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Incremental Change Security and Prosperity Partnership (PPP)…
A North American Union?
An Operation Information/OK-SAFE, Inc. PresentationBy A.T. rev. 2007
GLOBALIZATION
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 INorth American UnionSecurity and Prosperity
Partnership of North America (SPP)
North American Leaders Unveil Security and Prosperity PartnershipBush, 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”
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.
Office of the President
Dept. of StateDept. of Homeland
SecurityDept. of
Commerce
• 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.
UPS FedEx Mittal Steel New York Life Ford General Motors Merck Chevron General Electric
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 IINAFTA
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 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
The Trans-Texas Corridor (TTC-35) - 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, 7/10/06Sherman, 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 Futureby 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
Hispanic Chamber of Commerce NASCO/Trade Offices
Mexiplex, 16th & Baltimore
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
Sponsor of:
• North America Works II Conference 12/2006
• SPP Meeting in Louisville, KY 1/2006
• 1965 David Rockefeller, and others, founded the Council of the Americas
• Promote US/Latin American Business
North America Works II ConferenceKansas City, MO, Nov. 30 –Dec. 2, 2006
Eric Farnsworth, VP of Council of the
America’s; CFR
Stephen Blank,Pace University, NY;
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 PartnershipBush, Fox, Martin outline trilateral efforts during March 23, 2005 meeting
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 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 Bradshaw- Privatizing 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
Loves’ Travel Stops and Country Stores
AGC, Associated General Contractors
AUI, Associated Underwriters Institute
Chesapeake Natural Gas Citizen’s Security Bank
COBB Engineering Garver Engineers Johnston Enterprises KOSS Construction Co. M.J. LEE Construction
The Chickasaw Tribe Nation
MBC, Muskogee Bridge
Asphalt Pavement
Poe and Associates Consulting
OKAA, Oklahoma Aggregates Associates SCCPA
Spirit Bank
TBIP, Tinker PBS&J
Martin Marietta Materials