Re: [blind-democracy] WikiLeaks Releases Trade in Services Agreement (TISA) Secret Documents

What is the percentage of information within our Federal Government
that is so secret that the American People are not permitted to know
about, before our so called democracy is removed from the Public's
control?
How can we be, "We, The People", when we do not have a clue as to what
is going on in our name?
What will it take for the American People to wake up to the fact that
we are no longer Citizens? At best we are Consumers. At worst we are
Servants or Subjects held ignorant of the dealings of the government.
When I hear phrases like, "Justice for All", I have to wonder just
who, "All" is.



Carl Jarvis


On 12/4/15, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@optonline.net> wrote:
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> Excerpt: "WikiLeaks releases new secret documents from the huge Trade in
> Services Agreement (TiSA) which is being negotiated by the US, EU and 22
> other countries that account for 2/3rds of global GDP. Coinciding with the
> ongoing climate talks in Paris, today's publication touches on issues of
> crucial relevance including the regulation of energy, industrial
> development, workers' rights and the natural environment."
>
> Wikileaks. (image: Guardian UK)
>
>
> WikiLeaks Releases Trade in Services Agreement (TISA) Secret Documents
> By Press Release | WikiLeaks
> 03 December 15
>
> Today, Thursday, December 3, 10am EST, WikiLeaks releases new secret
> documents from the huge Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA) which is being
> negotiated by the US, EU and 22 other countries that account for 2/3rds of
> global GDP. Coinciding with the ongoing climate talks in Paris, today's
> publication touches on issues of crucial relevance including the regulation
> of energy, industrial development, workers' rights and the natural
> environment. WikiLeaks is also publishing expert analyses of the documents.
> The Trade In Services Agreement is the largest trade treaty of its kind in
> history. The economies of the 52 countries involved in the negotiation,
> which is being led by the United States, are mostly the supply of services.
> According to World Bank figures, services comprise 75% of the EU economy,
> 80% of the US economy and the majority of the global economy. Notably
> excluded in the TiSA negotiations are the emerging economies and the BRICS
> (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa).
> The "Energy Related Services Annex Proposal: Questions and Answers"
> document
> sets out TiSA designs to create an international market in energy-related
> services for foreign suppliers. While heads of state prepare to sign
> climate
> accords in Paris, TiSA negotiators are meeting behind closed doors in
> Geneva
> to forge new limits on energy regulation.
> The "Annex on Environmental Services" reveals that TiSA will aim to ensure
> that national environmental protections within TiSA countries will be
> "harmonized down", promoting the interests of multinational companies
> providing water purification, sanitation and refuse disposal services over
> worker safety, public health and the natural environment. Assessing the
> agreement, Friends of the Earth calls TiSA "an environmental hazard",
> pointing out that public services of an environmentally sensitive nature
> are
> in danger of being privatized. Commenting on the "Annex on Road Freight
> Transport and Related Logistical Services", the International Transport
> Workers Federation (ITF) calls TiSA a "race to the bottom," observing that
> the Annex joins other Annexes published by WikiLeaks to form an overarching
> trade liberalization agenda, fragmenting the trucking industry, opening up
> sensitive areas of the transport sector to international competition, and
> contributing to the ongoing privatization of public services, undercutting
> workers' rights, public health and safety, and the ability of national
> governments to plan and direct their own industrial and infrastructural
> development.
> While the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the Transatlantic Trade and
> Investment Pact (TTIP) have received attention, the TiSA is the largest
> component of the United States' "Big Three," the triumvirate of strategic
> neoliberal trade deals being advanced by the Obama administration.
> Together,
> the three treaties form not only a new legal order hospitable for
> transnational corporations, but a new economic "grand enclosure", which
> excludes China and all other BRICS countries.
>
> READ MORE
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> Wikileaks. (image: Guardian UK)
> https://wikileaks.org/tisa/press.htmlhttps://wikileaks.org/tisa/press.html
> WikiLeaks Releases Trade in Services Agreement (TISA) Secret Documents
> By Press Release | WikiLeaks
> 03 December 15
> oday, Thursday, December 3, 10am EST, WikiLeaks releases new secret
> documents from the huge Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA) which is being
> negotiated by the US, EU and 22 other countries that account for 2/3rds of
> global GDP. Coinciding with the ongoing climate talks in Paris, today's
> publication touches on issues of crucial relevance including the regulation
> of energy, industrial development, workers' rights and the natural
> environment. WikiLeaks is also publishing expert analyses of the documents.
> The Trade In Services Agreement is the largest trade treaty of its kind in
> history. The economies of the 52 countries involved in the negotiation,
> which is being led by the United States, are mostly the supply of services.
> According to World Bank figures, services comprise 75% of the EU economy,
> 80% of the US economy and the majority of the global economy. Notably
> excluded in the TiSA negotiations are the emerging economies and the BRICS
> (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa).
> The "Energy Related Services Annex Proposal: Questions and Answers"
> document
> sets out TiSA designs to create an international market in energy-related
> services for foreign suppliers. While heads of state prepare to sign
> climate
> accords in Paris, TiSA negotiators are meeting behind closed doors in
> Geneva
> to forge new limits on energy regulation.
> The "Annex on Environmental Services" reveals that TiSA will aim to ensure
> that national environmental protections within TiSA countries will be
> "harmonized down", promoting the interests of multinational companies
> providing water purification, sanitation and refuse disposal services over
> worker safety, public health and the natural environment. Assessing the
> agreement, Friends of the Earth calls TiSA "an environmental hazard",
> pointing out that public services of an environmentally sensitive nature
> are
> in danger of being privatized. Commenting on the "Annex on Road Freight
> Transport and Related Logistical Services", the International Transport
> Workers Federation (ITF) calls TiSA a "race to the bottom," observing that
> the Annex joins other Annexes published by WikiLeaks to form an overarching
> trade liberalization agenda, fragmenting the trucking industry, opening up
> sensitive areas of the transport sector to international competition, and
> contributing to the ongoing privatization of public services, undercutting
> workers' rights, public health and safety, and the ability of national
> governments to plan and direct their own industrial and infrastructural
> development.
> While the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the Transatlantic Trade and
> Investment Pact (TTIP) have received attention, the TiSA is the largest
> component of the United States' "Big Three," the triumvirate of strategic
> neoliberal trade deals being advanced by the Obama administration.
> Together,
> the three treaties form not only a new legal order hospitable for
> transnational corporations, but a new economic "grand enclosure", which
> excludes China and all other BRICS countries.
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