Posted on 06/12/2006 6:23:16 AM PDT by conservativecorner
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.
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.
I suggest that you might need a blind man's cane to navigate yourself, texas, if you can't see this one coming.
Naah.....ya think?
Yeah, I noticed the herd is here with that mission. See you tomorrow, as well
Let the record show that Nic hasn't answered the question.
See what coming? Come on be specific.
Hilarious. Jim himself has mocked this thread.
The "pack" is you freepin lunatics, all caught up in conspiracy theories. You just cannot endure exposure.
Make sure it is wide enough for 10 Chinese tanks to navigate across side-by-side, George.
The word has been given from who? Globalist Central? The Free Masons?
Who?
I posted to you about the aluminum 'buy signs' on this thread. You answered me and nicmarlo blamed you...lol. Amazing, huh?
Oh man we have a winner! It's the ChiComs that need the highway. Damn who woulda thunk it.
Tell me, do you shoot the paint or eat it?
You just can't get any respect can ya?
LOL! The buildyourburgers.
Herd?
I thought you were better than that.
Your choice of FRiends leaves much to be desired.
I was waiting for the inevitable Wal-Mart/Chicom connection to get the credit for creating this foul road which threatens the sovereignty of the glorious United States of union workers and downtrodden proletarians.
So I guess i was half right on my prediction.
LOL -- I am still laughing about the posts calling your reading comprehension into question. YOURS of all people.
You didn't read Jim's posts to this thread, did you. I suggest that you do so. ;^)
I did. And your point? What does that have to do with your consistent rudeness and obnoxiousness?
Unlike your crowd, I did NOT hijack this thread; I am just replying to posts made to me.
Then we'll just agree to disagree. Lurkers and all will come to their own conclusions as to whether your particular posts concering metals futures and aluminum wrap has something to do with NAFTA.
And it is not only childish, but pathetic, on your part, to type the same thing, word for word, to me and others. Did you, perchance, imagine that I wouldn't notice? LOL
Oh, so glad you went looking through my posts. Guess that means you couldn't find that I've been hijacking any threads? Instead, on two threads I posted summaries of information to people who, instead of reading information and making informed decisions and intelligent refutations, prefer to state personal opinions outright dismissing credible sources or who'd rather make aluminum foil and metals futures or other some such comments. I really could care less that you "know" I posted a similar post TWO TIMES. Wow! Is there a posting guideline that forbids an informative post being made on two separate threads, substantially related? I will continue to do that, when I feel it is relevant to the topic at hand. But you should feel compelled NEVER do to that which you've just condemned. I'm sure many will be watching your posts ever-more closely, lest you out yourself, again, as a hypocrite.
Let's get this straight....supposedly MY opinion and others, don't mean anything, if YOU don't agree with with them; however, YOUR opinion "means" something? ROTFLOLBut you just said, I posted similar posts on different threads. The only posts you could be talking about were ones that were quite lengthy. Funny how you consider those 'MY OPINION' but your pack just said NONE OF IT WAS MY OPINION. Perhaps you all need to get into a huddle and figure out what to call my lengthy post.
This article is garbage; not to mention tinfoil!That's your opinion, which I don't respect or agree with. But, maybe if you could back up it up with something credible and respectable, I'd take it into consideration.
See ya later now.
Factual historical point.....until Ike was president, there was NO federal government building of highways. When Ike began that program, it was a boon to ALL Americans; though it did help in ending the dominance of the railroads. Because many things, that were once transported by rail, were now being trucked into states, costs went down. The new highway system also enabled people to travel cheaply, by car, and all kinds of new businesses ( motels, hotels, restaurants, etc. ) opened and gave more people jobs. I fail to see how my talking about this, is "hijacking" this thread, nor how this is an "OPINION!
How rude of those people at DU; can't they creatively come up with their own?
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