Transcript A North American Union? - OK-SAFE

GLOBALIZATION
Incremental Change
Security and Prosperity Partnership (PPP)…
A North American Union?
An Operation Information/OK-SAFE, Inc. Presentation
By A.T.
rev. 2007
Globalization
•The increasing economic, cultural, demographic,
political, and environmental interdependence of
different places around the world.
•A relatively new word that is commonly used to
describe the ongoing, multidimensional process of
worldwide change.
•It has also been defined as a process by which
nationality becomes increasingly irrelevant in
global production and consumption.
What we look like
now…
Where we’re
headed…
PART I
North American Union
Security and Prosperity
Partnership of North
America (SPP)
North American Union
North American Leaders Unveil Security and Prosperity Partnership
Bush, Fox, Martin outline trilateral efforts during March 23, 2005 meeting
"In a rapidly changing world, we must develop new
avenues of cooperation that will make our open
societies safer and more secure, our businesses more
competitive, and our economies more resilient," they
said in their statement.
SPP Agenda Includes
 Common North American Security
Perimeter
 Harmonization of Border and
Transportation Systems
 The Free Flow of Goods, People, and
Services Within North America
SPP.GOV Website:
“Stimulate and accelerate cross-border
technology trade by preventing unnecessary
barriers from being erected”
Office of the
President
Dept. of State
Dept. of Homeland
Security
Dept. of
Commerce
Speaker Secretary Carlos Gutierrez:
The purpose of this meeting was to institutionalize the
North American Security and Prosperity Partnership
(SPP) and the NACC, so that the work will continue
through changes in administrations.
•US Dept. of Commerce
•George Blackwood, NASCO
•Kansas City, MO
International Trade
•UPS – All Three Countries
•Ford Motor- Two Countries
•US State Dept.
•Dept. of Homeland Security
•FedEx
•Kissinger McLarty Assoc.
•Council of the Americas
NACC Executive Committee
Members – U.S.
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UPS
FedEx
Mittal Steel
New York Life
Ford
General Motors
Merck
Chevron
General Electric
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Wal-Mart
Lockheed Martin
Kansas City Southern
Campbell Soup
Whirlpool
US Secretariat of Council
of the Americas;
 US Chamber of
Commerce
NACC Assignments of
Responsibilities
 CANADA – Border Facilitation
 United States – Regulatory
Convergence
 Mexico – Energy Integration
Cross-Border Issues
Recommendations
 Evaluate Moving
Customs Process
Further Inland
 Infrastructure
Improvements to
Increase Capacity
Regulatory/Regulation
 EU regulation has a general scope, and is
obligatory in all its elements and directly
applicable in all Member States of the
European Union. Any local laws contrary to
the regulation are overruled, as EU Law has
supremacy over the laws of the Member
States. New legislation enacted by Member
states must be consistent with the
requirements of EU regulations. For these
reasons regulations constitute the most
powerful or influential of the EU legislative
acts.
“SPP…is pledged to operate permanently
at the cabinet/ministerial level.”
Dr. Robert A. Pastor
 Robert A. Pastor is
Professor of
International Relations
and Director of the
Center for North
American Studies at
American University.
 Member CFR
Creating a North American
Community
“Creating a North American Community” – Task Force
on the Future of North America, March 2005
Task Force Report
Excerpt
We propose:
•The creation by 2010 of a community to
enhance security, prosperity, and opportunity
for all North Americans.
•A community based on the premise that each
member benefits from its neighbor’s success
and is diminished by its problems.
Part II
NAFTA
Trans-Texas Corridor (TTC-35)
NASCO
KC SmartPort
NAFTA – Opens the Door
NAFTA Initialing Ceremony,
1992
Clinton signs NAFTA, 1993
Trade Agreements
 GATT General Agreement on Trade and
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Tariffs, 1947– Became the WTO, 1/1/95
FTA U.S.-Canada Free Trade Agreement went
into effect, 1989
NAFTA The FTA provisions were
incorporated into the North American Free
Trade Agreement, 1994
CAFTA – Central America Free Trade
Agreement, 2005
FTAA - Free Trade Area of the Americas,
stalled
Trans-Texas Corridor
artist’s rendition
The TransTexas
Corridor (TTC35) - the
Oklahoma to
Mexico/Gulf
Coast
multimodal
transportation
system
TTC FAST FACTS
 1200 feet wide
 10 lanes of cars, trucks, rail
 Will consume 146 acres of land per mile
of highway
 Will run parallel to or on I-35 from Gulf
of Mexico to Oklahoma Border
 Will be a toll road under foreign
management – 50 years
Comprehensive Development
Agreement (CDA) with Foreign
Developer
 CDA between Cintra
Conseciones (Spanish) and
the Texas Transportation
Commission, 3/2005
 Master Development and
Financial Plan of the TTC-35
 50 Year Agreement
Foreign Owned US Toll Roads
Foreign Companies Are Buying Up American Highways and
Bridges Built by U.S. Taxpayers
by Leslie Miller, Associated Press
July 15th, 2006
Roads and bridges built by U.S. taxpayers are starting to be sold off, and
so far foreign-owned companies are doing the buying.
On a single day in June, an Australian-Spanish partnership paid
$3.8 billion to lease the Indiana Toll Road. An Australian company
bought a 99-year lease on Virginia's Pocahontas Parkway, and
Texas officials decided to let a Spanish-American partnership
build and run a toll road from Austin to Seguin for 50 years.
Foreign Toll Road Ownership
TTC-35 MTG, 7/10/06
Sherman, TX
Foreign Trade Zone, Durant, OK
TTC-35 Websites
www.keeptexasmoving.com
www.corridorwatch.org
NASCO – North America’s
SuperCorridor Coalition, Inc.
NASCO Oklahoma Board
Members
Senator Debbe Leftwich (D)
Dawn Sullivan, ODOT
Research and
Development Engineer
A Few US Members of NASCO
NASCO’s Tiffany Melvin,
Journal Record, Jan. 10, 2006
This is very much a Texas issue
right now, but it will impact
Oklahoma eventually, Melvin
said.”
Our Trip to Kansas City, MO 8/21/06
Federal Funding for KC SmartPort
“Kansas City SmartPort received
$4 million which will be used to
create Intelligent Transportation
Systems and highway corridor
projects.”
The Kansas City Connection “The NAFTA Railway”
Kansas City: The Corridor to the Future
by Mayor Kay Barnes
…Despite
its inland address, Kansas City,
Missouri, will soon be home to the first
ever foreign customs inspection office
on United States soil; a new Mexican
Customs Clearance Facility…
KC, MO 8/21/06 – Kansas City’s Proposed
Mexican Customs Facility
Richards-Gebaur
Airforce Base –
proposed
FTZ/WH/Rail
Kansas City, MO 8/21/06
Mexiplex, 16th & Baltimore
Hispanic Chamber of Commerce
NASCO/Trade Offices
MEXIPLEX
Part III
North America Works II
What About Oklahoma?
‘North American Works II Conference’
Kansas City, MO, Nov. 30 - Dec. 2, 2006
 Topic: Building
North American
Competitiveness
 Goal: Tri-Lateral
Transportation
Integration
 Purpose: To Reach
the Security and
Prosperity goals
America’s Society /
Council of the Americas
•1965 David Rockefeller,
and others, founded the
Council of the Americas
•Promote US/Latin
American Business
Sponsor of:
•North America Works II
Conference 12/2006
•SPP Meeting in
Louisville, KY 1/2006
North America Works II Conference
Kansas City, MO, Nov. 30 –Dec. 2, 2006
Stephen Blank,
Eric Farnsworth,
Pace University, NY;
CFR
VP of Council of the
America’s; CFR
North America Works II
NASCO
Corridor Map
Kansas City
SmartPort
Lockheed Martin’s SAVITRAK
Dalhousie University Presentation by
Mary Brooks 12/1/06
Review
North American Leaders Unveil Security and Prosperity Partnership
Bush, Fox, Martin outline trilateral efforts during March 23, 2005 meeting
Trans-Texas Corridor
artist’s rendition
NASCO – North America’s
SuperCorridor Coalition, Inc.
What About
Oklahoma?
Tribes Place Bets Outside the
Casino
LA Times, December 10, 2006 Sunday
“Native American nations that want to
diversify are turning to Chinese partners.
In Oklahoma the Chickasaws are getting a
sports-car assembly plant.
The Chickasaw Nation… has a plan
…Bring the Chinese to Indian country.”
Nanjing Automobile Corp. – Ardmore, OK
MG Motors
North America
Ardmore Plant
Bringing the Trans-Texas
Corridor to Oklahoma
Is it Security and Prosperity?
Or The End of the United States?
Legislation to Support
H. Con. Res. 40
“Expressing the sense of Congress that
the United States should not engage in
the construction of a North American
Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
Superhighway System or enter into a
North American Union with Mexico and
Canada.”
Sources
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Council on Foreign Relations, www.cfr.org
Building a North American Community, by Dr. Robert A. Pastor
United States State Department, www.usinfo.state.gov
Security and Prosperity Partnership, www.spp.gov
NASCO – www.nascocorridor.com
Texas Department of Transportation, www.keeptexasmoving.org
Vive le Canada, www.vivelecanada.ca/staticpages/
The August Review, www.augustreview.com
Federal Highway Administration, www.fhwa.dot.gov
The Journal Record, January 10, 2006
Kansas City SmartPort, www.kcsmartport.org
WorldNet Daily, www.worldnetdaily.com
Human Events Online, www.humaneventsonline.com
Judicial Watch, www.judicialwatch.org
North America Works II Conference, as an attendee, 12/2006
Issue 10 – Transportation - May 2006, Kansas City, MO
Council of the Americas, www.americas-society.org
L.A. Times, December 10, 2006 Sunday Home Edition
TRUST www.restoretrust.org
Wikipedia
Map thanks to www.franciscansinternational.org/issues/Namer...
GPO, US Government House of Representatives
Oklahoma House of Representatives, 2007, 51st session
Extra Slides
Marc Nuttle, Global Motor Works, soon to
be MG Motors North America
Marc Nuttle, Gov.
Frank Keating, and
Frank McPherson,
2001
Marc Nuttle,
2004
Guest Speakers 1/23/07
•Trans-Texas Corridor
Vision and Planning
•Tom BradshawPrivatizing for the
Public Good
•Geoff Yarema – PPP,
Ownership and Project
Delivery
Chairman of TX Trans. Com.
TRUST Members
 Neal McCaleb, President; Chickasaw Tribe
 Tom Love, Chairman; Love’s Country Stores
 Kell Kelly, Chairman; Spirit Bank
 Robert Poe, Treasurer; Robert Poe & Assoc.
 Burns Hargis
TRUST Supporters as of 1/23/2007
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Loves’ Travel Stops and
Country Stores
AGC, Associated General
Contractors
AUI, Associated
Underwriters Institute
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Chesapeake Natural Gas
Citizen’s Security Bank
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COBB Engineering
Garver Engineers
Johnston Enterprises
KOSS Construction Co.
M.J. LEE Construction
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The Chickasaw Tribe Nation
MBC, Muskogee Bridge
Asphalt Pavement
Poe and Associates
Consulting
 OKAA, Oklahoma
Aggregates Associates
 SCCPA
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Spirit Bank
TBIP, Tinker
PBS&J
Martin Marietta Materials