SPP/Montebello

 

SPP/Montebello

[07-03-00] Andrew Reding, Spain At Our Border? Fox's Vision For Mexico

This article sums up the NAU plan that seems to have had Vincente Fox as one of the originators. This plan may may a great deal of merit but its proponents seem to love the dark.

Fox's long-range goal is to expand NAFTA into a common market similar to the European Union. By extending democracy to the Guatemalan border, enacting labor rights, and raising the standard of living closer to that of the United States and Canada, he envisions a future in which the United States could dispense with immigration controls.

[07-03-00] Andrew Reding, Spain At Our Border? Fox's Vision For Mexico

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NASCO and Gulf Port Properity

This is a professional video about the effects of the TTC and SPP on the ports of the United States. It clearly explains what is being planned.

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NAU and the TTC

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This video is a good summary of the state of the SPP today.

PREMEDITATED MERGER. Makeover urged for 'North American Union' effort. | Britannia Radio

SPP might get a new name

But the authors argue the SPP is "far from dead."

Acknowledging the SPP has a "low profile" currently, the Frasier Institute authors stress that trilateral talks in the bureaucratic working groups constituted under SPP by the three governments are continuing on both security and competitiveness policy issues.

"Its critics may have tarnished the 'SPP brand,'" Moens and Cust concede, "but the precise areas of its work – to follow where NAFTA left off and to do so by incorporating post-9/11 security criteria as well as public safety and quality of life issues (pandemic illnesses and food safety) – are key Canadian interests."

The Fraser Institute paper also encourages the SPP working groups to develop "a better communications strategy," so that the public "can begin to understand its benefits."

The authors, however, are opposed to expanding the list of SPP advisers to include public interest groups or the media, preferring to stay with the closed-door advice offered by the 30 corporations picked by the chambers of commerce in the three countries to serve as members of the North American Competitiveness Council, or NACC.

They also concede that Mexico has been a "drag" on border security talks, especially since illegal immigration into the U.S. has continued, if not accelerated, under the SPP. They admit "there is an enormous problem of illegal entry, drug smuggling, and violent incidents on the Mexican border," while continuing to argue "there is also a very large legal and orderly flow of goods between Mexico and the United States."

In 1999, economist Herbert G. Grubel of the Fraser institute wrote a paper entitled, "The Case for the Amero," presenting the first arguments in print that a North American currency should be created on the model of the euro in the European Union as a replacement for the U.S. dollar, the Canadian dollar and the Mexican peso.

WND reported the third SPP summit, held last August in Montebello, Quebec, involved a series of closed-door meetings attended only by the three state heads, the cabinet members in attendance, the SPP trilateral bureaucrats assigned to head the 20 working groups established under the SPP and the NACC business leaders.

Next Monday and Tuesday, President Bush will meet in New Orleans with Mexican President Felipe Calderon and Canadian Prime Minister Harper.

The White House has changed the name of the meeting from the "Fourth SPP Annual Summit" to simply the "North American Leaders' Summit."

PREMEDITATED MERGER. Makeover urged for 'North American Union' effort. | Britannia Radio

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Local Republicans oppose national superhighway at county convention

 

The resolution drawing the most discussion was one opposing the Security and Prosperity Partnership, the North American Union and its superhighway system.

In 2005, Littlejohn explained, President George W. Bush met with former Mexican President Vicente Fox and former Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin. The trio signed the Security and Prosperity Treaty, which calls for construction of a transcontinental highway from Mexico, through the United States and into Canada.

"This will precipitate an end to the sovereignty of Mexico, Canada and the U.S.," said delegate Mark Adair.

"For those who believe world government is the way to go, like — I don't want to call any names, but, well, I'll say it — Barack Obama, this might not be a problem. But for myself, it's give me liberty or give me death. There'll be a quarter-mile stretch of eminent domain, along which loads of local communities will be lost," he predicted.

Polly Moren said the super highway would "split the U.S. down the middle. I've studied it for years. We can't be gullible. If we are going to do this, we can't allow foreign counties to build it. Let's do it with American ingenuity."

To support such a resolution, others said, would eliminate Interstate Highway 69, proposed for construction in this area. Delegates noted many in the room had worked long and hard on that plan.

Delegates passed the resolution to whispers of "hallelujah" and "amen" from the audience.

Following the meeting, Littlejohn said "I-69 would not be affected. There's a difference between it and the superhighway," he explained, "although I-69 could possibly be in the same corridor."

Local Republicans oppose national superhighway at county convention

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The IWW and Mexican Working Conditions

Thursday night Monroy and Cruz gave a presentation to about fifty people at Studio 34, near the IWW office in West Philly. Using a PowerPoint presentation to illustrate their testimony, they spoke for two hours about the poverty, repression, and environmental health disasters that NAFTA is causing in Mexico's industrial belt. Photos of poverty-stricken "colonias" (slums), polluted waterways, deformed animals and dangerous factory conditions demonstrated the dire situation that Mexican workers and their families face on a daily basis. The corporations responsible for causing and perpetuating these conditions have names and addresses, and the speakers did not hesitate to name them. Chief among them was Michigan-based Key Safety Systems, global leader in the production of airbags, seatbelts and other automotive safety equipment. Ironically, conditions in and around their factories are among the most dangerous in Mexico. "We make thousands of seat belts every day," explained Cruz. "That means every day we save thousands of lives. Yet we are sacrificing our own lives to the factory. They are killing us." Monroy corroborated this declaration with evidence that chemicals admitted to have caused cancer, miscarriages and children born with brains outside their heads, continue to be used without adequate safety equipment. Air filters that have turned solid black from paint vapor are simply "shook out" instead of replaced. Meanwhile workers paid poverty wages ("salarios de hambre") that require a factory worker to spend three hours to earn what an undocumented immigrant worker in Los Angeles makes in twelve minutes. The speakers explained how these conditions make massive immigration across the border to the United States inevitable. All of the claims Monroy and Cruz made were meticulously documented. "The research is all there", said Monroy. "The laws are just not being enforced."

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The North American Union Farce

 

In this context, outrage over a nonexistent NAU should not be confused with growing criticism of the Security and Prosperity Partnership. The SPP has proceeded to change national regulations, and create closed business committees without the participation of labor, environmental, or citizen voices. SPP negotiations provide a vehicle for more of the corporate integration that has eliminated jobs, impoverished workers, and threatened the environment across borders.

It has also served to extend the dangerous Bush security doctrine to Canada and Mexico, despite its lack of popularity in those countries and among the U.S. public. Its latest outgrowth, the $1.4 billion-dollar Merida Initiative or Plan Mexico would extend a militarized model of fighting the real problems of drug-trafficking and human smuggling that would lead to greater violence and heightened bi-national tensions.

The NAU is a red herring. It serves to divert attention from domestic problems that have more to do with layers of contradictory policies and unmet challenges than any kind of anti-U.S. conspiracy.

The North American Union Farce

 

This article has many complaints about North American relations.  While it claims the NAU doesn't exist, It talks about many things that are normally held to be part of that program.

 

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The Spectrum - www.thespectrum.com -

 

Many state legislators have been convinced by available evidence that a process intended to lead America into such an international merger is indeed under way at the highest levels of the three national governments of the North American Continent.

During the 2007 legislative session, the Utah House of Representatives first passed H.J.R. 007 to call upon Congress to stop the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP) process engaged in by executive authorities from the three North American nations.

Then, both Houses of Idaho's legislature, both Houses of Montana's legislature, and both Houses of Oklahoma's legislature passed similar resolutions opposing a North American Union. Arizona's State Senate passed a similar resolution.

In Congress, House Concurrent Resolution 40, sponsored by Rep. Virgil Goode of Virgina, seeks to stop the SPP process and prevent a unification of the three North American nations. Two presidential candidates have co-sponsored the H. Con. Res. 40

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The discussion on the North American Union goes forward.

newsobserver.com | Farmers mad over U.S. imports jam Mexico City

 

On Jan. 1, the last taxes on corn, beans, sugar and milk were lifted under the North American Free Trade Agreement, completing a 14-year transition to an open market between Mexico, the U.S. and Canada.

Since then, Mexican leaders of farm coalitions and other unionists have been calling for the government to renegotiate the treaty.

newsobserver.com | Farmers mad over U.S. imports jam Mexico City

 

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NewsDaily: TopNews -- Wolfowitz rejoins Bush administration

 

Former Pentagon second-in-command and World Bank chief Paul Wolfowitz has returned to the Bush administration as an adviser in the U.S. State Department.

Wolfowitz was appointed chairman of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's International Security Advisory Board, a position formerly held by Fred Thompson, a former candidate for the Republican presidential nomination who dropped out of the race Tuesday, The New York Times reported Friday.

The former head of the World Bank, who also serves as a visiting scholar at the conservative American Enterprise Institute think tank, will head the board, which meets four times a year to advise the secretary on foreign policy issues, including Iran and North Korea, using classified intelligence.

Wolfowitz, considered one of the top architects of the war in Iraq, has been involved in arms control issues since the 1970s.

NewsDaily: TopNews -- Wolfowitz rejoins Bush administration

 

Here's news for Wolfowitz rejoining the administration.  The same names just keep turning up.  This one has lots of political baggage.  I have to wonder why we are still dealing with him.

 

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Marketplace: Why not a North American Union?

What is there to fear?  The speaker compares Mexican workers coming into the United States to Polish workers coming into Britain based on the ave. GDP.  I afraid he misses the point of what  a migration of several million people might do to American culture.  Mexico would never be the same either.  I'm sixty-two and love Mexico.  Mexico could become the new Florida.  It is good to  see someone talking up the idea of a union though.

Marketplace: Why not a North American Union?

Floating stability

This article goes into the advantages for Canada of a unified North American currency.  It also makes the idea sound more legitimate.

Now, a full North American monetary union supported by a high degree of goods and labor market integration would mitigate many of these problems, but these are unrealistic goals at a time when even progress with the Prosperity and Security Partnership is stalled. Canada's current choice is between the status quo -- stable domestic inflation supported by a floating exchange rate -- and a pegged rate accompanied by greater domestic instability that would itself tend to undermine the very regime producing it.

The status quo thus remains Canada's better option. We should face this fact and get on with policies that will make it easier to cope with continuing pressures from world commodity markets. Progress in creating a single domestic market for goods and labor, reducing disincentives to investment in manufacturing and elsewhere, and enhancing the labor force's skills and flexibility, will require hard work and take time. Unlike a quick exchange rate fix, however, it would actually help matters.

--- - David Laidler is a Fellow-in-Residence at the C.D. Howe Institute and Professor Emeritus, Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario.

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Rebuttal - Snopes Article Concerning the NAU « Lighthouse Patriot Journal

Rebuttal - Snopes Article Concerning the NAU « Lighthouse Patriot Journal

This article has many links to material dealing with the North American Union. It also summarizes criticism of the idea that NAU is a reality. It's worth going over.

North-American Monetary Integration: Here Comes the Amero

 

The introduction of the Amero is an integral aspect of the process of creating a North American Union, much like the European Union. This process is being undertaken through the implementation of the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP), which was signed by the leaders of the three North American governments in March of 2005. This agreement is orchestrating the bureaucratic “harmonization” among the three North American nations to pave the way for a North American Community, akin to the previous European Community, and ultimately, a North American Union.

The push for this agenda is being driven by the US-based Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), the preeminent American think tank, and the Canadian Council of Chief Executives, as well as the Mexican equivalent, Consejo Mexicano de Asuntos Internacionales. In May of 2005, the three groups, as a result of their joining forces in a Task Force, released a report entitled, “Building a North American Community,” in which they state that, “The Task Force offers a detailed and ambitious set of proposals that build on the recommendations adopted by the three governments at the Texas summit of March 2005. The Task Force’s central recommendation is establishment by 2010 of a North American economic and security community, the boundaries of which would be defined by a common external tariff, and an outer security perimeter.”¹⁰

In November of 2007, the Globe and Mail reported that, “Canada should replace its dollar with a North American currency, or peg it to the U.S. greenback, to avoid the exchange rate shifts the loonie has experienced, renowned money manager Stephen Jarislowsky told a parliamentary committee yesterday,” and quoted Jarislowsky as saying, “I think we have to really seriously start thinking of the model of a continental currency just like Europe.”17 The article continued, “Mr. Jarislowsky, a former Canfor Corp. director, said the loonie's rise to above par with the U.S. dollar is destroying manufacturing and could devastate the forest sector,” and that, “Mr. Jarislowsky said Canada could either aim for a common North American currency or peg the loonie to the U.S. greenback at about 80 cents (U.S.), allowing it to float within a small band.” Jarislowsky, a billionaire often considered to be Canada’s Warren Buffet, is a member of several corporate boards, and is also a member of the board of directors of the C.D. Howe Institute.18 Appearing on Larry King Live recently, former Mexican President and initial signatory to the Security and Prosperity Partnership, Vicente Fox, when asked a question about whether or not it was possible to see a common currency for Latin America, responded by stating, “Long term, very long term. What we propose together, President Bush and myself, it's ALCA, which is a trade union for all of the Americas. And everything was running fluently until Hugo Chavez came. He decided to isolate himself. He decided to combat the idea and destroy the idea,” to which Larry King interjected, “It's going to be like the euro dollar, you mean?” and Fox responded, “Well, that would be long, long term. I think the processes to go, first step into is trading agreement. And then further on, a new vision, like we are trying to do with NAFTA.”19 So clearly, there is a move on toward a regional currency for North America, in conjunction with the formation of a North American Union. Monetary sovereignty, and especially the power to create and issue money, is perhaps more central to the idea of a free, democratic and sovereign nation than the right to vote. If we do not have the power over the issuance of money, it does not matter whom we vote for. It’s the Golden Rule: he who has the gold, makes the rules. We, as Canadians, and other peoples of their respective nations should never relinquish this sovereignty over to regional boards, private banks, or other unaccountable individuals. It is our right, not a privilege, and giving up such a right is akin to giving up the right to vote; it is anathema to democracy and a free society.

North-American Monetary Integration: Here Comes the Amero

 

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