Incremental Change Security and Prosperity Partnership ( PPP)… A North American Union?

1. GLOBALIZATION Incremental Change Security and Prosperity Partnership (PPP)… A North American Union? An Operation Information/OK-SAFE, Inc. Presentation By A.T. rev. 2007

2. Globalization • The increasing economic, cultural, demographic, political, and environmentalinterdependence of 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 becomesincreasingly irrelevant in global production and consumption.

3. What we look like now…

4. Where we’re headed…

5. PART I North American Union Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP)

6. North American Union

7. 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.

8. 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

9. SPP.GOV Website: “Stimulate and accelerate cross-border technology trade by preventing unnecessary barriers from being erected”

10. 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 institutionalizethe North American Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) and the NACC, so that the work will continue through changes in administrations.

11. 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 • FedEx • Kissinger McLarty Assoc. • Council of the Americas

12. UPS FedEx Mittal Steel New York Life Ford General Motors Merck Chevron General Electric Wal-Mart Lockheed Martin Kansas City Southern Campbell Soup Whirlpool US Secretariat ofCouncil of the Americas; US Chamber of Commerce NACC Executive Committee Members – U.S.

13. NACC Assignments of Responsibilities • CANADA – Border Facilitation • United States – Regulatory Convergence • Mexico – Energy Integration

14. Cross-Border Issues Recommendations • Evaluate Moving Customs Process Further Inland • Infrastructure Improvements to Increase Capacity

15. Regulatory/Regulation • EU regulationhas a general scope, and is obligatory in all its elements and directly applicable in allMember Statesof 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 theEU legislative acts.

16. “SPP…is pledged to operate permanently at the cabinet/ministerial level.”

17. 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

18. Creating a North American Community “Creating a North American Community” – Task Force on the Future of North America, March 2005

19. Task Force Report Excerpt • We propose: • The creation by 2010 of a community to enhance security, prosperity, and opportunityfor all North Americans. • A community based on the premise that each member benefits from its neighbor’s success and is diminished by its problems.

20. Part II NAFTA Trans-Texas Corridor (TTC-35) NASCO KC SmartPort

21. NAFTA – Opens the Door NAFTA Initialing Ceremony, 1992 Clinton signs NAFTA, 1993

22. 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 • NAFTAThe 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

23. Trans-Texas Corridorartist’s rendition

24. The Trans-Texas Corridor (TTC-35) - the Oklahoma to Mexico/Gulf Coast multimodal transportation system

26. 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

27. CDA between Cintra Conseciones (Spanish) and the Texas Transportation Commission, 3/2005 Master Development and Financial Plan of the TTC-35 50 Year Agreement Comprehensive Development Agreement (CDA) with Foreign Developer

28. Foreign Owned US Toll Roads Foreign Companies Are Buying Up American Highways and BridgesBuilt by U.S. Taxpayersby Leslie Miller, Associated Press July 15th, 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.

29. Foreign Toll Road Ownership

30. TTC-35 MTG, 7/10/06Sherman, TX Foreign Trade Zone, Durant, OK

31. TTC-35 Websites www.keeptexasmoving.com www.corridorwatch.org

32. NASCO – North America’s SuperCorridor Coalition, Inc.

33. NASCO Oklahoma Board Members Dawn Sullivan, ODOT Research and Development Engineer Senator Debbe Leftwich (D)

34. A Few US Members of NASCO

35. 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.”

37. Our Trip to Kansas City, MO 8/21/06

39. “Kansas City SmartPort received $4 million which will be used to create Intelligent Transportation Systems and highway corridor projects.” Federal Funding for KC SmartPort

40. The Kansas City Connection - “The NAFTA Railway”

41. Kansas City: The Corridor to the Futureby 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…

42. KC, MO 8/21/06 – Kansas City’s Proposed Mexican Customs Facility Richards-Gebaur Airforce Base – proposed FTZ/WH/Rail

43. Kansas City, MO 8/21/06 Mexiplex, 16th & Baltimore Hispanic Chamber of Commerce NASCO/Trade Offices

44. MEXIPLEX

45. Part III North America Works II What About Oklahoma?

46. ‘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

47. 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

48. North America Works II ConferenceKansas City, MO, Nov. 30 –Dec. 2, 2006 Stephen Blank, Pace University, NY; CFR Eric Farnsworth, VP of Council of the America’s; CFR

49. North America Works II

50. NASCO Corridor Map Kansas City SmartPort