Apocalyptic Hope ....... Trade 1 .... Trade 3
World Trade Tyrus ...page three
including: TranAtlantic Market, Fast Track; APEC; Free Trade
Agreements : FTAA; Mid-East; ASEAN;
TAFTA ( Europe-America); NAFTA, Drug trafficking,
"pharmakia"
WTO--
World Trade Organization
US faces record sanctions
after WTO ruling Jan. 14-2002
http://news.independent.co.uk/business/news/story.jsp?story=114293
WTO
to decide prices on drugs
Calling for the debate last April, the
WTO's African members said the WTO's accord on trade-related
aspects of intellectual property (Trips) faced a "crisis of
legitimacy". The 1994 accord, which requires countries to
introduce patent protection legislation, is blamed by health
activists for bolstering the interests of the multinational
pharmaceutical companies and keeping the costs of essential
drugs, especially those for Aids, out of reach of the poor. http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT3N85KX5OC&live=true&tagid=IXLC078IH7C&Collid=Any
Eight
major trading blocs ? Eight regions ?
http://www.euobserver.com/index.phtml?selected_topic=9&action=view&article_id=3610
TRANSATLANTIC
COMMON MARKET
"And
the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate
the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat
her flesh, and burn her with fire.
For God hath put in their hearts to fulfill His will, and to
agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of
God shall be fulfilled." Revelation 17:16,17
Removing
standards (regulations) in transatlantic trade -- July 9,
2004
anything goes
We start from a strong base. Nearly 60 percent of
all American foreign corporate assets are located in Europe,
while Europe provides nearly 75 percent of all foreign investment
in the United States.
Americans consume a quarter of total EU exports, while the United
States sends a third of its total exports to Europe.
More than 13 million Americans and Europeans are employed by
local affiliates of EU and U.S. parent companies.
The real prize lies in removing the many barriers
created by contrasting and conflicting regulations
which weigh on businesses and add to their costs.
[Ed. note: what they want us to
believe] "The fact is that dismantling barriers
will lead to demonstrable prosperity for citizens on both sides
of the Atlantic, and that is something that should not just be on
the agenda of business but should appeal to consumers,
communities, workers and politicians. We can all win from
this."
http://www.iht.com/bin/print.php?file=528542.html
EU - US and Canada Trade--- Aug 13, 2003
THE EU, Canada and the US said today they had teamed up in
crafting a proposal aimed at reviving deadlocked WTO talks on
opening up markets for industrial goods' trade......
Washington and Brussels have announced they plan to present to
other WTO members a joint position on probably the most
controversial WTO issue, agriculture, by tomorrow at the
earliest.
EU Ambassador to the WTO, Carlo Trojan told reporters it was
quite normal that some countries would rather wait to see
"where the road is going on agriculture" before
speaking out on the other proposal.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,6941052%255E401,00.html
EU
slaps 4 Billion $ worth of trade sanctions on the US --- May 7,
2003
Effective January 1-2004
GENEVA, Switzerland -- The World Trade
Organization has given the go-ahead for the European Union to
impose a record $4 billion (3.5 billion euros) in annual trade
sanctions against the United States.
Wednesday's decision is the last hurdle for the EU in its
long-running dispute with the U.S. over tax breaks for
multinational companies.
The trade sanctions -- the largest approved by the WTO
in its eight-year history --
are set to take effect by January 1, 2004.
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/europe/05/07/eu.us.sanctions/index.html
EU
$ 4 Billion Sanction against US
(CBS) The World Trade Organization on
Friday ruled that the European Union can impose trade sanctions
of up to
$4 billion against the United States in a tax dispute, the
biggest penalty it has ever allowed.
The sanctions are 20 times the amount levied in any
previous WTO dispute. Experts say their potential effect
on EU-U.S. trade would be so serious that the ruling will likely
prompt a new compromise between the two sides.
The United States and EU also have been trying to
defuse a battle over steel tariffs.
The decision does not require the retaliatory tariffs but gives
the Europeans the option to imposethem.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/08/30/world/main520300.shtml
Please
see Rev. 17:16,17
Transatlantic
Trade War looming .... Aug. 12-2002
The likely outcome is some sort of fudge, a transition period
under which the new members states will be able to postpone the
evil day -- but the EU bureaucracy seems determined to extend to
the new member states the blockade on U.S.
foods containing GMOs (genetically modified organisms).
Moreover, politics and diplomacy being what they are, the EU is
hoping to use this new lever to wring more concessions from the
U.S. on steel and other tariffs.
But trade diplomats seldom seem to realize that when
they push their commercial interests too far, they can put at
risk the larger geopolitical underpinnings that have held the
Transatlantic alliance together. The U.S. Trade Representative Bob
Zoellick and his EU counterpart
Pascal Lamy know this, and if their
political masters let them, might reach a solution that would
continue the grand Transatlantic bargain that Paul Hoffman
proposed over 50 years ago. But with all the other rows from Iraq
to global warming darkening the skies over the Atlantic, the
chances do not look good.
http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20020810-065211-6848r
Why
Europe wants to deliver our mail...... April 29, 2002
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=27428
EU
wants in on American businesses (utilities, postal, small
business etc.) April 26-2002
EU wants to bid on US mail
The European Union is demanding that
foreign companies be allowed to compete with the U.S. Postal
Service as part of World Trade Organization talks that began last
year.
According to a draft copy of its demands obtained by The
Washington Times, Europe also wants access to American markets
for municipal water and waste services.
It also will call for foreign companies to be
given access to Small Business Administration loans.
The European demands, which will be formally presented to the
U.S. government by the end of June, mark the opening salvo in WTO
negotiations on trade in services, an area that includes
industries
from finance to telecommunications to energy.
http://www.washtimes.com/business/20020426-51693010.htm
U.S.
and Britain ?...July 26-2001
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2-2001254700,00.html
"Atlantic
Partnership"
http://www.dailytelegraph.co.uk/dt?ac=005624373810512&rtmo=qKpRLxK9&atmo=rrrrrrrq&pg=/01/7/26/do01.html
Is
Blair the hinge of FTAA and EU ??
Visits
Brazil, Argentina and Mexico.....talk of debts and oil
As Argentina goes.... so goes all of Latin America
I'll
cry for you Argentina
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk_politics/newsid_1469000/1469569.stm
After an academic conference on Thursday,
Blair was scheduled to travel Friday to
an oil production project on the Gulf coast where British firms
have served as contractors
for Mexico's state-owned oil monopoly.
http://www.uniontrib.com/news/mexico/20010802-1304-mexico-blair.html
Caribbean Visit too
Mexico
seeking economic security from possible Argentina-crash and U.S.
slowdown
http://www.thenewsmexico.com/noticia.asp?id=5719
Fast-track
:
More
power to the executive branch..... no power to the legislative
branch
Augments Nationalized Health Care
Senate
gives Bush "fast track" authority on trade to bypass
Congress-- May 24-2002
The legislation, which passed Thursday evening by
a convincing 66-30 vote after three weeks of debate, gives the
president the authority to negotiate new trade agreements that
Congress must vote on but not change. Bush says
he needs this "fast-track" authority, lapsed since
1994, to ensure U.S. leadership in World Trade Organization trade
liberalization talks and efforts to establish a Western
Hemisphere free-trade zone.
Sen. Phil Gramm , R-Texas, said it was a "red-letter day for George Bush,"
giving him one of the biggest legislative
victories of his presidency.
Disputing that forecast was Sen. Byron Dorgan
D-N.D., who said free trade without protections
fosters the loss of jobs to countries with cheap
labor and poor environmental standards. Senators "talk about
how wonderful this is for this country, and none of them will
have their jobs move to Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Mexico
or anywhere else," he said.
The Senate bill, at the insistence of Democrats,
also expands a program to help workers who lose their jobs
because of trade, making more Americans eligible and providing a
subsidy to pay for 70 percent of their health-care
costs.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=530&ncid=530&e=5&u=/ap/20020524/ap_on_go_co/congress_trade
Fast
Track ....who needs the Legislative Branch anyway ?
http://quote.bloomberg.com/fgcgi.cgi?ptitle=Top%20World%20News&s1=blk&tp=ad_topright_topworld&T=markets_bfgcgi_content
99.ht&s2=ad_right1_windex&bt=ad_position1_windex&middle=ad_frame2_windex&s=AOyfaQxZVUmVwdWJs
"Trade
promotion authority"---JBS
President Bush wants
the authority — now coyly renamed "trade promotion
authority" — for the same reason that his predecessor
wanted it: to accelerate the United States’ entry into an
economic New World Order, where
international bureaucracies will trump sovereign controls on
international trade.
Bush has made it clear to anyone paying attention that he intends
to foist an American equivalent of the European Union on the
United States and the rest of North and South America
http://www.jbs.org/congress/alerts/107_congress/trade.htm
House gives Bush "fast-track" on world trade......Dec.
7-2001
"fast track" means to skip the legitimate route, and
circumvent prescribed channels of wisdom
http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT3BGXR8XUC&live=true&tagid=IXLT95DZ1BC
APEC ... Asian-Pacific
Economic Cooperation ( Pacific Rim)
Summit Nov. 20, 2004
With the leaders of the US., Japan, China, Korea, ASEAN,
Australia and New Zealand, Canada, Mexico and Chile
(then later, Russia, Vietnam and Peru) it constitutes an imposing
annual summit. As the share of the world economy in
East Asia [ Ed. note: " the kings of the East"
Dan. 11 ] grows, it will ultimately rival the G8 for
global economic importance.
The group flirted with a regional system for trade liberalization
several years ago, but its aversion to institutions
prevailed. It has a very small Secretariat. "APEC"
is the acronym for Asian Pacific Economic Cooperation
http://www.techcentralstation.com/112204F.html
FTAA.... Free Trade
Agreement of the Americas
From Alaska to Antarctica
"America I and America II
With only slight nuances, Bush's second term will
reprise and reinforce the policy of the first term. In Latin
America, as former U.S. Ambassador Manuel Rocha has explained,
that means that Washington will choose to collaborate with, and
help, what Rocha calls
'' America I '' (Mexico, Central America, Colombia,
Chile, Peru and Ecuador -- countries that have opted
for the free market, globalization, democracy and a friendly
attitude toward the United States)
and show a well-pondered indifference to
''America II,'' formed by nations that
stubbornly insist on the old anti-American and anti-market
ideology:
Venezuela, Brazil and Argentina, as well as Uruguay,
now led by Tabaré Vázquez.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/opinion/10250518.htm?1c
Miami, Florida to be the Secretariat of the FTAA --Oct. 18, 2003
Gov. Jeb Bush and four other South Florida political
leaders have started their official appeal for Miami
to be named the permanent site of the future Free Trade
Area of the Americas.
In a letter sent Thursday to U.S. Trade Representative Robert
Zoellick and Brazil's trade minister
Luiz Fernando Furlan, Bush and the other leaders wrote that they
believe Miami is the most logical location for the
permanent secretariat, which would bring thousands of
jobs and millions of dollars in economic impact.
"We are convinced due to our longstanding and vibrant
trade relationship and the dynamic cultural linkages between
Florida and the nations of Latin America and the
Caribbean, a Miami-based Secretariat would offer the FTAA nations
unparalleled advantages and benefits," read the
letter, signed by Bush, Miami-Dade County Mayor Alex Penelas,
Miami Beach Mayor David Dermer, Coral Gables Mayor Don Slesnick
and Broward County Commissioner Diana Wasserman-Rubin.
http://www.naplesnews.com/03/10/florida/e32492a.htm
Henry
Hyde proposes Commonwealth of the Americas...July 13-2001
Rep. Henry J. Hyde, chairman of the House International Relations
Committee, plans to propose today that countries in the Western
Hemisphere form a Commonwealth of the
Americas with common political, security and
economic policies.
In a speech he is scheduled to deliver at the Western Hemisphere
Institute for Security Cooperation at Fort Benning, Ga., Hyde
(R-Ill.) argues that his initiative could secure recent
democratic and economic gains made by the region's countries. http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55584-2001Jul12.html
Dollarization
of the Americas ..... April 24-2002
In the Americas, that means embracing the dollar, which already
functions as a de facto euro. The region's formal dollarization
won't happen soon, but if Ecuador and El Salvador can make the
concept work, so can other nations. Perhaps the current crisis
will prompt Argentina to consider a radical leap to
dollarization.
http://www.forbes.com/2002/01/09/0108argentina.html
FTAA...
Free
Trade Agreement of the Americas / SOA...Summit of the Americas
New
headquarters for FTAA....Atlanta or Miami ?? Sept 26-2002
Miami and Atlanta are angling to host the
headquarters of a free-trade zone stretching from Alaska to
Argentina,
http://www.washtimes.com/business/20020919-3244134.htm
33
Nations
The EU is pressing for a quick end to
negotiations on a trade deal between the EU and Mercosur - the
South American trade bloc formed by Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay
and Paraguay - as the region also hammers out a U.S. proposal for
a 33-nation, all-American free trade zone by 2005.
http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGACR96SSPC.html
Article:
Charley Reese...."Free Trade feeds Corporate Greed"
"As Americans, we should promote fair trade,
not free trade, which is a false front for corporate
exploitation.
We should be outraged that we pay $7 a pound for coffee when the
coffee farmer received only 40 cents a pound.
We should be outraged to pay $50 for an item of clothing some
poor woman was paid pennies to sew. We should be outraged that
the United States is becoming a country with a shrinking middle
class and a growing number of people in poverty. "
http://www.enterprise-journal.com/NF/omf/ejournal/ssiuname=WebOSTTN/ssipwd=TTN6D5D7D75/news/news_story.ht
ml?rkey=0013873+sid=20011203112643.073E1+cat=opinions
ZOELLICK
to create world's biggest free-trade FTAA...
entire
Western Hemisphere From Alaska to Antarctica
FREE TRADE AGREEMENT of the AMERICAS
www.foxnews.com/national/0111/d_ap_0111_480.sml
FTAA
/ ALCA ...North, Central and South American Free Trade Zone
http://www.asil.org/insight3.htm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid_1262000/1262036.stm
FTAA (Free Trade Area of the Americas) and the Summit of the
Americas
http://www.state.gov/www/regions/wha/soa_summit2001/fs_001201_ftaa.html
OAS...Organization
of American States
6 entities (MERCOSUR, CARICOM, OAS, NAFTA, EU, etc.)
http://www.ucalgary.ca/EV/designresearch/projects/ftaa/index.html
Joel
Skousen on the Summit of the Americas (SOA) www.cybertime.net/~ajgood/soa.htm a must read !
SOA---Three
major themes : democracy, trade, and social policies.."The
Democracy Summit"
http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/20010420/t000033397.html
10 reasons
to oppose the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA)
http://www.globalexchange.org/ftaa/topten.html
Corporate
Totalitarianism and the FTAA
http://www.disinfo.com/pages/dossier/id1054/pg1/
FTAA would take away national sovereignty (just like NAFTA)
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3a8b9eea4497.htm
April
19--21...SUMMIT of the AMERICAS (SOA)
Trading
bloc from Alaska to Antarctica http://www.summit-americas.org/
http://americascanada.org/eventsummit/menu-e.asp
SOA---The
Power of Trade...Bush
He also wants
to persuade a reluctant Congress to grant him broad authority to
negotiate trade treaties that lawmakers can vote for or against
without changes. ......
U.S. Trade
Representative Robert Zoellick said the administration is talking
to lawmakers about using fines and penalties - instead of trade
sanctions - to bind America's trading partners to its own labor,
human rights and environmental standards......
The leaders
are expected to adopt a "democracy clause" that would
withdraw a country's free-trade benefits - and prohibit it from
participating in further summits - if it ceases to be a
democracy, such as in a military coup....
MID EAST
Public-Private Partnership -- Feb. 17, 2008
The institute recently hosted the launch of a
US-Palestinian Private-Public Partnership to encourage and
facilitate international business investment. In May [ 2008] , a
follow-up conference will be held in Bethlehem to attract
companies and expose them to the business opportunities that
exist in the PA. Major corporations are expected to announce
investment plans in the lead-up to the spring meeting
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1202742141851&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Free Trade Agreements with Jordan, Israel, Chile
and Singapore -- August 3, 2003
A coalition of manufacturers, farm groups, high-tech,
entertainment and services companies backed the agreements, which
add to existing U.S. free trade deals with Canada,
Mexico, Jordan and Israel.
Labor groups lobbied against both deals,
saying they take away jobs.
The White House hopes the Chilean pact will set
the stage for a free trade deal with five Central American
countries and a more ambitious 34-nation Free Trade Area of the
Americas. The Bush administration is also negotiating deals with
the Dominican Republic, Australia, Morocco and South
Africa.
( Ed. note: in all continents )
But senators from both sides of the aisle voiced concerns over
provisions that award 6,800 work visas per year to professional
workers from both countries under preferential conditions at a
time of rising unemployment. "We should not
be promoting the importation of skilled labor to the United
States when we have 9 million workers out of work," said
Sen. Tom Harkin, a Democrat from Iowa.
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=324701&contrassID=1&subContrassID=8&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
Free Trade with ASEAN Nations May 8, 2003
Singapore first of the Asian Nations to sign
Mr. Bush earlier this week signed a free-trade
pact with Singapore, the United States' first such agreement with
an Asian nation. Singapore is an ASEAN member.
Southeast Asian nations Thailand, Indonesia and
the Philippines are serious candidates for free-trade agreements
with the United States, U.S. Trade Representative Robert B.
Zoellick said yesterday.
http://washingtontimes.com/business/20030509-73247966.htm
Free Trade
for Mid-East Nations .... Peace for Commerce Trade.... May 9, 2003
WASHINGTON - President Bush (news - web sites) is promoting the
Israeli-Palestinian peace process by dangling an attractive
economic prize: the removal of U.S. trade barriers for countries
in the Middle East within the next decade.
In a commencement speech Friday at the University of South
Carolina, the president was urging the Israelis and Palestinians
to open negotiations for a peace accord, a senior administration
official told reporters Thursday evening. Stopping in Columbia,
S.C., before a trip to sell his tax-cut plan in New Mexico,
Nebraska and Indiana, Bush was arguing that increased,
unrestricted U.S. trade with the Middle East could help the
region prosper, the official said. The president believes
"economic prosperity is critical" to making the peace
process a success, the official said.
Bush was offering broad outlines for a Middle East
free-trade zone in his South Carolina speech. The United States
already has free-trade agreements with Israel and Jordan and is
negotiating one with Morocco. The United States also has such
pacts with Canada, Mexico and, as of Wednesday, Singapore.
Later Friday, the president is headed to
Santa Fe, N.M., to spend the weekend at the home of Roland Betts.
Betts was a Bush classmate at Yale, a campaign fund-raiser and a
partner with him in the Texas Rangers baseball team. Betts is the
lead planner for the redevelopment of the World Trade Center
site.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030509/nyf008_1.html
Free
Trade for MidEast conditional--May 13, 2003
Within the past few days the approach has been
clarified: President Bush has proposed a free-trade agreement,
with conditions attached, between the Middle East and the US. The
agreement would be a reward for adopting particular measures.
It is not a matter of rushing things. The agreement would take
effect "within 10 years."
On the face of it, such an agreement would be far-reaching. The
countries eligible were not spelt out (though Ari Fleischer, the
White House spokesman, mentioned Iran and Syria would not be
eligible in their present configuration) but the region is
recognised as having 23 countries. Jordan and Israel now
have free-trade agreements with the US.
[Judicial involved:]
The free-trade agreement would be accompanied by a
number of other steps. One is the sponsoring, with Bahrain, of a regional
forum to address judicial issues. Because one of the
matters mentioned by President Bush was improved treatment and
opportunities for women it was a strong statement by the US to
appoint Justice Sandra Day O'Connor of the US Supreme Court to
lead the forum. To say the least, the Middle East is dominated
politically by men.
The third was that countries with which the US would give a deal
would have to be members of the World Trade Organisation
[ WTO ] and conform to its rules. This would mean the
countries would not be able to take part in any boycott of trade
with Israel.
http://www.nbr.co.nz/home/column_article.asp?id=5945&cid=18&cname=
EUROPE
TAFTA -- Transatlantic Free Trade Agreement
Tony Blair and TAFTA
Social-democrat Tony Blair is a leading proponent of the
TAFTA idea.
Some editorializing: These "free trade" agreements have
nothing to do with deregulation, liberalization or harmonization.
They are really just the forced changing of rules and
regulations, backed by armies and the security state, to benefit
big capital at the expense of the interests -- economic,
political, cultural, ecological, social -- of the world's
majority. Moreover, the fundamental problem is not with a given
"free trade" agreement, but with an ideological
socio-econoomic system of which these agreements are just a
manifestation. That system is called by various names by various
groups and individuals: neo-liberalism, corporate rule,
capitalism, imperialism, the beast ... http://www.infoshop.org/news2/tafta.html
TAFTA
and MIA (multilateral agreement on investments)
http://www.citizen.org/trade/issues/mai/Investor/articles.cfm?ID=1050
"Fortress Europe" [ note: WASP* ] and Free Trade -
June 20, 2003
Not only goods are at issue: the same economic forces that
lead to poverty in the developing world conspire to produce a desperate
trade in people, with Mafia-style gangs smuggling an estimated
170,000 people a year into Europe. Many are sold into
prostitution.
It is not fair trade but "Fortress Europe" that will
dominate the Chalkidiki EU summit. Only pressure from countries
such as Germany has forced British ministers to back off
proposals to dump asylum-seekers in transit centres just
outside the EU's increasingly fortified borders. It is at these camps
- in Albania and Croatia - that refugees'
claims would be assessed and to which they could be deported
as soon as they arrived on British soil.
Outrage at that proposal, nicknamed in Brussels the
"concentration camp plan", has led
the UK to suggest a second pilot scheme in east Africa,
more acceptable to refugee groups, that would stem the
flow of refugees - such as those who drowned off southern Italy
this week - by providing for "protected zones"
nearer home
http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/story.jsp?story=416828
* White Anglo-Saxon Pagan
US -
EU Trade Issues
http://www.foreignpolicy-infocus.org/briefs/vol4/v4n37trade_body.html
Redwood
and TAFTA
http://www.monju.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/NWO1.htm
TAFTA
http://www.citizen.org/trade/issues/mai/Investor/articles.cfm?ID=1050
NAFTA
No more borders between Canada, U.S. and Mexico.....August 2-
2001
electronic transponders on "Main Street" (new name of
border)
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/htx/nm/20010802/pl/canada_usa_dc_2.html
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010802/pl/canada_usa_dc_2.html
"NAFTA
plus" no trade barriers Mex. USA, Canada -- Nov. 15, 2004
Ed. note: then comes parity
of wages
North American national borders would be virtually
eliminated under plans being considered by senior business and
political leaders from Canada, the United States and Mexico for a
"NAFTA-plus," continent-wide, customs-free zone
with a common approach to trade, energy, immigration, law
enforcement and security.
A tri-national task force, chaired by former Liberal Party deputy
prime minister John Manley, with the full
backing of all three governments, is plotting the roadmap for
this new, bolder alliance meant to compete with
the European Union. http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=41447
NAFTA brought
down the prosperity in the USA...destroyed whole towns...April
20-2002
This was the China of
Virginia," said Mike Hopkins, who supervises production at a
local wood products mill. Then, in a sudden turn of the global
screw, plants began shutting down and moving out. Since 1998,
Smyth County has lost 10 big factories employing 2,075 workers.
Five of the plants and 1,430 of the jobs were in little
Chilhowie, population 1,827.
An entire town, in effect, had been traded
away.........
In 1994, Congress approved the North
American Free Trade Agreement with Mexico and Canada. U.S.
apparel makers soon found themselves fighting for their lives.
Some cut back domestic production; some set up plants in Mexico,
where factory workers get only a fraction of the wages paid to
Americans.
"To be competitive, you had to go south," said Larry
Gibbs, who has managed Spring Ford Industries' knitting mill in
Chilhowie since 1988. "I've seen the whole industry go
away. It was all based on cost.".......
I'm forced to change the business model at
American of Martinsville to include production from
overseas," Chitwood said. "Unfortunately, the cost of
that is eliminating jobs in the United States. Is it regrettable?
Sure it is. Do I understand the greater good? Not really."
In Chilhowie, the greater good seems unfathomable. How can
Americans be better off when so many people are losing their
jobs? Where are the new jobs that global trade is supposed to
create in this country?.....
For some people, a plant closing is the end
of the line.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-000027823apr19.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dbusiness%2Dmanual
Explaining
Free Trade http://members.home.net/huxwell/index.htm
Zoellick, US. TRADE Rep.,
avowed globalist and free-trader
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55223-2001Jan12.html
NAFTA
rules over the Supreme Court...and even the United States - April 2001
"It is a
very shocking and broad-based decision," Mary Bottari of
Public Citizen, a Ralph Nader group based in Washington, told The
National Law Journal. "We now have a level of review for the
U.S. court system that is above that of the U.S. Supreme Court .
. . and it is three international arbitrators who operate in
secret and whose decisions cannot be appealed."
NAFTA allows foreign investors to escape liability for all sorts
of negligent acts, such as deadly manufacturing de fects in
automobiles or medical supplies, by transferring a jury's damage
awards from the corporation to the U.S. taxpayers, she said. http://www.spotlight.org/03_18_01/NAFTA_Can_Overturn_Supreme_Cou/nafta_can_overturn_supreme_cou.html
MERCOSUR---SOUTH
AMERICAN TRADE
So.
American Trade (Mercosur) meets ahead of Summit Of the
Americas....April 5, 2001
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid_1262000/1262036.stm
Group of 3 to remove trade barriers...Venezuela, Columbia, Mexico
....(more generic drugs)
"Mercosur
is composed of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and associate
members Bolivia and Chile. The Andean Community of Nations
includes Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia. ".....
For Fox, the
summit was a chance to introduce Mexico, Latin America's second
largest economy after Brazil, as a regional "big
brother." Fox wants to use the Mexico's membership in North
America Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA, with Canada and the
United States to position the country as a bridge for nations
seeking access to the U.S. market. "
http://www.nandotimes.com/global/story/0,1024,500471623-500722557-504046815-0,00.html
Every nation
wants Bush's ear.
http://www.nandotimes.com/global/story/0,1024,500474863-500728891-504136025-0,00.html
MEXICO
Workers to cross borders http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/1/23/75223.shtml
NAFTA sides with Mexico Trucks
unsafe Mexican trucks allowed unrestricted access to US highways
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20001130/pl/us_mexican_trucks_1.html
AND
EVEN MORE SOUTH OF THE BORDER
Mexico and Central America sign pact....June 15-2001
PPP Plan Puebla-Panama
Plan Puebla-Panama (PPP)
promotes tourism, trade, education, and environmental care while
easing red tape on travel between the countries, improving road,
rail, air and sea links and establishing a long-term linking of
power grids in the region stretching from Mexico's state of
Puebla to Panama.
Mexican President Vicente Fox and the leaders of the seven
Central American countries on Friday signed a joint declaration
in favor of the plan, which Fox said could "end the
backwardness of the region in order to incorporate it fully in
the corridors of world commerce."
http://www.thenewsmexico.com/noticia.asp?id=2706
Guatemala
and the Chinese.....May Day (May 1-2001)
Kaohsiung, May 1 (CNA)
Guatemalan Defense Minister Eduardo Arevalolacs Tuesday presented
a medal from his government to Chinese Military Academy President
Chang Yueh-heng for his contribution to the promotion of friendly
military relations between the two countries.
http://news.chinatimes.com/Chinatimes/englishnews/englishcontent/0,1097,112001050202094+
200105020217AM+epolitic,00.html
South
America and NAFTA
http://www.iht.com/cgi-bin/generic.cgi?template=articleprint.tmplh&ArticleId=2921
VENEZUELA......
Marxist
Venezuela...a second CUBA (Hugo Chavez a second Fidel
Castro)
Chavez, after being elected, has taken
steps to undermine democracy, including abolishing the country's
parliament and independent judiciary. He has also re-aligned
Venezuela with an anti-American coalition that includes Russia,
China and Cuba.
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/6/24/74049.shtml
Feb.
16-2001
Bush Sr. (# 41) in Venezuela with Pres. Hugo
Chavez, while son Bush (#43) in Mexico with Fox.
"In
addition to hosting Castro effusively in Caracas late last
year, Chavez met with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. Chavez also has been a leader in
OPEC's drive to raise crude oil prices and resisted Washington's
efforts to extend its anti-drug campaign over his borders.
Chavez's rhetorical
support for Colombia's leftist guerrillas -- amid allegations of
more substantive backing -- and his opposition to U.S. military
aid for Bogota have strained relations between the neighboring
Andean countries."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12005-2001Feb15.html
US
is largest purchaser of Venezuelan Oil
COLUMBIA: Pres. Andres Pastrana...paramilitaries, oil and drugs
http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT3F03U7GIC&live=true
Columbia
supplies 90% of America's Cocaine
Argentina
to link currency to both the dollar and the euro
One peso is now fixed at one dollar and will become fixed to one
euro, as soon as the euro rises to parity with the dollar. When
the euro then rises or falls against the dollar, the peso will be
set at the mid value
between the two currencies.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid_1399000/1399973.stm
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Article:
http://www.piney.com/MailKingdom.html
And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and
the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no
more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the
earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations
deceived. Revelation 18:23
Pharmakeia (g5331) far-mak-i'-ah; from 5332; medication ("pharmacy"), i.e. (by extens.) magic (lit. or fig.): - sorcery, witchcraft.
The female or bisexual
Lucifer is represented :
by the agents of the king (queen) of Babylon and
the king of Tyre.
Tyre is especially condemned for seducing her
commercial partners ;
and music represents all of this power
of seduction. ...Tyre also sold
Israelites into slavery. The king of Babylon enslaved Judah and
tried to force them to [
worship an image ] Daniel Chapter Three
Salvation
www.cybertime.net/~ajgood/sal.htm
Bible www.blueletterbible.org