Liberty
Matters News Service
June 8, 2007
Security and Prosperity Partnership
The plan to integrate, some say merge, the United States, Mexico and Canada will be presented to all three governments by this fall. The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), is finalizing the report that extols the benefits of erasing our borders. "Specifically, the project will focus on a detailed examination of future scenarios, which are based on current trends, and involve six areas of critical importance to the trilateral relationship: labor mobility, energy, the environment, security, competitiveness and border infrastructure and logistics." An elitist group of politicians, business people, labor leaders and academics from all three countries met in seven secret sessions to work out the details. Even a section of S 1348, the Secure Borders, Economic Opportunity and Immigration Reform Act of 2007 (amnesty bill), currently being debated on the U.S. Senate floor, contains enabling language offered by Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA) to launch the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP). Section 413 of Kennedy's Amendment #1150 reads: "It is the sense of Congress that the United States and Mexico should accelerate the implementation of the Partnership for Prosperity to help generate economic growth and improve the standard of living in Mexico, which will lead to reduced migration." The ultimate plan of the SPP has been denied by many in government even though President Bush signed the blueprints for it with Mexico's President and Canada's Prime Minister in March 2005. In his best selling book of 1993, Post Capitalist Society, Peter F. Drucker wrote; the European Community "triggered the attempt to create a North American economic community built around the United States..." "So far," Drucker wrote, "this attempt is purely economic in its goal. But it can hardly remain so in the long run."
North American Union Plan Headed to
Congress in Fall
Remove Section 413
from Immigration Bill
Dutch Treat
Dutch scientists are trying to save the environment by attempting to grow meat in laboratory Petri dishes. Bernard Roelen, veterinary science professor at Utrecht University explained, "We're trying to make meat without having to kill animals." Roelen and his colleagues theorize their "lab chops" would eliminate the need for animal feed, transport, land use, and that environmentally incorrect methane gas that cattle insist on pumping into the atmosphere adding to our so-called global warming problem. There would be no need for farmers either, presumably. "Keeping animals just to eat them is in fact not so good for the environment," said Roelen. Animals need to grow and animals produce many things that you do not eat." In the United States, NASA is funding similar experiments to learn if meat can be grown for astronauts during long space voyages. The Dutchmen start with muscle stem cells which they stimulate to develop. They give them nutrients and exercise them with electric current to bulk them up but they haven't figured out how to grow blood vessels and add fat. Looks like those Dutchmen just can't improve upon God's handiwork.
Dutch Try to Grow
Enviro-Friendly Meat in Lab
Sold to the Highest Bidder
Politicians across the country have figured out how to abdicate their responsibilities of building and maintaining public transportation modes and get paid handsomely for it. Governors of several states are turning the highways and turnpikes over to private companies to operate and collect tolls far into the future. Chicago signed a 99-year lease with the Spanish firm Cintra and Australia's Macquarie to operate the Chicago Skyway in exchange for $1.83 billion. The same companies will operate the Indiana Tollway for 75 years after paying the state $3.85 billion. Texas Governor Rick Perry made a deal with Cintra and a San Antonio firm, Zachry, to build and operate the first stage of the Trans Texas Corridor for the sum of $7.2 billion. Pennsylvania Governor Rendell is expecting a bid of $15-$18 billion for the Pennsylvania Turnpike. The public is not happy with their governments' growing dependence on foreign operation of U. S. infrastructure. The public opposition to such deals has led the House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee Chairman, James Oberstar (D-MN), and Transit Subcommittee Chairman Peter DeFazio (D-OR) to send a letter to governors and state transportation officials warning against rushing into "public-private partnerships" (PPP) that don't protect the public interest. "We don't need their advice, frankly," was the reaction of Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels. Texas voters tried to get a two-year moratorium on Governor Perry's Trans-Texas Corridor, but weak-kneed legislators bowed to political pressure and passed a flimsy compromise bill that only blocks future PPP projects, and allows Perry and his cronies to keep on trucking on the Trans Texas Corridor. PPP's are nothing more than government-sanctioned monopolies where corporations and their shareholders win and the public pays.
Who's to Blame for the
Sellout?
Training Session for Private Land States
The Unite to Fight Regional Training sessions are headed to the Northern Plains, stopping in Valentine, Nebraska this June 26-27th. This will be the first session held teaching how you can use the powerful coordination process in private land dominated areas. The strategy, taught by Fred Kelly Grant, president of Stewards of the Range, requires federal agencies to coordinate their plans and management activities with local government. Grant will show how you can make the coordination requirement a part of general plans, or comprehensive development plans. This can help give landowners, who face sever restrictions from wild and scenic rivers to endangered species, the ability to insure their rights are respected and not lost under mounting regulations that destroy their land and livelihood. Another section of the seminar will cover conservation easements and the negative impact they have on neighboring landowners and the economy of the county. Grant will show how other counties have required conservation easements to secure a conditional use permit in an effort to limit the impact on the community. "We've had great success stopping federal land use actions that would hurt the local economy in the west using the coordination law Congress mandated," commented Grant. "The same concept can be used in private land areas, forcing the government to coordinate instead of dictate policies, which can destroy the property rights and livelihoods of the citizens." The seminar is sponsored by Stewards of the Range, the American Land Foundation, and the South Dakota Stockgrowers Association. To register call 1-800-700-5922 or go to www.stewards.us.