Posted on 03/24/2007 4:36:59 AM PDT by Man50D
While the Bush administration insists the controversial Security and Prosperity Partnership is just a dialogue with Canada and Mexico, a State Department cable released to WND shows Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez pressing to implement major trilateral initiatives to help "capture the vision of North American integration."
The cable was among some 150 pages of State Department SPP documents recently released to WND under a Freedom of Information Act request.
Howard Phillips, who has formed a coalition to block development of a "North American Union" and formation of NAFTA superhighways, told WND the document "makes clear that the agenda of SPP is to pursue major economic integration that redefines U.S. businesses into a 'North American' definition."
By leading with economics, SPP is crafting a North American regulatory structure that transforms U.S. regulations by 'harmonizing' them with Mexican and Canadian regulations, all without specific congressional approval," said Phillips, chairman of the Conservative Caucus.
The State Department communiqué, dated May 20, 2005, documents a March 13, 2005, meeting between Gutierrez, Mexican Secretary of Economy Fernando Canales and Canadian Privy Council Assistant Secretary Phil Ventura. The meeting was held just prior to the announcement of SPP at the trilateral summit with the country's three leaders in Waco, Texas, March 23, 2005.
The cable notes Gutierrez opened the discussion by stressing that the July 23, 2005, "Report to Leaders" needed "to show results" that would be "enduring and create an on-going process."
Gutierrez suggested each working group should propose one "big ticket" issue, rather than the "50-60 smaller initiatives" that were then in the SPP "matrix," allowing the "SPP ministers" to capture the attention of the "SPP leaders" with major North American integration goals that were both tangible and important.
"This memo gives us an important 'behind the scenes' look at the trilateral bureaucratic process that gave rise to the "Report to Leaders.
The 2005 "Report to Leaders" on the SPP website, Phillips noted, resulted from a detailed process of trilateral bureaucratic meetings that led to cabinet-level discussions within the three governments. The end result, he said, was for the report to "focus on the major SPP working group initiatives that could advance the goal of North American integration."
Phillips contended a "close reading of the document makes a lie of the SPP 'myth vs. facts' contention that SPP is just a 'dialogue.'
"The document quotes Canada's Ventura as stating that the three countries should prepare a joint document declaring their trilateral intention to 'integrate' a list of industries, including automobiles, pharmaceuticals, textiles, furniture, and steel," he argued. "Ventura said the more 'trilateral integrated' industries that could be listed, the better."
At the meeting, Gutierrez proposed that the SPP ministers think in terms of a trilateral "integrated" auto industry creating a "Made in North America Vehicle by 2009." He also suggested announcing "an IPR (Intellectual Property Rights) Violation Free Zone by 2010" and that SPP ministers should hold weekly conference calls to advance the agenda.
"The economic route being pursued behind closed doors by SPP working groups is a replay of the exact stealth route taken in Europe," Phillips noted.
"Right now the EU is celebrating with a series of television commercials the evolution over a 50-year period from an initial coal and steel agreement to a full-fledged European Union regional government with the euro as a regional currency," he said.
The recently uncovered State Department memo, Phillips added, makes clear the same bureaucratic process of regional integration is being implemented in North America within working group and minister meetings that are closed to the public and the press.
"The State Department memo also makes clear that Gutierrez is a major moving force driving the North American integration agenda for the Bush White House," Phillips said.
Supporting Phillips' contention, the State Department cable noted in the last paragraph the meeting got off to a slow start, but under Gutierrez's leadership "it resulted in concrete ideas and direction for the working groups."
The SPP is pushing 'energy security' as part of their policy making agenda.
Can we have security when our open border pals in corrupt Mexico make energy deals with Iran?
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Iran and Mexico sign MoU on oil and gas cooperation
21-02-05 Iran and Mexico have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to promote mutual cooperation in oil, gas and petrochemical sectors, it was reported.
The Iranian embassy in Mexico reported that the MoU also concerned Iran-Mexico cooperation in the construction of structures and equipment in those sectors. The report added that the memorandum was signed by Iran's Deputy Oil Minister for International Affairs Hadi Nejad Hosseinian and Mexican Energy Minister Ferdinando Elizondo Barragan in Mexico.
Nejad Hosseinian and Barragan in their talks discussed Iran-Mexico relations in all fields, and voiced mutual determination to diversify relations in different domains of the energy sector.
They also exchanged viewpoints on ways to increase the role of the private and state sectors in promoting Iran-Mexico ties particularly considering Mexico's booming economy and its huge market need for Iranian petrochemical products.
The Iran embassy report further stressed that Nejad Hosseinian has been meeting Mexican officials for talks on the expansion of mutual ties in the energy sector.
He has met officials from Mexico's leading oil company Pemex for talks on bilateral cooperation in different areas of the energy sector.
http://www.gasandoil.com/goc/news/ntl63405.htm
If we close the border, how would these deals hurt us?
Secondly, once you can establish that your concern for my right above is equivalent to my own concern (to this point a complete and utter failure on your part), then we can discuss the way forward. Conscience, indeed. You fear the things you do not understand, just as you fear freedom. The irony is that you expect the State to hold your hand, with no comprehension that the State also happens to be me . . . and I don't want to.
With Corsi and his enablers, if there isn't a conspiracy, then there's a conspiracy about the conspiracy. Well, maybe the conspiracy doesn't exist, but there must be a conspiracy to supress the conspiracy that isn't a conspiracy that the conspiracy doesn't want us to believe that it's a conspiracy that doesn't exist.
See?
Yes. As a matter of fact, they are. And if you notice, they all cite the same information you do. It's not like they come out waving the key to the NAU executive washroom or anything.
Carlos Gutierrez = Manchurian Candidate
What subversion and treason? All of Europe wanted it and it was constructed in the open. Where the hell do you get the idiotic idea that the EU was built in secret?
Yes and commit political incest with Canada..
Yes.
Revisionist dude?
Every European leader for decades has been pushing for the EU. Hell, they designed the flag in the 80s and the EU is still little more than a currency and a toothless bureaucracy.
The only revisionism is on your part.
Oh I forgot! Iran's nuclear development program is PLAINLY peaceful, and those british ally sailors deserve to be tried for espionage. Its great Mexico is purchasing military hardware from Russia, and Iran and Russia are bosoom buddies. Let's just forget the Monroe Doctrine! Its JUST a piece of paper! Just like the US Constitution, to the "free traders".
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