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Posted on 08/29/2007 4:23:20 AM PDT by Man50D
The Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America summit in Canada released a plan that established U.N. law along with regulations by the World Trade Organization and World Health Organization as supreme over U.S. law and set the stage for militarizing the management of continental health emergencies.
The "North American Plan for Avian & Pandemic Influenza" was finalized at the SPP summit last week in Montebello, Quebec.
At the same time, the U.S. Northern Command, or NORTHCOM, has created a webpage dedicated to avian flu and has been running exercises in preparation for the possible use of U.S. military forces in a continental domestic emergency involving avian flu or pandemic influenza.
With virtually no media attention, in 2005 President Bush shifted U.S. policy on avian flu and pandemic influenza, placing the country under international guidelines not specifically determined by domestic agencies.
The policy shift was formalized Sept. 14, 2005, when Bush announced a new International Partnership on Avian and Pandemic Influenza to a High-Level Plenary Meeting of the U.N. General Assembly, in New York.
The new International Partnership on Avian and Pandemic Influenza was designed to supersede an earlier November 2005 Homeland Security report that called for a U.S. national strategy that would be coordinated by the Departments of Homeland Security, Health and Agriculture.
The 2005 plan, operative until Bush announced the International Partnership on Avian and Pandemic Influenza, directed the State Department to work with the WHO and U.N., but it does not mention that international health controls are to be considered controlling over relevant U.S. statutes or authorities.
(Excerpt) Read more at worldnetdaily.com ...
Boo!
why are stories like this almost exclusively from worldnet?
Reads like a scene from “Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind”
In this particular field of concern, it appears that they are the only ones paying any attention. They were among the first to break the North American Partnership/Union story.
Who gets to define what constitutes a health emergency?
Does it cover acts of biological terrorism against the USA?
A fly spec dictator could bottle up the USA with a vial of maggots feeding on islam.
What US official signed this obligation?
Wait a second, haven’t I heard that “Corsci” name before?
Does this mean that the Muzzies triumph over our ability to defend against them?
Who determines an emergency?
Who can veto?
Our country should never be put under the control of any other entity for any reason..........especially the U.N.
The U.N. gets to decide when and if we would be treated for Avian flu in an outbreak???? Like their split second reaction to Darfur???? They lead the pack on those who would want to see us dead. Boggles the mind...I think I’d be the first one in line to overrun their HQ.
Many posters have masochistic tendencies.
Isn't he the guy who's selling lots of books thereby proving how right P.T. Barnum was?
I am presently in a National Disaster Area. FEMA is here, along with the Red Cross and the State OEM. They have all holed up inside a local church, where they are “taking requests” for loan assistance, which may or may not materialize sometime after the damage is repaired. We did see a FEMA van transporting a group of males of a group not normally resident to the area, as we have a major prison, here.
Meanwhile, people are cleaning up for themselves and their neighbors. Evacuees are mostly with family and friends and those of us who were impacted to a less than devastating degree are coping and employing the myriad skills one learns living in the country. Our medical professionals were out in the isolated areas within a couple of days, dispensing tetanus shots and administering first aid, if needed. Breathless journos did the usual interviews immediately after the first 24 hours of excessive rain, but have been absent in the subsequent 10+ days.
If this had been a biological incident, we have medical and agricultural quarantine and triage plans in effect and competent locals running them. I am fairly certain the blue helmets would be holed up in some comfortable office within 50 miles and would be totally ignored if any of their orders were less than commonsensical. Our local officials are not the types to pass the buck because it is their own families/properties/lives that are at stake in an emergency.
I know for a fact that our local health workers/med staff have and would ignore bureaucrats if their orders were stupid or counterproductive. Also, the local infrastructure would make it possible to ignore anyone, as our phones/power can go down in a flash and we have valley areas that do not have cell coverage in the best of times. All it takes is heavy cloud cover to block satellite communication. Our local system of watershed dams can and has blocked roads and military overflights are totally useless where there are deep valleys, wooded draws and isolated areas only accesible to people on foot who already know the area.
Rural Americans, for the most part, are not helpless denizens of some third world hole who would simply sit and wait to be herded here and there at the whim of anyone, citizen of the nation or otherwise. We have a large contigent of Reserve, Guard and retired military here and they usually find their way into positions of first responders. We are not disarmed, either.
Back in the 1970s, plans were drawn up that designated this area as a receiving area for evacuees from major cities in the case of a nuclear attack. Our local LEO response was to designate all the natural choke points and draw up their own plans to block the roads, while the residents quietly made their own plans to refuse to house anyone they could not personally vouch for.
In the case of any disaster, the first rule is that you are on your own. In our case,this time, it was excessive rain/flood and the most important people were our plumbers and electricians and the electric power crews, along with the road crews who were out with bulldozers/scrapers within an hour of the first mudslides/rockfalls. In the case of an epidemic, the most important folks will be the vets, MDs and volunteer EMTs, who are mostly RNs, along with our LEO. We even still have vets and MDs who make house/farm calls and have been known to show up at the Amish farms and convince them to take inoculations if it is essential. I know this happened in the past when we had a measle epidemic in that community.
I am just positive that most UN-affiliated rules and personnel would not even be evident in the first 2 weeks, let alone on the ground enforcing anything at all. I would bet they would be simply enforcing breathing mask regulations in the airports and urban areas.
I just cannot get too excited about what is written down on a piece of paper or on a website. When we encounter TEOTWAWKI, the international bigshots will scurry to their bunkers faster than the real rodents with fur. And, once the danger has ended or been contained, most Americans would, IMO, demand restoration of sovereignty and would vehemently question the authority of any outsider.
It might be an *obligation* of the Federal authorities, but I doubt anyone else would recognize it as such. As far as I can tell, most of the people I know still believe in the United States of America and in government of, by and for the people. The UN would throw up their hands in dispair and WHO _might_ be consulted, but everyone would make their own determinations and not feel constrained at all.
This crap is not going to survive 24 hours of a real disaster, IMO.
So, you’re ok with the US being under UN law?
Why are stories like this almost exclusively from worldnet?
Certainly is a good question, why don’t you start looking for answers and get back to FR on it?
Or is this just knocking WND as if they are not capable doing the investigation that only the real MSM can do....LOL
“Certainly is a good question, why don’t you start looking for answers and get back to FR on it?”
if you were as smart as you think you are, you would have an answer and not just be a smartass
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If you read the article closely, it is mostly innuendo with precious little actual facts. When contrary information is presented, he automatically dismisses it.
What's really going on it that we (The US and the separate states) develop a plan and tell the WHO what we are going to do. The WHO may offer a suggestion or two, which we will apply or ignore depending on if it makes sense or not.
Corsi makes it sound like NORTHCOM is the vehicle for UN backed military coup.
Jerome R. Corsi knows emergency planning the way Dan Rather knows typewriter typefaces.
UN Bureaucrats define threat as the wine being served at a less than optimum temperature, the restaurants being three star or lower, or the bribes and kickbacks being offered in currencies other than US dollars or Euros.
Only if Corsi finding a 53 page document that contains "SPP," "NAFTA," "WHO," etc. and posting a link to it constitutes "investigative" journalism. He wants you to read it because he likely hasn't read it himself.
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