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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIf you only read one article on #TISA/#TPP/#TISA make it this one:
On Wednesday, WikiLeaks brought this agreement into the spotlight by releasing 17 key TiSA-related documents, including 11 full chapters under negotiation. Though the outline for this agreement has been in place for nearly a year, these documents were supposed to remain classified for five years after being signed, an example of the secrecy surrounding the agreement, which outstrips even the TPP.
TiSA has been negotiated since 2013, between the United States, the European Union, and 22 other nations, including Canada, Mexico, Australia, Israel, South Korea, Japan, Norway, Switzerland, Turkey, and others scattered across South America and Asia. Overall, 12 of the G20 nations are represented, and negotiations have carefully incorporated practically every advanced economy except for the BRICS coalition of emerging markets (which stands for Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa).
The deal would liberalize global trade of services, an expansive definition that encompasses air and maritime transport, package delivery, e-commerce, telecommunications, accountancy, engineering, consulting, health care, private education, financial services and more, covering close to 80 percent of the U.S. economy. Though member parties insist that the agreement would simply stop discrimination against foreign service providers, the text shows that TiSA would restrict how governments can manage their public laws through an effective regulatory cap. It could also dismantle and privatize state-owned enterprises, and turn those services over to the private sector. You begin to sound like the guy hanging out in front of the local food co-op passing around leaflets about One World Government when you talk about TiSA, but it really would clear the way for further corporate domination over sovereign countries and their citizens.
THE REST:
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/121967/whats-really-going-trade-services-agreement
Luminous Animal
(27,310 posts)to read the entire thing.
(And yay for Wikileaks!)
cali
(114,904 posts)And I wish I could say here precisely what think of Obama for shoving this toxic crap down our collective gullets. That there are people who don't find this absolutely horrifying, demonstrates just how many brainwashed little corporate lackeys there are.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)the corporate masters. Just like the Clintons were.
cali
(114,904 posts)as well as freezing and even rolling back regulations in service area after service area. Fuck the engineers of this nightmare.
cali
(114,904 posts)cali
(114,904 posts)of others will be changed, and not for the better.
nenagh
(1,925 posts)Lalalalalala
cali
(114,904 posts)And those useful idiots will keep braying about how things are getting better. Morons
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)I guess it's that corporate hegemony that has brainwashed all these successful countries -- even Bernie Sanders' favorites, Scandanavian countries.
eridani
(51,907 posts)cali
(114,904 posts)At least in fantasy Hoyt world
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)Christ, why don't you run for office, strategic advisor, or something?
Enthusiast
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madfloridian
(88,117 posts)I just do not understand it.
hifiguy
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THAT is why.
Money doesn't talk, it swears.
ucrdem
(15,512 posts)Take the US for instance:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026793057
cali
(114,904 posts)bluesbassman
(19,387 posts)If Pew took the actual verbiage of the TPP and created poll questions that highlighted the egregious parts of it those percentages would drop.
ucrdem
(15,512 posts)cali
(114,904 posts)ucrdem
(15,512 posts)bluesbassman
(19,387 posts)we all know that those draft chapters are all going to magically change once the congress critters get to view them during the Fast Track review period!
cali
(114,904 posts)bluesbassman
(19,387 posts)Sometimes it just feels like Groundhogs Day, but without the laughs.
Baitball Blogger
(46,786 posts)and has lost touch with the real pressures that young people are dealing with in the work force.
Populist_Prole
(5,364 posts)historylovr
(1,557 posts)TheKentuckian
(25,035 posts)cali
(114,904 posts)libdem4life
(13,877 posts)cali
(114,904 posts)cantbeserious
(13,039 posts)eom
wildbilln864
(13,382 posts)WorseBeforeBetter
(11,441 posts)Just finished watching "Leviathan" and need LOLCats right now. Maybe LOLCats and stiff drink or three.