Posted on 05/08/2016 2:52:07 PM PDT by Lorianne
As the battle over TTIP was lost, Angela Merkel feigned resolution yet one more time. "We consider a swift conclusion to this ambitious deal to be very important," her spokesperson said on her behalf on Monday. And this is the government's unanimous opinion.
But the German population has a very different one. More than two-thirds of Germans reject the planned trans-Atlantic free trade agreement. And even in circles within Merkel's cabinet, the belief that TTIP will ever become a reality in its currently planned form is disappearing.
That's because on Monday morning, Greenpeace published classified documents from the closed-door negotiations. Even if the papers only convey the current state of negotiations and do not document the end results, they still confirm the worst suspicions of critics of TTIP.
The 248 pages show that bargaining is taking place behind the scenes, even in areas which the EU and the German government have constantly maintained were sacrosanct. These include standards on the environment and consumer protection; the precautionary principle, a stricter EU policy that sets high hurdles for potentially dangerous products; the legislative self-determination of the countries involved, etc. Even the pledge made on the European side that there would be no arbitration courts has turned out to be wishful thinking. So far, the Americans have insisted on the old style of arbitration court.
(Excerpt) Read more at spiegel.de ...
“Get ready for a borderless world.”
J Effing K
(and 0bama)
and the cabal.
Why pay taxes? Why have governments?
TPP + TTIP -USA + ChiCom + India =
“We consider a swift conclusion to this ambitious deal to be very important,”
Sort of a ....conquer Russia by the end of the summer kind of thing?
Like most people.
From the thug organization's own website (wto.org):
The WTO's founding and guiding principles remain the pursuit of open borders
The "Director General" of this criminal enterprise is Roberto Azevedo, just another Brazilian corrupticon.
This SOB tells the United States what to do. Bet he loves doing that. Nothing makes South Americans pee in their pants with glee like shoving a gringo.
Another juicy tidbit from their website:
More beneficial for less developed countries
Giving them more time to adjust, greater flexibility and special privileges;
Got that? Special Privileges for "developing countries": in other words, screw the gringos yet again.
It's nothing more then a transnational scam to control the U.S. and milk it for money for thugs.
And that's what TPP will be all about too. A new international "elite" of glib gangsters.
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