EU CALLS FOR WORLD GOVERNMENT
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EXCELLENT EU REVIEW - WORLD REGIONS,GLOBAL CURRENCY
http://exposureroom.com/members/cybersilence.aspx/assets/d37a8ebc60694cc98173b8f32cfe898d/
EU-NEW SOVIET UNION
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WORLD GOVERNMENT UNDER TREATYS-INTERNATIONAL LAW
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_government
TRANSATLANTIC POLICY
http://www.tpnonline.org/
EU COUNCIL
http://video.consilium.europa.eu/index.php?pl=3&sessionno=2579&lang=EN
SHADOW GOVERNMENT-DICTATORSHIP-THE MOVIE-GRANT JEFFREY)
http://truinternational2.blogspot.com/2010/01/shadow-government-full-length-movie.html
JOAN VEON ON TAMAR YONAH 2008 (WORLD GOVERNMENT)
http://britanniaradio.blogspot.com/2009/07/we-are-already-under-global-government.html#links
http://www.womensgroup.org/TAMARYONAH%20RADIO%20SHOW%201209.ppt#316,1,November 15, 2008
GEORGE HUNT-WORLD BANK ,RELIGION&RULERS
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LORD MONCKTON ON WORLD GOVERNMENT
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PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS
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INSIDE VIEW OF INTERNATIONAL BANKERS
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=36666041
UNDERSTANDING WORLD GOVERNMENT
http://www.womensgroup.org/
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=504526035342184251
BANK OF INTERNATIONAL SETTLEMENT PRESS
http://www.bis.org/events/agm2009/pcvideo.htm
BANK FOR INTERNATIONAL SETTLEMENTS PAPER 17 REGIONAL AREAS OF THE WORLD AND CURRENCIES
http://www.bis.org/publ/bppdf/bispap17.pdf
BANK FOR INTERNATIONAL SETTLEMENTS SITE
http://www.bis.org/
G-10 PRESS RELEASES FROM BANK FOR INTERNATIONAL SETTLEMENTS
http://www.bis.org/list/press_releases/said_12/index.htm
BIS ANNUAL REPORTS
http://www.bis.org/list/press_releases/said_10/index.htm
CENTRAL BANKERS SPEECHES
http://www.bis.org/list/cbspeeches/index.htm
BANK FOR INTERNATIONAL SETTLEMENTS-NEW WORLD ORDER-JULY 10,10 HOURS 1 & 2
http://www.olivetreeviews.org/radio/mp3/
THE BANK FOR INTERNATIONAL SETTLEMENTS IS THE CENTRAL BANK OF THE WORLD THAT LENDS ONLY TO CENTRAL BANKERS AROUND THE GLOBE.THE IMF LENDS TO THE COUNTRIES BANKS OF THE WORLD.BETWEEN THIS BANK AND THE IMF I BELIEVE WILL BE THE BANKS OF THE WORLD.THE IMF THE WORLD BANK AND THE POLICEMAN OF THE IMF THE BANK FOR INTERNATIONAL SETTLEMENTS WHERE WE PAY OUT CAP & TRADE,CLIMATE,ENERGY SCAM TAXES TOO TO PAY FOR THE WORLD GOVERNMENT.THE GLOBAL CURRENCY WILL BE THE SDRS OR SPECIAL DRAWING RIGHTS UNTILL THE EU INVENTS THE WORLD MICROCHIP IMPLANT SYSTEM THEN THE EU WILL MAKE ALL TAKE THE IMPLANT OR BE MURDERED.
HISTORY OF WAR AND THE FEDERAL RESERVE
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1874212534444628577&hl=en
WORLD GOVERNMENT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnq5cQMiAB8&feature=related
http://britanniaradio.blogspot.com/2009/07/we-are-already-under-global-government.html#links
DICK MORRIS-This truly creates a global economic system. From now on, don’t look to Washington for the rule making, look to Brussels.
LORD MONCKTON ON WORLD GOVERNMENT
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EPHESIANS 6:10-13
10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.
11 Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities,(DEMONIC ANGELS IN HIGH PLACES) against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.(SPIRTIUAL DEMONIC PERSONS)
13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
LUKE 4:5-7(BECAUSE SATAN OFFERS WORLD POWER, WORLD ORDERERS HAVE ACCEPTED SATANS GIFT)
5 And the devil, taking him (JESUS) up into an high mountain, shewed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.
6 And the devil said unto him, All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it.
7 If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine.
DANIEL 7:23-25
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.
25 And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.
DANIEL 12:4,1
4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.
1 And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
REVELATION 13:1-3,7,8,12,16-18
1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.
2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.
3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.
7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.
8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
12 And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
16 And he causeth all,(WORLD SOCIALISM) both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.
REVELATION 17:3,7,9-10,12,18
3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
7 And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns.
9 And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.
10 And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space.
12 And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.
18 And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.
We shall have World Government, whether or not we like it. The only question is whether World Government will be achieved by conquest or consent.James Paul Warburg appearing before the Senate on 7th February 1950
Like a famous WWII Belgian General,Paul Henry Spock said in 1957:We need no commission, we have already too many. What we need is a man who is great enough to be able to keep all the people in subjection to himself and to lift us out of the economic bog into which we threaten to sink. Send us such a man. Be he a god or a devil, we will accept him.And today, sadly, the world is indeed ready for such a man.
THE IMF AND THE BANK FOR INTERNATIONAL SETTLEMENTS IS OVIOUSLY THE BIG BANKS BEHIND THIS WHEELING AND DEALING BECAUSE THE BIS ONLY GIVES MONEY TO CENTRAL BANKERS NOT ANY OTHER BANKS.THE BIS IS THE POLICE FORCE OF BANKS FOR THE ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT(NEW WORLD ORDER-BANKER CONTROLLED DICTATORSHIP)
Global central banks take action to prevent EU credit crunch Today DEC 1,11 @ 09:49 By Leigh Phillips
BRUSSELS - The US Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank (ECB) and the central banks of some of the world's key economies announced a co-ordinated emergency action to make it easier for banks to borrow US dollars - in effect preventing a global credit crunch.The ECB and the Fed together with the Bank of England, the Bank of Canada, the Bank of Japan and the Swiss National Bank on Wednesday agreed to lower by by 50 basis points the cost of dollar currency swaps.It is the first such co-ordinated move made on this scale since the height of the 2008 financial crisis, although five international central banks provided special loans of US dollars to European banks in September following the downgrade of a pair of French banks in expectation of a Greek sovereign default.The plan goes into effect 5 December and is to last until until February, 2013.The purpose of these actions is to ease strains in financial markets and thereby mitigate the effects of such strains on the supply of credit to households and businesses and so help foster economic activity, the banks announced in a joint statement.The ECB said that the move was necessary in order to provide a series of reciprocal swap lines on a temporary basis.
This action will enable the Eurosystem to provide euro to those central banks when required, as well as enabling the Eurosystem to provide liquidity operations, should they be needed, in Japanese yen, sterling, Swiss francs and Canadian dollars (in addition to the existing operations in US dollars),the Frankfurt-based institution said.
As in 2008, when global central banks slashed interest rates together in an effort to pre-empt a credit crunch, this week's move also aims at preventing the system from seizing up.The move will make it easier for banks everywhere to trade in US dollars, but it is European banks in particular that were in biggest need of the rescue.For months reluctant to lend to one another, European banks in the last few weeks have increasingly been cut off from borrowing US dollars.The situation became grave after the meeting of eurozone finance ministers on Tuesday when they admitted that they would be unable to leverage the region's bail-out fund anywhere near the level that had been hoped.Without such a rescue, in effect mainly from the US Federal Reserve, the European banking system could have lurched to a halt.Simultaneously, China slashed the funds that its own banks are required to hold in reserve in order to ease global liquidity.
What Have The Central Banks Of The World Done Now?
The Economic Collapse Thursday, December 1, 2011
The central banks of the world are acting as if it is 2008 all over again. Desperate times call for desperate measures, and right now the central bankers are pulling out all the stops. The Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank, the Bank of England, the Bank of Canada, the Bank of Japan and the Swiss National Bank have announced a coordinated plan to provide liquidity support to the global financial system.According to the plan, the Federal Reserve is going to substantially reduce the interest rate that it charges the European Central Bank to borrow dollars. In turn, that will enable the ECB to lend dollars to European banks at a much cheaper rate. The hope is that this will alleviate the credit crunch which has gripped the European financial system by the throat. So where is the Federal Reserve going to get all of these dollars that it will be loaning out at very low interest rates? You guessed it – the Fed is just going to create them out of thin air. Our currency is being debased so that Europe can be helped out. Unfortunately, the impact of this move will be mostly “psychological” because it really does nothing to address the fundamental problems that Europe is facing. It is up to Europe to solve those problems, and so far Europe has shown no signs of being able to do that.The major central banks of the world say that they want to enhance their capacity to provide liquidity support to the global financial system. But essentially what is happening is that the Federal Reserve is going to be zapping large amounts of dollars into existence and loaning them out to the ECB very, very cheaply. Think of it as a type of quantitative easing on a global scale.The decision to do this was reportedly made by the Federal Reserve on Monday morning. For the moment, this move seems to have stabilized the European financial system. It is quite unlikely that any major European banks will fail this weekend now.
But as mentioned above, this move does nothing to solve the very serious financial problems that Europe is facing. This intervention by the central banks is merely just a speed bump on the road to financial oblivion.Most Americans are not going to understand what the central banks of the world just did, but it really is not that complicated.The following is how CNN chief business correspondent Ali Velshi broke down what the central banks have done….In an attempt to stave off the consequences of a global credit freeze, the Federal Reserve, in coordination with major central banks, has created a credit line available to those central banks, whereby they can borrow dollars at reduced interest rates for periods of three months. The central banks, in turn, can lend to commercial banks in their respective countries. This is meant to reduce the cost of short-term borrowing for troubled European banks and to give them immediate access to dollars.This was done immediately after the collapse of Lehman Brothers as well, to alleviate the consequences of banks being largely unwilling to lend to other banks, even for short periods, for fear that the borrowing banks could fail.Okay – so the Federal Reserve is loaning giant piles of cheap money to the European Central Bank.So where in the world does all of that money come from?
As a CNBC article recently explained, all of this money is created right out of thin air by the Federal Reserve….Neither the dollars nor the Euros come from anywhere. They aren’t moved or debited from anywhere. They are invented right on the spot with a few taps on the key pad. And that’s all. There’s no printing press fired up to make new dollars or euros.This is sometimes called fiat money. But that makes it sound as if some command from a sovereign created the money. It’s really closer to keyboard money, since it is created by data entry in a computer.Does that sound bizarre to you? It should.But that is how the global financial system really works.
We live in a crazy world.So what did the financial markets of the world think of this move by the Federal Reserve? It turns out that they absolutely loved it.The Dow was up 490 points, and that was the biggest gain of the year so far.Unfortunately, this stock market rally is not going to last indefinitely. If you are still in the market, enjoy this while you can because eventually a whole lot of pain is going to be coming.Again, nothing has been solved. Europe is still in a massive amount of trouble. But the announcement did make everyone feel all warm and fuzzy for at least a day.Michelle Girard, a senior economist at RBS Securities, said the following about this move….The impact is more psychological than anything else
Just think of it as comfort food for the financial markets.It was also a very desperate move.In fact, some even believe that this move happened because a major European bank was in danger of failing.Just check out some of the things that Jim Cramer of CNBC has been saying on Twitter….If the Fed didn’t act we would have had the largest bank failure ever this weekend, i believe.The actions the governments took today shows that there was without a doubt a major bank about to fall this weekend. That’s very dire….I believe a major European bank would have gone under this weekend…. That’s why they did this….An article in Forbes has also speculated that this move was made because a major European bank was in imminent danger of failing….Did a big European bank come close to failing last night? European banks, especially French banks, rely heavily on funding in the wholesale money markets. Given the actions of the world’s largest central banks last night, it raises the question of whether a major bank was having difficulty funding its immediate liquidity needs.Perhaps we will never know the truth, but the reality is that the Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank would have never taken coordinated action like this if they did not believe that there was some sort of imminent threat to the global financial system.Sadly, this latest move is also going to have some side effects.Pimco senior vice president Tony Crescenzi says that all of this liquidity is going to dramatically increase the size of the U.S. monetary base….Keep in mind that any use of the Fed’s swap facility expands the Fed’s monetary base: all dollars, no matter where they are deposited, whether it be Kazakhstan, Japan, or Mexico, wind up back in an American bank. This means that any time a foreign central bank engages in a swap with the Federal Reserve, the Fed will create new money in order to make the swap. Use of the Fed’s liquidity swap line in late 2008 was the main cause of a surge in the Fed’s monetary base at that time. The peak for the swap line was about $600 billion in December 2008. Some observers will therefore say that the swap line is a backdoor way to engage in more quantitative easing.
When there is more money floating around out there but the same amount of goods and services, prices go up.So will we eventually see more inflation in the United States because of all this? That is what some are fearing.Meanwhile, politicians in Europe have failed to come up with a plan to address the European financial crisis once again.They are calling it a delay, but the truth is that it should be called a failure.The following comes from an article in USA Today….The ministers delayed action on major financial issues — such as the concept of a closer fiscal union that would guarantee more budgetary discipline — until the heads of state meet next week in Brussels.So will European politicians come up with a real plan next week in Brussels? That seems unlikely.The reality is that this latest move by the major central banks of the world does not change the fact that Europe is in a huge amount of trouble and is most likely headed for a very painful financial collapse.One more thing that this latest move by the central banks of the world highlights is the fact that we do not have any control over what they do.All of these central banks are run by unelected bureaucrats that answer to nobody. The decisions that these central bankers make affect all of our lives in a very significant way, and yet we have zero input into these decisions.Most of the decisions that these central bankers make seem to benefit big banks and big financial institutions. They always claim that the benefits will filter down to the rest of us. But most of the time what ends up filtering down to us is the economic pain that comes from their bad decisions.
As I have written about so many times before, these central banks need to be abolished. The American people need to tell Congress to shut down the Federal Reserve and to start issuing debt-free United States currency.We do not want a bunch of unelected central bankers to centrally plan the U.S. economy or to centrally plan the global economy.The more these central bankers monkey with things, the more they mess things up.Yes, this latest move has stabilized things for the moment, but big trouble is on the horizon for the global financial system.Count on it.
DANIEL 7:23-24
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast(THE EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADE BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise:(10 NATIONS-10 WORLD REGIONS) and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(BE HEAD OF 3 KINGS OR NATIONS).
Crisis-hit EU countries becoming more corrupt
Today DEC 1,11 @ 09:27 By Valentina Pop
BRUSSELS - Denmark has lost its position as the least corrupt country in the world to New Zealand, while Greece, Italy, Bulgaria, and Romania are becoming increasingly problematic, according to Transparency International's latest Corruption Perception Index published on Thursday (1 December).The annual report combines results from 17 different surveys that look at enforcement of anti-corruption laws, access to information and conflicts of interest.Eurozone countries suffering debt crises, partly because of public authorities' failure to tackle the bribery and tax evasion that are key drivers of debt crisis, are among the lowest-scoring EU countries, the watchdog said in its press release.Italy - the latest problem-child of the sovereign debt crisis - fell to 69th place from 67th in the world listing of 183 countries, putting it equal to Ghana, and behind Turkey, Georgia and South Africa.Compared to two years ago, its score worsened from 4.3 to 3.9 on a scale where 10 is the least corrupt and one is the most.Greece - the first country to be hit by the euro-crisis - also saw its corruption score worsen over the last two years, down from 3.8 in 2009 to 3.4 this year, the same score as Colombia.
Neighbouring Bulgaria followed the same trend, down to 3.3 compared to 3.8 two years ago. It scored worst among EU member states, ranking 86th in the world, behind Morocco, Peru and Thailand. Staying in south-east Europe, Romania saw its score slide by 0.2 points over the past two years, down to 75th position compared to last year when it was 69th.Croatia, whose government is to sign the EU membership treaty next week and to join EU leaders for the first time at a Brussels summit, ranked slightly better than Italy, with a score of 4.0, down 0.1 points compared to last year. It shared the same score as Slovakia, whose grade has also worsened over the last two years by 0.5 points.The same trend was seen with other EU countries further up the ladder: Latvia, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Lithuania.Three notable exceptions to the downward revisions saw the scores of France, the UK and Germany improve over the last year: Paris and London climbed 0.2 points compared to 2010, while Berlin was lifted from 7.9 to 8.0.Denmark and Finland share the second-best score in the world: 9.4.Somalia and North Korea share the worst score in the world: One.
Secret U.S.-Canada Border Deal Hides GMO Takeover-U.S.-Canada agreement beyond just borders, streamlines and harmonizes food and auto regulations under North American Union corporate agenda.Aaron Dykes Infowars.com December 1, 2011
http://www.infowars.com/secret-u-s-canada-border-deal-hides-gmo-takeover/
RELATED: Canadian officials secretive on North American perimeter security agreement
President Obama discusses with Prime Minister Stephen Harper, source Wikipedia.orgThe secret deal merges many aspects of each nation’s law enforcement and terrorism efforts, allowing authorities to operate on the opposite side of the border while beefing up border check surveillance. But there’s much more that we don’t yet know.U.S. President Barack Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper are set to meet next week in order to sign a thus-far secretive Beyond Borders pact between the United States and Canada– and surprisingly, the deal will mean not only new practices in border security, law enforcement and counter-terrorism but also in standards for food production, trade and commerce.The 32-point border perimeter plan is clearly part of the North American Union agenda, but many observers also believe it will open the doors to many GM crops now banned in Canada and enhance the positions of dominant corporate players. However, the details of the agreement remain secret and will only be revealed once both heads of state sign the deal– negating the necessary process of public feedback and consent.CTV describes the new joint effort’s leaked plan for a new entry-exit control system that will allow the United States to track everyone coming and leaving Canada by air, land and sea. Further, it would facilitate a merging of authorities on both sides of the border. The Toronto Star writes, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder revealed last fall that the deal will authorize Canada and the U.S. to designate officers who can take part in police investigations on both sides of the border.While the Canadian press has rightfully focused on the massive power grab and privacy concerns posed by the new system (Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart expressed concern, stating that she hasn’t been consulted on the project), the deal will also have enormous impact on trade and industry, especially food.
CTV writes:The 32-point plan also features more than just new border-crossing protocols… In fact, both nations plan to streamline and harmonize regulations in the automotive and food sectors.While the immediate impact for the auto sector could mean, among other items, the adoption of U.S. crash-testing standards for seat belts and built-in child booster seats, there are scant details on what it would mean for food. However, many critics of the deal are concerned that it would eliminate barriers for aggressive biotech firms like Monsanto, who’ve thus far received a less than warm welcome in the great northern nation.The Council of Canadians, a citizens action group, obviously fears an unwelcome invasion of biotechnology after monitoring announcements about the clandestine deal, writing:What kind of regulatory alignment might we expect to see as a result of the Beyond the Border action plan? …the biotechnology industry association asked that both countries adopt consistent science-based processes that would significantly decrease the time required for authorization of biotech crops and their products’; …several US agricultural groups asked for harmonization of the maximum permissible pesticide residue levels for produce.While GMO corn has gained acceptance in Canada already, farmers and activists have successfully fought or delayed the approval and entry of numerous other GMOs, including Monsanto’s recombinant bovine growth hormone (rBGH), GM alfalfa and have effected a court-ordered investigation of the effects of pesticides on amphibians, including Monsanto’s Round-up.
Monsanto vs. The Canadian Wheat Board
But the most notable victory against GMOs may be wheat, a major export in Canada worth more than $3 billion per year. It is the Canadian Wheat Board that got credit for fighting Monsanto against the potential effects of wheat contamination for the vast industry, and effectively prevented its entry into Canada.It has the potential to virtually destroy the $3.5-billion industry in Western Canada, said Ian McCreary, a farmer and a director with the Canadian Wheat Board back in 2003.By coincidence, the powerful Canadian Wheat Board was dismantled earlier this week, with many farmers now concerned about changes in market dynamics, and the potential for Big Agra corporations to move in.Member of Parliament for the NDP, Romeo Saganash, writes this week:The Wheat Board decision is just the beginning. They are coming after the dairy and egg boards. They won’t be satisfied until Viterra and Cargill and Monsanto control every bit of farmland in this country.
Globalism Breaks Agricultural Tariffs
The fate of the wheat board may well relate to the recent Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) meetings, further integrating global trade and making non-membership a hazard to exports. QMI agency reported that critics recently jumped the gun when they reported that the Harper government was prepared to bargain away supply managed sectors of the agricultural economy in the TransPacific trade talks.And yet the trend appears to be there. While the Obama and Harper administrations are working the U.S.-Canada Beyond Borders agreement in secret, both are openly courting the Trans-Pacific Partnership talks to decide the Asian markets. Pacific trade would be tied to new openings in the wheat market, and observers say the tariff protected egg, chicken and dairy markets could be next:Given the federal government’s ongoing attempt to dismantle the Canadian Wheat Board, it wouldn’t be a huge philosophical leap for them to agree to change the way the dairy and poultry industries work.Indeed, Canadian papers are full of discussion on the topic, with pro-globalism articles blasting the country’s food tariffs and praising the new “freedom” for farmers no longer bound to the wheat board system, always with an eye on dairy and poultry.Critics say consumers pay a heavy price for the protectionist policy, and they argue Canada won’t be able to strike an aggressive free-trade deal with Asia-Pacific countries because of strong objections from Canada’s trade partners who oppose the supply management system.They also have argued it is inconsistent for Ottawa to liberalize western wheat markets while maintaining the protectionist system for the dairy, poultry and egg producers.
GMO Contamination As a Rationale for Market Penetration
Adding to this perfect storm to blast open the gates for the benefit of private biotech firms is a growing debate currently taking place in Canada and other parts of the world over the low level presence of GMOs– a buzzword being used in attempt to allow the importation of non-GMO crops contaminated at a low level with GM crops in countries that have banned GMOs. Take for example this analysis from a European Commission research center:This study addresses a new issue in the commercialization of GM crops, namely the occurrence of traces—or low-level presence (LLP)—of nationally unapproved GM material in crop imports. The commercialization of GM crops is a regulated activity, and countries have different authorization procedures. Hence, new GM crops are not approved simultaneously. This asynchronous approval (AA), in combination with a zero-tolerance policy towards LLP, is of growing concern for its potential economic impact on international trade. Once again the banner of globalism and free trade will put pressure for acceptance of GM crops. The LLP angle is a great half-measure and camel’s nose under the tent.Farmers are rightfully outraged at the trend. This op-ed printed at BClocalnews.com cites the threat it poses to the growth of organic farming in Canada, cited here at an astounding overall industrial growth rate of 20 percent per year.I am writing to state my strong opposition to federal government plans to allow so-called Low Level Presence of unapproved genetically engineered (GE or genetically modified, GM) foods in the Canadian food supply. This plan would not only undermine the work of Health Canada, but would undermine the entire organic agriculture industry in Canada, which is a major part of the overall industry and which is growing at about 20 per cent per year… It is unacceptable that our government would allow a percentage of GM foods into Canada that have not been approved by Health Canada.What precise impact the looming U.S.-Canadian border pact will have for the food industry remains to be seen, but it is clear that the trend will have important consequences not only for the loss of sovereignty in both Canada and America, but for long-term health. The European Commission study found a huge growth curve for the presence and acceptability of genetically-modified crops on the global scene:To forecast the future evolution of this issue, we compiled a global pipeline of GM crops that may be commercialized by 2015… While currently there are about 30 commercial GM crops with different transgenic events worldwide, it is expected that by 2015 there will be more than 120.Clearly, the amount of successful resistance to GMOs among Canadians has posed a problem for biotech. So-called free trade agreements that actually form cooperative blocs, including the U.S. Canada effort and the concurrent Trans-Pacific Partnership, aid in breaking down the barriers of local resistance to trans-national agricultural planning. Biotech corporations are all to likely to seize upon this change, with sights on untapped Canadian markets.
Canada-US Border Deal Threatens Sovereignty
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=_o0jAAY2nlc
DRUG PUSHERS AND ADDICTS
REVELATION 18:23
23 And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries (DRUGS) were all nations deceived.
REVELATION 9:21
21 Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries (DRUGS), nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.
War on drugs is a hoax: US admits to guarding, assisting lucrative Afghan opium trade
Ethan Huff Infowars.com December 1, 2011
Afghanistan is, by far, the largest grower and exporter of opium in the world today, cultivating a 92 percent market share of the global opium trade. But what may shock many is the fact that the US military has been specifically tasked with guarding Afghan poppy fields, from which opium is derived, in order to protect this multibillion dollar industry that enriches Wall Street, the CIA, MI6, and various other groups that profit big time from this illicit drug trade scheme.Prior to the tragic events of September 11, 2001, Afghanistan was hardly even a world player in growing poppy, which is used to produce both illegal heroin and pharmaceutical-grade morphine. In fact, the Taliban had been actively destroying poppy fields as part of an effort to rid the country of this harmful plant, as was reported by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on February 16, 2001, in a piece entitled, Nation’s opium production virtually wiped out (http://news.google.com/newspapers?n…).But after 9/11, the US military-industrial complex quickly invaded Afghanistan and began facilitating the reinstatement of the country’s poppy industry. According to the United Nations Drug Control Program (UNDCP), opium cultivation increased by 657 percent in 2002 after the US military invaded the country under the direction of then-President George W. Bush (http://www.infowars.com/fox-news-ma…).
CIA responsible for reinstating opium industry in Afghanistan after 9/11
More recently, The New York Times (NYT) reported that the brother of current Afghan President Hamid Karzai had actually been on the payroll of the CIA for at least eight years prior to this information going public in 2009. Ahmed Wali Karzai was a crucial player in reinstating the country’s opium drug trade, known as Golden Crescent, and the CIA had been financing the endeavor behind the scenes (http://www.infowars.com/ny-times-af…).The Golden Crescent drug trade, launched by the CIA in the early 1980s, continues to be protected by US intelligence, in liaison with NATO occupation forces and the British military, wrote Prof. Michel Chossudovsky in a 2007 report, before it was revealed that Ahmed Wali Karzai was on the CIA payroll. The proceeds of this lucrative multibillion dollar contraband are deposited in Western banks. Almost the totality of revenues accrue to corporate interests and criminal syndicates outside Afghanistan” (http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/A…).But the mainstream media has been peddling a different story to the American public. FOX News, for instance, aired a propaganda piece back in 2010 claiming that military personnel are having to protect the Afghan poppy fields, rather than destroy them, in order to keep the locals happy and to avoid a potential security risk — and FOX News reporter Geraldo Rivera can be heard blatantly lying about poppy farmers being financially supported by the Taliban, rather than the CIA and other foreign interests.
You can watch that clip here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aj-b…
http://www.infowars.com/war-on-drugs-is-a-hoax-us-admits-to-guarding-assisting-lucrative-afghan-opium-trade/
So while tens of thousands of Americans continue to be harmed or killed every year by overdoses from drugs originating from this illicit opium trade, and while cultivation of innocuous crops like marijuana and hemp remains illegal in the US, the American military is actively guarding the very poppy fields in Afghanistan that fuel the global drug trade. Something is terribly wrong with this picture.This article originally appeared at Natural News.
CHINA AND KINGS OF THE EAST MARCH TO ISRAEL 2ND WAVE OF WW3
REVELATION 16:12
12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.(THIS IS THE ATATURK DAM IN TURKEY,THEY CROSS OVER).
DANIEL 11:44 (2ND WAVE OF WW3)
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)
REVELATION 9:12-18
12 One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.
13 And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,
14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.(IRAQ-SYRIA)
15 And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.(1/3 Earths Population die in WW 3 2ND WAVE)
16 And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand:(200 MILLION MAN ARMY FROM CHINA AND THE KINGS OF THE EAST) and I heard the number of them.
17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
http://www.infowars.com/chinese-professor-threatens-third-world-war-to-protect-iran/
Chinese General Threatens Third World War To Protect Iran-US dispatches three more warships to Middle East Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com Thursday, December 1, 2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ugq-KleU8IA
A military General from the Chinese National Defense University says that China should not hesitate to protect Iran, even if it means launching world war three, as more US warships are dispatched to the region amidst heightening tensions.According to NDTV, a Chinese news station based outside the country, in regard to recent speculation that Iran would be the target of a US-Israeli military assault, Major General Zhang Zhaozhong commented that, China will not hesitate to protect Iran even with a third world war, remarks described as puzzling to some.The news report also quotes Professor Xia Ming as paraphrasing Zhaozhong’s quote that,not hesitating to fight a third world war would be entirely for domestic political needs.China has vehemently reaffirmed its alliance with Iran in recent weeks, most notably yesterday when it refused to criticize Iran for a raid on the British Embassy in Tehran launched by Iranian students earlier this week.Both China and Russia have made it clear that they will veto any UN authorization of military action against Iran in the aftermath of claims that Iran is on the verge of developing a nuclear weapon.
China has noted the tough reactions made by the relevant countries over this event and is concerned over the development of the situation, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hong Lei told reporters today.We hope relevant countries will keep calm and exercise restraint and avoid taking emotional actions that may rachet up the confrontation.Meanwhile, in a related development, three more US warships have been dispatched to join the USS John C. Stennis in the 5th fleet region.With the Stennis, a Nimitz-class nuclear-powered supercarrier, already stationed just outside Iranian territorial waters, the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier has just been deployed from its home port to join the U.S. 5th Fleet AOR.In addition to the USS Carl Vinson’s departure, guided-missile cruiser USS Bunker Hill and guided-missile destroyer left in the morning, and the USS Halsey will depart at 2 p.m, reports NBC SanDiego, adding that the ships are headed for the Middle East.Fears of an imminent military assault on Syria were sparked when the USS George H.W. Bush left its usual theater of operations to position itself just off the Syrian coast, but the warship has now completed its mission and is sailing back to its home port in Norfolk Virginia.
View the latest naval update map courtesy of Stratfor.com below (click for enlargement).
http://www.infowars.com/chinese-professor-threatens-third-world-war-to-protect-iran/
WW3 THE 3 WAVES THAT MARCH TO ISRAEL
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2005/11/questions-ww3-whats-coming.html (WW3 COMPLETE HAPPENINGS)
AMOS 9:10
10 All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, which say, The evil shall not overtake nor prevent us.
DANIEL 11:40-45
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south( EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) and the king of the north (RUSSIA AND MUSLIM HORDES OF EZEK 38+39) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.(JORDAN)
42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA 2ND WAVE OF WW3) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)
45 And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.
REVELATION 14:18-20
18 And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe.
19 And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.
20 And the winepress was trodden without the city,(JERUSALEM) and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.(200 MILES) (THE SIZE OF ISRAEL)
The Third and Final Wave of WW3 is when all Nations march to Jerusalem, but JESUS bodily returns to earth and destroys them,sets up his KINGDOM OF RULE FOR 1000 YEARS THEN FOREVER.
http://www.wsbtv.com/videos/news/are-chinese-secret-tunnels-transporting-nukes/vFPNf/
DOCTOR DOCTORIAN FROM ANGEL OF GOD
then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.
JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
REVELATION 18:10,17,19
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.
EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.
REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(FALSE POPE) causeth all,(WORLD SOCIALISM) both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(CHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM
WORLD MARKET RESULTS
http://money.cnn.com/data/world_markets/
CNBC VIDEOS
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15839263/?tabid=15839796&tabheader=false
HALF HOUR DOW RESULTS THU DECEMBER 01,2011
09:30 AM -2.43
10:00 AM -13.16
10:30 AM -10.48
11:00 AM -33.15
11:30 AM -47.15
12:00 PM -27.28
12:30 PM -33.94
01:00 PM -54.34
01:30 PM -29.13
02:00 PM -10.67
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03:00 PM -2.16
03:30 PM -18.39
04:00 PM -25.65 12,020.03
S&P 500 1244.59 -2.37
NASDAQ 2626.20 +5.86
GOLD 1,747.60 -2.60
OIL 100.14 -0.22
TSE 300 12,113.29 -90.82
CDNX 1548.14 -0.31
S&P/TSX/60 688.66 -6.83
MORNING,NEWS,STATS
YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow -18 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow -50 points at low today.
Dow +5 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $1,750.10.OIL opens at $100.17 today.
AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
Dow -55 points at low today so far.
Dow +5 points at high today so far.
WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow -55 points at low today.
Dow +5 points at high today.
GOLD ALLTIME HIGH $1,902.60 (NOT AT CLOSE)
NATURAL GAS-THU
Thursday, December 01, 2011
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
STOCK RESULTS NOV 30,11
http://homelandsecurityus.com/archives/5395
Connecting the dots on the National Defense Authorization Act November 29, 2011 By Director By Douglas J. Hagmann
It was a year ago last week that I warned that the Department of Homeland Security was making a list of U.S. citizens who protested and urged others to protest TSA policies. I disclosed the existence of a written directive issued through DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano and TSA head John Pistole, both acting on behalf of the Obama administration, instructed TSA officials to collect the names and other relevant information of anyone who interfered with enhanced TSA screening procedures by speaking out against them. They were to be classified as domestic extremists in this data mining operation. For my assertions here and on various national news programs, I was attacked by media lapdogs, investigative reporters, and members of both sides of the political spectrum.
Later, my credibility was called into question when an enterprising reporter filed a FOI request and was informed that no such document exits. Case closed. What a surprise.Today, some of the same people who doubted the veracity of the report are suddenly uncomfortable, concerned, or even a bit outraged that the anti-terror apparatus is now turning inward and being set up to be used against U.S. citizens. Again, what a surprise.I am referring to Senate Bill 1867, titled the National Defense Authorization Act (for fiscal year 2012) secretly drafted (in committee) by Senators Carl Levin and John McCain. The bill made it out of committee, sans hearing, and is pending a full senate vote this week.While much of the bill deals with the mundane, sections 1031 and 1032 are raising the concerns of many, including some unlikely allies. In plain speak, those sections of the bill broadly classifies certain U.S. citizens as terrorists, and allow for military intervention against such citizens on U.S. soil.The language of the bill is cumbersome and difficult to assess, thus creating some plausible deniability for those who support this piece of draconian legislation. Representative Justin Amash (D-MI) apparently agrees. According to Rep. Amash, the language of the bill is carefully crafted to mislead the public.
To those who assert that the ambiguity of the bill’s language has been fixed and addressed, he counters that it [still] does not preclude U.S. citizens from being detained indefinitely, without charge or trial, it simply makes such detention discretionary.I contacted my intelligence source who possessed the written directive that was the subject of contentious ridicule for insight into the current activities of our national security apparatus and assessment of the proposed NDAA. According to this source, the DHS is broadening their attention to include anyone who is or will be engaged or encouraging domestic unrest, whatever the reason. The net is being cast over such groups as the Tea Party, which has been under actual and electronic surveillance by the FBI and other intelligence agencies, as well as the various occupy groups.Additionally and perhaps most ominous is that according to my source, active measures are now being taken in the event of bank holidays, closures and associated unrest.Connect the dots. Look at who this bill will ultimately benefit and protect, and who it is intended to stifle. Follow the money, or what’s left of it, before it disappears.
A UK tale of health care and airport scanners
- Anna Grayson Tuesday, November 29, 2011 CAN FREE PRESS
London, England - A new report out by the Equality and Human Rights Commission has thrown a light on the abuses that invariably come when you socialise healthcare. This one focused on home care for the elderly run by local councils. The chronic disregard of pensioners was found to be so appalling many have been left wanting to die. Of the 500k people that are under government care, 250k experienced horrendous neglect. Here are some examples of what carers get up to:
-Refusal to heat food in a microwave and serve due to health and safety concerns
-Soiled sheets unchanged for weeks
-The frail put to bed at 2:45pm
-Lack of time to carry out vital tasks like washing and dressing
-Physical abuse such as rough handling and shouting
-Systematic theft of money
-Leaving food out for a blind and deaf man and not telling him where it is
And it is no better in hospitals, where a study earlier this year exposed similar abuses, like leaving food out of reach, so that patients starved and were so thirsty they couldn’t cry out for help. Hot off the press yesterday, we learn that botched operations are now in the tens of thousands each year, post-operative infections are at an all time high and the death rate due to NHS care is ‘alarmingly high’.
Some elderly with means are even hiring private nurses and having them pose as friends and relatives to ensure they are bathed and fed while in hospital. It is so surreally absurd and obscene, it almost sounds like a comedy sketch, but sadly it is all too real and the tragic result of a human rights culture. And it will be the fate of America if Obamacare is not repealed.When left to the devises of man, a right becomes a politicised tool to manipulate for purposes of greed, power or some other nefarious intent. When passed into law, personal responsibility is abrogated and it is left to the courts to fight out whether a right has been denied based on evidence gathered.Take the simple concept of clean drinking water which the UN Human Rights Council says should be a right recognised under international law. Now since we can’t live without it for more than a few days and we all support that everyone should have it, wouldn’t this be a reasonable law? No it would not. Just because we call something a ‘right’ does not make it so. The thinking gets muddled when we fail to distinguish the difference between a right and a necessity. Water is necessary to human life, so our governments should ensure their citizens have access to it. Unfortunately some governments fail to do so as in developing nations where water access is unsafe or scarce. In 2003 Kerala, India suffered extreme water shortages when corrupt officials granted water rights to a foreign soft drinks manufacturer allowing them to extract a million gallons a day. To combat this kind of poor government judgment, the UN resolution seeks to let the responsibility fall to the international community, which usually means taxing richer nations to supply that water in various programs. But much of that money will inevitably end up funding a new Mercedes or palatial residence for the local despot. The status quo remains as the tyranny of taxation hampers the ability of private sector initiatives to take action.
It’s the same with health care. In Europe no politician will renounce social health care for fear of losing his votes. In fact the best way to gain votes is to denounce its privatization. Money continues to be thrown at services no longer fit for purpose and when that’s gone, the inevitable efficiency cuts come.Billions have been spent here in the UK on commissions and reports by outside agencies producing endless reports on how to fix the NHS. Many point to competition being a key to improvement. Yet the country remains frozen into non-action over this sacred cow because of our deeply imbedded rights culture. Even Socialist Sweden was able to lift itself from health care hell into market led reforms that have transformed their health service. In former communist Slovakia nearly half of health care is privately serviced.The British clearly haven’t suffered enough yet, as they cling to the proposition that universal health care is a right and proper way to equalize resources and makes society fair for everyone. In the process, free market principles are obliterated forcing people who want other non-government alternatives to fund them themselves while still paying tax to for a universal system. And the basic human interaction of one person helping another in need through the choice that a well developed conscience dictates, is replaced by the state and bureaucratic decisions based on statistics and budgets. Taxation and the appeal to our innate sense of fairness is the oxygen that feeds this system, and it inhibits the freedom for civil society to take action because money is squeezed from that sector. And when a right is designated to another party to administer, the culture gets lazy about doing the decent thing. Need can only be truly addressed on an individual basis by people whose objectives are driven by personal charity and not personal greed or power.
Rights culture turns into tyranny when we fillet out moral virtue and conscience. When you leave the judgement of decent behaviour to another – a politician, a court or a human rights commission, you set up a value system that encourages self-centred thinking devoid of personal responsibility. Western civilization was built on Christian values and its attendant rule of law based on Mosaic Law or the Ten Commandants - the ultimate guideline for personal responsibility. Follow these and you have moral order which in turn leads to societal order. Honour your father and your mother, takes care of our elders. If you can’t, then someone in your family will and if they can’t, then it falls to our neighbours, which is way the Christian moral ethic operates. If we swept out government intervention tomorrow, civil society would pick up the baton. Faith groups and others would set up homes for the elderly where volunteers, religious and others would band together supported by private fundraising to do what a culture powered by love does. We see this ethic in operation time after time, especially in America after natural disasters. People pitch in and help their neighbour.America’s founding made this culture of love endemic and is the reason why so many want to flee to its shores, many of whom don’t even understand why this principle works, but they do get that the freedom it spawns does work. The founding fathers also knew the role of government must be to protect this freedom out of which personal responsibility flourishes. This was all placed under God in the Declaration of Independence which recognized the fundamental rights of life, liberty and pursuit of happiness.The culture of rights claims to protect, but it can never succeed. Firstly, take God out of the equation and we will never agree on what a right is. It becomes a euphemism for decency. Bloated on luxurious budgets at the expense of ordinary people, the EU unceasingly dreams up new goodies to throw into the rights bag, as we saw this summer with one member putting forward a bill for the right to a summer holiday.
Secondly, where one right is enforced, another will be violated. Take airport scanners. In the UK we will soon be required to do a full body scan without a pat down option if a passenger is selected for screening. If we refuse, we lose our right to fly. Flying is not a right, but in a free society a bought service. We choose this service based on how safe they make it, the food, seat comfort, etc. The individual airlines in turn should be able to provide the necessary security as they see fit.Decency dictates that appearing nude to a stranger while being bombarded with ionizing radiation would warrant another method more valid. But despite the unusual move by the EU to direct its member states not to use this type of scanner, the UK is going ahead because of the significant terror threats we face and our rights be damned.In a free society airlines should be able to choose their methods of security and market them accordingly. Israeli airline EL AL would be the first port of call for consultation as they have cornered the market in determining who poses a threat by psychological profiling, suspect terrorist intelligence and good old fashioned common sense backed by gun wielding marshals on board. Now that’s a service I would gladly pay for and relax on the flight.And the rest who still feel violated? Since the majority of terrorists taking to the skies these days are Islamofacists, we could create flights based on Imam-defined rules of safety where Muslims might feel happier about not being profiled. The market would operate freely, we all have our dignity and rights intact and we would see who did the better business. Similarly, a free market health care system weeds out the good hospitals from the bad and the impetus to decency of the individual would see to the needs of the truly destitute.
The Malleable Mexican-American Border
- Richard B. Jones Tuesday, November 29, 2011 CAN FREE PRESS
The Mexican-American border is more than the Rio Grande or a fence in the desert; it’s a mobile frontier where cultures have struggled for centuries. Forces of mayhem are currently dominant because governments on both sides don’t care, don’t appreciate the terror or are making money off the situation.Politicians don’t understand that this is more than a debate point during election season; it’s an active international disaster that threatens national security.America must defeat major criminal forces and provide a firm, regulated path for international exchange with Latin America or we will lose this war; those forces will overtake us. Our rule of law will end and their rule of man will dominate as it does in most of Latin America.The border is inherently unstable. Americans go there for entertainment illegal at home, thinking Mexico has no laws; Mexicans cross to America thinking the same thing. It’s common for families on both sides to recover their relatives from foreign jails.A vast criminal economy thrives on this reputation, reaching far beyond the obvious sins into corrupt officials and milking social services. Armies of gang soldiers fight wars over money, soldiers as devoted to their cause as any American military hero. They only know force; the physical border means little to them.When not stopped at the border they reach up into America and everyone feels the danger, the insecurity. Americans used to feel it when they visited border towns then feel secure upon return—now it’s much farther north.
We discuss it, a strong, invisible sensation affecting us all alike. It isn’t cultural prejudice. Friends from Mexico say it’s stronger for them, a sense of being subject to the whims of local strongmen, of not having a set of laws to protect them. It drives them to emigrate to AmericaThe American rule of law attracts people of little opportunity from deep in Latin America. At home, they cannot attain the security afforded the general American public, and so they come, danger increasing as they approach the border.Danger also increases as governments and economies weaken. The more desperate people, the more criminals there are to prey on them. When governments turn their back predators pounce. Conditions are worsening.In places the sense of security has extended into Mexico. Algodones, on the Colorado River across from Yuma, easily accessible from California, has been a haven for Americans for many years. Kept absolutely safe by Mexican authorities, retirees wintering in the area shop, dine, and meet all their medical needs in complete security.Cannon balls have flown over the Rio Grande at the south tip of Texas but usually they are at peace. Now, however, as in all border towns, you cross into Mexico at your own risk; the nature of the border changes.Ojinaga was our regional secret for years. Far from other border towns, it escaped the usual filth. It felt like a Mexican city far below the border, safe, beautiful and friendly, right on the Rio Grande.
Today, Ojinagans with family on both sides of the river advise not to visit. Rural areas are safe but the city is insecure. What a tragedy. This tears at the heart of Mexico and at the hearts of all who love Mexican culture.
The El Paso area is fascinating, unique in its cooperation between authorities. Two national governments are involved, two American states, one Mexican state, El Paso County, two American cities (El Paso and Las Cruces, NM) and several municipalities and colonias. They have a vast reservoir of border knowledge, of solving problems, yet who is going to those functionaries and gathering information? Corruption in Texas has made the American side of the border so insecure at times that Texans moved to Mexico. When Ma Ferguson was elected governor in 1933, famed Texas Ranger Frank Hamer quit the Rangers in disgust and rode with the Rurales in Mexico.Anglos were first drawn to Texas by freedoms afforded under the Mexican Constitution of 1824. That’s why 1824 was on the Alamo flag. They rebelled against the dictator Santa Anna, not against Mexico, because he had rescinded that Constitution.Before Santa Anna marched north, the line between the rule of law and the rule of man was about two hundred miles south of the current border, below Monterrey and Saltillo. Northern Mexico is still culturally and politically distinct from Central Mexico, more conservative and business oriented.With Santa Anna’s defeat at San Jacinto in 1836, the line retreated to the Rio Grande according to Texans, to the Nueces River according to Mexicans, and the land between those rivers became a war zone for decades, finally secured for the United States through force of arms.Border power fluctuates along the highway from Southern California to San Felipe in Mexico, on the Gulf of California. It’s a gold mine for Mexican traffic cops.The highway also runs north from Mexico to almost unlimited work in the Imperial Valley.When Mexican cops put too much pressure on tourists going to San Felipe, American cops put the hammer on Mexicans headed north to work. After a few days everyone backs off and the cycle starts over.
The border might be a designated line but it’s actually malleable, a perception of authority. The powers of evil pace themselves to our government’s varying level of concern, like Ho Chi Minh manipulating President Johnson, and they will win using the same tactic.North American civilization is gradually eroding, as in the current discussion of resident tuition rates for long-term illegal aliens. Even conservative politicians are confused, willing to negate Federal Law to avoid the discussion.
Decision makers accept facts as fed to them and agree to pass the buck, ignoring standard methods of determining justice: contrasting people’s behaviors under like circumstances.A significant body of illegal alien students foresee the residency problem and resolve it before they apply to college. We never hear of them because they come from self-reliant families, hard-working people, the best of the American dream. Mexico might someday save America from moral and economic collapse because of these people.Should the system be changed? No. Illegal alien students should take care of their residency status ahead of time, like their peers. This is not a government problem; it’s an individual problem, but no politicians on the federal level are willing to take the risk to say so.If politicians ignore the law to accommodate noncompliance more exceptions will be sought—mayhem will increase.
Enemies of civilization encourage whining because it unsettles incompetent authority, benefits the forces of evil. The corny phrase forces of evil applies here—come visit.To cease suffering, just as to cease war, there is no substitute for victory. Are our leaders willing to step up to the task? Stabilizing the border will take a firm hand.
DOCTOR DOCTORIAN FROM ANGEL OF GOD
then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.
JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
REVELATION 18:10,17,19
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.
EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.
REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(FALSE POPE) causeth all,(WORLD SOCIALISM) both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(CHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM
WORLD MARKET RESULTS
http://money.cnn.com/data/world_markets/
CNBC VIDEOS
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15839263/?tabid=15839796&tabheader=false
HALF HOUR DOW RESULTS WED NOVEMBER 30,2011
09:30 AM +2.43
10:00 AM +410.70
10:30 AM +396.16
11:00 AM +428.99
11:30 AM +406.95
12:00 PM +416.75
12:30 PM +413.34
01:00 PM +415.47
01:30 PM +394.34
02:00 PM +388.68
02:30 PM +390.90
03:00 PM +394.50
03:30 PM +408.07
04:00 PM +490.05 12,045.68
S&P 500 1246.95 +51.76
NASDAQ 2620.34 +104.83
GOLD 1,750.90 +32.00
OIL 100.37 +0.58
TSE 300 12,204.11 +471.61
CDNX 1548.45 +43.44
S&P/TSX/60 692.55 +25.96
MORNING,NEWS,STATS
YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow +318 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow +1 points at low today.
Dow +430 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $1,747.60.OIL opens at $101.11 today.
AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
Dow +1 points at low today so far.
Dow +490 points at high today so far.
WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow +1 points at low today.
Dow +490 points at high today.
GOLD ALLTIME HIGH $1,902.60 (NOT AT CLOSE)
CRUDE OIL +3.9 MILLION BARRELS
GASOLINE +200,000 BARRELS
DISTILLATE INVENTORIES +5.5 MILLION BARRELS
Connecting the dots on the National Defense Authorization Act November 29, 2011 By Director By Douglas J. Hagmann
It was a year ago last week that I warned that the Department of Homeland Security was making a list of U.S. citizens who protested and urged others to protest TSA policies. I disclosed the existence of a written directive issued through DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano and TSA head John Pistole, both acting on behalf of the Obama administration, instructed TSA officials to collect the names and other relevant information of anyone who interfered with enhanced TSA screening procedures by speaking out against them. They were to be classified as domestic extremists in this data mining operation. For my assertions here and on various national news programs, I was attacked by media lapdogs, investigative reporters, and members of both sides of the political spectrum.
Later, my credibility was called into question when an enterprising reporter filed a FOI request and was informed that no such document exits. Case closed. What a surprise.Today, some of the same people who doubted the veracity of the report are suddenly uncomfortable, concerned, or even a bit outraged that the anti-terror apparatus is now turning inward and being set up to be used against U.S. citizens. Again, what a surprise.I am referring to Senate Bill 1867, titled the National Defense Authorization Act (for fiscal year 2012) secretly drafted (in committee) by Senators Carl Levin and John McCain. The bill made it out of committee, sans hearing, and is pending a full senate vote this week.While much of the bill deals with the mundane, sections 1031 and 1032 are raising the concerns of many, including some unlikely allies. In plain speak, those sections of the bill broadly classifies certain U.S. citizens as terrorists, and allow for military intervention against such citizens on U.S. soil.The language of the bill is cumbersome and difficult to assess, thus creating some plausible deniability for those who support this piece of draconian legislation. Representative Justin Amash (D-MI) apparently agrees. According to Rep. Amash, the language of the bill is carefully crafted to mislead the public.
To those who assert that the ambiguity of the bill’s language has been fixed and addressed, he counters that it [still] does not preclude U.S. citizens from being detained indefinitely, without charge or trial, it simply makes such detention discretionary.I contacted my intelligence source who possessed the written directive that was the subject of contentious ridicule for insight into the current activities of our national security apparatus and assessment of the proposed NDAA. According to this source, the DHS is broadening their attention to include anyone who is or will be engaged or encouraging domestic unrest, whatever the reason. The net is being cast over such groups as the Tea Party, which has been under actual and electronic surveillance by the FBI and other intelligence agencies, as well as the various occupy groups.Additionally and perhaps most ominous is that according to my source, active measures are now being taken in the event of bank holidays, closures and associated unrest.Connect the dots. Look at who this bill will ultimately benefit and protect, and who it is intended to stifle. Follow the money, or what’s left of it, before it disappears.
A UK tale of health care and airport scanners
- Anna Grayson Tuesday, November 29, 2011 CAN FREE PRESS
London, England - A new report out by the Equality and Human Rights Commission has thrown a light on the abuses that invariably come when you socialise healthcare. This one focused on home care for the elderly run by local councils. The chronic disregard of pensioners was found to be so appalling many have been left wanting to die. Of the 500k people that are under government care, 250k experienced horrendous neglect. Here are some examples of what carers get up to:
-Refusal to heat food in a microwave and serve due to health and safety concerns
-Soiled sheets unchanged for weeks
-The frail put to bed at 2:45pm
-Lack of time to carry out vital tasks like washing and dressing
-Physical abuse such as rough handling and shouting
-Systematic theft of money
-Leaving food out for a blind and deaf man and not telling him where it is
And it is no better in hospitals, where a study earlier this year exposed similar abuses, like leaving food out of reach, so that patients starved and were so thirsty they couldn’t cry out for help. Hot off the press yesterday, we learn that botched operations are now in the tens of thousands each year, post-operative infections are at an all time high and the death rate due to NHS care is ‘alarmingly high’.
Some elderly with means are even hiring private nurses and having them pose as friends and relatives to ensure they are bathed and fed while in hospital. It is so surreally absurd and obscene, it almost sounds like a comedy sketch, but sadly it is all too real and the tragic result of a human rights culture. And it will be the fate of America if Obamacare is not repealed.When left to the devises of man, a right becomes a politicised tool to manipulate for purposes of greed, power or some other nefarious intent. When passed into law, personal responsibility is abrogated and it is left to the courts to fight out whether a right has been denied based on evidence gathered.Take the simple concept of clean drinking water which the UN Human Rights Council says should be a right recognised under international law. Now since we can’t live without it for more than a few days and we all support that everyone should have it, wouldn’t this be a reasonable law? No it would not. Just because we call something a ‘right’ does not make it so. The thinking gets muddled when we fail to distinguish the difference between a right and a necessity. Water is necessary to human life, so our governments should ensure their citizens have access to it. Unfortunately some governments fail to do so as in developing nations where water access is unsafe or scarce. In 2003 Kerala, India suffered extreme water shortages when corrupt officials granted water rights to a foreign soft drinks manufacturer allowing them to extract a million gallons a day. To combat this kind of poor government judgment, the UN resolution seeks to let the responsibility fall to the international community, which usually means taxing richer nations to supply that water in various programs. But much of that money will inevitably end up funding a new Mercedes or palatial residence for the local despot. The status quo remains as the tyranny of taxation hampers the ability of private sector initiatives to take action.
It’s the same with health care. In Europe no politician will renounce social health care for fear of losing his votes. In fact the best way to gain votes is to denounce its privatization. Money continues to be thrown at services no longer fit for purpose and when that’s gone, the inevitable efficiency cuts come.Billions have been spent here in the UK on commissions and reports by outside agencies producing endless reports on how to fix the NHS. Many point to competition being a key to improvement. Yet the country remains frozen into non-action over this sacred cow because of our deeply imbedded rights culture. Even Socialist Sweden was able to lift itself from health care hell into market led reforms that have transformed their health service. In former communist Slovakia nearly half of health care is privately serviced.The British clearly haven’t suffered enough yet, as they cling to the proposition that universal health care is a right and proper way to equalize resources and makes society fair for everyone. In the process, free market principles are obliterated forcing people who want other non-government alternatives to fund them themselves while still paying tax to for a universal system. And the basic human interaction of one person helping another in need through the choice that a well developed conscience dictates, is replaced by the state and bureaucratic decisions based on statistics and budgets. Taxation and the appeal to our innate sense of fairness is the oxygen that feeds this system, and it inhibits the freedom for civil society to take action because money is squeezed from that sector. And when a right is designated to another party to administer, the culture gets lazy about doing the decent thing. Need can only be truly addressed on an individual basis by people whose objectives are driven by personal charity and not personal greed or power.
Rights culture turns into tyranny when we fillet out moral virtue and conscience. When you leave the judgement of decent behaviour to another – a politician, a court or a human rights commission, you set up a value system that encourages self-centred thinking devoid of personal responsibility. Western civilization was built on Christian values and its attendant rule of law based on Mosaic Law or the Ten Commandants - the ultimate guideline for personal responsibility. Follow these and you have moral order which in turn leads to societal order. Honour your father and your mother, takes care of our elders. If you can’t, then someone in your family will and if they can’t, then it falls to our neighbours, which is way the Christian moral ethic operates. If we swept out government intervention tomorrow, civil society would pick up the baton. Faith groups and others would set up homes for the elderly where volunteers, religious and others would band together supported by private fundraising to do what a culture powered by love does. We see this ethic in operation time after time, especially in America after natural disasters. People pitch in and help their neighbour.America’s founding made this culture of love endemic and is the reason why so many want to flee to its shores, many of whom don’t even understand why this principle works, but they do get that the freedom it spawns does work. The founding fathers also knew the role of government must be to protect this freedom out of which personal responsibility flourishes. This was all placed under God in the Declaration of Independence which recognized the fundamental rights of life, liberty and pursuit of happiness.The culture of rights claims to protect, but it can never succeed. Firstly, take God out of the equation and we will never agree on what a right is. It becomes a euphemism for decency. Bloated on luxurious budgets at the expense of ordinary people, the EU unceasingly dreams up new goodies to throw into the rights bag, as we saw this summer with one member putting forward a bill for the right to a summer holiday.
Secondly, where one right is enforced, another will be violated. Take airport scanners. In the UK we will soon be required to do a full body scan without a pat down option if a passenger is selected for screening. If we refuse, we lose our right to fly. Flying is not a right, but in a free society a bought service. We choose this service based on how safe they make it, the food, seat comfort, etc. The individual airlines in turn should be able to provide the necessary security as they see fit.Decency dictates that appearing nude to a stranger while being bombarded with ionizing radiation would warrant another method more valid. But despite the unusual move by the EU to direct its member states not to use this type of scanner, the UK is going ahead because of the significant terror threats we face and our rights be damned.In a free society airlines should be able to choose their methods of security and market them accordingly. Israeli airline EL AL would be the first port of call for consultation as they have cornered the market in determining who poses a threat by psychological profiling, suspect terrorist intelligence and good old fashioned common sense backed by gun wielding marshals on board. Now that’s a service I would gladly pay for and relax on the flight.And the rest who still feel violated? Since the majority of terrorists taking to the skies these days are Islamofacists, we could create flights based on Imam-defined rules of safety where Muslims might feel happier about not being profiled. The market would operate freely, we all have our dignity and rights intact and we would see who did the better business. Similarly, a free market health care system weeds out the good hospitals from the bad and the impetus to decency of the individual would see to the needs of the truly destitute.
The Malleable Mexican-American Border
- Richard B. Jones Tuesday, November 29, 2011 CAN FREE PRESS
The Mexican-American border is more than the Rio Grande or a fence in the desert; it’s a mobile frontier where cultures have struggled for centuries. Forces of mayhem are currently dominant because governments on both sides don’t care, don’t appreciate the terror or are making money off the situation.Politicians don’t understand that this is more than a debate point during election season; it’s an active international disaster that threatens national security.America must defeat major criminal forces and provide a firm, regulated path for international exchange with Latin America or we will lose this war; those forces will overtake us. Our rule of law will end and their rule of man will dominate as it does in most of Latin America.The border is inherently unstable. Americans go there for entertainment illegal at home, thinking Mexico has no laws; Mexicans cross to America thinking the same thing. It’s common for families on both sides to recover their relatives from foreign jails.A vast criminal economy thrives on this reputation, reaching far beyond the obvious sins into corrupt officials and milking social services. Armies of gang soldiers fight wars over money, soldiers as devoted to their cause as any American military hero. They only know force; the physical border means little to them.When not stopped at the border they reach up into America and everyone feels the danger, the insecurity. Americans used to feel it when they visited border towns then feel secure upon return—now it’s much farther north.
We discuss it, a strong, invisible sensation affecting us all alike. It isn’t cultural prejudice. Friends from Mexico say it’s stronger for them, a sense of being subject to the whims of local strongmen, of not having a set of laws to protect them. It drives them to emigrate to AmericaThe American rule of law attracts people of little opportunity from deep in Latin America. At home, they cannot attain the security afforded the general American public, and so they come, danger increasing as they approach the border.Danger also increases as governments and economies weaken. The more desperate people, the more criminals there are to prey on them. When governments turn their back predators pounce. Conditions are worsening.In places the sense of security has extended into Mexico. Algodones, on the Colorado River across from Yuma, easily accessible from California, has been a haven for Americans for many years. Kept absolutely safe by Mexican authorities, retirees wintering in the area shop, dine, and meet all their medical needs in complete security.Cannon balls have flown over the Rio Grande at the south tip of Texas but usually they are at peace. Now, however, as in all border towns, you cross into Mexico at your own risk; the nature of the border changes.Ojinaga was our regional secret for years. Far from other border towns, it escaped the usual filth. It felt like a Mexican city far below the border, safe, beautiful and friendly, right on the Rio Grande.
Today, Ojinagans with family on both sides of the river advise not to visit. Rural areas are safe but the city is insecure. What a tragedy. This tears at the heart of Mexico and at the hearts of all who love Mexican culture.
The El Paso area is fascinating, unique in its cooperation between authorities. Two national governments are involved, two American states, one Mexican state, El Paso County, two American cities (El Paso and Las Cruces, NM) and several municipalities and colonias. They have a vast reservoir of border knowledge, of solving problems, yet who is going to those functionaries and gathering information? Corruption in Texas has made the American side of the border so insecure at times that Texans moved to Mexico. When Ma Ferguson was elected governor in 1933, famed Texas Ranger Frank Hamer quit the Rangers in disgust and rode with the Rurales in Mexico.Anglos were first drawn to Texas by freedoms afforded under the Mexican Constitution of 1824. That’s why 1824 was on the Alamo flag. They rebelled against the dictator Santa Anna, not against Mexico, because he had rescinded that Constitution.Before Santa Anna marched north, the line between the rule of law and the rule of man was about two hundred miles south of the current border, below Monterrey and Saltillo. Northern Mexico is still culturally and politically distinct from Central Mexico, more conservative and business oriented.With Santa Anna’s defeat at San Jacinto in 1836, the line retreated to the Rio Grande according to Texans, to the Nueces River according to Mexicans, and the land between those rivers became a war zone for decades, finally secured for the United States through force of arms.Border power fluctuates along the highway from Southern California to San Felipe in Mexico, on the Gulf of California. It’s a gold mine for Mexican traffic cops.The highway also runs north from Mexico to almost unlimited work in the Imperial Valley.When Mexican cops put too much pressure on tourists going to San Felipe, American cops put the hammer on Mexicans headed north to work. After a few days everyone backs off and the cycle starts over.
The border might be a designated line but it’s actually malleable, a perception of authority. The powers of evil pace themselves to our government’s varying level of concern, like Ho Chi Minh manipulating President Johnson, and they will win using the same tactic.North American civilization is gradually eroding, as in the current discussion of resident tuition rates for long-term illegal aliens. Even conservative politicians are confused, willing to negate Federal Law to avoid the discussion.
Decision makers accept facts as fed to them and agree to pass the buck, ignoring standard methods of determining justice: contrasting people’s behaviors under like circumstances.A significant body of illegal alien students foresee the residency problem and resolve it before they apply to college. We never hear of them because they come from self-reliant families, hard-working people, the best of the American dream. Mexico might someday save America from moral and economic collapse because of these people.Should the system be changed? No. Illegal alien students should take care of their residency status ahead of time, like their peers. This is not a government problem; it’s an individual problem, but no politicians on the federal level are willing to take the risk to say so.If politicians ignore the law to accommodate noncompliance more exceptions will be sought—mayhem will increase.
Enemies of civilization encourage whining because it unsettles incompetent authority, benefits the forces of evil. The corny phrase forces of evil applies here—come visit.To cease suffering, just as to cease war, there is no substitute for victory. Are our leaders willing to step up to the task? Stabilizing the border will take a firm hand.
DOCTOR DOCTORIAN FROM ANGEL OF GOD
then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.
JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
REVELATION 18:10,17,19
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.
EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.
REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(FALSE POPE) causeth all,(WORLD SOCIALISM) both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(CHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM
WORLD MARKET RESULTS
http://money.cnn.com/data/world_markets/
CNBC VIDEOS
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15839263/?tabid=15839796&tabheader=false
HALF HOUR DOW RESULTS WED NOVEMBER 30,2011
09:30 AM +2.43
10:00 AM +410.70
10:30 AM +396.16
11:00 AM +428.99
11:30 AM +406.95
12:00 PM +416.75
12:30 PM +413.34
01:00 PM +415.47
01:30 PM +394.34
02:00 PM +388.68
02:30 PM +390.90
03:00 PM +394.50
03:30 PM +408.07
04:00 PM +490.05 12,045.68
S&P 500 1246.95 +51.76
NASDAQ 2620.34 +104.83
GOLD 1,750.90 +32.00
OIL 100.37 +0.58
TSE 300 12,204.11 +471.61
CDNX 1548.45 +43.44
S&P/TSX/60 692.55 +25.96
MORNING,NEWS,STATS
YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow +318 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow +1 points at low today.
Dow +430 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $1,747.60.OIL opens at $101.11 today.
AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
Dow +1 points at low today so far.
Dow +490 points at high today so far.
WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow +1 points at low today.
Dow +490 points at high today.
GOLD ALLTIME HIGH $1,902.60 (NOT AT CLOSE)
CRUDE OIL +3.9 MILLION BARRELS
GASOLINE +200,000 BARRELS
DISTILLATE INVENTORIES +5.5 MILLION BARRELS
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
MURRAY GETS 4 YRS FOR MJ CASE
DR MURRAY GOT 4 YRS IN PRISON BY THE JUDGE.THE JUDGE CALLED HIM A LIER-DECIEVER AND TRICKER OF EVERYONE HE DEALT WITH IN THIS CASE.THE JUDGE ALSO SAID THE TAPE MURRAY MADE OF JACKSON ALL DOPED UP COULD HAVE BEEN BRIBERY AGAINST JACKSON IF MURRAY WAS NOT ABLE TO GET HIS WAY.AFTER THE SENTENCE BY THE JUDGE WAS ANNOUNCED A PERSON ON CIA CNN COMMUNIST NEWS NETWORK SAID THAT IN CALIFORNIA THE SENTENCE AUTOMATICALLY WILL BE REDUCED TO 2 YRS AND SINCE CALIFORNIA JAILS ARE OVER CROWDED MURRAY WILL BE IMMEDIATELY ELLIGABLE FOR HOUSE ARREST DO TO NON VIOLENCE OF HIS CASE.
AND ALSO NEXT WEEK THE LEADERS OF CANADA(HARPER) AND OBAMA(USA)WILL MEET TO INTIGRATE EVERYTHING TO DO WITH THE BORDERS.MEANWHILE THE IMMAGINITIVE WAR ON TERROR BY OUR GOVERNMENTS LEAVE THE BORDERS WIDE OPEN FOR THESE SO CALLED TERRORIST TO CROSS THE BORDER.THIS MEETING WILL PROBABLY BE THE MEETING THAT OFFICIALLY MERGES CANADA,USA AND MEXICO INTO THE NORTH AMERICAN TRADE BLOC TO GO WITH THE OTHER 9 REGION WORLD TRADE BLOCS TO DIVIDE THE WORLD INTO 10 WORLD TRADE BLOCS CONTROLLED BY THE EUROPEAN UNION ECONOMIC CHIP IMPLANT SYSTEM OR YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO BUY OR SELL WITHOUT THE MICROCHIP IMPLANT IN YOUR RIGHT HAND OR FOREHEAD LIKE THE BIBLE PREDICTED 2,000 PLUS YEARS AGO.
DANIEL 9:26
26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come (ROMANS IN AD 70) shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined. (69x7=483 YRS TO THIS POINT, THE FINAL 7 YR TREATY IS IN THE NEXT VERSE TO FULFILL THE 490 YEARS OF DANIELS PROPHECY.
9:27 And he (THE FUTURE ROMAN PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,(3RD TEMPLE DESECRATED) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.(WW3)
DANIEL 7:23-24
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast(THE EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADE BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise:(10 NATIONS-10 WORLD REGIONS) and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(BE HEAD OF 3 KINGS OR NATIONS).
REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(FALSE POPE) causeth all,(WORLD SOCIALISM) both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(CHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM
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New U.S.-Canada border plan raises privacy concerns
28/11/2011 10:57:55 PM CTVNews.ca Staff
http://news.sympatico.ctv.ca/home/new_us-canada_border_plan_raises_privacy_concerns/e4f3a999 (VIDEO)
Canada's new border action plan will feature a new entry-exit control system that will allow the United States to track everyone coming and leaving Canada by air, land and sea, CTV News has confirmed.The new, 32-point border action plan will be signed by Prime Minister Stephen Harper and U.S. President Barack Obama when the pair meet at the White House in Washington next week.But despite concerns about privacy stemming from personal information that will be shared with American authorities, the federal government insists there is little to worry about.When I go to the United States today, you have to provide your home, your birth date, your passport information, your travel information, said Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird. Whenever we look at security, we keep in mind privacy concerns are tremendously important to Canadians, and that's something we feel very strongly about.But the office of the privacy commissioner has already pointed out that that the federal government has yet to share any details of the new border rules.In past public comments, Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart has made it clear that Canadian sovereignty and privacy rights must be protected.
Rather than jumping into a newly defined relationship with both feet, we should only do so with both eyes wide open, Stoddart wrote on her blog recently.In exchange for more information about travelers crossing the border from Canada, Washington has responded to a chief Canadian gripe about cross-border traffic: gridlock.Along with security, parts of the new border plan will focus on trade, including pre-screening stations set up on Canadian territory, meaning less congestion at the actual border crossing.The problem today is that we have bottlenecks at the border, said Perrin Beatty, president of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce. You have low-risk cargo, low-risk passengers crossing the border at the same time as high-risk.Beatty said that the new plan will allow Canada and the U.S. to focus resources where it's needed the most.Under the terms of the new deal, the U.S. will move to cut down on traffic at border crossings and allow pre-screenings on certain low-risk cargo trucks. IN an effort to speed the process, U.S. officials will only flag suspicious vehicles at the border rather than doing full inspections that hold up other passengers and cargo.
According to Birgit Matthiesen, from the trade association Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters, doing so will be good for the bottom line in both countries.But the 32-point plan also features more than just new border-crossing protocols.In fact, both nations plan to streamline and harmonize regulations in the automotive and food sectors.According to Beatty, the new rules are the result of the integrated nature of the continental economy.In particular, Ottawa has already quietly prepared regulations to adopt U.S. crash-testing standards for seat belts and built-in child booster seats.According to Matthiesen, the harmonized regulations will ensure that business is better integrated on both sides of the border.It will save both Canadian companies, and their U.S. buyers in a highly integrated supply chain, millions of dollars, she said.Some features of the beyond the border plan could be in place within months. Others, including the exit-entry scheme, will take longer to implement, CTV Ottawa Bureau Chief Robert Fife reported Monday.Prepared with a report from CTV Ottawa Bureau Chief Robert Fife
NEWS: What will be in the 32-point Beyond the Border action plan? By Brent Patterson, Tuesday, November 29th, 2011
http://canadians.org/blog/?p=12324
CTV reports, A new, 32-point border action plan will be signed by Prime Minister Stephen Harper and U.S. President Barack Obama when the pair meet at the White House in Washington next week. It’s expected this will be December 6 or 7. According to the CTV report:
1-Canada’s new border action plan will feature a new entry-exit control system that will allow the United States to track everyone coming and leaving Canada by air, land and sea… The office of the privacy commissioner has already pointed out that that the federal government has yet to share any details of the new border rules.
2-Parts of the new border plan will focus on trade, including pre-screening stations set up on Canadian territory… The U.S. will allow pre-screenings on certain low-risk cargo trucks. In an effort to speed the process, U.S. officials will only flag suspicious vehicles at the border rather than doing full inspections that hold up other passengers and cargo.
3-Both nations plan to streamline and harmonize regulations in the automotive and food sectors (recognizing) the integrated nature of the continental economy. In particular, Ottawa has already quietly prepared regulations to adopt U.S. crash-testing standards for seat belts and built-in child booster seats.
Yesterday, Globe and Mail columnist John Ibbitson wrote that the plan will include:
1-A new entry-exit system that will track everyone coming into or leaving Canada by land, sea or air. …(This) will enable the federal government to, among other things, ensure that landed immigrants are actually living in Canada. …Many will balk at the iris scans or other biometric measures that doubtless will come with the new entry-exit controls…
2-It will harmonize a plethora of regulations and safety standards in the automobile, food and other industries.
3-It will make it easier to obtain temporary work permits and a trusted-traveller document that will allow frequent crossers to skip the lineup at Customs.
4-Air, land and maritime inspections will be more fully integrated…
5-Both sides will be able to more easily detect and deter cyber threats.
What kind of regulatory alignment might we expect to see as a result of the Beyond the Border action plan? In April, Macleans magazine reported that the Beyond the Border consultation in the United States submission have been received from, Target Corp. …who bemoan conflicting regulations between the US and Canada in areas such as product standards, testing facilities, customs procedures and documentation; …the biotechnology industry association asked that both countries adopt consistent science-based processes that would significantly decrease the time required for authorization of biotech crops and their products; …several US agricultural groups asked for harmonization of the maximum permissible pesticide residue levels for produce; (and) the US Chamber of Commerce…suggested examining wherever possible what can be done to align health care regulatory frameworks between the US and Canada for medical devices and pharmaceuticals. In September, Bloomberg reported, Proposals in the auto industry would implement common rules for safety and emissions standards. Cooperation on energy may lead to a ‘Canada-U.S. regime for permitting oil-and-gas pipelines,’ the report said. Canada’s customs agency said in June it is looking at ways to speed inspection of food products that are imported by companies that qualify as posing little risk.
From both polling, see http://canadians.org/blog/?p=5597, and the federal government’s own consultation, http://canadians.org/blog/?p=10175, it is clear that Canadians are very concerned about the border action plan. An Ipsos-Reid poll conducted in February 2011 found that, 91 per cent of Canadians say the negotiations (on perimeter security) should take place in public so that they can see what is on the table. …Canadians want Harper to adopt a much more transparent approach to the…negotiations which are being held in total secrecy.The poll also showed that, (68 per cent) of Canadians fear Prime Minister Stephen Harper will compromise by giving up too much power over immigration, privacy and security to get a deal with the United States on border controls…
Deep Integration: A Timeline
UPDATE: Deep Integration Timeline (abridged) August 2009. PDF
September 11, 2001
The Canada-U.S. border closes temporarily after terrorists attack the World Trade Center buildings in New York City.
September 25, 2001
Citing 9/11, Thomas d’Aquino, president of the Business Council on National Issues (now the Canadian Council of Chief Executives), says that Canada should engage in more fundamental harmonization and integration with the U.S. if we are going to keep the border open to trade.
November 26, 2001
Thomas d’Aquino and other unnamed leaders send a letter to Jean Chrétien and George W. Bush calling for a smart border between Canada and the U.S. that would use technology to enhance both security and the flow of goods and people across the border.
December 12, 2001
Without legislative or public debate, Deputy Prime Minister John Manley and Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge sign the Smart Border Declaration, a 30-point plan to harmonize security and anti-terrorism regulations in the two countries, including the creation of a common no-fly list and passenger surveillance system.
April 2002
The C.D. Howe Institute releases a report by University of Toronto professor Wendy Dobson calling for deeper integration with the United States, including a North American customs union, a common market, a resource sharing pact and full participation in the U.S. war on terror.
June 28, 2002
John Manley and Tom Ridge announce progress on the Smart Border Declaration, including stepped up intelligence cooperation and a common approach to screen international air passengers before they arrive in either country and identify those who warrant additional security scrutiny.
September 26, 2002
Canadian citizen Maher Arar is detained at New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport and held for 12 days, then deported to Syria where he is imprisoned and tortured for a year. In 2006, a Canadian government commission into the affair blames the hasty sharing of faulty information between Canadian and U.S. security agencies.
January 2003
The CCCE launches the North American Security and Prosperity Initiative, calling on the governments of Canada, Mexico and the U.S. to further integrate their three economies through a new deal. The deal would include a comprehensive resource security pact covering agriculture, metal, minerals and energy; sharing the burden of defence and security; and creating a new institutional framework for North American integration.
April 3, 2003
The CCCE establishes a 30-member CEO Action Group on North American Security and Prosperity. Its members include leaders from Canada’s largest corporations, including EnCana, Dofasco, CAE, General Motors, TransCanada Pipeline, BMO, Alcan and SNC Lavalin. North American economic integration is well advanced and irreversible and now, in the face of global terrorism, the economic and physical security of the continent are indivisible, said Tom d'Aquino. Canada and the United States should take the lead, in consultation with Mexico, in developing a new paradigm for North American co-operation.
April 2004
Paul Martin’s Liberal government unveils Canada’s first-ever national security policy, called Securing an Open Society, which is aimed at responding to the new threat environment through a coordinated approach with other key partners – provinces, territories, communities, the private sector and allies.While building on the Smart Border Declaration with the United States, the new security policy contains many elements that will end up in the Security and Prosperity Partnership, including increased cross-border cooperation on intelligence, pandemic preparedness and transportation security.
October 15, 2004
The U.S. Council on Foreign Relations launches a tri-national Independent Task Force on the Future of North America, which is vice-chaired by CCCE President Thomas d’Aquino and co-chaired by John Manley. Task Force members include prominent integrationists like Wendy Dobson, Pedro Aspe, Luis de la Calle Pardo and Carla Hills, all of whom will later participate in a secret North American Forum meeting to discuss continental integration in Calgary, Alberta from September 12 to 14, 2006.
November 30, 2004
Following George W. Bush’s first visit to Canada, then Prime Minister Paul Martin gives birth to the SPP by issuing a joint statement on common security and prosperity called, A new partnership in North America. Security priorities include: improving the coordination of intelligence-sharing, cross-border law enforcement and counter-terrorism; … increasing the security of critical infrastructure, including transportation, energy, and communications networks, and to, pursue joint approaches to partnerships, consensus standards, and smarter regulations that result in greater efficiency and competitiveness, while enhancing the health and safety of our citizens.
February 14, 2005
The Council of Canadians releases leaked minutes from an October 2004 Task Force on the Future of North America meeting that describe bulk water exports as a politically hot long term goal of integration that should be broached at a later date. Also being discussed by the task force are: eliminating current NAFTA exemptions for culture; crafting a North American resource pact that would allow for greater intra-regional trade and investment in certain non-renewable natural resources, such as oil, gas, and fresh water; and a North American brand name to portray North America as a sort of club of privileged members. There are also plans to encourage a North American identity among students in all three countries.
March 14, 2005
The Independent Task Force on the Future of North America releases a preliminary report, calling for the creation of a North American economic and security community by 2010. Although it didn’t include controversial hot suggestions, such as a water-sharing agreement, among the report’s key recommendations are the establishment of a continental security perimeter, a common external tariff, a common border pass for all North Americans, a North American energy and natural resources strategy, and an annual meeting where North American leaders can discuss steps toward economic and security integration.
March 23, 2005
At a meeting in Waco, Texas, George W. Bush, Paul Martin and Vicente Fox issue a joint statement announcing the creation of the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America. The tri-national agreement, which essentially brings Mexico into the Canada-U.S. partnership announced in November 2004, contains almost all of the recommendations on continental economic and security integration proposed by the Independent Task Force and the CCCE’s Security and Prosperity Initiative before it.
October 2005
The first North American Forum brings together U.S., Canadian and Mexican government and business representatives to discuss issues related to continental economic and social integration; it is held at a secret location in Sonoma, California. Invitees include John Manley, Mexican ambassador to the U.S. Carlos de Icaza, Chevron CEO David O’Reilly, former head of the CIA James Woolsey, and a host of U.S. policy advisors to George W. Bush. There is one article about the forum in the North American media.
January 10-11, 2006
The Council of the Americas, United Postal Service and the North American Business Committee host a Public-Private Sector Dialogue on the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America in Louisville, Kentucky. The meeting is attended by 50 government officials and business leaders from Canada, the U.S. and Mexico, including members of the Canadian Privy Council Office, the Mexican Presidency, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and corporate reps from ExxonMobil, DaimlerChrysler, Ford, Tyco, and FedEx. Attendees discussed marrying policy issues with business priorities, musing that, leadership from governments that recognizes the importance of business issues to the overall social welfare empowers the private sector to engage substantively and pragmatically on trade and security issues without undue deference to political sensibilities.A North American Competitiveness Council to drive the SPP process is proposed.
January 23, 2006
The Conservatives take office in Ottawa with a minority government as Prime Minister Stephen Harper promises to make Canada-U.S. relations a top priority despite polling data showing that the issue falls well below health care and the environment for the Canadian public.
March 31, 2006
At the second SPP summit in Cancun, Mexico, President Bush, Prime Minister Stephen Harper and then Mexican President Vicente Fox announce the creation of the North American Competitiveness Council (NACC). This corporate working group is charged with directing the SPP process and includes at least 10 CEOs from each country, including representatives from Lockheed Martin, Wal-Mart, General Motors, Home Depot Canada, Canfor and Suncor.
June 15, 2006
The NACC is officially launched at a joint press conference held by U.S. Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez, Mexican Economy Minister Sergio Garcia de Alba and Canadian Industry Minister Maxime Bernier. According to a report from the Council of the Americas, the purpose of institutionalizing the North American business community's involvement in the SPP process was so that the work will continue through changes in administrations. Furthermore, the NACC is to make sure that, governments look to the private sector to tell them what needs to be done. According to a Canadian government press release, the NACC has a mandate to provide governments with recommendations on broad issues such as border facilitation and regulation, as well as the competitiveness of key sectors including automotive, transportation, manufacturing and services.
August 15, 2006
The NACC meets in Washington, D.C. to hash out priority issues for the SPP. The business leaders decide that the U.S. members will deal with regulatory convergence, the Canadians will handle border facilitation, and the Mexican members will devise a plan for energy integration.
September 12-14, 2006
The North American Forum meets for the second time, in Banff, Alberta, this time to discuss demographic and social dimensions of North American integration, security cooperation, and a North American energy strategy. Once again, the meeting is kept secret, despite the involvement of high-ranking military officials, politicians and top bureaucrats – including Stockwell Day, who refuses to disclose the content of his speech to the media.
November 23, 2006
The Harper government releases a financial outlook document called Advantage Canada: Building a Strong Economy for Canadians. Advantage Canada praises the SPP effort to seek regulatory convergence on border security. It also indicates that the federal government is working with the provinces to speed up and streamline the environmental assessment process, particularly as it affects cross-border infrastructure projects. Furthermore, Advantage Canada emphasizes the importance of huge trade corridors to the economic wellbeing of the country, and looks to the private sector to help with all new infrastructure projects. For its part, Canada’s New Government intends to establish a federal P3 office that will facilitate a broader use of P3s in Canadian infrastructure projects,says the document.The Government will also encourage the development and use of P3 best practices by requiring that P3s be given consideration in larger infrastructure investments that receive federal program funding.Under the SPP’s transportation agenda is an initiative to examine the benefits of an intermodal transportation concept for north America,the goal being to move foreign goods, mostly from Asia, quickly through North America to key markets in the United States.
February 8, 2007
Former industry minister Maxime Bernier and Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day join a handful of deputy ministers and government policy advisors at a dinner meeting in Ottawa with members of the NACC and CCCE, including Tom d’Aquino. According to information acquired by the NDP, the goal of the meeting was to provide an opportunity, for Canadian members to regroup and focus their planning in advance of the February 23, 2007 SPP ministerial meeting, also in Ottawa.
February 23, 2007
SPP ministers, including Maxime Bernier, David Emerson, Stockwell Day, and their U.S. counterparts Michael Chertoff and Carlos Gutierrez, meet with the NACC to discuss the progress of the integration agenda. The NACC releases a report containing 51 recommendations, including: Complete negotiations, sign a new North American Regulatory Cooperation Framework in 2007, and ensure consistent application of standards and regulatory requirements within each country. The corporate body suggests that, upon signature of the framework, a North American Regulatory Cooperation and Standards Committee, which includes the private sector, should be formed to survey on a regular basis the variety of standards and regulatory differences by industry that impede trade and seek to reduce the identified differences or develop other mechanisms to lessen their impact on the competitiveness of North American industry.
March 19, 2007
The Conservative government releases its 2007 budget – Aspire to a Stronger, Safer, Better Canada – in which it promises to improve Canada’s regulatory framework by moving to finalize a new modern approach to smart regulation, and by working with the United States and Mexico through the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America to improve regulatory coordination and cooperation. At the heart of the government’s strategy is the adoption of a new Cabinet Directive on Streamlining Regulation that will come into effect on April 1, 2007. Budget 2007 provides $9 million over two years to implement this initiative.
March 30-April 1, 2007
Over 1,500 people converge on Ottawa for Integrate This! Challenging the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America, a public teach-in on deep integration organized by the Council of Canadians, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, the Canadian Labour Congress, Common Frontiers and a host of other groups.
April 1, 2007
The Government of Canada’s new Cabinet Directive on Streamlining Regulation comes into effect, requiring that all government departments take into consideration the “cost or savings to government, business, or Canadians and the potential impact on the Canadian economy and its international competitiveness,” as well as the “potential impact on other federal departments or agencies, other governments in Canada, or on Canada's foreign affairs” before moving ahead with new rules on everything from food and drugs to pesticides to the environment and public health. The directive moves regulation in Canada further away from the precautionary principle and more in line with the U.S. focus on risk assessment and voluntary compliance.
April 13, 2007
Leaked documents acquired by the Council of Canadians reveal that bulk water exports from Canada to the United States are in fact being discussed in relation to the SPP. The North American Future 2025 Project, which is led by the U.S.-based Center for Strategic and International Studies, the Conference Board of Canada and the Mexican Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, involves a series of 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.
April 24, 2007
The Council of Canadians holds an open-door meeting in Calgary to discuss the threat of bulk water exports posed by North American integration and the SPP in light of closed-door meetings of government officials and business reps to discuss continental water management happening that same week.
April 27, 2007
North American transport ministers, including Conservative MP Lawrence Cannon, meet in Arizona for an SPP meeting, in order to confirm and advance our commitment to developing coordinated, compatible and interconnected national transportation systems. Developing an intermodal transportation concept for North America is an SPP initiative. A key milestones under that initiative commits transport ministers to, work toward establishing an intermodal corridor work plan and a Memorandum of Cooperation pilot project. The Arizona meeting, which the ministers describe as the first in a series, appears to be the beginning of this pilot project.
May 1, 2007
Council of Canadians National Chairperson Maude Barlow addresses the Commons Standing Committee on International Trade regarding the SPP, energy and bulk water exports.
May 7, 2007
CanWest News Service reports that Canada is set to raise its limits on pesticide residues on fruit and vegetables as part of an effort to harmonize Canadian pesticide rules with those of the United States, which allows higher residue levels for 40 per cent of the pesticides it regulates. According to the article, which appeared in papers across the country, the effort is being fast-tracked as an initiative under the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP), a wide-ranging plan to streamline regulatory and security protocols across North America. The article proves that regulatory harmonization as spelled out in NAFTA and the SPP puts downward pressure on regulations and that higher standards are rarely if ever mutually adopted between harmonizing parties.
May 10, 2007
Conservative MPs storm out of parliamentary hearings into the SPP after the Tory chair of the Commons Standing Committee on International Trade interrupts a presentation from Council of Canadians board member Gordon Laxer linking the SPP to tar sands production. Committee chair Leon Benoit can’t see the link between the SPP and energy security for Canada, despite energy integration being a key priority of the SPP and of the NACC. The meeting continues after all but one Conservative MP leaves the room.
June 11, 2007
Former industry minister Maxime Bernier, along with his chief of staff and several other policy advisors, meets with the three national NACC secretariats at the Americas Competitiveness Forum in Atlanta, Georgia. According to information acquired by the NDP, the minister received feedback on the NACC’s recommendations and heard its next steps.
June 18, 2007
Transport Canada’s no-fly list, called Passenger Protect, comes into effect. Airlines begin checking passenger names against a list of people deemed so dangerous to the flight that they should not be allowed to board. Passengers who appear on the list may appeal mistakes to an office of reconsideration. Security experts agree that Canada’s list will inevitably merge with the much larger U.S. no-fly list – a key priority of the SPP’s security agenda. Canada’s airlines have already been using the U.S. list, which contains almost 500,000 names, and news reports from late May 2007 indicate they will continue to rely on it rather than Passenger Protect.
July 31, 2007
Former industry minister Maxime Bernier and Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day attend a working lunch with eight of the 10 Canadian NACC members plus Tom d’Aquino of the CCCE, according to information obtained by the NDP. Topics for discussion include expectations for [the] North American Leaders’ Summit and Canadian priorities, the role of the NACC, and an update on the Prime Minister’s recent visit to Latin America.
August 17, 2007
In a sure sign that opposition to the SPP is making an impact, the Liberal party releases a report called, Strong and Free: The Liberal Blueprint for the North American Leaders Summit at Montebello, Quebec. The report incorporates the Council of Canadians’ demands on the SPP, including disclosing the complete list of SPP working groups, their contact persons and participating membership [and] requiring them to provide opportunities for public input. Liberal party leader Stephane Dion promises, Should the Prime Minister fail to level with Canadians, we will table a resolution calling on the government to inform Canadians of the work and negotiations of the SPP, and to report to the House of Commons to allow for parliamentary scrutiny and a full and informed debate when the Parliament reconvenes.
August 19, 2007
Thousands of people take to the streets of Ottawa to protest the SPP on the eve of the third annual Leaders Summit taking place the following day in Montebello, Quebec. According to later reports by the CBC, the Ottawa Police Service spent $3.7 million on security for the day. Following the protest, the Council of Canadians brings hundreds of people together at a public forum at the University of Ottawa where they hear about deep integration from civil society representatives from Canada, the U.S. and Mexico, as well as from representatives of all four major opposition parties.
August 20, 2007
Like the day before, thousands of protesters head to Montebello where they confront almost as many police officers surrounding the Fairmont hotel where Prime Minister Harper is meeting with Presidents Bush and Calderón. News reports several weeks later peg security costs for the Quebec police force alone at over $7 million. Harper refers to the gathering outside as sad, while CCCE President Tom d’Aquino likens the protesters to barbarians at the gates. I do not say to myself, If I don’t get an hour with the prime minister in the next six months, I’m going to go out and protest and reject the system outright,he tells CBC News. I don’t do that because civilized human beings – those who believe in democracy – don’t do that. Later that night, d’Aquino and the CCCE spend another hour or two with Industry Minister Jim Prentice, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty and Bank of Canada Governor David Dodge, as well as several other deputy ministers, foreign officials and NACC members, at a dinner in Ottawa, according to information obtained by the NDP. Council of Canadians activist and filmmaker Paul Manley posts a video of the day’s events on YouTube that depicts what look like three rock-wielding undercover police officers – agents provocateurs – in the crowd.
August 21, 2007
The third annual SPP Leaders Summit wraps up in Montebello with a joint statement by Prime Minister Harper on progress and next steps. But the headlines are about the YouTube video depicting agents provocateurs. (The Quebec police force at first denies that there were undercover agents then admits it in an embarrassing flip-flop.) Harper makes light of the protests by claiming the leaders were discussing jellybeans, while at the same time he announces four major new SPP developments: an Intellectual Property Action Plan; the long-anticipated (by the business community) Regulatory Cooperation Framework; a North American Plan for Avian and Pandemic Influenza; and a treaty-level Agreement for Cooperation in Energy Science and Technology. The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives will later release a report on regulatory harmonization with the United States in which it notes that a side-agreement – Regulatory Cooperation in the Area of Chemicals – that appears on the U.S. SPP website was not announced by the Canadian government.
October 12 - 14, 2007
The third annual North American Forum takes place in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. Like previous years, the guest list and agenda were kept secret but the Canadian Labour Congress receives a copy of the latter. According to the leaked agenda, this year’s forum was called, North American Cooperation and Community.Leonard Edwards, deputy minister of foreign affairs, moderated a session on the Strategic dimensions of the North American security and prosperity partnerships, while Tom d’Aquino spoke on a panel addressing the topic, Investing in competitiveness: new ideas and options for infrastructure, borders and business – Public/private partnerships, municipal bonds and border development.
October 16, 2007
The Munk Centre’s Project on Water Issues releases a report by Andrew Nikiforuk called, On the Table: Water, Energy and North American Integration. Confirming repeated statements by the Council of Canadians, the report states that: There is now a formal framework for discussing Canada’s water as a trade item – the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) – which met most recently in August 2007 at Montebello, Quebec… While this summit focused publicly on other continent-wide issues, the concept of trade in water has remained quietly but persistently present under the larger banner of trade relations.
November 29, 2007
A Federal Court judge rules that Canada must reconsider the Safe Third Country Agreement it signed with the United States in 2004, because, Washington flouts conventions meant to safeguard immigrants against torture in their homelands, according to a Globe and Mail article. The Safe Third Country agreement was a cornerstone of the Smart Border Declaration of 2001 and a major component of the plan to harmonize refugee and immigration policies. The court gives both parties (the Government of Canada and the Canadian Council for Refugees) until January 14 to make and respond to submissions for an appeal.
January 22, 2008
British Columbia becomes the first province to offer an enhanced driver’s licence compatible with licences in Washington State to meet new U.S. security demands amidst widespread public concern with the new technology. Canada’s Federal Privacy Commissioner slams the cards as tamper-prone and unnecessary. RFID technology would make it possible for governments to track individuals carrying enhanced driver’s licenses and access personal information stored on the card, she says in a subsequent press release. The new licence, which requires the sharing and storing of citizenship and other personal information with U.S. authorities, has the potential to become a de facto North American ID card through ongoing initiatives of the SPP.
January 28, 2008
In his final State of the Union address, President Bush announces that the next SPP summit will take place at the end of April in New Orleans. Tonight the armies of compassion continue the march to a new day in the Gulf Coast, said Bush, referring to the record number of charitable and faith-based groups filling in where the U.S. government continues to pull out of social service provision and disaster recovery plans. America honors the strength and resilience of the people of this region. We reaffirm our pledge to help them build stronger and better than before. And tonight I’m pleased to announce that in April we will host this year’s North American Summit of Canada, Mexico, and the United States in the great city of New Orleans. A subsequent White House press release clarifies that the summit will take place April 21 and 22, 2008. The Harper government issues no such press release.
February 8, 2008
Prime Minister Harper creates a Cabinet Committee on Afghanistan and an Afghanistan Task Force based on recommendations from John Manley’s earlier task force on Canada’s role in the ongoing occupation. At the head of the Cabinet Committee is former Liberal and former Canfor CEO David Emerson – hardly a military expert but very tight with Washington. Emerson, a former vice-chair of the CCCE, has been an SPP minister since the beginning, first as Industry Minister with two previous Liberal governments, then as International Trade Minister with the Conservatives since February 2006. His involvement with the Afghanistan file is more proof that the mission has more to do with appeasing the Americans than with helping the Afghani people.
February 14, 2008
Canada Command and U.S. Northern Command sign a joint Civil Assistance Plan that allows the military from one nation to support the armed forces of the other nation… during floods, forest fires, hurricanes, earthquakes and effects of a terrorist attack. The new agreement, which appears to complement the emergency preparedness component of the SPP North American Plan for Avian and Pandemic Influenza, is a project of the Bi-National Planning group, a joint Canada-U.S. military think tank that has recommended the two countries sign a Comprehensive Defence and Security Agreement.
February 26, 2008
The Harper Conservatives unveil their 2008 budget, which explicitly includes $29 million in SPP funding, although the actual number is five times higher. Not included in that number is a further $136 million for various SPP-linked security initiatives, such as higher-security electronic passports, an expanded NEXUS program at ports of entry, enhanced driver’s licences, the introduction of biometric data into visas for foreign nationals and a permanent facility to enhance the security of the Great Lakes/St. Lawrence Seaway region. The Harper budget falls on the same day that U.S. Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton tell Ohio democrats that they will withdraw from NAFTA if elected president unless the agreement can be altered to better protect workers and the environment. Canadian politicians scramble to defend the free-trade agreement in subsequent media statements.
February 27-28, 2008
Industry Minister Jim Prentice joins his U.S. and Mexican counterparts in Los Cabos, Mexico for the annual closed-doors pre-summit SPP ministerial meeting. After the meeting, which includes an intimate briefing with the CEOs of the North American Competitiveness Council, the three government representatives announce the agenda for the upcoming SPP summit in New Orleans: Continue to implement the strategy to combat piracy and counterfeiting, and build on the Regulatory Cooperation Framework by pursuing collaboration through sectoral initiatives, with an emphasis on the automotive sector; Strengthen cooperation to better identify, assess and manage unsafe food and products before they enter North America, and collaborate to promote the compatibility of our related regulatory and inspection regimes; Develop projects under the newly signed Agreement on Science and Technology, and cooperate on moving new technologies to the marketplace, auto fuel efficiency and energy efficiency standards; Strengthen cooperation protocols and create new mechanisms to secure our common borders while facilitating legitimate travel and trade in the North American region, and; Strengthen emergency management cooperation capacity in the North American region before, during and after disasters.
March 5-6, 2008
Civil society, farmers and fair trade groups, as well as progressive legislators from Canada, the U.S. and Mexico, gather in Washington, D.C. to talk about NAFTA’s real impacts on agriculture, labour, development and migration, and to explore NAFTA's evolution through the Security and Prosperity Partnership, and what can be done in the coming year to develop a strong tri-national movement for a more fair, just and equitable trading model on the continent. Following the conference portion on March 5, interested groups, including representatives from a grassroots network in New Orleans, spend the following day planning for the April 21-22 SPP summit.
March 19, 2008
U.S. Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez gives an off-the-record debriefing to America’s corporate class on the Los Cabos ministerial meeting from February 27 to 28, 2008. According to a U.S. press release, the 1.5-hour meeting, which takes place in Washington, D.C., will include members of the NACC Executive Committee and Advisory Committee and private sector representatives with a stake in the process.
April 21-22, 2008
Fourth annual meeting of North American leaders and CEOs to discuss progress to, and new initiatives for, the Security and Prosperity Partnership.
February 20, 2008
While campaigning for the Democratic party leadership, future President Barack Obama writes in an op-ed for the Dallas Morning News that: Starting my first year in office, I will convene annual meetings with Mr. Calderón and the prime minister of Canada. Unlike similar summits under President Bush, these will be conducted with a level of transparency that represents the close ties among our three countries. We will seek the active and open involvement of citizens, labor, the private sector and non-governmental organizations in setting the agenda and making progress.
February 26, 2008
Both Barack Obama and Democratic leadership rival Hillary Clinton commit on television to renegotiating NAFTA. I've said that I will renegotiate NAFTA, so obviously we'd have to say to Canada and Mexico that that's exactly what we're going to do… we will opt out of NAFTA unless we renegotiate it, says Clinton, vowing to eliminate the right of companies to sue the federal government (Chapter 11) for enacting measures to protect workers. I will make sure that we renegotiate in the same way that Senator Clinton talked about, Obama adds. I think, actually, Senator Clinton's answer on this one is right. I think we should use the hammer of a potential opt-out as leverage.
April 21-22, 2008
Fourth annual North American leaders summit takes place in New Orleans. The SPP’s future is questioned when one news columnist refers to the New Orleans meeting as the Siesta Summit and business leaders wonder openly whether there’s enough political will to keep the talks going.
May 2, 2008
Data from the 2006 census shows that the median earnings of full-time Canadian workers increased about $1 per week between 1980 and 2005, from $41,348 to $41,401. At the same time, the incomes of the richest Canadians increased by 16.4 per cent over the same period, while incomes of the poorest fell by 20.6 per cent. The income stagnation and concentration of wealth at the top prove that free trade with the U.S. (1989) and then Mexico through NAFTA (1994) has been only selectively beneficial.
June 10, 2008
Transport ministers from Canada, the United States and Mexico meet in Ottawa and Meech Lake to explore future enhancements to North America's transportation system and shared perspectives on the challenges of infrastructure renewal.
June 17, 2009
Canada’s ambassador to the United States, Michael Wilson, addresses the secretive invite-only North American Forum gathering in Washington, D.C.
June 26, 2008
A report from the federal government’s Competition Review Panel, Compete to Win, claims the SPP: has yielded too little progress in improving crossborder flows. Indeed, Canada risks being side-swiped by the preoccupation the U.S. has with its southern border. The most recent SPP Summit confirms that little progress can be expected within a relevant time frame. In this context, the Panel believes that it is imperative to intensify our bilateral effort with the US, focusing on facilitating the flow of goods, services and people across the Canada–US border. If we are forced to choose between trilateral and bilateral efforts, the latter should be chosen.
July 22, 2008
An Angus Reid poll shows that 52 per cent of [Canadian] respondents think their country should do whatever is necessary to renegotiate the terms of the commerce deal, up seven points since March… Conversely, 18 per cent of respondents want Canada to continue to be a member of NAFTA under the current terms, and 11 per cent believe the country should do whatever is necessary to leave the commerce deal.
September 24, 2008
U.S. President Bush meets with leaders and officials from 11 countries in the Western Hemisphere, including Canada, to launch the Pathways to Prosperity in the Americas initiative, based on the Security and Prosperity Partnership model.
September 26, 2008
The Council of Canadians releases the results of an Environics poll finding that 61% of Canadians agree with then U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama that NAFTA should be renegotiated to include enforceable labour and environmental standards. This was up from 52% support for renegotiation in an Angus Reid poll from July.
February 14, 2009
A week before U.S. President Obama’s first visit to Canada, a coalition of major Canadian organizations sends Prime Minister Stephen Harper a letter urging him to signal Canada’s willingness to renegotiate NAFTA. Among the signatories to the letter are Common Frontiers, the Ontario Federation of Labour, the Ontario Secondary School Teachers Federation, the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists (Ontario Chapter), OXFAM Canada, the Council of Canadians, Sierra Club of Canada and the Canadian Federation of Students.
February 25, 2009
CCCE President Tom d’Aquino tells the Commons foreign affairs committee that the SPP is probably dead but that something else will inevitably replace the North American dialogue.Why it will be replaced is because the energy, environment, trade, financial regulation, and agriculture, all these things that we do in the form of millions of cross-border transactions everyday are going to have to be co-ordinated, he says.
March 27-28, 2009
A new public-private Standing Committee on North American Prosperity – or NA 2050 – holds its inaugural meeting at the CentroFox in Leon, Mexico. Former Mexican President Vicente Fox and his wife co-host the summit, which is billed as an attempt to fill a perceived vacuum for a North American vision in the wake of the SPP and NAFTA. The group meets for a second time in Atlanta, Georgia from May 11 to 12.
May 26-27, 2009
Following their first border meetings, Napolitano and Van Loan announce they have signed The Shiprider Agreement, which makes permanent a pilot project in which U.S. Homeland Security and RCMP officers staff vessels jointly to skirt jurisdictional issues. The security ministers also agreed to Develop joint threat and risk assessments to assist the two countries in forming a common understanding of the threats and risks we face, and Expand integrated law enforcement operations along our shared border and waterways to prevent criminals and/or terrorists from using the border to evade enforcement or to inflict harm on our two countries.
June 25, 2009
The Canadian Council of Chief Executives announces that its president, Tom d’Aquino, will step down to be replaced by former Liberal deputy prime minister John Manley. A long-time proponent of the SPP and co-author of Building a North American Community, Manley says that as new CCCE president he will build bridges between the corporate sector and government.
July 29, 2009
The Canadian Biotechnology Action Network (CBAN) breaks the news that Health Canada did not assess the human health safety of SmartStax – a new eight-trait genetically modified corn from Monsanto and Dow AgroSciences – before the product was jointly approved for the market in Canada and the United States. The joint approval is proof that SPP-NAFTA regulatory harmonization activities continue at the expense of proper testing and stringent standards.
August 9-10, 2009
Fifth annual North American leaders’ summit takes place in Guadalajara, Mexico amid suggestions U.S. President Obama has dismantled the formal SPP process, though working groups continue.
AND ALSO NEXT WEEK THE LEADERS OF CANADA(HARPER) AND OBAMA(USA)WILL MEET TO INTIGRATE EVERYTHING TO DO WITH THE BORDERS.MEANWHILE THE IMMAGINITIVE WAR ON TERROR BY OUR GOVERNMENTS LEAVE THE BORDERS WIDE OPEN FOR THESE SO CALLED TERRORIST TO CROSS THE BORDER.THIS MEETING WILL PROBABLY BE THE MEETING THAT OFFICIALLY MERGES CANADA,USA AND MEXICO INTO THE NORTH AMERICAN TRADE BLOC TO GO WITH THE OTHER 9 REGION WORLD TRADE BLOCS TO DIVIDE THE WORLD INTO 10 WORLD TRADE BLOCS CONTROLLED BY THE EUROPEAN UNION ECONOMIC CHIP IMPLANT SYSTEM OR YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO BUY OR SELL WITHOUT THE MICROCHIP IMPLANT IN YOUR RIGHT HAND OR FOREHEAD LIKE THE BIBLE PREDICTED 2,000 PLUS YEARS AGO.
DANIEL 9:26
26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come (ROMANS IN AD 70) shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined. (69x7=483 YRS TO THIS POINT, THE FINAL 7 YR TREATY IS IN THE NEXT VERSE TO FULFILL THE 490 YEARS OF DANIELS PROPHECY.
9:27 And he (THE FUTURE ROMAN PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,(3RD TEMPLE DESECRATED) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.(WW3)
DANIEL 7:23-24
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast(THE EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADE BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise:(10 NATIONS-10 WORLD REGIONS) and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(BE HEAD OF 3 KINGS OR NATIONS).
REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(FALSE POPE) causeth all,(WORLD SOCIALISM) both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(CHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/12/z-end-time-signs.html
New U.S.-Canada border plan raises privacy concerns
28/11/2011 10:57:55 PM CTVNews.ca Staff
http://news.sympatico.ctv.ca/home/new_us-canada_border_plan_raises_privacy_concerns/e4f3a999 (VIDEO)
Canada's new border action plan will feature a new entry-exit control system that will allow the United States to track everyone coming and leaving Canada by air, land and sea, CTV News has confirmed.The new, 32-point border action plan will be signed by Prime Minister Stephen Harper and U.S. President Barack Obama when the pair meet at the White House in Washington next week.But despite concerns about privacy stemming from personal information that will be shared with American authorities, the federal government insists there is little to worry about.When I go to the United States today, you have to provide your home, your birth date, your passport information, your travel information, said Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird. Whenever we look at security, we keep in mind privacy concerns are tremendously important to Canadians, and that's something we feel very strongly about.But the office of the privacy commissioner has already pointed out that that the federal government has yet to share any details of the new border rules.In past public comments, Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart has made it clear that Canadian sovereignty and privacy rights must be protected.
Rather than jumping into a newly defined relationship with both feet, we should only do so with both eyes wide open, Stoddart wrote on her blog recently.In exchange for more information about travelers crossing the border from Canada, Washington has responded to a chief Canadian gripe about cross-border traffic: gridlock.Along with security, parts of the new border plan will focus on trade, including pre-screening stations set up on Canadian territory, meaning less congestion at the actual border crossing.The problem today is that we have bottlenecks at the border, said Perrin Beatty, president of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce. You have low-risk cargo, low-risk passengers crossing the border at the same time as high-risk.Beatty said that the new plan will allow Canada and the U.S. to focus resources where it's needed the most.Under the terms of the new deal, the U.S. will move to cut down on traffic at border crossings and allow pre-screenings on certain low-risk cargo trucks. IN an effort to speed the process, U.S. officials will only flag suspicious vehicles at the border rather than doing full inspections that hold up other passengers and cargo.
According to Birgit Matthiesen, from the trade association Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters, doing so will be good for the bottom line in both countries.But the 32-point plan also features more than just new border-crossing protocols.In fact, both nations plan to streamline and harmonize regulations in the automotive and food sectors.According to Beatty, the new rules are the result of the integrated nature of the continental economy.In particular, Ottawa has already quietly prepared regulations to adopt U.S. crash-testing standards for seat belts and built-in child booster seats.According to Matthiesen, the harmonized regulations will ensure that business is better integrated on both sides of the border.It will save both Canadian companies, and their U.S. buyers in a highly integrated supply chain, millions of dollars, she said.Some features of the beyond the border plan could be in place within months. Others, including the exit-entry scheme, will take longer to implement, CTV Ottawa Bureau Chief Robert Fife reported Monday.Prepared with a report from CTV Ottawa Bureau Chief Robert Fife
NEWS: What will be in the 32-point Beyond the Border action plan? By Brent Patterson, Tuesday, November 29th, 2011
http://canadians.org/blog/?p=12324
CTV reports, A new, 32-point border action plan will be signed by Prime Minister Stephen Harper and U.S. President Barack Obama when the pair meet at the White House in Washington next week. It’s expected this will be December 6 or 7. According to the CTV report:
1-Canada’s new border action plan will feature a new entry-exit control system that will allow the United States to track everyone coming and leaving Canada by air, land and sea… The office of the privacy commissioner has already pointed out that that the federal government has yet to share any details of the new border rules.
2-Parts of the new border plan will focus on trade, including pre-screening stations set up on Canadian territory… The U.S. will allow pre-screenings on certain low-risk cargo trucks. In an effort to speed the process, U.S. officials will only flag suspicious vehicles at the border rather than doing full inspections that hold up other passengers and cargo.
3-Both nations plan to streamline and harmonize regulations in the automotive and food sectors (recognizing) the integrated nature of the continental economy. In particular, Ottawa has already quietly prepared regulations to adopt U.S. crash-testing standards for seat belts and built-in child booster seats.
Yesterday, Globe and Mail columnist John Ibbitson wrote that the plan will include:
1-A new entry-exit system that will track everyone coming into or leaving Canada by land, sea or air. …(This) will enable the federal government to, among other things, ensure that landed immigrants are actually living in Canada. …Many will balk at the iris scans or other biometric measures that doubtless will come with the new entry-exit controls…
2-It will harmonize a plethora of regulations and safety standards in the automobile, food and other industries.
3-It will make it easier to obtain temporary work permits and a trusted-traveller document that will allow frequent crossers to skip the lineup at Customs.
4-Air, land and maritime inspections will be more fully integrated…
5-Both sides will be able to more easily detect and deter cyber threats.
What kind of regulatory alignment might we expect to see as a result of the Beyond the Border action plan? In April, Macleans magazine reported that the Beyond the Border consultation in the United States submission have been received from, Target Corp. …who bemoan conflicting regulations between the US and Canada in areas such as product standards, testing facilities, customs procedures and documentation; …the biotechnology industry association asked that both countries adopt consistent science-based processes that would significantly decrease the time required for authorization of biotech crops and their products; …several US agricultural groups asked for harmonization of the maximum permissible pesticide residue levels for produce; (and) the US Chamber of Commerce…suggested examining wherever possible what can be done to align health care regulatory frameworks between the US and Canada for medical devices and pharmaceuticals. In September, Bloomberg reported, Proposals in the auto industry would implement common rules for safety and emissions standards. Cooperation on energy may lead to a ‘Canada-U.S. regime for permitting oil-and-gas pipelines,’ the report said. Canada’s customs agency said in June it is looking at ways to speed inspection of food products that are imported by companies that qualify as posing little risk.
From both polling, see http://canadians.org/blog/?p=5597, and the federal government’s own consultation, http://canadians.org/blog/?p=10175, it is clear that Canadians are very concerned about the border action plan. An Ipsos-Reid poll conducted in February 2011 found that, 91 per cent of Canadians say the negotiations (on perimeter security) should take place in public so that they can see what is on the table. …Canadians want Harper to adopt a much more transparent approach to the…negotiations which are being held in total secrecy.The poll also showed that, (68 per cent) of Canadians fear Prime Minister Stephen Harper will compromise by giving up too much power over immigration, privacy and security to get a deal with the United States on border controls…
Deep Integration: A Timeline
UPDATE: Deep Integration Timeline (abridged) August 2009. PDF
September 11, 2001
The Canada-U.S. border closes temporarily after terrorists attack the World Trade Center buildings in New York City.
September 25, 2001
Citing 9/11, Thomas d’Aquino, president of the Business Council on National Issues (now the Canadian Council of Chief Executives), says that Canada should engage in more fundamental harmonization and integration with the U.S. if we are going to keep the border open to trade.
November 26, 2001
Thomas d’Aquino and other unnamed leaders send a letter to Jean Chrétien and George W. Bush calling for a smart border between Canada and the U.S. that would use technology to enhance both security and the flow of goods and people across the border.
December 12, 2001
Without legislative or public debate, Deputy Prime Minister John Manley and Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge sign the Smart Border Declaration, a 30-point plan to harmonize security and anti-terrorism regulations in the two countries, including the creation of a common no-fly list and passenger surveillance system.
April 2002
The C.D. Howe Institute releases a report by University of Toronto professor Wendy Dobson calling for deeper integration with the United States, including a North American customs union, a common market, a resource sharing pact and full participation in the U.S. war on terror.
June 28, 2002
John Manley and Tom Ridge announce progress on the Smart Border Declaration, including stepped up intelligence cooperation and a common approach to screen international air passengers before they arrive in either country and identify those who warrant additional security scrutiny.
September 26, 2002
Canadian citizen Maher Arar is detained at New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport and held for 12 days, then deported to Syria where he is imprisoned and tortured for a year. In 2006, a Canadian government commission into the affair blames the hasty sharing of faulty information between Canadian and U.S. security agencies.
January 2003
The CCCE launches the North American Security and Prosperity Initiative, calling on the governments of Canada, Mexico and the U.S. to further integrate their three economies through a new deal. The deal would include a comprehensive resource security pact covering agriculture, metal, minerals and energy; sharing the burden of defence and security; and creating a new institutional framework for North American integration.
April 3, 2003
The CCCE establishes a 30-member CEO Action Group on North American Security and Prosperity. Its members include leaders from Canada’s largest corporations, including EnCana, Dofasco, CAE, General Motors, TransCanada Pipeline, BMO, Alcan and SNC Lavalin. North American economic integration is well advanced and irreversible and now, in the face of global terrorism, the economic and physical security of the continent are indivisible, said Tom d'Aquino. Canada and the United States should take the lead, in consultation with Mexico, in developing a new paradigm for North American co-operation.
April 2004
Paul Martin’s Liberal government unveils Canada’s first-ever national security policy, called Securing an Open Society, which is aimed at responding to the new threat environment through a coordinated approach with other key partners – provinces, territories, communities, the private sector and allies.While building on the Smart Border Declaration with the United States, the new security policy contains many elements that will end up in the Security and Prosperity Partnership, including increased cross-border cooperation on intelligence, pandemic preparedness and transportation security.
October 15, 2004
The U.S. Council on Foreign Relations launches a tri-national Independent Task Force on the Future of North America, which is vice-chaired by CCCE President Thomas d’Aquino and co-chaired by John Manley. Task Force members include prominent integrationists like Wendy Dobson, Pedro Aspe, Luis de la Calle Pardo and Carla Hills, all of whom will later participate in a secret North American Forum meeting to discuss continental integration in Calgary, Alberta from September 12 to 14, 2006.
November 30, 2004
Following George W. Bush’s first visit to Canada, then Prime Minister Paul Martin gives birth to the SPP by issuing a joint statement on common security and prosperity called, A new partnership in North America. Security priorities include: improving the coordination of intelligence-sharing, cross-border law enforcement and counter-terrorism; … increasing the security of critical infrastructure, including transportation, energy, and communications networks, and to, pursue joint approaches to partnerships, consensus standards, and smarter regulations that result in greater efficiency and competitiveness, while enhancing the health and safety of our citizens.
February 14, 2005
The Council of Canadians releases leaked minutes from an October 2004 Task Force on the Future of North America meeting that describe bulk water exports as a politically hot long term goal of integration that should be broached at a later date. Also being discussed by the task force are: eliminating current NAFTA exemptions for culture; crafting a North American resource pact that would allow for greater intra-regional trade and investment in certain non-renewable natural resources, such as oil, gas, and fresh water; and a North American brand name to portray North America as a sort of club of privileged members. There are also plans to encourage a North American identity among students in all three countries.
March 14, 2005
The Independent Task Force on the Future of North America releases a preliminary report, calling for the creation of a North American economic and security community by 2010. Although it didn’t include controversial hot suggestions, such as a water-sharing agreement, among the report’s key recommendations are the establishment of a continental security perimeter, a common external tariff, a common border pass for all North Americans, a North American energy and natural resources strategy, and an annual meeting where North American leaders can discuss steps toward economic and security integration.
March 23, 2005
At a meeting in Waco, Texas, George W. Bush, Paul Martin and Vicente Fox issue a joint statement announcing the creation of the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America. The tri-national agreement, which essentially brings Mexico into the Canada-U.S. partnership announced in November 2004, contains almost all of the recommendations on continental economic and security integration proposed by the Independent Task Force and the CCCE’s Security and Prosperity Initiative before it.
October 2005
The first North American Forum brings together U.S., Canadian and Mexican government and business representatives to discuss issues related to continental economic and social integration; it is held at a secret location in Sonoma, California. Invitees include John Manley, Mexican ambassador to the U.S. Carlos de Icaza, Chevron CEO David O’Reilly, former head of the CIA James Woolsey, and a host of U.S. policy advisors to George W. Bush. There is one article about the forum in the North American media.
January 10-11, 2006
The Council of the Americas, United Postal Service and the North American Business Committee host a Public-Private Sector Dialogue on the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America in Louisville, Kentucky. The meeting is attended by 50 government officials and business leaders from Canada, the U.S. and Mexico, including members of the Canadian Privy Council Office, the Mexican Presidency, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and corporate reps from ExxonMobil, DaimlerChrysler, Ford, Tyco, and FedEx. Attendees discussed marrying policy issues with business priorities, musing that, leadership from governments that recognizes the importance of business issues to the overall social welfare empowers the private sector to engage substantively and pragmatically on trade and security issues without undue deference to political sensibilities.A North American Competitiveness Council to drive the SPP process is proposed.
January 23, 2006
The Conservatives take office in Ottawa with a minority government as Prime Minister Stephen Harper promises to make Canada-U.S. relations a top priority despite polling data showing that the issue falls well below health care and the environment for the Canadian public.
March 31, 2006
At the second SPP summit in Cancun, Mexico, President Bush, Prime Minister Stephen Harper and then Mexican President Vicente Fox announce the creation of the North American Competitiveness Council (NACC). This corporate working group is charged with directing the SPP process and includes at least 10 CEOs from each country, including representatives from Lockheed Martin, Wal-Mart, General Motors, Home Depot Canada, Canfor and Suncor.
June 15, 2006
The NACC is officially launched at a joint press conference held by U.S. Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez, Mexican Economy Minister Sergio Garcia de Alba and Canadian Industry Minister Maxime Bernier. According to a report from the Council of the Americas, the purpose of institutionalizing the North American business community's involvement in the SPP process was so that the work will continue through changes in administrations. Furthermore, the NACC is to make sure that, governments look to the private sector to tell them what needs to be done. According to a Canadian government press release, the NACC has a mandate to provide governments with recommendations on broad issues such as border facilitation and regulation, as well as the competitiveness of key sectors including automotive, transportation, manufacturing and services.
August 15, 2006
The NACC meets in Washington, D.C. to hash out priority issues for the SPP. The business leaders decide that the U.S. members will deal with regulatory convergence, the Canadians will handle border facilitation, and the Mexican members will devise a plan for energy integration.
September 12-14, 2006
The North American Forum meets for the second time, in Banff, Alberta, this time to discuss demographic and social dimensions of North American integration, security cooperation, and a North American energy strategy. Once again, the meeting is kept secret, despite the involvement of high-ranking military officials, politicians and top bureaucrats – including Stockwell Day, who refuses to disclose the content of his speech to the media.
November 23, 2006
The Harper government releases a financial outlook document called Advantage Canada: Building a Strong Economy for Canadians. Advantage Canada praises the SPP effort to seek regulatory convergence on border security. It also indicates that the federal government is working with the provinces to speed up and streamline the environmental assessment process, particularly as it affects cross-border infrastructure projects. Furthermore, Advantage Canada emphasizes the importance of huge trade corridors to the economic wellbeing of the country, and looks to the private sector to help with all new infrastructure projects. For its part, Canada’s New Government intends to establish a federal P3 office that will facilitate a broader use of P3s in Canadian infrastructure projects,says the document.The Government will also encourage the development and use of P3 best practices by requiring that P3s be given consideration in larger infrastructure investments that receive federal program funding.Under the SPP’s transportation agenda is an initiative to examine the benefits of an intermodal transportation concept for north America,the goal being to move foreign goods, mostly from Asia, quickly through North America to key markets in the United States.
February 8, 2007
Former industry minister Maxime Bernier and Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day join a handful of deputy ministers and government policy advisors at a dinner meeting in Ottawa with members of the NACC and CCCE, including Tom d’Aquino. According to information acquired by the NDP, the goal of the meeting was to provide an opportunity, for Canadian members to regroup and focus their planning in advance of the February 23, 2007 SPP ministerial meeting, also in Ottawa.
February 23, 2007
SPP ministers, including Maxime Bernier, David Emerson, Stockwell Day, and their U.S. counterparts Michael Chertoff and Carlos Gutierrez, meet with the NACC to discuss the progress of the integration agenda. The NACC releases a report containing 51 recommendations, including: Complete negotiations, sign a new North American Regulatory Cooperation Framework in 2007, and ensure consistent application of standards and regulatory requirements within each country. The corporate body suggests that, upon signature of the framework, a North American Regulatory Cooperation and Standards Committee, which includes the private sector, should be formed to survey on a regular basis the variety of standards and regulatory differences by industry that impede trade and seek to reduce the identified differences or develop other mechanisms to lessen their impact on the competitiveness of North American industry.
March 19, 2007
The Conservative government releases its 2007 budget – Aspire to a Stronger, Safer, Better Canada – in which it promises to improve Canada’s regulatory framework by moving to finalize a new modern approach to smart regulation, and by working with the United States and Mexico through the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America to improve regulatory coordination and cooperation. At the heart of the government’s strategy is the adoption of a new Cabinet Directive on Streamlining Regulation that will come into effect on April 1, 2007. Budget 2007 provides $9 million over two years to implement this initiative.
March 30-April 1, 2007
Over 1,500 people converge on Ottawa for Integrate This! Challenging the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America, a public teach-in on deep integration organized by the Council of Canadians, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, the Canadian Labour Congress, Common Frontiers and a host of other groups.
April 1, 2007
The Government of Canada’s new Cabinet Directive on Streamlining Regulation comes into effect, requiring that all government departments take into consideration the “cost or savings to government, business, or Canadians and the potential impact on the Canadian economy and its international competitiveness,” as well as the “potential impact on other federal departments or agencies, other governments in Canada, or on Canada's foreign affairs” before moving ahead with new rules on everything from food and drugs to pesticides to the environment and public health. The directive moves regulation in Canada further away from the precautionary principle and more in line with the U.S. focus on risk assessment and voluntary compliance.
April 13, 2007
Leaked documents acquired by the Council of Canadians reveal that bulk water exports from Canada to the United States are in fact being discussed in relation to the SPP. The North American Future 2025 Project, which is led by the U.S.-based Center for Strategic and International Studies, the Conference Board of Canada and the Mexican Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, involves a series of 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.
April 24, 2007
The Council of Canadians holds an open-door meeting in Calgary to discuss the threat of bulk water exports posed by North American integration and the SPP in light of closed-door meetings of government officials and business reps to discuss continental water management happening that same week.
April 27, 2007
North American transport ministers, including Conservative MP Lawrence Cannon, meet in Arizona for an SPP meeting, in order to confirm and advance our commitment to developing coordinated, compatible and interconnected national transportation systems. Developing an intermodal transportation concept for North America is an SPP initiative. A key milestones under that initiative commits transport ministers to, work toward establishing an intermodal corridor work plan and a Memorandum of Cooperation pilot project. The Arizona meeting, which the ministers describe as the first in a series, appears to be the beginning of this pilot project.
May 1, 2007
Council of Canadians National Chairperson Maude Barlow addresses the Commons Standing Committee on International Trade regarding the SPP, energy and bulk water exports.
May 7, 2007
CanWest News Service reports that Canada is set to raise its limits on pesticide residues on fruit and vegetables as part of an effort to harmonize Canadian pesticide rules with those of the United States, which allows higher residue levels for 40 per cent of the pesticides it regulates. According to the article, which appeared in papers across the country, the effort is being fast-tracked as an initiative under the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP), a wide-ranging plan to streamline regulatory and security protocols across North America. The article proves that regulatory harmonization as spelled out in NAFTA and the SPP puts downward pressure on regulations and that higher standards are rarely if ever mutually adopted between harmonizing parties.
May 10, 2007
Conservative MPs storm out of parliamentary hearings into the SPP after the Tory chair of the Commons Standing Committee on International Trade interrupts a presentation from Council of Canadians board member Gordon Laxer linking the SPP to tar sands production. Committee chair Leon Benoit can’t see the link between the SPP and energy security for Canada, despite energy integration being a key priority of the SPP and of the NACC. The meeting continues after all but one Conservative MP leaves the room.
June 11, 2007
Former industry minister Maxime Bernier, along with his chief of staff and several other policy advisors, meets with the three national NACC secretariats at the Americas Competitiveness Forum in Atlanta, Georgia. According to information acquired by the NDP, the minister received feedback on the NACC’s recommendations and heard its next steps.
June 18, 2007
Transport Canada’s no-fly list, called Passenger Protect, comes into effect. Airlines begin checking passenger names against a list of people deemed so dangerous to the flight that they should not be allowed to board. Passengers who appear on the list may appeal mistakes to an office of reconsideration. Security experts agree that Canada’s list will inevitably merge with the much larger U.S. no-fly list – a key priority of the SPP’s security agenda. Canada’s airlines have already been using the U.S. list, which contains almost 500,000 names, and news reports from late May 2007 indicate they will continue to rely on it rather than Passenger Protect.
July 31, 2007
Former industry minister Maxime Bernier and Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day attend a working lunch with eight of the 10 Canadian NACC members plus Tom d’Aquino of the CCCE, according to information obtained by the NDP. Topics for discussion include expectations for [the] North American Leaders’ Summit and Canadian priorities, the role of the NACC, and an update on the Prime Minister’s recent visit to Latin America.
August 17, 2007
In a sure sign that opposition to the SPP is making an impact, the Liberal party releases a report called, Strong and Free: The Liberal Blueprint for the North American Leaders Summit at Montebello, Quebec. The report incorporates the Council of Canadians’ demands on the SPP, including disclosing the complete list of SPP working groups, their contact persons and participating membership [and] requiring them to provide opportunities for public input. Liberal party leader Stephane Dion promises, Should the Prime Minister fail to level with Canadians, we will table a resolution calling on the government to inform Canadians of the work and negotiations of the SPP, and to report to the House of Commons to allow for parliamentary scrutiny and a full and informed debate when the Parliament reconvenes.
August 19, 2007
Thousands of people take to the streets of Ottawa to protest the SPP on the eve of the third annual Leaders Summit taking place the following day in Montebello, Quebec. According to later reports by the CBC, the Ottawa Police Service spent $3.7 million on security for the day. Following the protest, the Council of Canadians brings hundreds of people together at a public forum at the University of Ottawa where they hear about deep integration from civil society representatives from Canada, the U.S. and Mexico, as well as from representatives of all four major opposition parties.
August 20, 2007
Like the day before, thousands of protesters head to Montebello where they confront almost as many police officers surrounding the Fairmont hotel where Prime Minister Harper is meeting with Presidents Bush and Calderón. News reports several weeks later peg security costs for the Quebec police force alone at over $7 million. Harper refers to the gathering outside as sad, while CCCE President Tom d’Aquino likens the protesters to barbarians at the gates. I do not say to myself, If I don’t get an hour with the prime minister in the next six months, I’m going to go out and protest and reject the system outright,he tells CBC News. I don’t do that because civilized human beings – those who believe in democracy – don’t do that. Later that night, d’Aquino and the CCCE spend another hour or two with Industry Minister Jim Prentice, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty and Bank of Canada Governor David Dodge, as well as several other deputy ministers, foreign officials and NACC members, at a dinner in Ottawa, according to information obtained by the NDP. Council of Canadians activist and filmmaker Paul Manley posts a video of the day’s events on YouTube that depicts what look like three rock-wielding undercover police officers – agents provocateurs – in the crowd.
August 21, 2007
The third annual SPP Leaders Summit wraps up in Montebello with a joint statement by Prime Minister Harper on progress and next steps. But the headlines are about the YouTube video depicting agents provocateurs. (The Quebec police force at first denies that there were undercover agents then admits it in an embarrassing flip-flop.) Harper makes light of the protests by claiming the leaders were discussing jellybeans, while at the same time he announces four major new SPP developments: an Intellectual Property Action Plan; the long-anticipated (by the business community) Regulatory Cooperation Framework; a North American Plan for Avian and Pandemic Influenza; and a treaty-level Agreement for Cooperation in Energy Science and Technology. The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives will later release a report on regulatory harmonization with the United States in which it notes that a side-agreement – Regulatory Cooperation in the Area of Chemicals – that appears on the U.S. SPP website was not announced by the Canadian government.
October 12 - 14, 2007
The third annual North American Forum takes place in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. Like previous years, the guest list and agenda were kept secret but the Canadian Labour Congress receives a copy of the latter. According to the leaked agenda, this year’s forum was called, North American Cooperation and Community.Leonard Edwards, deputy minister of foreign affairs, moderated a session on the Strategic dimensions of the North American security and prosperity partnerships, while Tom d’Aquino spoke on a panel addressing the topic, Investing in competitiveness: new ideas and options for infrastructure, borders and business – Public/private partnerships, municipal bonds and border development.
October 16, 2007
The Munk Centre’s Project on Water Issues releases a report by Andrew Nikiforuk called, On the Table: Water, Energy and North American Integration. Confirming repeated statements by the Council of Canadians, the report states that: There is now a formal framework for discussing Canada’s water as a trade item – the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) – which met most recently in August 2007 at Montebello, Quebec… While this summit focused publicly on other continent-wide issues, the concept of trade in water has remained quietly but persistently present under the larger banner of trade relations.
November 29, 2007
A Federal Court judge rules that Canada must reconsider the Safe Third Country Agreement it signed with the United States in 2004, because, Washington flouts conventions meant to safeguard immigrants against torture in their homelands, according to a Globe and Mail article. The Safe Third Country agreement was a cornerstone of the Smart Border Declaration of 2001 and a major component of the plan to harmonize refugee and immigration policies. The court gives both parties (the Government of Canada and the Canadian Council for Refugees) until January 14 to make and respond to submissions for an appeal.
January 22, 2008
British Columbia becomes the first province to offer an enhanced driver’s licence compatible with licences in Washington State to meet new U.S. security demands amidst widespread public concern with the new technology. Canada’s Federal Privacy Commissioner slams the cards as tamper-prone and unnecessary. RFID technology would make it possible for governments to track individuals carrying enhanced driver’s licenses and access personal information stored on the card, she says in a subsequent press release. The new licence, which requires the sharing and storing of citizenship and other personal information with U.S. authorities, has the potential to become a de facto North American ID card through ongoing initiatives of the SPP.
January 28, 2008
In his final State of the Union address, President Bush announces that the next SPP summit will take place at the end of April in New Orleans. Tonight the armies of compassion continue the march to a new day in the Gulf Coast, said Bush, referring to the record number of charitable and faith-based groups filling in where the U.S. government continues to pull out of social service provision and disaster recovery plans. America honors the strength and resilience of the people of this region. We reaffirm our pledge to help them build stronger and better than before. And tonight I’m pleased to announce that in April we will host this year’s North American Summit of Canada, Mexico, and the United States in the great city of New Orleans. A subsequent White House press release clarifies that the summit will take place April 21 and 22, 2008. The Harper government issues no such press release.
February 8, 2008
Prime Minister Harper creates a Cabinet Committee on Afghanistan and an Afghanistan Task Force based on recommendations from John Manley’s earlier task force on Canada’s role in the ongoing occupation. At the head of the Cabinet Committee is former Liberal and former Canfor CEO David Emerson – hardly a military expert but very tight with Washington. Emerson, a former vice-chair of the CCCE, has been an SPP minister since the beginning, first as Industry Minister with two previous Liberal governments, then as International Trade Minister with the Conservatives since February 2006. His involvement with the Afghanistan file is more proof that the mission has more to do with appeasing the Americans than with helping the Afghani people.
February 14, 2008
Canada Command and U.S. Northern Command sign a joint Civil Assistance Plan that allows the military from one nation to support the armed forces of the other nation… during floods, forest fires, hurricanes, earthquakes and effects of a terrorist attack. The new agreement, which appears to complement the emergency preparedness component of the SPP North American Plan for Avian and Pandemic Influenza, is a project of the Bi-National Planning group, a joint Canada-U.S. military think tank that has recommended the two countries sign a Comprehensive Defence and Security Agreement.
February 26, 2008
The Harper Conservatives unveil their 2008 budget, which explicitly includes $29 million in SPP funding, although the actual number is five times higher. Not included in that number is a further $136 million for various SPP-linked security initiatives, such as higher-security electronic passports, an expanded NEXUS program at ports of entry, enhanced driver’s licences, the introduction of biometric data into visas for foreign nationals and a permanent facility to enhance the security of the Great Lakes/St. Lawrence Seaway region. The Harper budget falls on the same day that U.S. Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton tell Ohio democrats that they will withdraw from NAFTA if elected president unless the agreement can be altered to better protect workers and the environment. Canadian politicians scramble to defend the free-trade agreement in subsequent media statements.
February 27-28, 2008
Industry Minister Jim Prentice joins his U.S. and Mexican counterparts in Los Cabos, Mexico for the annual closed-doors pre-summit SPP ministerial meeting. After the meeting, which includes an intimate briefing with the CEOs of the North American Competitiveness Council, the three government representatives announce the agenda for the upcoming SPP summit in New Orleans: Continue to implement the strategy to combat piracy and counterfeiting, and build on the Regulatory Cooperation Framework by pursuing collaboration through sectoral initiatives, with an emphasis on the automotive sector; Strengthen cooperation to better identify, assess and manage unsafe food and products before they enter North America, and collaborate to promote the compatibility of our related regulatory and inspection regimes; Develop projects under the newly signed Agreement on Science and Technology, and cooperate on moving new technologies to the marketplace, auto fuel efficiency and energy efficiency standards; Strengthen cooperation protocols and create new mechanisms to secure our common borders while facilitating legitimate travel and trade in the North American region, and; Strengthen emergency management cooperation capacity in the North American region before, during and after disasters.
March 5-6, 2008
Civil society, farmers and fair trade groups, as well as progressive legislators from Canada, the U.S. and Mexico, gather in Washington, D.C. to talk about NAFTA’s real impacts on agriculture, labour, development and migration, and to explore NAFTA's evolution through the Security and Prosperity Partnership, and what can be done in the coming year to develop a strong tri-national movement for a more fair, just and equitable trading model on the continent. Following the conference portion on March 5, interested groups, including representatives from a grassroots network in New Orleans, spend the following day planning for the April 21-22 SPP summit.
March 19, 2008
U.S. Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez gives an off-the-record debriefing to America’s corporate class on the Los Cabos ministerial meeting from February 27 to 28, 2008. According to a U.S. press release, the 1.5-hour meeting, which takes place in Washington, D.C., will include members of the NACC Executive Committee and Advisory Committee and private sector representatives with a stake in the process.
April 21-22, 2008
Fourth annual meeting of North American leaders and CEOs to discuss progress to, and new initiatives for, the Security and Prosperity Partnership.
February 20, 2008
While campaigning for the Democratic party leadership, future President Barack Obama writes in an op-ed for the Dallas Morning News that: Starting my first year in office, I will convene annual meetings with Mr. Calderón and the prime minister of Canada. Unlike similar summits under President Bush, these will be conducted with a level of transparency that represents the close ties among our three countries. We will seek the active and open involvement of citizens, labor, the private sector and non-governmental organizations in setting the agenda and making progress.
February 26, 2008
Both Barack Obama and Democratic leadership rival Hillary Clinton commit on television to renegotiating NAFTA. I've said that I will renegotiate NAFTA, so obviously we'd have to say to Canada and Mexico that that's exactly what we're going to do… we will opt out of NAFTA unless we renegotiate it, says Clinton, vowing to eliminate the right of companies to sue the federal government (Chapter 11) for enacting measures to protect workers. I will make sure that we renegotiate in the same way that Senator Clinton talked about, Obama adds. I think, actually, Senator Clinton's answer on this one is right. I think we should use the hammer of a potential opt-out as leverage.
April 21-22, 2008
Fourth annual North American leaders summit takes place in New Orleans. The SPP’s future is questioned when one news columnist refers to the New Orleans meeting as the Siesta Summit and business leaders wonder openly whether there’s enough political will to keep the talks going.
May 2, 2008
Data from the 2006 census shows that the median earnings of full-time Canadian workers increased about $1 per week between 1980 and 2005, from $41,348 to $41,401. At the same time, the incomes of the richest Canadians increased by 16.4 per cent over the same period, while incomes of the poorest fell by 20.6 per cent. The income stagnation and concentration of wealth at the top prove that free trade with the U.S. (1989) and then Mexico through NAFTA (1994) has been only selectively beneficial.
June 10, 2008
Transport ministers from Canada, the United States and Mexico meet in Ottawa and Meech Lake to explore future enhancements to North America's transportation system and shared perspectives on the challenges of infrastructure renewal.
June 17, 2009
Canada’s ambassador to the United States, Michael Wilson, addresses the secretive invite-only North American Forum gathering in Washington, D.C.
June 26, 2008
A report from the federal government’s Competition Review Panel, Compete to Win, claims the SPP: has yielded too little progress in improving crossborder flows. Indeed, Canada risks being side-swiped by the preoccupation the U.S. has with its southern border. The most recent SPP Summit confirms that little progress can be expected within a relevant time frame. In this context, the Panel believes that it is imperative to intensify our bilateral effort with the US, focusing on facilitating the flow of goods, services and people across the Canada–US border. If we are forced to choose between trilateral and bilateral efforts, the latter should be chosen.
July 22, 2008
An Angus Reid poll shows that 52 per cent of [Canadian] respondents think their country should do whatever is necessary to renegotiate the terms of the commerce deal, up seven points since March… Conversely, 18 per cent of respondents want Canada to continue to be a member of NAFTA under the current terms, and 11 per cent believe the country should do whatever is necessary to leave the commerce deal.
September 24, 2008
U.S. President Bush meets with leaders and officials from 11 countries in the Western Hemisphere, including Canada, to launch the Pathways to Prosperity in the Americas initiative, based on the Security and Prosperity Partnership model.
September 26, 2008
The Council of Canadians releases the results of an Environics poll finding that 61% of Canadians agree with then U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama that NAFTA should be renegotiated to include enforceable labour and environmental standards. This was up from 52% support for renegotiation in an Angus Reid poll from July.
February 14, 2009
A week before U.S. President Obama’s first visit to Canada, a coalition of major Canadian organizations sends Prime Minister Stephen Harper a letter urging him to signal Canada’s willingness to renegotiate NAFTA. Among the signatories to the letter are Common Frontiers, the Ontario Federation of Labour, the Ontario Secondary School Teachers Federation, the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists (Ontario Chapter), OXFAM Canada, the Council of Canadians, Sierra Club of Canada and the Canadian Federation of Students.
February 25, 2009
CCCE President Tom d’Aquino tells the Commons foreign affairs committee that the SPP is probably dead but that something else will inevitably replace the North American dialogue.Why it will be replaced is because the energy, environment, trade, financial regulation, and agriculture, all these things that we do in the form of millions of cross-border transactions everyday are going to have to be co-ordinated, he says.
March 27-28, 2009
A new public-private Standing Committee on North American Prosperity – or NA 2050 – holds its inaugural meeting at the CentroFox in Leon, Mexico. Former Mexican President Vicente Fox and his wife co-host the summit, which is billed as an attempt to fill a perceived vacuum for a North American vision in the wake of the SPP and NAFTA. The group meets for a second time in Atlanta, Georgia from May 11 to 12.
May 26-27, 2009
Following their first border meetings, Napolitano and Van Loan announce they have signed The Shiprider Agreement, which makes permanent a pilot project in which U.S. Homeland Security and RCMP officers staff vessels jointly to skirt jurisdictional issues. The security ministers also agreed to Develop joint threat and risk assessments to assist the two countries in forming a common understanding of the threats and risks we face, and Expand integrated law enforcement operations along our shared border and waterways to prevent criminals and/or terrorists from using the border to evade enforcement or to inflict harm on our two countries.
June 25, 2009
The Canadian Council of Chief Executives announces that its president, Tom d’Aquino, will step down to be replaced by former Liberal deputy prime minister John Manley. A long-time proponent of the SPP and co-author of Building a North American Community, Manley says that as new CCCE president he will build bridges between the corporate sector and government.
July 29, 2009
The Canadian Biotechnology Action Network (CBAN) breaks the news that Health Canada did not assess the human health safety of SmartStax – a new eight-trait genetically modified corn from Monsanto and Dow AgroSciences – before the product was jointly approved for the market in Canada and the United States. The joint approval is proof that SPP-NAFTA regulatory harmonization activities continue at the expense of proper testing and stringent standards.
August 9-10, 2009
Fifth annual North American leaders’ summit takes place in Guadalajara, Mexico amid suggestions U.S. President Obama has dismantled the formal SPP process, though working groups continue.
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