Re: Fw: WTO to shut down, refound under new charter

You might also notice that the 'early release' of the WTO's restructuring
came from the Communist Party of Australia (the renamed former Socialist
Party of Australia, following the dissolution of the 'original' CPA,
following the dissolution of the USSR etc)!

Is this a vision of the progressive potential of the current world-system,
creating global institutions that, if restructured in this way, could
promote an alternative, more equitable and just world-system?

Tom.
Newcastle, Australia.

At 01:24 PM 23-05-02 -0700, you wrote:
>Timothy writes:
>
>> Is this legit?
>
>I don't think so.
>
>There are two WTO sites on the web:
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>http://www.wto.org/
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>http://www.gatt.org/
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>They look almost identical, except the first page. The first one
>seems to be the real one and there is no such information there.
>The second one seems to be a joke, as you see this there:
>
>> On Monday, May 20, the WTO Secretariat approved
>> a schedule by which the WTO in its current form
>> will  be disbanded and transformed into the Trade
>> Regulation Organization (TRO), whose charter will
>> be based on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
>
>Somewhere in there you also see:
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>> As Gandhi said, "The earth has enough for everyone’s
>> needs, but not for some people’s greed." This is not
>> just an "emotional" argument; it is accurate.
>
>A nice joke though. I liked it a lot.
>
>Best,
>Sabri
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>