“The Conservative (Canadian – ed.) government is set to announce a landmark security and trade deal with the United States, designed to create a perimeter around North America and allow people and goods to flow more freely across the border…
The U.S. announced a similar deal with Mexico in March. It included moves to expedite travel and commerce such as secure transit lanes for pre-cleared rail and truck shipments, as well as passenger pre-clearance for individuals…
The U.S. and Canada have taken piecemeal steps to coordinate their efforts against common threats like terrorism. Last year, Canada signed on to the NEXUS membership card and Free and Secure Trade (FAST) trusted traveller programs as a valid means of identification at the border. However, more sweeping agreements have foundered in the past, notably the Security and Prosperity Partnership agreement signed in 2005 by former Prime Minister Paul Martin, ex-U.S. President George W. Bush and former Mexican President Vicente Fox.”
“Tories to announce deal forming North America ‘perimeter’”
John Ivison, Canadian National Post, 12/8/10
“Global Entry” is a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) program that has implemented a new Trusted Traveler Program (TTP). These travelers will be issued cards with a logo depicting North America as a continent, without borders to identify the United States…
The Global Entry website states, “Though intended for frequent international travelers, there is no minimum number of trips necessary to qualify for the program. Participants may enter the United States by using automated kiosks located at select airports.”…
When you and I want to fly back and forth within the United States, we are subjected to a humiliating and time-consuming analysis by government employees. Our IDs are scrutinized, our kids are carefully looked over, and we have a choice of posing for a nude scan or having a stranger in a blue uniform put their hands on our private parts…
But Janet Napolitano and Barack Obama think it’s a sign of hopeful change that millions of “frequent international travelers” from Mexico and Canada will be able to bypass lengthy security screenings and have a more open and welcoming travel experience here in the United States.”
E. W. Jackson, Sr., Executive Director, STANDPAC, 1/7/11
“The EU torture policy of thrusting yet more debt on crippled states already caught in a debt trap – and then forcing them even deeper into downward spiral with a 1930s policy of wage cuts and “internal devaluation” – is an intellectual disgrace.
Let it never be forgotten that Ireland and Spain are struggling because EMU caused a collapse in real interest rates to -1pc or -2pc, setting off an uncontrollable boom.” (Ed. Note: An object-lesson for those who would give up their National Sovereignty to Regional or Global Monetary, Fiscal, or Political Entities!)
“Self-righteous Germany must accept a euro-debt union or leave EMU”
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, The Daily Telegraph, 12/19/10
“What should be permanently stamped in your minds is that the financial carnage we have experienced is the fault of the Fed and the financial sector and that same Fed bailed out the crooks and left the public high and dry with 22-3/8% unemployment and a shattered residential and commercial real estate sector that is still two years from the bottom and perhaps 30 years away from appreciation.
It is despicable for Mr. Bernanke to have insinuated he helped avert higher unemployed when it was the policy of the owners of the Fed and Wall Street and banking, which was the cause of the worst depression since the “Great Depression” of the 1930s. It should be noted that the end of the damage is nowhere in sight. Throwing trillions of dollars at a problem doesn’t solve it, and in this case will only make it get worse. In addition, trillions of dollars in wealth were destroyed and as a reward for their greed the Fed, which allowed the public to pay for the Ponzi scheme, protected the financial sector.”
“What should be permanently stamped in your minds is that the financial carnage we have experienced is the fault of the Fed.”
Bob Chapman, International Forecaster January 2011 (#1), 1/3/11
“The Federal Reserve has been a nightmare for the American people. It inflates the money supply, thereby devaluing already-existing money and placing a massive hidden tax on the people via rising prices. It also uses its monopoly power to cause interest rates to go up or down, usurping the rightful place of the market and causing massive malinvestment and generally an improper and unproductive allocation of resources…
The Fed also causes the boom-and-bust cycle through its manipulations of the currency and credit supply. It serves as the government’s partner in perpetually expanding the “welfare-warfare state,” allowing the state to spend far more than it could ever hope to reasonably raise through direct taxation. And of course, the fact that all Federal Reserve notes enter the economy as debt with interest attached (but never created) has led to a situation where it is literally mathematically impossible to pay off the debt. In sum, the consequences of such a system have been disastrous for average Americans – hence the growing calls to audit and even end the Fed…
But now, imagine such a system at the global level. And it isn’t just a mental exercise; the global central bank is already emerging. As bad as the Fed has been for America – and indeed the world – a similar system at the international level would be far worse. Disaster might even be an understatement…
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