Summary: The World Trade Organization has changed the world in the past decade by welcoming China and transforming national fortunes in Cambodia and Saudi Arabia. It provides the catalyst that political leaders need to reform.
PETER D. SUTHERLAND is Chair of BP p.l.c. andGoldman Sachs International. He was Director General of the GATT from 1993 to 1995 and Founding Director of the WTO.
No visitor to Phnom Penh, Beijing, or Riyadh these days can fail to sense change, optimism, and new economic dynamism. Cambodia, China, and Saudi Arabia are on the move, and mostly for the better. Why? For one thing, because all three countries — along with Croatia, Georgia, Taiwan, Vietnam, and many others — have joined the World Trade Organization (WTO) in the past few years.
The power of the WTO to aid national transformation is easily forgotten. All too often, many developing countries measure their success in the WTO’s Doha Round of trade negotiations by the extent to which they avoid obligations to open up their economies. And in polite conversations in Geneva, the potential of WTO disciplines to encourage radical market, institutional, and regulatory reform is a politically incorrect topic. It is the countries that have joined the WTO over the past decade that have drawn the most benefit from global trade rules. Older members, which did not need to negotiate their entry, have probably gained the least.
The WTO has changed the world in the past decade by welcoming China. And if it has changed national fortunes, in Cambodia and Saudi Arabia, for example, it is thanks to its accession procedures. Compared with the terms of bilateral free-trade areas, the terms of WTO membership amount to a revolution. The process is now lengthier than ever. China applied to the WTO’s predecessor (the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, or GATT) in 1986 and joined the WTO in 2001, Cambodia applied in 1994 and joined in 2003, and Saudi Arabia joined in 2005 after 12 years of preparation and negotiation.
May 27 (Bloomberg) — A national strike to protest the French government’s plans to raise the retirement age may have limited impact on travel today.
The CGT, France’s largest union, called for a nationwide protest against government plans to increase the retirement age above the current 60 years.
Demonstrations are planned through France, with a march in Paris this afternoon, said Bernard Thibault, secretary general of the Confederation Generale du Travail union, in a television interview on Canal Plus today. Meteofrance says it will rain throughout the day over most of France.
“We hope for more than 850,000” demonstration participants, Thibault said. “Most unions will be present today.”
President Nicolas Sarkozy’s government is negotiating with unions to cut losses in the pension system. Labor Minister Eric Woerth said yesterday that “the only alternative is to condemn the French to even higher social charges and even higher taxes, and therefore even less employment.”
Comment from aristarchuscom — May 28, 2010 — Here is a LIVE clip from 22:00 PST, I recorded from C-SPAN on 28 May 2010. This hole is not being stopped despite the political ramblings from our dictator president who suffers from lack of leadership and somehow believes he can fix it. Mr. President, please stay out and commend the people trying to fix this accident. Notice the iron fist ofObama never opens to thank the thousands of men and women trying to stem the spill and fix this unavoidable accident in the 5/27/2010 press conference. The annoited one will use this incident to take even more of your freedom and liberty, the price of oil will go up from his ill planned idea of freezing off-shore well production for six months.Economic growth will continue to stagnate. What an opportunity for Barack to exert more socialistic control over our great nation. Let the well bleed, polute the world, and blame the oil companies for the damage in order for us all to drive electric Yugos and cater to the French and European socialistic values. Meanwhile the Chinese will move in and take the market we have denied our American workers the priviledge of supplying. When airplanes crash, do we stop flights for six months? This shows someone who has no idea what he’s doing. Incompetence in the White House prevails. Now he’s down there in the state of LA distracting all the people trying to help when it took him 12 days to respond to the accident. It’s ALL about him, not the people. If you voted for this guy, please look at what you have done and serve it up as a lesson that Rock stars make lousy leaders. He doesn’t give a damn about the people, just his own political standing, ice water in his veins. Pass more regulation, just what we need. Instead we need to DRILL BABY DRILL, let’s stop oppression and get this economy and capitalism back to running. We run on Oil, Innovation, and Growth not Fear, Criticism and Control. Elect conservatives, know that Republicans are not all conservatives! Educate your liberal drone friends that the world will survive and listen to Mark Levin Podcast 3 hours a night to understand how your liberty and freedom is in jeopardy. Soft Tyrany is under way, Radical Jihad is at play. Your rights and liberty is fading away. But you can stop it by VOTING. Patriots: “All Hands on Deck” to use our democratic means to elect conservatives. See you at the polls. Your country bleeds like this well, do something. Vote Conservative.
We the people do not have the luxury to elect unnecessary tests with our elected officials any longer. The candidates we elect in 2010 will be the trauma team in charge of reviving the American Dream. Did you choose your candidate or has your party chosen for you? We need you to step up and join the emergency response team.
It is up to us to qualify each and every candidate, even to get a second opinion. We as a corporate body of citizens must do the due diligence required. We can no longer leave the hiring of our government leaders up to the special interest groups and the political class. You can make a difference; you are not helpless, because you are not alone.
A fire burns in front of the Greek Parliament during a demonstration against the new tough austerity measures of the government, in Athens, Greece, 05 May 2010. Three people died on 05 May when a bank was set ablaze as tens of thousands of Greek demonstrators took to the streets to protest government austerity measures in exchange for an international bailout aimed at saving the country from bankruptcy. The bodies of two men and a woman were discovered inside the bank branch of Marfin, located in downtown Athens while at least 20 people were hospitalised with injuries. EPA/PANTELIS SAITAS
Quotes from world leaders who reveal in their words as well as their actions what they have planned for us. Out of their own mouths they admit their goal is a one world government known as the NWO.
“To achieve world government, it is necessary to remove from the minds of men their individualism, loyalty to family traditions, national patriotism, and religious dogmas.” – Brock Adams, Director UN Health Organization
“We are not going to achieve a New World Order without paying for it in blood as well as in words and money.” - Arthur Schlesinger Jr., ‘The CFR Journal Foreign Affairs’, August 1975.“A world government can intervene militarily in the internal affairs of any nation when it disapproves of their activities.”- Kofi Annan, U.N. Secretary General
“Today, America would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order [referring to the 1991 LA Riot]. Tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially true if they were told that there were an outside threat from beyond [i.e., an "extraterrestrial" invasion], whether real or *promulgated* [emphasis mine], that threatened our very existence. It is then that all peoples of the world will plead to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this *scenario*, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well-being granted to them by the World Government.”
Dr. Henry Kissinger, Bilderberger Conference, Evians, France, 1991
“The drive of the Rockefellers and their allies is to create a one-world government combining supercapitalism and Communism under the same tent, all under their control…. Do I mean conspiracy? Yes I do. I am convinced there is such a plot, international in scope, generations old in planning, and incredibly evil in intent.”
Congressman Larry P. McDonald, 1976, killed in the Korean Airlines 747 that was shot down by the Soviets
“We are grateful to The Washington Post, The New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subject to the bright lights of publicity during those years. But, the work is now much more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national autodetermination practiced in past centuries.”
David Rockefeller, founder of the Trilateral Commission, in an address to a meeting of The Trilateral Commission, in June, 1991.
“The idea was that those who direct the overall conspiracy could use the differences in those two so-called ideologies [marxism/fascism/socialism v. democracy/capitalism] to enable them [the Illuminati] to divide larger and larger portions of the human race into opposing camps so that they could be armed and then brainwashed into fighting and destroying each other.”
[Ed. note: For clarity, members of the Trilateral Commission appear in bold type.]
As previously noted in Pawns of the Global Elite, Barack Obama was groomed for the presidency by key members of the Trilateral Commission. Most notably, it was Zbigniew Brzezinski, co-founder of the Trilateral Commission with David Rockefeller in 1973, who was Obama’s principal foreign policy advisor.
The pre-election attention is reminiscent of Brzezinski’s tutoring of Jimmy Carterprior toCarter‘s landslide election in 1976.
For anyone who doubts the Commission’s continuing influence on Obama, consider that he has already appointed no less than eleven members of the Commission to top-level and key positions in his Administration.
According to official Trilateral Commission membership lists, there are only 87 members from the United States (the other 337 members are from other regions). Thus, in less than two weeks since his inauguration, Obama’s appointments encompass more than 12% of Commission’s entire U.S. membership.
United States Congressional Record, March 17, 1933 Vol. 33, page H-1303 THIS IS IMPORTANT!!!!
Speaker-Rep. James Traficant, Jr. (Ohio) addressing the House:
“Mr. Speaker, we are here now in chapter 11.. Members of Congress are
official trustees presiding over the greatest reorganization of any Bankrupt
entity in world history, the U.S. Government. We are setting forth
hopefully, a blueprint for our future. There are some who say it is a
coroner’s report that will lead to our demise.
It is an established fact that the United States Federal Government has
been dissolved by the Emergency Banking Act, March 9, 1933, 48 Stat. 1,
Public Law 89-719; declared by President Roosevelt, being bankrupt and
insolvent. H.J.R. 192, 73rd Congress m session June 5, 1933 – Joint
Resolution To Suspend The Gold Standard and Abrogate The Gold Clause
dissolved the Sovereign Authority of the United States and the official
capacities of all United States Governmental Offices, Officers, and
Departments and is further evidence that the United States Federal
Government exists today in name only.
The receivers of the United States Bankruptcy are the International
Bankers, via the United Nations, the World Bank and the International
Monetary Fund. All United States Offices, Officials, and Departments are now
operating within a de facto status in name only under Emergency War Powers.
With the Constitutional Republican form of Government now dissolved, the
receivers of the Bankruptcy have adopted a new form of government for the
United States. This new form of government is known as a Democracy, being an
established Socialist/Communist order under a new governor for America. This
act was instituted and established by transferring and/or placing the Office
of the Secretary of Treasury to that of the Governor of the International
Monetary Fund. Public Law 94-564, page 8, Section H.R. 13955 reads in part:
“The U.S. Secretary of Treasury receives no compensation for representing
the United States.”
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