Posted on 06/25/2006 8:40:04 AM PDT by o_zarkman44
Bush Administration Quietly Plans NAFTA Super Highway By Jerome R. Corsi Human Events 6-14-6
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.
A lot of things existed before the Founding Fathers created our Constitutional Republic. However, the FF`s never intended the United States of America to become the United North American Consortium. The FF`s expected the USA to remain a sovereign nation of free people. Fact is, the sell out of America's future continues, unabated. Corsi deserves credit for exposing another effort by the globalists to undermine US sovereignty.
What's an OBler? Am I one? Can I know what the initials stand for?
Hey I'm with you on the border inspection. There appears to be a pi$$ poor job in that aspect already. Do we really think that by moving border inspections 1100 miles north of Mexico will improve the process??
These highways are being planned for truck traffic only. Designed much like the Kansas turnpike, truck traffic will have fuel plazas and cafes in designated locations, but will have limited regress from the highway except in designated corridors with port destinations. Before the trucks/containers can move out of the corridor they have to go through customs inspection. Supposedly there will be a fiber optic cable tracking system (cables already installed the corridor) with some kind of sensor to track progress of the containers.
If this isn't a promotion of an open borders concept then what do we call it?
BORDER INSPECTIONS TAKE PLACE ON THE BORDER. NOT 1000 MILES BEYOND!!
Is that star the capital of Baja California!
Is that star the capital of Baja California?
great map
No, they are not. I don't know where you got that impression, but it's utterly false.
The conception that a new highway will be built for Mexican and Canadian use exclusively is utter rubbish.
False false false
Tinfoil
Nonsense
Paranoid lies.
Just check the facts. Just the facts.
Mexico, Top Shipping Interests, Eye Revamp Of Pacific Ports
March 21, 2006
Mexican officials in coming weeks plan to study the feasibility of turning Punta Colonet – a wind-blown bay in Baja California – into a superport on par with the twin facilities at Los Angeles and Long Beach. Farther south, Hutchison Port Holdings, the world's largest independent port operator, plans to pump about USD 200 million into expanding container ship capacity at Lazaro Cardenas, Mexico's deepest port.
This project needs killing.
There is no profit in giving Mexicans easier access to the USA on any level.
No, Mexicali is the capital of Baja, so I don't know where the heck that star came from.
Links please?
Sorry, I'll put the burden on you tinfoilers to prove that we're going to build roads only used by Mexican trucks, uninspected, bringing illegal aliens in by the millions.
I couldn't provide a link that would satisfy you.
Wrongamundo.
Executive agreements too.
In reality you should be able to show the project is above board, without any problems. Certainly the geniuses who came up with the idea have included language in their plans that protect sovereignty and national borders.
So, once again, links please.
So where are you getting your impression that automobiles will be allowed to share the new sections of the MexAmeriCan Highway? Better do some research.
This new system parellel to Interstate 35 is designated to alleviate truck congestion on I-35. The "trucks only" section is designated an "international zone" to expedite the flow of goods.
Look up your own damn links on the EVIL ROAD.
Hate to break this to you, but other roads JUST LIKE THIS ONE have existed for a long time.
You probably won't sleep for weeks after learning this.
Oh I give up. You not only wear tinfoil, you ate it.
So we are all tinfoilers?
Facts are awesome. Some people deny fact because they have too much trust in government. I place a lot more confidence in tinfoil mistrust than lead balloons.
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