[Kizzy]

Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership.

'Have you heard about TTIP? If your answer is no, don’t get too worried; you’re not meant to have.
The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership is a series of trade negotiations being carried out mostly in secret between the EU and US. As a bi-lateral trade agreement, TTIP is about reducing the regulatory barriers to trade for big business, things like food safety law, environmental legislation, banking regulations and the sovereign powers of individual nations. It is, as John Hilary, Executive Director of campaign group War on Want, said: “An assault on European and US societies by transnational corporations.”

Since before TTIP negotiations began last February, the process has been secretive and undemocratic. This secrecy is on-going, with nearly all information on negotiations coming from leaked documents and Freedom of Information requests.

But worryingly, the covert nature of the talks may well be the least of our problems. Here are six other reasons why we should be scared of TTIP, very scared indeed:'

Why has there not been more coverage of the threat posed by TTIP during the election campaign?...

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/...u-9779688.html

[Kizzy]

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'A future government must be allowed to expand the NHS without facing legal challenge under a proposed new EU-US trade deal, according to a sharply critical report from an all-party committee of MPs. The Business, Innovation and Skills committee said the government needed stronger evidence to back up its claim that the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) would bring a boost of £100bn a year to the UK.'

http://www.theguardian.com/business/...ent-ttip-plans

[Crimson Dynamo]

yes and 9/11 was an inside job by the glitterati

[bots]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

yes and 9/11 was an inside job by the glitterati

I didnt think Gary had any fans left

[Northern Monkey]

Just another reason g.t.f.o of the undemocratic EU.They will drag us into anything they want while we have to accept their laws.Who even voted for the EU president?It was'nt me.

[Kizzy]

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A group of radical performance activists who hail from New York staged an “exorcism” of corporate power outside an international law firm in London to raise awareness about the dangers of an EU-US trade deal being brokered behind closed doors.
The group, Reverend Billy & The Stop Shopping Choir, conduct creative and political performances across the globe to preserve local communities, life and the imagination.
On their website, they describe themselves as “wild anti-consumerist gospel shouters and Earth loving urban activists.”
In a symbolic act of political protest on Thursday, the performance artists targeted the London office of global law firm King & Spalding over its role in Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) litigation.

http://rt.com/uk/254953-activists-ex...rporate-power/

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by EyeballPaul

Just another reason g.t.f.o of the undemocratic EU.They will drag us into anything they want while we have to accept their laws.Who even voted for the EU president?It was'nt me.