Berlin, Germany
A massive protest in the German capital against the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) accord being negotiated by the European Union and the United States.
John Gallen writes:
While we were fixated with sports, the Germans were protesting TTIP with 1/4 million of them out in Berlin. Note: German govt says 100,000 marched, organisers say 250,000…
Hundreds of Thousands March in Berlin Against TTIP Trade Deal (FilmsForAction)
Previously: TTiP Of The Iceberg
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The stuff you post under John is a lot better than your Clampers stuff
I am John Gallen!
The Trans-Pacific Pact – TPP – has been agreed to, by 12 governments. We (Aussies) are being told that it will be good for us, but it appears to be good for foreign corporations, not good for the citizens of any of the countries.
Wow, it’s not just here that nobody can count the number of protesters.
I wonder what Jack O’Connors views are on TTIP. How would he spin this one?
Probably the most important story for Ireland at the moment but I cant recall it ever being mentioned in the IT or the Indo. Strange.
It was only last week that I read a story. The details were vague. It concerns smoking and vaping.
There’s some EU committee that says vaping unfairly competes against cigarettes and tobacco products and something needs to be done about it. Coz its not fair to ciggie companies.
The comments section of the story told me it was a foretaste of TTIP.
Something needs to be done about this rubbish, or we will all suffer in one way or another.
Wikileaks have some coverage of it.
Tpp gives signatory countries “greater power to stop embarrassing information going public” (our gov will LOVE that)
“”If TPP is ratified, people in the Pacific Rim countries would have to live by the rules in this text,” said Peter Mybarduk, Pubplic Citizen’s Global Access to Medicines Program Director. “The new monopoly right for big pharmaceutical firms would compromise access to medicines in TPP countries. The TPP would cost lives”.”
Lots of interesting stuff. Looks like war on poor. And don’t fancy yourself as not one, unless you’re sitting on a fat trust fund.
http://youtu.be/ABDiHspTJww
Irish media are deliberately ignoring this. Some news editors had a meeting a good while back and decided amongst themselves to deceive the nation on TTIP.
Ireland is a strange little country where the citizens are being shafted generation after generation.
Article in todays UK independent re TTIP states
“I was recently granted a rare glimpse behind the official façade of the EU when I met with its Trade Commissioner in her Brussels office.” “As Trade Commissioner, Cecilia Malmström occupies a powerful position in the apparatus of the EU.” “In our meeting, I challenged Malmström over the huge opposition to TTIP across Europe.” “Yet when I asked the trade commissioner how she could continue her persistent promotion of the deal in the face of such massive public opposition, her response came back icy cold: “I do not take my mandate from the European people.”
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/i-didn-t-think-ttip-could-get-any-scarier-but-then-i-spoke-to-the-eu-official-in-charge-of-it-a6690591.html
TTIP is much more important than any local political squabble here at home, the rules of international trade are being written to please corporations and our ploiticians are complicit in giving them all they want. It will affect us mere citizens for decades
Could do without promoting RT content.
Check out their homepage now, down, down, down-playing the MH17 report and up, up, upping ‘independent’ tests… by the manufacturer of the missile that hit it.
hmm..so you have complete confidence in an investigation that sought to exclude Malaysia from the procedure and where one of the main suspects, Ukraine, can veto the release of any findings?
I suppose by your logic any news story with the rt logo is by default Putin propaganda
Implying you can get this sort of news from the European media?
Wikileaks was offering a $100,000 reward for a copy of the agreement – our EU politicians are signing this without having read it – it is the very definition of Fascism, corporate heavyweights combine their economic power backed by willing politicians – US corporations have started lawsuits against various South American governments for producing generics etc with the Tran Pacific deal – nightmare situation all for the benefit of US corporations, any politician who says it’s good because it’ll create jobs should be referred to the pre-lisbon treaty spiel
https://m.facebook.com/fotografeva/posts/10153301713364069