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di Stephen Lendman – GlobalResearch.ca Il titolo si riferisce alla Partnership del Nord America per la Sicurezza e la Prosperità (il cui acronimo in inglese è SPP), conosciuta anche come North American Union. Questa organizzazione ebbe origine il 23 marzo del 2005 a Waco, in Texas, durante una conferenza a cui parteciparono George Bush, il presidente messicano Vincente Fox e il premier canadese Paul Martin. Il suo obiettivo è la promozione di un accordo che stimoli l'integrazione economica e politica delle nazioni involved and the cooperation of the respective security services. Its activities are carried out without publicity in the media, through government groups that engineered binding policy directives bypassing the public and the normal parliamentary debate.
In summary, it is a corporate coup d'etat backed by the army, which undermined the sovereignty of the three partner nations, their people and their legislative bodies. It 'a dagger stuck in their heart of democracy, even if the public is largely unaware of its activities.
The last SPP summit was held in New Orleans last April. Since then, his action was largely hampered by the severity of the global economic crisis, which requires the full attention of the leaders involved. Nevertheless, the decisions taken so far will be reported in the following lines, along with some additional information.
Last September, the 'Army Times reported that the Third Brigade of the First Team Assault (while deployed in Iraq) would be transferred to American soil by October 1, to enter into a "federal force ready action in case of emergencies or natural disasters or man-made, including terrorist attacks. "
'E' the first time an active unit is put under the command of NORTHCOM, a joint command established in 2002 to coordinate and control the defense of federal initiatives and actions to support the defense of civil authorities. "
Then, on Dec. 1, the Washington Post said the Pentagon had deployed 20 thousand soldiers on American soil by 2011, with the aim of "helping state and local officials in case of nuclear attack or other disasters '. You have set three combat units capable of rapid reaction. Two more could be added to the project. 80 units will be integrated with the National Guard, trained to respond to attacks of chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, with high explosives or other attacks of a terrorist nature. In other words, you plan to use platoons trained to kill and take to militarize the United States.
The pretext is security. These units will be operational in the event of a terrorist attack, genuine or not, and even in case of riots by the people, proven by the economic crisis. Considering the extent and severity of the crisis, there is a reasonable probability that someone, sooner or later, you decide to react. In this case, armed patrols of soldiers will join the local police (already militarized) as soon as the declaration of martial law or the order came to carry out repressive security measures.
According to the document "Being ready for the next disastro catastrofico”, pubblicato nel 2008 dalla DHS/FEMA, dono state sviluppate procedure di “Emergenza Catastrofica” per reagire a situazioni “naturali” o “causate dall'uomo”. Se le condizioni lo richiederanno, si parla di sospensione della Costituzione e legge marziale. Si propone anche di militarizzare gli Stati Uniti per proteggere il mondo degli affari.
Lo scorso primo ottobre, in conseguenza all'annuncio che l'amministrazione Bush intendeva dispiegare pattuglie di soldati sul suolo americano, con un budget di “100 miliardi di dollari (di bailout)”, il Partito d'Azione Canadese ha pubblicato un post intitolato "ALLARME: GOLPE NEGLI USA".
Probabili esiti
Gli sforzi dell'SPP si sono arrestati durante il periodo di transizione da Bush a Obama, ma il progetto di “integrazione profonda” rimane in piedi.
Il 19 gennaio, il Centro per la Politica Commerciale dell'Università di Ottawa ha tracciato le linee direttrici per un progetto di approfondimento dei rapporti tra Canada e USA. Il loro documento afferma che una «cooperazione repentina e sostenuta nel tempo» in questo periodo di crisi globale, avrebbe dovuto includere le forze di sicurezza e di difesa, il commercio e la competitività.
Il testo, inoltre, sostiene «che l'argomento cruciale è la necessità di ripensare l'architettura di gestione degli spazi Economic Community of North America, including trade liberalization. " The language used is full of expressions like "rethink (s) to modernize the border" and their meaning in context seems to allude to a cancellation of the same. Is that the Mexican and Canadian. Similarly, the document recommends that "integrate regulatory regimes into a single system that can be applied to both sides of the border." He argues that the arrival of a new administration in Washington is "golden opportunity" to forge a "program leading to a mutually beneficial and redraws the U.S. and global governance in the years to come."
Send waving the specter of protectionism and the need to avoid it, given the current economic climate. Fosters a "more ambitious US-Canada partnership," which exceeds the NAFTA, in agreement with Mexico.
Another document produced by the Center for North American cross-border studies from Arizona State University, entitled "North America Next," calls a "sustainable competitiveness in the security" and a greater integration between the U.S., Canada and Mexico through ' sustainable security, a business and an efficient transport system "to make" the three North American nations are more secure, more functional and economically more prosperous. "
Both the project of the University Arizona to Carleton initiatives aim to strengthen the SPP with the help of the new administration in Washington, especially in a climate of global economic crisis that brought the problem to the fore.
Other issues under discussion
journalist Mike Finch, in an article entitled "North American Union Watch," published in the newspaper 'The Canadian', there are reports that U.S. and Canadian organizations whose goal is to end the free flow of information on the Internet. Quote
the discovery of a "project for the elimination of freedom on the Internet by 2010 in Canada" and by 2012 worldwide, effettuata da un «gruppo di attivisti a favore della neutralità della rete».
Secondo la sua ricostruzione dei fatti, i due più grandi ISP canadesi, la Bell Canada e la TELUS, intendono limitare il browsing, bloccare alcuni siti e rendere a pagamento la maggior parte degli altri, in un'iniziativa articolata dal SPP che avrà inizio nel 2012. Reese Leysen, del servizio di web hosting I-Power, lo definisce un progetto «oltre la censura: vogliono uccidere il più grande ecosistema di libera espressione e libertà di parola mai esistito nella storia dell'uomo». Cita fonti interne a grandi aziende, che l'hanno informato su «accordi di esclusività tra gli ISP e i grandi fornitori di contenuti (come le TV and publishers of video games) to decide which sites will be included in the standard package offered to users, while the rest of the network will be unreachable except upon an additional charge. "
For Leysen, its sources are" 100% reliable " . Rather, it indicates that a similar picture emerged from an article published in Time magazine by Dylan Pattyn. The sources of the latter would be internal to Bell Canada and TELUS. According to these, is expected to cover only 100-200 of the most visited sites in the basic subscription package, in all likelihood, will include news agencies most popular and held out the entire circuit of the alternative press. "The Internet will become a playground for billionaires content creators "such as cable TV, unless it is put in place measures to stop this process.
Leysen think that the United States and ISPs worldwide have similar ideas on limiting the freedom of speech and invasions of privacy. If he is right, the stakes are high. But the profit margin is substantial, and therefore friendly governments could agree. There is also talk of using "deceptive marketing tactics and terrorism" (as, for example, waving the threat of child pornography) to get the public support to these rules liberticide masked by the rules for network security. You must stop immediately.
Projects to rename the SPP / NAU
Last March, the Canadian Fraser Insist has brought in a article titled "Saving the North American Partnership for Security and Prosperity" because the wave of criticism provoked by the organization. Suggests to discard the symbol SPP / NAU, opting for Nasri (North American Standards and Regulatory Area) to hide his real objective. According to the article, the 'SPP brand is now muddy, then it must be replaced to continue the initiatives that NAFTA has left orphans: integrating security issues concerning the quality of life, such as food safety, riscaldamento globale, il cambiamento climatico e le pandemie. Reclama anche un maggiore sforzo comunicativo per blandire la pubblica opinione. Vogliono ingannare il maggior numero di persone possibile, finché non sarà troppo tardi per intervenire.
Malcontento in America a livello statale Il 23 febbraio, obiettando al concetto di “integrazione profonda”, il giornalista Jim Kouri di «News with Views» (NWV) ha pubblicato un articolo intitolato: “Che i singoli stati dichiarino la propria sovranità”. Il testo ripropone le parole dello stratega politico Mike Baker, quando disse: «Gli americani sono sempre più disillusi dalla mancanza di prospettiva long-term evidence from the federal government on issues such as illegal immigration, crime and economic chaos. The federal government will even creep into the private lives of citizens through laws controlling the movement of firearms and other initiatives, "issues that the Founding Fathers' relegated to the discretion of individual states."
is also worrying that the states fail to fund their projects because of budget too tight and are forced to make cuts. In addition to this, even the intrusion of Washington in the administration of local justice is worrying.
So far, nine states have declared their sovereignty and another dozen are considering to do so. The laws already approved or proposed rights ranging from general to selective, such as controlling the movement of firearms and abortion.
On 30 January, the state of Washington has sided with them and passed the Law HJM-4009, which states:
"The Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution provides that" the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution and not prohibited by them, shall be reserved for individual states or the people. " The same amendment defines the total scope of federal power, stating that it is limited to what is explicitly written into the Constitution. "
early January, even New Hampshire adopted a similar rule, the HCR-6, "which affirms the rights of States based on Jeffersonian principles." Other states, in part or totally, agree on this line are California, Arizona, Montana, Michigan, Missouri, Oklahoma and Georgia. Besides these, the following states are currently debating such measures: the Colorado, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Arkansas, Idaho, Alabama, Maine, Nevada, Hawaii, Alaska, Wyoming and Mississippi.
addition to the debate on the rights of individual states, the main themes of this movement are:
- the economic crisis;
- the pest control that Wall Street exerts on the political
- its effect on the system of Checks & Balances;
- the bailout excessive given to an insolvent banking system and corrupt at the expense of budgets of individual states and their rights;
- shameless and unsustainable public spending. The public debt that is bringing the federation into bankruptcy, putting an intolerable burden on the shoulders of the states.
In principle, there are concerns that Washington is complicit in the crisis that is gripping the country and who wants to get rid of its responsibilities or, at least, tend to behave like this. If this movement grows stronger, it will serve to slow the process of integration deep "or lock for a considerable period, but is unlikely to stop it altogether. The corporate America wants, and usually gets what he wants.
may take longer, much longer, because of the global crisis and the period necessary to overcome it. Some experts announce soon another Great Depression and even worse than the previous worst of the "lost decade" of Japan, since 1990.
The priority in the world of high finance and the boards of large companies is to escape the crisis, if possible. Except for reasons of "national security", everything else is secondary.
Article originale : SPP: Updating the Militarization and Annexation of North America .
Stephen Lendman is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization. He lives in Chicago and can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net
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