Posted on 05/26/2011 11:48:52 AM PDT by justlittleoleme
As early as January of 2005, high-ranking officials were discussing the best way to sell the idea of North American integration to the public and policymakers while getting around national constitutions. The prospect of creating a monetary unit to replace national currencies was a hot topic as well.
Some details of the schemes were exposed in a secret 2005 U.S. embassy cable from Ottawa signed by then-Ambassador Paul Cellucci. The document was released by WikiLeaks on April 28. But so far, it has barely attracted any attention in the United States, Canada, or Mexico beyond a few mentions in some liberty-minded Internet forums.
(Excerpt) Read more at thenewamerican.com ...
Here’s a link to the Counsel on Foreign Relations Task Force charged with “Building a North American Community”
http://www.cfr.org/canada/building-north-american-community/p8102#author
The article was written in 2005. Just a few years later, with our economy a shambles, our implicit open borders policy turning into a disaster, and our basic freedoms under constant attack, their perspective seems naive.
And all those American jobs that went to Baja California have ended up in China anyway, just a few years later.
Most (if not all) of California was Spanish; those Spanish names go all the way up the state. I believe Oregon & Washington were claimed by Britain.
And Julian richly deserves that. But I’m still glad this info got leaked.
The impending Greek default and implosion of the EU may actually do more to prevent this however.
Uh guys...? It’s New American... please consider the source.
I don’t see the benefit to even a progressive globalist in including those peon countries.
Well, sure. SPP existed and there’s been plans for a spiffy new highway in Texas. OK... but neither has anything to do with any sort of unification of the governments of North America. This is just the John Birch Society doing their nutty thing... they’re the original conspiracy theorists. Heck, they were into conspiracies way before conspiracies were cool.
I thought perhaps that Obama was to bring it home, and if reelected will do it as he’s got no loyalty to our Constitution or Soverneignty and they’ll put forward their own candidates like they did last time. It’s up to us to tell them this time that we’re onto their game. I know for myself that I’ll never vote for another McCain - period - who just might be Perry.
Americans were not in active conflict with Rome and Moscow, but "they" were in sufficient dispute that only a neutral intermediary could ship Spanish vegetables to the Russians to take to their people in Alaska.
California was just coming out of a good 500 years of truly deplorable weather so settlement was difficult and did not grow much outside of the mission system. The Inland areas were being settled slowly by American traders, trappers and adventurers.
The Russians had moved out by the time the California Republic was declared ending Mexican claims. The Brits didn't have much of a claim on California ~ although they claimed what is now roughly Oregon, Washington and BC, but that's the PAC NW and not really qualified to be called CA.
I’ll take “Texas Governors” for a thousand, Alex.
Mexico, on the other hand, OWNS BAJA, which, by itself, can probably handle several ports with huge capacity, and it owns their own West Coast facing the Baja East Coast, and that area is underdeveloped and has a good number of sites where good ports can be built.
The rail and highway connections to that part of Mexico (Baja and the West Coast of the mainland) are intended to provide a new point of break of bulk for container shipments somewhere in the MidWest ~ Indianapolis is one proposed location, and I69 is NOW UNDER CONSTRUCTION and will be built with funds provided by the leasing of the Tristate tollroad. The beltway around Indianapolis is also being improved with DOZENS of quite larger interchanges. They already had the largest confluence of interstate highways in America, and in a couple of years they should have one of the best highway infrastructures ever built in the history of the world. They'll be able to handle the container traffic when it arrives.
When it comes to the East Coast we have the same story ~ there's nowhere else to put ports ~ and given the size of our economy, the amount of stuff we normally ship out, and the amount we import, we will need more ports.
Mexico, next door, has the sites. Of note they also have whales, so as this develops anyway you'll hear more and more from the "DON'T NUKE THE WHALES" crowd.
All in all it's a pretty decent idea. You might thank the Lord that he put so much of our necessary suitible harbors in Mexico rather than in California or South Carolina and Florida!
One of the things I found visiting a number of the missions and reading their history is that they were provisioned with goods manufactured in ASIA, not EUROPE.
Spain's colony called the Philippines played a serious part in developing the West Coast. For the most part it was inaccessible from the part now called Mexico.
Bananas man, it’s the bananas.
>> “it was bush the elder that initiated NAFTA...” <<
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NAFTA was just a re-naming of it.
The Birch Society had papers on this in 1958, and Henry Lamb has also been fighting this since the ‘50s.
>> “The Spanish mission system ends at San Francisco” <<
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No, actually there were two more north of SF in Sonoma county but they never got to construct large campuses before California became a state and changed the politics.
hooking up with that giant whorehouse south of the border, well...
Thanks editor. That’s what I thought but didn’t have time to do the research. I will reiterate, that I’ve found that in nummerous things, the Unconstitutional and non-Sovereignity plans they didn’t get finished, is passed onto the next president. Clinton and Carter are still around doing touchups. Nixon was used post-presidency to continue his China deals and so on...
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