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To: average joe who wrote (1053)	4/16/2001 4:11:16 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Respond to of 23908

Bilderberg's a mere figment of my imagination, eh? Well, here's what Bilderberg is all about: In Focus: U.S.-E.U. Trade Issues -------------------------------------- By Jonathan P.G. Bach, Saltzman Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracies Editors: Martha Honey (IPS) and Tom Barry (IRC) Foreign Policy In FocusVolume 4, Number 37 December 1999 -------------------------------------------------- Key Points U.S.-EU trade and investment—based on transatlantic cooperation in economic, political, and security spheres—have grown exponentially since the 1950s, gaining new vitality since the end of the cold war. The EU and U.S. have reacted differently to the problem of those left behind by globalization, boding ill for the current WTO round. The WTO plays a significant role in resolving U.S.-EU disputes but is ill-equipped to handle new issues such as biotechnology. Investment and trade between the U.S. and the European Union (EU) have expanded exponentially since Europe first began to integrate its market in the 1950s. Currently the U.S. and EU account for more than one trillion dollars in two-way trade and investment flows, directly supporting a total of more than six million jobs in the U.S. and the 15 EU countries and resulting in a degree of economic integration higher than that between the U.S. and Asia. The EU and U.S. now exchange roughly 19% of each other’s exports and imports. The foundations of U.S.-EU relations lie in close post -World War II cooperation in economic, security, and political spheres. The U.S. and Europe quickly intertwined their trade and investment flows within an overarching consensus about the structure of the global economy. Yet as trade grew, so did the number of disputes, with tariffs and market access emerging as the main contentions in U.S.-EU economic relations since the 1960s. Today the major trade disputes between these two economic rivals revolve around bananas, hormone-injected beef, biotechnology, information technology, and the use of economic sanctions for political purposes. The EU has gained new vitality since the end of the cold war. It is developing an independent political capacity to supplement its economic might and is seeking to become more of a global player. With economic interests in emerging markets such as Latin America, the EU is the only world region that rivals U.S. economic might and can compete on a par with it. [snip] Excerpted from: nyu.edu _________________ But times are changing, AJ, and the US's Transatlantic Old Guard is slowly being outmaneuvered by the Transpacific Frontiersmen --hence the dud Gore-Lieberman ticket.... Bilderberg along with the CIA and the Jewish lobby are scrambling to keep the Transatlantic partnership up and running --er.. well, I guess they'd be happy if it could only walk.... <g> So the aforementioned cabal of Transatlantic freaks will weaken any institution, individual, or political agenda that might jeopardize their Holy Grail, namely: the Euro-US "special relationship". That's why they ganged up against the NSA's Echelon gear; that's also why they expected NATO's Kosovo war to turn out as a Euro-US jamboree of sorts.... And, more recently, that's why they've initiated a sting against GW Bush's foreign policy: if only they could get rid of Powell and replace him with a clone of Kissinger, Gee! then their transatlantic money machine would get a BIG boost.... Problem is, the Chinese/Asian growth is still a healthy 6-8% per year... and Europe's demographics doesn't bode well for its future GDP growth. So, the only way for the Transatlantic lobby to kickstart their declining business would be to seriously hamper Asia's development. And guess what? They foolishly attempted to do so in 1997 --by triggering the so-called Asian crisis-- but they failed pathetically. Asia is back --with a vengeance... Gus.

To: average joe who wrote (1053)	4/16/2001 4:37:38 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23908

Footnote to my previous post: INTERVIEW: LARRY ELLISON New Landscape Oracle's chief executive officer focuses on business in Asia as reverberations from dotcom failures roil the U.S. stockmarket ----------------------------------------------- Issue cover-dated April 5, 2001 ------------------------------------------------ ORACLE, THE WORLD'S No. 2 software company, had been enjoying the fruits of the tech boom, with sales of $10.1 billion last year. But feeling the pinch of the United States' economic slowdown, the company sees sales of its e-business software in Asia as one way to keep profits healthy. On a recent trip to China, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison sat down with REVIEW technology correspondent Kitty McKinsey to discuss his company's Asian strategy [snip] feer.com