GLOBALIZATION Incremental Change Security and Prosperity Partnership PPP

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 interdependence 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 • Fed. Ex • Kissinger Mc. Larty Assoc. • Council of the Americas

NACC Executive Committee Members – U. S. § § § § § UPS Fed. Ex 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 II §NAFTA §Trans-Texas Corridor (TTC-35) §NASCO §KC Smart. Port

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 15 th, 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 Super. Corridor 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 Smart. Port “Kansas City Smart. Port 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, 16 th & 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 Smart. Port

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 Super. Corridor 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 Smart. Port, www. kcsmartport. org World. Net 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, 51 st session

Extra Slides

Marc Nuttle, Global Motor Works, soon to be MG Motors North America Marc Nuttle, Gov. Frank Keating, and Frank Mc. Pherson, 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 Mc. Caleb, President; Chickasaw Tribe § Tom Love, Chairman; Love’s Country Stores § 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 § OKAA, Oklahoma § § § 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 Aggregates Associates § SCCPA Spirit Bank TBIP, Tinker PBS&J Martin Marietta Materials