When George W. Bush was President, he greatly advanced the prospect of integrating the United States with a North American Union (NAU). With no thanks to most Christian conservatives or the mainstream news media, hundreds of thousands of patriotic Americans rallied against this proposal and--at least temporarily--seriously stymied Bush's draconian dream. But if you thought President Barack Obama would be content to let the NAU die a natural death, think again.
Reporting for World Net Daily, author/researcher Jerome Corsi recently reported, "President Obama is continuing President George W. Bush's effort to advance North American integration with a public-relations makeover calculated to place the program under the radar of public opinion and to deflect concerns about border security and national sovereignty.
"The Obama administration has 'rebranded' and 'refocused' the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America, or SPP, to advance the Bush administration's agenda of North American integration under the rubric of the "North American Leaders Summit,' a less controversial banner, according to confidential sources in the U.S. Department of Commerce and State Department who agreed to speak with WND only if their comments were kept off the record."
As further evidence of President Obama's determination to continue the Bush policy of a commercial union between countries (or "League of Democracies" as John McCain called it), Corsi also reported, "President Obama has actively backtracked on his campaign promises to renegotiate NAFTA to get provisions more favorable to American workers."
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Senate moves to dilute 'Buy American' provisions from stimulus bill
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Pundits who have speculated whether President Obama would stand by campaign promises to support the U.S. worker or succumb to free trade pressures got a clear sign last week that the Obama administration intends to side with globalists.
Last week, President Obama submitted to globalist demands as the administration quietly watered down the "Buy American" provisions placed in the nearly $1 trillion economic stimulus plan.
The compromise, engineered in the Senate, was to add language guaranteeing the "Buy American" provisions would be "applied in a manner consistent with U.S. obligations under international obligations."
In other words, the free-trade presidents, now stretching from Carter to Obama, have won.
With the added language, NAFTA, CAFTA and the World Trade Organization will continue to trump "Buy American" efforts to support the struggling U.S. worker.
Apparently also gone are Obama's campaign promises to renegotiate trade agreements such as NAFTA to reverse the trend of millions of U.S. manufacturing jobs lost to outsourcing to cheap-labor competitors.
The only winners in this strategy are the usual ones – the multinational corporations, as well as the lawyers and lobbyists who work for them.
Evidently, under the Obama administration as under the Bush administration, any effort to get the U.S. worker on a fair basis in free-trade agreements will be labeled "protectionist" by free-trade advocates who insist the only way to get the U.S. economy out of the economic downturn is to keep sending jobs overseas.
The attack on the "Buy American" provisions was predictably vicious.
"Such provisions would cost American jobs, trigger retaliation from our trading partners, slow economic recovery by delaying shovel-ready infrastructure projects, and cede our leadership role as a long-standing proponent of free and fair trade and global engagement," said Tom Donohue, president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, as he ticked off one-by-one the typical free-trade talking points.
Free-trade proponent Sen. John McCain asked for the "Buy American" provisions to be removed from the bill altogether.
The European Union threatened WTO litigation, charging the "Buy American" provisions violated U.S. obligations under the trade agreement, according to the Financial Times.
Barrons, a Wall Street Journal publication, worried that the "Buy American" provisions indicated "protectionism was on the rise."
The publication noted that the "Buy American" provisions threatened to strain relations with Canada, our largest trading partner and our biggest foreign source of steel.
In 1978, Democrats slipped a similar measure into a highway bill, a move that then sent ripples through Canada that "protectionism" would damage Canadian steel exporters.
The debate over the "Buy American" provisions in the economic stimulus plan strongly suggests that President Obama will join President Bush as an advocate of free trade.
Next month, when Obama makes his first foreign trip, to Canada, we will get an opportunity to see if he will revive the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America, or SPP, annual summit meetings with Canada and Mexico.
The U.S. government's SPP website still has at top center the Mississippi River paddle steamboat logo from the last SPP summit meeting, held in New Orleans on April 22, 2008.
The SPP website's homepage contains no discussion of a 2009 SPP summit meeting.Senate moves to dilute 'Buy American' provisions from stimulus bill... more
And no the polar bear is not dead...he and the dog are playing :)
Marc Morano
U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works
Washington, DC – Award winning Princeton University Physicist Dr. Will Happer, who was reportedly fired by former Vice President Al Gore in 1993 for failing to adhere to Gore’s scientific views, has now declared man-made global warming fears “mistaken.”
“I am convinced that the current alarm over carbon dioxide is mistaken,” Happer, who has published over 200 scientific papers, told EPW on December 22, 2008.
Link to Full Printable PDF Report of More Than 650 Dissenting ScientistsAnd no the polar bear is not dead...he and the dog are playing :)
Marc Morano
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The third and most far-reaching objective of President-elect Obama’s administration will be to enforce an initiative for the United States to combat global warming.
"The Obama proposal includes a banking and credit trading mechanism to allow providers of cleaner burning fuel to trade allowances to other producers or bank allowances against future carbon reductions."
On the surface, this trading mechanism seems to be very similar to the system that British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has proposed, as reported by the Australian.
"My ambition is to build a global carbon market founded on the EU emissions trading scheme and centred in London."
This is part 3 of a 3 part series I wrote on how President-elect Obama's battle to combat global warming and global climate change will fit in with the the global new world order agenda.The third and most far-reaching objective of President-elect Obama’s administration... more
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has proposed, as reported by the Australian, a method for citizens in the UK to pay for their carbon usage by creating a global carbon market that where citizens would pay central banks in London to use carbon.
"The purpose is to impose this system on the world. Britain and Europe are setting benchmarks for a new global order.
As Chancellor and a climate change believer, Brown outlined the scope of the revolution. The bill will create statutory carbon budgets that will be managed "with the same prudence and discipline" as financial budgets. For Brown, the carbon will be counted like the pound sterling."
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The massive decline was caused by increasingly grim news from overseas. In Japan, shares of Sony sank more than 14 percent after it slashed its earnings forecast for the fiscal year. In Germany, Daimler's stock dropped 11.4 percent in morning trading after it reported lower third-quarter earnings and abandoned its 2008 profit and revenue guidance.
Japan's Nikkei stock average fell a staggering 9.60 percent. In Europe, Germany's benchmark DAX index was down 10.76 percent, France's CAC40 dropped 10 percent while Britain's FTSE 100 sank 8.67 percent after the government said its gross domestic product fell 0.5 percent in the third quarter, putting the country on the brink of recession...
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Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson’s $700 billion plan to buy devalued assets from financial companies is “a joke” because it doesn’t go far enough to calm markets, said Kenichi Ohmae, president of Business Breakthrough Inc.Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson’s $700 billion plan to buy devalued assets from... more
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