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When the CFR-backed members of the new Truman Administration met with America's European allies at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire from July 1 to 22, 1944 to discuss the financial and economic aspects of their reconstruction plans for Europe at the end of the war, they created most of the instruments they would need to implement world government. World government, in the minds of the Utopians, would occur shortly after every nation (including those who had lost the war--Germany, Japan and Italy) signed the United Nations Charter.

The Bretton Woods Conference spawned the International Monetary Fund and the International Bank of Reconstruction and Settlement (which would later become the World Bank). Also created at that time was the International Trade Organization whose job was to examine how to increase trade throughout the world to expedite the rebuilding of Europe and Asia at the conclusion of hostilities. Twenty-three nations met in Geneva, Switzerland in April, 1947 and hammered out a treaty on trade that would be called the General Agreement on Trades and Tariffs. The organization which would police trade policies in the post-war world would be called the World Trade Organization [WTO].

When the Bretton Woods Conference took place, America with less than 5% of the world's population, was producing 50% of all of the manufactured goods in the world. American workers cashed approximately 65% of all the paychecks earned in the world. To the growing multi-national industrialists, there was something wrong with the mix. Bretton Woods was designed to fix the "problem" by opening America's robust market not only to America's allies at the end of the war, but America's enemies as well. Because, after all, once the UN assumed its role as the tutorial head of the new global union of nations, war would no longer exist because the whole world would enjoy the fruits of America's labors.

The plan to create a global economy would automatically lead to world government once the currencies of all the nations were merged into one (since the international bankers and industrialists knew that once they controlled the currencies of the nations, they would control the governments of those nations...thus, the end of war for all time). Only, in April, 1947 when GATT was proposed, England and the United States Congress saw GATT as a door which swung only one way--into England and into the United States. The Democratically-controlled American Senate, which relied on labor to get re-elected, rejected GATT out-of-hand. England wanted it modified to appear more like the Ottawa Agreement it had signed with Canada in 1932. The Ottawa Agreement mandated an equal exchange of imports and exports--a balanced trade agreement. When the UN negotiators (a year before the UN officially existed) rejected England's modifications, GATT stalled for 20 years. It would be the late 1960s, with the formation of the European Economic Community [EEC] (the forerunner to the European Union) before GATT would finally be ratified by most of the nations in the world. The United States would not ratify it until Bill Clinton rammed it through the Senate in 1993 after NAFTA became law. It is largely because of NAFTA that the Democrats lost control of the House and Senate in 1994.

Those who opposed NAFTA because they correctly saw it as a utopian devise whose sole purpose was to drain thousands of jobs each month from the robust American economy in order to create economic parity with our less fortunate neighbors both to the South--and the North, were (like Reform Party presidential candidate Pat Buchanan) labeled as racists, isolationists, and short-sighted globalphobes. In Europe, GATT finally accomplished what the Utopians attempted to do worldwide between 1944 and 1947--create a union of nation-states whose governments are now controlled by a superior European Union governing body. On February 1, 2002, the Euro (fast-tracked from its original date of July 1, 2004) will become the official currency of those nations who belong to the European Union. Those European nations who do not join will find a high tariff wall will prevent them from selling goods to any nation in the European Union.

As Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien prepared to host, in Quebec, the now ongoing Summit of the Americas, the battle to create another regional trade "nation" has very quietly begun out of the American public's view since it is their jobs--and our economy--that is up for grabs. Canada brought two disputes to the Summit. First, the American lumber industry is demanding that George W. Bush impose a 78% tariff on lumber imports for home construction from Canada (since Canada subsidizes the lumber and paper industries of Canada in order that that Canadian industry can sell lumber and paper to the United States for less money than it costs most American companies to produce it.

With respect to the current lumber boycott, Chretien said: "We want free trade to be free trade. We want to sell in the American market." To the American lumber industry, free trade does not mean subsidized trade. It means equal and fair competition (which would preclude foreign lumber from being sold here since the Canadian lumber companies could not compete on a level playing field). Helping the globalists in their attempt to make it more difficult for American lumber companies to find lumber to harvest are the environmentalists who are using every ploy known to man to prevent lumber companies from cutting--even on their own lands.

On Prince Edward Island in Eastern Canada another trade dispute exists--this one over "warted" potatoes. The potatoes, which American consumers will not buy because they appear blemished, contain irregularities that look like warts. The American supermarket chains in the Northeast that have bought them discovered because of their unappealing look, their customers pass them by and purchase the more expensive Michigan or Idaho potatoes. On Chretien's plate at Ottawa is a demand that American distributors buy the Prince Edward Island potatoes since the irregularities, as unsightly as they are, do not affect the potato. "We eat them in Canada," he said. "Do you want to eat them today? I will serve them to you. You will not die." Chretien and the utopians do not realize that in America, the consumer is king. To American reporters, Chretien said: "You are more dependent on Canada than ever before." Chretien views the Western Hemisphere Trade Alliance as necessary to improve the lot of all of the Americas. Justifying his statement, he told reporters that since NAFTA was passed by the American Congress, Canada has gained 2.2 million new jobs. Of course they did. And, all of them came from the United States. If you doubt that, just ask the lumber industry, the paper industry and the American auto industry how many of their jobs went north of the border since 1993.

In criticizing America in a closed-door political caucus, Chretien remarked that Bush didn't even know where Prince Edward Island was. Chretien argued that NAFTA did not hurt democracy or labor (he sees them as distinctly different things), and he envisions that by expanding NAFTA to include all lands from Nunavut in the sub-arctic region of Northern Canada to Tierra del Fuego at the southern most tip of South America will improve everyone's lot. Everyone's lot, of course, except the United States which is expected to take everyone's imports tariff-free...surrendering what will likely be over 50% of its economy and about 35% of its job base to our neighbors to the North and the South.

The Summit of the Americas, which was deliberately downplayed in the American media because of what happened a year ago in Seattle, was an issue Bush campaigned on. Bush's National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice reminded reporters on Thursday that, during his campaign, "...President Bush said his foreign policy would begin with America's friends and neighbors. And, that is exactly what he is doing as he prepares to head up to Quebec." She said also that during his presidency, Bill Clinton ignored our allies in the Western Hemisphere.

The reason for that is simple. Clinton's support came from labor. Bush's support comes from the transnational industrialists and bankers who need to convert the human capital of Central and South America into product-buying consumers by the end of this decade. To do that, the industrialists have to put that human capital to work. And, once again, those jobs will come from the United States. Adding insult to injury, we will be expected to buy the goods they create with our former jobs until such time as they have enough discretionary income to buy them themselves.

As the utopians struggle to put together an American Trade Union like the European Union, the IMF is already negotiating (i.e., forcing) our neighbors in Central and South America to dollarize their currencies as a condition to gain this new prosperity. When they get through, an American Trade Zone using the dollar, like the European Union Trade Zone, utilizing the Euro, will exist. All that remains is setting up the African and Asian Free Trade Zones. Over 200 world currencies will then be merged into four. All that will be needed at that point is to merge those four currencies into one universal currency. At that time, with a global economy, world government will exist.