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 Union

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

Trans-Texas Corridor artist’s rendition

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

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 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