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Selling Out America On August 20-21, in Montebello, Quebec, secure behind a cordon of fifteen miles maintained by the Canadian Mounted Police, Security Quebec, and reportedly even the U.S. Army, the leaders of America, Mexico, and Canada will meet to further discuss the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) and, no doubt, the Trans-Texas Corridor (TTC).
It is so much worse than that. You can be sure to read pieces such as the apologia published in the July 13 edition of The Washington Post. Marcela Sanchez warned of "those merchants of fear and exaggeration" such as CNN’s Lou Dobbs who are informing Americans, Canadians, and Mexicans that their nations are in the process of being merged into a North American Union. No, Ms. Sanchez, assured us, the only things on the agenda involve health concerns such as how to "combat pandemics." There will be "no mention of erasing borders…a single currency…or creating a secret police." Of course there will be no mention! She provided an excellent description of the likely real agenda! The odds are you have not heard much about either the SPP or the TTC, though both have their own websites filled with the usual reassurances that they do not represent treaties or that the TTC will prove to be a great economic boon for all three nations. Do not believe a word you read. The SPP and TTC are both of the same whole cloth woven by men who are gripped by a grand scheme to do to North America what was slowly and incrementally done to Europe. Bit by bit, trade agreement-by-agreement, treaty-by-treaty, Europeans woke up one day with an unelected bureaucracy called the European Union whose powers supercede their own national sovereignty. The only good news is that the effort to create a EU constitution was defeated by the French and the Dutch. Try to imagine, for example, a NAFTA superhighway, four football fields wide, from the Mexican border at Laredo, Texas, to the Canadian border north of Duluth, Minnesota. As Jerome R. Corsi points out in his book, "The Late, Great U.S.A.", "the first customs stop in the United States will be a Mexican customs office in the Kansas City SmartPort complex, a facility being built for Mexico at the cost of $3 million to the U.S. taxpayer." That’s right, we are going to pay for it and, when finished, it is likely to be declared Mexican territory, owned and operated by Mexicans, not Americans. In Kansas! Texans hate the TTC and with good reason. It will bifurcate the State and its construction will wreak havoc on ranchers and farmers whose lands will be seized, along with countless others, by right of eminent domain. When the Texas legislature proposed a two-year moratorium on construction, begun in November 2006, the Governor vetoed the notion. All three of his opponents had campaigned against the TTC, splitting the vote to reelect Perry with less than 40 percent of the total. Why, in fact, is the TTC needed? Well, if you are a major trading partner with the United States like China and you can by-pass the costs of unloading goods at unionized West Coast ports, and having to trans-ship them over the Rockies, you are going to save a bundle. If you can ship the containers to Mexico where wages are far below U.S. requirements, then ship them direct to the heartland on Mexican trucks that are then permitted to move them anywhere in the U.S. and up to Canada, you save even more. This is exactly the system of open movement that exists within Europe. An organization called the "North American Super Corridor Coalition, Inc" (NASCO) exists to advance the process of integrating trade within North America. It received $2.5 million in Congressional earmarks from the Department of Transportation for the development of technology to track containers moving along the NASCO super corridor. So the process behind the integration of the three nations is already underway, in part paid for with taxpayer dollars. The beneficiaries will ultimately be multinational corporations. Just about everything in America is ultimately delivered by trucks. If the SPP and the TTC become the reality the presidents of America and Mexico, and the prime minister of Canada want, then Americans will be purchasing cheap goods made with what amounts to slave labor in China and the Far East, shipped to Mexico, and then nationwide. Who suffers? Among the losses will be the manufacturing jobs that will leave America. In addition, there will be job losses at the ports on America’s West Coast. American truckers will also be among the losers. The goods received may include food grown with health standards well below our own. Some like a recent batch of toothpaste from China will contain poisons. The security of the nation will be at even further risk from those with bad intentions who want to enter. Why sneak in across a desert area bordering Mexico when false papers will put you on the superhighway to Kansas City? Connect the dots between SPP and TTC and what you get are Americans expected to buy cheap goods while their own economic structure and security disappears along with their borders with Mexico and Canada. There’s a reason why one should be extremely wary of the computer models that are cited by the endless doomsday predictions of Al Gore, the UN’s International Panel on Climate Change, and all the other advocates of "global warming." The reason is clouds. Computer models simply cannot provide for the constant variability of clouds, so they ignore them.
How can you make predictions, whether it’s a week or a decade from now, if you haven’t a clue why clouds do what they do? Tim Garrett, a research meteorologist at the University of Utah, with refreshing candor has said, "We really do not know what’s going on. There are so many basic unanswered questions on how they (clouds) work." And that is never mentioned in the great "global warming" debate, one we are continuously told is "decided" and upon which there is a vast scientific "consensus." This is particularly significant because clouds act to both cool and warm the Earth. It is widely believed that high clouds can reflect solar radiation away from the planet, but they can also serve to trap heat in the atmosphere. New studies, however, have given some cause to reconsider this. Moreover, cloud droplets can last for less than a second while whole clouds can live out their lives in minutes or days. There is no way to integrate such massive, constant change into a computer model that divides the world into boxes up to sixty miles on a side, so they mostly do not. This is why there are two new missions by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration involving highly sophisticated devices to measure and study the actions of clouds. This is also why, up to now, the computer models on which "global warming" claims have been made have actually been tweaked, adjusted, manipulated—take your choice of terms—to factor in the mystery of clouds. How wide is the computer modeling gap when it comes to predicting the weather? The Economist reported that, "In a recent paper in Climate Dynamics, Mark Webb of Britain’s Hadley Centre for Climate Change and his colleagues reported that clouds account for 66% of the differences between members of one important group of models and for 85% of them in another group." Clouds simply defy the logarithms of computer modelers. In short, "Too much still remains unknown about the physical mechanisms that determine cloud behavior," said The Economist. Here’s a useful scientific definition of the weather: "atmospheric conditions at a given time and a particular location." Drive a few miles in any direction and the weather is likely to be different. Stay put and it will change soon enough. My other favorite definition is "chaos." In an August 2002 article, "The Trouble with the Weather", the European Space Agency noted that, "Forecasting the weather remains notoriously difficult because the atmosphere is not easy to predict, being affected by such factors as air pressure and temperature, air movements, the distribution of water in its various states (clouds) in the atmosphere, and static electricity stored in the air." "Clouds are that 800-pound gorilla," says research meteorologist, Gerald Mace, also of the University of Utah, referring to the critical role they play in the weather on any portion of planet Earth. That gorilla, however, is never mentioned by the "global warming" propagandists. Neither clouds, nor volcanoes, nor the most important factor, the Sun, is credited as responsible for either the climate or the weather. Instead, we are constantly told that "human activity" is the single cause. Unmentioned, too, is the fact that water vapor constitutes 95% of all greenhouse gases. Environmentalists insist that carbon dioxide plays a major role. It is well to keep in mind, however, that CO2 is the gas that is vital to the growth of all vegetation on Earth. Nor do global warming advocates remind people that the Earth is at the end of the interglacial period between Ice Ages which suggests another one is due any day now. Indeed, the only global warming that is occurring has been happening since the end of the last mini-Ice Age in the 1800s. It is a natural response and is not a dramatic rise of four to ten degrees. It doesn’t even represent one-half a degree increase. Following the publication of the results of new study in the journal of the American Geophysical Union revealing that the absence of clouds actually had a cooling affect—the opposite of widely held opinion on the role of clouds—Dr. Roy Spencer of the Earth System Science Center noted that, "To give an idea of how strong this enhanced cooling mechanism is, if it was operating on global warming, it would reduce estimates of future warming by over 75 percent. The big question that no one can answer right now is whether this enhanced cooling mechanism applies to global warming." If leading meteorologists remain largely ignorant of why clouds do what they do, why would we pay any attention to those with a financial or ideological incentive to propagate "global warming" claims? There is, however, a difference between being ignorant and being stupid. Believing the "global warming" lies is stupid. One thing you can know for sure is that the Center works fulltime to analyze the major issues, threats, and hidden agendas of our times. To do that, however, it needs your donation to maintain this website and our communications programs. Please give what you can. Thank you!
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2007 Alan Caruba. |
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Whatever media coverage might occur will be tightly controlled by SPP spin doctors and whatever public statements the presidents and prime minister make will have been carefully vetted to insure they arouse no concern among the citizens of the three nations. Instead, the meeting will be described as "a dialogue" and that all they’re doing is discussing the further "harmonizing" the laws of the three nations so they can improve trade and other mutual concerns. 
In a July issue of The Economist there was an article, "Grey-Sky thinking" subtitled, "Without understanding clouds, understanding the climate is hard. And clouds are the least understood part of the atmosphere." Since the increasingly rabid claims of Earth’s destruction from rising temperatures depend on computer modeling, how can they be regarded as accurate if they must largely exempt or deliberately manipulate the impact of clouds?