Pacific North American Regional Integration and Control
Friday, March 12th, 2010
Yes, everyone get ready for the big ‘green jobs’ boom propaganda. Problem with that idea is, money isn’t a zero-sum game. You print it and give it to Samsung, or sink it in a public rail line, you may employ some people short-term but this will be at the expense of the people standing on the taxation rug you just pulled out from under them. For more, see the broken window fallacy. Now, combine this with the fact of US states and regional initiatives signing these independent contracts with Canadian provinces on any number of things – environmental projects, carbon taxes, continental IDs, running massive highways through, etc. – and you’re looking at a situation where Canadian sovereignty is being leached away with zero input from you.
Related: West coast regionalization rears its head in ‘Cascadia’ | B.C., 3 US states sign accord for ‘Pacific North America’ hours before Olympic kickoff | Jim Prentice: Implement A ‘North American Climate Change Regime’ | Passing on the Mantle of Deep North American Integration | Think-tank calls for United States of Great Lakes | Toronto part of ‘transnational mega-region’
Dana Gabriel, BeYourOwnLeader.com
March 12, 2010
U.S.-Canadian state and provincial integration is being achieved in areas of transportation, the economy, energy and the environment. With some national, trilateral and global initiatives being discredited, stalled or ineffective, it appears as if the strategy has further shifted to a regional and local level in an effort to lay the groundwork for new agreements.
In 2008, the Pacific Coast Collaborative was established between Alaska, British Columbia, California, Oregon and Washington as, “a formal basis for cooperative action, a forum for leadership and information sharing, and a common voice on issues facing Pacific North America.” Some of its key priorities include action on clean energy, regional transportation, emergency management, sustainable regional economy, ocean conservation and climate change, as well as other issues. The inaugural Leaders’ Forum of the Pacific Coast Collaborative was held in Vancouver, British Colombia on February 12, 2010. It was hosted by Premier Gordon Campbell and chaired by California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. The meeting was also attended by Washington Governor Christine Gregoire and Oregon Secretary of State Kate Brown. Although Alaska is also a member of the group, they were not able to send a representative to the meeting. It was announced that Oregon will be hosting the next forum to be held later this year.
ATHENS-Serious street clashes erupted between rioting youths and police in central Athens Thursday as some 30,000 people demonstrated during a nationwide strike against the cash-strapped government’s austerity measures.
On Thursday, he urged China to adopt a “market-oriented” exchange rate policy, increasing the pressure on Beijing to allow the yuan to appreciate.
Canada’s budget watchdog disagrees with parts of last week’s federal budget, namely the deficit forecasts and economic expectations.
As predicted
That eerie hissing you hear may well be the air beginning to seep out of the green energy bubble. The sound is similar to the pfffffft and sshhhhsssssp noises we heard in the early days of the dot.com bubble collapse or the subprime mortgage meltdown. If you can’t hear it, you are not alone.
