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12/04/2015

The Legacy and Demise of Adnan Sakli





The Legacy and Demise of Adnan Sakli


March 14, 2014
“If I had wanted to behave like a King or an Emperor, they could have understood that. Because I want to give the power that I have back to the people, that they cannot understand!”
– Adnan Sakli, holder of the Global Accounts
Adnan Sakli died on the 27th of February 2014 (corrected time of death). Although the immediate cause of his death may or may not be called “natural”, the real cause of death was attrition created by social parasites that wish to enslave humanity. The people of this planet have lost a good friend and brave “White Knight” they did not know existed. His position at the top of the economic pyramid of power has been a well-kept secret. He alone was the holder of the sovereign titles of all nations, corporations, central banks and currencies. He alone was, “PRIME” as a signatory and as a target.
He did not get his position through conquest. As a matter of fact other people did it for him, without his knowledge. You can thank the Secret Service for protecting your Stock Exchange from an artificial melt down directed by what is known as the “Illumaniti”. Adnan was the only one with available lawful funds at that time to “save the day”. His focus at that time was on global development projects. Due to events beyond his control he became the formal owner of over 54-billion accounts. Faced with a responsibility he did not ask for, nor want and with his visions for a better world he decided to take upon himself the single handed task of reforming the economic system –globally.
As he said it, “This is the first and only time in the world that humanity will have a chance at becoming free from religious, political, economic and corporate enslavement.” Money is the prime mover in the world. Money in the hands of a few, provided as a limited resource with interest used as a debt instrument creates the entire foundation for social competition and economic warfare. With adequate and equilateral distribution of money over time, together with the release of advanced technology already perfected, humanity can come to the point where money is simply not necessary anymore. It will take a number of generations. We can heal the Earth, ourselves, our social structures and stretch ourselves collectively to an unknown potential.
The idea of real economic solutions, prosperity and new technology being made available to the people was just not acceptable to those whose economic power was being threatened. Adnan Sakli had a deeply rooted love of free expression in humanity. He was a highly gifted builder, developer of nations, innovator, inventor and banker, last but not least. He did not search for power. Power came to him.
He was fully aware of how funds for help to poor nations always got stolen, projects got high-jacked, and help to dependency was often the result. He wanted to stop that.
He did not build a military defense system to protect his position. Morality and Integrity was Adnan Sakli’s defense system. That was his“mistake”. Without sufficient military defenses, he fell victim of being used and abused by those that have no “morality”. Perhaps this is a lesson for us all. They never stopped trying to kill him. They killed his parents; they kidnapped him, took his home, forged his signature and blocked access to his own accounts. This is how the richest man in the world can die alone in a hotel suffering from an unknown disease.
It is a paradox that his fate was so in opposition to those dreams he had for mankind.
His story needs to be told because it also provides solutions for mankind’s greatest immediate and long-term problems. Adnan Sakli did not have many friends. He and his friends were not afflicted with the “love for money”. He was interested in art, philosophy, science, psychology, history and the politics of social architecture. He did not play games. He had a great sense for beauty and the creative expression of mankind and all life. He knew that the universe is alive. He was brutally honest and his scope of knowledge was simply mind-boggling. He was also very skeptical of others and had little patience for the lack of ability to perceive the truth, as he understood it. At the same time he enjoyed contact with those that he shared intentions, perspectives and interests with.
I take it upon myself to provide a portrait of a man I have the highest respect for and like us all lacking in perfection there is always a certain amount of learning through trial and error. I am sure he can look back and say, “I did the best I could do”. Now I ask the reader, “Are you going to look back someday and say the same?” I know today that Adnan and I have a shared vision together with many others. He had the position to enforce and promote that vision. I do not. I can only hope that the rest of the world can know that there are solutions to our problems of the “human condition”. They are doable. We are not genetically designed to self-destruct, but to thrive.
First contact
My first conversation with Adnan was close to the end of November, 2012. Since that time we have exchanged many hours of private Skype calls, conference calls and chat. Some of that information will be released to different media. Some has already gone out on UTube. The amount of information we have been privileged to take part in is quite overwhelming for most people. Adnan had an extensive scope of knowledge about how the global systems of finance are run. He know who the bandits were, their intentions and methods. He was never afraid to name those who are involved in destroying the people and the planet.
Adnan Sakli lived with what I would call a “galactic” level of awareness. His perspectives into the nature of the Universe were not only scientific, they were also spiritual. He knew a lot about the power of focused attention over time. He was very aware of the energetic changes on the planet.Our involvement with Multidimensional beings also known as ET’s was a “matter of fact”. He knew how time, as we usually understand it, is an illusion. He did all his planning with long-term perspectives. He did not fit the profile of a high-profile banker.
He has admittedly funded a number of projects under the Department of Defense. This, he said, gave him access to certain knowledge that others did not have. We have developed technology thousands of years into the future, compared to what we have available to us today. The problem is that the technology is in lock down, because that is a military advantage. It does however belong to the people.
His position in the economic pyramid of power was that of an institution over the Bank of International Settlements. He was the one that bailed out the banks in 2005, 7, 8 and 9. Then he said, “enough is enough, you are unable to do any good for the people, so pay the bill! Since that time, the central banks, nation states, NGO’s and CORPORATIONS have been struggling to“stay afloat”. They have run out of money and desperate to get their hands onto whatever gold and natural resources they can. The banks have instigated internal auditing systems run by computer. If the bank does not pay their investment bills, the computer takes the customers money.
They say that a virus is attacking the system, when it is their own system of regulations that is attacking their lack of wisdom and foresight.
Adnan Sakli had his hands around the throat of the “beast”and it is essentially dead but will not realize it quite yet. In essence, he still has his hands around the throat of the beast even after his death because his accounts are essentially frozen. He was waiting for them to show up at the negotiation table. They never came. They are afraid that their games and criminal activities will be exposed. They know only a parasitic form of life. Unable to create anything of real value for themselves they are committed to living off the efforts of others.
This press-release is provided to the people to ignite the flame of inspiration and motivation in a time of deep tribulation. A battle of epic proportions is being waged on humanity. The one side represents full-spectrum dominance and slavery, while the other represents full-spectrum vitality.
Full-spectrum dominance or vitality?
Humanity has essentially lived on a form of “prison planet”for thousands of years. The nature of the prison we all are born into is a certain set of physical, social and psychological limitations. These limitations serve a certain purpose and that is to develop enough awareness to extend self beyond those limitations. This is the hidden spiritual aspect to human evolution. We keep on coming back until we “get it right”. The Earth has been a place of experiential learning through trial and error.
You can say that somehow, along the way, the program became high-jacked. Free choice became very highly manipulated free-choice, what we call “democracy” today. Socially speaking, humanity is on the verge of self-destruction at a number of levels like pollution of our entire environment, endless wars and infrastructure collapse. Simultaneously, the Earth itself is evolving energetically beyond the comprehension of most people.This energetic evolution will only support a cooperative, supporting self and others, collective form for life. The time-span for this evolution is currently un-known.
The parasitic way of life is serving self at other’s expense. It is easy to identify, the boundaries are very clear. We all have a“moral compass” that can be “remagnetized” to point towards honoring the truth and that which is good for self and others.
The Politicians have always talked about the difficult path to peace, while they simultaneously are waging their economic wars at many different and varying levels. The motivation for profit is always for self at the expense of another. It is a social meme that has been indoctrinated into your minds from your historic past.
There are good reasons that the state takes responsibility to educate their young children. Their education serves the purpose of sustainability of economic slavery at the price of struggling to reach self-actualization of your individual and collective potential. The entire system is run from the Roman Catholic Vatican simply taking over the rule of the earlier Roman Empire. Your royalty families were created by the Vatican and enforced by the Vatican. The Vatican controls all commerce through the Universal Post Union held in Switzerland. From these centers of power fascism is the ruler. That is to mix business with politics for the benefit of profits. Secondary powers are also present all over the planet and these are constantly waging war with each other.
This is why humanity must take back their de jure nations and create constitutions that honor the truth, sovereign free will under responsibility and the value of life. As a planet of many nations, we need to create a new council of united nations, where wisdom, integrity and devotion to create, reinforce and defend long-term vitality is a prerequisite. A higher council with representation and responsibility to their nations can together discuss the issues of how to use money in the future. With such a foundation the restoration of the people of the planet can launch a new foundation for anew and self-sustaining social structure that is also self-determined. I am convinced that this is also the will and testament of Adnan Sakli. This is the key to releasing the funds that are available for global abundance.
His earlier demands were that, “Nations must prove to me that they can take care of their people, their land and their neighbors. I will release funds to make that happen, When I am convinced that they can and are willing to keep their promises, I will release my control.” Sounds like a good deal for the people. He was very aware of the fact that the burden of debt is enslavement. It was his desire to release humanity from that enslavement.
Why its so difficult to get any hard news about Adnan Sakli
When Adnan was kidnapped in Italy there was only a short story that said the following:
Rimini, 27 May (AKI) – Italian police in the northeastern city of Rimini on Thursday freed a Turkish-American businessman who had been kidnapped two weeks ago. During his captivity, Adnan Sakli, a banker, was forced to sign over documents that could have been redeemed by the kidnappers for 27 billion euros.
As a ransom, the kidnappers demanded that Sakli sign over 27 billion euros in credit lines, Sky Italia reported.
Police in the city on the Adriatic coast said they had arrested nine Italians and one Ethiopian during raids.
Investigators kept the kidnapping of the 55-year-old businessman a secret while they worked to free him.
Adnan did not need, nor want to advertise the vastness of his accounts. He led a quiet life, as he said it, “a boring life” and was not visible in the press.There is another reason why nobody knows about Adnan Sakli, while everybody knows about the Rothschild and Rockefeller families. If the press let you know than the politicians would have no excuses to proclaim the need for austerity,costly loans and slavery to polluting energy systems and outdated transportation and communication infrastructures.
Adnan was an “outsider” from Turkey. He did not behave like other investors. He was also stone cold to negotiate with. He did not engage in pissing contests. So as long as you don’t know that his funds exist, the longer the plantation can continue their slave trade. The rest is up to you.
How do you make your voice heard?
All past experience has led me to understand that the current powers that be intend to keep you so busy and distracted with superficial events, even tragedies that you will never come around to thinking for yourself. You will never question the fact that you live in a legal fiction where your name is spelled in ALL CAPS to indicate that you are the living dead. You will never question why your birth certificate is a valuable document and why we always have to “work for money”.
As the most intelligent form of life on this Earth, humans are the only ones that have to pay to live here. Does that not strike you as odd?
Your responsibility and authority has been assumed by your commercial governments for a price. That means you have to follow their rules.You are born into this system of a “social contract” without ever having read the contract itself. You were a bit too young to understand when your birth certificate was issued. How can it be that it is a “benefit” when you can in fact not opt out and say I chose to be free, thank you. I choose to take my responsibility and authority seriously. I choose to stretch my abilities and learn to do new things for self and others. I choose to live from the inside-out instead of living in a reality created only from words.
Are you willing to take responsibility? You have that even though you might want to give it away because you always have to live with the consequences of your choices. You have been brainwashed into believing that competition is necessary, natural and good for human evolution. That is a lie. Competition is a waste of energy. It can only create artificial rules,regulations, friction, resistance, conflicts, dysfunction and dis-ease. Your body has vitality only when there is no competition within your body. The same is true with your psyche, your relationships and social structures. Simply observe nature with new eyes. You will discover symbiosis and an interactive chain of cooperation beyond your wildest of dreams.
You are trained to think of “peace” and “normal” as a standard. Reflect on the wisdom of replacing that with, “vitality” and“extra-ordinary”! When enough people on this Earth get the message, there will be no problem turning this “ship around” in the middle of the night.
This is what Adnan says he has done:
I built the first wind park, Floating hospital for emergencies, Floating power plants, Desalinization parks in the deserts, We plant 6 million trees a year, I built the floating emergency homes for disasters, First environmental agriculture, introduction of the hydrogen cars into the market, Construction 90 % of China, Science parks, fund the arts around the world, Fed the hungry when they were in need, stopped wars from happening,rebuilt most of the Pacific rim, UAE, South and central America. All before I was 40.
Computers for the kids in underdeveloped countries, the intelligent blackboards for the schools that had no teachers, Satellite communications that converted languages to local language, The 1000 dollar lap tops, The WIFI networks, Mobile phones in Africa so the people could do business to feed there families instead of driving 3 days to make a meeting. Animal farming.
Roads, hospitals around the world – It seems like what ever comes to mind I have done it. Consulted president, kings, on what to do. They used to call to ask directions of the situations.

They never said that they were the heads of state of the kings and queens of countries. They called the plumber to fix their problems.For many years I did. When Mother Teresa needed money for food she called me and I got it for her. Then she got me mad because she didn’t want to teach work skills, saying it was good for the soul to suffer.
All my good work got hijacked by crooks named BUSH and company. The triple B Group. Bush, Baker and Bradley. They screwed it all up.
My note: Adnan recognized that the Bush family was behind 9/11 after gold that was stolen from the vaults, was melted down in Indochina to be re-stamped. A part of the cache was take to UBS to be entered into the system. It was discovered that it was the dragon gold stolen from the Twin Tower Vaults. The agents were killed and the gold was melted down again with the proper owners stamp, back to China, held by Adnan Sakli.
Mike Cechanowicz 14.3.2014
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11/04/2015

Demokrati for eliten


Demokrati for eliten


Nokså stille og forsvarlig innpakket i juridisk knot — har stortingspolitikere fra Høyre, Arbeiderpartiet, Fremskrittspartiet, Kristelig Folkeparti og Venstre fremmet et lovforslag som vil strupe lokaldemokratiet.

Representantene for de fem partiene vil endre offentlighetsloven slik at byrådene kan hemmeligholde dokumenter og sakslister som skal opp i byrådenes forberedende møter. Det betyr at alle saker som diskuteres på et tidlig stadium, eller saker som stanses eller legges til side, kan holdes hemmelig for innbyggerne.

Kommuner som styres av byråd har lenge praktisert slikt hemmelighold. Dette er i strid med offentlighetsloven, noe som er fastslått av både Sivilombudsmannen og Lovavdelingen i Justisdepartementet. I stedet for å rette seg etter loven, vil politikere fra de fem partiene endre den slik at hemmeligholdet kan fortsette.

Begrunnelsen koker ned til makelighet og effektivitet. Saksbehandlingen kan foregå uten innblanding og driften blir derfor mer effektiv. Det vises til at regjeringen, og kommuner med som er styrt etter formannskapsmodellen, praktiserer slikt hemmelighold.

Lovforslaget møter allerede betydelig motstand. Blant de sterkt kritiske er jussprofessor Jan Fridthjof Bernt, som også er ekspert på offentlighetsloven. Han sier til Bergens Tidende at forslaget «innebærer en viktig reduksjon av velgernes mulighet til innsyn i de politiske prosessene i kommuner med parlamentarisk styringsform». Pressens offentlighetsutvalg advarer mot forslaget og mener at det bryter med demokratiske spilleregler og grunnleggende prinsipper om åpenhet. Utvalget peker på at det vil føre til at samfunnet mister retten til å få innsyn på et tidspunkt der de mest reelle drøftelsene skjer, og når mulighetene til å påvirke er størst. Totalt sett kan forslaget svekke tilliten til, og forståelsen for, viktige beslutninger i samfunnet, heter det.

Avkledd alle fraser handler dette om mange politikeres drøm: Demokrati uten innblanding fra folket. Den ene av forslagsstillerne, Høyres Ingjerd Schou, sier det nokså rett ut: «Folket har valgt sine representanter til å styre». Underforstått: Når valget er over er det de folkevalgte som bestemmer, og det må skje uten utidig innblanding i de politiske prosessene.

En slik oppfatning av demokratiet er både avstumpet og elitistisk. Folkestyret gjelder alle dager, ikke bare en dag hvert fjerde år når det er valg. Skal et slikt demokrati virke, krever det at offentligheten har bredt innsyn i hva som foregår i de politiske prosessene. 

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Men dette er jo midt i blinken til forberedelse for medlemskap  i TTIP frihandelsavtalen og alt den innebærer av hemmelige lover og udemokratiske forlangende.  Forbauset at andre enn Høyre ville være med på dette. Denne gangen gjelder det lokaldemokratiet,siden Stortinget og regjeringen.

Den forrige regjering har jo allerede nedlagt flere av våre hevdvundne gamle domstoler,alt i navn av bekvemmelighet for å gjøre regjering av ukyndige mere lettvint. 


Snart kommer vel departementene med sine hundrevis av rådlovgivere til å ta seg av det hele i all hemmelighet."  Som hentet ut av TTIP sine lovbøker. Snart forsvinner vel også de folkevalgte fra Stortinget,"det blir jo så mye enklere"

DETTE må vi IKKE finne oss i som borgere og skattebetalere.

Foreslår at ALLE tilslutter seg den verdensomspennende protestmarsjen kommende lørdag 18 april for "WORLD ON WANT"  i mot   TTIP ON WANT"


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WAR ON WANT day of Action in London against TTIP and their WANT!


WAR ON WANT


Global Day of Action in London 

against TTIP and their WANT!


18 April 2015
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TTIP is an assault on democracy. But the resistance is growing to this 'free trade' deal that in reality threatens our most prized social, health and environmental protections in the name of corporate profit. 18 April is the Global Day of Action against TTIP, when activists across the UK will join people around the world in voicing their opposition and organising against TTIP.

In London, War on Want is supporting “Day of Dissent: Democracy vs TTIP”. Starting at 12.00pm on Shepherd’s Bush Green, there will be an open, participatory assembly on TTIP, followed by a series of creative actions to highlight the threat TTIP poses to the NHS, food and environmental protection standards. Speakers at the assembly will include John Hilary (Executive Director, War on Want), Jenny Jones (Green Party), and Gay Lee (Keep Our NHS Public).

For more details of what's happening around the UK and beyond, visitglobaltradeday.org, and sign up to the Facebook event.

For more information, contact Mark Dearn 
(mdearn@waronwant.org, 0207 324 5054)
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Launch of Scotland Against TTIP




Saturday, 11 April 2015

Launch of Scotland Against TTIP


Full version of article written by STUC Deputy General Secretary Dave Moxham for the Herald in advance of the launch of Scotland Against TTIP, 11th April.


The case made by the supporters of TTIP rests on one very bold assertion and one, very shaky, assumption.


The bold assertion, in a nutshell, is that under TTIP the European economy will grow and that this growth will outweigh any economic negatives such as job losses and job displacement.


The shaky assumption is that, dazzled by the big numbers, ordinary citizens will care little for any further loss of democratic oversight of the way their economy is run and their services are delivered, prepared to trust, instead that their governments, the big multi-national institutions and big business, can be trusted with the world’s biggest ever trade deal.


And to be brutally honest, this has tended to be the way of things in the past. Major trade deals, changes to the international regulation of finance and treaties governing key issues such as environmental protection and labour standards have been agreed with nary a murmur of dissent. But the response to TTIP has been different both because its proponents have been singularly unable to demonstrate its economic benefits and because, post the 2008 financial crisis, they have seriously underestimated the public mood.


The old trick of holding up a large number and hoping it will silence all criticism does not seem to be working this time. The primary reason for this being that, in the context of the size of the European economy, £130 billion Euros of growth claimed is actually a very small number indeed. Spread over a twelve year period it amounts to additional annual GDP growth of little more than 0.03%. Just to be clear, this number is so small that, come 2027, the task of measuring whether additional growth had been achieved as a result of TTIP would be statistically impossible.


At the same time, no serious impact analysis has been undertaken (in Scotland, the UK or Europe), on what the effect of TTIP would be on overall employment, and crucially, the impact of job dislocation – the process by which some areas and regions would quite certainly lose employment, whilst others gained. Derisory gains, enormous uncertainties.


Despite the rhetoric, TTIP is very little about removing tariffs barriers and very much about reducing protections to the environment and employment standards so that multi-nationals can trade with fewer inconvenient restrictions. The buzzwords used are ‘standardisation’ and ‘harmonisation’. The truth is that corporate power is seeking to limit the intensely troublesome habit of some governments, some of the time, to support public ownership and to protect their citizens and the environment.


Against the general expectation that many standards would be harmonised through reduced protections, in one particular sector, the trend seems likely to be in the opposite direction. It is entirely predictable that the under TTIP the pharmaceutical giants will be lobbying intensively to make their patents longer, stronger and more far reaching, with the entirely predictable negative impact on the cost of prescription drugs.


But if the bold assertion of economic gain versus loss looks weak, weaker still is the assumption that citizens will stand idly by whilst the concentration of economic power continues at the expense of democratic accountability. The coming together of a wide range of organisations, from trade unionists to local food campaigners and anti-poverty campaigners to environmental activists to form the Scotland Against TTIP coalition is part of a growing movement across Europe that aims to prevent a massive corporate power grab taking place at the expense of democratic sovereignty. More than a million and a half people in Europe have signed a petition calling for TTIP to be scrapped, and next Saturday a day of action is taking place with hundreds of events and demonstrations taking place across the continent.


The reason for this upsurge in opposition seems clear. Until a leaked draft was obtained last August, the TTIP negotiations were being undertaken in utmost secrecy. The Investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS), considered a cornerstone of TTIP by its strongest supporters would allow international corporations to sue sovereign governments, bypassing existing legal procedures. This culture of secrecy and body-swerving of democratic process feeds directly into a narrative, which people increasingly recognise and suspect.


Whether in Greece or Spain, where the traditional parties of government have been rejected and the diktats of international institutions challenged, or in the wider EU where opposition to the status quo is growing alongside a healthy disenchantment with the role of big finance, it is clear that traditional assumptions about the quiescent attitude of citizens and communities to the shaping of their economic futures cannot be relied upon.


This is one trade deal that will not be passed on the nod.


Posted by Scottish Trades Union Congress at 09:48

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07/04/2015

Catalyst? TTIP’s impact on the Rest. (Read the book)


Catalyst? TTIP’s impact on the Rest


M. Sait Akman, Simon J Evenett, Patrick Low 07 April 2015

TTIP: Do the Geopolitical arguments stack up?



MEP, GREENS/EFA GROUP & CO-CHAIR 

OF THE EUROPEAN GREEN PARTY 

07 APRIL 2015



TTIP: Do the Geopolitical arguments stack up? 


Discussing TTIP's role in relation to EU integration, growth, transnational corporations, China's containment, the developing world, and the multilateral trade process with Reinhard Bütikofer


 

Q1. In recent months, the communications around TTIP from the Commission and our political leaders has shifted from content and concrete benefits of the potential agreement to its wider geopolitical importance. Why do you think this is?

I always wondered, I must say, why the geopolitical dimension of TTIP was not getting more attention in Europe. After all, this perspective provided the arguments that finally convinced President Obama to decide in favour of opening the TTIP negotiations back in 2013. And former Trade Commissioner De Gucht, when he visited the US, did not hesitate to interpret TTIP as an economic containment strategy against China. So finally this discussion has surfaced in Europe also.

I suppose the overall political environment, which is characterised by the simultaneous emergence of several difficult geopolitical challenges to the EU, has prepared the ground. Is this spurious or a distraction? By no means. If, for instance, a transatlantic agreement could effectively help in promoting higher environmental and labour standards globally, wouldn't that be a worthy cause? I believe it would. But then, is TTIP going to be the kind of agreement that would deliver on such an expectation?

When President Obama argued in his last State of the Union address, how much better it is if "we" set globally-relevant standards and not China, India or others, I would say he has half a point. If "we", the environmentally and socially conscious segments of our societies in the US and in Europe could influence the standard-levels that our economies are going to promote, that would be good. But if "we" is the big corporations that promote their selfish interests at the expense of our societies, then invoking the "we" is delusional and would lead to a monumental deception; Monsanto and Big Tobacco or, to generalise, corporations are not people. Obama's argument makes sense only if we manage to put the people's interest first.


Q2. The main geopolitical argument for concluding a comprehensive deal is the idea that Europe is in decline both economically and politically, and that TTIP will be the panacea. At the same time, the EU remains one the world's largest economies, and our trade with the US already amounts to billions everyday. Is TTIP’s importance over-stated?

I'm not a disciple of European declinism. Europe has great inherent strengths, but we must mobilise them. That will only be possible by mobilising the people. Promoting a trade agreement against widespread popular interest, against outspoken public criticism and using secrecy as a tool to try get it by is certainly not going to be a successful strategy in mobilising the people, or if it is, it will be to mobilise them against the project.

Apart from that I do believe the seminal importance of TTIP is being overstated. And this has mostly been the effect of corporate interests like the US agricultural industry, that have been frustrated for so long in their ambition to force down Europeans' throats what they consider "good food for an American family" that they now want to saddle the TTIP course and ride on that horse victoriously over the finish line. In order to isolate themselves from adequate scrutiny and criticism, they're trying to overstate the relevancy of TTIP, hoping that anyone who would then continue with their criticism could be branded enemies of economic progress.

Don't get me wrong, I would see economic benefit in a transatlantic agreement once we managed to get rid of all the corporate lobbyists' Christmas tree agenda including their ISDS power-grab. At any rate, TTIP is not going to produce a winning growth strategy for Europe that has otherwise alluded our Union because of the prevailing austerity orientation.


Q3. Pierre Defraigne, former Head of Cabinet and Deputy Director-General at DG Trade has warned that TTIP could undermine the process of EU integration opening up “the possibility of a U.S. “divide and conquer” strategy in the heart of the legislative process of integration.” (1) While the Bertelmann’s study (2) also notes that intra-EU trade could decrease by up to 40% as a result of the deal. Could TTIP undo integration efforts here in Europe?

I think that would be overstating the case. Of course value chains are not static. But that is a reality regardless of TTIP. If we don't actively work on a cohesive industrial policy for the EU, the existing divisions will be exacerbated with or without enhanced US trade. They could also be deepened by China, the new kid on the block, which is already the second largest extra-European investor within the Union after the US.


Q4. On China, Defraigne has stated “TTIP does not provide the right answer either to EU growth or to China’s fair inclusion in the world economy” (3) but would instead further fragment the global economy and increase the risk of trade block confrontation. Are we at risk of doing more damage than good with other global players?

We must take Defraigne's points seriously. If TTIP becomes a building block for a West against the Rest or the West against China strategy, that would be stupid, futile and self-defeating. But on standardisation, for instance, I would assume that European industry even though they encounter problems increasingly with China within the ISO framework, would be smart enough not to ignore their own interests and therefore not to fall under the spell of the USTR's approach, that would want to force our side to fall in line with "US domiciled" standard development organisations (SDO).


Q5. Many proponents have claimed that TTIP will be good for developing nations, yet figures suggest that developing nations, including those in conflict regions in North Africa, could be hardest hit. (drop in real income per capita between 2.8 and 4.0%.). At the same time, such countries have also been locked out of the negotiation process. Is this another case of the “West knows best” for such nations?

When I first raised this issue in a conversation at USTR's office in May 2013, before TTIP even started, my questions were met with exasperation: "It's difficult enough already as it is". But at least in some cases the US now seems to be sharing more information with interested third parties than the EU is. I heard from sources in Turkey, and they do have a keen interest in the outcome of TTIP, that they get more information about the negotiations from Washington DC than from Brussels. If the EU negotiators want to uphold even the pretension of integrating TTIP negotiations in whatever way or form with a multilateral trade perspective they would certainly have to listen to our partners from the South, to take their concerns into account and to inform them about the process.


Q6. Commissioner Malmström has said that the EU remains committed to multilateral trade talks, like the Doha Round, yet TTIP is effectively bypassing this process. Does the proliferation of big bilateral deals like TTIP help or hinder the multilateral process?

Look, WTO's Doha Round was stalled before TTIP took off. And it would be unfair to seek the culprits for blockages in developing an adequate multilateral trade regime just in Washington or some of the European capitals. Other nations, in particular, some of the emerging economies are also playing hardball and it is not necessarily a given that the business interests that they defend are more justified than the business interests that our negotiators follow. It is also noteworthy that China, for instance, is promoting an Asian free trade concept that would, if I get it right, corroborate its own evolving Asia for Asians strategy, which is not really a synonym for multilateralism. I would still be in favour of holding on to the old Green ideal of a multilaterally agreed fair global trade order and it should certainly be one of our demands vis-a-vis TTIP and that this orientation is not getting lost completely.


Q7. Greens in the European Parliament are concerned that TTIP favours the activities of transnational corporate power, at the expense of ordinary people and the planet. In your view, can the current TTIP agenda address the global issues we face? In an ideal world, how would you reimagine a TTIP deal that would be good for all citizens and the planet?

Nice of you to remind me of the criticism that we are voicing in the European Parliament. So what can I say? I share the criticism. And in an ideal world we would not be negotiating TTIP. Just look at my previous answer. But this is not an ideal world and we have to deal with the issues at hand and it is still a long way towards convincing enough of our citizens of the dangerous ideas in the present TTIP negotiations so that they will join forces with us in preventing those dangers from becoming trade law.


(1) Choosing between Europe and the TTIP, Pierre Defraigne, College of Europe: http://ttip2015.eu/files/content/docs/28-nov-2013%20defraigne-choosing%20between%20ttip%20and%20europe.pdf

(2) TTIP study, Bertelmann Foundation: http://ttip2015.eu/blog-detail/blog/diversion%20of%20trade.html

(3)Departing from TTIP and going plurilateral Pierre Defraigne, College of Europe: http://ttip2015.eu/files/content/docs/Full%20documents/Departing_from_TTIP_and_going_plurilateral

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TTIP benefits big capital on both sides of the Atlantic

AKEL, Cyprus, TTIP benefits big capital on both sides of the Atlantic




TTIP benefits big capital on both sides of the Atlantic

Statement of Georgos Loucaides, AKEL C.C. Press Spokesperson

AKEL C.C Press Office, 31st March 2015, Nicosia

The European Union is in talks with the US to draw up the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), which in effect integrates the two markets and changes the world’s economic map.

Big capital is expected to benefit from this agreement; SME’s and labour rights will come under attack in order to make the market more competitive. Numerous rights in health and environmental standards will be crushed down so that uniform criteria are imposed. Countries such as Cyprus and its economy will have to face a vast range of deregulations in the market, while in Europe all that has remained from social gains and rights will be curbed. All of these developments are underway to benefit the multinational monopolies of the two sides.

Quite correctly therefore TTIP is perceived not as a negotiation between two competing trading partners, but as an attack on European and American societies by the transnational corporations, which are seeking to remove any regulatory barriers on both sides of the Atlantic.

Bearing this given situation in mind, AKEL expresses its opposition to the impending agreement. AKEL has tabled the matter for discussion in the House of Representatives. We note that the government is in essence not taking a different position from the decisions of the powerful economic cycles. In various European countries a movement questioning and rejecting the transatlantic agreement has been formed. The EU refuses to listen to all the protests. AKEL calls on the government to abandon the dogma of the unbridled market as the recipe for resolving the crisis. Besides, this is the very dogma that led us to the crisis. AKEL will proceed in the period ahead to inform social organisations and agencies aiming to create a climate of awareness and resistance to this agreement and its content.

http://www.akel.org.cy/en/?p=3340#.VR6pqPysU-k

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Derfor oppfattes ikke TTIP  som en vanlig forhandling mellom to konkurrerende handels-partnere, men som et angrep på det europeiske og amerikanske samfunn av de transnasjonale selskaper, som søker å fjerne eventuelle regulatoriske barrierer på begge sider av Atlanter-havet for å øke sin omsetning på bekostning av mindre selskaper og de sosiale rettighetene til ´mannen i gata´.

På denne måten kan de store nasjonale selskapene også unngå regulatoriske barrierer i sine EGNE land i urettferdig konkurranse med mindre selskaper som må forholde seg til landets regulatoriske barrierer.   Dette holder IKKE mål !!


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En liten orientering om THE OTIUM POST´s intensjoner.








En liten orientering om THE OTIUM POST´s intensjoner.

HOVEDSAKEN MED THE OTIUM POST ER Å BESKYTTE VÅRE UTENLAND-SPENSJONISTER FOR DERES DEMOKRATISKE RETTIGHETER OG NORSK LOVRETT.

SÅ KOM TTIP,EN TILSYNELATENDE FORDELAKTIG FRIHANDELSAVTALE MELLOM EU OG USA,SOM SIDEN VISER SEG Å INNEHOLDE LOVER/FORUTSETNINGER SOM TRUER VÅRT DEMOKRATI OG VELFERDSSYSTEM.

NORGE ER MEDLEM AV EØS SOM KREVER UNDERKASTELSE AV DE FLESTE AV EU´S LOVER,OG DERMED VIL OGSÅ NORGE BLI BERØRT AV EN EVT. AVTALE MED TTIP.

DERFOR,SAMT FORDI DET HAR VÆRT LITEN BEVEGELSE I DET SISTE I KAMPEN FOR VÅRE RETTIGHETER SOM PENSJONISTER BOSATT I UTLANDET, HAR THE OTIUM POST I DEN SENERE TID KONSENTRERT SEG OM EN ANNEN KAMP,DENNE GANG MOT TTIP FOR Å OPPLYSE VÅRE LESERE OM FARENE SOM TRUER.

SÅ SNART DET FORELIGGER FERSKE NYHETER FRA REGJERINGEN ELLER VIDERE PLANER OM HVORDAN VI SKAL TA TILBAKE VÅRE PENSJONS-RETTIGHETER,VIL DET KOMME NYE INNLEGG HER.

DETTE ER EN SAMLET INNTRENGING AV DE STØRSTE INTERNASJONALE  KONGLOMERATENE FOR UHEMMET ADGANG TIL VERDENS MARKEDER PÅ DERES BETINGELSER,SOM ØNSKER Å UTRYDDE ALL MOTSTAND I MOT DERES ØKONOMISKE FREMGANG,OG ØNSKER DERVED Å FJERNE ALL DEMOKRATISKE, HEVDVUNDNE RETTIGHETER FRA VÅRT FOLK SOM GJØRES TIL LAVTLØNNEDE SLAVER UTEN AVTALER.

DETTE MÅ FOR ALL DEL IKKE OPPFATTES SOM HAT MOT DEN GJENNOMSNITTELIGE AMERIKANER, DE ER VÅRE ALLIERTE OG VENNER. HAR SELV BÅDE FAMILIE OG VENNER I USA.

DENNE FRIHANDELSAVTALEN MÅ VI FOR ALL DEL FORHINDRE !!

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Germany’s Merkel Now Comes Out as Basically a U.S. Agent

Germany’s Merkel Now Comes Out as Basically a U.S. Agent



April 6th, 2015 Eric Zuesse





On Wednesday, April 1st, German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s cabinet approved a measure to bring fracking (the patents for which are owned mainly by “large American companies, including Halliburton, Baker Hughes and Schlumberger”) into Germany. This is a prelude not only to U.S. President Obama’s secret Trans-Atlantic Trade & Investment Partnership (TTIP) pact with Europe to subordinate national laws and regulations to trans-national mega-corporate panels that will be dominated by U.S. firms and that will override the participating nations’ environmental and labor regulations and consumer protections (and harm European economies generally), but it is also a major step toward removing Europe from Russia’s energy-market, and bringing U.S. and European oil companies to dominate there instead.


German Economic News headlined on April 1st, "Precursor to TTIP: Federal Government brings Fracking to Germany,” and reported that:
The controversial shale gas extraction (fracking) process is coming to Germany: In order not to provoke excessively large protests at home, the federal government highlighted that fracking is initially allowed only for testing purposes. But in fact, the draft law of the Federal Environment and the Federal Ministry of Economics, approved today by the the Cabinet, also allows subsequent large-scale extraction of shale gas….


The American interest in a continuing conflict simmering in Ukraine also causes Europeans to fear that Russian gas could stop and thus drive Europe to give up our still considerable resistance against fracking. Some US politicians have personal interests, such as the US Vice President Biden, whose son works for a Ukrainian fracking company.


Last year [U.S. agent, friend of Angela Merkel, and EU Council President, Donald] Tusk wrote in a commentary in the Financial Times that 'excessive dependence on Russian energy’ is an EU weakness. Currently, the EU countries derive 44 percent of our natural gas from Russia and 33 percent from Norway. … Objectively, there is no reason to be afraid of the Russians: Even Angela Merkel acknowledged a few months ago that Russians have always accurately fulfilled their gas contracts and therefore are a reliable partner.


Halliburton and Baker-Hughes have merged, and are the two major owners of fracking patents. Schlumberger is third. ExxonMobil is a distant fourth. So, this could produce a huge boost to those stocks.


The fact that the only independent economic analysis of the impact of the TTIP finds that, without a doubt, it will harm European economies, and especially will increase the inequality of wealth in both the U.S. and EU, suggests that the U.S. aristocracy’s control over European aristocracies must be rather strong in order for the TTIP to be moving forward toward approval by, apparently, people such as Merkel and Tusk. Merkel has already shown that she is the EU’s enforcer of austerity (“the Washington Consensus”) upon the residents in Greece and Spain in order to guarantee payments to the bondholders of those countries; but in the present instance, the aristocrats whom she is serving are specifically, if not only, American ones. And, in particular, the oil companies that will be primary beneficiaries of her pro-fracking maneuver are mainly American ones. She comes from the former East Germany, and, apparently, hates Russia just as the CIA-connected Barack Obama does. 



After the Cabinet meeting, a joint press conference was held with Ukraine’s Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, in which he said and she seconded, that Ukraine was ready to join the EU and was making the required progress toward rooting out corruption, and toward other matters. He said that the only barriers against that are Russian aggression, and a shortage of money from Germany and from other Western nations. The two leaders stated that the front-line against the threat from Russia is Ukraine, and Merkel promised to do what is needed in order to help.


As Russian news report put it a : “Reassuring each other in their heartfelt friendship, mutual hatred of Russia, and the bright prospects of Ukraine being on the way into Europe, the heads of Government remembered their shared history. Yatseniuk again accused Russia of trying to 'privatize the history of Ukraine', referring to the debate on the participation of Ukrainians in the victory over Nazi Germany. The Prime Minister of Ukraine proposed to celebrate 8 May as a day of reconciliation and European solidarity.”


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