YouTube LinkRon 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.
Friday, November 30, 2007
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
NAFTA and North Carolina's Right to Work Laws
Warning on "executive agreements":
Be on guard for drift in the official legal status of the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) signed by President Bush in March of 2005. Considering the Supreme Court rulings to date, the SPP (or a successor) becoming a formal executive agreement under the pre-existing NAFTA umbrella could take take the process outside the scope of Congressional contro
This article explains how a group of unions have challenged North Carolina's right to work laws.
In October, a coalition of US, Mexican and Canadian labor unions filed a complaint in a NAFTA created tribunal 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 standards issued by the United Nation's International Labour Organization (ILO).
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.
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.
Tags: NAFTA, executive agreements, right to work, North Carolina, Sanchez-Llamas v. Oregon and Bustillo v. Johnson
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Thursday, November 1, 2007
America Under Siege, The North American Union: Chinese Investments in Mexican Ports
America Under Siege, The North American Union: Chinese Investments in Mexican Ports
This article gives extensive background on the NAFTA Superhighway and trade with China. It is essential reading when thinking about the possibility of NAU.
This article gives extensive background on the NAFTA Superhighway and trade with China. It is essential reading when thinking about the possibility of NAU.
Two Day Time Saving for freight from Lazaro Cardenas to San Antonio compared to LA to San Antonio
Also part of Mexico’s multi-modal corridor strategy, in January the first international in-bond double stack
container test shipment between Kansas City Southern Railway and Kansas City Southern de Mexico was
reported. The container shipments from China were transported by rail from the Port of Lazaro Cardenas to
San Antonio Texas. The trip was two days faster than the best times through the Port of LA/Long Beach
(Source: Larry W. Grant, KCS News, January 20, 2006).
The time savings reported here puts the stamp of reality on these shipping proposals. The lower wages in Mexico and the use of Mexican truckers would probably blow the shipping cost right out of the water. I don.t think it is wise to call this part of a conspiracy theory.
Tags: CANAMEX, NAU, Kansas City Southern Railway, Lazaro Cardenas, multi-modal corridor
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The CANAMEX Trade Corridor
The CANAMEX Trade Corridor, as defined by Congress in the 1995 National Highway Systems Designation Act, is a High Priority Corridor.
(from Public Law 104-59, November 28, 1995)
(26) The CANAMEX Corridor from Nogales, Arizona, through Las Vegas, Nevada, to Salt Lake City, Utah, to Idaho Falls, Idaho, to Montana, to the Canadian Border as follows:
(A) In the State of Arizona, the CANAMEX Corridor shall generally follow-- (i) I-19 from Nogales to Tucson; (ii) I-10 from Tucson to Phoenix; and (iii) United States Route 93 in the vicinity of Phoenix to the Nevada Border.
(B) In the State of Nevada, the CANAMEX Corridor shall follow-- (i) United States Route 93 from the Arizona Border to Las Vegas; and (ii) I-15 from Las Vegas to the Utah Border.
(C) From the Utah Border through Montana to the Canadian Border, the CANAMEX Corridor shall
This site defines the changes needed to communication, transportation and information systems and the plans to do them in five western states. This corridor is west of the Trans Texas Corridor. It gives a view of another aspect of the massive changes planned for the United States, Mexico, and Canada with the advent of all these trade corridors.
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Tags: CANAMEX, CANAMEX Trade Corridor, NAFTA. NAU
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Who is Robert Pastor?
To most people who know him, Robert A. Pastor is a distinguished professor of international relations at American University, a long-time foreign policy adviser to Democratic presidents and candidates, the author or editor of 16 books, and the director of the Center for North American Studies. But to a rapidly growing number of people on the extreme right, this lifelong scholar is a "globalization pimp," one of the "traitors" trying to "effectively destroy the United States of America," a man, in the angry summation of far-right attack dog Jerome Corsi, who is the "father of the North American Union." What has Pastor done to deserve the opprobrium? He wrote a 2001 book on building a North American community, co-chaired a 2005 tri-national task force that produced a similar document, and had some of his ideas incorporated into the "Security and Prosperity Partnership" (SPP) announced by the U.S., Canada and Mexico on March 23, 2005. Although he has never come close to proposing that the three countries merge, that is the accusation now being touted by the radical right — and touted so effectively that the houses of representatives of at least 18 states have passed resolutions denouncing the SPP and what they characterize as a planned "North American Union."
In fact, Pastor has never advocated more than a "community" of the three countries — essentially, a closer relationship among the three governments — and the SPP has produced little of substance. The Intelligence Report interviewed Pastor about his ideas and their misinterpretation.
Tags: Robert Pastor, North American Union
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Robert Pastor and the Birth of the Amero
INTELLIGENCE REPORT The nativists also charge you with promoting a North American currency to be called the "Amero." Is that so?
PASTOR I borrowed that idea from a Canadian economist called H. G. Grubel. But I just put his idea on the table for discussion, along with other options. The problem is that the right-wing attacks have made people so fearful they don't even want to open a discussion.
As economies become more integrated, the cost of changing money and of anticipating sharp changes in the exchange rate become a burden on the economies. That is why Europe moved to a single currency. A few economists have begun to raise the question as to what can be learned from Europe's rocky road to a single currency that might be helpful in thinking about the economic future of North America. These are complicated issues that will take time to study. The problem is that these vicious, know-nothing attacks have stifled research and debate.
Pastor's ideas should be honestly considered. The NAU or anything like it is not to be entered into lightly, nor should it be rejected out of hand. It might make many lives better. But, it must be discussed openly and all participants given a chance to examine the proposal.
Tags: NAU, Robert Pastor, Amero, North American Union
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