The NAU and the Integration of America
 

By Joan Veon
for NewsWithViews.com

May 9, 2007

While most people think of history as something that happened before “their time,” many fail to understand that each one of us is in the process of watching history in the making and living it. Most fail to recognize the slow political and economic evolution to move the United States into a hemispheric free trade zone like that of the European Union.

Unlike the European Union’s integration which was given great fanfare in the media with Europeans entering into a contest to name the new combined currency, the integration of the United States with the other countries of this hemisphere is subject to a major media blackout. Do they fear the masses? Are they concerned they will wake up and scream “NO, NOT IN MY BACK YARD!”? Do they possibly think there might be another tea party? Whatever it is, no one in major media wants to tell the masses that their country and constitution is in the shredder. Unfortunately, it is not just the major media, but our own elected representatives who are not explaining what they are doing to bring about the demise of America.

Because the media has not specifically reported in headline from the steps that have been taken since 1992 to integrate the first three countries: Canada, the U.S. and Mexico, most Americans think that it does not exist. What will these very naive people do when they realize all of the 33 countries of this hemisphere, with the exception of Cuba, are being merged into a free trade zone called the Free Trade Areas of the Americas? Like the European Union, we will have a common currency, we will have a regional central bank (the Federal Reserve), and we eventually will have a regional parliament with locally elected representatives to it.

Is regionalism a new thing? No. When the United Nations was set up in 1945, they established regional commissions for the entire world. Ours is called the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean-ECLAC. While NAFTA is the first step to complete hemispheric integration, in 1994 when NAFTA was entered into force, the Clinton Administration called for a meeting of the presidents and prime ministers of the other 32 countries of this hemisphere in December to discuss integration.

Today, as a result of the elimination of duties on U.S. goods and the gradual phasing out of other tariffs over a 14 year period, three way trade between the U.S., Canada, and Mexico has doubled to over $623B. Furthermore, numerous agreements have been put in place regarding electricity, biodiversity, labor and worker’s rights. The NAFTA Secretariat is comprised of the three parts: the Canadian Section in Ottawa, the Mexican Section in Mexico City and the U.S. Section in Washington, D. C. The NAFTA parties are “committed to the successful conclusion of the Free Trade Areas of the Americas-FTAA [which will] build on the existing free trade agreements and on the expanding links that the NAFTA countries have elsewhere in the hemisphere.”

When I covered the second FTAA meeting in Santiago, Chile, I witnessed via a television monitor in the press room, the 34 Western Hemisphere heads of state sign a document that will integrate our countries into a new free trade zone. Then when I covered the follow-up meeting in Quebec, they signed another document. What I realized is that they were signing a new “Constitution” for the 21st Century”.

State Department document No. 10536 disseminated at the second meeting called, Words into Deeds Progress since the Miami Summit quoted Clinton,

For the first time ever, we established an architecture for hemispheric relations from the Arctic Circle in the north to Argentina in the south. We created a work plan from which the democratic governments of the Americas could be judged by their people. We established a follow-up process to ensure that the decisions we reached at the Summit would be carried out.

[Explanation: It’s already in progress. You will notice, that for the past 30 years or so the US dollar has been taking a metamorphous. It’s becoming colorized as the Canadian Dollar and the Mexican Peso. How will they pull this off? They will create a huge crises, then offer the solution to the dumbed down masses. The new currency will save the day. People will buy the lie hook line and sinker. Everyone in the main stream press and the political realm is aware of this. Only the people are in the dark.]

[Explanation: Have you noticed how much of our produce is imported from south and central America? Question one might ask, why all of a sudden all the imported inferior produce? The answer is simple. Destroy the American farmer, which will make America dependent instead of independent.]