[hedgetrimmer]

Reads just like a UN 'framework' to corrupt our government even further..

[hedgetrimmer]

[President Jose] Barroso said he sees "untapped potential" for international trade "if we can achieve more regulatory cooperation, in some cases regulatory convergence, put down some barriers to trade and investment on both sides."

1ruthbaderginsboy this ones for you.....

[Izzy Dunne]

Acknowledging the importance of research and innovation to promoting competitiveness and improving qualify of life, we resolve to:
A. Conduct an exchange of innovation experts to discuss best practices;

Anybody else think it's weird to convene a panel of "innovation experts" to "discuss" ways to "promote competition" ?

[Izzy Dunne]

It's the Framework Against Real Trade.

[Hydroshock]

BOHICA!!!!!

[hedgetrimmer]

This is how you subvert constitutional government. You set up a framework and adopt globalist policies by executive fiat. No messy debates with Congress, no need to include lowly American citizens.

These people consider citizens and sovereignty a ‘barrier to trade’. That’s why our citizenship is being fast rendered meaningless by these end runs around our Constitution.

[the invisib1e hand]

idunno. I just glanced at it. I think you have to be half paranoid to see that it’s anything but common sense. looks that way, at least.

[wolfcreek]

I drug this over from from another thread. from Globalpolicy.org (UN watchdog)

Globalization of Politics

Traditionally politics has been undertaken within national political systems. National governments have been ultimately responsible for maintaining the security and economic welfare of their citizens, as well as the protection of human rights and the environment within their borders. With global ecological changes, an ever more integrated global economy, and other global trends, political activity increasingly takes place at the global level.

Under globalization, politics can take place above the state through political integration schemes such as the European Union and through intergovernmental organizations such as the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the World Trade Organization. Political activity can also transcend national borders through global movements and NGOs. Civil society organizations act globaly by forming alliances with organizations in other countries, using global communications systems, and lobbying international organizations and other actors directly, instead of working through their national governments

[sergeantdave]

Reads like globalist/Marxist UN soft law.

Here’s the kicker -

This gobbledygook wants to encourage”...free enterprise, rule of law, property rights, free trade, and competition....”

Then it adds a level of bureaucracy to regulate.

“Free enterprise, rule of law, property rights, free trade, and competition” are self-regulated by the market place. Adding any level of bureaucracy, other than to assure national security, is self-defeating and that bureaucracy will inevitably destroy “free enterprise, rule of law, property rights, free trade, and competition” as it is corrupted by money and power.

The UN stands as a testament to that fact.

[bigdcaldavis]

Sounds like the birth of the Transatlantic Union.