While George W. Bush, Stephen Harper and Felipe Calderón meet in an un-televised, behind closed-doors exclusive meeting with for the The North American Competitiveness Council. This is the group of big tuna’s from Wal-Mart, Chevron Oil, Lockheed-Martin and 27 other multinational corporate superstars, however the mainstream media will be reporting on the monumental defeat of Hilary Rodham Clinton over Barack Obama in the great Pennsylvania race.

The original plan for the three leaders of North America was to show how great things have turned in New Orleans, how much work they have done to restore the city, and to boast at how proud they are of their accomplishments. But with half the population of New Orleans still living in toxic trailers or displaced somewhere else on the continent, their isn’t a whole lot to be bragging about. So this won’t be taking place. Instead they will just meet with the North American Competitiveness Council regarding “harmonization.”

Harmonization means making rules and regulations the same in all three countries. Or, more specifically, watering down rules – on health, safety, labor rights, oil drilling, polluting and so on - in other words, any regulations that get between The Council members and their profits.

Take for example, pesticides. Wal-Mart and agri-business don’t want to reduce the legal amount of poison allowed in what you eat. Solution: “harmonize” US and Canadian pesticide standards to Mexico’s.

Read the full story and the NCC’s hidden agenda from Greg Palast