North America summit unlikely to yield major agreements (SPP meeting in New Orleans today)

[gulfcoastliberal]

Source: Xinhua

WASHINGTON, April 20 (Xinhua) -- The North America summit is due to take place in New Orleans, Louisiana Monday and Tuesday, but as U.S. President George W. Bush has become a somewhat "lame-duck" president, analysts are expecting no significant outcome from the gathering.

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"This SPP has been a very useful mechanism for organizing the multifaceted work that Canada, the United States and Mexico undertake together. It is work that bridges all of the important issues: security, trade, prosperity," Rice told a joint press conference with visiting Mexican Foreign Minister Patricia Espinosa and Canadian Foreign Minister Maxime Bernier after their meeting to lay ground work for the summit.

"It has also permitted the leaders to engage the public and private sectors and civil society through the North American Competitiveness Council. And they look forward to, again, engaging that council, because obviously, trade and prosperity and a good life for the people of North America is not just the work of government alone," Rice said.

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"We have also discussed that we should strengthen and make a permanent commitment with the continuity of this high-level dialogue in North America at all levels and particularly at the level of heads of state and government," Espinosa said.

Read more: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-04/21/content_8019598.htm

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Funny how there's almost a complete media blackout of this meeting. What is most concerning is these meetings are an end-run around congress, and there is no public dialogue - everything is classified, and the only interests represented are big business. Labor issues, environmental issues, education, etc? Forget it. I find this fascist trifecta club. quite disturbing.

[Acadia Blue]

1. I was watching the Ownership society pigs on C-span today. How

much will it take for the American people to realize that the pigs who run our country, the "ownership" pigs which is code for Karl Marx's owners of capital, have declared class war and are winning?
Will it take us becoming like Mexico? That is why Bush wants millions and millions of Mexicans here because they have accepted their fate of oppression and will not fight the establishment and we will become like them: passive, docile and accepting of our fate of poverty and oppression: a true peasantry.

[Mudoria]

3. Marx was wrong in the 19th century

and even more wrong now in the 21st...

[clixtox]

5. Wrong about what?

Marx was certainly correct when he said that there is a continuing class war. He is still as correct right now in 2008, with the capitalists sweeping up the remaining crumbs possessed by the workers while decimating the "middle class". They have the power of the corporations aligned with our political class to bamboozle the sheeple.

To make a categorical statement like you have indicates that you are not paying attention or you are attempting, successfully so far, to quash further intelligent discussion.

Care to elaborate?

Was Marx right about anything?

Marx was wrong about what?

These mindless non-sequiturs are much too common here on DU and need to be confronted consistently. If you want to say something provocative be willing to"back it up", or don't even bother posting.

Ignorance and stupidity shouldn't be encouraged or go unchallenged on DU.

[clixtox]

2. Greg Palast just sent this essay out... A nasty business, of course

http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/jos-can-you-see-bush-s-trojan-taco

[OKthatsIT]

4. "everything is classified" - still planning enslavement, theft, jackboots

SSP is just another name for North American Union.

How far will your denial go? Nobody knows.