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Published: Aug 29, 2006
Author: Joseph Farah
Post Date: 2006-08-29 09:39:42 by Happy2BMe-OnLP
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The very real NAFTA superhighway By Joseph Farah I'm getting a little tired of know-nothing Washington officials acting like they know something. Or maybe it's a case of know-something politicians hiding something. Either way, it's not funny any more. But I'll report, you decide. There seems to be a concerted effort under way – from Washington to Salina, Kan. – to deny the very well-documented plans of the Bush administration and members of Congress to build a "NAFTA superhighway" from Mexico, through the U.S. heartland, into Canada. Simple reporting on this plan, as WND alone has done, using the government's own words and documents, continues to result in tongue-in-cheek ridicule from the political class. For instance, last week, Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., was on one of his semi-annual pilgrimages to meet his constituents. One of his stops was a luncheon at the Salina Area Chamber of Commerce. The event was chronicled by the local birdcage liner, which dutifully reported everything the senator said without challenge. According to the story, Gary Swartzendruber, the Democratic candidate for Saline County commissioner, asked what sounds like a very good question. It is one increasingly being raised by concerned members of the community there – including Democratic congressional candidate Nancy Boyda – and, for that matter, by informed people across the United States. The question was basically this: What do you, the esteemed chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, who has just been lecturing us about the need to be vigilant against domestic terrorism here in the heartland, think about "discussions that are under way for a proposed NAFTA superhighway." Roberts scoffed. In fact, he tried to turn the legitimate question into a joke. In fact, what he did was turn himself into a joke. He said: "Actually, it's 12 lanes and it goes through K-State on game days so we don't have to mess with the orange barrels." Now, being a bi-coastal kind of guy, I'm sure that answer makes some sense to the Midwestern sensibility – even if I don't completely understand it myself. But, the point is, Roberts was trying to be funny. Rush Limbaugh he is not. He went on to add: "There's nothing I'm aware of in any authorization bill. I don't know where these things get started. This is one of those blogosphere things that makes you wonder what's going on." Now, given that Roberts made an allusion to the Internet in this response, I get the feeling he knows precisely where this thing got started – right here at WND. This is not the blogosphere, however. This is WND, one of the largest news sources on the Net. This is not a rumor. This is not conjecture. This is not conspiracy mongering. This is simple reporting of what is public information on the public record. It frightens me that Pat Roberts is the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee but doesn't know what's going on right here in the U.S. – in fact, right in his own backyard. Or, scarier still is the distinct possibility he knows very well what is going on but is determined, for whatever reason, to obscure the reality of what it taking place. Is Roberts just pretending not to know about NASCO – North America's SuperCorridor Coalition? Or could he really be in the dark? Either option – and there are only two – represents a frightening scenario. Let me take this opportunity to direct the man who oversees intelligence matters for the U.S. Senate to a speech by Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta of April 30, 2004, in Fort Worth, Texas, before North America's Superhighway Coalition. Read these words carefully and tell me if you think the "NAFTA superhighway" is a pipedream of those wearing tinfoil hats. "President Bush is keeping America on track for a more prosperous future with his commitment also through international trade," he said. "And it will not be news to anyone in this room that our top two trading partners are our northern and southern neighbors, Canada and Mexico. NAFTA has opened the doors to expanding and flourishing trade across our borders. Since its implementation, total U.S. trade with Mexico has increased almost 200 percent – with 70 percent of the U.S./Mexico trade passing through Texas. There are, however, some things that we still need to do in the United States to fulfill our obligations under the NAFTA treaty. One of them is to finally open the market between Mexico and the United States for trucking and busing. … "And to our friends from Mexico who are here today, I say, 'Welcome, and get ready.' Opening the border is of mutual benefit. It will bring greater efficiencies in transportation so important in the competitive global environment. And it will bring robust opportunities for American companies, more jobs for American truckers, better deals for American consumers, and expanding activity along our trade corridors. "I know that the members of NASCO are gearing up. And your efforts are very important not only locally, but also to the national – and global – economies. Indeed, I want to congratulate NASCO President Sandy Jacobs and the Superhighway Coalition for your leadership. You recognized the promise of this expanding trade relationship with our NAFTA partners early on. "You also recognized that the success of the NAFTA relationship depends on mobility – on the movement of people, of products, and of capital across borders. The people in this room have vision. Thinking ahead, thinking long-term, you began to make aggressive plans to develop the NASCO trade corridor – this vital artery in our national transportation system through which so much of the NAFTA traffic flows. It flows across our nation's busiest southern border crossing in Laredo; over North America's busiest commercial crossing, the Ambassador Bridge in Detroit; and through Duluth, and Pembina, North Dakota, and all the places in between – like the Siouxland. Tuesday, I met with representatives of the Siouxland Chamber of Commerce who were in Washington, D.C., from Iowa, Nebraska and South Dakota. They shared some of their plans along the I-29 portion of the NASCO corridor." There is no question about plans – well-known to the Bush administration and many of Pat Roberts' colleagues in the Congress – for what is sometimes called "the NAFTA superhighway." The secretary of transportation knows about it. Perhaps he could give the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee a special briefing. Or, alternatively, Pat Roberts could ask what has come to be known as the "NASCO Caucus" in Congress to bring him up to speed. Just check out NASCO's website to see about the meetings between the activists and those they consider to be in their "caucus" last March and in April 2005. In addition, for Sen. Roberts' sake, I've compiled below some of the reports WND has done on this subject – dating back to 1999. Perhaps he could have a crack member of his intelligence staff peer through them to determine if any error can be found. Previous stories and commentaries: NAFTA superhighway to mean Mexican drivers, say Teamsters U.S.-Mexico merger opposition intensifies Docs reveal plans for Mexican trucks in U.S. Kansas City customs port considered Mexican soil? Southern border blurs for global trade More money for international highways Related special offer: "Global Deception: The U.N.'s Stealth Assault on America's Freedom" Joseph Farah is founder, editor and CEO of WND and a nationally syndicated columnist with Creators Syndicate. His latest book is "Taking America Back." He also edits the weekly online intelligence newsletter Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin, in which he utilizes his sources developed over 30 years in the news business.
Posted: August 29, 2006
1:00 a.m. Eastern
© 2006 
Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan.
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QUISLING'S IN THE LIGHT OF DAY MELT LIKE BUTTER - ping. ======================================================= Former Canadian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance John P. Manley, former Finance Minister of MexicoPedro 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 Internacionales and the Canadian Council of Chief Executives. Chief Executive of the Canadian Council of Chief ExecutivesThomas 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. Meanwhile, as we have already discussed, Red China is positioning increase its penetration into the NAFTA marketplace, planning now to operate several Mexican seaports to move an increasing volume of containers with cheap Chinese goods into the U.S. along proposed NAFTA super-highways and railroad corridors. The CFR document demands that we implement "the Social Security Totalization Agreement negotiated between the United States and Mexico." That's code language for putting illegal aliens into the U.S. Social Security system, which is bound to bankrupt the system. 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. POLL: How concerned are you that heavily armed men are crossing into the U.S. from Mexico? This is not a rumor. This is not conjecture. This is not conspiracy mongering. This is simple reporting of what is public information on the public record. For the record, WND may always be "right" but they are not always correct.
Happy2BMe-OnLP I have a question for you, I really am NOT looking for an argument here, for all I know this "superhighway" may be true. I could be completely wrong in thinking it's yet another CT. If I am wrong, and it IS being built (although no one can yet show me where I can go get video of it) can you tell me; A. How it supposedly affects our national sovereignty in any way. B.If this new HWY effectively destroys our sovereignty, what does US 101 or Interstate 5 out West do to it? Haven't they been around a lot longer? Especially I-5, as it goes all the way between three nations. Again, I know in the past I have not been kind to many people espousing CT's but for once I AM asking serious questions, and I hope to get a serious reply. Thank You, 4G1
B.If this new HWY effectively destroys our sovereignty, what does US 101 or Interstate 5 out West do to it? Haven't they been around a lot longer? Especially I-5, as it goes all the way between three nations. Again, I know in the past I have not been kind to many people espousing CT's but for once I AM asking serious questions, and I hope to get a serious reply. Thank You, 4G1 I'm sure H2B will reply to you, but I'd like a crack at this.... Please note this map: You will notice that America is cut in half by a Foreign-Owned 1200' wide corridor that AMERICANS will have to give up their land and rights an TAX MONIES to build. Note that California and the entire West Coast is isolated as far as shipping goes...it will all go into Mexico, with China being the BIG WINNER in cheap trans-shipping! What is happening is Canada, Mexico and America are being BOUNND into an EU style org without ANY American citizen voting on ANY treaty or suspension of the Constitution! We are being absorbed by a giant Amoeba called the CFR! This Corridor will be a sovereign Entity, as will the Mexican shipping point in Kansas! The only thing that will happen is that we SERFS will be forced to consume these goods as they will undercut any Domestic product by design! All that is happening is we are losing our Sovereignty within our own Borders by the "Sell-Out Express" cutting deals and taking property...all under the plans of thge SPP/NAU and CFR!
My question is what is wrong with the system we now have. Importing/Exporting from all the present major ports and moving to/from the center of the country. Why does it have to include Mexico and Canada? Improve what we have already here, that works fine, and let the other nations suck up to us, supposedly the leader.
Thanks Happy... I have nothing further to add. If you do not believe a 16-lane highway paid for with American tax dollars and used on the southern tip by Communist Chinese is not a breach of sovereignty I cannot help you.
So you want to protect American businesses by making us all pay higher prices for goods and services? Where is your pity for the poor? You should have more confidence in the ability of American Entreprenuers to compete. BTW if you work for someone else, you're not a Serf, you're a wage-slave.
Has any ground been broken on this highway...anywhere?
Hmm.... So, you believe that the artificailly subsidized wages of Illegals make goods cheap (which we all want) but you do not account for the subsidy in the offset in Tax Burden, and expenditures that we SERFS are forced to pay for these "low Wage" workers? What you believe in is not Free Trade...when the TaxPayer is forced to offest the low wages that Illegals will take for Jobs that Americans USED to do, and pick up healthcare costs, and welfare, housing etc... then its OBVIOUS that Illegals can afford to take the artificially low wages that Businesses have rigged! When the Businesses with the compicity of the Government can artificially control and depress wages to increase profits, that is not Free Trade. Free Trade is the market determines the wages for positions, not the businesses. Proof? End Illegal Invaders, build a wall, and eject the ones here. Suddenly Businesses will not have the artificial crutch of Government (Read Tax Payer) subsidies of their artificially low wages...employment pay will rise, and Taxes will fall due to 30+ Million mooces not sucking up Trillions! Which is why Business LOVES Illegal Invaders...as long as they are all out of the gated communities by sundown...and the SERFS are footing the bill!
As far as I can see, it's still in the "Spend Money before we get caught" phase...i.e. "Planning". According to Corsi, construction of the Trans-Texas Corridor, the first leg of the NAFTA Super Highway, is to begin next year. But as Cinta is in major bidding...the Globalists MUST smell the money and power....
"According to Corsi, construction of the Trans-Texas Corridor, the first leg of the NAFTA Super Highway, is to begin next year." Any word on where? "But as Cinta is in major bidding...the Globalists MUST smell the money and power...." What is Cinta?
How could you read all that into my statement? The Fair tax fixes most of the problems, add strict law enforcement, and arrest employer/landlords, and They will go home on their own...Oh, I forgot, Jail Government employees that allow Illegals benefits, and allow hospitals to turn them away for non-life threatening visits. Birth is not a life threatening situation. Capitalism works, except when Government rules get involved.
Interstate 5 does the same thing (although not 16 lanes), and no sane person believes it has weakened our sovereignty.
It's not just the road itself but the Mexican Customs tag that will be on mexican trucks that come into the U.S., this tag will bar U.S. law enforcement and customs officials from inspecting the cargo in those trucks. Terrorists and smugglers are going to love this.
Terrorists and smugglers are going to love this. Ok, now that I have a problem with. The idea of the highway itself gives me no pause, I say build one sea to sea also.
Also keep in mind that elitists don't want to build a $2 billion dollar taxpayer funded on foot wide, 2000 mile long fences between Mexico and the U.S. But the elitists want the U.S. taxpayers to be force to foot the bill of a 3000 mile long 16 lane road, that will at least cost $2 TRILLION dollars. Given how close U.S. citizens are to complete finacial collapse, the bill for this road is alone enough reason to oppose. And I don't doubt that only mexican will be paid to built this road, further bankrupting U.S. citizens.
After the supercorridor is built, it will be easier for illegal alien Mexicans to walk unnoticed into the USA across the former frontier, than for a US citizen to cross the supercorridor without official govt. observation and control.
Yep, the same Quislings who claim it's simply impossible to build a border barrier, are all for building a 400 yard wide supercorridor that will make the Berlin Wall seem like a Jersey barrier highway divider.
Everyone that has been talking about the NAU is ahead of the curve. I can remember seeing The Gillman and Travis talking about it at least a year ago? It's amazing how this is really picking up steam, more so than ever before. It can only get more exposure from here on out. Heres to hoping, stop Whorge Arbusto before its too late. IMO ....it is too late.
No such thing anymore as an "illegal alien Mexican". That goes away with the NAU, which promises free flow of human capital between the 3 countries.
True, but I guess my point is it will be even easier for Pedro from Chiapas to get to Iowa without official notice and approval, than for John from NY to move unnoticed to California.
I just hope the story picks up enough steam to stop this travesty. "Building a North American Community" by the Council on Foreign Relations.
I like the Wildcats--and look forward to seeing them this year under Ron Prince- -but they just aren't that popular. Something definitely reeks. You know, that kind of OWW, globalist kind of smell.
Glad to see you've incorporated the SPP into your montage, Travis. One question: Have you got your North American biometric passport yet?
I think we'll see a Greater Depression, social breakdown and CW2 before this Frankenstein's Monster of an invasion highway becomes a reality. The CFR/SPP is guilty of what's called "strategic overreach," typical of empires at the high water mark before the collapse. In my next book, the plot will have some characters crossing the would-be supercorridor, a scene of construction stopped mid stream, with rusting graders and dead bulldozers.
In other words, the Big Dig on a colossal scale.
If this wasn't so seriously deadly to America and Americans, it'd be worth a million laughs.
Maybe they're planning to put up curtains so no one will notice.
At this point I think the elitists have lost touch reality because they are writing checks that the taxpayer body cannot cash.
foflol!
Yes, but never completed, a half-finished mega-ruin.
Except that Pat Roberts is the senator from Kansas, whereas Pat Robertson is that guy from the 700 Club--but maybe you were making a greater point.
Strategic overreach that redefines hubris. This is like the Ottoman Empire in 1915 planning to invade India.
Were they ever in touch with reality? After all, they're spending other peoples' money: people who you can pressure every two to four years into voting for you--or else.
True, it would funny if it were not so serious. I don't even think the elitists factored in the cost, and what the taxpayer base can afford, to build this 16 lane monster. And if the money is borrowed to build this road, the inflation rate will soar to the point that U.S. dollar will be completely worthless.
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#2. To: kstewskis, Itzlzha, BrerRabbit, out damned spot, fitz, KineTIK, AuntB, Travis McGee, BLACKHORSE, liberator, seen2much, Joe Hadenuf, fallujah nuker, Scrivener, indalay, add925, Uncle Bill, joesnuffy, gatlin, echo5sierra, FITZ, Byteshredder, occutegirl, Eu (#0)
The question is basically this:
What do you, the esteemed chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, who has just been lecturing us about the need to be vigilant against domestic terrorism here in the heartland, think about "discussions that are under way for a proposed NAFTA superhighway."
#3. To: All (#2)
March 14, 2005 - 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, challenges to competitiveness, and interest in broad-based development across the three countries.
The CFR document calls for allowing Mexican trucks "unlimited access" to the United States, including the hauling of local loads between U.S. cities. The CFR document calls for adopting a "tested once" principle for pharmaceuticals, by which a product tested in Mexico will automatically be considered to have met U.S. standards.
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.
#4. To: ADD925 (#3)
"America" is nothing more than a collection of ever-growing federal employees with selectively enforced National Laws, their own Treasury, who possess residents-not citizens, a soon-to-be-obsloete currency, a displaced (foreign placed) National Military, a multi-lingual environment, an indeterminent culture, no real borders, a symbolic flag and a few sports teams."
~ADD925, August 29th, 2006
#5. To: Happy2BMe-OnLP (#0)
This is WND, one of the largest news sources on the Net.
#6. To: Happy2BMe-OnLP (#1)
#7. To: 4 givan 1 (#6)
A. How it supposedly affects our national sovereignty in any way.
#8. To: 4 givan 1 (#6)
#9. To: Happy2BMe-OnLP, Scrivener, Kstewskis, Itzlzha, QBC, indalay, hedgetrimmer (#1)
#10. To: Happy2BMe-OnLP, Scrivener, Kstewskis, Itzlzha, QBC, indalay, hedgetrimmer (#2)
searching for the
"NAFTA superhighway"
#11. To: 4 givan 1 (#6)
#12. To: Itzlzha (#7)
The only thing that will happen is that we SERFS will be forced to consume these goods as they will undercut any Domestic product by design!
Lower prices help us all.
Protectionist Tarrifs do not work, Free Trade does.
#13. To: Itzlzha (#7)
#14. To: VikingisaVerb (#12)
So you want to protect American businesses by making us all pay higher prices for goods and services? Where is your pity for the poor? Lower prices help us all. Protectionist Tarrifs do not work, Free Trade does.
#15. To: 4 givan 1 (#13)
Has any ground been broken on this highway...anywhere?
#16. To: Itzlzha (#15)
#17. To: Itzlzha (#14)
So, you believe that the artificailly subsidized wages of Illegals make goods cheap (which we all want) but you do not account for the subsidy in the offset in Tax Burden,
#18. To: Happy2BMe-OnLP (#11)
If you do not believe a 16-lane highway paid for with American tax dollars and used on the southern tip by Communist Chinese is not a breach of sovereignty I cannot help you.
#19. To: 4 givan 1 (#18)
Interstate 5 does the same thing (although not 16 lanes), and no sane person believes it has weakened our sovereignty.
#20. To: Paul CJ (#19)
It's not just the road itself but the Mexican Customs tag that will be on mexican trucks that come into the U.S., this tag will bar U.S. law enforcement and customs officials from inspecting the cargo in those trucks.
#21. To: 4 givan 1 (#20)
Ok, now that I have a problem with. The idea of the highway itself gives me no pause, I say build one sea to sea also.
#22. To: Itzlzha (#7)
#23. To: Paul CJ (#21)
#24. To: Travis McGee, Itzlzha, liberator, The Gillman, Happy2BMe-OnLP, Joe Hadenuf (#22)
#25. To: Travis McGee (#22)
After the supercorridor is built, it will be easier for illegal alien Mexicans to walk unnoticed into the USA across the former frontier, than for a US citizen to cross the supercorridor without official govt. observation and control.
#26. To: The 13th Generation (#25)
#27. To: KineTIK (#24)
#28. To: Happy2BMe-OnLP (#1)
He said: "Actually, it's 12 lanes and it goes through K-State on game days so we don't have to mess with the orange barrels."
#29. To: Travis McGee (#27)
#30. To: Outside Society (#29)
#31. To: Travis McGee (#30)
In my next book, the plot will have some characters crossing the would-be supercorridor, a scene of construction stopped mid stream, with rusting graders and dead bulldozers.
#32. To: Happy2BMe-OnLP, Byteshredder (#2)
It frightens me that Pat Roberts is the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee but doesn't know what's going on right here in the U.S. – in fact, right in his own backyard. Or, scarier still is the distinct possibility he knows very well what is going on but is determined, for whatever reason, to obscure the reality of what it taking place.
...for Sen. Roberts' sake, I've compiled below some of the reports WND has done on this subject – dating back to 1999. Perhaps he could have a crack member of his intelligence staff peer through them to determine if any error can be found.......
#33. To: Travis McGee (#23)
Yep, the same Quislings who claim it's simply impossible to build a border barrier, are all for building a 400 yard wide supercorridor that will make the Berlin Wall seem like a Jersey barrier highway divider.
#34. To: Travis McGee (#23)
Yep, the same Quislings who claim it's simply impossible to build a border barrier, are all for building a 400 yard wide supercorridor that will make the Berlin Wall seem like a Jersey barrier highway divider.
#35. To: Byteshredder (#10)
Senator Pat Robertson (R-KAN) searching for the "NAFTA superhighway"
#36. To: Outside Society (#31)
#37. To: Scrivener, Byteshredder (#35)
Senator Pat Robertson (R-KAN) searching for the "NAFTA superhighway"
#38. To: Paul CJ (#34)
#39. To: Paul CJ (#34)
At this point I think the elitists have lost touch reality because they are writing checks that the taxpayer body cannot cash.
#40. To: Travis McGee (#38)
Strategic overreach that redefines hubris. This is like the Ottoman Empire in 1915 planning to invade India.
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