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www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/soziales/ttip-und-die-folgen-fuer-die-kennzeichnung-von-lebensmitteln-a-1028255.html

www.faz.net/aktuell/wirtschaft/ttip-und-freihandel/kaum-jemand-liest-die-ttip-dokumente-13542243.html

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www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-b1ab-Global-protests-take-place-against-secret-TTIP-talks

www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/ttip-bundesweite-proteste-gegen-den-freihandel-geplant-a-1029090.html

www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/ttip-deutsche-protestieren-gegen-freihandelsabkommen-a-1029358.html

dwpexamination.wordpress.com/2015/04/18/global-ttip-protests/


theantimedia.org/ttip-thousands-activists-germany-protest-corporate-trade-deal/

Derrick Broze
April 18, 2015

(ANTIMEDIA)

Saturday, thousands of people rallied in Germany to oppose the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), a similar trade deal to the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).

Protesters gathered across Germany on Saturday to protest the upcoming trade deal between Europe and the United States. Critics fear the deal will erode sovereignty and endanger multiple industries, including health and technology. Supporters of the deal say it would bring $100 billion annually for both sides of the deal.

Reuters reports that, “a recent YouGov poll showed that 43 percent of Germans believe TTIP would be bad for the country, compared to 26 percent who see it as positive.”

Around 1,500 activists formed a human chain in Berlin; from the Potsdamer Platz square, past the U.S. embassy and through the Brandenburg Gate to offices of the European Commission.
Anti-TTIP-demonstrators form a human chain in front of the US embassy to protest against the proposed US-EU free trade pact in Berlin on April 18, 2015 ©John MacDougall (AFP)

Anti-TTIP-demonstrators form a human chain in front of the US embassy to protest against the proposed US-EU free trade pact in Berlin on April 18, 2015 ©John MacDougall (AFP)

Organizers in Munich estimated a crowd of 15,000 showed up for the marches. Hundreds more marched in Germany and across Europe for a “global day of action” against the TTIP. Protesters said they were worried about surveillance, internet freedom, and genetically engineered foods creeping into the EU.

The TTIP is the European version of an equally contentious agreement known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). The TPP has faced waves of resistance over the last several years. Even still, it seems like the agreement will pass.

As reported by Common Dreams:

“U.S. House and Senate leaders announced Thursday afternoon that they have reached a deal on legislation aimed at jamming the Trans Pacific Partnership through Congress.

The so-called Fast Track bill (The Bipartisan Congressional Trade Priorities and Accountability Act of 2015, TPA-2015), which would make it easier for President Barack Obama’s administration to negotiate trade deals by preventing Congress from amending them, includes compromise provisions added in order to “win over” Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee.

The legislation is expected to pass the Senate Finance Committee and land on the Senate floor next week. The House Ways and Means Committee will formally draft its version of the bill next week.”

Much like “free-trade agreements” of the past, the TPP will give corporate entities more power to evade accountability within the nations they do business. Make no mistake, the TPP and TTIP are part of the continued takeover of the world by the Corporate-State complex.

What will it take for the people of the world to hear the cries of those who have awoken to the dangers within the TPP and the TTIP? The time nears for the awakened to take to the streets to educate our brothers and sisters about the dangers that these trade deals represent. They do not represent the ideas of freedom and prosperity supported by most free people of the world. Rather, these agreements are simply the latest in a long line of wolves in sheep clothing sold to the ignorant (but waking masses).

Let’s take inspiration from our friends in Germany. Let’s take the streets and let the powers that wish they were know that we are paying attention and we are longer going to stand up quietly. RISE UP.

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Apr 13, 2015 9:10:29 GMT -5 lavender1 said:

www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/soziales/ttip-und-die-folgen-fuer-die-kennzeichnung-von-lebensmitteln-a-1028255.html

www.faz.net/aktuell/wirtschaft/ttip-und-freihandel/kaum-jemand-liest-die-ttip-dokumente-13542243.html

www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/ttip-was-sie-ueber-das-freihandelsabkommen-wissen-muessen-a-1029402.html


www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/kommentar-weisse-pfote-von-ttip-1.2442014

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www.politico.eu/article/malmstroms-washington-agenda/

www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/soziales/ttip-schiedsgerichte-laut-bund-gutachten-verfassungswidrig-a-1032467.html

www.bund.net/nc/presse/pressemitteilungen/detail/artikel/in-ttip-vorgesehene-schiedsgerichte-sind-verfassungswidrig/

www.euractiv.de/sections/finanzen-und-wirtschaft/gutachten-ttip-schiedsgerichte-sind-verfassungswidrig-314376

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blog.campact.de/2015/05/wie-ttip-und-ceta-dein-leben-veraendern/?utm_source=post-facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_term=wie-ttip-und-ceta-dein-leben-veraendern&utm_content=-Blog&utm_campaign=%2Fttip-ebi

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www.theguardian.com/global/2015/may/04/ttip-united-nations-human-right-secret-courts-multinationals

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www.euractiv.de/sections/gesundheit-und-verbraucherschutz/aerzte-und-apotheker-warnen-vor-ttip-314685?utm_source=EurActiv.de+Newsletter&utm_campaign=397dd6c875-newsletter_t%C3%A4gliche_news_aus_europa&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_d18370266e-397dd6c875-56980749

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www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/angelamerkel-im-interview-gipfel-der-harmonie-1.2500311


www.zeit.de/politik/deutschland/2015-05/ttip-merkel-obama-freihandel-abkommen

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www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/g7-gipfel-in-schloss-elmau-die-themen-im-ueberblick-a-1037162.html

jenkers.com/en#!t=4166567

news.newsdirectory1.com/far-more-than-30-000-people-demonstrating-against-g7-summit/

www.dw.de/g7-protesters-take-to-streets-of-munich/a-18496436

www.zeit.de/gesellschaft/zeitgeschehen/2015-06/g-7-gipfel-gegner-proteste-muenchen-ttip-klima



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www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/g7-gipfel-elmau-zehn-fakten-zum-lesen-merken-und-smalltalken-a-1036772.html

www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/g7-treffen-in-elmau-was-von-frueheren-gipfeln-uebrig-blieb-a-1037156.html

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www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/05/tisa-yet-another-leaked-treaty-youve-never-heard-makes-secret-rules-internet

TISA: Yet Another Leaked Treaty You've Never Heard Of Makes Secret Rules for the Internet

A February 2015 draft of the secret Trade In Services Agreement (TISA) was leaked again last week, revealing a more extensive and more recent text than that of portions from an April 2014 leak that we covered last year. Together with the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), TISA completes a trifecta of trade agreements that the administration could sign under Fast Track without full congressional oversight.

Although it is the least well-known of those agreements, it is the broadest in terms of membership. As far as we know, it presently includes twenty countries plus Europe (but notably excluding the major emerging world economies of the BRICS bloc), who, with disdainful levity, have adopted the mantle “the Really Good Friends of Services”. Like its sister agreements, TISA will enact global rules that impact the Internet, bypassing the transparency and accountability of national parliaments. The only difference is that its focus is on services, not goods.

In our previous analysis, we focused our attention on two points from the leaked text. The first was a provision that would prohibit democratically-elected parliaments from enacting limits on the "free flow of information" to protect the privacy of their citizens—limits that, we argued, should be debated publicly, not behind closed doors. The second was text on net neutrality, that would lock in a particular set of global rules on net neutrality, including an open-ended exception for “reasonable network management” that could become a loophole for exploitation. Those provisions remain in the new leaked draft.

But the latest leak has revealed more. The agreement would also prohibit countries from enacting free and open source software mandates. Although “software used for critical infrastructure” is already carved out from this prohibition (and so is software that is not “mass market software”, whatever that means), there are other circumstances in which a country might legitimately require suppliers to disclose their source code.

For example, one step that might be considered to improve the dire state of security of consumer routers might be to require that they be supplied with source code, so that their security could be more broadly reviewed, and third parties could contribute patches for critical vulnerabilities. Although that may sound radical, this is already required for many routers because they are based on software covered by the GNU General Public License. TISA would prohibit any such national initiative.

As in the TPP, and expanding on the earlier leaked draft, TISA also includes a prohibition on laws that require service providers to host data locally, which some countries have used to protect sensitive personal information, such as health data, from being snooped upon on foreign soil. There are arguments for and against such laws, and it is inappropriate that a secretive international agreement such as TISA should preempt these important debates.

The agreement would also require countries to introduce anti-spam laws. Although spam is bad, that doesn't necessarily make anti-spam laws good. In practice such laws have generally been ineffective at best, and ripe for abuse at worst. As such, we believe that it would be a legitimate choice for a country to decide not to tackle this blight through legislation—a choice that TISA would remove from them.

These examples only scratch the surface of TISA, yet they are enough to demonstrate a common problem that also affects the TPP and TTIP—that they are locking in a very specific rules for the Internet that the member countries may regret later. Locking in national laws through international law is something to be done sparingly. If it is done at all, then it should be through a transparent process that allows for users to have a voice—a process at least as open as that by which WIPO concluded the Marrakesh Treaty for the Blind.

What we have here is the very antithesis of that. The closed-door TISA negotiations are designed to set some very technologically-specific rules in stone—rules that will bind signatory countries for decades to come. Users and other stakeholders are completely excised from this process, and even our democratically elected representatives are being kept in the dark.

Activism around TISA is still very diffuse and limited, but there's one campaign that you can help us fight now, and it's the same action that we're taking to battle the TPP—it's opposing the Fast Track bill. The U.S. administration is relying on Fast Track not only to streamline its accession to the TPP, but its future ratification of TISA as well. Even if you're on the fence about the TPP, TISA is a further reason for you to call on your representative to oppose Fast Track today.

Trade Agreements and Digital Rights

www.zeit.de/digital/internet/2015-06/tisa-abkommen-wikileaks-open-source


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www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/g7-demo-garmisch-15-portraets-vom-gipfel-protest-a-1037543.html

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www.spiegel.de/international/world/how-ttip-and-an-eu-us-free-trade-deal-can-be-fixed-a-1036831.html

www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/2015-05/ttip-ceta-kosten

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panteres.com/2015/06/09/ttip-resolution-martin-schulz-stops-vote-in-the-european-parliament/

www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/soziales/ttip-resolution-martin-schulz-stoppt-votum-im-eu-parlament-a-1038001.html

www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/soziales/ttip-bdi-freut-sich-ueber-verschiebung-der-abstimmung-a-1038080.html

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www.theguardian.com/business/2015/jun/10/obscure-legal-system-lets-corportations-sue-states-ttip-icsid?CMP=fb_gu

news.newsdirectory1.com/tumult-to-ttip/

www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/ttip-tumulte-in-eu-parlament-lassen-debatte-platzen-a-1038214.html

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www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/freihandelsabkommen-tpp-und-ttip-us-demokraten-stoppen-obama-a-1038653.html

thehill.com/policy/finance/trade/241114-whip-list-dems-bucking-obama-on-trade

www.washingtonsblog.com/2015/05/democrats-cave-in-on-tpp-and-ttip-good-bye-democracy.html

panteres.com/2015/06/12/fta-tpp-and-ttip-us-democrats-stop-obama/