- Last weekend's Summit of the Americas in Canada took
on an ominous tone of seriousness. It is the third in a series of talks
that are destined to increase in frequency until long range NWO objectives
for diminished national sovereignty are met. American and Canadian globalist
leaders are pushing to forge an EU-style regional government in the Americas,
and US President George W. Bush is right in the thick of it--following
in his father s NWO footsteps. The conference was hosted by leftist Canadian
Prime Minister Jean Chretien--a personal friend of Bill Clinton and a
committed globalist of the most servile kind.
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- All of the speeches intended for public consumption stressed
the benefits of free trade and prosperity, but none of that counts for
much, in real-life terms. It s the control agenda being forged behind
closed doors that really matters. The big players, the US and Canada, have
brought with them special teams of globalist lawyers with pre-prepared
drafts of the new Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA). Remember this
acronym--you ll be hearing much more about this in the future. Bush is
already seeking fast track authority to put this control agenda in place,
which proves he is a knowing participant in this portion of the NWO plan.
Fast track authority gives the president and his bureaucrats the power
to clinch separate agreements with each country during negotiations without
coming back to Congress for debate--a very dangerous precedent. Congress
only choice is to accept or reject the final package.
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- Each of the Third World nations present is also accompanied
by advisors and lawyers, but of a different variety. In contrast to the
US and Canada, they are in Quebec to lobby for special treatment and exceptions
to the uniform control agenda being outlined by US trade representative
Robert B. Zoellick and his CFR-trained team. Each of these developing
nations is struggling with problems of economy- draining socialism, massive
indebtedness to the IMF, and indigenous Marxist revolutionaries threatening
their very political survival.
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- NAFTA (precursor to the new, broader FTAA) had many
complex side agreements which provided for special exceptions for certain
countries to the general controls enacted. These have been a constant
source of discord, especially as many of these agreements or codicils
were kept secret. In Canada, for example, the individual Provincial leaders
originally insisted on special language to protect local industries within
each province from competition. But their own national government deceived
them during the NAFTA ratification process. During negotiations the Provincial
leaders were led to believe that their reservations to NAFTA had been
accepted, but unbeknownst to them, the specific wording in each Provincial
leaders portfolio was changed on the copies they actually signed. One
of the top level secretaries, Shelley Ann Clark (executive assistant to
Germain Denis, Prime Minister Brian Mulroney's personal appointee to the
NAFTA negotiations), blew the whistle on this affair. Subsequently, the
Canadian government had the original NAFTA agreement locked up for reasons
of national security and it is not currently available for inspection
even to the Provincial leaders who signed it.
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- President Bush is now insisting that the trade agreement
should include no codicils that destroy the spirit of free trade. But
his purpose is not so much to promote free trade; that s merely the bait.
Rather, his purpose is to move the process ahead in a manner such that
all nations will be bound by the same regional tribunals--with no exceptions.
That is going to be a hard sell unless Bush can tone down the image of
control that current Free Trade agreements have. Small countries are
objecting to having to meet the same draconian environmental regulations
that are presently hobbling America s energy industry, for example--regulations
that environmental lobbyists in Quebec are demanding. The union movement
in the US and Canada is also trying to impose on all small countries the
same high union pay scale we have so as to make sure no business can shop
for cheaper wage rates abroad. Bush, trying to play both sides said,
In other words, a free trade agreement focuses on commerce....While I
understand that some unionists are interested in making sure there's labor
protections, I don't want those labor protections to be used to destroy
the free trade agreement. What Bush is really saying is that he wants
the leftist agenda watered down initially in order to get all nations
on board, and then the FTAA s tribunals will be able to ratchet up the
controls without any specific nation s consent.
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- The big loser in this current tug-of-war will be Mercosur,
Brazil s coalition of South American countries which have worked hard
to forge a true cooperative free trade pact that does not involve the
kinds of control mechanisms imbedded in NAFTA and especially the newly
proposed FTAA. Things have not always gone smoothly for Mercosur as Brazil
and its partners have had to overcome years of dependence upon high import
tariffs that stifle industrial growth. Just when Mercosur was making real
progress and getting ready to expand, along comes this newest free trade
initiative from the US which threatens to overwhelm the less intrusive
Mercosur.
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- Pushing Democracy A Special Brand of Fairness There
are 34 potential joiner nations in this proposed FTAA form of regional
government. Only Fidel Castro s Cuba was excluded, for obvious reasons.
There was considerable talk during the summit of extending democracy to
all nations in the hemisphere. President Bush was directly referring to
Cuba when he told the others that he looked forward to the day when all
countries in the Americas would be included. PM Chretien joined in the
chorus of praise for democracy, noting that democracy may vary from place
to place (hoping to expand the definition sufficiently to include Cuba
when it makes some token compromises). He then warned that the Organization
of American States (OAS)--a very leftist organization funded by US taxpayers--will
closely monitor each nation and decide which ones are approved democracies.
Nations whose outcomes are not sufficiently Socialist will be censured
because of election irregularities or unfair campaign practices. As
I pointed out in a previous brief, this is precisely the type of intervention
the OAS engaged in while monitoring the election in Peru during the previous
election cycle. Now that former President Fugimori has been exiled and
the OAS s preferred globalist candidate Alejandro Toledo is leading in
the current polls, they seem to be satisfied that democracy has triumphed
in Peru.
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