North American Union 'a couple years away'*

Bilderberg author who 1st exposed plot in 1996 sees EU replication as
imminent

Posted: November 19, 2007

WASHINGTON – The next giant step toward world government will be
integration of the U.S., Canada and Mexico in European Union-style
merger in the next few years, says the author of a best-selling book on
the power of shadowy international organizations promoting the move.

"I would say [it's just] a couple of years away," reports Daniel
Estulin, author of "The True Story of the Bilderberg Group."

Estulin, a Canadian now living in Europe, says the original plans for a
North American Union involved the U.S. and Canada as the prime
participants. It was motivated primarily by the desire to harvest
Canada's abundant natural resources.

In his new book, Estulin reveals the first efforts in this plan date
back to 1996 when the elite Bilderberg Group first discussed plans for
the dismantlement of Canada as an independent nation and proposed its
merger – minus Quebec – with the United States into a Greater North America.

"Actually, the North American Union, or rather a Canada-U.S. merger, was
initially discussed shortly after the Reagan-Bush candidacy won the
White House," he says in an interview. "Upon taking over the reins of
the country, George Bush and Ronald Reagan called in the presidents of
the key trans-national companies and asked them for the real picture.
The money people told them that if the United States were a corporation
it would have to be shut down immediately. It was bankrupt."

The solution proposed then, according to Estulin, was merger between the
U.S. and Canada.

"Canada is virgin country with a multitude of natural resources, water,
mines, oil, gas, etc.," he explains. "They decided that it was going to
take 14 or 15 years to put the whole project together. In the interval,
the economies, social programs and laws of the two countries would be
quietly harmonized as much as possible."

Back then, part of that harmonization plan involved the separation of
Quebec as an independent state, he says.

"Actually, when all is said and done, it all comes down to money,"
Estulin says. "Money makes its own rules. If your goal is to make the
most money possible using Canada's natural resources, what would you ask
for? Number one, give me control over the sun. Number two, give me
control over the air. Number three, give me control over water. Now, we
know we cannot control the sun, nor can we control the air. But we can
control water. Water, after all, is the most important element that can
be controlled."

But the plot for a North American Union, as exposed in detail in Jerome
Corsi's new bestselling book, "The Late Great USA," is but a prelude,
Estulin says, to the ultimate merger – one-world government.

"Everything is in place," he says. "Europe is now one country, one
currency and one constitution. North America is about to become one. The
African Union has had its working model going for over a decade. Asia is
openly discussing the near-future Asian Union, being sold to us as an
economic inevitability beneficial to all its citizens."

Estulin sees the current focus in the U.S. on the presidential election
of 2008 as something of a farce in light of this trend.

"Does it really matter who wins?" he asks. "As I make very clear in 'The
True Story of the Bilderberg Group,' every politician of note and
promise belongs to the Bilderbergers, CFR (Council on Foreign Relations)
or the Trilateral Commission. Unless you are one of them, you can hardly
hope to win the presidency. If we vote for the lesser evil, forced upon
us by the secret oligarchies and the powerful men behind the curtain, we
end up playing the game imposed upon us by them. Democracy, I guess what
I really want to say, is a fallacy, an unattainable dream, a useless
label trotted out and dusted off by the rulers every four years for the
benefit of the great unwashed – us. There are two sides in this equation
– the powerful elite who control the world's wealth and the rest of
humanity."

Estulin "guarantees" today's Republican front-runner Rudy Giuliani will
not get the nomination of his party. With less certitude, he speculates
the current mayor of New York, Michael Bloomberg, could still be
positioned to head the GOP ticket.

"Bloomberg, according to my sources within Bilderberg, will emerge as a
credible candidate of consensus for the discredited American political
establishment, your virtual "People's Choice" candidate," he says.

What is the agenda behind these groups, which Estulin says are comprised
of "self-interested elitists protecting their wealth and the investments
of multinational banks and corporations in the growing world economy at
the expense of developing nations and Third World countries"?

"The policies they develop," he writes, "benefit them as well as move us
towards a one-world government."

Those questioning Estulin's conclusion as mere speculation need only
recall organizational financer David Rockefeller's own words as recorded
in his "Memoirs."

"Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the
best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as
'internationalists' and conspiring with others around the world to build
a more integrated global political and economic structure – one world,
if you will," he wrote. "If that's the charge, I stand guilty, and I am
proud of it."

Estulin's book, first written in 2005 in Spain, has been translated into
24 languages, most recently this English edition. He has covered the
Bilderberg Group as a journalist for more than 15 years.

Why does he singularly devote so much attention to exposing their
activities?

"They cannot survive the light, and they know it," he says. "This is why
the powerful people have long insulated themselves from that
possibility. You see, the greatest form of control is when you think you
are free while you are being manipulated and dictated to. People have
been disarmed through the greatest hypnotist the world has ever known –
the oblong box almost everyone has in the corner of their living rooms
known as the television. By persuading ordinary people that what they
can see with their eyes is what is there to see, the men behind the
curtain have ensured their own survival, because people will laugh in
your face when you explain to them that there is a bigger picture they
are not seeing."

What is his personal prescription for fighting back? He offers a
five-point program:

1. Understanding that governments do not represent the people nor have
their best interests at heart.

2. Understanding that corporate media's main job is to hide the
transgressions of the most powerful people in the world not shine the
light of truth on it.

3. Understanding that the corporate media forms part of the world's
elite societies such as the Bilderbergers, the CFR and the Trilateral
Commission.

4. Understanding how money works and how through intelligent use of
money we can destroy the Bilderbergers of this world.