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posted by martyb on Monday July 13 2015, @11:11AM   Printer-friendly
from the sunshine-is-the-best-disinfectant dept.

The leak is here.

First announced on reddit


Original Submission

[Ed. addition]

What is the TTIP?

It's the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership.

TTIP is the biggest free-trade agreement ever, it's being discussed for quite a while now between Europe and the US. The discussions have been critizised for their lack of transparency and a lot of people fear that industry regulations will be lower after the agreement diminishing rights of citizens. Since the outcome will affect 820 million people, we're investigating it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transatlantic_Trade_and_Investment_Partnership

According to the reddit discussion, a number of the documents have already been made public.

[Ed. update: Typo fix and revised the link to the correctiv.org web site to point to the English version; removed text pertaining to the German version.]

 
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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 13 2015, @11:47AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 13 2015, @11:47AM (#208413)

    Just create something from scratch that looks like it could be related to the TTIP. Base your creation on the rumors that have circulated so far. Get some news organizations to pick up your fake, and start raising hell about it. Who will claim it is a fake, if they will not show the public the real documents? Politicians are not known for reading the whole documents, so you can make the fake say something really outrageous. Then ask the politicians for their comments on the outrageous statement, and watch them back away from TTIP.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by c0lo on Monday July 13 2015, @01:18PM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Monday July 13 2015, @01:18PM (#208456) Journal

    Just create something from scratch that looks like it could be related to the TTIP. Base your creation on the rumors that have circulated so far.

    Sorry mate, not only that it'd be quite an effort, but the reality will beat fiction pants down. Want an example you say? Have some excerpts from the eBay lobbying letter [documentcloud.org]

    ...Solutions including secure payment systems, trust-building tools, and mobile technology have led to the rise of Commerce 3.0 (BUZZ-warning)

    ...For the broader economy: if consumers worldwide conducted all their international transactions on eBay instead of offline, the average increase in real GDP would be 15.6% (quite a fine precission)

    ...Support a more efficient mobile payments system: I wonder which each operator and country utilizes different rules and regulations for govern ing mobile payments, which affects whether or not a particular good can be purchased using those payment systems

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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford