Posted on 07/15/2007 12:11:18 PM PDT by processing please hold
Activists already are preparing to protest the third summit meeting of the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America, a trilateral initiative between the U.S., Canada and Mexico seen by critics as a major step toward a North American Union, according to WND columnist Jerome Corsi, author of a new book on the subject, "The Late Great USA."
The meeting, which has received almost no mention in the U.S. mainstream media, is scheduled for Aug. 20 and 21 in Montebello, Quebec, at the Fairmont Le Chateau Montebello resort.
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper is scheduled to host the Quebec summit, which will be attended by Mexican President Felipe Calderon and President Bush.
(Excerpt) Read more at worldnetdaily.com ...
Very dangerous indeed.
...the Soviet Union immediately jumped into my head.
They're baaaack. Just under new management, different name on the shingle, but the 'burgers' somehow taste the same...
No freedom to do what you will like that in being "officially" dead, as Communism supposedly is.
Imho, they let the 'capitalism' thing run just long enough to get the income. After all, the Chinese were cashing in. When someone got too successful, they pulled the plug and 'redistributed' the assets (minus a few, no doubt--Yukos comes to mind.)
They are still backing 'proxy' fights in Asia, using third world wannabes to do the dirty work... just in the name of something other than the 'proletariat'--as if they were ever looking out for the 'lowly' worker. What a difference a name makes.
Of course, the more Socialist/Marxist our government (and culture) becomes, the fewer the differences by which we can measure theirs. Ditto with China.
No real doubt which 'party' is backing this. They just won't put the name on their headquarters.
'I looked in his eyes and saw his soul.' Right, 'W', uh-huh. How is Daddy's 'New World Order' thingy going, anyway? A little behind schedule? (or not?)
Don’t know who’s been assigned to the ‘working groups’, but here is a list of American participants and the agenda from the Banff meeting.
NORTH AMERICAN FORUM
CONFIRMED PARTICIPANTS
(Internal Document, Not for Public Release)
Report dated August 31, 2006
Forum Co-Chairs:
Dr. Pedro Aspe
Hon. Peter Lougheed
Hon. George Shultz
......
American Participants
* Ms. Deborah Bolton, Political Advisor to Commander, US Northcom
* Mr. Ron T. Covais, President, The Americas, Lockheed Martin Corporation
* Sec. Kenneth W. Dam, Max Pam Professor Emeritus of American & Foreign Law and Senior Lecturer, University of Chicago Law School
* Mr. Dan Fisk, Senior Director, Western Hemisphere, National Security Council
* Sec. Ryan Henry, Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy
* Ms. Carla A. Hills, Chairman & CEO, Hills & Co.
* Ms. Caryn Hollis, DASD (Acting) Western Hemisphere Affairs
* Mr. Bill Irwin , Manager - International Government Affairs; Policy, Government and Public Affairs, Chevron Corporation
* Mr. Robert G. James, President, Enterprise Asset Management Inc.
* Admiral Tim Keating, Commander, US Northern Command
* Mr. Floyd Kvamme, Chair, President’s Council of Advisors on Science & Technology; Director, Centre for Global Security Res.
* Dr. Ronald F. Lehman II , Director, Center for Global Security Research, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
* Mr. William W. McIlhenny, Policy Planning Council for Western Hemisphere Affairs
* Dr. Peter McPherson , President, National Association of State Universities & Land-Grant Colleges
* Ms. Doris Meissner, Senior Fellow, Migration Policy Institute
* Dr. George Miller, Director, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
* Mr. George Nethercutt, Chairman, US Section of the Permanent Joint Board on Defense, US – Canada (Security)
* Mary Anastasia O’Grady, Journalist for Wall Street Journal (Area Specialist)
* Dr. Robert A. Pastor, Director, Center for North American Studies, American University, Washington, DC
* Dr. William Perry, Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project
* Lt. Gen. Gene Renuart, USAF Senior Military Assist. to Sec. Rumsfeld
* Mr. Eric Ruff, , Department of Defense Press Secretary
* Sec. Donald R. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, US Department of Defense
* Dr. James Schlesinger, Former Sec. Of Energy & Defense
* Mr. William Schneider, President, International Planning Services
* Sec. Clay Sell, Deputy Secretary of Energy, US Dept. of Energy
* Dr. Thomas A. Shannon, Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs
* Dr. David G. Victor, Director, Program on Energy & Sustainable Development, Center for Environmental Science & Policy
* Maj. Gen. Mark A Volcheff, Director, Plans, Policy & Strategy, NORAD-NORTHCOM
* Ms. Jane Wales, President & CEO, World Affairs Council of Northern California
* Mr. R. James Woolsey, Vice President, Booz Allen Hamilton
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52079
Banff Agenda:
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52077
North American Union leader says merger just crisis away Robert Pastor, a leading intellectual force in the move to create an EU-style North American Community, told WND he believes a new 9/11 crisis could be the catalyst to merge the U.S., Mexico and Canada. Pastor, a professor at American University, says that in such a case the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America or SPP – launched in 2005 by the heads of the three countries at a summit in Waco, Texas – could be developed into a continental union, complete with a new currency, the amero, that would replace the U.S. dollar just as the euro has replaced the national currencies of Europe. In May 2005, Pastor was co-chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations task force that produced a report entitled "Toward a North American Community," which he has claimed is the blueprint behind the SSP declared by President Bush, Mexico's then-President Vicente Fox, and Canada's then-Prime Minister Paul Martin.
What I'm getting from this is the next big attack on American soil, their plan goes into action.
All those scoffing at the 'Amero' idea.
Imho, they let the 'capitalism' thing run just long enough to get the income. After all, the Chinese were cashing in. When someone got too successful, they pulled the plug and 'redistributed' the assets (minus a few, no doubt--Yukos comes to mind.)
We share that opinion. I'm taken aback by actually seeing it in print. We've been played like a fiddle.
Of course, the more Socialist/Marxist our government (and culture) becomes, the fewer the differences by which we can measure theirs. Ditto with China.
I agree.
'I looked in his eyes and saw his soul.' Right, 'W', uh-huh. How is Daddy's 'New World Order' thingy going, anyway? A little behind schedule? (or not?)
Needed to be repeated.
pastor’s name is on every dirty deed where the NAU is concerned. His name will go down in connection with this, like Alger Hess’s creation of the un charter. Infamous.
>All those scoffing at the ‘Amero’ idea.<
Scoffing is so much easier because you don’t have to think about the friends that you will lose when you stand up by yourself and announce the obvious facts about what is happening.
Doing anything by yourself requires self confidence and a backbone, qualities that so many have yet to locate. Acceptance by the majority seems to be a need that most folks require.
I have the February 23, 2007 SPP meeting minutes that was in Ottawa. So much of it is exempted, for 'security reason' they say.
I have the February 23, 2007 SPP meeting minutes that was in Ottawa. So much of it is exempted, for 'security reason' they say.
I agree. Many on FR have been ridiculed for talking about the 'amero', myself included. Oh well.
Doing anything by yourself requires self confidence and a backbone, qualities that so many have yet to locate. Acceptance by the majority seems to be a need that most folks require.
I've always preferred the road less traveled. It's more interesting and life is short.
The Only North American Model Parliament.
The North American Forum on Integration (NAFI) is organizing the third edition of the Triumvirate. This event, co-sponsored by the Inter-American Development Bank and American University, will take place in Washington D.C. from the 20th to the 25th of May 2007. The Triumvirate will bring together a hundred university students, from Canada, Mexico and the United States, in order to simulate, during five days, a parliamentary meeting between North American national and sub-national parliamentarians. Participants will be assigned one of the three following roles: legislator (representing a country other than their own), journalist or lobbyist. This year’s themes are the creation of a customs union, water management, human trafficking and telecommunications in North America.
Ah...launch the Predators.
“Doing anything by yourself requires self confidence and a backbone, qualities that so many have yet to locate. Acceptance by the majority seems to be a need that most folks require”
Acceptance by the majority has been rare in my life.
In business, expert after expert told me “ you can’t do that....nobody can do that.” blah blah ad nauseum, ad infinitum. Some FReepers just gave up and believed Amnesty was inevitable. You and I, and many others knew it could be stopped!
BUMP
Sponsor
“A North American Legal System:
Is It Possible? Desirable?”
February 16, 2007
9:00 am-5:30 pm
The Center for North American Studies and the Washington College of Law of American University are co-sponsoring a conference on whether a uniform legal system for all three countries of North America is conceivable, desirable, or possible. The conference will be held on February 16, 2007, 9:00 AM-5:30 PM at the Washington College of Law, in the Mooers-Morella Ceremonial Courtroom (Room 603), 4801 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC. Some of the most distinguished legal scholars and practitioners from Canada, Mexico, and the United States will address the issues in comparative terms by examining the example of Europe and the tensions caused by federalism but, also, by focusing on applied legal areas, such as trade, the environment, and family law. Admission to the conference is free. The conference lunch will require a small fee and attendees who wish to attend the lunch need to send an RSVP by January 31, 2007. For more information or to confirm attendance, contact Dr. James T. McHugh, Associate Director, Center for North American Studies of American University at mchugh@american.edu. This event is supported by the American Society of Comparative Law, the American Society of International Law, and L’Association québécoise de droit comparé.
Conference Agenda
February 16, 2007
9:00 Introductory Remarks • Robert Pastor, Director, Center for North American Studies
• Claudio Grossman, Dean, Washington College of Law, American University
9:30 Panel 1 – The “Idea” of a North American Legal System
● Chair: Robert Pastor, Director, CNAS
• Stephen Zamora, Dean, University of Houston Law School
• Patrick Glenn, Peter M. Laing Professor of Law, McGill University
11:00 Panel 2 – Comparative Experiences of Legal
Harmonization Across and Within National Boundaries
• The European Union
o Michelle Egan, American University, School of
International Service
o Fernanda Nicola, Washington College of Law, American University
• National vs. Provincial/State Governance in North America
o Alan Tarr, Director, Center for State Constitutional Studies, Rutgers University
o James T. McHugh, Associate Director and Visiting Professor, CNAS
12:30 Lunch
● Speaker: The Honorable Gordon Giffin, United States Ambassador to Canada, 1997-2001
1:30 Panel 3 – Applied Laws
● Chair: James Holbein, Washington College of Law, American University
● Christine Haight Farley, Professor, Washington College of Law, American University, Intellectual Property Law
● Arthur Cockfield, Queens University, Kingston, Taxation and Regulation
● Durwood Zaelke, Washington College of Law, American University, Environmental Law
3:00 Panel 4 – Towards a North American Law
• Chair: Robert Pastor, Center for North American Studies, AU
• Alberto Szekely, Career Ambassador and Advisor to the Mexican Minister of Foreign Affairs for International Legal Issues, International Law Professor
• Jay Westbrook, University of Houston School of Law
• Susan Karamanian, George Washington University School of Law
• Discussant: Claudio Grossman, Dean, Washington College of Law, American University
Summary Report
● Tom Farer, Dean, Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver
5:00 Reception
So even all the hullabaloo about Bush selecting two (one only when forced) semi-conservative judges was for naught if we are to cede to this new NAU court.
Article after article I'm finding keeps using the phrase: North American Parliament.
With all of this being said, I believe that it is too early to paint an accurate picture of what
a true North American Parliament might look like; however, I shall present some examples of
what the institution might entail. For the most part, the Parliament should operate in a matter
that is similar to the respective national legislatures. There might be a rotating presidency for
each country of one year. All three countries could jointly oversee the administration of the
Parliament. The North American Parliament should also show a commitment to Mexico by
basing its headquarters and daily operations in that country. Needless to say this would
definitely be more than a symbolic gesture. Furthermore, the parliament should be based on
proportional representation, but this should be done on the state or provincial level, with each
country also receiving a number of federal delegates. This is one way to accompany a variety of
interests. The other alternative to representation would be a simple allocation of a number of
seats by country. As to the question of whether these persons should be elected or appointed is
still an issue that should be thought out. Finally I see the committee system of the Parliament as
its most important and most useful aspect of the institution. It is here where the members of
parliament can study and recommend actions to be taken on the behalf of all North Americans.
Of course this is all hypothetical and speculative of how this body might look and operate, but I
only stress that the Parliament of North America follow the previously mentioned criteria, and build off of those contentions
The amnesty failure really caught the globalists by surprise! They are now regrouping to figure some other sinister way to pass it. Incrementally, or under a new
guise, who knows??
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