Posted on 05/24/2021 8:56:18 AM PDT by gattaca
Rumors of the death of America’s trans-Atlantic partnership with Germany may have been exaggerated. Four years on from when United States President Donald Trump decided to suspend Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership negotiations, the Biden administration is in the midst of a diplomatic reset with the European Union.
On May 19, Armin Laschet, the leader of Germany’s Christian Democrat Union, said that a large free-trade area encompassing the U.S. and the EU should be a goal of both powers. “Europe’s place is at the side of the U.S.A., is at the side of Canada,” he told the Konrad Adenauer Foundation. “And we need a revival with new themes, with a new dynamic of the trans-Atlantic relationship. And this will revolve around trade issues—a large free-trade area as an ambition, but also a common climate foreign policy.”
Yet the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership that Laschet is proposing is much more than a free-trade zone. Some have described it as an economic counterpart to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization military alliance. In addition to establishing a trans-Atlantic free-trade area, it would harmonize U.S. and EU regulations governing industrial standards, labor laws and intellectual property rights. To enforce these harmonized regulations, the European Commission is insisting on an Investor-State Dispute Settlement Mechanism. As reported by George Monbiot at the Guardian, these mechanisms would allow huge corporations “to sue governments before secretive arbitration panels composed of corporate lawyers.”
Such arbitration panels would bypass domestic courts and override the will of national legislatures. They would subject the U.S. to the same type of antidemocratic, technocratic regulation that member states of the EU endure. If Congress passed a law in violation of the new trans-Atlantic regulations, the U.S. government would have to use taxpayer funds to compensate foreign corporations for their loss. According to a leak published in December 2013, former EU Trade Commissioner Karel de Gucht proposed that a Regulatory Cooperation Council meet twice a year and prepare a regulatory program. This council would be composed of senior-level representatives from the European Commission’s General Secretariat of the Council and the United States’ Office for Information and Regulatory Affairs.
So, if Joe Biden and Armin Laschet get their way, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership will transfer U.S sovereignty to regulatory bodies outside the United States.
Even though many people in both the U.S. and the EU do not want to surrender sovereignty to corporate regulatory bodies outside their nation, the European Commission says the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership will boost the EU economy by $146 billion and boost the U.S. economy by $110 billion. And many geopoliticians claim this boost is necessary for the democratic West to beat the authoritarian East. A Citigroup report forecast that Western Europe will only account for 7 percent of the global economy by 2050, while “developing Asia” will account for 49 percent. So, to reverse this trend toward European decline, corporatist technocrats are pushing for the merger of U.S. and EU economies.
During a 2016 address at a German-American Cultural Foundation luncheon, former German Defense Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg touted the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership as vital to trans-Atlantic security. “It’s an enormously strong factor, and it’s highly underestimated,” he said. “It ties us more together, and it would be an illusion to believe that either the U.S. or we would be capable of tackling any of those challenges we are facing right now just by ourselves. Isolationism is not a solution ….”
In a 2013 New York Times op-ed, Guttenberg and Pierpaolo Barbieri likened the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership to the 1957 Treaty of Rome—the agreement that established the European Economic Community and laid the foundation for the European Union. “Given the complexity of the deal, it may be best to seek what Commissioner De Gucht called a ‘living agreement,’ one that can be furthered if and when the politics allow,” they wrote. “The open-ended nature of the groundbreaking 1957 Treaty of Rome, which enshrined the concept of an ‘ever closer union’ in Europe, should be used as a template.”
What Laschet, Guttenberg and their allies are advocating is the economic merger of the United States with the European Union. The bureaucratic cabal that runs the EU wants to engulf the U.S. into its corporatist empire.
Ironically, America is responsible for creating many of the globalist movements that threaten it today. The Trumpet has reported on how the U.S. government cooperated with the Catholic Church and former member of the Nazi Party to build a European superstate capable of helping it oppose the Soviet Union.
In 1948, influential New York Times journalist Clarence Streit laid out his idea for the eventual merger of the U.S. and Europe in testimony before the U.S. Congress House Committee on Foreign Affairs. “Whatever power they can achieve as two separate unions—a United States of Europe and a United States of America—they can achieve far better by forming one union,” he explained. A year after his testimony, Streit joined forces with former Supreme Court Justice Owen J. Roberts to start a political-action unit called the Atlantic Union Committee. A key supporter of this committee was former Belgian Prime Minister Henri Spaak—a founding father of both nato and the European Economic Community.
Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg’s grandfather, Karl-Theodor Freiherr von und zu Guttenberg, cosigned the Declaration of Atlantic Unity with Clarence Streit and 240 other leaders from across Europe and the United States. The purpose of this 1963 declaration was to create a trans-Atlantic economic zone similar to the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership agreement currently being negotiated.
The 1963 agreement never came to fruition because Americans were reluctant to surrender national sovereignty to globalist bodies and Europeans feared being swallowed up by a much more powerful U.S.
Such fears persist to this day. For this reason, it’s unlikely the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership will be actualized through negotiations. Yet the Bible does foretell that a corporatist empire will straddle the Atlantic Ocean just before Jesus Christ’s return. This empire will be led by Germany and the Vatican and will cause the “merchants of the earth [to wax] rich through the abundance of her delicacies” (Revelation 18:3).
The Bible also foretells that America and Britain will turn to this German-led empire for help, but will be betrayed. In The United States and Britain in Prophecy, the late Herbert W. Armstrong showed how the English-speaking peoples who settled the U.S. and Britain descended from the ancient Israelite tribes of Manasseh and Ephraim, while the German-speaking peoples who settled central Europe descended from the ancient Assyrians.
“Ephraim allows himself to be mixed up with foreigners; Ephraim has become a cake unturned as it was baked. Foreigners eat away his strength, unknown to him; grey hairs are on him here and there, unknown to him. Israel’s pride shall confront and convict them; yet they will not come back to the Eternal their God, nor seek him, in spite of it all. Ephraim is like a silly, senseless dove, crying to Egypt, flying to Assyria; but as they fly, I fling my net on them, and bring them down like a bird, punishing them for their misdeeds” (Hosea 7:8-12; Moffatt translation).
Hosea often refers to the northern 10 tribes of Israel, which split away from the kingdom of Judah, as “Ephraim,” the most prominent tribe, and “Samaria,” the capital. Yet the prophecies of Hosea were spoken to Ephraim and Manasseh jointly when both tribes were ruled by King Jeroboam II and his successors. So, when Hosea says, “Ephraim is like a silly, senseless dove … flying to Assyria,” he is saying that America and Britain will look to the European Union as an ally just before these two nations are invaded and enslaved.
German leaders like Laschet and Guttenberg know that they need America’s natural resource wealth and industrial might to compete with China, and they are going to get these resources one way or another (even if that means a Molotov-Ribbentrop style pact with China in the short term).
Referring to the Vatican’s role in Europe’s rising church-state combine, Mr. Armstrong wrote in the October 1951 Plain Truth: “For, believe it or not, the United States of Europe—a Winston Churchill dream, an idea sponsored, aided, abetted and financed by the United States, is the very idea the pope will seize on—all ready-made, wrapped and labeled ‘made in U.S.A.’—ready to hand over to him! And in promoting this utopian idea, gullible, trusting America and Britain are creating the Frankenstein that shall destroy them!”
Building up the German-led European Union is one of the most foolish decisions America has ever made. America and Britain have forsaken God and put their trust in foreign allies. They will soon find out the hard way that these “allies” do not have their best interests at heart.
You will have to “transfer my sovereignty” from my cold dead hands.
the globalists are definitely in charge and moving swiftly before the 2022 election.
That’s the One World Government that george soros wants to bring about. biden and harris will willingly bring us into it, where they will become highly-rewarded party elite. And we will be subject to our new overlords from non-White countries.
Soooo..... is this a treaty or some smoke-filled backroom deal between the “good ol boys”?
Trump kept us out of that cesspool.
Obama/biden glad to add this U S.
It looks like GA will decertify thousands of illegal votes.. if Kemp will the right thing for a change... he personally loses either way... he either shows the mess, or Vernon Jones beats him in votes...
“...where they will become highly-rewarded party elite. “
More likely the people who help bring this about would be executed at the earliest opportunity. Trotsky and the Mensheviks come to mind.
One of the alternatives to Russian natural gas supplies was shipping them ours which has been shut down by Biden.
“They” cannot transfer what they do not own.
And that's why this is a Bozo No-No with me. If it were strictly free trade without screwing the USA, I'd be willing to entertain it, but with global warming thrown in, and Heaven only knows what else, it'll simply be another EU-type superstate-in-waiting.
Oceania 'tis for thee!
PING!
And, of course, have it ratified as a treaty, rather than simply being approved by Congress as a “regulation of foreign commerce” issue.
Free trade never benefits the US because our labor costs and standard of living are so much higher than almost everywhere else in the world. Free trade is something the unthinking in the US want. Might as well say, yeah, we’ll fund your economy by transferring all our jobs over to you since your labor rates are so much lower than ours. This is the entire concept of globalism in a nutshell. The end result is that are middle-class become unemployed and unemployable in their former capacity and thus move into the lower class. From any US citizen’s perspective, Free Trade should be a wretched curse. It does NOTHING positive for the US and a large amount of harm.
Fantasy Land
Whatever advantages or assets the USA as a whole, or any subgroup thereof, may have, the Left can’t degrade it or give it away fast enough.
It’s all part of the New World Order, courtesy of the Bush family.
That’s why they needed to import millions of foreigners, to vote to give away our country because we wouldn’t.
Bush Plan for North Mexico (aka USA)
When they say “free trade”, they really mean to sell us everything while buying nothing from us.
Free trade ALWAYS goes in one direction.
“In The United States and Britain in Prophecy, the late Herbert W. Armstrong showed how the English-speaking peoples who settled the U.S. and Britain descended from the ancient Israelite tribes of Manasseh and Ephraim...”
Stopped reading right there.
"Such arbitration panels would bypass domestic courts and override the will of national legislatures. They would subject the U.S. to the same type of antidemocratic, technocratic regulation that member states of the EU endure."
(My Comment): This is Bull $hite !
Surrender our national sovereignty and Constitutional legal system to and knowingly corrupt and coercive European Fascist State ?
The proposed pact is Unconstitutional, besides being undemocratic !
The Buy-den administration has been 'bought off' if they even wish to consider such a business agreement
What the Hello have they been smoking ?
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