Transatlantic Policy Network- (TPN)

There's a secretive Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) that's called the Transatlantic Economic Council (TEC) also Tansatlantic Policy Network (TPN) aiming at joining the USA in a transatlantic common market with the European Union (E.U.). Can anyone guess who the TEC Committee Chairman is?

I'll give you a hint: He's a U.S. Senator from Utah.

U.S. Senator Robert F. Bennett, one of Utah's two Senators, is chairing the Transatlantic Economic Council (TEC) with the goal of creating a USA-EU common market. The European Common Market and European Community were stepping stones to political unification of 27 European Nations. Will this TEC goal of a common market be the stepping stone to merging the USA economically and politically with the EU?

Imagine 27 EU nations voting against 1 USA vote in a transatlantic common market. 27 wolves voting against 1 sheep as to what is for dinner. EU "democracy" in action, just like Karl Marx would have approved of.

You can read a short article about the Transatlantic Economic Council or Transatlantic Policy Network (TPN) at the JBS website:
http://www.jbs.org/no...

Check out the talk by John F. McManus:
http://www.youtube.co...

The latest issue, MAY 1, (May Day) of THE NEW AMERICAN will scoop the media in breaking the story on the Transatlantic Economic Council and on Senator Robert F. Bennett's leading role in the endeavor to integrate the USA with the E.U.

The May 1 issue of The New American magazine has articles that spell out what the Transatlantic Policy Network is and Senator Bennett's involvement, makes a great hand out to give coupled together with the DVD The Real Face of the European Union produced by The John Birch Society. (www.ShopJBS.org .) Senator Robert Bennett must want his involvement with TPN as it's chair to be a secret as he hasn't talked to newspapers or TV stations in the state about TPN. So let us help get the story out as far and wide as we can so that his economic & political secret is no longer secret from Utah's voting-public.

There are dozens of business, history, economics, and political science professors at all of Utah's Universities that should be given copies of the magazine and the DVD to help them understand the corruption of the EU and why we don't want to see America merged into a "Transatlantic Common Market" with the utterly corrupt European Union. Can you order and share some copies with professors at the local university or college near you?

Utah members of The John Birch Society and friends in our JBS.org Freedom Campaign Meetup Group have, through mid-May, ordered and distributed 3,495 copies of "The Real Face of the European Union" DVD inside the state of Utah! Many of these DVDs made their way to State Legislators, Republican Party delegates, and opinion molders. This is great work! 50,000 of the DVD have been distributed nationwide!

4th of July Handout-- Will America Remain Independent?
Why hasn?t the media told you about the TPN?


Would you approve of economically merging the United States of America, including Utah, with the European Union (EU) in an international ?common market?? Has anyone asked you before whether you like the idea of entangling our nation with the EU? Have you asked any of Utah?s U.S. Congressional delegation to seek after an economic union or economic integration with the EU? Have you seen any of Utah?s U.S. Congressional delegation discussing such a common market between the USA and the European Union on Utah television stations, on news shows, talk shows, or at political conventions this year? Have you heard any of Utah?s Congressional delegation discuss the idea of economic unification under an EU/USA common market on any Utah radio stations or have you read interviews on the topic with any of Utah?s Congressional delegation in Utah newspapers or magazines?
What if one of the members of Utah?s Congressional delegation has been working on a project to guide and direct the USA into such a common market with the EU and hadn?t told anyone in Utah?s media about his work? What if he were a leader in this cause of integrating with the 27-integrated nations of the European Union but his meetings with other powerful leaders on this topic had not been reported to you? What if Utahans had not been asked whether they wanted to entangle our states and nation into a common market with the 27 foreign nations of the EU, how would you feel about that?
Before now, did you ever hear of the Transatlantic Policy Network (TPN)? Would it surprise you to learn that the TPN Non-governmental Organization (NGO) has been hard at work since 1992 creating a process to create the common market of the USA with the EU? Would it further surprise you to learn the U.S. Senator Robert F. Bennett is a chairman of the TPN?s Management Committee, one of the top leadership positions at TPN, according to the TPN?s own website? ( http://www.tpnonline.... )
Would it surprise you that there is an entire group of U.S. Senators and U.S. Representatives who are part of the Transatlantic Policy Network? You can check it out for yourself at: http://www.tpnonline.... . Why haven?t you heard about this? Why have these 7 Senators and 48 Congressmen secretly combined with EU Leaders and large multi-national companies to quietly bring about an economic union with the EU? Could write to Senator Bennett?
Will you ask him why he didn?t bring up the TPN at the Republican conventions in Utah that he spoke at? Please read this article: http://thenewamerican... You can write to Senator Robert F. Bennett at: Senator Robert F. Bennett, Old Court House Building, 51 S. University Ave., Suite 310, Provo, UT 84601-4424. Ask him why he hasn?t spoken about TPN even at Republican conventions.
To learn more about the European Union, to see how corrupt it is, to understand why Ireland just voted against the Lisbon Treaty that would grip them more tightly into the E.U., order the 1/3-hour DVD ?The Real Face of the European Union? for $1.50 each, plus shipping from 1-800-342-6491, or www.aobs-store.com . Find out what the media isn?t telling you about the EU that Robert F. Bennett apparently wants us to be entangled with! Utah?s Legislators have been given the short DVD, see what they?ve seen. What is America?s Independence worth to you, to your children, to posterity in general?
(A message from the organizer of the JBS.org Freedom Campaign-Utah Meetup group. http://jbs.meetup.com... )

The above message could be copied, printed, and handed out to people along the parade route at the Provo Parade, July 4th, 2008 to inform them of Senator Robert F. Bennett's attempt to create a Common Market with the European Union, an independence destroying move. This alert could be handed out with the pamphlets Joel Flaker's group is handing out at the parade concerning the North American Union, another independence-destroying process underway through the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP).

(August 2008-- A few members from this meetup group did hand out about 750 copies of the above handout at Chuck Baldwin's talks in Nehpi, Salt Lake City, and at the Independence Day Parade in Provo, Utah).

U.S. Senator Robert Bennett recently received an e-mail from me asking him about his involvement in the Transatlantic Policy Network (TPN). I asked him why he had been so secretive since he did not report his activities and management position to Utah's media, or Utah's Legislature, or Utah's Republican Party conventions, or the voters over the years he's been secretly combined inside the TPN NGO working towards an economic integration of the U.S.A. and the E.U.. In a September 5, 2008 letter back to me, here's what he said:

Dear Mr. Tew:

Thank you for contacting me regarding the Transatlantic Policy Network (TPN). I appreciate you taking the time to make your views known and welcome the opportunity to respond.

As you mentioned in your letter, a number of articles have been written regarding TPN and my involvement with the organization. These articles often misconstrue the purpose of TPN and my role in the organization. TPN was organized in 1992 as a non-governmental network with several central purposes: to promote a partnership between the government and peoples of the U.S. and European Union (EU) to ensure global security, economic growth and stability, and the enhancement of democratic values; and to use dialogue to overcome challenges and take advantage of mutual opportunities. TPN Activities and initiatives are not binding on the U.S. or countries within the EU. TPN is one of many non-governmental organizations that promotes greater cooperation and dialogue between the U.S. and other countries on issues that are of common interest and benefit.

Beyond the misrepresentation of TPN, these articles take a number of statements out of context and apply a far different meaning to them than the original authors intended. While I will not take the time to refute each individual accusation, I would like to provide you some of my thoughts on the greater U.S. and EU economic cooperation and outline the basics of the Transatlantic Economic Council.

I became involved with TPN over five years ago and currently serve as chairman of the organization. My involvement with TPN is rooted in my belief that greater cooperation, especially economic cooperation, will greatly serve both the interests of the U.S. and EU. This economic cooperation is in no way synonymous with the purported combining of the economies of the U.S. and other countries. In regards to economic cooperation between the U.S. and EU, the major need for cooperation is in streamlining regulations and standards. This cooperation is not a free-trade agreement because it is not geared primarily towards decreasing tariff-barriers.

I have often given the following example I heard during an event on economic cooperation: if you produce a car which you intend to sell on both sides of the Atlantic, you have to crash it twice: once to see if it meets European standards, then again to see if it meets American standards. Cars are not particularly safer on one side or the other - the difference in regulations is largely due to the differing preferences of individual regulators. Regulations are good in that they protect consumers' safety and environmental factors, but regulations can be bad if they are adopted simply for regulation's sake.

By eliminating onerous regulation and streamlining product standards, the U.S. and EU create much larger markets for individual goods and decrease the costs of these goods fa businesses and consumers. The benefits of greater economic cooperation are very applicable to Utah. European countries supply 87 percent of all foreign investment in Utah. Nearly 22,000 jobs in Utah are directly supported by this foreign investment. Utah also exports three times the quantity of goods to the EU than it sends to China, Japan, Korea, and India combined. This level of investment and trade is likely to increase along with t the correspoinding economic benefit to Utah, as nontariff trade barriers decrease.

The Transatlantic Economic Council was created in April 2007, at the U.S.-EU Summit to provide a framework for the U.S. and EU to increase the efficiency of economic cooperation and accelerate the reduction of barriers to international trade and investment. This council is a product of negotiations between the Bush Administration, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, then President of the European Council, and Jose' Manuel Barroso, president of the European Commission. The Transatlantic Economic Council does not advocate combining the economies of the U.S. and EU. It is a body charged with identifying ways of reducing trade and investment barriers by working openly to eliminate repetitive or extraneous product standards; fostering innovation and technological development; protecting property rights; and offering predictability in regulations. These efforts do not threaten the sovereignty of the U.S. in any way.

Again, thank you for writing.
Sincerely,

Robert F. Bennett
United States Senator

Now it should be interesting to note that this letter which Senator Bennett sent to me on September 5th is identical to the letter he sent to me on August 27th to answer an earlier letter I'd sent him concerning the TPN.

On September 8th, 2008, I had sent him another letter about the TPN, which, perhaps the above letter was intended to answer. Next, I'll post my September 8th letter, which may have been the reason for his letter above so you can read it and see if you like the answers from Senator Bennett.

Part of my letter:

Dear Senator Bennett:

Your August 27th reply to one of my earlier e-mail letters concerning your cooperation and work in private with the Transatlantic Policy Network (TPN) non-governmental organization (NGO) is before me as I write. You stated that the “TPN was organized in 1992 as a non-governmental network….” But, with 48 U.S. Representatives, 6 U.S. Senators, and members of the European Union’s parliament or government organizations involved in TPN’s membership there’s a huge element of government involved from both sides of the Atlantic, so It’s hardly fair or even entirely honest to characterize the TPN NGO as “non-governmental.”

The secretive nature of TPN having its meetings held with CEO’s of multinational companies, U.S. Senators, U.S. Representatives, and EU officials without the openness of Congressional hearings is very suspicious to me. Congressional Committees should have their hearings in the open where the press can report on them, not in secret as TPN has been doing all these years since 1992. That is sixteen-years of private meetings. Where’s the accountability and transparency for the Congressmen involved?

Senator Bennett, when did you report to Utah’s Legislators about your combining with five other U.S. Senators and forty-eight U.S. Representatives to hold meetings with Europeans and CEOs of multinationals about bringing about some kind of transatlantic Common Market arrangement with the EU? ...

You have not answered the questions I’ve asked in the past such as: Did the Utah State Legislature ask you to entangle the USA in a common market with the European Union? If not, have you been doing this all on your own idea? Or is some organization pushing you to involve the USA with the very corrupt European Union? ...

You say that through the TPN you’re “streamlining regulations and standards” between the USA and the EU, but the TPN is supposedly a private organization, not a governmental organization so who gave the “private” TPN authority to be negotiating in secret such things with a bunch of CEOs from multinational corporations having input in these off-the-record meetings. These are secret meetings since I’ve seen no reports of their content in Utah’s newspapers, or on Utah’s TV news, nor have my Legislators told me they’ve been informed by you of the content of these meetings of the TPN since 1992. That’s very secretive and lacks transparency. I doubt the TPN website was known by hardly anyone in Utah until The New American magazine ran an article about it in May 2008.

Who decided which CEO’s and which multinational corporations got to be in on these TPN meetings? Why do they get to have preferential input ....

You wrote that “TPN Activities and initiatives are not binding on the U.S. or countries within the EU,” but, whatever is discussed there within your TPN meetings is certainly finding its way back through U.S. Senators and U.S. Representatives who were part of these meetings into their work in Congress, otherwise this entire exercise was a waste of their time....

The same must be true for Members of the European Parliament (MEP) who are Insiders in this TPN and TEC “network” or combination. Once called “backroom dealings” these meetings mean that the “insiders” in this process, the chosen CEOs, get to influence our government and the government of the EU in private. Again, who picked these particularly CEOs and why do they get such preferential treatment above all other Americans? I am reminded of the I.G. Farben influence on the National Socialists in Germany during the 1930-1940s...

The entire process looks like a “top-down” process of integrating and harmonizing the USA with the EU. You wrote that: “The Transatlantic Economic Council was created in April 2007, at the U.S.-EU Summit to provide a framework for the U.S. and EU to increase the efficiency of economic cooperation and accelerate the reduction of barriers to international trade and investment.” This sounds innocent unless you’ve read the book The Great Deception...

So how can I trust these private meetings that you, your CEO and EU cronies, and your Congressional cronies have been holding since 1992 without reporting on their content to our Legislature or our Utah media?

Senator Bennett, you wrote that “These efforts do not threaten the sovereignty of the U.S. in any way.” That is the same kind of assurances that leaders in European nations such as Great Britain gave to their citizens for decades, even as they brought them into the European Union which is now overriding the sovereignty of those 27 nations thus swallowed.... For example there was this Prime Minister’s statement to the people of Britain that has turned out to be entirely false:

“There are some in this country who fear that in going into Europe we shall in some way sacrifice independence and sovereignty. These fears, I need hardly say, are completely unjustified.”
- Edward Heath, Prime Minister
TV broadcast, January 1973.

Reading in the TPN’s own Second Annual Report, of May 2008, I read: “The TEC was created by the EU and US presidencies as the high-level engine to drive completion and joint oversight of the Transatlantic Market.” Thus we see this is a top-down process, a process driven neither by either the citizens of America, nor by our State Legislatures from the 50 states...

Where is this Transatlantic drive eventually heading us? Is world government, a global “New World Order,” as President George H.W. Bush often described it, the ultimate aim of all of these integration and harmonization processes that are underway? Regional governments like the EU appear to be the building blocks of complete global integration. (Then, just throw in the Law of the Sea Treaty to complete global governmental control ....)

The attempt to build a North American Community out of Canada, the USA, and Mexico has been ongoing and aided by the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America initiative, another “top-down” driving force to “integrate” nations. NAFTA laid the ground work the SPP has built on.

The Council on Foreign Relations influence has been heavy in establishing both the EU and moving us towards a North American Community, leading towards unification with Canada and Mexico. The EU was sixty years in the making, a gradual process of deception and piecemeal grabs of power for an EU super-state...

The United Nations, WTO, IMF, and other globalist institutions have been in place now since 1945. And it appears to tens-of-thousands of Americans, myself included, that a quiet-revolution is taking place to overthrow the nation-state model of government with the new world order model through this step-by-step regionalization of nations into regional governments, through secret meetings (TPN & TEC), the SPP, and through so-called free trade agreements, and subservience to WTO, UN, etc.

Many Republican office-holders like you appear to me to have become “neoconservatives” who promote corporate-socialist-internationalist agendas under the now false banner of Republican Conservatism. Because of the oath Senators take, you are supposed to be a constitutionalist, not a neoconservative. That is to say that your job is to protect our constitutional system from enemies both foreign and domestic including enemies of our continued national independence.

Sincerely,

Bliss Tew

Will the Lame-Duck Congress and President shove a new international monetary order, or money authority down our throats before the end of 2008? Will they design it in conjunction with the European Union's leaders? There's a new Bretton Woods type of meeting scheduled for Washington, D.C. this November that will likely be secretive again, but may shed some light on answers to these two questions.

http://www.jbs.org/in...

One more followup message about The Transatlantic Policy Network (TPN) and Senator Robert F. Bennett. On Monday, February 16th, Senator Bennett held a meeting for voters to interact with him at the Provo Marriott Hotel from about 10:00 am to 1:30 PM.

At the meeting, I was able to bring up the fact that the European Union had bullied 13 Caribbean nations into a new Economic Partnership Agreement with the E.U.. You can read all about this agreement in The New American magazine, February 2, 2009 issue, in an article in THE NEW AMERICAN magazine by John F. McManus titled: "EU Deja Vu in the Caribbean." I pointed out that the book, The Great Deception, which I held up a copy of in front of the audience, tells the 60-year story of deception used by government leaders from many nations to trap 27 European nations into a common market, leading into a political unification, the European Union (EU). I was able to ask Senator Bennett if he would discuss his membership in the Transatlantic Policy Network (TPN) and tell us if it's goal is to create a common market between the USA and the EU.

Senator Bennett told us that he is no longer the chairman of the TPN, that he thinks the EU has done a lot of good for the nations that are members, that the TPN is "just a network," that "there is nothing sinister about the Transatlantic Policy Network" and that "it's not a conspiracy." I had not said that it was a conspiracy, nor even used the word "conspiracy," but I guess he thought people might think it is a conspiracy so he had to reassure them that the combined 6 U.S. Senators, 48 U.S. Congressmen, a collection of CEOs from multinational companies, and members of the EU parliament meeting together without oversight, in a private setting, not a public hearing, might be a cause for concern to average Americans who don't get such special treatment. Maybe some Americans will feel that these CEO's have an inordinate amount of pull.

I mentioned that the bullying of 13 nations in the Caribbean into an Economic Partnership Agreement through coercive trade threats made me wonder if the USA would be next to be threatened by the EU. You can read the trade agreement between the 13 nations and the E.U. here: http://www.eubusiness...

Also, I told him that I thought the EU's aggressive coercion of these 13 nations looked like another step towards integrating nations into a world government, but that the pressure to do so was now coming from the EU.

Senator Bennett went on with fielding other questions, some pertaining to the power of the Federal Reserve System. He defended the concept of central banking and told us how he loved Alexander Hamilton's idea of a central bank for America.