TPP, TISA and TTIP agreements are massive Corporate power grabs dressed up as trade deals.
Submitted by IWB, on September 23rd, 2016
by Ian Shilling
The TPP, TISA (and TTIP in Europe) agreements are massive Corporate power grabs dressed up as trade deals in order to get them passed by national assemblies without too much in the way of public protest.
Their primary purpose is to undermine National Sovereignty and enhance transnational Corporate rule.
They do this by transferring regulatory powers from elected National (and local) governments to transnational arbitration panels (ISDS) which are comprised of lawyers which will be appointed by the major Corporations that are writing the deals.
An example of how ISDS will work:-
As the legislature faces a large fine if it passes legislation to protect its citizens, it will be dissuaded from passing the legislation in the first place. So the citizens will be more at risk from all sorts of predation, exploitation and health hazards from large Corporations. This applies at the local, State and National levels.
The wording of the deals are being written by 600 Corporate lobbyists. The US trade delegation team has a heavy proportion of ex-senior employees of US big banks.
Only 5 of the 29 Chapters in TPP are about trade. The rest are about enhancing Corporate power and control and to enhance the profits of large multinational Corporations at the expense of over 99% of people.
They are a redistribution mechanism to transfer wealth and power from the 99% of ordinary people and voters to the CEO’s, boards and major owners of large, often multinational, Corporations.
A selection of other TPP articles and information are listed at the bottom of this article. Basically everyone, from both the left and the right, who isn’t in the pay of the big banks, large drugs companies, big oil and Monsanto etc. very strongly opposes these deals, because they are very bad news for over 99% of ordinary people.
These deals will only benefit the top 0.01% – the major owners and boards of large Corporations. They are dressed up as “free trade” deals in order to get them to pass. They will lose well paid jobs, increase unemployment, depress wages, increase poverty, increase pollution and jack up the price of prescription drugs. They basically screw both your health and your wealth.
People in the US who openly and strongly oppose these deals include Joseph Stiglitz, Robert Reich, Noam Chomsky, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Pat Buchanan and Paul Craig Roberts.
Robert Reich is very strongly against TPP https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SM8osDtyKt0
The purpose of Fast Track in the US, is a) to remove the Constitutional requirement for a two thirds majority (which is otherwise required for a treaty or international agreement) and b) to prevent any amendments to the deals being allowed or proposed. It becomes a simple up or down vote.
The reason for the draconian efforts to keep the texts of the deals a secret up until now without any meaningful public debate and the mainstream media effecting a cover up to keep the public in the dark, is to enable Fast Track to be passed without a riot on the streets. It won’t really matter after Fast Track is approved. The deals will get approved whatever (in the US).
Who are the Tories trying to fool about TTIP?
Geraint Davies (UK MP) “The harsh reality is that this deal is being stitched up behind closed doors by negotiators, with the influence of big corporations and the dark arts of corporate lawyers. They are stitching up rules that would be outside contract law and common law, and outside the shining light of democracy, to give powers to multinationals to sue Governments over laws that were designed to protect their citizens.”
Caroline Lucas (UK MP) pointed out in support of this that “the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Poland, who are in trade agreements that include this kind of investor-state relationship, have been sued 127 times and have lost an amount of money that could have employed 300,000 nurses for a year“.
Read more at:- http://voxpoliticalonline.com/2015/01/15/who-are-the-tories-trying-to-fool-about-ttip/
In addition to the above there are currently several disputes between US and Canadian oil and mining companies and National governments in South America over compensation to be paid for large scale pollution. (The companies don’t want to pay anything to clean up their mess.)
Almost all aspects of Corporate governance will be affected, e.g.
Banking regulations – The prevention of any new regulations or measures that are more effective in regulating the big banks. The big banks are currently effectively unregulated through Regulatory Capture – they effectively own the regulatory bodies. E.G. in the US both the SEC and CFTC are headed up by senior ex Goldman Sachs bankers.
The occasional minor share holder fine, which is far less than the profits which were made from the illegal activity, is occasionally issued to hoodwink the public that the big banks are being regulated by government. Fines are also used to punish smaller or foreign rivals to the US big banks. No board member ever goes to jail, although the boards encourage (and initiate at least some of) the illegal activities of market fixing, money laundering, mortgage fraud, consumer fraud etc. in order to maximize the profits for the bank and thus the bonus of the CEO and the value of their stock options / stock holdings. The current system actively encourages fraud by the banks – there are no real disincentives or effective punishments for wrong doing.
Ensure that the current private monopoly of money creation can never be taken away from the large private banks. See this:-
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1506/S00166/if-the-tpp-passes-banks-will-wield-awesome-power.htm
Big pharma, prescription drugs and medical treatments – Extend the length of patent protection to delay the introduction of generic drugs, thus greatly increasing the profits of Big Pharma at the expense of consumers (just about everyone). Making drugs more expensive is expected to kill millions of people in the third world and a fair few in the West through making medicine and treatment less affordable.
Undermine any national bodies that negotiate the prices of bulk purchase of drugs with Big Pharma. It would also affect which particular drugs these bodies decide to buy. E.G. there might be a less expensive, equally or even more effective treatment, from a non Big Pharma source – a small drugs company or a more natural treatment. Or Big Pharma might sue to get a very expensive (and thus highly profitable) drug approved which ends up helping far fewer people as other health spending is cut back due to budget and practical constraints. Big Pharma have and are developing several drugs that are expected to cost $100,000 per patient, per year. Who is Big Pharma expecting to be able to sell these drugs to (in any volume)? They must be expecting to have a large influence on e.g. National purchasing schemes and bodies.
Prevent competition to private hospitals and clinics. The private hospital could sue for “loss of profits” if a government built a new hospital near to a private one.
Environmental protections. E.G. whether fracking or other mining activities are allowed or not. The regulations surrounding pollution and the amount of compensation paid out for any pollution or other harm caused.
GMO Foods and the associated herbicides and pesticides used in their cultivation. The prevention of bans on growing GMO foods, or other crops, or bans or limitations on the types or amounts of herbicides or pesticides that the crops are specifically designed to be grown with. There has been a fairly recent report from the World Health Organization that glyphosate herbicides are a possible carcinogen which has resulted in some countries initiating measures to ban them. There also reports of other health hazards linked to these products, e.g. an increase in kidney disease or renal failure. Again the amount of compensation to be paid out in the event of harm from these products will be subject to control by the transnational tribunals.
The prevention of better food labeling, e.g. to show GMO ingredients.
Labor, Employment and Health and Safety Law. Corporations would be able to sue if governments brought in regulations to improve the lot of the workers.
Internet. Regulations to control access to content, or the priority and access speeds given to the content of large Corporations as opposed to smaller independent content suppliers. Regulations on where private, personal data is stored – e.g. to facilitate access to this data by the NSA (prevent measures to make it harder for the NSA to get this data). Etc.
Copyright law. Protect the profits of Hollywood.
The overall result will be to dissuade National or local governments from passing laws that protect their citizens from predation, exploitation or health hazards by large, often multinational, Corporations.
I’m pretty sure there are other things that I haven’t thought of, but that some smart Corporate lawyer will, to exploit the measures in these Corporate Protection deals.
The politicians have been bribed by their Corporate sponsors to pass these disastrous deals, which are against the interests of over 99% of their citizens.
Wages and Incomes
The TPP deal, in particular, is designed to suppress wages for ordinary people in order to increase Corporate profits and thus the incomes of the top 0.1%.
This is exactly the opposite direction to that required to fix the world economy.
The disproportionate share of income growth to the top 1%, and especially the top 0.1%, is a major part of the reason for the slow economic growth in the US and Europe since 2000.
TPP Trade Deal Will Cost US 448,000 Jobs, Say Tufts University Researchers
http://theantimedia.org/tpp-trade-deal-will-cost-us-4480000-jobs-say-researchers/
The effects of increasing Corporatism on average incomes since 1949
Wages and Corporate Profits
Average family income 2002 to 2012
The following link has more charts:-
The only winners out of TPP will be the top 0.1% and China
http://ian56.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-only-winners-out-of-tpp-will-be-top.html
Other Useful Articles
Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP): Job Loss, Lower Wages and Higher Drug Prices http://www.citizen.org/TPP
TPP: The Dirtiest Trade Deal You’ve Never Heard Of https://youtu.be/DnC1mqyAXmw
“The corporations have bribed the political leaders in every country to sign away their sovereignty and the general welfare of their people to private corporations. Corporations have paid US senators large sums for transferring Congress’ law-making powers to corporations.” – Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, former Assistant Secretary to US Treasury, former editor of the Wall Street Journal
Rule By the Corporations – TTIP: The Corporate Empowerment Act
http://www.unz.com/proberts/rule-by-the-corporations/
How Obama’s “Trade” Deals Are Designed To End Democracy
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2015/06/how-obamas-trade-deals-are-designed-to-end-democracy.html
ISDS denies equal access to justice
http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/judicial/244341-isds-denies-equal-access-to-justice
Leaked Text Shows Big Pharma Bullies Using TPP To Undermine Global Health
http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/06/10/leaked-text-shows-big-pharma-bullies-using-tpp-undermine-global-health?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=reddit&utm_source=news
TTIP: Here’s why MEPs have been protesting it, and why you should too
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/ttip-heres-why-meps-have-been-protesting-it-and-why-you-should-too-10313239.html
The TPP What You’re Not Being Told https://youtu.be/KnyPsKw_gak
Revealed Emails Show How Industry Lobbyists Basically Wrote The TPP
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150605/11483831239/revealed-emails-show-how-industry-lobbyists-basically-wrote-tpp.shtml
Forget the TPP – Wikileaks Releases Documents from the Equally Shady “Trade in Services Agreement or TISA
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2015/06/forget-the-tpp-wikileaks-releases-documents-from-the-equally-shady-trade-in-services-agreement-or-tisa.html
Julian Assange on the Trans-Pacific Partnership: Secretive Deal Isn’t About Trade, But Corporate Control
http://www.democracynow.org/2015/5/27/julian_assange_on_the_trans_pacific
10 Reasons Why You Should Oppose TPP and TTIP
http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/constitution/item/21010-10-reasons-why-you-should-oppose-obamatrade
TPP Power Grab: World Bank, Goldman Sachs and the CFR
http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/constitution/item/20589-tpp-power-grab-world-bank-goldman-sachs-cfr
Backlash Against TPP Grows as Leaked Text Reveals The Scam To Increase Drug Costs
http://www.democracynow.org/2015/6/11/backlash_against_tpp_grows_as_leaked
Joseph Stiglitz: Why ‘Fast Track’ Was Defeated Once — and Why That Was the Right Decision
http://www.rollcall.com/news/-242449-1.html?pg=1&dczone=emailalert
Robert Reich takes on the Trans Pacific Partnership
https://youtu.be/SM8osDtyKt0
Bernie Sanders statement on Fast Track and the TPP
http://www.sanders.senate.gov/download/the-trans-pacific-trade-tpp-agreement-must-be-defeated?inline=file
Independent economists: TPP will kill 450,000 US jobs; 75,000 Japanese jobs, 58,000 Canadian jobs
http://boingboing.net/2016/01/20/independent-economists-tpp-wi.html#more-444398
Japan’s Top-Economist outlines the massive problems with TPP, including loss of Sovereignty and transfer of power to large Corporations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0sxoQBUFz0&app=desktop
Go to Prison for File Sharing? That’s What Hollywood Wants in the Secret TPP Deal
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/02/go-prison-sharing-files-thats-what-hollywood-wants-secret-tpp-deal
Also see fairly recent comments made by Elizabeth Warren about the concerns she has with ISDS.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership clause everyone should oppose
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/kill-the-dispute-settlement-language-in-the-trans-pacific-partnership/2015/02/25/ec7705a2-bd1e-11e4-b274-e5209a3bc9a9_story.html
Elizabeth Warren fires back at Obama: Here’s what they’re really fighting about
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2015/05/11/elizabeth-warren-fires-back-at-obama-heres-what-theyre-really-fighting-about/
http://investmentwatchblog.com/tpp-tisa-and-ttip-agreements-are-massive-corporate-power-grabs-dressed-up-as-trade-deals/
Submitted by IWB, on September 23rd, 2016
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by Ian Shilling
The TPP, TISA (and TTIP in Europe) agreements are massive Corporate power grabs dressed up as trade deals in order to get them passed by national assemblies without too much in the way of public protest.
Their primary purpose is to undermine National Sovereignty and enhance transnational Corporate rule.
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xThey do this by transferring regulatory powers from elected National (and local) governments to transnational arbitration panels (ISDS) which are comprised of lawyers which will be appointed by the major Corporations that are writing the deals.
An example of how ISDS will work:-
As the legislature faces a large fine if it passes legislation to protect its citizens, it will be dissuaded from passing the legislation in the first place. So the citizens will be more at risk from all sorts of predation, exploitation and health hazards from large Corporations. This applies at the local, State and National levels.
The wording of the deals are being written by 600 Corporate lobbyists. The US trade delegation team has a heavy proportion of ex-senior employees of US big banks.
Only 5 of the 29 Chapters in TPP are about trade. The rest are about enhancing Corporate power and control and to enhance the profits of large multinational Corporations at the expense of over 99% of people.
They are a redistribution mechanism to transfer wealth and power from the 99% of ordinary people and voters to the CEO’s, boards and major owners of large, often multinational, Corporations.
A selection of other TPP articles and information are listed at the bottom of this article. Basically everyone, from both the left and the right, who isn’t in the pay of the big banks, large drugs companies, big oil and Monsanto etc. very strongly opposes these deals, because they are very bad news for over 99% of ordinary people.
These deals will only benefit the top 0.01% – the major owners and boards of large Corporations. They are dressed up as “free trade” deals in order to get them to pass. They will lose well paid jobs, increase unemployment, depress wages, increase poverty, increase pollution and jack up the price of prescription drugs. They basically screw both your health and your wealth.
People in the US who openly and strongly oppose these deals include Joseph Stiglitz, Robert Reich, Noam Chomsky, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Pat Buchanan and Paul Craig Roberts.
Robert Reich is very strongly against TPP https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SM8osDtyKt0
The purpose of Fast Track in the US, is a) to remove the Constitutional requirement for a two thirds majority (which is otherwise required for a treaty or international agreement) and b) to prevent any amendments to the deals being allowed or proposed. It becomes a simple up or down vote.
The reason for the draconian efforts to keep the texts of the deals a secret up until now without any meaningful public debate and the mainstream media effecting a cover up to keep the public in the dark, is to enable Fast Track to be passed without a riot on the streets. It won’t really matter after Fast Track is approved. The deals will get approved whatever (in the US).
Who are the Tories trying to fool about TTIP?
Geraint Davies (UK MP) “The harsh reality is that this deal is being stitched up behind closed doors by negotiators, with the influence of big corporations and the dark arts of corporate lawyers. They are stitching up rules that would be outside contract law and common law, and outside the shining light of democracy, to give powers to multinationals to sue Governments over laws that were designed to protect their citizens.”
Caroline Lucas (UK MP) pointed out in support of this that “the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Poland, who are in trade agreements that include this kind of investor-state relationship, have been sued 127 times and have lost an amount of money that could have employed 300,000 nurses for a year“.
Read more at:- http://voxpoliticalonline.com/2015/01/15/who-are-the-tories-trying-to-fool-about-ttip/
In addition to the above there are currently several disputes between US and Canadian oil and mining companies and National governments in South America over compensation to be paid for large scale pollution. (The companies don’t want to pay anything to clean up their mess.)
Almost all aspects of Corporate governance will be affected, e.g.
Banking regulations – The prevention of any new regulations or measures that are more effective in regulating the big banks. The big banks are currently effectively unregulated through Regulatory Capture – they effectively own the regulatory bodies. E.G. in the US both the SEC and CFTC are headed up by senior ex Goldman Sachs bankers.
The occasional minor share holder fine, which is far less than the profits which were made from the illegal activity, is occasionally issued to hoodwink the public that the big banks are being regulated by government. Fines are also used to punish smaller or foreign rivals to the US big banks. No board member ever goes to jail, although the boards encourage (and initiate at least some of) the illegal activities of market fixing, money laundering, mortgage fraud, consumer fraud etc. in order to maximize the profits for the bank and thus the bonus of the CEO and the value of their stock options / stock holdings. The current system actively encourages fraud by the banks – there are no real disincentives or effective punishments for wrong doing.
Ensure that the current private monopoly of money creation can never be taken away from the large private banks. See this:-
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1506/S00166/if-the-tpp-passes-banks-will-wield-awesome-power.htm
Big pharma, prescription drugs and medical treatments – Extend the length of patent protection to delay the introduction of generic drugs, thus greatly increasing the profits of Big Pharma at the expense of consumers (just about everyone). Making drugs more expensive is expected to kill millions of people in the third world and a fair few in the West through making medicine and treatment less affordable.
Undermine any national bodies that negotiate the prices of bulk purchase of drugs with Big Pharma. It would also affect which particular drugs these bodies decide to buy. E.G. there might be a less expensive, equally or even more effective treatment, from a non Big Pharma source – a small drugs company or a more natural treatment. Or Big Pharma might sue to get a very expensive (and thus highly profitable) drug approved which ends up helping far fewer people as other health spending is cut back due to budget and practical constraints. Big Pharma have and are developing several drugs that are expected to cost $100,000 per patient, per year. Who is Big Pharma expecting to be able to sell these drugs to (in any volume)? They must be expecting to have a large influence on e.g. National purchasing schemes and bodies.
Prevent competition to private hospitals and clinics. The private hospital could sue for “loss of profits” if a government built a new hospital near to a private one.
Environmental protections. E.G. whether fracking or other mining activities are allowed or not. The regulations surrounding pollution and the amount of compensation paid out for any pollution or other harm caused.
GMO Foods and the associated herbicides and pesticides used in their cultivation. The prevention of bans on growing GMO foods, or other crops, or bans or limitations on the types or amounts of herbicides or pesticides that the crops are specifically designed to be grown with. There has been a fairly recent report from the World Health Organization that glyphosate herbicides are a possible carcinogen which has resulted in some countries initiating measures to ban them. There also reports of other health hazards linked to these products, e.g. an increase in kidney disease or renal failure. Again the amount of compensation to be paid out in the event of harm from these products will be subject to control by the transnational tribunals.
The prevention of better food labeling, e.g. to show GMO ingredients.
Labor, Employment and Health and Safety Law. Corporations would be able to sue if governments brought in regulations to improve the lot of the workers.
Internet. Regulations to control access to content, or the priority and access speeds given to the content of large Corporations as opposed to smaller independent content suppliers. Regulations on where private, personal data is stored – e.g. to facilitate access to this data by the NSA (prevent measures to make it harder for the NSA to get this data). Etc.
The overall result will be to dissuade National or local governments from passing laws that protect their citizens from predation, exploitation or health hazards by large, often multinational, Corporations.
I’m pretty sure there are other things that I haven’t thought of, but that some smart Corporate lawyer will, to exploit the measures in these Corporate Protection deals.
The politicians have been bribed by their Corporate sponsors to pass these disastrous deals, which are against the interests of over 99% of their citizens.
Wages and Incomes
The TPP deal, in particular, is designed to suppress wages for ordinary people in order to increase Corporate profits and thus the incomes of the top 0.1%.
This is exactly the opposite direction to that required to fix the world economy.
The disproportionate share of income growth to the top 1%, and especially the top 0.1%, is a major part of the reason for the slow economic growth in the US and Europe since 2000.
TPP Trade Deal Will Cost US 448,000 Jobs, Say Tufts University Researchers
http://theantimedia.org/tpp-trade-deal-will-cost-us-4480000-jobs-say-researchers/
The effects of increasing Corporatism on average incomes since 1949
Wages and Corporate Profits
Average family income 2002 to 2012
The following link has more charts:-
The only winners out of TPP will be the top 0.1% and China
http://ian56.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-only-winners-out-of-tpp-will-be-top.html
Other Useful Articles
Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP): Job Loss, Lower Wages and Higher Drug Prices http://www.citizen.org/TPP
TPP: The Dirtiest Trade Deal You’ve Never Heard Of https://youtu.be/DnC1mqyAXmw
“The corporations have bribed the political leaders in every country to sign away their sovereignty and the general welfare of their people to private corporations. Corporations have paid US senators large sums for transferring Congress’ law-making powers to corporations.” – Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, former Assistant Secretary to US Treasury, former editor of the Wall Street Journal
Rule By the Corporations – TTIP: The Corporate Empowerment Act
http://www.unz.com/proberts/rule-by-the-corporations/
How Obama’s “Trade” Deals Are Designed To End Democracy
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2015/06/how-obamas-trade-deals-are-designed-to-end-democracy.html
ISDS denies equal access to justice
http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/judicial/244341-isds-denies-equal-access-to-justice
Leaked Text Shows Big Pharma Bullies Using TPP To Undermine Global Health
http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/06/10/leaked-text-shows-big-pharma-bullies-using-tpp-undermine-global-health?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=reddit&utm_source=news
TTIP: Here’s why MEPs have been protesting it, and why you should too
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/ttip-heres-why-meps-have-been-protesting-it-and-why-you-should-too-10313239.html
The TPP What You’re Not Being Told https://youtu.be/KnyPsKw_gak
Revealed Emails Show How Industry Lobbyists Basically Wrote The TPP
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150605/11483831239/revealed-emails-show-how-industry-lobbyists-basically-wrote-tpp.shtml
Forget the TPP – Wikileaks Releases Documents from the Equally Shady “Trade in Services Agreement or TISA
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2015/06/forget-the-tpp-wikileaks-releases-documents-from-the-equally-shady-trade-in-services-agreement-or-tisa.html
Julian Assange on the Trans-Pacific Partnership: Secretive Deal Isn’t About Trade, But Corporate Control
http://www.democracynow.org/2015/5/27/julian_assange_on_the_trans_pacific
10 Reasons Why You Should Oppose TPP and TTIP
http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/constitution/item/21010-10-reasons-why-you-should-oppose-obamatrade
TPP Power Grab: World Bank, Goldman Sachs and the CFR
http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/constitution/item/20589-tpp-power-grab-world-bank-goldman-sachs-cfr
Backlash Against TPP Grows as Leaked Text Reveals The Scam To Increase Drug Costs
http://www.democracynow.org/2015/6/11/backlash_against_tpp_grows_as_leaked
Joseph Stiglitz: Why ‘Fast Track’ Was Defeated Once — and Why That Was the Right Decision
http://www.rollcall.com/news/-242449-1.html?pg=1&dczone=emailalert
Robert Reich takes on the Trans Pacific Partnership
https://youtu.be/SM8osDtyKt0
Bernie Sanders statement on Fast Track and the TPP
http://www.sanders.senate.gov/download/the-trans-pacific-trade-tpp-agreement-must-be-defeated?inline=file
Independent economists: TPP will kill 450,000 US jobs; 75,000 Japanese jobs, 58,000 Canadian jobs
http://boingboing.net/2016/01/20/independent-economists-tpp-wi.html#more-444398
Japan’s Top-Economist outlines the massive problems with TPP, including loss of Sovereignty and transfer of power to large Corporations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0sxoQBUFz0&app=desktop
Go to Prison for File Sharing? That’s What Hollywood Wants in the Secret TPP Deal
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/02/go-prison-sharing-files-thats-what-hollywood-wants-secret-tpp-deal
Also see fairly recent comments made by Elizabeth Warren about the concerns she has with ISDS.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership clause everyone should oppose
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/kill-the-dispute-settlement-language-in-the-trans-pacific-partnership/2015/02/25/ec7705a2-bd1e-11e4-b274-e5209a3bc9a9_story.html
Elizabeth Warren fires back at Obama: Here’s what they’re really fighting about
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2015/05/11/elizabeth-warren-fires-back-at-obama-heres-what-theyre-really-fighting-about/
http://investmentwatchblog.com/tpp-tisa-and-ttip-agreements-are-massive-corporate-power-grabs-dressed-up-as-trade-deals/
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» Parliamentary Finance: Baghdad will continue to send salaries to the region’s employees until settle
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» A parliamentarian describes the corruption of Iraqi ports as “ghouls” and reveals the involvement of
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» Obelisk Hour: Basra is the subject of political conflict and ambiguity over the fate of the funds al
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» Turkmen leader: An agreement on the local government of Kirkuk is near
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» Anbar calls for the operation of its factories despite financial obstacles
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» Turki: The crisis of the Presidency of Parliament prompted the Sunnis to amend the Council’s interna
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» The Agriculture Committee confirms the existence of Iraqi-Turkish-Iranian discussions on water
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» Resources diagnose the challenges facing the water file in Iraq
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» Parliament pledges to the Interior Ministry: We will transfer money to buy weapons from citizens
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» Al-Issawi is the closest.. Parliament sets the date for deciding the choice of the new president
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» Deputy: Iraq's investments have risen and need a comprehensive review of previous years
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» Iraqis consume 7 billion eggs annually and import about $900 million
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» The Iranian role complicates attempts at open cooperation between Iraq and Turkey. Turkey is trying
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» Move in Iran to obtain $242 billion from Iraq in compensation for the eight-year war
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» 12 decisions from the Council of Ministers regarding the Baghdad Metro and Najaf-Karbala train proje
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» Sudanese Advisor: The path to development has begun... the Baka and the militias “we silence them wi
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» Not from Kurdistan.. How did Iraq become a source of oil for “Israeli tanks”?
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» Parliamentary Agriculture criticizes the Sudanese and Erdogan agreement: Türkiye will control water
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» The Iraqi government issues new decisions
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» The story of “reduced oil” to Jordan, from “compulsion” to mutual benefit.. Is there a loss?
Yesterday at 2:33 pm by Rocky
» The Council of Ministers takes 12 decisions for the Baghdad Metro and the Najaf-Karbala train
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» utube MM&C 4/23/24 Iraqi Dinar - IQD Update - Development Road Project - Saviour of Global Banking
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» Kidney from pig transplanted into deathly ill New Jersey woman — and begins working almost immediat
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» The most difficult option.. Warnings of the danger of floating the Iraqi dinar without achieving an
Yesterday at 9:48 am by Rocky
» Trade from the “Economic Committee” with Türkiye: It will overcome all obstacles facing the traders
Yesterday at 9:46 am by Rocky
» Washington's hope for stable relations with Baghdad clashes with Iraqi parties' rejection of the Ame
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» Karim Badr: Development is America’s will to kill silk
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» Oil: Opening of a new port for liquid gas for vehicles in Baghdad
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» A media advisor warns of corruption in a draft law on the Parliament’s agenda
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» Economist: There is serious work to lift US sanctions on Iraqi banks
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» Will the agreements signed with the US Treasury reflect positively on the exchange rates?
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» Iraq continues its quest to join the World Trade Organization
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» Iraq completes the completion of the files for the initial offer of goods and services to join the W
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» Economist: Travelers' dollars are leaking into the parallel market...and this is what the Central Ba
Yesterday at 7:32 am by Rocky
» President of the Federal Court: It is not permissible to force anyone to join any party, and the pol
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» The Council of Ministers holds its session headed by Al-Sudani
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» America weakens Baghdad...and increases Kurdistan's military capabilities
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» The Iraqi government plans to build 10,000 schools throughout the country
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» American threats close the Iraqi Stock Exchange at a loss
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» Increase in external transfers at the Central Bank
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» Al-Maliki calls on Britain to cancel restrictions on the entry of its companies into Iraq
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» Planning and the European Union are discussing signing a number of agreements in the development, en
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» Parliament talks about the mechanism for recovering smuggled funds and hints at the next stage
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» Interior Ministry: The number of completed national cards reached 37 million cards
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» Amnesty International: Violations of freedom and human rights continue in Iraq and the Kurdistan Reg
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» Parliamentary Oil: The government is proceeding with the decision to raise the price of improved gas
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» A parliamentary committee in Basra to investigate violations of the port company and the local gover
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» Revealing the 10 most important American exports to Iraq
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» A noticeable increase in the rate of Iraq's import of Chinese cooling devices
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» Prime Minister: Working on projects without completing the infrastructure is a waste of money
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» Iraq.. Extending the deadline for registration procedures on plots of land
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» What is the main purpose of conducting the population census in Iraq?
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» A plan to transform Iraq from a barren land to green with 5 million trees
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» The Housing Fund announces the acceptance of more than 11 thousand loans through the Ur platform
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» The Bank of Baghdad is moving to increase its capital to 400 billion dinars
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» The electronic payment system will soon be adopted on Iraqi buses
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» “It threatens our interests and destroys our economy.” An Iraqi project “irritates” the Kuwaiti stre
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» Warning from the Central Bank about “misuse of electronic payment cards”
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» Iraq and the Sultanate of Oman are discussing sending capacities through the Gulf countries
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» The fact that a decision was issued to deport Syrian workers from Iraq
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» Rice comes first... America exports 10 foodstuffs worth more than 350 million dollars to Iraq
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» A sixth licensing round for gas exploration
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» Baghdad is preparing to host the 50th session of the Arab Labor Conference
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» Scientific symposium on the future vision of the tripartite budget
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» Five conversion power stations enter service in Najaf
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» Planning: Conduct a population census next November
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» Experts: Spreading misleading information harms development and investment
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» Economists call for tightening money laundering laws and port controls
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» Today's newspapers are interested in Sudanese's visit to Anbar Governorate and preparations for cond
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» Iraq and Russia discuss cooperation between the two countries in the field of information and artifi
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