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http://billmoyers.com/2014/08/12/theres-another-mammoth-global-trade-agreement-you%E2%80%99ve-never-heard-of/Heres what we know: Fifty countries, including the United States, the EU nations, Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Japan, Switzerland, Taiwan and Turkey, have been in TISA talks since 2012. The resulting agreement will set the terms for almost 70 percent of global trade in services: everything from banking and construction to telecom and tourism.
The public got its first glimpse of the treaty on June 19, when WikiLeaks published a draft of the agreements chapter on financial services. It wasnt pretty. The text included proposals to extend new market access guarantees to all participating states and fresh limits on the ability of nations to discriminate against foreign financial firms. The section hasnt been finalized, but the leak confirmed what TISA skeptics feared: The United States and EU are leading the charge to block countries from imposing domestic regulations on the multi-trillion-dollar services industries.
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In the United States, TISAs biggest cheerleader is the Coalition of Service Industries (CSI), a lobbying titan that includes the likes of AT&T, Citigroup, Deloitte, Ebay, Google, Microsoft and Walt Disney. CSI, in turn, has helped prop up Team TISA, a broader business alliance whose 6 co-chairs represent a comically nefarious cross-section of corporate America: Citigroup, IBM, Liberty Mutual, MetLife, UPS and Walmart.
RKP5637
(67,108 posts)post bears repeating IMO ... Is there ever a national discussion and buy in by 'we the people' about anything anymore? Most citizens have little say about most things IMO ...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025376768
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)pampango
(24,692 posts)Do you believe that a secretive power elite with a globalist agenda is conspiring to eventually rule the world through an authoritarian world government, or New World Order, or not?
'Very Liberal' : Yes - 12%, No - 69%;
'Somewhat Liberal' : Yes - 20%, No - 51%;
'Moderate': Yes - 23%, No - 56%;
'Somewhat Conservative' : Yes - 33%, No - 38%;
'Very Conservative' : Yes - 45%, No - 26%.
http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/pdf/2011/PPP_Release_National_ConspiracyTheories_040213.pdf
From the poll, it appears that the more conservative one is, the more likely one is to believe in the "One World Government" CT. Of course, the "very conservative" view a OWG as a liberal, socialist conspiracy which is why tea party meetings are filled with speakers on Agenda 21, the UN Disabilities Treaty, etc.
Romulox
(25,960 posts)How do you tell someone metro-Detroit that "free trade" is ok for what they do for a living, but not for what you do for a living? How do you frame the discussion? Fairness? Efficiency? Both of those suggest a consistency between how we compel workers to "compete!" with global labor--regardless if those workers' collars are blue or white. Instead, we find that everything is different this time, and that, somehow, White Collar jobs are worth protecting in a way that working people's jobs were not, and are not.
I don't even know how Democrats bring up this subject.
GeorgeGist
(25,321 posts)is for corporations to buy it.