2010 - United States of America or ??
[...]
Ordinary people elect these representatives, and politicians are dependent upon them for re-election.
Ordinary people are the only power on earth greater than the power of the U.S. government.
If ordinary people fail to defend their freedom, no one will defend it for them.
[...]
(copied from
U.S. sovereignty slip-sliding
away, courtesy of WorldNetDaily)
President George W. Bush, Mexico's President Vicente Fox, and Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper
(March 31, 2006)
03/23/2005,
North
American Leaders Unveil Security and Prosperity Partnership,
courtesy of The United States
Department of State
North
America's SuperCorridor Coalition (NASCO)
Center
for North American Studies
- The
four goals of the Center are to:
- * provide an educational
experiment that teaches a new generation of students about the
history, economics, politics, and societies of Canada, Mexico, and the
United States, including their past differences and their future
prospects as parts of an exciting new regional entity;
* promote policy-oriented research on North American issues by
scholars and students in the three countries;
* instill in a new generation of leaders and the public a novel way
of thinking about themselves and their neighbors, not just as
citizens of their countries but also as residents of North America;
and
* seek partnerships with other universities in North America, create
a model for a new regional studies center that could be replicated
throughout North America, and serve as a hub for a network of
other centers for North American Studies. (copied)
- Publications
--> Books
02/07/2002,
Invited
Testimony of Dr. Robert A. Pastor, (page
7), courtesy of Google
- Is a North American Community
Desirable? Feasible?
Is any of this feasible? Are North Americans prepared to give up their
sovereignty? The term "sovereignty" is one of the most
widely used, abused, and least understood in the diplomatic lexicon.
Within the last two decades, the three countries have so completely
redefined the term that one wonders whether any serious policy-maker could
use it to defend any position. In 1980, Canada used sovereignty as a
defense to prevent foreign investment in its energy resources, and Mexico
used it maintain high tariffs and discourage foreign investment.
Within a decade, both countries reversed their policies. In 1990,
Mexico defended its sovereignty by rejecting international election
observers; four years later, it invited them. Sovereignty, in brief,
is not the issue.
The question is whether the people of the three countries are ready for a
different relationship, and public opinion surveys suggest that the answer
is "yes" and, indeed, that the people are way ahead of their
leaders. A survey of the attitudes of people in the three countries
during the past twenty years demonstrate an extraordinary convergence of
values - on personal and family issues as well as public policy. Each
nation has very positive feelings about their neighbors. In all three
countries, the public's views on NAFTA shifted in the 1990s. There
is now modest net support, but a neat consensus: each nation agrees that the
others benefited more than they have!
The most interesting surveys, however, show that a majority of the public in
all three countries is prepared to join a larger North American country if
they thought it would improve their standard of living and environment and
not threaten their culture. Mexicans and Canadians do not want to
be incorporated into the United States, and they are ambivalent about
adopting the American dollar, but they are more willing to become part of a
single country of North America and of a unified currency, like the "Amero,"
proposed by Herbert Grubel. The "Amero" would be equivalent
of the American dollar, and the two other currencies would be exchanged at
the rate in which they are then traded for the U.S. dollar. In other
words, at the outset, the wealth of all three countries would be unchanged,
and the power to manage the currency would be roughly proportional to the
existing wealth. The three governments' remain zealous defenders of an
aging conception of sovereignty whereas the people seem ready to entertain
new approaches.
Canada has played a key leadership role in so many issues. I sincerely
hope your government will take the lead in defining the path toward a more
collaborative relationship. I cannot say that the United States
government will respond positively, but I think Mexico would consider such
an approach positively, and if the two neighbors of the United States were
to make a persuasive case, influential sectors in the United States would
encourage the Administration to take them very seriously.
Four hundred million people live in our three countries, but few, if any,
think of themselves as residents of North America. The three
governments have devoted so much effort to defining their differences that
the people have not seen what they have in common, or that they share a
continent, values, and an agreement. I hope that is the conclusion of
your deliberations and that, over time, we will begin to think of ourselves
proudly as "North Americans." (copied)
Miscellaneous Articles:
- 06/30/2006,
Investors Push NAFTA
Super-Highways, courtesy of
Human Events
- 06/28/2006,
Bush
Administration Erases U.S. Borders With Mexico and Canada, courtesy
of Human
Events
- 06/27/2006,
Mexican trucks to enter U.S.
freely?, courtesy of WorldNetDaily
- 06/26/2006
- 06/24/2006,
Birch Society Broke Story About North American Union in
2005, courtesy of The New American
- 06/21/2006,
- 06/20/2006
- 06/19/2006,
North
American Union Would Trump U.S. Supreme Court, courtesy
of Human
Events
- 06/15/2006,
Tancredo
confronts 'super-state' effort, courtesy
of WorldNetDaily
- 06/13/2006,
Bush
sneaking North American super-state without oversight?,
courtesy of WorldNetDaily
- 06/12/2006,
Bush
Administration Quietly Plans NAFTA Super Highway, courtesy
of Human
Events
- 06/05/2006,
Coming
soon to U.S.: Mexican customs office, courtesy
of WorldNetDaily
- [...] "But we are concerned about the sovereignty of the state of Missouri" and whether the facility will be considered to be on Mexican or U.S. soil. [...]
(copied from
The Kansas City
Star, 18th paragraph)
- [...] SmartPort negotiated with the Mexican Customs service to locate a facility in Kansas
City -- on Mexican sovereign territory -- to clear exports to Mexico, thus avoiding clogged boarders.
This will be the first in the nation. [...] (copied from
Southern Growth Policies
Board, 7th parapraph)
- [...] the U.S. Department of State wants to know the exact location of the building which will house the Mexican Customs Project, which SmartPort will ultimately provide.
State is involved because the facility will be sovereign Mexican territory.
"The Mexican government is working with the U.S. State Department to get approvals," notes Gutierrez.
According to Gutierrez, the Mexican government wants to cut the ribbon on the facility by the end of the year.
[...] (copied from
Kansas City
SmartPort, 22nd paragraph)
- 06/01/2006,
Southern
border blurs for global trade, courtesy
of WorldNetDaily
- 05/30/2006,
North
American Union Already Starting to Replace USA, courtesy
of Human
Events
- 05/24/2006,
President
Quietly Creating 'NAFTA Plus', courtesy
of Human
Events
- 05/22/2006,
The
Plan to Replace the Dollar With the 'Amero', courtesy
of Human
Events
- 05/19/2006,
North
American Union to Replace USA?, courtesy
of Human
Events
- 05/17/2006,
Customs
facility hung up in review, courtesy
of The
Kansas City Star
- 05/01/2006,
United
States of North America, courtesy
of The
New American
- 04/03/2006,
A
North American Community, courtesy
of Council for a
Community of Democracies (CCD)
- 03/21/2006,
Breaking Out of the
Box, courtesy of MSNBC
- 03/12/2006,
Plans,
trains and automobiles, courtesy
of Star-Telegram.com
- 11/14/2005,
Texas: Keystone State of the
FTAA, courtesy of The New American
- 10/03/2005,
Abolishing
the USA?, courtesy of The
New American
- 08/24/2005,
Trinational Elites Map North American Future in
"NAFTA Plus", courtesy of
International Relations Center - IRC
- 08/06/2005,
U.S.
sovereignty slip-sliding away, courtesy
of WorldNetDaily
- Ordinary people elect these representatives, and politicians are dependent upon them for re-election.
Ordinary people are the only power on earth greater than the power of the U.S. government.
If ordinary people fail to defend their freedom, no one will defend it for them.
(copied)
- 07/13/2005,
CFR's
Plan to Integrate the U.S., Mexico and Canada, courtesy
of Eagle Forum
- 06/09/2005,
- 05/26/2005,
H.R. 2672: North American Cooperative Security
Act, courtesy of GovTrack.us
- To direct the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Homeland Security to establish a program to enhance the mutual security and safety of the United States, Canada, and Mexico, and for other purposes.
(copied)
- 05/19/2005,
Experts
call for common North America border (Open Borders), courtesy
of Americans for Legal
Immigration PAC (ALIPAC)
- 04/21/2005,
Ominous
rumblings of a "North American Union", courtesy
of RenewAmerica
- 04/20/2005,
S. 853: North American Cooperative Security
Act, courtesy of GovTrack.us
- A bill to direct the Secretary of State to establish a program to bolster the mutual security and safety of the United States, Canada, and Mexico, and for other purposes.
(copied)
- 04/06/2005,
The
SPP: Another Summit Sellout, courtesy
of The Welch
Report
- 04/05/2005,
New
Passport Initiative Announced To Better Secure America's Borders,
courtesy of US
Department of State
- 03/14/2005,
- 10/07/2004,
North
American Investment Fund Act (Introduced
in Senate) (S. 2941)
- To
authorize the President to negotiate the creation of a North American
Investment Fund to promote economic and infrastructure integration among
Canada, Mexico, and the United States, and for other purposes. (copied)
- 06/07/2004,
Department of Transportation v. Public
Citizen, courtesy of
FindLaw
- [...] ruling that Mexican trucks under NAFTA could enter the U.S. freely, even if the Mexican trucks failed to meet environmental standards as set by state and federal law. [...]
(copied)
- [...] ruled in favor of the Bush administration's argument that the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration lacked the authority to exercise environmental controls to prevent Mexican trucks from openly operating in the U.S. under
NAFTA. This ruling was key in the Bush administration's determination to open U.S. borders to Mexican trucks under the trade agreement.
Had the Supreme Court decided otherwise, the NAFTA Super Corridor project would have suffered a setback. [...]
(copied)
- 02/18/2002,
Texas
Governor Lays Out Plan for 4,000-Mile Road, Rail, Utility Network,
courtesy of Conway Data
- 08/30/2001,
A
Blueprint for a North American Community, courtesy
of Institute for
International Economics
- 07/02/2001,
Open
Nafta Borders? Why Not?, courtesy
of OpinionJournal
- 08/25/2000,
George
W. Bush's Speech on Latin America, courtesy
of NewsMax
- 09/20/2000,
My
Bush epiphany, courtesy
of WorldNetDaily
- [...]
We are now one of the largest Spanish-speaking nations in the world.
We're a major source of Latin music, journalism and culture.
[...] By nominating me, my party has made a choice to welcome the
new America.
[...] Complementing W.'s support for the Hispanicization of American
culture was his view of Mexico - U.S. relations:
- I
have a vision for our two countries. The United States is
destined to have a "special relationship" with Mexico,
as clear and strong as we have had with Canada and Great
Britain. Historically, we have had no closer friends and
allies. ... Our ties of history and heritage with Mexico
are just as deep.
(copied)
- 12/__/1994,
Free
Trade Area of the Americas - FTAA
- 12/__/1994,
First
Summit of the Americas
- 01/01/1994,
The
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
- 09/13/1993,
North
American Agreement on Labor Cooperation, courtesy
of U.S. Department of Labor
- Between the Government of the United
States of America, the Government of Canada and the Government of the United
Mexican States (copied)
three flags above are courtesy of: fg-a.com
- Free Gifs & Animations
Toward
a North American Community: Lessons from the Old World for the New