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    QUIETLY, QUIETLY BUILDING THE NORTH AMERICAN UNION

    QUIETLY, QUIETLY BUILDING THE NORTH AMERICAN UNION

    By Steven Yates
    October 5, 2006
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    Just when you thought it might be safe to go on to topics other than regional integration and trade practices driven by the love of money and the lust for power, you get blindsided again.

    While ordinary Americans were reflecting on the fifth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, globalists of Canada, the U.S. and Mexico were making their way quietly, quietly, to Banff, Alberta for the North American Forum held at the Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel Sept. 12–14. The meeting was closed-doors. According to some reports buses with attendees were arriving at night. There was no print media coverage in the U.S. and very little in Canada; I was able to download an article from the Toronto-based Star. Those who do not get their news from the Internet remain in the dark about one of the biggest unfolding events of the present decade: the globalist social engineering of a North American Union.

    WorldNetDaily was able to obtain materials marked Internal Document, Not For Public Release. The whistleblower, Mel Hurtig, noted Canadian author, publisher, and leader of the National Party of Canada, told WorldNetDaily that the “secret meeting was designed to undermine the democratic process…. It was clear that the intention was to keep this important meeting about integrating the three countries out of the public eye.”

    Representing the U.S. in Banff was Former U.S. Secretary of State George Schulz. Representing Mexico was Former Mexican Finance Minister Pedro Aspe. Representing Canada was Former Premier of Alberta, Peter Lougheed. The first session featured opening comments by each. The sessions that followed had names like, “A Vision for North America: Issues and Options,” “Toward a North American Energy Strategy,” “Demographic and Social Dimensions of North American Integration,” and “Border Infrastructure and Continental Prosperity.”

    The event was co-hosted by the Canadian Council of Chief Executives, the business wing of Canada’s superelite, and the Canada West Foundation, a “think tank” that has been promoting regional integration.

    Prominent on the panel of the “Vision for North America” session was none other than Robert Pastor, who might go down in history as the Father of the North American Union. Paster is the author of Toward A North American Community (2001) published by the globalist Institute for International Economics. He chairs the Council on Foreign Relations’ Task Force on North America and served as lead author of the CFR’s Building a North American Community (May 2005). Among other things, this document proposes a North American “security perimeter” around all three nations by 2010. It was this that inspired CNN commentator Lou Dobbs to wonder, last summer, if our elites “had gone mad.”

    Providing the keynote address at the Banff confab was our very own Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, U.S. Department of Defense. Rummy’s speech was entitled, “Opportunities for Security Cooperation in North America: Military-to-Military Cooperation.”

    When the powerful begin reading papers on “cooperation” between the military hierarchies of three nations, are there really grounds for doubt that we are looking at compromises of U.S. sovereignty and possibly security on an unprecedented scale? Currently there is a North American Cooperative Security Act, sponsored also in 2005 and languishing in committee, but doubtless far from dead. The plan here is to integrate Mexican and Canadian security forces into the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

    The terms security and prosperity were bandied about freely. This, of course, ties the North American Forum—actually the second (the first, at Sonoma, Calif. in October 2005 was also held in maximum secrecy)—to the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP), now housed in the NAFTA office of the U.S. Department of Commerce where it has received the full backing of our Secretary of Commerce Carlos M. Gutierrez.

    The watchword, however, was deep integration, which Pastor, the CFR, and outfits like the Canada West Foundation have been promoting. The many working groups created under the SPP umbrella are currently “harmonizing” regulations by all three governments on food, drugs, the environment, electronic commerce, rules of origin, textiles and apparel labeling, movements of capital and labor, and foreign policy. The various working groups have signed “memoranda of understanding” or “frameworks of common principles”—or are working on such—in all these areas.

    If there’s anything you can take to the bank, this “harmonizing” process is not about, e.g., increasing food and drug safety for the people; it is about making life easier (and profits fatter) for the superelite CEOs in leviathan-sized food and pharmaceutical corporations—wired to leviathan-sized governments through public-private partnerships. What is likely is that food safety will go down, and consumers’ choices of, say, dietary supplements over expensive, poorly tested and therefore possibly hazardous pharmaceuticals will begin to be restricted. Major globalists, we ought to note, are well connected to the multibillion dollar pharmaceutical industry. Rummy owns over $5 million in stock in Gilead Sciences, the company that developed Tamiflu® and sold it to Roche, the pharmaceuticals giant. George Schulz owns more than $7 million in Gilead Sciences stock and unlike Rummy, actually sits on the company’s board. At one time, the concept conflict of interest would have applied. Today, those in the transnational globalist class do as they please, unencumbered by considerations of ethics, law, or Constitution.

    When confronted, shills for the power elite (including on the SPP website, which for the past several weeks has sported a disinformational “Myths and Facts” section) insist that its goals are benign. They just want to increase the prosperity of the three nations so as to better compete with the booming economies of China and India, as well as the European Union, while also ensuring the safety of our peoples in an age of terrorism. The sovereignty and independence of Canada, Mexico and the U.S., they insist, will be respected.

    But if the superelites of the three nations have the populations’ best interests in mind, then why the secrecy? Why have the agendas (and memberships) of the various working groups of the SPP been kept out of sight, not even available on the SPP website? Why does the latter’s “Myths and Facts” describe the SPP as only a “dialogue” between the leadership of the three nations when it is clearly much more than that? Why has it been necessary to invoke the Freedom of Information Act to penetrate the wall of secrecy?

    Geri Wood, SPP Secretary, told Jerome R. Corsi that the working groups did not want to be “distracted by answering calls from the public.”

    What incredible arrogance!

    There is now a North American Competitiveness Council whose advisory board involves representatives from corporations including Wal-Mart, Chevron, General Motors, Lockheed Martin, and others. The NACC met in Washington in mid-August, but we have almost no information because again what was said was kept out of public view and this time we have (so far) no whistleblowers.

    There is also a North American Energy Security Initiative, a North American Steel Trade Committee, an Automotive Partnership Council of North America, and a North American Aviation Trilateral, among other transnational bureaucracies formed under the SPP umbrella. Work is underway towards North American Emergency Management and towards Smart, Secure Borders (now there’s a phrase apt to make Orwell spin in his grave!).

    There is also the Trans-Texas Corridor (TTC), or NAFTA Superhighway, construction on which is scheduled to begin in 2007 by public-private partnerships (a foreign corporation, Spain’s Cintra, has already signed a contract). This system, which will parallel I-35 running north from Mexico all the way to Canada, with a branch extending I-69 also going to Canada through Port Huron, Mich. TTC-35 will consist of six lanes for passenger cars, four for trucks, a rails system, lines for telecommunications, oil and natural gas pipelines, etc. Its size across has been estimated at four football fields; construction will result in the taking of over 500,000 acres of land from farmers and ranchers in Texas alone through eminent domain. This puts last year’s roundly (and rightly) condemned Supreme Court decision in Kelo v. New London, Conn. in a new light!

    There are, finally, the expected incursions into education which have been going on roughly during what we may come to call the SPP era. Students everywhere, at all levels from elementary school to colleges and universities, are being encouraged to think globally—to think of themselves as “world citizens,” which means supporting regionalism and downplaying loyalty to their own nations. Last year a group of students from ten universities spread across the U.S., Canada and Mexico met for a simulated “model Parliament,” the organizers declaring: “A North American Parliament is born.” The universities included Harvard and Robert Pastor’s home base American University, as well as Simon Fraser University and Universite de Montreal representing Canada and Monterrey University and Ecole nationale d’administration publique representing Mexico. The event, sponsored by the Canada-based North American Forum on Integration (NAFI), yet another think tank promoting deep integration, was held in the Mexican Senate last May. Pastor is on the NAFI board of directors.

    The superelite has indeed been busy of late! Also meeting in September, this time in Miami (Sept. 15) was the Miami Herald Americas Conference. Attendees of this confab included more business and governmental elites from Latin and South America. They focused on “free trade agreements, open democracies and security.” One attendee in particular is worth noting: Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, our El Presidente’s brother, who gave the keynote address. Gov. Bush hailed our El Presidente as the “chief Latin Americanist” in Washington. He further let the cat out of the bag by urging Congress to pass “fast track” trade promotion legislation this fall that would authorize President Bush to reopen negotiations on the stalled Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), the superelite’s long-term goal for the Western hemisphere.

    The superelite had originally hoped to implement their FTAA by 2005, but didn’t count on the level of grass roots opposition either here or by influential South American leaders such as Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez. Chavez’s economics are wrong and I don’t think he correctly identifies his enemy—it isn’t President Bush personally or even “American hegemony,” but rather the emerging New International Economic Order which is transnational and globalist. As a populist, however, his instincts are sound. He understands that an FTAA would benefit the superelite—many of them based in America—at the expense of his people. To elites like Florida’s Gov. Bush, this is just capitalism: “I believe in entrepreneurial capitalism from the top of my head to the tip of my toes.” When superelite domination of national economies is equated with free market “capitalism” and no one with visibility questions it, should we wonder when the Hugo Chavezes of the world move “leftward”?

    It may be useful to examine a brilliant article by Christopher S. Bentley’s entitled “Immigration & Integration,” from the July 24 issue of The New American. Bentley outlined in very clear fashion how “free trade” rhetoric is taking us into regional government and will proceed from there to world government. “Free trade” is a core tool of the emerging New World Order, currently building transnational corporatist “capitalism” that (given the collectivist ethos being ruthlessly promoted in schools at all levels) they expect will evolve naturally and easily into global socialism with the superelite wielding absolute power.

    Bentley outlines the process occurs in five steps, or phases.

    First, the superelite creates a free trade area. This lowers barriers to the trade of goods and services among member nations, while quietly instituting a raft of political and bureaucratic controls. This was done in Europe in the late 1940s. In North America, think NAFTA / CAFTA.

    Second, it creates a customs union, which adds a common external trade policy and expands the bureaucracy to implement it. Think of that common “security perimeter” planned for North America.

    Third, it creates a common market, which ends restrictions on migration and allows labor and capital to move freely across increasingly meaningless national borders of member states. “This,” Bentley wrote, “is exactly what is behind the Bush Administration’s fanatical zeal to implement its guest worker / amnesty program.” Indeed, the Bush regime’s immigration policy—or lack of—makes perfect sense if we simply accede that Bush is committed philosophically to a borderless, globalized world.

    Fourth, it develops the foregoing into an economic union—which requires a fully harmonized regulatory structure, a common currency, a common tax policy and a common fiscal policy. Robert Pastor and others have advocated replacing the dollar and the peso with a common North American currency that would be called the amero.

    The fifth and final phase, political union, follows almost naturally, given that since Keynes the idea of an economy—national or global—not regulated to the teeth by bureaucrats hasn’t been on anyone’s radar. Political union develops out of the system of public-private partnerships, yielding a symbiosis between international bankers, other corporations, and the governmental-bureaucratic establishment.

    The EU is practically to this point, its Parliament able to implement significant elements of the EU Constitution despite member nations like France and the Netherlands getting cold feet last year.

    These phases are, in the last analysis, not separable but part of a single guided process. The SPP working groups and attendees of meetings like this North American Forum are taking us in the same direction as Europe at breakneck speed. NAFTA’s Chapter 11 tribunals actually begin laying in place the final phase of the process by reviewing U.S. court decisions. If you have an internationalized legal process, then as enforcement mechanisms fall into placce you are on your way to political union under a regional, hegemonic authority.

    Thus what has taken the superelite took over 50 years to accomplish in Europe could be done in North America in about half the time. Not helping matters is the American sheeple’s indifference to what doesn’t affect them directly and immediately. We will still have a geographical entity known as the U.S. Much of our political infrastructure will doubtless remain essentially intact. The sheeple will doubtless continue to have their sports contests every Saturday and the latest Survivor on prime time. The globalists, after all, want the masses to stay entertained, and they probably don’t care how the sheeple entertain themselves so long as the economy keeps humming. But they will have complete control over everything of real importance, being able to overrule whatever court decisions or Congressional legislation they decide contravenes official globalist policy. Our Constitution will be history. To be sure, we barely have a Constitution now. But at least our national elites must pay lip service to Constitutional government.

    When transnational committees of unelected bureaucrats begin overruling our laws and precedents—or if elected officials bow to globalism on their own (as Calif. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has done with NAFTA regulations on occasion)—we will know that Constitutional government is dead in America. The superelite will then be free to do as they please, which will probably be to begin integrating North America and Europe into a larger union. Other groups around the world are working towards integrating other regions including the Middle East, Southeast Asia, Africa, and elsewhere.

    The nation-state, under attack from many libertarians as well as globalists, will be extinct in another decade or so if all this comes to pass. Many libertarians, unfortunately, are hostile to the idea of a world based on any principles other than economic abstractions. While defending the rights of short-term thinking consumers to buy cheap Chinese crud in Wal-Mart or the supposed rights of employers to hire illegal aliens to give Americans cheap lettuce, they are playing into the hands of individual liberty’s enemies—who, one can be sure, are employing long-term thinking. Bubbles of frenetic free market activity are being allowed, e.g., corporations to pursue cheap labor, consumers to buy cheap goods, as a means to the desired end: a globalized, integrated, centralized world.

    I have great oceanfront property in Nebraska to sell to anyone who thinks this is leading to a stateless, anarchocapitalist paradise!

    © 2006 Steven Yates - All Rights Reserved



    Steven Yates earned his Ph.D. in Philosophy in 1987 at the University of Georgia and has taught the subject at a number of colleges and universities around the Southeast. He currently teaches philosophy at the University of South Carolina Upstate and Greenville Technical College, and also does a little e-commerce involving real free trade. He is on the South Carolina Board of The Citizens Committee to Stop the FTAA.

    He is the author of Civil Wrongs: What Went Wrong With Affirmative Action (1994), Worldviews: Christian Theism Versus Modern Materialism (2005), around two dozen philosophical articles and reviews in refereed journals and anthologies, and over a hundred articles on the World Wide Web. He lives in Greenville, South Carolina, where he writes a weekly column for the Times Examiner and is at work on a book length version of his popular series to be entitled The Real Matrix (hopefully!) to be completed this summer.

    E-Mail: freeyourmindinsc@yahoo.com.

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    Great post, KATE!

    AMNESTY / GUEST WORKER is the battle. Without AMNESTY, these yahoos canNOT complete these plans. It's vital that they pull this off in order to make the SPP & NAU viable. We must stop them. They're counting on the American people staying complacent.
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    I just want to walk up to some of these so called elites and give them a good whack up side the head. I think then I would feel better.

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    The Ultimate Blasphemy

    If you don't know about this New AMerican Century group check out the site http://www.newamericancentury.org/

    Look at how the US is labeled and look at who is a member of this!

    http://www.covenantnews.com/peroutka061007.htm


    The Ultimate Blasphemy

    By Michael A. Peroutka

    The Covenant News ~ October 7, 2006


    When I was a little kid, television was fairly new. I know this may sound strange to some of you but to some it will not. I can remember our little black and white set and the frequency with which it would break down. Our friend, Mr. Norm, the TV repairman would come to our home with his black case full of tubes of various sizes. He would take the back off the set and proceed to ask one of us sitting out front of the set to tell him when there was some change in the picture tube as he replaced the tubes in a trial-and-error fashion. Prior to the “solid state” days, televisions needed far more attention and repair than they do now. I hope Mr. Norm found productive employment as the technology advanced.


    This rumination regarding the early days of TV is because I got to thinking about those Saturday morning shows like “Fury”, “My Friend Flicka”, “Sky King” and a host of cartoons and serials that got us up early and kept us distracted from the chores we were supposed to be doing. (In my case it seemed like I was always assigned to cutting grass, which I enjoyed, and cleaning the garage, which I didn’t.)


    If you recall (and if you’re too young to recall, just stay with me for a minute here), the plots were always pretty simple and it was pretty easy to tell the good guys from the bad guys. In many of the serials, especially those involving science fiction like Buck Rogers, the bad guys always seemed to have one ultimate objective:


    …To Rule the World.


    This seemed to be a recurring theme in many of the programs. There would be some little scientist guy, many times with a German accent, who was plotting and planning to “rule zee vorld” and he would direct his stooges against the good guys. As the story would unfold, our HERO (along with the rest of the good guys) after looking destruction and annihilation in the face, would ultimately, with a display of courage and determination, prevail and foil the evil plot.


    Why does this theme seem to recur? Is it because the desire to rule the world is the most blatant example of a perverted mind? In Romans 1:21-32, Paul describes the downward spiral that occurs when men, without excuse because they know God, fail to glorify Him as God but become “futile in their thoughts” and their hearts are darkened. Having exchanged their own agenda for God’s, He has given them over to a debased mind, the ultimate expression of which is to believe that they can do what only God can do, i.e. rule the world. This is, perhaps, the ultimate blasphemy.


    I am finally coming to the realization that Bush, and the NeoCons he represents are proving to be nothing more than the mad scientist who is deluded (debased) into thinking he (they) can “rule zee vorld”. For the last forty years, members of the Council on Foreign Relations, and its sister group, the Trilateral Commission, have been appointed by both Democrat and Republican Administrations to seats of great power and influence in America. Trouble is, the agenda of these folks makes it clear that they do not believe in the American View of law and government, have no allegiance to America, and are therefore, not Americans. In fact, they are America’s enemies. This should help explain why they will not protect our borders, why they encourage and fund the murdering of American children, why they desire to disarm American citizens, and why they work against the interests of America’s industry by shipping America’s jobs overseas.


    It also explains why they desire control of the school systems and the Churches (faith-based initiatives). This allows them to continue the dumbing-down and the buying off of any authority contrary to their own.


    Could it really be this simple?


    Yes, I think so.


    I think so because they, in fact have said so. All you need to do is read the policy positions of these groups and the conclusion is, as they say, inescapable. During the 2004 Presidential campaign I continually recommended that folks go to a site called NewAmericanCentury.org. The documents contained there, signed by Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz, Donald Rumsfeld, and others, declare the intention of establishing a permanent American military presence in the Middle East. More detail about this agenda can be discovered in a book by Zbignew Brzezinski (another CFR and Trilateral Commission member) entitled “The Great Chess Game”.


    This agenda to rule the world includes the necessity of selling these unconstitutional wars and policies to the American people who must be scared into going along out of fear for their security. It is in this light that we should examine the occurrences of September 11, 2001 in New York City, Washington, DC and the fields of the Pennsylvania countryside.


    We are at the part of the Saturday morning cartoon right now where the mad scientist seems about to achieve his evil ends. It’s time for our God fearing hero to get off the couch, fix his purpose, set his face to the fight and do his duty.


    What are you doing this coming Saturday?



    Michael Peroutka

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    Regarding the Project for the New American Century please note that 2 of it's "Project Directors" are:

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    JACKSON BRUCE P,CFR '85,
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    Hmmm

    I thought some of those names sounded familiar!
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    Its size across has been estimated at four football fields; construction will result in the taking of over 500,000 acres of land from farmers and ranchers in Texas alone through eminent domain. This puts last year’s roundly (and rightly) condemned Supreme Court decision in Kelo v. New London, Conn. in a new light!
    Yes it does. The whole New London debacle was, IMHO, a path clearing set up. Find a wealthy developer or two, offer to help them get their hands on some primo riverfront property that requires only the seizing of properties belonging to a relatively small number of lower to middle income folks. And this time, to make way for future, grand scale seizures, the key was to make clear that it was being seized not for the good of the people of New London, but rather for commerce and the states tax coffers. That some of these people would resist and sue was a given. The outcome, of course, pre-arranged.

    Lord knows, you don't try to seize 500,000 acres of land from thousands of Texans without setting a precedent first.


    That Project for the New American Century is really disturbing! The following, found on their Statement of Principles page, would seem to indicate that American (North American) elitists and war mongers already have a working blueprint for global control.

    • we need to increase defense spending significantly if we are to carry out our global responsibilities today and modernize our armed forces for the future;

    OUR global responsibilities?

    • we need to strengthen our ties to democratic allies and to challenge regimes hostile to our interests and values;

    How ominous is this?!?! Everyone must conform to our "interests and values"...or else?


    • we need to promote the cause of political and economic freedom abroad;

    And we need to do this because....???


    • we need to accept responsibility for America's unique role in preserving and extending an international order friendly to our security, our prosperity, and our principles.

    This gem really sent a shiver down my spine.

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