Is Madame Merkel Betraying the EU – Endangering the Lives of Future European Generations with her Push for the Nefarious TTIP?
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Angela Merkel |
This incisive article first published by Global Research in December
2014 is of utmost relevance to the ongoing process of US-EU negotiation
of the TTIP
Author’s Introduction and Update
President Obama will be
visiting Germany and Mme. Merkel tomorrow (24 – 25 April) for the
Hannover Industrial Messe, the world’s largest
Industrial fair, lobbying, in a last ditch convincing effort, Madame
Merkel, of the good of the TTIP – that must be signed as soon as
possible – maybe even during his upcoming trip to Europe. Everything
around the infamous and nefarious TTIP is possible, as it all happens in
secret and behind closed doors.
One of the most
important items on Obama’s check list before he leaves office is
obtaining the signatures of the ‘free trade agreements’ – the TPP –
Transpacific Partnership with 11 Asian and Pacific countries, and the
TTIP – Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership with the 28 EU
countries. The TPP is almost done. Completion of the two trade
agreements – the economic enslavement of Asia (except for China and
Russia who bluntly refused to join) and Europe, was one of the
conditions for the top elite – call them ‘Illuminati’ – when they
summoned him to a special Bilderberg meeting on 5-8 June 2008, in
Chantilly Virginia (just outside Washington DC). They caught him in full
campaign missing an important campaign event in Chicago.
The purpose of the
meeting was to figure out whether he is worth the money they were
willing to pour into his election to make him President. He complied.
His psychological profile having been profoundly analyzed before, they
knew he would.
And indeed, the spineless Obama complied with all of the
conditions. And they made him President at a cost of about US$ 740
million, about double of what Bush’s second term presidential campaign
cost, and about half of the price of Obama’s second term presidency.
Below is my article
published by Global Research in December 2014, on the nefarious
consequences of the TTIP – to remind people what is lying ahead for
Europe, if the EU and its members ratify the TTIP: Slavehood, sheer and
unescapable corporate slavehood, enhanced and controlled by Goldman
Sachs — and not to forget, the Rothschilds, who are the invisible hand
behind the FED.
Katherine Frisk sums up best what the TTIP would mean for Europe:
International
“free trade” agreements such as the TTIP and the TPP which will
override the National Sovereignty of any country who signs them, the
Constitution of any country, their Constitutional law courts and any
laws that any government may or may not make regarding health
regulations, minimum wage regulations or environmental requirements. Far
from being Capitalism with checks and balances restricting monopolies,
it is a form of Corporate Fascist hegemonic colonialism and Corporate
Empire building, eliminating all competition in the interests of
monopolies.
Peter Koenig, April 24, 2016
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The EU to Become a “U.S. Colony”? The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) would Abolish Europe’s Sovereignty
by Peter Koenig
Global Research
December 2, 2014
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The proposed Free Trade Agreement (sic), the so called Transatlantic
Trade and Investment Partnership – TTIP – between the US and Europe
would be an infringement and final abolishment of Europe’s sovereignty (emphasis added).
It would expand the US corporate and financial empire which already
today dominates Washington’s politics and that of much of the western
world – to take over Europe. Europe’s sovereignty would be jeopardized,
meaning the sovereignty of the EU itself, as well as and especially the
sovereignty of EU member countries.
At stake would be EU’s and EU members’ legal and regulatory system,
environmental protection regulations – and Europe’s economy. Europe’s
basic social infrastructure, what’s left of it after the 2008 invasion
of the infamous troika – IMF (FED, Wall Street), European Central Bank
(ECB) and the European Commission (EC) – like education, health, as well
as water supply and sanitation services would become easy prey for
privatization by international (mostly US) transnationals.
This so-called ‘Free Trade Agreement’ (sic) between the US and Europe
Obama is pushing on the European Commission and for which on behalf of
Europe, Germany’s Madame Merkel seems to be a forceful standard bearer,
if signed, would be serving the interests of corporations rather than of
the 600 million European citizens.
According to John Hilary, Professor of Politics and International
Relations at the University of Nottingham, and expert on trade and
investment, the TTIP is a Charter for Deregulation, an Attack on Jobs,
and End to Democracy (emphasis added).
“[The] TTIP is therefore correctly understood not as a
negotiation between two competing trading partners, but as an attempt by
transnational corporations to praise (sic) open and deregulate markets on
both sides of the Atlantic.” (John Hilary: The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership)
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Barack Obama -- State of the Union jokes |
In his State of the Union address of February 2013, Obama first
announced the TTIP, for which the first round of – secret – negotiations
started with a specially designed clandestine and restricted EU
committee already July 2013. The objective is to complete talks fast and
outside of the public domain, so that the peoples of Europe and the US
will not find out the true magnitude of the agreement with all its
threats before the treaty has been signed. Negotiation documents are to
be kept under vaults for 30 years. Outside this EU special committee, EU
and member countries parliamentarians have no access to the details of
the contract.
Why is that so, if the TTIP is to bring benefits to the peoples of both
sides of the Atlantic? – Because this assumption is an illusion. In
fact, officials of both sides of the Atlantic unofficially admit “the
main goal of TTIP is to remove regulatory ‘barriers’ which restrict the
potential profits to be made by transnational corporations.” These
‘hindrances’ include labor rights, food safety rules (including
limitations on GMOs), environmental and health restrictions, such as the
use of toxic chemicals, as well as regulations on digital privacy and –
the newly introduced banking safeguards.
The TTIP’s most blatant transgressions into Europe’s sovereignty, environmental and social regulations include:
• Opening of flood gates for
privatization of public services such as water supply and sanitation,
health services and education – for profit;
• Jeopardy of public health – as practices which are legal in the US
would also be legalized in Europe, such as genetically modified food
production, and hormone treatments of livestock and poultry;
• Endangering small-scale agriculture, as it would favor large agro-corporations over family farming;
• Making fracking legal in Europe;
• The universal right of foreign corporations to sue countries for
compensation in secret arbitrary courts for foregone profits in case
governments pass laws that could reduce profits – case in point: the
Swedish energy company Vattenfall is seeking $6 billion in compensation
for Germany’s nuclear phase-out – and chances are that Vattenfall may
win its case;
• Opening ways for increased internet monitoring and surveillance; and
• Opening of flood gates for privatization of public services such as
water supply and sanitation, health services and education – for profit;
• Excessive copyright regulations
(pharmaceuticals and other monopoly prone industries), restricting free
access to culture, education, and science.
The TTIP is practically irreversible. Once agreed and signed by
Brussels and Washington, the treaty would be enforced by all EU members
and could only be amended or revoked by agreement of all 28 EU members
and the US. This would almost be impossible. An individual (no longer)
‘sovereign’ EU member government could no longer decide to drop out of
the agreement if and when it realizes that the TTIP works against its
public interest, since it is not the individual country that signs the
TTIP, but the EU.
The only way out would be exiting or dissolving the EU.
It is not a coincidence that the so-called negotiations are rushed
and carried on in secret. If ratified and signed by the EC, the TTIP
would be a monumental disaster for Europe’s future generations. It would
further curtail the peoples of Europe’s constitutional rights and make
them mere serfs of industrial and financial corporations and their
elite.
Why is Madame Merkel so adamant to defend the interests of Washington
rather than those of her own country, let alone those of the EU as a
block? – It is clearly also a blow on Russia, since the TTIP would
almost certainly mean a definite cut between Europe and Russia – and
most likely between Europe and Asia.
The question may be asked – did the NSA find out something mortifying
when they were eavesdropping on Merkel’s cell phone? – When she found
out about the White House tapping her phone, she appeared extremely
furious about Obama. Many politicians, including in Europe, hoped this
would suggest a break from Washington – which would have allowed other
European puppets to follow their ascribed European leader. Then suddenly
she made a U-turn. It is difficult to believe that she is so naïve.
Whatever they may have on her -- putting the future lives of more than 600
million Europeans at stake is a crime.
As a curious coincidence, at the 8-10 November APEC Meeting in
Beijing, Obama also proposed a Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) – a ‘free
trade agreement’ that would include Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile,
Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, the US and Vietnam. Its
implementation, like the enactment of the TTIP is one of the primary
goals of Obama’s trade agenda.
Strangely, China is not included in the proposed partnership
countries. The Western mainstream media says that Obama wants to
sideline China – a ‘sanction’ for not falling in step with Washington’s
agenda for a One World Order.
However – what if it is the other way around – China sees the fraud
in these so-called free trade agreements and opted not to partake in
them?
If the proposed TTIP combined with the proposed TTP would be ratified
and signed, it would be like a corporate empire taking over the world,
especially Europe and Asia – less China and Russia. The United States is
already in the claws of transnationals.
Let’s keep in mind, these are secret negotiations, taking place
behind closed doors, with little to no access to politicians and
parliamentarians of the countries concerned. The talks are to be rushed
through as fast as possible, so as to put the people at large before a
fait accompli.
Only We, the People, can stop this crime – a new layer of US-propelled world hegemony – by launching and supporting anti TTIP
referenda on internet and in the streets.
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Peter Koenig is an economist and geopolitical
analyst. He is also a former World Bank staff and worked extensively
around the world in the fields of environment and water resources. He
writes regularly for Global Research, ICH, RT, the Voice of Russia, now
Ria Novosti, The Vineyard of The Saker Blog, and other internet sites.
He is the author of 'Implosion – An Economic Thriller about War,
Environmental Destruction and Corporate Greed' – fiction based on facts
and on 30 years of World Bank experience around the globe.
Source: Global Research
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