Filed under: adjuvant, big pharma, Bio Weapons, biological warfare, Canada, deadly vaccinations, deadly vaccines, Eugenics, flu shot, forced vaccinations, Genocide, GlaxoSmithKline, GSK, h1n1, h1n1 clinic, h1n1 vaccine, health and environment, Human Experiments, human rights, immune system, influenza, influenza vaccine, innoculation, man made disease, man made diseases, mandatory quarantine, mandatory vaccinations, medical Experiments, medical industrial complex, Mercury, mf59, Oppression, Population Control, squalene, squaline, Stephen Harper, swine flu, swine flu vaccine, Thimerosal, vaccinations, Vaccine, virus pandemic, WHO | Tags: Dr. David Butler-Jones
Canadian Health Minister Wants 100% Of Population H1N1 Vaccinated
Goal is to get everyone to take the jab before Christmas
Steve Watson
Infowars.net
October 15, 2009
Despite national polls indicating that only one third of Canadians intend to get the H1N1 flu vaccine, a Federal Health Minister says it is the government’s goal to vaccinate 100% of the population.
“My goal is to have 100 per cent of Canadians (vaccinated),” chief public health officer Dr. David Butler-Jones told reporters at the National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg.
The minister stated that the vaccine will be rolled out in the first week of November, with the goal of vaccinating everyone by the end of December.
“No step is going to be skipped,” the health minister pledged. Once the vaccine is approved, it will be shipped to the provinces and territories and local health authorities will operate immunization programs.”
Butler-Jones made the statement at a press gathering to announce a funding boost for swine flu research from the federal government in the shape of $2.4 million.
“At the end of the day, it is an individual choice,” he said. “(But) if you don’t want H1N1, get the vaccine.” Butler-Jones urged.
“We’re very fortunate as Canadians to be able to have that choice.” he added
Last week a new Canadian Press Harris-Decima poll indicated that only a third of people in Canada intend to take the shot. That figure is down from 45% in a similar poll conducted in August.
Only 11 per cent of respondents described themselves as very concerned about H1N1.
Butler-Jones scolded a portion of Canadian health workers who have also indicated that they do not intend to get vaccinated:
“Doctors and nurses are not immortal, as much as we might think we are,” he said. “And, unfortunately, if we’re not immunized, and we have influenza, we’ll take it into the nursing home and hospital and, potentially, we’ll kill our patients.”
The concerns of Canadian doctors and Health Workers have been proven justified by a study led by Dr Danuta Skowronski of the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control and Dr Gaston De Serres of Laval University, Quebec. The study found that seasonal flu jabs could double the risk of developing swine flu.
The World Health Organisation has dismissed the research as inconclusive, however some provincial and territorial public health authorities in Canada, including those in Ontario, have expressed great concern, leading to threats to delay or cancel mass vaccination programs.
Canada is to use the adjuvanted GlaxoSmithKline H1N1 vaccine Pandemrix, which contains both squalene and thimerosal, which have been linked with neurological side effects.
Pandemrix has also been “fast tracked” based on research only using “mock up” bird flu vaccines dating from 2007 and 2008.
The Canadian government, like those of the US and the UK, has agreed to protect the producer of it’s H1N1 vaccine from lawsuits over potential side effects.
The majority of cases of swine flu in Canada have turned out to be mild, with the virus having been linked to 79 deaths. The seasonal flu usually kills around 2000 people per year in Canada.
On Wednesday Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper appeared to hedge when asked if he and his family would get vaccinated.
Rally Against Forced Vaccinations
Filed under: amnesty, Barack Obama, Canada, EU, european union, Felipe Calderon, George Bush, global elite, global government, global union, Globalism, globalists, Illegal Immigration, Immigration, Mexico, michael chertoff, NAFTA, NAFTA Superhighway, NAU, New World Order, North American Union, obama, Propaganda, public relations, SPP, SPP Summit, Stephen Harper, us sovereignty | Tags: Christopher Sands, North American Competitiveness Council
Obama To Launch Propaganda Campaign For North American Union
Steve Watson
Infowars.net
July 23, 2009
A new report out of left leaning globalist think tank the Brookings Institute confirms an agenda to re-brand the long running effort to merge the US, Canada and Mexico into a Federal superstate akin to the European Union.
The report was highlighted by author Jerome Corsi, who points out that the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America has become much maligned owing to it’s quasi secretive advancement of a North American integration agenda.
“Two top Washington think-tanks have now formally suggested in writing that the Obama administration should rename the SPP as a public relations ploy to advance the North American integration agenda without drawing so much flak from those of us interested in preserving U.S. sovereignty,” Corsi writes in his Red Alert newsletter.
In the Brookings Institute report, titled “Toward a New Frontier: Improving the U.S.-Canadian Border”, Christopher Sands, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, where he specializes on North American economic integration, suggests the Obama administration should continue the agenda of the SPP, but under a new name.
“Despite evidence that NAFTA has been beneficial on balance to American business, workers, and consumers the argument remains vilified by many as an unwarranted move to embrace globalization.” Sands writes.
“President Obama recognized this on the campaign trail in 2008, when he called for the renegotiation of NAFTA’s provisions to correct flaws in the original agreement. As a result, the Obama administration will most likely rename the SPP.” Sands concludes.
The report also suggests focusing more on the integration of the US and Canada as a priority, before bringing Mexico into the equation.
Sands suggests the following three courses of action:
1. “President Obama should borrow from the lexicon of the European Union and announce that the United States will proceed in negotiations with its two neighbors ‘at two speeds,’ moving ahead more quickly where possible with its developed neighbor Canada, and allowing Mexico to proceed more slowly as necessary.”
2. “The Obama administration is likely to want to ‘press the reset button’ on the SPP, an unpopular though valuable initiative that has improved policy coordination between the United States and its neighbors.”
3. “The SPP must be re-branded to win any kind of consensus support. The Obama administration recognizes this, and could take a few tactical steps to make the SPP (or its eventual successor) work better and win broader support.”
Sands defines his vision of the re-branded SPP as an effort “to build a truly ‘new frontier’ on the northern border,” adding that “President Obama’s community organizing experience suits him well for the task ahead.”
Sands is deeply entrenched in the integration agenda, being a member of the Advisory Committee to the U.S. Section of The North American Competitiveness Council (NACC), organized by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to consult with U.S. government officials in negotiations under the SPP.
The NACC is essentially an elite advisory board comprised of 30 senior private sector representatives of North American corporations that were selected by the American, Canadian and Mexican governments at the June 2006 trilateral meeting in Cancun, Mexico.
Last year, one month prior to the SPP summit in April, documents were uncovered relating how the NACC was formed as part of a public relations overhaul to counter critics of the SPP.
The documents detailed how, through the NACC, corporate representatives were urged to “humanize” North American integration, promote NAFTA success stories to employees and unions and evolve the harmonization agenda “without fueling protectionism”.
The move was seemingly a response to the continued exposition of the integration agenda, which led to representatives within Congress petitioning the government on the secretiveness of the SPP and multiple states introducing resolutions calling on their federal representatives to halt work on the so called “North American Union”.
Earlier this week we revealed that president Obama is scheduled to attend this year’s SPP meeting in Mexico in August 9-10, slated as the “North American Leader’s Summit”.
“The key to understanding what is going on with the SPP under the Obama administration is the realization that globalists always proceed under a stealth agenda,” Jerome Corsi comments.
“Globalists typically mask their real plans to produce regional governments out of trade agreements by changing names and designing different structures when initial attempts to destroy nation-states are exposed and stalled by citizens who are still patriotic enough to cherish what remains left of their national sovereignty.”
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Stressed banks borrow record amount from Fed
Reuters
July 31, 2008
Banks borrowed a record amount of funds from the Federal Reserve in the latest week as the year old credit crisis took a persistent toll, while the commercial paper market continued to contract, signaling tough conditions for short term borrowers.
Banks’ primary credit borrowings averaged $17.45 billion per day in the latest week, the second straight week this had hit a record and up from $16.38 billion the previous week, Fed data showed on Thursday.
Zimbabwe Devalues Currency
AP
July 30, 2008
Zimbabwe will drop 10 zeros from its hyper-inflated currency — turning 10 billion dollars into one — the country’s reserve bank said Wednesday. President Robert Mugabe threatened a state of emergency if businesses profiteer from the country’s economic and political unraveling.
Shop shelves are empty and there are chronic shortages of everything including medication, food, fuel, power and water. Eighty percent of the work force is unemployed and many who do have jobs don’t earn enough to pay for bus fare.
Inverview with George Green – (7/16/2008)
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0708/12166.html
Soaring energy bills set to push inflation to 16-year high
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar..set-push-inflation-16-year-high.html
GM Has $15.5 Billion Loss on U.S. Sales Drop, Leases
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=agMEuJ_r_yxA&refer=worldwide
Venezuela to Nationalize Spanish Bank
http://english.cri.cn/2947/2008/08/01/1821s388058.htm
IndyMAC Files For Bankruptcy Protection
http://www.nytimes.com/2008..2&ref=business&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
Jobless Claims Up Highest In Five Years
http://www.wnbc.com/news/17049831/detail.html
Inflation Could Hit 6% By Fall?
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com..Economist/articleshow/3307499.cms
Deutsche Bank Writedowns Exceed $11 Billion
http://moneynews.com/financenews/bank_writedowns/2008/07/31/117802.html
Shell reports 33% rise in profit
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/07/31/business/31shellNEW.php
Exxon posts record $11.68 billion profit
http://money.cnn.com/2008/07/31/news/.._profits/?postversion=2008073109
Britons Skipping Meals Due To Money Worries
http://www.money.co.uk/article/100..-meals-due-to-money-worries.htm
IMF Calls For N. African Economic Integration
Greenspan: Housing No Where Near Bottom
Economic Rebound Not As Energetic As Hoped
Biggest dive for commodities in 28 years
Filed under: 5th Amendment, ACLU, Afghanistan, Britain, Canada, Child Abuse, Cuba, Detainee, Dick Cheney, enemy combatant, Europe, european union, Extraordinary Rendition, George Bush, Guantanamo, Habeas Corpus, interrogation, Iraq, Military, nation building, neocons, occupation, POW, rendition, Russia, special forces, Stephen Harper, Taliban, Torture, Troops, United Kingdom, US Constitution, War Crimes, War On Terror, White House | Tags: crying, gitmo, gitmo video, guantanamo video
New Gitmo Video: Child Detainee Cries During Interrogation
Current
July 15, 2008
Omar Khadr was captured as a 15-year-old after being accused of throwing a grenade that killed a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan in 2002. Now his lawyers have released excerpts of a video showing their client being questioned by Canadian officials at Guantanamo Bay prison. The video is said to provide insight into the effects prolonged interrogation and detention had on Khadr.
The video was shot in 2003 over four days of interviews and is seven hours long in total. It was originally marked “Secret/No Foreign”.
Keeping America Safe: Prosecuting Children as Terrorists
Common Dreams
June 21, 2008
President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, and the rest of the warmongers and terror-pimps in the White House would have us believe that Omar Khadr is a monster. Khadr is the 21-year-old Canadian who is facing one of the first show-trials at Guantanamo.
But let’s just step back a minute and consider Mr. Khadr’s case.
The son of an alleged Islamic fundamentalist, Khadr was sent to one of those fundamentalist madrassa schools in Pakistan back when he was 14. From there, he went to Afghanistan, to join with the Taliban in fighting against the remnant warlord backers of the Soviet Union, which had attempted to run Afghanistan as a vassal state.
Then came 9-11 and the October 2001 US invasion of Afghanistan. Young Khadr suddenly found himself fighting against the world’s most powerful military.
In 2002, after the Taliban government had fallen, Khadr was still out in the hills with the forces of resistance. The Taliban government was gone, but the war was not over. In fact it’s still not over, with the Taliban resurgent in much of Afghanistan.
In this situation, with some 20,000 US and European troops battling across Afghanistan, Khadr, by then at the ripe age of 15, found himself with a group of five older fighters in a compound up in the hills. Some US Special Forces came on the location, and, peeking through cracks in the door, saw the group, armed with AK rifles. They called on the men to surrender, but the men allegedly refused.
At that point the brave Americans called in an air strike, and clobbered the building. After that softening up, they went inside to pick up the pieces.
Someone at that point, and US military prosecutors claim it was the wounded Khadr, tossed a grenade while lying injured on the ground. The grenade killed Special Forces Sergeant Christopher Speer. Speer’s comrades opened fire, with three of them hitting Khadr.
When they went to check on him, the critically injured, yet miraculously still living Khadr reportedly pleaded, “Shoot me!” Reportedly, some of Sgt. Speer’s buddies were ready to do just that. Apparently the “clicking” of injured captives by American forces (a war crime) is not uncommon, and even has its own slang word. But a medic with the group interceded and stopped the battlefield execution, and took action to save Khadr’s life.
Khadr was eventually shipped off to Guantanamo, at the age of 15, in violation of a 2002 protocol signed by the US which extended the protection of the Geneva Conventions against imprisoning child soldiers from the prior “under 15″ standard to “under 18.” No matter, “bad guy” Khadr would be one of at least 2500 children that the US has admitted to incarcerating in Iraq, Afghanistan, Guantanamo and elsewhere as “enemy combatants.”
Today, Khadr is 21. He has spent the second half of his teenage years confined in a prison camp on the naval base at Guantanamo.
This is what Bush and Cheney are really referring to when they assure us that they are holding “the worst of the worst” on the island of Cuba.
They are keeping us safe from 15-year-old boys.
And what, exactly, is Omar Khadr’s “crime”?
As far as I can tell, if he did toss that grenade (and there is testimony from American witnesses that the thrower may have been another man, who was killed in the resulting US barrage of fire), Khadr was simply demonstrating extraordinary bravery of the kind that would earn a silver star, at least, had it been a US soldier or marine doing the same thing under the same circumstances. Consider: he and his comrades-in-arms, battling in defense of their religion and, in some cases, their nation, were bombarded from the air. They were then approached by armed US troops-the very ones who had called in the air strike. This was a battle, and it was not over yet. For all Khadr knew, those US soldiers were going to kill them all. And in any event, Khadr and his fellow fighters had a right to defend themselves to the death to prevent capture. Sure it’s unfortunate that Sgt. Speer was killed, but that’s what happens in wars.
Still, a fighter killing another fighter during warfare is not the act of a “terrorist.” It may be brutal and it may be tragic, but it is the act of a soldier. That soldier, if captured, is not a criminal, but a POW. Moreover, if he is a child, the Geneva Conventions and the subsequent protocol mentioned above, require that he be treated not as a POW but as a victim of war.
Bush and Cheney don’t want to admit that the people fighting US forces in Afghanistan are legitimate soldiers, entitled to protection under the rules of war. They want us to believe that anyone who takes up a gun in defense of their homeland or of the homeland of their allies, and fights against the US military forces that are spread all over the globe like Roman Legions of old, are “terrorists,” deserving of whatever fate we hand them, by whatever rules we want to gin up.
But it’s worth remembering that this particular “terrorist,” at the time of his “crime,” was simply a scared and badly-wounded 15-year-old kid who had the balls to toss a grenade at well-armed soldiers on a search-and-destroy mission.
In an interesting twist that further highlights the absurdity of calling a 15-year-old a hardened terrorist, Speer’s widow, Tabitha, and another soldier who lost an eye in the grenade blast, sued not Khadr, but his father’s estate, claiming that his “failure to control his son” had been the proximate cause of their losses. A federal district judge, in February 2006, awarded the two $102.6 million in damages. In other words, the court concluded Khadr wasn’t responsible for his actions; his father was. And yet the US is prosecuting Omar Khadr for being a hardened terrorist at an age when he was too young to drive!
The Bush/Cheney administration’s incarceration and prosecution of this boy was a war crime. His continued incarceration and the attempt to prosecute him as a terrorist today makes a mockery of America’s motto: Home of the Brave.
We should all be ashamed.
Canadian PM brushes off evidence of Guantanamo abuse
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/..c;_ylt=ApU100eyhTE7E6X04pjztsIWIr0F
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/43453.html
Gitmo Suspect Wants Classified Docs
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/200..ydW6ZuxuSioZmJznfRg.3QA
Iraqis Tortured By UK Military Settle For $6M
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080..7dWGmjBETqpCRueqUl5bbBAF
Filed under: Canada, Felipe Calderon, George Bush, global government, Globalism, i-35, i-69, Mexico, militarized police, NAFTA, NAFTA Superhighway, NASCO, New World Order, North American Union, paul martin, pepperspray, police brutality, Police State, Protest, provocateur, Provocateurs, Ron Paul, sovereignty, SPP, SPP Summit, Stephen Harper, tear gas, TTC, us sovereignty, Vicente Fox | Tags: ottawa
The Nation’s Deathbed
http://www.house.gov/paul/tst/tst2008/tst062308.htm
What is the ’North American Union’?
Filed under: Arctic, Britain, Canada, denmark, Europe, european union, Military, moscow, NATO, norway, Nuke, ocean, Oil, Russia, Stephen Harper, United Kingdom, WW3, ww4 | Tags: Vladimir Shamanov
Russia plans Arctic military build-up
London Telegraph
June 15, 2008
Russia has raised the stakes in the international scramble for the Arctic by announcing it will boost its military presence in the region to protect its “national interests”.
The defence ministry said naval vessels would be sent to the Arctic Ocean, which is believed to be home to 25 percent of the world’s untapped energy resources, as part of a Summer training zone.
Gen Vladimir Shamanov, the head of the combat training directorate, stated that Russia had “highly trained military units” prepared for Arctic warfare.
He revealed that Russia would expand its naval presence in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans as part of a strategy to flex the country’s growing military might on the world stage.
“The summer training programme envisions the increased presence of the Russian navy not only in the Atlantic but also in the Arctic and the Pacific,” Gen Shamanov said. “We are also planning to increase the operational radius of the Northern Fleet’s submarines.”
The West has become increasingly concerned by Russia’s determination to flex its military muscle in international waters and airspace.
Disquiet over the Kremlin’s intent in the Arctic is likely to grow still further after Gen Shamanov, a prominent military hawk who was accused of war crimes in Chechnya, suggested that the focus of Russia’s military strategy would shift towards “protecting national interests” in the Arctic.
Russia had the capability, he said, to defend its claim to roughly half of the Arctic Ocean – including the North Pole.
“We have a number of highly professional military units in the Leningrad, Siberian and Far Eastern military districts which are specifically trained for combat in the Arctic regions,” he said.
Russian assertiveness in the sensitive region was again on display yesterday when Nato jets shadowed two Russian bombers, designed for anti-submarine warfare, on a reconnaissance mission close to the North Pole.
While the Kremlin attracted international criticism after a titanium Russian flag was planted on the sea bed underneath the North Pole last year, other countries with an Arctic shoreline have been accused of playing an equally aggressive role in militarizing the region.
Stephen Harper, the Canadian prime minister, last year ordered military ships to the Arctic amid growing tensions with both the United States and Russia over competing territorial claims in the region.
Russia, the United States and Canada have also announced plans to build nuclear icebreakers to defend their Arctic interests.
US naval vessels and British nuclear submarines held joint war games in the Arctic Ocean last year, a development that aroused suspicion in Moscow.
The five nations with Arctic Ocean coastlines – Russia, Canada, the United States, Denmark and Norway – all have sometimes overlapping claims to Arctic territory that exceeds maritime borders fixed by international law.
A United Nations commission has been established to study the legitimacy of the claims. The issue has taken on added urgency as global warming causes the ice in the Arctic to melt, thereby raising the realistic prospect of harnessing the ocean’s energy treasure trove for the first time.
Russia, already the world’s largest energy producer, has the longest coastline of the Arctic nations and therefore has filed the biggest claim.
Despite occasional outbreaks of imperialist rhetoric, the Kremlin has consistently promised not to colonize the Arctic unilaterally and has pledged to abide by international adjudication on its territorial rights in the region.
Filed under: 1984, Big Brother, biometrics, Canada, Cintra, DHS, Felipe Calderon, George Bush, global elite, Globalism, Homeland Security, House, lou dobbs, Mexico, NAFTA, NAU, North American Union, Pennsylvania, Propaganda, Psyops, RFID, Senate, SPP, Stephen Harper, Surveillance, Uncategorized | Tags: NAFI, North American Forum on Integration, Triumvirate
“North American Parliament” Meets At Integration Forum
Students trained in “sense of belonging to North America”
Steve Watson
Infowars.net
May 27, 2008
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 to take on the roles of Legislators, Journalists and Lobbyists, in the fourth annual Triumvirate of the North American Forum on Integration.
The meeting represents another example of an overarching movement on behalf of globalist business leaders and politicians to merge the three nations of North America into an EU like federation.
Participants at the Triumvirate discuss draft bills on issues such as trade corridors, immigration, NAFTA’s Chapter 11 and renewable energy.
While the meeting is billed as an exercise to debate these areas of policy, there is no simulated opposition to the overall agenda and the documents provided to participants represent little more than essays debunking opponents of NAFTA, attacking traders who do not adhere to a North American union model, presenting methods of control such as the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative which considers biometric RFID cards for border crossings, and promoting the agenda of NAFI itself which it makes clear is to forge North American integration.
Minnesota House & Senate Reject Real ID
AP
May 27, 2008
The House and Senate have approved a bill that would bar state driver’s license authorities from implementing the federal Real ID regulations.
Governor Pawlenty vetoed an earlier attempt to require that conditions be met before the state could change licenses to meet federal rules. But both chambers passed the bill by veto-proof margins: 50-16 in the Senate and 103-30 in the House.
The Real ID mandate would require every citizen to carry a U.S. government-approved card to board a plane or enter a federal facility.
Critics say it will be costly to implement and that too much of people’s personal information will be added to a national database. Supporters argue that a more secure identification card will help in homeland security and immigration control efforts.
Real ID license actually a surveillance card
Kennebec Journal
May 26, 2008
In response to Joseph Reisert’s article about Real ID driver’s licenses: A Real ID driver’s license would be required to enter an airport, board a plane or enter a federal building. If, rather than have a Real ID license, I decide not to enter an airport, board an airplane or enter a federal building, why do I need a Real ID driver’s license to drive a car?
Ah, because an ordinary driver’s license in Corporate America is used to cash checks, which are used to buy groceries and other merchandise and to pay bills for electricity, TV and telephones — in short, checks make up the entire fabric of the corporate state.
If everyone had a Real ID, everything about a citizen could be fed into a database describing the person’s income, purchases, reading habits, job description, medical records. A GPS profile could be made showing where that citizen is on the planet at any given time. A Real ID driver’s license is really a surveillance card.
What Reisert seems to be saying is that to have our military empire, financed by the corporate state, we must give up freedom as a political institution and accept the fact that war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength. Not to mention the tautology that surveillance is security.
Bob Doel
Vassalboro
http://intelstrike.com/?p=262
PA State Reps speak out against REAL ID
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ele7-DQnZ1A
Pennsylvania Turnpike On Verge Of 75 Year Lease To Spanish Toll Road Operator
http://infowars.net/articles/may2008/200508Turnpike.htm
Republican connection to NAFTA-gate exposed
http://www.thestar.com/News/USElection/article/431367
Lou Dobbs Drops the “NAFTA Superhighway” Ball
http://www.infowars.com/?p=2327
Video: Trojan Horse
http://www.roguegovernment.com/news.php?id=8516
Bush Reaffirms North American Union Agenda At Leaders’ Summit
http://infowars.net/articles/april2008/230408SPP.htm
Bush, Harper, Calderon to Defend Trade Amid Backlash in U.S.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?..ee6dZHb0uY&refer=home
North American summit overshadowed by election
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN2138213520080421
Filed under: 9/11, 9/11 Truth, al-qaeda, Arizona, Australia, Biological Attack, biological warfare, Britain, canadacom, catastrophic event, Continuity of Government, DHS, Europe, False Flag, FBI, Felipe Calderon, George Bush, global government, global police force, Globalism, Homeland Security, Martial Law, Mexico, michael chertoff, Microsoft, NATO, New World Order, new zealand, North American Union, NORTHCOM, NSA, olympics, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Police State, SPP, State Sponsored Terrorism, Stephen Harper, United Kingdom, virginia, war games, War On Terror, world police force | Tags: Cisco Systems, Cyberstorm 2, Dow Chemical, McAfee, Operation Quick Resolve, TOPOFF 4, TOPOFF 5
TOPOFF 5 Announced
Vancouver 24
March 5, 2008
Could Canada’s Games be secured with help from Americans and Mexicans?
Canada, U.S. and Mexico are planning a massive joint military exercise in April 2009 “to focus on terrorist events that could affect [the] 2010 Olympics,” according to Public Safety Canada documents released to 2010 Watch via access to information.
The rehearsal, led by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, is code-named TOPOFF 5. Canadian troops were among the 15,000 participants involved in last October’s TOPOFF 4 in Portland, Ore., Phoenix, Ariz. and Guam.
http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=965078627199672535&hl=en
“Exercises provide unique training opportunities to strengthen our ability to deal with potential emergencies,” said Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day in an e-mail statement responding to 24 hours’ interview request. “They are important tools to strengthen Canada’s ability to deal with real incidents.”
An undated Public Safety Canada report said up to $22.8 million was needed to fund emergency management, counter-terrorism, cyber security and critical infrastructure protection exercises, “leading to a trilateral full-scale exercise prior to the Vancouver Olympic Games in 2010, as outlined under the Security and Prosperity Partnership.”
SPP was founded in 2005 to promote economic growth and enhanced security in North America.
“Does it mean that if the American forces are training with Canadian forces that they are going to be positioned here in Canada during the period of the Olympic Games?” said 2010 Watch’s Chris Shaw. “And, if so, under whose command?”
Washington Prepares for Cyber War Games
Cyber Storm II begins March 11th until the 14th, US, Canada, UK, Australia and New Zealand plan joint military exercise
Washington Post
March 7, 2008
The U.S. government will conduct a series of cyber war games throughout next week to test its ability to recover from and respond to digital attacks.
Code-named ‘Cyber Storm II,’ this is the largest-ever exercise designed to evaluate the mettle of information technology experts and incident response teams from 18 federal agencies, including the DHS, CIA, Department of Defense, FBI, and NSA, as well as officials from nine states, including Delaware, Pennsylvania and Virginia. In addition, more than 40 companies will be playing, including Cisco Systems, Dow Chemical, McAfee, and Microsoft.
http://www.venturacountystar.com/ne..ogy-war-game-tests-us-readiness/
NATO: Cyber Warfare Poses Great Threat
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/mar/06/hitechcrime.uksecurity
“Operation Quick Resolve”: National Guard holds surprise training drill
http://www.eyewitnessnewstv.com/G..p?S=7952938&nav=F2DO
eneral Warns Of Al-Qaeda Threat To U.S.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/terror_th..3QSUec3jGs0NUE
Bush: America Still Not Safe From Terrorism
http://www.reuters.com/artic..idUSN0624857820080306?sp=true
March Madness: Homeland Security Issues Warning on Sports Arenas
http://www.abcnews.go.com/print?id=4387469
Pentagon To Gas Crystal City Residents
http://prisonplanet.com/articles/march2008/030308_crystal_city.htm
Filed under: 9/11, 9/11 Truth, Amero, Arctic, Canada, catastrophic event, Cintra, Felipe Calderon, Geroge Bush, global elite, Globalism, Hegelian Dialectic, i-69, Illegal Immigration, imminent domain, katrina, Mexico, NAFTA Superhighway, new orleans, North American Union, Oil, SPP, SPP Summit, Stephen Harper, Texas, trans texas corridor, TTC, Vicente Fox, We Are Change
Vicente Fox Confronted on North American Union
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AasdjfbdTM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvUnErDPHgM
http://youtube.com/watch?v=btewqYiom_o
http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2008/02/14/911-the-%e…shall/
Vicente Fox Seeks Interdependent North America and Emerging World Government
http://www.jonesreport.com/article/02_08/150208_fox.html
The North American Union Mexico Style
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/1873
U.S. and Canada on collision course over Arctic rights: U.S. official
http://www.canada.com/topics/technology/scie..865-0bebb0f9ba43&k=59308
Filed under: Canada, Felipe Calderon, George Bush, global elite, Globalism, Mexico, new orleans, New World Order, North American Union, SPP Summit, state of the union, Stephen Harper
NAU Summit To Be Held In New Orleans
January 29, 2008
http://youtube.com/watch?v=xr1-shfAZGU
President George W. Bush failed to mention the plight of New Orleans in his previous State of the Union addresss and has overseen what some call more than two years of neglect since Hurricane Katrina.
During his address Monday, however, he was applauded for his plans to bring a high-profile summit to the business-hungry town.
Bush announced during the address that he, the Prime Minister of Canada, and the President of Mexico will visit New Orleans in April for the fourth annual North American Leader’s Summit.
Last year’s meeting took place in Quebec, Canada, and drew more than 1,000 labor and environmental activists who did not agree with the policies of North America’s political leaders.
But even Bush’s most vocal critics said the event, and the forums and seminars expected to be organized around its periphery, will be a benefit to New Orleans.
U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu said the meeting will be a great opportunity to showcase that the Gulf Coast is coming back.
Land Grab Opposition to Trans-Texas Corridor Growing
http://youtube.com/watch?v=w4BGeSo0f7U
Is the North American Union Conspiracy Theory Really Real?
http://www.jonesreport.com/articles/061207_nafta_real.html
Filed under: Amero, Canada, CNN, Felipe Calderon, George Bush, Globalism, jeffrey toobin, manitoba, Mexico, NAFTA Superhighway, North American Union, Real ID, Ron Paul, smear campaign, SPP, SPP Summit, Stephen Harper
North American Union Admitted by Manitoba Govt.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Br31mdP8-Ug
Dear Deluded Mass Media, North American Union Agenda Exists
http://infowars.net/articles/december2007/031207NAU.htm
DHS License Rules May Come Sooner
http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/1107/112907tdpm1.htm
Ron Paul smeared by CNN’s Jeffrey Toobin about NAFTA SuperHighway
http://noworldsystem.com/2007/12/0…bout-nafta-superhighway/
What is the ‘North American Union’?
Filed under: Alan Greenspan, Amero, amnesty, Bill Clinton, Canada, CFR, columbia, Condoleezza Rice, Congress, Economy, Federal Reserve, George Bush, Illegal Immigration, Immigration, job market, NAFTA, New World Order, North American Union, SPP, Stephen Harper, US Economy, Vicente Fox
Secretary Rice, CFR Usher in Pan-American Community
Trade Agreements for Peru, Colombia and Panama Have ‘Concluded’ Forming an “Unbroken Chain of Trading Partners from Tierra del Fuego to the Arctic Circle” that Will “Level” U.S. Wages
Aaron Dykes
Jones Report
October 16, 2007
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made remarks at the C.F.R. hosted Organization of American States event on October 9 that the “concluded” trade agreements with Peru, Colombia and Panama are a significant step towards the broader ‘vision’ of a Pan-American Community.
“The founding ideal of our Pan-American Community, borne across many centuries and carried by us still, is the hope that life in the hemisphere would signify a break with the Old World, and a new beginning for all mankind… and the creation of a new system of international politics, based on mutual respect and cooperation among independent nations.”
The agreements would break down more than 80% of tariffs in respect to each of the three countries for both exports and imports and would include more than $17 billion in debt relief– extending action already taken under the Millennium Challenge Corporation in 2004-2005.
These agreements come just after the passage of CAFTA, rapidly bringing ten additional countries into a hemispheric trade bloc (on top of existing trade blocs MERCOSUR and CAN).
“We now have the potential to create an unbroken chain of trading partners from Tierra del Fuego to the Arctic Circle,” Rice told the OAS.
“Today, we are making a similar strategic commitment in our hemisphere, to the success of our Pan-American Community. This commitment was begun in the last decade by leaders of both parties. Now it is being advanced further.”
Since the executive branch lost fast-track renewal in June, the trade agreements must be passed by Congress, but Rice indicated that bipartisan support has already been arranged by way of “43 prominent Democrats– former ambassadors, cabinet officials, policy experts and members of Congress.”
President Bush mirrored Rice’s optimism about bipartisan support for the agreements, which also include South Korea, citing former Secretary Shalala (and dozens of her Democratic colleagues): “Latin America is up for grabs. We fully recognize that asking the United States Congress to vote on these trade agreements is politically charged. Nonetheless, rejecting these agreements would set back regional U.S. interests for a generation. We must not walk away now.”
However, a recent poll shows that 6-in-10 Republican voters now “believe free trade is bad for the U.S. economy” — which brings Republicans in-line with the standing views of Democrats.
Condoleezza Rice warned against the message it would send internationally if the trade agreements didn’t go through, and asked that U.S. workers facing “dislocation” and “insecurity” ‘update their skills’ and pursue “retraining,” suggesting the role of ‘community college’ in “giving people a second or even a third or sometimes a fourth start on a different kind of career.”
The frightening suggestion of American job degradation was also echoed by Bush’s remarks on the new trade agreements.
“And yet, many of our citizens feel uneasy about competition, and they worry that trade will cost jobs. I understand that if you’re forced to change a job halfway through a career it can be painful for your family. I know that. And that is why I’m a big believer in trade adjustment assistance that helps Americans make the transition from one job to the next…the community college system, for example, to be able to train that person for jobs which actually exist.” [emphasis added]
Secretary Rice added, “if we don’t, then we’re going to remain fearful and closed”– clearly valuing ‘free trade’ above any semblance of protection for middle-America jobs, despite her claim it will actually benefit workers:
“These trade agreements will benefit U.S. workers and businesses, enabling them to compete on a level playing field in new markets, to create jobs and opportunity in our nation, and to address the wealth of all in our economy.”
The meaning of ‘a level playing field’ was not clarified, but perhaps it relates to former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan’s recent call for lowering U.S. wages and opening the borders on David Letterman’s Late Show:
“We ought to be opening up our borders to skilled labor from all parts of the world because if we were to do that we would increase the supply of skilled workers that our schools have been unable to create and as a consequence of that we would lower the average wage of skills and reduce the degree of income inequality in this country.”
Secretary Rice focused on the “democratic” unity amongst the countries in trade agreement and warned against sending a “signal” of “retreat” by rejecting the agreements.
“Building on the foundation that Presidents Bush and Clinton laid with NAFTA, we have concluded trade agreements with ten additional countries… a community that now includes Costa Rica, whose people voted just two days ago to approve CAFTA.”
Costa Rica narrowly passed CAFTA in a referendum that has already been contested, sealing the trade pact with El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, the Dominican Republic and the United States. More than 150,000 Costa Ricans protested the agreement and the Los Angeles Times and AlterNet reported that voting was under ‘duress,’ including a campaign of threats and pressure, according to a leaked memo:
The memo, as the Los Angeles Times described it, “outlined a campaign of dirty tricks intended to sway voters.” This included telling mayors that their cities would “not get a penny from the government for the next three years” if they did not deliver a majority of voters for CAFTA. In the words of the memo, the government also needed to “stimulate fear” among the voters, including “fear of the loss of jobs.”
The Bush Administration joined the campaign to “stimulate fear,” with the U.S. Ambassador threatening that Costa Rica could lose some of it existing access to U.S. markets if the voters reject CAFTA.
Rice and Bush brushed aside worries about the three Latin American nations, particularly the narco-state Colombia, citing the strength of their democratic values– and hanging it in the balance with Cuba and unnamed “authoritarian” states with “state-run economies” (i.e. Venezuela).
“In truth, this is a backward-looking agenda with a long history of deepening poverty and misery. The real revolution in the Americas today is being led by responsible democratic leaders, like Bachelet and Lula, Vazquez and Uribe, Garcia and Torrijos, Calderon and Saca.
Their democratic governments, and many others, from left to right, are deepening the Pan-American consensus on creating opportunity for all through free markets, economic growth and democracy.”
Rice argues for Colombia’s “trajectory of positive change,” calling its ‘76% reduction in kidnappings,’ ‘40% drop in murder rate‘ and ‘61% fewer terrorist attacks‘ one of the “greatest victories for the cause of human rights in our world today.
President Bush was just as willing to forgive Colombia’s dark record. “Some in Congress have expressed concern over violence in Colombia …Colombia’s record is not perfect, but the country is clearly headed in the right direction — and is asking for our help.”
Bush even cited Canada’s leader as a selling point.
As Prime Minister Stephen Harper of Canada put it, “If the United States turns its back on its friends in Colombia, this will set back our cause far more than any Latin American dictator could hope to achieve.”
Similar broad strokes were made for the sins of Peru and Panama, hoping to keep such issues off the radar of most Americans.
Yet, former Mexican President Vicente Fox– who also signed the Security & Prosperity Partnership for North America (SPP)— has been recently parading calls for a North American Union and a unified NAFTA currency.
Drastic measures towards large-scale regional government are happening overnight and yet there is almost no discussion whatsoever. Beyond the elites and their controlled media, there is little outcry and scarcely more than a whisper of announcement.
Canadians call for vote on SPP
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=58143
Put the SPP to a vote, say prominent Canadians
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/October2007/12/c3357.html
What is the ‘North American Union’?
Filed under: Canada, Carbon Tax, Co2, energy, environmental taxation, global tax, Global Warming, Oil, Petrol, Stephen Harper, tax
Quebec introduces carbon tax, Canada CEOs urge more
Reuters
October 02, 2007
Quebec province slapped the country’s first carbon tax on energy firms on Monday, as Canadian business leaders urged “environmental taxation” to rein in greenhouse-gas emissions.
The tax, proposed more than a year ago, is expected to raise C$200 million ($202 million) a year to fund the province’s plans to reduce emissions.
It includes a per-litre levy of 0.8 Canadian cent for gasoline, 0.9 Canadian cent for diesel fuel, 0.96 Canadian cent for light heating oil, and C$8 a tonne for coal.
It wasn’t immediately known whether the oil companies, including Petro-Canada and Imperial Oil, would pass along the cost to consumers.
Separately, the Canadian Council of Chief Executives said Canada should become “an energy and environmental superpower,” and suggested higher energy prices to help cut emissions, the Globe and Mail newspaper reported on Monday.
Since 1990, greenhouse-gas emissions in Canada, a net exporter of energy, have risen more than in any other leading industrialized country, data submitted by the Group of Eight rich nations to the U.N.’s Climate Change Secretariat shows.
Quebec has pledged to meet its targets under the Kyoto Protocol on climate change.
Canada has signed on to the agreement, which calls for a 6-percent cut in emissions from 1990 levels by 2012, but Prime Minister Stephen Harper has said that target is impossible to achieve.
Instead, the minority Conservative government aims to cut emissions from greenhouse gases — the key contributor to climate change — by 20 percent from current levels by 2020.
($1=$0.99 Canadian)
Filed under: Amnesty Bill, Canada, China, Congress, corporation, Defazio, Felipe Calderon, George Bush, Globalism, Immigration, John McCain, Mexican Trucks, Mexico, NAFTA, NAFTA Superhighway, North American Union, secret meetings, SPP, SPP Summit, Stephen Harper, Ted Kennedy, Toll Roads, Virgil Goode
Congress debate begins on North American Union
WND
September 25, 2007
A House resolution urging President Bush “not to go forward with the North American Union or the NAFTA Superhighway system” is – according to its sponsor Rep. Virgil Goode, R-Va., in an exclusive WND interview – “also a message to both the executive branch and the legislative branch.”
As WND previously reported, on Jan. 22 Goode introduced H.C.R. 40, titled “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 North American Union with Mexico and Canada.”
The bill has been referred to the House Subcommittee on Highways and Transit of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.
WND asked Goode if the president was risking electoral success for the Republican Party in 2008 with his insistence on pushing for North American integration via the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America, or SPP.
“Yes,” Goode answered. “You won’t hear the leadership in the Republic Party admit it, but there are many in the House and Senate who know that illegal immigration has to be stopped and legal immigration has to be reduced. We are giving away the country so a few very rich people can get richer.”
How did he react when President Bush referred to those who suggest the SPP could turn into the North American Union as “conspiracy theorists”?
“The president is really engaging in a play on words,” Goode responded. “The secretary of transportation came before our subcommittee,” he explained, “and I had the opportunity to ask her some questions about the NAFTA Superhighway. Of course, she answered, ‘There’s no NAFTA Superhighway.’ But then Mary Peters proceeded to discuss the road system that would come up from Mexico and go through the United States up into Canada.”
Goode is a member of the Subcommittee on Transportation, Treasury, Housing and Urban Development of the House Committee on Appropriations.
“So, I think that saying we’re ‘conspiracy theorists’ or something like that is really just a play on words with the intent to demonize the opposition,” Goode concluded.
Goode stressed that the Bush administration supports both a NAU regional government and a NAFTA Superhighway system: “The Bush administration as well as Mexico and Canada have persons in the government in all three countries who want to a see a North American Union as well as a highway system that would bring goods into the west coast of Mexico and transport them up through Mexico into the United States and then in onto Canada,” Goode confirmed.
The Virginia congressman said he believes the motivation behind the movement toward North American integration is the anticipated profits the large multinational corporations in each of the three countries expect to make from global trade, especially moving production to China.
“Some really large businesses that get a lot from China would like a NAFTA Superhighway system because it would reduce costs for them to transport containers from China and, as a result, increase their margins,” he argued.
“I am vigorously opposed to the Mexican trucks coming into the country,” Goode continued. “The way we have done it and, I think, the way we should do it in the future, is to have the goods come into the United States from Mexico within a 20-mile commercial space and unloaded from Mexican trucks into U.S. trucks. This procedure enhances the safety of the country, the security of the country, and provides much less chance for illegal immigration.”
As WND reported, the Department of Transportation has begun a Mexican truck “demonstration project” under which 100 Mexican trucking companies are being allowed to run their long-haul rigs throughout the U.S.
Previously, Mexican trucks have been limited to a 20-mile commercial zone in the United States, with the requirement that goods bound for locations in the U.S. beyond the 20-mile commercial zone be off-loaded to U.S. trucks.
WND reported last month that Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., successfully offered an amendment to the Department of Transportation Fiscal Year 2008 appropriations bill to block DOT from spending any federal funds to implement the truck project.
Dorgan’s amendment passed 75-23, after Sen. Elizabeth Dole, R-N.C., changed her vote to support Dorgan.
By a voice vote, the House passed an amendment offered by Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Ore., to the DOT appropriations bill comparable to Dorgan’s, designed to block the agency from using federal funds to implement the truck project.
DeFazio chairs the House transportation subcommittee that oversees motor carriers.
“With the Trans-Texas Corridor, which I would say is part of the NAFTA Superhighway system, and with this NAFTA plot with the Mexican trucks just coming in and not loading off to U.S. trucks, they will just drive right over the Rio Grande and come on over into Texas,” Goode argued. “A lot of these Mexican trucks will be bring containerized cargo from the west coast of Mexico where they will be unloaded in Mexican ports to avoid the fees and costs of unloading at U.S. ports.”
“So, when you look at the total package,” he continued, “we do have a NAFTA Superhighway system already in place. There are those in all three countries that believe we should have a North American Union and the Security and Prosperity Partnership, in my opinion takes us down that road. And I am vigorously opposed to the loss of our sovereignty.”
Why, WND asked, do so many congressmen and senators insist on writing and telling their constituents that they don’t know anything about the Security and Prosperity Partnership, or that SPP working groups are really just to increase our competitiveness?
“In the House, a strong majority voted to provide no money in the transportation funding bill,” Goode responded. “I commend Congressman Duncan Hunter for submitting an amendment to the Department of Transportation funding bill [which] got over 360 votes that said no funds in the transportation appropriation measure, prohibiting Department of Transportation funds from being used to participate on working groups that promote the Security and Prosperity Partnership.”
As WND reported, Hunter’s amendment to the FY 2008 Department of Transportation funding bill prohibiting DOT from using federal funds to participate in SPP working groups creating NAFTA Superhighways passed 362 to 63, with strong bipartisan support. The House approved H.R. 3074 by 268-153, with the Hunter amendment included.
“So, I think a majority the House, if you had an up or down vote on the SPP, would vote down on the SPP,” Goode concluded. “But some still say, and it’s a play on words, that we don’t have a Security and Prosperity Partnership that will lead to a North American Union. I don’t think they can say anymore that we don’t have a Security and Prosperity Partnership arrangement between the U.S., Mexico, and Canada, because that was done in Waco, Texas, on March 23, 2005, and the recent meeting at Montebello was to talk about it further.”
WND asked Goode to comment on the North American Competitiveness Council, or NACC, a group of multinational corporations selected by the Chambers of Commerce in Mexico, Canada and the U.S. as the central adviser of SPP working groups.
At the SPP summit in Montebello, Quebec, the NACC met behind closed doors with the three leaders, cabinet secretaries who were present, and top SPP working group bureaucrats, while various public advocacy groups, environmental groups, labor unions – and the press – were excluded.
Should SPP working group meetings be open to the public?
“I wish they were,” Goode responded. “If it is as the Bush administration says, ‘We’re not planning any North American Union,’ then why wouldn’t those meetings be open, why wouldn’t you let the media in?” Goode asked.
“But some of the very big corporations want the goods from China to come in here unchecked,” he continued. “It costs money for U.S. trucks to transport Chinese goods from West Coast ports like Los Angeles or Long Beach. But if you can have a Mexican truck and Mexican truck driver, that’s going to be cheaper. And it’s all about the margins. The margins relate directly to how much money the multi-national corporations are going to make.”
Has the Senate debate on the Dorgan amendment brought the issues of the NAU and NAFTA Superhighways more to the attention of the Senate?
“I think so,” Goode said. “That debate had a very positive effect. You had grassroots support calling the Senate on the Dorgan amendment.
“The Bush administration engages in the same play of words with all these issues,” Goode added. “Take a look at the Kennedy-McCain comprehensive immigration reform, which the Bush administration has now tried to jam through the Senate not once, but twice.
“The Bush administration claims it’s not [amnesty] when you let someone stay in the country and give them a path to citizenship,” Goode pointed out. “Well, that’s their definition, not my definition, and not the definition of the majority of the public. The majority of the public called in and buried the amnesty bill because of public pressure. Public pressure also got de-funded the pilot program on Mexican trucks in this country.”
So should the U.S. pull out of the SPP?
“Yes,” Goode answered, “but the best way to end SPP would be to have a chief executive that wouldn’t do anything with it.”
What does Goode think of the state legislatures that are passing anti-NAU, anti-NAFTA Superhighway and anti-SPP resolutions?
“If enough state legislatures pass resolutions like that, it surely should have an impact on the House and the Senate,” Goode said.
“President Bush’s position is that we need to carry out NAFTA and we need to have this free flow of goods with Mexico and Canada,” Goode explained. “Well, Bush’s approach involves a derogation of our sovereignty and it also undermines the security and the safety of the country.
“It will be much easier for a truck to get a container on the west coast of Mexico and haul in a biological or radiological or nuclear weapon than it would be if you are going to have to unload the trucks on the Texas-Mexico border and put the goods and material in a U.S. truck,” he continued.
“The problem is that the NAU, NAFTA Superhighways and SPP all go back to money,” Goode stressed. “The multinational companies want their goods from Mexico and China because they want the cheap labor.”
What about the U.S.’s large and growing trade imbalance with China?
“I don’t want to have to be an ‘I told you so’ person,” Goode answered, “but I was a vigorous opponent of PNTR (“permanent normal trade relations”) and before that of ‘most favored nation’ trade status with China. We need tariffs and quotas with China. Personally, if I know food is coming in from China, I won’t buy it. The American people with the adoption of COOL, country of origin labeling, with the food clearly labeled, I think you will see the American public will shy away from Chinese products.”
In 2000, Congress voted to extend to China PNTR. “Most favored nation” or MFN trade status, was given to China first in 1980 by the Carter administration. COOL rules are administered by the Department of Agriculture.
Goode concluded the interview by thanking WND for covering the SPP, NAU and NAFTA Superhighway issues: “I want to thank you for putting these issues out where people can read it,” Goode said. “You have enlightened hundreds of thousands if not millions of American citizens who otherwise would have been greatly in the dark on the SPP.”
Private Toll Roads In Florida?
http://www.miamiherald.com/467/story/248197.html
Reason Magazine calls NAU agenda “a Xenophobic Fantasy”
http://reason.com/news/show/122632.html
Canada: Losing Water Through NAFTA
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?c..va&aid=6859
How the Government Will Toll Existing Roads Electronically with Transponders in Cars
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKauoewoOPw
Mexicans pour into Canada from U.S
http://www.canada.com/nation…9f47-9bd487596021&k=8472
What is the ‘North American Union’?
Filed under: Canada, North American Union, SPP, SPP Summit, Stephen Harper
Harper government planning illegal bulk water exports to the U.S. suggests the Council of Canadians
Peter Tremblay
The Canadian
September 16, 2007
In April 2007, the Council of Canadians obtained a leaked document produced by a Washington think tank, revealing that business and government leaders in Canada, the U.S. and Mexico are actively discussing bulk water exports. They met in Calgary on April 27, 2007 to discuss the issue in a closed-door meeting as part of a larger Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) agenda of North American Union (NAU), further reports the Council of Canadians.
Titled the “North American Future 2025 Project,” the initiative calls for a series of anti-democratic “closed-door meetings” on North American integration dealing with a number of highly contentious issues including bulk water exports, a joint security perimeter and a continental resource pact.
The Harper government has no constitutional mandate to sell water in bulk to the United States, which would constitute a fundamental breach of Canadian sovereignty, and further destroy the integrity of Canada’s already undermined fragile ecosystems.
The North American Union: Conspiracy Theory or Conspiracy Fact?
http://www.jbs.org/node/5524
NORTHCOM Hosted NAU Flu Conference
http://www.northcom.mil/News/2007/090607.html
What is the ‘North American Union’?
Filed under: Black Bloc, Canada, North American Union, Police State, Protest, Provocateurs, Secret Police, SPP Summit, staged riots, Stephen Harper
Activists Question If SPP Provocateur Orders Came From Prime Minister
Ben Russell
Raw Story
August 27, 2007
A video recently posted on YouTube documents a strange occurrence at a recent protest during the recent Montebello Summit in Québec, Canada, which has activists questioning the motives of police, and suspicious that the orders came down from the Prime Minister’s office.
Masked men were spotted near the riot police, who held back despite one man holding a large rock, himself and two others appearing to attempt an incitement to riot. The three were confronted by other attendees and eventually handcuffed and taken away.
During the confrontation, one of the three appears to be talking directly to one of the officers.
Union President Dave Coles at a recent news conference: “The Communications, Energy and Paper Workers Union of Canada believes that the security force at Montebello were ordered to infiltrate our peaceful assembly and to provoke incidents.”
In addition to the video footage, the three suspected plants wore the same brand boots, as evidenced by the soles, as the Sûreté du Québec riot police. Neither the SQ, nor the RCMP, commented; each initially denied planting agents provocateurs.
“Oops. Somebody took a picture,” quips Coles.
Former police officer Doug Kirkland, who runs a private security, says that planting undercover police at protests is beneficial when used to root out true troublemakers, but, says Kirkland while viewing the video footage: “That’s a very slippery slope.”
Continues Kirkland, “I think you’re stretching the bounds of proper police intelligence when you’re doing that kind of work.”
Sûreté du Québec later issued a press release confirming that the three men in question were indeed officers, there to maintain order rather than disrupt the protest, and that no crime was committed.
Long-time lawyer for activists Lawrence Greenspon calls for politicians to act.
“There’s a serious issue about proper police conduct here,” says attorney Lawrence Greenspon, a longtime defender of protesters.
“I think the people that represent us in the legislature should be looking at some form of legislation that says ‘Wait a second. This is not proper use of police resources, and we should be setting guidelines.'”
“This is the face of it,” says Dave Coles, “where people can’t even ask a question without having to face these kind of goons,” referring to riot police, who are said to attempt to incite violence with aims to suppress speech, even when the activity takes place in designated spaces.
“It’s time that all the secrecy and backroom deals end.”
Minister of Safety Stockwell Day deflects blame from the RCMP, encouraging utilization of the “complaints process” available through the SQ.
What is the ‘North American Union’?
Filed under: 9/11, Big Brother, Canada, CCTV, Felipe Calderon, George Bush, global government, Globalism, Immigration, NAFTA Superhighway, North American Union, NSA, Police State, Protest, SPP Summit, Stephen Harper, Surveillance
CCTV: The Security State As Infotainment
Guardian
August 26, 2007
As protesters gathered recently outside the Security and Prosperity Partnership summit in Montebello, Quebec, to confront George Bush, Felipe Calderón, the Mexican president, and Stephen Harper, the Canadian prime minister, Associated Press reported this surreal detail: “Leaders were not able to see the protesters in person, but they could watch the protesters on TV monitors inside the hotel … Cameramen hired to ensure that demonstrators would be able to pass along their messages to the three leaders sat idly in a tent full of audio and video equipment … A sign on the outside of the tent said, ‘Our cameras are here today providing your right to be seen and heard. Please let us help you get your message out. Thank You.'”
Yes, it’s true: like contestants on a reality TV show, protesters at the SPP meeting were invited to vent into video cameras, their rants to be beamed to “protest-trons” inside the summit enclave. It was security state as infotainment – Big Brother meets, well, Big Brother. The spokesperson for Prime Minister Harper explained that although protesters were herded into empty fields, the video link meant that their right to political speech was protected. “Under the law, they need to be seen and heard, and they will be.”
It is an argument with sweeping implications. If videotaping activists meets the legal requirement that dissenting citizens have the right to be seen and heard, what else might fit the bill? How about all the other security cameras that patrolled the summit – the ones filming demonstrators as they got on and off buses and peacefully walked down the street? What about the mobile phone calls that were intercepted, the meetings that were infiltrated, the emails that were read? According to the new rules set out in Montebello, all these actions may soon be recast not as infringements on civil liberties but the opposite: proof of our leaders’ commitment to direct, unmediated consultation. Elections are a crude tool for taking the public temperature – these methods allow constant, exact monitoring of our beliefs. Think of surveillance as the new participatory democracy; of wiretapping as the political equivalent of MTV’s Total Request Live.
Protesters in Montebello complained that while they were locked out, chief executives from about 30 of the largest corporations in North America – from Wal-Mart to Chevron – were part of the official summit. But perhaps they had it backwards: the CEOs had only an hour and 15 minutes of face time with the leaders. The activists were being “seen and heard” around the clock. So instead of shouting about police-state tactics, maybe they should have said: “Thank you for listening.” (And reading, and watching, and photographing, and data-mining.)
The Montebello “seen and heard” rule also casts the target of the protests in a new light. The SPP is described in the leaders’ final statement as an “ambitious” plan to “keep our borders closed to terrorism yet open to trade”. In other words, a merger of the North American Free Trade Agreement and the homeland security complex – Nafta with spy planes. The model dates back to September 11, when Paul Cellucci, the US ambassador to Canada, pronounced that in the new era, “security will trump trade”. But there was an out clause: the trade on which the economies of Canada and Mexico depend could continue uninterrupted, as long as the governments of those countries were willing to welcome the tentacles of the US war on terror. Canadian and Mexican business leaders leaped to surrender, aggressively pushing their governments to give in to US demands for “integrated” security in order to keep the goods and the tourists flowing.
Almost six years later, the business leaders at Montebello – under the banner of the North American Competitiveness Council, an official wing of the SPP – were still holding up “thickening borders” as the bogeyman. The fix? According to the SPP website, “technological solutions, improved information-sharing, and, potentially, the use of biometric identifiers”. From experience we know what this means: continent-wide no-fly lists, integrated databases, as well as the $2.5bn contract to Boeing to build a “virtual fence” on the northern and southern borders of the United States, equipped with unmanned drones.
In short, under the SPP vision of the continent, “thick” borders will soon be replaced with a nearly invisible web of continental surveillance – almost all of it run for profit. Two members of the SPP advisory group – Lockheed Martin and General Electric – have already received multibillion-dollar contracts from the US government to build this web. In the Bush era, security doesn’t trump big business; it may be the biggest business of all.
In the run-up to the SPP summit, a spate of surveillance scandals helped paint a fuller picture. First, Congress not only failed to curtail the National Security Agency’s warrantless wiretapping but opened the door to snooping into bank records, phone call patterns and even physical searches – all without any onus to prove the subject is a threat.
Next, the Boston Globe reported on plans to link thousands of CCTV cameras on streets, subways, apartment buildings and businesses into networks capable of tracking suspects in real time. And on August 15 confirmation came that the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency – the arm of the American military that runs spy planes and satellites over enemy territory – would be fully integrated into the infrastructure of domestic intelligence gathering and local policing, becoming the “eyes” to the National Security Agency’s “ears”.
Add a few more hi-tech tools – biometric IDs, facial-recognition software, networked databases of “suspects”, GPS bundled into ever more electronic devices – and you have something like the world of total surveillance most recently portrayed in The Bourne Ultimatum.
Which brings us back to the Security and Prosperity Partnership. Who needs clumsy old border checks when the authorities are making sure we are seen and heard at all times – in high definition, online and off, on land and from the sky? Security is the new prosperity. Surveillance is the new democracy.
What is the ‘North American Union’?
Filed under: Black Bloc, Canada, Felipe Calderon, George Bush, Globalism, North American Union, Police State, Protest, Provocateurs, Secret Police, SPP Summit, staged riots, Stephen Harper
Quebec Police Admit They Went Undercover at Montebello Protest
CBC News
August 23, 2007
Quebec provincial police admitted Thursday that three of their officers disguised themselves as demonstrators during the protest at the North American leaders summit in Montebello, Que.
However, the police force denied allegations its undercover officers were there on Monday to provoke the crowd and instigate violence.
“At no time did the police of the Sûreté du Québec act as instigators or commit criminal acts,” the police force said in French in a news release. “It is not in the police force’s policies, nor in its strategies, to act in that manner.
“At all times, they responded within their mandate to keep order and security.”
Police said the three undercover officers were only at the protest to locate and identify non-peaceful protesters in order to prevent any incidents.
Police came under fire Tuesday, when a video surfaced on YouTube that appeared to show three plainclothes police officers at the protest with bandanas across their faces. One of the men was carrying a rock.
In the video, protest organizers in suits order the men to put the rock down, call them police instigators and try unsuccessfully to unmask them.
Police-issued boots identified fake protesters
Protest organizers on Wednesday played the video for the media at a news conference in Ottawa. One of the organizers, union leader Dave Coles, explained that one reason protesters knew the men’s true identities was because they were wearing the same boots as other police officers.
Coles said on Wednesday that the only thing he didn’t know was whether the men were Quebec police, RCMP or hired security officers.
“[Our union] believes that the security force at Montebello were ordered to infiltrate our peaceful assembly and provoke incidents,” said Coles, president of the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union.
Police said the three were told to monitor protesters who were not peacefully demonstrating to prevent any violent incidents, but they were called out as undercover agents when they refused to throw objects.
Concern Canada losing control of its energy
The protest at Montebello occurred outside the Fairmont Le Château Montebello hotel, near Ottawa, where Prime Minister Stephen Harper was meeting with U.S. President George W. Bush and Mexican President Felipe Calderon. The summit about border security, free trade and other issues began Monday and finished Tuesday.
Protesters said they gathered to voice their concern about Canada losing control of its energy and water resources and borders. Others decried what they called a high level of secrecy at the summit.
The Quebec provincial police will not comment any further on the affair, a spokeswoman in Montreal said.
Quebec Justice Minister Jacques Dupuis was made aware of the news, but a spokesman from his office said he will not comment on the matter either.
Agents Provocateurs Deployed at SPP Summit
9/11 Blogger
August 23, 2007
Dear Alex Jones, et al,
That is me in the black shirt, with the ‘Toronto 911 Truth’ sign, & the megaphone.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/august2007/220807_b_truth.htm
http://www.911blogger.com/node/10802
I was well within earshot of the agents-provocateurs incident.
http://infowars.net/articles/august2007/220807Provocateurs_SPP.htm
I have no doubt that your story is absolutely correct. I remember, at the time, telling people that “This was ‘a small, street-level, false-flag operation’ – JUST LIKE 9/11 !!”
The attached picture is a bigger, better, & higher-resolution one than the one in your original story(s);
(attached below)
It confirms to any ‘doubting Thomas’ that ALL 3 MEN IN THE VIDEO WERE ‘GOVERNMENT-CONTROLLED AGENTS-PROVOCATEURS’!!
As you can see in this item, ‘controlled mass-media’ such as CBC, & CTV, did NOT report THIS story; Instead they completely misrepresented the truth to each of their respective national (Canadian) audiences.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=St1-WTc1kow
Controlled mass-media, & Canada’s PM Stephen Harper, claimed that ‘ there were (merely) hundreds of protesters, but I, & two other witnesses there all day, estimated the numbers to be between 1600 & 2000.
[Ironically, the Union leader, & the political activist, Maude Barlow (Council of Canadians), in the video of ‘agents-provocateurs’, NEVER mentioned ‘911 Truth’ – even once – throughout all of their very extensive speeches at the SPP !! ‘911 Truth’ needs to educate the labor movement, & very many other ‘political activists’, about 911 truth, & the importance of communicating it, in turn, to the wider population.]
Thank you.
John K. Burns
Toronto
Ontario
Canada
Story also covered by Ottowa Indymedia: http://ottawa.indymedia.org/en/2007/08/5383.shtml
And finally, the Toronto Star.
Canadian Police Caught Attempting To Stage Riots
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/august2007/240807_stage_riots.htm
What is the ‘North American Union’?
Filed under: Arctic, Canada, Colbert Report, Felipe Calderon, George Bush, global government, Global Warming, Globalism, North American Union, Oil, Russia, SPP Summit, Stephen Harper, ww4
Colbert Report on the Northwest Passage
http://daybringersblog.blogspot.com/2007/08/global-warming.html
What is the ‘North American Union’?
Filed under: bilderberg, Canada, european union, Felipe Calderon, Fox News, George Bush, global government, Globalism, NAFTA Superhighway, North American Union, SPP Summit, Stephen Harper
FOX News Panel on the North American Union
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULqQnxQx3k
Filed under: Canada, Continuity of Government, european union, Felipe Calderon, George Bush, global government, Globalism, Henry Kissinger, NAFTA Superhighway, New World Order, Robert Pastor, SPP Summit, Stephen Harper, Vicente Fox
SPP Building an EU For the Western Hemisphere
John McManus
JBS
August 22, 2007
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=762775252971310307&hl=en
leaders of Canada, the United States and Mexico will issue emphatic denials but the hidden motive propelling them in creating the Security and Prosperity Partnership is to advance one step closer to the centuries-old goal of a world government known as the New World Order.
Mr. Bush, Señor Calderon, and Mr. Harper may publicly claim that their goal is merely the promotion of free trade and the creation of more cooperation amongst the three nations. But, in 2002, when former Mexican President Vicente Fox announced his desire to create “connections and institutions similar to those created by the European Union,” he openly confirmed the long range plan. He is not alone in having made clear that a duplicate of the EU is in the works for the Western Hemisphere.
The European Union was sold to the people of Europe as a beneficial arrangement to spur trade. But, as many have begun to discover, it has all but cancelled independence for its 27 nations. In their 2003 book The Great Deception, British authors Booker and North show that the European Union has become the greatest concentration of political power in the history of mankind. The two researchers refer to the EU as “a slow-motion coup d’etat, the most spectacular coup d’etat in history.”
The Security and Prosperity Partnership is setting the stage for uniting the three nations of North America into a North American Union that will parallel for the West what the EU has done to Europe. At a closed-door meeting of what was labeled the North American Forum [1] held in Banff, Alberta, September 12-14, 2006, high-level officials and prominent executives from the three nations discussed “Demographic and Social Dimensions of North American Integration.” After attending the secret gathering –- there were no journalists, no press releases, no commentary for public consumption -– U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Thomas Shannon told [2] an audience here in Ottawa: “The North American Forum is a parallel structure to the Security and Prosperity Partnership” –- thus admitting the existence of a link between the SPP and plans for a North American Union.
Canadian Mel Hurtig attended the Banff session and he stated [3] that its purpose was to bring about “the integration of Canada into the United States.” He didn’t like the idea of such a meeting being held in secrecy, and he didn’t like the plan to integrate the three nations. If there was nothing to hide, why did that meeting of high-ranking dignitaries from the three North American nations meet in secrecy?
Asked months ago about the Security and Prosperity Partnership and the rush toward a North American Union, many members of the U.S. Congress confessed not having a clue about these subversive plans. The reason for their early ignorance is that the overall goal is designed to occur without any consent of the people’s representatives. Mr. Bush and his globalist advisers will not risk the defeat of their plans by seeking input from Congress. They plan to carry out this enormous coup d’etat under the so-called authority of the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement, NAFTA. But, recently, the House of Representatives overwhelmingly voted to bar the use of federal funds for creating the NAFTA superhighway from Mexico into the U.S. and Canada. Obviously, some portions of the overall plan are becoming known.
American University’s Dr. Robert Pastor, a key promoter of this grand scheme, stated very clearly in Foreign Affairs [4] magazine that “NAFTA was merely the first draft of an economic constitution for North America.”
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez confirmed the view given by Dr. Pastor when he stated in March 2006, “The Security and Prosperity Partnership seeks to build on NAFTA.”
World Government has been the goal of a power-driven and self-perpetuating conspiracy for some six generations. Military conquest hasn’t achieved the goal. Wars and revolutions haven’t accomplished it either. So the master planners have turned to misnamed free trade and seemingly innocuous economic unions to reach their independence-cancelling design.
This is what Henry Kissinger meant when, in 1993, he implored the U.S. Congress to approve NAFTA as “the most creative step toward the new world order [5]” and a “step toward a free-trade zone for the entire Western Hemisphere.” And it is what David Rockefeller meant when he simultaneously urged [6] the U.S. Congress to approve NAFTA in order “to build a true new world in the Western Hemisphere.”
The John Birch Society was formed in 1958 to protect our nation’s hard-won independence. In the face of this very serious threat posed by the SPP and the North American Union, our organization has launched a campaign calling on the U.S. Congress to withdraw from NAFTA. If our effort is successful, the rug will be pulled out from under this secret plan to merge Canada, the U.S. and Mexico via the Security and Prosperity Partnership and its companion North American Union. H. Con. Res 22 [7]has been introduced in the House of Representatives to mandate withdrawal from NAFTA.
Nothing less than national independence is at stake. The American people don’t want to tear up our Declaration of Independence. Nor do the peoples of Canada and Mexico want to cancel the independence of their nations. Roman Herzog, the former president of Germany, now realizes that Germany has essentially lost its independence to the EU bureaucrats in Brussels. We must not let the same stealth-type movement accomplish for our countries what has already befallen Europe’s once-independent nations.
Our first step in blocking this merger is to scuttle the NAFTA pact. Supposedly a pact designed merely to foster trade, NAFTA’s 900 pages of regulations amount to massive amounts of control. And NAFTA’s Chapter 11 tribunals have already demonstrated their power to supersede state and federal law [8].
Our plan calls for blocking the creation of a North American Union by withdrawing the U.S. completely from NAFTA. We shall continue – and increase – our efforts to expose the hidden purpose behind the Security and Prosperity Partnership/North American Union. We welcome similar efforts from the peoples of Canada and Mexico.
What is the ‘North American Union’?
Filed under: Amero, C-Span, Canada, european union, Felipe Calderon, Fox News, George Bush, global government, Globalism, lou dobbs, NAFTA Superhighway, North American Union, SPP Summit, Stephen Harper
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aC-MPHsJ-pY
Bush Does Not Deny North American Union
WND
August 22, 2007
MONTEBELLO, Quebec — 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.
The exchange came at a news conference held by Bush, Mexico’s President Felipe Calderon, and Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who met at a resort in the rural woods outside of Ottawa, Quebec, to discuss their latest work on the Security and Prosperity Partnership.
After the trio presented their prepared statement about the SPP, several reporters who had been selected in advance were allowed to ask questions.
When it came time for a question from a Fox News reporter, Bush was asked if he would be willing to categorically deny that there is a plan to create a North American Union, or that there are plans to create NAFTA Superhighways.
“As you three leaders meet here, there are a growing number of people in each of your countries who have expressed concern about the Security and Prosperity Partnership. This is addressed to all three of you. Can you say today that this is not a prelude to a North American Union, similar to a European Union? Are there plans to build some kind of superhighway connecting all three countries? And do you believe all of these theories about a possible erosion of national identity stem from a lack of transparency from this partnership?” was the question, according to a White House transcript.
Reporters at the news conference said he sidestepped, instead adopting the tactic that those who are arguing the European Union model of integrating nations into a larger continental union is being used in North America should be ridiculed.
He called it an old political scare tactic, to try to create a wild conspiracy and then demand that those who “are not engaged” prove that it isn’t happening.
Bush’s answer was:
“We represent three great nations. We each respect each other’s sovereignty. You know, there are some who would like to frighten our fellow citizens into believing that relations between us are harmful for our respective peoples. I just believe they’re wrong. I believe it’s in our interest to trade; I believe it’s in our interest to dialogue; I believe it’s in our interest to work out common problems for the good of our people.
“And I’m amused by some of the speculation, some of the old — you can call them political scare tactics. If you’ve been in politics as long as I have, you get used to that kind of technique where you lay out a conspiracy and then force people to try to prove it doesn’t exist. That’s just the way some people operate. I’m here representing my nation. I feel strongly that the United States is a force for good, and I feel strongly that by working with our neighbors we can a stronger force for good.
“So I appreciate that question. I’m amused by the difference between what actually takes place in the meetings and what some are trying to say takes place. It’s quite comical, actually, when you realize the difference between reality and what some people are talking on TV about.”
Harper joined in. There’s not going to be any NAFTA Superhighway connecting the three nations, he said, and it’s “not going to go interplanetary either,” he said.
Harper said the SPP discussions that were held concerned such pressing issues as jelly beans. He said the business interests expressing their desires for progress on the SPP noted there were different standards in the United States and Canada, and there was a discussion about whether those standards could be made uniform for the U.S. and Canada.
Bush’s comments echoed the comments published just a day earlier in the Ottawa Citizen by David Wilkins, the U.S. ambassador to Canada.
“While conspiracy theories abound, you can take it to the bank that no one involved in these discussions is interested in, or has ever proposed, a ‘North American Union,’ a ‘North American super highway,’ or a ‘North American currency,'” he wrote.
“The United States, Canada and Mexico are three distinct, sovereign countries that practice democracy differently,” he wrote. “Each proudly defends its own interests. But our leaders also recognize that we share a continent in this post-Sept. 11 world, where terrorism is but one threat. We have a vested interest in working together to prevent potential threats outside North America — like those posed by pandemic flu or improperly labeled foods, for example — from penetrating our borders.
Wilkins wrote that the nations also are “exploring ways to detect radiological threats and coordinating emergency efforts along our borders in the event of a man-made or natural disaster. It just makes sense when you share thousands of miles of common border to share a common emergency-management plan.”
He said another goal is to reduce the cost of doing business across national borders.
However, Jerome Corsi, a Harvard Ph.D. whose newly published book, “The Late Great USA,” uses the government’s own documentation to show the advance of a North American Union, said ridicule is the “last resort of someone who is losing an argument.”
Such tactics, Corsi said, “underestimate the intelligence of people listening, and people realize that the argument wasn’t answered.”
At the news conference, he noted, Bush failed to respond to the Fox News question with a denial of the plans for a North American Union.
And, Corsi said, “Bush did not address the fact that Texas Gov. Rick Perry vetoed a two-year moratorium on the Trans-Texas Corridor project,” believed to be the starting point for an eventual continent-wide grid of NAFTA Superhighways.
“Just to ridicule the idea, when he had a change to categorically deny it, raises doubts in peoples’ minds, especially when these meetings aren’t transparent,” Corsi added.
The meeting this week, which focused on economic issues, was attended by representatives of dozens of multinational corporations anxious to have their manufacturing and sales processes smoothed.
However, Corsi said, “not one person who objects is permitted inside the room.”
At the same time, Bush did affirm that there is a plan under consideration for the United States to provide military assistance to Mexico’s military in its battles in the drug war, although officials were not ready to announce what that plan includes.
The three national leaders simply affirmed that drug trade is a continental problem and would demand a continental solution.
The formal statement from the three leaders referred to the “opportunities and challenges facing North America and [the need] to establish priorities for our further collaboration.”
They said the three nations already have agreed to a North American plan for avian and pandemic influenza, a “Regulatory Cooperation Framework,” an intellectual property action strategy and a “Trilateral Agreement for Cooperation in Energy Science and Technology.”
“The North American Competitiveness Council (NACC), announced last year in Cancun, has provided us with thoughtful recommendations on how we could strengthen the competitive platform for business,” the statement said.
The statement said the Regulatory Cooperation Framework will allow various rules to be streamlined across borders.
“In the coming year, we ask our ministers to consider work in areas, such as the chemicals, automotive, transportation, and information and communications technology sectors,” the statement said.
And the Intellectual Property Action Strategy “also gives us an invaluable tool for combating counterfeiting and piracy, which undermine innovation, harm economic development and can have negative public-health and safety implications,” the three said.
Food safety and border security also were discussed. “Our governments will continue to address the safety of food and products imported into North America, while facilitating the significant trade in these products that our countries already have and without imposing unnecessary barriers to trade,” the leaders said.
“It is sometimes best to screen goods and travelers prior to entry into North America. We ask our ministers to develop mutually acceptable inspection protocols to detect threats to our security, such as from incoming travelers during a pandemic and from radiological devices on general aviation,” the statement said.
But protesters who staged events in Ottawa as the meetings were moving forward, warned of the integration and harmonizing the SPP seeks.
“The SPP is pursuing an agenda to integrate Mexico and Canada in closed-door sessions that are getting underway today in Montebello,” Howard Phillips, the chairman of the Coalition to Block the North American Union, told an earlier press conference in Ottawa.
“We are here to register our protest,” Phillips added, “along with the protests of thousands of Americans who agree with us that the SPP is a globalist agenda driven by the multi-national corporate interests and intellectual elite who together have launched an attack upon the national sovereignty of the United States, Canada and Mexico.”
Connie Fogel, head of the Canadian Action Party, agreed with Phillips.
“Canadians are complaining that the SPP process lacks transparency,” Fogel told the press conference. “Transparency is a major issue, but even if the SPP working groups were open to the public, we would still object to their goal to advance the North American integration agenda at the expense of Canadian sovereignty.”
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sragA2CK8yc
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Filed under: Canada, Felipe Calderon, George Bush, global government, Globalism, North American Union, SPP Summit, Stephen Harper
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zsm1JoC_Nfg
Leaders Scoff at “North American Union” Question
Eunice Moscoso
Austin American Statesman
August 21, 2007
The leaders of the United States, Mexico and Canada — meeting at a summit in Montebello, Quebec — scoffed at a question about whether the meeting was a precursor to a North American Union and a possible erosion of national identity.
President Bush said it was “comical” to realize the difference between reality and what some people are talking about on T.V.
“If you’ve been in politics as long as I have, you get used to that kind of technique, where you lay out a conspiracy and then force people to try to prove it doesn’t exist. That’s just the way some people operate,” he said.
In addition, he said: “There are some who would like to frighten our fellow citizens into believing that relations between us are harmful for our respective peoples. I just believe they’re wrong. I believe it’s in our interest to trade. I believe it’s in our interest to dialogue. I believe it’s in our interest to work out common problems for the good of our people.”
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said a couple of his opposition leaders “have speculated on massive water diversions and superhighways through the continent, maybe interplanetary — I’m not sure — as well.”
More seriously, he said that the three countries have an “enormous commercial relationship” and that they are discussing such things as the rules for manufacturing jelly beans which are different in Canada and the United States.
“Is the sovereignty of Canada going to fall apart if we standardize the jelly bean? You know, I don’t think so,” he said.
Mexican President Felipe Calderon said through a translator that there are several myths about the presidential summit.
“Some are more jovial and funnier than others, but what we’re trying to do is simply to meet, talk about common problems and see what we can do in practical terms in order to improve the lives of our people, whether it’s to standardize the parameters for chocolates or medicines,” he said.
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What is the ‘North American Union’?
Filed under: Alex Jones, european union, Felipe Calderon, Fox News, George Bush, global government, Globalism, John Gibson, North American Union, Robert Pastor, Ron Paul, SPP Summit, Stephen Harper
Fox News Anchor Pathetically Attempts To Dismiss North American Union Agenda
Jon Gibson: Alex Jones shouts a lot, therefore there is no Pan American Union plot
Steve Watson
Infowars.net
August 21, 2007
Anti-American Fox Noise Channel’s Neo-Con Bush boot-licker John Gibson has once again chosen to attack Infowars and Alex Jones, this time in an attempt to rubbish the existence of the plot to create a North American Union.
While the three heads of state of the U.S., Mexico and Canada continue to conduct regional harmonization talks at the secretive Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) summit in Quebec, the albino vampire John Gibson has attempted to rubbish the theory that the SPP represents such a move by comparing Alex Jones’ voice to that of John Goodman in the feature film The Big Lebowski.
“He is a total nut, foaming at the mouth, he may even be a bit on the rabid side.” Gibson spouts. Yes that proves it then, whatever “it” is supposed to be.
Listen to the audio:
Note: The voices you will hear are those of Gibson himself, his guest, recordings of Alex Jones he bizarrely throws in at certain points and lastly that of a totally pointless sidekick he apparently keeps chained in the corner and feeds only when he barks in agreement with his melanin starved slave master.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqlbyyjGyE8
Though Gibson admits to the existence of a planned Trans Texas Corridor trade route, he froths, “However the whole idea that this is conflating into an amalgamation of the three countries strikes me as absurd”, further describing the idea as a “tin foil hat jackass conspiracy theory”.
Clearly the peroxide prince of spin is not aware of the fact that 22 members of the House of Representatives have put their names to a letter to president Bush describing their concerns about the secretive manner in which the SPP is being conducted and that it “may actually undermine our security and sovereignty”.
Neither is “Gibby” aware of the fact that 18 states have introduced resolutions calling on their federal representatives to halt work on the North American Union (they include Virginia and South Carolina) and that 3 of these states (Idaho, Montana and Oklahoma) have passed their resolutions.
Clearly he is also not aware of SPP documents released under a FOIA request that prove a wide range of US administrative law is being re-written in stealth under the Security and Prosperity Partnership program to “integrate” and “harmonize” with administrative law in Mexico and Canada.
Clearly he is also unaware of Further documents (PDF link) from last year’s SPP meeting in Banff which were obtained by Judicial Watch under the FOIA which refer to an “evolution by stealth” agenda for the SPP.
The recent news that the United States and the European Union have signed up to a new transatlantic economic partnership that will see regulatory standards “harmonized” and will lay the basis for a merging of the US and EU into one single market, also presumably passed Gibson by.
And evidently Gibson has never caught his rival news anchors over at CNN or CNBC regularly broadcasting reports on the coming NAU merger.
Instead of inviting Alex Jones onto his show to debate the facts, which would have been wise considering his incredible and total ignorance of all of the above, the cowardly and pathetic Gibson chooses to play out of context recorded clips of Alex, which he then laughs at or makes snide remarks after. Regular listeners to Gibson (if there are any) will recognize this as a method he repeatedly employs.
In addition while Gibson’s guest, 9/11 truth activist Jessica Wilson, does her best to explain what exactly the NAU is, she admits she is no expert on the subject, and it quickly becomes clear that she is only there to be prodded and poked fun at.
When Wilson does make a salient point about Robert Pastor, one of the architects of the plan for a regional government, Gibson and his side kick just reply by interrupting her and sarcastically asking “do you believe George Bush carried out 9/11?” and “have you had black helicopters flying over your house recently?”
Meanwhile Alex Jones’ nationally syndicated show yesterday featured three leading experts on the subject, speaking live from the current SPP summit in Montebello, Canada contributing to a three hour in- depth feature on the issue.
While the clips of Alex betray an impassioned and alarmed talk show host working tirelessly to wake up his audience to the very real stealth movement toward a North American Union by providing them with verifiable facts, Gibson’s comments remind one of a bored spotty teenager making his own radio show in his bedroom with his equally socially retarded accomplice.
The fact that Gibson continues to be afforded the grandstand of a nationally syndicated radio show by his employers, yet clearly represents a totally pointless waste of airtime, confirms his true status as a weak minded and spiritually enslaved apologist for the corporate elite.
Like a nagging poodle yelping at our feet all the time trying to get our attention, Gibson seems to now use his ad hominem attacks on Alex Jones as an excuse for anything. Last May he stated that Presidential candidate Ron Paul should be kicked out of the debates simply for appearing on the Alex Jones show on a regular basis.
The dumb blond also suggested that Ron Paul’s assertion that bombing third world countries breeds hatred in the middle east is also a tin-foil hat conspiracy theory!
Gibson has also previously attacked the 9/11 truth movement on his gut wrenching “Big Story” show by promulgating demonstrably provable lies and promoting free speech haters. He also regularly enjoys mocking the tragic events of 9/11 that so many have so tirelessly poured over in attempt to get to the truth. Most recently Gibson defended a columnist who stated that another 9/11 style attack would “help America”, prompting MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann to hand Gibson his own behind on a platter.
Once again, we thank John Gibson and Fox News for the continued attention they are bringing to the issues we cover – because for any of their viewers that still possess their own set of teeth, they will be encouraged to “go to the Google”, as Gibson puts it, and enter terms like “North American Union” and “Alex Jones” and find out the truth.
We invite Gibson and his ilk to continue their desperate attacks because anyone with two brain cells left to rub together can immediately deduce how liars and con-artists behave – and how their impetuous smear tactics are manifested.
A growing number of Americans are realising that their sovereignty and the very way of life is under attack from globalist corporate servants within their own government. The establishment media is scared stiff about the fact and it’s enlightening to see them squirm, smear and lie in an attempt to retrieve something from an information war that they have already lost.
What is the ‘North American Union’?
Filed under: Amero, Bush Sr., Canada, Felipe Calderon, George Bush, Globalism, Immigration, NAFTA Superhighway, New World Order, North American Union, Police State, Protest, secret meetings, SPP Summit, Stephen Harper
Conservative Leaders Plead To Bush: No North American Union
Joe Murray
The Bulletin
August 22, 2007
While the small Canadian village of Montebello is customarily known for its posh luxury and elegant surroundings, for the last two days the village has played host to the 2008 Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) of North America meeting between President Bush and the leaders of Canada and Mexico.
SPP meetings, which are customarily held behind closed doors and known for their secrecy, represent a time when the leaders of the three most influential nations in the western hemisphere come together to discuss various issues of policy.
At this past meeting, which concluded yesterday, the three leaders discussed issues ranging from immigration to Canadian land rights in the Arctic to the need to stop the illegal flow of drugs crossing America’s southwest border.
The purpose of the meeting is to develop ways to integrate the three nations, both economically and politically. This goal has raised serious concerns that the three nations are seeking to subtly form a North American Union that would rival its European counterpart. Such a plan could possibly lead to a NAFTA Superhighway connecting the three nations, as well as a movement for a common currency. But as Bush was engaged in discussions with Mexican President Felipe Calderon and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, a number of conservative activists were also in Montebello voicing their opposition. Arguing that American sovereignty should not be compromised to benefit commercial interests, a new conservative grassroots organization was not shy in voicing its opposition to a North American Union.
At a press conference held Monday, Howard Phillips, president of the Coalition to Block the North American Union (CBNAU), condemned America’s participation and urged Americans to take a stand against the “New World Order” that Bush and the other two leaders are trying to create.
“George Bush and his daddy [former President George H. W. Bush] have both used the term ‘New World Order.’ It was used by Woodrow Wilson. It was used by Adolf Hitler. It was used by a number of people, and the New World Order relates to the desire of many people in the world to submerge national sovereignties to international institution,” stated Phillips at the press conference.
The CBNAU has attracted a number of influential conservatives ranging from Bay Buchanan, senior campaign advisor to Tom Tancredo, and Phyllis Schlafly, founder of Eagle Forum. Phillips’ new organization has also cut across partisan politics and attracted the congressional support of Rep. Virgil Goode Jr., D-Va.
The past few days have been a whirlwind for Phillips, as the political veteran explained that there has been a major “breakthrough” for those concerned about preserving national sovereignty and the integrity of the Constitution.
“We had a great day in Canada,” explained Phillips. “We had tremendous news coverage.”
Phillips, who was a key figure in the fight against the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), was sure to point out that the political environment that greeted NAFTA opponents in the early ’90s has become more inviting.
“This is a big difference from the ’90s, as it took a long time to wake up our people and tell them there was a serious crisis at hand,” stated Phillips. Because of Internet access, around-the-clock cable news service and other enhanced forms of communication, Phillips believes it is easier to keep grassroots America informed.
Among the main issues of contention for CBNAU is the devastating affect NAFTA has had on American manufacturing, the construction of a 12-lane NAFTA Superhighway, and the president’s usurpation of the traditional congressional power to handle commerce with foreign nations.
“Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution explicitly states that Congress – not the executive branch – has the power to ‘regulate commerce with foreign nations.’ Also, many SPP working group meetings are held in secret, and the public, the press and members of Congress have no opportunity to participate or conduct oversight,” stated Rep. Walter Jones, R-N.C.
The president, at a joint press conference with Calderon and Harper, shrugged off concerns that the SPP was a threat to America’s sovereignty.
Characterizing opponents of the SPP as individuals who “like to frighten citizens” into believing that a relationship with Mexico and Canada is harmful to the United States, Bush stated, “I am amused by what actually takes place in the meeting and what some says takes place. … It is comical.”
Arguing that there are “several myths about this meeting,” Calderon chimed in and explained that at the SPP meetings, “we simply take advantage of being neighbors.”
Bush also took the time to praise NAFTA, telling reporters that trade agreement has yielded prosperity, something his critics say is false.
“Since NAFTA was approved, the United States has lost 3.1 million manufacturing jobs. More than 10,000 illegal aliens now stream across our southern border every week. The U.S. does not need its government equalizing standards and regulations that will result in more American jobs going to Mexico and more illegal aliens coming to America,” Jones said.
Members of the CBNAU are unconvinced by the three leaders, for they argue their actions do not reflect their words. Therefore, Congress has decided to take action to protect American sovereignty.
CBC Covers the Montebello SPP Summit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCGoPvZFEEQ
Montebello Protests – Prosperity Summit Brings on Clashes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ukg5CaqyVk
Police Tear Gas Non-Violent Protesters at Montebello
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDjAyGFH75I
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Filed under: Arctic, Canada, George Bush, global government, Globalism, NORAD, North American Union, Oil, Russia, SPP Summit, Stephen Harper, Troops, UN, ww4
Bush tells Canada’s Harper energy-rich Arctic belongs to world
RIA Novosti
August 21, 2007
The U.S. president reiterated Washington’s commitment to international status for the energy-rich Arctic shelf during a meeting with the Canadian premier Monday, a senior White House official said.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper has been insisting on Canada’s sovereignty over the Arctic shelf, but other Arctic Circle countries – the U.S., Denmark, Norway and Russia – have also applied with the UN for control over the area.
Dan Fisk, senior director for Western Hemisphere Affairs of the U.S. National Security Council, said Harper conveyed his concerns to George W. Bush during their summit meeting in Montebello, on the north shore of the Ottawa River, about 44 miles east of Ottawa.
Harper cited remarks made by Paul Cellucci, a former U.S. ambassador to Canada, who told Canada’s CTV Sunday that it would make sense to recognize Canada’s sovereignty over the Northwest Passage in the Arctic. Bush promised to take Cellucci’s opinion into consideration, a Canadian government official said.
The Canada-based newspaper The Globe and Mail said Monday the country had been building up a military presence in the Arctic and had already held four exercises in the area this year.
The Canadian premier also recently announced plans to build a deep sea port and a military training center in the Arctic to back Canada’s bid for the region, the paper said.
Under international law, the five Arctic Circle countries each have a 322-kilometer (200-mile) economic zone in the Arctic Ocean at the moment.
North American Integration and the Militarization of the Arctic
Michel Chossudovsky
Global Research
August 20, 2007
The Battle for the Arctic is part of a global military agenda of conquest and territorial control. It has been described as a New Cold War between Russia and America.
Washington’s objective is to secure territorial control, on behalf of the Anglo-American oil giants, over extensive Arctic oil and natural gas reserves. The Arctic region could hold up to 25% of the World’s oil and gas reserves, according to some estimates. (Moscow Times, 3 August 2007). These estimates are corroborated by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS): “he real possibility exists that you could have another world class petroleum province like the North Sea.” (quoted by CNNMoney.com, 25 October 2006)
From Washington’s perspective, the battle for the Arctic is part of broader global military agenda.
It is intimately related to the process of North American integration under the Security and Prosperity Partnership Agreement (SPP) and the proposed North American Union (NAU). The SPP envisages, under the auspices of a proposed “multiservice [North American] Defense Command”, the militarization of a vast territory extending from the Caribbean basin to the Canadian Arctic.
It also bears a relationship to America’s hegemonic objectives in different parts of the World including the Middle East. The underlying economic objective of US military operations is the conquest, privatization and appropriation of the World’s reserves of fossil fuel. The Arctic is no exception. The Arctic is an integral part of the “Battle for Oil”. It is one of the remaining frontiers of untapped energy reserves.
The Arctic nations (with territories North of the Arctic circle) are Russia, Canada, Denmark, the US, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Iceland. The first three countries (Russia, Canada and Denmark) possess significant territories extending northwards of the Arctic circle. (see Map).
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Directed against Russia, which is in the process of claiming part of the Arctic shelf, Washington’s Arctic strategy is tied into a broader process of militarization and territorial integration.
UN Convention on the Law of the Sea
The United States has adopted a unilateral approach to Arctic development. It has refused to approve the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), which was ratified by both Russia and Canada. A United Nations Committee currently administers the Law of the Sea Convention.
The US transpolar territory is much smaller than that of Russia, Canada and Denmark. US territories bordering the Arctic are limited to the North Alaskan coastline, extending from the Bering straits to the Northeastern Alaskan US-Canadian border. The US has a number of US military bases and installations in Alaska. There are several human settlements on the Northern Slope ( Northern Alaska coastline bordering the Arctic Ocean), including Prudhoe Bay, Barrow and Cape Lisborne. This Northern Slope is rich in oil. It was among the first areas of development of Arctic oil. The Alaskan pipeline links Prudoe Bay on the North Slope to the port of Valdez in Prince William Sound on the Gulf of Alaska.
Russia
Russia, in contrast, has by far the largest border with the Arctic, from the Northwestern city of Murmansk on the Russian-Finnish border, extending over the entire Northern Siberian region, to the Bering Straits, which separate Alaska from the Russian Federation. Murmansk is the largest city north of the Arctic Circle, with a population of more than 400,000 inhabitants. In other words, a large part of the Russian continental shelf borders the Arctic.
Russia, going back to the Soviet era, had established scientific-military stations on the island of Northern Zemlya as well as in the Francois Joseph archipelago (Franz Josef Land), which is also under Russian jurisdiction. (See map.) Northern Zemlya was used during the Soviet era for underground nuclear testing.
Russia is now claiming sovereignty (under the International Convention on the Law of the Sea, UNCLOS) of a vast 1,191,000 sq km territory which is part of the Arctic shelf.
This territory claimed by Russia submitted to the UN Committee that administers UNCLOS is said to contain substantial hydrocarbon reserves, on the Arctic seabed:
The 1982 International Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) establishes a 12 mile zone for territorial waters and a larger 200 mile economic zone in which a country has exclusive drilling rights for hydrocarbon and other resources.
Russia claims that the entire swath of Arctic seabed in the triangle that ends at the North Pole belongs to Russia, but the United Nations Committee that administers the Law of the Sea Convention has so far refused to recognize Russia’s claim to the entire Arctic seabed.
In order to legally claim that Russia’s economic zone in the Arctic extends far beyond the 200 mile zone, it is necessary to present viable scientific evidence showing that the Arctic Ocean’s sea shelf to the north of Russian shores is a continuation of the Siberian continental platform. In 2001, Russia submitted documents to the UN commission on the limits of the continental shelf seeking to push Russia’s maritime borders beyond the 200 mile zone. It was rejected.
Now Russian scientists assert there is new evidence that Russia’s northern Arctic region is directly linked to the North Pole via an underwater shelf. Last week a group of Russian geologists returned from a six-week voyage to the Lomonosov Ridge, an underwater shelf in Russia’s remote eastern Arctic Ocean. They claimed the ridge was linked to Russian Federation territory, boosting Russia’s claim over the oil- and gas-rich triangle.
The latest findings are likely to prompt Russia to lodge another bid at the UN to secure its rights over the Arctic sea shelf. If no other power challenges Russia’s claim, it will likely go through unchallenged. (See Vladimir Frolov, Global Research, July 2007)
Russia is basing its claim on the grounds that this portion of the Arctic sea shelf is connected to Russia’s continental shelf, through the 2000 km long underwater Lomonosov ridge. “According to Russian media, the physical connection to the Russian intercontinental shelf means that the ridge is technically a part of Russia, and therefore open to exploitation.”
http://www.oilmarketer.co.uk/2007/07/04/russia-seeks-un-approval-on-artic-oil-grab/
The Strategic Role of Canada and Denmark’s Arctic Territories
After Russia, Canada and Denmark have the largest transpolar territories.
To effectively challenge and encroach upon Russian territorial claims in the Arctic, Washington requires not only the collaboration of Canada and Denmark, but also jurisdiction over their respective Northern territories, which are considered by Washington as strategic from both a military and economic standpoint.
The US has a military presence in both Canada and Denmark (Greenland). Both countries play an important role in Washington’s Arctic strategy.
Canada’s territory, extends northwards to the Queen Elizabeth archipelago which includes Ellesmere Island bordering onto the Sea of Lincoln, which is part of the Arctic Ocean. Ellesmere Island is part of the Canadian territory of Nunavut.
Alert on Ellesmere Island (located at 82°28’N, 62°30’W) is considered the northernmost human settlement in the world. In practice it operates as a military intelligence station (Canadian Forces Station Alert) is under the jurisdiction of the Canadian military. CFS Alert is 840 km from the North Pole.
The militarization of the Arctic is part of the process of North American integration under the Security and Prosperity Partnership Agreement (SPP). The proposed North American Union (NAU) constitutes a means for the US to extend its sovereignty over Canada’s Arctic territories.
When the creation of US Northern Command was announced in April 2002, Canada accepted the right of the US to deploy US troops on Canadian soil, extending into its Arctic territories:
“U.S. troops could be deployed to Canada and Canadian troops could cross the border into the United States if the continent was attacked by terrorists who do not respect borders, according to an agreement announced by U.S. and Canadian officials.” (Edmunton Sun, 11 September 2002)
In April 2006, Canada formally ratified a renewed North American Aerospace Defense Agreement (NORAD), (“renewed NORAD”), which allows the US Navy and Coast Guard to deploy American war ships in Canadian territorial waters including its Arctic seabed territories. (For further details, see Michel Chossudovsky, Canada’s Sovereignty in Jeopardy: The Militarization of North America, Global Research, August 2007)
Greenland
Greenland, which is under Danish jurisdiction, constitutes a sizeable landmass bordering the Arctic Ocean.
The Thule Air Force base in Northern Greenland is under the jurisdiction of the US Air Force 821st Air Base Group. It constitutes the US’s northernmost military facility (). The military base lies approximately 1118 km north of the Arctic Circle and 1524 km south of the Terrestrial North Pole. The Thule base is 885 km east of the North Magnetic Pole.
The Thule US Air Force base also “hosts the 12th Space Warning Squadron, a Ballistic Missile Early Warning Site designed to detect and track Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs) launched against North America.”
The Thule base links up to NORAD and US Northern Command headquarters at the Peterson Air Force base in Colorado. The Thule base is also “host to Detachment 3 of the 22d Space Operations Squadron, which is part of the 50th Space Wing‘s global satellite control network.”
Denmark is member of NATO, firmly allied with the US. Both Danish and Canadian territory will be used by the US to militarize the Arctic. Denmark has also been a firm supporter of the Bush administration’s military agenda in the Middle East.
Canada’s Arctic Military Facilities
Ottawa’s July 2007 decision to establish a military facility in Resolute Bay in the Northwest Passage was not intended to reassert “Canadian sovereignty. In fact quite the opposite. It was established in consultation with Washington. A deep-water port at Nanisivik, on the northern tip of Baffin Island is also envsaged.
The US administration is firmly behind the Canadian government’s decision. The latter does not “reassert Canadian sovereignty”. Quite the opposite. It is a means to eventually establish US territorial control over Canada’s entire Arctic region including its waterways.
Under the renegotiated North American Aerospace Defense Agreement (NORAD), the US military has access to Canada’s domestic territorial waters including Canada’s sea shelf with the Arctic, which coincidentally also provides Washington under the guise of “North American sovereignty” with a justification to challenge Russia in the Arctic.
Canadian prime minister to assert Arctic claim in summit with US, Mexican presidents
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/0….o-Summit.php
What is the ‘North American Union’?
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