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.
No, they don't. The TPA vote was defended as unlikely to produce a product under Obama that Congress would pass. You may disagree with that judgment, but then you would have to show otherwise and you have not. TPP has not passed.
As to Cruz' original H-1B proposal, it has since been tied in writing to the unemployment rate by sector, with specific promises to prosecute abusers of the program for fraud, something Trump has not done.
So, those DON'T answer all questions. Try again.
After today Cruz will be an after thought. Thank God.
While those in International Finance have certainly played on the implications & the effects of those, who for a variety of reasons--none actually morally justified--have been trying to build "new world orders," the driving force has really been more academic than financial. (Though undeniably, those business interests that operate on the premise that one country is as good as another, so long as they can make money there, have enabled the fantasy seekers to get away with undermining both national sovereignty & the cultural heritages of their respective people's.
Basically, the theoretic internationalists (humanists seeking to get back to a variety of Babel) are as dependent upon the greedy business types, willing to sell out their communities, as the latter are to the fantasy theorists.
I have been fighting these twin evils since High School in 1950--and am truly sick of having to do so.
I saw a video the other day explaining why Ted Cruz is not the man he claims to be, but more importantly it illustrated in a simple manner how the creation of the North American Union (Canada, Mexico and the United States) is being constructed using the same methods of treaties and trade agreements as was used to create the EU.
Ted Cruz - Wolf in Sheep Clothing!!! Christian Video Channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Kstyj5BTcM
I’m not knowledgeable enough about the subject and all it’s complexities to know if it’s 100% accurate, but from what I do know, and after watching the video I determined the following. I don’t want America to be absorbed into a North American Union and that’s EXACTLY what they have planned.
Ted and Heidi Cruz have both been involved with the Bush family for years and it’s no secret that the Bush clan are of the New World Order, one global governance crowd. She’s tied to Goldman Sachs, the CFR and the Globalists. He’s financed by GS, Citibank and SuperPacs. I’m sure there are more points of contact to be made, but what’s clear is, they are all tied to the Globalist, NWO one world government cabal and America’s sovereignty means nothing to them.
Ignore the Cruz’ ties to Globalism if you like, but you’re imperiling my right to live as a sovereign American if you do so.
If things remain on schedule as predicted by Mexican President Vicente Fox in 2000, creation of the North American Union will be complete in 2023.
I saw that video and after watching what they had to say about being only 7 years away from finalizing the North American Union it became clear to me why the GOPe wanted so badly to install Jeb to the presidency. Who better to finalize the deal that really got underway during the presidency of GHW Bush than his son?
It also explains why they’ve been so resistant to building a wall and immigration enforcement. What’s the point, when, if things go according to plan, we’re going to be one big borderless Federation of States anyway?
***Bolstering economic competitiveness through the freer movement of goods and services across borders.***
***Strengthening security through a unified continental strategy and “continuous border innovation.”***
***Fostering a North American community through comprehensive immigration reform, workforce development, and the creation of a mobility accord to facilitate the movement of workers.***
After seeing what the European Union has done to the sovereign nations of Europe, I don’t think Ronald Reagan would support the end result, but his first trade agreement with “The North American common market” in 1981 is what started the ball rolling to our version of the EU. It’s been taken one step closer with every treaty and trade agreement between America, Canada and Latin America since. NAFTA, and all the others that have followed have lead us to where we are today.
Pat Buchanan and Lou Dobbs were two of the most outspoken critics who foresaw where these agreements were leading us and we really need them to recall these issues to the forefront.
Ted Cruz supporters can claim that Ted and Heidi are not part of the Globalist Establishment all they want, but they must ignore the longstanding ties of both of them to the Bushes, Goldman Sachs, the CFR and NAU proponents to do so.
I choose not to.
It's the other way around. The financial community has bought an academe to produce droids to its liking of which it is itself composed. Think of it as an autocatalytic process, but it began with the financial community of Eastern Europe, the Spartakusbund, etc.
I have been fighting these twin evils since High School in 1950--and am truly sick of having to do so.
We all have our different ways of dealing with this. Mine is to re-educate them and back it up with a scientific demonstration project.
Romney’s diatribe hurts Trump and helps Cruz.
Wonder why?
What I wonder about is how much evidence must be presented to Cruz supporters before they’ll realize that he’s not who he appears to be.
They are either A. bots or B. financially invested in the outcome somehow.
But do not want to divert attention from the need to oppose what is now an ongoing attack on the very concept of the nation, into an academic discussion of the causation for that attack. We need to all focus on exploding the rationalizations for the betrayal of heritage.
No, she is not. She is an expert in international finance from CMC with a Harvard MBA.
[1][10][11] [12] Her brother, Scott C. Nelson, today is an orthopedic surgeon and humanitarian.[13][14] Her Finnish-American maternal grandfather served for 22 years as a missionary physician and pastor in the former Belgian Congo.[15]
Cruz announced in fifth grade that she intended to attend Harvard Business School one day, her mother reflecting that she was unsure of how her daughter knew of the school and described her as a "slacker".[16] Cruz's political interest developed when she traveled to Washington with her parents at age 8,[16] and grew when she was age 12 and read an issue of Time magazine concerning the 1984 presidential election, while working at a bread stand.[17]
She graduated with a B.A. in Economics and International Relations from Claremont McKenna College in 1994. She was active in Claremont McKenna's Republican group, but was asked to resign after spying on Bill Clinton's campaign for reelection.[16] During her time at Claremont McKenna College, she studied abroad at the University of Strasbourg.[18] In 1995, she received a Masters of European Business from Université Libre de Bruxelles in Brussels, Belgium and in 2000, she graduated with a M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.[1][11][19]
After seeing what’s taking place in Europe with the creation of the EU and what it’s done to the formerly sovereign countries there, I’m astounded that anyone supposedly on “our” side would think that the formation of the NAU would work any better.
I can only conclude that personal gain that is so important to those who stand to profit from such an arrangement, to the detriment of their fellow countrymen must be evil to the bone.
Sigh. The people I'm talking about were behind the Jacobins.
I suggest to you reading To Eliminate the Opiate Volume I and Volume II, by Orthodox rabbi Marvin S. Antelman.
We need to all focus on exploding the rationalizations for the betrayal of heritage.
I'll take my own direction, thank you, which is to explode but one such rationalization: "the environment" as a root of regulation, population control, and many of the other counterproductive evils we see.
The attacks against Heidi Cruz originated during Ted Cruz successful run for the US Senate in 2012.
His victory in the Primary was considered a monumental upset.
Why?
Because he defied the party establishment to “wait his turn,” and ran against their anointed candidate, Lt. Governor David Dewhurst who had been selected by the GOPe to replace Kay Baily Hutchison.
Cruz went against the establishment and won in the primary and then the general election for the seat.
During the Primaries, Dewhurst tried every way he could think of to attack Ted Cruz, including going after his wife.
Dewhurst himself leaned towards GOP establishment globalist interests, so it was odd that he would attack Mrs. Cruz the way he did.
She had been invited to sit on a large panel at the CFR to reviewed a 2005 paper entitled, “Building a North American Community,” by Robert Pastor. To this day a number of people point to this paper as the initial proposal and idea for a “North American Union.” But the author himself has repeatedly denied that it had anything to do with the creation of such an organization.
According to the author, the paper called for mild international cooperation in North America on economic issues with no formal structure at all.
Heidi Cruz’s only identifiable contribution to the review consisted of a single paragraph in the appendix which says,
“We must emphasize the imperative that economic investment be led and perpetuated by the private sector. There is no force proven like the market for aligning incentives, sourcing capital, and producing results like financial markets and profit-making businesses. This is simply necessary to sustain a higher living standard for the poorest among us — truly the measure of our success. As such, investment fund sand financing mechanisms should be deemed attractive instruments by those committing the capital and should only be developed in conjunction with market participants.”
Her contribution was to point out that the Free Market and private sector were absolutely necessary components for economic solutions.
That’s it.
No call for a NAU.
No call for “no borders.”
All of that is a fabrication by a GOP establishment candidate at the time who was attempting to smear Ted Cruz...and it is being picked up now for the same reasons.
The people of Texas did not buy it then, apparently they did not buy it on March 1st...I did not buy it this morning when I cast my vote in the GOP Primary here in Idaho.
Now, as I have said, and for the ample reasons I have pointed out, should Donald Trump become the nominee...I will support him 100% against Clinton or sanders.
I hope and trust all GOP voters will do the same.
Carry_Okie, I gather you are a Cruz fan. As I'm sure you gather, I am not. And so, rather than engage on the aspects of Cruz's character that I have been alluding to, I assume you have decided it is more expedient to simply "take me out" with an ad hominem attack designed to totally undermine my credibility as a witness.
My suspicion is Ted would approve of tactics like that. (He often employs them himself.) But deep down, I'm sure he knows that a witness may be wrong on points; but that doesn't mean the witness' witness is wrong on all points.
Meanwhile, Heidi Cruz is still an elitist, lawyer or not. Will you vouchsafe that Ted Cruz is not some kind of Trojan horse for the Council on Foreign Relations? His record on illegal immigration/path to citizenship is pretty squishy, inchoate....
So, I stand corrected by you, and acknowledge that Heidi Cruz is not a lawyer. She is a banker. And according to the public record, she is working to turn the United States of America into a mere component of some kind of facsimile of the European Union.
No thanks, but I can't get behind a project like that. I love my country too much.
Cruz is my first choice, with Trump as my second.
Cruz is the most honest man in the race, by far. Its not even close. Most of the attacks on his character are silly, and it amazes me that anyone gives them the time of day. He has been a constitutionalist almost literally his entire life.
As for Trump, he is a flawed man, but on the border and on national sovereignty, I believe he’ll do what he says. On most everything else, he is pretty flexible, he has at various times been on all sides of every issue. Still, trade and the border are so important that the rest is forgivable if he is the nominee. I don’t have a third choice, because besides Cruz and Trump no one else is trustworthy on the border.
Cruz is head and shoulders the better man compared to Trump. Trump is head and shoulders the better man compared to anyone else running, simply on national sovereignty grounds if for nothing else. If Trump wins we’ll learn to regret that Cruz didn’t win, but we will be so glad that Hillary or GOPe didn’t win we’ll be smiling anyway.
The video you mentioned is very good and highly accurate.
Do you think he would have beaten Dewhurst in that Senate election if it had been common knowledge at the time that he was born in Canada?
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