A secret document recently released by WikiLeaks reveals a high level U.S. ambassador promoting a merger of the United States, Canada, and Mexico into one combined consumer and labor market, with a common currency and a mutual electronic security perimeter with less focuson physical borders.

The secret documents reveal a well-developed plan that advocates secrecy, an incremental approach as not to alarm the public. The document clearly states, that the plan is to prevent U.S. efforts to protect citizens from terrorism or disease from interfering with commerce and other financial interests. The documents also advocate that promotion of this plan focus on “individual firms, industries or travelers, and especially consumers” instead of the nations as a whole.

This high level leak appears to validate earlier concerns by many groups of plans to create a new government, which would supersede the sovereignty of America, Canada, and Mexico in a way similar to the European Union. Critics of these merger plans call the plan the North American Union. Supporters of the plan call it the North American Community or North American Integration (NAI).

“It is conspiracy, but it is no theory,” said William Gheen of ALIPAC. “These traitors are trying to conceal their plans, but they are out in the open now. They are trying to force an economic union on America that is not ratified by the U.S. Congress, not authorized by the U.S. Constitution, and not approved of by the American public. This plan is being facilitated by the non-enforcement of our existing immigration and border laws.”

Americans were shocked to learn in 2005 and 2006 that millions of undocumented immigrants had been imported into America and were now marching in the streets demanding legalization, citizenship, voting rights, and taxpayer resources. Federal lawmakers loyal to the North American Integration plans have claimed “our immigration systems are broken” when in fact the immigration systems have been compromised by those advocating a merger of the populations of America, Mexico, and Canada.

Other examples of this economic union plan which has been pursued by Presidents Bush and Obama, can be found in the writings of Dr. Robert Pastor of American University, in releases by the Council on Foreign Relations such as “Building a North American Community,” and in announcements made by heads of state in all three countries supporting

the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP).

“North American integration requires American disintegration. Americans would never voluntarily enter into this devilish arrangement that would disintegrate the United States beneath a larger super state; and a new government which would destroy the existing U.S. Constitution and borders,” said William Gheen. “This is why these elite banking, business, and political influences are flooding  America with rampant undocumented immigration and hyper legal immigration.

They are conquering the freedom-loving innocent citizens of America by bringing in outsiders who will replace us incrementally in our jobs and homes.” While news of this recent WikiLeaks disclosure is circulating on the Internet, Americans for Legal Immigration PAC (ALIPAC) is releasing the news and documents to the nation today via national press release.

American citizens are encouraged to take appropriate steps to organize in defense of the nation, and prepare to politically challenge and defeat those pursuing this unlawful, unconstitutional, and nation-destroying agenda.

William Gheen is releasing a more detailed article today titled “WikiLeaks Releases Secret Files: North American Integration” which will be discns 2163816 tributed nationally along with this press release. American Disintegration for North American Integration Plan http://www.alipac. us/article-6305-thread-1-0.html Copies of the WikiLeaks documents can be seen at this link… Leaked Secret WikiLeaks Documents about Integration ­http://www.alipac.us/ftopicp1226350.html#1226350.

por David Bacon­­

New America Media

Residents of Lanare, California, have discovered dangerous concentrations of Arsenic in their water supply­. (PHOTO BY DAVID BACON)

­NOTA DEL EDITOR: Here we present the second of a two-part series about contaminated water in the community of Lanare.

— In 2002 Lanare residents got a $1.3 million grant from the Federal government to build a plant to remove the arsenic. But after it went on line five years later, it only ran for six months. After that, the community’s residents no longer had enough money for the chemicals and power to keep it going. Even shut down, however, they still have to come up with $54 every month to cover that loan, paying basically for water they can’t drink. Inside every home there’s a faucet with water you might risk using to wash dishes or clothes. But when Angel Hernandez or Isabel Solorio hold up a glass to the light, the water is cloudy. So in the corner are the stacks of water bottles for drinking and cooking.

In the summer heat, on the border between Fresno and Merced Counties, the temperature rises to over 100 degrees. Water is no luxury. It sustains life. Everyone has to drink enough to replace what their bodies lose, even those like Mary Broad, who sits in the shade of her porch most days.

Dozens of similar small communities, or colonias, spread out across the state have similar water problems. Activists in 17 unincorporated areas of next-door Tulare County formed AGUA, La Asociacion de la Gente Unida por el Agua (The Association of People United for Water).

In Lanare, Hernandez, Solorio and several other residents, including Juventino Gonzalez and Jesus Medina, organized a group to press the state to take responsibility for providing water, Comunidad Unida en Lanare (Community United in Lanare). As a first step, they asked the state to survey Lanare and surrounding communities, acknowledge that such a need exists, and make a plan to meet it. California Rural Legal Assistance filed suit on their behalf last year, saying California’s Safe Drinking Water Act requires the state to formulate a Safe Drinking Water Plan.

The state hasn’t come up with a Safe Drinking Water Plan since 1993. CRLA attorneys point out that if authorities had followed the law and come up with one,, it would have been obvious that this poor small community could not have afforded to operate an expensive arsenic treatment plant. Letting the state off the hook, however, a local Fresno County judge ruled that California’s budget crisis trumped its obligation to create such a plan.

The state budget crisis, however, hasn’t stopped nearby Riverdale, only four miles from Lanare, from proposing another arsenic removal plant. The Riverdale Public Utilities District hopes to use funds from Proposition 84, a $5.4 billion water bond. It was just awarded $500,000 for a preliminary study for a project that would break ground next year.

CRLA lawyer Phoebe Seaton wrote to the state health department, saying that, “Given finite and scarce state and federal resources, the need for a safe, reliable and affordable source of water for both Lanare and Riverdale, and the Department’s statutory duty to explore consolidation of water systems, the Department must consider the consolidation of Lanare’s and Riverdale’s water systems.”

Public health officials, however, say connecting Lanare to that Riverdale plant, or even expanding Lanare’s own idle plant, would be too expensive. The state has hired a private contractor to operate the Lanare plant, but the operation is in receivership, and it hasn’t produced water anyone can drink for four years. When the Public Health Department wouldn’t say whether Lanare was included in its plan, Comunidad Unida began working with Fresno’s Local Agency Formation Commission, which is charged with avoiding expensive duplication of municipal and county services, including water.

In a report due to be released on August 24, Executive Officer Jeff Witts notes that “residents are currently relying on failing septic tanks­for wastewater services, there are no streetlights, sidewalks, and there is no adequate storm water drainage. The levels of poverty in Lanare make it that much more important that residents have access to an affordable source of drinking water.” The LAFCo report concludes that “A shared arsenic treatment facility that serves both Riverdale and Lanare would provide operational efficiencies and economies of scale that would improve service, water quality and affordable access to clean water for both communities.” It even advocates a system to allow Lanare residents to abandon their failing septic tanks, and connect to the sewers of Riverdale.

Meanwhile, however, the water in Lanare still looks cloudy, and residents fear drinking it. And they still pay $54 a month for it. “The government has forgotten us – they live outside our reality,” says Juventino Gonzalez, who moved to Lanare 41 years ago, when it only had 12 families. “All that time we’ve been isolated from the larger communities around us, while our neighborhood gets filled with drugs and trash. Water’s just one problem, but if we can find an answer to it, maybe we can solve others too. We’re willing to try almost anything.”

­by UC Davis Health System News

UC Davis researchers find adipose cells that cause diseases in patients with metabolic syndrome.

UC Davis Health System researchers have discovered biological indicators that explain why some obese people develop chronic diseases such as diabetes and heart diseases, and others don’t. Researchers adopted a fresh focus to specifically see the body fat of individuals with metabolic syndrome, which is a disease characterized by high levels of blood pressure, high levels of glucose on an empty stomach, excessive abdominal fat and abnormal levels of cholesterol.

They found out that adipose cells release biological markers associated to a resistance to insulin and chronic inflammation, conditions that generally cause diabetes or heart diseases.

“Our study shows that obesity is not always the same and that certain fat can actually be toxic”, said Ishwarlal Jialal, endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism professor and main author of an article entitled “Deregulation of Adipose Tissue in Patients with Metabolic Syndrome”, published today on Internet in the Clinic Endocrinology and Metabolism Magazine.

“We have proven that the fat in individuals with metabolic syndrome is more than what can be explained regarding obesity. It indicates us that the metabolic syndrome is a high risk condition for obese individuals”. Although previous studies using circulating blood discovered some of these biological indicators in individuals with metabolic syndrome, the current study is the first in identifying fat as a contributor for these markers.

“This clearly shows that the metabolic syndrome is of high risk for obesity and needs to be treated seriously”, said Jialal, who runs the Laboratory of UC Davis for Metabolic Research and Arteriosclerosis. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 35 per cent of adult Americans have metabolic syndrome, and its preponderance is increasing even in children and young adults globally.

The metabolic syndrome doubles the risk of a person’s likelihood of developing heart diseases -which can lead to heart attacks and strokes — and represents five times higher risk to develop diabetes. “It is a pest of these times”, said Jialal, who is also chief editor of the Metabolic Syndrome and Related Diseases magazine.

In the present study biopsies have been conducted to extract the subcutaneous adipose tissue, which makes up about 80 per cent of the body fat, from 65 patients’ buttocks: 39 recently diagnosed with metabolic syndrome and 26 obese. Researchers also carried out standard measurements such as blood pressure and level of glucose in an empty stomach, waist circumference and body mass index (BMI). Glucose measurements were used to estimate insulin resistance, and the waist measures such as the BMI, were used in the statistical analysis to compare the subjects of the study with their peers in the control group.

Then Jialal and his assistants measured 11 biological markers for diabetes and heart disease, and confronted the number of macrophage in the adipose tissue. These macrophages create a crown-shaped structure around the adipose cells that have surpassed their blood provision and have died. The presence of macrophages -cells of the immunologic system that swallow and destroy the cell residue –indicates the type of inflammatory response involved in the heart diseases.

Last year, Jialal published a study with the same 65 patients, indicating that they had dysfunctional endothelial parent cells (CPEs) and less endothelial parent cells than the subjects in the control group.

Eventually these cells make up the coating of the blood vessels and are used to measure heart health. Like in the current study, this abnormality can’t be explained simply by obesity.

The metabolic syndrome can be reversed with diet and physical activity to lose weight, although according to Jialal, other types of treatment might also be necessary. “I have been doing this for 34 years. It is difficult to achieve that people maintain therapeutic changes in their lifestyles”, said Jialal.

“Once people have diabetes or heart diseases, it is too late and much more expensive due to the complications that arise. Metabolic syndrome is the precedent. It is there where we should intervene”, said Jialal.

For more information, visit healthsystem.ucdavis.edu.

by the El Reportero’s news services

Hugo Chávez

The biggest news event in Latin America over the last week, at least in the judgement of the world’s media, was an announcement by Venezuela’s President Hugo Chávez that he plans to repatriate the country’s gold reserves forthwith.

The biggest news event in the world over the last week is the imminent fall of Libya’s leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. Is the juxtaposition of the two developments apposite?

Cuban assets abroad to be targeted

On Aug. 24 Miami-Dade Circuit court judge Beatrice Butchko, awarded $2.8bn in compensation to Gustavo Villoldo in relation to the damages caused by the Cuban state for his father’s “forced suicide” as a result of the 1959 Revolution. The award beat the world record in compensation.

In his remarks before judge Butchko, Villoldo said he was tortured for five days and that he had been the target of murder attempts several times after he left Cuba.

Villoldo added that his father committed suicide as a consequence of the many threats his family received –by the way, he was a shareholder in society with dictator Fulgencio Batista of a vehicle manufacturing company.

According the Cuban News Agency, the “candid” judge forgot that the plaintiff, 72, joined the American army in the 1960s, used to be a CIA employee, and brags about having helped in capturing Argentinean-born guerrilla fighter Ernesto Che Guevara in Bolivia, in 1968.

Russia says no to Iran-Venezuela missile deal

On Aug. 24 the Russian news agency Interfax cited a source closely involved in the proposed S-300 surface-to-air missile purchase by Iran, through Venezuela, as saying that Russia would not agree to the deal under any circumstance.

Iran expects international courts to authorize the supply of Russia’s S-300 air defense systems to Iran. The Russian authorities have refused to sell the surface-to-air missile to the Asian Islamic republic following international sanctions imposed by the United Nations.

“From a legal standpoint, we consider that the supply of S-300 does not fall under the UN resolution,” Sajjadi said Wednesday at a press conference in Moscow, as reported by Russian agencies.

­Counter-cyclical policies

The region’s two big economies, Brazil and Mexico, are bracing themselves for another bout of international economic turbulence. Mexico argues that its healthy reserves, its industrial competitiveness and low foreign debt make it armor-plated against any crisis. We’re not so sure and prefer Brazil’s more dynamic and broader defensive economic strategy.