K1FO MORNING- October 14, 2020

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-JUVENILE EUTHANASIA IN THE NETHERLANDS. The Netherlands has legalized euthanasia for terminally ill children between the ages of 1 and 12. A moving thought for all the families who have to endure the tragedy of a seriously affected child. -MONEY FOR VACCINE WORRIES. The World Bank approves the payment of the sum of 12 billion dollars to the so-called developing countries to facilitate their access to the vaccine. Let’s hope that the peanuts against Covid will be successful all over the world. -DOVES OF DISCORD. In Colombia, native Americans will travel to the capital, Bogotá, to protest violence against their community. This comes in the context of the South American awakening to the colonial and slavery heritage following the « Discovery of America by Christophe Collomb on October 12, 1492. October 12 is, moreover, the Spanish National Day, as is the case in former colonies of the Spanish Empire, which have renamed the celebration as the Day of Intercultural Dialogue. The racist crimes that take place in the United States mainly at the hands of the public forces of public protection and public order is undoubtedly for something in the memory disorder that this can cause. Is the Statute of the Settler necessarily debunkable? TO BE FOLLOWED.

-UE-USA: A WAR THAT DOES NOT LACK AIR! The World Trade Organization (WTO) authorizes the European Union (EU) to sanction the United States of America. The U.S. government had in fact helped the aircraft manufacturer Boeing, based in Seattle (Washington State, USA), not without having failed to sanction the EU for the aid it had provided to the European group Airbus, Boeing’s major competitor. It is therefore a trade war, a backlash that we are witnessing, with this time, and this is not common, the WTO siding with the European Union. It is true that the WTO is not a specialized agency of the UN as are the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank mentioned earlier in this article, the World Health Organization or UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization). The WTO, whose headquarters are not on American soil like those of the IMF, the World Bank or the UN itself (all based in New York City) is rather a related organization, in the same way as the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) or the OPCW (Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons). In view of this more supranational than transnational quality, the WTO, like the IAEA and the OPCW, militates more for a liberal and secure world order than the multilateral framework constituted by the UN, where all states do not forget their interests and can negotiate with those of other states. In the supranational framework of the WTO, the overriding interest is the establishment of an open trade framework where national policies do not impede the free movement of goods, persons and capital.

La politique isolationniste du quarante-cinquième Président américain Donald TRUMP va à l’encontre des principes de l’OMC (énoncés dans les règlements du GATT, l’accord général sur les tarifs douaniers et le commerce) puisqu’il planifie une économie préférentielle, celle du America First (l’Amérique d’abord !) là où les organes de l’ONU sont dans le World Together (le Monde ensemble). Le Président TRUMP estimant l’intérêt supérieur de l’Amérique supérieur aux intérêts du commerce internationale, cela va contre ceux que les règles du commerce international énoncée par et pour le commerce international. Il est donc normal que l’autorité mondiale d’arbitrage du commerce sans frontières pénalise les aspirations forterressantes du Président Trump, auteur du « Build that Wall » (à la frontière américano-mexicaine. Il est donc normal que l’autorité mondiale d’arbitrage du commerce sans frontières protège les institutions allant dans le sens d’une transfrontièreté comme le fait l’Union européenne, communauté unique de destin multi-national continental.