TISA Exposed: 'Holy Grail' of Leaks Reveals Detailed Plot for Corporate Takeover

[kpete]

Published on
Fifty-two-nation Trade in Services Agreement uses trade regulations 'as a smokescreen to limit citizen rights,' says labor leader

Wednesday, July 01, 2015
by Common Dreams

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That deal is the Trade in Services Agreement, or TISA, currently being negotiated by 52 nations that together account for two-thirds of global GDP. Those nations are the United States, the 28 members of the European Union, and 23 other countries, including Turkey, Mexico, Canada, Australia, Pakistan, Taiwan, and Israel. According to WikiLeaks, TISA "is the largest component of the United States' strategic neoliberal 'trade' treaty triumvirate," which also includes the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the TransAtlantic Trade and Investment Pact (TTIP).

"Together, the three treaties form not only a new legal order shaped for transnational corporations, but a new economic 'grand enclosure,' which excludes China and all other BRICS countries," declared WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assangein a press statement. What's more, it adds, "[a]ll three treaties have been subject to stringent criticism for the lack of transparency and public consultation in their negotiation processes."

The texts published Wednesday cover everything from financial services to telecommunications to migrant labor protections.

"TISA is exposed as a developed countries' corporate wish lists for services which seeks to bypass resistance from the global South to this agenda inside the WTO, and to secure an agreement on services without confronting the continued inequities on agriculture, intellectual property, cotton subsidies, and many other issues."

—Our World Is Not For Sale

Overall, the leak provides further evidence of how "a self-selected group of mainly rich countries" plans to "bypass other governments in the World Trade Organization (WTO) and rewrite its services agreement in the interests of their corporations," reads an expert analysis penned by University of Auckland law professor Jane Kelsey. "It also makes the new risks from TISA to governments' right to regulate in their national interest much clearer."

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[FlatBaroque]

1. Lambs to the slaughter

It is unbelieveable that this is about to happen.

[G_j]

2. K&R!

[Mnpaul]

3. Wanna guess who wrote bills to withdraw from the WTO

and dump China from most favored status?

[Unknown Beatle]

4. Obama fought like a mad dog

to get the TPA passed. He fought harder than anything he's fought for this far in his presidency. Now the rest will be a piece of cake.

The good ole CSA - Corporate States Of America

[SoapBox]

5. Horrible, horrible, horrible.

[Enthusiast]

6. Kicked and recommended to the Max! Why would the President support such a thing?

Does the President recognize Fascism? Does the President understand the history of Fascism? Does he know about the corporate abuses of the past? Mr, President?

WTF?

[jwirr]

7. Exactly. Does he ever look at the history of our corporations in poor countries? And the really sad

thing is we can live without this kind of rule. It is not and never will be for the people.

Legacy hell.

[840high]

8. He knows. He understands. He doesn't care.

[Hotler]

9. "Why would the President support such a thing?"

Money my friend, money. You know Michelle, all we and the kids have to do is hang in there for eight years and put up with some shit and we are home free for the rest of our lives. Now get dressed for dinner, Jamie Dimon is taking us out for a steak dinner. I hope we don't to drive through the poor part of town to get there.

[MisterP]

13. why would he? we rationalize and are afraid of "taking our ball and going home" and so 90%

of even DU would knuckle under and vote for Jeb if he switched parties before next November

party enforcers blame the voters for every loss while heaping North Korean levels of praise on the bosses that offer nothing every other year, and we take it over and over

[sulphurdunn]

10. Every president

since Carter has been a pitchman for Wall Street. It's part of the vetting process.

[CrawlingChaos]

18. + billions

No, make that trillions

[prayin4rain]

11. I feel so hopeless about all this. Citizens don't want it, representatives don't care. n/t

[AZ Progressive]

12. I gotta always put this up

It's so true, except at the end (corporations don't give a shit about the people.)

The dogma, the religion of Capitalism.

[Octafish]

16. A College of Corporations.

Man, does our planet miss Paddy Chayefsky.

[BrotherIvan]

20. We do

[QC]

14. kick

[GeorgeGist]

15. The beast must be fed.

[Uncle Joe]

17. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, kpete.

[CrawlingChaos]

19. K&R

Everything has been leading up to this. We are moving deeper into neoliberal hell.

[nationalize the fed]

21. KCCO

Your Courage
Your Cheerfulness
Your Resolution

WILL BRING US VICTORY

Until then, it's Rollerball

In the film, the world of 2018 (referred to in the tagline as "the not too distant future&quot is a global corporate state... corporations controlling access to all transport, luxury, housing, communication, and food on a global basis...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rollerball_(1975_film)

[raouldukelives]

22. K&R Best representaion corporate investors can subsidize.

Some add weight to the boot smashing humanities face, some try to lessen the blow.

[AzDar]

23. Jesus.

[Betty Karlson]

24. NOW can we kill those bills please?

How many reasons do our representatives need before they say: enough?