One thing the British press should be warning Brits about (as far as Brexit's dangers) is your independent WTO accession (which you may need to negotiate - with hundreds of countries all having a verto power unless you make concessions to them, from scratch) and its likely impact on the NHS.
But, not a peep in your media. Am I correct?
But, it should be of major concern, because thats what the WTO's main goal is, privatizing all services unless supplied as an exercise of governmental authority, a narrow definition that almost none of them can pass. Because they do not pass the following very narrow two line test.:
Article I:3 of the 1995 GATS agreement states:
"For the purposes of this Agreement...
(b) 'services' includes any service in any sector except services supplied in the
exercise of governmental authority;
(c) 'a service supplied in the exercise of governmental authority' means any service
which is supplied neither on a commercial basis, nor in competition with one or
more service suppliers."
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But no discussion in the media at all. (Are people even seeing this?)
Suppression of all of the things people want, and agree upon is likely the goal of these surveillance platforms. Large scale compartmentalization of inconvenient but essential information without which democracy cannot function. Ending of the commons where people exchange opinions that may include thoughts which are not compliant with the corporate agenda to suppress the public services aspects of government and replace them with a corporate simulacra that celebrates inequality and frames the newly broken situation as one people chose when it wasn't/isn't..
A big lie.
Because of the huge job shift, there will be pressure to help the newly poor who in many cases will be people who 'did everything right'.
The positive aspects of governments - the reasons why people had joined together to create them in the first place, are being quietly ended and prevented from re-emerging by back room trade agreements. Internationally. That will be hard to hide. So the infrastructure to do that is whats being done, I suspect. (This is all speculation!)
Here in the US, and in other WTO and PTA, members, FTAs like the little known 'GATS" and pending TiSA put in place a backwards going regulatory ratchet which only allows deregulation.
Its being used to block most of the things that people want out of democracy. Because, as I have had it put to me "Otherwise people would just vote to fix everything".
We should realize that the dysfunction we see everywhere likely isn't merely failure to ever come to any agreement, in the light of this hidden agenda, one should consider the strong possibility that it may be a deliberate tactic to disenfranchise and disgust all voters.
Also one aspect of the new infrastructure for surveillance is that it may be intended to become a sort of jobs or welfare program. For insiders. Except they will be placed in a difficult position vis-a-vis having opinions. So, its disenfranchising them.
Serving an additional employment and corporate welfare and control of insiders function.
Because many of the other decent jobs because of their use of tax money in any form and lack of any national security exemption (making them potentially exempt from globalization rules, unless they are already 'committed' in an agreements "schedule" - which is based on the so called "four modes of supply" - one needs to understand that trade concept to understand these quite convoluted things!) or 'like' services are already being traded across borders.) Professions of all kinds are intended to, basically all the good jobs done by today's middle class, except those done for private companies, (which will be under downward wage pressure as well, for example in the US "Computer and Related Services" or CRS, if those sectors were committed.)
Huge sections of the economy which people are depending on to employ our young people in the future are on the bargaining table. (Or not. Depending on who you trust to be telling you the truth.)
Services, "everything you cannot drop on your foot" may well eventually, irreversibly become precarious labor done by guest workers across international borders, for very low wages, hollowing out the middle class everywhere, in rich and poor sending and receiving countries alike, replacing high skilled practitioners of professions with low paid "would-be" professionals fresh out of colleges (the Mode Four /Movement of Natural Persons provisions focus on the intra-corporate transferee, requiring they be attached to companies and have special skills, but leaving a lot unsaid, especially on wages, they may be basically paying in their less than market rate labor for the foot in the door.
...and making the millionaires who run those body shop companies billionaires off of others hard almost unpaid labor.
I'm just speculating here.
This scheme, flavors of which are seemingly being pushed in multiple trade agreements is a targeted attack on the middle class by corporations and governments, and it has the potential to bring back a sort of modern form of slavery. So much money is involved that it could well be thought of as a sort of corrupting influence that corrupted politicians and previously honest legislators everywhere it goes.
Which is my understanding exactly what slavery did. And once it starts its very hard to get rid of.
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