José Can You See? Bush’s Trojan Taco - - by Greg Palast

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sent by partynut since 659 days 15 hours 27 minutes, published about 659 days 12 hours 32 minutes
Psst! George Bush has a secret. While you Democrats are pounding each other to a pulp in Pennsylvania, the President has snuck back down to New Orleans for a meeting of the NAFTA Three: the Prime Minister of Canada and the President of Mexico.You’re not supposed to know that.Bush has kept this major summit a virtual secret is its real agenda. More important, the agenda-makers, the guys who called the meeting, must remain as far out of camera range as possible: The North American Competitiveness Council.Never heard of The Council? Well, maybe you’ve heard of the counselors: the chief executives of Wal-Mart, Chevron Oil, Lockheed-Martin and 27 other multinational masters of the corporate universe.And why did the landlords of our continent order our presidents to a three-nation pajama party? Their term is “harmonization.” Harmonization has nothing to do with singing in fifths like Simon and Garfunkel. Harmonization means making rules and regulations the same in all three countries. Or, more specifically, watering down rules – on health, safety, labor rights, oil drilling, polluting and so on - in other words, any regulations that get between The Council members and their profits.Take for example, pesticides. Wal-Mart and agri-business don’t want to reduce the legal amount of poison allowed in what you eat. Solution: “harmonize” ...
tags: bush, nafta *council*, canada, mexico, nau
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  1. #1    Did BF change the amount of allowed text for descriptions? Partynut, sometimes less is more, hint hint.
    written by fontleroy since 659 days 14 hours 46 minutesfontleroy
  2. #2    Yes BFN does allow more words in the description than before but thanks for your input fontleroy. Less is more...I understand. Also, I did get all three of your msgs. and your, more of less, same critiques of my posts. Thanks again.

    ~~~ PEACE ~~~
    written by partynut since 659 days 12 hours 59 minutespartynut
  3. #3    The media sets the agenda for what Americans are to know for the day. When it's necessary they will tell us. In the meantime, American Idol and Fox News will continue to entertain us.
    Hoa binh
    written by since1492 since 659 days 10 hours 9 minutessince1492
  4. #4    Yes, these ass wipes held the North American Union meeting on the ground of the very souls that died under a NAFTA/NAU type treaty, also believing they were American citizens whose govt would take care of the situation. A place where the victims had no choice, no freedoms, were under martial law by a mercenary group sanctioned by the administration. And god knows our govt did it b/c these people were primarily poor black people.

    The hubris never ceases to amaze me. Especially after Bush's speech about how he was going to do so much for that community. SHAME ON YOU MAYOR! You gave up your soul for a shower on the presidential jet. I hope it was worth it!
    written by Sparrows since 659 days 8 hours 58 minutesSparrows
  5. #5    For more on the Canadian perspective: http://www.canadians.org/index.html
    The SPP is much more than just a trade deal.
    written by Hugh since 658 days 6 hours 55 minutesHugh
  6. #6    Why is ANYONE surprised at this? We have a complicient media (not sure of that spelling) - this meeting is of course being held without congressional oversight....nancy needs to get off her butt and IMPEACH THESE PEOPLE NOW!!
    written by angry_diane since 657 days 12 hours 57 minutesangry_diane
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