A bounty has been launched by WikiLeaks this week to source leaks on the secretive documents that make up the Trans-Atlantic Trade Investment Partnership deals. (TTIP). According to a statement on WikiLeaks’ website released, €100,000 is being raised to reward the person or group who is successful in releasing TTIP documents to the public.
WikiLeaks states:
“€100,000 reward for Europe’s most wanted secret. The TTIP is a multi-trillion dollar international treaty that is being negotiated in secret between the United States and the European Union. It remains secret almost in its entirety, closely guarded by the negotiators, and only big corporations are given special access to its terms. The TTIP covers half of global GDP and is one of the largest agreements of its kind in history. The TTIP aims to create a global economic bloc outside of the WTO framework, as part of a geopolitical economic strategy against the BRICS countries of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.
The Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has dubbed the TTIP an “economic NATO,” comparing it to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization military alliance. Over the last two years WikiLeaks has published chapters from two other secret global trade deals, including the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) and the Trade in Services Agreement (TISA), despite unprecedented efforts by negotiating governments to keep them under wraps.
Together with the TTIP, these treaties represent the “Three Big T’s”, affecting 53 countries, 1.6 billion people and covering two thirds of the global economy. They aim to create a new international legal regime allowing transnational corporations to bypass domestic courts, evade environmental protections, police the internet on behalf of the content industry, limit the availability of affordable generic medicines, and drastically curtail each country’s legislative sovereignty. Of the “Three Big T’s”, the TTIP remains the least exposed to public scrutiny, and the most significant to the interests of the European public.”
There is also a bounty reward for sourcing further information of the Trans-Pacific Partnership deal (TPP), amounting to $100000, which so far 70 percent of its revenue has been raised.
Demonstrations around the world have been witnessed during the course of the negotiations, with the latest in New Zealand by a movement calling themselves “Show Us Ya Text.” They recently protested at the Auckland Ministry of Foreign Affairs Office demanding a document release surrounding the TPP negotiations.
Talks between the US and 11 Pacific Rim countries stalled at a closed-door assembly in Hawaii late July, but New Zealand Prime Minister John Key said he expects the TPP deal to be signed by the end of 2015.
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