Russia Today reported on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). Details are kind of sketchy because the Bush administration, and now the Obama administration refuse to disclose details about the agreement or the negotiations.
The website Public Knowledge has some information about the agreement.
ACTA is the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement being negotiated by the US, the EU, Japan, South Korea, Canada, Mexico, Australia, and New Zealand. The stated goal of the agreement is the international enforcement of strong intellectual property rights through increased cooperation and coordination among international governmental agencies. ACTA does not yet exist, though its ongoing discussions are confirmed by all of the participating governments.
The biggest concern with ACTA is that there has been very little transparency regarding its substance and the process that is putting it into place. Although the USTR invited the public to comment on the agreement, the public was given very little information to comment on. What is more disconcerting is that the leaked discussion paper seems to heavily reflect the wish lists provided in the comments from the industry groups. Also, ACTA is being negotiated outside forums such as WIPO were the negotiation would be more open.
A second major concern with ACTA’s very nature is that it is being designed as an “executive agreement,” rather than as a “treaty.” Executive agreements do not require Congressional approval before they may take effect. As a result, there is little to keep the signatories accountable to the public, especially in an election year that will see the departure of the current executive.
A third major concern with ACTA is that it will be used to “policy launder” its most contested provisions, whatever they may turn out to be. Policy laundering is the use of international treaties or other agreements to justify the passage of controversial legislation within one’s own country. The idea is that, once there is an international agreement committing the US to certain policies, there will be greater leverage applied on US legislators to make those policies a reality. This process was used in the passage of the DMCA in 1998 and is ably described in the ACTA context here.
Will this agreement give governments the right to search our laptops, iPods and other electronics? Why aren’t China, India, Russia and other nations involved? We have quite a few questions but very few answers. What happened to the transparency promised by Barack Obama?
…”ACTA is the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement being negotiated by the US, the EU, Japan, South Korea, Canada, Mexico, Australia, and New Zealand.”…
Surely the coming existence of a One World Government juggernaut must be recognizable by even the blindest and most deaf. The sovereignty of this nation is being pissed away by the greatest quickchange artist ever to set in the Whitehouse. And the sad part, people are still think “if” not when.
EXPLETIVE!!!
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Did you see the post about the UN calling for a “New World Order” and the Obama admin saying they’re down with the whole climate plan? Pardon my French, but we’re screwed.
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I was posting the above when you were posting the “NWO” piece. I read it later and decided not to comment on it as well as this one.
It may help people to see the two pieces so close together, may ring a bell, so to speak. Having read the book, this holds no fear for me, I therefore don’t have to waste useless energy worrying. I know how it ends. I will admit there is a good deal of what will happen between now and the end that I don’t know, but I have the promise.
Matt 6:31-34
31 Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?
32(For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things .
33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
34 Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
KJV
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AWM: Thank you for sharing words of comfort. I needed that.
I would like to offer this:
Psalm 55: 9-11 (NIV)
9) Confuse the wicked, O Lord, confound their speech, for I see violence and strife in the city.
10) Day and night they prowl about on it’s walls; malice and abuse are within it.
11) Destructive forces are at work in the city, threats and lies never leave it’s streets.
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Thanks Mary.
That sort of proves the old saying;
“the more things change, the more they stay the same”
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I should add:
Psalm 19:21 (NIV)
21) Many are the plans in a man’s heart, but it is the Lord’s purpose that prevails.
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