Today is July 4th, America's birthday. I make no secret of my love of country. America is the land of my fathers and I will stand with those who defend her. And for the most part, America has good intentions. But, unfortunately, that doesn't make her always right. And, what I'm about to report deeply concerns me.

Yesterday I posted a commentary about a video showing Lou Dobbs expressing concern about the North American Union (NAU) Read it here. We here at FP have our concerns too. We've been interested in all the international treaties and programs -- both private and government -- that, for some reason, have a completion dated of 2010. As Lou Dobbs points out in his video, there appears to be something going on that's not being reported. And, now we find another connection to 2010 -- this time closer to home. It turns out the goal of the NAU is to have a huge free trade zone in place over the entire North American Continent by -- you guessed it -- 2010. 

To fully undersand what I'm saying, let's take a look at something I posted about this issue last year. In a commentary titled, 2010 Again Read it here, I said this: 

There's the year 2010 again. This time it's in an agreement Javier Solana brokered between the EU and Vietnam. If you recall, the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership agreement that Solana negotiated between the EU and 12 Mediterranean nations also set a goal of 2010 ... And, just recently, I reported about the UK's eBorder project. It's a global human and cargo tracking system that includes biometric identification. I suspect this could actually become the system that is used to implement the mark of the beast. And, eBorders is scheduled to be fully up and running by 2010. This brings us back to Solana. You see, the EU's constitution also set a headline goal for when Solana's civilian and military peace-keeping/peace-making capabilities would be deployable. These assets include 9 battle groups, heavy lift aircraft, aircraft carrier, satellite communications and now, eBorders. You guessed it. The goal set for all this is 2010.

What I want you to notice in the above list are the programs that have to do with security and military issues -- the global eBorders project and Solana's peace-keeping/peace-making capabilities. Included in these assets that are to be ready by 2010 we find mention of Solana's satellite and communications capabilities. What's being referred to here is the 10-nation Western European Union's (WEU) Satellite Center at the Torrejon Air Base near Madrid, Spain.

The Torrejon Air Base in Spain was once used by the American Air Force. My point is, it appears there's a direct link to be made between all the agreements and programs having a 2010 completion date that I mentioned above, and NASA's so-called "new focus," announced by President Bush back in January 2004. You see, in NASA's new Presidential mandate, we find included a completion date for NASA's International Space Station project. That date also happens to be 2010 Video and transcript here. 

Here's another connection to the above mentioned agreements and programs: If the Shuttle Discovery would have experienced an engine failure on launch, besides places to land here in America, Discovery would have had four places available over seas -- two in Africa and two in Spain. If you recall, Spain is where Solana has his Satellite Center. And, at the same base where Discovery could land, America has deployed elements from the Air Force Space Command and Space Surveillance Squadron. 

On top of all this, when President Bush gave NASA their new orders in 2004, NASA's top administrator was a man named Sean O'Keefe. Evidently, soon after Bush issued his new directive, O'Keefe made a decision to ground the shuttle fleet until certain safety problems could be resolved Read about it here. In short order a man by the name of Michael Griffin was put in his place. And, as you may have heard, despite warnings from NASA engineers -- and even some high level resignations -- Griffin made the decision to fly the shuttle anyway Read about it here. 

Friends, what's so important about 2010 that NASA's new administrator would be willing to risk lives? In fact, not only were lives at risk with today's decision to launch, it was being reported if something happened to Discovery today, NASA's entire shuttle program would be shut down.

But, Griffin went ahead and risked it all.

All for something in 2010.