July 17, 2003
Be careful what u wish for
The anti-globilisation movement has just got what they wanted as the WTO is about to crumble but what they didn't realize is that the Republican US government is going to directly deal with developing countries and are now free to enforce whatever mass looting of these countries the US sees fit without any sort of international body negotiating the terms.
The WTO started to introduce systems of self-sustainment for 3rd world countries and on the eve that some of these countries are starting to get their say the US is dismantling the WTO by pulling out of all the treaties and signing exclusive mass market shares over the entire world completely bypassing the WTO and anybody else.
HOW MUCH LOBBYING DID WRIGLEY CORP. HAVE TO DO TO GET THIS SORT OF EXCLUSIVE DEAL?
Why can't human rights groups lobby for Singapore to loosen some of it's inhumane laws and be this effective? Why can't environmental groups in the US get their government to include pesticide and greenhouse emission controls into free trade deals instead of a FUCKING CHEWING GUM COMPANY being given exclusive market share to 4 million people?
Oh wait, money. GDP. Utilitarian managerial economist utopia.
The WTO for all of it's faults is basically the only worldwide organization that had some sort of negotiating and veto power against countries run by CEOs who are trying to pass laws onto developing nations that diminish local control of their own industries amoung other gross misuse of dominance.
Imagine the US as a giant pharmaceutical company that must go by regulations
(which still favour the pharmaceutical company) to protect the people but still trying to maximize profit as much as possible. With all those regulations gone the company can exclusively deal with the people solely on their terms. "We'll sell you this tuberculosis medication for your kids but you have to let our company poster your schools with ads and dump toxic waste in your backyard
or we will cut you off"
Since day 1 that George Dubya took over the USA has pulled out of every treaty and organization possible in a big cowboy fuck you to the entire world. I bet they've been dealing directly with countries around the WTO for awhile. I mean, if they told the UN to go suck a camel's ass why would they listen to the WTO? or the IMF? or anyone?
All those anti-globilisation protesters should have been hurling rocks at the pentagon and defacing the white house instead of shutting down the World Trade Organization meetings.
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