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Summary Kansas City, MO has been tapped thing, we’re talking about the The effort began in 2005, yet there to serve as an “inland port” to handle integration of into the United has been little national media coverage, imports and exports among the three States. For them to hold this meeting in no congressional hearings and no nations. Operating quietly, Kansas City secret and to make every effort to avoid national debate over the most significant has already designated $2.5 million of anybody learning about it, right away policy changes in American history. By its taxpayer’s money to establish the you’ve got to be hugely concerned.” most accounts, the Bush Administration port. Now, the Mexican government Canadian author Mel Hurtig after has been operating in secret for at least is demanding that it have its own attending the SPP meeting in Banff, three years to establish what can only be inspection site in Kansas City to inspect Canada, September 12, 2006 described as a North American Union its own trucks. It also is demanding that The joint statement on the SPP, with and Canada, along the the land its port will sit on will officially issued on March, 23, 2005 described same lines as the . become Mexican sovereign territory. it as an initiative to: “…establish a If that happens it can only mean an The official effort began on March common approach to security to protect eventual end to the U.S. Constitution as 23, 2005, after a summit, held at from external threats, our ruling document, replaced instead President Bush’s ranch in Waco, TX. It prevent and respond to threats within with a new North American Government. was attended by President Bush, (then) North America, and further streamline That is what is happening in Europe today Mexican President , and the security and efficient movement of as once sovereign and historic nations (then) Canadian Prime Minister Paul legitimate, low-risk traffic across our have given up control of their own Martin. The three leaders announced shared borders.” governance. It can and will eventually the signing of an agreement to create The White House has established lead to the surrender of U.S. sovereignty, common policies concerning various the SPP office in the North American independence, and national borders. economic and security areas among the Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) office three nations. If current plans are fulfilled, it will in the U.S. Department of Commerce, result in the establishment of a North Officially, the term “North where it has worked in virtual American currency called the “Amero,” American Union” is not being used. for two years. As the process proceeds, as the dollar is junked; the U.S. will Instead, the agreement authorized the SPP groups have not released public provide the army for defense; and the twenty tri-national “working groups” to reports on their activities. U.S. may provide benefits such as establish the “Security and Prosperity Over the past three years, at Social Security and other U.S. tax-paid Partnership” (SPP). The concept is least 20 SPP working groups have programs for those who are now citizens being sold as simply a new framework produced a number of memorandums of of Mexico and Canada. Gone will be U.S. within which the member nations can understanding and trilateral declarations citizenship, as we will all be regarded as create free trade and security within the of agreement. These agreements cover “North Americans.” Gone will be any North American continent. However, a wide variety of issues including: kind of border control between the three based on working documents, the energy, transportation, financial nations of North America. intent to create the North American services (including loan and foreign aid Union is impossible to hide. The Plans are well underway to establish policy), communications, technology, trilateral agreement, signed as a joint environmental policy, rules under a NAFTA Super Highway, to be the declaration, has not been submitted width of eight football fields. It will which businesses will operate, food to Congress for review.There is no and agriculture policy, health policy, run from Mexico to Canada, running congressional oversight. through the middle of the . e-commerce, aviation policy, border No tariffs or direct inspections will be Security and Prosperity and policy, and the means enforced as trucks from Mexico and Partnership (SPP) for multiple governmental agencies to interact. They may be viewed on the Canada drive through this nation. Only “The public has been kept in the dark Internet at www.spp.gov. The Bush electronic scanning will be used to while business elites have played a Administration has denied that the inspect the trucks as they travel down lead role in designing the blueprint for SPP is operating in secret. Yet it has the highway. No border inspections will this more integrated North America.” not released the names of those in the be performed. Trucks will not be opened Toronto Star, September 20, 2006 and cargos inspected. working groups. “We’re talking about such an important The working groups are now laying  the foundation for a European Union- other during domestic civil emergency, However, according to a report on style integration of the North American even one that does not involve a cross- the SPP written by Former Canadian continent. Throughout their documents border crisis. The agreement with Prime Minster Paul Martin, one of the the terms “convergence” “harmonization” Canada, combined with the agreement three heads of state involved in the and “integration” are used frequently made at Montebello with the Mexican March 23, 2005 meeting with Bush to describe policy relationships with military are clearly moves to create a and Fox, writes “Thus, on March 23, Mexico and Canada. North American army. President Bush, President Fox and As the working groups prepare their On March 13, 2008, a meeting was I signed the Security and Prosperity policy papers, high-level tri-national held at the U.S. State Department in Partnership of North America…” The meetings are regularly held in rotation Washington, D.C. to discuss integration full report by Mr. Martin may be read on in the three nations. At one of the first, of the U.S., Mexico and Canada with a the Internet at: www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/ officials of the three nations quietly move toward linking a North American cip-pic/ips/ips-overview2-en.asp. met in , Canada September 12 community with the European Union. Former Mexican President Vicente – 14, 2006. Former Secretary of State No members of Congress attended the Fox has also been very open about his was a joint chairman meeting. Several participants of the intentions for the SPP. Speaking in Madrid, of the meeting with his counterparts meeting said the premise of the SPP in 2002 he said, “Eventually our from Mexico and Canada. Also in is to create a North American business long-range objective is to establish with active attendance were Secretary of platform to benefit North America-based the United States…an ensemble of Defense , Admiral multinational companies the way the connections and institutions similar to Tim Keating, Commander of NORAD, European Union benefits its own. They those created by the European Union, and , a key advocate of the seek a “convergence” of administrative with the goal of attending to future creation of a North American Union. rules and regulations between Europe themes as important as…the freedom of Discussions at the conference included and North America. Again, participants movement of capital, goods and services “A Vision for North America,” “Toward seek to break down national borders and and persons. The new framework we a North American Energy Strategy,” and abandon national sovereignty. wish to construct is inspired in the “Demographic and Social Dimensions In April 2008, the three leaders example of the European Union.” of North American Integration.” will again meet in yet another SPP Why is the Bush Administration not A second high-level meeting was meeting in New Orleans. Areas where open about its SPP plans? One obvious held August 19-21, 2007 in Montebello, they intend to make further progress answer is because they are doing this Canada and was attended by President include harmonization in the areas of without congressional approval and it is Bush, Canadian Prime Minister Steven bio-fuel, health, IT products and RFID therefore illegal. Harper and Mexican President Felipe technology. Such technology is being Council on Foreign Calderon. Topics discussed were used to create documents that track Relations Blue Print integrating and harmonizing regulations citizen movement, not only around their between Mexico, Canada and the U.S. countries, but internationally as well, Many SPP working groups appear and providing U.S. military assistance creating an international ID card. to be driving toward achieving specific objectives as defined by a May, 2005 to Mexico. Most of the agenda was As the three leaders and their high Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) task shrouded in secrecy with few media level administration officials continue force report, which presented a blueprint announcements of plans and agreements to meet to forge what can only be for expanding the SPP agreement into discussed at the Summit. The agenda described as a North American Union, a North American Union that would for the Montebello meeting was clearly the Bush Administration has repeatedly merge the U.S., Canada and Mexico into driven by the American Competitiveness denied that the President ever signed an a new governmental form. Council representing top 10 agreement with Canada and Mexico. multinational corporations from each of The Administration has established The CFR report is entitled “Building the three nations seeking ways to open a “Myths and Facts” section to the a North American Community,” and borders and integrate private business Security and Prosperity Partnership is essentially a five-year plan for into government policy making. web page to attempt to counter the implementing the North American At yet another meeting on February arguments of those now exposing the Union. It may be viewed at the CFR 14, 2008, in a ceremony that received SPP. The site blatantly says, “The Internet web sight at www.cfr.org. virtually no attention in the American SPP is a dialogue to increase security A member of the CFR taskforce, Dr. news media, the United States and and enhance prosperity among the Robert Pastor, wrote a book, published in Canada signed a military agreement three countries. The SPP is not an 2001, entitled “Toward a North American allowing the armed forces from one agreement nor is it a treaty. In fact, Community.” The CFR taskforce report nation to support the armed forces of the no agreement was ever signed.” and the official SPP agreement carry

  almost identical language as Pastor’s Commission, a North American Military current use of eminent domain by local book. Though the Bush Administration Defense Command, a North American communities in partnership with private denies a connection to Dr. Pastor’s book Customs Office and a North American developers simply considers all property or to the CFR’s report, Dr. Pastor has Development Bank. to be common land of the State, to be represented the United States in SPP The task force report is important used as it sees fit for some unidentified meetings, including (as mentioned above) in the debate over the official Security community good. the recent meeting in Alberta, Canada. and Prosperity Partnership operation The government gains the higher The book, the CFR task force and the because, though the Bush Administration taxes created by new development. The SPP agreement call for the establishment denies any connection to the CFR report, developer gets the revenue from the of a North American Competitiveness the language used in the CFR task force work. The immediate losers, of course, Council to pull the private sector into report and SPP documents, so far, have are the property owners. But other the SPP process. In addition, all three proven to be nearly identical. Clearly citizens lose too. Communities give up call for the establishment of a “North the CFR task force report is being used control of their infrastructure. Voters American Advisory Council,” which is as the blue print to establish the North lose control of their government. to be an “independent body of advisors,” American Union. Private companies are now composed of “eminent persons from What is the Driving Force systematically buying up water outside the government.” for the NAU? Public / treatment plants in communities, in In 2002, Dr. Pastor addressed the Private Partnerships effect, gaining control of the water Trilateral Commission, calling for the supply. And they are buying control of establishment of a North American It’s not just the three governments the U.S. highway systems through PPPs Investment Fund that would supplement and their agencies which are putting with state departments of transportation. World Bank funds expended in a trilateral together the Security and Prosperity Because of a PPP, one million Texans effort to develop Mexico economically. Partnership. Private corporations are are about to lose their land for the Trans The May 2005 CFR report called for the also a strong force driving the policy. Texas Corridor (TTC), a major plank in same fund. Efforts are now underway in They are working together with the the SPP agenda. the SPP to officially establish the fund. governments in what are commonly referred to as Public/Private Partnerships In September 2007, in New The CFR Task Force calls for the (PPPs). Such arrangements are York City at a meeting of the North “creation by 2010 of a North American becoming the fastest growing process American Public/Private Partnership community to enhance security, to impose such policy. In the U.S., state and Infrastructure Finance conference, prosperity, and opportunity. We propose legislatures are passing laws which call attendees were told that there is $100 a community based on the principle for the implementation of PPPs. billion (and perhaps as much as $400 affirmed in the March, 2005 Joint billion) available for PPP financing of Statement of the three leaders (of the NAFTA, GATT, CAFTA and the new privately operated toll roads in three nations) that ‘our security and SPP institutionalize PPPs as the accepted the US, with the majority of the funds prosperity are mutually dependent and way to implement policy. coming from foreign investments. complementary.’ Its boundaries will be Beware, these bonds between Many of the contracts between defined by a common external tariff and government and private international government and private corporations an outer security perimeter within which corporations are a double-edged sword. contain provisions like a “no- the movement of people, products and They come armed with government’s compete clause.” Such clauses give capital will be legal, orderly, and safe.” power to tax and enforce policy the corporations the power to charge To those ends, the CFR report called and government’s power to enforce whatever they want for Americans to for establishment of a common security eminent domain. At the same time, the travel on their highways. As one speaker border perimeter around North America private corporations use their wealth at the conference, Dennis Enright by 2010, along with free movement and extensive advertising budgets to pointed out, “If the Holland Tunnel of people, commerce and capital to entrench the policy into our national were run by a PPP, the fee today would be facilitated by the establishment of conscience. Banks and mortgage be $180 per car – not $6.” If there is a North American Border Pass that companies in the partnership can no alternative route to get off Manhattan would replace a U.S. passport for travel enforce policy by forcing borrowers to Island, what choice do drivers have? between the U.S., Canada and Mexico. comply as a stipulation for loans. That’s monopoly. Also envisioned by the CFR task Private developers which have Foreign companies are being met force are: a North American Court, a entered into a PPP with local government, with open arms by local, state and North American inter-parliamentary for example, can now obtain the power federal officials who see a way to use group, A North American Executive of eminent domain to build on land private corporations and their massive not open to competitors. The fact is,

  bank accounts to fund projects. As the done at the expense of ordinary people not want to get the contact people of Associated Press reported July 15, – the exact opposite of free markets the working groups distracted by calls 2006, “On a single day in June (2006) controlled by consumers. from the public.” Yet, the SPP denies it an Australian-Spanish partnership This then, is the future offered by is working in secret. paid $3.6 billion to lease the Indiana the Security and Prosperity Partnership The Bush Administration justifies its Toll Road. An Australian company – corporate fascism and all-powerful SPP efforts as being an extension of the bought a 99 year lease on Virginia’s government, it’s not prosperity. It’s not North American Free Trade Agreement Pocahontas Parkway, and Texas security. And it’s not freedom. (NAFTA). Administration officials say officials decided to let a Spanish- No Congressional the SPP is just an extension of NAFTA American partnership build and run and that no further congressional Authorization or Oversight a toll road for 50 years.” involvement is required. Said Robert Private companies operating in the “The SPP was not created by a treaty Pastor in an article in the CFR’s Foreign free market lack one thing government has between the nations involved, nor was Affairs, “NAFTA was merely the first – the power of coercion. The free market Congress involved in any way. Instead, draft of an economic constitution for operates with the consumer making the the SPP is an unholy alliance of foreign North America.” Said U.S. Secretary of decisions based on personal choice. consortiums and officials from several Commerce , “The SPP Under PPPs the choices are decided for governments.” Congressman seeks to build on NAFTA.” you in meetings behind closed doors, The Bush Administration says In 1994 as NAFTA was being such as the SPP’s working groups. the SPP is not a treaty, nor a formal debated, Members of Congress and Meanwhile, private corporations agreement, but rather a dialog among the concerned Americans who questioned that are not part of a PPP are unable three nations. As Congressman Ron Paul the plan to create NAFTA were assured to compete with those that are. They said in August 2006, “What is a dialog? that increased trade was the pact’s only are shut out of competition from the We don’t know. What we do know is goal. Similar lured Europeans establishment of economic development that Congressional oversight of what into accepting the European Union. zones like NAFTA and GATT and might be one of the most significant NAFTA’s harmful effects on jobs, CAFTA which provide the chosen elite developments in recent history is non- businesses and immigration control with such perks as reduced real estate existent. Congress has no role at all in cannot be denied. But the pact is also taxes, financial aid and easily-obtained a “dialog” that many see as a plan for a serving as the legal basis for destroying building and manufacturing permits. North American Union.” U.S. independence. Companies that find themselves outside To date, Congress has passed no NAFTA Super Highway - The of the elite status of the PPP may legislation to authorize the activities of Trans-Texas Corridor (TTC) suddenly run into regulatory difficulties the SPP, nor appropriated funds that it to get their own projects completed. It’s is now spending. Congress has had no The Denial not just a coincidence. official involvement in the process and “The Administration is not engaged PPPs are one of the reasons why many has no oversight. Many members of in a secret plan to create a NAFTA people find they can no longer fight city Congress have denied any knowledge Superhighway.” Vice President hall. Private companies gain the power of the activities of the SPP. Democrat Dick Cheney Congressman Barney Frank (D-MA) has of government to do as they please – and “I am not familiar with any plans at said “It (SPP) was done for the United government earns the independence of the all, related to NAFTA or cross-border States solely by the President, with no companies, no longer needing to answer traffic.” Jeffery Shane, Undersecretary Congressional involvement.” to voters. It’s the perfect partnership, but of Transportation, Bush Administration it isn’t freedom. Congressman , (R- “I’m amused by the difference between Colo) has demanded that the Bush Such a process allows the private what actually takes place in the meetings Administration fully disclose the companies to be little more than and what some are trying to say takes activities of the SPP working groups, government-sanctioned monopolies, place… it’s quite comical, actually.” including revealing the names of the answerable to no one. Their power is President Bush answering a Fox News members of those groups. No answers awesome and near absolute. Some call question about a North American Union to his demands have yet been received such policy corporatism. Another term during a wrap up news conference at the from the Bush Administration, though would be corporate fascism. Montebello Summit, August 2007 the activity continues to move forward. Ultimately, corporate fascism does Geri Word, head of the SPP office, The Truth not trust the marketplace to do what located in the Commerce Department, the elites want. Thus, the alignment “Look at the NAFTA corridor as the told World Net Daily that the work has of corporations and government is trunk of the tree, one that hooks up not been disclosed because “we did Mexico and all those markets down

  there with the industrial heartland “We have to stay away from (the overpasses, fire, police, ambulances of our country, as well as the most term) ‘SuperCorridor’ because it is a and school buses will not be able to important economic centers of very bad hot button right now.” Tiffany serve their communities. Property Canada.” Clinton Administration Melvin, Executive Director of NASCO in owners may find it cuts through the testimony to the House Subcommittee an email to NASCO members, discovered middle of their land. To get from one on Surface Transportation, 1995 through Freedom of Information requests. side of their property to the other may “The Trans Texas Corridor is not just the She wrote this after the plans for the TTC require travel of several miles to an NAFTA Superhighway, but the Logistical began to be exposed in the media. overpass, if there is one. Trans-Corridor of North America, The Super Transnational System The TxDOT originally sold the idea uniting Mexico, the US and Canada.” includes multiple lanes for cars and of the TTC as being nothing more than Jose Natividad Gonsales, Governor of trucks. Plans call for a ten lane, limited highway improvement to anticipate the Mexican province of Nuevo Leon. access highway to parallel I-35. It will traffic growth over the next few decades. U.S. Transportation Secretary Mary have three lanes each way for passenger That is not true. There are few exit Peters was in attendance cars, two express lanes each way for ramps planned. Car lanes will be in the At the same ceremony, according trucks. Mexican and Canadian cars center of the corridor. There will be few to the Mexican press, Mexico’s and trucks will be allowed to travel opportunities to get on and off the TTC. transportation secretary used the occasion the highway, over the U.S. border with Communities now depending on traffic to announce that Mexican President no inspections. The highway will also from existing highways for local revenue Felipe Calderon and President Bush carry rail lines plus a utility corridor for from such services as restaurants and gas had agreed to create “an economically oil and natural gas pipelines, electric stations will lose that business. Instead, integrated North America.” towers, cables for communications and the Spanish company Cintra which has telephone lines. Speed limits will be the 50-year lease to build and operate “One principle player is a Spanish relaxed as well as safety inspections the TTC, will establish facilities down construction company, which plans for vehicles from Mexico and Canada. the center of the corridor and control to build the highway and operate it as Trucks will be allowed to carry extra and profit from that business. a toll road. But don’t be fooled: the tonnage and be extra long. A Railway superhighway proposal is not the result The key to the lease with Cintra is a system will travel up the center of the legal document called a “Comprehensive of free market demand, but rather an highway, allowing Mexican railroad extension of government-managed Development Agreement” (CDA). companies to enter the U.S. and travel These contracts often include equity trade schemes like NAFTA that benefit up the highway. politically-correct interests.” Texas guarantees, debt guarantees, exchange Congressman Ron Paul Several such highways are rate guarantees, subordinated loans, contemplated. Environmental impact shadow toll payments, and minimum “The Oklahoma-to-Mexico stretch studies have already been completed. revenue guarantees. In other words, the would be just the first link in a 4,000 The Texas highway, called the Trans state has signed a 50-year lease with mile, $184 billion network. The corridor Texas Corridor (TTC) will be a quarter of Cintra, giving it absolute guarantees of a would be up to a quarter mile across, a mile wide. It will travel straight up the specific rate of return on its investment. consisting of as many as six lanes for center of Texas. It will take by eminent TxDOT is turning over assets paid for cars and four for trucks, plus railroad domain more than 580 thousand acres by the taxpayers of Texas and (through tracks, oil and gas pipelines, water of private land, much of it prime Texas a no-compete clause) guarantees that and other utility lines, and broadband farmland. It will displace more than one no other highway will compete in any cables.” Associated Press, July 21, 2006 million Texans. way with the TTC. For Cintra to achieve Quietly, the Bush Administration is The full plan for the TTC by the these revenue guarantees means there working to advance a plan to build super Texas Department of Transportation is no way for the Texas government to highways through the heart of the United outlines 4,000 miles of corridors that control what Cintra charges for tolls States to transport goods from Mexico crisscross the state. The corridor is and there will be no alternative route for and Canada. The highways are part of so wide that it will literally divide drivers to take if the tolls are too high. the original North American Free Trade the state in two. There are very few Moreover, once built there will be Agreement, (NAFTA). The plan is now plans for overpasses to cross it, yet no chance for anyone or any community being advanced through an operation it will be impossible to cross without in its path to obtain justice for taken called “North America’s Super Corridor them. The TxDOT has basically told property or to reduce toll rates. Local Coalition, Inc” (NASCO). Since being local communities that if they want courts will have no say in the matter. exposed to the general public, NASCO is overpasses then the communities will All disputes will be handled by an now denying it is building the highways, have to supply them – at an estimated International court system either through but plans continue forward. cost of $2.5 million each. Without the NAFTA or the SPP.

  Kansas City Customs Port The negotiations with Mexico and shipping firm that today controls the ports to be Mexican Soil the U.S. State Department for the final at both ends of the Panama Canal. In fact, approval of the Mexican Customs office all “private” companies in China are tightly Beginning at the southern tip of are proceeding in secret. controlled and used by the Communist Mexico, passing through Laredo, government for its strategic goals. TX, the highway heads to an “inland Meanwhile, the Bush Administration port” in Kansas City, where a “Sentry is moving forward with a test project to There has been great speculation that System” will electronically inspect the allow Mexican trucks to cross the border Hutchison Whampoa is actually controlled cargos, before they head East or West, and travel freely in the United States. U.S. by the Chinese Red Army. It is the reason or continue on North through Duluth, Transportation Secretary Mary Peters is a major protest was filed when Hutchison Minnesota and into Canada. moving ahead with the program, even Whampoa sought to take control of though both the U.S. House and Senate former U.S. Navy bases in Long Beach As described on the KC SmartPort’s have passed legislation demanding that California. Now, this Chinese company website (www.kcsmartport.com), the funds be cut off for such a project. will be in charge of unloading Chinese plan is to enable cheap-labor products ships and the cargo will be transported on made in Communist China to travel in Though Secretary Peters insists that Mexican trucks and allowed to cross the sealed “containers nonstop from the safety is of utmost importance to the U.S. border without inspection, traveling Far East by way of Mexico,” through Administration, reports show that is not all the way to Kansas City to a Mexican- “a ships-to-rail terminal at the port of true. Four of the Mexican companies controlled inland port, where the trucks Lazaro Cardenas in Mexico,” then up “the participating in the Bush Administration’s will then spread out across the country or evolving trade corridor” to Kansas City, test trucking program collected more than north into Canada. Missouri, where they would have their 1,700 safety violations over the past year. Is first inspection. A Kansas City SmartPort it any wonder that the Mexican government The Bush Administration argues that brochure explains further, “Kansas City is insisting on the right to inspect its own security will be maintained through the offers the opportunity for sealed cargo trucks. The Teamsters Union has filed suit use of Radio Frequency Identification containers to travel to Mexican port to stop the Mexican truck project. Many in chips (RFID) placed on products in the cities with virtually no border delays.” the trucking industry are now calling for trucks. In that way the cargos can be the firing of Secretary Peters. monitored and the government will know Kansas City may be the ONLY their location at all times. checkpoint and disbursement center Does the SPP provide for trucks bringing their cargos into Security for the To assure the cargos are monitored, this country from Mexico and Canada. United States? the North American Super Corridor The official organization in charge of Coalition (NASCO), the main organization One of the main arguments the Bush setting up the port is KCSmartPort. The coordinating Public/Private Partnerships Administration presents for creating the searches of goods will not involve open to build the NAFTA Superhighway and SPP is security. So the argument goes, inspections in which truck doors would the TTC, has joined in partnership with we are to expand our security perimeter be opened and the contents inspected Savi Networks (A subsidiary of Lockheed to the far reaches of the North American by Smart Port personnel or even drug Martin) to provide radio sensing devises continent, encompassing the borders of sniffing dogs. Instead the trucks will be at frequent intervals along the TTC. Mexico and Canada. Already steps are simply scanned by high-tech gamma ray Lockheed Martin originally designed underway to combine the armed forces screening in drive-by inspections. the radio sensing devices for the U.S. of the three countries. Other efforts military. Savi Networks now provides As part of the inland port, a Mexican include a single identification card or them for private sector projects. Customs office is being established. The “North American passport” as a security Kansas City Council has voted a $2.5 measure. So will the borders be secure This then is an example of the million loan to KCSmartPort to build from outside penetration or invasion? “security” part of the SPP. There is one the Mexican customs facility in the West little detail Americans should know before Consider these little known facts about Bottoms near the Kemper Area on city- they feel too safe. 49% of Savi Networks some of the Public/Private Partnerships owned land east of Liberty Street and is owned by Hutchison Whampoa. involved with implementing the SPP and mostly south of Interstate 670. According the NAFTA Superhighway: The “Amero”, to e-mails and other documents obtained Merging U.S., Canadian by World Net Daily, top executives with The main port selected to feed the and Mexican Currencies the KCSmartPort project, suggest the NAFTA Superhighway and TTC is the facility “would need to be designated Mexican port of Lazaro Cardenas. The Arizona State University is teaching as Mexican sovereign territory and port will be teeming with ships loading that the U.S., Mexico and Canada need meet certain requirements.” In addition, and unloading – ships coming mostly from to be integrated into a unified superstate, Mexico is insisting on the right to be the China. The port is controlled by Hutchison where U.S. citizens of the future will be sole inspector of its own trucks. Whampoa, the same giant Hong Kong known as “North Americanists”. The

  program openly calls for the integration obvious, if one dissects the bureaucratic of corporate fascism, non-responsive to of economic issues across the continent, language of SPP documents, in order to the will of the people. Once the North and in many places goes further – such reach its goal to “reduce the cost of trade, American Union is in place, we will then as the call for a common North American combat counterfeiting and facilitate have to compromise our very unique currency and an implied joint military. trade,” among the three nations trying to nation of protected freedoms with the Though it will take some years to act as one, the drive for a single currency socialist nation of Mexico and with finalize, plans are being laid to create will certainly become necessary. Canada – a satellite of the British Crown, where property rights, justice, economics a new currency for the coming North A new government for and natural rights are not automatically American Union, much like the North America replaced the currencies of individual recognized. Government decides. countries of the European Union. The Mexican economist and researcher The Security and Prosperity Amero would replace the U.S. Dollar, Miguel Pickard wrote in an article, Partnership is about neither. It is not a plan Mexican Peso and the Canadian dollar. published by foreign press, detailing the to simply help sell American goods to “deep integration” planned for North larger markets. It is not a plan to help keep The plan has been specifically America. He said there will be no single promoted through Dr. Pastor’s book, our nation safer in a security partnership treaty and nothing will be submitted to with Mexico and Canada. Securing our the blueprint for the rest of the SPP legislatures of the three countries. Instead, plan. Of course the SPP and the Bush borders, not opening them, would do far he says, the plan for a “merged future” more to accomplish that goal. The SPP is Administration deny that there is even will be implemented through “the signing discussion of such a currency. However, about creating a continental government of regulations not subject to citizen which would eventually contain its own on April 6, 2006, the SPP announced review.” He went on to report of several the formation of the Financial Services court system, its own ability to collect secret meetings held in all three nations, taxes (including some sort of military or Working Group. According to its own after which representatives signed “close news release, the Financial Group police force) its own currency and its own to 300 regulations” installing a “Unified governing body. The SPP is an invasion will focus on “enhancing processes American Border Action Plan.” for addressing banking, securities and of our culture and our economy. It’s about insurance issues.” It goes on to say “U.S. Many Americans simply do not the redistribution of American wealth financial regulatory agencies will play believe that the United States would and industry. It will represent the end of a critical role in the SPP.” voluntarily give up its sovereignty to a over 250 years of an historic experiment North American Union. Those who think in freedom – unless Americans across the Bankintroductions.com, a Canadian this way naively believe that there will be nation say no – now. company that specializes in global banking a vote by the American people to decide. strategies and currency consulting, is This report is produced by the American advising clients that the Amero may be The average America must Policy Center, 70 Main Street, Suite 23, the currency of North America within understand that such actions are done Warrenton, VA 20186. Telephone: (540) 341- 8911. Web Address: www.americanpolicy. 10 years. In an article in the May/June incrementally, behind closed doors, until the plans are so far along that stopping org. Much of the information for this report 2007 issue of the CFR’s magazine, was contained in materials produced by Foreign Affairs, in an article entitled them becomes nearly impossible. The North American Free Trade Agreement investigative journalist . His “The End of National Currency,” CFR reports on the North American Union may be (NAFTA) was sold as a way for American Economist Benn Steil asserts the dollar is found on World Net Daily, www.worldnetdaily. a temporary currency. In October 2007, producers to broaden their markets. So com. Human Events, www.humanevents.com. during an appearance by former Mexican too, was the European Union sold to the More information was provided by Dr. Steven President Vicente Fox, Larry King asked proud, ancient nations of that continent. 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  The Chronological History for the Establishment of the North American Union

July 2, 2000: Mexican president Vicente Fox proposes a 20 to 30 July, 2005: The White House announces it is backing a coalition called year time line for the creation of a common North American market. Americans for Border and Economic Security, organized by former Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie. Its purpose is November 27, 2000: Robert Pastor’s book “Toward a North American to conduct a political-style campaign to sell the American people in a Community” is published. guest-worker program wrapped in a few border-security promises and December 2001: U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge financed by coalition members who each put up $50,000 to $250,000. and Canadian Deputy Prime Minister John Manley sign the “Smart March 31, 2006: President Bush, Vicente Fox and new Canadian Prime Border Declaration.” It called for a “30-point action plan to enhance Minister meet in Cancun, Mexico to (according to the the security of our shared border , while facilitating the legitimate official news release) celebrate the first anniversary of the Security and flow of people and goods.” Prosperity Partnership. At the same time Bush demands that Congress September 9, 2002: President Bush and Prime Minister Chretien pass an immigration bill with a guest worker permit program. meet to discuss progress in the Smart Border Action Plan. An update June 15, 2006: SPP’s North American Competitiveness Council on the plan is produced by the White House on December 6, 2002. (NACC), consisting of government officials and corporate CEOs December, 2002: U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell signs an from the three countries, met to “institutionalize the North American agreement between the United States and Canada to establish a Bi- Security and Prosperity Partnership and the NACC, so that the work national Agreement on Military Planning. will continue through changes of administrations.”

January, 2003: The Canadian Council of Chief Executives launches September 12, 2006: In Banff Alberta, Canada, a group of present the North American Security and Prosperity Initiative (NASPI) and past elected officials from all three countries meet with corporate, to propose a comprehensive North American strategy integrating military, academic, financial, industrial, and think tank members in a economic and security issues. “.” U.S. participants include former Secretary of State George Shultz, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, and February, 2004: The Council on Foreign Relations publishes Robert Robert Pastor, to name a few. Pastor’s paper “North America’s Second Decade,” which advocates further North American integration. August 19-21, 2007: Montebello, Canada, President Bush, Canadian Prime Minister Steven Harper, Mexican President Felipe Calderon October, 2004: The Canada-Mexico Partnership (CMP) is launched meet with corporate leaders to discuss integrating and harmonizing during the visit of President Fox to Ottawa. regulations between Mexico, U.S. and Canada. This part of the agenda November 1, 2004: The Independent Task Force on the Future of was organized by the American Competitiveness Council representing North America is formed. The task force is a trilateral effort charged top 10 multinational corporations from each of the three nations. with developing a “road map” to promote “North American security The meeting also produced a plan to provide military assistance to and advance the well-being of citizens of all three countries.” The Mexico to prop up its efforts to fight drugs. Emergency measures were task force is sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations. discussed to deal with pandemic emergencies such as Avian Flu.

March 23, 2005: President Bush meets at his ranch in Crawford, TX February 14, 2008: The United States and Canada sign a military with Vincente Fox of Mexico and Paul Martin of Canada in what they agreement allowing the armed forces of both countries to support call a Summit. The three heads of state then drive to Baylor University each other in case of domestic emergencies, even one that does not in Waco, where they issue a press release announcing their signing involve a cross-border crisis. Combined with the Montebello pact to of an agreement to form the Security and Prosperity Partnership of aid Mexico’s military, this U.S./Canadian pact essentially creates the North America (SPP). ground work for a North American army.

May 17, 2005: The Independent Task Force on the Future of North March 13, 2008: Approximately 50 persons gathered in a conference America (CFR) releases its report “Creating a North American room at the U.S. State Department in Washington D.C. for a meeting Community – Chairman’s Report.” The 59-page document outlines of the Advisory Committee on International Economic Policy a five-year plan for the “establishment by 2010 of a North American (ACIEP), an advisory body to the U.S. Government. The council economic and security community” with a common “outer security advises on the whole field of economics. The meeting discussed perimeter” to achieve “the freer flow of people within North America.” NAFTA, the SPP and how they fit into plans for the “Framework for Advancing Transatlantic Economic Integration,” created in April, June 9, 2005: Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Richard Lugar 2007 by President Bush German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and held a “friendly” committee hearing that features Task Force member European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso. According to Robert Pastor. He reveals further details of the plan for a “continental information distributed at the meeting, this “Framework has put the perimeter,” including “an integrated continental plan for transportation United States and the European Union on a joint path toward further and infrastructure that includes new North American highways and transatlantic economic integration…” high-speed rail corridors.” April 21-22, 2008: According to the official White House newsrelease, June 27, 2005: Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff attends a “This fourth meeting of North American leaders since 2005 will continue SPP meeting in Ottawa, Canada, at which he said “we want to facilitate the our work on the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) initiatives. flow of traffic across our borders.” The White House issues a press release It will also serve as an opportunity for the three leaders to discuss endorsing the Ottawa report and calling the meeting “an important first hemispheric and global issues of importance to North America.” step in achieving the goals of the Security and Prosperity Partnership.”