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 ...
lovely!
They, the Clintons and the Bushes, have clearly been in on this since the beginning.
I have the ELAC bookmarked, I'm going to have to go find it and start breaking it down.
Also, if you can find any of Joan Veon’s articles, you’ll find them very informative. She’s been attending these meetings, I think since Bush 1 signed the Rio Accord in the early 1990’s.
“They, the Clintons and the Bushes, have clearly been in on this since the beginning”
No evidence to the contrary!
Yeah, he is a busy little Marxist!
Look at this.
Subverting the Constitution
An important moment in the conference occurred when Alan Tarr, director of the Center for State Constitutional Studies at Rutgers University, was challenged about glossing over President Clinton’s submission of NAFTA as an agreement, requiring only a majority of votes in both Houses of Congress for passage, and not a treaty, requiring a two-thirds vote in favor in the Senate. NAFTA passed by votes of 234-200 in the House and 61-38 in the Senate. Tarr said he had not intended to be uncritical of what Clinton did. Pastor quickly interjected that there was nothing improper in submitting NAFTA as an agreement rather than a treaty.
But Clinton’s move was seen at the time as an effort to bypass constitutional processes and the United Steelworkers challenged NAFTA’s constitutionality in court. The case reached the U.S. Supreme Court in 2001, after lower courts had thrown the case out, saying it was a political matter between the president and Congress. The Bush Administration sided with Clinton and the Supreme Court declined to get involved.
The history of NAFTA is one reason why so many conservatives are concerned that a North American Community could be transformed into a North American Union that runs roughshod over U.S. constitutional processes and guarantees.
One of the main concerns of conservatives, who have formed a "Coalition to Block the North American Union," has been the lack of congressional interest and oversight. They are backing a bill introduced by Rep. Virgil Goode (R-Va.) to put the Congress on record against a North American Union.
Pastor’s luncheon speaker, Eric Farnsworth, the Vice-President of the Council of the Americas, provided some valuable insight into this process. Saying NAFTA is "no longer enough," he described the SPP as designed to help North America meet the economic challenges posed by such countries as China and India. Farnsworth said that the Council of the Americas advises the SPP.
The Council is closely tied to the North American Competitiveness Council (NACC), which was "established" by the three governments "to collect guidance from the private sector" and prepare "extensive recommendations on such issues as border crossing facilitation, standards and regulatory cooperation, and energy integration." [33]
On February 23, 2007, on the occasion of a Security and Prosperity Partnership meeting in Canada, the NACC provided a 63-page report to officials of the three countries calling for new policies "to streamline border crossings, harmonize regulatory standards and improve supply and distribution of energy." These new policies are to be introduced over three years.[34]
It is not clear whether the U.S. Government will implement these initiatives on its own, through the administrative or regulatory process, or whether they will be submitted to Congress for approval.
The Council’s honorary chairman is David Rockefeller and its board members come from such major corporations as Merck, PepsiCo, McDonald’s, Ford, Citibank, IBM, Wal-Mart, Exxon Mobil, GE (which owns NBC News and MSNBC) and Time Warner (which owns CNN and Time Inc.).
One of the key board members is Thomas F. McClarty III, President of Kissinger McLarty Associates, who served as Clinton’s White House counselor and chief of staff during the time that NAFTA was signed and passed by Congress. McLarty, who also functioned as Special Envoy to the Americas under Clinton, is an adviser to the Carlyle Group, focusing on "buyout investment opportunities in Mexico."
Nelson W. Cunningham, the managing partner of Kissinger McLarty Associates, was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations trinational, Independent Task Force on the Future of North America. [35] The group, including Robert Pastor as a vice-chairman, proposed a "new community" of North American countries by 2010 and offered specific recommendations on how to achieve it. [36] According to his bio, [37] Cunningham advised John Kerry's 2004 presidential campaign on international economic and foreign policy issues, and previously served in the Clinton White House as Special Adviser to the President for Western Hemisphere Affairs. He earlier served as a lawyer at the White House and as Senate Judiciary Committee General Counsel under then-chairman Joseph Biden.
For his part, Farnsworth told the luncheon crowd that the creation of a "super-national Supreme Court" governing business and trade issues in North America was possible. But he was ambiguous about whether it would ever come to pass.
A self-described Democrat who served as policy director in the Clinton White House Office of the Special Envoy for the Americas from 1995-98, he also said that he was optimistic that Bush would strike a deal with the new Democratic-controlled on immigration. He said Bush was "at odds with his own party" on immigration and that legislation to create a so-called "guest worker" program could pass now that Republicans have lost control of Congress.
Such a measure will undoubtedly be sold as bipartisanship.
And that's exactly how they try to sell it to us.
That you. I'll do that tonight. Her name looks familiar to me.
Now ain’t he just all that.
Thank you for the link, bookmarked.
Oddly enough the commies in Canada are out front on this but for different reasons. Keep reading and researching...it gets scary.
Clearly they have been! Ain't they just the cutest couple? /s
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As is the NACC (North American Competitiveness Council), a group of CEOs who meet behind closed doors to discuss Corporate interests in the SPP...it says so right on the US Dept of Commerce site.
You’re right, the left in Canada doesn’t like this one bit.
Ain’t that just peachy?
www.uschamber.com/issues/index/international/nacc.htm
Did you know that the SPP is working out of the NAFTA office of the Department of Commerce?
Where are Rush, Hannity, Levin!!!
If he was much more than what he is.....I think my head would explode!
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