Posted on 07/31/2006 3:05:40 PM PDT by Reagan Man
The hottest issue at the grass roots is illegal immigration and what our government is not doing to stop it. The question most frequently heard is, "Why doesn't the Bush administration get it?"
Maybe the Bush administration doesn't want to stop the invasion of illegal immigrants and plans to solve the problem by just declaring them all legal through amnesty and guest-worker proposals. Maybe the Bush administration is pursuing a globalist agenda. Consider this chronology.
On March 23, 2005, President Bush met at his ranch in Crawford, Texas, with Vicente Fox of Mexico and Paul Martin of Canada in what they called a summit. The three heads of state then drove to Baylor University in Waco, Texas, where they issued a press release announcing their signing of an agreement to form the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America.
On May 17, 2005, the Council on Foreign Relations issued a 59-page document outlining a five-year plan for the "establishment by 2010 of a North American economic and security community" with a common "outer security perimeter" to achieve "the freer flow of people within North America."
This document is full of language spelling out an "integrated" strategy to achieve an "open border for the movement of goods and people" within which "trade, capital, and people flow freely." The document calls for "a seamless North American market," allowing Mexican trucks "unlimited access," "totalization" (the code word for putting illegal immigrants into the U.S. Social Security system), massive U.S. foreign aid, and even "a permanent tribunal for North American dispute resolution."
Tying this document into the Bush-Fox-Martin March 23 Summit, the Council of Foreign Relations stated that the three men on that day "committed their governments" to the North American community goal, and assigned "working groups" to fill in the details.
On June 9, 2005, Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Richard Lugar, R-Ind., held a friendly committee hearing that featured task force member Robert Pastor, a professor at American University and author of the 2001 book "Toward a North American Community" (Institute for International Economics, $28). He revealed further details of the plan for a "continental perimeter," including "an integrated continental plan for transportation and infrastructure that includes new North American highways and high-speed rail corridors."
Pastor asserted that President Bush endorsed North American integration in the Guanajuato Proposal of February 16, 2001, in which Bush and Fox promised that "we will strive to consolidate a North American economic community." Bush followed up on April 22, 2001, by signing the Declaration of Quebec City in which he made a "commitment to hemispheric integration."
On June 27, 2005, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff attended a North American Security and Prosperity Partnership meeting in Ottawa at which he said, "We want to facilitate the flow of traffic across our borders." The White House issued a press release endorsing the Ottawa report and calling the meeting "an important first step in achieving the goals of the Security and Prosperity Partnership."
In July 2005, the White House let it be known that it is backing a coalition called Americans for Border and Economic Security organized by former Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie. Its purpose is to conduct a political-style campaign to sell the American people on a guest-worker program wrapped in a few border-security promises and financed by coalition members who each put up $50,000 to $250,000.
On March 31 President Bush met at Cancun, Mexico, for a spring frolic with Fox and the new Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Their press release celebrated what they called the first anniversary of the partnership, and Bush demanded that Congress pass an immigration bill with a worker permit program.
On May 15 Bush made a nationally televised speech in which he enunciated the amazing non sequitur that we can't have border security unless we also have a "comprehensive" bill including legalization of illegal immigrants now in the United States and the admission of new so-called guest workers.
Thanks to the investigative work of Jerome R. Corsi, we have learned that the partnership's more than 20 working groups are already quietly operating in the North American Free Trade Agreement office in the U.S. Department of Commerce, which refuses to reveal the groups' members because, in the words of partnership spokeswoman Geri Word, the Bush administration does not want them "distracted by calls from the public."
Corsi discovered recently that the partnership issued a "Report to Leaders" on June 27, 2005, that shows the partnership's extensive interaction with government and business groups in the three countries.
On June 15, 2006, the partnership's North American Competitiveness Council, consisting of government officials and corporate chief executive officers from the three countries, met to "institutionalize the partnership and the North American Competitiveness Council, so that the work will continue through changes in administrations."
The Bush administration is using a series of press releases, without authority from Congress or the American people, to shift us into the North American Security and Prosperity Partnership with "a more open border for the movement of goods and people."
Geez, I want in on that job. That'd be friggin SWEET. :)
LOL
I would join ya in this fight but you know more than I do
Amen, sista, AMEN!!!!!!!
Yep. 4 years of eating 3 Whataburgers a week was enough. I surrender.
the pay is real poor. :(
Did I miss the gist of your post?
Its funny, isn't it, because you "free traders" are the only ones are talking about those groups.
You have yet to refute any claims in the article. Another black mark against your so-called "parochial" education.
Now that you mention CFR, Rokke appears. Ask him why.
BTTT
Some people see conspiracies everywhere because they feel scared, powerless, and insignificant. It is easier to blame a grand scheme for their suffering rather than face a reality of personal failure.
I'm reminded of a song from Dr Seuss's Horton Hears a Who.
We’re the Wickersham Brothers, we’re vigilant spotters,
Hotshot spotters of rotters and plotters!
And we’re going to save our sons and our daughters,
From YOU!
You’re a dastardly, ghastardly, schnastardly schnook,
Trying to brainwash our brains with this gobbledygook!We know what you’re up to, pal.
You’re trying to shatter our morale.
You’re trying to stir up discontent.
And seize the reins of government.You’re trying to throw sand in our eyes.
You’re trying to kill free enterprise.
And raise the cost of figs and dates.
And wreck our compound interest rates.
And shut our schools.
And steal our jewels.
And even change our football rules.
And take away our garden tools.
And lock us up in vestibules.
But, fortunately, we’re no fools!
Ping.
The whackjobs are the global socialists in the CFR. Don't let the door hit you on the way out.
We traders, as a rule, view anyone with an opinion ('insider' or not) who won't back their opinion with their own capital as more or less completely without credibility -- there's even a term of art for such people, has been for decades. The term is not complimentary, please trust me on that.
If you tell me that specialty woods, and/or hardwood flooring, and/or custom wood trim are booming, why, you'll get no quarrel from me. If you tell me that ''wood'' (undefined) in general is booming, you're full of crap.
I've watched the posted wholesale for as many different specs of bulk wood as I can do for more than 25 years. While I may not be any sort of ''wood'' expert, nor would ever claim to be, I'm neither blind nor stupid: at least 3 important bulk woods (I'm sure you woodies have a different term for them, but said term is unimportant) have lost 20%+ of their value since mid-to-late April.
Care to see the trading statements? They're yours to examine if you like. BTW, Sep '06 Randoms just made a new low today, but rallied late. The chart is simply dreadful, almost surely the worst of the 60-odd futures mkts I track. Whether this trend continues or not is not important to me; I'm long the more-distant month straddles at ridiculously low IVs, speaking historically. I'll make my profit in due time, no hurry at all.
Poole, the STL Fed governor, yammered on today about the next FOMC decision regarding Fed Funds (Aug 8, btw) being ''50-50''. If you're into wood -- on ANY basis -- you'd best hope FOMC in general and Poole specifically are trying a bit of disinformation.
In short, you must be hoping that FOMC won't put another 25bp on top. The mkt thinks right along with you, btw; implied likelihood of another FOMC hike is considerably under 50%, whether you look at the Eurodollar curve or the 2-year, even the 5-year.
That's fine with me; y'see, trading is about proper positioning and avoiding (insofar as one can, of course) excessive risk. The short side of the lumber straddles is well profitable, but, recognising the risk, I've effectively hedged out the possibility of FOMC stopping the rate hikes by buying the straddles in the currencies in my tagline.
If FOMC raise another quarter, the lumber straddles become INORDINATELY profitable right quick, perhaps in even under a week. The currency straddles take a short-term hit...but Aug and Sep are THE two months of the year wherein currencies move the most on average. In plain English, whatever pips I lose in forex if FOMC raise short rates, I'll make back in spades within 60 days' time.
If on the other hand FOMC do nothing on rates on the 8th, the dollar is going to start crumbling, not necessarily quickly... but I'm in no hurry whatever. Lumber might rally in such an event, but the proper defense to the straddles in that case is to simply write a few September puts.
Good fortune to your business, and FReegards! (...but please don't tell me what quotes I'm seeing each day, ok, mate? -- Futures are marked-to-market every single business day, and -- as a friend of mine once both wittily and accurately noted about markets: 'The Moving Average writes, and having Writ, moves on.')
Reagan proposed a North American Accord which would have eliminated illegal immigration. How you say? Why by making it legal for any and all Mexicans and Canadians to work in the US at any time. Do you support that? Reagan was for it!
Thanks! ;*)
I don't believe that for a second. Do you have a source for that, other than the John Birch Society?
bttt
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