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The Soon Coming Judgment Of God Upon America and How To Escape It 306
into ten political/economic regions.
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The rulers of these ten kingdoms would be the same ten
kings the Apostle John described in the book of Revelation.
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According to the WTO’s website, there were over 170 regional trade agreements in force
in 2002 and an estimated 300 projected to be in force by 2005. Some of the larger regional trade
agreements include: The European Union (EU), The North American Free Trade Agreement
(NAFTA), The Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), The Southern Common
Market (MERCOSUR), The Association of Southern Asian Nations Free Trade Area (AFTA),
The Common Market of Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), West Africa Economic and
Monetary (UEMOA), The Middle East Trade Area Initiative, and the Asia Pacific Economic
Cooperation.
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The FTAA is the working model of how smaller regional trade areas can be combined in
to larger more encompassing agreements. The FTAA will incorporate the NAFTA nations of
Canada, Mexico and the U.S. with the CAFTA nations of Central and South America. The John
Birch Society has launched a campaign called Stop The Free Trade Area of the Americas. At
their website they provide their analysis of the FTAA; they warn:
…the real objective of the FTAA architects is so revolutionary that the
proposal is shrouded in deception and misrepresentation. Even the term “free
trade” in the name is a deception – a violation of truth in labeling.
A deeper examination shows that the real objective of the FTAA’s
internationalist sponsors is to consolidate power, not to expand prosperity. The
FTAA is a raw grab for power disguised as a free trade agreement.
The FTAA would bring the nations of this hemisphere, most especially the
U.S., under the heel of a new regional authority. That new authority would have
none of the checks and balances of the American constitutional system. To
accomplish the globalist goal of economic and political “integration,” the
independence and distinctive legal systems of participating nations would have to
disintegrate step by step, as is happening in the European Union. Americans
would lose control of their own destiny.
In part, that means Americans would lose control of their property, suffer
taxation by anti-American socialist bureaucrats, and watch helplessly as standards
of justice they had taken for granted, such as the Bill of Rights, are trampled.
Meaningful national borders would also cease to exist.
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If the intent of the FTAA is not apparent, consider a report entitled Western Hemisphere
Economic Integration. The report was published in 1994 by the Institute for International
Economics (IIE) and written by CFR member Gary Clyde Hufbauer and Jeffrey J. Schott. The
report was dedicated to David Rockefeller. The report calls for “a Western Hemisphere Free
Trade Area,” which will be fulfilled by the FTAA. The report further discusses the time span
required to evolve the EU; it states: “After four decades of dedicated effort, Western Europe has
just arrived at the threshold of … monetary union, and fiscal coordination.” In optimism they
state that this can be accomplished much faster in the West: “It seems likely that trade and
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