Corporate Rights Deal to Make Us April Fools

..."What TILMA is actually intended to do is to advance another, much larger agenda, the one often referred to as "deep integration" and now a formal agreement between the three NAFTA partners. It's called the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP). The SPP will see Canada effectively harmonize virtually every important area of public policy with the U.S.: defence, foreign policy, energy (they get security, we get greenhouse gases), culture, social policy, tax policy, drug testing and safety and much more.

But to "harmonize" Canadian public policy with the U.S. requires massive deregulation across the country. Much of that regulation is provincial and municipal, over which Ottawa has no control. That's where TILMA comes in. I have to admit it's clever, if they ultimately get away with it. Prepare the country for assimilation into the U.S. by promoting an agreement that claims to be about domestic, inter-provincial trade."...

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Resolution urges U.S. to withdraw from a North American union

..."HJR 7, Resolution Urging United States Withdrawal from Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America, Rep. Stephen Sandstrom, R-Orem. This resolution of the Legislature urges the United States to withdraw from the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America and any other activity which seeks to create a North American Union."...

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Lawmakers seek to block NAFTA superhighway system, continental integration

..."The Spanish investment consortium, Cintra Concesiones de Infraestructuras de Transporte, S.A., owned by the Madrid-based Groupo Ferrovial, is funding the construction of TTC-35 and will lease the highway for 50 years. To prevent more such foreign leasing of U.S. highways, HCR 40 notes as a risk that "a NAFTA Super Highway would likely include funds from foreign consortiums and be controlled by foreign management, which threatens the sovereignty of the United States."

Regarding SPP, HCR 40 states "reports issued by the SPP indicate that it has implemented regulatory changes among the three countries that circumvent United States trade, transportation, homeland security, and border security functions and that the SPP will continue to do so in the future."

Further, HCR 40 charges "the actions taken by the SPP to coordinate border security by eliminating obstacles to migration between Mexico and the United States actually makes the United States-Mexico border less secure, because Mexico is the primary source country of illegal immigrants into the United States."

The resolution calls for Congress to express its sentiment that:"...

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CCLA welcomes border investment but wants additional issues addressed

..."Adopting a harmonious level for LVS in Canada with the U.S. would be consistent with commitments made by Canada under the Security & Prosperity Partnership (SPP) to harmonize border procedures with the US and Mexico in the interests of promoting economic growth, competitiveness and quality of life,” according to CCLA.

The Canadian Courier & Logistics Association (CCLA) represents couriers and time-sensitive logistics service providers operating in Canada. CCLA member companies have combined annual revenues of over $3.4 billion. These companies operate close to 12,000 vehicles, numerous aircraft and maintain over 470 operational centres across Canada."....

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North America The Energy Picture II

North American Energy Working Group of the
Security and Prosperity Partnership

.."On March 23, 2005, Canadian Prime
Minister Paul Martin, Mexican President
Vicente Fox, and U.S. President George
W. Bush announced the Security and
Prosperity Partnership (SPP or the
Partnership) in Waco, Texas. In order to
achieve the SPP’s broader commitment
of ensuring security and enhancing
development in North America, the SPP
included six Security Working Groups
and 10 Prosperity Working Groups,
designed to promote greater cooperation
and information sharing in various areas,
including a prosperity working group
focused on energy.
In energy, it was agreed by all three
countries that the cooperative efforts
under the SPP would continue to occur
under the ongoing North American
Energy Working Group (NAEWG),1
with new initiatives to be added as part
of the recently established Partnership.
Under the SPP, the energy goals are to
“strengthen North America’s energy
markets by working together, according
to our respective legal frameworks, to
increase reliable energy supplies for the
region’s needs and development, by
facilitating investment in energy
infrastructure, technology
improvements, production and reliable
delivery of energy, by enhancing
cooperation to identify and utilize best"

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Congress, Citizen-Activists Offer Best Hope to Defeat European Union-Style Government for North America

..."As the 110th Congress convenes, supporters of U.S. borders and sovereignty urge more Americans to join Congressman Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.), Virgil Goode (R-Va.), Ron Paul (R-Texas) and Walter Jones (R-N.C.) in fighting a little known plan to create a North American Union. The scheme would combine the U.S. with Mexico and Canada into a single political and economic system modeled after the European Union. The merger would erase U.S. borders and sovereignty and allow for the free movement of people, products, and capital between the regions by 2010. It would allow unelected bureaucrats and corporate internationalists to "harmonize" U.S. laws with corrupt Mexico and socialist Canada, according to Daniel Sheehy, author of "Fighting Immigration Anarchy: American Patriots Battle to Save the Nation." ...

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American Independent Party Opposes North American Union

..."Congress has the exclusive power "To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations" (Article 1, §8). Congress may not abdicate or transfer to others that constitutional power. We oppose, therefore, the unconstitutional transfer of authority over U.S. trade policy from Congress to agencies, domestic or foreign, which improperly exercise policy-setting functions with respect to U.S. trade policy. Construction of the NAFTA Superhighway System is not within the enumerated powers delegated to Congress, and cannot be rationally construed to be a part of the regulation of commerce between the States, and violates the Tenth Amendment"....

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What is NAU and Why Should You Care?

..."Historically speaking a country is usually lost through war or aggression. Canada, the United States of America and Mexico are three separate, unique, sovereign nations. That is about to change without an invasion or missile attack. None of the terrorist threats we are continually told to fear, are the threats that we face as free people. The real threat to our freedom, our way of life and our future, is the North American Union. Anyone who clings to the hope that the people will be given a say in this matter, will be disappointed to discover that most of the deals have been signed without you. It began with Free Trade, then NAFTA, CAFTA and now SPP (security and prosperity partnership) also referred to as NASPI ( North American Security and Prosperity Initiative )."....

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Canada's New Government invests over $430M for smart, secure borders

..."The Honourable Stockwell Day, Minister of
Public Safety, today announced an investment of $431.6M over five years to
reinforce smart, secure borders. This funding will allow three key initiatives
under the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP) -
eManifest, Business Resumption and Partners in Protection - to move forward."..

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The truth about conspiracy theories

..."According to them, the UN has no teeth to make policy stick and is no threat to any nation's sovereignty; the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) is not the beginnings of a plan to create a North American Union, just a steps to grow the American economy and improve trade; America's public education system is really the best in the world, there is no effort to use the classroom for anything but good old fashioned reading, ritin, and rithmatic; There is no effort underway to create a national Big Brother surveillance system, the Patriot Act is just a tool for helping law enforcement fight terrorism and the Real ID Act is not a national ID; and the Nature Conservancy and the Sierra Club really just want to help protect the environment, not restructure our entire economic and social system."...

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There Isn't Going to Be a North American Union

..."A think tank called the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) had a task force that put out a report called "Building A North American Community." If you read through the report, contrary to what you've heard said time and time again by NAU conspiracy theorists, you'll find that it does not call for a "North American Union." Moreover, the CFR itself doesn't even take official positions on foreign policy issues because its members have a wide variety of different opinions on the issues. So, there's no cabal of globalists sitting around at the Council on Foreign Relations, rubbing their hands together sinisterly, and plotting to sell us out to Canada or Mexico—but even if there were, so what? Think tanks champion all sorts of ideas, good and bad; it doesn't necessarily follow that they're implemented by the government."...

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TOTALIZATION IS A BAD IDEA

TOTALIZATION IS A BAD IDEA

Tuesday, January 09, 2007

Through a Freedom of Information Act Request, a private group recently obtained a copy of a 2004 agreement between the United States and Mexico that will allow hundreds of thousands of noncitizens to receive Social Security benefits.

The agreement creates a so-called "totalization" plan between the two nations. Totalization is nothing new. The first such agreements were made in the late 1970s between the United States and several foreign governments simply to make sure American citizens living abroad did not suffer from double taxation with respect to Social Security taxes. From there, however, totalization agreements have become vehicles for noncitizens to become eligible for U.S. Social Security benefits. The new agreement with Mexico would make an estimated 160,000 Mexican citizens eligible in the next five years.

Ultimately, the bill for Mexicans working legally in the U.S. could reach one billion dollars by 2050, when the estimated Mexican beneficiaries could reach 300,000. Worse still, an estimated five million Mexicans working illegally in the United States could be eligible for the program. According to press reports, a provision in the Social Security Act allows illegal immigrants to receive Social Security benefits if the United States and another country have a totalization agreement.

It's important to note that Congress, like the American people, heretofore had not seen this totalization agreement. This decision to expand our single largest entitlement program was made with no input from the legislative branch of government. If the president signs it, Congress will have to affirmatively act to override him and in essence veto the agreement. This is the opposite of how it's supposed to work.

There are obvious reasons to oppose a Social Security totalization agreement with Mexico. First, our Social Security system already faces trillions of dollars in future shortages as the Baby Boomer generation retires and fewer young workers pay into the system. Adding hundreds of thousand of noncitizens to the Social Security rolls can only hasten the day of reckoning.

Second, Social Security never was intended to serve as an individual foreign aid program for noncitizens abroad. Remember, there is no real Social Security trust fund, and the distinction between income taxes and payroll taxes is entirely artificial. The Social Security contributions made by noncitizens are spent immediately as general revenues. So while it's unfortunate that some are forced to pay into a system from which they might never receive a penny, the same can be said of younger American citizens. If noncitizens wish to obtain Social Security benefits, or any other U.S. government entitlements, they should seek to become U.S. citizens.

Also, totalization agreements allow noncitizens to quality for Social Security benefits by working in the U.S. as little as 18 months. A Mexican citizen could work here for only a year and a half, return to Mexico, and retire with full U.S. benefits. This is grossly unfair to Americans who must work more quarters even to qualify for benefits – especially younger people who face the possibility that there may be nothing left when it is their turn to retire.

Those in favor of sending U.S. Social Security benefits to Mexican citizens argue that crushing poverty in Mexico demands some form of U.S. assistance to that country's aged. While poverty in Mexico truly is deplorable and saddening, the fact remains that Congress has no constitutional authority to enact what is essentially another foreign aid program.

Ron Paul

America’s Border War

..."But such oversight is not an accident. A 2005 Council on Foreign Relations document spells out a five-year plan to forge a North American Union in which America, Canada and Mexico form an entity similar to the European Union. Titled “Building a North American Community,” the document’s recommendations were allegedly adopted during a 2003 meeting at Bush’s Texas ranch by the President, then Mexican President Vicente Fox and then Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin. Since that time, collusion between the three governments in pursuit of this goal has continued under the watchful eye of the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America."...

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North American Union Isn't Going Away

..."Medved and Hawkins make much of arguing that American University professor Robert Pastor has specifically gone on the record saying he does not support the creation of a North American Union. Yet, this is only part of the story. I have consistently pointed out that even Jean Monnet, a key intellectual architect of the European Union, acknowledged in his memoirs that he intentionally used a stealth methodology to advance his regional government goals. I have referenced an important book by Christopher Booker and Richard North, “The Great Deception: The Secret History of the European Union,” that presents a careful and exhaustive study of the intentional deception used by proponents to create the European Union. Medved and Hawkins refuse to respond to these points."...

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North American Union - It's Coming

..."If there are no plans for a North American Union, then why did four of the most patriotic Congressmen see it necessary to introduce H. Con. Res. 487? And if it is not real, then what would H. Con. Res. 487 harm? Legislation preventing a "chimera" certainly cannot present any danger. Why are neocon Trotskyites like Medved becoming so emotionally unstable over a bill to prevent a "chimera"?"

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Pizza chain: Mexican pesos to be accepted currency at American eateries

Pizza chain: We don't need no stinkin' dollars
Mexican pesos to be accepted currency at American eateries

..."Starting this week, Pizza Patrón outlets, which caters heavily to Mexicans, will offer the alternative form of payment.
"We're trying to reach out to our core customer," Antonio Swad, president of Pizza Patrón Inc., told the Dallas Morning News.
"We know they come back [from Mexico] and have pesos left over. We want to be a convenient place for them to spend their pesos."
It's believed no other food chain operating so far from the Mexican border is allowing customers to pay with foreign currency. "....

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North American Union - It's Coming

..."Outraged by this plan, four patriotic Congressmen (Reps. Virgil H. Good, Walter B. Jones, Ron Paul, and Tom Tancredo) have introduced H. Con. Res. 487, which states 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 with Mexico and Canada." In the last few weeks, patriot Americans from all over the United States have been telephoning their Congressmen demanding that H. Con. Res. 487 be put to a vote and passed in 2007"...

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Do you really feel more secure and prosperous?

..."But one thing you should not do is dismiss the concerns of people about potential loss of U.S. sovereignty as a “paranoid and groundless frenzy,” the way Michael Medved did. It’s not like people are making up stories about the proposal to create a common currency called the Amero. It’s not like people are making up stories about the proposed superhighway corridor between Mexico and Canada that would travel through the American heartland. It’s not like people are making up the public discussions of why a North American Union would be a good thing for America and the world."....

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United States Needs No North American Union

..."This information will show the “desired routes” of the new super highways as proposed by the North American Forum on Integration (NAFI).” This is an unelected group of internationalists; some from the United States, many not; all members of the Council on Foreign Relations, whose stated goal is to use this highway to connect Canada, the United States and Mexico, the three NAFTA signatories, into a new country, the North American Union, with its own currency, which they have designated the Amero."...

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The Dangers of the "North American Union"

This Conservative Roundtable interview of Jerome Corsi by Howard Phillips reveals how behind closed doors, the Bush administration has collaborated with the governments of Mexico and Canada to merge the three nations into one Socialist mega-state: the "North American Union". Freedom and our Constitution will have no place in this grim Orwellian future. The Dollar will be scrapped for the "Amero". There will be no First Amendment and no limit on the power of government. One of the prime architects of the NAU, Robert Pastor, has discussed the use of another 9/11 crisis to force through the merger--in other words, you and even Congress won't even have a voice in the Bush-led surrender of our country--unless we all act NOW to have Congress outlaw any Presidential actions which would lead to such a merger of our nations in any way. Canadian citizens would lose their independence to their southern neighbors under the NAU. America's former borders would be wide open to drug smuggling and terrorists. Mexico would become empty as all citizens by right could move to the U.S. or Canada. Leaders in both major U.S. parties are determined to wipe out your freedom, unless you act now.

Michael Medved Loses His Cool Over North America Union

..."Medved dismisses the idea that there are intellectual elitists whose globalist ambitions are advancing North American integration following the methodology of disguise and deception that proved successful in Europe. He offhandedly states that there was one article in the Council of Foreign Relation’s (CFR) Foreign Affairs journal “that suggested further reducing trade barriers and economic obstacles in the style of the European Union,” suggesting that the article drew “spirited opposition and condemnation” from CFR members."....

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Residents of planned union to be 'North Americanists'

...""It is clear, to me at least, that we must … move beyond NAFTA and do so with a purposeful determination," he wrote.

Another teaching paper advocates the adoption of a unified North American currency, the "amero," modeled after the euro currency of the European Union"...

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More Insults About the 'North American Conspiracy'

..."Besides, I have never argued a “North American conspiracy.” The European Union and the Euro are realities today, not a conspiracy theory. So too, North American integration is proceeding rapidly right now, fully documented, as the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America attests if you reference the Department of Commerce website SPP.gov. Equally, the Trans-Texas Corridor is proceeding rapidly, as documented by the Texas Department of Commerce website. If either the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America or the Trans-Texas Corridor is a conspiracy, the conspiracy is being perpetrated by government officials on their public websites."..

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10 most underreported stories of 2006

.."1. Plans under way for North American Union: While most Americans consider their nation's unsecured borders and the resulting flood of illegal immigrants to be among the country's most dire problems, the U.S. government – inexplicably – is engaged in progressively de-emphasizing those borders while integrating the U.S., Mexico and Canada into a North American "superstate."..


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The North America Union's Mexico Connection

..."Mexico is sitting pretty in the event of the formation of a North American Union (NAU). Its Third World status would be wiped off the slate in the NAU.

That's because the United States of America has already absorbed millions of Mexicans and millions more keep pouring over the border."....

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BUSH VS. BUSH

..."There's the effort to built a "North American Union" that looks suspiciously like the European Union, complete with laws that emanate from a consensus among three countries rather than one republic. Then there is his administration's support for Big Pharma, Big Banking (the Fed) and Big Education."...


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Our prime minister giving away the farm

..."After vowing to “stand up for Canada” during last year’s election his representatives met secretly with Bush’s corporate henchmen laying the foundations for a North American union, in which the U.S. will most certainly control access to Canadian oil, minerals, hydro-electricity, and water. If softwood lumber negotiations by federal Minister of Trade David Emerson are any criteria there won’t be much left of Canadian sovereignty if Harper can close the deal."...

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Global Warming on Steroids

.."They are the ones seeking to destroy the sovereignty of the United States by stealth, creating a North American Union to merge our nation with Canada and Mexico, sinking the individual protections afforded by our Constitution into a morass of regulations over which there will be no vote by Americans."...

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GLOBALISTS AND NEO-CONS DENY NORTH AMERICAN UNION

..."He then says; “Yes, there was one article in the journal Foreign Affairs that suggested further reducing trade barriers and economic obstacles in the style of the European Union . . . ” He fails to say that there is a whole taskforce at CFR called Creating a North American Community and one of the leaders of that task force is Dr. Robert A. Pastor the author of the 2001 book, "Toward a North American Community", where he also advocated the creation of a North American Union and creation of a common NAU currency, the Amero, as first proposed by Canadian economist Herbert Grubel. Nor does he mention that the taskforce has produced at least three reports including one calling for tri-national working groups to harmonize regulations, rules, and standards, and another praising the three countries for creating the suggested working groups under the title of the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America. "...

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Totalization Agreement

Agreement on Social Security between the United States of America and the United Mexican States

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Social Security Agreement With Mexico Released After 3 1/2 Year Freedom of Information Act Battle

..."WASHINGTON, Dec. 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- After numerous refusals

over three and a half years, the Social Security Administration (SSA) has
released the first known public copy of the U.S.-Mexico Social Security
Totalization Agreement. The government was forced to make the disclosure in
response to lawsuits filed under the Freedom of Information Act by TREA
Senior Citizens League, a 1.2 million-member nonpartisan seniors advocacy
group.
 The Totalization Agreement could allow millions of illegal Mexican
workers to draw billions of dollars from the U.S. Social Security Trust
Fund."....

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Michael Medved's Ad Hominem Attack against NAU Whistleblowers

..."On Dec. 28, 2006, author, film critic and talk show host Michael Medved delivered a hysterical, ad hominem attack on those who are exposing and opposing the integration of the U.S., Canada and Mexico into a North American Union (or Community, if one prefers). Without naming anyone, Medved used phrases such as "a shameless collection of lunatics and losers; crooks, cranks, demagogues, and opportunists."

That was just getting warmed up, because he referred in the piece later to "bastards and creeps and jug-heads and drunks and reprobates (yes, they are all of the above)...." Medved also ridicules those who see a plan eventually to replace the dollar with the amero and who are following the progress toward a Trans-Texas Corridor, or NAFTA Superhighway System."...

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PREMEDITATED MERGER: How leaders are stealthily transforming USA into North American Union

..."Can it really be possible that Americans are witnessing a governmental program designed to merge – slowly but surely – the United States, Mexico and Canada?

That question is generating a major amount of below-the-media-radar buzz. In recent months, e-mails and telephone calls have poured into radio talk shows and congressional offices asking: Is there a plan to create a "North American Union"? Will a new currency, the "amero," replace the dollar? Is it true that Mexicans will now get Social Security?"....

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