Posted on 03/08/2016 7:28:37 AM PST by xzins
A new CFR-sponsored Independent Task Force report, North America: Time for a New Focus, asserts that elevating and prioritizing the Canada-Mexico-U.S. relationship offers the best opportunity for strengthening the United States and its place in the world.
"It is time to put North America at the forefront of U.S. policy," the report says. "The development and implementation of a strategy for U.S. economic, energy, security, environmental, and societal cooperation with its two neighbors can strengthen the United States at home and enhance its influence abroad."
by David H. Petraeus, retired U.S. Army general and chairman of the KKR Global Institute, and Robert B. Zoellick, former president of the World Bank Group and chairman of Goldman Sachs's International Advisors, the Task Force is composed of a diverse and distinguished group of experts that includes former government officials, scholars, and others. The project is directed by CFR Senior Fellow for Latin America Studies Shannon K. O'Neil.
The Task Force proposes a comprehensive set of recommendations for deepening North American integration, concentrating on four pivotal areas—energy, economic competitiveness, security, and community. These include:
***Capitalizing on North America's promising energy outlook.***
The North American countries need a regional energy strategy to strengthen the continent's energy infrastructure, expand energy exports, support Mexico's historic reforms, improve safety, and encourage harmonized policies to promote energy conservation and reduce carbon emissions.
"For economic, environmental, and diplomatic reasons, the Task Force recommends that the U.S. government encourage increased energy connections with Canada and Mexico. The U.S. government should approve additional pipeline capacity, including the Keystone XL pipeline," the report says. "The Task Force also proposes that the United States end restrictions on energy exports, including oil and LNG (liquefied natural gas)."
***Bolstering economic competitiveness through the freer movement of goods and services across borders.***
Upgrading infrastructure and policies across borders would interconnect national economies securely and efficiently. Recognizing trilateral economic interests, the United States should also include Canada and Mexico in its negotiations for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) and other free trade agreements.
"The United States' ability to compete in a dynamic and competitive world economy would be strengthened by enhanced economic ties with Canada and Mexico," the report explains. "The Task Force recommends working toward the free and unimpeded movement of goods and services across North America's common borders."
***Strengthening security through a unified continental strategy and "continuous border innovation."***
While working toward the goal of a unified security strategy for North America, the United States and Canada should support Mexican efforts to strengthen the democratic rule of law, dismantle criminal networks, contribute to the development of resilient and cohesive communities, and reduce arms smuggling and drug consumption.
"The United States should shift from border-centric security toward a strategy of combining perimeter protection with security in depth through the use of intelligence, risk assessment, shared capabilities, and joint actions throughout the region," the report says.
***Fostering a North American community through comprehensive immigration reform, workforce development, and the creation of a mobility accord to facilitate the movement of workers.***
The U.S. Congress should pass comprehensive immigration reforms. To better aid the movement of North American workers, the three countries should also create a North American Mobility Accord, expand visas for skilled workers, streamline recognition of professional credentials, and develop a regional educational innovation strategy.
"The Task Force strongly recommends the passage of comprehensive federal immigration reform that secures U.S. borders, prevents illegal entry, provides visas on the basis of economic need, invites talented and skilled people to settle in the United States, and offers a pathway to legalization for undocumented immigrants now in the United States," the report says.
“The elites seek to destroy America as an entity so as to become even more wealthy, at the expense of Americans, but it’s OK because those little people don’t really matter.”
They plan to plunder the USA. Financially RAPE it. Once it is completed, they will take their billions, and move on to another promising country.
Fred Thompson assisted the RNC as a splitter during that particular primary.
It was his whole function.
It’s why he campaigned so lackadaisically.
Once he was no longer needed for the delegate math to support the elites choice he was eliminated.
We weren’t aware back then.
We are now.
ping
Haven't heard Ted disavow the stabbing Beck yet either.
Which of the candidates do you prefer/favor?
Council Of Foreign Relations: Building a North American Community. Task Force Member HEIDI S. CRUZ
cfr.or ^ | May 2005 | Council on Foreign Relations Press
Posted on 3/8/2016, 9:52:28 AM by Trumpinator
Building a North American Community
Chairs: John P. Manley, Pedro Aspe, and William F. Weld Vice Chairs: Thomas P. D’Aquino, Andres Rozental, President, Mexican Council on Foreign Relations, and Robert A. Pastor, Professor and Founding Director of the Center for North American Studies, American University
Press Releases: English | French | Spanish
Sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations in association with the Canadian Council of Chief Executives and the Consejo Mexicano de Asuntos Internacionales.
North America is vulnerable on several fronts: the region faces terrorist and criminal security threats, increased economic competition from abroad, and uneven economic development at home. In response to these challenges, a trinational, Independent Task Force on the Future of North America has developed a roadmap to promote North American security and advance the well-being of citizens of all three countries.
When the leaders of Canada, Mexico, and the United States met in Texas recently they underscored the deep ties and shared principles of the three countries. The Council-sponsored Task Force applauds the announced “Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America,” but proposes a more ambitious vision of a new community by 2010 and specific recommendations on how to achieve it.
Publisher Council on Foreign Relations Press
Release Date May 2005
Price $15.00 paper
175 pages
ISBN 0876093489
Task Force Report No. 53
Task Force Members:
HEIDI S. CRUZ is an energy investment banker with Merrill Lynch in Houston, Texas. She served in the Bush White House under Dr. Condoleezza Rice as the Economic Director for the Western Hemisphere at the National Security Council, as the Director of the Latin America Office at the U.S. Treasury Department, and as Special Assistant to Ambassador Robert B. Zoellick, U.S. Trade Representative. Prior to government service, Ms. Cruz was an investment banker with J.P. Morgan in New York City.
Remember how NAFTA was supposed to be a boon to American workers? It destroyed middle class jobs in favor of low paying ones. The South Americans came across the border to take those new low paying jobs to the exclusion of Americans who needed work.
Now we are supposed to believe this from the CFR? Cruz and his wife are no friend to American workers.
Thanks goodnesswins for that info
What year was the earliest they would have had to switch over
Pinging out...
Why dont we just Goldman Sacs on the ballot? UntrusTed
Thanks!
This is what I have long suspected.
Someone has gone to the GOP and said:
“We need a unified North America to combat the EU”
From a pure logic view, I can see what they are thinking.
The problem is only 2-3 countries in the EU actually produce anything.
The rest simply sit back and enjoy the ride.
Unifying cooperation with USA-Canada and bringing manufacturing to both countries would accomplish the same thing without having to outsource jobs to India or Mexico.
That was before we really understood the consequences of NATA and other trade pacts and the intent to use trade pacts as the way to merge countries into a One World Governmemt controlled by the oligarchs.
NAFTA was a trade pact that has opened this door to a North American Union. Destroy countries, destroy cultures, just create selfs for the ruling class.
It really is revealing that Goldman Sachs, a financial institution, is an integral part of a group whose intent is to take away US sovereignty.
It boggles the mind. It’s George Soros kind of stuff.
How many times does Lucy have to trick you with the football?? Cruz voted for TPP knowing it was bad for America! He and his wife are puppets of Goldman Sacs. There is nothing left to argue!
“Hmmmmmmmmm I’ll have to guess on this answer, “Whose wife is part of the Goldman Sachs open borders push? I’ll take Ted Cruz for 200 Alex”
Some of us actually join organizations and groups to turn them to better purposes. That's why I joined the first Agenda 21 Biodiversity and Ecosystem Management Roundtable in the country back in 1994. I was opposed to its goals, but fortunately, the organizers not knowing that, let me on. I took over the writing of the final document, which was altered in secret. The result was a blow for freedom, as Henry Lamb saw. Yet I've been tarred with that content ever since, even by Michael Shaw, who was (ironically) also on that committee and for the same reasons. Yet as soon as the document specifically endorsed his business plans, he bowed out and let me do the work and take the leftist heat, for which he has slandered me ever since by association with that same committee of which he was also a member.
Sound familiar? Yes, it's exactly the way Trumpsters are behaving in their attacks against conservatives.
Not everybody who joins an organization agrees with its goals. If you had read carefully the writings of Ted and Heidi Cruz, you would know that charges of globalism for their product are a crass slander. Ted is very careful in his wording to protect the Constitutional liberty of limited government. For example, although his immigration plan supports the use of eVerify, it does not mandate it except for Federal contracts and employment, understanding the nature of it as a potential Federal work permit is wildly beyond the limits of Article I Section 8. Such a power would be an abomination in the hands of Democrats. THAT is respect for limited government. Heidi stated very clearly that political union in North America was neither a realistic nor workable goal.
Constitutional conservatives have opposed the GOPe for decades. We have not had a conservative government since at least the 1920s. They have labored courageously despite every institution of public education arrayed against them. Yet here, in the wreckage of Obama and out of frustruation, with the best opportunity to control all three branches of government in nearly a century, conservatives are labeled as GOPe, simply because they haven't ever won, and they oppose and distrust Donald Trump. They blame the victim, throwing out decades of solid evidence of dedication in the defense of liberty by Thomas Sowell, Rush Limbaugh, Brent Bozell... now supposedly GOPe, because they distrust the Donald, a former Democrat with a long history of leftist preferences, wildly vascilatting and vague promises, long and deep ties with the mass-entertainment media, and no core principles except making money... and he has far less than he says he has. Donald Trump is an obvious fraud.
Heidi Cruz is a lifelong Seventh Day Adventist, a person supposedly terrified by the prospect of the last days, who would hence be willing to do anything to oppose a global government. She entered adulthood doing missionary work in Africa. Yet Heidi Cruz stands accused of globalism because of her choice of employers when she'd graduated from Claremont McKenna College, one of the most conservative institutions in the country. Yes, she reached her childhood goal of a Harvard MBA (and by the way, Wharton, where the Donald got his degree, is every bit the elitist institution as is Harvard). You don't get a job with a degree in international finance from just anyone.
Some of us are willing to leap into battle with the beast from the inside, hoping to turn the powerful tools of finance and industry to the good of all mankind. But you prefer to use that prospect as tar, by association. Although it has been discussed ad nauseum, you fling it again, and again, and again...
What is your objective basis for this kind of posting that derives specifically from the work of Heidi Cruz? I doubt you have one.
The Open Borders people are an insult to all of us, Anglo & Mexican alike.
Mutual respect is actually the intellectual opposite to the one-worlders' fantasy of interchangeability.
TPA/TPP/H1B/
Those answer all questions as to what my point is, Carry_Okie. This CFR agenda supports those ‘misvotes’ and provides a rationale for their existence.
As far as you are concerned, you’ve always been a FRiend, and I wouldn’t injure that at all. We’ve always been able to disagree and that not be a litmus test. Faith, CO. God’s in control.
I was not making a comment on open borders.
I was making a comment that I finally understand where all this “open borders” nonsense is coming from.
Someone with LOTS of $$$ and power has convinced the GOP that we need to fight the EU with a United North America.
Not sure who it is yet but I think its bigger than Goldman-Sachs.
Actually, I wouldn't put that past him.
I won't call him a liar, because that upsets people.
But I will call him a prevaricator.
As noted elsewhere, he is a sophist, a rhetorician -- a man who makes his living as a spinner of words, for the purpose of persuasion. He comes across to me like a member of the Plaintiff's Bar; and all he cares about is winning his case.
And his wife is a lawyer, too. They probably see eye to eye on most things.... She is an elitist, to put it mildly. Ted's claims of populist sympathies -- of caring about the little guy (a/k/a the great unwashed, i.e., working and middle class Americans) -- is probably pure spin designed to improve his chances of electoral success. It is otherwise void, empty.
Well, that's my estimation of the man, FWIW.
I hope I'll never have to vote for him. But I will if I have to, holding my nose all the while.
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