Read why #TISA is more scary than #TTIP (#TAFTA) or #TPP:
http://t.co/P3Iag7sE0e. #wikileaks #TPPA #WorldTradeCup pic.twitter.com/4RB6JHJAM0
— Global Trade Watch (@PCGTW) June 23, 2014
This one, for the international banking community. Geeze, I didn’t even know about this one! And they get to keep it secret for five years after they pass it?
The text of a 19-page, international trade agreement being drafted in secret was published by WikiLeaks on Thursday as the transparency group’s editor commemorated his two-year anniversary confined to the Ecuadorian Embassy in London.
Fifty countries around the globe have already signed on to the Trade in Service Agreement, or TISA, including the United States, Australia and the European Union. Despite vast international ties, however, details about the deal have been negotiated behind closed-doors and largely ignored by the press.
In a statement published by the group alongside the leaked draft this week, WikiLeaks said “proponents of TISA aim to further deregulate global financial services markets,” and have participated in “a significant anti-transparency manoeuvre” by working secretly on a deal that covers more than 68 percent of world trade in services, according to the Swiss National Center for Competence in Research.
We should all thank Manning and Snowden or we wouldn’t know anything. Our elected officials treat us like mushrooms. They keep us in the dark and feed us shit. Here are a few facts about NAFTA. To date 50 thousand manufacturing companies have moved their operations overseas. The result has been the loss of 8 million manufacturing jobs. If we never heard the names Clinton and Republican again it would be too soon.