Security and Prosperity Partnership Of North America
http://www.spp.gov/

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The Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP) was launched in March of 2005 as a trilateral effort to increase security and enhance prosperity among the United States, Canada and Mexico through greater cooperation and information sharing.

This trilateral initiative is premised on our security and our economic prosperity being mutually reinforcing. The SPP recognizes that our three great nations are bound by a shared belief in freedom, economic opportunity, and strong democratic institutions.

The SPP provides the framework to ensure that North America is the safest and best place to live and do business. It includes ambitious security and prosperity programs to keep our borders closed to terrorism yet open to trade.

The SPP builds upon, but is separate from, our long-standing trade and economic relationships. It energizes other aspects of our cooperative relations, such as the protection of our environment, our food supply, and our public health.

Looking forward, President Bush, Prime Minister Harper and President Fox have identified emergency management; influenza pandemics, including avian influenza; energy security; and safe and secure gateways (border security and facilitation) as key priorities for the SPP. The Leaders also announced the creation of North American Competitiveness Council to fully incorporate the private sector into the SPP process.

Council on Foreign Relations
Building a North American Community
http://www.cfr.org/publication/8102/

Sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations in association with the Canadian Council of Chief Executives and the Consejo Mexicano de Asuntos Internacionales.

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.

Yes the President of the CFR is a Jew as was his predecessor
http://www.jewishtribalreview.org/coopt.htm

Richard N. Haass
President

Contact Info:
Phone: +1-212-434-9543; for all media requests, contact Lisa Shields at +1-212-434-9888 or lshields@cfr.org
E-mail: president@cfr.org

Expertise:

U.S. foreign policy; international security; globalization; Asia; Middle East

Experience:

Richard Haass is president of the Council on Foreign Relations, a position he has held since July 2003. The Council, based in New York with an office in Washington, DC, 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.

Haass is the author or editor of ten books on American foreign policy. His most recent book, The Opportunity, was published by PublicAffairs Books. He is also the author of one book on management, The Bureaucratic Entrepreneur: How to Be Effective in Any Unruly Organization (Brookings Institution Press, 1999).

Until June 2003, Richard Haass was director of policy planning for the U.S. Department of State, where he was a principal adviser to Secretary of State Colin Powell on a broad range of foreign policy concerns.

Confirmed by the U.S. Senate to hold the rank of ambassador, Haass served as U.S. coordinator for policy toward the future of Afghanistan and was the lead U.S. government official in support of the Northern Ireland peace process. For his efforts, he received the State Department’s Distinguished Honor Award.

Ambassador Haass has extensive additional government experience. From 1989 to 1993, he was special assistant to President George Bush and senior director for Near East and South Asian affairs on the staff of the National Security Council. In 1991,

Haass was awarded the Presidential Citizens Medal for his contributions to the development and articulation of U.S. policy during Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm. Previously, he served in various posts in the Departments of State (1981-85) and Defense (1979-80) and was a legislative aide in the U.S. Senate.

Haass also has been vice president and director of foreign policy studies at the Brookings Institution, the Sol M. Linowitz visiting professor of international studies at Hamilton College, a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace,

a lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, and a research associate at the International Institute for Strategic Studies. A Rhodes Scholar, Haass holds a bachelor’s from Oberlin College and both a Master and Doctor of Philosophy degrees from Oxford University.

Richard Haass was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1951. He lives in Jew York City with his wife and two children.

I wonder if they'll admit walk-ins??
Invitations??? WE DON'T NEED NO STINKING INVITATIONS!!
http://www.kcmo.org/International.nsf/web/naw

The North America Works Conference will focus on key issues that affect North American competitiveness and entrepreneurial development.

Building North American Competitiveness: This topic will involve more than 150 transportation, logistics and economic development specialists from across Mexico, the United States and Canada when they meet in Kansas City. Working together, the North American countries will be positioned to address the dramatic changes that are occurring in the global economy.

The event is co-presented by the City of Kansas City, Mo., International Affairs and Trade Office and the Council of the Americas/Business Committee.

The topic is an extension of the 2005 North America Works Conference held for the first time in Kansas City. Now, joining with the Council of the Americas/North American Business Committee, this forum entitled North America Works II will draw senior business managers and government officials intent on taking a leadership role in public policy and helping to shape North American economic relations.

You are invited to crash this party today
be an integral part of this ground-breaking initiative.

Under a new, exciting format, North America Works II will include roundtable discussions and group dialogue around such topics as:

The impact of transportation infrastructure on North American competitiveness and the creation of a North American transportation strategy

The Security and Prosperity Partnership and the North American Competitiveness Initiative

The role of urban regions in North American competitiveness
Building informed and active constituencies for North American integration in government, the media and the academic community

Registration fee: $175
The fee includes two working breakfasts, a working lunch, an opening night dinner, North America Night closing reception, “exclusive” Hunt Midwest SubTroplis tour and transportation to and from dinner, reception and tour.

Register online now.

Cancellation policy
Conference registrations canceled in writing on or before Nov. 20, 2006 are entitled to a refund, less $50 processing fee. Registrations canceled after Nov. 21, 2006 are non-refundable.

Accommodations
Kansas City Marriott Downtown
Code: OOIOOIA
200 W. 12th St.
Kansas City, MO 64105
Telephone: (800) 228-9290 or (816) 421-6800

Hotel reservations
Please make your reservation directly with the Kansas City Marriott Downtown on or before Nov. 16. There is a special conference rate of $96 plus tax. Indicate code OOIOOIA. Call (800) 228-9292 or (816) 421-6800. Identify yourself as a “North America Works II” attendee in order to receive the special room rate.

Airport and ground transportation information
The Kansas City Marriott Downtown is 22 miles from the Kansas City International Airport. Estimated taxi fare is $40. For shuttle and taxi information, call (816) 243-500, (800) 243-6383 or go online.

Driving instructions from KCI airport: Take I-29 South to Broadway/Highway 169 Exit. Take Broadway to 12th Street. Turn left on 12th Street, go one block east and hotel is on the left.

I have talked to some people who are not white acivists and they have all said they will not let this happen. So hopefully if it does the numbers on our side dramatically increase.

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0611/29/ldt.01.html
DOBBS: A new push tonight to grant amnesty to millions of illegal aliens in this country. And new leadership in Mexico going to office later this week plans for a North American union expected to move ahead without congressional or, of course, the approval of the American people.

Casey Wian tonight reports on amnesty advocates pressuring the new Congress to quickly pass so-called comprehensive immigration reform. That's right. Here we go again.

And Christine Romans reports on the effort to create the security and prosperity of partnership that many call a North American union.

We begin with Casey Wian in Los Angeles tonight -- Casey.

CASEY WIAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Lou, the streets of Los Angeles and other U.S. cities could soon be filled with demonstrators demanding amnesty for illegal aliens.

WIAN (voice over): Some organizers of this spring's protests in favor of illegal alien amnesty say they may take to the streets again if the new Democratic-controlled Congress does not pass an immigration reform bill that includes amnesty within its first 100 days in power.

SAUL SOLORZANO, CENTRAL AMERICAN RESOURCE CENTER: I certainly believe that 100 days are plenty to have Congress act on the immigration issue. The First Amendment gives the right to petition the government. And I think that civil participation is important, and I think that people will be posed to go back and again ask for action.

WIAN: Solorzano says the perfect storm now exists with President Bush, Republican party chair Mel Martinez, and top Democratic lawmakers all favoring a path to citizenship for millions of illegal aliens. However, the House Democratic leadership has failed to include illegal immigration or border security among its top legislative priorities.

New Senate leader Harry Reid says an immigration bill will be among the first 10 introduced in the Senate.

SEN. HARRY REID (D-NV), MINORITY LEADER: It was tremendously heartwarming to see how the Hispanic community throughout America responded to what we tried to do, we Democrats tried to do. We won big-time with the Hispanics. We won because they accepted what we were trying to do, comprehensive immigration reform.

WIAN: Reid says he wants a guest worker program and a path to legalization for illegal aliens and he has no problem with threats of new demonstrations.

REID: I've always said that those marches were good. They didn't hurt a thing. They were peaceful and they were powerful. That's what America is all about.

WIAN: He also says there will be no additional funding for the border fence bill signed by President Bush. Ironically, that bill was passed in part because of frustration with previous pro-amnesty protests.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

WIAN: Other spring protest organizers we spoke with say they are in no hurry to return to the streets. They say they are pursuing a strategy of unity with the new Democratic leadership -- Lou.

DOBBS: Harry Reid sounded just enthralled by the fact that the Democratic vote among Hispanic voters that did go to the polls rose from 60 to 69 percent. Such euphoria on that move?

WIAN: Yes, it was certainly surprising that he was so euphoric about that, and especially his comments about amnesty and the border fence from a senator who, as you well know, Lou, was not too many years ago a strong advocate of border security.

DOBBS: Right. And I think it's -- I think it's illuminating that Senator Reid attaches the fact that a person of Hispanic origin in this country voted for a Democrat, in his judgment, simply on the basis of comprehensive immigration reform in the Senate, as if Hispanic-Americans would not be as unhappy and dissatisfied with the Bush administration and the Republican Congress as any other American irrespective of their ethnicity.

WIAN: He seems to be buying into the argument that many of the amnesty advocates make that are linking race with the issue of border security, which we know from election results in Arizona and other places is not true -- Lou.

DOBBS: Not true, but it looks like we -- if that performance is any indication, in my opinion, it looks like we may be back to the same tactics on the part of the Democratic leadership in the Senate as we saw on the part of the Republican leadership.

Casey, thank you very much.

Casey Wian.

When Mexican president Vicente Fox leaves office this week and Felipe Calderon takes his place, President Bush will be the last of the so-called three amigos. Bush, Fox, and, of course, Canadian prime minister Paul Martin were the originators of the so-called Security and Prosperity Partnership, which critics call nothing more than a North American union. It means open borders, commerce of all costs, and, by the way, without the approval of either American voters or the U.S. Congress.

Christine Romans reports.

CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice over): Waco, Texas, 2005. Under these three men, the Security and Prosperity Partnership was born. An effort, the governments say, to harmonize regulation and increase cooperation between three very different countries.

The Mexican president in Cancun this spring...

VICENTE FOX, MEXICAN PRESIDENT (through translator): We need to elevate the competitiveness of our economies.

ROMANS: And a new Canadian prime minister joining the discussions as this North American partnership barrels ahead, with departments and ministries of all three governments working quickly to integrate North America by 2010. The official progress report boasting, "Implementation is on track."

And now Mexico's new president, Felipe Calderon, widely expected to keep the progress moving. Critics, though, say there's too little transparency and no congressional oversight.

TOM FITTON, JUDICIAL WATCH: There's nothing wrong with neighboring governments talking to each other, synchronizing their watches to make sure they're all on the same page in the cases of emergency or on trade issues or even on the flows of goods and people. But if policies are being made that the American people might oppose, or that are contrary to the law, especially as it relates to immigration, you know, they're doing something a bit more nefarious.

ROMANS: He points to SPP documents urging the free flow of goods and people across borders and a wish list from business interests that borders remain open during a flu pandemic. Worse, critics say foreign policy elites are promoting a European-style union, erasing borders between the three countries and eventually moving to a single North American currency called the amaro (ph).

A Commerce Department spokesman, however, denies this -- "There is absolutely no plan for a common currency."

(END VIDEOTAPE)

ROMANS: Speculation about that erupted again this week after some in the Canadian business contingent included a list of their long-term goals for the SPP. But people involved with the partnership between the three countries are very quick to distance themselves, Lou, from that very, very unpopular idea.

DOBBS: The fact is -- and everyone watching you and that report tonight -- for any American to think that it is acceptable for the president of the United States and this executive department of his government, his administration, our government, to proceed without the approval of Congress or a dialogue and a debate and a -- and a public voice from the people of this country is absolutely unconscionable.

ROMANS: The defense of those folks who are saying that they're involved with the SPP is that they're not doing anything that would require congressional approval or voter approval. They're just harmonizing the regulations between the three countries.

DOBBS: What they're doing is creating a brave new world, an Orwellian world, in which the will of the people is absolutely irrelevant. And I think we've had a sampling of what's going to happen to people who do that in the future.

I can't imagine this standing. But then again, I couldn't imagine its beginning nor the fact that it's gotten this far.

Christine, thank you.

Christine Romans.

That bring us to the subject of our poll tonight. A North American union, Mexico, the United States and Canada, a really good idea or a really bad idea?

Cast your vote, please, at LouDobbs.com. We'll have the results here later.

Chinese have ownership in U.S. cargo monitors
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53271

A Chinese company with close ties to the communist government owns 49 percent of the Lockheed Martin subsidiary that is negotiating a contract with the North American SuperCorridor Coalition, Inc. – the Dallas-based trade association – to place cargo monitoring sensors along as superhighway stretching from Mexico to Canada.

China's Hutchinson Port Holdings entered into a $50 million joint venture in 2005 with Savi Technology, a Lockheed Martin wholly-owned subsidiary, to form a new company called Savi Networks LLC. Savi Technology owns 51 percent and Hutchinson Port Holdings, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Chinese holding company Hutchinson Whampoa Limited, holds the rest.

Lockheed Martin spokeswoman Leslie Holoweiko confirmed to WND that Savi Networks LLC is the company named in the contract currently being negotiated with NASCO to provide cargo sensors all along the NASCO I-35 super-corridor. If successfully negotiated, the contract would appear to give Hutchinson Holdings operational involvement all along the emerging I-35 NAFTA superhighway. Hutchinson Holdings also operates the port at Lázaro Cárdenas, Mexico.

Hutchinson, Whampoa, Ltd. is the holding company of billionaire Li Ka-shing, a well-known businessman, whose companies make up 15 percent of the market capitalization of the Hong Kong Stock Market. According to the Washington, D.C., government watchdog Judicial Watch, a declassified U.S. government intelligence report that Judicial Watch obtained in a Freedom of Information Act request indicates Li is "directly connected to Beijing and is willing to use his business influence to further the aims of the Chinese Government."

A Judicial Watch complaint filed in 2002 at the time HWL was purchasing the then-bankrupt Global Crossing, notes Li Ka-Shing's holdings includes ports, telecom and energy assets around the world. Hutchinson Ports was forced to drop a bid to purchase Global Crossing when the Committee on Foreign Investments in the United States refused to approve the transaction on national security grounds.

Savi Networks LLC operates RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) equipment and software to track and manage containerized ocean-going cargo. According to the company, the goal of Savi Networks LLC is to install "active RFID equipment and software in participating ports around the world to provide users with information on the identity, location and status of their ocean cargo containers as they pass through such ports."

Conceivably, the Savi-installed RFID software would permit NASCO to track containers from the time they leave ports in China and the Far East to when they enter North America at Mexican ports such as Lázaro Cárdenas.

Data on the cargo could be read then by any sensor-reading station the Savi-NASCO project placed anywhere along what NASCO calls the North American SuperCorridor, generally identified by NASCO as incorporating Interstates 35, 29 and 94.

NASCO and Savi Networks LLC plan to put Savi sensor reading stations all the way north, to destinations in Canada such as Winnipeg.

The Savi technology includes an architecture designed to accommodate Automatic Identification Data Collection (AIDC) technologies, such as is used in barcodes, RFID technologies and Global Positioning Systems (GPS) that can track container ships on the ocean or the containers as they travel on land by truck or train.

The NASCO plan to use cargo tracking technology is consistent with the plans announced by the working groups in the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America, or SPP, to rely primarily on technology, instead of in-person inspection, to track and monitor containers entering the U.S.

As disclosed in the "2005 Report to Leaders" on the SPP website, FAST lanes and SENTRI software will be used extensively to "streamline the secure movement of low-risk traffic across our shared borders" with Mexico and Canada.

The Security and Prosperity Partnership was declared by President Bush, Mexico's President Fox and then-Prime Minister Paul Martin of Canada at their summit meeting in Waco, Texas, March 23, 2005.

Global Crossing was noted for turning Democratic National Committee chairman Terry McAuliffe's $100,000 investment into an $18 million personal fortune. The company's bold move to control the U.S. international fiber-optics network, however, ending in a corrupt, corporate meltdown that preceded the Enron debacle.