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Canadian, U.S., and Mexican elites, including CEOS and politicians, have a plan to create common North American policies and further integrate our economies. This plan goes by various names and euphemisms, such as "deep integration", "NAFTA-plus", "harmonization", the "Big Idea", the "Grand Bargain", and the "North American Security and Prosperity Initiative". Regardless of which name your prefer, the end goal of all of these plans is to create a new political and economic entity named the North American Union (NAU) that would supercede the existing countries. Theoretically, it would be similar to and competetive with the European Union (EU). The...

On March 29, 2005 the London Arab daily Al-Hayat published a report on Iran’s current preparedness for an American or Israeli attack. The report was translated by www.memri.org (Middle East Media Research Institute). MEMRI introduced the report as follows: “In recent months, commanders of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards and armed forces have announced their complete preparedness for a possible military attack on Iran’s nuclear installations and other sensitive sites. Iranian spokesmen have declared that Iran’s response would be formidable.” The interview indicates the hostility, confidence, determination and intractability of the Iranian leadership. Following are excerpts from that article: “Iranian military sources...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - More than 122 million Americans, or 60.7 percent of registered voters, cast ballots in the November 2 presidential election, which saw US President George W. Bush win a second four-year term, a new study showed. The showing marked the highest turnout for a US presidential election since 1968. According to the Committee for the Study of the American Electorate, Bush secured some 62 million votes, or 50.8 percent of the ballots -- an increase of 11.5 million over his showing in 2000. His challenger, Democrat John Kerry, garnered more than 59 million votes (48.3 percent), or eight...

President Bush hoped to limit the political damage from the nomination of Bernard B. Kerik by cutting him loose as soon as he confessed he had not paid taxes for a Mexican nanny who apparently had been in the country illegally. Instead, questions about Bush's judgment have escalated because of a cascade of damaging details about Kerik's business and personal lives that White House vetters either missed or ignored... ...White House officials said they knew about many of the issues before the nomination but did not deem them disqualifying. In part, they were relying on the support of New York's...

Tom Bernstein and Roland Betts, two of George W. Bush's partners in the Texas Rangers investment castigated the virulently anti-Bush New York Times columnist Paul Krugman for spreading blatant falsehoods about the president. In a letter to the International Herald Tribune the two men wrote: "Krugman says George W. Bush's investment in the Texas Rangers entitled him to $2.3 million from the baseball team's sale. But, Krugman adds, 'his partners voluntarily gave up some of their share, and Bush received 12 percent of the proceeds - $14.9 million. So a group of businessmen, presumably with some interest in government decisions,...