Fox expressed the hope that Canada, the United States and Mexico would function like the European Union.

"It's an extremely successful model," said Fox. "My vision is to speed up the process of further integration."

His address was before the Congressional Hispanic Leadership Institute's Future Leaders Conference.

The report said Fox acknowledged the difficulty of establishing such a union in the Americas because of opposition, but he noted the ascent to the White House of President Barack Obama and his administration.

"Hope is back again," Fox said.

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So says David Bonior, [on Obama's economic transition team]...



"How do we democratize this globalization argument (NAFTA)?" Bonior has stated. "One of the ideas we came up with was forming a North American Parliamentary Union. A North America Parliament, with Mexico, Canada and the United States, with people – probably first appointed, but eventually elected like they are in the European Parliament – so we can begin to raise these issues of human rights, civil rights and labor rights and immigration, which never get talked about here."

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So says Henry Kissinger...

former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger openly called for the Obama administration to manipulate the current financial crisis to create a "new world order."

Kissinger's commentary in the International Herald Tribune made clear globalists intend to utilize the current financial meltdown.

"The economic world has been globalized," Kissinger proclaimed. "Its institutions have a global reach and have operated by maxims that assumed a self-regulating global market."

Rather than focus on domestic politics, Kissinger said the solution involves creating global political institutions to better govern and regulate global economic markets and institutions.

They've decided to do it long ago. They will do it no matter what you think about it.

When the drug wars currently threatening the very existance of Mexico as a functioning government spread to the entire North American Union, get back to me and tell me what a great idea that merger was.

Despite evidence that NAFTA has been beneficial on balance to American business, workers, and consumers [aka 'giant sucking sound' - B] the argument remains vilified by many as an unwarranted move to embrace globalization. President Obama recognized this on the campaign trail in 2008, when he called for the renegotiation of NAFTA's provisions to correct flaws in the original agreement. As a result, the Obama administration will most likely rename the SPP.
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[specific recommended stealth tactics - B]

The following is the new plan as proposed by Sands under the imprimatur of Brookings/Hoover:

1. "President Obama should borrow from the lexicon of the European Union and announce that the United States will proceed in negotiations with its two neighbors 'at two speeds,' moving ahead more quickly where possible with its developed neighbor Canada, and allowing Mexico to proceed more slowly as necessary."
2. "The Obama administration is likely to want to 'press the reset button' on the SPP, an unpopular though valuable initiative that has improved policy coordination between the United States and its neighbors."

3. "The SPP must be rebranded to win any kind of consensus support. The Obama administration recognizes this, and could take a few tactical steps to make the SPP (or its eventual successor) work better and win broader support."

Among Sands' specific proposals is a recommendation to open the SPP bureaucratic working groups to more than just the 30 hand-picked multi-national corporations that constitute the North American Competitiveness Council. Sands does not recommend opening the SPP working group meetings to the public of any of the three nations involved. Instead, he indicates it would be good if environmental, labor and human rights groups could participate in the meetings. Maybe also the state and provincial governments in Mexico, Canada and the United States should be invited to the closed door meetings.

"The president will travel to Guadalajara, Mexico, August 9-10 to attend the North American Leaders Summit with Mexican President Felipe Calderon and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper," the two-sentence announcement began.

"The summit meeting will provide an opportunity for the United States, Mexico, and Canada to engage on a broad range of issues, including economic recovery and competitiveness in North America, our shared interest in energy and the environment, and cooperation among our governments to promote the safety and welfare of our citizens, including continued close cooperation to counter the A/H1N1 influenza pandemic."

WND has reported that the last annual SPP meeting in New Orleans included a determined public relations effort to drop the SPP designation completely in order to defuse criticism.

When he was a candidate, Obama wrote an article published by the Dallas Morning News entitled, "I will repair our relationship with Mexico," in which he stated: "Starting my first year in office, I will convene annual meetings with Mr. Calderon and the prime minister of Canada. Unlike similar summits under President Bush, these will be conducted with a level of transparency that represents the close ties among our three countries." [closed meetings so that's a whopper - B]
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During the presidential campaign, Obama was forced to fire from his campaign an important economic adviser. Austan Goolsbee, an economics professor at the University of Chicago business school, was dismissed after reporters learned he had traveled to Canada to reassure Canadians that Obama's campaign promises to renegotiate NAFTA were just campaign rhetoric.

Now, Goolsbee is back in the White House, having taken a leave of absence from the University of Chicago. Obama appointed him to serve as chief economist and staff director of the newly created Presidential Economic Recovery Advisory Board, chaired by former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volker.

Obama also appointed Goolsbee to the Council of Economic Advisors, or CEA, which is charged with assisting in the development of White House economic policy.