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in europe people are taking to the streets to protest the lack of transparency in treaty negotiations such as the t.t. ip treaty with the us and the seat a treaty with canada. the use of arbitration tribunals a central and totally opaque part of these treaties is a serious threat to the future of democracies. tiny little lonia block the signing of the free trade agreement with canada thanks to paul men yet it's minister president. 3.5000000 loons blocked a treaty concerning 500000000 europeans
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a smooth european entity defined as the great liberal euro it's truly david against goliath. come all of us face that want to get us back to figure for what big. is good or bad for her part there's one is what we do believe that if your genius or not you don't . give us as you would get us big too quick i don't see or be out of a desire because prevail don't want to sign it just. isn't the sources on those i'm going to join it is only. just trust me as it examines this your knesset exam i was the 1st christian is unfair see it up chris i don't that's going to settle fixed it is stone that i just saw streetlife a group continual hope in synagogues this will be done. to attract foreign.
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investors euro promise canada that it would integrate the international arbitration system called d.s. into the treaty. the cornerstone of the system is the deterrent effect for states when a complaint is made. women nationalize is a business it sees as property and the state then compensates for this expropriation . but if the state raises the minimum wage. law or prohibits disruptors it can affect a company's gains. this is an indirect explode creation since it's a loss of earnings. sufficient ground for suing a state before a private international arbitration tribunals. remember.
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that our. problems. are. not just. a real scandal. this interactive creation written into the sea to and other treaties opens up a real pandora's box. complaints against government measures that bother investors are likely to increase. arbitration tribunals are a massive deterrent to the state. that is this we don't seem. to get you know.
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you know even if you don't want skivvies dispenses again the conspiracy chief did consider that you pacific and that is odd that you need to. if he disappears if i hope i don't hate you about this you will do my new news i want to take him on this will only hope soon that he's doing that gift you got to with by example see what this is you know if you know that is to simply do you. hold human was that they give us good news everyone can get the. gift of don't look you know don't have the consume it don't you think you have wealth and if it destroys you want to help you more this will be stupid you could even if you need no token some at one example if you can it will be. peace can do some stronger don't move on from this is you give up on the film and i saw most of us a betrayal to the bridges in our desire to pre-sell and to be safe i mean does it. make its move to check our visit to see me. there out of the range of
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a massive expansion of the role of the for the rest of 2 us. so what happens when we introduce a couple of new traders like santa and the other big one as the trans-pacific partnership promoters are biased as have long liked to say well we already have 2 or 3000 of these trainees what's a couple more teams that combine with a c. and that. takes us from still having a minority role in the world to be calming and establishments of the institution why the foreign investors have their most powerful rights at the international level of any private charter in the world most people think about trade they think about goods and services being a strange thing between countries and the investment component the investor chomped or. a trade agreement is about something very different it's about establishing
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a special system of international protection for foreign assets. so that is the season is the postman. the cool it could be no leak key overhaul last nick even the thought let it if you know is he going to use it that is the still missing c. xenia do you see what you know he can significantly boss it think is it did he build a false good with what. it will exist to commit or will have all the most obsessed out of leverage on the level of the populaire really done their own justice a simple quote. this interoperability. level was my security it's time i've got to live where once you know one thing you can think that they're in 12 or they live or the last saw something prevented you of. the vision. i learned going to
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liberal piece on what that's a good. day on the. defense a list of new homes in economy strong confront so they put out is what i would say only for. goodness i've been thinking on konqueror also not to kill. in these arbitration tribunals multinationals impose their will most often in great secrecy. secrecy is not only an obstacle in forming citizens it is the keystone of the whole system allowing for the most shameful arrangements . for this is what happened in germany when the swedish multinational vattenfall a large energy producer indirectly attacked the city of hamburg in 2009. complaint against the federal state that remained secret for years. and was
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unveiled thanks to a professor of international law marcus kai of. every tradition are secret because no one prevents the parties from the go see it or anything and then in the public hearing they will say whatever they say but the real negotiations will take place outside. i in 2007 vattenfall obtained a building permit for a coal fired power station in the suburbs of hamburg. following the 2008 elections and to petition the elected green party review the permit. the discharge of hot water into the elbe to cool turbines threatens the aquatic fauna vattenfall would have to comply with energy pollution measures. and how did vattenfall react by immediately filing
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a complaint before an arbitration tribunals demanding 1400000000 euros in compensation under pressure germany secretly negotiated with wagner fall into 2011 and suddenly one day the case was closed we only know at the end that they reached a settlement i listen this is very important the only publicly available information is that they settled. end of the story i am marcus k.f.c. scrutinize the tribunals decision. it mentions a mysterious compromise between vattenfall and hamburg signed in a local court. and so that's what i said if they reached a settlement in front of the best accord in hamburg then this is a piece of information that i can request and the federal government refused. but
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the city of hamburg sent it to. the city gave a new permit which is less restrictive than the op that's the 2nd. button flooded one bunny button followed wanted a change in the prompt and that's what they got. as unbelievable as it may sound green party didn't impose the environmental standards that it considered just. i can just imagine the conversation that took place between the federal government of germany and the city of hamburg so the federal government said well look we signed this ficci we are bound by this internationally germany has international obligations and you have to fulfill that we can't you cannot become a break international law i mean this is also a powerful argument especially in the more courses especially in countries like germany but all over the world. even germany is caught in the trap of its treaties
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and gives in to blackmail. in total secrecy the state signed an agreement on march 11th 2011. that same day japan suffered the worst earthquake in its history. and especially germany. 50 year olds anti nuclear movement and following protests in 450 cities across the country under the merkel was compounds who act. she moved to abandon
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nuclear power with maturity. plans and then. to me. in. the name. if you can in any. case you know. i actually don't think monopolies per se are the problem. to credit or to
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politicians and probably both but the crony financial isn't crony capitalism the big problem. remember there was. there wasn't. much worse. but there was an expectation of things were going to get better. there was a real sense of. there isn't today today's america was shaped by the turn principles of concentration of wealth and power. reduced democracy attack solo drought engineer elections manufacture consent and other prince holds according to no on. one set of rules for the rich opposite. that's what happens when you put her into the. narrow short term of wealth which
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will is dedicated to increasing power for jewels just as you'd expect one of the most influential intellectuals of our time speaks about the modern civilization of america. the chancellor's decision became the 13th amendment of the law on atomic energy when it was voted in 4 months later. the 7 oldest german plants were immediately closed among them those the boones bottle and crumble which also belong to the swedish multinational vattenfall.
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immediately vattenfall challenge the legitimacy of the nuclear law at the constitutional court of karlsruhe the highest court of justice in germany. but as a foreign investor vattenfall can also a tad germany in a private arbitration court. it had already won once it could and would try again in may 2012 it filed a new complaint in a. the trial takes place in washington. in . the claimant's the federal republic of germany respondents in the interest of transparency being streamed so that the public.
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sentiment. greets. the arbitrator. to observe any compensation claim for a 1000000000 years. as a consequence of the 13th amendment claim of their production licenses for the criminal. and. they were simply withdraw. to dispute. his right as such. rather this dispute the manner in which germany has chosen to implement its decision. to protect its investments in
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particular. to pay any compensation. or protection treaties is to provide protection against expropriation. difficulty however one would talk. to draw the line between expropriation all the while. no easy way to draw this line to make this distinction. so of course one could say about the protection that investors enjoy under the treaty is influenced how to walk the regolith it. doesn't matter if a parliament has adopted a law in the most democratic way. it comes to violate international obligations that the state has undertaken in the international treaty. or goes to
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it is for each individual state to decide where the law they want to sign such treaties were germany is trying to do this or betray is tricks ploy to fukushima disaster. to create a narrative that would excuse its wrongdoing. you can put perfume on it but the bottom line here is that the international and the government this dispute. germany cannot challenge the ratified treaty. but the swedish giant failed to meet its obligations. it did not repair its damaged power plants a great danger for the population. claimants now see compensation for their own business failure billions for plants which were not tarrie is all their problems but apparently in. reality
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a burning transfer meter is totally normal as are busting pipes also normal involved in of us are corroded barrels with radioactive waste. shown you a promotional video off the power plant in that video none of the events that are listed here on the site features and plans but both of them have been standing still. not because. not because of the moratorium not because of the 13th amendment but because of a multitude of incidents. through to the m t least. defeated the. kinds of nuclear physicist from greenpeace called as an expert witness took
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a close look at all the plans failures. experienced and how this. is actually saying most of the the in more so over these cables with the defeat of. hidden history on the whole thing can be easily throughout a ship so i fully clue it. on in this machine transform our thoughts to dogs and even. their machines on some of the how to see the military in. any big in this is an unknown. it's going to have to get. to hoot. it's a. gun it came from you feel to link for me it is possible she only looked me in the home. this can include truth can also save wood in that if this were an
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infant book all through it. thus germany is in famine toward descriptions of fires quote unquote and pictures of corroded barrels quote unquote contribute nothing to the ultimate determination as to whether in 2011 germany has admitted in this over trade that its decision to accelerate the face up was not based on concerns over see. 50 over nuclear power. but mariner all alleged change perception of the general risk that nuclear energy poses to the german population that is all politics. that involves lawyer is sheltering behind the law behind strict legal language so as not to recognize the multi-nationals responsibility. what is very clear that this group of people or many of them have been educated in
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a particular way they are all educated in this particular way of looking at international law as a sort of technical matter and at the same time thinking that giving companies as many rights and privileges will benefit the global economy so lawyers are not trained in thinking about consequences of their cases lawyers are trained in thinking about a way apply the law. there's only a french for this and the french term is the. this is what this really applies here people think in a very similar way this case is very controversial and has generated much public debate now why is that because it's an arbitration which should never have been brought under the energy charter treaty and under the exit convention. the reason for this through the amendment. was different.
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action is that correct. that is correct. if that is a public perception. how would that do legally translates into. the investment protection. during the show and i make a number of assumptions and i don't ask you to do anything but sure that this would be because it is almost impossible hypothetical because you. assuming the public is wrong and has the right to roll the perception changes in the public how does that translate into legally introduce you to. and i was listening to the. opening this morning. claiming that the 13th and was a political decision and i've said it quite often i wonder when political has become such
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a dirty word that. it comes from the greek political us which means relating to the people to the citizens to the state. and democracy is nothing if not political it is government off the people by the people for the people. it has to be political that's a definition and it's certainly not a dirty word. refusing any political or democratic consideration multinationals consider themselves outside politics and above the law . laws still exist. while vattenfall trial against germany is proceeding in washington the federal constitutional court in karlsruhe where the 1st complaint was launched gives its judgment. the court declares that abandoning nuclear power conforms
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to the german constitution and that the companies affected will have to receive a financial compensation. in farrakhan or to yours or mission there are moments when it is it's christmas rover on trips rules form and a cure for it's own we're here on earth. and how to also. from here you're in also . wrong on common sense means i'm sure to be leashed industrially not tradition for them to guard. the feet along and give you a foster mom that's involved in guns i'm not reconciled also because i mean i was going to move i just feel even used funds often pushed to. its own views english and we started almost to push the ticket on to the. country giving the for. the work of far. as he said it was cured and
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a spot of dust masks. in east insurance he says they spotted 5 it need discontinued initial start so long it can also be humbled to be undone in a key concern in love as opposed to hastily and extended sheets given just been more 20 or so e-mail your 1st impression of them and all but i don't know about a nice weeks in the if you call was he out in the oil or. it is up to the german government to set the amount of compensation to be validated by the bundestag. in an arbitration case it's very different. the amount of compensation is much higher and is set arbitrarily by business
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lawyers with no democratic legitimacy. a considerable portion of legal costs $4.00 to $10000000.00 is to be paid primarily by the state. what politicians do. they put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. wanted. to go on to be press this is what before 3 in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters of. course.
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you know world of big partisan movies lot and conspiracy it's time. to dig deeper to get the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door. and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks. becomes a passer mechanism right so they've buyback their own stock with cheap money from the fed and it goes through the company ostensibly to help the company but it's not it's did disenfranchising the company and then on the other side the executives who are getting that money from the fed directly into their pocket they use the company as a pastor mechanism so what happens is it leads to incredible malinvestment so boeing
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now is no longer a viable company. with the kids seem completely stable boy tonight nobody will even know who they can. go into. nor. should i be. insured up to move this little i'm listening to. show mr certainly must. not so much. you must.
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