Posted on 06/01/2006 7:17:33 AM PDT by hedgetrimmer
The Texas segment of the NAFTA Super Corridor is moving rapidly toward approval. When built, the Trans-Texas Corridor, or TTC, will be a major super-highway with six lanes moving in each direction, twelve lanes across in total, described in the 4,000 page draft environmental study as including separate lanes "for passenger vehicles and large trucks, freight railways, high-speed commuter railways, and a corridor for utilities including water lines, oil and natural gas pipelines, and transmission lines for electricity, broadband and other telecommunications services."
The TTC is expected to follow the current lines of Interstate 35, stretching from Laredo, Texas, on the Mexican border, heading toward Oklahoma City on the Texas border with Oklahoma.
An artist's rendition shows what the projected super-corridor highway is expected to look like.
The idea is to extend the rebuilt I-35 NAFTA super-corridor highway all the way from Laredo, Texas, to Canada, with extensions in Canada to be built out to Montreal in the east and Vancouver in the west. In Mexico, the super-corridor will connect via Mexican railroads with the port at Lazaro Cardenas.
A core design feature is to create a hub in Kansas City. Here the "Lazaro Cardenas – Kansas City Transportation Corridor" will open up a north-south route through the United States to bring in containers from the Far East. As described by Kansas City's Smart Port website:
The Lazaro Cardenas – Kansas City Corridor refers to a trade route linking Kansas City to key Asia-Pacific Markets via a ships-to-rail terminal at the port of Lazaro Cardenas in the State of Michoacan, Mexico. Thanks to an innovative series of international agreements, infrastructure improvements and new technologies, this corridor is a reality.
As the American economy expands and the economies of the Far East ramp up production to meet our demand for goods, the pace of international trade will exceed the ability of major West Coast ports such as Long Beach and Los Angeles to accommodate the flow of goods into the United States.
The NAFTA Super Corridor will be constructed largely by private companies that intend to operate the new I-35 as a toll road. North America's SuperCorridor Coalition Inc., or NASCO, is a "nonprofit 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" Already, NASCO has received $2.5 million in earmarks from the U.S. Department of Transportation.
The NAFTA Super Corridor plan is ultimately to reduce the transportation costs of using cheap labor in China, South Korea and Indonesia to produce goods for American markets. Bypassing West Coast ports in the U.S. means bypassing U.S. union wages. Mexican port and rail transport are expected to keep the shipping costs low. Also, allowing free access to the U.S. to Mexican trucks means that the containers can be moved through the U.S. by Mexican nationals, again bypassing Teamster union wages and benefits typically paid U.S. truck drivers.
To get a feel for how transportation planners are influenced by globalist economic thinking, consider this 2005 analysis written by Leonard Krouner in the Voice of San Diego:
The Los Angeles/Long Beach and Seattle/Tacoma harbors are the only two West Coast ports between Alaska and Chile that can be used by super-cargo "post-Panamax" ships with a 4,000 standardized cargo container capacity. The ability to off-load, move, unload, store and distribute cargo from these ships requires expansion of California's transportation infrastructure. Delays increasing costs for cargo movement at the Los Angeles/Long Beach port such as those extant during the 2003 longshoreman labor unrest, and the 2004 arrival of too many ships in a single time period with cargo for distribution prior to the Christmas holidays are motivating mega importers Wal-Mart and Home Depot to invest in warehouse facilities in less expensive states such as Georgia.
None of this would be possible without the extensive work being done by the U.S. Department of Commerce working groups charged with implementing by new regulations the Strategic and Prosperity Partnership of North America, or SPP. The SPP agreement was reached between President Bush, President Vicente Fox and Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin during their March 2005 summit meeting in Waco, Texas. The Bush administration plan is to create a North American Union along the model of the European Union, put in place by administrative regulations and departmental working groups under the SPP umbrella.
The U.S. Department of Transportation is actively working on a Free and Secure Trade program that would create special lanes to allow trucks from Mexico to cross the U.S. border with minimal electronic inspection, reducing the U.S. border with Mexico to no more than a speed-bump for authorized Mexican trucks entering the country.
On June 7, 2004, the U.S. Supreme Court in the case Department of Transportation v. Public Citizen ruled in favor of the Bush administration's argument that the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration lacked the authority to exercise environmental controls to prevent Mexican trucks from openly operating in the U.S. under NAFTA. This ruling was key in the Bush administration's determination to open U.S. borders to Mexican trucks under the trade agreement. Had the Supreme Court decided otherwise, the NAFTA Super Corridor project would have suffered a setback.
I continue to argue that a "follow the money" strategy must be utilized to understand why President Bush has refused to close our border with Mexico, pushing instead for "comprehensive immigration reform" legislation that would allow the vast majority of illegal immigrants now in the U.S. to remain under a "guest worker" or "pathway to citizenship" provision. The underlying agenda of the Bush administration seems to be to create a NAFTA-plus environment in which workers, trade and capital will be allowed to flow unimpeded within the trilateral North American community consisting of the United States, Canada and Mexico.
Wonder what else Fox won (demanded) at the meeting?
Mr Corsi continues his extremely well researched series of articles on the death of American sovereignty and constitutional government.
I wonder how much real estate Fox has purchased in Baja pending the construction of the port there. I wonder how much real estate our elected officials have bought down there?
FYI
I have a friend that works for Boeing, and spends a lot of time in SE Asia, Asia and in Africa. At $.10 an hour those goods manufactured overseas, still seem to cost about the same amount in the US as if they were being built in country. The prices are being set by whatever the area can support. A radio that costs $99 in America, will sell for $19 in Africa. The same holds true for many products. Since business does not like to lose money, I wonder what model they use to set pricing? Are first world consumers subsidizing the cost of products to the third world?
Trebuilt I-35 NAFTA super-corridor highway all the way from Laredo, Texas, to...
Good to know Laredo's the gateway. Jeez.
It sounds to me like our country doesn't want its own citizens to get decent wages and is doing everything it can to bypass them. Who's looking out for the average working U.S. Citizen?
Mostly sounds like a free market finding the lowest cost way to deliver goods to consumers. That benefits nearly everyone except union bosses.
Do you realize the maps have already been changed? Speaking with friends, I mentioned that Mexico was always part of "Latin America" or "Central America" as I remembered geography growing up. They disagreed, saying it was always part of North America.
I explained I tried computer searches and all maps showed the "new" North America; USA, Canada and Mexico. I commented that I wish I had not thrown out a set of really old encyclopedias. Sure enough, one of them had a set copyrighted in 1959.
Guess what? Not only did the old maps CLEARLY show Mexico as part of "Latin/Central America" it listed each country in the narrative. Does anyone know when the maps changed?
Is this what you are looking for?
[Mrs T]
Central American Federation
Central American Federation or Central American Union,political confederation (1825–38) of the republics of Central America—Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Salvador. United under a captaincy general in Spanish colonial times, they gained independence in 1821 and were briefly annexed to the Mexican empire formed by Agustín de Iturbide. The nations joined in a loose federal state, appointing (1825–29) as first president Manuel José Arce, who was succeeded (1830–38) by the liberal leader Francisco Morazán. Political and personal rivalries between liberals and conservatives, poor communication, and the fear of the hegemony of one state over another led to dissolution (1838) of the congress and the defeat (1839) of Morazán's forces by Rafael Carrera. In 1842, Morazán made an abortive attempt to reestablish the federation from Costa Rica. Later efforts by Nicaragua, Honduras, and Salvador failed, and the attempts of Justo Rufino Barrios (1885) and José Santos Zelaya (1895) only increased existing enmities. At the Central American conference of 1922–23, the U.S. recommendation of a union was not favorably received, partly because of earlier U.S. policies in Panama and Nicaragua. Nevertheless, geography, history, and practical expedience are factors that constantly encourage union. In 1951, the Organization of Central American States was formed to help solve common problems, and in 1960 the five nations established the Central American Common Market.
See T. L. Karnes, The Failure of Union: Central America, 1824–1960 (1961); N. Maritano, A Latin American Economic Community (1970).
The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th ed. Copyright © 2006, Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
Heck I see different pricing between Wal-Marts all located within the same city. Not a big price variance mind you, but I've seen it enough to recognize that Wal-Marts located in lesser affluent urban areas have lower prices on some (not all) items, than another located in a new affluent area. (BTW, I'm not a Wal-Mart basher. I'm a heavy financial supporter of them.)...... ;-)
You are not even close...This affects everyone...When I (we) can no longer afford your services what ever they may be, you will be less valuable...
And what's the next step???We can't have this wide open system with three monetary structures in place...There will have to be one...
This is not about a few thousand union workers...
Indeed, this seems to be a big part of the seamy-underside of the whole agenda. It underpins a lot.
Of course, when the dollar collapses, Americans will be paying attention...and the people who made the collapse happen will not be popular with the electorate. And I fear they may have permanently scarred the Republican party reputation because of the doctrinnaire idealogues in the White House and RNC.
Mostly sounds like Wall Street big business trying to utterly Destroy Main Street. Class war, Wall Street style. Political insanity. Tone Deaf does not begin to describe anyone who subcribes to this treason.
We need to restore the reasons to be United as a Country, not Divided. United We Stand, Divided we Fall.
This attack by Wall Street megaliths upon the U.S. Main Street is precisely one of the "sectional" kinds of Divisiveness George Washington feared.
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