Fast Track Will Also Apply to TISA, the "Scariest Trade Deal Nobody's Talking About"

[HomerRamone]

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/gaius-publius/62590/fast-track-will-also-apply-to-tisa-the-scariest-trade-deal-nobodys-talking-about

According to the Wikileaks release, TISA, as the deal is known, would take a major step towards deregulating financial industries, and could affect everything from local maritime and air traffic rules to domestic regulations on almost anything if an internationally traded service is involved...

Why are these agreements always negotiated in secret these days? Because they're so toxic. TISA is yet another, perhaps the worst one. And forced deregulation may not be its worst aspect. Here's another reason to regard TISA with suspicion — forced privatization of government-supplied services...

You begin to sound like the guy hanging out in front of the local food co-op passing around leaflets about One World Government when you talk about TiSA, but it really would clear the way for further corporate domination over sovereign countries and their citizens...

International agreements like TISA are important tools in an expanded power grab by the hyper-wealthy people who buy and benefit from our elections, and government negotiators are their agents. The only disagreements at the negotiating table involve which country's predator (Nestlé, say) gets to eat which other country's prey (water rights in Oregon, for example). "Trade" agreements empower the predators under color of law.

[marym625]

1. I am! I'm talking about it!

K&R

[Octafish]

2. TISA is what Goldman Sachs wants.

The Memo confirmed every conspiracy freak's fantasy: that in the late 1990s, the top US Treasury officials secretly conspired with a small cabal of banker big-shots to rip apart financial regulation across the planet. When you see 26.3% unemployment in Spain, desperation and hunger in Greece, riots in Indonesia and Detroit in bankruptcy, go back to this End Game memo, the genesis of the blood and tears.

-- Greg Palast

http://www.gregpalast.com/larry-summers-and-the-secret-end-game-memo/

[Hoyt]

3. TISA will not change "domestic regulations on almost anything. . . . . . . "

[cali]

4. says anonyous internet poster Hoyt. many eminent analysts say that's a lie.

[SwankyXomb]

5. He's never met a right wing talking point

he couldn't push here.

[Hoyt]

6. Eminent -- who Dave Johnson, your boy who develops computer games? These are people trying to

develop a following by lying to gullible people, people who aren't going to read the actual documents.

[hifiguy]

7. So wrong I don't even know where to begin

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/121967/whats-really-going-trade-services-agreement

An excerpt, emphasis added by me:

That’s perhaps TiSA’s real goal—to pry open markets, deregulate and privatize services worldwide, even among emerging nations with no input into the agreement. U.S. corporations may benefit from such a structure, as the Chamber of Commerce suggests, but the impact on workers and citizens in America and across the globe is far less clear. Social, cultural, and even public health goals would be sidelined in favor of a regime that puts corporate profits first It effectively nullifies the role of democratic governments to operate in the best interest of their constituents.

Unsurprisingly, this has raised far more concern globally than in the United States. But a completed TiSA would go through the same fast-track process as TPP, getting a guaranteed up-or-down vote in Congress without the possibility of amendment. Fast-track lasts six years, and negotiators for the next president may be even more willing to make the world safe for corporate hegemony. “This is as big a blow to our rights and freedom as the Trans-Pacific Partnership,” said Larry Cohen, president of the Communication Workers of America in a statement, “and in both cases our government’s secrecy is the key enabler.”

[Hoyt]

9. Well, for a "secret" Larry Cohen and others sure seem to know it's bad.

Sounds to me they are just paranoid and afraid of any change that might threaten their kingdom/income.

It's a secret, but we know it's bad, is just too funny.

[hifiguy]

8. KICK!