{"id":9670,"date":"2015-07-03T08:29:12","date_gmt":"2015-07-03T13:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=9670"},"modified":"2015-07-03T08:29:12","modified_gmt":"2015-07-03T13:29:12","slug":"leaked-how-the-biggest-banks-are-conspiring-to-rip-up-financial-regulations-around-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=9670","title":{"rendered":"LEAKED: How the Biggest Banks Are Conspiring to Rip Up Financial Regulations around the World"},"content":{"rendered":"

LEAKED: How the Biggest Banks Are Conspiring to Rip Up Financial Regulations around the World<\/a><\/h3>\n

WikiLeaks got its hands on part of the secret trade pact for services<\/strong><\/p>\n

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It\u2019s almost impossible to keep anything secret these days \u2013 not even the core text of a hyper-secret trade deal, the Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA), which has spent the last two years taking shape behind the hermetically sealed doors of highly secure locations around the world.<\/p>\n

According to the agreement\u2019s provisional text, the document is supposed to remain confidential and\u00a0concealed from public view for at least five years\u00a0after<\/em>\u00a0being signed!\u00a0But now, thanks to\u00a0WikiLeaks<\/u><\/a>, it has seeped to the surface.<\/p>\n

The Really, Really Good Friends of Services<\/strong><\/p>\n

TiSA is arguably the most important \u2013 yet least well-known \u2013 of the new generation of global trade agreements. According to WikiLeaks, it \u201cis the largest component of the United States\u2019 strategic \u2018trade\u2019 treaty triumvirate,\u201d which also includes the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the TransAtlantic Trade and Investment Pact (TTIP).<\/p>\n

\u201cTogether, the three treaties form not only a new legal order shaped for transnational corporations, but a new economic \u2018grand enclosure,\u2019 which excludes China and all other BRICS countries\u201d declared\u00a0WikiLeaks\u00a0<\/em>publisher Julian Assange in a\u00a0press statement<\/a>. If allowed to take universal effect, this new enclosure system will impose on all our governments a rigid framework of international corporate law designed to exclusively protect the interests of corporations, relieving them of financial risk, and social and environmental responsibility.<\/p>\n

Thanks to an innocuous-sounding provision called the\u00a0Investor-State Dispute Settlement<\/a>, every investment they make will effectively be backstopped by our governments (and by extension, you and me); it will be too-big-to-fail writ on an unimaginable scale.<\/p>\n

Yet it is a system that is almost universally supported by our political leaders. In the case of TiSA, it involves more countries than TTIP and TPP combined: The United States and all 28 members of the European Union, Australia, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Hong Kong, Iceland, Israel, Japan, Liechtenstein, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, Pakistan, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, South Korea, Switzerland, Taiwan and Turkey.<\/span><\/p>\n

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