armati wrote:Duk
Not sure how you & buds see things.
"They"....... did not announce anything, Armati was unaware of the barcelona declaration and thought it was "neat".
Ram brought it to Armatis attention, pretty simple really....nutin too tin foil in there. But, ok.
and YUP, you are correct, it is a public document, very astute of you to notice.
You didn't just say it was "neat." You said it was "a neat find." The word "find" implies that it was some lost, arcane knowledge, or something hidden. It was neither lost nor hidden. It was simple public knowledge that anyone with an Internet connection could look up in five seconds.
This is how the members of the tinfoil club build up their awe of each other's awesome incredible expertise -- by loudly and frequently congratulating each other on their brilliant detective work in "digging up" these "startling secrets" that to everyone else were already common knowledge 50 years ago. I work a lot of nights, and in the company of low-IQ truck drivers, so I'm frequently subjected to the ramblings of that degenerate subhuman shit-for-brain charlatan scumbag George Noory, and this is his schtick -- every scumbag charlatan that comes on his show with another BS theory is drooled over with huge congratulations for his "incredible discovery" of some pseudo scientific drivel that had already been debunked when I was a wide-eyed kid reading secret agent stories 50 years ago. As far as I'm concerned anybody that uses the term "astounding fact" or "startling discovery" needs a shot in the face with a steel pipe.
armati wrote:As for "dark secret" dark maybe, but hasnt been a secret, as in, has been public since 1982.
(Barcelona Declaration 1995)
"as basic as working towards prosperity by the building of a free-trade zone"
That is an opinion, and aside from "free trade zone" is far from fact.
Actually, its also far from "free" trade.
This opinion is really naive.(no offence, just what it is)
No, it's pretty much well-established fact. Economics 101, basically. Trade breeds wealth, restrictions on trade breed poverty. Look right back to the history of the Anti-Corn Law League. One day England had children starving in the streets, ten years later they were all fat and well fed. The only thing that changed is that they repealed the Corn Laws which were artificially driving up the price of food. That's all tariffs are -- another way for the rich to keep all the cookies while the poor crawl on their hand and knees begging for the crumbs. Restraints on trade are wars against the people. Take any first year microeconomics course and you'll understand the details.
Anybody who endorses mercantilism is either a fool who doesn't understand economics, or likes watching the poor people starve.