North American Union Archives Digest
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June 03, 2008
Washington Post columnist Jim Hoagland offers "The Orthodoxy of Hope". After informing us that Fidel Castro thinks Barack Obama is "the most progressive candidate for the U.S. presidency,", Hoagland says: Here's one example of new thinking [Obama] should pursue: The United States should apply to relations with hemispheric neighbors many...
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May 28, 2008
Buddy Witherspoon is a dentist from Columbia, South Carolina who's challenging Senator Lindsay Graham, and he's apparently basing his campaign around opposition to illegal immigration and also opposition to the North American Union. Rather than asking for evidence of plans for a NAU and doing research, Beth Brotherton from WYFF...
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From this: A simulation of a North American Parliament, designed to "develop the participants' sense of belonging to North America" and "and promote the creation of North American academia networks" is currently taking place in Montreal. 100 selected students from universities in the U.S., Canada and Mexico have been selected...
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April 20, 2008
The fourth annual "North American Leaders Summit" - part of the Security and Prosperity Partnership started by George Bush - will be held Monday and Tuesday in New Orleans and will be attended by Bush, Felipe Calderon of Mexico, and Stephen Harper of Canada. Expect the news reports about the...
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April 02, 2008
In Lancaster, Pennsylvania on 3/31/08, an audience member asked Barack Obama whether he's a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and asks about the North American Union. He denied being a member of the CFR, and said he didn't see any evidence of the NAU. However, in his discussion...
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March 13, 2008
Today's must read article: A largely unreported meeting held at the State Department [under the auspices of the Advisory Committee on International Economic Policy, or ACIEP] discussed integration of the U.S., Mexico and Canada in concert with a move toward a transatlantic union, linking a North American community with the...
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March 03, 2008
Laura Carlsen of the "Americas Program, Center for International Policy" (who also blogs at americasmexico.blogspot.com) offers "The North American Union Farce" (link). She raises issues with the Security and Prosperity Partnership, but she also disputes that it could be a precursor to a North American Union. This is the "slightly-honest...
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The Alberta, Canada government's Infrastructure and Transportation Department's website used to include a map showing the NAFTA Superhighway on an image of North America, designated as such. Now, the page with the map has been removed: www.infratrans.gov.ab.ca/INFTRA_Content/docType56/Production/pol306.htm Fortunately, you can see the map here, here, here, and here, as well...
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February 22, 2008
Alex Pareene - formerly with Wonkette and now with Gawker - offers a fifth-graders attempt at North American Union/NAFTA Superhighway debunking here. The only problem is... there's nothing there, just snark and bad attempts at humor. He evens links to the Michael Dobbs debunking at the Washington Post (link), apparently...
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February 20, 2008
Yet another laundry list of promises is available in the article "I will repair our relationship with Mexico" (link), supposedly written by Barack Obama himself. It contains two phrases with "prosperity" and "security" together in relation to North America and even the use of "partnership" at the end. Those three...
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February 17, 2008
The We Are Change group - aka "The Truthers" - asked Vicente Fox about the North American Union at a recent speech he gave, and even followed him down the escalator asking him more questions. Unfortunately, the questions were lame and generated meaningless replies. I also wonder exactly when this...
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February 09, 2008
James C. McKinley Jr. of the New York Times interviewed Mexican president Felipe Calderon about his upcoming U.S. tour (link): In the interview, Mr. Calderon argued that the only way the Americas could remain competitive in a world where China and Europe were emerging as major powers once again is...
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January 09, 2008
A tactic used by those who seek to deny that powerful forces are pushing for a North American Union is first to deny that such a plan exists, and then to say something like, "but, if it did, would it be such a bad thing?" One of those trying to...
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December 09, 2007
Matt Stearns of McClatchy Newspapers offers "Out of bounds! Paul pushes NAFTA highway myth" (link): In an anti-NAFTA radio ad that's airing in Iowa, Paul denounces "powerful elites" who "want to completely erase our borders with Canada and Mexico. These special interests threaten us with a total loss of sovereignty....
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December 03, 2007
On November 20, 2007, the Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of Manitoba, Canada (John Harvard) opened the session with his Speech from the Throne (gov.mb.ca/throne.html, cached), and in it he confirmed the existence of what he called a "Mid-Continent Trade Corridor". The only difference between that and the "NAFTA Superhighway" appears...
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November 07, 2007
I'll bet George Bush wishes he'd just keep his mouth shut. At an appearance in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania: [Vicente Fox] called for shared agreements between countries in the Americas, creating an open work force... ...Fox referenced New York Times' columnist Thomas Friedman, calling "the world flat" and saying that NAFTA (the...
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October 15, 2007
Calling all North American Union apologists. Please see this: In a promotional tour for his new book, "Revolution of Hope," Fox told NPR's "Talk of the Nation" audience: "That's part of my Americas dream, that we can build our future together. We are partners with United States and Canada through...
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October 10, 2007
Continuing his book tour, former Mexican president Vicente Fox appeared on the Jon Stewart show (link). Like good, trained "liberals", the audience applauded this remark: "It's my impression that fear is guiding public opinion here" He also conflated legal cross-border trade with the border fence; the latter is, of course,...
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September 10, 2007
From this: Democratic Sen. Byron Dorgan plans to offer an amendment today that would block the controversial federal program allowing Mexican trucks to operate freely on roads across the U.S. Barry Piatt, spokesman for the North Dakota senator, told WND the amendment to the Fiscal 2008 Department of Transportation appropriations...
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From this: Official Mexican government reports reveal Mexico has entered discussions with the state of Texas and top officials in the Bush administration to extend the Trans-Texas Corridor into Mexico, with a plan to connect through Monterrey to the deep-water Mexican ports on the Pacific, including Manzanillo and Lazaro Cardenas....
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September 08, 2007
From this: Federal officials have confirmed that the first Mexican truckers have been given authorization to run their long-haul rigs throughout the United States under the Department of Transportation's Mexican trucking demonstration project. The word came during a late-night surprise teleconference held by John Hill, the administrator of the Federal...
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September 06, 2007
The beginning of "North American Union driver's license created/Logo intended to standardize documentation across continent" (link) certainly seems a bit tinfoilish. A map of North America appears on the back of the new type of North Carolina driver's licenses and the map looks somewhat like the map to be found...
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September 05, 2007
From this: The Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America summit in Canada released a plan that establishes U.N. law along with regulations by the World Trade Organization and World Health Organization as supreme over U.S. law during a pandemic and sets the stage for militarizing the management of continental...
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September 04, 2007
Rudy Giuliani claimed that he'd never heard of the "NAFTA Superhighway" but his law firm is deeply involved in the Texas leg of the project. Here's a relatively mild question I put together for the upcoming CNN/Youtube debate about that discrepancy; please go to his campaign appearances and try to...
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August 24, 2007
The Surete du Quebec has admitted that the three "black bloc"-style protesters at the recent Security and Prosperity Partnership meeting in Montebello were in fact police officers as a union leader has previously claimed. However, the Quebec police claim that they weren't there as "agents provocateurs" but were in fact...
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August 22, 2007
At the recent Security and Prosperity Partnership meeting in Canada, Canadian police may have used agent provocateurs in an attempt to discredit the crowd. We have received this communique: Video footage of the arrest of police officers posing as demonstrators at Montebello, August 20, will be shown today at a...
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From this: President Bush today sidestepped a direct question about whether he'd be willing to categorically deny there is a plan to create the North American Union. Instead, he ridiculed those who believe that is taking place as conspiracy theorists. Here's that portion of Bush's thoughts: "We represent three great...
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August 20, 2007
The leaders of the U.S. (George Bush), Canada (Stephen Harper), and Mexico (Felipe Calderon) are meeting in Montebello, Canada to discuss the SPP ("Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America", spp.gov). Some say, and I tend to mostly agree, this is the precursor to a North American Union in which...
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August 18, 2007
From this: Twenty-two members of the U.S. House of Representatives – 21 Republicans and a Democrat [Rep. Nancy Boyda, D-Kansas] – are urging President Bush to back off his North American integration efforts when he attends the third summit meeting on the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America next...
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Ben Feller of the Associated Press offers what's called here "Bush to Tighten Ties With Mexico, Canada". After an initial smackdown, it reads a bit like a Commerce Department press release: Never fond of interrupting his Texas vacation, President Bush is doing it this year to bolster ties with the...
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August 13, 2007
On July 30, Michael Luo of the New York Times offered the blog post "Rumors of a Superhighway", refering to the NAFTA variety. Apparently the candidates for president are being asked about it, but, as with other questions they're being asked the questions are too general and allow the candidates...
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July 25, 2007
Just because two mayors (Kay Barnes, formerly of Kansas City MO and Mick Cornett currently of Oklahoma City) and various other officials and business leaders from the U.S., Mexico and Canada signed something called the "Declaration of North American Integration" back in 2004 doesn't mean they support the fabled "North...
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June 21, 2007
From this: Activists already are preparing to protest the third summit meeting of the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America [scheduled for Aug. 20 and 21 in Montebello, Quebec, at the Fairmont Le Chateau Montebello resort], a trilateral initiative between the U.S., Canada and Mexico seen by critics as...
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June 05, 2007
From this: Under the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America, or SPP, the military of the United States and Canada are advancing NORTHCOM into a domestic military command structure, with authority extending to Mexico, even though Mexico has not formally joined with the current United States-Canadian NORTHCOM command structure....
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May 27, 2007
From this: A powerful think tank chaired by former Sen. Sam Nunn and guided by trustees including Richard Armitage, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Harold Brown, William Cohen and Henry Kissinger, is in the final stages of preparing a report to the White House and U.S. Congress on the benefits of integrating the...
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May 24, 2007
Philip Dine of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch offers 'Urban legend of "North American Union" feeds on fears'. That appears to be the original title, it doesn't appear to have been printed in his own paper, and it's accompanied by a handy chart listing other "urban legends". The latter are obvious...
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May 23, 2007
Continuing our long series of discussing how nothing in Wikipedia can be trusted and how - because it appears at the top of search results for nearly every term - it's little more than a disinformation source, plug the following into your browser: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Union You'll find yourself at the "Independent...
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May 10, 2007
Responding to his critics who say he's a guiding light behind the North American Union, Robert A. Pastor of the American University takes to the pages of WND offering his own rationalization for his plans: Third, I do not propose a North American Union; I propose a North American Community....
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May 08, 2007
From this: President Bush signed an agreement creating a "permanent body" that commits the U.S. to "deeper transatlantic economic integration," without ratification by the Senate as a treaty or passage by Congress as a law. The "Transatlantic Economic Integration" between the U.S. and the European Union was signed April 30...
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May 04, 2007
From this: ...At the center of negotiations for multiple legs of the Superhighway Corridor throughout Texas, is none other than Rudolph Giuliani's law firm which landed the Comprehensive Development Agreement for a widening of Interstate-35, now referred to as the TTC-35, in addition to the Master Development Plans for State...
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March 23, 2007
The Bush administration wants to allow about 100 Mexican trucking companies to drive beyond the border zone. The reciprocal NAFTA provision allowing U.S. truckers to drive throughout Mexico is still being negotiated. However, the scheme hit a speed bump recently, with an amendment tacked on to the recent Iraq spending...
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February 25, 2007
From this: The news that Mexican trucks will be allowed to haul freight deeper into the United States drew an angry reaction Friday from labor leaders, safety advocates and members of Congress. They said Mexico has substandard trucks and low-paid drivers that will threaten national security, cost thousands of jobs...
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The AP, always willing to act as a transcription service and not ask tough questions, offers: Promoting prosperity topped the agenda at a gathering of U.S., Canadian and Mexican Cabinet leaders Friday, but immigration and the threat of terrorism also were key topics at the gathering. Nine foreign and security...
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February 18, 2007
The article "'North American Union' plan under fire" by Kelly Patterson says: Officials on both sides of the border strongly deny the charges that they're engineering a North American Union. "All three governments are sovereign democracies, and the SPP work is the kind of standard intergovernmental diplomacy and co-ordination that...
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February 13, 2007
From January 3 comes this: If Canadians are going to debate the idea of a single North American currency, "now is the time it should be on the table," according to the chief economist at Toronto Dominion Bank [Don Drummond]... [...discussion of and promotion of the Euro...] ...So, if you...
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From this: As a prelude to a visit to Canada by U.S. President George W. Bush later this year, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will visit Ottawa this month for meetings with Foreign Affairs Minister Peter MacKay. Rice and U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff will be joined in Ottawa...
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January 30, 2007
Back in September, a semi-secret meeting of the "North American Forum" was held in Canada, and several very highly-placed supposed U.S. citizens attended, including a few from the U.S. Northern Command (NORTHCOM): * NORTHCOM Commander, Admiral Timothy Keating * Political Advisor Deborah Bolton * Plans, Policy & Strategy Director Major...
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January 28, 2007
Macquarie is an Australian conglomerate that has interests in U.S. toll roads, including one in Indiana that it co-owns with the Spanish conglomerate Cintra. The latter company will operate the Trans-Texas Corridor, and one of Macquarie's subsidiaries has just bought a chain of 40 small Texas newspapers, some of which...
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January 26, 2007
From the "I knew there was a conspiracy when they started denying there was a conspiracy" comes this: Congressmen and a policy official of the Department of Transportation engaged in a spirited exchange over whether NAFTA Super Highways were a threat to U.S. sovereignty or an imaginary "Internet conspiracy," such...
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January 21, 2007
This page has a compilation of links regarding the North American Union and possible predecessors in various trade pacts....
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January 15, 2007
WND has obtained copies of glossy brochures from the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (spp.gov) entitled "2005 Report to Leaders" and "2006 Report to Leaders". The brochures offer an overview of the "deep integration" of Canada, the U.S., and Mexico that many of our "leaders" have in mind....
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The Trans-Texas Corridor is a scheme to build a massive toll highway running through Texas from Mexico. It will be up to one-quarter of a mile wide, with four lanes for cars and trucks, rail lines, and oil and gas lines. As detailed here (reprinted here), it might only rarely...
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January 12, 2007
From this: Union Pacific is asking the Federal Railroad Administration to allow a train that regularly originates in Mexico to undergo safety inspections south of the border and enter without any checks in the U.S. ..."The Union Pacific wants the train safety inspections to be performed in Mexico, where U.S....
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January 05, 2007
Despite the mountain of evidence to the contrary, those who still don't believe that the North American Union - joining the U.S., Canada, and Mexico into one country - is being pushed by influential sources are invited to poke around this site: asu.edu/clas/nacts/bna The "Building North America" project began with...
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December 28, 2006
Talk show host Michael Medved has a tantrum in 'Shame on Demagogues Exploiting "North American Union"!' Today I spent a few minutes listening to another nationally syndicated talk radio show and felt outraged and embarrassed to hear the guest host (an otherwise bright and well-informed conservative) facilitating the twisted, ignorant...
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December 24, 2006
This page has a bit more information on those two NAU-related bills: ...HR 2672, entitled the "North American Cooperative Security Act," was introduced by Ms. Kathryn Harris, Mr. Steve Pearce and Mr. Christopher Shays on May 26, 2005. Since then, the bill has languished in the House Subcommittee on Intelligence,...
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December 15, 2006
American University professor Robert Pastor is one of the guiding lights of the move to join the U.S., Canada, and Mexico into one nation. WND spoke to him about statements he made in a Spanish-language magazine: This was the first time WND had found a major intellectual leader behind the...
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November 29, 2006
Arizona Sen. Karen Johnson (R-Mesa) has come out against the NAU, Howard Fischer of Capitol Media Services reports. She seems to have a good understanding of the issues involved: Johnson, who will head the Senate Education Committee this coming session, said the signs already are there, from an "inland port"...
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November 28, 2006
While Steve Previs of Jefferies International - where he's apparently a senior vice president - has been quoted in a few articles, he doesn't appear to be someone with much influence. So, this report is only interesting for the fact that this topic - which NAU apologists still try to...
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November 24, 2006
[List below updated 12/11/07] Recently, Rep. Tom Tancredo was quoted as saying this: "People have to understand what we're talking about here. The president of the United States is an internationalist... He is going to do what he can to create a place where the idea of America is just...
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November 01, 2006
From this: U.S.-Mexico relations could remain paralyzed unless leaders of the two nations and Canada formalize a North American partnership — akin to the European Union — before the U.S. baby boomer retirement wave hits in the next eight years, a ranking Mexican diplomat said here Tuesday. Enrique Berruga, Mexico's...
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October 30, 2006
Taking anything found at RawStory with a very large grain of salt is recommended, but aside from that one wonders why Ron Brynaert would seek to downplay the NAU (10/25/06, "Minutemen 'expose' Bush's 'shadow government'"). Skepticism is generally good, and fact-checking is great. But, cheerleading is definitely something to wonder...
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October 29, 2006
Republican Reps. Virgil Goode Jr. (VA), Tom Tancredo (CO), Walter Jones (NC), and Ron Paul (TX) have introduced a resolution (487): Expressing the sense of Congress that the United States should not engage in the construction of a North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) Superhighway System or enter into a...
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The new site Stop the SPP has more documents on the Security and Prosperity Partnership (precursor to the North American Union) obtained under a FOIA request....
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October 17, 2006
From this: The master plan for merging the U.S., Mexico and Canada is being devised in American University's Center for North American Studies whose faculty is subsidized by the U.S. State Department through the Fulbright Program. For example, joining the center this fall as a visiting chairman in North American...
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October 02, 2006
From this: Rep. Virgil Goode Jr., R-Va., has introduced a resolution – H.R. 487 – designed to express "the sense of Congress that the United States should not engage in the construction of a North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) Superhighway System or enter into a North American Union (NAU)...
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From this: ...The [Yuma] Sun previously reported that Union Pacific officials are researching Yuma as a route to ship cargo from 130 miles south of Tijuana into the United States. Landowners throughout Yuma told The Sun that they had been approached by Union Pacific officials about property acquisition. Chris Peterson,...
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September 29, 2006
From this: State transportation officials say that, with the expected approval today of a master plan on the Trans-Texas Corridor's Interstate 35 twin, they can now release previously confidential documents that have sparked a lawsuit and played a prominent role in the governor's race. The release of the documents, assuming...
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September 27, 2006
Jerome Corsi and others have obtained around 1000 pages of documents after a FOIA request to the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (spp.gov): Government documents released by a Freedom of Information Act request reveal the Bush administration is running a "shadow government" with Mexico and Canada in which...
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September 25, 2006
Just keep repeating to yourself, "it's just a dialogue". From N. American students trained for 'merger': In another example of the way the three nations of North America are being drawn into a federation, or "merger," students from 10 universities in the U.S., Mexico and Canada are participating annually in...
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September 24, 2006
SPP.gov - home of the "Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America" - has somewhat responded to the increasing attention they've been getting by posting a "Myths & Facts" section: spp.gov/myths_vs_facts.asp After glancing at that page, take a look at the long response in "Bush Administration Advances on Path of...
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Jerome Corsi has more here: "What is sinister about this meeting is that it involved high level government officials and some of the top and most powerful business leaders of the three countries and the North American Forum in organizing the meeting intentionally did not inform the press in any...
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September 20, 2006
From this: ...from Sept. 12 to 14, in Banff Springs, [Canadian] Minister of Public Safety Stockwell Day and [Canadian] Defence Minister Gordon O'Connor met with U.S. and Mexican government officials and business leaders to discuss North American integration at the second North American Forum. According to leaked documents, the guest...
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September 13, 2006
From a November 18, 2003 press release from Texas State Representative Timoteo "Timo" Garza (Eagle Pass) (link): [Garza] offered to help U.S. Senators John Cornyn and Kay Bailey Hutchinson find solutions to the problems created by the proposed implementation of the U.S. VISIT (Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology) Program......
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September 12, 2006
More from Jerome Corsi: Another NAFTA Super-Highway is moving state-by-state from the planning stage to the funding and construction process. As listed on the U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Highway Administration's website [link], the "I-69 Corridor" is planned to connect Mexico and Canada through Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky,...
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September 08, 2006
From the Canadian government's Industry Canada site comes the September 7 progress report "Ministers Report to Leaders on Security and Prosperity Partnership Initiatives" (tinyurl.com/gavv3): The Honourable Peter MacKay, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister of the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency, the Honourable Stockwell Day, Minister of Public Safety, and the...
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August 29, 2006
From this: The NAFTA superhighway, a north-south interstate trade corridor linking Mexico, Canada and the U.S., would mean U.S. truckers replaced by Mexicans, more unsafe rigs on American roads and more drivers relying on drugs for their long hauls, charges the International Brotherhood of Teamsters – the latest group to...
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From Rep. Ron Paul: Globalists and one-world promoters never seem to tire of coming up with ways to undermine the sovereignty of the United States. The most recent attempt comes in the form of the misnamed "Security and Prosperity Partnership Of North America (SPP)." In reality, this new "partnership" will...
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August 24, 2006
From this: Democratic congressional challenger Nancy Boyda repeated concerns Wednesday about a proposed multilane superhighway that eventually could span the United States from Mexico to Canada, calling it a threat to Kansans. "There seems to be a plan to blur the border with the United States and Mexico," Boyda said,...
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August 21, 2006
Alan Caruba: The problem with the Bush administration is that not enough of its officials have read the U.S. Constitution. Take, for example, Section 2 of Article 2. When dealing with foreign nations, it says that the President "shall have the power, by and with the advice and consent of...
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July 26, 2006
Jerome Corsi continues his series with "Meet Robert Pastor: Father of the North American Union": ...As we are taught in grade school, George Washington is the Father of our nation. If the North American Union comes into existence as the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) asserts, then we all better...
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July 25, 2006
In the past I've had some bad things to say about Senator John Cornyn, and he is the sponsor of one of the Senate's amnesty schemes. While he's now come out against the NAU, pay especial attention to the last paragraph of this snippet: Responding to information from WorldNetDaily, Sen....
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July 22, 2006
John Hawkins at RightWingNews deserves credit for not supporting Bush as strongly as others did, often in a juvenile (BlogsForBush), sleazy (RedState) or underhanded (Insty) manner. However, he does have the major failing that he thinks the North American Union is simply tinfoil talk. Jerome Corsi responds to him in...
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July 21, 2006
From this: Through a series of acquisitions including Mexican railroads, Kansas City Southern (KCS, NYSE: KSE) has declared itself the nation’s first NAFTA Railroad. On April 1, 2005, KCS completed the acquisition of Mexican Railroad TFM, S.A. de C.V., an acquisition which gained for KCS all the common stock of...
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July 20, 2006
In June, Jerome Corsi sent a FOIA request to the Commerce Department asking for information on the "Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America", aka the precursor to the possible North American Union. According to statute, Commerce should have responded within 20 days, and they have not: "We thought we...
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From this: A congressman is pressing the Department of Commerce to fully disclose a congressionally unauthorized plan to implement a trilateral agreement with Mexico and Canada that critics say could lead to a North American union. Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Ala., chairman of the Subcommittee on Management, Integration and Oversight of...
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July 18, 2006
More from Jerome Corsi: The Port Authority of San Antonio has been working actively with the Communist Chinese to open and develop NAFTA shipping ports in Mexico. The plan is to ship containers of cheap goods produced by under-market labor in China and the Far East into North America via...
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July 14, 2006
In 2005, the CFR came out with a 59-page document called "Building a North American Community". Almost every top government official of the past several decades has been a member of that group, and for that and other reasons one might assume they have a great deal of influence. WND...
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July 13, 2006
Welcome to the Clinton administration, Parts 3 and 4: U.S. Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez said the U.S. needs immigrants to meet the employment needs of a growing economy and urged Congress to approve immigration legislation that includes a temporary-worker program. Gutierrez said there were 4.1 million U.S. job openings in...
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July 11, 2006
Bud Kennedy is a columnist for the Dallas Star-Telegram, and back on June 29 he offered "Few minutes with Minutemen is plenty of time for GOP group": The Texas Minutemen brought their borderline paranoia to the heart of Aggieland this week. A Republican club invited the Wise County-based Minutemen to...
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Continuing Jerome Corsi's series: With virtually no mention in the mainstream media, Commerce Secretary Carlos M. Gutierrez convened on June 15, the first meeting of the North American Competitiveness Council (NACC), an apparently extra-constitutional advisory group organized by the Department of Commerce (DOC) under the auspices of the Security and...
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July 06, 2006
Jerome Corsi continues his series on the plan to create a North American Union with the news that NASCO now offers blurbs on their website attempting to debunk unnamed press articles about their scheme. Corsi provides evidence supporting his claims. Previously: "Bush Administration Erases U.S. Borders With Mexico and Canada"...
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June 28, 2006
Here's the latest from Jerome Corsi: The Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP), signed by President Bush with Mexico and Canada in Waco, Tex., on March 23, 2005, was fundamentally an agreement to erase our borders with Mexico and Canada. As I have documented below, the SPP "working groups" organized within...
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June 23, 2006
This site has linked to a few recent articles from Jerome Corsi about the plans to create a "North American Union", a superstate consisting of Canada, the U.S., and Mexico. The article about the plan to create a massive highway running down the center of the U.S. has generated the...
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Continuing Jerome Corsi's series on the general plan to create a North American Union comes this: The Trans-Texas Corridor (TTC) is ready to begin construction in 2007, building the first segment of what is planned to be a NAFTA Super Highway stretching from Mexico to Canada. As we have previously...
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June 19, 2006
This page is a bit tinfoilish, but it does provide some useful background information on the attempt to join the U.S., Canada, and Mexico into an EU-style superstate. Previously: "North American Union Would Trump U.S. Supreme Court"...
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Continuing this disturbing series of articles, Jerome Corsi has more on the plan to create the "North American Union": The Bush Administration is pushing to create a North American Union out of the work on-going in the Department of Commerce under the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America in...
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June 14, 2006
Here's another article in Jerome Corsi's series about Bush and others trying to build a "North American Community", i.e., an EU-style superstate consisting of the U.S., Canada, and Mexico: Quietly but systematically, the Bush Administration is advancing the plan to build a huge NAFTA Super Highway, four football-fields-wide, through the...
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June 13, 2006
From this: Despite having no authorization from Congress, the Bush administration has launched extensive working-group activity to implement a trilateral agreement with Mexico and Canada. The membership of the working groups has not been published, nor has their work product been disclosed, despite two years of massive effort within the...
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May 28, 2006
The recent article "Michael Douglas backs U.N. gun ban" leads us on a wild ride through the fevered imaginations of globalists everywhere: Actor Michael Douglas – who for many years has been designated by the United Nations as a "U.N. peace messenger" – is backing the global body's upcoming conference...
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May 24, 2006
From this: Without announcing his intentions to do so, President Bush has decided to support the creation of a North American Union through a process of governmental regulations, never having to bring the issue before the American people for a clear referendum or vote. The Bush Administration has decided to...
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May 20, 2006
A Kossack named Ben Masel offers "A Radical Immigration Plan: Erase the Border": dailykos.com/story/2006/5/20/112725/240 The author was described in 1996 as Madison's [WI] own pot promoter, former candidate for Dane County sheriff and Libertarian candidate for Congress. He's also the Wisconsin chapter president of the National Organization for the Reform...
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March 06, 2006
At the end of the month, George W Bush (U.S.) will be meeting with Vicente Fox (Mexico) and Stephen Harper (Canada) in Cancun. Among other topics, they'll be discussing what amounts to turning the United States into part of an EU-style superstate: White House press secretary Scott McClellan said the...
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February 26, 2006
The editorial "Consider an open border with Mexico" from Oregon's Albany Democrat-Herald has to be read to be believed. They are literally supporting an open border with Mexico: ...We have the North American Free Trade Agreement, which links the economies of the United States, Mexico and Canada. But this arrangement...
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January 13, 2006
The Economist offers a fairly stock article about HR4437 and the fence in the unsigned article "Shots across the border". It contains this highly questionable bit: Perhaps Mr Fox's biggest mistake has been his failure to lobby effectively over migration on Capitol Hill. Andres Rozental, who heads the Mexican Council...
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December 14, 2005
That's the headline to this article. "HOTW" means "Headline of the Week". Over to Vicente Fox: "This situation we're seeing, a shameful, embarrassing moment where walls are being built, security systems are being reinforced, and human and labor rights are being violated more and more, won't protect the economy of...
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November 09, 2005
The USDA is promoting social welfare benefits to "Mexicans". Some of those are new U.S. citizens, some are legal immigrants from that country, and some are illegal aliens. And, the U.S. government is working with the Mexican government to get U.S. benefits to those people, thereby including Mexico's citizens who...
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November 04, 2005
America's bestest friend, Vicente Fox, wants to revive the FTAA discussions. Just because Hugo Chavez (D-Venezuela) is opposed to the FTAA doesn't make it a good thing. In fact, it's a horrid idea and a step down the road to a "North American Community". For his part, our Lider Jorge...
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October 24, 2005
The plan to create a North American Community - an EU-style superstate consisting of Canada, Mexico, and the U.S. - has been covered here in the past. And, no, it's not tinfoil talk, it's something that both the CFR and the Cato Institute support, and even our own "American" president...
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July 20, 2005
Joseph Farah: ...The shadow government – the elitists – do indeed have a plan. And it is a plan that does not include any vestige of U.S. sovereignty or constitutional government. It is a plan for merger – a European Union-style government for North America and eventually the rest of...
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July 18, 2005
From Bill Graves, Oklahoma City lawyer and former state representative: Congress is debating the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), also known as son of NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement). America presumably benefits from "free" trade, and CAFTA allegedly will open up billions in trade between the United States...
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On that date, Cornyn will be having a live chat between 2:45 and 3:15pm (Dallas time) at this site. You can submit questions in advance. I suggest that everyone asks him why he hasn't renounced Cato's proposal to create an EU-style North American Community. Read up on that proposal in...
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July 15, 2005
Raul Hinojosa-Ojeda is an associate professor of political economy at the University of California at Los Angeles, and the MSM frequently turns to him for a "Latino" viewpoint. For instance from 2001: -- IMMIGRATION: The recently released UCLA study on the economic impact of the broad legalization of undocumented Mexican...
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July 14, 2005
Phyllis Schlafly: The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) has just let the cat out of the bag about what's really behind our trade agreements and security partnerships with the other North American countries. A 59-page CFR document spells out a five-year plan for the "establishment by 2010 of a North...
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July 06, 2005
From "FAIR's Statement Regarding Proposed CAFTA Treaty": ...The negative implications of the CAFTA provisions for illegal immigration to the United States are likely to be caused by the same effects that have generated increased illegal immigration from Mexico under the North American Free Trade Act. As the 2000 Census revealed,...
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June 29, 2005
Phyllis Schlafly: ...Just as the French and Dutch were suspicious of the dangers lurking in the 485-page EU constitution, Americans are wary of the dangers hiding in the 92-page CAFTA legislation plus the 31 pages that purport to spell out the administrative actions the U.S. must take in compliance. No...
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June 28, 2005
For future reference comes this statement from Rep. Charlie Norwood (R-GA): A CATO Institute-sponsored report intended to discredit efforts to secure the U.S. border has instead bolstered findings that immediate deployment of troops in support of the Border Patrol is the only means of stopping the current hordes of illegal...
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June 14, 2005
Isn't it going to be great when the U.S., Canada, and Mexico give up their old-fashioned ideas of national sovereignty and join hands and forces as the North American Community? I can hardly wait. If you too are ready to think of yourself as a North American rather than just...
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June 06, 2005
Jorge Castaneda, Mexico's former foreign secretary, recently spoke at a conference in San Antonio, and: For the U.S., Mexico and Canada, a secure and prosperous future hinges on an increased level of integration that would create a type of "North American Economic Community," Mexican presidential hopeful Jorge Castaneda told reporters...
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April 20, 2005
MEXICO CITY -- More than a dozen legal Mexican and Central American migrant workers recruited by U.S. companies filed a complaint Wednesday alleging they were abused and denied rights guaranteed by the North American Free Trade Agreement. The complaint, filed with the Mexican government under the companion labor agreement to...
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March 25, 2005
A flashback from just over three years ago: OTTAWA - Mexico wants its North American neighbours to move more quickly towards integration on a continental scale, the country's [former] foreign secretary [Jorge Castaneda] said on Friday... "We would like to continentalize as much as possible," he said. ...What Mexico wants,...
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March 16, 2005
From "Task force urges ‘North American community'": The United States, Canada and Mexico should form a "common security perimeter" as part of a broad security and economic plan aimed at boosting trade and bolstering the continent's borders, a tri-national task for report urged Monday. "Our vision of North America is...
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March 11, 2005
On March 23 the leaders of the U.S., Mexico, and Canada will meet at Baylor University and at Bush's ranch: The meeting is to discuss the New Partnership in North America plan which aims to increase security, prosperity and quality of life for the people of Canada, the U.S. and...
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