'Shadow' agency to issue N. American border passes

Follow the money? This should answer a few more questions of where the money will come from.

"The World Bank estimates Mexico needs $20 billion a year for ten years, just for infrastructure. The three leaders should establish a North American Development Fund, whose priority would be to connect the U.S.-Mexican border region to central and southern Mexico. If roads were built, investors would come, immigration would decline, and income disparities would narrow "


	Paul Wolfowitz World Bank: President Department of Defense: Former Deputy Secretary Project for the New American Century: Founding Member			Right Web News

last updated: August 9, 2006

As president of the World Bank, Paul Wolfowitz, former No. 2 at the Pentagon and a leading proponent of the Iraq War, has won both praise and criticism. He has badgered the United States and other wealthy countries to cut subsidies to aid development in poorer countries, fervently pursued anti-corruption policies, and announced moves aimed at strengthening the bank's internal watchdog, the Department of Institutional Integrity (Inter Press Service, April 18, 2006).

Source, and full story

I'll bet good money that's the first time you've seen it . . . yet you've been pontificating on "Building a North American Community" for weeks. Let us know when you get past the introduction.

And then, a OBL posts a lie, and insult, that none of the people on the CFR are affiliated with the U.S. Government.

Tired of questioning my motives, the Bircher returns to his old rhetorical friend, the strawman.

Incidentally, my contributions to this thread (that is, trying to pound into your thick skulls that the U.S. has been moving-toward biometric identification long before the SPP came into existence) were substantive until hedgetrimmer wiggled out of her strait-jacket to inform us that she's surrounded by "implementers," or some such nonsense.

Have you seen this yet?
Is that CFR guy wimpering in the background AGAIN? Please, somebody, change his diapers!

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The north americain trade corridors

Following the implementation of NAFTA, coalitions of interest have been formed in order to promote specific transport channels, to develop the infrastructures of these channels and to propose jurisdictional amendments to facilitate the crossing of borders. These coalitions include businesses, government agencies, civil organizations, metropolitan areas, rural communities and also individuals, wishing to strengthen the commercial hubs of their regions.

The North American trade corridors are bi- or tri-national channels for which various cross-border interests have grouped together in order to develop or consolidate the infrastructures. The North American corridors are considered multimodal in the sense that they bring into play different modes of transport in succession.

The infrastructures may include roads, highways, transit routes, airports, pipelines, railways and train stations, river canal systems and port facilities, telecommunications networks and teleports.

The Pacific corridor

The Pacific corridor includes the entire geographic band formed by the Rocky Mountain range and the Pacific coast. A huge transport network (highways, railways, airports and port infrastructures) facilitates trade between Western Canada, the U.S. East Coast and Mexico.

The traffic in the Pacific corridor mainly uses Highway I-5 in the United States, which joins together the major cities along the Pacific coast. At the U.S.-Mexican border, the corridor passes through two major ports of entry: San Diego/Tijuana, the busiest crossing point on the entire border, and Calexico/Mexicali, where there is a high concentration of maquiladoras.

To the north, Washington State and British Columbia have established the U.S.-Canada International Mobility and Trade Corridor in order to facilitate cross-border trade at the 4 land-based crossing points there between Canada and the United States.

NAFTA encouraged the creation of a network of business people in the Pacific corridor. The Rocky Mountain Corridor, for example, is an association of small and medium businesses in the three countries, doing business in the region.

North of the 49th parallel, two initiatives aim to develop the trade potential of the corridor: the north-west corridor aiming to link Western Canada with the trade flows of NAFTA, and the Alaska Railroad connection, project, aiming to facilitate land-based access to Alaska.

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The central western corridor

The central western corridor includes the largest concentration of maquiladoras and the 2nd largest trade volumes of all the North American corridors. It uses one of the oldest trade routes on the continent, nicknamed the “Camino Real”, or “King’s Road”. The route links Chihuahua in Mexico to Denver, Colorado, via the “Paso del Norte”, the ports of entry of El Paso/Ciudad Juarez between Chihuahua and Texas, and Santa Teresa in New Mexico.

The surface trade flows (by truck and rail) circulate along Highway I-25 in the United States which, together with Highway I-90, brings the corridor north to Montana. Plans are to continue the Camino Real to Great Falls, where the corridor could join up with Canamex, a North American highway project, to enter Canada.

Canamex is a planned four-lane highway extending from Mexico City to Edmonton, Alberta, in Canada. The project has recently received the support of a certain number of states and provinces including Arizona, Sonora and Alberta. The Canadian Government is providing financial support for the building of the North South Trade Corridor in Alberta, the Canadian section of Canamex. The U.S. Congress has designated the completion of Canamex as a high priority in the American road system. Canamex currently uses Highway I-15 in the United States. The external relations secretariat of Mexico has taken on the promotion of the project.

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The central eastern corridor

The central eastern region has two trade corridors, one urban, which passes through the largest North American cities and the industrial basins of the central eastern region, and another which is rural and which passes through the Great Plains in the U.S. and through the Canadian Praries.

The urban corridor of NAFTA brings half of the North American population to within a single day’s journey by highway between Montréal, Canada, and Mexico. The corridor passes through the industrial stronghold of Canada and its largest market. It enters the United States at Port Huron and at Windsor, where it crosses the Ambassador bridge, the busiest bridge in North America, to join Detroit, Michigan, where the giants of the automobile industry are located. In the United States, the urban corridor follows “Corridor 18”, which extends to the lower Rio Grande valley in Texas, through Indianapolis, Indiana and Memphis, Tennessee.

The second corridor includes the Great Plains: North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas; and the Canadian Prarie provinces: Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Alberta. A certain number of associations have been formed following the creation of NAFTA, in order to revitalize the rural communities of the central eastern region, by taking advantage of the transcontinental trade flows. The Central North American Trade Corridor Association, The Northern Great Plains Initiative, the Ports-to-Plains Trade Corridor an the Mid-Continent Trade Corridor are networks of business people, civil organizations and government agencies aiming to foster growth and employment in the central eastern region by means of a direct transcontinental link between Canada, the United States and Mexico. A network of cities, the North American International Trade Corridor Partnership (NAITCP), aims to build a huge regional market by holding regular trilateral meetings between member cities, and by facilitating contact between businesses in the corridor. In particular, the NAITCP has put together a huge directory of enterprises in the corridor, which may be consulted on-line, and organizes virtual trade missions.

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The Atlantic corridor

The Atlantic corridor includes four economic areas: (1) the Canada-U.S. East Coast; (2) the Champlain-Husdon corridor; (3) the Appalachian region and (4) the Gulf of Mexico. The corridor provides an intermodal transport system linking a 4-lane north-south highway, 3 major North American rail networks, 14 interstate highway systems, 6 interprovincial systems, one trans-Canadian highway and all the marine and airport facilities of the Atlantic coast. Transcontinental trade along this corridor uses the corridor of the Gulf of Mexico or the maritime routes of the U.S. East Coast.

The first area includes all the trade travelling along the U.S. East Coast on Highway I-95. It has the appearance of a geographic band about 5,500 km long and 50 km wide, passing through a large number of jurisdictions. Indeed, the area includes a population of over 55 million inhabitants spread out across 4 Canadian provinces and in 188 counties in 13 American states.

Another part of the north-east trade passes through the Champlain-Hudson trade corridor. This corridor extends from Québec City to New York City. The Champlain/Lacolle border crossing is one of the three largest commercial ports of entry between Canada and the United States. The corridor between Québec and New York possesses advanced transport infrastructures that include Canadian Highways 20 and 15, U.S. Highway I-87, a fully modernized rail network and marine channels.

The Appalachian region follows the contours of the mountain range that runs from the south of New York State to northern Mississippi. It covers over 518,000 km2 and includes a population of 23 million people, 42% of whom are in rural areas (as compared to 20% of the U.S. population as a whole). The highway infrastructure of the Appalachian region – the Appalachian Development Highway System – supports an international Appalachian corridor linking Ontario to the southern extremity of Florida, passing through Baltimore, Washington, Norfolk and Charlotte. The Continental 1coalition has the aim of developing an international corridor for trade and tourism between Toronto, Ontario and Miami, Florida.

Finally, the Gulf Corridor links the three Mexican states of Coahuila, Nuevo León and Tamaulipas to the entire north-eastern part of the continent. It passes through the cities of Monterrey, San Antonio, Austin, Houston and Baton Rouge, to join the traffic of the Atlantic coast. The border crossing at Nuevo Laredo/Laredo between Nuevo León and Texas is the busiest U.S.-Mexico border crossing, with over 3 million trucks per year.

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Yes the US has been moving toward biometric identification long before the SPP. Because the 'think tanks' thunk it up, somebody had to come along and implement it. Is that what they are paying you to do? You so profoundly defend treason and the theft of individual rights, you clearly have a stake in it.

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Need for integrated North American border security system

Three former high-ranking government officials from Canada, Mexico, and the United States are calling for a North American economic and security community by 2010 to address shared security threats, among other challenges to the three countries. Former Canadian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance John P. Manley, former Finance Minister of Mexico Pedro Aspe, and former Governor of Massachusetts and Assistant U.S. Attorney General William F. Weld make policy recommendations to articulate a long-term vision for North America in a Chairmen's Statement of the Independent Task Force on the Future of North America sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations in association with the Consejo Mexicano de Asuntos Internacionale and the Canadian Council of Chief Executives.

Chief Executive of the Canadian Council of Chief Executives Thomas d'Aquino, President of the Consejo Mexicano de Asuntos Internacionales Andres Rozental, and Director of the Center for North American Studies at American University Robert A. Pastor serve as vice chairs of the Task Force. Chappell H. Lawson, associate professor of political science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is the director.

Initial findings and recommendations included building a North American economic and security community by 2010. To enhance security, the chairs propose a community defined by a common external tariff and an outer security perimeter. The chairs are proposing a border pass, with biometric indicators, which would allow expedited passage through customs, immigration, and airport security throughout North America. "The governments of Canada, Mexico, and the United States should commit themselves to the long-term goal of dramatically reducing the need for physical scrutiny of traffic, travel, and trade within North America."

http://www.cfr.org/publication/7914/
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Council on Foreign Relations, government officials and Robert Pastor all working together to articulate a long term vision for North America that is anti-American, outside of their constitutional rights as citizens and just plain treason against the American people.

The CFR came up with the idea, and now the SPP is suddently created without congressional oversight or without the request of the American people and they are moving full bore to implement biometric passports. How much are they paying you to defend them?

They also claim that Robert Pastor has no influence, but here's another place we find his name in the news.

The blueprint for what to do is out there. Robert Pastor, director of a commission on electoral reform organized by former President Jimmy Carter and former Secretary of State James Baker, told the Washington Post, "The Carter-Baker commission identified 87 steps that need to be undertaken. Regrettably, almost none of them are being done right now. I would start by establishing statewide, nonpartisan election administration."

He's workin' on another "blueprint" this time for elections! I don't know where he gets the time. You'd think he'd be exhausted after producing his "blueprint" for a North American Community!

"Council on Foreign Relations, government officials and Robert Pastor all working together to articulate a long term vision for North America that is anti-American, outside of their constitutional rights as citizens and just plain treason against the American people."

Pretty much sums it up.

It appears to me as if he is the voicebox for someone very influential. I wonder who?

I don't know if this will help much.
Bios are some what limited;
he is well connected though.

Robert Pastor
Ph.D. Harvard University
M.P.A. John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
B.A. Lafayette College
E-mail: rpastor@american.edu
Phone : 202-885-2728
Curriculum Vitae

Robert Pastor has been the Vice President of International Affairs and a Professor of International Relations at American University since September, 2002. In this position, Dr. Pastor leads AU's expanding international programs and activities, including the management of AU's partnership with ABTI-American University of Nigeria. Dr. Pastor established and directs two Centers for research, teaching and policy: the Center for Democracy and Election Management and the Center for North American Studies. In addition, Dr. Pastor is the Executive Director of the Commission on Federal Election Reform, co-chaired by Jimmy Carter and James A Baker, III.

From 1985 until he arrived at American, Dr. Pastor was Professor of Political Science at Emory University and a Fellow and Founding Director of the Carter Center's Latin American and Caribbean Program and the Democracy and China Election Projects. At The Carter Center, he founded and served as the Executive Secretary of the Council of Freely-Elected Heads of Government, a group of 32 leaders of the Americas, chaired by former US President Jimmy Carter. From 1977-81, he was Director of Latin American and Caribbean Affairs on the National Security Council. He was the Senior Advisor to the Carter-Nunn-Powell mission to Haiti and was nominated by President Clinton to be Ambassador to Panama in 1993. A Peace Corps volunteer in Malaysia, a Fulbright Professor in Mexico, the Straus Visiting Professor at Harvard University and the creator of the Humphrey Fellows Program, Dr. Pastor is author or editor of 16 books, including Toward a North American Community; Exiting the Whirlpool: U.S. Foreign Policy toward Latin America; and A Century’s Journey: How the Great Powers Shape the World.

TIN FOIL HAT CONSPIRACY THEORY, HUH...

Sunday, October 1, 2006

THE NEW WORLD DISORDER
North American Union threat gets attention of congressmen
Resolution aimed at blocking merger, funding of 'NAFTA superhighways'

Posted: October 1, 2006
7:21 p.m. Eastern

Rep. Virgil Goode Jr., R-Va.

WASHINGTON – While several members of Congress have denied any knowledge of efforts to build "NAFTA superhighways" or move America closer to a union with Mexico and Canada, four members of the House have stepped up to sponsor a resolution opposing both initiatives.

Rep. Virgil Goode Jr., R-Va., has introduced a resolution – H.R. 487 – designed to express "the sense of Congress that the United States should not engage in the construction of a North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) Superhighway System or enter into a North American Union (NAU) with Mexico and Canada."

"Now that Congress is preparing to take up the issues of the North American Union and NAFTA superhighways, we are moving out of the realm where critics can attempt to disparage the discussion as 'Internet conspiracy theory,'" explained Jerome Corsi, author and WND columnist who has written extensively on the Security and Prosperity Partnership – the semisecret plan many suspect is behind the efforts to create a European Union-style North American confederation and link Mexico and Canada with more transcontinental highways and rail lines. "This bill represents a good first step."

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Corsi explained to WND that the Bush administration is trying to create the North American Union incrementally, under the radar scope of public attention.

"Even today," said Corsi, SPP.gov has a 'Myths vs. Facts' section that denies the administration is changing laws or working to create a new regional government. Unfortunately, the many references on SPP.gov to Cabinet-level working groups creating new trilateral memoranda of understanding and other trilateral agreements makes these denials sound hollow."

The resolution introduced by Goode had three co-sponsors: Reps. Thomas Tancredo, R-Colo., Ron Paul, R-Texas, and Walter Jones, R-N.C.

The "whereas" clauses of the resolution lay out the case against the North American Union and NAFTA Superhighways as follows:

Whereas, according to the Department of Commerce, United States trade deficits with Mexico and Canada have significantly widened since the implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA);
Whereas the economic and physical security of the United States is impaired by the potential loss of control of its borders attendant to the full operation of NAFTA;
Whereas a NAFTA Superhighway System from the west coast of Mexico through the United States and into Canada has been suggested as part of a North American Union;
Whereas it would be particularly difficult for Americans to collect insurance from Mexican companies which employ Mexican drivers involved in accidents in the United States, which would increase the insurance rates for American drivers;
Whereas future unrestricted foreign trucking into the United States can pose a safety hazard due to inadequate maintenance and inspection, and can act collaterally as a conduit for the entry into the United States of illegal drugs, illegal human smuggling, and terrorist activities;
Whereas a NAFTA Superhighway System would be funded by foreign consortiums and controlled by foreign management, which threatens the sovereignty of the United States.

The resolution calls for the House of Representatives to agree on three issues of determination:

The United States should not engage in the construction of a North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) Superhighway System;
The United States should not enter into a North American Union with Mexico and Canada; and
The President should indicate strong opposition to these or any other proposals that threaten the sovereignty of the United States.

"As important as this resolution is," Corsi said, "we need still more congressional attention. Where is congressional oversight of SPP? We need congressional hearings, not just congressional resolutions."

H.Con.Res.487 has been referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure and to the Committee on Internal Relations for consideration prior to any debate that may be scheduled on the floor of the House of Representatives.

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Senator ditches bill tied to 'superstate'

Congressman presses on 'superstate' plan

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Merger with Mexico

Since he says he studied law, maybe he was a student at American University, and picked up his anti-American views there. Or he could have had them going in. These days you never know.

"Whimpering?" LOL

At least I can say I taught you a new word. Say, I should ask you guys now . . . if you think that I'm some sort of a lobbyist or other form of paid advocate, who do you think is paying me? I'm serious. I'm curious to see who you think would be stupid enough to actually pay me money to belittle their opponents, ridicule their arguments, and otherwise drive them into entrenching their positions. I mean, wouldn't that be counter-productive?

The CFR came up with the idea, and now the SPP is suddently created without congressional oversight or without the request of the American people and they are moving full bore to implement biometric passports.

Darn it, hedge, four-and-a-half days ago on this very thread I directed someone to the "Enhanced Border Security and Visa Entry Reform Act of 2002, and subsequent amendments." How the heck can you argue with a straight face that there is no congressional oversight when Congress passed the authorizing legislation? (That's our Congress, the U.S. Congress).

I'm curious to see who you think would be stupid enough to actually pay me money to belittle their opponents, ridicule their arguments, and otherwise drive them into entrenching their positions.

A textbook description of the Alinsky method. Surely Bill and Hillary are helping you out with this one. But I don't put it past other communist operatives, since the Alinsky method is one of your tried and true techniques.

umm . . . that's not the Alinsky method, sweetheart. I'll point it out to you the next time you use it.

PEEEU - Really, the people at the CFR need
to change your diapers more often.
BTW, isn't post #131 GREAT:
"North American Union threat gets attention of congressmen"
Made my day!

So Bill and Hillary have given you another name for it. I'm not suprise.

suprise = suprised

Argghhh surprised! I am laughing so hard I can't type.