Update: TPP, TiSA Shockers: Wikileaks Publishes Clinton, TPP Info - Here's What's In It

Today among the reams of Podesta emails, Wikileaks published parts of a less noticed but probably more important document: the TiSA.

The TiSA and TAP are trade-related agreements being negotiated along with the TPP. While these are supposedly designed to help jobs and trade, many (if not most) of the provisions provide large corporations with the ability to skirt domestic laws and rules.

Update: Hillary Clinton's Questionable Positions on TPP/TPA via Wikileaks

From today's release of Wikileaks Hillary Clinton emails, we see this exchange:

Clinton Staffer 1: Being asked by wapo and Bloomberg what her specific view on TPA is. Should we deploy the answer that the bill is a procedural matter for Senate to resolve?
Clinton Staffer 2: We seem to have 2 options if we're not going to (grudgingly) support. Say its procedural and we're not weighing in. Grin and bear it through incoming. Say we're studying and then oppose next week (giving White House time).

So what's in this TiSA release? Here are some of the most shocking details:

1) Article X.3: According to Jane Kelsey at the University of Auckland, this article eliminates the idea of Too Big to Fail. This means that countries under the TiSA would not be allowed to limit the size of any financial institutions.

2) If a company is able to make a dangerous financial product (like Credit Default Swaps from 2008) in one country, they can sell it in any of the other countries. Expect to see previously unimagined new risky financial products.

Without prejudice - For TiSA participants only
Article X.9: Financial Services New to the Territory of a Party. Each Party shall permit financial service suppliers of any other Party established in its territory to supply any new financial service that the Party would permit its own like financial services supplier to supply [CL/CH/HK/MU propose: within the scope of the sub-sectors and financial services committed in its Schedule and [NZ* propose: subject to the terms,limitations, conditions and qualifications established in that Schedule,]] without adopting a law or modifying an existing law. 5 Notwithstanding (Market Access, paragraph on juridical form), a Party may determine the institutional and juridical form through which the service may be supplied and may require authorization for the supply of the service. Where such authorization is required, a decision shall be made within a reasonable time and the authorization may be refused only for prudential reason

3) No local job requirements, and managers and directors of financial companies are essentially immune to prosecution. A country can't require that the directors or managers of a financial company reside in that country.

Thus, if a financial company crashes a country's economy, the directors and managers outside the country can't be prosecuted by normal means.

4) There can be no special provisions offered to companies in a country, without offering foreign companies the same rights:

5) According to Kesley, investors can sue states: "the more far-reaching TiSA rules could form part of the 'legitimate expectations' they seek to enforce through investment chapters in other free trade pacts or bilateral investment treaties"

6) Your private information can be stored in any country under foreign law. That means that your credit card numbers, social security info, etc.

can go anywhere in the world, and you don't have control over it. Moreover, no country can require access to source code for the programs that store this data.

7) In certain countries, people will be able to become lawyers without doing a whole law degreeSo in that country.

So without fully knowing a country's local laws, a foreign person can become a lawyer and practice law in that country, according to Sanya Reid Smith of the Third World Network.

8) Certain countries must open their doors to foreign companies, including in sensitive sectors like food sales.

9) The requirements for environmental protections like sewage treatment could be set by the international body for certain countries, according to Smith. Laws regarding protection of historical or cultural protected areas can be set by the international body as well.

10) Severe restrictions are placed on governments to keep them from buying only local products/services.

That means that the government can't buy from a supplier in their country over a foreign supplier unless there are certain specific reasons to do so.

So these are the most significant provisions in the leaked TiSA documents. However, there may be other more significant provisions in documents that haven't yet been leaked.

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