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Subject: Beyond the WTO
Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1999 01:38:00 -0600 (CST)
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Broadcast by KBOO - December 10 1999
Beyond the WTO
By Per Fagereng
The World Trade Organization is in disarray. Its Seattle meeting
was a fiasco, surrounded by thousands of angry protesters in the streets,
which in turn emboldened some African and Caribbean delegates tp say no to
the global masters.
Well, who needs them
The WTO gave the back of its hand to Caribbean nations in the
recent banana dispute. It ruled that Britain would have to dump agreements
with former colonies and allow bananas from Central America's low-wage,
US-owned plantations. And debt-ridden African nations are forced to put
agricultural products on the global supermarket while their own people go
hungry.
According to La Resistance, reported by Independent Media, secret
talks continued over the weekend at the University of Washington. Seen
were many State Depart ment and Secret Service agents, along with WTO
delegates riding in government vans. You have to wonder how many Caribbean
and African delegates attended. They were all-but-ignored in the main ring
of the circus.
There is talk of where the next WTO meeting will be. Geneva has been
mentioned.
But I would make a modest proposal: How about China
After all, China wants to become a member of the big shots' club. It
could demonstrate its suitability by hosting the next meeting. And you can
bet there will be no unruly protesters in Tienanmin Square.
But whatever happens to the WTO, the world's ruling class will not
go away. They can do without the WTO. Maybe the WTO, with its 135 members,
was insufficientl y focused on the real goal - bigger profits for the big
boys.
The big boys have been doing their thing for years, long before
the WTO. They have all kinds of organizations at their disposal -
corporate, government and military organizations, and propaganda outlets.
And they often get together to size up the global scene figure out their
next moves.
One such organization is the Bilderberg group. It's named after a
hotel in Europe where the first meeting was held after World War Two. Like
the WTO, the Bilderberg group meets in secret. Unlike the WTO, its
membership is much more restricted. Here are some of the members:
*Henry Kissinger, World Bank president James Wolfensohn, David
Rockefeller, former War Secretary William Perry, Martin Taylor of Barclays
Bank, Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien, IMF Director Stanley Fisher
and Canadian media mogul Conrad Black. Its meetings have been chaired by
Lord Peter Carrington, former British and NATO war secretary.
*The Bilderbergers are always looking for new talent. British Prime
Minister Tony Blair attended when he was just an opposition leader, and
Bill Clinton in 1991 before he announced he would run for president.
*According to Will Hutton, editor in chief of the London Observer, "The
Bilderberg conference is one of the key meetings of the year. The
consensus established there is the backdrop against which policy is made
worldwide."
*Last June they met in Sintra, Portugal. Their secret summit came just
before the elections for European parliament and the more public G7 and G8
summits. At the top of their agenda, says Will Hutton, was globalization.
*Beneath that over -arching topic were these other items as reported by
the Portu gal News:
***Progress on an Asian economic bloc under Japan's leadership, similar to
the European Union.
***An economic union of the Americas, and what was reported as the
scheduled break-up of Canada. I wonder what Jean Chretien had to say about
that.
***Kosovo and the formation of a greater Albania. Also the further
break-up of Yugoslavia, with its northern region going to NATO-member
Hungary.
***Replacing NATO with a West European army. This would free the US
military for action elsewhere in the so-called global community.
***A global taxation scheme to finance the United Nations.
Some of these agenda items are underway. Others being talked
about. Consider this a check list of things to watch for in the future.
And we now hear that the Multilateral Agreement on Investment is not dead
after all. It's only been parted out and stuck into some other global
scheme.
So while we celebrate a victory in Seattle, let's keep our eyes
and ears open, and be ready for the next battle wherever it may be.
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