Posted on 07/02/2005 5:28:30 PM PDT by Coleus
Treasonous agenda of the Trilateral Commission "The technotronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values." – Zbigniew Brzeninski, National Security Adviser to Jimmy Carter and President Bush as co-chairman of the Bush National Security Advisery Task Force; executive director of the Trilateral Commission My column last week focused on the Council on Foreign Relations and their anti-American agenda. This treasonous operation is another one of the tentacles birthed by the elitists out to destroy our constitutional republic, turn us into a democracy (America is not a democracy!) and eventually merge all nations into a "one world government." This is real – it is not a conspiracy theory, it is a heinous agenda that is all but complete except for the passage of CAFTA (Central American Free Trade Agreement), FTAA (Free Trade Area of the Americas) and nullification of the Second Amendment. If Bush gets his way and CAFTA and FTAA are ratified, you will see another gigantic sucking sound of millions more American jobs going south of the Hemisphere. So far, Utah appears to be the only state to recognize the danger of this destructive treaty (FTAA). Few Americans really understood back in 1993 what would happen under GATT because few ever heard of it – too many simply bought the propaganda from politicians and the rest were more interested in sports, porn, drugs, booze or fun times. Guess how many members of the entire Congress read GATT? One – former Sen. Hank Brown. He's the only senator who read this 28,000 page treaty and stated emphatically that no way would he vote for it. Yet, the rest of the Senate ratified this insidious treaty without ever reading it. Sadly, the American people continue electing these same sellouts back into office. During the hearings on this monster, French financier, the late Sir James Goldsmith, testified in front of Ernest Hollings committee. He demonstrated that GATT would gut the American textile market. The following are some quotes from the Washington Times, Dec. 6, 1993, which accurately reflect Sir Goldsmith's statements during the hearings: Global free trade will force the poor of the rich countries to subsidize the rich in poor countries. What GATT means is that our national wealth, accumulated over centuries, will be transferred from a developed country like Britain to developing countries like Communist China, now building its first oceangoing navy in 500 years. China, with its 1.2 billion people, three Indochinese states with 900 million, the former Soviet republics with some 300 million, and many more can supply skilled labor for a fraction of Western costs. Five dollars in Communist China is the equivalent of a $100 wage in Europe. It is quite amazing that GATT is sowing the seeds for global social upheaval and that it is not even the subject of debate in America ... If the masses understood the truth about GATT, there would be blood in the streets of many capitals. A healthy national economy has to produce a large part of its own needs. It cannot simply import what it needs and use its labor force to provide services for other countries. We have to rethink from top to bottom why we have elevated global free trade to the status of sacred cow, or moral dogma. It is a fatally flawed concept that will impoverish and destabilize the industrialized world while cruelly ravaging the Third World. On June 9, 2005, the House voted 338-86 to reject a motion to withdraw congressional approval of the 1994 agreement establishing the Geneva-based trading body (GATT-WTO). Every Congress-critter who voted to stay in this anti-American, new world order operation must be thrown out of office in November 2006 for continuing to abrogate our sovereignty to foreign countries The Trilateral Commission is another little known entity that is diligently and methodically working to destroy the sovereignty of this nation and put the United States under foreign rule – it is the twin monster of the CFR. Barry Goldwater was one of the lone voices decades ago trying to warn the American people about this operation. He said of the Trilateral Commission: The Trilateral Commission is international and is intended to be the vehicle for multinational consolidation of the commercial and banking interests by seizing control of the political government of the United States. The Trilateral Commission represents a skillful, coordinated effort to seize control and consolidate the four centers of power – political, monetary, intellectual and ecclesiastical. A list of past and present members of the Trilateral Commission can be viewed here. It is imperative to look at the companies and institutions these individuals belong to and then one can begin to connect the dots as to why Congress refuses to abolish the unconstitutional, privately owned Federal Reserve, immediately withdraw from the United Nations and the continuing passage of these devastating trade treaties. Our Republic is perilously close to being destroyed. This isn't about Republican vs. Democrat or any of these other distractions – it's an American issue. Without question, this factual information is very disturbing to Americans, however, this is about remaining a free and sovereign nation and not falling to communist domination under a world government. William Wallace was depicted saying in the movie, "Braveheart": "What will you do without freedom?" I ask you the same. 
My concern is the lack of property rights in outer space. Hmm. Maybe this TLC can be of some assistance. I'll bet they haven't had a paper recently, or a symposium, on property rights at all.
For discussion:
City Council Effort to Save Local Authority from Corporate Rule
By unanimous consent, the Berkeley City Council adopted the "Resolution to Preserve Local Sovereignty and Oppose CAFTA" Tuesday night because the Central American Free Trade Agreement would usurp local authority in the interests of corporate profit. Negotiated by the office of President Bush's appointed U.S. Trade Representative without meaningful input from those likely to be adversely affected, CAFTA "undermines more than two centuries of American constitutional values," per the California State Senate Select Committee on International Trade Policy.
Berkeley, CA (PRWEB) November 19, 2004 -- The Berkeley City Council adopted the "Resolution to Preserve Local Sovereignty and Oppose CAFTA" by unanimous consent Tuesday night. Negotiated by the office of Pres. Bush's appointed Trade Representative without meaningful input from those likely to be adversely affected, the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) "undermines more than two centuries of American constitutional values," per the California State Senate Select Committee on International Trade Policy.
The Resolution came via Berkeley's Peace & Justice Commission. Ann Fagan Ginger, director of Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute and the Commission's first chair, says "This Resolution is a very important step for the people of Berkeley to participate directly in saving jobs and the environment from international corporate control."
Berkeley's Resolution to Preserve Local Sovereignty and Oppose CAFTA urges the U.S. Congress to defeat CAFTA because it negates local and state purchasing preferences if based on factors such as recycled content, vendors with a competent track record, a living wage, or avoidance of goods made with child labor or in sweatshops. Two thirds of Americans oppose trade policies that usurp environmental protections (Gallup poll, July.) Corporations use trade agreements to sue governments for lost profits resulting from laws that protect the environment or public health.
A Canadian corporation has sued California for nearly $1 billion, using the North American Free Trade Agreement's Chapter 11, for banning the carcinogenic gas additive, MTBE. Congress did not discuss NAFTA's Chapter 11 before approving it.
CAFTA would expand NAFTA and promote the Free Trade Area of the Americas, dubbed "NAFTA on steroids." Boston, Philadelphia and Austin have passed resolutions opposing the hemisphere-wide FTAA. Numerous labor, fair trade, environmental, women's, faith-based, human rights and reclaim democracy organizations have mobilized in the U.S. and in Central America.
Jesse Swanhuyser, director of the California Coalition for Fair Trade and Human Rights, is a Berkeley resident who waitied patiently at the packed meeting to speak during Public Comment. He says, "The new generation of trade agreements sets policy far outside the traditional scope of 'trade,' and increasingly restricts the democratic process at the local and state level. Berkeley has long led struggles like these."
Congresswoman Hilda Solis, the only Congressperson of Central American descent, released a statement when CAFTA was signed saying it, "will mean more job loss and wage decline for American workers...a gift to corporate interests....Our trade policies should lift people out of poverty, not keep them in it....CAFTA is bad for American workers and bad for Central America."
The Resolution is posted on the web at www.ReclaimDemocracy.org/CAFTA
The RESOLUTION to PRESERVE LOCAL SOVEREIGNTY & OPPOSE CAFTA:
WHEREAS, Berkeley Municipal Code Section 3.68 establishing the Peace and Justice Commission, states that the Commission shall "(A) Advise the Berkeley City Council on all matters relating to the City of Berkeley's role in issues of peace and social justice, including, but not limited to support for human rights and self-determination throughout the world;...[and (C) Help develop proposals for the City Council in furtherance of the goals of peace and justice...;" and
WHEREAS, Berkeley, by its Human Rights Ordinance No. 5985 and Precautionary Principle Resolution No. 62,259, promotes “higher standards of living, full employment, and... a safe and healthy environment” for every Berkeleyan and “seeks to prevent harm;” and
WHEREAS, the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) requires basing purchasing decisions on price, thereby negating state and local preferences regarding factors such as recycled content, small businesses, minority and women-owned businesses, vendors with a competent track record, a living wage, and avoidance of goods made with forced child labor; and
WHEREAS, CAFTA fails to preserve the traditional powers of state and local governments by failing to assure transparency in negotiating trade agreements; by failing to accord state and local officials timely access to negotiating documents to assess potential impacts on their authority and on their constituents; by failing to inform them of suspected adverse impacts; and by failing to invite them to participate in the negotiation, approval, and adjudication processes; and
WHEREAS, CAFTA expands corporate power and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) whose rules have been used 27 times to challenge public health, workplace safety and environmental laws, for example enabling Methanex Corporation to demand $970 million for potential future lost profits stemming from California's ban of MTBE*, a carcinogenic gasoline additive that is polluting the state’s groundwater; and NAFTA has cost the United States over 750,000 jobs**; and
WHEREAS, CAFTA will increase foreign investor rights and shift power away from state and local government, challenging zoning and protection of ground water and other natural resources, and will discourage local businesses but encourage commercial flight to low-wage areas, without allowing meaningful input by those adversely affected; and
WHEREAS, democracy requires participation, representation, and debate. Federalism requires a clear delineation of powers shared between the state and federal governments. International trade agreements blur these distinctions, and grant foreign investors rights, participation, and representation superior to that of U.S. citizens.
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Council of the City of Berkeley, to protect its citizens and defend Berkeley’s right of local sovereignty and oversight, oppose CAFTA and further urge that the United States Congress defeat it.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the City Manager is directed to post this Resolution on the World Wide Web and to send copies of this Resolution to our elected representatives in the California State Legislature: Assemblymember Loni Hancock and Senate Majority Leader Don Perata; our elected representatives in the U.S. House and Senate: Representative Barbara Lee and Senators Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein; and the appointed U.S. Trade Representative, Robert B. Zoellick.
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* www.state.gov/s/l/c5818.ht
** Statement of Congresswoman Hilda Solis Opposing CAFTA, May 28, 2004
http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2004/11/prweb180913.htm
They are blowing smoke in small-town America.
Kind of like the old adage a blind pig finds an acorn occasionally. They are right.
Well if you are unable to argue the facts, might as well try to ridicule those that do. Real convincing.
My tinfoil seams are sealed. I am also not accepting criticism today.
You throw out conspiracies, but with no proof, just a bunch of crap from folk that devote their lives to uncovering the conspiracies that devil them so.
Of any political conspiracy in the past, which one could any outsider "prove" to exist before it gained enough power to drop the mask, when, in fact, the modus operandi of a conspiracy is by definition to stay secret?
I'd rather be on the "conspiracy theory" side, and watchful. If there is none, we've just been watchful for nothing, but if there is, we're ready. On the other hand, if we write it off as nuts, the only way we prevail is if, and only if, it is nuts. What if it's not?
I'd rather be wrong my way than yours.
You can add the Cato institute to your list now.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1424801/posts
But doncha know, in the new world designed by the "free traders" and globalists, there isn't any "illegal immigration" only "free movement of persons" (mode 4 WTO).
Go ahead and live in paranoia, always seeing monsters under the bed and becoming a target for every grifter and scam artist out there.
I'll live in the real world instead.
Go ahead and live in paranoia, always seeing monsters under the bed and becoming a target for every grifter and scam artist out there.
I'll live in the real world instead.
I remember the GATT treaty and its' hideous NAFTA predecessor. Rush Limbaugh was a pitchman for NAFTA, devoting whole shows to the mess.
I started listening to smaller more conservative programs at the time. Clinton used the Oklahoma City Bombing to shut most of them down.
I remember Sir James' testimony before Congress. No one in the media covered it. GATT was one of the final slings and arrows thrust into us by the ghastly Democrat Congress of 1993-94. But they had plenty of GOP support.
Yup, NAFTA was a disaster. We've only created 20,000,000 jobs since then.
And real wages are higher. You have any proof of negative impacts? Or do you just have a feeling?
Excuse me? I've been watchful and suspicious of these organizations for years and don't seem to have lost anything to "grifters and scam artists". Can you suggest ways that "grifters and scam artists" can target me, having failed to in the past?
I'm sure that the "grifters and scam artists" reading the forum would appreciate the suggestions.
I'll live in the real world instead.
Do you now. How do you know? Tarot cards? Ah, it just came to me. Faith!
On what do you base your faith?
Why are you posting this trite accusation of yours on a Trilateral Commission thread, which I haven't even participated on?
Hey is this your picture on your homepage? I think now I understand. 
"And real wages are higher. You have any proof of negative impacts? Or do you just have a feeling?"
Just inflation, should account for the increase in hourly wages over the ten year period. Just how much higher do you think they might be, if we had more of a manufacturing base?
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