FROM JEROME CORSI'S RED ALERT

Urge to merge: Obama playing name game?

Hopes 'rebranding' will help Americans embrace Security and Prosperity Partnership
Posted: July 20, 2009
9:05 am Eastern

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Since the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America was broadly rejected by the American public, the Obama administration has a fix – change the name, Jerome Corsi's Red Alert reports.

"Two top Washington think-tanks have now formally suggested in writing that the Obama administration should rename the SPP as a public relations ploy to advance the North American integration agenda without drawing so much flak from those of us interested in preserving U.S. sovereignty," Corsi wrote.

In a new report written for the Brookings Institute in Washington, D.C., titled "Toward a New Frontier: Improving the U.S.-Canadian Border," Christopher Sands, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, also headquartered in Washington, D.C., wrote:

Despite evidence that NAFTA has been beneficial on balance to American business, workers, and consumers the argument remains vilified by many as an unwarranted move to embrace globalization. President Obama recognized this on the campaign trail in 2008, when he called for the renegotiation of NAFTA's provisions to correct flaws in the original agreement. As a result, the Obama administration will most likely rename the SPP.

In a 2007 report for the Hudson Institute titled "Negotiating North America: The Security and Prosperity Partnership," Sands and his University of Alberta political science professor, co-author Greg Anderson, characterized the "extreme charges" of SPP critics as "baseless" and "unhelpful," asserting that the criticism "should be forcefully rebutted by the leaders, members of the [SPP] Ministerial group, and others with direct knowledge."

Even though the SPP working group trilateral shadow bureaucracy had been created to be conducted behind closed doors, SPP critics were to be dismissed because they had no "direct knowledge" of the real good the North American integrationists were accomplishing in secret.

As evidence of "critics of the right," Sands and Anderson singled out Corsi's 2007 book, "The Late Great USA: The Coming Merger with Mexico and Canada."

The conclusion of the recent Brookings/Hoover cooperation is a new set of recommendations designed to revive the SPP under another name.

"The collaboration proves once again that North American integrationists in Washington think-tanks never quit, no matter how hard they deny their true intent is to evolve a North American Union out of NAFTA, following the model by which the European Union was fashioned through stealth from the European Free Trade Association," Corsi noted.

The following is the new plan as proposed by Sands under the imprimatur of Brookings/Hoover:

1. "President Obama should borrow from the lexicon of the European Union and announce that the United States will proceed in negotiations with its two neighbors 'at two speeds,' moving ahead more quickly where possible with its developed neighbor Canada, and allowing Mexico to proceed more slowly as necessary."

2. "The Obama administration is likely to want to 'press the reset button' on the SPP, an unpopular though valuable initiative that has improved policy coordination between the United States and its neighbors."

3. "The SPP must be rebranded to win any kind of consensus support. The Obama administration recognizes this, and could take a few tactical steps to make the SPP (or its eventual successor) work better and win broader support."

Among Sands' specific proposals is a recommendation to open the SPP bureaucratic working groups to more than just the 30 hand-picked multi-national corporations that constitute the North American Competitiveness Council. Sands does not recommend opening the SPP working group meetings to the public of any of the three nations involved. Instead, he indicates it would be good if environmental, labor and human rights groups could participate in the meetings. Maybe also the state and provincial governments in Mexico, Canada and the United States should be invited to the closed door meetings.

Next, Sands believes a U.S.-Canada or North American Joint Infrastructure Planning Commission should be created to study infrastructure needs to make border crossings faster and easier, Corsi noted.

Finally, Sands suggests shelving the idea of integrating with Mexico until after integration between Canada and the United States can be accomplished.

Sands writes: "This is the challenge: to build a truly 'new frontier' on the northern border that can be a model to others and an advantage for all Americans."

"He can barely contain his enthusiasm for the Obama charisma," Corsi wrote, quoting Sands' statement that, "President Obama's community organizing experience suits him well for the task ahead."

Red Alert warned months ago to "Get ready for the 'son of SPP,'" writing that the declaration that the SPP was dead is premature, as resurrection under a different name is imminent.

Red Alert also warned that Canada and the United States were ready to throw Mexico out of the merger, abandoning plans for a trilateral SPP to emerge into a North American Union without first taking the step to merge together the United States and Canada.

"The key to understanding what is going on with the SPP under the Obama administration is the realization that globalists always proceed under a stealth agenda," Corsi explained. "Globalists typically mask their real plans to produce regional governments out of trade agreements by changing names and designing different structures when initial attempts to destroy nation-states are exposed and stalled by citizens who are still patriotic enough to cherish what remains left of their national sovereignty."

Red Alert's author, whose books "The Obama Nation" and "Unfit for Command" have topped the New York Times best-sellers list, received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in political science in 1972. For nearly 25 years, beginning in 1981, he worked with banks throughout the U.S. and around the world to develop financial services marketing companies to assist banks in establishing broker/dealers and insurance subsidiaries to provide financial planning products and services to their retail customers. In this career, Corsi developed three different third-party financial services marketing firms that reached gross sales levels of $1 billion in annuities and equal volume in mutual funds. In 1999, he began developing Internet-based financial marketing firms, also adapted to work in conjunction with banks.

In his 25-year financial services career, Corsi has been a noted financial services speaker and writer, publishing three books and numerous articles in professional financial services journals and magazines.

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