Imagine – the European Union were to collapse tomorrow – or any
day soon for that matter. Europeans would dance in the streets. The EU
has become a sheer pothole of fear and terror: Economic sanctions –
punishment, mounting militarization, the abolition of civil rights for
most Europeans. A group of unelected technocrats, representing 28
countries, many of them unfit to serve in their own countries’ political
system, but connected well enough to get a plum job in Brussels – are
deciding the future of Europe. In small groups and often in secret
chambers they decide the future of Europe.
Take the
TTIP – under pressure from their masters in
Washington, behind closed doors under utmost secrecy – and most likely
against their own personal good – a small group of European Commission
(EC) delegates without scruples, without any respect for their
co-citizens, without consideration for their children, grand-children
and their children, only interested in the instant laurels and pay-back –
to be sure – from the colonialist, usurper and warrior number One, the
United States of Chaos and Killing, they are ready to put 500 million
Europeans and their descendants at peril.
It cannot be said enough what horrors the TTIP
(Trans-Atlantic
Trade and Investment Partnership) would do to the people of Europe; and
that is based on the little we know from the 248 pages ‘leaked’ by
Greenpeace Netherlands of the ultra-clandestine negotiations taking
place. ‘Negotiations’ is the most unfair term imaginable, since all the
rules are imposed by Washington, the same as with the TPP (Trans-Pacific
Partnership, involving 11 Pacific countries and the US – but not China
and Russia).
Though TPP negotiations are finished, none of the 11 Pacific
partners, nor the US Congress have approved the treaty. There is hope
that even if ‘negotiations’ by the secret EC traitors and Washington
should come to conclusion, at least some of the 28 EU countries may not
approve. To be valid, the treaty needs to be approved in unanimity. The
new rightwing Austrian frontrunner for Austrian’s Presidency, Norbert
Hofer, has already said he would not sign the TTIP agreement. Similar
remarks have been made by the French Minister for Foreign Trade,
Matthias Fekl, who said, “There cannot be an agreement without France
and much less against France.”
Under the TTIP, the citizens of Europe would lose out on all fronts.
Europeans would become literally subjects of a corporate empire, led by
the United States of America. EU countries would stop being sovereign
nations, even more so than is already the case under the current
Brussels dictate. As the secret TTIP documents reveal, the agreement
would be the death knell for Europe. Here is what Susan George,
philosopher and political analyst and President of the Planning
Committee of the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam has to say:
- The food we import would be chemically treated, would be
genetically modified, would have no labels. You wouldn’t know exactly
what is in your food. You could buy chicken that has been rinsed in
chlorine, you could have beef that was raised with hormones, you could
have biosynthetic food made out of one gene of a plant another of an
animal, and this would not be labeled.
- In the area of agriculture again, it is very likely that we
would lose a great many farmers, because if we lower the tariffs of
agriculture we will have a flood of American [highly subsidized,
GMO]-corn and basic grains flooding into Spain and that will ruin a lot
of farmers, exactly the way the ”campesinos” in Mexico were ruined by
the North American Free Trade Agreement, the NAFTA.
- ln the area of health, the pharmaceutical companies [want] to
get rid of generic drugs. They have already succeeded in forcing the
generic drug companies to repeat all of the clinical trials that they
have already had to do with the same identical medicine but which has a
brand name. To make it a generic drug you have to start all over again:
clinical trials, blind tests, and so forth. So medicine would become
much more expensive.
But most important:
- [The TTIP] is about giving corporations the freedom to sue governments if they don’t like a law that the government has passed.
We have a lot of examples now, because in hundreds of bilateral treaties
this private judiciary system exists, and for example, the government
of Egypt raised the minimum wage and a company, an important company,
Veolia, from France, sued them because they would have to pay their
workers more. This case has not been decided yet, but one case that has
been decided is for example, Ecuador, which refused that an American
petroleum company could drill in a particular region. Well, they said
this is a protected area and you cannot drill here. And the company
said, ah, we will sue you; and they won. And they have a fine on Ecuador
of 1.8 billion dollars which is a lot of money for a small and fairly
weak country.
This simply means that private corporate courts would be above the
laws and courts of sovereign nations. There would be no sovereignty
left; not even the little idependence Brussels has not yet destroyed. EU
nations would all be under the rules of an Anglo-American led corporate
empire.
You may read Susan George’s full article here
http://www.defenddemocracy.press/suzan-george-%CE%BFn-ttip-new-european-movements/, as well as my recently re-published one
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-transatlantic-trade-and-investment-partnership-ttip-would-abolish-europes-sovereignty-the-eu-would-become-a-us-colony/5417382.
And then there is
TiSA, the ‘
Trade in Services Agreement’,
of which even fewer people are aware. It is also being ‘negotiated’ in
secrecy, involving 23 WTO members (Australia, Canada, Chile, Chinese
Taipei, Colombia, Costa Rica, the EU (28 countries), Hong Kong China,
Iceland, Israel, Japan, Korea, Liechtenstein, Mauritius, Mexico, New
Zealand, Norway, Pakistan, Panama, Peru, Switzerland, Turkey and the
United States). Altogether, we are talking about 50 countries; 49 of
them bent to submit to one, the Unites States of Wars, Crimes and
Domination. It doesn’t take a lot of imagination to realize that, again,
Washington is calling the shots. Actually, the TiSA talks, similar to
those of the TTIP, are infiltrated by US corporate trolls and lobbyists,
making Washington the representative for the US corporate empire and,
of course, for Wall Street.
According to WTO, TiSA would be opening up the market for ‘
trade in services’,
meaning – expect privatization of all public and social services, like
health care, education, social security systems, pensions,
transportation, postal services, telecommunication, water supply and
sanitation, solid waste disposal – and more would all be subject to
buy-outs by transnational corporations. Just look at Greece, trying hard
to pay back their ill-begotten debt, selling off her national social
capital, or life capital, to the detriment of the poor – by now the
majority of Greek – who depend on it. Once a country has signed the
trade agreements, there is no way back. It has opened its social and
public sectors to rent seeking private corporations.
Like with the TTIP, should a government at a later stage realize that
privatization of, say water services, did not bring the promised
benefits for the people, it cannot go back and re-nationalize, or
municipalize this service. Remunicipalization of water services is
currently happening in France, of all places, the country with the most
privatized public water supply systems. In 2012 the government and
municipalities of large cities decided to re-take these vital public
services. This is currently ongoing. Under TiSA rules it would not be
possible. Worse – once TiSA is signed, a country cannot decide to exempt
a particular sector included in the list for potential
‘liberalization’, for example, health, education and other vital social
services. Corporate arbitration courts, similar to those of the TTIP,
would be set up for TiSA. – These ‘negotiations’ are taking place in
Geneva, under the auspices of WTO –
in secret – and driven by rules, sticks and carrots, imposed by – you guessed it – Washington.
If the EU were to collapse today, both the TTIP and the TiSA talks
would come to a standstill. Anyone of the 28 EU countries, or better
even of the 19 Eurozone countries, could bring the EU down. A Grexit, a
Brexit, a fiasco emerging from the forthcoming rehash of the Spanish
elections – or a firm decision by a government to default on its
(mostly) troika imposed debt, could bring the house of cards of the
dollar pyramid scheme to fall – and erase once and for all the enslaving
dollar-euro hegemony. Debt could be renegotiated in newly restored
national currencies. Remember, the euro is barely 15 years old. So –
returning to national currencies should not be dramatic, but rather a
sigh of relief – relief from a debt trap, and relief from Washington’s
and Brussels’ boots of oppression.
Imagine what a collapse of the EU and the euro-zone would mean for
the Greek people. Though, rumors have it that more than half the Greek
are still adamant in hanging on to the destructive euro, I bet, its
collapse would have hundreds of thousands dancing in the streets. Syriza
could forget the currently negotiated additional €3 billion austerity
budget cuts – even less pension and higher taxes for the poor.
To be sure, Greek debt relief will not come from the current
EU/EC-troika constellation. To the contrary, the German Minister of
Finance, Wolfgang Schaeuble, has ever harsher words for Greece, as if he
was threatening pushing Greece out of the EU. An empty threat, as
everybody should know by now. Washington, also the masters of Germany,
will not allow a Grexit, or a Brexit or an exit by any EU member.
Washington needs the EU ‘intact’ to eventually serve as a slave partner
in TTIP and TiSA.
What happened and continues to happen to Greece may serve as a
(learning) example for other ‘weak’ southern EU countries to follow –
unless, yes, unless, Greece or another country under EC-troika imposed
economic and financial stress and strangulation takes the bull by the
horns – taking a drastic decision: Exit the EU and the euro-zone,
jump-start the local economy with a local currency, and negotiate the
illegal and fraudulently imposed debt at their terms. That may bring
about the end of the nefarious euro-zone – and the US-created European
Union.
Be aware, the EU as it exists today, is not the invention of
Europeans; it is a construct thought out immediately after WWII by the
US, so as to keep Europe under her control – and to create a buffer zone
vis-à-vis communism, the Soviet Union. It worked so far. This idea
still prevails, as we see every day how Russia and her leader is being
demonized and slandered by the western media. Let us be frank, if it
weren’t for the strategic clear-headedness and foresight of President
Putin, we – Europe – would be for the third time in 100 years enmeshed
in a world war. And if we let this Washington imposed trend continue,
Europe will become an Anglo-American slaveland. Just look at TTIP and
TiSA.
A true federation of sovereign European countries down the road,
perhaps even with a common currency and a real central bank, may be a
viable long-term solution for Europe. But – and this is the most
important BUT, such a Europe will have to be designed by true and honest
Europeans – am I dreaming? – and absolutely without any influence of
the United States of America. None.
Anyone of the 28 EU countries could return happiness to the people of
Europe; could take the pain, frustration, fear and anxiety away; could
reinstate national sovereignty, could bring national pride and local –
instead of global – economy to the fore – by exiting the EU, by
forfeiting the euro, by taking the reign of their people into the hands
of a sovereign, democratic government.
A simple exit by one country – Greece, Portugal, Spain, Ireland, the
UK, France… you name it, could bring the ferocious debt machine to a
grinding halt, opening the opportunity of joining a new, more just and
more equal monetary scheme – the nascent combined eastern economic space
of China, Russia, BRICS, SCO (Shanghai Cooperation Organization) and
the EEU (Eurasian Economic Union).
To be sure, time is important. Not for nothing Obama is pushing for
speedy conclusions and signing of the disgraceful TTIP. The signing of
these predatory agreements, TTIP, TiSA, TPP, is a key agenda item of
Obama’s Presidency; his corporate and military legacy – NATO expansion
is part of it – may depend on it. Once these treaties are signed, there
is no way back. If the TTIP is ratified despite all logic, and if
subsequently the EU fell apart – each country would still be held
accountable to the terms of the agreement. Hence, time for an EU
collapse before signing of the TTIP and TiSA is of the essence.
This radical solution may be too much even for staunch EU / Euro
opponents. Many of them still seek, hope and dream of a reformed EU.
They still live under the illusion that ‘things’ could be worked out.
Believe me – they cannot. The Machiavellian US-invented venture, called
European Union with the equally US-invented common currency – the
Eurozone – has run its course. It is about to ram the proverbial
iceberg. The EU-Euro vessel is too heavy to veer away from disaster.
Europe is better off taking time to regroup; each nation with the
objective of regaining political and economic sovereignty – and perhaps
with an eye a couple of generations down the road envisaging a new
United Europe of sovereign federal states, independent, totally delinked
from the diabolical games of the western Anglo-American empire.
