP and CETA serves. BECAUSE IT CERTAINLY AIN'T OURS.

(Sourced from: Deutsche Wirtschafts Nachrichten)
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WAKE UP! TTIP Free Trade Treaty Will Enslave You

by Arthur Foxake

Two years ago I was warning about the threat this dangerous and one sided treaty posed to our freedom and democratic right. Now we call all se what it is about - corporate fascism. I told you so, now WAKE THE FUCK UP.

Have you heard of TTIP? No?

Then you have some reading to do. TTIP (the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership) a so called trade pact between the USA and Europe, which is being negotiated in strictest secrecy, would hand global corporations the power to sue governments and overturn laws (such as consumer protection laws) they feel are obstructing their ability to make profits.

A new People's Movement (Ireland) pamphlet explains how the EU-US trade and investment treaty threatens democracy, would attack workers' rights, erode social standards and environmental regulations, dilute food safety rules, undermine regulations on the use of toxic chemicals, rubbish digital privacy laws, and strangle developing economies.


Needless to say all political leaders in nations involved and all major political parties are fully supportive of it. Individual elected representatives and associations of small businesses and employers are waking up to it and even mainstream media are starting to understand it would prevent them printing anything certain corporate interests did not like no matter how much proof existed that the story is true.

WAKE UP



A copy (356 Kb)of the pamphlet in PDF format is available for free download
http://www.people.ie/economy/ttip.pdf


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Yet again the news slowly leaking out of the Trans Atlantic Trade And Investment Partnershi negotiations tess us just why there is so much secrecy surrounding this trade treaty being negotiated between the EU and the USA that even our elected governments are not allowed to know what the final treaty will include. Be afraid, be very afraid. We have wriiten many posts on this topic of course, as have our colleagues in the blogosphere who value national sovereignty, national cuture, liberty, civil rights and individual freedom.

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This Kind Of Fascism Is What The Anti UKIP Whiners Want For Us

I have to admit it, I've been really angry with the hand wringing, bleeding heart fascism of the touchy feely left as they have attempted to subvert the democratic process by smearing the only significant political party that would oppose global fascism by leading us out of Europe.

"Oh but you can't support UKIP," the lefties intone like a Greek Chorus, "Those nasty homophobic racists are a bit unpleasant to homosexuals and they say cruel things about foreigners who come to Britain to benefit the economy by setting up businesses as pimps and people traffickers when we ought to welcome such people."

It's not so much the general cuntiness of the pensees uniques (to borrow a wonderful french phrase) as they demand that we all join hands and sing Kumbaya and the scum of the earth that The Labour Government invited into our country will abandon extortion, people trafficking, pimping and terrorism and become model benefit scrounging, Labour voting citizens.

These infantile dupes even tried to make out it is some great achievement that a bearded transvestite in an evening dress can win the Eurovision song contest (and didn't the left look soopercunty when it turned out Conchita Wurst's beard was fake, mostly make up with a bit of glue on fuzz. "We really showed Putin what we're all about," chorused the lefties.)

Well yeah, he is probably drawing up invasion plans now, and telling his chiefs of staff the worst they can expect by way of opposition is ladyboys propositioning their foot soldiers.

The greater threat to our freedom is closer to home however.

While these emotionally crippled retards were phishing for rim jobs from their fellow lefties by screaming "racist" at UKIP supporters and candidates, Boggart Blog has been watching what was going on in the real world. And we find out the institution they adore so much they would sacrifice our national sovereignty and culture to is has quitetly been stripping European citizens of the right to free speech.

A few days ago, using the best information I had at the time, Boggart Blog reported a peaceful protest against the fascist Trans Atlantic Trade And Investment Partnership (TTIP) outside the EU Headquarters in Brussels was broken up by police.

At the time I did not know if the Beligan cops had simply politely requested the protestors to leave the area or had put on full riot gear and waded in. Now I know the exact tactics they used against orderly protesters objecting to a undemocratic treaty that will enable corporate interests to overrule laws made by elected parliaments. Ignore the whingers, a vote for a pro EU party is a vote for Hitler.

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The EU policy of free speech (source News Beacon Ireland)


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Hundreds of protesters arrested in Brussels as leaders debate 'maintaining citizen's trust'

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Strangely you did not see anything about this in print of broadcast news yesterday or today. One would think the loss of another human right, the right to peaceful protest, to the Euronazis in Brussels would warrant a mention here and there.

Ah, but then the protestors were objecting to one of the sacred cows of the Global Totalitarian Government lobby, the Trans Atlantic Trade And Investment Partnership, you know the one, it will grant corporations like Pfizer immunity from national laws and prevent our democratically elected governments defending our national interests.

Some of us have been trying to warn people. Some of you have been supporting this Nazi shit by joining in that UKIP are Racists meme that attempts to win support for the Eurofascists by trying to smear the only British political party committed to opposing global Naziism.

Read this and see what I mean:

from Euracity

240 people were arrested on Thursday (15 May) around the European Business Summit venue in Brussels during non-violent protests organised by trade unions and citizens' groups.

The protestors had gathered to denounce the budgetary austerity policies in Europe, and the ongoing talks on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the EU and the USA, which they say is being negotiated "in total opacity".

'We don't want more business in Europe'

"Today multinationals are inviting political decision makers like the European trade commissioner Karel De Gucht and they are discussing putting more business in Europe," said Felipe Van Keirsblick, the secretary general of the Belgian trade union for employees, the CNE-CNG.

"We don't want more business in Europe, we want more democracy in Europe and that's what people want, not what multinationals want,” Van Keirsblick said.

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The TTIP trade agreement between the US and the EU is continuing to cause a major row in Europe. In the interview with DW online news, Economist Christoph Scherrer tells DW that the corporations' right to file lawsuits in order to gain expemtion from laws of sovereign nations they don't like will be particularly problematic. The opening exchange sums up the nature of the problem.

DW: The planned free trade agreement between the US and the EU (TTIP) has been debated for months now. How useful will it be from your point of view?

Christoph Scherrer: It seems to me that it mainly serves the interests of the corporations. Neither consumers' nor workers' organizations were consulted ahead of the negotiations. The catalogue of demands is fundamentally an image of the demands of the major industry associations.

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German EU Kommissar Admits Brussels Is At War With Dermocracy

by Ed butt

The German EU Commissioner Günther Oettinger, in an astonishing rant accused "bishops, non-governmental organizations and "Ami-Go-Home-Altgruppen" (whatever they are) of undemocratic agitation against the EU's free trade agreements. Oettinger was referring of course to the Trans Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) the undemocratic deal being negotiated in secret between the unelected bureaucrats of the European Union and the corporate paymasters who control the US Administration of the rent-boy President Barack Obama. Democracy loving Eurosceptics are deeply concerned that the TTIP will, in its Investment Protection clauses, give global (i.e. American owned, tax-haven domiciled) corporate businesses the power to overturn laws made by the governments of sovereign nations for the protection of consumers, workers and small businesses of America's 'partners' in this one sided agreement. The EU needs the controversial investor protection, the German Euro rat said, because of "Bulgaria" and "Sicily".

Gauleiter Commissioner Oettinger called on the EU to reject changes to the draft treaty proposed by Federal Economics Minister Sigmar Gabriel (SPD) required changes to the EU's free trade agreement with Canada (CETA) which will be a template for the eventual US / EU treaty. "CETA is nothing new," he raved in best Nuremburg rally style.

"If Germany wakes up late, then I can only say 'Good morning", "Oettinger said in Berlin on Monday before the CDU Presidium meeting. "This is thoroughly negotiated, fair and transparent agreement", the CDU-politician said. "I can only advise you to support the agreement with Canada."

Oettinger was responding to the call from Gabriel to change the investment protection chapter in the agreement yet, although the European Commission and Canada's New World Order puppet government has declared negotiations complete, national governments, trade unions, civil rights groups and professional associations have been frozen out of the negotiations. Gabriel had stressed that he broadly supported CETA, but was not able to consent to the investment protection chapters in it. These are the clauses which would giver corporate interests the ability to challenge laws they see as obstructing their ability to steal from and cheat taxpayers.

Oettinger defended the investment protection part in the intended economic agreements, CETA and the TTIP with the United States. The . Because of functioning legal system in Germany United States had no problem with the abandonment of an investment protection agreement;

"But with Bulgaria, Sicily?" He added. "It is just not a Germany-USA agreement, but a US-EU agreement. The excitement of bishops, non-governmental organizations and Ami-Go-Home-Altgruppen is fatal," Oettinger raved in a press conference. Germany carries on Free Trade with many other States . It is therefore difficult to understand why it should just be a problem with the United States."

Oettinger obviously does not understand why people are concerned: The "problem" is not citizens who mock politicians as stupid enough to let American Corporations steal our tax money. The "problem" is functionaries like Oettinger, fat arsed smooth cheeked pen pushers who have no experience of business or industry but have kiss-arsed their way to top posts in the EU bureaucracy, who now hide behind bureaucratic processes to avoid being held accountable for their actions, who are unelected and therefore effectively only supervised by those who share the same goals, i.e, building ever greater bureaucratic empires,and who now presume to tell us voters and our elected representatives how to run nations. It is obvious that citizens will become suspicious and wonder whose interests the massive secrecy surrounding the negotiations of TTIP and CETA serves. BECAUSE IT CERTAINLY AIN'T OURS.

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