politics for the 99%

Published on Russia Today RT, June 3, 2015.

WikiLeaks has published 17 secret documents related to a controversial trade agreement currently being negotiated behind closed doors between the US, EU and 23 WTO members. NGO Global Justice Now called the leak “a dark day for democracy” … (including Chapters and Annexes of the TiSA text under negotiation, with it’s Docs dates and wikileaks publishing dates) …;  

Go to Trade in Services Agreement TiSA, on wikileaks.org, June 3, 2015; full press release: english, espanol.

TiSA Related Links:

• More secret trade talks focus on what’s good for business – CTU, on Guide2.co.nz, June 4, 2015;
• EU ‘not satisfied’ with Turkey’s int’l services trade offer – leaked documents show, on Daily News, June 3, 2015;
• WikiLeaks releases documents related to controversial US trade pact, on The Guardian, by Sam Thielman in New York and Phillip Inman in London, June 3, 2015: Document dump regarding Trade in Services Agreement comes day after organization put $100,000 bounty on documents from series of US trade treaties;
• The Secret Trade in Services Agreement TISA, on Global Research.ca, by Stephen Lendman, June 2, 2015;
• TISA: Yet another leaked treaty you’ve never heard of makes secret rules for the Internet, on Sierra Leone Times (first on EFF.org), May 28, 2015;
• on en.wikipedia: Electronic Frontier Foundation EFF.org is an international non-profit digital rights group based in the United States …; /See also; /External Links;
  Trade in Services Agreement TiSA is a proposed international trade treaty between 24 Parties, including the European Union and the United States. The agreement aims at liberalizing the worldwide trade of services such as banking, health care and transport.[1] Criticism about the secrecy of the agreement arose after WikiLeaks released in June 2014 a classified draft of the proposal’s financial services annex, dated the previous April[2] …; /See also; /External Links;
• more TiSA-articles on Google News-search;

Other Links:

Here are nine incomes you need not pay tax on, on The Economic Times, India, by Sanjeev Sinha, June 4, 2015;

Le chômage français: Pour Jean Pételet, de Saint-Léger-de-la-Martinière (Deux-Sèvres), robotisation de l’économie et chômage vont de pair, dans Centre Presse, le 4 juin 2015;

La femme, nue sans son voile, dans Conscience Citoyenne Responsable, le 4 juin 2015: Lorsque j’entends certains propos tenus par des musulmans sur les femmes et le voile, j’ai envie de répondre : mais enfin, vous êtes obsédés, ou quoi? Comparer une femme nue avec une femme qui ne porte pas de voile …;

US State Dept ignores OSCE data, blames ‘majority’ of Ukraine truce violations on rebels (TEXT, PHOTOS and 4 VIDEOS), on Russia Today RT.June 4, 2015;

upcoming event: The Dissidents, the Displaced, and the Outliers – Closing Panel Discussion, June 14, 2015, San Francisco, CA, on EFF.org, June 3, 2015;

Education nationale: Fin de polémique autour des migrants non scolarisés à Grenoble, dans France3/régions, par Franck Grassaud, le 3 juin 2015: C’est un syndicat d’enseignants qui a jeté un pavé dans la mare, dénonçant la non scolarisation de 34 élèves à Grenoble. Depuis la mairie a interpellé l’Education nationale, et l’académie affirme désormais qu’une solution a été trouvée;

Angels and Demons: Ukraine, One Year After Poroshenko, on Spiegel Online International, by Benjamin Bidder and Jan Puhl, June 3, 2015 (Photo Gallery): Since his election, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has struggled to free his country from the influence of the oligarchs. But a new generation of reformers is determined to make it happen;

Found on naked capitalism:

• Satyajit Das: My Big Fat Greek Crisis, by Yves Smith, June 3, 2015; Find him on EconoMonitor; on The Independent.co.uk; on amazon.co.uk;
• If You Want to Beat Big Finance, You Need to be Able to Take the Fight to Their Terrain, by Yves Smith, June 2, 2015 – a Memo to Readers;
• The Notion of the Competitiveness of Countries is Nonsense, by Yves Smith, June 2, 2015;

Last Crop Circle / Kornkreis, on Transformation, June 2, 2015 (my comment: oddly enough I can see there the pattern of an electronic circuit / seltsamerweise sehe ich dort das Muster eines elektronischen Schaltkreises – Heidi);

Matteo Renzi, le démolisseur, dans AgoraVox.fr, par Robert GIL (d’abord sur son site), le 1er juin;

Four problems with work requirements for Basic Income – Will Shetterly, June 1, 2015;

FCC Chair seeks to subsidize broadband access for low-income Americans, on The Philadelphia Tribune, June 1, 2015;

US: THE ROOT CAUSE – POVERTY, on The State Journal, by Msgt Thomas Vance USAF Ret., May 30, 2015;

Raise pay of low-income workers: Wages panel, on Asia One/Singapore, by Joanna Seow, May 30, 2015;

Indonesian Islamists set fire to Buddhist extremist’s effigy, on Russia Today RT, May 27, 2015.