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Woodrow
Wilson International Center for Scholars: Expanding NAFTA
"continental homeland security", North American Parliament, and
"continental democracy" named as
possible goals
Old-Thinker News | Jan. 17, 2008
By Daniel Taylor
Old-Thinker News
reported on
the Woodrow Wilson International Center
for Scholars in August of 2007, documenting an overlooked conference held by the
center in 2002 which was dedicated to the discussion of a "North
American Consciousness". The North American Consciousness - a
mindset favorable to the integration of Canada, Mexico, and the
United States - was discussed as being a necessity if integration
was to be successful.
Another document has been found, again from the WWICS website, that
discusses the creation of a "continental homeland security," a
"North American parliament," and a "continental democracy"
[between the U.S., Mexico, and Canada]. The information covered in
the document will be very familiar to those who have been following
North American Union developments.
Background on the WWICS
The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, established in
1968,
functions as a roundtable for globalist policy making and
discussion. The current director of the WWICS
is Lee H. Hamilton, former vice
chairman of the 9/11 Commission. Interestingly, the center enjoys
the financial support of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the Ford
Foundation. Members of the Council on Foreign
Relations and other globalists such as Thomas F. McLarty - from
Kissinger-McLarty Associates - often contribute to WWICS round table
discussions and conferences.
NAFTA at 10
Throughout the "NAFTA at 10: Progress, Potential, and Precedents"
document, numerous references to the European Union are made.
Learning from the mistakes and successes of the EU are vital, the
conference panelists say, in the creation of an expanded NAFTA and a
North American Community (modeled around the European Union). Many
of the panelists argue that deeper integration must take place,
while some cite the need for global governance to effectively manage
worldwide economic integration.
The NAFTA at 10 conference
was held in 2002, ten years after the original NAFTA agreement was
signed.
Below are some of the outstanding excerpts:
"Anthony DePalma argued that NAFTA was a historic milestone.
However, while the big idea behind the European Community was
clear—the prevention of another European war—he wondered aloud about
the binding common interest behind NAFTA. He suggested that there
was no similar master plan in the case of NAFTA. Rather, the three
NAFTA partners were stumbling forward in the direction of community
and towards the idea of the interrelationship between international
and domestic policies. DePalma posed the question of the trade-off
between sovereignty and “continental democracy.” For example, while
all three states submitted themselves to tribunals to resolve trade
disputes, the tribunals themselves are not democratic in that they
do not conform to norms of transparency. He posed the question of
whether continental homeland security could be a new organizing idea
around which NAFTA moves forward."
"Carlos Heredia argued that the NAFTA countries should pursue a
strategy of convergence and called for steps to be taken with vision
and leadership in the direction of a North American parliament and
the development of institutions that will strengthen democracy."
"Alan S. Alexandroff then
evaluated “Feasible Globalizations” by Dani Rodrik of
Harvard University. Rodrik argued that global markets
are unsustainable without global governance, and that if
there is to be no governance, there is a need to reduce
and slow ambitions for worldwide economic integration." |
Model North American Parliament
gatherings have already been taking place for student groups. As
documented by Jerome Corsi,
writing in World Net Daily,
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A group
supporting North American integration is preparing to
hold its annual "North American Model Parliament" for
students from the United States, Canada and Mexico...
NAFI, according to the group's website, is as a
non-profit organization based in Montreal, dedicated to
"address the issues raised by North American integration
as well as identify new ideas and strategies to
reinforce the North American region. |
Economic integration and
harmonization of rules and regulations is seen by many globalists as only a means to an end.
L. Ronald Scheman, founder
of the Pan American Development foundation and
Senior Advisor to Henry Kissinger's
Kissinger McLarty Associates has a vision of a Greater America
modeled around the European Union. Sheman writes in
the globalist that he hopes
to learn from EU architect Jean Monnet,
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"To him, the strategy was clear.
'This proposal [for a coal and steel community] has an essential
political objective: to make a breach in the ramparts of
national sovereignty, which will be narrow enough to secure
consent — but deep enough to open the way toward the unity that
is essential to peace [and we might add, for our purposes in the
Americas, for development].'" |
Jerome Corsi writes
regarding the Transatlantic Common Market between the United States
and the European Union that economic integration is seen by
globalists as a steppingstone to greater objectives. Corsi cites an
article carried in
the Streit Council journal
in 2007 by World Bank economist
Domenec Ruiz Devesa
which states,
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"As
understood by Jean Monnet," he continued, "economic
integration must and will lead to political integration,
since an integrated market requires common institutions
producing common rules to govern it." |
The march to total integration
continues.
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