On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 19:53:03 +1000, "Antimulticulture"
wrote:
>[ed. The real reason for the wide open borders...]
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>Taxpayer dollars support U.S.-Mexico merger plot
>'Continental future' promoted at elite, tax-funded American University center
>http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52467
>By Joseph Farah
>October 17, 2006
>
>The master plan for merging the U.S., Mexico and Canada is
>being devised in American University's Center for North American Studies
>whose faculty is subsidized by the U.S. State Department through the
>Fulbright Program.
Economic integration increases economic growth.
For instance, Ireland was poor before the economic union of Europe,
and now they're pretty rich.
It's not all that bad - economic growth. Don't be afraid of change.
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>For example, joining the center this fall as a visiting chairman in North
>American studies is Canadian Donald Avery, professor emeritus in the history
>department at the University of Western Ontario. He arrives at American
>University through the Fulbright Program, funded through the U.S. State
>Department.
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>The university's Center for North American Studies is headed by Robert A.
>Pastor, the architect of a plan for a North American Union modeled after the
>European Union - complete with its own currency, the Amero, replacing the
>dollar.
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>"The Center for North American Studies (CNAS) at American University aims to
>educate a new generation of students to begin a North American journey
>comparable to that begun in Europe five decades ago," explains the center's
>website. "The center examines the differences and shared characteristics of
>Canada, Mexico and the United States; compares the North American experiment
>with Europe's; and challenges students and faculty to imagine a continental
>future."
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>The program goes so far as to hold annual mock sessions of a North American
>Parliament in which students from the three countries participate.
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>Recently the program also launched Norteamerica Journal to keep up with all
>the activities leading to this new North America consciousness cooked up at
>the center under the direction of Pastor.
>
>In fact, American University's newsletter of the office of international
>affairs boasted about the center's leadership - and Pastor's specifically -
>"in shaping public policy toward North America."
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>"Building on the leadership role it played in the Council on Foreign
>Relations Task Force on the Future of North America, which issued a major
>report in May 2005, CNAS also played an important part in leading to the
>March 2006 Cancun Summit," the newsletter said. "CNAS Director Dr. Robert
>Pastor wrote the cover story for Newsweek International's March 27 issue. In
>April, he testified before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on
>International Relations about North America's second decade. In June,
>Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) introduced a bill to establish a North American
>Investment Fund, an idea developed by CNAS. Dr. Pastor is also a member of
>the North American Forum, a group comprised of 75 leaders from the three
>countries and co-chaired by George Shultz, former U.S. secretary of state;
>Peter Lougheed, former premier of Alberta, Canada; and Pedro Aspe, former
>finance minister of Mexico."
>
>WND contacted Pastor's office yesterday, to be told he was in Nigeria for
>much of this week. An e-mail was sent to his office to be forwarded to him,
>seeking comment.
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>Eric Watnik, the State Department's deputy spokesman for Western Hemisphere
>Affairs, said the "ultimate goal" of the planning is just what the name,
>"Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America," includes: "Security"
>and "Prosperity."
>
>"We're three independent countries. We're doing what's best for the U.S.
>What's best for the U.S. is having a secure and prosperous relationship with
>our neighbors," he said. "I think we're talking about the common agendas
>that we need to discuss in order to live as neighbors."
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>"I don't think giving up sovereignty is on the table," he said.
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>The Council on Foreign Relations first offered up a public blueprint for
>what strikes many Americans as a plan for merger or "integration," as it is
>sometimes called by the advocates of the plan, of the three North American
>neighbors. It came in "Building a North American Future," a May 2005 CFR
>task force report - a task force co-chaired by Pastor.
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>The Cancun Summit referred to by the center was the 2005 meeting between the
>three leaders of North America at which President Bush reaffirmed his
>support for the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America.
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>Many SPP working groups appear to be working toward achieving specific
>objectives as defined by a May 2005 Council on Foreign Relations task force
>report, which presented a blueprint for expanding the SPP agreement into a
>North American union that would merge the U.S., Canada and Mexico into a new
>governmental entity.
>
>Here's what Pastor wrote in that international edition of Newsweek - a
>version of the magazine specifically not distributed in the U.S.: "Five
>years ago, U.S. President George W. Bush visited Mexican President Vicente
>Fox at his home in Guanajuato. The two pledged to consult their Canadian
>counterpart and together build 'a North American economic community whose
>benefits reach the lesser-developed areas of the region and extend to the
>most vulnerable social groups in our countries.' They have, in fact, made no
>progress toward those goals. Since then, the war in Iraq, friction over
>illegal immigration, violence along the U.S.-Mexico border and a lack of
>compliance on trade agreements have resulted in a marked deterioration in
>U.S. relations with its neighbors. According to polls, the percentage of
>Mexicans and Canadians with a favorable view of the United States has fallen
>by nearly half since 2000."
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>Pastor went on to decry the lack of progress toward his dream of a United
>States of North America, calling the SPP a "timid, paper-shuffling exercise
>that measures success by the number of bureaucratic meetings."
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>"What they should do is think far more boldly," he wrote for the
>international audience. "The only way to solve the most pressing problems in
>the region - including immigration, security, and declining
>competitiveness - is to create a true North American Community. No two
>nations are more important to the United States than Canada and Mexico, and
>no investment will bolster security and yield greater economic benefits for
>America than one that narrows the income gap between Mexico and its North
>American partners."
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>Pastor warns that crackdowns on illegal immigration into the U.S. won't help
>stop the flow of Mexicans. He blames the income gap between the two
>countries, a gap, he admits, was worsened by the North American Free Trade
>Agreement, which spawned most of the North American Union plans.
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>Pastor says the model for real progress is Europe.
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>"Valuable lessons can be gleaned from the continent that supplied America's
>original pool of immigrants," he wrote in the Newsweek piece. "When the
>European Union added Greece, Spain and Portugal as member countries in the
>1980s, it channeled massive amounts of aid to these newcomers and Ireland to
>narrow the income gap separating them from more-prosperous nations like
>Germany and France. About half of the $500 billion in aid was spent
>unwisely; the best investments were in roads and communications linking
>these four countries to richer markets. Between 1986 and 2003, the per
>capita GDP of the four nations rose from 65 percent of the average EU member
>country's economic output to 82 percent. Spain spent much of the $120
>million it received on new roads that boosted commerce and tourism. As a
>result, Spanish immigration to other EU countries all but ceased. Ireland
>now ranks as the second richest member of the EU in per capita terms - and
>for the first time in its history, it is actually receiving rather than
>sending immigrants."
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>Pastor believes such a wealth transfer - from north to south - could "double
>Mexico's rate of GDP growth."
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>The funds, he suggests, should be administered by the World Bank.
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>While Pastor's center boasted about the introduction of a bill by Cornyn to
>create a North American Investment Fund, it does not mention that Cornyn
>withdrew all support for the bill after a WND report exposing it as part of
>the North American Union plot.
>
>WND also blew the whistle on the most recent semi-secret meeting of the
>North American Forum in Banff, Canada. Among those participating in the
>meeting were Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Shultz, former Central
>Intelligence Agency Director R. James Woolsey, former Immigration and
>Naturalization Services Director Doris Meissner, Pastor, former Defense
>Secretary William Perry, former Energy Secretary and Defense Secretary James
>Schlesinger and top officials of both Mexico and Canada.
>
>In addition to providing the funding for faculty members at American
>University's Center for North American Studies, the State Department
>Fulbright Program for exchange students between the three countries is also
>promoted on the center's website. Many of those Fulbright scholarship
>winners wind up participating in Pastor's mock North American Parliament
>sessions.
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>The State Department's Fulbright programs dealing with the U.S. and Mexico
>are called COMEXUS and their literature emphasizes working toward "the
>binational agenda."
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>Meanwhile, American University, with the help of federal subsidies of its
>agenda, is calling itself the "Premier Global University."
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>"The Office of International Affairs (OIA) has taken as its mission the job
>of stretching or redefining the boundaries of the universe that defines the
>student's search," writes Pastor in the fall newsletter.
>
>One of the ways he does that, he writes, is through the work of the Center
>for North American Studies, where "we are trying to stretch the minds of our
>students and the wider public to think of themselves not just as Americans,
>Canadians and Mexicans but also as North Americans."
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>The Fulbright programs of the U.S. State Department are named in honor of
>the late Sen. J. William Fulbright, a Democrat from Arkansas serves as the
>powerful chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for 16 years and
>mentored future president Bill Clinton. Fulbright was known as one of
>Israel's harshest critics and also for his vehement opposition to the war in
>Vietnam after Republican Richard Nixon became president. |
