EU Bureaucrats To Push TTIP Through Before Obama Leaves Office?

Free Trade Treaty will let corporations bypass national law.


TTIP Free trade deal will free corporations from restrictive laws and allow their greedy tentacles to read everywhere.

As most of the media today squabbles about David Cameron's 'deal' with European Union leaders to obtain better terms for Britain's membership of the wannabe Federal European Superstate, the political establishment see another 'good day to bury bad news' opportunity.

The bad news (for us punters, it's great for bankers and corporate business, as Germany's Die Welt English Edition reports) is that the EU bureaucrats intend to push through the 'free trade' deal with the USA, the Trans - Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership before Barack Obama, whose neo - con administration are the main supporters of the treaty that will create an environment that is anything but free.

The Investment part of TTIP you see, will give corporate business the ability to sue the elected governments of sovereign nations and thus overturn laws their lawyers feel will inhibit the businesses ability to 'protect its investments' (make profits). As most corporate profit these days is derived from the plundering of government funds you can see why this promises to be bad for working people on several levels.

Under the TTIP jurisdiction, although existing laws could not be overturned, any news laws or amendments to take account of changing conditions would enable the whole law to be attacked. Thus laws pertaining to worker's rights, minimum wage levels, equal opportunities and consumer rights would be vulnerable. And inevitably power would shift from elected representatives to global businesses and corporate lawyers. The treaty, much of which has been kept secret, would also threaten Europe's socialised healthcare systems.

Things have been quiet on the TTIP issue for a while the migrant crisis has diverted attention in Europe while Syria has preoccupied The White House. Today however Reuters reported The European Union now plans to conclude free trade negotiations with the USA by this summer, so that a treaty can be signed before a change of president in the United States.

While the EU and The White House maintain TTIP could deliver economic benefits of more than $100 billion for both economies, many senior politicians, trade union leaders and finance experts believe it will cost thousands of jobs, facilitate the dumping of cheap goods from low labour cost economies and exert downward pressure on earnings. There is also concern about the effect on democracy.

“We have to be approaching the endgame by the summer,” European Union Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmström told a press conference following a meeting of EU trade ministers. Further talks will be held in February, April and July, with a view to having a consolidated text on almost all issues, leaving out the most sensitive topics such as agricultural quotas.

In February, the partners will discuss the services sector, opening up public tenders and the European Union’s proposal for a new court to settle disputes between investing companies and states, one of the most controversial parts of a would-be deal.
Investor-state rules aim to protect foreign companies from unfair treatment by host governments and provide compensation if assets are appropriated or profits are affected. The EU’s idea of a new court is designed to answer critics who say the private (i.e. US dominated) arbitration system gives multinationals the ability to usurp national government.

The commissioner also stated a slimmed down deal, an option leaders of some EU member states have suggested in case talks become deadlocked will not be considered.
"Everything is interlinked, you can’t really take out this part and deal with it later," she said.
I will probably be writing more on this in the coming weeks and months.

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Syrian commando counts ISIS dead (Image source)

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Secretary Carter said earlier that same day, in his announcement of America’s arming for war against Russia:

«We are reinforcing our posture in Europe to support our NATO allies in the face of Russia’s aggression. In Pentagon parlance, this is called the European Reassurance Initiative and after requesting about $800 million for last year, this year we’re more than quadrupling it for a total of $3.4 billion in 2017.

That will fund a lot of things: more rotational US forces in Europe, more training and exercising with our allies, more preposition and war-fighting gear and infrastructure improvements to support all this.

And when combined with US forces already in and assigned to Europe – which are also substantial – all of this together by the end of 2017 will let us rapidly form a highly capable combined arms military ground force that can respond across that theater, if necessary».

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Some 5,000 anti-immigration and anti-Islamization protesters have gathered in central Dresden after Pegida called for an international day of action to be held across European cities on Saturday, Deutschlandfunk public broadcaster reported on its website.

Pegida's day of protest in Dresden saw various speakers from Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic, Poland, the Netherlands, Slovakia and Estonia address a large crowd. The speakers carried posters slamming Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel over her role in Europe's refugee crisis, Epoch Times Deutschland newspaper reported live from the rally.

Protests against mass immigration were also held in the Czech Republic, Poland, the Netherlands, France and Ireland. In Prague, some 1,500 people gathered in opposition to refugee influx before clashing with pro-migration groups, forcing the police to intervene, according to witness reports. Similar clashes took place in Amsterdam. In the Irish capital Dublin, a local Pegida branch was established during an anti immigration rally. Anti-Pegida demonstrators also gathered, with the Irish RTE broadcaster reporting clashes with the Gardai (Irish police).

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New Poll Shows Clinton, Sanders Tied As Hillary's Lead Crumbles

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A new opinion poll from the highly regarded Quinnnipac University polling organisation shows iHllary Clinton's lead in the contest to become the Democratic Party Presidential nomineee has almost completely evaporated. From having a lead of around twenty five to thirty points in early December, the numbers are now 44% Clinton, 42% Sanders, which is such a narrow gap it is within the margin of error. Thus the only two contenders left in the race are in a statistical tie.

Where did it all go wrong for Hillary. She was the Democrats anointed one, considered the biggest certainty since Pam Geller was nominated for the 'Liberal hate figure of the year'. Unfortunately, the more voters see of Hillary and Bernie head-to-head, the more people like Bernie. He comes across as honest, principled and genuinely concerned about the way things are going in the USA, and apparently that counts for more than Hillary's hopey changey noises. People have had enough of hope and change after Obama, the peacemaker and joybringer turned out to be the neolib, warmongering, death dealing status quo candidate. People are starting to understand the system has morphed into a rigged fraud in which the 'Shadow Government' nominate the next president and the system persuades all the contenders to take a dive (and discredits those who refuse). People understand that Sanders really, desperately wants to change things and much as most Americans disagree with a lot of Sanders’ policies (his economic statism for example), they like the fact that he despises the status quo as much as they do and unlike Donald Trump, he despises it for the right reasons.

I have said before Bernie Sanders is doing well for the same reasons as ultra left candidate Jeremy Corbyn won the UK Labour Party leadership, for the same reasons the conservative - nationalist Front National won the popular vote in french regional elections (though they were stitched up by the establishment and denied power); as the Right wing Sweden Democrats won enough votes to be part of a power sharing coalition, but were stitched up by a dirty deal between traditional opponents the Social democrats and Christian Democrats, the same reasons as left wing Podemos in Spain and Syriza in Greece won election victories; they are all anti - establishment. Sanders is a revolutionary-type candidate, while Clinton is running to be the latest in a line of puppets operated by Wall Street and oligarchical interests.

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Most people who matter (i.e. those who think for themselves) are aware that we are spun a web of lies and government propaganda by print and broadcast media news on every topic to which any controversy attaches. Moreover we are aware that far from being political opponents, UK Labour and Conservative politicians are singing of the same politically correct song sheet. Likewise the US Democrats and Republicans, Frances socialists and conservatives and Germany's Christian Democrats and Social Democrats.

These people rely on our stupidity. They rely on us watching repeat episodes of Spooks and trusting that the government is watching over us. They rely on us using as our sole source of news, government controlled or corporate owned mainstream media and engaging in politics once every few years to cast a vote that has no more significance than a fart in a hurricane.

The left leaning Independent recently published this article,"David Cameron, this is what that ‘bunch of migrants’ is running from" a full seven days on from "bunch-of-migrants-gate".

In the article, Independent Voices writer Nishaat Ismail links to a video of Homs, Syria’s third city, making a totally spurious link between the drone footage and the Calais migrant crisis. It has been established by EU and United Nations aid workers that most of the 'refugees' in The Jungle as the Calais shanty town is known, are from East Africa, not Syria.

But Ms. Ismail is being willfully deceptive. She writes:

Drone footage of Homs in Syria published today shows apocalyptic scenes of a city in ruins after five years of ravaging and relentless war that has claimed the lives of over 250,000 people. The video confirms the sheer and irrefutable destruction that has engulfed the third largest city of the country, now almost razed to the ground. It also accentuates the cold and insensitive words spoken by our Prime Minister David Cameron in last week’s reprehensible installment of PMQs when he referred to people escaping the horrors of war similar to those displayed in this footage as merely a “bunch of migrants”.

Even her previous employer, the Guardian, the most left wing of British newspapers reported: “There are about 1,300 migrants in the northern French port. Most are from Eritrea or Somalia and are hoping to reach England rather than seeking asylum in France.”
Clearly Nishaat Ismail hasn’t done her research. Nor would we expect her to. You see Ms. Ismail, far from being the objective reporter she is presented as, the lovely Nishaat (I don't know whether she is lovely or not but I know the best ways to piss of left wing activists) has a track as one of a growing number of victimhood propagandists who have inflitrated the media, her social media pages littered with ARREST BENJAMIN NETANYAHU posts, links to Islamist-friendly blogs, questionable UK-based Muslim-run charities, and a recent obsession, it seems, with anti-extremism campaigner Maajid Nawaz of the Quilliam Foundation.

This latest distortion is typical of how they operate. Remember that three year old who was lifted dead from a Turkinh beach and how the left immediately portrayed that needless death as the result of heartless western xenophobes and racists who prevent governments from opening the doors of our nations to the three and a half billion third world poor who are 'entitled' to share our prosperity?

And do you remember how that tear jerking narrative was exposed as pure, unadulterated bollocks when it was reveald the kid's Dad was a people trafficker who took his son along on his latest smuggling run for the boat ride. Despite irrefutable evidence supporting that leftist activists and socialists still deny it was so. But then supporters of the left would not recognise truth if it ran up to them and pulled their pisser / ticked their tits (delete as appropriate)

Ms. Ismail, also wrote on the issue of electoral fraud in the London Borough Of Tower Hamlets. She used quote marks to refer to the guilty verdict passed down by a court, and wrote of the affair: The dismissal of Lutfur Rahman is a forewarning for aspiring Muslim politicians who want to have a voice independent of mainstream political parties. If they venture to challenge the status quo, they risk facing the same vilification and slander faced by Rahman and his colleagues.”

Again she excuses criminal acts (electoral fraud) by claiming racism and victimisation. Playing the 'victim' card as trumps is a noted way Islamist extremists recruit young people – making them feel targeted and oppressed by a country that has welcomed three million Muslims, many of whom have integrated, done well and have no problem with British traditions such as Christmas, dog ownership and bacon sandwiches.

She has shared articles about the now debunked “terrorist house” case, when a Muslim boy was falsely reported to have been targeted for a spelling error. She has excitedly shared articles claiming that Hillary Clinton is not pro-Israel.

Ms. Ismail boasts about her links to the Al Khair Foundation – a group that was set to host Salafist ideologue Dr. Zakir Naik, who claimed, according to the Independent itself, that “every Muslim should be a terrorist” and expressed support for Osama Bin Laden.

Hardly what one would call impartial and objective then. What is most disgusting however is that the precious meeja darlings who run the independent continue to give this person a platform from which to use lies in order to promote Islamic extremism.

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Obama Launching Massive Military Intervention In Libya And Iraq

US military personnel deploy in Libya

We were told back in 2008 that Barack Hussein Obama would become president and would be the peacemaker and joybringer would lead the would to a golden age of harmony and prosperity. That's not quite how it turned out of course, the foreign policy disasters, economic incompetence and social divisiveness have made him undisputed holder of the Worst President Ever title.

Back in 2008 some of us tried to warn you he was a neo con puppet (those who can search the dark web with immunity - and no, it's not all goat porn, for example I found Obama was backed by really nasty neo con world domination freaks). But you ignored our wise words and now, outside its own borders The USA is almost universally hated and universally mistrusted, the superpower that supports terrorists and stabs its allies in the back.

With a year of his presidency still to run it seems Obama has not had his fill of death and misery and fancies killiing a few million more third world peasants as Information Clearing House reports:

Almost five years after the United States and its NATO allies launched a campaign in Libya to overthrow Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, the United States is on the verge of massively escalating its military operations in the war-torn country. According to the New York Times, the new effort is “expected to include airstrikes and raids by elite American troops.” It is unclear how long this newest effort will last.

The announcement comes on the heels of U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter announcing combat troops were going back to Iraq last week. While U.S special forces have been conducting “clandestine reconnaissance missions in Libya to identify militant leaders and map out their networks” over the past year, the New York Times report marks the first time overt combat troops will be deployed in the North African nation.

The 2011 campaign was itself something of a bait and switch. What was originally sold as simply a no-fly zone quickly became regime change. A few weeks after the UN-sanctioned bombing of Libya’s infrastructure and air capacity, the scope of the campaign pivoted when President Obama, along with Presidents Sarkozy and Cameron of France and the UK respectively, announced the entirely new objective: NATO airstrikes, in concert with ongoing CIA support of rebels, to overthrow the Qaddafi government.

After this was quickly achieved, the pundit classes rallied to congratulate a job well done. As Glenn Greenwald at The Intercept noted Wednesday:

War advocates such as Anne-Marie Slaughter and Nicholas Kristof were writing columns celebrating their prescience and mocking war opponents as discredited, and the New York Times published a front-page article declaring: “U.S. Tactics in Libya May be a Model for Other Efforts.”

It was widely expected that Hillary Clinton, one of the leading advocates for and architects of the bombing campaign, would be regarded as a Foreign Policy Visionary for the grand Libya success: “We came, we saw, he died,” Clinton sociopathically boasted about the mob rape and murder of Qaddafi while guffawing on 60 Minutes.

Despite the fanfare at the “overthrow” of Qaddafi (who suffered a brutal death at the hands of a mob), not much has been made of the U.S. military’s slow escalation of its involvement in Libya over the past year. This time the objective, much like in Iraq after the U.S. deposed its leader, is destroying the presence of ISIS, a process that could take, in the words of former Defense Secretary Panetta, “thirty years.” And it's an escalation that has largely gone under the public's radar.

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War On Cash Gathers Momentum - Germany Unveils Cash Controls

by Ian R Thorpe

Money laubdering: big business or a sign of bankers' paranoia

On Monday (1 February, 2016) just two days ago, Bloomberg called on the central banks of the world to “bring on a cashless future” in an Op-Ed that calls notes and coins "dirty, dangerous, unwieldy, and expensive."

We can imagine it would be quite easy to harm someone by firing large coins at them from a gun and terrorists could probably stuff an improvised explosive device with small coins rather than nails or nuts and bolts. And if somebody tried hard enough they could probably choke on a bank note. But cash dirty? No more so than the hundreds of things we must touch in public areas in the course of our daily lives. Unwieldy? Not compared to the lead boxes we will have to carry to ensure our contactless cards don't debit our accounts every time we go near a suitable reader. And expensive? Not to us, we buy an item for £$€1 and that's exactly what we pay for it.

So like me and my colleagues, you probably never thought of your cash in any of those ways, but increasingly, authorities and the powers that be seem determined to lay the groundwork for the abolition of what Bloomberg calls “antiquated” physical money.

We’ve documented the cash ban calls and moves on a number of occasions including, most recently, the one from DNB, Norway’s largest bank where executive Trond Bentestuen complained that although "there is approximately 50 billion kroner in circulation, the Norges Bank (Norway's Central Bank) can only account for 40 percent of its use."

That mean, Bentestuen says, that 60 percent of money usage is outside of any control." "We believe," he continues, "that is due to under-the-table money and laundering." He really does have limited imagination if he seriously thinks that is all people use cash for.

DNB backed up its executive by claiming that after identifying “many dangers and disadvantages” associated with cash, the bank has concluded 'it should be phased out'.

On Tuesday we got more evidence that the thieving banks around the world are preparing to create a cashless “utopia” in which systems will be implemented to enable them to plunder our hard earned to cover the disasters their reckless gamblings incurs. German finance magizine Handelsblatt reported (in a piece called "The Death of Cash) that the Social Democrats - the junior partner in Angela Merkel’s coalition government - have proposed a €5,000 limit on cash transactions and the elimination of the €500 note.

“Limits on cash transactions would discourage foreign criminals from coming here to launder money,” says a study published by the Social Democrats. "If sums over €5,000 have to pass through traceable bank transactions, laundering would be severely hampered," it adds.

Today (3 Feb, 2016), we learned via the news feeds that German Deputy Finance Minister Michael Meister had confirmed the government's support for the idea when he told reporters that Germany is proposing a pan - European ban on cash transactions over €5,000 to combat terrorism financing and money laundering.

“Since money laundering and terrorism financing are cross-border threats,” it makes sense to adopt a bloc-wide “solution”, but “if a European solution isn’t possible, Germany will move ahead on its own,” he added. Really Herr Meister. Why not just close your borders and stop criminals entering the country.

This sudden outbreak of money laundering comes at a rather convenient time for policy makers in Europe. Interest base rates are already sitting at -0.30% and are likely to be cut by an additional 10bps (one hundredths of one per cent) in March. But that’s not likely to halt the disinflationary impulse. European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi isn’t anywhere close to his inflation target and efforts to stimulate European economies have been totally ineffective.

What is needed is a revival of consumer spending and the gradual phasing out of cash is seen as a way of stripping the public of its economic autonomy. At present Central banks can only control interest rates down to a certain "lower bound". Once negative rates are passed on to depositors - as Swiss and Japanese banks have already done, for different reasons - people will have to pull their money out of the banks and spend it rather than pay the banks for gambling with it. The more negative rates go, the faster those withdrawals will be.

Ban cash and this problem is eliminated. In a cashless society with a government-managed digital currency there is no effective lower limit. If the economy isn’t doing what bureaucrats want it to do, they can simply make interest rates deeply negative, forcing would-be savers to become consumers by making them choose between spending or watching as the bank simply confiscates their money in negative interest.

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