America Sells Out. China Buys Up

Kaye Beach

June 24, 2011

Be sure to read Oklahoma: The Reddest State Gets a Little Redder contact Gov. Fallin  regarding about her intentions regarding the upcoming July Governors meeting in Utah with Chinese officials.

From The American Dream

originally posted June 18, 2011

The Chinese Government Is Buying Up Economic Assets And Huge Tracts Of Land All Over The United States

In 2011, America is for sale and the communist Chinese are eager buyers.  The Chinese government is using sovereign wealth funds and Chinese state-owned enterprises to buy up economic assets and huge tracts of land all over the United States.  Many of our politicians hail all of this “foreign investment” as something that is “good for America”, while many others see something much more sinister going on here.  In any event, this is a trend that is rapidly accelerating and that is causing great concern among patriotic Americans.

In my recent article entitled “China Wants To Construct A 50 Square Mile Self-Sustaining City South Of Boise, Idaho“, I examined a potential deal that Sinomach (a company controlled by the Chinese government) wants to do with the government of Idaho.  There will be more on this deal in a minute.

But first it is important to note that this is a phenomenon that is happening all across the United States.

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US Canada Agreement Uncovered-Prelude to North American Security Perimeter

Kaye Beach

June 3, 2011

Entered without comment…

From the Canadian Press, June 1, 2011

Border workers push for biometric screening in perimeter security plan with U.S.

By Jim Bronskill, The Canadian Press

OTTAWA — Canada’s front-line border officers back the idea of a perimeter security arrangement with the United States, with a few caveats.

The Customs and Immigration Union wants more intensive screening of travellers, including a biometric face-recognition tool to pinpoint security threats and wanted criminals.

And it’s pushing for an end to closures and reduced hours at land-border crossings.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper and U.S. President Barack Obama have signed an agreement that could lead to a formal North American security perimeter.

The union’s submission, part of a federal consultation on the initiative, was obtained by The Canadian Press under the Access to Information Act. Union president Ron Moran was unavailable Tuesday.

The perimeter arrangement is aimed at expanding joint operations on security while allowing for smoother flow of goods and people across the Canada-U.S. border. The federal government says an ambitious joint-action plan should be ready this summer.

Critics contend a border deal would endanger Canadian sovereignty and federal control of personal information.

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ASU hosts model North American Union legislature

The North American Center for Transborder Studies (NACTS)at Arizona State University will co-host the 2011 “Triumvirate” at the Tempe campus.

The sixth edition of the Triumvirate, the only trinational inter-parliamentary student simulation in North America, will take place from May 29 through June 3. Organized by ASU and the North American Forum on Integration (NAFI) from Montreal, the event will bring together about 50 students from seven American, Canadian and Mexican universities.

“The Triumvirate, is a unique, one-of-a-kind event,” NACTS director Rick Van Schoik said.

University student participants from Mexico, the United States and Canada participate in a week-long simulation exercise simulating a congressional meeting between North American legislators. Student delegates are assigned one of the three roles: legislator (representing a country other than their own), journalist, or lobbyist. The legislators will debate themes of a political, economic and environmental nature, while lobbyists will attempt to influence the legislators’ decisions and the TrilatHerald journalist team will analyze the evolution of the debates.

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Wikileaks Sheds Light on Plans for a North American Union

Kaye Beach

April 4, 2011

This 2005 cable originating from the Ottowa Embassy with the subject line;

“PLACING A NEW NORTH AMERICAN INITIATIVE IN ITS ECONOMIC POLICY CONTEXT”, focuses on the delicacies of marketing this repugnant plan to “North Americans” To gain the support of Canadian policymaker, an “incremental”  and “pragmatic” approach to a “new North American Initiative” is touted.

An incremental and pragmatic package of tasks for a new North American Initiative (NAI) will likely gain  the most support among Canadian policymakers.  Our research leads us to conclude that such a package should tackle both “security” and “prosperity” goals.

Security and prosperity goals

From Wikipedia;

The Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP) was a region-level dialogue with the stated purpose of providing greater cooperation on security and economic issues.^[1] The Partnership was founded in Waco, Texas on March 23, 2005 by Paul Martin, Prime Minister of Canada, Vicente Fox, President of Mexico, and George W. Bush, President of the United States.^[1] It was the second of such regional-level agreements involving the United States of America following the 1997 Partnership for Prosperity and Security in the Caribbean (PPS).

The cable says that this approach fits with the assessment of Canadian economists who have “assessed the options for continental integration” also noting that said Canadian economists, in principle “support more ambitious integration goals, like a customs union/single market and/or single currency”

This fits the recommendations of Canadian economists who have assessed the options for continental integration.  While in principle many of them support more ambitious integration goals, like a customs union/single market and/or single currency,[. . .]

An incremental approach, apparently “helps pave the way” to integrating the two nations until such time as “North Americans” choose to pursue such a goal.

most believe the incremental approach is most appropriate at this time, and all agree that it helps pave the way to these goals if and when North Americans choose to pursue them.

Read the entire cable here

I wonder which North Americans they are referring to.  I don’t recall the issue ever being presented to the “North Americans” that constitute the voting public of the sovereign United States of America or Canadians for that matter.

Top secret: Banff security meeting attracted U.S., Mexico officials

September 21, 2006

 A North American security meeting was secretly held in Banff last week, attracting high-profile officials from the United States, Mexico and Canada.

CBCNews Canada

Quietly, Quietly, Building the North American Union

Judicial Watch

On August 10, 2007, Judicial Watch filed a lawsuit against the Department of Commerce and Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez for denying Judicial Watch access to the North American Competitiveness Council (NACC) meetings and records. Judicial Watch’s lawsuit alleges that the NACC, a key component of the SPP, is subject to the Federal Advisory Committee Act, a federal open meetings law. (Learn more about the litigation.)

Follow the links below to read the recently released documents and to learn more about the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America.

http://www.judicialwatch.org/SPP

The cable goes on to discuss integration issues related to the border, labor, regulation, also discussing a customs and currency union between the nations before launching into a dissertation on “NORTH AMERICAN INTEGRATION:  WHAT WE KNOW”.

You can read it all here

Here is a Canadian perspective on the cable written April 29, 2011

Wikileaks cable confirms North American Initiative (union) – Single market, currency, border plans

Also, see this White House press release dated Feb. 4, 2011 which highlights efforts between the US and Canada with heavy emphasis on “security” and “prosperity”

Secrecy is efficient           

Reading the White House press release, Declaration by President Obama and Prime Minister Harper of Canada – Beyond the Border, the ever present modifier “efficiency” is naturally part of this security and prosperity promotional effort, stated “to increase efficiency and effectiveness for both security and trade.”

Efficiency seems poised to become the catch all alter for sacrificing everything that the American people historically have held dear.

“The truly efficient organization is based on the techniques and technologies of surveillance and manipulation.” –Frank W. Ewell, Totalitarian Nightmares (an excerpt from his 1991 book The Evolution of the Future

Think about it.  Democratic processes are cumbersome especially when governments are crossing tradition boundaries rapidly and virtually as in e-Government initiatives.

This thesis paper, written in 2008 by David Adam Anderson, addresses, among other important aspect of e-government policies;. . .potential Constitutional conflicts of a transformative approach to E-government, and the wisdom of re-conceptualizing citizens as “customers.”

David A Anderson notes that,  A second element to government reorganization on the web is the combination of these virtual agencies into a single, centralized web portal.  And that, visions of government reorganization often focus on breaking down the strict lines of jurisdictional demarcation to mirror the fluid nature of the Internet.

He points out that, such jurisdictional boundaries, however, are neither arbitrary nor a mere expedience necessitated by a now-outmoded form of government administration. Rather they follow from philosophical attitudes enshrined in the Constitution that mean to limit the potential threats to freedom posed by an overly centralized form of government.

Read more of this excellent paper;

EFFICIENCY VERSUS DEMOCRACY:POLICY TRENDS AND ASSESSMENT OF STATE E-GOVERNMENT

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman, Lecture at Columbia University, 28 Apr. 1959
33rd president of US (1884 – 1972

Traffic Camera Accuracy, Legal Problems Proliferate Worldwide

Officials in the US, UK and Australia are forced to refund inaccurate or illegally issued red light camera and speed camera tickets.

Reported by The Newspaper

In the past week, thousands of vehicle owners across the US, England and Australia will receive refunds after officials admitted that the automated citations they received were either bogus or issued contrary to law. In Virginia Beach, Virginia, the red light cameras operated by Redflex Traffic Systems were ticketing drivers who stopped before turning right on red. Despite making perfectly legal and safe turns at Independence Boulevard and Bonney Road, vehicle owners were receiving tickets from the Australian company, WVEC-TV reported. Virginia Beach police claimed that they “reviewed” every citation before it was mailed, yet they failed to prevent innocent owners from being ticketed.

A Hagerstown, Maryland woman was issued a ticket by American Traffic Solutions of Arizona on March 17 for allegedly running a red light on March 17 in Washington, DC. Pearl Myers owns a blue Saturn and never drives in the District. The ticket showed a Volkswagen with a blurry license plate that shared all but one letter with the plate on the Myers Saturn. Myers filed a challenge and was told it would take “up to six months” for a ruling. The bogus ticket was rescinded after the Herald-Mail newspaper intervened.

A motorist in Buckinghamshire, England battled the speed camera ticket that charged him with driving 40 MPH in a 30 zone on Denham Green Lane on June 16, 2009. Instead of merely accepting the £60 fine, Graham Lee, 37, braved the risk of a judicially imposed fine of £1000 and a lengthy driving ban that the UK legal system threatens to discourage court challenges. Lee ordered the video evidence of his alleged crime — which he had to drive 200 miles away from home to view. According to the Bucks Free Press, error codes were recorded on the video that did not appear in the still photograph that accompanied his ticket. As a result of his discovery, charges were finally dropped.

A total of 260 vehicle owners in Seattle, Washington were accused of “speeding” in a school zone, despite being nowhere near a school. The letters were sent as part of a temporary warning period before the actual citations of up to $247 are issued by American Traffic Solutions, an Arizona-based firm. When ticket recipients called to complain about the error, they were ignored until the Seattle Times intervened.

In Liverpool, England, innocent drivers of milk delivery vehicles are being constantly pulled over and interrogated due to a fault in the Automated Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) camera system. The low-speed electric vehicles do not need the annual “MOT” vehicle safety test under the law. Since they are relying solely on the alert of the camera to look for easy tickets to issue, police end up stopping and ticketing milkmen who are operating within the law.

Often the speed cameras claiming to punish lawbreakers are themselves breaking the law. In Queensland, Australia, over 1145 vehicle owners received speed camera tickets issued in violation of the law from cameras mounted in the financially troubled Clem7 toll tunnel. All tickets from the opening of the tunnel to May 17 will be refunded. At an average of A$150 per ticket, the total cost is expected to be $172,000. According to the Brisbane Times, all cameras must be tested manually for accuracy. The Clem7 system relied on a “self-test” mechanism whereby the speed camera certified itself as accurate.

In West Palm Beach, Florida, officials unanimously decided to refund the $150 red light camera tickets issued to the owners of vehicles that made safe right-hand turns on red, the Palm Beach Post reported. The change of heart followed issuance of a right-turn tickets to the mayor and two other commissioners who believed them to be unfair as well as the ruling of a special master earlier this month throwing out all twenty-four challenged tickets because the citations failed to obey the city ordinance requiring a description of the make and model of the vehicle.

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Single H1N1 shot sufficient, pregnant women can use adjuvanted vaccine: WHO

Adjuvants are reportedly not in US H1N1 vaccines

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Single H1N1 shot sufficient, pregnant women can use adjuvanted vaccine: WHO

By Helen Branswell Medical Reporter (CP)

A single dose of H1N1 vaccine should be adequate for all age groups, even very young children, and pregnant women should feel free to use vaccine containing adjuvant, an expert committee that advises the World Health Organization on vaccine issues reported Friday.

The group, known by the acronym SAGE, said vaccines containing boosting additives called adjuvants and vaccines that are adjuvant-free appear to be equally safe and there is no need to recommend pregnant women get the latter on a preferential basis.

“This is based on the fact that the safety profiles of adjuvanted vaccine and the non-adjuvanted vaccine are very similar, and the fact that the non-adjuvanted vaccine has been recommended for pregnant women for many, many years,” Dr. Marie-Paule Kieny, director of the WHO’s initiative for vaccine research, said in reporting on the recommendations of the panel.

“So there is no reason, in SAGE’s view, to distinguish between both types of vaccines.”

The recommendations, if adopted, should stretch limited global supplies, enabling more vaccine to become available for developing countries which haven’t been able to pre-order pandemic flu shots. The WHO hopes to begin distributing donated vaccine to developing countries in late November or early December, Kieny said.

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Fingerprint-sharing plan raises privacy concerns

Officials to trade data internationally to curb immigration fraud

By Mike Blanchfield, Canwest News ServiceAugust 22, 2009

Calling asylum seekers a “vulnerable group,” Canada’s privacy commissioner expressed concern Friday about a new government plan to share fingerprint information with Britain and Australia to combat immigration fraud.

The three-country agreement was announced Friday with little fanfare, with Canada and the two countries providing assurances that no one’s privacy would be violated and that no database for the prints would be created.

A lawyers’ group in Australia also raised privacy concerns about the plan, which the United States and New Zealand were expected to join later on.. .

he Immigration Department, in Friday’s news release, also said it had done a privacy assessment.

But a spokeswoman for Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart said it asked the department on July 20 to give more details.

Though the department “demonstrated its legislative authority” to go ahead with the plan, Anne-Marie Hayden said, “we nevertheless expressed some concerns, we had some questions, and made a number of recommendations.”

This included asking the department to explain its rationale or need for the “high-value data-sharing.”

Hayden said: “Highly sensitive information such as fingerprints should be safeguarded with a correspondingly high level of security safeguards. Though threat and risk assessments (TRA) were completed, we were not provided with any details on the assessments, to demonstrate that business and IT controls are adequate, and were not informed whether action has been taken to address risks identified in the TRA — so we asked for more information on this front.”

The privacy commissioner also asked for a further explanation of how the government plans to use biometric information in the future and what weight it plans to attach to the data when making an assessment of a particular application, Hayden said.

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