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CETA Signed Off As Wallonia Folds Under Pressure (freezenet.ca)
Dangerous_Minds writes: The Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) has been signed off. The government of Wallonia appeared to be holding off on the agreement, but has since folded under the pressure. Two days after Wallonia agreed to the trade deal, countries signed off on the agreement. The agreement contains provisions surrounding a three strikes law, a global DMCA, site blocking, and the hugely controversial ISDS provisions to name a few. The deal still needs to be ratified for these laws to take effect.
Is this british english? What does that mean? It was cancelled? (Just kidding, I read the article). But, WTF? Signed off.
The multinationals backed by a puppet US Government Signed off as Wallonia Folds Under Pressure..
ISDS = workers rights gone as big corps can say they are bad for profits.
Wallonia is a real place, it's a region of Belgium, which is a country in Europe.
They built a Wallonia, and will make us all pay for it.
This deal removes barriers to trade and will boost both economies significantly; with at least 22.9% increase worth €25.7 billion. See here.
Threats, blackmail, coercion. "Peaceful community" my ass. Europeans can raise their hands high and chant "Heil Juncker! Heil unsere Fuehrer! Sieg heil!" like the good little schutzstaffeln they are.
Extrajudicial transnational corporate control of sovereign law and policy. "But it's only fines based on lost profits!" the proponents cry, like we haven't seen, for example, the MPAA making up imaginary multi-billion-dollar annual profits during piracy studies.
:-)
I guess Wallonia exists and is a place!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallonia
However, I am a libertarian. What's a leppo?
This state was formed when a separatist movement succeeded in spliting off from the kingdom of Elbonia. Dilbert's co-worker Wally was chosen as their king, after he promised large cheering crowds that he would rebuild their coal industry and grow their economy by 4 percent each year, while reducing the national debt and throwing the opposition party leader into prison.
Hide yourself, don't fucking brag to get "street cred" and upload releases at open access points.
It's time all the file share people learn black hat tips and tricks to stay out of the jails.
Because sharing a movie is worse than murdering someone in today's legal world.
Europeans love having someone to call "Fuehrer".
Europeans (including Germans) have been there, done that, and no, they don't love it.
If it weren't for deadlines, nothing would be late.
or in 2017 trump!
This is expected value of this contract between Canada and EU. The value of the losses that Russia sanctions caused is 100B. These are allegedly not detectable for EU economy. What this means is that this is not a trade that we talk about. As if the big corps did not have army of lawyers they just need investment protection. The great day for democracy I'd say. As great as the day democracy died. Maybe not completely but just a bit. The Economist had an article about trade v. democracy - seems democracy loses.
Yeah but Europeans love to eat, too. At least the Fuhrer provided food and jobs.
Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.
now populism/nationalism/isolationism/*ism including reactionism : wishing the good old times of a non-globalized world back
have caught up with /. Missing this comfy 20th century back? Don't worry the autocrats who tend to be somewhat less free-trade oriented are coming along and will make good on their promises.
With all its obvious and widely discussed downsides, Nazism was nothing like an ultra-liberist capitalism.
and nothing else. You can literally do anything else. And you can squeeze as hard as you want on 10% of the population. The US used to do it to black folks, India to the "untouchables", Japan to Islanders and the Chinese/Koreans, etc, etc.
The 1% have long since learned how hard they can squeeze. What few wars break out are when one member of the 1% pisses off another. We moved on Iraq so we could move on Afghanistan too. We did that so we could build an oil pipeline the Afghanistan gov't opposed.
Don't wait for the revolution. It's not coming. Do something about wealth inequality now before it drags you down.
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but it's manageable as long as it doesn't get too big for it's britches. Fix wealth inequality and it won't matter. Worst case then & we'll pay a few billion here and there to some Chinese mega corps. Yeah, it'll suck to pay but it'll be small potatoes. Now, keep ignoring wealth inequality and it'll prompt a nativist backlash that'll make Trump seem tame by comparison...
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It means nothing, its the fake signing ceremony they have to pretend its a done deal that cannot be revoked. It's sort of a two step thing, they sign it off and tell doubters its only ceremonial, and when it comes to National Parliaments, where the actual legal democratic process is supposed to occur, they tell them its a done deal already signed off.
Yet the treating still includes the fake court (a tribuneral of lawyers that is not a court, not within any democracy and not challengable) that can require changes to national laws. No national government is empowered to take away the democracy and assign it to that court. They are giving away powers they legally cannot give away.
World Bank says TPP (which is almost identical treaty) will have no effect on GDP, its not a trade deal, its protectionism and a means for corps to overrule democracies:
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160112/07433333306/world-bank-report-tpp-will-bring-negligible-economic-benefit-to-us-canada-australia.shtml
... to our new George Soros overlord.
I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.
"Folding under the pressure" meant them having to draft a slightly different version of the deal to satisfy Wallonia, at least according to this, after the region rejected the original deal AND an ultimatum from the government.
But after days of intense talks a version of the deal has been produced that satisfies the Wallonian Parliament, headed by socialist leader Paul Magnette. Magnette was concerned by a part of the deal that would allow corporations to sue national governments. "Let's be clear: I'm not a herald of antiglobalization," he told the French publication Liberation. "I want a deal."
The real deal is this: The french-speaking Parti Socialiste (PS or Socialist Party) was in government for 30 years or so. They always tried to hold back any laws that would grant more power to the regions (dutch-speaking, a.k.a. Flemish , french-speaking a.k.a. Wallonia and the mixed language capital of Brussels), but ultimately could endanger the financial transfers from the richer Flemish part to the poorer and big spending Walloon side, but this policy backfired the last decade when Flemish people (60% of the population) voted en masse for a more confederate-orientated party. Scaring their populace with stories of Flemish people wanting to tear the country down thereby dumping the royalties and throwing overboard any solidarity between the regions, a deadlock was created. Until the liberal french party (MR) was found to run the federal government with the Flemish parties and together they started cleaning out (or attempting to) the immense Socialist dump: a massive debt, a wildgrowth of departments etc... Now, the waning PS is only strong in it's bastion: Wallonia. And how do you think they can make themselves 'necessary'? Right, by blocking the CETA for a bit and showing the federal government, their electorate and the Europe: "See , we still have power! We are necessary! We are the conscience of Belgium". But what they tend to forget to say is that the CETA deal has already been on the table for 2 years: plenty of time to voice their opposition. Can someone please show the Walloon people what has been changed in the CETA agreement? Nothing, nada, noppes, nichts, rien!
And yet they still rally behind their leaders and are readying for war against Russia at their behest... Who will be next?
It sounds like one of those fake locales in a soap opera.
Dunno... You think the fact that we keep getting buzzed by Russian aircraft, ships, and submarines might have something to do with it? Or maybe the fact that Russia keeps feeding secessionist movements in its neighbours and then annexing the seceded bits?
Fuck off you lying piece of vata.
I'm more interested in what Elbonians have to say on the matter.
The Walloons got guarantees that they felt they needed and so they were content with the arrangement they have made with the Belgian government which required unanimous assent in the devolved form of governance they have in Belgium. Contrary to the nonsense candied around about CETA, it is without a doubt the most advanced trade agreement ever made and will increase the standard of living in the affected nations of now .500 millions. All the lies bandied about against CETA will disappear in embarrassment. There is no corporate plotting and no bizarre back room deals. 98% of all tariffs between EU and Camada will disappear and there will be excellent trade between these many nations. This so the way the world ought to operate... I am not a corporate representative but a simple citizen in Camada who want to have the world to trade with and get out from under the heel of our biggest trading partner the US who has untrammelled power over us because of it. Now we shall have this gigantic additional ,ark et for our products and in turn shall have thousands of produces available to us here that were not imported die to tariff restrictions heretofore. It is a time to celebrate in the EU and Canada.
Now that it's signed, the Dutch get a chance to hold a referendum and could decide to not ratify. Convincing citizens will be a lot harder than buying politicians.
Um, this is Canada - EU.