"NORTH AMERICAN FUTURE 2025 PROJECT"

I'm stunned!  I just ran across a document entitled "NORTH AMERICAN FUTURE 2025 PROJECT".  Some of you have probably seen it, if not here's a link: http://www.canadians.org/water/documents/NA_Future_2025.pdf  

The document is rather lenghtly, but here's an excerpt:

 "...

SUMMARY

The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) proposes to conduct a research project that will examine the future strategic issues facing North America projecting out to the year 2025. The results of the study will enable policymakers to make sound, strategic, long-range policy decisions about North America, with an emphasis on regional integration.

Specifically, the project will focus on a detailed examination of future scenarios, which are based on current trends, and involve six areas of critical importance to the trilateral relationship: labor mobility, energy, the environment, security, competitiveness, and border infrastructure and logistics...

"PROJECT DESCRIPTION

In order to strengthen the capacity of Canadian, U.S., and Mexican administration officials and that of their respective legislatures to analyze, comprehend, and anticipate North American integration, the CSIS North America Project proposes to carry out a series of seven closed-door roundtable sessions...

The  final deliverable will be a report on options and policy recommendations on the future of North American integration that will be presented in September 2007 to the executive and legislative branches of the three governments of North America. The report will be produced in the three official languages—English, Spanish, and French—as part of an effective dissemination strategy aimed at maximizing the policy impact of the report..."

This document was purportedly published by Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).  I went to their website and found the following (I think you'll recognize some of the names):

"Board of Trustees and Counselors

CSIS trustees are drawn equally from the worlds of public policy and the private sector. They contribute a wealth of expertise to the Center’s mission and management. One asterisk (*) denotes a member of the Executive Committee and two asterisks (**) denote a CSIS Counselor.

 

ChairmanSam Nunn* ** -- Cochairman & CEO, Nuclear Threat Initiative

Vice Chairman & Co-FounderDavid M. Abshire -- President, Center for the Study of the Presidency

Chairman of the Executive CommitteeWilliam A. Schreyer* -- Chairman Emeritus, Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc.

Vice Chairman of the Executive CommitteeAnne Armstrong* -- Former U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain

President & CEOJohn J. Hamre* -- President & CEO, CSIS

Trustees

• George L. Argyros -- Chairman & CEO, Arnel & Affiliates
• Richard Armitage -- President, Armitage International
• Betty Beene -- Former President & CEO, United Way of America
• Reginald K. Brack -- Former Chairman & CEO, Time, Incorporated
• William E. Brock** -- Counselor and Trustee, CSIS
• Harold Brown** -- Counselor and Trustee, CSIS
• Zbigniew Brzezinski** -- Counselor and Trustee, CSIS
• William S. Cohen -- Chairman & CEO, The Cohen Group
• Ralph Cossa -- President, Pacific Forum/CSIS
• Richard Fairbanks** -- Counselor and Trustee, CSIS
• William H. Frist -- Trustee, CSIS
• Michael P. Galvin* -- President, Harrison Street Capital, LLC
• Linda W. Hart -- Vice Chairman & CEO, The Hart Group, Inc.
  
• Ben W. Heineman, Jr. -- CSIS Trustee and Senior Adviser
• Thomas O. Hicks -- Chairman, Hicks Holdings LLC
• Carla A. Hills** -- Chairman & CEO, Hills & Company
• Ray L. Hunt -- Chairman & CEO, Hunt Consolidated, Inc.
• E. Neville Isdell -- Chairman & CEO, The Coca-Cola Company
• James L. Jones -- Trustee, CSIS
• Henry A. Kissinger** -- Chairman & CEO, Kissinger Associates, Inc.
• Kenneth G. Langone -- President & CEO, Invemed Associates, LLC
• Donald B. Marron -- Chairman & CEO, Lightyear Capital
• Joseph Nye -- Distinguished Service Professor, Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government
• E. Stanley O’Neal -- Chairman and CEO, Merrill Lynch & Company, Inc.
• Joseph E. Robert -- Chairman and CEO, The J.E. Robert Companies (JER)
• Felix G. Rohatyn -- President, Rohatyn Associates, LLC
• David M. Rubenstein -- Cofounder and Managing Director, The Carlyle Group
• Charles A. Sanders -- Former Chairman & CEO, Glaxo Inc.
• James R. Schlesinger** -- Senior Adviser, Lehman Brothers, Inc.
• Brent Scowcroft** -- President, Forum for International Policy
• Rex Tillerson -- Chairman & CEO, Exxon Mobil Corporation
• Murray Weidenbaum -- Hon. Chair, Weidenbaum Center, Washington University
• Frederick B. Whittemore -- Advisory Director, Morgan Stanley

TRUSTEES EMERITUS

• Dolores D. Wharton
• Amos A. Jordan

COUNSELORS

• William E. Brock -- Counselor and Trustee, CSIS
  
• Harold Brown -- Counselor and Trustee, CSIS
• Zbigniew Brzezinski -- Counselor and Trustee, CSIS
• Frank C. Carlucci -- Counselor, CSIS
• Richard Fairbanks -- Counselor and Trustee, CSIS
• Carla A. Hills -- Chairman & CEO, Hills & Company
• Henry A. Kissinger -- Chairman & CEO, Kissinger Associates, Inc.
• Theodore McCarrick -- Counselor, CSIS
• Sam Nunn -- Cochairman & CEO, Nuclear Threat Initiative
• James R. Schlesinger -- Senior Advisor, Lehman Brothers, Inc.
• Brent Scowcroft -- President, Forum for International Policy "