Council Of Foreign Relations: Building a North American Community. Task Force Member HEIDI S. CRUZ

I am fine with Canada and New Mexico>????? You mean Old Mexico and I am not fine with that. Canada has an un assimilated French population that barely gets along with the Anglo-phones and Mexicans have their own proud history and language and culture that is not compatible with that of the USA’s.

Cruz = in bed (literary and figuratively) with Globalists / open borders / Free traders.

And there it is for all to see...

There is not a single thing that is conservative about you. You are the typical moron.

..I turned away from JBS material when I recognized the Reconstructonist/Dominion theology leanings, as well as a strong anti-semitic element in their material. That is the first thing I think of when people start throwing around the name Goldman Sachs.

It is not endtimes crap to point out that history proves that man continues to make the same mistakes over and over again. And not recognizing the spiritual implications of these things is also a great mistake.

Free trade between non American states is anti-constitutional. Tariffs on imports is the only original constitutional method of funding the govt. So go ahead and disprove that. So free traitors are not conservatives.

I'm sorry to say, that you sir, are a moron. Tariffs on imports is the only original constitutional method of funding the govt.

That era ended over 200 years ago. It began to change in 1802.

The reason for the change was that trading partners began to reject tariffs as the sole funding mechanism. So for more that 200 years, we have given up that mechanism.

I certainly don't (as a conservative) object to tariffs, but they have a purpose and place and that purpose and place to even the trading playing field and not to be the sole funder of a massive government.

To think that for a single second exposes you as a idiot.

Absolutely NO NEED to give up any of our sovereignty in service to elitist, globalist idiots who basically hate us - don’t give a crap what happens to us (see the invasion over the border, for example).

oops - don’t know how i missed that....

my point was that the only way we should be having any type of discussion in regards to handing over any level of sovereignty is if it’s coming from their side adapting to our requirements - on that there can be no compromise.

Of course they have their own culture/heritage - which they will not willingly give up. So why should we be expected to do so.

Thanks. I just got back to the computer.

We had this system up until the 1900s so your history is a fail.

Apparently not, because that system began to be replaced in the 1800s as I said...It’s in the books,,,,but I would not expect anyone who blindly votes for a known East Coast democrat with no political background and who does not apparently read his own position papers for president of the USA to be very well read.

You people have attacked every single conservative writer and you are so blind as to not only ignore factual data but to ignore history so it all fits together.

As a parting gift, I can only tell you that Trump will not ascend to the presidency with my aid, and that’s just the way it is.

No Sale,,,

The govt was almost fully funded by tariffs until the income tax in the early 1900s. So history fail on you.

Actually, I don’t think Cruzers care about the GOPe. They would be just as happy to leave them in place.

While that may be true to a degree, Tariffs had become a major political issue and the government was still tiny in comparison to today.

What is interesting is that at the time, Republicans were for higher tariffs and democrats believed that higher tariffs hurt the consumer and commerce. This was largely a argument made by the South.

Today, there is no way that we could fund the government as it is constructed on tariffs alone and going back to that would be a fools belief.

But there are indeed a lot of fools.

I am not suggesting we fund the govt on tariffs - only the notion that being for tariffs is somehow not a conservative principal.

Do not forget Cruz's VAT tax... Heidi did get schooled in Europe... I think it is so very curious how the so called ‘very-conservative’ educated willingly ignore Ted's tax plans for US.... Guess ‘TeaParty’ principles was just another deception for electoral gain.

They say Trump is playing us for suckers. I say we have already been suckered by the GOP establishment - of which Cruz - a life long govt employee - is one of.

CFR = the Shadow government including Bilderburgers, etc.

I have been a Ted Cruz supporter but started doing some additional research on Heidi Cruz today.

Since Edward Haley is mentioned as a mentor to Heidi Cruz and as the article at the end shows he must be a pretty good friend if “She and Ted came to brunch in our apartment in DC” where Haley and his wife Elaine were then living. “She said, ‘I’m going back with Ted. He wants to get into elective politics in Texas.’”

This was in 2004. So, I was curious what his background and mentoring might lead to and what influence Heidi Cruz and possibly Ted Cruz might receive from this close personal friend.

Still not sure what I think of him but I think Heidi must be a bit of an insider rather than the outsider Ted proclaims to be. I have been a Ted Cruz supporter but I think I found out why Heidi did a little work with the Council on Foreign Relations.

http://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/fortnightly/18/05

P. EDWARD HALEY
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2002

In his forthcoming book, Strategies of Dominance, Professor P. Edward Haley argues that during the past decade American strategy has moved along an arc from the modesty, self-restraint, and multilateralism of the first Bush administration to the zeal, universalism, and unilateralism of the current Bush administration. His lecture will be a preview of this forthcoming book: a study of American strategy and diplomacy since the end of the Cold War that traces the underlying assumption of each administration about U.S. interest and threats to those interests.

Haley holds the W.M. Keck Foundation Chair of International Strategic Studies at Claremont McKenna College and is Acting Director of the Keck Center for International and Strategic Studies. His scholarly expertise lies in international security and American foreign policy, including arms control, great power relations, U.S.-European relations, and U.S. policy in the Middle East. He was an International Affairs Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, a Foreign Affairs Assistant in Congress and in the Senate, and the dean of the School of International Studies at the University of the Pacific. His education includes Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from Stanford University and a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University.

Professor Haley has edited numerous books including The United States and Europe (1999) and Nuclear Strategy, Arms Control, and the Future (1988). He is the author of Qaddafi and the United States Since 1969 (1984) and Revolution and Intervention: The Diplomacy of Taft and Wilson with Mexico, 1910-1917 (1970), which was awarded the Premio Sahagun by the Mexican National Institute for Anthropology and History. He is also a frequent contributor to the Op-ed page of the Los Angeles Times.”

Funny thing, he is quoted in several articles about Heidi Cruz. He knows her very well, one mentions a comment he makes about her wedding-obviously he attended.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/11/01/house-of-cruz-the-making-of-ted-cruz.html
FAMILY BUSINESS11.01.13 4:03 AM ET
House of Cruz: the Making of Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz’s father is a master of rabble-rousing demagoguery but Michelle Cottle says the senator’s wife, Heidi, is the real driving force behind his political career.

For anyone who’d been wondering where Sen. Ted Cruz gets that trash-talking mouth of his, the video of his dad that surfaced this week should pretty much lay the question to rest.

As a special Halloween treat, Mother Jones posted a speech that Rafael Cruz gave during his son’s Senate race last year. In it, Papa Cruz rants and raves about the “crisis” this country is facing because of its “Marxist” president. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the failed-businessman-turned-preacher goes on at length about how Obama and the rest of the Democratic heathen are trying to drive God from the public square. And once he really gets rolling, Rafael urges the assembled patriots to send our dangerous president “back to Kenya.”

Clearly Ted learned his bare-knuckles, crazy-ass demagoguery at the knee of a master.

indeed, for anyone looking to understand the reckless, uncompromising, burn-the-village-to-the-ground side of Ted Cruz, the most obvious place to start is his ex-Cuban-revolutionary daddy. But for all his Tea Party street cred, Cruz does not qualify as any of the “antis” often associated with the movement: anti-elitist, anti-establishment, anti-intellectual… He is, in many ways, the consummate insider: well heeled, well connected, and absurdly well credentialed. (Princeton, Harvard, and a Supreme Court clerkship? Come on!)

For a window into this more buttoned-down side of the strange political hybrid that is Cruz, the place to look is toward his equally—if not more—formidable wife, Heidi.

In many ways, Heidi Cruz Nelson, age 41 and the mother of two young daughters, is precisely the sort of hard-charging woman to make feminists’ mouths water: smart, driven, credentialed (Harvard Business School, JP Morgan, Bush 2000, the Bush Treasury Department , Goldman Sachs…), and unapologetic about her ambition.

She is passionately conservative, no doubt. But those who know her say she lacks some of her hubby’s more noxious qualities, like his big mouth, his combativeness, and his “all about me” narcissism. “It’s never been just about Heidi,” says P. Edward Haley, one of Heidi’s professors at Claremont McKenna College with whom she established a lasting friendship. “Despite our political differences,” he adds.

Of course, Heidi herself has expressed political views that seem to ring with irony coming from the wife of the Senate’s most flamboyant obstructionist. In 2009, she sat down for awide-ranging video interview as part of her alma mater’s President’s Leader’s Forum. This was right around the time that Ted, then in private legal practice, was flirting with an ultimately abandoned run for Attorney General of Texas. Asked if she thought there was a place for idealism in politics, she erupted:

“Absolutely! I think it’s the base of it. It’s fundamental. We have to maintain that. Look at the founders of our country: They were idealistic. They created a system that has stood the test of time. The only thing I caution is that we can’t be so idealistic that we getnothing done. There is an argument that you need to continue to advance the ball and try to work with different parties and interests to move things forward.”

Heidi also talked at length about how she and her brother had been raised to help the less fortunate and shared some of the charity work she has been involved in over the years, including the trip she and Ted took to help drill water wells in Nicaragua. “It’s ingrained in our family that life is about giving back,” she explained.

The daughter of 7th Day Adventist missionaries, Heidi Nelson was raised with the expectation that she would do well. “I think it was her dad who had very high standards for her,” says Haley. “It was a tough love kind of thing.”

Young Heidi did not disappoint. After graduating Phi Beta Kappa from Claremont, she accepted a Rotary scholarship that sent her to study in Strasbourg, France, where she traveled the continent and “developed a passion for West Europe.” (To go with her Harvard MBA, Heidi also has a Masters in European Business from the Solvay School in Brussels.) The focus of her studies was the emerging markets of Eastern Europe.

As Heidi explained in her Claremont interview, her parents’ missionary work exposed her at an early age to the grinding poverty of many nations—something that “made an impression” on her and got her interested in emerging markets. When it came time to get a job, however, Heidi was “quite keen” to start out in New York because that where the action was. “As a woman, I wanted to have an opportunity set that was as broad as possible,” she recalled.

When JP Morgan offered her a spot in its Wall Street office, she jumped at it without sweating too much about the details. “When I arrived I said, ‘I’d like to work on Eastern Europe,’” she continued. “They said, ‘Well, Eastern Europe is not done out of New York. It’s done out of London.’” When she learned that Latin America was the only emerging market handled out of New York, said Heidi, “I figured out how to learn Spanish. You adjust your skill set for what’s close to your interests.”

From the campaign, Heidi moved on to help with the Florida recount and then into a variety of posts with the Bush administration: an economic director on the National Security Council, a special assistant to the U.S. Trade Rep, and a director in the Treasury Department, where she wound up running the Latin America office.

Along the way, she picked up countless important professional contacts—and one husband. The two met on the Bush campaign, where Ted toiled in the domestic policy shop. As the love story goes, the two had their first date on January 5th and were married that May. (“It was a sweet affair with Teds’ friends looking oh-so nerdy and conservative,” recalls Haley.) Like Heidi, Ted went on to work in the administration, making them one of those classic striving political couples that swarm around the Beltway.

But when Ted returned to Texas in 2003 to serve as state Solicitor General, the couple faced the usual problems of what Haley calls “a traveling marriage.” Haley still recalls the day in the spring of 2004 when Heidi announced that she was heading back to Texas and back into the private sector. “She and Ted came to brunch in our apartment in DC” where Haley and his wife Elaine were then living. “She said, ‘I’m going back with Ted. He wants to get into elective politics in Texas.’”

Of course, it took another eight years for Ted to achieve his goal. And there is no question that Heidi played a key role in making that happen. For starters, her executive position at Goldman Sachs means Ted has not needed to fret about the family’s financial well-being. (Or its health insurance, as many have pointed out in recent days.) More narrowly, while Ted pulled in his fair share of campaign cash from the GOP’s Tea Party wing, his wife’s colleagues stepped up as well. (The $65,000 from Goldman’s PAC and employees constituted Cruz’s second-largest source of funding.) Without Heidi’s shared passion for politics, there’s no way she would have agreed to let Ted sink their entire savings into his campaign, much less put up with the inevitable and endless disruption to the family’s life. Then, of course, there’s all the time and effort she put into the campaign herself. “She was very involved on all sides,” says Haley, “strategy, money-raising, all of that.”

With her husband’s new celebrity, Heidi finds herself at the nexus of both private and public sector success. Though, amusingly, not necessarily at the juncture that she would most prefer. In the course of her must-see Claremont interview, Heidi was asked her views about the different branches of government. While nodding to the important role Congress has to play, she admitted to “personally prefer[ring] the executive branch” with its “power to push things through.” Unlike Congress, with its competing power centers and interests, she noted, “in the White House you are the elected party. And your power to move things in a direction is formidable.”

Do you want to know more about This close friend of Heidi Cruz? Or you question that source, how about this one regarding another book that Haley was involved with.

Hoover Institution Press: New Book Examines the Role of Local Civil Organizations in Rebuilding Countries
June 05, 2006 08:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time
STANFORD, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—June 5, 2006—In Strategic Foreign Assistance: Civil Society in International Security (Hoover Institution Press, 2006) Hoover fellow A. Lawrence Chickering and his coauthors examine the roles local civil society organizations (CSOs) could play in promoting change in countries that resist advice from other states and from international organizations.

Since 9/11, Chickering says, policymakers have come to feel a greatly increased sense of urgency about promoting democracy, development, and social justice in states that shelter terrorists. In the initiative to promote democracy, serious problems have arisen in a number of countries—most obviously Iraq. Many of these problems are a consequence of the limited options available to traditional, formal statecraft. Local CSOs need to play a much larger role in promoting changes that cannot be imposed from outside but must come from within.

Chickering and his coauthors, Isobel Coleman, senior fellow, U.S. foreign policy and director of the Women and U.S. Foreign Policy Program of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR); P. Edward Haley, Wm. M. Keck Professor of International Strategic Studies at Claremont-McKenna College; and Emily Vargas-Baron, director of the Institute for Reconstruction and International Security through Education, draw on their experiences to discuss particular issues and reform models in this approach.

Chickering is a Hoover research fellow and founder and president of Educate Girls Globally, a CSO that promotes girls’ education in developing countries. He cofounded the International Center for Economic Growth and served as its executive director until 1998, and he has worked in Pakistan, India, and Egypt. Chickering edited (with Mohammed Salahdine) a book on the informal sector in development, The Silent Revolution (1991); and he is the author of a book on American politics, Beyond Left and Right: Breaking the Political Stalemate (1993).

Strategic Foreign Assistance: Civil Society in International
Security
by A. Lawrence Chickering, Isobel Coleman, P. Edward Haley,
and Emily Vargas-Baron

ISBN: 0817947124 $15.00
132 pages July 2006
Contacts

Hoover Institution, Stanford University
LaNor Maune or Michele Horaney, 650-723-0603
F: 650-725-8611
Maune@hoover.stanford.edu
Horaney@hoover.stanford.edu
Website: www.hoover.org

Strategic Foreign Assistance: Civil Society in International Security
by Isobel Coleman
Published July 1, 2006
Hoover Institution Press

The emergence of global terrorism has created a new reality in national and international security. Governments and peoples must come together to encourage economic, political, legal, and social change within weak societies in which terrorists take refuge and to assist deadlocked governments in overcoming the explosive legacies of religious and ethnic conflict.

In Strategic Foreign Assistance the authors show that, to do this, the United States must develop a strategic international cooperation and assistance policy that fosters strong civil societies. The book details the key role that civil society organizations (CSOs) could play in mitigating the conditions that promote terrorists and terrorism. The authors reveal how CSOs can help nations overcome internal conflicts by attacking the roots of violence and empowering people directly affected by the conflict to develop culturally appropriate strategies to pacify violent regions. They explain the value of informal society-based, nonstate initiatives–including initiatives aimed at religious leaders–in recruiting a country’s citizens in the efforts for peace. And they show how CSOs can help accomplish strategic objectives for promoting social development and changing state policies in such critical areas as economic and educational policy reform, empowerment of women, property rights for the poor, and other vital areas. A. Lawrence Chickering is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution. Isobel Coleman is a senior fellow in U.S. foreign policy and director of the Women and U.S. Foreign Policy Program of the Council on Foreign Relations. P. Edward Haley is the Wm. M. Keck Professor of International Strategic Studies at Claremont-McKenna College. Emily Vargas-Baron directs the Institute for Reconstruction and International Security through Education. “This is a profound and greatly useful exposition on a critical question yet strangely unexamined: how to use civil society to advance strategic objectives abroad, especially when government-to-government relations are incapable of moving adversaries away from conflict. The approach is useful and challenging and original, at once profoundly conservative and yet bound to be deeply appealing without regard to party to the most perceptive of those responsible for American foreign policy.”

Who is Emily Vargas-Baron besides co author of a book with Edward Haley. This is the description of her at the Rise Institute.

Emily Vargas-Barón, Ph.D.
Emily Vargas-Barón,
Ph.D.

In addition to directing and conducting activities for The RISE Institute, Emily Vargas-Barón consults internationally in the fields of education and integrated early childhood development, focusing on policy planning, training, program design and evaluation research. From 1994 to 2001, she was Deputy Assistant Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, where she directed the Center for Human Capacity Development. Previously, she founded and directed a research and development institute for early childhood development in Austin Texas, called the Center for Development, Education and Nutrition (now called Any Baby Can). Dr. Vargas-Barón was an Education Advisor for the Bogotá Office of The Ford Foundation and a Program Specialist in Education for UNESCO in Paris. She holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology with a focus on Education from Stanford University, where she was also an Associate of the Stanford International Development Education Center (SIDEC). She is the author of many books, chapters, articles, research and evaluation studies, and she has worked in Latin America, the Caribbean, Sub-Saharan Africa, North Africa, the Middle East, Europe, Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and South Asia.

I also found the links posted on the Rise institutes page interesting, see here

http://www.riseinstitute.org/links.htm

Early Childhood and Educational Development

Any Baby Can Child and Family Resource Center (ABC)

www.abcaus.org
Arab Resource Collective (ARC)

www.mawared.org
Asian Development Bank (ADB)

www.adb.org
Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA)

www.adeanet.org
ADEA Working Group on Early Childhood Development

www.adeanet.org/workgroups/en_wgecd.html
Bernard van Leer Foundation

www.bernardvanleer.org
Caribbean Early Childhood Network

www.caribece.org.jm
Centro Internacional de Educación y Desarrollo Humano (CINDE)

www.cinde.org.co
Christian Children’s Fund (CCF)

www.christianchildrensfund.org
Consultative Group on Early Childhood Care and Development

www.ecdgroup.com
Early Childhood Development Virtual University (ECDVU)

www.ecdvu.org
Global Campaign for Education

www.campaignforeducation.org/index.html
Innocenti Research Centre

www.unicef-icdc.org
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)

www.iadb.org
International Development Research Centre (IDRC)

www.idrc.ca
International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP)

www.unesco.org/iiep
International Step by Step Association

www.issa.nl
Open Society Institute (OSI)

www.soros.org
Organization for European Co-operation and Development (OECD)

www.oecd.org
Plan International

www.plan-international.org
Programa de Promoción de la Reforma Educativa de América Latina y el Caribe (PREAL)

www.preal.org
Red Primera Infancia (Latin American ECD Network)

www.redprimerainfancia.org
Save the Children Alliance

www.savethechildren.org (United States)
www.savethechildren.org.uk (United Kingdom)
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)

www.unesco.org
UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS)

www.uis.unesco.org
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)

www.unicef.org
United Nations Development Program (UNDP)

www.undp.org
US Agency for International Development (USAID)

www.usaid.gov
World Association of Early Childhood Educators (English/Spanish)

www.waece.org
World Bank

www.worldbank.orgg
World Forum on Early Care and Education

www.worldforumfoundation.org/
World Health Organization (WHO)

www.who.int/en
Zero to Three

www.zerotothree.org

Why oh why do we think that the media actually does their job?

Ping to 98 and some info on Heidi Cruz and more specifically her Mentor P. Edward Haley.

You should also check the people Mr. Haley interviewed for his book Strategies of Dominance. I read parts of it on Amazon today. Lot’s of powerful people were interviewed for that book.