{"id":7456,"date":"2011-05-10T07:34:34","date_gmt":"2011-05-10T11:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/?p=7456"},"modified":"2011-05-10T07:34:34","modified_gmt":"2011-05-10T11:34:34","slug":"wikileaks-exposes-north-american-integration-plot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/2011\/05\/10\/wikileaks-exposes-north-american-integration-plot\/","title":{"rendered":"WikiLeaks Exposes North American Integration Plot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WikiLeaks Exposes North American Integration Plot<\/strong>\t <\/p>\n<p> As early as January of 2005, high-ranking officials were discussing the best way to sell the idea of North American \u201cintegration\u201d to the public and policymakers while getting around national constitutions. The prospect of creating a monetary unit to replace national currencies was a hot topic as well.<\/p>\n<p>Some details of the schemes were exposed in a secret 2005 U.S. embassy cable from Ottawa signed by then-Ambassador Paul Cellucci. The document was released by WikiLeaks on April 28. But so far, it has barely attracted any attention in the United States, Canada, or Mexico beyond a few mentions in some liberty-minded Internet forums.<\/p>\n<p>Numerous topics are discussed in the leaked document \u2014 borders, currency, labor, regulation, and more. How to push the integration agenda features particularly prominently.<\/p>\n<p>Under the subject line \u201cPlacing a new North American Initiative in its economic policy context,\u201d American diplomatic personnel in Canada said they believed an \u201cincremental\u201d path toward North American integration would probably gain the most support from policymakers. Apparently Canadian economists agreed.<\/p>\n<p>The cable also touts the supposed benefits of merging the three countries and even mentions what elements to \u201cstress\u201d in future \u201cefforts to promote further integration.\u201d It lists what it claims is a summary of the \u201cconsensus\u201d among Canadian economists about the issues, too.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenewamerican.com\/world-mainmenu-26\/north-america-mainmenu-36\/7336-wikileaks-exposes-north-american-integration-plot\">Read more here w\/embedded links&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WikiLeaks Exposes North American Integration Plot As early as January of 2005, high-ranking officials were discussing the best way to sell the idea of North American \u201cintegration\u201d to the public and policymakers while getting around national constitutions. The prospect of creating a monetary unit to replace national currencies was a hot topic as well. Some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7457,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7456\/revisions\/7457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}