I crafted a Welcome Home (from European adventures) mix for my folks. Mom isn’t home yet, but I was hanging out with Dad yesterday. I’d like to share the mix with you too. :)
Other than the Sufjan Stevens tracks, this is music I discovered in 2006 which didn’t fit on my Look up! Get Down! mix, slower tempos, more guitar and vocal oriented, less electronics.
01 - Amy Winehouse - Rehab 02 - Kym Tuvim - Fly Away 03 - Jamie Lidell - Multiply (In a Minor Key) 04 - Sufjan Stevens - Chicago 05 - Cat Power - The Greatest 06 - Marissa Nadler - Yellow Lights 07 - Alice Smith - Woodstock 08 - Jenny Lewis With The Watson Twins - Handle With Care (Acoustic Mashup?) 09 - Mark Kozelek - You Ain’t Got a Hold on Me 10 - The Be Good Tanyas - When Doves Cry (Prince Cover) 11 - The Blow - Parantheses 12 - First Coat - George 13 - First Floor Power - Scissors, Bag or a Stone 14 - Piers Faccini - If I 15 - Marisaa Nadler - Famous Blue Raincoat (L. Cohen Cover) 16 - Sufjan Stevens - The Transfuguration 17 - M83 - Let Men Burn Stars
The Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America was launched in March of 2005 by the former Martin Liberal government, who played a lead role in creating the SPP, also called deep integration. The SPP is a trilateral initiative to fast-track the integration of Canada and Mexico with the United States. The SPP is now being pushed more aggressively by the Harper Conservative government. [NDP Press Release]
Could this be the beginning of a push to “unite” Canada, Mexico, and the USA in a North American Union modelled on the European Union? Please… say it ain’t so.
Closely related:
The North American Future 2025 Project, an initiative being led by the U.S.-based Center for Strategic and International Studies, the Conference Board of Canada and the Mexican Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Economicas, calls for a series of “closed-door meetings” on North American integration with government officials dealing with a number of highly contentious issues including bulk water exports, a joint security perimeter, and a continental resource pact. [NDP Press Release]
(emphasis mine)
The [North American Future 2025 Project] outline notes that fresh water is running out in many regions of the world, particularly the U.S. and Mexico.
By contrast, it notes, Canada possesses about 20 per cent of the Earths fresh water.
It goes on to say Canada, the U.S. and Mexico need to discuss solutions such as bilateral agreements on water transfers and the diversion of water.
The outline notes the overriding future goal of North America is to achieve joint optimum utilization of the available water. [Nation Post]
