Posted on 06/13/2007 2:01:10 AM PDT by Man50D
A new plan being discussed among officials from the United States, Mexico and Canada essentially would erase national borders in North America for air carriers, perhaps giving Aeromexico a pass to run a Los Angeles-Toronto route or Air Canada to compete on the New York-Paris connection, according to WND columnist Jerome Corsi.
He reported on a meeting held in Tucson, Ariz., involving U.S. Secretary of Transportation Mary Peters and her Mexican and Canadian counterparts.
She's already under fire, as WND has reported, for continuing work on a program that could start as early as July 15 to give Mexican truckers a virtual free pass to travel on United States roads.
The meeting in Tucson, called the North American Transportation Trilateral, made it clear U.S. air transportation facilities also are being reviewed in light of proposed traffic from foreign carriers that also are based in North America, Corsi's report noted.
Peters met with Mexico's Secretary of Commerce and Transportation Luis Téllez and Canada's Minister of Transport, Infrastructure and Communications Lawrence Cannon to define under the Security and Prosperity Partnership a North American transportation system that will meet the continental needs of "free trade" agreements including NAFTA and the World Trade Organization, he reported.
Peters noted that existing agreements with Mexico and with Canada already work to lift restrictions on continental travel to provide for "free and open trans-border air travel."
But the next step, a North American Open Skies agreement, would virtually eliminate those national boundaries, as far as air carriers are concerned, Corsi reported.
The plan that was revealed shows over the next 10 years, "Air Canada could be competing with U.S. carriers on the New York-Paris route and Aeromexico might be launching flights between Los Angeles and Toronto."
Canada's government also noted that it is committed to "the future of our shared transportation interests in an increasingly globalized world."
The vision for a North American transportation system suited for world trade, Corsi reported, was articulated in the May 2005 Council on Foreign Relations report entitled, "Building of a North American Community."
That is to "establish a seamless North American market for trade," including "open skies and open highways."
Anyone still doubt the NAU?
Genesis 11
The Tower of Babel
1 Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. 2 As men moved eastward, [a] they found a plain in Shinar [b] and settled there.
3 They said to each other, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar. 4 Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of the whole earth.”
5 But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the men were building. 6 The LORD said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. 7 Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”
8 So the LORD scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. 9 That is why it was called Babel [c] —because there the LORD confused the language of the whole world. From there the LORD scattered them over the face of the whole earth.
Everyone have their tin-foil beanie (no sarcasm). The unbelievable (to most) has suddenly became somewhat more believable.
These establishment bastards are trying to destroy the USA.
No.
Other than lining pockets with donations I just don’t get the seal the border(s) ranters.
That is old old news.
Kinda like saying OMG Than man is drowning when he has been dead in the water for a while.
Other than lining pockets with donations I just don’t get why people still think theft and trespass are wrong.
That is old old news.
The brother in law’s moving in, lock, stock, and barrel. Side note: I met a woman yesterday, who was pulling a luggage carrier up the street — loaded with cleaning stuff. She said she was moving out of her own house because a son had moved in with his kids and she couldn’t take it anymore. The mess, the noise. (She was very upset.) So she was moving out, going to her other son’s house...up the street...until her own home was empty.
(Where will we go — hmm?
Check it out.
Hang on. So what's wrong with that? I just checked, and it appears to me that airlines such as our Northwest fly passengers from Tokyo to Manila (and it doesn't appear to be partner airlines for that particular flight, as it did when I did the same search from Tokyo to Europe.)
From memory and a bit of checking, I believe that China Airlines still flies from Honolulu to Tokyo, though it appears that the flight now goes to Narita rather than Haneda these days.
Michael Medved assures me that you and I are nut cases for believing that anyone is pushing for the NAU.
Michael - if you lurk here - you're the smartest guy on the radio, without question, but you're just laughably wrong on the issue of the NAU.
I find myself not quite ready for that big wine and cheese party, when John Lennon’s “Imagine” becomes reality.
When we are all one big happy family with no borders, who will be calling the shots, or will the need for governance have disappeared by that time?
I disagree. Medved isn’t that smart. If he was, he’d be an independent thinker.
That particular page “does not exist on this server” was the message upon hitting the link.
Don’t sweat it. satan wants his New World Order, but YHWH will have His first!
Matt. 24:14 And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.
Habakkuk 2~
13 Has not the LORD Almighty determined
that the people’s labor is only fuel for the fire,
that the nations exhaust themselves for nothing?
14 For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD,
as the waters cover the sea.
http://www.dot.gov/affairs/peterssp042707-1.htm
REMARKS FOR
THE HONORABLE MARY PETERS
SECRETARY OF TRANSPORTATION
NORTH AMERICAN TRANSPORTATION TRILATERAL
OPENING STATEMENT
TUCSON, AZ
APRIL 27, 2007
8:45 AM
Good morning. On behalf of President Bush, it is a great honor for me to welcome our guests to the United States, and truly a special pleasure to host my friends and colleagues, Secretary Luis Téllez and Minister Lawrence Cannon, here in my home state of Arizona.
We are here to examine our combined transportation network in light of the surging NAFTA trade volumes and global competition that we must increasingly confront as a region. I hope our discussions can set the framework for building more coordinated and compatible national transportation systems to support freedom and prosperity across our region.
This is an historic meeting – the first time North America’s transportation ministers have ever come together for trilateral talks. Many will find that fact surprising for three such close neighbors, especially when the transportation systems we are responsible for are so critical to the expanded freedom and opportunity open trade is bringing to the North American continent.
Here in Tucson, and across Arizona, growing NAFTA trade has helped create almost half a million new jobs since December 2001. According to numbers released today by our Bureau of Transportation Statistics, in February alone, our network of pipelines, rails, and roads carried nearly $1 billion worth of freight across the border between Arizona and Mexico. Last year, Arizona sent $5.4 billion in goods to Mexico, making it the state’s top export market, with Canada running second with $1.8 billion in exports from Arizona crossing our northern border during that same time.
All told, North America’s transportation network carries a staggering $1.7 million in trade every minute among our three nations.
With globalization intensifying the pressures on all of our economies, it has never been more important to connect these networks, coordinate our policies, and remove the barriers that keep large and growing volumes of goods and travelers from moving efficiently across our common borders.
In the United States, we see the opportunities in aviation as especially promising.
I am pleased that our discussions are already moving us beyond the 2005 air services agreement between the United States and Mexico, and even the Open Skies accord Minister Cannon and I signed last month, which lifts restrictions on passenger flights between the U.S. and Canada.
There is growing momentum behind Open Skies, especially with the agreement my country recently reached with the European Union. Here, on our own continent, we have an opportunity to set the standard for free and open trans-border air travel.
The number of flights among our three countries increased by 30 percent over the last five years, and passenger traffic grew 33 percent between 2002 and 2006.
If we remove restrictions, these numbers are sure to soar even higher. Since the 2005 agreement, we have had to turn down 12 of 19 proposals from airlines wanting to offer new passenger and freight service between the U.S. and Mexico because our current agreement still limits service.
I am hopeful we will leave Tucson with a shared vision for true Open Skies over North America, clearing the way for better connections and more flexible and efficient air transportation across our continent and beyond. I look forward to the day when it is as easy for an airline to start new service between Tucson and Montreal or Monterrey as it is between Tucson and Austin.
We have similar opportunities today to set the framework so ports up and down the West Coast of North America have the flexibility to handle the growing volumes of trade with Asia. Indeed, we need a strategy to ensure the compatibility, safety, and efficiency of transportation systems not only in our individual countries, but throughout North America.
I thank my colleagues for accepting the invitation to discuss a framework for making our combined transportation network the safest and most efficient in the world. By furthering our progress in opening transportation markets and expanding freedom across our common borders, we can ensure the competitiveness of our North American neighborhood in the 21st century.
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That's what I get for trying to make it easier? I give up, no more links. ;-)
Here ya go, a link that works: http://spp.gov/
Nasty business, that SPP. Nation destroying for sure.
I wonder if Southwest will start serving Canada and Mexico now?
That’s what I’m looking forward to. You’ll love Westjet too.
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