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Pastimes : Free Trade is Squeezing You - Final Draft -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (9)	7/19/2000 7:56:09 PM
From: John Lacelle	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 33

Gustave, Interesting post. I think the main "thrust" of these people pushing "Globalization" is really just a new form of Imperialism with the G-8 Countries dominating the equatorials. Of course, the main obsticle to a "global cooperation treaty" is China with its 1.3 billion yearning to get rich. They are the monkey wrench in the equation. The funny thing is that what most people are unaware of is that in fact, trade as a percentage of GDP was greater in the last century than this one. One of the driving factors of WWI was trade issues...Germany wanted a piece of the Action and England, France, and other nations had a vested interest in preventing their access to global markets. You and Orwell were absolutely correct though, in seeing that their are really 3 trading blocks, NAFTA, Euro Union, and Asia. What happens next is anyone's guess. -John