[hedgetrimmer]

A public-private partnership is exactly what it says it is. It is a business partnership with the goal of making a profit and NOT providing a service like government. A formal business agreement or contract seals the partnership. The business form of partnership provides the most flexibility for operating business as it can be expanded and more partners can be added in the future. Secondly, there are public and private partners. The public partners are all levels of government, from local, to county, state, regional and federal as well as foreign and international, such as the United Nations. The private partners include corporations - those with the deepest pockets and non-governmental organizations like Planned Parenthood, The nature Conservancy, Sierra Club, Red Cross, or the William Jefferson Clinton Foundation. Examples of public-private partnerships include sewer systems, power plants, water facilities, charter schools, etc.,

Because all levels of government are broke, the fact that business comes in to "help" is really a transfer of the responsibilities that government use to provide for its citizens as a service to corporations. The corporations want to make a profit. The little lady who receives a 30% increase in her sewer or water bill is not going to understand that the sewer system that used to belong to the city where she lives has now been transferred into a business arrangement that still includes the City as a partner but also has new financial resources with the corporate partner. Who has the real power? Whoever has the money. All across the country and globe, at every level of government, assets are being transferred from government and the citizenry to a new business arrangement in which the goal is a profit.

--Joan Veon

[hedgetrimmer]

The NASCO corridor is the product of "free trade".

A cautionary note about the end game of "free trade":

A continual process of war, revolution, and terrorism [creative destruction], removing major impediments for the global establishment of a unique and unified America/British capitalism based on the political, economic and social precepts of Fabian Socialism. Free trade requires the complete destruction of national sovereignty and is a cornerstone of the Fabian Socialism. In the end, it is an international form of socialism that will control all the economic, political, and social activities of this planet. The United Nations and its many agencies are assisting in helping to establish this reality. Capitalism, Socialism, and Communism are all integral parts of the same process

--The Permanent Revolution
Terry Hayfield

[winodog]

Why do we need this massive system in the middle of the country when the vast majority of the people live on the coast? Who made the decision to "abandon" Long Beach in favor of a new improved super port in Mexico, a nation that hates us?

What do these "business people" know that we dont about the future direction of our country?

[rottndog]

We find that government offices such as the Security and Prosperity Partnership working groups being organized within the U.S. Department of Commerce are signing trilateral memoranda of understanding and other agreements with Mexico and Canada consistent with the goal of fulfilling the CFR’s dream to bring about a North American Union by 2010.

Does anyone know under what legal authority this is happening? What bills passed by congress and signed into law provide the funding for this? What congressional committees have oversight?

[OB1kNOb]

Thanks for the ping and keeping us up to date on the latest.

[JoeFromSidney]

In the Twentieth Century, a prominent statesman named Benito Mussolini had a name for public-private partnerships: Fascism. By definition, that's private ownership with government control.

It's worth keeping in mind that Hitler was a National Socialist (Nazi), not a Fascist. The 1920 platform of the National Socialist Party was a typical socialist platform. There was no room for private ownership in it. Mussolini rejected pure socialism, wanting to combine the efficiency of private ownership with the egalitarianism of government control. The results were disastrous. Italy is still stuck with the remnants of Fascism, with certain industries largely being under the control of particular political parties, who traditionally get certain ministries, no matter who forms a government.

[1rudeboy]

Can anybody find the E.O. creating the Security and Prosperity Partnership? I've searched back through 2004 and cannot find it.

[RJL]

Once complete, the new road will allow containers from the Far East to enter the United States through the Mexican port of Lazaro Cardenas

A jobs program for thousands of Mexican truck drivers, paid for by the United States. It will also be a five lane expressway for illegals entering the United States.

No Thanks.

[Kimberly GG]

Port Authority and Alliance to Promote Logistics Corridor in China

"Officials of the Port Authority of San Antonio (formerly Greater Kelly Development Authority), Free Trade Alliance San Antonio, Port of Lázaro Cardenas, Hutchison Port Holdings and transpacific shipping lines will travel to China the first week of April to promote a newly developed logistics corridor for Chinese imports into the U.S. market.

In January of 2006, a collaboration of several logistics entities in the U.S. and Mexico began operation of a new multimodal logistics corridor for Chinese goods entering the U.S. market.  The new corridor brings containerized goods from China on either Maersk or CP Ships transpacific service to the Mexican Port of Lázaro Cardenas.  There, the containers are off loaded by a new world class terminal operated by Hutchison Ports based in Hong Kong.  The containers are loaded onto the Kansas City Southern Railroad de Mexico where they move in-bond into the U.S.  The containers clear U.S. customs in San Antonio, Texas and are processed for distribution."

http://www.freetradealliance.org/newsletter/admin/e_nternationaldetail.asp?id=795


History of the the "NAFTA Railway" - "Two Worlds - One Route"
www.kcsmartport.com/pdf/SmtPrtOneRoute.pdf

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

General and Trans-Texas Corridor SUPER-PING!

My apologies to anyone who was already pinged to this article.

[MissAmericanPie]

A fine way for the globalist in government power and corporate power to nation kill. They figure if they can kill the most powerful nation first the less powerful have no chance at all. But we deserve it, the average American is more concerned with the winner of "American Idol", than the survival of nationhood. After all, the middle class would never believe that it could cease to exist, things are just tight money wise right now, it will get better.

Fuel has gone up of course, and water, electric, and garbage is higher, groceries, everything is going up, except their salaries, and standard of living wage jobs seem to be hard to find, but it will improve with time.