Mexico's Fox openly calls for North American Union
Mexico's former President Vicente Fox is making no secret of his desire to promote a "North American Union" to compete economically with Europe and the Far East…Fox shocked many in the U.S. earlier in the week when he told CNN's Larry King that he and President Bush had agreed to work toward a common currency not only for North America but for Latin America as well…Fox explained that he and Bush intended to proceed incrementally, establishing FTAA [Free Trade Agreement of the Americas] as an economic agreement first and waiting to create an amero-type currency later – a plan he also suggested was in place for NAFTA itself…Recently, WND reported BankIntroductions.com, a Canadian company that specializes in global banking strategies and currency consulting, is advising clients the amero may be the currency of North America within 10 years…
From WorldNetDaily (dated October 12, 2007)
Posted to Current World News & Trends October 18, 2007 (US/LA/BR)
Death Toll in Peru Surpasses 500
The death toll rose to 510 on Thursday in the magnitude-8 earthquake that devastated cities of adobe and brick in Peru's southern desert. Survivors wearing blankets walked like ghosts through the ruins…
Associated Press story at RedOrbit (dated August 17, 2007)
Posted to Current World News & Trends October 18, 2007 (LA/ND)
Mexico is here
"Mexico does not end at its borders. ... Where there is a Mexican, there is Mexico." That astonishing claim by Mexican President Felipe Calderon, in his state of the nation address at the National Palace Sunday, brought his audience wildly cheering to its feet. Were the United States a serious nation, Calderon's claim that Mexico extends into the United States would have produced an instant demand from the U.S. ambassador for clarification. Failing to receive it, he would have packed his bags, and the United States would be on the verge of severing diplomatic relations. In an earlier time, U.S. troops would be rolling to the border. For this is not the first time an arrogant Mexican ruler has made a claim to extra-territorial rights inside the United States and, indeed, to U.S. territory. Mexico's presidents have gotten into a habit of suborning treason against the United States…
From columnist Patrick Buchanan at WorldNetDaily (dated September 6, 2007)
Posted to Current World News & Trends October 18, 2007 (US/LA)
Chavez Calls for Leftist Defense Bloc in Latin America
President Hugo Chavez called for the creation of a common defense pact between Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua and Bolivia, while the leftist Latin American bloc announced the creation of a development bank to finance joint projects. Chavez said Wednesday that the four-nation Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas, or ALBA, which began as a socialist-leaning trade group, should cooperate militarily to become more independent of U.S. influence…
Associated Press story at Fox News (dated June 7, 2007)
Posted to Current World News & Trends June 8, 2007 (LA/WT)
Three Arrested, 1 Sought In Terror Plot On New York City's JFK Airport
Federal authorities announced Saturday they had broken up a suspected Muslim terrorist cell planning a "chilling" attack to destroy John F. Kennedy International Airport, kill thousands of people and trigger an economic catastrophe by blowing up a jet fuel artery that runs through populous residential neighborhoods. Three men, one of them a former member of Guyana's parliament, were arrested and one was being sought in Trinidad as part of a plot that authorities said they had been tracked for more than a year and was foiled in the planning stages. "The devastation that would be caused had this plot succeeded is just unthinkable," U.S. Attorney Roslynn R. Mauskopf said at a news conference, calling it "one of the most chilling plots imaginable"…
From Fox News (dated June 2, 2007)
Posted to Current World News & Trends June 8, 2007 (US/LA/RE/WT)
North American union plan headed to Congress in fall
A powerful think tank chaired by former Sen. Sam Nunn and guided by trustees including Richard Armitage, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Harold Brown, William Cohen and Henry Kissinger, is in the final stages of preparing a report to the White House and U.S. Congress on the benefits of integrating the U.S., Mexico and Canada into one political, economic and security bloc. The final report, published in English, Spanish and French, is scheduled for submission to all three governments by Sept. 30, according to the Center for Strategic & International Studies. CSIS boasts of playing a large role in the passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement in 1994 – a treaty that set in motion a political movement many believe resembles the early stages of the European Community on its way to becoming the European Union…
From WorldNetDaily (dated May 24, 2007)
Posted to Current World News & Trends June 8, 2007 (US/LA)
America's Insidious Descent Towards the Third World
America's future can be seen in the formerly tidy and wholesome town of Lexington, Nebraska, situated as it is in the prime of the Heartland. Over the years, it metamorphosed to a horrendous degree…In 1986, New Holland [tractor factory] outsourced, and the plant was subsequently sold and converted to a meat packing facility, whereupon the local workers were systematically supplanted by a massive importation of illegals. Initial changes to the character of the town were subtle…As the influx increased however, the degree to which the former charm of Lexington was eventually eradicated was astounding. Its fate should send shudders through the spine of any throughout the rest of the nation, who hope for a country to bequeath to their children. Much of the town now reflects the squalor not previously seen this side of the Mexican border…It is all but impossible for American youths to gain employment at the local fast food franchises, since virtually all business behind the counters is conducted in Spanish, making it difficult to avoid the disturbing notion that businesses might eventually post signs saying: "Americanos need not apply." The town has inarguably become Balkanized. Yet Lexington is hardly an isolated example. Nor is it among the most severe that has ravaged traditional America. Rather, it is striking only in that it so starkly represents the plight of much of America's southern border, while being vastly separated from that region. If this can happen in Nebraska, no part of the country remains immune to the ravages of such an incursion. A similar disaster looms over America's food supply, and may be much more far reaching since it is not confined to any geographical location…
From Christopher Adamo at Cybercast News Service (dated June 7, 2007)
Posted to Current World News & Trends June 8, 2007 (US/LA/MO)
Alleged plot: A potential threat seen in America's backyard
Officials think members of an extremist network in the Caribbean were part of the alleged plot… "That is what is most significant about this case. It demonstrates the evolving nature of the threat and how we need to be looking at areas of the world that have not been viewed by the general public as a terror threat," the official said. "It shows that the threat can come from anywhere. It is not just limited to the Middle East or South Asia"…
From the Los Angeles Times (dated June 3, 2007)
Posted to Current World News & Trends June 8, 2007 (US/LA/RE/WT)
Fort Dix Fix: Immigration policy in wartime
Mercifully, today we are not commemorating 100 soldiers killed at Fort Dix this month by a group of immigrant jihadis…Unfortunately, the Senate’s grotesque immigration bill ignores the lessons about the intersection of immigration and terrorism that we should have learned from the Fort Dix plotters and from dozens and dozens of their predecessors. That lesson is that normal, sustained immigration enforcement, conducted across the board and without apology, is an indispensable tool in preventing and disrupting terrorist plots against our people…The Senate bill…actually undermines security by ensuring, in Section 136(d), that “Nothing in this section may be construed to provide additional authority to any State or local entity to enforce Federal immigration laws.” This is especially pertinent regarding the Fort Dix plot. The three Duka brothers — illegal aliens all — were stopped by police on various New Jersey jurisdictions 75 times without any inquiry into their lack of immigration status…
From Center for Immigration Studies executive director Mark Krikorian at National Review Online (dated May 28, 2007)
Posted to Current World News & Trends June 8, 2007 (US/LA/WT)
Towards a White Minority
It is quite possible that Americans alive today will live to see the nation become majority Hispanic. Did anyone ever think this would happen, prior to a few short years ago?... If there is any large general historical lesson to be taken from all this, it is that a population as prosperous, secure, well-employed, and well-entertained as the white Anglos of late 20th-century America, and as confident of its own cultural superiority, cannot be made to care much about matters of ethnic identity, and may altogether lose the habit of thinking in such terms. Whether this ethnic insouciance [i.e. nonchalance] will survive the coming great demographic changes, I don’t know. Things have gone so far now that there is very little we can do but wait and see…
From National Review columnist John Derbyshire (dated May 25, 2007)
Posted to Current World News & Trends June 8, 2007 (US/LA/MO)
Bush OKs 'integration' with European Union: Congress never asked about new obligation
President Bush signed an agreement creating a "permanent body" that commits the U.S. to "deeper transatlantic economic integration," without ratification by the Senate as a treaty or passage by Congress as a law. The "Transatlantic Economic Integration" between the U.S. and the European Union was signed April 30 at the White House by Bush, German Chancellor Angela Merkel – the current president of the European Council – and European Commission President José Manuel Barroso. The document acknowledges "the transatlantic economy remains at the forefront of globalization," arguing that the U.S. and the European Union "seek to strengthen transatlantic economic integration." The agreement established a new Transatlantic Economic Council to be chaired on the U.S. side by a cabinet-level officer in the White House and on the EU side by a member of the European Commission…As WND has reported, Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez repeatedly has pushed for North American integration, much as the April 30 agreement proposes closer U.S.-EU integration. Mexico's ambassador to the U.N., Enrique Berruga, has called for a North American Union to be created in the next eight years…
From WorldNetDaily (dated May 8, 2007)
Posted to Current World News & Trends May 9, 2007 (US/EU/LA)
Commerce chief pushes for 'North American integration'
While the Bush administration insists the controversial Security and Prosperity Partnership is just a dialogue with Canada and Mexico, a State Department cable released to WND shows Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez pressing to implement major trilateral initiatives to help "capture the vision of North American integration." The cable was among some 150 pages of State Department SPP documents recently released to WND under a Freedom of Information Act request. Howard Phillips, who has formed a coalition to block development of a "North American Union" and formation of NAFTA superhighways, told WND the document "makes clear that the agenda of SPP is to pursue major economic integration that redefines U.S. businesses into a 'North American' definition"…
From author Jerome Corsi at WorldNetDaily (dated March 24, 2007)
Posted to Current World News & Trends April 2, 2007 (US/LA/BR)
EU-style union coming to a continent near you
A memo signed by Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff implements a controversial program condemned by critics as a precursor to a European Union-style partnership with Mexico and Canada. The document shows the Security and Prosperity Partnership, or SPP, is being directed at the highest level of the Bush administration, says the public interest group Judicial Watch, which obtained it and other documents through a Freedom of Information Act request…
From WorldNetDaily (dated March 21, 2007)
Posted to Current World News & Trends April 2, 2007 (US/LA/BR)
Watchdog Worried About U.S. Meetings With Canada, Mexico
A government watchdog is calling for more transparency in talks between U.S., Canadian and Mexican officials who are discussing a "vision of North America" that some critics worry are the first step toward a North American Union. Judicial Watch this week released documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request that include U.S. officials' notes from the North American Forum, a September 2006 meeting with Canadian and Mexican officials that explored ways to create "genuine partnerships." That meeting followed the March 2005 creation of the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP), which the U.S. government calls a "trilateral effort to increase security and enhance prosperity among the United States, Canada and Mexico through greater cooperation and information sharing." Several points of discussion at the September meeting worried Judicial Watch, most notably a note in one set of documents referring to "evolution by stealth." The discussions also touched on integration of energy supply, easing immigration among the three countries and closing the "income gap" between Mexico and the U.S. and Canada. "I don't know that there's an appreciation or an understanding that this is what the American government is busy spending its time doing," Chris Farrell, Judicial Watch's director of research and investigation, told Cybercast News Service. "I think it's curious ... when they advocate in their own documents that a position of stealth should be adopted in trying to integrate the three countries," Farrell said. "That's rather extraordinary"…
From Cybercast News Service (dated February 2, 2007)
Posted to Current World News & Trends February 5, 2007 (US/LA/MO)
North American Union leader says merger just crisis away
Robert Pastor, a leading intellectual force in the move to create an EU-style North American Community, told WND he believes a new 9/11 crisis could be the catalyst to merge the U.S., Mexico and Canada. Pastor, a professor at American University, says that in such a case the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America, or SPP – launched in 2005 by the heads of the three countries at a summit in Waco, Texas – could be developed into a continental union, complete with a new currency, the amero, that would replace the U.S. dollar just as the euro has replaced the national currencies of Europe. In May 2005, Pastor was co-chairman the Council on Foreign Relations task force that produced a report entitled "Toward a North American Community," which he has claimed is the blueprint behind the SSP declared by President Bush, Mexico's then-President Vicente Fox, and Canada's then-Prime Minister Paul Martin…
From author Jerome Corsi at WorldNetDaily (dated December 15, 2006)
Posted to Current World News & Trends January 10, 2007 (US/LA)
Venezuela’s Chavez rolls to re-election
Emboldened by a resounding re-election, President Hugo Chavez pledged to shake up Venezuela with a more radical version of socialism and forge a wider front against the United States in Latin America…
Associated Press story at MSNBC (dated December 4, 2006)
Posted to Current World News & Trends December 12, 2006 (LA)
Mexico ambassador: We need N. American Union in 8 years: U.S. 'investment,' EU-style merger key to better relations, says diplomat
There have been conferences, academic papers, mock student parliaments and secret meetings on a confederation of the U.S., Canada and Mexico into future North American Union, but, until now, few officials of any of the three countries have publicly called for the creation of a European Union-style merger. In a panel discussion on U.S.-Mexico relations last Tuesday at the University of Texas at San Antonio, Enrique Berruga, Mexico's ambassador to the United Nations, came right out and said a North American Union is needed – and even provided a deadline. Berruga said the merger must be complete in the next eight years before the U.S. baby boomer retirement wave hits full force…
From WorldNetDaily (dated November 5, 2006)
Posted to Current World News & Trends November 17, 2006 (US/LA)
Resolution seeks to head off union with Mexico, Canada
A coalition spearheaded by Conservative Caucus Chairman Howard Phillips, author Jerome Corsi and activist Phyllis Schlafly is launching an effort…in support of a proposed congressional resolution that denounces any effort by the U.S. to enter into a North American Union with Mexico and Canada. The resolution – sponsored by Republican Reps. Virgil Goode Jr. of Virginia, Tom Tancredo of Colorado, Walter Jones of North Carolina, and Ron Paul of Texas – expresses "the sense of Congress that the United States should not engage in the construction of a North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) Superhighway System or enter into a North American Union (NAU) with Mexico and Canada"…[The day before] Corsi announced the Internet release of about 1,000 documents obtained in a Freedom of Information Act request to the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America. He says the documents show the White House is engaging in collaborative relations with Mexico and Canada outside the U.S. Constitution…
From WorldNetDaily (dated October 25, 2006)
Posted to Current World News & Trends November 8, 2006 (US/LA)
North American merger topic of secret confab
Meeting on integration of U.S., Mexico, Canada brings together top officials…
From WorldNetDaily (dated September 21, 2006)
Posted to Current World News & Trends September 22, 2006 (US/LA)
Hugo Chavez Calls Bush 'Devil' at U.N. [and Bush’s prior remarks]
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez took his verbal battle with the United States to the floor of the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday, calling President Bush "the devil." The impassioned speech by the leftist leader came a day after Bush and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad sparred over Tehran's disputed nuclear program but managed to avoid a personal encounter…Bush tried to advance his campaign for democracy in the Middle East during his address to the General Assembly on Tuesday, saying extremists were trying to justify their violence by falsely claiming the U.S. is waging war on Islam. He singled out Iran and Syria as sponsors of terrorism. Bush also pointed to Tehran's rejection of a Security Council demand to stop enriching uranium by Aug. 31 or face the possibility of sanctions. But he addressed his remarks to the Iranian people in a clear insult to the government. "The greatest obstacle to this future is that your rulers have chosen to deny you liberty and to use your nation's resources to fund terrorism and fuel extremism and pursue nuclear weapons," the U.S. leader said. "Iran must abandon its nuclear weapons ambitions," he said. "Despite what the regime tells you, we have no objection to Iran's pursuit of a truly peaceful nuclear power program." He said he hoped to see "the day when you can live in freedom, and America and Iran can be good friends and close partners in the cause of peace." Ahmadinejad took the podium hours later, denouncing U.S. policies in Iraq and Lebanon and accusing Washington of abusing its power in the Security Council to punish others while protecting its own interests and allies…
From NewsMax (dated September 20, 2006)
Posted to Current World News & Trends September 22, 2006 (US/LA/ME)
'It smells of sulfur still today'
Text of Chavez speech at U.N. where Venezuelan dictator calls Bush 'the devil'…
From WorldNetDaily (dated September 20, 2006)
Posted to Current World News & Trends September 22, 2006 (US/LA)
Anti-U.S. allies back Iran nukes
Developing countries yesterday wrapped up a multinational summit with North Korea charging that U.S. threats drove it to acquire deterrent atomic weapons and Iran winning solid support for its nuclear ambitions. Iran, Venezuela and Cuba joined North Korea in leading efforts to forge an anti-U.S. alliance. Summit leaders, in a statement on Iran, "reaffirmed the basic and inalienable right of all states to develop research, production and use of atomic energy for peaceful purposes"…
From The Washington Times (dated September 17, 2006)
Posted to Current World News & Trends September 22, 2006 (US/AP/ME/LA/WT)
Hugo’s Big Lies
Just a few days before his rant at the United Nations yesterday, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez gave a speech in Caracas playing up the most obscene 9/11 conspiracy theory - that the attacks were planned by the Bush administration as a pretext for war…Chavez has said the United States is "afraid of truth, is afraid of independent voices," yet Chavez has suffocated all dissent in his own backyard. Beyond rewriting the Constitution to bolster his legal power, he's passed a law banning "the use of language deemed to be insulting to the President of the Republic." Indeed, any expression of dissent, public or in private, against any public official is punishable with prison…
From Human Rights Foundation president Thor Halvorssen in the New York Post (dated September 21, 2006)
Posted to Current World News & Trends September 22, 2006 (LA)
North America confab 'undermines' democracy
Attendee of high-level meeting says officials wanted to hide it from public…
From author Jerome Corsi at WorldNetDaily (dated September 21, 2006)
Posted to Current World News & Trends September 22, 2006 (US/LA)
Mexico’s manifest destiny
Were it not for a misguided immigration policy, Mexico could be more than twice as large as it is now and would include many American states. Hence, Mexican history includes a stern warning on the consequences of uncontrolled immigration. America should heed that warning… The English-speaking majority changed Tejas into Texas. In the same fashion, American colonists moved into other parts of Mexico. The doctrine of Manifest Destiny and American settlers provided Washington with the justification it needed to take the Southwest and California away from Mexico in 1848. The Manifest Destiny of America was to expand at the expense of Mexico. One and a half centuries later, Mexico is attempting to define a manifest destiny of its own. It is no coincidence that today the flow of immigration is reversed and, with it, the socio-political consequences…
From Joseph Beaudoin in Insight magazine (dated September 19-25, 2006)
Posted to Current World News & Trends September 22, 2006 (US/LA)
Critic: Americans in danger of 'slavery': Multiple superhighway plans, illegal immigration could destroy Republic
Multiple NAFTA-related superhighways could slice the United States into economic and social regions, facilitate crime including drug trafficking and illegal immigration and shift huge amounts of money to the rich, critics of the paving plans have told WorldNetDaily. One leader even likens the prospects to "slavery" for the American people, because of the loss of control they would experience…
From WorldNetDaily (dated August 31, 2006)
Posted to Current World News & Trends September 6, 2006 (US/LA)
Syria, Venezuela against 'imperialism'
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez received a hero's welcome in Syria, where he said Wednesday that the two countries will "build a new world" free of U.S. domination and vowed to one day "dig the grave of U.S. imperialism"…His visit was the latest in a series of international stops where he has trumpeted his opposition to Washington's global influence and advanced what he calls a "multi-polar" vision of world affairs. His trips also coincide with Venezuela's push to win a rotating seat on the U.N. Security Council, over U.S. opposition…
Associated Press story in the San Francisco Chronicle (dated August 30, 2006)
Posted to Current World News & Trends September 6, 2006 (ME/LA/WT)
The very real NAFTA superhighway
There seems to be a concerted effort under way – from Washington to Salina, Kan. – to deny the very well-documented plans of the Bush administration and members of Congress to build a "NAFTA superhighway" from Mexico, through the U.S. heartland, into Canada… Let me take this opportunity to direct the man who oversees intelligence matters for the U.S. Senate to a speech by Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta of April 30, 2004, in Fort Worth, Texas, before North America's Superhighway Coalition. Read these words carefully and tell me if you think the "NAFTA superhighway" is a pipedream of those wearing tinfoil hats…
From WorldNetDaily editor and CEO Joseph Farah (dated August 29, 2006)
Posted to Current World News & Trends September 6, 2006 (US/LA)
The NAFTA superhighway: Coming soon
This is a "mind-boggling concept," exploded Lou Dobbs. It must cause Americans to think our political and academic elites have "gone utterly mad." What had detonated the mild-mannered CNN anchor? Robert Pastor, vice chair of the Council on Foreign Relations Task Force on North America, had just appeared before a panel of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations to call for erasing all U.S. borders and a merger of the United States, Mexico and Canada in a North American union stretching from Prudhoe Bay to Guatemala. Under the Pastor-CFR plan, the illegal alien invasion would be solved by eliminating America's borders and legalizing the invasion…Speaking in Madrid in 2002, Mexican President Vicente Fox declared: "Our long-range objective is to establish with the United States ... an ensemble of connections and institutions similar to those created by the European Union, with the goal of attending to future themes as important as ... the freedom of movement of capital, goods, services and persons. The new framework we wish to construct is inspired in the example of the European Union"…The American people never supported NAFTA, and they are angry over Bush's failure to secure the border – but a shotgun marriage between our two nations appears prearranged. Central feature: a ten-lane, 400-yard-wide NAFTA superhighway from the Mexican port of Lazaro Cardenas, up to and across the U.S. border, all the way to Canada. Within the median strip dividing the north and south car and truck lanes would be rail lines for both passengers and freight traffic, and oil and gas pipelines. As author Jerome Corsi describes this Fox-Bush autobahn, container ships from China would unload at Lazaro Cardenas…From there, trucks with Mexican drivers would run fast lines into the United States, hauling their cargo to a U.S. customs inspection terminal – in Kansas City, Mo. From there, the trucks would fan out across America or roll on into Canada. Similar superhighways from Mexico through the United States into Canada are planned. According to Corsi, construction of the Trans-Texas Corridor, the first leg of the NAFTA superhighway, is to begin next year…
From columnist Pat Buchanan at WorldNetDaily (dated August 29, 2006)
Posted to Current World News & Trends September 6, 2006 (US/LA)
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