by Jon E. Lewis
Despite this epic dereliction of duty not a single CIA official has been disciplined.
Further Reading
David Ray Griffin, The New Pearl Harbor, 2005
Jim Marrs, Inside Job: Unmasking the Conspiracies of 9/11, 2005
National Commission on Terrorist Attacks, The 9/11 Commission Report, 2004
Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan, The Eleventh Day: The Full Story of 9/11 and Osama Bin Laden, 2011
Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura: Pentagon, 17/12/2010
www.Loosechange911.com
www.911truth.org
NORTH AMERICAN UNION
The notion that there are powerful forces seeking the integration of Canada, the USA and Mexico into a political union on the model of the European Union is one of the most subtly persuasive of conspiracy theories.
The main elements of the North American Union (NAU) conspiracy feature:
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the construction of a twelve-lane super highway, from Yukon to Yucatan, complete with railtrack and fibre optic cables
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cancellation of the peso, and the Canadian and US dollars in favour of a single currency, the amero
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promotion of Spanish over English
“Follow the money” is as good a rule in conspiriology as it is in journalism or police work. A clique of industrialists – who would benefit from a barrier-free market – are said to be behind the NAU. These industrialists have promoted their continental dream through the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), the Security and Prosperity Partnership, the North American SuperCorridor Coalition, the Independent Task Force on North America (a joint post-9/11 venture by the CFR, the Mexican Council on Foreign Relations, and the Canadian Council of Chief Executives) which are all designed to bring about the North American Union.
There demonstrably are industrialists, academics and lobbyists seeking closer economic and political ties between the three nations of North America. The Council on Foreign Relations has produced a report entitled “Building a North American Community”, while the amero received fulsome support in 1999 from Canadian economist Herbert Grubel, senior fellow of the Fraser Institute think tank, in The Case for the Amero, and in 2001 from Robert Pastor, vice-chairman of the Independent Task Force on North America, in Toward a North American Community. Making no bones about it, Pastor stated: “In the long term, the amero is in the best interests of all three countries.”
Doubtless, some of the lobbying and organizing for the NAU is done behind doors. Less obvious, is whether there is one cabal of string-pullers behind the NAU, rather than a loose, amorphous movement of like-minded people. Or whether the NAU project seriously proposes a political union. According to www.stopthenorthamericanunion.com:
The formation of the European Union (EU) is the “blueprint” being used to construct the North American Union (NAU). In multiple acts of treason, our government is illegally creating the NAU by using secret meetings and deceptive double-speak to hide their “INCREMENTAL STEALTH”. They are making MASSIVE changes to our bureaucratic-administrative-regulatory laws by calling them “HARMONIZATIONS”. What they are doing is rewriting our legal regulatory law to the benefit of, by, and for the corporate elite, which is … classic fascism.
On the other hand, the CFR’s “Building a North American Community” monograph actually rules out any sort of EU lash-up:
North America is different from other regions of the world and must find its own cooperative route forward. A new North American community should rely more on the market and less on bureaucracy, more on pragmatic solutions to shared problems than on grand schemes of confederation or union, such as those in Europe. We must maintain respect for each other’s national sovereignty.
Of course, those clever policy wonks in the CFR could be dealing a double bluff. Pretending not to want something but organizing for it behind doors anyway …
Further Reading
Jerome Corsi, The Late Great USA: The Coming Merger with Mexico and Canada, 2007
Herbert Grubel, The Case for the Amero, 1991
www.stopthenorthamericanunion.com
DOCUMENT: COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS, PRESS RELEASE “TASK FORCE URGES MEASURES TO STRENGTHEN NORTH AMERICAN COMPETITIVENESS, EXPAND TRADE, ENSURE BORDER SECURITY”.
May 17, 2005 – North America is vulnerable on several fronts: the region faces terrorist and criminal security threats, increased economic competition from abroad, and uneven economic development at home. In response to these challenges, a trinational, Independent Task Force on the Future of North America has developed a roadmap to promote North American security and advance the well-being of citizens of all three countries.
When the leaders of Canada, Mexico, and the United States met in Texas recently they underscored the deep ties and shared principles of the three countries. The Council-sponsored Task Force applauds the announced “Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America,” but proposes a more ambitious vision of a new community by 2010 and specific recommendations on how to achieve it.
Pointing to increased competition from the European Union and rising economic powers such as India and China in the eleven years since NAFTA took effect, co-chair Pedro C. Aspe, former Finance Minister of Mexico, said, “We need a vision for North America to address the new challenges.” The Task Force establishes a blueprint for a powerhouse North American trading area that allows for the seamless movement of goods, increased labor mobility, and energy security.
“We are asking the leaders of the United States, Mexico, and Canada to be bold and adopt a vision of the future that is bigger than, and beyond, the immediate problems of the present,” said co-chair John P. Manley, Former Canadian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance. “They could be the architects of a new community of North America, not mere custodians of the status quo.”
At a time of political transition in Canada and Mexico, the Task Force proposes new ideas to cope with continental challenges that should be the focus of debate in those two countries as well as the United States. To ensure a free, secure, just, and prosperous North America, the Task Force proposes a number of specific measures:
Make North America safer:
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Establish a common security perimeter by 2010.
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Develop a North American Border Pass with biometric identifiers.
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Develop a unified border action plan and expand border customs facilities.
Create a single economic space:
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Adopt a common external tariff.
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Allow for the seamless movement of goods within North America.
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Move to full labor mobility between Canada and the U.S.
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Develop a North American energy strategy that gives greater emphasis to reducing emissions of greenhouse gases – a regional alternative to Kyoto.
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Review those sectors of NAFTA that were excluded.
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Develop and implement a North American regulatory plan that would include “open skies and open roads” and a unified approach for protecting consumers on food, health, and the environment.
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Expand temporary worker programs and create a “North American preference” for immigration for citizens of North America.
Spread benefits more evenly:
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Establish a North American Investment Fund to build infrastructure to connect Mexico’s poorer regions in the south to the market towards the north.
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Restructure and reform Mexico’s public finances.
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Fully develop Mexican energy resources to make greater use of international technology and capital.
Institutionalize the partnership:
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Establish a permanent tribunal for trade and investment dispute
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Convene an annual North American summit meeting.
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Establish a Tri-national Competition Commission to develop a common approach to trade remedies.
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Expand scholarships to study in the three countries and develop a network of Centers for North American Studies.
Co-chair William F. Weld, former Governor of Massachusetts and U.S. Assistant Attorney General, said, “We are three liberal democracies; we are adjacent; we are already intertwined economically; we have a great deal in common historically; culturally, we have a lot to learn from one another.”
Organized in association with the Consejo Mexicano de Asuntos Internacionales and the Canadian Council of Chief Executives, the Task Force includes prominent former officials, businessmen, and academic experts from all three countries. A Chairmen’s Statement was released in March in advance of the trinational summit; the full report represents the consensus of the entire Task Force membership and leadership.
Chief Executive of the Canadian Council of Chief Executives Thomas d’Aquino, President of the Consejo Mexicano de Asuntos Internacionales Andrés Rozental, and Director of the Center for North American Studies at American University Robert A. Pastor serve as vice chairs. Chappell H. Lawson, Associate Professor of political science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is director.
Building a North American Community: Report of the Independent Task Force on the Future of North America is available on the Council website.
Founded in 1921, the Council on Foreign Relations is an independent, national membership organization and a nonpartisan center for scholars dedicated to producing and disseminating ideas so that individual and corporate members, as well as policymakers, journalists, students, and interested citizens in the United States and other countries, can better understand the world and the foreign policy choices facing the United States and other governments.
The Mexican Council on Foreign Relations (COMEXI) is the only multi-disciplinary organization committed to fostering sophisticated, broadly inclusive political discourse and analysis on the nature of Mexico’s participation in the international arena and the relative influence of Mexico’s increasingly global orientation on domestic priorities. The Council is an independent, non-profit, pluralistic forum, with no government or institutional ties that is financed exclusively by membership dues and corporate support. The main objectives of COMEXI are to provide information and analysis of interest to our associates, as well as to create a solid institutional framework for the exchange of ideas concerning pressing world issues that affect our country.
Founded in 1976, the Canadian Council of Chief Executives is Canada’s premier business association, with an outstanding record of achievement in matching entrepreneurial initiative with sound public policy choices. A not-for-profit, non-partisan organization composed of the chief executives of 150 leading Canadian enterprises, the CCCE was the Canadian private sector leader in the development and promotion of the Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement during the 1980s and of the subsequent trilateral North American Free Trade Agreement.
Members of the Independent Task Force on North America
Minister Pedro Aspe
(Mexican co-chair)
Protego
Mr. Thomas S. Axworthy
Queen’s University
Ms. Heidi S. Cruz
Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc.
Mr. Nelson W. Cunningham
Kissinger McLarty Associates
Mr. Thomas P. d’Aquino
(Canadian co-vice chair)
Canadian Council of Chief Executives
Mr. Alfonso de Angoitia
Grupo Televisa, S.A.
Dr. Luis de La Calle Pardo
De la Calle, Madrazo, Mancera, S.C.
Professor Wendy K. Dobson
University of Toronto
Dr. Robert A. Pastor (U.S. co-vice chair)
American University
Mr. Andrés Rozental
(Mexican co-vice chair)
Consejo Mexicano de Asuntos Internacionales
Dr. Richard A. Falkenrath
The Brookings Institution
Dr. Rafael Fernandez de Castro
Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México
Mr. Ramón Alberto Garza
Montemedia
The Honorable Gordon D. Giffin
McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP
Mr. Allan Gotlieb
Donner Canadian Foundation
Mr. Michael Hart
Norman Paterson School of International Affairs
Mr. Carlos Heredia
Consejo Mexicano de Asuntos Internacionales
The Honorable Carla A. Hills
Hills & Company
Dr. Gary C. Hufbauer
Institute for International Economics
Dr. Luis Rubio
CIDAC
Dr. Jeffrey J. Schott
Institute for International Economics
Mr. Pierre Marc Johnson
Heenan Blaikie
The Honorable James R. Jones
Manatt Jones Global Strategies
Dr. Chappell H. Lawson (Task Force Director)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Honourable John P. Manley (Canadian co-chair)
McCarthy Tetrault
Mr. David McD. Mann
Cox Hanson O’Reilly Matheson
Ms. Doris M. Meissner
Migration Policy Institute
The Honorable Thomas M.T. Niles
Institute for International Economics
The Honorable William F. Weld (U.S. co-chair)
Leeds Weld & Co.
Mr. Raul H. Yzaguirre
Arizona State University
NOSTRADAMUS
Michael de Nostradame was born in Saint-Rémy, France, in 1503, to a prosperous grain trader. The family had originally been Jewish but had converted to Christianity, which may explain Nostradame’s lifelong interest in Kabbala, the mystical branch of Judaism and inspiration for the Bible Code. After an early grounding in Latin, Greek, Hebrew, maths, science and astrology, Nostradame left home in 1522 to study medicine at Montpellier. For nearly two decades he practised as an apothecary, reputedly formulating a pill that warded off the plague, but in the late 1540s moved to Salon-de-Provenance where he began writing prophecies, usually late at night through meditation, with help from astrology, hallucinogens, and an “angelic spirit”. The prophecies, later collected in a work known as “The Centuries”, were deliberately couched in a cryptic style to prevent the religious authorities from understanding them. He maintained that people in a more enlightened, rational future age would interpret their true meaning.
Could the seer Nostradamus see into the future? His followers insist that Nostradamus foretold Napoleon and Hitler, both of which he labelled the anti-Christ. An anagram “Pau, Nay, Loron” almost spells Napoleon, who was indeed “an Emperor … born near Italy. Who shall cost the Empire dear.” Century 2 Quatrain 24, meanwhile, predicted that:
Beasts ferocious with hunger will cross the rivers
The greater part of the battlefield will be against Hister
Into a cage of iron will the great one be drawn,
When the child of Germany observes nothing.
Give or take a consonant, Nostradamus has Hitler to a T.
Actually, Nostradamus prophesied that three anti-Christs would beguile the world. Post-9/11 speculation that the French seer had predicted the destruction of the World Trade Center and identified Osama bin Laden as Lucifer number trois was rife. After all, in Century 5 Quatrain 55 Nostradamus wrote:
Out of the country of Greater Arabia
Shall be born a strong master of Mohammed …