CNN Promotes North American Union.....When A Few Years Ago It Was Tinfoil Talk

[newworldafro]

http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/26/opinion/martinez-kurtz-phelan-north-american-passport/index.html

Why we need a North American Passport
By Andrés Martinez and Daniel Kurtz-Phelan



Updated 10:59 AM ET, Wed January 28, 2015

Andrés Martinez is New America's editorial director for Future Tense, editorial director of Zócalo Public Square and professor of practice at the Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State University. Daniel Kurtz-Phelan is an Eric and Wendy Schmidt Fellow at New America and a former adviser on Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's policy planning staff. This is the fourth in a series, "Big Ideas for a New America," in which the think tank New America spotlights experts' solutions to the nation's greatest challenges. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the authors.

(CNN)The future of the United States lies in North America. This is not a geographic truism, but a strategic imperative. Generations of Americans, distracted by far-flung crises, have long taken our own region for granted. This must change if the 21st century is to be an American century. The United States, Canada and Mexico are bound by a shared economic, environmental, demographic and cultural destiny. How we move forward together is key to our success.

Andrés Martinez

Daniel Kurtz-Phelan
In recognition of our shared destiny, the three countries should create a North American passport that would, over time, allow their citizens to travel, work, invest, learn and innovate anywhere in North America. Work, tourist and student visas are necessities in the modern world to regulate the flow of people between sovereign states.

In the North American context, much like within the European Union, our economies and societies are far more integrated than our immigration system recognizes -- and a North American passport, much like the EU passport, would align our laws with reality.

Podcast: A North American passport?

Such a move would provide a dramatic break from Washington's historical negligence of its "near abroad," which stems from a rare luxury. In contrast to other major continental powers through the centuries, the United States has not had to worry much about its neighbors and devote the bulk of its military resources to protecting its borders. With no real threat next door, the United States has felt free to roam elsewhere in the world, as unconstrained and secure as if we were an island nation.

Meanwhile, our neighbors bolster our prosperity. Mexico and Canada are now the top two export markets for the United States, and two of our top three trading partners overall. Trade has exploded in the two decades since the passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA, which has created an integrated manufacturing platform and labor market.

 

[newworldafro]

http://www.thenewamerican.com/world...spiracy-theory-cnn-touts-north-american-union

Thursday, 29 January 2015
After Crying “Conspiracy Theory,” CNN Touts North American Union
Written by Alex Newman

Just a few years ago, it was all a baseless “conspiracy theory.” Now, promotion of a European Union-style merger between the United States, Mexico, and Canada is being shouted from the rooftops — by U.S. taxpayer-funded globalists writing in the very same media outlet, CNN, that tried to ridicule GOP presidential hopeful Ron Paul over the North American Union issue just a few years ago. Indeed, according to the recent opinion piece by two mid-level operatives for the “New America Foundation,” the future of the United States does not rest with the U.S. Constitution, “We the People,” or even the Supreme Court. Instead, it “lies in North America,” claimed New America’s Andrés Martinez and Daniel Kurtz-Phelan.

“This is not a geographic truism, but a strategic imperative,” the duo argued. “The United States, Canada and Mexico are bound by a shared economic, environmental, demographic and cultural destiny.” In recognition of what they refer to as North America’s “shared destiny,” Martinez and Kurtz-Phelan propose the establishment of what they call a “North American passport.” The radical passport scheme would eventually facilitate the erasing of U.S. borders in exchange for “North American” borders — a plot that has been underway for years with the “Beyond the Border” initiative and other schemes. “Much like the EU passport,” the tax-funded globalists wrote, the new North American passport would ultimately allow citizens to “travel, work, invest, learn and innovate anywhere in North America.”

pparently, at least in the minds of globalists paid with Americans’ tax dollars, the economies of the United States, Mexico, and Canada are “far more integrated” than recognized by the current immigration system — or lack thereof, in light of Obama’s imperial decrees purporting to nullify U.S. immigration laws. So, phasing out U.S., Mexican, and Canadian passports and replacing them with a single North American one would merely serve to “align our laws with reality.” Of course, it is true that, thanks largely to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), U.S. sovereignty has already suffered a severe blow. Unelected North American “tribunals,” for instance, already purport to overrule state and federal laws enacted by the American people’s elected representatives. North American bureaucracies are proliferating, too.

However, Martinez and Kurtz-Phelan claim to view the subversive attack on the independence of the American Republic as a positive development. NAFTA, they explained, “has created an integrated manufacturing platform and labor market.” But it must go much further, the “New America” duo argued, exploiting any conceivable pretext to eliminate self-government and national sovereignty. “This potential must be leveraged regionally, with cross-border infrastructure investments and environmental planning,” they wrote after discussing oil production in the “North American region.” Apparently, corruption-riddled and Big Government-plagued Mexico is America’s “lynchpin” to “relations with the countries of Central and South America.” So, they argued, give up your sovereignty and merge with Mexico!

“The inception of NAFTA marked an important step toward leveraging these geographic realities for a shared North American success,” continued Martinez, who resigned from the Los Angeles Times amid a scandal, and Kurtz-Phelan, a former policy adviser on then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s staff. “But the promise of NAFTA has fallen short in a critical respect; while trade and investment have grown, the barriers to movement have remained too high for the people who help drive and stand to benefit from that growth.”

Of course, both globalists know full well that the people of all three countries would overwhelmingly reject any such scheming — probably laughing them out of the room as kooks, if not seeking prosecutions for trying to surreptitiously subvert the independence of their own nations. So the people must be defied. “As evidenced by the recent political firestorm over President Obama's executive move to allow more undocumented workers to avoid deportation, it would take farsighted and courageous political leadership in all three countries to press for a North American passport,” they wrote, as if defying the Constitution, the oath of office to uphold it, and the will of the people somehow represented “courage” rather than lawlessness. In fact, they argued that abolishing the borders between the United States and its neighbors would “help alleviate our contentious domestic immigration battles.”

The fact that the radical anti-sovereignty screed promoting deeper North American integration was published by CNN, though, is especially ironic. During the 2007 GOP presidential debates, CNN selected a question for Ron Paul asking him if he really believed in the “conspiracy theory” about ongoing efforts to build a North American Union. The effort to ridicule Paul backfired, big time, after he offered an excellent answer making the questioner look foolish. But the attempt did not go unnoticed. Some years later, official U.S. government documents from the embassy in Canada leaked by WikiLeaks revealed that long before that debate, top federal officials were working hard with their counterparts in Canada on plots to create a regional currency, subvert national constitutions, and eventually create a North American regime.

More recently, after spending years dishonestly dismissing criticism of their machinations as “conspiracy theories,” top globalists have been much more open about the potentially treasonous plot. “After America comes North America,” disgraced former General and CIA boss David Petraeus said confidently last year in answering a question about what comes “after” the United States. “Are we on the threshold of the North American decade, question mark? I threw that away — threw away the question mark — and boldly proclaimed the coming North American decade, says the title now.” He also boasted about how the three economies have been put “together” over the last 20 years as part of the “implementation” of NAFTA. Globalist mouthpiece Henry Kissinger, meanwhile, recently outlined his vision of a “New World Order” that would first have to divide the globe up into regional regimes.

While much of the scheming has come from the global government-promoting Council on Foreign Relations, the taxpayer-funded New America Foundation appears to be playing a growing role in pushing the outlandish plot. Google boss Eric Schmidt, whose search engine stands accused of increasingly working to hide alternative media voices that oppose “North America” scheming, serves as chairman of the foundation’s board of directors. The outfit’s top funding sources included unwitting American taxpayers, forced to contribute more than $1 million — potentially much more, the foundation does not say — in 2013 alone through the U.S. State Department. Various other federal agencies also contributed taxpayer dollars. Another top source of funding was the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, infamous for promoting abortion, population reduction, globalized and federalized education standards, and more. Bailed-out megabanks, globalist tax-exempt foundations (Rockefeller, Ford, Carnegie, and more), billionaire extremist George Soros, the World Bank, Big Media, various tax-funded universities, and other sources also finance the outfit.

And as the name suggests, a “New America” is indeed what they are pushing for — a new America without self-government, individual rights, national sovereignty, or the principles upon which the old America was founded. Just consider the farewell address by America’s first president, George Washington. “It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world,” he told the young nation. Now, globalists are pushing not just for “permanent alliances,” but the outright surrender of U.S. independence to merge with “North America” and eventually, the world. The scheming has been underway for generations, mostly in the shadows. But, as the final phases approach, much of the agenda is now being touted openly in establishment media organs such as CNN and beyond.

Of course, The New American has been exposing the plot to surrender American independence to a continental regime for almost a decade. The founding father of the bid to impose a North American regime on the United States, Council on Foreign Relations operative Robert Pastor, even credited The John Birch Society, a constitutionalist organization and affiliate of this magazine, with stopping the plot. However, as recent developments show clearly, the extremist movement to subvert self-government and national sovereignty by powerful forces across North America is still alive and well. And unless the people of the United States, Canada, and Mexico get educated and organized to stop it, the threat of an EU-style continental regime to rule “North America” will continue to grow.

 

[Domingo Halliburton]

I understand why Latin America or Canada would want it but I don't see the upside for the US

 

[gho3st]

Totalitarian Government fukk representative democracy's inefficiency.

 

[the cac mamba]

Another top source of funding was the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, infamous for promoting abortion, population reduction, globalized and federalized education standards, and more..

why is this such a bad thing?

why do we need more people?

its simple logic that its a certainty that there will be too many people on the planet at SOME point. what's wrong with trying to reduce population growth when people are starving to death every day?

 

[newworldafro]

I've said it before with regards to this topic..... I'm not necessarily against the idea of being able to move freely throughout the continent or hemisphere...that's actually pretty awesome. Of course there are plenty of reasons why this is a bad idea.

The main issue is the lack of transparency about this stuff. Your favorite alternative media hosts and websites have been talking about this for a couple years now. But its not "official" until CNN,etc says it is ......when by this time they have spent years already putting the platform into place. So suddenly an opinion piece says.... "hey wouldn't this be a great idea?". .

Where is the representative democracy in this ........ ....... see Trans-Pacific Partnership where even Congressional members aren't allowed to sit on the meetings, yet corporations can make backroom deals about trade that is going to effects billions of people.

 

[NERO]

Bec

why is this such a bad thing?

why do we need more people?

its simple logic that its a certainty that there will be too many people on the planet at SOME point. what's wrong with trying to reduce population growth when people are starving to death every day?

Because it's our people being aborted dummy. Pro-choice is eugenics in sheep's clothing. They turn it from a race issue into a women's/civil right's issue. Our pregnancies are being terminated and our family units destroyed.

 

[the cac mamba]

Bec
Because it's our people being aborted dummy. Pro-choice is eugenics in sheep's clothing. They turn it from a race issue into a women's/civil right's issue. Our pregnancies are being terminated and our family units destroyed.

so if people cant support the kid they should have it anyway? why?

i never said these people have clean motives btw. and i was talking about the world in general, not the black community. theres too many kids living in poverty to worry about a kid getting aborted

once we can adequately take care of the kids that are already here, ill change my mind. until then i wont. we're filling up landfills, clearing forests, polluting water sources

 

[the cac mamba]

. Pro-choice is eugenics in sheep's clothing..

the key word being "choice"

 

[Mook]

I understand why Latin America or Canada would want it but I don't see the upside for the US

bet canada dont want it.

 

[MostReal]

first it was "tinfoil"

now

"I mean, its not a bad idea"

 

[Domingo Halliburton]

bet canada dont want it.

yeah, we probably already have pretty liberal trade agreements in place with them.

 

[FluffyCorleone]

why is this such a bad thing?

why do we need more people?

its simple logic that its a certainty that there will be too many people on the planet at SOME point. what's wrong with trying to reduce population growth when people are starving to death every day?

 

[MewTwo]

first it was "tinfoil"

now

"I mean, its not a bad idea"

So many conspiracy theories have come true. I wonder what the reaction will be when FEMA camps are rolled out.

 

[the cac mamba]

did you take a break from being the greatest troll in the world to find that gif? how bout an answer

can you provide me with a compelling reason why abortion and birth control shouldnt be promoted in a place like india? im talking by CHOICE, not by force