By the late nineteenth century, the inner sanctums of Wall Street understood that the most efficient way to gain a monopoly was to say it was for the 'public good' and 'public interest' . David Rockefeller learned the same thing from his father, John D Junior who learned it from his father, John D Senior. They hated competition and relentlessly strove to eliminate it - for David on a global scale through a New World Order. In the 1970s and 1980s, Trilateralists and CFR members collaborated on the latter's 1980 Project , the largest ever CFR initiative to steer world events toward a particular desirable future outcome (involving) the utter disintegration of the economy . Why so is the question? Because by the 1950s and 1960s, worldwide industrial growth meant more competition. It was also a model to be followed, and had to be strangled in the cradle or at least greatly contained. In America as well beginning in the 1980s. The result has been a transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich, shrinkage of the middle class, and plan for its eventual demise. The North American Union (NAU) The idea emerged during the Reagan administration in the early 1980s. David Rockefeller, George Schultz and Paul Volker told the president that Canada and America could be politically and economically merged over the next fifteen years except for one problem - French-speaking Quebec. Their solution - elect a Bilderberg-friendly prime minister, separate Quebec from the other provinces, then make Canada America's 51st state. It almost worked, but not quite when a 1995 secession referendum was defeated - 50.56% to 49.44%, but not the idea of merger. At a March 23 2005 Waco, Texas meeting, attended by George Bush, Mexico's Vincente Fox, and Canada's Paul Martin, the Security and and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) was launched, also known as the North American Union (NAU). It was a secretive Independent Task Force of North America agreement - a group organized by the Canadian Council of Chief Executives (CCCE), the Mexican Council on Foreign Relations, and CFR with the following aims: -  circumventing the legislatures of three countries and their constitutions; -  suppressing public knowledge or consideration; and -  proposing greater US, Canadian and Mexican economic, political, social, and security integration with secretive working groups formed to devise non-debatable, not voted on agreements to be binding and unchangeable. In short - a corporate coup d'etat against the sovereignty of three nations enforced by hard line militarization to suppress opposition. If enacted, it will create a borderless North America, corporate controlled, without barriers to trade or capital flows for business giants, mainly US ones and much more - America's access to vital resources, especially oil and Canada's fresh water. Secretly, over 300 SPP initiatives were crafted to harmonize the continent's policies on energy, food, drugs, security, immigration, manufacturing, the environment, and public health along with militarizing three nations for enforcement. SPP represents another step toward the Bilderberg/Trilateralist/CFR goal for World Government, taking it one step at a time. A United Europe was another, the result of various treaties and economic agreements: -  the December 1951 six-nation European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC); -  the March 1957 six-nation Treaty of Rome establishing the European Economic Community (EEC); also the European Atomic Energy Commission (EAEC) by a second Treaty of Rome; -  the October 1957 European Court of Justice to settle regional trade disputes; -  the May 1960 seven-nation European Free Trade Association (EFTA); -  the July 1967 European Economic Community (EEC) merging the ECSC, EAEC and EEC together in one organization; -  the 1968 European Customs Union to abolish duties and establish uniform imports taxing among EEC nations; -  the 1978 European Currency Unit (ECU); -  the February 1986 Single European Act revision of the 1957 Treaty of Rome; it established the _object_ive of forming a Common Market by December 31 1992; -  the February 1992 Maastricht Treaty creating the EU on November 01 1993; and -  the name euro was adopted in December 1995; it was introduced in January 1999 replacing the European Currency Unit (ECU); euros began circulating on January 2002; they're now the official currency of sixteen of the 27 EU states. Over half a century, the above steps cost EU members their sovereignty as some seventy to eighty per cent of the laws passed in Europe involve just rubber stamping of regulations already written by nameless bureaucrats in 'working groups' in Brussels or Luxembourg . The EU and NAU share common features: -  advocacy from a influential spokesperson; -  an economic and later political union; -  hard line security, and for Europe, ending wars on the continent between EU member states; -  establishment of a collective consciousness in place of nationalism; -  the blurring of borders and creation of a supra-government , a superstate; -  secretive arrangements to mask real _object_ives; and -  the creation of a common currency and eventual global one. Steps Toward a North American Union -  the October 04 1988 Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the US and Canada, finalized the previous year; -  at the 1991 Bilderberg meeting, David Rockefeller got governor Bill Clinton's support for NAFTA if he became president; -  on January 01 1994, with no debate under fast-track rules, Congress approved WTO legislation; -  in December 1994 at the first Summit of the Americas, 34 Hemispheric leaders committed their nations to a Free Trade of the Americas agreement (FTAA) by 2005 - so far unachieved; -  on July 04 2000, Mexican president Vincente Fox called for a North American common market in twenty years; -  on February 2001, the White House published a joint statement from George Bush and Vincente Fox called the Guanajuato Proposal ; it was for a US-Canada-Mexico prosperity partnership (aka North American Union); -  in September 2001, Bush and Fox agreed to a Partnership for Prosperity Initiative ; -  the September 11 2001 attack gave cover to including security as part of a future partnership; -  on October 07 2001, a CFA meeting highlighted The Future of North American Integration in the Wake of Terrorist Attacks ; for the first time, security became part of a future partnership for prosperity ; also, Canada was to be included in a North American agreement; -  in 2002, the North American Forum on Integration (NAFI) was established in Montreal to address the issues raised by North American integration as well as identify new ideas and strategies to reinforce the North American region ; -  in January 2003, the Canadian Council of Chief Executives (CCCE - composed of 150 top CEOs) launched the North American Security and Prosperity Initiative calling for continental integration; -  in April 2004, Canadian prime minister Paul Martin announced the nation's first ever national security policy called Securing an Open Society; -  on October 15 2004, CFR established an Independent Task Force on the Future of North America - for a future continental union; -  in March 2005, a CFR report _title_d Creating a North American Community called for continental integration by 2010 to enhance, prosperity, and opportunity for all North Americans ; and -  on March 23 2005 in Waco, Texas, America, Canada and Mexico leaders launched the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) - aka North American Union (NAU). Secretive negotiations continue. Legislative debate is excluded, and public inclusion and debate are off the table. In May 2005, the CFR Independent Task Force on the Future of North America published a follow-up report _title_d Building a North American Community - proposing a borderless three-nation union by 2010. In June and July 2005, the Dominican Republic - Central America Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA) passed the Senate and House establishing corporate-approved trade rules to further impoverish the region and move a step closer to continental integration. In March 2006, the North American Competitiveness Council (NACC) was created at the second SPP summit in Cancun, Mexico. Composed of thirty top North American CEOs, it serves as an official trilateral SPP working group. Secret business and government meetings continue so there's no way to confirm SPP's current status or if Barack Obama is seamlessly continuing George Bush's agenda. In an earlier article, this writer said: SPP efforts paused during the Bush to Obama transition, but deep integration plans remain. Canada's Fraser Institute proposed renaming the initiative the North American Standards and Regulatory Area (NASRA) to disguise its real purpose. It said the SPP brand is tarnished so re-branding is essential - to fool the public until it's too late to matter. Bilderbergers, Trilaterists, and CFR leaders back it as another step toward global integration and won't stop until the entire world is unified under the auspices and the political umbrella of a One World Company, a nightmarish borderless world run by the world's most powerful clique - comprised of key elitist members of these dominant organizations. In April 2007, the Transatlantic Economic Council was established between America and the EU to: -  create an official international governmental body - by executive fiat; -  harmonize economic and regulatory _object_ives; -  move toward a Transatlantic Common Market; and -  a step closer to One World Government run by the world's most powerful corporate interests. Insights into the 2009 Bilderberg Group Meeting From May 14 to 17, Bilderbergers held their annual meeting in Vouliagmeni, Greece, and according to Daniel Estulin have dire plans for global economies. According to his pre-meeting sources, they're divided on two alternatives: Either a prolonged, agonizing depression that dooms the world to decades of stagnation, decline and poverty (or) an intense but shorter depression that paves the way for a new sustainable world order, with less sovereignty but more efficiency . Other agenda items included: -   the future of the US dollar and US economy ; -  continued deception about green shoots signaling an end to recession and improving economy later in the year; -  suppressing the fact that bank stress tests were a sham and were designed for deception, not an accurate assessment of major banks' health; -  projecting headlined US unemployment to hit fourteen per cent by year end - way above current forecasts and meaning the true number will be double, at minimum, with all uncounted categories included; and -  a final push to get the Lisbon Treaty passed for pan-European (EU) adoption of neoliberal rules, including greater privatizations, fewer worker rights and social benefits, open border trade favoring developed over emerging states, and greater militarization to suppress civil liberties and human rights. After the meeting, Estulin got a 73-page report on what was discussed. He noted that One of Bilderberg's primary concerns ... is the danger that their zeal to reshape the world by engineering chaos (toward) their long term agenda could cause the situation to spiral out of control and eventually lead to a scenario where Bilderberg and the global elite in general are overwhelmed by events and end up losing their control over the planet . Estulin also noted some considerable disagreement between hardliners wanting a dramatic decline and a severe, short-term depression (versus others) who think that things have gone too far so that the fallout from the global economic cataclysm can't be known, may be greater than anticipated, and may harm Bilderberger interests. Also, some European bankers (expressed great alarm over their own fate and called the current) high wire act 'unsustainable' . There was a combination of agreement and fear that the situation remains dire and the worst of the crisis lies ahead, mainly because of America's extreme debt level that must be resolved to produce a healthy, sustainable recovery. Topics also included: -  establishing a Global Treasury Department and Global Central Bank, possibly partnered with or as part of the IMF; -  a global currency; -  destruction of the dollar through what longtime market analyst Bob Chapman calls a stealth default on (US) debt by continuing to issue massive amounts of money and credit and in the process devaluing the dollar , a process he calls fraud ; -  a global legal system; -  exploiting the Swine Flu scare to create a WHO global department of health; and -  the overall goal of a global government and the end of national sovereignty. In the past, Estulin's sources proved accurate. Earlier, he predicted the housing crash and 2007 to 2008 financial market decline, preceded by the kind of financial crisis triggered by the Lehman Brothers collapse. Watch for further updates from him as new information leaks out on what the world's power elites have planned going forward. Estulin will be the featured guest on The Global Research News Hour Tuesday, June 2. He can be heard live or afterwards through the program archive. _____ Stephen Lendman is a Research Associate of the Centre of Research for Globalization. He lives in Chicago and can be reached at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it Also visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com and listen to The Global Research News Hour on RepublicBroadcasting.org Monday - Friday at 10 am US Central time for cutting-edge discussions with distinguished guests on world and national issues. 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