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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