TTIP:Here In A Single Article Is The Key To Why People Do Not Trust Mainstream Media

A single article published in UK newspaper The Daily Telegraph shows why few people trust what they read in mainstream media or see and hear in broadcast news bulletins any more. The author, obviously a proponent of the anti democratic trade treaty which is really no more than a corporate power grab.

No, TTIP is not a good reason for Britain to leave the European Union

by Rem Korteweg

18 May 2016 • 11:31am

Britain’s Eurosceptics on the Left and Right have found common cause in objecting to the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). Boris Johnson last week ridiculed the EU’s negotiating model as a “pantomime horse”. On the left, critics say TTIP is a corporate power grab and threatens the NHS. These views are flawed for a number of reasons.

On the Right, Brexit promises the ability of free trade deals without interference from Brussels and its red tape. But TTIP would still influence the UK economy. Once outside the EU, the UK would be unable to stop TTIP, or shape it. The EU, like the US, will remain an important trading partner after Brexit. So whatever the future arrangement between the EU and the UK, British firms will be required to adopt EU rules and regulations if they want to sell into the single market.

In these opening paragraphs the author uses the favourite tactic of both pro - EU and pro - Golbalisation propagandists, he or she tries adopts a scornful tone to belittle the very sensible and rational arguments in favout of leaving the EU and against getting involved with dodgy trade deals promoted by the rent boy in The White House. The concluding sentence of the first paragraph is a blatant lie. I will now unequivocally call Rem Korteweg a liar and he / she can sue me if able to demonstrate that all non EU nations in the world have adopted EU regulations in order to see their products in the European Union. In fact a large part of the disputed clauses in TTIP relate to the insistence of the USA that EU nations conform to US standards before they can be sold in the USA. The USA however insists that it must be allowed to sell some goods in Europe that are incompatible with EU standards.

After the scaremongering comes the big lie Negotiations of TTIP have been surrounded by secrecy, and high security, even elected representatives of the American and European peoples have not been allowed to study and comment on the draft, yet this propagandist tells us:

More importantly, TTIP would create a transatlantic marketspace that would influence British firms and the UK economy by aligning regulation in the US and EU by recognising or harmonising each other’s standards. These standards would become benchmarks for others to follow, particularly in those countries that trade a lot with either the US or the EU, or both. In 2015, 63 per cent of British trade (imports and exports) was with the EU and US. British exporters, keen to adopt newly agreed transatlantic standards, would pressure UK regulators to implement the same rules at home. So, standards agreed in TTIP, on issues like health, environment or labour, would percolate into the UK. Yet the British government would have no say in the shaping of these standards, as it does now. Only if the UK stopped trading with both the EU and the US would Britain be immune to TTIP’s regulations.

Read full article in The Daily Telegraph

One of the main points raised by what's been leaked (apart from WTF is 'marketspace'?), is when the author talks of 'recognising and harmonising' each other's standards, as those of us who have read the parts of TTIP leaked by Wikileaks, The Intercept and The Guardian's Glen Greeenwald know what this means. We should brush aside another lie peddled by the article first however; the author (again typically of pro TTIP and pro - EU propagandists) give the impression that all the opposition is cominf from extremists on the right and left. In fact many moderate groups representing small and medium sized independent business, trade unions, and independent watchdogs have opposed TTIP along with civil rights groups, consumer protection agencies and and environmentalists.

This harmonisation that is referred to as if only cranks and fanatics are questioning it, has been questioned by centrist politicians in Europe because one of the sticking points is that the USA demands that European Union negotiators yield to all its demands while refusing to give up any of its own protectionist tariffs and barriers.

OK Kortweg, I look forward to hearing from your lawyers, but I wan you, it will not be I who ends up sleeping inder a bundle of old rags in some derelict, inner city slum.

As for everyone else, you don't have to take our word for it (although there are plenty of words written by Boggart Bloggers available if you want to know more about the threats posed to democracy, national sovereignty and free speech, as well as the environment, jobs, workers rights, civil rights, free speech and public services posed by TTIP. Five minutes research should pull up enough material to convince you it is a fascist power grab. And if the threat of corporate fascism alone is not enough to convince you that Britain should leave the EU, there are a billion other very good reasons (80 million of them currently residing in Turkey.)

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 Migrants try to smash through border post between Greece and Macedonia (YouTube)

Migrants, mostly Muslims from the Middle East, who, as we reported yesterday, have massed at the border between Greece, their point of arrival on European soil, and Macedonia, a small E U  country through which they must pass to continue their journey to the welfare handout promised lands of northern Europe, have earlier today used a home-made battering ram in an attempt to force their way through a border control point between greece and Macedonia. They also threw rocks at police, who retaliated with tear gas.

The migrants destroyed a gate on the border but Macedonian military personnel were on hand and it is not clear if any rioters actually managed to get through the broken gate. Today’s events signal an escalation of the violence that has become the trade mark of these people, who are not needy refugees or political asylum seekers fleeing persecution but economic migrants . The disturbances, which began yesterday, when migrants held a demonstration, blocking railway lines whilst shouting “open the border”, which demonstrates the sense of entitlement instilled into these people by left wing propaganda that tells them they are needed and will be welcomed in Europe..

Macedonia began to close off its border with Greece in January of this year, as the number of migrants entering from Turkey continued to grow, far outstripping the million plus seen last year. According to Reuters, another 110,000 have arrived this year, mostly from Turkey via Greece.

Around 6,500 have built up on the Greek side since the Macedonian authorities said they would only allow Syrians and Iraqis through last week, blocking the passage of those from Afghanistan, North Africa and elsewhere.

Immigrants mass at the border between Greece and Macedonia (Image source)

Macedonia is just one of several Balkan countries to have erected fences in an attempt to reduce the influx of migrants. There has been a so-called domino effect, as countries including Germany, Sweden, Austria and Hungary have all partially or completely closed off their borders.

Alexis Tsipras, the Greek Prime Minister, has threatened to block EU legislation, including David Cameron’s “reform deal”, unless other member states accept more migrants.

“We will not accept turning the country into a permanent warehouse of souls with Europe continuing to function as if nothing is happening”, he said last week, adding: “Greece will not agree to deals (in the EU) if a mandatory allocation of burdens and responsibilities among member countries is not secured.”
Tsipras also withdrew the Greek ambassador from Vienna in protest at the lack of support being offered by other nations during the migrant crisis. Austria is now accepting only 80 migrants a day.

If EU leaders cannot agree that travellers arriving at the EU's external borders without passports or any travel documents must eith be turned away or housed in special camps, if EU 'human rights' rules prevent member states from rounding up illegal immigrants and deprting them, if Hausfrau - Voksfuhrer wo instigated the migrant crisis as part of a stratedy for German domination of Europe cannot be persuaded she is wrong and is destroying the EU, then the community of nations will disintegrate.

Britain should leave before that happens. Multiculturalism has failed. Globalism is just another term for Corporate Naziism.

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Germans Cheer As Refugee Center Burns

Screenshot from RT of Refugee Centre fire (amateur video)

Over the past few months, Europeans have become increasingly angered by the wave of mainly Muslim 'refugees' streaming into the European Union from the Mid-East and north Africa, and at the apparent inability of European leaders and bureaucrats to deal with it is any practical way.

After a remarkable degree of restraint and tolerance was demonstrated by residents of EU cities where the refugees are being dumped in hostels, fed, clothed and given spending money, all funded by European taxes,  the attacks that left 130 people dead in Paris in November and the string of sexual assaults that swept Cologne, Germany on New Year’s Eve have been the straw that has broken the camels back. A political stitch up in France saw the anti immigration party Front Nationale kept out of power in regional assemblies despite winning the popular vote, which resulted in FN becoming even more popular in public opinion polls. The German populace had, until this year, remained supportive of Angela Merkel’s “yes we can” approach to settling the 1.1 million asylum seekers that the country took in last year.

In spite of this,  large sections of the German population do not support the migrant cause. The general consensus is no longer to offer teddy bears, water bottles, sandwiches and hugs (possibly due to the graceless way the immigrants threw away the gifts and demanded money and sex.).

Discontent with the Iron Chancellor’s approach is growing and the atmosphere in the streets is very unpleasant. Renewed support for anti - immigration group PEGIDA is emblematic of the direction in which the country is headed and the surging support for AfD, a new political party opposed to mass immigration and further integration of Germany into a federal European Superstate is an indicator of how much trouble Merkel's fragile ruling coalition is in. Last weekend we got the latest evidence that Germany’s patience with the migrants' anti - social behaviour is wearing increasingly thin.

Residents of Bautzen (in Saxony) cheered on Saturday night as a planned migrant center burned in what very well may have been a premeditated arson attack. “Some people reacted to the blaze with derogatory comments and undisguised joy,” Deutsche Welle reports, adding that “the incident in Bautzen comes shortly after a mob shouting anti-migrant slogans blocked a bus full of refugees in Clausnitz, also in Saxony.” Here's the video of the Clausnitz incident:

Saxony's chief minister, Stanislaw Tillich, called both incidents "disgusting and hateful." (We wonder if he thinks the same of the rapes, male rapes, assaults and beatings inflicted on Germans by the migrants, crimes which Hausfrau Volksfuhrer Merkel's office has ordered police to ignore?)

Yes, "disgusting and hateful," which is precisely what the German people are saying about the string of sexual assaults, the urination and defecation in public areas, hassling little girls for sex and pulling womens' clothes off as they walk alone, as well as the threat of Islamic terrorism.

Needless to say, when German citizens are actively attempting to keep firefighters from putting out a blaze, it says something profound about public opinion. Then again, we suppose this isn't anything new. As Deutsche Welle goes on to report, "there were more than 1,000 arson attacks on planned and completed refugee shelters across Germany in 2015."

Perhaps support for Merkel's open-door approach was never that strong in the first place. Germans knew that under the EU bureaucratic dictatorship, as European Parliament President Martin Schulz has said, "Public opinion is irrelevant."



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This blog does not agree with the 'Jewish' bit (American warmongering is a multi - faith project) otherwise this poster just about sums up the US approach to foreign relations (Image source)

The reasons being given for the latest NATO military buildup in Eastern Europe, the idea that the Russian 'Russian threat' to Eastern Europe grows every day is "simply absurd," according to former US diplomat and Senate policy advisor Jim Jatras. Effectively, Jatras says, the buildup is an attempt by the US to keep Germany and France on board with Washington's world domination agenda and move closer to fulfilling the military - industrial complex ambition of making huge profits from a shooting war between NATO and the Russian - Chinese alliance.

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"Let's remember, NATO is an American-run operation. And I think what we are seeing here is the US teaming up with some of our newer allies in the East – the Poles, the Balts, the Romanians, to some extent the Turks – to try to make sure that there is not a rapprochement between some of the core members, like Germany and France, with Moscow," Jatras explained.

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More than one a of Italians - including many in the insular and deeply conservative south - will consider voting for the anti-EU, anti-immigration Northern League, a poll showed on Sunday (21 December, 2014). The rapid rise of Lega Nord in Italian politics mirrors the success of other parties such as UKIP in the UK, Frances Front National, Denmark's danish peoples' Party, The Sweden Democrats and Germany's AFD. Elsewhere long established right and wing nationalist parties are enjoying a resurgence as anti E U, anti - globalisation feeling grows.

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Slavini's rise is often compared with that of France's Front National, the leader of which, Marine Le Pen has been successful in guiding the FN closer to the mainstream in a bid for power. Salvini has a more difficult task overcome Italy's much wider regional divisions however. His party was founded in response to demands that the wealthier north, which he calls "Padania", be allowed to break away and become an independent state outside the EU.

(A regular critic of my anti - EU stance commented recently that when he visits Europe 'everybody' feels Britain would be foolish to try to leave and no other country has a significant political force in favour of quitting. This person loves to talk about the fact that he 'works in a university', so it is entirely understandable that he is totally out of touch with reality. Only the politicians, public servants and others who eat our taxes claim there is no support for breaking up the EU because they are scared that if one nation leaves the whole gravy train on which they ride will be derailed.)

The Lega Nord has traditionally held the portion of Italy south of Tuscany in contempt. Polls now seem to indicate the political centre of gravity shifting south on the back of Salvini's popularity. In fact, 19 percent of voters in the centre of the country said they would vote for it - one per cent higher than in its northern heartlands - with seven percent of southerners saying they would support it.

Italy has seen an unprecedented surge of immigrants this year, with more than 150,000 rescued from rickety boats attempting to reach its southern shores from north Africa. The burden of treating so many illegal immigrants humanely and payng them benefits according to E U rules is crippling Italy's already weak economy and fuelling both anti - immigration and anti - E U feeling.

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