Well, you are obviously more knowledgeable than I am, Silver cheetah! But I agree: GATS stinks. It is an open door for profiteering corporations to extort as much as they can for themselves regardless of the economies of poorer nations.
Everything has to be profit-based rather than people-based or survival-based. Corporations and Monetarism are well on the way to destroying us all for the sake of short-term profit for the minority.
One day, the world will rise up against them - like the French Revolution - and destroy them. The problem will be to put something better in its place.
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