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In the latest developments, Judicial Watch, the public interest law firm, has uncovered federal documents (web site) indicating that secretive "working groups" in the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP), a Bush Administration initiative, are working on a "One Card" concept to facilitate cross-border movement between the three countries. The SPP is being sold to the public as an attempt to help business, but the documents indicate a far-reaching effort to erase national borders and even national identity. Previous documents (web site) released by Judicial Watch through the Freedom of Information Act reveal a strategy called "evolution by stealth" to undermine the sovereignty of the three countries. That suggests a determined effort to keep this from the American people.

It may be difficult for the rest of the media to continue ignoring the controversy because opposition to the SPP is growing not only in the U.S. but Canada and Mexico. In fact, activists, academics, union officials, politicians and journalists from Canada, Mexico and the United States were in Ottawa from March 31-April 1 to organize opposition to the initiative. Judi McLeod of the Canada Free Press reports sources close to Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper as saying that he is firmly against Canada being part of any North American Union and that Canadian sovereignty is "everything" to him.

Global Warming

Global warming is another story that gets pathetic coverage. Leading liberals such as Senator Bernie Sanders and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. have openly stated that the debate over global warming is over and that the media have an obligation to report that only one side is based on science. In Kennedy's case, he was actually hired by the Fox News Channel to host a one-sided special on global warming. We are constantly told about a supposed "consensus" in favor of the man-made global warming theory but the fact is that 18,000 Americans with university degrees in physical science have signed a petition (web site) declaring that there is no convincing scientific evidence that the human release of carbon dioxide, methane or other greenhouse gasses is causing catastrophic heating of the Earth's atmosphere and disruption of the Earth's climate. One of the signers, Dr. Arthur Robinson, editor of the highly informative Access to Energy newsletter, calls the claimed scientific consensus in favor of the man-made global warming theory "an outright lie." (web site)

Gay Rights

Coverage of "gay rights" is another terrible blemish on the national press. All major U.S. papers support gay marriage and even run announcements of same. The influence of the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), which enforces conformity in the media on this issue, helps explain why it is rare to find objective coverage of the movement that exists in the U.S. and other countries of thousands of former homosexuals. Alan Chambers, the former homosexual who runs Exodus International, (web site) tries to interest the media in the fact that true change from homosexuality is possible and that people have experienced and can talk about true change. Chambers says he employs a full-time communications specialist to reach out to the media but that the Fox News Channel has "never responded" and shows no interest. In general, he adds, the media have a pro-homosexual slant, although he did find Lester Holt of NBC News and Anderson Cooper of CNN to be fair in their handling of the controversy.

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