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Hardrock69
06-15-2006, 11:22 AM
Quietly but systematically, the Bush Administration is advancing the plan to build a huge NAFTA Super Highway, four football-fields-wide, through the heart of the U.S. along Interstate 35, from the Mexican border at Laredo, Tex., to the Canadian border north of Duluth, Minn.

http://www.nascocorridor.com/new_home_images/nasco_home_page_09.jpg

Once complete, the new road will allow containers from the Far East to enter the United States through the Mexican port of Lazaro Cardenas, bypassing the Longshoreman's Union in the process. The Mexican trucks, without the involvement of the Teamsters Union, will drive on what will be the nation's most modern highway straight into the heart of America. The Mexican trucks will cross border in FAST lanes, checked only electronically by the new "SENTRI" system. The first customs stop will be a Mexican customs office in Kansas City, their new Smart Port complex, a facility being built for Mexico at a cost of $3 million to the U.S. taxpayers in Kansas City.

As incredible as this plan may seem to some readers, the first Trans-Texas Corridor segment of the NAFTA Super Highway is ready to begin construction next year. Various U.S. government agencies, dozens of state agencies, and scores of private NGOs (non-governmental organizations) have been working behind the scenes to create the NAFTA Super Highway, despite the lack of comment on the plan by President Bush. The American public is largely asleep to this key piece of the coming "North American Union" that government planners in the new trilateral region of United States, Canada and Mexico are about to drive into reality.

Just examine the following websites to get a feel for the magnitude of NAFTA Super Highway planning that has been going on without any new congressional legislation directly authorizing the construction of the planned international corridor through the center of the country.

* NASCO, the North America SuperCorridor Coalition Inc., is a "non-profit organization dedicated to developing the world's first international, integrated and secure, multi-modal transportation system along the International Mid-Continent Trade and Transportation Corridor to improve both the trade competitiveness and quality of life in North America." Where does that sentence say anything about the USA? Still, NASCO has received $2.5 million in earmarks from the U.S. Department of Transportation to plan the NAFTA Super Highway as a 10-lane limited-access road (five lanes in each direction) plus passenger and freight rail lines running alongside pipelines laid for oil and natural gas. One glance at the map of the NAFTA Super Highway on the front page of the NASCO website will make clear that the design is to connect Mexico, Canada, and the U.S. into one transportation system.


* Kansas City SmartPort Inc. is an "investor based organization supported by the public and private sector" to create the key hub on the NAFTA Super Highway. At the Kansas City SmartPort, the containers from the Far East can be transferred to trucks going east and west, dramatically reducing the ground transportation time dropping the containers off in Los Angeles or Long Beach involves for most of the country. A brochure on the SmartPort website describes the plan in glowing terms: "For those who live in Kansas City, the idea of receiving containers nonstop from the Far East by way of Mexico may sound unlikely, but later this month that seemingly far-fetched notion will become a reality."

* The U.S. government has housed within the Department of Commerce (DOC) an "SPP office" that is dedicated to organizing the many working groups laboring within the executive branches of the U.S., Mexico and Canada to create the regulatory reality for the Security and Prosperity Partnership. The SPP agreement was signed by Bush, President Vicente Fox, and then-Prime Minister Paul Martin in Waco, Tex., on March 23, 2005. According to the DOC website, a U.S.-Mexico Joint Working Committee on Transportation Planning has finalized a plan such that "(m)ethods for detecting bottlenecks on the U.S.-Mexico border will be developed and low cost/high impact projects identified in bottleneck studies will be constructed or implemented." The report notes that new SENTRI travel lanes on the Mexican border will be constructed this year. The border at Laredo should be reduced to an electronic speed bump for the Mexican trucks containing goods from the Far East to enter the U.S. on their way to the Kansas City SmartPort.

* The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) is overseeing the Trans-Texas Corridor (TTC) as the first leg of the NAFTA Super Highway. A 4,000-page environmental impact statement has already been completed and public hearings are scheduled for five weeks, beginning next month, in July 2006. The billions involved will be provided by a foreign company, Cintra Concessions de Infraestructuras de Transporte, S.A. of Spain. As a consequence, the TTC will be privately operated, leased to the Cintra consortium to be operated as a toll-road.

The details of the NAFTA Super Highway are hidden in plan view. Still, Bush has not given speeches to bring the NAFTA Super Highway plans to the full attention of the American public. Missing in the move toward creating a North American Union is the robust public debate that preceded the decision to form the European Union. All this may be for calculated political reasons on the part of the Bush Administration.

A good reason Bush does not want to secure the border with Mexico may be that the administration is trying to create express lanes for Mexican trucks to bring containers with cheap Far East goods into the heart of the U.S., all without the involvement of any U.S. union workers on the docks or in the trucks.


http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=15497

FORD
06-15-2006, 12:25 PM
Seems consistent with BCE operations for the last 6 years.... Do absolutely everything you can to put both coasts at great risk, in this case, economic risk.

However, I'm not taking Jerome "Slimebag" Corsi's word for anything. Funny how Anti-Chimp he is now, when he was the leader of the anti-Kerry propaganda campaign "Swift Boat Liars".

The man is looney tunes. If anyone can find another source onthis story, please post it !

Hardrock69
06-15-2006, 01:31 PM
No shit.

It was suspect from the beginning.

Just threw it up here to see if anyone had heard anything about this.

Nitro Express
06-16-2006, 03:42 PM
I would be for NAFTA if it increased the standard of living for the average Mexican but NAFTA has done nothing for those people. You can't have a free trade zone between such have nots and such haves. It does not work. NAFTA has only made Mexico worse off and it's encouraged rampant smuggling and illegal immigration since it was passed.

Mexico has not changed. The 1% of the rich control everything while the other 99% struggle with miniscule wages and no healthcare. If anything, NAFTA has made the United States more like Mexico.

If we continue to let the Bilderbergers and their political puppets like Bush run rampant, we will be like Mexico, where a small minority live like kings and the majority scratch out a meager existance.

Globalism means one thing. Putting the world's resources under the thumb of a handful of people.

FORD
06-16-2006, 04:07 PM
Originally posted by Nitro Express
I would be for NAFTA if it increased the standard of living for the average Mexican but NAFTA has done nothing for those people. You can't have a free trade zone between such have nots and such haves. It does not work. NAFTA has only made Mexico worse off and it's encouraged rampant smuggling and illegal immigration since it was passed.

Mexico has not changed. The 1% of the rich control everything while the other 99% struggle with miniscule wages and no healthcare. If anything, NAFTA has made the United States more like Mexico.

If we continue to let the Bilderbergers and their political puppets like Bush run rampant, we will be like Mexico, where a small minority live like kings and the majority scratch out a meager existance.

Globalism means one thing. Putting the world's resources under the thumb of a handful of people.

Exactly. The stated purpose of NAFTA, when Poppy Bush was selling it to America, was that it would bring other countries up to our standard of living.

The Unions opposed NAFTA from day one, knowing that corporate greed would make it far more likely that the corporations would flee the US, looking for cheap labor.

Ross Perot correctly labeled it as the "giant sucking sound" of jobs going to Mexico. And more recently, China and India.

Perot and the Unions were right. The BCE and the DLC were wrong, but they knew they would be.

It's way past time to cancel all the Orwellianly named "free trade" agreements and replace them with FAIR trade. Raise the other countries standards of living, but not at the expense of the American middle class.

Nitro Express
06-18-2006, 02:41 AM
Look at the UK right now. They are actually paying their illegal immigrants $5,000 to leave because it's cheaper to pay them to leave than to have them stay.

Mexico is rich in oil and other resources and any commoditiy from copper to zinc is in high demand and the prices are going up. Mexico has a huge tourist industry.

There's 150 million people in Mexico and they figure at least 20-30% of that is in the US at one time or another. Here you have this beautiful, resource rich country and it's people have to sneak into the US and Western Union their money home. Mexico doesn't have a income problem, it has a wealth distribution problem.

The corrupt system that ran Mexico for years is all about enriching a few at the cost of the many. The US middle class was the result of a govt. that regulated the monopolies to keep the playing field fair but stepped out of the way and let market forces run things. Now we have the beginning of international monopolies and the govt. goes right along with this discrace.

The little guy gets screwed at the few get rich. We are becoming Mexico.

Big Train
06-18-2006, 12:01 PM
I don't believe this is true for a second. If it was, the Teamsters would be screaming at the top of their lungs. There are no union people constructing this road? Nobody notices a "Four Football Field" wide highway being built? Teamsters don' know anyone in construction, I'm sure.

FORD
06-19-2006, 12:30 AM
Originally posted by Big Train
I don't believe this is true for a second. If it was, the Teamsters would be screaming at the top of their lungs. There are no union people constructing this road? Nobody notices a "Four Football Field" wide highway being built? Teamsters don' know anyone in construction, I'm sure.

I'd have to agree, but as I said, Jerry "Swift Boat" Corsi is a fucking lunatic. And if the Mexican government was building an "inspection station" even 5 miles this side of the border, let alone as far inland as Kansas City, the Minutemen and all those other Ku Klux Klowns wouldn't be worried about trying to build a barbed wire fence across the border.

Nitro Express
06-19-2006, 02:54 AM
I know some of the Minutemen personaly and they are very far from being Ku Klux Klan or Neo Nazi types. Most are retired people doing what they can to keep law and order on the border.

I'm sorry but we are having armed thugs crossing our border at will in vehicles and helecopters. People who live along the border are getting sick of it.

I certainly don't want the US to become the flophouse for the world. We need to tighten up our security. With the terrorism threat, we need to bring back the Civil Defense. Since the govt. does nothing, people have organized their own groups. Not everyone is a Nazi drooling about smacking down Mexicans in the desert with a scoped 7mm Magnum rifle.

Ellyllions
06-19-2006, 07:58 AM
This is so sad for me.

I come from a town that is dying as a result of NAFTA. The unemployment rate is at critical proportions and it's only getting worse for them. And yet, nothing is said or even mentioned of them.

The "little" people just don't matter anymore...