PB,
If I might chime in here with a couple of thoughts......
Re: how come Canada is being charged USA import duties when NAFTA was supposed to dispense with all that crapola?
First of all, U.S. trade policy is hypocrisy unbounded. What the government claims to be for is simply not the case. I could suggest some very long readings on the uses of trade as a mechanism of foreign policy, should you have any interest. Most don't. <g>
In the case of softwood lumber imports, the general thing you need to consider is that the U.S. softwood lumber companies gave far more generously than the Canadians in the last election cycle. Since the U.S. is, in essence, a corrupted plutocracy, the U.S. timber companies are simply collecting on their "contributions". There is a virtuous circle thusly created. The more the contributors (elsewhere known as bribers) provide to the comfort and continuance of certain political family fortunes, the more that the largesse of the taxpayer is dispensed on the contributors. Who see to it that further "free trade" initiatives that weaken the taxpayer are put in place. You do see the logic of all this, eh?
Re: It means the return of a feudal system to the entire globe. It pretends to be the illuminated New World Order, but it will be a New Dark Age unlike anything mankind has ever known. That is...unless we stop it.
I am currently finishing up a reading of William Greider's "One World: Ready Or Not"
amazon.com
He's in agreement with the author of the Coastal Post piece. According to Greider, the future is being hijacked by about 200,000 individuals involved in banking, finance and the upper echelons of multinational corporate governance. These people meet in police states like Qatar and Brunei because they no longer can spread their lies in democracies of the West without protest at their utter venality and selfishness. Should the architects of WTO have their way, these 200,000 individuals will see wealth creation beyond the wildest dreams of Croesus. The other 5,999,800,000 of us are supposed to roll over and accept the greatest theft of the world's wealth ever attempted. That's 0.003% of the human population trying to use their position to end any pretense of fairness in human affairs.
In their view, oligopoly rocks!
Re: "North American Free Trade Agreement"
Where am I seeing things incorrectly (in simple terms if poss.)?
It's actually a misnomer. The true acronym is USCAM.
-R. |
