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Vogel: The stability of capitalism in North America depends on the continuous and unrestricted importation of cheap manufactured goods from the Far Eastern Pacific Rim. A current initiative of North American capital, championed by the SPP, is to divert as much commodity traffic as possible from the unionized ports of the U.S. and Canada to the South in order to exploit cheap transportation labor in that region. Because of the sheer mass of commodities flowing through global supply chains, every reduction in labor costs, no matter how minute, yields huge profits.

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The role of "Atlantica" is also covered.

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The Atlantica project, which is presently under development, is an SPP endorsed scheme to establish a free trade zone through the Atlantic Provinces of Canada and the U.S. states of Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, and New York. The primary goal of Atlantica is to reroute Far Eastern container freight bound for the Upper Midwest and Canada away from unionized ports. This flow of container traffic, referred to as the Suez Express, also originates in the Far East but is routed through the Indian Ocean, passes through the Suez Canal and the Mediterranean Sea, and crosses the Atlantic Ocean. The private toll road planned for Atlantica will run all the way to Buffalo, N.Y. Like the Punta Colonet project, the Atlantica highway will divide and devastate another of the few unspoiled areas on the continent.

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He's even got an interesting map:

Globalization of North America continues.

[ 24 September 2007: Message edited by: N.Beltov ]

The HarpoCons promised accountable and transparent government because Canadians were sick of the Libranos. They lied.

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The Security and Prosperity Partnership is dead.

The Trilateral Commission is an assembly of political and academic eminences, mostly retired, from Pacific Asia, North America and Europe. As one delegate to last week's North American regional meeting in Cancun joked: "We used to run things, and now we get together to complain that the new crew isn't doing as good a job."

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All sessions were off the record. But on North American trade, consensus was emphatic: The Security and Prosperity Partnership, launched two years ago in an effort to harmonize the regulatory regimes of the member states of NAFTA, is defunct.

Reaffirming the SPP's goals at the August summit in Montebello, Que., was mere political butt-covering. Having failed to make a breakthrough despite two years of trying, President George W. Bush, Prime Minister Stephen Harper and President Felipe Calderon punted the mess to some line bureaucrats, who are to pretend to work on the file. But in reality, the file is closed.

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“Most people would agree that pesticides pose a significantly higher risk to Canadians than peace activists,” said Barlow. “Any agreement that blocks the free movement of people based on political beliefs, ethnic background or who their friends are but that allows even more hazardous chemicals across the border clearly has nothing to do with the real security of North Americans.”

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I think there are some organizations and people who would like us to believe that the closed door meetings without press coverage have resulted in nothing and that we have nothing fear of our plutocratic governments. The struggle for democracy in Canada continues.

The notion of world peace is a terrifying thought to Pentagon capitalists and their colonial administrators in Ottawa and provinces. It's okay to poison people and ship hundreds of thousands of metric tonnes of toxic waste into Canada every year for "processing" if it means protecting or adding to the corporate bottom line. The war on terror is a colossal lie.

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Originally posted by EriKtheHalfaRed:
Wish I could believe it Farnival, but bad ideas never die easily.

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