The End of Sovereignty and Democracy Tolls for Upstate New York, Northern New England, Quebec and the Maritime Provinces, and, Soon, for Boston and NYC Too
By Al Giordano
Special to The Narco News Bulletin
June 6, 2007
http://www.narconews.com/Issue46/article2691.htmlWorkers and farmers in the United States and Canada have been largely kept in the dark about the tragedy unleashed on their counterparts in Mexico with the 1994 entrance of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). But the same all-out screwing is about to happen to them.
An alliance of big business owners is openly plotting the economic Mexicanization of an important region of the Northeast US and Eastern Canada. They call their new world “Atlantica,” and have imposed their borders around it as if drawing a new “country” on a Risk game board. Here’s the map of “their” new country, not one founded upon democratic decisions, but with orders barked from an unelected elite of corporate flunkies whose only law is to maximize profits for the owners. Maybe you can see your house or job, or that of family members and friends, on their map:
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If you live or work there, you will soon no longer be a Mainer, a Vermonter, an upstate New Yorker, a Québécois, a Nova Scotian, a Newfoundlander, a Prince Edward Islander or a citizen of New Brunswick or New Hampshire. You have been conscripted into a new kind of citizenship that comes without any of the freedoms that you thought were your birthright. You shall be – by big business decree – an “Atlantican.”
Democracy’s End Game
“Atlantica exists,” claims Charles Cirtwill, president of the Atlantic Institute of Market Studies (or AIMS, the business-backed ideological architect of the Atlantica scheme), “whether we want it or not.”
Cirtwill, in his column last month in the Halifax daily Chronicle-Herald, insisted, “there is no referendum to vote down, no constitutional convention to refuse to hold. Atlantica is not a call for provinces to spend money, so there are no cheques not to write, no bills not to pay.”
Yet Cirtwill’s own Institute’s website contradicts the man’s claim: Atlantica does need, badly, to cripple each state government in the way for its flag to supplant theirs, and that will require radical legislation – or the signing of international agreements – by national governments to destroy them. In the geek-speak of the Atlantican post-nationalists, there are five “public policy distress factors” that must be reduced for Atlantica to be born:
Size of government relative to the economy (a measure of the burden the public sector places on the private economy)
Government employment as a percentage of total state/provincial employment (a measure of public sector efficiency)
Total government revenue from own sources as a percentage of GDP (a measure of dependence)
Minimum wage legislation (a measure of labour market flexibility)
Union density (a measure of labour market flexibility)
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