I stumbled on a statement made by Noam Chomsky which was very interesting:
The quote below is translated from a Dutch magazine, so the wording of what he stated will not be exact. Talking about NAFTA: "Big companies are going to spell the law to democratically elected governments. This is already happening. From within the USA UPS sued the Canadian Government which wanted to subsidize the Canadian postal services. UPS calls this unfair competition because under NAFTA UPS is free to move on the Canadian market. This kind of treaty impinges on the sovereignty of member nations. Power is more and more concentrated in the hand of anonymous institutes. This is called the free market, but in reality it is about dictates that reduce the freedom of parliaments." This makes me think about the unelected business quango, the TABD, and its influence on the elected European Parliament, which, forgetting that it should stand for the interests of European citizens who voted for them, caved in on metric only and animal experimentation (torture of animals) for the benefit of the cosmetics industry. Let's hope that the EU will from now on oppose the TABD more and more and refuse to give in to its demands even if it should entail a trade war. There seem to be signs that the EU is getting fed up with the likes of the TABD which is good for the future.. Han
