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Thursday, June 09, 2016

Bilderberg: It's That Time Of Year Again



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Every year, the world's richest and most powerful business executives, bankers, media heads and politicians sit down in some luxurious and heavily guarded venue, and discuss how to steer the global economy in a way that maximizes profits for all involved, while perpetuating a status quo that has been highly beneficial for a select few, even if it means the ongoing destruction of the middle and working classes and the creation of a servile, uneducated, ill informed underclass, the 'proleteriat' of Karl Marx' writing.. We are talking, of course, about the annual, and always secretive, Bilderberg meeting.

And, as the Guardian notes, "you know Bilderberg’s about to begin when you start seeing the guns."It is quite ironic that a left wing publication like the Guardian, which is naturally dead against corporate capitalism, bankers, Soros and all that shite, actually supports all the Bilderberg Group initiatives aimed at creating chaose and uncertainty in the developed world (e.g. mass migration, debt crisis, unemployment, establishment assaults on democracy, dumbed down education, racial and religious tensions, offshoring jobs to low labour cost areas etc.) in order that the billionaires who meet each year for this  jamboree will profit from.

The venue for Bilderberg 2016 is The Taschenbergpalais hotel in Dresden. The event,  which starts tomorrow and lasts until June 12  is filling up with pistol-packing plainclothes security as the last regular guests check out and what could be described as the annual convention of the world's greatest paranoiacs gets into gear.

Heavies in black suits and ray bans lurk in the corridors the corridors, or patrol the perimeter fences checking for signs of attempts at unauthorised entry. In the hotel lobby, corporate goons gather in muttering huddles. The Guardian's Bilderberg correspondent Charlie Skelton tells us:
According to the local newspaper DNN, at least 400 police officers will be surrounding the venue for the three days of the talks. There’s already a ring of concrete blocks around the entrance.

Is that not enough? What are they expecting? The charge of the light brigade?

The hotel is being trussed up tighter than Reid Hoffman’s trousers. No one gets in or out without the right lanyard. As Ed Balls remembers only too well, from that awkward business in Copenhagen. Inside the security cordon, the final nervy tweaks are being made by conference staff. They’ve got to make sure Henry Kissinger’s curtains don’t let any light in. A single ray could be fatal.
Year after year, an elite group of extremely rich and powerful bankers, investors, natural resource owners and corporate overlords seem to think it’s worth heading for the Bilderberg shindig, which we are told is just a bunch of rich people enjoying a jolly old shindig over coffee and petit fours or cocktails and canapes.

Believe that and you'll believe anything.  So what is really bringing the head of Google, two prime ministers, a vice-president of the European commission, the chairmen of HSBC and several other banks, George Soros, David Rockefeller, Jacob Rothschild, and a host of billionaires and business leaders together in the same hotel basement for the three days in June?  On its official website, Bilderberg attempts an answer. It describes itself as “a forum for informal discussions” that are “designed to foster dialogue between Europe and North America”. Dialogue which is designed to foster dialogue. Pure, unadulterated bollocks.

Charlie Skelton, a freelancer who has covered bilderberg for years, tells us that’s nonsense. And yet Bilderberg insists “there is no desired outcome”. As Skelton comments: " That’s like a Club 18-30 rep saying there’s no desired outcome of his tequila groin-slurping contest. Someone’s getting something out of the event. Even if that something is chlamydia."



For years, from 1954 to sometime in the 1990s we were told Bilderberg did not exist, it was all a conspiracy theory dreamed up by left / right wing anti establishment nutters. Now thanks to diligent investigative journalists and whistleblower sites like Wikileaks and The Intercept we know that not only is bilderber very real, they even have a rather disturbing (to those of us who do not want to live as slaves under a global totalitarian government) agenda.

What is really discussed at Bilderberg is how to take existing trends in the world, some favorable and mold them in such a way as to concentrate even more wealth and power in the hands of the world's top 0.01%, while preserving the status quo politically and economically, even though most of the world, and even  the IMF agrees the current model is no longer working.

As Paul Joseph Watson infers, the secretive Bilderberg Group whose Steering Committee Advisory Group consists of one, David Rockefeller, will discuss how to prevent Donald Trump from becoming president, the possibility of mass riots as a result of wealth inequality, the migrant crisis, the rise of populism as well as the United Kingdom’s vote on leaving the European Union.
As noted above, the official list of "key topics" to be discussed is both broad quite vague and includes:
  1. Current events
  2. China
  3. Europe: migration, growth, reform, vision, unity
  4. Middle East
  5. Russia
  6. US political landscape, economy: growth, debt, reform
  7. Cyber security
  8. Geo-politics of energy and commodity prices
  9. Precariat and middle class
  10. Technological innovation
That's just for public consumption. After all, who needs massive concrete blocks and 400 police officers for protection to discuss "technological innovation", that information is available in abundance on the internet, Google even boast about their plans to implant wi-fi chips in the skulls of the precariat and turn us all into human - robot hybrids. If all they are talking about is in the above list why don't they publish minutes of their sessions.

Of course, that will never happen, because the real agenda must remain under wraps. However one can infer from the agenda and some of the names on the participant list what the group will be discussing. As PJW writes, the attendance of anti-Trump Senator Lindsey Graham is an obvious sign that Donald Trump will be a prominent topic of discussion at this year's Bilderberg meeting, with the likely focus on how to prevent Trump from defeating Bilderberg’s chosen candidate, Hillary Clinton, who has already raked in tens of millions in fees from "speaking" before numerous participants at the meeting.

In 2015, the Bilderberg elite was confident that Clinton could with their backing and funding, blow away the Republican challengers, but the brave campaign of Bernie Sanders to stop Clinton being the sole candidate for the Democrats nomination and Trump’s self-funded campaign aimed at disillusioned white voters and his public opposition to globalism and internationalist trade deals like TTIP and TPP has shocked the elitists as has the popularity of anti EU parties in Europe. As a result, it will now have to spend much more time dealing with the damage control.

Brexit will be another major topic. With opinion polls on the British referendum showing the public mood edging  towards leave, the vote only two weeks away and David Cameron getting concerned that he can't guarantee the result his globalist masters want, a vote to secede threatens to trigger more exits by member states the future of the European Union federal superstate that was the brainchild of Bilderberg in the first place.

The inclusion of “precariat and middle class” on the list also means that the powerful lobby group will be ruminating on how they can exploit and manage the inevitability of more riots and civil unrest in the west - and increasingly, the east with an emphasis on China whose government is terrified about the prospect of rising social unrest - a topic that elitists were also concerned about at the 2015 Davos Economic Summit.

The flooding of Europe with third world migrants, a process which has driven European voters into the arms of nationalist parties that typically oppose Bilderberg’s wider agenda, will also be a key topic of discussion, as per bullet point 3.

An interesting name on this year's list of attendees is that of Richard Engel, NBC News’ chief foreign correspondent.  "Normally, a semi-secret meeting of over 100 of the most powerful people on the planet would be a monumental news scoop, but don’t expect Engel to utter a word about what goes on." After all, real journalists are not allowed anywhere on the premises; Engel likely has to sign an Non Disclosure Agreement. Ind in these days of spin and presentation, the task of mainstream media is to ensure the big stories about what is going on in the world are NOT reported.

Bilderberg operates under the so called Chatham House Rules, which means that none of the participants are able to reveal any comments made during the conference. As the Guardian floridly puts it, "after the politicians drag their drained and bloodless bodies back to their respective parliaments, they don’t say a word about what happened. They act like abuse victims. “It’s just our little secret,” murmurs Henry Kissinger as he pops the politicians back into their coffins.

Although it was reported in the German media that German Chancellor Angela Merkel would attend this year’s conference, her name does not appear on the list. However, it is a common practice for Bilderberg to omit names from the official list if the individual’s attendance is politically sensitive.

OK, now you know as much as David Icke, Charlie Skelton and  I do about this year's Bilderberg group meeting. So don't call us conspiracy theorists OK? 
 


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Thursday, October 29, 2015

US Trade Representative says America has no interest in a trade deal with Britain alone, urging it to remain in the EU





It is most blatant attempt yet to meddle in British domestic politics, the abysmal Obama administration in Washington has said Britain will not get a separate trade deal with the United States if it quits the European Union, and would be subject to the same tariff barriers as China, America’s most senior trade official has said in a significant blow to the Out campaign. The UK is set to hold a referendum on whether to continue as a full EU member as European leaders in Brussels intensify the push for integration of the twenty eight member states into a single political entity, the Federal European superstate.

Michael Froman, the US Trade Representative, said America is “not in the market” for trade deals with individual states and would only consider free trade agreements with blocs of nations. "I think it's absolutely clear that Britain has a greater voice at the trade table being part of the EU, being part of a larger economic entity," Mr Froman told Reuters.

He added, "We're not particularly in the market for FTAs [free trade agreements] with individual countries. We're building platforms ... that other countries can join over time. We have no FTA with the UK so they would be subject to the same tariffs – and other trade-related measures - as China, or Brazil or India," he said.

Integrationists and global-government enthusiasts have been quick to present the statement as a major setback for the Out campaign, who argue that Britain would be able to rapidly sign trade deals with overseas economies if it was outside of the EU. Current EU trade rules do not allow member states to enter separate customs agreements.

However while political establishments and the wealthy elites have been keen to promote the idea of global government, voters across Europe are becoming increasingly sceptical with anti - EU party UKIP steadily gaining groud in Britain, France's Front National, Italy's Liga Nord, Podemos in Spain and the Sweden Democrats all topping opinion polls with their nationalist stance, and even AFD (Alternaif Fur Deutschland) gaining ground in the German fourth reigh Federal Republic.

Even in the USA, labor leaders and civil rights activists, along with many politicians on the maverick fringes of the Democratic and Republican parties have expressed concerns about many of the clauses and conditions in TTIP and its equally evil twin TPP (Trans Pacific Partnership).

Britain's treasonous government and official opposition are both fully supportive of the highly secret TTIP, which whistleblowers tell us will transfer national sovereignty from elected assemblies to corporate lawyers, lobbyists and the bureaucracy. David Cameron is one of the keenest advocates of the EU-US trade deal known as TTIP and while Labour leaders Jeremy Corbyn has expressed reserations over the threat the deal would pose to workers rights, most leading Labour party figures are committed to the ideal of global government. Cameron has argued that the EU must be more ambitious in agreeing free trade deals with economies in the southern hemisphere if it is to stave off economic decline.


Advocates say the TTIP deal will increase trade significantly and slash the cost of consumer goods such as jeans and computers for British families. Opponents warn that apart from transferring power from elected governments to corporate and public sector bureaucrats, TTIP will make it easier to offshore work to low labour cost economies and erode hard won emplymenr rights of workers in the developed nations.


The US operates thousands of tariffs designed to protect its workforce from foreign competition, covering food, raw materials, clothing and office equipment. Needless to say most of these will remain in place in one form or another after the deal is signed, committing European nations to removing such protections.


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Sunday, May 31, 2015

Julian Assange On The TPP: "Deal Isn't About Trade, It's About Corporate Control"

Julian Assange On The TPP: "Deal Isn't About Trade, It's About Corporate Control"


It’s mostly not about trade. Only 5 of the 29 chapters are about traditional trade.

– Julian Assange referring to the trans Pacific Partnership in a recent interview with Democracy Now


Most of my attention to the 'free trade' treaties being pushed by the Obama administration has been focused on the USA / European Union (EU) 'free' trade deal, the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) because we are a British publication.


The Pacific Rim equivalent, Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) has been more in the news recently however lately, as US President Barck Obama has been busy bribing and bullying the US Senate and House of Representatives into abdicating their constitutional role of holding the administration to account and granting Obama the powers of an autocrat so that he may 'fast track' TPP into law without Concress being allowed to vote on it, debate it or even know what is in it.


As the Obama Administration scrambles to attain “fast-track” authority from Congress, the content of this unbelievably dangerous gift to multi-national corporations is being kept secret from the public, and for very good reason.



For some background on the TPP and where it stands, see:


Trade Expert and TPP Whistleblower – “We Should Be Very Concerned about What’s Hidden in This Trade Deal”


As the Senate Prepares to Vote on “Fast Track,” Here’s a Quick Primer on the Dangers of the TPP



What little we know about the TPP has come from whistleblower site, Wikileaks. This is what Julian Assange thinks of this “trade” treaty in his own words.


The Obama administration is lobbying hard for Congress to pass a trade promotion authority (TPA) and to quickly approve the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a free trade agreement that is on the verge of being finalized.


The administration and its supporters on this issue, including leading Republicans, argue that the case for TPP rests on basic economic principles and is only strengthened by the findings of modern research. On both counts their claims are greatly exaggerated – particularly with regard to the notion that more trade, on these terms, is necessarily better for the United States.


There is a strong theoretical and empirical case – dating back to David Ricardo in 1817 – that freer trade should make countries better off. However, modern-day trade agreements, including those currently being negotiated, are very different from earlier experiences with trade liberalization.


The TPP is not only – perhaps not even mostly – about freer trade, and thus who gains and who loses is very much dependent on what exactly are the details of the agreement. The exact nature of the provisions matters and at this point, because the TPP text is not available to the public, we cannot be sure whom this trade agreement will help or hurt within the United States or elsewhere. To read see a video and read the full transcript of Julian Assange's interview with Amy Goodman of Democracy Now, click the link below.


Julian Assange On TTIP / TPP


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Thursday, May 14, 2015

US Senators Block Obama's Fast Track For Corporate Friendly Trade Deals

posted by Arthur Foxake



United States Senators have voted to block a plan that would have given President Barack Obama “fast track” authority to advance a 12-nation trade deal between the US and Pacific Ring partners. In a 52-45 vote on Tuesday afternoon, the Senate opposed moving forward for now on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) a close sibling of the Trans Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), a negotiated-in-secret, corporate-friendly trade deal which has been arousing strong opposition across Europe.


A procedural vote requiring at least 60 “ayes” in order to let the Senate host discussions on whether or not to give the God - King Obama “fast track” authority (i.e, the power to create laws by decree) on the matter was defeated. Failure to get imperial authority for Obama on this puts the future of the trade agreement in jeopardy. Ironically the president who throughout his term in office has been at loggerheads with The Republicans, has their support on this while he is being blocked by his own party, The Democrats. A reading of the extracts leaked so far from the treaties (mostly by Wikileaks) shows however that far from being about free trade in the true sense, it is in fact about freeing corporate business from the obligation to obey national law.


Had this week's Senate vote gone the other way, lawmakers would have hosted a debate to decide whether to give President Obama the power to approve the potential deal on his own, before asking Congress to either ratify or reject any agreement. Ahead of Tuesday’s vote, Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, told Reuters the possibility of expediting the process as the White House had requested “may be dead” due to lack of support soon after the procedural vote failed.


“In the future, if we see a sharp decline in US agriculture and manufacturing,” Hatch said after the votes were counted, “...people may very well look back at today’ events and wonder why we couldn't get our act together.”


Senator Barbara Boxer (D-California) raised concerns on the Senate floor over the Obama administration's lack of transparency with regards to what’s being discussed by TPP participants.

“Let me tell you what you have to do to read this agreement. Follow this: you can only take a few of your staffers who happen to have a security clearance — because, God knows why, this is secure, this is classified. It has nothing to do with defense. It has nothing to do with going after ISIS,” Senator Boxer said, according to the Intercept.


President Obama has been touting the TPP as a catalyst for the domestic jobs market and an enabler of workers’ rights abroad, and last week he pitched the deal at the main office of footwear giant Nike. Critics of TPP and TTIP say it will do the opposite by making the offshoring of jobs by corporate employers to take advantage of low labour costs and lax employment laws and workers' rights legislation.


While Obama has been pushing the secret deal through mainstream media the, public disclosures about the in-the-works agreement have been few and far between, and in many instances provided by the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks.



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Monday, April 27, 2015

Massive Protests In Europe Against TTIP - Mainstream Media Blackout



Corporate bosses give their reasons for supporting TTIP, TISA and TPP


If you read us here, at Boggart Blog or The Daily Stirrer, or is you are among the growing number of people who turn to alternative media to find out what's really going on in the world, you are most likely aware of the 'free' trade deals, TTIP, TISA, and TPP being negotiated in secret, behind closed doors.

You will also know there has been considerable opposition and even that some protests against the cooking up by bureaucrats and corporate lawyers of deals which transfer major areas of national sovereignty to big business. But, due to a European and American mainstream media blackout the extent of opposition and sheer scale of protests, and the arrests of TTIP opponents in Europe is as secret as the terms of these treated which even the democratically elected members of national government are not party to.

The architects of this attack on freedom as the USA's Obama Andministration and the neo Nazi leaders of the European Union's bureaucratic dictatorship.

Hundreds of thousands of activist have recently joined protests in Europe to oppose what could be the world’s biggest corporate take-over of democratic rights and national sovereignty ever seen. Resistance to TTIP has been most fierce in Germany, with tens of thousands joining demonstrations across the country last weekend. In Belgium, host to the EU headquarters, policing of the demonstrations was particularly heavy handed and many demonstrators were arrested

A recent YouGov poll showed that 43% of Germans believe TTIP would be bad for the country, compared to 26% who see it as positive with 31% unaware of TTIP. Demonstrations in other European cities also drew protesters, including 2,000 in Brussels, 1,000 in Madrid and Helsinki, more in Warsaw and Prague.

In Berlin, an estimated 1,500 demonstrators formed a human chain stretching from the Potsdamer Platz, past the US embassy and through the Brandenburg Gate to offices of the European Commission. In Munich, lobby group Attac estimated numbers of protestors at 15,000. Marches in Leipzig, Stuttgart, Frankfurt and other European cities were also well supported on what Attac hailed as a “global day of action” against corporate facism.

Around Europe, 40 events against the trade agreement took place in Italy, over 60 in Spain, and over 70 in France – Though UK activists are preoccupied with General Election campaigns, London staged an event organised by British campaign groups War on Want, Global Justice Now, Keep Our NHS Public, Brick Lane Debates and Students Against TTIP. In all, across the globe 700 demonstrations covering 5 continents raised the people's voice against Free Trade Agreements such as TTIP. And yet not ONE word about the protests or the reason for them was reported in mainstream media

This is now a battle of the people verses the corporations, citizens verses elitist governments, freedom versus tyranny, humanity versus money and the media blackout is just another sign that your rights are being withdrawn. So what are you waiting for, get active.


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Wednesday, April 08, 2015

Now We Know Why Huge TPP Trade Deal Is Kept Secret From the Public


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If you read Boggart Abroad, Boggart Blog or The Daily Stirrer you will know all about the evil twins TPP and TTIP, we have been warning you about the iniquitous 'free trade' treaties being pushed by the Obama Administration, the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) and its equally evil twin, the Trans Pacific Partnership. These treaties are not about free trade in the conventional sense, but freeing Corporate Businesses to do what they like without hinderance or restriction from national governments or consumer protection groups.


We haven't been the only ones, most of the 'Alternative Media' have been on the case. In mainstream media however there has been hardly a murmur about how these treaties would enable corporate lawyers to sue governments and overturn laws pertaining to consumer protection, workers rights and trading standards and to sue governments if the corporate bosses felt their right to steal taxpayers and consumers money was being restricted.


Well it looks as if mainstream media are waking up at last:


from Huffington Post

Now We Know Why Huge TPP Trade Deal Is Kept Secret From the Public


A key section of the secret Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement has been leaked to the public. The New York Times has a major story on the contents of the leaked chapter, and it's as bad as many of us feared.


Now we know why the corporations and the Obama administration want the TPP, a huge "trade" agreement being negotiated between the United States and 11 other countries, kept secret from the public until it's too late to stop it.


The section of the TPP that has leaked is the "Investment" chapter that includes investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) clauses. WikiLeaks has the text and analysis, and the Times has the story, in "Trans-Pacific Partnership Seen as Door for Foreign Suits Against U.S.":


An ambitious 12-nation trade accord pushed by President Obama would allow foreign corporations to sue the United States government for actions that undermine their investment "expectations" and hurt their business, according to a classified document.


The Trans-Pacific Partnership -- a cornerstone of Mr. Obama's remaining economic agenda -- would grant broad powers to multinational companies operating in North America, South America and Asia. Under the accord, still under negotiation but nearing completion, companies and investors would be empowered to challenge regulations, rules, government actions and court rulings -- federal, state or local -- before tribunals organized under the World Bank or the United Nations.


The WikiLeaks analysis explains that this lets firms "sue" governments to obtain taxpayer compensation for loss of "expected future profits."

Read full story at Huffington Post


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Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Thousand of Indian farmers protest against corporate imperialism and Government promotion of GMO seed.


We have learned from sources in India that the deeply unpopular Modi government is facing a massive revolt against the Government's possibly corrupt and certainly undemocratic collaboration with biotech giants like Du Pont and Monsanto if trying to use legislative power to force farmers to accept the introduction of Genetically Modified seed.

Massive protests against the Modi Government and the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) coalition took place in Delhi on March 18, 2015. The demonstrations were organised by the major agricultural unions of India and have to the launch of widespread lobbying campaign by groups supporting farmer’s rights and cost of living allocations in the capital city.

According to the All India Coordination Committee of Farmers Movement (AICCFM), Modi and the NDA came to power by way of funding from the GMO lobby which is led by Monsanto and Du Pont. These corporations and their business partners represent the patent holders of genetically modified seed inputs which are now promoted by programs focused on agribusiness in many emerging and developing nations.

Complaining that lack of transparency about political campaign funding, and standing anti-farmer policies indicate there is corruption at all levels of agricultural governance, the AICCFM demands changes to the Land Acquisition Ordinance that ultimately protects independent farmers' property rights. The Committee is also requesting the changes to commercial-growing guidelines which now include mandated adherence to patent rules assigning apportioned proprietary ownership of GM crops, including percentages of sales owed to the genetic patent registrar - i.e. the Biotech corporations (sic).

While imposition fair and remunerative pricing for farm produce is a long standing new demand from the AICCFM, the request for restructuring fair trade agreements (FTAs) and of establishing a farm income commission is. Elimination of agriculture from the World Trade Organization (WTO) free trade agreements, indemnity for farm disaster relief and open air field trials of GM crops are cited as other issues that the farm unions wish to change.

This situation portends trouble for the Trans Pacific Partnership, evil twin of the TTIP (Trans Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership) being fast tracked by the USA'a Obama administration, which would give corporate businesses the right and ability to overturn laws enacted by the elected governments of sovereign states.

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Tuesday, July 22, 2014

Obama Goes Full - On Nazi: “US Accused of Forcing EU to Accept Tar Sands Oil Trade

The secret negotiations around the 'New World Order' free trade treaties, TPP and TTIP that will strip democratically elected governments of sovereign power lumber on. There are positive signs however that the world is waking up to the neo Nazi nature of these sleazy so - called trade treaties cooked up by the Obama Administration and some of the biggest and most evil corporate businesses in the world.

We have written a lot about the two extremely nasty, but virtually unreported in mainstream media) trade threaties currently being negotiated in secret by the Obama Administration, the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the Trans Altantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) which are not about free trade as stated but about stripping democratically elected sovereign governments of their powers and handing it to supra national bureaucraies like the EU and Corporate interests like Pfizer, Monsanto and the global banks.

In fact we have written so much that we ought by now to have a menu paged dedicated to TPP and TTIP and would have but for Ian being very distracted by family responsibilities. Loads of links to our stuff beneath the embed window however, here's an article that is a must read for all who value democracy and rights such as free speech, freedom of the press and power to hold to account the elite being vested in bodies controlled by the public.

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Monday, December 09, 2013

Leaked TPP Documents Show The Extent Of Obama's Betrayal



Work sets you free, or as George Orwell put it in '1984' "freedom is slavery"

Ever heard of the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP)? Not many people have because the American and other governments negotiating the deal are being very secretive about what is supposed to be a free trade agreement. The reason for their cover ups is the TPP is really a massive transfer of power from elected government to corporate cartels, which will be immune from prosecution when their products or processes do harm and will be able to veto new law and challenge existing ones. And the USA is already engaged is negotiating a similar deal with the European Union, the TTIP

Leaked TPP Documents Show The Extent Of Obama's Treason



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