Edward,
Thanks for the important bit of history. The WTO will continue to rear
its ugly head but it appears that protesters can have an impact on
policy.
Bill Ward
> Edward Goertzen said:
>
> Just to add that the Bretton Woods Agreement (1944) was to assure
> the IMF
> and World bank were government controlled. They were to replace the
> discredited BIS. The BIS was the international " bankers bank" that
> handled
> the international trasactions of the Axis powers during the war as
> though
> they were respectable nations. Much like the Swiss banks accepted
> Nazi gold
> with out question as to the source.
> To date the BIS is the paramount financial organization serving
> international bankers and their global corporations customers
> irrespective
> of moral considerations.
>
> The General Agreement on Tarrifs and Trade, was transsubstantiated
> into the
> WTO so that it could incease its powers to include services in
> addition to
> material goods and to dictate compliance to sovereign governments.
>
> We can expect the WTO to use the services of NATO type organizations
> to
> enforce its dictates rather than the UN. (As in Kosovo) Failing
> that, the
> UN will grow its own "enforcement" army.
> War is so messy, but a neccessary means to extend diplomatic
> maneuvering.
> (sarcastically) some countries simply will not listen (latin root =
> obey)
> to reason.
>
> Regards
> Ed ward Goertzen
>
>
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