Posted on 06/22/2011 12:44:33 PM PDT by TEXOKIE
Ping was exercise for this thread:
“(Vanity) So I got an email from MorOns.org”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2774256/posts?page=8
I posted this information on post 16 as well. It is from an Oklahoma conservative email I received this morning:
“++ ANNOUNCEMENTS
* TUESDAY EVENING - OKC - Tonight, OKC City Councilman, Dr. Ed
Shadid will host a meeting which will feature virtually every agency
leader in OKC. Though Dr. Shadid is too smart to use the term
sustainability or suggest the meeting is about the goals of Agenda 21,
it certainly looks like such. This meeting will ramp up the attacks
upon “urban sprawl”. While I supported Dr. Shadid in his recent run
for the council and am glad he is in office, this is the agenda he
supports in which he is dangerous. Remember, I said he was a liberal
as became evident when he ran against Representative David Dank in the
2010 election cycle. According to Oklahoma law, he had to file as an
Independent, but he made no bones about associating himself with
either the Green Party or perhaps it was the Natural Law Party. Both
parties are very liberal and infected with extreme environmentalism.
People in the “sustainability movement” which is affiliated with the
U.N.’s Agenda 21 objectives, hate “urban sprawl.” This bunch of
“central planners” want people to live “stacked and packed” rather
than in suburbs or on acreages such as where I live. They want people
to live in downtown areas. They want people to live up and up, not out
in the hinter lands.
Much of what is going on in downtown OKC are the objectives of the
sustainability movement. The parks, bike paths, narrower streets to be
more pedestrian friendly, light rail, loft apartments, and
entertainment venues are designed to keep people out of automobiles
and in a close nit location. Of course massive amounts of tax dollars
are funneled into downtown while other parts of the city have to fight
for every available penny of the city’s budget.
Speaking will be Blair Humphreys, OKC City Manager Jim Couch,
Councilman Ed Shadid, Russell Claus representing OKC’s Comprehensive
Plan, Chief Bryant of the fire department, Police Chief Bill Citty,
Rick Cain representing Public Transit, Marsha Slaughter about city
utilities, Eric Wenger from public works and Bob Tener with code
enforcement.
The meeting will be held at the OKC Marriott in the Grand Ballroom,
3233 NW Expressway. It is tonight, September 6th at 6:30 p.m. Look for
developers and builders to be demonized at this meeting. Bottom line,
the vast majority of people want to live where they want to live,
whether that is downtown or in the suburbs. If conservatives don’t
stand up for liberty, these central planners will institute policies
which will greatly restrict where people can live as well as how they
live in the future.”
One of our participants (THANK YOU!) has brought to our attention a video of a gathering dedicated to discussion of Agenda 21 exploring whether it is a conspiracy theory or a real threat. Some very credible people make up the panel.
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/centerstage/2011/09/10/agenda-21-conspiracy-theory-or-real-threat
Such things as “Smart Growth,” environmental regulations and loss of private property rights, “Local Government” “Sustainability”, giving over of our rights to the UN and other topics.
While it is a video link, the visuals are a rotating slide show of pictures with the meat of the offering being audio. It is quite good with a lot of material in it.
On the page of the video link is found another link:
Glenn Beck breaking down Agenda 21 a.k.a sustainable development.
http://mediamatters.org/research/201106170032
In addition, for those so inclined to such interests, I would bring to your attention the “Atlantis Rising” magazine which deals with such topics as Suppressed History, Suppressed Technologies, Ancient Technologies and Mysteries, Anomalies.
I have followed it for several years and have it quite interesting. FWIW
http://atlantisrising.com/index.shtml
That last statement above should read:”I have followed it for many years and have FOUND it quite interesting.”
Thanks for the links!
:-D you are welcome!
Placemark.
THank you for your interest in this topic!
FYI, we are gathering together on this thread any articles or videos, etc. having to do with this topic as we find them. Participants who find such articles have been posting them to the thread to me, and then I will send out a ping to those who have chosen to be on the list. (It is a fairly low volume ping list.) Others have just been simply checking the thread from time to time.
I finally have proof that the planned Gateway terminal in WA State is part of the UN Agenda 21 and that they plan to make it an SEZ, special economic zone for free trade with China. Believe it or not, the proof was right in the Pacific Gateway Terminal’s own documents. They fully admit that is what is planned.
Now I am wondering how this fits in with the planned Chinese SEZ that they are building in Boise. If you have anyone that knows more about the Chinese plans, could you please ping them?
Eva has found some interesting data (See post 449) about the WA State planned Gateway terminal as being part of the UN Agenda 21.
She is also requesting info from other participants who might know more about the Chinese Boise Idaho facility which is planned and possible tie-ins to the WA State facility.
“China Wins NAFTA Super-Highway Battle”
by Jerome R. Corsi
08/09/2006
“Red China is investing heavily in developing deep-water ports in Mexico to bring an unprecedented volume of containers into the U.S. along the emerging NAFTA SuperHighway. This move signals China’s emergence as the unexpected economic winner in the North American Union free market.
Hutchinson Ports, a wholly owned subsidiary of China’s giant Hutchinson Whampoa Limited (HWL) is investing millions to expand the deep water ports the company manages at Lazaro Cardenas and Manzanillo on Mexico’s Pacific coast. Now Hutchinson Ports is pledging millions more to develop Punta Colonet, today a desolate Mexican bay in Baja California. Mexico plans over the next seven years to dredge and convert Punta Colonet into a 10 to 20 berth deep-water port facility capable of processing some 6 million standard 20-foot-long TEUs (industry terminology for the “Twenty Foot Equivalent Unit” that describes a single standard container).
According to Judicial Watch, “Hutchinson, Whampoa, Ltd. is the holding company of billionaire Li Ka-shing, a well-known businessman, whose companies make up 15 percent of the market capitalization of the Hong Kong Stock Market.” A Judicial Watch complaint filed in 2002, at the time HWL was purchasing the then-bankrupt Global Crossing, notes that Li Ka-Shing’s holdings includes ports, telecom, and energy assets around the world.
According to a declassified U.S. government intelligence report that Judicial Watch obtained in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, “Li is directly connected to Beijing and is willing to use his business influence to further the aims of the Chinese Government.” Judicial Watch had objected that “Li Ka-shing’s agency relationship to the Communist Chinese should disqualify him from owning Global Crossing’s network, which controls a significant percent of all the fiber optics currently leaving the United States.”
Global Crossing was a Clinton Administration darling, noted for turning former Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe’s $100,000 investment into an $18 million personal fortune. Global Crossing’s bold move to control the U.S. international fiber-optics network over-reached, ending in a corrupt corporate melt-down that was an unfortunate prelude to the Enron debacle. Hutchinson Ports was forced to drop the bid to purchase Global Crossing when the Committee on Foreign Investments in the United States (CFIUS) refused to approve the transaction on national security grounds.
Li Ka-shing’s Hutchinson Ports also operates both ends of the Panama Canal, which we have previously documented was returned to Panama under the Carter administration by National Security Council advisor, Robert Pastor, whom we have called the “Father of the North American Union.” HWL also has business dealings with the China Ocean Shipping Company (COSCO), China’s largest shipping line, which is owned by the Chinese People’s Liberation Army. In 1998, Congress blocked on national security grounds an attempt by the Clinton administration to allow COSCO to lease the abandoned Long Beach Naval Station.
Still, HWL has established a North American beachhead, despite the continuing security concerns. The Standard in China reports that today COSCO has established a little-known presence in U.S. ports, co-managing a terminal with Seattle-based SSA Marine at the mouth of Long Beach’s port. Remarkably, in the aftermath of the Dubai Ports World blow-up in Congress, the Bush administration hired HWL to operate in the Bahamas sophisticated equipment designed to detect nuclear material inside TEUs headed for the U.S., without requiring U.S. customs agents to be present. Now, investing millions to deepen Mexico’s ports in a plan to access the developing NAFTA corridors, HWL has found perhaps the most effective backdoor of all for gaining access to the continental U.S. market.
A set of China-promoting business projections are driving the frenzy to open Mexican ports to NAFTA corridors. Container traffic from China and the Far East has exploded, with industry experts expecting the cargo traffic from China to double by 2020. Today jumbo cargo ships containing 8,000 TEUs routinely cruise Pacific Trade routes. Unloading 8,000 containers from a single ship can take up to 3 days, even with experienced dock workers and state-of-the-art cranes.
West coast ports such as Los Angeles and Long Beach are regularly described as overwhelmed with containers arriving from China and the Far East, resulting in a virtual gridlock that causes expensive delays. As a result, “inland ports” such as the Free Trade Alliance of San Antonio and Kansas City Smartport, both members of the North America’s SuperCorridor Coalition Inc. (NASCO), are exploring with enthusiasm opening NAFTA corridors to facilitate the movement from Mexican ports 50% to 60% of all containers entering the U.S. from China that are destined for delivery in the heart of the U.S.
Why the sudden enthusiasm for cheap goods from China? The Bush Administration continues to give the green light to mass-marketing retailers such as Wal-Mart, Kmart, and Home Depot, to name just a few, to import Chinese and Far Eastern goods without restraint, despite their under-market nature. Evidently the Bush Administration has decided to follow the path set by the Clinton Administration in the decision to turn a blind eye to the repeated accusations that many of the goods from China and the Far East are produced in slave labor prison camps where abuses of human rights are everyday occurrences.
Opponents of Bush Administration free-trade policies, such as Global Policy Forum, have argued for enforcing “anti-dumping” provisions commonly designed in traditional international trade agreements to prevent the import of under-market goods produced by countries exploiting near-zero labor costs. The argument is that in opening the U.S. to cheap Chinese goods, we are leading a worldwide “race to the bottom,” in which “the only priority is cost effective production, at the expense of workers, resources and sustainability.” The result is that the international capitalists owning companies such as Wal-Mart earn additional billions, while U.S. manufacturing continues to out-source an increasing number of jobs and poor countries such as Mexico are only pulled deeper into poverty.
Strong conservatives are concerned today that China is the only clear winning in NAFTA. William Hawkins of the U.S. Business and Industry Council, a strong critic of our open borders with Mexico and Canada, has recently written that Mexico itself has filed 90 complaints against China at the World Trade Organization. Hawkins has argued that “the new energy being put into expanding the transportation network from Mexico into the United States heralds the collapse of NAFTA, and further discredits the trade strategy followed by the administrations of George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.”
Hawkins continues:
Upon closer examination, something other than the “success” of the NAFTA model, as sold to the American voter, is propelling all this transportation and Smart Port activity—and that is the massive wave of imports from the previously unrecognized export superstar, China. U.S. west coast ports are swamped with container ships filled with Chinese goods, and a scramble is on to find new Pacific ports to bring even more Chinese products into the United States.
Hawkins views the plans to develop NAFTA Super-Highways as a disaster: “What is being built is truly a ‘Highway of Death’ for both NAFTA and CAFTA. The resulting turmoil in the region will be felt in the United States, and will be an additional benefit to Beijing as the rising geopolitical challenger to American power.”
Yet, as sound as Hawkins’ arguments are, their subtly is likely to be lost on the Wal-Mart capitalists who see rising quarterly profits and handsome executive bonuses from importing an ever-increasing volume of cheap Chinese goods into the U.S. market. So too, the Robert Pastor enthusiasts can be counted upon to welcome any reason to knit together the U.S., Canada, and Mexico into a North American Union, even if the driving force turns out to be a super-highway and inland port transportation scheme designed to benefit the Communist Chinese. Cheap Mexican remarkably undercut by the Chinese in manufacturing and assembly can still be used in transport, to land the Chinese goods on Mexican docks and then carry the Chinese containers by truck and train into the heart of North American.
Increasingly gone is the dream that NAFTA would stimulate the development of a Mexican middle class as a means of economically developing Mexico itself. At the dawning of NAFTA, few expected that Chinese slave labor would be allowed to undercut the sweat-shop maquiladoras that developed south of the border in the 1990s. Even fewer expected that the only Mexican labor that would remain competitive under NAFTA would be Mexican dock workers, truck drivers, and railroad workers — and these only because these Mexican “government union” workers undercut U.S. Longshoremen, Teamsters, and United Transportation Union labor.
As for Mexico’s underclass masses, Vicente Fox and his successor can be relied upon to maintain their mantra, “Go North,” at least as long as President Bush and Congress remain unwilling to secure the border. In the end, the American middle class will pay the tab of increased social costs for millions of more uneducated, unskilled Spanish-speaking immigrants from Mexico and the other Hispanic countries south of the border. At the same time, the squeeze on middle class employment opportunities will intensify as NAFTA super-highways and U.S. “inland port” cities replete with Mexican custom facilities encourage yet more outsourcing to China.
All this sounds like a good deal for China. But are cheap sneakers at Wal-Mart really worth the damage being done to the most successful middle class ever built in world history? Aristotle’s Politics give reason to ask whether the U.S. constitutional republic we have enjoyed for 230 years will long endure a middle class squeezed by an original NAFTA market that evolves into a European-style North American Union dominated by the Chinese.”
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=16407
Table
http://www.bts.gov/publications/freight_in_america/html/table_23.html
TMASC http://blog.txmxautomotive.com/2010/09/17/embracing-the-chinese-automotive-industry-early/
RITA
http://www.bts.gov/publications/americas_container_ports/2009/pdf/entire.pdf
“This identifies ten high-speed rail corridors as potential recipients of federal funding. Those lines are in California, Pacific Northwest, South Central, Gulf Coast, Chicago Hub Network, Florida, Southeast, Keystone, Empire and Northern New England. Of these, only the California line has gained much traction to date, with the California High-Speed Rail Authority planning lines from the San Francisco Bay and Sacramento to Los Angeles and Irvine via the Central Valley, as well as a line from Los Angeles to San Diego via the Inland Empire.”
http://www.futureagenda.org/?p=968
Inland Hubs for NAFTA and trucking:
http://www.cbre.com/NR/rdonlyres/8B109B20-5226-4A0C-9656-88DAAC076F30/383604/ULI2005CurtisSpencerIntermodalTransportationGatewa.pdf (old)
Perhaps most importantly:
“Core FTZs”
http://www.channelingreality.com/CORE/FTZ_Map_Page.htm
“Trickle Down is Out
Trickle In is On”
http://www.channelingreality.com/CORE/trickle_down_is_out_trickle_in.htm
NAFTZ
- http://ia.ita.doc.gov/ftzpage/19uscftz/ch1a.html
- http://www.naftz.org/index_categories.php/aboutus/1
- http://www.channelingreality.com/News/kelo__the_rest_of_the_story__de.htm
- http://ia.ita.doc.gov/ftzpage/grantee/regs.html
- http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=197634.msg1174069#msg1174069
(difficult to get to load pages)
- http://www.pdfgeni.com/book/ftz-hinterland-pdf.html
“Strengthening the Airport’s Link
in the Supply Chain
2010 Midwest Healthcare Supply Chain Conference
May 21, 2010
Christofer Matney
Air Service Director
Indianapolis International Airport”
http://www.ihif.org/File/2010%20Supply%20Chain/2010%20MHSCC%20IND%20Matney.pdf
“In practice, shipments through an FTZ are substantially faster and more predictable than those without FTZ control.
Zero Customs Duties On:
* Goods exported from an FTZ
* International returns
* Spare parts
* Goods consumed in processing in an FTZ
* Merchandise & machinery held for exhibition/display
* Merchandise transferred from one FTZ to another FTZ
Reduced Customs Duties On:
* Goods exported from an FTZ
* Defective, obsolete, waste and scrap merchandise
* Labor, overhead and profit related to production in the FTZ
* Paying the duty rate on component materials of merchandise produced from those materials—whichever is lower
Other Benefits:
* Cargo may be held duty-free in inventory
* Faster delivery times
* Lower cargo insurance rates
* Cargo protected by security
* No country-of-origin labels required
* Inventory control from careful accounting on receipt, processing and shipment of merchandise
* No state and county inventory taxes
* Substandard goods can be destroyed before duty is paid
* Title to merchandise may be transferred in an FTZ as long as there is no retail sale
* No specific ID of merchandise needed
* Goods subject to U.S. quotas may be held until quotas open”
http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=197634.0
Thanks for the ping!
The ping list was exercised for the thread, post 47, discussing the death penalty. A person was asking why the liberals are so upset about the death penalty and not about abortion.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2783113/posts?page=6
Alerting the ping list to some new entries on the Agenda 21 thread beginning at post 451. They are replies to previous posts regarding Chinese compounds being built on US soil.
Thanks to all our participants and lurkers!
Please Freepmail me if you want to be on or off the ping list.
Posting this article link to the thread; ping list not exercised. It is dealing with the subject of possible EMP attack by Iran.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2783150/posts
“Iran at our doorstep, Part II, The EMP Threat”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2786722/posts?page=3
Ping list exercised for post 29 of above thread regarding the ACLU changing its stance on prayer in school for the muslims.
In that post 29, I placed a link regarding the agenda to subvert America for the past 50 years which many here are already aware of. It is about 6-7 minutes and is a worthy recap and reminder of what we are up against and how far the enemy has advanced.
http://www.therightscoop.com/open-thread-grinding-America-down/
Yes, it is real and very much being implemented.
Most county governments are even hiring design professionals in positions to mandated Agenda 21 policies in all building and local zoning codes.
Plan to pay more permit fees and have to abide by even more codes which are Agenda 21 driven. They fall under buzzwords such as “sustainable”, “eco-friendly”, “green”, etc.
Exactly. Thank you so much for your well stated comment.
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