WTO - World Trade Organization - A Singular Economic Class Interest

with Darrell Udelhoven
The Real Political Issues are the Issues the Corporate Media Refuse to Cover
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The Promoters of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Claim it is Focused on Achieving Consensus

A consensus should be achievable as the members represent one economic interest class. Where is: labor, the homeland domestic small business operators, the homeland family farmers, and average citizens? They are not proportionally represented with the TNC interest class.

Four Countries not 136 -- Tend to Make the Important Decisions

The Quad countries: U.S., European Union, Japan, and Canada can and do meet behind closed doors and influence rulings.

The WTO permits countries to challenge each other's laws and regulations as violations of WTO rules. These challenge cases are heard by a three member trade bureaucratic tribunal, which are usually corporate interest lawyers.

My point is, this is about your fundamental constitutional rights. It's about your jobs, it's about your environment, it's about your communities; fundamentally it's about your democracy: This is about whether We The People are going to rule or these corporations are going to rule. This represents economic policy

We Need to Democratize the Global Economic Policy Making Process

We must preserve the national sovereignty of countries and states, we must not allow the Transnational Corporations to utilize the WTO to continue to have world-wide sovereign policy and law making powers! This is the PARAMOUNT ISSUE of the coming 21st CENTURY.

Consider the Human Lives Sacrificed to Preserve a Constitutional Republic and a Democratic Representative Government

All of those lives will have been sacrificed in vain if we allow the WTO to become the World's sovereign governing power. No constitution or republic, no country or state will have any power to control their destinies, all the sovereign supreme powers to overturn laws and constitutions will be in the hands of the Transnational Corporations (TNC's) through their vehicle the WTO and its subsidiaries.

Never has there been a greater threat to the governing sovereignty of the common people in our history than what is being promulgated by the World Trade Organization.

The media will not cover the people's side of this most important issue facing the world citizenry in the 21st century. This is the most important issue in every election world-wide. All of the members of the WTO should be elected by the people of their respective countries.

WTO member countries and their people will be mere puppets on a string to be jerked around to suit the power brokers of the world. Yes my friends you've been had big time, and unless you can effectively raise these issues in your respective countries at every election you will be mere slaves of an overpowering tyranny that you will be powerless to resist.

Which Economic Model?  Citizen Regulated or WTO Corporate Controlled?

Number one: Do you want a citizen regulated economy or; a corporate established legal tribunal regulated economy? An economy where countries can provide unprecedented incentives for corporations to build factories and produce there. Where, in some countries even bribery is legal. Where, the powerful are welcome to exploit the poorest human beings in the poorest countries. Where the economies of all countries become interdependent. Do you like volatility, instability, and insecurity?

Number two: Would you rather have an economy based on regulatory incentives that would optimize a self sustaining homeland economy while, optimizing mutually beneficial trade. Do you want countries that build self sufficient, self sustaining economies from the ground up? Do you like stable and sustainable economies that are not critically interdependent? There is a model of capitalism that can provide the opportunity to achieve equity of economic opportunity within and across all economic sectors. Zero-sum models of capitalism can be converted to Mutual win/win economic relationship equations.

Unjust Systems Multiply Injustice Exponentially - WTO Must Reform or Go

The meeting of the economic needs of the masses should be the primary standard of legitimacy for all economic systems.  The existing model of capitalism does not meet those minimal criteria. There is injustice incorporated in a multiplicity of policy components within this model of global capitalism.  Therefore, it is incumbent that we find a model of capitalism that does meet these human requirements.  I have a clear vision of what is required but ask you to consider alternatives that would fill the need. Consider what these mutually beneficial changes could mean to literally billions of lives! Consider the lives that will be spared!

Our Global WTO Capitalism Model is an Unjust Model

I have heard the "labor productivity, comparative advantage arguments," and they are mere sophist rhetoric. While labor cost differentials are critical to wages and production jobs in Developed Countries, the majority of production cost differentials are in other areas.  In every arena of production costs, these developing countries have colossal advantages. Transportation is the singular area of greater cost, but it is nominal. The result is a noncompetitive advantage for global corporations to produce in these countries. These unjust exploitive advantages produce exponential spreading of gross injustice. We must care about the marginalized people that this model of global capitalism produces. No one should have to tell you what the consequences would be to billions of human beings worldwide that require equity of economic opportunity. The existing corporate model of Capitalism is on trial and the findings require a global discussion to find the best possible model of capitalism to adopt. If we fail to do this other countries will write off; not just this model of capitalism but; capitalism period.

These WTO Corporate Agreements will Compromise the Economic Opportunity of the Majority of Humanity

There are no more important political issues in respect to sovereign self governance and economic life chances than the Multilateral Agreement on Investments. If we allow corporations to pass it, they will have the sovereign power to govern countries, and their people will be wholly subservient to corporations. Corporations will become the New World Order reality unless, we do an effective job of either modifying or eliminating these agreements.

This WTO rule making will Establish the 'Corporate Rule Policy Framework' for the next Century, and perhaps the next Millennium

We need to take a hard look at what these corporate initiated agreements are going to mean to the average person's political and economic life chances. The evidence is overwhelming against the existing policies that must be changed; let alone allowing them to pass new far reaching agreements that will create even further economic disparities.

WTO is Creating their own sovereignty to Perpetrate Unbelievable Exploitive Injustice Leaving Country Nation States without Recourse

Injustice and exploitation breeds rebellion. My message to all victims is to practice total nonviolence and unite with the global citizenry that is campaigning for your cause. Everyone needs to begin to network through every means possible. That includes all forms of mass media; broadcasting, print media, Internet, audio and video cassettes, and film. The world's common citizenry must be informed and educated in accord with the experiential WTO realities, not corporate interest propaganda.

The WTO Issue should be the Central Issue of all Elections Worldwide

Your vote should turn on - where each candidate stands in respect to the WTO issues! This is the only way there will be any in-depth media coverage of this critical issue to every world citizen's future.
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