TOKYO MASTER BANNER

MINISTRY OF TOKYO
US-ANGLO CAPITALISMEU-NATO IMPERIALISM
Illegitimate Transfer of Inalienable European Rights via Convention(s) & Supranational Bodies
Establishment of Sovereignty-Usurping Supranational Body Dictatorships
Enduring Program of DEMOGRAPHICS WAR on Europeans
Enduring Program of PSYCHOLOGICAL WAR on Europeans
Enduring Program of European Displacement, Dismemberment, Dispossession, & Dissolution
No wars or conditions abroad (& no domestic or global economic pretexts) justify government policy facilitating the invasion of ancestral European homelands, the rape of European women, the destruction of European societies, & the genocide of Europeans.
U.S. RULING OLIGARCHY WAGES HYBRID WAR TO SALVAGE HEGEMONY
[LINK | Article]

*U.S. OLIGARCHY WAGES HYBRID WAR* | U.S. Empire's Casino Unsustainable | Destabilised U.S. Monetary & Financial System | U.S. Defaults Twice A Year | Causes for Global Financial Crisis of 2008 Remain | Financial Pyramids Composed of Derivatives & National Debt Are Growing | *U.S. OLIGARCHY WAGES HYBRID WAR* | U.S. Empire's Casino Unsustainable | Destabilised U.S. Monetary & Financial System | U.S. Defaults Twice A Year | Causes for Global Financial Crisis of 2008 Remain | Financial Pyramids Composed of Derivatives & National Debt Are Growing | *U.S. OLIGARCHY WAGES HYBRID WAR*

Who's preaching world democracy, democracy, democracy? —Who wants to make free people free?
[info from Craig Murray video appearance, follows]  US-Anglo Alliance DELIBERATELY STOKING ANTI-RUSSIAN FEELING & RAMPING UP TENSION BETWEEN EASTERN EUROPE & RUSSIA.  British military/government feeding media PROPAGANDA.  Media choosing to PUBLISH government PROPAGANDA.  US naval aggression against Russia:  Baltic Sea — US naval aggression against China:  South China Sea.  Continued NATO pressure on Russia:  US missile systems moving into Eastern Europe.     [info from John Pilger interview follows]  War Hawk:  Hillary Clinton — embodiment of seamless aggressive American imperialist post-WWII system.  USA in frenzy of preparation for a conflict.  Greatest US-led build-up of forces since WWII gathered in Eastern Europe and in Baltic states.  US expansion & military preparation HAS NOT BEEN REPORTED IN THE WEST.  Since US paid for & controlled US coup, UKRAINE has become an American preserve and CIA Theme Park, on Russia's borderland, through which Germans invaded in the 1940s, costing 27 million Russian lives.  Imagine equivalent occurring on US borders in Canada or Mexico.  US military preparations against RUSSIA and against CHINA have NOT been reported by MEDIA.  US has sent guided missile ships to diputed zone in South China Sea.  DANGER OF US PRE-EMPTIVE NUCLEAR STRIKES.  China is on HIGH NUCLEAR ALERT.  US spy plane intercepted by Chinese fighter jets.  Public is primed to accept so-called 'aggressive' moves by China, when these are in fact defensive moves:  US 400 major bases encircling China; Okinawa has 32 American military installations; Japan has 130 American military bases in all.  WARNING PENTAGON MILITARY THINKING DOMINATES WASHINGTON. ⟴  

February 18, 2017

Bankster Defence of CIA Spying on French Elections - Ecuador Bankster Election 2017






WikiLeaks

WIKILEAKS RELEASE - #CIAFrance
WIKILEAKS RELEASE - #CIAFrance

RELEASE: CIA espionage orders for the last French presidential election
@WikiLeaks
Bankster Defence of CIA Spying on French Elections & ASSAULT on free press, WikiLeaks+ Ecuador Bankster Election 2017

OTTAWA CITIZEN

United States asked Canada to help spy on candidates during 2012 French election: WikiLeaks
Zane Schwartz 02.16.2017


>>  IN SUMMARY <<

CIA and FVEY spying on FRENCH 2012 Presidential Elections

CIA docs released by WikiLeaks
list CANADA as ONE OF SEVERAL COUNTRIES (x5)

asked to assist US while US spies on 2012 FRENCH presidential election

x5 countries working on human intelligence parts of the op

in addition to Canada
> New Zealand, Great Britain, and Australia
> all listed under a section indicating which countries are assisting with the “HUMINT” or human intelligence

> those x4 countries, plus USA
> comprise the Five Eyes intelligence sharing alliance

COMMENT

> ie. FVEY
> see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes


x3 CIA tasking orders
request following be closely monitored:

- current French president Francois Hollande
- then president Nicolas Sarkozy
- current first round presidential front runner Marine Le Pen

to uncover the secret strategies of the candidates
+ info re on internal power dynamics within the parties

Communications Security Establishment Canada
- Canadian Security Intelligence Service
DID NOT immediately reply to requests for comment

Ashley Lemire, senior communications advisor
Dept of National Defence, told the National Post
“The Government of Canada does not comment on leaked documents.”

revelations come amidst CLAIMS by the U.S. intelligence community
that Russia interfered in the 2016 U.S. presidential election

orders are all marked “NOFORN”
meaning they are supposed to be restricted to U.S. eyes only
so no potential allies are offended

Canadian spying on allies have caused significant diplomatic issues before
according to leaked docs

Communications Security Establishment Canada
spied on Brazil’s mining and energy ministry
> to gain economic intelligence
> 2013, documents from whistleblower Edward Snowden showed
> NDP leader Tom Mulcair said the revelations gave Canada “a black eye in the world.”

> economic intelligence was also a focus of the spying during France’s 2012 election
> agents asked to answer questions about non-ruling political parties and candidates
> including: “What are their opinions on the German model of export-led growth?”

U.S. intelligence with compiling info on
brewing export deals or export contracts in France worth $200 million or more

United States asked Canada to help spy on candidates during 2012 French election: WikiLeaks
Zane Schwartz 02.16.2017
OTTAWA CITIZEN









Guillermo Lasso

Tu Banco del Barrio / Mi Banco
Your Bank of the Neighbourhood / My Bank

CREO en el salvataje bancario

(CREO) I BELIEVE in BANK BAILOUT


#NOMASLASSOS
NEUSTROS LOZOS NO SON UN EGACIO, NUESTROS LAZOS SON LA UNION DE UNA PATRIA ENTERA QUE GRITA:   NO MAS BANQUEROS

#NOMASLASSOS
OUR TIES ARE NOT A BUSINESS, OUR TIES ARE THE UNION OF A WHOLE COUNTRY THAT SHOUTS:

NO MORE BANKERS


Banco de Guayaquil
founded 1923
Guayaquil Bank
-  financial institution of Universal Bank
- HQ - city of Guayaquil, Ecuado
- formerly  SA Banco Italiano
- name change:  1941 - Banco de Guayaquil
- name change:  2014 -  Bank Guayaquil

- established as foreign bank
- WWII,  Italy part of the Rome-Berlin Axis
- operation Italian capital & managers
- Italy tried to nationalize the bank
- in response, name of the institution changed to:  National Bank of Ecuador
- 1941, a new deed renamed entity  -  Bank of Guayaquil
- immediately several capitalist Ecuadorians began buying all the shares

1984, group of shareholders of Financiera del Sur SA,
 better known as Finansur
 > acquired most of the shares of Banco de Guayaquil

result, Danilo Carrera Drouet
(then the CEO of Finansur)
> was appointed as executive president of the Banco de Guayaquil
> his replacement as CEO of Finansur was Guillermo Lasso Mendoza (known as:  Guillermo Lasso) - his brother-in-law

1990, refors to general banking law
> merger between:
    - Banco de Guayaquil SA
    - Financiera del Sur SA
    - Banco de Guayaquil SA
   
Guillermo Lasso Mendoza
known as:  Guillermo Lasso
exec. president of FINANSUR
> appointed EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT
> thus, GENERAL MANAGER of Banco de Guayaquil

> 1997 the Banco de Guayaquil merged with Banco General Society
> becomes one of the LARGEST banks in Ecuador to date

> 1999, financial crisis
>  Bank of Guayaquil, was chaired by Guillermo Lasso


2007, joint report of the National Finance Corporation and Research Commission Salvataje Bank
launched by:  President Rafael Correa
>  to investigate those responsible for financial crisis + possible detriment of private banks
> reportedly no finding of Guillermo Lasso responsibility re 1999 crisis (wikipedia)


2011, "Major Project Bancarización Latin America 2010"
- awarded "strategies banking" awards Beyond Banking Award
> re solidarity economy
> award organized by INTER-AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banco_Guayaquil

Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)
- founded: 1959
- an international financial org
- HQ city of Washington DC, USA
- Regional offices in MADRID and TOKYO
- origin dates back to AMERICAN CONFERENCE 1890

- committee of governors / uses a 14-member Executive Board to oversee the ops

- stated purpose

to finance projects - economic, social & institutional development
to promote regional trade integration - Latin America & Caribbean
to reduce poverty in Latin America & Caribbean /  promoting "sustainable growth"

LARGEST financial institution of regional development of this kind

IDB is currently the LARGEST regional development bank in the WORLD
> & serves as a MODEL for other similar institutions

-  ordinary capital of the bank amounts to 101 billion US dollars at present
- members     48 countries
- member countries that are 48 are classified into two types: non-borrowing members or borrowing members

non-borrowers are:

- Germany
- Austria
- Belgium
- Canada
- Croatia
- Denmark
- Slovenia
- Spain
- United States
- Finland
- France
- Israel
- Italy
- Japan
- Norway
- Netherlands
- Portugal
- United Kingdom
- Republic of Korea
- People 's Republic China
- Sweden
- Switzerland

OVER 50% of the net funding of the project
>  channeled to low-income citizens


born within the Organization of American States (OAS)
>  reportedly has no connection with
    -  Pan-American institution
    -  International Monetary Fund ( IMF )
    -  World Bank
   
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banco_Interamericano_de_Desarrollo


Guillermo Lasso
Guillermo Alberto Santiago Lasso Mendoza
described as:  Catholic
b. city of Guayaquil, 1955
family described as 'high class'
last of 11 children
father, civil servant born Quinto
parents migrated to Guayaquil in 1950s
1976, met wife Maria de Lourdes Alcívar Crespo
1980, married (x5 children)



Lasso manager ProCrédito
brother-in-law Danilo Carrera (FeCrédito founded in Panama)
ProCrédito + FeCrédito  MERGE > resulting in:   Finansu (1980)


1984, Lasso appointed by national subsidiary of COCA-COLA
- vice president to implement a rehabilitation process of the company

president / board of following private foundations:

- Fundación Ecuador Libre
- Fundación del Barrio
- Technical Center Laboral Montepiedra
- Latin American Board of GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY

Public foundations:

- board member of the Andean Development Corporation
- head of:  Malecón 2000 Foundation
- + other

education:
- business admin at the Business Development Institute (SDI)
-  2011 the University of the Americas awarded him the title of Doctor Honoris Causa


his public agenda
>  classical liberals points as
- defence of the separation of powers >> to limit government <<
- fundamental rights such as >> freedom of the press <<
- in favor of >> reducing taxes and the national debt <<
- increasing >> productivity & employment in private sector <<
- >> to ELIMINATE at least x9 TAXES << if elected PRESIDENT
-  in favour of OPEN TRADE with major partners in Ecuador
    >> USA <<
    >> EUROPEAN UNION <<
- economic agenda:  "despetrolizar the economy" of Ecuador
- via diversification of domestic production by
 >> deregulation of entrepreneurship <<

- anti-abortion
- in favour of homosexual unions / civil unions, as distinct re conventional marriage
- pro immigration /  proposed controls re criminal records
- pro decriminalisation re drugs
- called the supranational body ALBA as a "third world empire"

GUILLERMO LASSO
= declared enemy of the XXI century socialism
   promoted by Venezuela and Cuba
   which Ecuador chapter identifies with Citizen Revolution led by Rafael Correa
= representative of the political forces that ruled Ecuador prior to RAFAEL CORREA eletion 2007
= Lasso's tax proposals are irresponsible with the state budget
= was involved in the financial crisis in Ecuador in 1999, according to President RAFAEL CORREA

ALBA
est. 2004
Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America - People's Trade Treaty
aka Treaty of Commerce of the People or ALBA-TCP
international org of regional members
LATIN AMERICA + CARIBBEAN
emphasis - fight against poverty & social exclusion, based on doctrines of LEFT

collaborative project /  supporting complementary political, social and economic reform
promoted by Cuba and Venezuela in return for USA originated:  FTAA (Free Trade Area of the Americas)

Free Trade Area of the Americas or FTAA
expansion of the North American Free Trade Agreement  (USA, Mexico and Canada)
2005, LCA entered crisis, to the point that many already consider it a dead project
intent was in USA which dates back to 1885
original version called for
- gradual reduction of tariff barriers
- investment in 34 countries in the region (except Cuba)

> change of governments in South America complicated negotiations

Latin American market
=  population of 800 million
=  gross domestic product (GDP) of US $ 21,000 combined BILLION annually

most controversial issues of the treaty proposed by USA
=  related to the rights of intellectual property and patents

RE patents, Latin American analysts have accused the US of wanting to patent everything from inventions, discoveries, Indian mythology to living beings

would prevent the scientific research in Latin America resulting in further inequality and dependence on technology


https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillermo_Lasso


University of the Americas
founded 1995 by a group of entrepreneurs Chileans and Ecuadorians

x4 campuses

affiliated to the network Laureate International Universities


Laureate International Universities 
=  subsidiary of Laureate Education Inc
- brings together 76 institutions of higher education in 27 countries around the world
- collaborators in Europe, Latin America, North America, Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Oceania
- over 100 campuses
- LARGEST worldwide network of PRIVATE UNIVERSITIES

Laureate International Universities
HQ - BALTIMORE, USA
Honorary Chancellor:  BILL CLINTON

2012, Chile investigation:
>> institution also falls within the framework of
 "buying and selling of universities under the control of economic and foreign groups" <<

 [wikipedia]


CREO movement, Creating Opportunities (CREO)
political party
ECUADOR

registered:  2012

President:  Guillermo Lasso

held out as:  movement is akin ideas CREO Liberal Democrats

participated in 2013 elections in ECUADOR
>  organized the electoral coalition "United for Ecuador"
> took second place
> CREO = second political force in ECUADOR, 11 parliamentary seats
>  sectional Ecuador Elections 2014, won 22 mayoralties
> since 2014, CREO formed COALITION of Ecuador group (group Compromiso Ecuador)
> comprising:  several political and union groups & political leaders
> in relation to:  draft CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS promoted by the current CORREA govt

2016, CREO was admitted as a member of the Union of Latin American Parties
/  South American regional branch of the International Democrat Union


Lasso and his movement formed the coalition ALLIANCE FOR CHANGE
-  as electoral and political platform
- Guillermo Lasso is contesting the 2017 Ecuador presidential elections


International Democratic Union

 founded:  1983

>> HQ, London <<

>> grouping of anticommunist political parties <<
mainly conservative and in some cases Christian Democrats and Liberals

International Democratic Union
founded by several heads of state and prominent members of CAPITALIST government

- Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, MARGARET THATCHER
- President of USA, GEORGE H.W. BUSH
- Chancellor of Germany, HELMUT KOHL
- President of the French Republic, JACQUES CHIRAC

46 associate members

chaired by:  former PM of Australia:  JOHN HOWARD

associated with several regional org

eg.  >> International Union of Women Democrats <<

members include:

United States: Republican Party (Rep / GOP)

United Kingdom: Conservative Party (Con)

Sweden: Moderate Party

Australia: Liberal Party of Australia (Lib)

Ecuador: Social Christian Party (PSC)


Germany : Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU), Christian Social Union of Bavaria (CSU)

France : Republicans (LR)

Russia : Union of Right Forces

Belarus : Popular Front Party of Belarus (PBNF)
Bosnia and Herzegovina : Party of Democratic Action (SDA), Party of Democratic Progress (PDP)
Croatia : Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ)
Serbia : Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS)
Hungary : Fidesz - Hungarian Civic Union
Greece : New Democracy (ND)


[unless otherwise marked, all notes from wikipedia]




http://www.andes.info.ec/es/actualidad/7774.html

2012 - ECUADOR

Between Guillermo Lasso and his brother-in-law Danilo Carrera contributed to the campaign of Jamil Mahuad 1,027 million sucres

Wednesday, 17/10/2012 - 04:28:49 PM

Guillermo Lasso Mendoza and his brother-in-law Danilo Carrera Drouet.

Quito, October 18 (Andes) .- Jamil Mahuad Witt, (elected president of Ecuador for the period 1998-2002 and ousted in January 2000), narrowly won the election. Álvaro Noboa, defeated candidate, requested a recount of votes that the electoral court denied.

During the campaign he had the support of powerful financiers such as Fernando Aspiazu Seminar, Banco del Progreso; Danilo Carrera Drouet and Guillermo Lasso Mendoza, Bank of Guayaquil; Ernesto Noboa Bejarano; Ernesto Estrada (Hijastro of Luis Noboa Naranjo and, at that time son-in-law of Leon Febres Cordero); Fuad Dassum; National soap; Soft drinks; Osvaldo Zavala Egas; Jhonny Czarnwinsky, My Commissariat; The Universal.

Also Mariano González Portés, Ingenio San Carlos; Oscar Orrantia; According to Wong, Reybanpac / Fertisa; Plywood; Pronaca; Coca Cola Guayaquil; Fidel Egas Group (Banco del Pichincha / Diners); Olga de Eljuri and Roque Sevilla, among others. And although Ramon Yulee, signed as campaign treasurer, Eduardo Mahuad Witt, brother of Jamil was the fundraiser.

It is curious that only between Danilo Carrera Drouet (Emperor of the Ecuadorian Olympic Committee, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Grupo Financiero Guayaquil, Manager of the Central Bank, head of the Ministry of Industries during the last military dictatorship, and President of the Monetary Board Fabián Alarcón) and Guillermo Lasso Mendoza, current candidate for the Presidency of the Republic, the two leaders of the Bank of Guayaquil at that time, added 1,027 million sucres as a contribution to that election campaign.

Fernando Aspiazu Seminary was the largest contributor with three million one hundred thousand dollars. And it was so evident that the now ex-banker and Mahuad were fined by the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) for having contributed illegally.

Still, nothing could stop him and, with such support, he broke a dozen banks and similar numbers of financial institutions. Mahuad issued a bailout law that allocated state resources to address the problems of the broken private banks that financed his election campaign. This crisis caused, among other things, the emigration of compatriots to Spain and Italy.

In November 1998, Filanbanco, the parent company of the country's fifth largest financial group, presented liquidity and solvency problems, prompting a bail-out by the government of Loan, Tungurahua and Finagro banks.

After the fall of Filanbanco and other small banks, the bank of El Progreso, considered the second bank of the country by the size of its assets, and one of the most profitable institutions.

To prevent the entire financial system from collapsing, the government opted to freeze deposits. The result was a situation of insolvency in most of the financial system and distrust in the sucre.

Jamil Mahuad led the country to one of the worst economic crises of all time. Excessive printing of bills to meet state obligations triggered the dollar's trading at levels never before seen, at which point it adopted the US dollar instead of sucre, with a change from 4,500 to 25,000 sucres.

Meanwhile the "descendants of the statue", as Asaad Bucaram called them, the owners of the private media, continued talking about honesty to give false moral lessons.

Jorge Núñez, in the book "Banks and Bankers". From Urbina Jado to Aspiazu, Editorial El Conejo, 1999, said that "Throughout the twentieth century, private banking scandals have shaken the consciousness of successive generations of Ecuadorians."

"In the 1920s, the economic and political disruptions of the bancocracy, associated with a voracious and insatiable state, unleashed severe inflation, created the scene for the massacre of workers of November 15, 1922, corrupted the political system and aggravated Effects of the export crisis ".

"In the second half of the century ... the scandals of La Previsora ​​and the Bank of Guayaquil broke out in the 60s, which were solved in the same way: covering the black holes of the corrupt bank, while Rodrigo Icaza Candell and other fugitives The good life abroad or set up new companies ... "

"Years later came the fall of the Discount Bank, also caused by poor management, denounced by a sector of the same shareholders."

"... The bankruptcy of Banco Continental, whose beneficiaries were the Ortega Moreira brothers, and whose" bail-out "hurriedly attended the then President of the Monetary Board, Ana Lucía Armijos, violated the law and gave the bank owners an enormous amount of resources State, never justified ... "

But they now live Christian in Miami from the benefits provided by a bank and various real estate companies. For them there was never an extradition request and some of the brothers get angry when they are told thieves.

"Most financial institutions ended the first five years of the 1980s by owing to the Central Bank amounts greater than their equity value. By 1984, the emergency debt of the Ecuadorian banking system, with the issuing institute, exceeded 60,000 million sucres, while the capital and reserves of the banking system did not exceed 50,000 million sucres.

During the 1980s, Ecuador experienced a process of structural adjustment ordered by the multilateral credit agencies (World Bank, IMF) to pay off the external debt. The social conflicts created an atmosphere of political instability that extended until the 90s and only in the first decade of the 21st century could be stopped the voracity of the bankers.

http://www.andes.info.ec/es/actualidad/7774.html












February 14, 2017

WikiLeaks - Cloak & Dagger PedoPlot Farce






WikiLeaks











#PedoPlot




http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/election/article110904727.html

The strange tale of a dating site’s attacks on WikiLeaks founder Assange

October 27, 2016 5:43 PM

By Tim Johnson

tjohnson@mcclatchydc.com


WASHINGTON

For an online dating site, toddandclare.com seems really good at cloak-and-dagger stuff. Disconnected phones. Mystery websites. Actions that ricochet around the globe.

But the attention grabber is the Houston-based company’s target: Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, whose steady dumps of leaked emails from Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign have given supporters of Donald Trump the only cheering news of the last few weeks.

[Read the latest update on this story.]

[RELATED: Internet cutoff is just the latest trouble for WikiLeaks’ Assange]

In some ways, toddandclare.com’s campaign against Assange is as revelatory as the leaked emails themselves, illustrating the powerful, sometimes unseen, forces that oppose WikiLeaks.

Whoever is behind the dating site has marshaled significant resources to target Assange, enough to gain entry into a United Nations body, operate in countries in Europe, North America and the Caribbean, conduct surveillance on Assange’s lawyer in London, obtain the fax number of Canada’s prime minister and seek to prod a police inquiry in the Bahamas.

And they’ve done it at a time when WikiLeaks has become a routine target of Democratic politicians who portray Assange as a stooge of Russian President Vladimir Putin and his reported efforts to disrupt the U.S. election.


CONTINUED ... at SOURCE

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/election/article110904727.html












UK, Law Commission Unbecoming Shuffle -Key Stakeholders EXCLUDED from Consultation Process - Ahead of (ONE-SIDED) Report





ministry of tokyo









KEY STAKEHOLDERS SIDE-STEPPED




UK LAW COMMISSION
OFFICIAL SECRETS ACT (UK)



U N B E C O M I N G
SHUFFLE














FULL ARTICLE at SOURCE
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/13/whistleblowers-official-secrets-act-law-commission


Freedom of speech
Opinion
Whistleblowers keep us safe. We can’t allow them to be silenced

Shami Chakrabarti

With its proposed changes to the Official Secrets Act, the Law Commission would make it all but impossible for government wrongdoing to be exposed

Tuesday 14 February 2017 04.15 AEDT
Last modified on Tuesday 14 February 2017 09.00 AEDT

The Law Commission is an important body with a proud history. Set up in 1965 to provide independent advice to government on law reform, it describes itself as non-political ...

...

So the government’s invitation to the commission in 2015 to look at what is bureaucratically called the “protection of official data” must have caused considerable excitement.




Protecting national security is important, but investigative journalism and individual ethics have a place in democracy

--Shami Chakrabarti, The Guardian


Coming two years after Edward Snowden’s revelations on the blanket surveillance of entire populations without parliamentary or judicial sanction and with an extremely spurious basis in law, no one can have imagined this to be a routine spring clean of the Official Secrets Act or simple “future-proofing”, as was suggested in the consultation paper published on 2 February. This is an extremely political area of the law, and venturing into this territory brings great risk to an independent body that would never want to be seen as a proxy for any government or the security state.


This is why there is considerable concern about the consultation process so far, and the fact that only seven weeks remain for public input – let alone some of the provisional recommendations.

Then there is the lopsided nature of who has been consulted. It seems that government departments, the police and security agencies have understandably had the ear of the commission, but no journalists or past whistleblowers. Three NGOs are said to have been consulted, but they don’t seem to agree that this happened. Finally, and tellingly, the consultation paper was not openly launched in the media. It was given as an exclusive to a publication thought to be onside. A commission spokesperson is said to have explained that this was because that “it’s a nuanced issue. We wanted to secure an opinion editorial first.” That is spin worthy of a political operation, not public communication from a quasi-judicial body.

The provisional recommendations include sentencing provisions stipulating draconian jail sentences, which place leaking and whistleblowing in the same category as spying for foreign powers.

According to the proposals, these sentences would apply to any leaker, whether or not they were a British citizen or operating within the UK.

More alarmingly still, the commission says there should be no statutory public interest defence for anyone accused of the offences.

Threatened by such grave consequences and offered little-to-no legal protection, it is surely more than we can ask of any journalist or genuine whistleblower to come forward in order to protect the public interest.

Journalists and the whistleblowers with whom they work perform an essential service in ensuring transparency – often where government would keep us in the dark.

There are at present very few means by which wrongdoing within government agencies can be exposed, and as a consequence it falls to individuals.

There is no question that protecting national security is important, but public interest journalism and individual ethics have their place in democracy alongside security and the law.


...

... journalists, human rights lawyers and whistleblowers ... have so far been excluded from the process.

It is essential for the credibility of the report (and the commission) that a greater balance between the two sides of this debate are reflected.


...



You can contribute to the consultation by emailing pod@lawcommission.gsi.gov.uk




FULL ARTICLE at SOURCE
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/13/whistleblowers-official-secrets-act-law-commission








February 12, 2017

TISA - IMPOSING CORPORATE WISH LISTS by UNDEMOCRATIC MEANS





ministry of tokyo








TISA
IMPOSING
CORPORATE WISH LISTS
by UNDEMOCRATIC MEANS







SUMMARY


SUMMARY from SOURCE
https://systemicdisorder.wordpress.com/2017/02/08/TiSA-worse-than-tpp/

TITLE


TPP is not dead: 

It’s now called the Trade In Services Agreement (TiSA)


Trans-Pacific Partnership
or the so-called “free trade” regime

is NOT buried

countries involved in negotiating the TPP
ARE seeking to find ways to RESURRECT it in NEW FORM

TPP 
remains alive in a NEW FORM
with EVEN WORSE RULES

Trade In Services Agreement
even more secret than the Trans-Pacific Partnership
And more dangerous

Trade In Services Agreement (TiSA)
being negotiated among 50 countries
to:
-- prohibit regulations on the financial industry
-- eliminate laws to safeguard online or digital privacy
-- render illegal any “buy local” rules at any level of government
-- effectively dismantle public advantages derived from state-owned enterprises
-- eliminate net neutrality

TiSA negotiations began in April 2013
 / gone through 21 rounds

we only know what’s in it because of leaks:

1. earlier ones published by WikiLeaks
2. new cache published January 29 by Bilaterals.org

Earlier draft versions of TiSA’s language would PROHIBIT any restrictions on:

-- the size, expansion (or entry) of FINANCIAL companies
-- ban on new REGULATIONS
-- incl. a specific ban on any law that separates COMMERCIAL and INVESTMENT banking
-- ie. equivalent of the U.S. Glass-Steagall Act

it would BAN restrictions on:

-- transfer of any data collected (incl. across borders);
-- placing social security systems at risk of privatization or elimination;
-- ending Internet privacy and net neutrality;

TiSA is the backup plan in event of failure to implement:
--  Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)
-- Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP)

Parties to reconvene 2017, according to Australian govt statement
however:
governmental trade offices negotiating TiSA have not announced the next negotiating date
~ potentially as a precaution [circumvention], in effort to avoid the spotlight on FREE TRADE that derailed TPP

Cover story for why TiSA is being negotiated is that it would uphold the right to hire the accountant or engineer of your choice
- in reality is intended to enable:
- the FINANCIAL industry
- and INTERNET companies
- to run roughshod over countries around the WORLD


LIBERALISATION 'PROFESSIONAL SERVICES' > MANUFACTURING

“liberalization” of PROFESSIONAL services is being promoted
-- DEFINITION of “services” is being EXPANDED in order to stretch the category to encompass MANUFACTURING


Deborah James
Centre for Economy and Policy Research
re: scope of this proposal:

“Corporations no longer consider setting up a plant and producing goods to be simply ‘manufacturing goods.’ 

activity is now is BROKEN DOWN into:

-- research and development services
-- design services
-- legal services
-- real estate services
-- architecture services
-- engineering services
-- construction services
-- energy services
-- employment contracting services
-- consulting services
-- manufacturing services
-- adult education services
-- payroll services
-- maintenance services
-- refuse disposal services
-- warehousing services
-- data management services
-- telecommunications services
-- audiovisual services
-- banking services
-- accounting services
-- insurance services
-- transportation services
-- distribution services
-- marketing services
-- retail services
-- postal and expedited delivery services
-- and after-sales servicing
-- [plus more]


WORLD'S governments,
on behalf of multi-national CAPITAL
are DENYING the public INFORMATION

-- many have neglected to update their official pages re TiSA in MONTHS

Following are negotiating TiSA:

-- European Union (on behalf of its 28 member countries)
-- United States
-- Canada
-- Mexico
-- Australia
-- New Zealand
-- Japan
-- South Korea
-- Taiwan
-- Chile
-- Colombia
-- Peru
-- Norway
-- Switzerland
-- Pakistan and Turkey


New TRUMP admin is SILENT re TiSA


USA - Office of the U.S. Trade Representative web site still says:



TiSA is part of 

the Obama Administration’s ongoing effort


to create economic opportunity for U.S. workers and businesses by expanding trade opportunities.”


President Donald Trump
is NOT against “free trade” deals
Trump: claims he can do it better
-- issued blustery calls for “fair deals”
-- braggadocio puffing up Donald Trump’s supposed negotiating prowess

typical White House passage:


To carry out his strategy, the President is appointing the toughest and smartest to his trade team, ensuring that Americans have the best negotiators possible. For too long, trade deals have been negotiated by, and for, members of the Washington establishment.”


DENIAL of INFORMATION typical of the TiSA negotiators

-- made good progress in working towards ...
-- finding pathways towards solving ... outstanding issues
-- conducted a stocktaking session to assess ... progress
-- agreed to a comprehensive stocktake of the negotiations

in addition to:

discredited, boilerplate public-relations puffery, offered by various government trade offices


one hint that TiSA negotiations are experiencing difficulty

U.S. Congressional Research Service report (January 3, 2017)


" ... U.S. position
under a new administration is unclear, 

the parties canceled the planned December 2016 meeting ...

but ... meeting to determine ... to move forward in 2017"




M.U.B.A. 
MAKE UNRESTRICTED BANKING AGAIN

TRUMP admin 
moving quickly to ELIMINATE:

Tepid 
DODD-FRANK ACT financial-industry reforms





TiSA’s provisions to dismantle financial regulation globally would not be a problem at all


THAT talks are not progressing at the present
-- does not mean the world can relax
-- it took years of cross-border organizing & popular education to stop the TPP
-- this effort will have to replicated if TiSA is to be HALTED

Bilaterals.org
COMMENTARY accompanying publication of several TiSA chapters stresses
-- Trans-Pacific Partnership, despite its apparent defeat
-- is being used as the MODEL for the: Trade In Services Agreement
-- thus risk of the TPP becoming the “new norm”

“Several proposed texts from the failed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement have been transferred to TiSA — incl. ...

-- STATE-owned enterprises
-- rights to hold data OFFSHORE (incl. financial data)
-- e-commerce
-- prohibitions on PERFORMANCE requirements for foreign investors

TiSA
-- texts originated with the United States
-- supported by other parties to the TPP / even governments
-- reluctant to agree to same in the TPP
-- no longer bound by TPP
suggests the TPP may become the new norm
DESPITE only having been ratified in two of the 12 countries
-- done on the basis of U.S. participation that no longer applies
-- TPP cannot be allowed to become
-- the new ‘default’ position for these flawed agreements”

1. most extreme measures have been dropped (at least for now)
2. much of the text is not agreed

Bilaterals.org reports:

-- effectiveness of opposition to TiSA
-- has led governments to conclude they CANNOT SELL
   some of the more extreme proposals
-- thus dropped from previous leaked texts

BUT
-- fetters on the rights and responsibilities of governments
   to REGULATE in the INTERESTS of citizens
-- would still go FURTHER than ANY single other agreement
-- no improvements on:

-- inadequate protections for HEALTH
-- inadequate protections for ENVIRONMENT
-- inadequate protections for PRIVACY
-- inadequate protections for WORKERS
-- inadequate protections for HUMAN RIGHTS
-- inadequate protections for ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

NOTHING to prevent DEVELOPING countries
-- becoming even more vulnerable and dependent
-- in an already unequal and unfair global economy

TiSA
would PROHIBIT developing countries
-- from adopting MEASURES that countries like the United States
-- used to facilitate industrial development (19th century)

Sanya Reid Smith
Third World Network
international coalition specializing in development issues
in an analysis for WikiLeaks:

“[T]he proposals in this text RESTRICT the ability of developing countries to USE the development paths taken by many of the developed TiSA countries ...

-- developed countries ‘kicking away the ladder’ after they have climbed up
-- to prevent developing countries from developing the same way

-- in TiSA, the USA is proposing restrictions on host countries
-- being able to require senior managers be CITIZENS of the host country
-- BUT as capital importer, the USA had the OPPOSITE law:
-- 1885 USA contract labour law PROHIBITED the import of foreign workers
-- USA required senior managers (and all other staff) be Americans
-- ie. increasing the chances of skills being passed to locals


TiSA
-- proposals are more extreme than language in existing bilateral trade agreements
-- many of TiSA’s provisions are lifted from TPP
-- some go beyond TiSA’s already extreme proposals
-- eg. the ENTIRE ELIMINATION of REGULATIONS of ANY kind against the FINANCIAL INDUSTRY
- Article 14 of TiSA’s annex on financial services:
- had contained the most explicit language prohibiting regulation (removed)
- Article 9 of TiSA’s annex on financial services:
- still contains language requiring NO LIMITATIONS beyond those applying to DOMESTIC financial firms
- a smaller country
-- would be required to allow a giant bank from a bigger country
-- to TAKE OVER ITS ENTIRE BANKING SYSTEM

REGULATIONS against financial derivatives YET to be invented would be ILLEGAL

Public Citizen
analysis:

“TiSA would require governments to allow any new financial products and services — including ones not yet invented — to be sold within their territories.

The TiSA Annex on Financial Services clearly states that TiSA governments ‘shall permit’ foreign-owned firms to introduce any new financial product or service, so long as it does not require a new law or a change to an existing law.”

- Article 21 of TiSA’s annex on financial services:
- requires that any government that offers financial products through its postal service
- LESSEN the QUALITY of its products
- so that those are NO better than what PRIVATE CORPORATIONS offer


CAUSE FOR ALARM
Article 1 of the financial-services annex states:

-- activities forming part of a statutory system of social security or public retirement plans
-- are specifically covered by TiSA
-- as are
- activities conducted by a CENTRAL BANK or monetary authority
- or by ANY OTHER PUBLIC ENTITY in pursuit of monetary or exchange-rate policies

CAUSE FOR ALARM
-- social security or other public retirement systems are covered
-- & could be judged to be “illegally competing” with PRIVATE financial enterprises

CAUSE FOR ALARM
-- central banks could be CONSTRAINED from actions to shore up economies (during a future financial crisis)
-- if banks decide such measures “constrain” their massive PROFITEERING off the crisis

CAUSE FOR ALARM
Article 10 of the annex:
-- continues to explicitly ban restrictions on the transfer of information
-- in “electronic or other form”
-- of any “financial service supplier”

ie.

DATA TRANSFER OFF-SHORE / PRIVACY LAWS NULL & VOID
-- EU laws guarding privacy
-- that stop US-based Internet companies from taking data outside the EU
-- to circumvent such privacy laws would be null and void

-- laws instituting privacy protections > would be PROHIBITED BEFORE they could be enacted


CAUSE FOR ALARM
-- if enacted, could also provide a boon to companies like Uber
-- whose MO is to CIRCUMVENT LOCAL LAWS

Bilaterals.org analysis:

“The main thrust of TiSA comes through ...

-- e-commerce
-- telecommunications
-- financial services
-- localisation rules
-- commitments to allow UNFETTERED cross-border supply of services

COLLECTIVELY WOULD EMPOWER
-- global platforms who hold big data, like Google, without effective privacy protections
-- tech companies like Uber
who have become notorious for evading national regulation
- paying minimal tax
- exploiting so-called self-employed workers

TiSA simply fuel to the bonfire re: backlash against global deals for global corporations


language of TiSA, like all “free trade” agreements
-- dry and legalistic
-- HOW these rules are interpreted is what ultimately matters
-- TiSA requires:
- arbitration by judges possessing “requisite knowledge”

ie. the usual lineup of corporate lawyers
WHO REPRESENT CORPORATIONS in these TRIBUNALS
will switch hats to sit in JUDGEMENT

TRIBUNALS used to settle these “investor-state disputes”
-- are held in SECRET
-- with no ACCOUNTABILITY
-- wiht no APPEAL

INTENTION of “free trade” agreements is to elevate corporations to the level of governments
however, they raise corporations ABOVE the level of governments
1. only INVESTORS can sue
2. governments CANNOT sue
3. individuals/public CANNOT sue

4. INVESTORS can sue governments to overturn any law or regulation / they claim will hurt PROFITS
5. INVESTORS can sue governments to overturn any law or regulation / they claim will hurt POTENTIAL FUTURE PROFITS

6. government (TAXPAYERS)
- ordinarily has to pay MILLIONS of dollars in COSTS
- even in rare instances when they win one of these cases

each “free trade” agreement has a key provision elevating corporations above governments
-- codifies the “equal treatment” of business interests in accordance with INTERNATIONAL LAW
-- enables corporations to SUE over ANY regulation or other government act that violates “investor rights”
-- ie. any REGULATION or LAW that may PREVENT the corporation from extracting the MAXIMUM possible PROFIT

thus:

-- taxation and regulation constitute “indirect expropriation”

!! mandating COMPENSATION !!

-- reduction in the VALUE of an asset is sufficient to establish EXPROPRIATION
(rather than a physical taking of property as required under customary law)

!! mandating COMPENSATION !!


TRIBUNAL DECISIONS
-- become PRECEDENTS for further EXPANSIONS of INVESTOR “rights”
-- thus constitute the “evolving standard of investor rights”
-- required under “free trade” agreements
-- TiSA contains the usual passages requiring “equal treatment”




I M P O S I N G


CORPORATE WISH LISTS

by:  UNDEMOCRATIC MEANS


!! “free trade” deals ... much to do with IMPOSING CORPORATE WISH LISTS through UNDEMOCRATIC means !!

-- elimination of any meaningful regulations for:
-- labour
-- safety
-- health
-- environment

TiSA is another route to imposing MORE of this agenda


Working people around the world scored a major victory in stopping the TPP, at least in its current form.

Capital never rests; nor can we.

Here we have class warfare in naked fashion ...

THERE IS NO DOUBT on which side the capitalist world’s governments lie


SUMMARY from SOURCE
https://systemicdisorder.wordpress.com/2017/02/08/TiSA-worse-than-tpp/





That was a very good article from Systemic Disorder