tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23425359386161645822024-03-07T23:08:15.076-08:00The New World Order and the North American UnionThis blog deals with events, policies, documents and presentations dealing with the North American Trade Union.SparkingTheWorldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07147268046486364131noreply@blogger.comBlogger57125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2342535938616164582.post-55633650489016344602008-07-11T08:52:00.001-07:002008-07-11T08:52:19.163-07:00SPP/Montebello<p> </p> <p><a href="http://pressfortruth.ca/79.html">SPP/Montebello</a></p> SparkingTheWorldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07147268046486364131noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2342535938616164582.post-43582037064371263842008-04-29T05:35:00.001-07:002008-04-29T05:35:05.569-07:00[07-03-00] Andrew Reding, Spain At Our Border? Fox's Vision For Mexico<p>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. </p> <blockquote>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.</blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.pacificnews.org/jinn/stories/6.13/000703-fox.html">[07-03-00] Andrew Reding, Spain At Our Border? Fox's Vision For Mexico</a> </p> <div class="wlWriterSmartContent" id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:7cd8d97a-783b-4a4c-b33d-0bcd77882da3" style="padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/NASCO" rel="tag">NASCO</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Vincente%20Fox" rel="tag">Vincente Fox</a></div> SparkingTheWorldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07147268046486364131noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2342535938616164582.post-13982741360770436532008-04-29T05:03:00.001-07:002008-04-29T05:03:35.928-07:00NASCO and Gulf Port Properity<p>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.</p> <p><a href="http://forums.myspace.com/p/3924255/42168835.aspx?fuseaction=forums.viewpost#42168835">#42168835</a> </p> <embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/mvUnErDPHgM&hl=en" width="425" height="355" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" /> <div class="wlWriterSmartContent" id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:176e22df-21c3-4046-b0f9-6af81a9f9c9e" style="display:inline; margin:0px; padding:0px 0px 0px 0px;">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/NASCO" rel="tag">NASCO</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/NAFTA" rel="tag">NAFTA</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/nafta%20Super%20highway" rel="tag">nafta Super highway</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Spp" rel="tag">Spp</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Mexico" rel="tag">Mexico</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/lazaro%20cardinas" rel="tag">lazaro cardinas</a></div> SparkingTheWorldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07147268046486364131noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2342535938616164582.post-81895673273710078312008-04-29T04:48:00.001-07:002008-04-29T04:48:50.564-07:00NAU and the TTC <p><a href="http://forums.myspace.com/p/3924255/42168835.aspx?fuseaction=forums.viewpost#42168835">#42168835</a> </p> <embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/DAs7XZVgKhI&hl=en" width="425" height="355" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" /> This video is a good summary of the state of the SPP today. SparkingTheWorldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07147268046486364131noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2342535938616164582.post-47055192677445064962008-04-18T08:12:00.001-07:002008-04-18T08:13:00.164-07:00PREMEDITATED MERGER. Makeover urged for 'North American Union' effort. | Britannia Radio<p>SPP might get a new name </p> <blockquote> <p>But the authors argue the SPP is "far from dead."</p> <p>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.</p> <p>"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."</p> <p>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."</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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."</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>Next Monday and Tuesday, President Bush will meet in New Orleans with Mexican President Felipe Calderon and Canadian Prime Minister Harper.</p> <p>The White House has changed the name of the meeting from the "Fourth SPP Annual Summit" to simply the "North American Leaders' Summit."</p> </blockquote> <p><a href="http://britanniaradio.co.uk:80/?q=node/10672">PREMEDITATED MERGER. Makeover urged for 'North American Union' effort. | Britannia Radio</a> </p> <div class="wlWriterSmartContent" id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:3d7d426e-b358-4f71-bb97-d1ea69defe8b" style="padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/SPP" rel="tag">SPP</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/NAU" rel="tag">NAU</a></div> SparkingTheWorldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07147268046486364131noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2342535938616164582.post-47048272188871363652008-03-31T14:02:00.001-07:002008-03-31T14:02:37.773-07:00Local Republicans oppose national superhighway at county convention<p> </p> <blockquote> <p>The resolution drawing the most discussion was one opposing the Security and Prosperity Partnership, the North American Union and its superhighway system.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>"This will precipitate an end to the sovereignty of Mexico, Canada and the U.S.," said delegate Mark Adair.</p> <p>"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.</p> <p>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."</p> <p>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.</p> <p>Delegates passed the resolution to whispers of "hallelujah" and "amen" from the audience.</p> <p>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."</p> </blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.marshallnewsmessenger.com/news/content/news/stories/2008/033008_web_rep.html?imw=Y">Local Republicans oppose national superhighway at county convention</a> </p> <div class="wlWriterSmartContent" id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:0fedb61d-6d6f-490e-aa2a-a262d9ce4227" style="padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/NAFTA%20Super%20highway" rel="tag">NAFTA Super highway</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/I-69" rel="tag">I-69</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/SPP" rel="tag">SPP</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/North%20American%20Union" rel="tag">North American Union</a></div> SparkingTheWorldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07147268046486364131noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2342535938616164582.post-73127205831286741772008-03-12T12:30:00.001-07:002008-03-12T12:30:50.844-07:00The IWW and Mexican Working Conditions<p>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."</p><br /><br /><small>Tags: <a rel="tag" href="http://technorati.com/tag/IWW">IWW</a></small><br /><p></p><br /><p style="color:#008;text-align:right;"><small><em>Powered by</em> <a href="http://www.qumana.com/">Qumana</a></small></p><br />SparkingTheWorldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07147268046486364131noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2342535938616164582.post-85057871726216009892008-02-29T09:21:00.001-08:002008-02-29T09:21:17.432-08:00The North American Union Farce<p> </p> <blockquote> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> </blockquote> <p><a href="http://canadians.org/integratethis/corporate/2008/Feb-28-3.html">The North American Union Farce</a> </p> <p> </p> <p>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.</p> <p> </p> <div class="wlWriterSmartContent" id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:e73cdbea-d9a3-4b58-a571-e23e0ae24952" style="padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/NAU" rel="tag">NAU</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Merida%20Initiative" rel="tag">Merida Initiative</a></div> SparkingTheWorldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07147268046486364131noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2342535938616164582.post-77077123962429903632008-02-04T08:58:00.001-08:002008-02-04T08:59:34.301-08:00The Spectrum - www.thespectrum.com -<p> </p> <blockquote> <p><em>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. </em></p> <p><em>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. </em></p> <p><em>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. </em></p> <p><em>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</em></p> </blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.thespectrum.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080203/OPINION/802030316"><em>The Spectrum - www.thespectrum.com -</em></a><em> </em></p> <p> <div class="wlWriterSmartContent" id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:376864c9-9b22-4887-9c94-17d4b5fdf8ca" style="padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/NAU" rel="tag">NAU</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/North%20American%20Union" rel="tag">North American Union</a></div> </p> <p><strong>The discussion on the North American Union goes forward.</strong></p> SparkingTheWorldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07147268046486364131noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2342535938616164582.post-18622798455058844982008-02-01T03:44:00.001-08:002008-02-01T03:44:15.165-08:00newsobserver.com | Farmers mad over U.S. imports jam Mexico City<p> </p> <blockquote> <p>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. </p> <p>Since then, Mexican leaders of farm coalitions and other unionists have been calling for the government to renegotiate the treaty. </p> </blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.newsobserver.com/nation_world/story/916952.html">newsobserver.com | Farmers mad over U.S. imports jam Mexico City</a> </p> <p> </p> <div class="wlWriterSmartContent" id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:f3d51cb1-1dfa-4c41-8ab6-a898975c059c" style="padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/NAFTA" rel="tag">NAFTA</a></div> SparkingTheWorldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07147268046486364131noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2342535938616164582.post-31066850103470943092008-01-25T07:03:00.001-08:002008-01-25T07:03:32.101-08:00NewsDaily: TopNews -- Wolfowitz rejoins Bush administration<p> </p> <blockquote> <p>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.</p> <p><img height="1" alt="" src="http://www.newsdaily.com/images/spacer.gif" width="10" /></p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>Wolfowitz, considered one of the top architects of the war in Iraq, has been involved in arms control issues since the 1970s.</p> </blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.newsdaily.com/TopNews/UPI-1-20080125-08055600-bc-us-wolfowitz.xml">NewsDaily: TopNews -- Wolfowitz rejoins Bush administration</a> </p> <p> </p> <p>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.</p> <p> </p> <div class="wlWriterSmartContent" id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:db8c4fd7-1d9f-44ee-abb6-fa0e4efd3427" style="padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Wolfowitz" rel="tag">Wolfowitz</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/fred%20thompson" rel="tag">fred thompson</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Internation%20Security%20Advisory%20Board" rel="tag">Internation Security Advisory Board</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/AEI" rel="tag">AEI</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/American%20Enterprise%20Institute" rel="tag">American Enterprise Institute</a></div> SparkingTheWorldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07147268046486364131noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2342535938616164582.post-16147391015997515332008-01-22T12:27:00.001-08:002008-01-22T12:27:14.631-08:00Marketplace: Why not a North American Union?<p>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.</p> <p><a href="http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2008/01/09/wilkinson_commentary">Marketplace: Why not a North American Union?</a></p> SparkingTheWorldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07147268046486364131noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2342535938616164582.post-30923952285142428352008-01-22T12:02:00.001-08:002008-01-22T12:02:35.779-08:00Floating stability<p>This article goes into the advantages for Canada of a unified North American currency.  It also makes the idea sound more legitimate. </p> <blockquote> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>--- - David Laidler is a Fellow-in-Residence at the C.D. Howe Institute and Professor Emeritus, Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario.</p> </blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.financialpost.com/story.html?id=230909&p=2">Floating stability</a> </p> <div class="wlWriterSmartContent" id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:7185400a-84ce-4d72-ad7d-7c30bb56a90f" style="padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Amero" rel="tag">Amero</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Loonie" rel="tag">Loonie</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Dollar" rel="tag">Dollar</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/NAU" rel="tag">NAU</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/North%20American%20Union" rel="tag">North American Union</a></div> SparkingTheWorldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07147268046486364131noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2342535938616164582.post-44578435563241555332008-01-22T11:12:00.000-08:002008-01-22T11:12:21.732-08:00Rebuttal - Snopes Article Concerning the NAU « Lighthouse Patriot Journal<a href="http://lighthousepatriotjournal.wordpress.com/2008/01/13/rebuttal-snopes-article-concerning-the-nau/">Rebuttal - Snopes Article Concerning the NAU « Lighthouse Patriot Journal</a><br /><br />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.SparkingTheWorldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07147268046486364131noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2342535938616164582.post-46750109661736114992008-01-22T10:24:00.001-08:002008-01-22T10:29:14.917-08:00North-American Monetary Integration: Here Comes the Amero<p> </p> <blockquote> <p>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.</p> <p>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.”<a href="http://us.f537.mail.yahoo.com/ym/ShowLetter?box=Inbox&MsgId=3085_52142160_9219_2436_25926_0_555764_70652_2294269211&bodyPart=2&tnef=&YY=6656&y5beta=yes&y5beta=yes&order=down&sort=date&pos=0&ViewAttach=1&Idx=21#0400000A"><sup>10</sup></a></p> </blockquote> <blockquote>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. </blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=7854">North-American Monetary Integration: Here Comes the Amero</a> </p> <p> </p> <div class="wlWriterSmartContent" id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:c415ac86-f0a6-45d4-8d62-6c59d2c234bb" style="padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/amero" rel="tag">amero</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/NAU" rel="tag">NAU</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/North%20American%20Union" rel="tag">North American Union</a></div> SparkingTheWorldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07147268046486364131noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2342535938616164582.post-86942814486726120592007-12-18T08:38:00.001-08:002007-12-18T08:38:47.128-08:00The Canadian National Newspaper: North American Union: Independent Canada, class leadership, and resistance to Empire<p> </p> <blockquote> <p>North American Union: Independent Canada, class leadership, and resistance to Empire <p>by Charles Jeanes <p><img height="111" alt="Elliot Trudeau (left), George W. Bush and Stephen Harper (right)" src="http://www.agoracosmopolitan.com/home/Frontpage/2007/12/16/images/Trudeau_Bush_Harper.jpg" width="230"> <p>Apparently gone are the days where Canadians can rely on leaders like Pierre Elliot Trudeau [Left] to rescue us from an elite driven American take-over agenda, that has threatened Canada even before its Confederation. Current Prime Minister Stephen Harper [Right], in association with Canadian and U.S. based Big Business interests, pursues U.S. President George W. Bush's take-over agenda against Canada. <p>The editor-publisher of our local weekly newspaper, once my employer, this week wrote a column advocating the “Amero” -- a common currency agenda for Canada, Mexico and the USA. This newsman is not usually a political writer, yet maybe his ideas are more attuned with the common opinions of our town than mine are; I can never get elected to city council, despite four attempts. I don't “resonate” with the public in my electoral platforms, I have been told by the editor of the other newspaper. I oppose the idea of one continental currency (the so-called <b>“Amero"),</b> or of anything else that will submerge us more thoroughly into any form of union with the USA. So naturally the present project of Bush, Harper and Calderon for <b>North American Union (NAU),</b> or Security Prosperity Partnership (SPP), pushes my outrage button. Setting outrage on pause, I want to examine why Canadians should reject these schemes. <p>Canadian proponents of the Am-Can-Mex Union scheme are not bad people, <i>but they have weak concepts of Canadianism. </i>They are, in one word, unenlightened -- whether one means “enlightened” in its sense of educated and insightful, or in its spiritual sense of uplifted and un-self-centred. Yet their secular leadership is not without effect in our national politics, economics, schools, and media. <p>It is still within the power of Canadians to head-off the "deep integration" of their nation within a continental super-state, if we have the political will to act accordingly. So herewith, I will make an historical case against NAU and SPP. It is sometimes a harsh judgement of my fellow-citizens, but bear with me. I do believe in the basic wisdom of Canadians. We just need our consciousness focused. </p></blockquote> <p>Source: <a href="http://www.agoracosmopolitan.com/home/Frontpage/2007/12/16/02006.html">The Canadian National Newspaper: North American Union: Independent Canada, class leadership, and resistance to Empire</a></p>SparkingTheWorldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07147268046486364131noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2342535938616164582.post-27026750174429681822007-12-18T07:12:00.001-08:002007-12-18T07:12:07.164-08:00The North American Union and the Bigger Plan<p></p> <p>If I could have followed up Bret Baier's question with one of my own, here's what I would have asked: "So, President Bush, will the massive 10-lane toll road TransTexas Corridor funded by Cintra of Spain and to be built by Zachry Construction of Texas come to a screeching halt at Oklahoma's border?" What are all the vehicles supposed to do---merge all of a sudden into a small road? I don't think so ! And by the way, Cintra is legally represented in Texas by leading Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani's law firm Bracewell & Giuliani, which also just happens to have an office in Dubai (remember Dubai Ports was about to take over operation of a number of America's largest ports) ! Perhaps before President Bush was too critical of people warning about a NAU, he should have read what Mexico's President Vicente Fox said May 16, 2002 at Club 21 in Madrid: "Eventually, our long-range objective is to establish with the United States, but also with Canada, our other regional partner, an ensemble of connections and institutions similar to those created by the European Union" (or as Gorbachev refers to the EU, the "European Soviet"). <p><a href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=CUD20071217&articleId=7628">Link to The North American Union and the Bigger Plan</a> </p> <p> </p> <p>This article lays out the connection to the larger global plan. It is a good jumping off point to start studing that projection</p> <p> </p> <div class="wlWriterSmartContent" id="0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:7a461071-82d6-47d1-92c8-ccc4f69e31ec" contenteditable="false" style="padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px">Technorati tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/NAU" rel="tag">NAU</a>, <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/North%20American%20Union" rel="tag">North American Union</a>, <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/President%20Bush" rel="tag">President Bush</a>, <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Vincente%20Fox" rel="tag">Vincente Fox</a>, <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Mexico" rel="tag">Mexico</a>, <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Canada" rel="tag">Canada</a>, <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/TTC" rel="tag">TTC</a>, <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Trans%20Texas%20Corridor" rel="tag">Trans Texas Corridor</a></div>SparkingTheWorldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07147268046486364131noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2342535938616164582.post-75911711263586199722007-12-13T08:21:00.001-08:002007-12-13T08:21:33.814-08:00Government of Alberta: CANAMEX Trade Corridor<p> </p> <blockquote> <h3>CANAMEX Trade Corridor</h3> <p>CANAMEX was one of the first north-south corridors designated as a High Priority Corridor under the National Highway Systems Designation Act.  Actively pursued by Alberta since the early 1990's, the CANAMEX Trade Corridor links Canada, the United States and Mexico and stretches 6,000 km from Alaska to Mexico, truly a pan-American corridor. </p> <p>The goals of the CANAMEX Trade Corridor are to: </p> <ul> <li>Improve access for the north-south flow of goods, people and information </li> <li>Increase transport productivity and reduce transport costs </li> <li>Promote a seamless and efficient intermodal transport system, and </li> <li>Reduce administration and enforcement costs through harmonized regulations. </li> </ul> <p>Alberta Infrastructure and Transportation outlines the goals of the CANAMEX Trade Corridor and provides more detailed information on how to improve market access and increase transport productivity. This brochure can be viewed online or <a href="mailto:Rod.Thompson@gov.ab.ca">click here</a> and a paper copy will be sent to you. </p> <p><a href="http://www.infratrans.gov.ab.ca/INFTRA_Content/doctype59/production/Canamex-Trade-Brochure.pdf">The CANAMEX Trade Corridor Development Brochure (pdf 1.73 MB)</a></p> <p><img height="261" alt="image of CANAMEX Trade Corridor logo" src="http://www.infratrans.gov.ab.ca/INFTRA_Content/doctype59/images/2001can0010.gif" width="200" border="0" /></p> <p>Readers are encouraged to contact Alberta Infrastructure and Transportation with their questions or comments: </p> <p>Rod Thompson, Ph. D. <br />Executive Director <br />Strategic Policy Branch <br />Tel: (780) 415-0685 <br />Fax: (780) 422-1070 <br />Email: <a href="mailto:rod.thompson@gov.ab.ca">rod.thompson@gov.ab.ca</a></p> <p>Documents on this site require Acrobat Reader 4.0 or better, available for free from <a href="http://www.adobe.com/">Adobe.</a></p> </blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.infratrans.gov.ab.ca/2766.htm">Government of Alberta: CANAMEX Trade Corridor</a></p> SparkingTheWorldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07147268046486364131noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2342535938616164582.post-51236145255271694312007-12-13T08:12:00.001-08:002007-12-13T08:12:58.035-08:00Government of Alberta: NAFTA Trade Corridors & State Truck Standards<p> </p> <p><a href="http://www.infratrans.gov.ab.ca/2760.htm">Government of Alberta: NAFTA Trade Corridors & State Truck Standards</a> </p> <p> </p> <p>This link to the Government of Alberta website is the first that I have seen the has a map with the NAFTA Superhighway listed on it.   So, I suppose, this is no longer an Urban Legend.  </p> <div class="wlWriterSmartContent" id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:c496be2f-86da-4ca4-9fed-ca9e423c1722" style="padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/NAFTA" rel="tag">NAFTA</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/NAFTA%20Super%20highway" rel="tag">NAFTA Super highway</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/TTC" rel="tag">TTC</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Trans%20Texas%20Corridor" rel="tag">Trans Texas Corridor</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/SPP" rel="tag">SPP</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Alberta" rel="tag">Alberta</a></div> SparkingTheWorldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07147268046486364131noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2342535938616164582.post-46530625215528643632007-12-13T04:55:00.001-08:002007-12-13T04:55:02.254-08:00Canada loses luster for Big 3<p> </p> <blockquote> <p>A weak U.S. dollar and new, cost-cutting labor contracts with the United Auto Workers have turned Canada from a low-cost alternative for Detroit's Big Three automakers into the most expensive place in the world to build cars and trucks. </p> <p>And Ontario's loss could be Michigan's gain. </p> <p>Canada's national health care system and favorable exchange rates have long made Canada an attractive manufacturing location for American automakers. But with the Canadian dollar, or loonie, now nearly on par with the greenback and the new contracts negotiated this fall with General Motors Corp., Ford Motor Co. and Chrysler LLC, the UAW has more than closed the cost gap with the Canadian Auto Workers. </p> </blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071210/AUTO01/712100349">Canada loses luster for Big 3</a> </p> <p>This example shows how the different currencies and the border influence the automotive industry.  So Canada is now the high cost producer of autos.  How interesting.  </p> <p> </p> <p>It does seem obvious that the Canadian national health care system would be regulated under any new trade agreement. </p> <div class="wlWriterSmartContent" id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:606a7a68-2585-4e6c-8f1e-55ab6d470379" style="padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/CAW" rel="tag">CAW</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/UAW" rel="tag">UAW</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Loonie" rel="tag">Loonie</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/dollar" rel="tag">dollar</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Automobile%20industry" rel="tag">Automobile industry</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Big%20Three" rel="tag">Big Three</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Michigan" rel="tag">Michigan</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Ontario" rel="tag">Ontario</a></div> SparkingTheWorldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07147268046486364131noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2342535938616164582.post-59704958645933363352007-12-02T17:03:00.001-08:002007-12-02T17:03:23.509-08:00Home - Windows Live Spaces<p>I am getting better with the technical items in my life all the time.  The cell phone has to be the big change this fall.  I have a blue tooth device.   Now, I walk around the house doing my tasks while I tie up my children unmercifully.  It is great.  The same thing is true for long trips in the car.  No more setting there watching the white line.  Now I can talk for hours on any subject with anyone who picks up the phone,.  I do learn lots this way. I also keep up with my children better.  </p> <p><p> Today, I had a deep desire to have a camera on the phone as I was walking around though.  Then people could see what I was looking at.  Wow, that would be great.  </p><p>cnn had an article </p> <div class="wlWriterSmartContent" id="scid:5737277B-5D6D-4f48-ABFC-DD9C333F4C5D:0b003f33-8e0f-4cf5-ab14-73fa549ad02c" style="padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px"><div><embed src="http://www.liveleak.com/player.swf" width="450" height="370" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" flashvars="autostart=false&token=27a_1179472532" scale="showall" name="index"></embed></div></div> <p><a href="http://fredwelsh1945.home.services.spaces.live.com/default.aspx">Home - Windows Live Spaces</a> </p> <p><a href="http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/feature-wearable-exoskeleton-turns-humans-into-super-soldiers-with-video-">Link to CNN Video</a></p> <p>The video shows that this thing is arriving.  The uses are endless.  Apparently, the awkward movements are eliminated.</p> SparkingTheWorldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07147268046486364131noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2342535938616164582.post-54337759133185125432007-11-30T10:48:00.001-08:002007-11-30T10:48:58.505-08:00Stop the Security and Prosperity Partnership - StopSPP.com<h1>The Other Side of the Story</h1> <blockquote> <p>No sooner had the Security and Prosperity Partnership been launched than the U.S. Commerce Department made space available in its offices for the personnel of 20 “working groups” to carry out the designs of the new organization. Of note is the fact that no one in Congress had been apprised of this development. Why bypass Congress if there’s nothing to hide?</p> <p>In September 2006, high-level government officials, media heavyweights and corporate leaders met behind closed doors at a plush resort in Banff, Canada. At their gathering, labeled the “North American Forum,” they discussed energy, security, border infrastructure, and North American “integration.” We know about the secret meeting because a Canadian who attended the affair and didn’t like what he heard blew the whistle and shared some of its documents. After the three-day session, attendee Thomas Shannon (a U.S. Assistant Secretary of State) told an audience in Canada, “The North American Forum is a parallel structure to the Security and Prosperity Partnership.” Other U.S. attendees included former Secretary of State George Shultz, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld (replaced at the last minute by Joint Chiefs Chairman General Peter Pace), former U.S. Trade Representative and NAFTA co-author Carla Hills, Wall Street Journal columnist Mary Anastasia O’Grady (who has yet to mention the meeting in her column), and several other former cabinet officers and government officials. Counterparts from Canada and Mexico represented their countries. If nothing sinister was going on at this gathering, why was it conducted in secrecy? </p> <p>As far back as 2002, Mexico’s Vicente Fox called for the establishment of a duplicate of “the European Union” for the entire Western Hemisphere. He is not alone in desiring such a momentous step. British researchers Christopher Booker and Richard North wrote in their 2003 book, The Great Deception: The Secret History of the European Union, about the false promises and incremental steps that have led to what they termed “the most spectacular coup d’etat in history.” Just as the people of Europe were led astray, we in America are facing similar deceitful beginnings leading to a similar “coup d’etat.” </p> <p>At the August 2007 meeting of the Security and Prosperity Partnership, hundreds of helmeted, armed, and tear-gas-wielding soldiers and police guarded the site, the Montebello Resort in Western Quebec, to assure that the public would not have access to the proceedings. U.S. Ambassador to Canada David Wilkins assured the world in the Canadian press that “no one involved in these discussions is interested in, or has ever proposed, a North American Union, a North American Superhighway, or a North American currency.” But Robert Pastor, who is the originator and purveyor of these very topics, was at the Montebello SPP gathering.</p> <p>More evidence can be assembled for any Doubting Thomases. But space limitations must be honored. Suffice it to say that the border hasn’t been secured, as journalist Jerome Corsi has indicated, because there’s no intention to secure it. A single political and economic entity known as the North American Union doesn’t allow for individual national border security. But a merger of the three nations requires a common security perimeter that ignores national boundaries. Which is why a growing number of Congressmen, alerted by the “conspiracy theorists,” have co-sponsored legislation to block the NAU and scuttle all aspects of the entire plot. </p> </blockquote> <p><a href="http://stopspp.com/stopspp/?p=400">Stop the Security and Prosperity Partnership - StopSPP.com</a> </p> <h1>The Other Side of the Story</h1> <p>Bennett gave some hard facts in his article in the Boston Globe but the other side of the story needs to be told as well.  The quote above gives some of that background.  I'd recommend that you go to the link and follow more of the argument.</p> SparkingTheWorldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07147268046486364131noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2342535938616164582.post-24326586413383702382007-11-30T10:33:00.001-08:002007-11-30T10:33:23.324-08:00The amero conspiracy - The Boston Globe<p> </p> <blockquote> <p>The North American Union is a supranational organization, modeled on the European Union, that will soon fuse Canada, the United States, and Mexico into a single economic and political unit. The details are still being worked out by the countries' leaders, but the NAU's central governing body will have the power to nullify the laws of its member states. Goods and people will flow among the three countries unimpeded, aided by a network of continent-girdling superhighways. The US and Canadian dollars, along with the peso, will be phased out and replaced by a common North American currency called the amero.</p> <p>If you haven't heard about the NAU, that may be because its plotters have succeeded in keeping it secret. Or, more likely, because there is no such thing. Government officials say a continental union is out of the question, and economists and political analysts overwhelmingly agree that there will not be a North American Union in our lifetimes. But belief in the NAU - that the plans are very real, and that the nation is poised to lose its independence - has been spreading from its origins in the conservative fringe, coloring political press conferences and candidate question-and-answer sessions, and reaching a kind of critical mass on the campaign trail. Republican presidential candidate and Texas congressman Ron Paul has made the North American Union one of his central issues.</p> </blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2007/11/25/the_amero_conspiracy/?page=1">The amero conspiracy - The Boston Globe</a> </p> <p>This is a good summary of the various issues in the North American Union discussion.  The potential of this union needs to be thought out.  While some of its proposals are probably far fetched, does it do any harm to look over the possibility.  I think not.</p> <div class="wlWriterSmartContent" id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:d97b28bf-a24a-426d-b68a-7600e034c97f" style="padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/NAU" rel="tag">NAU</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/North%20American%20Union" rel="tag">North American Union</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Boston%20Globe" rel="tag">Boston Globe</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/NAFTA" rel="tag">NAFTA</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Trans%20Texas%20Corridor" rel="tag">Trans Texas Corridor</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Waco" rel="tag">Waco</a></div> SparkingTheWorldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07147268046486364131noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2342535938616164582.post-88470867016130904552007-11-30T07:53:00.001-08:002007-11-30T07:53:02.102-08:00YouTube - Ron Paul @ CNN Republican Debate PT.1 11-28-07<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oaa5_44I45o">YouTube Link</a>Ron Paul did an excellent job of framing the argument on the North American Union.  He explained it as a contest of ideas.  It is a contest of Globalism vs. National Sovereignty.  The idea needs to be seriously discussed.  As one of the most important steps this country could ever take, our citizens should be part of the discussion.</p> <div class="wlWriterSmartContent" id="scid:5737277B-5D6D-4f48-ABFC-DD9C333F4C5D:489bc42b-9f57-4ec5-8a93-79c04374d203" style="padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px"><div><object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Oaa5_44I45o"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Oaa5_44I45o" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object></div></div> SparkingTheWorldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07147268046486364131noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2342535938616164582.post-15008140099108603462007-11-07T08:25:00.001-08:002007-11-07T08:25:45.315-08:00NAFTA and North Carolina's Right to Work Laws<blockquote><br /> <blockquote><br /> <div><span class="375215417-15122006"><span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:Trebuchet MS;">Warning on</span> <a href="http://www.answers.com/topic/executive-agreement" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800080; font-size:10pt; font-family:Trebuchet MS;"><em>"executive agreements"</em></span></a><span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:Trebuchet MS;"><em>:</em></span></span></div><br /> <div><span class="375215417-15122006"><span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:Trebuchet MS;"><br />Be on guard for drift in the official legal status of the Security and Prosperity Partnership (</span><a href="http://www.spp.gov/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800080; font-size:10pt; font-family:Trebuchet MS;">SPP</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:Trebuchet MS;">) signed by President Bush in March of 2005. Considering the Supreme Court rulings to date, t</span></span><span class="375215417-15122006"><span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:Trebuchet MS;">he SPP (or a successor) becoming a formal <em>executive agreement</em> under the pre-existing NAFTA umbrella could take take the process outside the scope of Congressional contro</span></span></div><br /> </blockquote><br /></blockquote><br /><br />This article explains how a group of unions have challenged North Carolina's right to work laws. <br /><blockquote><br /> <blockquote><br /> <p> </p><br /> <p><span class="203430615-18122006">I</span>n October, a coalition of US, Mexican and Canadian labor unions <a href="ftp://www.ranknfile-ue.org/naalc_complaint.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800080;">filed a complaint</span></a> in <a href="http://www.dol.gov/ILAB/regs/naalc/naalc.htm" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800080;">a NAFTA created tribunal</span></a> charging that the United States is in violation of its NAFTA obligations. The charge is based on the fact that North Carolina maintains right-to-work laws against collective bargaining, which are in violation of the <a href="http://www.ilo.org/public/english/standards/norm/index.htm" target="_blank">standards issued by the United Nation's International Labour Organization</a> (ILO). </p><br /> <p></p><br /> </blockquote><br /></blockquote><br /><p>This seems to be a completely different way of doing business in the United States. It gives the President power to intervene in places where he could not previously and it gives rights to foreign organizations that surely had no rights before. </p><br /><p>This case will provide a practicle demonstration of the use of the NAFTA Tribunal as a court with more power on some issues than the Supreme Court itself. </p><br /><p><small>Tags: <a rel="tag" href="http://technorati.com/tag/NAFTA">NAFTA</a>, <a rel="tag" href="http://technorati.com/tag/executive+agreements">executive agreements</a>, <a rel="tag" href="http://technorati.com/tag/right+to+work">right to work</a>, <a rel="tag" href="http://technorati.com/tag/North+Carolina">North Carolina</a>, <a rel="tag" href="http://technorati.com/tag/Sanchez-Llamas+v.+Oregon+and+Bustillo+v.+Johnson">Sanchez-Llamas v. Oregon and Bustillo v. Johnson</a></small></p><br /><p><a href="http://www.jbs.org/node/2249">Link</a></p><br /><p></p><br /><p style="color:#008;text-align:right;"><small><em>Powered by</em> <a href="http://www.qumana.com/">Qumana</a></small></p><br />SparkingTheWorldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07147268046486364131noreply@blogger.com0