Setting The Stage For a North American Union Currency

Setting The Stage For a North American Union Currency

Dana Gabriel
Stop Lying
Wednesday, October 17, 2007

We live in a time of sky rocketing trade deficits. The housing bubble is ready to burst, and more and more jobs are being outsourced.

America has become more of a service-based economy, resulting in a lower number of goods being exported. We are witnessing the death of the middle class by design. The dollar is being further devalued and its collapse is imminent. The global elite are looting the economy and setting the stage for a North American Union currency. They are the ones orchestrating the devaluation of the dollar, and will pose as our saviors by offering a single currency called the amero as their solution. Through the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) of North America, working groups are busy integrating the U.S., Canada, and Mexico into a North American Union. Those who do favor a European Union style continental integration view the idea of a unified currency as essential. Abandoning the dollar will be very unpopular with many Americans, but as it continues its painful collapse and becomes weaker, arguments for a regional currency will only be further bolstered.

Many argue that a regional currency and a North American Union will be needed in order to compete with the European Union and the euro. There seems to be no end to the dollar’s woes as it continues to hit record lows against the euro. Large and ever growing trade deficits with China further threaten the dollar, and the euro is competing as the international foreign reserve currency. A single North American currency is nothing new as the idea has been floated around for some time. In 1999 , economist and former Canadian Member of Parliament Herbert G. Grubel published his paper, “The Case for the Amero: The Economics and Politics of a North American Monetary Union.” It is interesting that he gives 2010 as the possible timetable for the introduction of the amero. This happens to coincide with the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) task force’s report, “Building a North American Community,” which also states the target year of 2010 for the implementation of their recommendations in matters of economics, politics and security. This report is considered by many to be the blueprint for the SPP, which was signed in March of 2005. It is through the SPP process that a North American Union is being created. The proposed amero would be a single North American fiat currency. This would give the global elite control of North America through the power of currency creation and would further facilitate in the consolidation of wealth and power in the region.

The CFR supports a switch to regional and global currencies, and an end to national currencies. They have had their tentacles in almost every administration, with the goal of destroying U.S. sovereignty. Benn Steil, the CFR’s Director of International Economics said, “countries should abandon monetary nationalism. Governments should replace national currencies.” The CFR wishes to divide the economies of the world into three different regions, each with its own currency. Ending monetary nationalism will result in the loss of economic sovereignty. In an article entitled “The Death of Three Nations,” Alan Burkhart states, “Our currency will be replaced with the Amero. And we’ll be one giant step closer to the UN’s perverse dream of a one-world government.” A North American Union and the amero are only one small part of the New World Order’s agenda to enslave humanity.

Many consider Robert Pastor to be, “the father of the North American Union,” as he has been one of the leading advocates for deeper integration. He envisions a North America with its own currency, the amero. He was one of the vice chairs of the “Building a North American Community” report. He often uses word semantics, and by referring to a North American Community instead of Union, it sounds less ominous and threatening, when there is really little difference. According to Pastor, a time is coming soon when a common currency will be needed to compete with the euro. He has said that another 9/11 terrorist attack could create the right climate needed to advance integration into a North American Community. He stated,”What I’m saying is that a crisis is an event which can force democratic governments to make difficult decisions like those that would be required to create a North American Community.” After a terrorist attack or an economic collapse, many more would accept the idea of the amero and a North American Union as both reasonable solutions.

In May of this year David Dodge Governor of the Bank of Canada said that a unified currency with the U.S. was a real possibility. Bob Chapman, publisher of the news letter, the International Forecaster, said that the amero, “will be presented to the American public as the administrations solution for dollar recovery.” Steve Previs, a vice president at Jefferies International LTD., a London investment firm, has openly prompted a move over to the amero. Speaking of the amero, he said that it, “is a proposed currency for a North American Community which is being developed right now between Canada, the U.S., and Mexico.” He went on to say that the agenda is a, “borderless community, much like the European Union, with the U.S. dollar, the Canadian dollar, and the Mexican peso being replaced by the amero.” A couple of weeks ago, BankIntroductions.com was informing their clients that the amero could be introduced as a North American currency sometime in the next ten years. If there wasn’t already enough proof that the amero and the North American Union agenda are real and not some made up conspiracy theories, former Mexican President Vicente Fox only reaffirmed these suspicions in interviews on the Larry King Show and on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Fox is a true globalist, and on the Larry King Show he expressed that President Bush has been working towards a single currency similar to the euro. On the Daily Show, he argued in favor of a North American Union, using the EU as its model. This was an incredible admission by a most senior former government official as he publicly advocated for the creation of a North American Union and its own currency. This was not a slip of the tongue as it was meant to present this agenda in a positive manner, test the waters, and further condition the people for its eventual implementation if we are unable to stop it.

There is an even bigger gap between rich and poor, and the death of the middle class is almost complete. It is the multinational corporations who benefit from trade deals like NAFTA and CAFTA, and a North American Union will be no different. The corporate takeover of North America is a destructive cycle that will only serve to further widen the gap between rich and poor. The unholy alliance between government and multinational corporations has been exposed on many levels. This is no longer our government, as they have ceased to be for the people and have become for the rich, by the rich, and for the rich as big business interests come before our own. The amero is part of the integration of the U.S., Canada, and Mexico into a North American Union. The current global crisis and the dollar’s imminent collapse could be the right climate for the introduction of a regional currency. The amero will mean the end of our financial sovereignty, and will further undermine America’s ability to control its own economic independence.

Harper’s amero/SPP plot

By
Greg Felton
Tehran Times
October 17, 2007

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has been doing a lot of laundry lately. First, he sorted through his cabinet and put some of his ministerial sock puppets through the spin cycle. Despite the best efforts of our palace press to present the event as “real news”, it was a political nullity.

A cabinet minister today is a micromanaged serf who cannot go to the bathroom without written permission from Harper’s Central Directorate, so the individual at the head of a given ministry is supremely irrelevant, unless he or she gets beaten up by the opposition beyond the point of redemption and has to be replaced.

Such was the case with Gordon O’Conner, who was done in as minion of defense by Harper’s pro-Bush militarism in Afghanistan, especially the scandal of Taleban prisoners being tortured after Canadian soldiers turned them over to an Afghan faction. O’Conner, though clearly not up to the job, could not be blamed for a policy that was entirely the product of Harper’s devotion to the U.S. and Israel.

Nevertheless, O’Conner was shuffled off to a less conspicuous post and replaced at defense by Foreign Minion Peter McKay. Other changes were not significant. While this non-event got more attention than it deserved, substantive coverage of Harper –- and Paul Martin before him — taking Canada’s sovereignty to the cleaners has been all but non-existent. What little we do know about it comes largely from public protests and organizations like the Canadian Action Party.

On Aug. 20 and 21 Harper, Bush and Mexican President Felipe Calderón met at Château Montebello in Quebec to discuss the (shhh!) Security and Prosperity Partnership, which has as its objective the consolidation of Canada, the U.S., and Mexico into one North American politico-economic entity. To the sub rosa conclave, the press and parliamentarians were not invited, although business leaders were.

According to official sources, critics of the SPP have it all wrong — the SPP isn’t a treaty or an agreement; it’s simply “a dialogue to increase security and enhance prosperity.” If that be the case, why is this claim found on a website bearing a U.S. government domain and why is there no public dialogue?

(Felton’s Second Law of Electoral Politics: “A transparently self-serving, virtuous title for a group or project serves to mask conduct detrimental to the public good and rule of law.” For example: Security and Prosperity Partnership, Canadian Coalition for Democracies, and “Operation: Enduring Freedom”.)

When a dialogue on the SPP was organized in June 2007 at the University of Ottawa, the Harper government refused to participate. Granted, the event at Simard Hall was highly critical of the SPP, but Harper should have sent a representative, if for no other reason than to regurgitate official fictions, deny the obvious, and give the illusion that he gives a damn what Canadians think.

The fact that Harper refuses to debate the SPP fuels legitimate speculation that something criminal is going on, and that he is betraying the interests of Canadians. Sue Corcoran of the Council of Canadians rightly points out that the SPP, unlike the North American Free (sic) Trade Agreement, is not being discussed among elected legislators in full view of the public; rather, it’s being negotiated in secret by unelected bureaucrats.

That is cause enough to warrant an investigation of Harper for sedition on the grounds that he is usurping the role of Parliament and undermining the sovereignty of Canada and the welfare of Canadians.

The Criminal Code of Canada, Section 59 (3) states: “A seditious conspiracy is an agreement between two or more persons to carry out a seditious intention.” These persons are, but not limited to, Harper, Bush and Calderón. The definition of seditious intention is given in Section 59 (4):

“Without limiting the generality of the meaning of the expression ‘seditious intention,’ every one shall be presumed to have a seditious intention who (a) teaches or advocates, or (b) publishes or circulates any writing that advocates, the use, without the authority of law, of force as a means of accomplishing a governmental change within Canada.”

Since Parliament is the only body authorized to pass federal laws, and since it has had little or no input into the SPP, Harper has no legal authority to negotiate away any amount of Canadian political sovereignty. Despite the dearth of definitive data on this deal, its dishonesty is demonstrable. To take one further example from the spp.gov website:

“Myth: The SPP is a movement to merge the United States, Mexico, and Canada into a North American Union and establish a common currency.

Fact: The cooperative efforts under the SPP, …seek to make the United States, Canada and Mexico open to legitimate trade and closed to terrorism and crime. It does not change our courts or legislative processes and respects the sovereignty of the United States, Mexico, and Canada. The SPP in no way, shape or form considers the creation of a European Union-like structure or a common currency. The SPP does not attempt to modify our sovereignty or currency or change the American system of government designed by our Founding Fathers.”

While you ponder the veracity of this claim — and debate which is “myth” and which is “fact” — I’d like to introduce you to Robert Pastor Ph.D., vice president of international affairs, professor of international relations, and director of the Center for North American Studies, American University in Washington, D.C.

At the beginning of November 2002, this highly credentialized individual gave a speech in Toronto entitled “A North American Community — A Modest Proposal to the Trilateral Commission”. It is perhaps the clearest exposition of the SPP and its objectives.

Pastor argues, among other things, that NAFTA should be raised to a new level of cooperation. On this new level, the existing “two bilateral legislative groups” (Parliament and Congress) would be merged into one North American Parliamentary Group. There’d also be a Permanent Court on Trade and Investment — though he doesn’t say how such a court would stop traditional U.S. contempt for Canadian economic interests (softwood lumber, anyone?) — as well as a North American Commission to deal with immigration and customs, and propose measures like a continental infrastructure and transportation network, harmonized (sic) regulatory policies, a customs union, and a common currency.

On the latter point he said: “Mexicans and Canadians do not want to be incorporated into the United States, and they are ambivalent about adopting the American dollar, but they are more willing to become part of a single country of North America and of a unified currency, like the ‘amero,’ proposed by Herbert Grubel.” Grubel, of course, is a former MP and now a senior econo-theologian at the Fraser Institute, the British Columbia-based neocon propaganda factory that has more influence on national policy than do elected MPs. He made his proposal in 1999!

If you have considered spp.com’s “myth” vs. “fact” distinction while you read the discussion on Pastor, consider again this “fact” claim: “The SPP in no way, shape or form considers the creation of … a common currency. The SPP does not attempt to modify our sovereignty or currency or change the American system of government designed by our Founding Fathers.”

Significantly when Pastor speaks of the amero, he assumes that Canada and Mexico would convert their currencies to the U.S. dollar, thereby surrendering the right to set national monetary or economic policy.

One would think that in the time since the amero was formally suggested (1999) and SPP discussions were begun (2005) we, the Canadian public, would have been informed about them. Problem is, we aren’t supposed to know about it until it’s a done deal. Who will be doing this deal? Consider Pastor’s final charge to his audience:

“The challenge of the Trilateral Commission – (is) to sketch an alternative future for the entire continent that the people will embrace and the politicians will feel obligated to accept.”

There you have it. A clique of econo-political elites is going to remake North America in its own image and the citizenry of the three countries has no say in the matter! How much does Pastor’s Brave New Economic Order reflect actual discussions on the SPP? I’m sure inquiring citizens would like to know.

Even without further information, though, the charge of sedition against Harper deserves serious consideration, given that the SPP is being debated by an unelected cabal of business interests and bureaucrats with the aim of bringing about a governmental change within Canada. The punishment for sedition is spelled out in Section 61 of the Criminal Code:

“Every one who… is a party to a seditious conspiracy, is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding fourteen years.”

A final note: Anyone who wants insight into Harper’s mindset and penchant for autocratic secrecy should read the Aug. 18 feature “A Matter of Faith” by Vancouver Sun religion columnist Douglas Todd. He focuses, to the extent he can, on Harper’s affiliation with the obscurantist Christian and Missionary Alliance Church. One of its core convictions, all of which are based on Biblical inerrancy, is the “immanent” return of Jesus, the same superstition that led to the failure of the Alberta-based Millerite cult after Jesus failed to show up for his Oct. 22, 1844, appointment.

I bring this point up because it is also a key belief among U.S. Christian sociopaths like John Hagee, Pat Robertson, and Bush himself, who abuse Biblical stories to justify blind support for Israel, the “war on terrorism”, highly centralized economic elitism, contempt for secular, democratic law, disdain for their own people, and the indiscriminate murder of Muslims.

In a like manner, Harper’s warped religiosity is seen in his contempt of Parliament, autocratic leadership, disdain for the press and public accountability, coziness with Bush, and involvement with the SPP. Harper knows the vast majority of Canadians don’t trust evangelical politicians, so he doesn’t talk about his Christianity, and he counsels other evangelical ministers to keep quiet about their religious beliefs. But his religiosity, like the SPP, must be publicly debated for the sake of Canada’s future.

Harper was elected by Canadians, but his primary allegiance is to his church and pro-U.S./pro-Israel interest groups. The case of Regina v. Stephen Harper on the charge of sedition in the matter of the SPP begins here.