AlterNet: Toward a More Corporate Union of the Americas?
http://www.alternet.org/module/printversion/76648
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The grass is always greener, it seems. Two of the founder countries in The European Union have voted ‘No!’ to the EU, and a third (the UK) has been promised a referendum on the EU by the present government, which they now refuse to have. Apparantly, being railroaded into a leftist agenda is OK, but into a right wing agenda is not.
Posted on 13-Feb-08 at 2:21 am | PermalinkTwo dates in the article are interesting. The North American Union is due to come into being in 2010. that seems unrealistic, but if so they certainly have been working very quietly, and the oposition has not been making a whole lot of noise. I have heard about this over the last couple of years, but not as something as immediate as this implies.
The second date is 2025 when one third of the oil used will be imported into the US. That, on the other hand is a lot further away, by which time one would hope that some of the alternate energy sources would have started to come on-stream. If we havn’t at least made a start on lessening our dependence on oil by then, there will be no point in considering the niceties of whether we are governed by a corporate union or something more left wing. And heaven forbid that we should ever be governed by us!