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July 17, 2005 4:09 p.m. PDT
Hello Dear Friends and White Knights,
Are you aware that ALL your protections against a big corporation
dumping chemical waste next to YOUR city’s water reservoir or your
water well are about to be destroyed? Are you aware that chemical
waste and nuclear waste have been PROVEN to cause cancer and birth
defects in people who use or drink contaminated water into which
chemical or nuclear waste has leaked? Are you aware that government
regulations which prohibit big corporations from dumping hazardous
waste near public water resources are a major protection of YOUR
health?
One disastrous result of CAFTA would be that the CAFTA treaty will
enable corporations to RUN OVER the TOP of YOU and your loved ones.
CAFTA will enable corporations to sue any government which sets
regulations which would “decrease the profits” of the corporation.
Right now, corporations have to pay to haul hazardous waste --
sometimes long distances - to safe dumping locations far from people
and water sources. CAFTA will change all that and allow a chemical
waste dump and other harmful activities to be put in locations that
would help corporations to make more profit – meaning closer to the
corporations’ factories and YOU. YOU don’t matter; YOUR health
doesn’t matter to the big multi-national corporations who are behind
CAFTA.
Another “treaty” organization, the World Trade Organization (WTO),
recently “ruled” against the sovereign state of Utah and all sovereign
states in the USA which refuse to allow gambling. Did you know that?
What right does the non-governmental non-elected WTO headquartered in
Geneva, Switzerland, have to tell the sovereign states of America that
they must allow gambling? You, who don’t have gambling in your
states, may soon have a gambling casino opening near you.
NOT ONE PERSON is elected to be an official of the WTO; these WTO
officials are all stooges of big multi-national corporations. Through
the WTO treaty, our disgraceful Congress has given the WTO the ability
to OVERRIDE our Constitution and our states’ constitutions. Do you
realize now who is pulling the strings? BIG multi-national
corporations with GREED as their motive are behind all these trading
treaties.
We have a responsibility to tell our elected officials to vote “NO” on
these deceptive treaties which harm people. The article below gives a
toll-free number, 1-866-340-9281, which you can use to call Congress
and ask to be connected to your US House Representative. I just
called it and it goes directly to an operator who answers: “US
Capitol”; I then asked to be connected to my Representative’s office.
This toll-free number can be used to call Congress by anyone who has
access to a telephone. If you don’t have money for a long distance
call – this will give you a chance to instruct your US Representative
to vote “NO” on CAFTA.
NESARA restores Constitutional Law and Constitutional Law puts PEOPLE
first, not greedy corporations. NESARA abolishes all the
unconstitutional laws passed by Congress since 1933 and selected
unconstitutional laws before then. NESARA totally removes the USA
from the World Trade Organization and from all the deceptive trade
treaties which are damaging so many people worldwide. NESARA will be
announced and America will once again be restored to America’s proper
course. NESARA Now!
Blessings and Love,
Dove of Oneness
Executive Director
International NESARA Take Action Teams
Dove uses a pen-name for security and privacy reasons. The term "White
Knights" is borrowed from the Wall Street Journal and the world of big
business hostile takeovers when a vulnerable company is "rescued from
a hostile takeover by a White Knight” corporation or wealthy person.
Certainly, these people fighting to bring Americans and the world the
benefits of NESARA and to rescue our people from government and
banking fraud deserve to be called “White Knights”.
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http://www.foodfirst.org/cafta_factsheet
CAFTA - The Central American Free Trade Agreement
2005
The Central American Free Trade Agreement, CAFTA, is a proposed trade
agreement between the U.S. government and five Central American
countries: Costa Rica, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and
Nicaragua. CAFTA has been met by mass protests in Central America, and
the Bush administration is having trouble garnering even Republican
votes in the US Congress. Ratifying CAFTA promises to be a highly
symbolic legislative struggle, with the potential to significantly
stall the free trade agenda. Citizen pressure is working and needs to
continue! Tell your Representative to publicly oppose CAFTA: see the
action steps below.
The CAFTA agreement is based on the North American Free Trade
Agreement, NAFTA, which is almost ten years old. Like NAFTA, CAFTA’s
agreement on investment gives corporations the right to sue
governments if their right to profit is restricted in any way. [1]
CAFTA fundamentally undermines democracy by allowing corporations to
sue state and local governments for implementing the public health,
labor, and environmental protections mandated by voters.
Farmers in Central America are vehemently opposed to CAFTA. They
recognize that they stand little chance of being able to compete
against the massively subsidized US agribusiness machine. The 2002 US
Farm Bill apportioned $180bn in new subsidies for the industry over
ten years. By comparison, the total GDP for all five countries last
year was a little under $140bn. In Mexico, similar policies under
NAFTA have contributed to wide-spread rural poverty by driving down
the prices that Mexican farmers earn from growing corn, their
ancestral food. Farmers in United States ranging from advocates of
sustainable agriculture to conventional sugar beet growers have joined
their colleagues to the south in voicing concerns over CAFTA as well.
We can look to the history of NAFTA to assess the likely impacts of
CAFTA. Over the past ten years, this deal between the U.S., Canada,
and Mexico has had the following effects:
- From 1994 to 2000, the United States experienced a net loss of 3.2
million jobs due to trade.[2]
- Even accounting for increased employment in maquiladoras, more than
1 million jobs were lost in Mexico.[3]
- Agricultural poverty in Mexico has increased from 54% before NAFTA to
68% after NAFTA.[4] Farmers have been pushed to the wall, and the
biggest Mexican peasant protest since 1930 was organized in January
2003, involving 200,000 campesinos, under the slogan "El campo no
aguanta mas" (The countryside can't take it any more).[5]
- U.S. genetically modified crops imported without restriction into
the Mexican market have contaminated local crops and reduced
yields.[6]
- As a result of the catastrophic consequences of NAFTA on Mexican
agriculture,[10] Mexico is becoming increasingly dependent on imports
from the U.S.[7]
Get Active!
A diverse convergence of activists are coming together against this
expansion of corporate globalization. Protests, workshops, and other
events are being organized by a variety of groups.
- organize a study/activist group to defeat CAFTA
- make flyers and posters to advertise and increase awareness
- organize a teach-in, protest or media event to spotlight and educate
the public about CAFTA
- call your representatives (even if you don't know their names) to
tell them you don't want CAFTA….
Find out more at
www.foodfirst.org
www.stopcafta.org
www.cispes.org
CAFTA Will Hit The Poor Even Harder Than NAFTA
In Mexico, the hardest hit are the poor, predominantly in agriculture.
The winners from NAFTA have mainly been skilled urban workers and
large corporations. But Central American has no firms on the scale of
Pemex or Grumsa SA, the food giant behind Mission Foods. Central
American countries are far less industrialized than Mexico, skills
levels are significantly lower, and even the World Bank has admitted
that adding a trade agreement to this socio-economic situation is a
recipe for disaster.[8]
Three-quarters of central Americans live on less than $2 per day.[9]
Almost half of all Central Americans depend on agriculture that is
local and household based.[10] Under CAFTA, the U.S. wants access for
U.S. beef, corn, and beans to Central American markets without import
tariffs. This exposes Central American farmers to dumping, increasing
rural poverty.[11]
WORKERS RIGHTS ARE UNDER ATTACK
Central American countries have a history of labor abuses sponsored by
U.S. corporations. In El Salvador, Human Rights Watch found systematic
corporate abuses of workers' rights, with tacit government
sponsorship.[12]
Meanwhile, in the U.S. between 1998-1999, 71-100% of U.S. industrial
employers in the manufacturing industry threatened to relocate their
factories if workers formed a union, leading to reduced success in
union organizing drives.[13]
http://www.foodfirst.org/stopcafta
Urgent Action: Stop CAFTA in the House of Representatives
Now is the time to declare independence from corporate trade
agreements! On June 30th the Senate approved CAFTA by the closest
margin ever for a free trade agreement. The House of Representatives
has yet to vote on CAFTA, so there is still time to act.
It is absolutely urgent to call your congressional representative
today to tell them to oppose CAFTA.
Please call 1-866-340-9281, a toll-free number sponsored by the United
Steelworkers of America, and urge Congress to vote NO on CAFTA!
CAFTA, the Central American Free Trade Agreement that will include
Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and the
Dominican Republic, endangers labor and environmental standards and
will exacerbate poverty at home and abroad.
On Wednesday, June 29th the Associated Press reported that for the
last year the US Labor Department suppressed a report [http://www.laborrights.org/press/sugarreports_associatedpress_062905.htm
] that upholds CAFTA opponent's claims that labor conditions in
Central American countries do not meet international standards. Call
your representative today and urge them to read the report and to
protect worker's rights at home and abroad by voting NO on CAFTA!
U.S. corporations stand to profit extraordinarily from this unpopular
agreement which may be why the public knows so little about it. CAFTA
signs away sovereign democratic rights, tramples hard-fought
environmental and labor protections, privatizes public resources,
holds governments hostage to frivolous corporate lawsuits and further
marginalizes working families in Central America and the United
States.
Don't let the bad policies of NAFTA get repeated with CAFTA. Declare
independence from corporate trade agreements by telling your
congressional representative why CAFTA is bad for working families,
bad for the environment, and bad for democracy. Go ahead, get on the
phone! 1-866-340-9281
For more information on CAFTA, read Food First's CAFTA fact sheet and
our News and Views article It's Time to Defeat CAFTA.
If you live in the San Francisco Bay Area, help mobilize thousands of
people in swing districts across the US – especially those in Silicon
Valley represented by Anna Eshoo and Zoe Lofgren. Send your friends in
the computer industry the Technology Professionals Against CAFTA
sign-on letter http://www.foodfirst.org/techletter .
Also, contact Global Exchange at trade@globalexchange for information
on volunteering your time for emergency phone banking.
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Sent: Sunday, July 17, 2005 1:53 PM
Subject: NTAT Director's Update: STOP CAFTA-CODEX!
Dearest NTAT Members,
NTAT Members in Southern California and Washington State made a
concerted effort to enlighten the masses about saying no to CAFTA and
CODEX! In Irvine, California , NTAT members, with family and friends
demonstrated and held banners saying:
STOP CAFTA-CODEX!
PROTECT OUR HEALTH
FREEDOM RIGHTS!!
WWW.IAHF.COM
People driving by, those coming and going to work, all stopped to find
out why we were there and we were able to inform a lot of folks about
Senate Bill 1307 and how it is going to remove Americans’ choice and
access to vitamins and supplements, among other very serious issues.
(Please see information below)
In Bothell, Washington, Arnold and his team prepared and brought FDA
direction signs, NESARA Flyers, a handout of the synopsis of the CODEX
and reason for protesting, and banners with NO CAFTA and NO CODEX.
Great job Arnold !...
Thanks to everyone that helped make our demonstrations a success.
This will be an ongoing cause until NESARA is announced. Although we
can’t be involved with every cause, we can, with direction of our
trusted Dove, certainly choose the issues that need addressing based
on issues with time sensitivity. It’s all good for NESARA and it’s
a
reminder to the powers that be. The NTAT is an activist group. We
are activating the truth in every facet of this world where light
needs to be shed. Keep up the great work everyone! Your commitment
to supporting and seeing NESARA through to fruition grows more
important with each passing day! ‘Keep on keepin’ on’!
NESARA NOW WON! PEACE NOW FOREVER!
Love,
Tami Terusa
NTAT Region 1 Director
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From Team Member Melissa; giving us a very informative letter in order
to understand what we are up against here, thanks Melissa!
Tami - this protest letter is also very informative - they are all
good and give reasons as to why we MUST stop this!
URGENT
Dear Congressman ______________
We Fervently Urge Your Opposition to CAFTA for the following Important
Reasons:
The WTO, NAFTA, CAFTA and FTAA trade agreements all contain the SPS
(Sanitary Phytosanitary Measures) agreement. Article 3 of SPS states:
"
To harmonize sanitary and phytosanitary measures on as wide a basis
as possible, Members SHALL base their food safety measures on
international standards, guidelines or recommendations." Natural food
supplements are inordinately safe.
This makes the supposedly voluntary Codex Alimentarius standard for
vitamins and minerals MANDATORY for all WTO member nations. This would
be an injustice to Americans to say nothing of losing American
sovereignty.
Passage of CAFTA and FTAA would broaden and deepen the scope of the
SPS agreement, forcing harmonization of not ONLY our dietary
supplement laws to mindless international standards, but it would lead
to the creation of a supra-national body similar to the EU in our
hemisphere, and we oppose this clear threat to US sovereignty!
When the draft text of CAFTA was first made available on January 28th,
2004 the Governors of all 50 States discovered that they were bound by
the 2,400 page agreement-being specifically listed in Chapter 9. A
third has since rescinded their support of CAFTA, thankfully.
Last fall, a WTO tribunal outlawed Utah 's ban on gambling, opening
the door to millions of dollars in penalties against all states with
anti-gambling restrictions.
Antigua had charged that Utah 's ban on gambling violated Utah 's
obligation not to discriminate against foreigners providing
recreational services.
CAFTA includes hundreds of pages of grants of vague authority to
foreign tribunals. It wouldn't take long for an activist foreign judge
to read his own interpretation into language such as the SPS agreement
and force changes to US laws including the Dietary Supplement Health
and Education Act.
In addition to these concerns, NAFTA never lived up to the numerous
promises made about it, and our Trade Deficit is worse now than ever,
contributing to the weakening of the dollar.
The drafters of CAFTA (and codex) intentions are totally transparent
and repugnant. They plot in their greed to grab the market share of
the alternative health industry and to totally destroy it and our
health. Many people have NO health insurance and alternative health
supplements are their only means of staying healthy!
Our Constitutional Freedoms shall not be bartered or sold off to
international trade agreements in order to massively enrich the
pharmaceutical industry and corporations. It would be a crime if our
freedoms were lost through the drastically restrictive and
unconstitutional CAFTA-Codex rules and guidelines.
There is no reason to expect CAFTA or FTAA will do anything more than
to FURTHER this negative trend, and lead to the destruction of our
nation, and OUR ECONOMY.
WTO tribunals have ruled against the USA in 42 out of 48 cases, many
of which were very costly to our economy. Since joining the advent of
NAFTA, our trade deficit has ballooned to $617 Billion. CAFTA
continues this failed policy, threatening to destroy our country. I
therefore ask you to vote NO on CAFTA and on FTAA. The writing is on
the wall for all to see.
Let us preserve our Constitutional Sovereignty with regard to OUR
Freedom and Right to have control over and supreme say-so in our own
health concerns.
Please STOP the CAFTA and CODEX. This is a disastrous piece of
legislation for Americans' health and a threat to their individual
freedoms and choice of health path. What will happen to the thousands
of small vitamin store business owners? We cannot afford more American
businesses to be closed. We cannot afford that the uninsured of our
population be unable to avail themselves of natural health supplements
when sick and ill.
"
Vitamins, herbs, and minerals are like the air, water, and soil;
they’re a global commons and our birthright. They’re just as
necessary to our life and health as air, water, and soil. We wouldn’t
permit corporations to regulate and permit the air, nor shall we let
them regulate and permit nutrition."
--Patrick McGrath, Associate Director, Citizens for Health
pmcgrath@citizens.org
CAFTA continues the failed policies of NAFTA which has caused a
massive $617 Billion trade deficit, which seriously devalues the
dollar. If the failed policy of NAFTA are allowed to continue via
CAFTA and the FTAA (Free Trade Area of the Americas) it will LITERALLY
DESTROY AMERICA and force us into a hemispheric version of the EU
Dictatorship.
Congressman ____ , please vote for Americans by rejecting CAFTA-DR and
Codex. Vote N-O on CAFTA-DR.
Thank You,
Sincerely,
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