Apocalyptic Hope ...... Trade 2 ...... Trade 3 .......................EU Index ..............................WTO ......... Ode to the Scarlet Harlot
TYRUS - - - World Trade,
Commerce
all
the kings of TYRUS....Jeremiah 25: 22
Ezekiel Chapters
26, 27 and 28 see Rev. 17 and 18
Isaiah 23; Jer. 27:3 ; Jer. 47:4; Amos 1:9, 10; Zech. 9: 2,3; Hosea 9:13; Ezek. 29:18
The
bottom line of all world trade and commerce is the 666 Mark of the
Beast
traffiking
with Satan ..... Ezekiel 27: 16-18
From
the Newswire: fair educational use
Capitalism
is over -- Sept. 26, 2008 -- more controls , regulations, monitoring
needed, says EU
..." the crisis[ global financial ] marks
the beginning of a multi-polar world, where the US is no longer a
superpower.
"The present crisis [ globally financial ]
must incite us to refound capitalism on the basis
of ethics and work … Self-regulation as a way of
solving all problems is finished. Laissez-faire is finished. The
all-powerful market that always knows best is finished," he
[ Sarkozy ] added
"The market economy is competition
that lowers prices [ Ed: no longer applicable with
corporate titans ] ... that benefits all consumers."
[ Peer Steinbruck, German
Finance Minister : " The US will lose its
status as the superpower of the world financial system.
This world will become multi-polar," with the emergence of
centres in Asia and Europe, he told the German parliament on
Thursday.
The world will never be as it was before the
crisis," he added
http://euobserver.com/9/26814/?rk=1
From US Capitalism to Socialism ( gov buyouts ) -- Sept. 7, 2008
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/09/07/business/07bailout.php?pass=true
Not Socialism-- just authoritarianism -- Sept. 26, 2008
"In the past couple of weeks, the American
government has
1) swallowed up two enormous mortgage buyers, [ Fannie Mae and
Fredie Mac ]
2) seized a controlling stake in the world’s biggest
insurance company, - [ AIG ]
3) taken over a major saving and loan institution [
Washington Mutual ] and
4) tried to buy up hundreds of billions of dollars of bad debt,
perhaps in exchange for equity in the nation’s biggest
banks.
Now, some people - Republicans in Congress, for example - are
crying “socialism!”
Indeed, socialism hardly has a monopoly on state involvement in
the economy. Last century’s examples of fascism did much the
same thing. And today there are plenty of countries where the
state controls the economy but the system is neither socialist
nor fascist, merely authoritarian
http://blogs.iht.com/tribtalk/business/globalization/index.php
They said the legislation, which would authorize unprecedented
government intervention to buy distressed debt from private
firms, would include limits on pay packages for executives of
some firms that seek assistance and a mechanism for the
government to take an equity stake in some of the firms, so
taxpayers have a chance to profit if the bailout plan works
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/09/26/business/26bailout2.php
Bush pushes NAFTA ( Can. U.S. Mex. Free Trade ) -- April 22, 2008
During the news conference, the president also
renewed his call for the U.S. Congress to pass a
free trade pact with Colombia.
Mr. Bush said the three leaders also discussed global
warming and energy during the summit. He said the United
States is in favor of an effective climate agreement that will
include binding commitments from all major
developed and developing economies.
Ed:
another sphere of power .... another "horn"
the agreement [ Ed: Nafta] has
cost U.S. citizens manufacturing jobs in
favor of cheaper labor costs in Mexico.
Ed: It broke our middle-class, reaped unemployment and brought
shoddier goods
http://voanews.com/english/2008-04-22-voa51.cfm
The North American Union, Rfid passports and the Verichip implant
-- Nov. 5, 2007
http://thwang85.blogspot.com/2007/11/north-american-union-verichip.html
What doth it profit if they gain the whole commerce, and lose the
soul of their own nation ??
NAFTA Railway ; from Mexico to Canada -- Sept. 18, 2007
" Cutting through Kansas City, the routes of IC&E
and KCS roughly parallel Interstate 35 through the heartland of
the United States from Canada to Mexico.
WND reported the
KCS acquisitions in Mexico have positioned KCS as a NAFTA
railroad.
In the same article, WND reported Kansas City has declared itself
to be an "inland port," planning to house a Mexican
customs office in the heart of the city, positioned to be a main
terminal for Chinese containers coming north into the U.S. from
Manzanillo and Lazaro Cardenas."
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=57694
China to install SENSORS along NAFTA Highway ( can track rfid )
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=57190
MAP of N - Hiway http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=15497
Who are the G20 ? ( G7 enlargement ) -- Nov. 19, 2006
Ed: Have-countries aligning with have-not countries
"The G20 is an informal
meeting of the finance ministers and central bank governors of 19
countries:
Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France,
Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia,
South Africa, South Korea, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the United
States of America
plus the European Union Council presidency and the European Central Bank"
Ed:
countries in red are the G7 industrialized democracies
"To ensure global economic
fora and institutions work together, the Managing Director of the
International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the President of the
World Bank, plus the chairs [ chairmen ] of the International Monetary and Financial Committee
and Development Committee of the IMF and World Bank, also
participate in G20 meetings on an ex-officio basis"
consists of "systemically
important countries within the framework of the
Bretton Woods institutional ( Ed: economic ) system"
http://www.stopg20.org/node/20
G20 want global currency more flexible ( FX flexible exchange
rate ) -- Nov. 19, 2006
Ed:
Will this lead to a one world currency ?
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlebusiness.aspx?type=ousiv&storyID=2006-11-19T060514Z_01_SP195910_RTRIDST_0_BUSINESSPRO-GROUP-DC.XML&from=business
APEC wide Trade Zone ... FTAAP -- Nov. 12, 2006
The goal, envisioned as a so-called Free Trade Area of the Asia Pacific, or Ftaap,
would seek to harmonize bilateral and subregional agreements and
offer an alternative to foundering global trade talks.In addition
to President George W. Bush, Hu Jintao, the Chinese
president, and Vladimir Putin, the Russian
president, are among the 21 world leaders
expected to arrive in Hanoi [ Ed: Vietnam ] over the
next few days before a formal summit meeting on Saturday and
Sunday. [ Ed: Nov. 18, 19, 2006 ]
Though such a zone has certain attractive elements, the
research paper concluded, it is not politically
feasible in the near term
With APEC accounting for 60 percent of
the global economic output and half of world trade, such a zone
would be the single largest free trade program in history,
he said.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/11/12/business/apec.php
Trans-pacific pact :
APEC comprises:
United States, Canada, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, Japan,
Chile , Peru ;
China, Hong Kong, Russia, Indonesia,
Papua New Guinea, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand ,VietNam,
Philippines, South Korea, Taiwan, Brunei, ,
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/11/12/business/apec.php?page=2
Russia to join WTO -- Nov. 11, 2006 .... 151 st member
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20061111.RWTO11/TPStory/Business
China's piece of the International Pie -- May 17, 2006 ... Morton
Abramowitz
Robert Zoellick's "stakeholders"; unconditional trade
"China does not have to put up any money, for the
moment, although its continuing lending to the United States
shows that it merits the opportunity to buy a stake in the
system. While conditions for the buy-in have been
stated in terms of pursuing shared interests, China's only
real requirements are to recognize the United States as general partner
and take a minority share. .... China can attend all meetings of
the partnership with the big guys (it has a separate stake, of
course, in the United Nations).
Returning home a few days ago, President Hu Jintao immediately
discussed this offer with the politburo. They decided that this international
stakeholding wasn't all it was cracked up to be.
They need oil, and they don't mind doing business with whoever
wants to do business. Hu instructed his associates to
listen quietly to all the American complaints about their bad
domestic habits and simply go about their business.
China would wait to buy a stake another day, hold on to its
American bonds to keep Washington happy, and even continue to
provide Wal-Mart with cheap goods. Maybe later, when the
U.S. trade deficit has grown, the Americans will sell them a
minority share at cheaper prices. "You know," he said,
"I bet they they might even make us a general partner."
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/05/16/opinion/edabram.php
Ed: Morality-embargoes no longer play a role in
trade negotiations. Anything goes. All nations are pragmatic and
profit outweighs morality. Commerce is officially immoral.
Please see Revelation 17
reuters : Merkel, Bush
July 6,
2008-- G7 Summit in Japan of
Industrialized Democracies : US, Canada, UK , Italy, Germany,
France, and Japan. (7 with voting power ).
Ed: They call it "8" because Russia is included, but with observer
status only ( no voting power ). This year
there will be " 15
other nations' leaders also invited". ( Including China,
South Korea, India, Taiwan, Brazil, Mexico and South Africa etc.).
There will be
22 leaders
in all ( note well : 7 + 15 =
22 )
http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/story.aspx?id=NEWEN20080055963&ch=7/6/2008%207:31:00%20PM
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/News/International_Business/With_G8_Japan_relishes_chance_as_Asias_good_guy/articleshow/3202318.cms
Trans-Atlantic Free Trade -- Oct. 21, 2006
" if free trade didn't result in severe side
effects for the West. But the reality is that, where there is no
referee to ensure that everyone plays by the same rules, the West
is encouraged, sometimes even forced, to make its own society a
harsher place. In order to avoid losing business to low-wage
countries, worker's councils are tamed [Ed: labor unions ] ,
rules for environmental protection are watered down and
responsibility for social welfare is gradually handed back down
to families and individuals.
The West believes it is selling machines, cars
and planes. But as part of the deal, it is also selling its soul.
It's as if politicians and companies are committing suicide to
escape the fear of death.
A domestic market as reliable and as big as an EU-US free-trade zone
would be advantageous for both investors and workers. ....
The EU Commissioners are the last true believers in the religion of free trade.
A trans-Atlantic free-trade zone would have greater aims than
simply defending the interests of importers and exporters. ...
"Prosperity with Values" could be the aim of the
trans-Atlantic free-trade zone. One of those values would be the
goal that this prosperity reach as many people as possible.
The notion of a confident and strong West is also one that
is important to German Chancellor Angela Merkel. In the rare
moments when Merkel is able to look past the day-to-day grind of
political life and see the bigger picture, it is the
trans-Atlantic free-trade zone which catches her eye. She
envisions it as the fusion of the like-minded. At the very least,
it would counteract the Asian strategy of pitting the Europeans
and the Americans against each other. Indeed, the upcoming German
EU presidency in the first six months of 2007 presents itself as
a handy platform from which to push what could be the project of
the century. Merkel speaks of a "fascinating idea."
For years and years, fear of globalization
has preoccupied governments at the cabinet level in virtually all
Western capitals -- and an alliance of the
democracies and market economies surrounding the
North Atlantic could do everyone there tremendous good. It
would also re-energize the West.
The creation of a trans-Atlantic
free-trade zone would also send a strong political message:
" Look here", it would say, "like-minded nations
are coming together. The nations that gave birth to the
Enlightenment are devoted to the individual's right to freedom, but not at the expense of the collective."
World leadership may ultimately end up in others' hands, but we
won't stand complacently by while it happens. The Asians still
need us more than we need them: They thirst for Western capital
and technological expertise. And without Western markets, the
Asian export industry would soon fall apart.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,443306,00.html
US partners with Doha trade policies of the EU -- March 2006
"Reforming the International Financial System "
"over time markets and the
private sector can supplant the need for the IMF to perform in
its current role"
http://www.whitehouse.gov/nsc/nss/2006/sectionVI.html
http://www.whitehouse.gov/nsc/nss/2006/index.html
What is a "Termite State " ?
"In a termite state, it is the
collective rather than the individual which sets the agenda.
Tasks that serve the aims of society's leaders are assigned to
the individual in a clandestine manner that is barely perceptible
to outsiders. It is a state that encourages as much collective
behavior as possible but only as much freedom as necessary.
We don't know what they feel, we don't know what they think and
we have no way of guessing what they are planning."
http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,443306,00.html
U.S. : World enforcement through trade -- Oct. 4, 2005
Patent on IP Intellectual Property ( ideas )
Neil Turkewitz, executive vice president of the
Recording Industry Association of America, said the trade pacts
"embody a new level of standards for the digital age that go
beyond the standards of existing international agreements."
It was only proper for the administration in Washington to
"protect that most dynamic part of the U.S. economy,"
he said. Copyright-linked industries account for 5 percent of
American gross domestic product, he estimates
This pattern, he [ James
Love -- Consumer Project on Technology ] asserted,
seems "exactly designed to have someone in every regional
area with U.S. norms imposed on them" - to form a growing
floor for future international negotiations. "They're just
steamrollering the whole world," he said
The U.S. pharmaceutical industry and U.S.
government officials are both running the line that Australians
need to pay more for innovative drugs," [ Thomas ]
Faunce said. "This is frustrating for us because we are
accustomed to changes in health policy being driven by scientific
research or social justice concerns."
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/10/03/business/iprtrade.php
But a crisis is at hand, say government
officials, corporate executives and academic experts, and the
future of idea creation as the grease of the global
economy, the force in deciding winners and losers,
is in the balance. Today, the process for capitalizing -
either financially or socially - on innovation and creativity is
staggering under the strain of a digital revolution of a speed
and scale never seen before. At a time when many of their most
valuable assets can be shared and exchanged easily, businesses
and governments scrambling to redefine who owns what.
Plugging up the world
Now, the information, entertainment and
technology industries say they lose billions of sales to
the free exchange of ideas. Incremental advances are stalled by
endless lawsuits over inventions. Drug companies are on the
defensive when they refuse to share their original research. And
regulatory changes - like the European software patent directive
this summer - are dying under the weight of lobbying forces from
both sides. The battles pit companies against companies,
creators against distributors, almost everyone against the United
States - and, some say, China against the rest of the world.
"This is warfare," said Jerry Klein, a Silicon Valley
entrepreneur. "It's a high-stakes intellectual battle, and
it's very complicated
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/10/02/news/iprpatents.php
EuroSmart Trade Org. -- Nov. 7, 2006
Over 3 BBBillion ( 1/2 world's pop. ) to be shipped smart cards
Over three billion chip cards will be shipped by
smart card vendors this year, according to Jacques Seneca, the
chairman of trade organisation Eurosmart.
And Mr Seneca said that this figure will rise to over 3.7 billion
in 2007, reports Card Technology.
http://www.tuvps.co.uk/news/articles/smart-card-vendors-to-ship-over-3-billion-chip-cards-17918984.asp
EU gains weapon in battle over subsidies --Oct.
1, 2005
The WTO on Friday ruled against a
multibillion-dollar tax break for American companies.
The ruling by the WTO against the United States could result in
the renewal of sanctions on U.S. goods like
clothing, electronics, paper and steel as early as next year,
although a U.S. appeal against the ruling would automatically
delay that
The WTO ruling came a week after Mandelson signaled a desire to
restart talks with Washington over the issue of
aircraft subsidies aimed at avoiding another
expensive and potentially even more explosive trade duel.
Internet Control
The fight over tax breaks and assistance to aircraft makers also
comes amid a sharp clash this week between the United States and
Europe over proposals to end their effective control of the
Internet by creating of a new
international body. At meetings this
past week in Geneva, the United States was fighting a solitary
battle against countries backed by the EU, which wants
to see a global body take over supervision of the way information
is trafficked electronically across the globe
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/09/30/business/subsidy.php
"Free Trade" = the downfall of a nation
NAFTA,
CAFTA, WTO .. Henry Lamb -- July 30, 2005
In reality, it opens new opportunities for American
industry to move to countries where labor costs are a fraction of
U.S. labor costs, and where environmental
and regulatory compliance costs are almost non-existent.
These agreements open U.S. markets to products produced without
the safety and environmental standards – and the attendant
costs – that U.S. products must include
Each new agreement makes the United States more
and more dependent upon other nations for the
products it requires. Once the capacity to produce is lost, the
possibility of rebuilding that capacity is remote.
It also forces Americans to submit to a force of law
that was not enacted by elected representatives.
This grinds underfoot the whole concept of "... government
empowered by the consent of the governed."
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=45521
Henry
Lamb Articles http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/archives.asp?AUTHOR_ID=126
Sovereignty
International http://www.sovereignty.net/
Ron
Paul on free trade http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul250.html
Political
opposition grows against NAFTA etc..... Phillips, Corsi -- Oct. 25, 2006
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52604
Shadow
Government SPP Security and Prosperity Partnership-- Oct.
24, 2006 ( North American Trade)
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52576
Paschal
Lamy head
of WTO
as of Sept. 1, 2005 ( for 4 years )
The WTO, which has 148 members and makes
decisions by consensus, was able to agree on Lamy
without the kind of regional infighting that has blighted past
selection procedures
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/05/26/business/trade.php
http://euobserver.com/?aid=19179&rk=1
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,,1493430,00.html
http://europa.eu.int/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/05/619&forma
Lamy Oct. 18, 2006 ... global concept ( free trade ...liberalised
) rather than direct ( bilateral)
The World Trade Organisation (WTO) has warned
that a growing number of bilateral and regional trade talks risk
distracting from attempts to clinch a long-elusive global deal.
WTO head Pascal Lamy says smaller countries cannot focus on
both the global approach to trade, such as the WTO's Doha round,
and a new focus by powers such as the EU and the US on bilateral
trade deals.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=3&ObjectID=10406450
Peter
Mandelson EU trade commissioner wants third world
trade -- Oct. 18, 2006
"We need to ensure the EPAs [economic
partnership agreements] are genuinely development-friendly and
not just about opening up developing countries' markets to the
EU," said the letter by Gareth Thomas, Britain's
international development minister, and Ian McCartney, minister
of state for trade.
In a similar vein, aid agency Oxfam last month
published a report entitled 'Unequal Partners' in which is
suggested that the EU was stepping up the pressure for free trade
agreements with African and Caribbean countries
"Perhaps the biggest danger is that poor countries will be
signed up to deals that stymie their
opportunities and jeopardise future development,"
the organisation said noting that countries could lose key
money-bringing instruments such as the right to impose tariffs
http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/oct2006/gb20061018_069582.htm?chan=top+news_top+news+index_global+business
Bully
Tactics : Corporations over Congress -- July 2005
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/04/AR2005070400551_pf.html
Corporation Ericsson pushes for global free trade -- Oct. 18, 2006
" It is not countries that
do business with countries but companies that do business with
companies,” said Mr Treschow,
(Ed: Ericsson Corporation ) who is also
head of the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/ed12be84-5dff-11db-82d4-0000779e2340.html
Trade
for Aid -- July 8, 2005
http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/july2005/mjm79-7.htm
Trade
Wars threaten Global recession -- May 20, 2005
The worst case scenario is that this seriously
escalates," said Tim Condon, a Singapore-based economist.
"If people start putting up barriers to trade we revisit the
1930s, and that downside is very dark."
But if tariffs were imposed and China's exports
fell, its overloaded warehouses would spark deflation,
bankruptcies, unemployment and social unrest.
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/05/21/wchina21.xml
Global
Food Giants Control the Food Supply -- Jan. 28, 2005
"A wave of mergers and business alliances
has concentrated market power in very few hands,"
the report says.
It is a dangerous situation when so few companies
control so many lives,"
said John Samuel of ActionAid yesterday.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/globalisation/story/0,7369,1399480,00.html
Proctor-
Gamble: 300 Consumer products --Jan. 28, 2005
(
none dare call it monopoly )
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,1401263,00.html
More
Monopolies to come -- Jan. 29, 2005
Consumer-goods makers including Unilever,
Kimberly-Clark Corp. and Colgate-Palmolive Co. face
pressure to get bigger to reduce costs and gain clout with
retailers led by Wal-Mart Stores Inc., investors and analysts
said. Gillette will help P&G's distribution of products in
faster-growing emerging markets such as Brazil and India,
P&G Chief Executive A.G. Lafley said.
``This is an envious deal for everyone in the sector,'' said Ken
Costa, chairman of European investment
banking at
UBS AG, in an interview yesterday at the World
Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. ``I do expect in the
course of the year to see the mergers and acquisitions market
grow in consumers as well as other sectors
http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=aOnwXs1QSP88&refer=news_index
US-
MidEast Trade USMEFTA -- Nov. 12, 2004
The new group is a joint effort of the National
Foreign Trade Council (NFTC) and the Business Council for
International Understanding (BCIU), both of which have stated
their support of the finalization of a Middle East Free Trade
Area (MEFTA)
http://www.caltradereport.com/eWebPages/page-two-1099606635.html
Robert
Zoellick, Liz Cheney to transform U.S. - Mid-East policy -- May
21, 2005
The new policy will replace traditional diplomacy
conducted through U.S. embassies, Zoellick said, with pressure
to adopt the Bush Administration's ideals of free
trade and democracy in the Middle East.
Zoellick said he and Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of
State Liz Cheney will oversee the U.S. government-wide strategy,
which will bankroll reforms "from Morocco to
Afghanistan."
The approach integrates the Bush Administration's Broader Middle
East and North Africa initiative directly into U.S. foreign
policy, providing grant money
and diplomatic pressure
for countries to call elections and permit political parties, drop
trade barriers, allow foreign investment and
boost literacy and women's rights.
Zoellick said Washington would like to push Saudi Arabia,
Lebanon, Algeria and Yemen to join the World Trade Organization,
a first step before entering a separate trade pact with the
United States.
At the same time, Washington will increase pressure for political
reforms in the Middle East, calling on countries to organize
elections, permit a free press and form human rights groups, give
rights to women and minority groups, and protect privacy.
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/578557.html
"and
all the cities of the nations fell" Revelation 16:19
"Global Compact" to replace 10 commandments for
Business ethics-- June 14, 2005
a Human Rights Agenda
Tony Blair was to join Chirac
and Annan. The three leaders were to have
lunch after attending a meeting of representatives of 140
companies from around the world.
With Britain taking over
the presidency of the Group of Eight industrialized nations, Blair also was making the
rounds of capitals to press his themes of climate
change and lifting Africa out of poverty. A G-8
summit is to be held next month
[ July 05 ] in Gleneagles,
Scotland, and Blair hopes leaders will agree to a plan
for Africa that would include issues as diverse as disease and
peacekeeping. [Ed :
multi-national forces ]
Global Compact, a UN initiative
established in 2000 to promote human rights, good labor
practices, environmental protection and anti-corruption
standards. About 1,000 companies have so far signed on.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/Printer&cid=1118715538326&p=1078113566627
U.S. , Mexico, and Canada = one entity "North America"
-- June 11, 2005
http://www.rense.com/general66/SDND.HTM
Internationalizing our Roads -- June 10, 2005
http://www.newswithviews.com/Spivey/phyllis3.htm
Davos, 2005 .... merging government with business
http://stevequayle.com/News.alert/05_Money/050127.world.forum.html
Commerce Secretary :Carlos Gutierrez ? -- Nov. 29. 2004
US President George W. Bush on Monday chose Carlos
Gutierrez as his new commerce secretary to succeed Donald Evans,
who announced his resignation shortly after Bush won reelection
early this month.
Gutierrez, chief executive officer of the cereal company Kellogg
Co., became the fourth candidate that Bush has
nominated for his new cabinet since his successful reelection on
Nov. 2. The nomination needs Senate confirmation. http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-11/30/content_2275081.htm
No dissent allowed-- Dec. 2, 2004
There's serious concern among the economics
community that this is not an administration that encourages
dissent. But economic dissent is very important to the formation
of sound economic policy," argued John Mayo, an economics
professor at Georgetown University's business school.
The president "needs to hear what those
dangers might be...but there's concern that he won't want to hear
dissent," and instead base his economic policy on
"narrow, simple ideology," Georgetown's Mayo said.
Under. Sec. P. Bond ; Dan Caprio CPO of TA
Listed below are articles pertaining to governments and trade
(business).
Daniel Caprio named Chief Privacy Officer
of Technology Administration
TA--July 21, 2004
Commerce Under Secretary for Technology Phillip
J. Bond welcomed today’s announcement by
Commerce Secretary Donald L. Evans naming
Daniel W. Caprio, Jr. to serve as the
Commerce Department’s Chief Privacy Officer (CPO).
“The mission of the Technology Administration (TA) is to maximize
technology’s contribution to American economic
growth, job creation, innovative capacity and global
competitiveness.
Caprio served for the previous six years as
Special Assistant and Chief of Staff to Federal Trade
Commissioner Orson Swindle, where he worked as principal
technology policy advisor with specific emphasis on information
security, privacy, and global
electronic commerce. In December 2001, Caprio
was appointed to the United States Government Experts Group to
revise the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
(OECD) Guidelines for the Security of Information Systems and
Networks.
http://www.technology.gov/PRel/p_pr040713.htm
MONOPOLY .... no choices --Sept. 2004
Lack of choice and an absence of economic
competition form the basis for Corporate World and define its
operating framework....
By 2007, reports The Washington Post, Wal-Mart,
already the nation's No. 1 general retailer with 3,700
stores, will control more than a third of all U.S. supermarket
food sales.
ONE OF EVERYTHING
The same is increasingly true for every other area of American
retail business. Oil and gasoline? Five companies now have 50
percent of the market. Restaurants? Corporate-owned chains only.
Movie theaters? Ditto. Bookstores? Likewise. Stationery and
hardware stores? More of the same. And with corporate ownership
and control of the marketplace comes corporate arrogance: Buy
their selected products, pay their prices, accept their
standards, and endure their ideas of service and social
responsibility - or take a hike.
In practice, this means the work force is expendable and
disposable, the customer is always wrong, and the general public
is, at best, an inconvenience and, at worst, a threat. Case in
point: Best Buy Co. Inc., a national retail chain active in
Maine, has announced unspecified plans to legally discriminate
against shoppers on whom it loses money because they commit
heresies like shopping only during sales or requesting too much
information from salespeople.
http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/insight/stories/040919corporatewor.shtml
Standardized global Bar-Code : European Article Numbering Code --
July 12, 2004
activated Jan. 1, 2005 ...GS 1 ..... now 13 digits
With the new mandate from the Uniform Code
Council, the North American arbiter of bar codes, the
bar-code scanners of North American retailers will be expected
to read the 13-digit product codes. The 12-digit codes do not
die; systems that can read 13-digit codes can also read 12-digit
codes.
The bar-code standards bodies are becoming a single global group
as well. EAN International, based in Brussels, and the Uniform
Code Council, based in Lawrenceville, New Jersey, will be folded
into one organization, called GS1, next year. The
global headquarters will be in Brussels.
http://www.iht.com/articles/528868.html
http://www.adams1.com/pub/russadam/upccode.html
Tranatlantic Trade-figures June 25, 2004
Although political relations between the EU and
the United States may have been damaged following the U.S.-led
invasion of Iraq in 2003, the economic
relationship has continued to ripen. During that year, almost
$87 billion was pumped into Europe through
foreign direct investment - an increase of more than 30
percent from the previous year.
In fact, 2003 proved to be a record-breaking year for
trans-Atlantic profits. The report highlighted that
nearly
65 percent of all U.S. foreign direct investment in
2003 went to European countries. U.S. companies
continue to rely on Europe for half their total annual foreign
profits, while the United States is the most important market
in the world in terms of earnings for many European
multinationals.
The investment has not been all one-sided. The conclusive report
reveals that Europe's investment stake in the United
States, on a historical cost basis, exceeded
$1 trillion in 2002, 20 percent more than America's
stake in Europe. Curiously, Europe accounts for nearly three
quarters of all foreign investment in the United States.
Ed. note: Are those
"investments" buying up all our real estate, farmlands
, utilities ??
http://www.iht.com/articles/526397.html
Australia, US sign Free Trade Agreement -- May 2004
The two signed a free-trade agreement last week,
and congressional leaders have pledged to move quickly to ratify
it. Should it take effect, 99 percent of industrial goods in both
countries would become duty-free immediately, which would result
in an estimated $2 billion annual growth in exports of U.S.
manufactured products to Australia.
http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/8841497.htm
CAFTA,
the EU and Communitarian Law -- Feb. 2006
One must act 'as if' in Europe: as if one wanted
only very few things, in order to obtain a great deal. As if
nations were to remain sovereign, in order to convince them to
surrender their sovereignty. The Commission in Brussels, for
example, must act as if it were a technical organism, in order to
operate like a government ... and so on, camouflaging and toning
down. The sovereignty lost at national level does not pass to any
new subject. It is entrusted to a faceless entity: NATO, the UN
and eventually the EU. The Union is the vanguard of this changing
world: it indicates a future of Princes without sovereignty. The
new entity is faceless and those who are in command can neither
be pinned down nor elected ... That is the way Europe was made
too: by creating communitarian organisms without giving the
organisms presided over by national governments the impression
that they were being subjected to a higher power
http://www.newswithviews.com/Raapana/niki.htm
CAFTA July 19, 2005
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2005/07/18/opinion/commentary/71705195445.txt
CAFTA
US
Free Trade agreement with Central American nations ( 6 ) -- May
28, 2004
The agreement was signed Friday by the chief
trade negotiators of the United States and five countries of
Central America - Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala,
Honduras and Nicaragua.
The Dominican Republic will be
part of the package when it is presented to Congress, but the
country will have to wait until this summer to sign the deal
because its negotiations were completed later.
The six nations will represent the second largest market for U.S.
products in Latin America, second only to Mexico.
http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_CENTRAL_AMERICA_TRADE?SITE=FLPAP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
Europe and Latin America
look to boost trade -- May 31,
2004
Mercosur (which groups Argentina,
Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay) and the EU last week
exchanged free trade proposals. And five Central American
countries (Guatemala, El Salvador, Panama, Honduras and Nicaragua)
are seeking flexibility from the Europeans hoping to strike a
deal on free trade in January 2005.
The Andean Community
(Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela)
also is hoping to use the gathering to encourage the European
Union to thrash out a deal with their group.
http://www.tehrantimes.com/Description.asp?Da=5/29/2004&Cat=9&Num=14
Europe and economic reform -- April 9, 2004
http://www.iht.com/articles/514053.html
Japan plans first-ever tariffs on US good- Nov. 28, 2003
http://www.iht.com/ihtsearch.php?id=119279
US to face European trade sanctions by Dec. 8, 2003
http://euobs.com/?aid=13708&rk=1
2003-Trade ministers from the 34 nations will
meet in Miami on Nov. 20-21 to continue
negotiations for the creation of the FTAA,
due by January 2005. Negotiations have run into problems as many
poor nations are starting to reject open-market reforms pushed by
rich countries.
http://www.naplesnews.com/03/10/florida/e32492a.htm
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/7186108.htm
Sec. of
Treasury Snow wants currency rates set by market floating rates- Sept. 20, 2003
By Glenn Somerville
DUBAI, Sept 20 (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary John
Snow said on Saturday fellow finance chiefs from the world's
leading industrial nations backed his view that currency rates
should be set by markets and not by governments.
In a statement at the conclusion of a meeting of the Group of
Seven finance ministers -- the United States, Britain, Canada,
France, Germany, Italy and Japan -- Snow claimed victory for his
position that floating rates were best for world trade.
"I expressed my long-held view that that the world trading
system works best under a regime with market-based exchange
rates," Snow said.
http://www.forbes.com/markets/newswire/2003/09/20/rtr1087112.html
Fascism : You can own a company (private enterprise) but the
government makes all the rules and regulations (even if it means
going bankrupt)
US Military and Corporations dominate the world...Jan 29-2002
Definition of Fascism http://www.brojon.org/frontpage/bj040501.html by Dwight
Eisenhower
Money is power and
that is why the U.S. military (with much of our national budget
to use in secret ways we will never know about) and U.S.
corporations rule the world, devouring everything, raping the
globe of its precious resources, destroying the environment and
paying off the mass media to be their cheerleaders and pimps.....
This is why democracy is being destroyed
in the United States and around the world. The goal of the U.S.
ruling class and its puppet U.S. government is military and
economic domination and exploitation of the entire world. It has
nothing to do with terrorism or standing for justice or any such
nonsense. But democracy could not be destroyed without the help
of their cheerleaders, the U.S. mass media. That is why it is
important that none of the things I have mentioned ever gets
reported.
http://www.aztlan.net/deathdem.htm
IBM
dominates World Markets May 9, 2003
IBM Delivers World's Top Performing Transaction
Server, Database
Ousts HP from Number One
New IBM eServer System and DB2 Universal
Database set Transaction Processing World
Record;
Beats HP with Half the Number of Processors
According to the Transaction Processing Performance Council's
TPC-C benchmark, an eServer p690 with 32 POWER4+(TM) processors
running the AIX(TM) UNIX® operating system and DB2® Universal
Database delivered 680,613.12 transactions
per minute (tpm/C) at a cost of $11.13/tpmC.
IBM ousted an Itanium 2 system that used twice the number of
processors running Windows from the top performance spot.(1)
"With these record setting performance results, IBM
continues the long standing trend of delivering customers the most powerful systems on the market,"
said Adalio Sanchez, general manager, IBM eServer pSeries.
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/030509/95193_1.html
Who
runs the world commercially ?
The Commerce
Department's Bureau of Industry and Security
(BIS) administers U.S. anti-boycott
regulations, which prohibit U.S. persons from taking actions in
support of unsanctioned foreign government boycotts, including
the Arab League boycott of Israel. BIS has a long record of
aggressive enforcement of the anti-boycott regulations, with over
$26 million in civil penalties imposed and denials of export
privileges where violations have been found.
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=227229&contrassID=1&subContrassID=1&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
Who
protects commercial interests globally ? (MAP)
U.S. military commanders actively collect
intelligence and or entrench military bases in every region of
the globe. Why? To protect the vital interests of the American
people or to protect the vital interests of greed-driven
multinational corporations?
http://www.proliberty.com/observer/20021018.htm
RFID
tagging and the marketplace
From Fortune's 500 to Global 1000
http://www.rfidjournallive.com/
There
is Money in Food --Derry Brownfield, September 15, 2003
http://www.newswithviews.com/brownfield/brownfield32.htm
Corporations
have no accountability
http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/oct2003/justinf1018.htm
No independent thinking if you want to belong to Free Trade
Agreement--Oct. 19, 2003
New Zealand does not want nuclear ships
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2695810a13,00.html
Global
Socialism (The Third Way )....FASCISM
is
the grandest of all illusions. It pretends that individuals
own property and businesses, when in reality they don't. They
merely pay for them initially, and then pay forever in heavier
and heavier taxation, fees, fines, registrations and regulations.
Corporations and Government dictate the rules and have the actual
control.
The
Third Way ---government allied with BIG business--- does not serve
the general public, but advances their own dominating agendas.
Wages suffer under this plan as parity is sought among nations in
Global Trade
(NAFTA....OAS...ASEAN...FTAA etc.)
The worker is subjected to receiving the lowest median common
wage in order to "equalize" across the board.
This
results in "a day's wages for a loaf of bread".
The
Third Way is The Third Horseman
of the Apocalypse.
What
is the THIRD WAY ?
It's not Capitalism (individual enterprise.....FREEDOM)
It's not Communism (state owned enterprise....NO FREEDOM)
It's Fascism--merging government with mega-corporations
(monopolies)....TOTAL CONTROL
http://www.rense.com/general37/char.htm
MICC http://www.mises.org/story/2450
mil-ind-congressional
Definition
of Fascism and Communitarianism.....
"Communitarianism is more closely
related to fascism. Fascist doctrine, as described in the early
part of this century, called for government
and "Big Business"
(and also Labor) to work together in partnership to run the state.
Each of these three elements was called a corpus and these three
bodies would coordinate to plan the economy and run the state.
From the term "corpus" we get the terms "corporate
state" and "corporative state."...
Fascism, again, was a compromise solution between
communism/socialism and capitalism and was in fact known as
"the middle way" between socialism and capitalism. In
fact at times it was called "the
third way." It was a totally cynical
philosophy attractive to the upper classes as the way to stop the
communist threat. And it conveniently annihilated
the concept of rights so as to allow the
upper classes to consolidate their power."....
"wherein government and Big Business (corporations) shared
power. "
"So everybody is kept equally miserable but not miserable
enough to revolt.
This is bread and circuses. This is fascism. This is
communitarianism. "
Ken Morrow WND editorial...September 5, 2001
Please see: "Good Business" is killing
us....by Chuck Baldwin
"Merchants have no country"----land of opportunists.
"If these American companies can
make a dollar today by engaging in commercial activity that helps
to strengthen a potential adversary tomorrow, they will do it in
a heartbeat. It's considered all right, because it's considered
"good business."
http://www.chuckbaldwinlive.com/chuckwagon.html
MUST READ !
Trading
our Living Standard for a mess of Pottage...Paul Craig
Roberts...Feb 14-2002
http://www.newsmax.com/commentmax/articles/Paul_Craig_Roberts.shtml
TEN "CANNOTS"
By Abraham Lincoln
You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift
You cannot help small men by tearing down big men.
You cannot strengthen the weak by
weakening the strong.
You cannot lift the wage earner by putting down the wage payer.
You cannot stay out of trouble by spending more than you incur.
You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class
hatred.
You cannot establish security on borrowed money.
You cannot build character and courage by taking away man's
initiative and independence.
You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could
and should do for themselves.
In
the Millennial Kingdom, each man will own his own property :
"In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, shall ye call every
man his neighbor under the vine and under the fig tree." Zechariah 3:10
Zechariah
Chapter 4 shows a Theocracy, with representative government.
GOP
abandons Conservativism....Jon Dougherty
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=23313
"Democrats
in Drag" by Steve Farrell
The Republican Party speaks conservative, but legislates liberal,
gets all dressed up for church, but drives down to the brothel.
If there ever was any truth to the claim that the Republican
Party was conservative, constitutionally based, and morally
sound, its 1990’s flying leap into the arms of Progressive
Government and the Third Way insured that honest men would soon
come to believe otherwise. Yesterday’s defenders of the
Republic are today’s champions of the New World Order and
the corporations which figure to cash in most on the
megalomaniacal prize.
Dems
in Drag: Third Way fall from Grace
http://www.newsmax.com/commentarchive.shtml?a=2001/8/20/224127
Missing
the Mark with Religion...My Country, My President, My Party
...Right or Wrong
http://www.newsmax.com/commentarchive.shtml?a=2001/7/25/012502
Steve
Farrell Articles http://www.newsmax.com/pundits/archives/Steve_Farrell-archive.shtml
FASCISM 101
"Strict regulation and control of the economy by the regime
through some form of corporatist economic planning
in which the legal forms of private ownership of industry are nominally preserved but in
which both workers and capitalists are obliged to submit their
plans and objectives to the most detailed state regulation and extensive wage
and price controls, which are designed to insure the priority of
the political leadership's objectives over the private economic
interests of the citizenry. Therefore under fascism most of the
more important markets are allowed to operate only in a
non-competitive, cartelized, and governmentally
"rigged" fashion." (Point # 9)....
www.jtj.net/messages/624.html
Corporate
State
"Fascism
does emerge in capitalist crisis:
the moment when the struggle for production reaches a point when
the workers can no longer purchase the products they produce
( a crisis of over-production and declining profits and/or an
intense battle for cheaper labor, raw materials, and new markets;
that is, war." Rich Gibson
www.pipeline.com/~rgibson/fascism.html
"Fascism is against individualism. The Fascist concept of
the State---it is for the individual only in so far as he
coincides with the State, which is the conscience and universal
will of man in his historical existence.
Fascism
reaffirms the State as the true reality of the individual. The only liberty
which can be real, is the liberty of the State (and the
individual in the State).
Therefore for the Fascist everything is the State,
and nothing human or spiritual exists outside of the State."(point #5)
point # 6.....
"The
will of the nation can be expressed by the will of a few, EVEN OF
THE ONE"
www.lewiston.k12.id.us/staff/sfunk/Fascism.html
What is Fascism ? Fascism is the Italian government of Mussolini,
who actually coined the phrase " THIRD WAY "
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=16330
THE
COMING U.S. FASCISM
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig2/fascism.html
One
World Socialism
Recycling Radicalism--- from "The New American"--March
24, 2003
http://www.thenewamerican.com/tna/2003/03-24-2003/vo19no06_radicalism.htm
DANIEL
2.....Fascism and Democracy don't mix.......
"And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potter's
clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; but there
shall be in it of the strength of the iron, foreasmuch as thou
sawest the iron mixed with miry clay.
And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay,
so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken.
And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall
mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave
one to another,
even as iron is not mixed with clay." Daniel 2:40-43
Fascism
and Democratic-Capitalism together www.starheart.net/fascism.html
Corporate
Globalization and Popular Democracy http://cyberjournal.org
P-P-P
( Public-Private Partnership)
A partnership between governments (public) and corporations
(private)
whereby property is owned, yet totally controlled by
authoritarian regulations
(controls over products and services). A pretend-sharing of
power, when in reality
all systems are managed by Big Brother.
American Democracy shifted from a representative form of
government to a P-P-P government during the unrelenting efforts
of Mr. Gore who "re-invented our government" during the
past 8 years. Scroll to articles below.
Democracy or a Republic ?
www.newsmax.com/commentarchive.shtml?a=2000/2/8/122923
Iran: Uneasy mix of
Islam with Democracy
http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/2001/06/05/p6s1.htm
World
Trade continued at www.cybertime.net/~ajgood/3bibi2.html
including: TranAtlantic Market, Fast Track; APEC; Free
Trade Agreements : FTAA; Mid-East; ASEAN;
TAFTA ( Europe-America); NAFTA, Drug trafficking,
"pharmakia"
