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final control and is it's the United States saying there may be another power in the world but we will be the ultimate power quite explicitly the US and the EU are saying that they will these new trade agreements to form the blueprint the template for all future trade deals and that means they're rewriting the rules of the global economy and that means for everybody once signed it will cement a key part of the US government's plan to create a new global bloc that will ensure the dominance of its largest companies and to understand why we need to go back to the 1950s rollin America drive your ship rolling you after the Second World War the United States accounted for half of the world's economy its influence was unmatched by any country and it was able to write the early rules of international trade to its advantage the World Trade Organization was created in this context and the u.s. dictated rules that favoured American business but as economies like China and India joined the WTO it became a more democratized arena and the u.s. found it harder to control its decision-making at the WTO it is Doha rounds India spoke up and Brazil spoke up and the u.s. lost control I think it's no use beating around the bush this meeting has collapsed the u.s. felt it needed a new strategy to maintain its global dominance so in a classical American style they went back to bypass the WTO they're creating the biggest international agreements that the world they're called the three big T's the trans-pacific partnership or TPP the transatlantic trade and investment partnership or TTIP and the trade in services agreement or teasy and they're all being negotiated in secret right now we only found out when WikiLeaks was able to leak parts of them what's interesting is when you look across all of these deals whether it be TTIP TPP or Tisa China is excluded but also Brazil Russia India South Africa they're all excluded because those are the emerging economies what is not often understood is that these agreements are part of a geopolitical war this is a new war which is taking place within the United States and China the United States is very scared of the rise of China so it has moved to militarily encircle it three ways called the pivot to Asia and now it's moving on to doing that economically the basic idea we comes across from reading us strategy papers is the construction of a new grand enclosure and put inside this grand enclosure the United States 51 other countries 1.6 billion people and two-thirds of global GDP to integrate Latin America away from Brazil and towards the United States to integrate Southeast Asia away from China and towards the United States and to integrate Western Europe pulling it away from Eurasia as a whole and towards the Atlantic of the three big T's WikiLeaks has revealed four chapters of the TPP which affects twelve countries in the Americas and Southeast Asia we also obtained and released the core text of teaser which affects 52 countries including the EU but nearly all of TTIP is still secret nobody knows is about what's being negotiated in our name so you have these far-reaching deals which are going to completely change the face of our economies and our societies and yet even elected parliamentarians know the world's biggest corporations don't have the same problem they have been receiving VIP access from day one and have had abundant influence in the negotiations people the likes of you and I are excluded governments to a great extent are excluded those who are included are the multinational corporations these agreements are basically corporate ownership agreements the funny thing about free trade agreements as we understand them is they often have nothing to do with trade in the sense of the mutual lowering of tariffs what they're about is enshrining an investor rights regime in the respective countries and ensuring the corporation's can run wild in the respective economies with very very little regulation or impingement by government or authorities these treaties will have huge huge implications for literally almost every critical issue that an individual citizen or community would care about health education the and access to medicines and the list could go on one of the most criticized aspects is a system called the investor state dispute settlement or isds it's a secretive international tribunal that allows companies to sue States over virtually anything that they can claim affects an investment if a protest affects their profits they can sue if laws affect their their profits they can sue if new regulations might impact I where where what they want to do with their money they can sue this is a new Power which will be handed over to US corporations to sue the governments of Europe in a parallel judicial system which is available to them alone so people have no access to it domestic firms have no access to it governments have no access to it it's just their foreign investors in this case US corporations based on isds history critics argued the European state sovereignty and democracy are at serious include Swedish company Vattenfall suing the German state for 3.7 billion dollars for phasing out nuclear energy British American Tobacco sued Australia for passing a law limiting cigarette advertising the French company Veolia sued Egypt for raising the minimum wage what is so scary about this is that corporations want to lock in their power so they not only one increase power but they want to make it impossible for sovereign governments to reverse the changes which are going to give them power so for example with TTIP if it passes with isds in it the privatization of the National Health Service which is happening in the UK can never be what is democratic about an enormous imposition of power on countries whose citizens have no way of knowing what's going on of debating it or influencing their government in its decision that's anti-democratic the history of these agreements shows that they're very difficult to change unless people can see what's in them and that's why they kept secret because when the contents are revealed it generates an opposition in a few moments I will sign the North American Free Trade Act into law NAFTA will tear down trade barriers between our three nations it will create the world's largest trade zone and create 200,000 jobs in this country by 1995 alone this Agreement exchanges membership rights for China in the WTO for economic opportunities for America in China for American businesses and American workers the agreement we're announcing today includes several important improvements and achieves what I believe trade deals must do it's a win-win for both our countries this deal is win for American workers for our farmers and ranchers it will increase exports of American agricultural products so instead of having a race to the bottom for lower wages and worse working conditions and more abuse of our natural resources this is a race to the it's not just good for our businesses it's good for our workers WikiLeaks has had considerable success delaying the TPP and opening up the debate around it and a teaser by releasing the secret you are satisfied with 90 minutes
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