Dear friends,
Very little is really known about the inner workings of the US-EU relationship and the corporate media only serves us the official and completely meaningless propaganda line. During the war in Korea, General MacArthur’s insane threats to use nuclear weapons did trigger something of an European revolt (unlike the US, Europe was well within reach of Soviet bombers, including those with nuclear weapons). Could the absolute insanity of what is taking place in the Ukraine also trigger a European awakening? Could the European elites ever find it in themselves to stand up to the almighty Uncle Sam?
Check out the short article below which, I think, is an amazing illustration of the real nature of the US-EU relationship.
This article was translated from French into English by the same wonderful people who are the editors of vineyardsaker.fr, the French-language “mirror+” (“plus” because it has more than just translations of what is posted here). To them, yet again, I owe a big “merci les amis!”.
Kind regards,
The Saker
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The following information refers to the way in which the TTIP (Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership) is being negotiated between Brussels and Washington. We use the term “Brussels” because indeed, it is being negotiated between the European Commission and the United States, not between the member states and the United States. The latter is currently imposing a non-disclosure of the proposition negotiations to the member states, under the pretense that the federal government of the United States does not disclose the European propositions to the individual governments of its federated states.
The only way by which the European Commission has shared these propositions with its member states has been inacceptable: through “documents reserve rooms” where individuals can consult the American files, on the payment of a fee and within a strict set of regulations: no copying, photography, or writing instruments are allowed in the room. Only two individuals are allowed in the reserve room at once, and for a limited time.
Under these conditions, the administrative services of the member states will not have the capacity to analyze the American proposition: despite a maximum capacity to “screen” the information made available, one administration at a time, too many of the weak links will remain overlooked: no one is immune from missing the important lines, placed where they are least expected it or purposefully hidden, which may produce serious risks for either our exportation practices, or in terms of importation.
Up to now it was assumed that, even if individual citizens could not participate in the negotiation processes, the interests of each member state would be defended through the analytical work of each ministry on their particular register of issues. The rigidity of the US on the question of confidentiality leaves all decision taking to the European Commission; when one looks upon the results on display in Canada, it’s very concerning.
Besides, the operative argument shows that the United States have not understood the structure of the European Union: how can we negotiate under such conditions, when they are projecting their institutional reality upon us?
We need to alert the general public about these procedures of negotiations, which are much more serious than the non-communication of the mandate (which was negotiated by the member states after an analysis by the services of each state).
Europeans have no idea to what extent they are being colonized, in the strict sense of the word, by the United States. This information should be disseminated as broadly as possible, as it is eye-opening. Even if it is probably already too late…
Jean-Paul Baquiast
www.europesolidaire.eu
Many thanks again to vineyardsaker.fr — what a truly terrific job they’re doing!
This news, however, is not surprising: our gloves are off. But it reminds me of nothing so much as the very similar and equally outrageous terms John McCain offered the media in 2008 when he finally agreed to provide not his complete medical records, as had previously been the case, but “some” information regarding his multiple surgeries for that melanoma on his face. There was no time to scrutinize, reflect, do additional research, discuss or ask questions.
How can *anyone* negotiate *anything* under conditions like this? If the self-important satraps sitting in Brussels agree to these terms, much less whatever is presented, they truly are supine protoplasmic invertebrate jellies — but I’d only use the word “great” in reference to them if it were followed by the word “fools”. Well, okay, “whores” (no offense to sex workers). Wonder what the going rate is for an EU “diplomat”.
Errr… It get’s “better” if that’s possible. Behold TISA in all it’s glory (via Bill Black’s analysis):
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/06/obama-latest-betrayal-tisa.html
Actually, this is a great idea. This will actually hasten the collapse of the US Empire & the EU. :)
Meezer
Within the contracts will be lines that specify the trade between the US and the Eu countries (and probably between EU countries) will be in $US. It s all about ensuring a market for the US dollar.
The Bankers have faced the fact that Russia and China will not be using $US so Ukraine is about isolating Russia and China’s trade from the rest of the world and forcing the rest of the world to use the $US
Once (and if) they achieve that, the bankers will again turn their attention on Russia and China again.
Pepe Escobar’s descriptor, “Empire of Chaos” is quite apt. Putin’s Eurasia project and China’s New Silk Road project provide the only feasible future for the western Eurasian peninsula’ nations. The Outlaw Empire of Chaos is a financial black hole, wholly unprepared for future reality. The dollar will eventually fall, and those nations reliant upon it will be destabilized. All developments must be seen against the backdrop of an ever warming planet and its acidifying oceans. Who has a realistic vision for 2100?
Dearest NORA,
It is a melting pot. No longer cultures such as German, French… are required. All slaves should look alike.
Best regards,
Mohamed
The KGB and the NKVD were once formidable protectors of Russia and deadly enemies to the Empire of Mammon. If the Russian Intelligence services are not a completely corrupt, broken down and ineffectual institution, (and I’m not suggesting they are, I simply know nothing about them) they might well serve the interests of Europe, the best interests of the American people and the people of the world, by acquiring details of these odious “free trade” treaties and making them public – through Wiki-Leaks or through the agency of some other organization. These are trade negotiations NOT STATE SECRETS, even if the corrupt, amoral, disgraceful servants of the oligarchs who rule the EU and the US, treat them as such. The lousy, maggoty, rotten institutions of global Finance Capital are behind every evil of the empire – from Ukraine to Palestine to Columbia to Tibet. Democracy hating Finance Capital, ruling from Wal Street, London and Brussels will, in all likelihood, blow up the planet if they are not brought down. Russia should put more effort into fighting this aysmetrical “information war”. Russia could help establish support and protect a new Wikileaks – like organization. The Russian people may be mans last best hope of avoiding armegeddon. Russian Oligarchs are selfishly doing their best to find accommodation with the evil empire, to protect their personal wealth and degenerate existence. Russian political leadership, while it has been pretty good in the Putin era, must decide if its going to fight for an independent Russian future, or submit to being a feudal vassal of the filthy kingdom of wal street. The filthy kingdom of wal street will only accept unconditional surrender. There is no negotiating with them except with the back of the hand.
@ Nora @ 04:06
These “free trade” agreements are kept from the people (even the basically crooked and spineless political people) because if even a few of the details got out their would be a mass public outrage and revolt against them. The whole neoliberal concept of “free trade” is an Orwellian named plutocratic racket. But then, what ISNT these days.
How do you say grab your ankles in Euro tongue?
This the Hegemon. No Americans understand the Tyrant that has become their government.
The Elites of finance and banking and some corporations that succor at deficit budget debt creation are running the World.
Sheep, not people everywhere.
La Unione Europea è una sovra-struttura artificiale non creata e non voluta dai Popoli Europei che se la sono trovata imposta per legge.
Il Parlamento Europeo non serve a nulla e non legifera quasi nulla di importante.Decide tutto una Commissione di NON eletti dai Popoli ma da Elite oscure innominabili.
Se si dovesse tenere un Referendum per la permanenza o meno dei Paesi membri nella UE,sicuramente vincerebbe l’idea di andarsene da questa Unione che ha portato solo miseria disordine disoccupazione.
In Italia la gente non vuole in maggioranza questa UE, vorremmo fare il Referendum ma la legge Europea lo proibisce. Ma vedrete che lo faremo comunque specialmente se la UE sarà allargata a Ucraina Moldovia,Romania, Albania, tutti Paesi poveri e disperati che tirerebbero ancor più giù l’economia e la qualità di vita Europea. Un saluto al Saker
Further consolidating the power of banksters in the west.
Well here is a prediction: the TTIP is NOT going to be approved. Maybe the EU bureaucrats will sign off on it but the national governments will not. Articles like this one are being read across the continent. No way that governments like Germany or France would agree.
This is one way to deal with zionazi multinational monopolies:
Russia to Swap Intel-AMD Processors For Local Technology
http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2014/06/russia-to-swap-intel-amd-processors-for.html
“…Long has it been reported that US-manufactured processors may have vulnerabilities engineered into them, at the request of US intelligence agencies including the National Security Agency (NSA). Australia’s Financial Review revealed in 2013 in an article titled, “Intel chips could let US spies inside: expert,” that:
‘One of Silicon Valley’s most respected technology experts, Steve Blank, says he would be “surprised” if the US National Security Agency was not embedding “back doors” inside chips produced by Intel and AMD, two of the world’s largest semiconductor firms, giving them the possibility to access and control machines.
The claims come after The Australian Financial Review revealed that computers made by Chinese firm Lenovo are banned from the “secret” and “top secret” networks of the intelligence and defence services of Australia, the US, Britain, Canada and New Zealand because of concerns they are vulnerable to being hacked.
Internationally renowned security research engineer Jonathan Brossard, who unveiled what Forbesdescribed as an “undetectable and incurable” permanent back door at last year’s prestigious Black Hat conference, told the Financial Review that he had independently concluded that CPU back doors are “attractive attack vectors”.
If correct, the allegations would raise the stakes in a growing cyber cold war, and fuel claims that US snooping leaves the Chinese in the shade.’
The move by Russia would help protect government assets from foreign spying and cyber attacks enabled by the potential vulnerabilities described in the Financial Review. And because of the large scale of production that will be needed to supply the Russian government’s annual demand, the possibility of Russian-made processors being used outside of state agencies and firms could help secure Russia’s wider national IT infrastructure as well…”
And as Cartalucci writes in that piece, switching to local production of necessary items is desired to break the hold of the fascist NWO parasites.
Big Agri’s GMO “Super Bananas for Brown People”
http://localorg.blogspot.com/2014/06/big-agris-super-bananas-for-brown-people.html
“Much of the starvation and malnutrition across the so-called “developing” or “third” world, is due to the unmitigated, global campaign of human exploitation driven by globalization. The Walmarts and Tescos of the world line their shelves with goods cultivated, manufactured, and otherwise sourced from millions of people living under unhealthy, inhumane conditions up to and including literal slavery across the third world. This system of global interdependency, lorded over by Wall Street and London corporate-financier monopolies, doesn’t just coincidentally allow such conditions to exist, but is built on this perpetual and ever expanding socioeconomic disparity.
Clearly the solution to solving destitution that leads to malnutrition and starvation is addressing the socioeconomic disparity that created it in the first place, but the monopolies that benefit from this disparity the most are in no way about to do so. Instead, their proposal is to feed the third world with genetically modified gruel to make up for the fact that poor populations cannot access a normal, balanced diet. This “GMO gruel” not only allows big-agricultural monopolies to expand their markets under the guise of “charity,” but allows them to monopolize a greater portion of the world’s food supply. By hooking the third world on “GMO gruel” that will be patented, centrally controlled, and beyond the means of local populations to reproduce independently, the very perpetrators of global disparity will only tighten their grip on humanity tighter still.
From “Golden Rice” to “Super Bananas,” this GMO gruel represents the very worst of a long history of inhuman, racist imperialism. It is essentially corporate-financiers handing out “Super Bananas for Brown People.”
The same propaganda networks focused on keeping consumers globally ignorant about what is in their food through anti-GMO labeling campaigns, are pushing poisoned, monopolizing GMO schemes like “Golden Rice” and “Super Bananas,” disguised as “socially conscious” biotech “charity.” But GMO gruel for the most destitute of society is not an answer. At best, it is a cheap publicity stunt designed to push GMO into new markets while painting opponents of big-agri multinationals as “promoting starvation.” At worst it is a sovereignty usurping assault on a global, national, local, and even personal level. Either way, it should be wholly condemned and rejected.
The Real Solution
The real and most obvious solution is not peddling GMO gruel to the impoverished to make up for the fact that they don’t have access to a normal diet, but to give them access to a normal diet in the first place. This is done with first stabilizing the geopolitical chaos that creates and perpetuates socioeconomic injustice. This must be done by exposing and foiling the West’s various hegemonic geopolitical campaigns in Africa, South America, Asia, and even Eastern Europe…”
The dear and good Saker said
Could the absolute insanity of what is taking place in the Ukraine also trigger a European awakening?
No Sir. The satanitsts have been organising anti-humanity since Adam tried to blame Eve.
Any European catamite who dares disobey the secret societies that accorded his brilliant political career can be murdered or terminally libelled—and with fortified media compliance—and everyone who is anyone knows this.
Where are the convictions of the publicly observable JFK or 9/11 criminals?
Conceivably committee directed business interests can rebel, and this is our only viable hope—apart from emergent, destined and holy Russia.
I came to hear this morning 3 unconfirmed news well anyway concerning the field they generally are.
1/ Slaviansk seps are supposedly attacking a factory outside slaviansk with tank support.
2/ In Donetsk seps attacked an Ukie Interior Gov Base yesterday at night, and seem to have take it
3/ Seps are attacking Artemivsk tank depot again, with heavy support this time.
Words have resonance.
How can you have a “negotiation” when both parties are effectively the same – given the mutality of interest.
http://www.voltairenet.org/article184422.html
It is rumoured that the assassination attempt by Bastien Thierry and others on De Gaulle was associated with Gladio.
It is established that so called “aid” under the auspices of the EU TACIS programme to Russia was a source of commercial and strategic intelligence to finance capital and state organisations.
Got some news from an Arménian friend of mine 2 days ago.
“… I must have heard thousands of times -West raised the stakes-
I dont know if you realize how shitty that sounds, makes them westerners look like prick who needs jsut one thing, a slap in the face.
BRIC’S countries, which will count as many as 4 of 6 top Economic powers in a decade or two, are siding with Putin along with most of Asia, South America, Africa, even Israel refused to condemn Russia regarding Crimea.
What everybody calls “everyone condemnd” is only US and EUUS lackeys, who are becoming more and more isolated on the world Stage.
Instead of rephrasiang the same old “Cold Soup” western media should present us the real problems:
As long as NATO will exist and try to expand east, problems shall happen. NATO should have logically been disbanded in 91.
Eurasia would be at peace.
Europe and Russia would develop mutually profitable trade with Ukraine as a bridge.
Problem is that a peaceful Eurasia is the real nightmare of American Geopolitiks.
You just have to read Spykman or Mackinder who founded US strategic views, continued today by Neocons thinktanks, Brzezinski…
Jeez they dont even try to hide it, they even write it:
A peaceful Eurasia would marginalize US (Old opposition between Sea and Earth powers (Athena VS Sparta, England VS Napoleon and now US VS Eurasia))
Their goal is simple, divide Eurasia, cut EU from Russia, and circle Russia.
For those interested it is far away from impossible that the next country on the list of west turmoil and destabilisation list is Armenia who ask to join Eurasian Union lately.
Apparently US and Poland Ambassadors are frequently taking contact with oppositions that has only one goal, attempt a coup on the lawfully, democratically and pro Russian elected gov.
PS: traduced from french so please be nice.
War Bonds
http://en.ria.ru/world/20140416/189240342/Ukraine-to-Issue-Two-Year-War-Bonds.html
MOSCOW, April 16 (RIA Novosti) – Ukraine’s Ministry of Finance will issue two-year war bonds worth a total of 1.1 billion hryvnia, stated the Decision of the Cabinet of Ministers No. 100-101 dated April 1 and released only this week.
“This proposal is a call to the community to join forces, desires and intentions to participate in the solution of national problems and to provide financial assistance to Ukraine’s armed forces enhancing their combat readiness and strengthening the defense of the state,” announced the Ministry of Finance prior to the release of government securities.
The securities mentioned in the document are book-entry war bonds with a 7% coupon for a total of 1 billion hryvnia, and certificated treasury bonds with a face value of 100 million hryvnia. The yield on each security with a face value of 1,000 hryvnia will be paid every 6 months.
Ukraine has been in serious financial trouble since February. With extremely high arrears for Russian gas and a military that needs funding Kiev has struggled to make both ends meet.
Kiev cannot raise funds independently as it is in a stand-by agreement with IMF to receive rescue money. The only alternative left for the interim government is to appeal to patriotism and issue the so-called war bonds, with yields exempt from tax, should the government not default before the first payment is due.
clausneghe,
Omigosh! It just hit me: the inclusion of all those poorer countries is precisely *because* it will drag down the rest! Providing more cannon-fodder for NATO (etc.) is a correlated side-effect of course. But does Uncle Sam want a dependent impoverished Europe? Why yes, yes he does.
ooooooo
Anonymous 05:44,
YES. But keeping the terms secret isn’t so much to protect the deal, I don’t think, it’s to provide the relevant pols with plausible deniability. Who here didn’t see the end coming when Clinton pushed through NAFTA?
Saker,
вот так has the URL for the Land Destroyer piece I was referring to regarding safety from backdoor NSA spying.
вот так,
Yes, absolutely, re: GM foods — almost all US corn (maize) is now contaminated and turning out to be badder and badder for you. But sometimes the gods are kind: that highly-touted, unnecessarily-vitamin-laced monopolistic-monocrop-monstrosity “Golden Rice” is almost literally big hat/little ranch. I.e., they hyped it and hyped it and hyped it, but never did get around to making it. Because. They. Couldn’t.
Otoh, enjoy your Cavendish bananas while you can because they’re a monocrop too — and some disease or other is killing ’em dead. Which wouldn’t be too awful but last I read, there’s not much of a replacement available. Otoh, for Americans at least, Chiquita Banana is the “new” name for United Fruit. Google Jacobo Arbenz if that doesn’t ring a (very loud) bell.
See this:
http://mondediplo.com/2013/12/02tafta
The corporation invasion
A new treaty being negotiated in secret between the US and the EU has been specifically engineered to give companies what they want — the dismantling of all social, consumer and environmental protection, and compensation for any infringement of their assumed rights.
by Lori M Wallach
Imagine what would happen if foreign companies could sue governments directly for cash compensation over earnings lost because of strict labour or environmental legislation. This may sound far-fetched, but it was a provision of the Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI), a projected treaty negotiated in secret between 1995 and 1997 by the then 29 member states of the OECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development) (1). News about it got out just in time, causing an unprecedented wave of protests and derailing negotiations.
Now the agenda is back. Since July the European Union and the United States have been negotiating the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) […]
Full article:
http://mondediplo.com/2013/12/02tafta
Ukraine signs historic EU deal that sparked months of upheaval
http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/27/world/europe/ukraine-crisis/
Dear Mr. Saker {and readers)
Although i eschew the “Christianity”
of this most Excellent prophetic voice, let me tell you-my maternal grandpa (Papa- a Cossack AND a Jew) til his death deFENDED Mother Russia. He had been an officer for the Tsar, and as one who could read and WRITE, he was allowed safe passage by his mates to come to America. Yet he ALWAYS defended his home, and when “Glasnost” came was one of the first to return. I grew up with a “Sputnik” memoriam that Papa brought back from Russia (at that time the U.S.S.R.)I say this only to say this: Though on the other “side” my folks are Lituvian- God BLESS Russia and may we all find the deep PEACE and familiarity that my grandfather used to speak of-and Mr. Saker, God (as you may well assume, as an old unreconstructed believer in Humanity i don’t USE this phrase) bless you and ALL those who contribute.
That is it, no axe to grind.We are here, and thankfully those of us in the “West” (there IS no “Northern” or “Southern” Ancestor-to quote the Great Eastern Us/Gautama)have you to turn to. I DO feel, though…my blood beginning to boil.At the Folly of the “West”.A foolish term for a stupid bunch.May we ALL live in Peace, and thsnk you
Yojimbo
On ethnic cleansing planned by Kiev, violating Rome treaty etc., see
http://www.voltairenet.org/article184430.html
On these trade deals including Tipsa. If, as some readers say, they will not be ratified, it makes no difference. Like the EU referendums, if they fail once, you just go thru the motion again with even bigger bucks to back the outcome the banksters want. Btw, Italy has had three governments that were never elected (Monti, Letta, Renzi), so in a certain sense Kiev is more democratic than Italy, n’est-ce pas?
http://www.rebelion.org/imagenes/p_27_06_2014.jpg
Caption says:
“Surprise present, courtesy of our unelected European leaders!”
“Consider the results on display in Canada.”
Yes, very astute observation. Under NAFTA we are obliged to sell our natural resources to USA and several times our attempts at environmental regulation have been overturned as “restraint of trade.”
I am glad some at least in Europe are paying attention. I don’t understand why the European politicians can’t grow a pair and resist American bullying tactics though.
We all see how Russia is demonized in MSM. But how does it really work? How is western media so synchronized? From Guardian to CNN it is all the same. How does this technology work?
> Could the European elites ever find it in themselves to stand up to the almighty Uncle Sam?
… possibly. But if it happens, don’t expect it to be anything positive, let alone liberating for the peoples of the soon 30+ EU countries. Monarchists and old aristocratic clans are once again rearing their ugly heads in a number of European republics. Opus Dei and the moneyed elites are quietly but efficiently colluding in the subversion of what remains of secular and socially liberal government policies, aiming to revert any progress the enlightenment and the labour movements of the early 20th century have brought us. Nazis are marching and murdering (!) all over the place these days and nowhere are they seriously challenged by the vast and very capable security apparatuses of our ‘modern democracies’ while the harmless and rather silly occupy movement was crushed with utmost brutality. Pathological anti-communists and slavophobes dominate the Council of Europe and some EU countries have introduced ideologically motivated legislation that flies in the face of the UN declaration of human rights and even the countries’ own constitutions (e.g. wearing a Che Guevara t-shirt in Poland can land you behind bars for up to 2 years). And as if all of that wasn’t bad enough, the EU itself, with its 9 monarchies, its principalities, its state churches and the Vatican is a thoroughly backward and rotten construct which was never intended to be democratic and is, as practiced today, purposefully anti-democratic. In comparison to the EU, the USA are constitutionally a beacon of enlightened modernity and democracy … which goes to show what damage economical, cultural, ethical and mental corruption can do.
No, I think we have to start all over again …
There is no substantive opposition to to the TPP or any other top down policy imposed on Europeans. This article only proves how feable the opposition is.
Also, absolving the EU of it’s criminal role in initiating a coup in Ukraine is, quite frankly, pathetic. The fact is that the EU’s expansionist greed is a huge factor in the planned mass murders resulting from instigated internecine wars committed in Yugoslavia and now Ukraine.
Note: the big 3 EU powers never want to take a Slavic country intact, they first ‘balkanize’ and break up these countries in smaller pieces. Why? To make sure that no Slavic entity in the EU has any substantive say in EU affairs; i.e. to ensure that control of EU stays in the hands of Germans, French and Brits. The EU does want another Poland (A concession forced upon them by the US – one is quite enough) Small countries in the EU are satrapies; they supply the EU with the economic and geopolitical benefits it desires without getting any political say.
Ukraine is to be cut up into 3-4 manageable pieces before it is annexed into the EU (that’s their intention). In addition they will use Galicia to destabilize/weaken Poland to cut it down in size or permanently politically fractionalize it (again so that they stay subservient to the big 3). Polish leadership has repeatedly proven itself to be incredibly stupid: They idiotically keep repeating the same mistake of trusting the same people that have a proven track record of using them then betraying them.
The same fate awaits Turkey (if by some miracle the closet Nazis of Brussels decide to let a cohesive block of Muslims into the EU – one cannot discount this since EU expansionist greed is pathalogical); Turkey will also be torn apart into more digestible pieces and then swallowed.
Western Europe is not an innocent party in this latest planned war crime in Ukraine.
Thank you, TheKrauzerll at 10:04. You remind us that the media propaganda is intrusive and artificial. I find it far better for my own health to avoid television news entirely, radio also. The mind automatically sets up to argue with oppositional garbage, and one has to protect oneself while trying to stay apprised of what is happening.
The comments that come from outside the bubble like yours on this forum are enormously helpful.
TTIP – Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership and TPP Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) are the same.
Know far more than an average person on the streets since WikiLeaks exposed it, kept over 70 bookmarks for quick references.
Too complex to explain, weblink below will explain. Watch and pay careful attention on the players, Investor-state arbitration and most important nations’ sovereignty Pease read “Robert Holleyman”.
(Not in order of important).
https://www.pirateparty.org.uk/campaigns/issues/ttip-trading-away-our-rights
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/04/us-trade-deal-full-frontal-assault-on-democracy
http://www.transatlantictrade.org/
http://rt.com/usa/tpp-fang-big-banks-577/
http://www.republicreport.org/2014/big-banks-tpp/
http://www.whoislog.info/profile/robert-holleyman.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-holleyman/tpp-isa-and-the-cloud_b_2875405.html
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130411/09574122678/investor-state-dispute-resolution-sleeping-monster-inside-free-trade-agreements-begins-to-stir.shtml
http://www.chapmantripp.com/publications/Pages/Investor-state-arbitration-not-deal-breaker-for-TPP-negotiations.aspx
It seems secret “stay-behind” operations have been made in EU by special OTAN forces to shape Europe, european government according to US’ tastes.
That’s what i think i understand from this article (in french) about Gladio in Europe.
http://www.voltairenet.org/article162685.html
And if you add in Barosso from the EU commission (remember the Golf War II with Blair, Aznar, Bush and Barosso in Azores?). And other KEY foes in all these European Institutions.
There’s quite no hope left. EU have been assimilated by US/OTAN.
From May 2014 – Serge Halimi on the implications of the TTIP agreement:
The threat of the American free-trade eagle crossing the Atlantic to ravage Europe’s ill-protected lambs has taken over public debate after the EU election campaign. It’s arresting, but politically dangerous. It ignores the risk that local authorities in the US may soon face under new neoliberal regulations, which will prevent them protecting employment, the environment and health rights. But it also shifts attention away from European companies — such as Veolia in France or Germany’s Siemens — which are just as eager as US multinationals to take legal action against states that dare to threaten their profits […] And it overlooks the role of European institutions and governments in the creation of a free trade zone on their own territory.
A World Run by Shareholders – Counterpunch
B.
I think that previously the “Fabian” arm has been ascendent in the Angl0-American Empire. They have been successful in slowly building their socialist utopia. But in last several years the “Revolutionary” arm (marx-lenin-trotsky-neocons) has secured it’s grip at the helm.
The only good news is that through their blatant power grabs they are rapidly undoing all that the Fabians had surreptitiously accomplished over the last century.
And if we are lucky, the factions within the Anglo-American hegemon will destroy each other without taking everyone else down with them.
Dear Larchmonter445,
You’re getting close to the truth, as are many commenters on this blog. But we need to get all the way there. This kind of dialogue helps narrow it down. I’d like to see it nailed.
You said, “No Americans understand the Tyrant that has become their government. The Elites of finance and banking and some corporations that succor at deficit budget debt creation are running the World.”
As an American, I have some idea the “Tyrant” my government has become. A case in point are the chemtrails, a horrendous assault on the environment and our health, about which we can do nothing. And yes, the banking and corporate elites seem to be running the world. But they aren’t all based in the US. Consider the Rothschilds and the Bilderberg Group.
So who really is this entity running the world? I propose calling it something like the “Western Power Axis”, a shadowy collusion of the US, EU, UN, NATO, Council on Foreign Relations, Bilderberg Group, US and European aristocracies, New World Order, and the corporate and banking cartels. How much of a role does the US play? This is bigger than just one country. And is Israel a major actor? If we really know who the “tyrants” are, it will give us more power to challenge them.
Thanks for your insight.
East Ukraine: (Donesk, Lugansk)
Russia to Send Humanitarian Aid
http://en.itar-tass.com/russia/738128
MOSCOW, June 27. /ITAR-TASS/. Russia has sent a note to Kiev about its plans to send humanitarian aid to Ukraine’s eastern regions.
The note says that having received numerous requests from residents of Donetsk and Luhansk about urgent humanitarian aid, the Russian side organized a motor convoy of the Russian emergency ministry to deliver 60 tonnes of humanitarian aid, including foodstuffs and personal hygiene means, to these regions, the Russian foreign ministry said on Friday. The trucks are planned to be sent to Luhansk and Donetsk, and, possibly, to other Ukrainian regions that give shelter to refugees.
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GMO Foods:
Read
Biosafety and the Seralini Affair
http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/06/27/biosafety-and-the-seralini-affair/
A 2-year long study of the long term toxicity of the NK603 maize and Roundup is confirmed; published in peer-reviewed Journal of Environmental Sciences Europe, first published in Food and Chemical Toxicology.
Will GM Crops Collapse the Food System?
http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/06/27/will-gm-crops-collapse-the-food-system/
[.] GM crops have changed agriculture, helping to advance the shift to more industrialized production, higher pesticide use, more land in corn and soy demanding more water and fertilizer, and less profit for farmers to name just a few of the connections that were never imagined when GM crops were commercialized in 1996.
We need to consider this series of consequences some intended and some not, that have occurred due to the introduction of GM crops.[.]
The demise of the evil empire is the only hope for Europe to regain sovereignty from the quislings and banksters.
In the end, eveything is interrelated, TTIP, events in The Ukraine, terrorism, war….”they” place their puppets or their men/women….
As I heard once in a movie, “on intelligence, coincidences do not exist”
And do you not believe that, many times, the face is the mirror of the soul?
http://www.voltairenet.org/article184482.html
( Very interesting link above, and by that, to a “must read serie” about Gladio ).
@ Toronto Mike
Keep in mind, everyone, that 99% of the people of the US will be grievously harmed by more so called “free trade. On the American end ALL. EVERY. SINGLE. ONE. of the benefits of “free trade ” accrue to the Finance capitalist oligarchs who have seized control of all the apparatus of the state. American people NEED JOBS. period. Every illegal, extra – constitutional “Freetrade” agreement send millions of jobs out of America. US manufacturing has been deliberately, systematically and thoroughly wiped out. Now agriculture is being “offshored”. Only a handful of entirely too rich and powerful RENT COLLECTING MAGGOTS are what’s left of American “industrial production”.
Hey guys, I found this site: http://ukraineatwar.blogspot.nl What you think about it?
The Hegemony Beast is like an abusive husband: keep his woman(that is, the rest of the world) barefoot, pregnant, and in the kitchen. The Beast has *no* interest in the economical well-being of his partner(s), just wants to take, take, take. By force preferably.
Toronto mike wrote :
“I don’t understand why the European politicians can’t grow a pair and resist American bullying tactics though”.
That’s because they are all corrupt and part of the problem not the solution. A recent report estimates that corruption in the EU costs the EU 120 billion euros annually or around 1% of the GDP of the EU. These people are all traitors to their people and countries. I do believe you Canadians are also more or less in the same boat.
“Fort Apache” by Pablo Iglesias, last edition:
http://hispantv.com/detail/2014/06/28/277833/fort-apache-ttip-pacto-diablo