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'FART' Bill Indicates Trump's Intention to Dump WTO

posted by martyb on Tuesday July 03 2018, @06:17AM   
from the He-Who-Smelt-It dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

The Trump administration has crafted a draft bill — ordered by the president — that would declare America's abandonment of World Trade Organization rules, according to Axios. The bill essentially provides President Donald Trump — who has argued for a better position for the U.S. in big trade pacts — a license to raise U.S. tariffs at will, without congressional consent and largely outside of the international rules governed by the WTO. The bill, titled the "United States Fair and Reciprocal Tariff Act," would give Trump unilateral power to ignore the two most basic principles of the WTO and negotiate one-on-one with any country.

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• Re:Not necessarily...Re:Not necessarily... (Score: 4, Informative) by suburbanitemediocrity on Tuesday July 03 2018, @10:04PM (1 child)

  by suburbanitemediocrity (6844) on Tuesday July 03 2018, @10:04PM (#702207)

  Postmodernists do not attempt to refine their thoughts about what is right or wrong, true or false, good or evil. They believe that there isn’t such a thing as absolute truth.

  https://www.allaboutphilosophy.org/postmodernism.htm [allaboutphilosophy.org]

  Is there a better source that you would recommend as everything that I've read seems to agree with this including wikipedia:

  common targets of postmodern critique include universalist notions of objective reality,...truth...

  1. There is an objective natural reality, a reality whose existence and properties are logically independent of human beings

  2. The descriptive and explanatory statements of scientists and historians can, in principle, be objectively true or false. The postmodern denial of this viewpoint—which follows from the rejection of an objective natural reality—is sometimes expressed by saying that there is no such thing as Truth.

  Some go so far as to say that science and technology—and even reason and logic—are inherently destructive and oppressive

  For postmodernists, reason and logic too are merely conceptual constructs and are therefore valid only within the established intellectual traditions in which they are used.

  https://www.britannica.com/topic/postmodernism-philosophy [britannica.com]

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• Re:Not necessarily...(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday July 04 2018, @03:41AM

  by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Wednesday July 04 2018, @03:41AM (#702356) Journal

  If they truly don't believe there is a such thing as absolute truth, they have rather neatly torpedoed their justification for believing this in the first place. Gotta have an axiom *somewhere* yanno...

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