🚀 go-pugleaf

Just as the free and INDEPENDENT states lost their sovereignty to the U.S.
government.  This is a process that has been going on for well over 100
years now, the ball really got going under Lincoln and the Radical
Republicans.

-- 
Steve Hall

"leslie" <LESLIE@JRLVAX.HOUSTON.RR.COM> wrote in message
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> Rob Jones (RJones@msn.com) wrote:
> : horse hockey. the American flag will always fly because huge
corporations
> : have the "freedom" America gives them to make as much money as possible
> : regardless of who they have to shit on(usually the workers) to do it.
that
> : will ensure that the American flag will fly forever, my friend.
> :
>
> The U.S. and many other countries are rapidly surrendering their
sovereignty
> to a one-world government controlled by supranational corporations:
>
>   the World Trade Organization (WTO)
>
> WTO tribunals can weaken or overturn laws and regulations passed at the
local
> and national level:
>
>    http://www.globalexchange.org/wto/collier072499.html
>    WTO: U.S. Laws Diluted by Trade Pacts Rulings Stir Criticism
>    across Political Spectrum
>
>   "Question: What do the Marine Mammal Protection Act, the Endangered
>    Species Act and clean-air rules of the United States and Canada
>    have in common?
>
>    Answer: They all have been weakened because of rulings by
>    international trade tribunals, whose legal and diplomatic power is
>    under growing, bipartisan criticism..."
>
>
> The following article ends with what citizens can do about this unelected
> one-world government:
>
>    http://www.theemailactivist.org/FreeTrade.htm
>    The Free Trade Myth
>
>   "...In summary, then, the WTO is an appointed band of corporate
attorneys
>    with the power (and the incentive) to overturn the laws of
>    democratically-elected governments.  This is the true essence of
>    globalization.  Corporations �ber Alles!  And as you can see, under
>    these terms, what we've been calling free trade is really forced
>    trade.
>
>    Currently under negotiation (and what caused all the ruckus in Quebec)
>    is the FTAA, the Free Trade Area of the Americas.  The FTAA proposes
>    to extend NAFTA regulations to every nation in the Western Hemisphere
>    except Cuba.  For transnational corporations, this would represent
>    open season on cheap labor and natural resources.  No government from
>    northernmost Canada to southernmost Chile would be able to defend its
>    people or its environment from corporate exploitation.  In fact, many
>    of the poorest of these nations will engage in a "race to the bottom,"
>    in which their governments will promise a wide range of tax breaks,
>    near-slave labor, and even military support to corporations that come
>    in and sprinkle a few dollars into the right political coffers.
>
>    New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman put it this way:  "In this
>    post-totalitarian world, the human rights debate needs an update.
>    Quite simply, for many workers around the world, the oppression of the
>    unchecked commissars has been replaced by the oppression of the
>    unregulated capitalists, who move their manufacturing from country to
>    country, constantly in search of those who will work for the lowest
>    wages and lowest standards.  To some, the Nike swoosh is now as scary
>    as the hammer and sickle."
>
>    (Click here to learn how globalization creates sweatshops.)
>
>    [snip]
>
>    Here's what you can do about all of this..."
>
>
>
> --Jerry Leslie   (my opinions are strictly my own)
>   Note: leslie@jrlvax.houston.rr.com is invalid for email