Again from Hal Turner. The tyranny's direction. I advise you to read it carefully.

http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?print=yes&id=15017

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The Plan to Replace the Dollar With the 'Amero'

by Jerome R. Corsi
Posted May 22, 2006

The idea to form the North American Union as a super-NAFTA knitting together Canada, the United States and Mexico into a super-regional political and economic entity was a key agreement resulting from the March 2005 meeting held at Baylor University in Waco, Tex., between President Bush, President Fox and Prime Minister Martin.

A joint statement published by the three presidents following their Baylor University summit announced the formation of an initial entity called, “The Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America” (SPP). The joint statement termed the SPP a “trilateral partnership” that was aimed at producing a North American security plan as well as providing free market movement of people, capital, and trade across the borders between the three NAFTA partners:

We will establish a common approach to security to protect North America from external threats, prevent and respond to threats within North America, and further streamline the secure and efficient movement of legitimate, low-risk traffic across our borders.

A working agenda was established:

We will establish working parties led by our ministers and secretaries that will consult with stakeholders in our respective countries. These working parties will respond to the priorities of our people and our businesses, and will set specific, measurable, and achievable goals.

The U.S. Department of Commerce has produced a SPP website, which documents how the U.S. has implemented the SPP directive into an extensive working agenda.

Following the March 2005 meeting in Waco, Tex., the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) published in May 2005 a task force report titled “Building a North American Community.” We have already documented that this CFR task force report calls for a plan to create by 2010 a redefinition of boundaries such that the primary immigration control will be around the three countries of the North American Union, not between the three countries. We have argued that a likely reason President Bush has not secured our border with Mexico is that the administration is pushing for the establishment of the North American Union.

The North American Union is envisioned to create a super-regional political authority that could override the sovereignty of the United States on immigration policy and trade issues. In his June 2005 testimony to the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Robert Pastor, the Director of the Center for North American Studies at American University, stated clearly the view that the North American Union would need a super-regional governance board to make sure the United States does not dominate the proposed North American Union once it is formed:

NAFTA has failed to create a partnership because North American governments have not changed the way they deal with one another. Dual bilateralism, driven by U.S. power, continue to govern and irritate. Adding a third party to bilateral disputes vastly increases the chance that rules, not power, will resolve problems.

This trilateral approach should be institutionalized in a new North American Advisory Council. Unlike the sprawling and intrusive European Commission, the Commission or Council should be lean, independent, and advisory, composed of 15 distinguished individuals, 5 from each nation. Its principal purpose should be to prepare a North American agenda for leaders to consider at biannual summits and to monitor the implementation of the resulting agreements.

Pastor was a vice chairman of the CFR task force that produced the report “Building a North American Union.”

Pastor also proposed the creation of a Permanent Tribunal on Trade and Investment with the view that “a permanent court would permit the accumulation of precedent and lay the groundwork for North American business law.” The intent is for this North American Union Tribunal would have supremacy over the U.S. Supreme Court on issues affecting the North American Union, to prevent U.S. power from “irritating” and retarding the progress of uniting Canada, Mexico, and the U.S. into a new 21st century super-regional governing body.

Robert Pastor also advises the creation of a North American Parliamentary Group to make sure the U.S. Congress does not impede progress in the envisioned North American Union. He has also called for the creation of a North American Customs and Immigration Service which would have authority over U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) within the Department of Homeland Security.

Pastor’s 2001 book “Toward a North American Community” called for the creation of a North American Union that would perfect the defects Pastor believes limit the progress of the European Union. Much of Pastor’s thinking appears aimed at limiting the power and sovereignty of the United States as we enter this new super-regional entity. Pastor has also called for the creation of a new currency which he has coined the “Amero,” a currency that is proposed to replace the U.S. dollar, the Canadian dollar, and the Mexican peso.

If President Bush had run openly in 2004 on the proposition that a prime objective of his second term was to form the North American Union and to supplant the dollar with the “Amero,” we doubt very much that President Bush would have carried Ohio, let alone half of the Red State majority he needed to win re-election. Pursuing any plan that would legalize the conservatively estimated 12 million illegal aliens now in the United States could well spell election disaster for the Republican Party in 2006, especially for the House of Representative where every seat is up for grabs.




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Now what does the word COUNCIL translate to in Russian........Oh yeah, Soviet.

The idea to form the North American Union as a super-NAFTA knitting together Canada, the United States and Mexico into a super-regional political and economic entity was a key agreement resulting from the March 2005 meeting held at Baylor University in Waco, Tex., between President Bush, President Fox and Prime Minister Martin.

A joint statement published by the three presidents following their Baylor University summit announced the formation of an initial entity called, “The Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America” (SPP). The joint statement termed the SPP a “trilateral partnership” that was aimed at producing a North American security plan as well as providing free market movement of people, capital, and trade across the borders between the three NAFTA partners:

We will establish a common approach to security to protect North America from external threats, prevent and respond to threats within North America, and further streamline the secure and efficient movement of legitimate, low-risk traffic across our borders.

A working agenda was established:

We will establish working parties led by our ministers and secretaries that will consult with stakeholders in our respective countries. These working parties will respond to the priorities of our people and our businesses, and will set specific, measurable, and achievable goals.

The U.S. Department of Commerce has produced a SPP website, which documents how the U.S. has implemented the SPP directive into an extensive working agendaNow think about this for a moment. We have these THREE "elected" politicians of three major "democracies" deciding for the entire North American continent that this continent will no longer be comprised of three separate countries, that the White race will be submerged in the brown and destroyed.

That this (the turning of America into a 3rd world dictatorship with three crackpot dumb dictators in charge of hundreds of millions of White lives, in absolute life and death charge of the most successful and powerful White civilization in the history of the world) -- that this should be happening in my lifetime is just amazing and unbelievable. But it IS happening before our eyes. I guess when we're thrown into their concentration death camps, we'll believe it at last.

Investors Push NAFTA Super-Highways

by Jerome R. Corsi
Posted Jun 30, 2006

Critics have recently argued that plans to form NAFTA Super-Highways in the United States were largely “urban legend” or just pure “hype.” These same critics note that many state departments of transportation are strapped for cash and that states north of Texas have no current plans to build super-highways, extending the Trans-Texas Corridor (TTC) north to Canada.

Currently no state except Texas currently has plans to build TTC-like highways, with designs to build transportation corridors up to four football fields-wide that integrate highway toll roads, railroad transportation and utility zones for oil and natural gas pipelines, alongside towers to transmit electricity to businesses and homes along the route. Moreover, most state treasuries are already strapped just to maintain existing highways. A study by the National Chamber Foundation of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce concluded that even the Highway Trust Fund will have a zero cash balance in 2008 unless gasoline taxes are raised.

Yet key players, including the investment bankers and the worldwide capital investment funds, have a plan to address these fiscal shortcomings with their own resources. On April 30, 1992, President George H.W. Bush signed Executive Order No. 12803 on infrastructure privatization, a move that cleared the way for private capital to invest in U.S. infrastructure projects, including highways. As noted by C. Kenneth Orski, editor and publisher of the transportation industry publication Innovation Briefs, the model has been established in Europe:

In Europe, virtually all major toll road authorities have been privatized. Italy’s state-owned toll authority, Autostrade SpA, was sold to private investors in the late 1990s (and will soon be merged with Spain’s Abertis, creating a vast 6,700 km (4,200 mile) network of private toll roads throughout Western Europe). In France, the three largest toll enterprises in which the government had retained controlling interest, Autoroutes Paris-Rhin-Rhone (APRR); Societe du Nord et de l’Est de la France (SANEF, operator of the Autoroute du Nord and Autoroute de l’Est); and Autoroutes du Sud de la France (ASF, operator of the Autoroute du Sud), were put up for sale in late 2005; their privatization is currently in process of being completed. By the end of the year, 8,175 km (5, 109 miles) of France’s toll roads will be in private hands, according to the French toll road association, AFSA. In Spain and Portugal, all major toll roads are, likewise, in private hands.

Capital groups such as Cintra Concesiones de Infraestructures de Transport in Spain and the Macquarie Infrastructure Group and Transurban in Australia are positioned to make substantial investments in the build-out of NAFTA Super-Highways along I-35 extending north from Texas, as well as in the various NAFTA corridors identified throughout the United States.

With the trillions in infrastructure investment dollars needed to build the next generation of super-highways in the United States, especially under the emerging North American Union structure, investment bankers and those who run capital investment funds stand to make hundreds of millions, probably even billions, in fees. This alone is enough to drive forward the NAFTA Super-Highway movement and to make sure politicians willing to support the movement have ample funds with which to run their campaigns and live their lives comfortably.

The Trans-Texas Corridor (TTC) can be seen as the “test case.” The investment world is carefully watching, anticipating that the Texas Department of Transportation will succeed with Cintra in constructing what is called TTC-35 along I-35 from Laredo at the southern border to the northern border heading toward Oklahoma City. Final hearings are being held by the TxDOT in July and August and final federal approval is anticipated by the summer of 2007. The TxDOT plans to sign final contracts immediately thereafter and begin construction. Already, investment bankers and international capital groups are in discussion with state officials throughout the United States, with the intention of replicating the TTC design in the build out of a NAFTA Super-Highway network throughout the United States.

I have previously written that the plan behind building the TTC is disclosed on the Kansas City SmartPort website. The goal is to open ports in Mexico, such as Lazaro Cardenas, which can receive containers with goods manufactured by cheap labor in China and the Far East, to be transported into the heart of America by using Mexican trucks and NAFTA railroads originating in Mexico. A key feature of the plan is to bypass and undercut U.S. labor unions, including the Longshoremen’s Union, the railroad United Transportation Union and the Teamsters. This is more than a Bush Administration globalist plan to advance open borders and open skies in the name of free trade. Across the NAFTA Super-Highways will flow millions more Mexicans, now armed with North American border passes and biometric identification, as defined by the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America working groups organized within the Department of Commerce.

There's no objection to the infusion of international private capital into the nation’s highway infrastructure per se. With the large trade and budget deficits that we have experienced under President Bush’s leadership, an unprecedented amount of dollar foreign exchange currency is held by nations including China and Japan, as well as by Middle Eastern oil producing countries, including the UAE. For some of that dollar foreign exchange currency to return to the U.S. through international infrastructure investment may well be desirable.

In 2005, a Cintra-Macquarie consortium successfully negotiated a deal to lease the Chicago Skyway for 99 years, a deal worth $1.8 billion to the city of Chicago. Just this week, the Cintra-Macquarie consortium moved to conclude the transaction to lease the Indiana Toll Road in a deal worth $3.8 billion to the state.

Ken Blackwell, the Republican gubernatorial candidate in Ohio, has proposed leasing the Ohio Turnpike, with the plan to invest a substantial portion of the proceeds into a development fund that would be utilized in conjunction with banks in the state to promote business development and home ownership in Ohio’s poverty areas. The “Blackwell Initiative” involves constructing no new roads and the envisioned lease would cap increases the leasing operator could place on toll charges. The plan is aimed ultimately at lowering Ohio’s high state taxes, providing an anticipated stimulus to much needed business development within the state. The Ohio Turnpike, even under a lease, is not planned to connect into Canada or Mexico directly, except through the existing network of interstate highways and established border crossing points.

What is objectionable is the plan to form a European Union-style North American Super-Highway system whose primary goal is to establish trilateral links for the open passage of freight transportation and the virtually unrestrained “migration” of people among the three countries. Building NAFTA Super-Highways that effectively erase the U.S. borders with Mexico and Canada is a concern, especially if the NAFTA Super-Highways contribute to accomplishing in a de facto manner the integration of the United States into a North American Union, thereby threatening the currently established sovereignty of the United States.

What is needed is a robust and honest discussion of these important issues, with the American people fully involved and engaged in the debate. To date, President Bush has remained largely silent on the extent and true nature of his plans to create a North American Union that can openly be navigated via NAFTA Super-Highways. If the Bush Administration’s plan is to create the North American Union and the NAFTA Super-Highways incrementally -- through technical actions taken within the confines of executive branch meetings -- that process of implementation will be inconsistent with the processes of constitutional democracy we currently believe we enjoy in the United States. It’s up to Bush to come forward and present honestly his plans regarding these critical issues of our nation’s future so the American people can enter a properly informed debate.

http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=15839

Now what does the word COUNCIL translate to in Russian........Oh yeah, Soviet.

No. Assembly. In Russian "sovet". This word is different from soviet. :)

I've been following these shenanigans by the CFR and the plan for the combining of the US, Canada and Mexico for some time. So much of the infrastructure is already in place, it's just waiting to be utilized in their plan.
Will it happen? Sorry to say, yes, I believe it will.

Help Preserve Jobs and National Security & Independence:





Defeat the U.S.-Oman Free Trade Agreement!



What's it all mean?


We have a golden opportunity to derail the NAFTA/CAFTA series of "free trade" agreements that are producing massive job losses for Americans and eroding national security and independence.
The U.S.-Oman FTA (http://www.ustr.gov/Trade_Agreements/Bilateral/Oman_FTA/Final_Text/Section_Index.html) (Free Trade Agreement) was approved by the Senate yesterday with a vote of 60-34 (http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=2&vote=00190). The vote on this agreement is expected to be much closer in the House.
In light of the winning margin of just two votes on last year's CAFTA bill, and election-year jitters over controversial votes, the U.S.-Oman deal could be defeated in the House.






NOTE: A vote by the full House is expected in July, so you have to contact your representative now! (Please!)





You'll even have a chance to contact your rep directly during his "Independence Day District Work Period," July 3-7. Keep on the lookout!



Reasons for Opposing the U.S.-Oman FTA:

The U.S.-Oman FTA threatens American jobs. For example, AMTAC (http://www.amtacdc.org/) (American Manufacturing Trade Action Coalition) states that the agreement includes a ridiculously large tariff preference level (TPL) of 50 million square meters of textiles annually for 10 years, which will mean that Chinese yarns and fabrics will be shipped to Oman, cut and sewn into garments and then exported duty-free to the U.S.
The U.S.-Oman FTA threatens national security. As reported on the Lou Dobbs Tonight (http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0606/28/ldt.01.html) show of June 28, "Under the Oman free trade agreement, foreign port operators would have a right, an absolute trade agreement right, to establish operations, to acquire, to operate, to run port facilities within the U.S." Under the "Cross Border Trade in Services (http://www.ustr.gov/assets/Trade_Agreements/Bilateral/Oman_FTA/Final_Text/asset_upload_file987_8839.pdf)" chapter of the U.S.-Oman FTA, a Dubai Ports World-type enterprise could acquire a company in Oman, and then operate U.S. ports through that company.
The U.S.-Oman FTA threatens our national independence. Just as a European-wide free trade agreement has led to the loss of sovereignty of European nations to the European Union, and just as NAFTA (North American Free Trade Area) is now being converted into a sovereignty-destroying North American Union (http://www.thenewamerican.com/artman/publish/article_2239.shtml) through the creation last year of the Security and Prosperity Partnership (http://www.spp.gov/) (SPP) of North America, the U.S.-Oman FTA is designed to help bring about a Middle East Free Trade Area (http://www.ustr.gov/Trade_Agreements/Regional/MEFTA/Section_Index.html) (MEFTA), which would be another sovereignty-destroying, supranational organization to which the U.S. would belong. Recommended Action Plan:

Contact your representative in-person, or by phone, fax, or email before the House reconvenes July 10 and demand a NO vote on the U.S.-Oman FTA based on the reasons above.
Click here (http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2005/roll443.xml) to see whether your rep voted yes on the CAFTA bill last year, which should be a good indicator of whether he is likely to vote yes on the U.S.-Oman FTA this year.
Click here (http://capwiz.com/jbs/dbq/officials/) to find your rep's phone and fax number.
Click here (http://capwiz.com/jbs/issues/alert/?alertid=8887241&type=CO) to send an email with an editable message to your rep. http://www.thenewamerican.com/artman/publish/article_4031.shtml

Kansas City customs port considered Mexican soil?
WND investigation finds new evidence U.S. facility to be on foreign territory

Posted: July 5, 2006
1:00 a.m. Eastern

By Jerome R. Corsi
© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com

A Mexican customs facility planned for Kansas City's inland port may have to be considered the sovereign soil of Mexico as part of an effort to lure officials in that country into cooperating with the Missouri development project.

Despite adamant denials by Kansas City Area Development Council officials, WND has obtained emails and other documents from top executives with the KCSmartPort project that suggest such a facility would by necessity be considered Mexican territory – despite its presence in the heartland of the U.S.

The documents were obtained with the assistance of Joyce Mucci, the founder of the Mid-America Immigration Reform Coalition, under the provisions of the Missouri Sunshine Law from the City of Kansas City, Mo., and from the Missouri Department of Economic Development.

The documents reveal a two-year campaign initiated in 2004 and managed by top SmartPort officials to win Mexico's agreement to establish the Mexican customs facility within the Kansas City "inland port." Kansas City SmartPort launched a concerted effort to advance the idea, holding numerous meetings with Mexican government officials in Mexico and in Washington to push the Mexican port idea in concert. The effort involved Missouri elected officials, including members of the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate.


The documents make clear that Mexico demanded Kansas City pay all costs.

To date, the Kansas City Council has voted a $2.5 million loan to KC SmartPort to build the Mexican customs facility in the West Bottoms near Kemper Arena on city-owned land east of Liberty Street and mostly south of Interstate 670.

"Kansas City, Mo., is leasing the site to Kansas City SmartPort," Tasha Hammes of the development council wrote to WND last month. "It will NOT be leased to any Mexican government agency or to be sovereign territory of Mexico."

Yet, an email written June 21, 2004, by Chris Gutierrez, the president of the KC SmartPort, stated that the Mexican customs office space "would need to be designated as Mexican sovereign territory and meet certain requirements."

Even more recently, an email dated March 10 of this year was sent by Gutierrez to a long list of recipients that left no doubt that KC SmartPort has not yet received federal government approval to move forward with the Mexican customs facility. Gutierrez informed the email recipients that the processing a critical form, designated "C-175," needs approval by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection before the form is passed to the State Department for final approval. The processing and approval of the C-175 application is holding up the final approval of the Mexican customs facility.

In the same memo, Gutierrez reported on a recent meeting in Washington: "Both sides (U.S. and Mexican officials) met several weeks ago and the 'document' or as the U.S. refers to it the 'C-175' is near completion. This document is the basis for the procedural, regulatory, jurisdictional, etc. for the project. It defines what will happen and how and what laws, etc. allow this to happen. Both sides have put a lot of effort into this document."

Gutierrez appeared concerned that the intensive lobbying done by KC SmartPort could be a wasted effort if the final U.S. government approvals were not completed before Mexico elected a new president this week.

"The process for the document is for U.S. Customs to present the document to the acting Commissioner and officials with the Dept of Homeland Security," he wrote. "This will happen in March. The document will then be reviewed by the U.S. State Dept who has been consulted on the document all along so they are aware of it. State will make the recommendation on the diplomatic status of the Mexican officials and the documents fit with existing agreements, accords or treaties. Mexico will wait for this recommendation and then get the sign off of their Foreign Ministry (Secretary [Luis Ernesto] Derbez and Under Secretary [Geronimo] Gutierrez are well versed on the project and support it). The hope of both sides is that this will be completed before the Mexican presidential elections in July."

Gutierrez's March 10 email ended by expressing a hope that discussion of the Mexican customs facility issue could be kept from the public, obviously concerned that press scrutiny might end up producing an adverse public reaction that could destroy the project. Gutierrez specifically proposes a low-profile strategy designed to keep the KC SmartPort and the Mexican customs facility out of public view.

"The one negative that was conveyed to us was the problems and pressure the media attention has created for both sides," he wrote. "They want us to stop promoting the facility to the press. We let them know that we have never issued a proactive press release on this and that the media attention started when Commissioner (Robert) Bonner was in KC and met with Rick Alm. The official direction moving forward is that we can respond to the media with a standard response that I will send out on Monday and refer all other inquiries to U.S. Customs. I will get the name from them to refer media calls."

Robert C. Bonner is the commissioner of CBP within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Rick Alm is a reporter for the Kansas City Star.

On May 16, Bonner addressed the Chamber of Commerce in Kansas City, saying the Mexican customs facility idea "could be enormously important to Kansas City and the surrounding area, and would – or should – facilitate trade for U.S. exporters by expediting the border clearance process for U.S. goods and products exported to Mexico." Bonner added that "If the Kansas City SmartPort is implemented, Kansas City could become a major new trade link between the U.S. and Mexico."

Among those copied on Gutierrez's email of March 10, 2006, was George D. Blackwood, the president of NASCO (North America's Super Corridor Coalition, Inc.). Blackwood is an attorney with Blackwood, Langworthy & Tyson in Kansas City. He also served as the former chairman of the North American International Trade Corridor Partnership, which he helped found in 1998 when he was serving as mayor pro tem of Kansas City. NASCO supports the Kansas City SmartPort's initiative to establish a Mexican customs facility as part of the NASCO SuperCorridor project.

http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=50918

No matter where you go in the world, the rich and elite are always the same. They always implement the same schemes, they always advocate for mixing races, they always throw their extra millions at causes destructive towards the middle class, they always hoard their wealth, they always promote degeneracy and filth in the cultural and entertainment milieus, they always harbor a deep seated resentment towards average people. We get bread and circuses (porn and drugs) while they run the nation by paying the bulk of the income taxes. Just look at the top rich bastard of all, Dubya. What a f'n idiot that guy is. You'd think rich people would be smart and wise, but no! They're all a bunch of gd assholes. Check out what the two richest Americans, Gates and Buffett are throwing their money at in another thread. Nigger bellies for fucksake!

Another nation falls to class warfare, heedless of the racial blood call. Just another class of rich race traitors selling out their own people out of sheer spite and hateful malice.

Spiritually Jews, when not physically.

We little people ought to seriously think about recruiting to our Racial Nationalism based solely on economic factors. For the time being...

Down with the rich. Power to the people!

No matter where you go in the world, the rich and elite are always the same. They always implement the same schemes, they always advocate for mixing races, they always throw their extra millions at causes destructive towards the middle class, they always hoard their wealth, they always promote degeneracy and filth in the cultural and entertainment milieus, they always harbor a deep seated resentment towards average people. We get bread and circuses (porn and drugs) while they run the nation by paying the bulk of the income taxes. Just look at the top rich bastard of all, Dubya. What a f'n idiot that guy is. You'd think rich people would be smart and wise, but no! They're all a bunch of gd assholes. Check out what the two richest Americans, Gates and Buffett are throwing their money at in another thread. Nigger bellies for fucksake!

Another nation falls to class warfare, heedless of the racial blood call. Just another class of rich race traitors selling out their own people out of sheer spite and hateful malice.

Spiritually Jews, when not physically.

We little people ought to seriously think about recruiting to our Racial Nationalism based solely on economic factors. For the time being...

Down with the rich. Power to the people!No. Itz the jews.

NASCO Alters Super-Corridor Message
by Jerome R. Corsi
Posted Jul 05, 2006

NASCO has altered the organization’s website homepage, apparently in direct response to the North American Union series we have published here, including discussion of NASCO and NAFTA Super-Highways.

NASCO appears to be reacting from recent publicity deriving from our argument that NASCO actively supports the goals of their members, including the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) and the Kansas City SmartPort. TxDOT plans to start the first segment of the Trans-Texas Corridor (TTC) as early as next year and the Kansas City SmartPort plans to house a Mexican customs operation within their Inland Port design. These are new infrastructure developments along the North American NAFTA Super-Corridor that NASCO as a trade organization was created to support.

A box has been inserted to the left of the NASCO map on the homepage, emphasizing the following:

This map is not a blueprint or plan of any kind. The Infrastructure depicted on this map is not drawn to scale. The highways shown EXIST today, and have been enlarged to highlight the NASCO Corridor focus area. The rail lines have been placed on the map to show NASCO’s multimodal approach.

The subtitle on the home page still reads “Secure Multi-Modal Transportation System,” evidently referring to the automobile, truck, and railroad nature of the “NASCO Super-Corridor” described in the top title on the page. By so adding to the homepage, NASCO appears engaged in a public relations marketing effort to defuse concerns that the organization supports any new NAFTA Super-Highway development that would include TTC features.

This modification to the homepage echoes an email the author received from Tiffany Melvin, NASCO’s Executive Director, on June 23, 2006, in which she wrote:

If the map were drawn to scale, it would be very difficult to see our focus area. The map is designed for marketing purposes, to highlight the highways we are focusing on. It is for our Coalition. That’s it.

An insert box has been placed on the homepage in the Atlantic Ocean area east of Massachusetts, reading “NASCO Myths Debunked.” We understand that our articles are among the “myths” intended to be “debunked.” The first line of text in the 4-page document linked to the “debunked box” reads: “There is no new, proposed ‘NAFTA Superhighway.” The next paragraph seems to say the NAFTA Super-Highway already exists -- it is evidently the current I-35:

As of late, there has been much media attention given to the “new, proposed NAFTA Superhighway.” NASCO and the cities, counties, states and provinces along our existing Interstate Highways 35/29/94 (the NASCO Corridor) have been referring to I-35 as the “NAFTA Superhighway” for many years, as I-35 already carries a substantial amount of international trade with Mexico, the United States and Canada. There are no plans to build a new NAFTA Superhighwary -- it exists today as I-35.

The “debunked text” even wants to de-emphasize the “Super” in the NASCO “Super Corridor” name. As Ms. Melvin expressed in a June 22, 2006 email to the author:

We have been using the name “SuperCorridor” since 1996. It does not mean huge, mega highway. We use “Super” in the sense of “more inclusive than a specialized category” (dictionary definition). Like Superman was not a huge, giant four football field wide man. He was MORE than a man. We are MORE than a highway coalition. We work to promote the use of multiple modes of transportation. We work on economic development along the corridor. We work on environmental issues. We work on networking inland ports. We work on developing business relationships for our members.

Perhaps NASCO would be well advised to review the Trans-Texas Corridor website of its member TxDOT agency. There the 4,000 page Environmental Impact Study (EIS) clearly describes the 1,200 foot new Super-Highway that TxDOT plans to build parallel to I-35. Page 4 of the EIS Executive Summary shows an artist’s rendition of the full build-out of the TTC-35 concept, an automobile-truck-railroad corridor with a utility space for energy pipelines and electronic circuits, along with tower electricity strung out on the perimeter. No artist’s conception of the TTC drawn by the TxDOT bears any resemblance to the current I-35 in Texas or anywhere else.

http://www.humaneventsonline.com/images/2006-07-03_Corsi.jpg

This TTC-35 description belies NASCO’s contention that the organization does not support the constructing any new Super-Highway infrastructure.

Perhaps NASCO wants to advance the argument that no state north of Texas will continue the TTC-35 project to connect through Oklahoma City with the Kansas City SmartPort, continuing north toward Duluth, or that TTC-35. As we have already shown, the investment bankers and international capitalists who are funding the development of TTC-35 can be expected to develop extend this NAFTA Super-Highway north, whether NASCO or the states north of Texas have the funds or current plans to do so.

From a public relations point of view, NASCO’s emphasis that the “NASCO Super-Corridor” only involves existing highways, truck routes, and rail lines is a strategy consistent with a desire to stay below the radar of public awareness, so as to avoid criticism that might otherwise stop or impede NASCO’s true mission -- to support the development of a NAFTA Super-Highway, either through enhancements to the existing north-south corridor along Interstate Highways 35/29/94 (the NASCO Corridor), or any Super-Highway enhancements its members initiate, including the TTC and the Mexican customs facility in the Kansas City SmartPort.

Today, there are some 50,000 miles of interstate highway in the U.S. and the TxDOT is proposing a full build-out of the TTC network that will build some 4,000 miles of TTC Super-Highways in Texas over the next 50 years. The TTC project at full development will involve the removal of as much as 584,000 acres of productive Texas farm and ranchland from the tax rolls permanently, while displacing upwards of 1 million people from their current residences. The 11 separate corridors planned will permanently cut across some 1,200 Texas roads, with cross-over unlikely for much of the nearly quarter-mile corridor planned to be built. Our research shows that dozens of small towns in Texas will be virtually obliterated in the bath of the advancing TTC behemoth. Reviewing statistics such as these, we can see why NASCO might prefer a low profile, preferring to stay below the radar of public scrutiny.

We also note that George Blackwood, NASCO President, attended the January 10-11 meeting in Louisville, Kentucky, held by the Council of the Americas and the North American Business Committee to conduct a “Public/Private Sector Dialogue” on the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America. A key finding of this meeting was that associations in the U.S. organized to promote particular corridors needed since the dawning of SPP in Waco, Texas, on March 23, 2005, to coordinate their efforts in a less provincial style, more reflective of the North American regional orientation of SPP itself:

For instance, conversation at the Louisville forum raised the potential for commonalities and/or synergies between disparate transportation efforts in the US Midwest (the “SuperCorridor” initiative), the North American West (“CANAMEX Corridor”), and in the Southeast United States and Mexico (the “Gulf of Mexico Trade Corridor” initiative). Before SPP, there was no obvious mechanism through which to promote coordination of these discrete activities.

The Louisville SPP meeting also advised “the establishment of bilateral or trilateral commissions to facilitate border and cross-border infrastructure.”

While the NASCO “debunking text” is correct in asserting that NASCO is a trade organization, not a government organization, NASCO officers appear deeply involved in working with federal and state departments of transportation, local and state governments, and regulatory agencies in promoting the goal of developing a “Super Corridor” structure for “integrating” the U.S., Canada, and Mexico into a corridor-dimensioned transportation system to promote NAFTA trade. NASCO trade organization professionals evidently are much more comfortable working in professional SPP conferences and dealing with government bureaucrats in the closed confines of their offices than answering the questions that public citizens are openly discussing on the Internet.

The NASCO “debunking text” continually asserts that a primary NASCO concern is transportation security, much as SPP itself asserts that the North American Partnership is put in place to promote security and prosperity, two goals SPP could assume no one would object to pursuing. The idea seems to be that NASCO wants to present itself as only concerned about security and efficiency as the volume of traffic on the existing “NASCO SuperCorriror” of existing interstate highways gets expanded under NAFTA.

NASCO’s “debunking text” asserts that the organization’s mission is “develop (NOT BUILD) the world’s first international, integrated and secure, multi-modal transportation system along the International Mid-Continent Trade and Transportation to improve both the trade competitiveness and quality of life in North America.”

Given this, we have a challenge. Let’s see NASCO come forward and repudiate the TTC-35 plans of their TxDOT member, because clearly the TTC-35 plan to build 4-football-field-lengths wide of NAFTA Super-Highway corridors is inconsistent with NASCO’s goal as expressed in the “debunking text” of only using existing transportation infrastructure. We also challenge NASCO to come forward and repute the Mexican customs facility plans of its Kansas City SmartPort member. Otherwise, we will assert that NASCO is continuing to say one thing for public relations effect, while doing something quite different -- quietly supporting their members as the members build the “new and improved” NAFTA Super-Highway infrastructure along the NASCO Corridor.

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Docs reveal plan for Mexican trucks in U.S.




Internal e-mails belie public statement, suggest aim to expand quietly




Posted: July 6, 2006
1:00 a.m. Eastern






By Jerome R. Corsi
© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com





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Despite claims to the contrary, a planned Midwest "inland port" with a Mexican customs office will not be restricted to railroad traffic, according to internal documents obtained by WorldNetDaily.





As WND has reported (http://anonym.to/?http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=50730), Kansas City SmartPort (http://anonym.to/?http://www.kcsmartport.com/) plans to utilize deep-sea Mexican ports such as Lazaro Cardenas to unload containers from China and the Far East as part of the North American Free Trade Agreement super-highway plan.




The plan would include the hotly contested allowance of Mexican trucks on U.S. roads, WND has reported, but Tasha Hammes of the Kansas City Area Development Council has insisted the port will be restricted to railroad traffic.



Hammes has argued the railroad link is "nothing new, other than the fact that Kansas City Southern acquired the Mexican railroad serving this port and that major work has been done on the port of Lazaro Cardenas so that it has higher capacity and can handle larger containers."




But internal e-mails make it clear that officials, hoping to stay below the radar of public opinion, plan to expand from rail to trucks after the Mexican customs facility is operational.




The Mexican customs facility project was championed by David W. Eaton, president of Monterrey Business Consultants in Monterrey, Mexico, and the former executive director of North American International Trade Corridor Partnership, a non-profit group with the aim of internationalizing U.S. highways to facilitate trade with Mexico and Canada.




In a Jan. 7 e-mail, Eaton writes:




They are still going back and forth on the rail and truck focus. However, according to Manuel [Manuel Ruiz, a Mexican customs official], the first stage will most likely be "rail only" with trucking added later.




Kenneth Hoffman of the law firm Blackwell Sanders Peper Martin (http://anonym.to/?http://www.blackwellsanders.com/), outside council to KC SmartPort, was copied on Eaton's e-mail. A few minutes later, Hoffman answered, supporting the phase-in strategy:



My feeling is that we need to get this done in such a way that [the Mexican customs facility] is successful when it opens. If it starts small that is fine as long as there is productive work that we can point to as evidence that the effort was worthwhile. We can expand to trucks after getting the process up and running.




The e-mails are consistent with a position paper Eaton authored for the Montreal-based Institute for Research on Public Policy (http://anonym.to/?http://www.irpp.org/indexe.htm), entitled "Roads, Trains, and Ports: Integrating North American Transport."




In the paper (http://anonym.to/?http://www.irpp.org/wp/archive/NA_integ/wp2004-09j.pdf), Eaton argued railroad transport should be developed as the first mode to bring containers from China through Mexican ports into the U.S., because "one unit train can carry the equivalent of approximately 250 trucks."




Moreover, Eaton had argued that use of Mexican trucks was impaired by the poor condition of Mexico's roadways and the wear and tear on Mexican trucks resulting from overuse. Eaton had concluded "North America would be well served by linking its rail infrastructure and systems," which has been advanced by Kansas City Southern's acquisition of Mexican railroads (http://anonym.to/?http://www.kcsi.com/corporate/kcsm.html).



An examination of the internal e-mails from Kansas City SmartPort over the last two years shows the development of the city's international "inland port" concept – including the Mexican customs facility – involved an ambitious multi-year process with the aim of tying into the emerging corridor-oriented NAFTA Super-Highway network.




Development of the KCSmartPort vision included active involvement of the North America’s SuperCorridor Coalition (http://anonym.to/?http://www.nascocorridor.com/), or NASCO, a non-profit group "dedicated to developing the world’s first international, integrated and secure, multi-modal transportation system along the International Mid-Continent Trade and Transportation Corridor to improve both the trade competitiveness and quality of life in North America."




Chris Gutierrez, president of KCSmartPort, frequently copied NASCO President George Blackwood on details of the negotiations with Mexican and U.S. officials regarding the Mexican customs office.




An April 26 e-mail from Gutierrez included Blackwood among the list of recipients. In his message, Gutierrez reported he worked directly with the office of Sen. Kit Bond, R-Mo., and with Mexican government officials to apply political pressure to influence the State Department and the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, or CBP, to move faster in approving the Mexican customs facility application:




CBP told me that the State Department is reviewing the C-175 [form needed to approve Mexican customs facility]. Bond's office has calls into the State Dept; letter to Gil Diaz [Mexican Secretary of Finance] went out last week asking him to encourage CBP and State Dept to move it along. Here is the draft letter to Minister [Luis Ernesto] Derbez [Mexican Foreign Ministry Secretary]. I was still tweaking it but here it is for your review.




In 1998, before becoming NASCO president, Blackwood established the North American International Trade Corridor Partnership while he served as mayor pro tem of Kansas City. The NAITCP has been absorbed into NASCO.




A NAIPC summit meeting in 2004 (http://anonym.to/?http://www.kcmo.org/international/executivesummary.pdf) was attended by Mexican officials, including Secretary of Finance Gil Diaz, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Undersecretary Geronimo Guiterrez, Deputy Counsel of Mexico Noemi Hernandez, Counsel of Mexico in Kansas City Everardo Suarez. Also in attendance was Kansas City, Mo., Mayor Kay Barnes and the president and CEO of Kansas City Southern railroad, Mike Haverty.



Photographed on the first page of the summit executive summary is Robert Pastor, an American University professor who has written "Toward a North American Community (http://anonym.to/?http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0881323284/qid=1152111084/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/102-7064593-4548165?s=books&v=glance&n=283155)," a book promoting the development of a North American union as a regional government and the adoption of the amero as a common monetary currency to replace the dollar and the peso.



[Pastor also was vice chairman of the May 2005 Council on Foreign Relations task force entitled "Building a North American Community (http://anonym.to/?http://www.cfr.org/publication/8102/building_a_north_american_community.html)" that presents itself as a blueprint for using bureaucratic action within the executive branches of Mexico, the U.S. and Canada to transform the current trilateral Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America into a North American union regional government.



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More evidence Mexican trucks coming to U.S.
Internal document anticipates increasing volume of traffic




Posted: July 8, 2006
1:00 a.m. Eastern





By Jerome R. Corsi
© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com




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An internal document shows a planned "inland port" in Kansas City anticipates an increasing volume of Mexican truck traffic, despite claims it will be restricted to railroad transports from south of the border.




WND has obtained, via a Missouri Sunshine Law request, an internal spreadsheet analysis prepared by the port project, Kansas City SmartPort (http://anonym.to/?http://www.kcsmartport.com/), indicating that "with marketing," it projects that in 2010 a high of 508 trucks per day would pass through a Mexican customs facility located at the port. The volume would grow to a projected high of 881 trucks per day in 2015.



As WND has reported (http://anonym.to/?http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=50730), KC SmartPort plans to utilize deep-sea Mexican ports such as Lazaro Cardenas to unload containers from China and the Far East as part of the North American Free Trade Agreement super-highway plan.


The plan would include the hotly contested allowance of Mexican trucks on U.S. roads, WND has reported, but Tasha Hammes of the Kansas City Area Development Council has insisted the port will be restricted to railroad traffic.



Internal KC SmartPort e-mails obtained by WND show that both Kansas City and Mexican officials were concerned that enough truck volume would be processed through the Mexican customs facility to make the project economically viable for Mexico to maintain a customs staff on site.



A Jan. 13, 2005, e-mail from David Eaton, the president of Monterrey Business Consultants in Monterrey, Mexico, who is credited with first proposing the Mexican customs facility, stresses the need for success:



Other communities such as Dallas and San Antonio have requested that Mexican Customs put facilities in their communities. Mexico has determined that our project will be the Pilot and others will not be approved until it is determined that this works … as Ken Hoffman [outside counsel to KC SmartPort] said … we need to make sure this works! [ellipsis in original]



An e-mail dated Jan. 10 from Jose M. Garcia, representative of Mexico's Ministry of Finance in Mexico's Washington, D.C., embassy, asks KC SmartPort President Chris Gutierrez to be more precise. Garcia wrote:



The statistical data show in the study hardly offers us a list of potential users (targets), those that we (Mexican Customs and USCBP [U.S. Customs and Border Protection]) must attract and convince to move their cargo through [KC SmartPort] and be cleared by US and Mexican Customs. This list will be used for our promotional efforts.



Replying to Garcia's e-mail, Erendira Rodriguez of KC SmartPort affirmed Jan. 17 that "SmartPort has $400,000 specifically to market the [Mexican customs] facility and the increased exports of U.S. products to Mexico. The marketing will not start until there are more assurances that the facility will open."



KC SmartPort consistently has maintained to WND that the Mexican customs facility was intended to be for outbound exports to Mexico only and would separate from the Lazaro Cardenas-to-Kansas City corridor. In a June 29 e-mail to WND, Hammes of the Kansas City Area Development Council emphasized the distinction:



The proposed KC Customs Port and Lazaro Cardenas to KC Corridor (made possible by KCS [Kansas City Southern]) are two non-related, separate efforts that KC SmartPort is supporting. (One is rail, the other truck. There is no crossover between the corridor and the proposed facility.)



Yet, that contention is inconsistent with a U.S.-Mexico Freight Flow Analysis presented on the KC SmartPort website (http://anonym.to/?http://www.kcsmartport.com/pdf/US_Mexico_FreightFlow2006.pdf). According to that study, conducted for KC SmartPort by MARC [Mid-America Regional Council], the dominant mode for hinterland trade export to Mexico was rail.



As the MARC report noted on page 5, "For the SmartPort hinterland, grain products were the largest export commodity group. Manufactured and intermediate goods were the top import commodities." And, again, "Turning to exports by mode, rail is forecast to grow faster than truck which reflects the predominance of bulky and lower value commodities in the export trade with Mexico."



Still, KC SmartPort argues the Mexican customs office is for outgoing trucks only and that only the Kansas City Southern railroad will be used to import goods that enter Mexico via the port of Lazaro Cardenas.



Hammes wrote in her June 29 e-mail to WND: "Mexican trucks will NOT be coming to KC or utilizing the facility."



Even more emphatically, she stated a paragraph later:



The containers that come in through the port of Lazaro Cardenas will enter the U.S. on a U.S. railroad (Kansas City Southern) NOT a Mexican Railroad or via Mexican trucks. The LC to KC corridor is a rail corridor ONLY. As I stated earlier, this is nothing new other than the fact that KCS acquired the Mexican railroad that served the port of Lazaro Cardenas last year.



But the KC SmartPort internal e-mails indicate otherwise. A Jan. 13 e-mail from David Eaton noted: "The authorities agreed that the [Mexican customs] facility will be BOTH TRUCK AND RAIL from the beginning."



Other internal e-mails reveal a determination by KC SmartPort and KC city officials to control their public relations message.



When an Associated Press report (http://anonym.to/?http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/13720130.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp) hit the wires Jan. 30 revealing a scandal in Mexico that could affect Kansas City's Mexican customs facility, it prompted a flurry of e-mails within KC SmartPort.



A Jan. 30 e-mail from KC SmartPort President Gutierrez to outside counsel Hoffman noted with apparent alarm: "The Associated Press story has reach 30 markets now. Many of the stories have appeared in the last day."


On Jan. 31, Gutierrez broadcast an e-mail to more than 50 respondents, including Kansas City Council members and a Kansas City Southern railroad spokesman, in which he dismissed the AP article, advising that the scandal was only Mexican "presidential election campaigning with one party stirring up things on the other parties and vice versa."




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U.S.-Mexico merger opposition intensifies




Some see secret efforts to scrap dollar, end U.S. sovereignty, combine nations










Posted: July 9, 2006
11:59 p.m. Eastern






By Joseph Farah
© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com





WASHINGTON – Are secret meetings being held between the corporate and political elites of the U.S., Mexico and Canada to push North America into a European Union-style merger?




Is President Bush's reluctance to control the border and enforce laws requiring deportation of foreigners who enter the country illegally part of a master plan to all but eliminate borders between the U.S., Canada and Mexico?




Does the agenda of the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America include a common currency that would scrap the dollar in favor of what some are calling the "amero"?




It may be the biggest story of the 21st century, but few press outlets are telling it. In fact, until very recently, few in the U.S. were aware of the plans and even fewer denouncing what appears to be the implementation of an effort some have characterized as "NAFTA on steroids."



But opposition is mounting.




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CNN's Lou Dobbs





Perhaps the most blistering criticism has come from Lou Dobbs of CNN – a frequent critic of Bush's immigration policies.







"A regional prosperity and security program?" he asked rhetorically in a recent cablecast. "This is absolute ignorance. And the fact that we are -- we reported this, we should point out, when it was signed. But, as we watch this thing progress, these working groups are continuing. They're intensifying. What in the world are these people thinking about? You know, I was asked the other day about whether or not I really thought the American people had the stomach to stand up and stop this nonsense, this direction from a group of elites, an absolute contravention of our law, of our Constitution, every national value. And I hope, I pray that I'm right when I said yes. But this is -- I mean, this is beyond belief."




What has Dobbs and a few other vocal critics bugged began in earnest March 31, 2005, when the elected leaders of the U.S., Mexico and Canada agreed to advance the agenda of the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America.



No one seems quite certain what that agenda is because of the vagueness of the official declarations. But among the things the leaders of the three countries agreed to work toward were borders that would allow for easier and faster moving of goods and people between the countries.




Coming as the announcement did in the midst of a raging national debate in the U.S. over borders seen as far to open already, more than a few jaws dropped.
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Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo.









Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo. and the chairman of the House Immigration Reform Caucus as well as author of the new book, "In Mortal Danger," (http://anonym.to/?http://shop.wnd.com/store/item.asp?DEPARTMENT_ID=6&SUBDEPARTMENT_ID=94&ITEM_ID=1844)may be the only elected official to challenge openly the plans for the new superstate.





Responding to a WorldNetDaily report (http://anonym.to/?http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=50618), Tancredo is demanding the Bush administration fully disclose the activities of the government office implementing the trilateral agreement that has no authorization from Congress.





Tancredo wants to know the membership of the Security and Prosperity Partnership groups along with their various trilateral memoranda of understanding and other agreements reached with counterparts in Mexico and Canada.




Jim Gilchrist, co-founder of the Minutemen, welcomed Tancredo's efforts.




"It's time for the Bush administration to come clean," Gilchrist said. "If President Bush's agenda is to establish a new North American union government to supersede the sovereignty of the United States, then the president has an obligation to tell this to the American people directly. The American public has a right to know."





Geri Word, who heads the SPP office, told WND the work had not been disclosed because, "We did not want to get the contact people of the working groups distracted by calls from the public."





WND can find no specific congressional legislation authorizing the SPP working groups nor any congressional committees taking charge of oversight.




Many SPP working groups appear to be working toward achieving specific objectives as defined by a May 2005 Council on Foreign Relations task force report (http://anonym.to/?http://www.wnd.com/redir/r.asp?http://www.cfr.org/publication/8102/%20), which presented a blueprint for expanding the SPP agreement into a North American union that would merge the U.S., Canada and Mexico into a new governmental form.



Phyllis Schlafly, the woman best known for nearly single-handedly leading the opposition that killed the Equal Rights Amendment, sees a sinister and sweeping agenda behind the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America.




"Is the real push behind guest-worker proposals the Bush goal to expand NAFTA into the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America, which he signed at Waco, Texas, last year and reaffirmed at Cancun, Mexico, this year?" she asks. "Bush is a globalist at heart and wants to carry out his father's oft-repeated ambition of a 'new world order.'"





She accuses the president and others behind the effort of wanting to obliterate U.S. borders in an effort to increase the Mexican population transfer and lower wages for the benefit of U.S. corporate interests.





"Bush meant what he said, at Waco, Texas, in March 2005, when he announced his plan to convert the United States into a 'Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America' by erasing our borders with Canada and Mexico," she said. "Bush's guest-worker proposal would turn the United States into a boardinghouse for the world's poor, enable employers to import an unlimited number of 'willing workers' at foreign wage levels, and wipe out what's left of the U.S. middle class. Bush lives in a house well protected by a fence and security guards and he associates with rich people who live in gated communities. Yet, for five years, he has refused to protect the property and children of ordinary Arizona citizens from trespassers and criminals."





That's unusually harsh criticism of a Republican president from one of Ronald Reagan's most loyal supporters.





At least one of the nation's daily newspapers has officially weighed in in opposition to the mysterious plans for closer cooperation in security, commerce and immigration between the three North American nations.




Recently, the Pittsburgh Tribune Review questioned the unchallenged momentum toward merger.





"Will Americans trade their dead presidents for Ameros?" the newspaper asked in an editorial last month.






The paper chided efforts at replacing the U.S. and Canadian dollars and Mexican peso with "the amero" – a knockoff of the euro – along with the building of "a looming NAFTA-like superstate." Citing the meeting between the three national leaders at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, in March 2005, the editorial warned: "Canadians, Mexicans and Americans who value the sovereignty of their respective countries should be concerned."





The Tribune Review editorial saw synergy between the plans of the national leaders and the ambitious agenda of the Council on Foreign Relations – seen by many as a kind of secretive, shadow government of the elite. The CFR issued a bold report in the spring of 2005, shortly after the joint announcements in Waco by Bush and his counterparts.




"The Council on Foreign Relations published a report in May -- "Building a North American Community" -- calling for, among other things, redefining the borders of the three nations, creating a super-regional governance board and the North American Paramilitary Group to ensure that Congress does not interfere with whatever the trilateral union feels like doing," said the paper. "Must the Bush administration happily sacrifice every shred of American sovereignty for the greater good of the New World Order?"





In fact, the CFR report is a five-year plan for the "establishment by 2010 of a North American economic and security community" with a common "outer security perimeter."





Some see it as the blueprint for merger of the U.S., Canada and Mexico. It calls for "a common economic space ... for all people in the region, a space in which trade, capital and people flow freely."





The CFR's strategy calls specifically for "a more open border for the movement of goods and people." It calls for laying "the groundwork for the freer flow of people within North America." It calls for efforts to "harmonize visa and asylum regulations." It calls for efforts to "harmonize entry screening."




In "Building a North American Community," the report states that Bush, Mexican President Vicente Fox and Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin "committed their governments" to this goal March 23, 2005, at that meeting in Waco, Texas.




Alan Burkhart, who describes himself as a free-lance political writer, cross-country trucker "and proud citizen of one of the reddest of the Red States – Mississippi," is another critic seething over these plans that seem to have a life of their own – with little or no real public debate.




"As time passes, American corporations will find it unnecessary to move their facilities out of the country," writes Burkhart. "Our already stagnant wages will be just as low as those of Mexico. The cultures of three great nations will be diluted. Our currency will be replaced with the 'Amero.' And, we’ll be one giant step closer to the U.N.’s perverse dream of a one-world government."




The Amero is not a new concept. It was first proposed by the Fraser Institute, a Canadian think tank, in a monogram titled "The Case for the Amero" in 1999.





Last month, the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America made one of its most visible and public moves since it was first announced last year. In Washington, on June 15, U.S. Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez, Mexican Economy Minister Sergio Garcia de Alba and Canadian Minister of Industry Maxime Bernier joined North American business leaders to launch the North American Competitiveness Council. It was a major development that showed the March 2005 meeting was no fluke – and that the plans announced by the three national leaders then were continuing to take shape. The NACC was first announced by Bush, Harper and Fox.





Made up of 10 high-level business leaders from each country, the NACC will meet annually with senior North American government officials "to provide recommendations and help set priorities for promoting regional competitiveness in the global economy."





Officially, the council has the mandate to advise the governments on improving trade in key sectors such as automobiles, transportation, manufacturing and services. The three countries do more than $800 billion in trilateral trade.




Gutierrez said the Bush administration is determined to develop a "border pass" on schedule despite worries about its implementation. The new land pass is to be in effect for Canadians, Americans and Mexicans by Jan. 1, 2008.





The U.S. executives involved in the NACC include: United Parcel Service Inc. Chairman Michael Eskew; Frederick Smith, chairman of FedEx Corp.; Lou Schorsh, chief executive of Mittal Steel USA; Joseph Gilmour, president of New York Life Insurance Co.; William Clay Ford, chairman of Ford Motor Co.; Rick Wagoner, chairman of General Motors Corp.; Raymond Gilmartin, CEO of Merck & Co. Inc.; David O'Reilly, chief executive of Chevron Corp.; Jeffrey Immelt, chairman of General Electric Co.; Lee Scott, president of Wal-Mart Stores Inc.; Robert Stevens, chairman of Lockheed Martin Corp.; Michael Haverty, chairman of Kansas City Southern; Douglas Conant, president of Campbell's Soup Co. and James Kilt, vice-chairman of Gillette Inc.





The concerns about the direction such powerful men could lead Americans without their knowledge is only heightened when interlocking networks are discovered. For instance, one of the components envisioned for this future "North American Union" is a superhighway running from Mexico, through the U.S. and into Canada. It is being promoted by the North American SuperCorridor Coalition (http://anonym.to/?http://www.nascocorridor.com/), or NASCO, a non-profit group "dedicated to developing the world’s first international, integrated and secure, multi-modal transportation system along the International Mid-Continent Trade and Transportation Corridor to improve both the trade competitiveness and quality of life in North America."





The president of NASCO is George Blackwood, who earlier launched the North American International Trade Corridor Partnership. In fact, NAITCP later morphed into NASCO. A NAIPC summit meeting in 2004 (http://anonym.to/?http://www.kcmo.org/international/executivesummary.pdf), attended by senior Mexican government officials, heard from Robert Pastor, an American University professor who wrote "Toward a North American Community (http://anonym.to/?http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0881323284/qid=1152111084/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/102-7064593-4548165?s=books&v=glance&n=283155)," a book promoting the development of a North American union as a regional government and the adoption of the amero as a common monetary currency to replace the dollar and the peso.





Pastor also was vice chairman of the May 2005 Council on Foreign Relations task force entitled "Building a North American Community (http://anonym.to/?http://www.cfr.org/publication/8102/building_a_north_american_community.html)" that presents itself as a blueprint for using bureaucratic action within the executive branches of Mexico, the U.S. and Canada to transform the current trilateral Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America into a North American union regional government.





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Bush Administration Fast-Tracks Formation of North American Union



by Jerome R. Corsi (http://anonym.to/?http://www.humaneventsonline.com/search.php?author_name=Jerome R. Corsi)
Posted Jul 11, 2006
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With virtually no mention in the mainstream media, Commerce Secretary Carlos M. Gutierrez convened on June 15, the first meeting of the North American Competitiveness Council (NACC), an apparently extra-constitutional advisory group organized by the Department of Commerce (DOC) under the auspices of the Security and Prosperity Partnership (http://anonym.to/?http://www.spp.gov/) (SPP).




A March 31 press release on the White House website, under the title “Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America: Progress,” announced the formation (http://anonym.to/?http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/03/20060331.html) of the NACC. The press release noted that the NACC would meet annually “with security and prosperity Ministers and will engage with senior government officials on an ongoing basis.” The “SPP Ministers” were not identified. Moreover, the term “Ministers” was an unusual reference to the U.S. government, especially when the founding fathers had taken such pains to rid the U.S. of all terminology that could be reminiscent of monarchical systems such as the British royalty against whom the Revolutionary War was aimed. Evidently, the reference (http://anonym.to/?http://www.spp.gov/report_to_leaders/index.asp?dName=report_to_leaders) was to Gutierrez, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, and Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, the three cabinet officers to whom the extensive SPP working groups organized in DOC are now reporting, as well as their cabinet level counterparts in Mexico and Canada.




The White House press release references no U.S. law or treaty under which the NACC was organized. Yet the press release notes (http://anonym.to/?http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/03/20060331.html) that:



We are convinced that regulatory cooperation advances the productivity and competitiveness of our nations and helps to protect our health, safety and environment. For instance, cooperation on food safety will protect the public while at the same time facilitate the flow of goods. We affirm our commitment to strengthen regulatory cooperation in this and other key sectors and to have our central regulatory agencies complete a trilateral regulatory cooperation framework by 2007.





According to a notice (http://anonym.to/?http://trade.gov/index.asp) on Trade.gov, a website maintained by the International Trade Administration of the DOC, the NACC membership consists of 10 “high-level business leaders” from Mexico, Canada, and the United States. An April 2006 report in the Mexican media quoted Angel Villalobos, undersecretary of International Trade Negotiations for Mexico’s Secretariat of Economy, as saying that nothing like NACC had ever before been created in NAFTA. Mr. Villalobos described NACC (http://anonym.to/?http://www.mexidata.info/id852.html) as “an umbrella organization within the SPP,” claiming further that SPP was created in 2005 to operate parallel to NAFTA.




A DOC press release (http://anonym.to/?http://www.commerce.gov/opa/press/Secretary_Gutierrez/2006_Releases/June/15_US_Canada_Mexico_NACC_Launch_rls.htm) on the day of the first NACC meeting seems to confirm that the “SPP Ministers” are the various cabinet level secretaries in the three countries to whom the SPP working groups report. The press release also references the March 23, 2005, Waco, Tex., meeting as the origin of SPP:



On March 23, 2005, leaders of North America launched the SPP. This initiative is meant to reduce trade barriers and facilitate economic growth, while improving the security and competitiveness of the continent. The leaders of North America confirmed their commitment to SPP when they met on March 31, 2006 in Cancun, Mexico.




The press release quotes Gutierrez as affirming the importance of NACC within SPP:



“Today is a continuation of President Bush’s strong commitment to our North American partners to focus on North America’s security and prosperity. The private sector is the driving force behind innovation and growth, and the private sector’s involvement in the SPP is key to enhancing North America’s competitive position in global markets.”



The Council of the Americas provided the more detail (http://anonym.to/?http://www.counciloftheamericas.org/coa/NACC/NACC%20Members%20Updated.pdf) regarding the June 15, 2006 meeting of the NACC than was found on U.S. government websites. A NACC membership list found on the Council of the Americas’ website lists the U.S. members as coming form the following corporations (listed in alphabetic order): Campbell Soup Company, Chevron, Ford, FedEx, General Electric, General Motors, Kansas City Southern Industries, Lockheed Martin Corporation; Merck; Mittal Steel USA; New York Life; United Parcel Service; Wal-Mart; and Whirlpool.




A separate document (http://anonym.to/?http://www.counciloftheamericas.org/coa/NACC/NACC%20June%2015%20Post%20Ministerial%20Report.pdf) on the Council of the Americas website presents a summarized transcript which claims that U.S. representatives in the June 15 meeting explained the composition of the U.S. delegation as follows:


“The U.S. section of the NACC has organized itself through a Secretariat -- composed of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Council of the Americas -- to maximize its efficiency and better communicate with its members.” Secretary Gutierrez was also paraphrased as stating, “The purpose of this meeting was to institutionalize the North American Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) and the NACC, so that the work will continue through changes in administrations.”



The Council of the Americas is a private organization with offices in New York and Washington, D.C. According to the organization’s own description (http://anonym.to/?http://www.counciloftheamericas.org/coa/about/pres_report.html), the group’s members “include some of the largest blue chip corporations domiciled in the United States, who, collectively, represent the vast bulk of U.S. investment in and trade with the rest of the Americas.” The Mexican -- U.S. Business Committee (MEXUS), organized as a standing committee of the Council of the Americas, is “the oldest bi-national private sector business organization with a focus on economic, commercial, and political relations in North America.” A MEXUS document (http://anonym.to/?http://www.counciloftheamericas.org/coa/NACC/NACC2.pdf) on the Council of the Americas’ website self-credits MEXUS with having played “a critical role in the conceptual work that led to NAFTA,” plus active lobbying in that “its [MEXUS’s] members wore out significant shoe leather on Capital Hill, ultimately leading to successful passage.”




The Council of Canadians, a Canadian advocacy group that opposes (http://anonym.to/?http://www.canadians.org/index2.htm?COC_token=23@@6a2fa7ac450af89ae0f2023e49b6deed) NAFTA and SPP, charged that nine of the 10 appointees of the Canadian NACC delegation was drawn from the Canadian Council of Chief Executives. Maude Barlow, the National Chairperson for the Council of Canadians objected, stating, “This latest development clearly puts business leaders in the driver’s seat and gives them the green light to press forward for a North American model for business security and prosperity.” Ms. Barlow additionally questioned (http://anonym.to/?http://www.canadians.org/display_document.htm?COC_token=23@@2a8935ed6b47396d776441ea12b9d24d&id=1439&isdoc=1&catid=66), “How truly accountable is the Harper government to the Canadian people when it gives preferential treatment to the big-business community in the design of its policies?”




Even a quick glance at the “North American Security and Prosperity” page of the Canadian Council of Chief Executives makes clear (http://anonym.to/?http://www.ceocouncil.ca/en/north/north.php) how ardently the organization champions SPP. The Canadian Council of Chief Executives was listed alongside the Mexican Council on Foreign Relations (COMEXI, Consejo Mexicano de Asuntos Internationales) and the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) itself as being the sponsors for a March 2005 CFR-published task force report (http://anonym.to/?http://www.cfr.org/publication/7912/) titled “Creating a North American Community -- Chairman’s Statement,” pubpublished before the March 23, 2005 trilateral proclamation of SPP in Waco, Texas. The three groups are also attributed (http://anonym.to/?http://www.cfr.org/publication/8104/) with sponsoring the May 2005 CFR publication, “Building a North American Community.”




The creation of the NACC is following the course prescribed by Robert A. Pastor, the American University professor who is was co-chair of the CFR task force that produced the two CFR publications described in the above paragraph. At a press conference presenting the CFR report, “Building a North American Community,” Robert Pastor said (http://anonym.to/?http://www.cfr.org/publication/8138/building_a_north_american_community.html?breadcrumb=default):



The North American summit that occurred in Texas on March 23rd is a very important statement. But if it’s to be more than a photo opportunity, we felt that a second institution was essential, and that would be a North American advisory council made up of eminent individuals, appointed for terms that are longer than those of the governments, and staggered over time. This council would propose ideas for dealing with North American challenges, whether they be regulatory or transportation or infrastructure or education, and put forth options to the three leaders to consider ways to adopt a North American approach.




Robert Pastor described this council as playing an active policy role in the formation of his hoped-for North American Community.



And hopefully, the three leaders would turn to this North American council and say, “Look we’re getting wonderful advice on what we should do about North America as a whole. Why don’t you prepare a plan for us on education, on agriculture, on the environment, and we would consider that even as we consider the advice of our government.”




Dr. Pastor’s comments seem to prefigure the June 15, 2006 first meeting of the NACC, even down to describing the membership of his “advisory council” as consisting of ten members from each of the trilateral states. If Dr. Pastor’s roadmap continues to be predictive, we recommend a serious look at his book, "Toward a North American Community (http://anonym.to/?http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0881323284/qid=1152454991/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/102-7064593-4548165?s=books&v=glance&n=283155)," in which he argues for the creation of a European Union-style fully institutionalized North American Union, constituting a super-regional government complete with a court, a parliament, a chief executive, and a new currency described as the “Amero.”




The Council of the Americas website lists five top priorities (http://anonym.to/?http://www.counciloftheamericas.org/coa/NACC/NACC7.pdf) identified for the U.S. Section of the American Business: Energy Integration; Supply Chain Management/Trade Facilitation/ Customs Reform; Regulatory/ Standards issues -- Harmonization and Sharing of Best Practices; Counterfeiting and Piracy -- “Fake Free North America”; and Private Sector Involvement in Border Security and Infrastructure Projects.




A White House website shows photographs (http://anonym.to/?http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/03/images/20060331-4_f1g8582b-515h.html) of President Bush, Mexico President Vicente Fox, and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper at their March 31 joint news conference in Cancun, Mexico, shaking hands in front of a backdrop proclaiming “Cancun 2006. Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America.” Increasingly, the three leaders are referring to the SPP as if the Waco, Texas press release announcement of March 23, 2005 constitutes an official new treaty-like trilateral status, advancing the trilateral partnership forward into a more institutional phase that can be termed at a minimum “NAFTA-Plus.”




At the Cancun press conference, Prime Minister Harper confirmed (http://anonym.to/?http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/03/20060331-4.html) that the decision had been reached to advance SPP by forming NACC:



During my meetings with Presidents Bush and Fox, we reviewed the progress of our Security and Prosperity Partnership, which provides a framework to advance the common interests in the areas of security, prosperity, and quality of life.




We committed to further engage the private sector. We’ve agreed to set up a North American Competitiveness Council, made up of business leaders from all three countries, to advise us on ways to improve the competitiveness of our economies. They will meet with our ministers, identify priorities, and make sure we follow up and implement them.




In his comments at the Cancun press conference, President Bush also affirmed the presence of unnamed business leaders who had attended the trilateral summit meeting. President Bush commented, “I want to thank the CEOs and the business leaders from the three countries who are here.”




The DOC's SPP website announcing the formation of NACC (http://anonym.to/?http://www.spp.gov/pdf/security_and_prosperity_partnership_of_north_america_fact_sheet.pdf) provides no information as to the membership requirements, the selection process, or the terms of the members appointed to the NACC. Nor is there any discussion of who pays for the travel expenses and the time of the participants. We find no charter published for the NACC, or any other specific delineation of roles and responsibilities, or reporting authority (except for a mention of the “SPP Ministers”). Equally lacking is a description of the enabling legislation or treaty under which the NACC operates.




According to an attendance list (http://anonym.to/?http://www.counciloftheamericas.org/coa/NACC/NACC5.pdf) produced by the Council of the Americas, the June 15, 2006 meeting of the NACC was attended by Geri Word, deputy director of Office of NAFTA and Inter-American Affairs in the U.S. Department of Commerce; Dan Fisk, senior director for Western Hemisphere Affairs at the National Security Council; Al Martinez-Fonts, director of the Office of the Private Sector in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security; Elizabeth “Betsy” Whitaker, deputy assistant secretary of Western Hemisphere Affairs at the U.S. Department of State; and Christopher Moore, deputy assistant secretary in the Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs at the U.S. Department of State.




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Immigration issue masks 'North American Union'


Published: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 - 6:00 am



By Steven Yates




The immigration situation doubtless has many Americans baffled. On May 15, President Bush delivered the briefest speech of his career (17 minutes), making pronouncements such as, "We're a nation of laws, and we must enforce our laws. ... The United States must secure its borders. This is a basic responsibility of a sovereign nation. It is also an urgent requirement of our national security."


So why isn't he doing more? Why did the Senate pass a bill that not only amounts to amnesty for more than 11 million illegals, but according to some estimates would also lead to an influx of more than 100 million more immigrants in the next decade? Why, as reporter Sara Carter of the San Bernardino News asked, "in a time of heightened concern about national security, have so many illegal immigrants been able to make their way across the border? And why has border security ... been such a bit player in the government's national-security plans?" Why, finally, are there cases where police with illegal aliens in custody have been ordered by federal immigration officials to let them go?


We now have answers, thanks to several articles penned by Human Events columnist Jerome R. Corsi (best known for his criticism of John Kerry in "Unfit to Command"). According to Corsi, Bush's actions belie his words. He wants open borders. He is committed philosophically to an ideal: a globalized, borderless world. This ideal has the support of multinational corporate CEOs who hope to reap windfalls from a near-unlimited supply of cheap labor.


On March 23, 2005, Bush met with Mexican President Vicente Fox and then-Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin at Waco, Texas, and signed an agreement called the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP). The SPP created working groups with specific projects, ordered to report back in 90 days. Major media were silent; you had to go to the official Web site (www.spp.gov (http://anonym.to/?http://www.spp.gov/)) or the White House site.

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Two months later, the Council on Foreign Relations released a task force report titled "Building a North American Community," supplementing the SPP. The idea has been called NAFTA-Plus; it has also been called "deep integration." When the SPP working groups checked in, they had organized trilateral networks of public-private partnerships, the cumulative effect of which, over time, will be to transform our borders into mere lines on maps. This has been furthered with almost no congressional oversight; however, a specific item of legislation titled the North American Cooperative Security Act (HR 2672 and S.853, in committee) would pull Mexican and Canadian agencies into partnership with Homeland Security and create a North American security perimeter.


The first visible media personality to notice any of this was CNN commentator Lou Dobbs, who wondered on the air if our elites had gone mad. If we cannot secure our present border, can anyone in his right mind believe North American globocrats could guard a perimeter thousands of miles longer?


Corsi explains: The goal of the elites is to create, with almost unnoticeable gradualness, a North American Union modeled on the European Union. It wouldn't happen by legislation but through a process of evolving partnerships and increasingly free migration, until the day we wake up and find the old United States gone! If this sounds paranoid, consider what Vicente Fox told a Madrid audience in 2002: "our long-range objective is to establish with the United States, but also with Canada ... an ensemble of connections and institutions similar to those created by the European Union ..." NAFTA tribunals have already reviewed U.S. court decisions.


Doubtless there are economic development zealots who think regional integration is a great idea. We must respond that we are more than an economy; we are a nation with a constitutional heritage of limited government -- with private property rights for all, not just the super-rich. This heritage -- in bad enough shape after ghastly Supreme Court decisions like Kelo -- will disappear in less than a generation if the United States is eased into a regional superstate.


Unconvinced? Look at Europe. Look especially at France. Under the European Union, France has become a jobless no-man's land of unassimilated immigrants (mostly Muslim) -- a tinderbox that has already erupted in violence. The plain truth is, the borderless economic utopia of the elites just won't work. It will widen the gulf between rich and poor, and further undermine a middle class still reeling from NAFTA. It will trigger justified resentment if native-born Americans see ex-illegals reaping benefits (e.g. Social Security) for work done while still illegal (this is in the Senate immigration bill).

Continue with regional integration, and within 20 years America will look like France does now.



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Cornyn wants U.S. taxpayers
to fund Mexican development


'North American Investment Fund' billed as answer to illegal alien influx




Posted: July 13, 2006
1:00 a.m. Eastern



By Joseph Farah
© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com

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Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas


WASHINGTON – Sen. John Cornyn (http://anonym.to/?http://www.wnd.com/redir/r.asp?http://cornyn.senate.gov/index.asp?f=contact&lid=1), R-Texas, has quietly introduced a bill to create a "North American Investment Fund" (http://anonym.to/?http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c109:S.3622.IS:) that would tap U.S. and Canadian taxpayers for the development of public works projects in Mexico.


Despite assurances this week from White House press secretary Tony Snow that President Bush opposes the idea of a European Union superstate for North America, (http://anonym.to/?http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=51029) the effort, by one of the president's loyal supporters in the Senate, is sure to spark new questions about negotiations between the leaders of Canada, the U.S. and Mexico on issues ranging from security to the economy.


"Currently, a significant development gap exists between Mexico and the United States and Canada," Cornyn said. "I believe it is in our best interests to find creative ways to bridge this development gap."


Cornyn introduced the bill just before the July 4 holiday – admitting in his introductory comments that Congress is not likely to adopt his plan quickly. In fact, Cornyn previously attempted to create the new international fund in legislation he introduced in 1994. It soon thereafter died in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, where the latest version is headed.


Senate Bill 3622, co-sponsored by Sen. Norm Coleman (http://anonym.to/?http://www.wnd.com/redir/r.asp?http://coleman.senate.gov/), R-Minn., specifically authorizes the president to "negotiate the creation of a North American Investment Fund between the governments of Canada, of Mexico, and of the U.S. to increase the economic competitiveness of North America in a global economy."


The fund, if it is ever created, won't just cost U.S. and Candian taxpayers more, it will also cost Mexican taxpayers a lot more.


Cornyn's bill requires the government of Mexico to raise tax revenue to 18 percent of the gross national product. The current tax rate is approximately 9 percent.


"The purpose of this fund is to reinforce efforts already underway in Mexico to ensure their (sic) own economic development," Cornyn said. "The funding would make grants available for projects to construct roads in Mexico, to facilitate trade, to develop and expand their education programs, to build infrastructure for the deployment of communications services and to improve job training and workforce development for high-growth industries."


As WND reported recently, (http://anonym.to/?http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=50981)opposition is mounting to similar programs, including President Bush's North American Security and Prosperity Partnership.


Plans by government agencies and private foundations alike promoting deeper cooperation between the three countries – including even a plan for a common currency called the "amero" – are getting more scrutiny in the media, by activists and by public officials.


Lou Dobbs of CNN – a frequent critic of Bush's immigration policies – has been most outspoken.
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CNN's Lou Dobbs


"A regional prosperity and security program?" he asked rhetorically in a recent cablecast. "This is absolute ignorance. And the fact that we are – we reported this, we should point out, when it was signed. But, as we watch this thing progress, these working groups are continuing. They're intensifying. What in the world are these people thinking about? You know, I was asked the other day about whether or not I really thought the American people had the stomach to stand up and stop this nonsense, this direction from a group of elites, an absolute contravention of our law, of our Constitution, every national value. And I hope, I pray that I'm right when I said yes. But this is – I mean, this is beyond belief."

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Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo.


Rep. Tom Tancredo (http://anonym.to/?http://www.wnd.com/redir/r.asp?http://tancredo.house.gov/), R-Colo., the chairman of the House Immigration Reform Caucus as well as author of the new book, "In Mortal Danger," (http://anonym.to/?http://shop.wnd.com/store/item.asp?ITEM_ID=1844) may be the only elected official to challenge openly the plans for the new superstate.


Responding to a WorldNetDaily report (http://anonym.to/?http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=50618), Tancredo is demanding the Bush administration fully disclose the activities of the government office implementing the trilateral agreement that has no authorization from Congress.


Tancredo wants to know the membership of the Security and Prosperity Partnership groups along with their various trilateral memoranda of understanding and other agreements reached with counterparts in Mexico and Canada.


Jim Gilchrist, co-founder of the Minutemen, welcomed Tancredo's efforts.


"It's time for the Bush administration to come clean," Gilchrist said. "If President Bush's agenda is to establish a new North American union government to supersede the sovereignty of the United States, then the president has an obligation to tell this to the American people directly. The American public has a right to know."


Geri Word, who heads the SPP office, told WND the work had not been disclosed because, "We did not want to get the contact people of the working groups distracted by calls from the public."


WND can find no specific congressional legislation authorizing the SPP working groups nor any congressional committees taking charge of oversight.


Many SPP working groups appear to be working toward achieving specific objectives as defined by a May 2005 Council on Foreign Relations task force report (http://anonym.to/?http://www.wnd.com/redir/r.asp?http://www.cfr.org/content/publications/attachments/NorthAmerica_TF_final.pdf), which presented a blueprint for expanding the SPP agreement into a North American union that would merge the U.S., Canada and Mexico into a new governmental form.


But presidential spokesman Snow ruled out any consideration of a North American superstate a la the European Union.


WND White House correspondent Les Kinsolving asked if the president would categorically deny any interest in building a European Union-style superstate in North America.

"Of course, no," said Snow. "We're not interested. There is not going to be an EU in the U.S."



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'No EU in U.S.'
Tony Snow responds to warnings about North American superstate


Posted: July 12, 2006
2:00 p.m. Eastern



By Les Kinsolving
© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com


Presidential press secretary Tony Snow yesterday emphatically stated that there would be no "EU in the U.S." when asked about administration efforts to more closely integrate state relations between Canada, Mexico and the U.S.


As WorldNetDaily reported, (http://anonym.to/?http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=50981) some critics of the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America have said the program, though supposedly beneficial to the U.S., will lead to a North American superstate similar to the European Union, open borders, loss of sovereignty and even a common currency.



WND asked Snow about the criticism, stating, "As WorldNetDaily's lead story pointed out yesterday, critics are expressing concerns about the president's cooperative efforts with Mexico and Canada regarding the Security and Prosperity Partnership. And my question: Will the president categorically deny any interest in building a European Union-style superstate in North America?"


Responded Snow: "Of course, no. We're not interested. There is not going to be an EU in the U.S."


WND also asked the spokesman about the controversy surrounding the Mount Soledad cross memorial in San Diego. The Supreme Court recently issued a stay in the case, saving the monument from destruction for the time being.


"Why is the president, as a devoutly religious man, failing to take any action?" asked WND.


"Right now what you have is a court opinion that is still being reviewed," responded Snow. "Let's find out what the courts have to say."

If you would like to sound off on this issue, participate in today's WND Poll (http://anonym.to/?http://www.worldnetdaily.com/polls/).


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Reagan himself was a dreamer, capable of imagining a world without trade barriers. In announcing his presidential candidacy in Nov. 1979, he had proposed a “North American accord” in which commerce & people would move freely across the borders of Canada & Mexico. This idea, largely overlooked or dismissed as a campaign gimmick in the US, rankled nationalist sensibilities in the neighboring nations. But Reagan was serious in his proposal.

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Watching government eliminate our borders

Posted: July 15, 2006
1:00 a.m. Eastern

© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com

It began in 1993 with an expansion of the "La Paz Agreement" between the United States and Mexico. Bill Clinton issued Executive Order 12904 in 1994, which created the Border Environment Cooperation Commission to oversee development in "Border Region XXI," a region 62-miles wide on either side of the U.S./Mexico border.

This little-known agreement, a side deal in the much-touted North America Free Trade Agreement, was a precursor to the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America, born in March 2005. The agreement was reinforced in March 2006 when the governments of Mexico, the United States and Canada met again to focus on their agenda to erase national borders.


With even less public attention, plans for an transportation super-corridor were unfolding. This quarter-mile-wide, highway-rail corridor will stretch from Lazaro Cardenas in southern Mexico to the Canadian border – and beyond. Kansas City is seen as the primary inland port that will house both Mexican and U.S. customs officials.

Public hearings are being held now in Texas, where thousands of landowners will be uprooted by right-of-way acquisitions. It seems to matter very little what the people who are directly affected think or want. The project rumbles forward, as if the agencies involved had never been exposed to the idea that "... government is empowered by the consent of the governed."

Where is Congress? If there was a bill enacted into law that authorized the Executive Branch to enter into this agreement or to plan this massive transportation corridor, it certainly didn't make the news. What little is known about these projects has been dug up by WorldNetDaily and other alternative media.

Government apparently assumes that these projects will be good for America. Whether or not the people want these projects is not a factor to be considered.

There can be no doubt that commodities will move faster through this super-corridor than current transportation modalities will allow. This includes such things as illegal drugs, illegal aliens, terrorists and whatever else anyone wants to get into the United States. Promises that the corridor will be "secure" ring hollow in the light of past efforts to secure the U.S. border.

At the root of the problem is an evolving concept of what America is or was or should be. For nearly a century, America led the world in freedom and prosperity, not because government decided what is best for America, but because a free people decided what government could and could not do.

Somewhere along the way, the people got too busy earning a living or watching ball games or shopping or vacationing or getting rich off government projects, so that the idea of limiting government initiatives fell out of favor. The idea of a citizen legislature became obsolete. Government became the domain of the professionals. Professional bureaucrats and professional legislators now run the government, and they are aided by professional NGOs – non-government organizations – that take tax dollars to serve as "partners" with government to give the appearance of public involvement.

Most of America seems perfectly content to let government do whatever it wants. Aside from complaining, there is little evidence that the majority of Americans care enough about what the nation is becoming to do the work necessary to return government to the people.

Both the Clinton and Bush administrations have let our borders fade away by refusing to enforce immigration laws and by actively promoting the erasure of our borders through trade agreements that give away American prosperity. These agreements have one goal: to homogenize the economies of the three nations.

Consider this: Per capita income in the U.S. is $41,800; in Canada, $34,000; in Mexico, $10,000.

Were these three economies "homogenized," as is the goal of the trade agreements and the Security and Prosperity Partnership, the per capita income of all three nations would be $28,000.

It's not hard to see who wins, and who loses.

The first responsibility of the U.S. government is to the people of the United States. These tri-lateral agreements are not for the benefit of Americans, but for the benefit of others. We used to have a name for governments that took wealth from those who had it for redistribution to those who didn't. Once, it was called communism, socialism or worse. Now it is called NAFTA, CAFTA and the Security and Prosperity Partnership.

Once these agreements erase our borders, America will be nothing more than a member of the North American Union, with only a fading memory of glories past.

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The wealth redistribution is just an intermediate stage to destroy independent business and wealth, also organized labor, then the Government plutocracy Corporate state has everything and the population is its slave.

Red China Opens NAFTA Ports in Mexico




by Jerome R. Corsi (http://anonym.to/?http://www.humaneventsonline.com/search.php?author_name=Jerome R. Corsi)
Posted Jul 18, 2006





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The Port Authority of San Antonio (http://anonym.to/?http://www.kellyusa.com/) has been working actively with the Communist Chinese to open and develop NAFTA shipping ports in Mexico.





The plan is to ship containers of cheap goods produced by under-market labor in China and the Far East into North America via Mexican ports. From the Mexican ports, Mexican truck drivers and railroad workers will transport the goods across the Mexican border with Texas. Once in the U.S., the routes will proceed north to Kansas City along the NAFTA Super-Highway, ready to be expanded by the Trans-Texas Corridor, and NAFTA railroad routes being put in place by Kansas City Southern. Kansas City Southern’s Mexican railroads has positioned the company to become the “NAFTA Railroad.”





Right now, the cost of shipping and ground transportation can nearly double the total cost of cheap goods produced by Chinese and Far Eastern under-market labor. The plan is to reduce those transportation costs by as much as 50% by using Mexican ports.





Cost-savings will be realized by bringing the goods into the U.S. at mid-continent. Equally important is that the substantially reduced cost of using Mexican labor in the ports and to transport the goods once off-loaded. Mexican workers undercut Longshoremen Union port employees on the docks of Los Angeles and Long Beach, just as Mexican truck drivers undercut the Teamsters and Mexican railroad workers undercut United Transportation Union railroad workers. By using the Mexican ports, the international corporations managing this global trade are able to avoid the U.S. labor union workers who otherwise would unload the ships in west coast ports and transport the Asian containers into the heart of America by U.S. truckers or U.S. railroad ground transport moving east across the Rocky Mountains.





In April 2006, officials of the Port Authority of San Antonio traveled to China with representatives of the Free Trade Alliance San Antonio, the Port of Lazaro Cardenas, and Hutchinson Port Holdings to develop the Mexican ports logistics corridor. The goal of the meetings in China was described by the March 2006 e-newsletter of the Free Trade Alliance San Antonio:




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 (http://anonym.to/?http://www.maerskline.com/link/?page=brochure&path=/about_us) or CP Ships (http://anonym.to/?http://www.cpshipping.co.uk/aboutus.html) service to the Mexican Port of Lazaro Cardenas. There, the containers are off loaded by a new world class terminal operated by Hutchinson Ports based in Hong Kong. The containers are loaded onto the Kansas City Southern Railroad de Mexico (http://anonym.to/?http://www.kcsi.com/corporate/kcsm.html) where they move in-bound into the U.S. The containers clear U.S. customs (http://anonym.to/?http://207.36.209.164/newsletter/admin/e_nternationaldetail.asp?id=795&pageno) in San Antonio, Texas and are processed for distribution.





Hutchinson Whampoa (http://anonym.to/?http://www.hutchison-whampoa.com/eng/index.htm), a diversified company that manages property development and telecommunications companies, with operations in 54 countries and over 200,000 employees worldwide, is also one of the world’s largest port operators. Hutchinson Ports Holding (HPH) owns Panama Ports Co. (http://anonym.to/?http://www.hph.com.hk/business/ports/america/panama.htm), which operates the ports of Cristobal and Balboa which are located at each end of the Panama Canal. HPH also operates the industrial deepwater port of Lazaro Cardenas in the Mexican State of Michoacan (http://anonym.to/?http://www.hph.com.hk/business/ports/america/mexico/lct.htm), as well as the Mexican port at Manzanillo (http://anonym.to/?http://www.hph.com.hk/business/ports/america/mexico/timsa.htm), also along the west coast of Mexico, north of Lazaro Cardenas.





The Free Trade Alliance San Antonio (http://anonym.to/?http://www.freetradealliance.org/) was created in 1994 to promote the development of San Antonio’s inland port. The Free Trade Alliance San Antonio and the Port Authority of San Antonio (http://anonym.to/?http://www.kellyusa.com/) are both members of NASCO (http://anonym.to/?http://www.nascocorridor.com/pages/about/members_usa.htm), an acronym for the group’s formal name, the North American’s SuperCorridor Coalition, Inc. A Kansas City Star newspaper article posted on the website of the Kansas City SmartPort, another NASCO member, shows the importance of San Antonio’s inland port to the developing NAFTA Super-Highway and NAFTA railroad corridor emerging along Interstate I-35. According to reporter Rick Alm, San Antonio envisions the opening of a Mexican customs office in their inland port, a move that has been pioneered by Kansas City SmartPort (http://anonym.to/?http://www.kcsmartport.com/sec_news/media/articles/boostingforeigntrade.htm):




Under this area’s arrangement [establishing a Mexican customs facility in the Kansas City SmartPort], freight would be inspected by Mexican authorities in Kansas City and sealed in containers for movement directly to Mexican destinations with fewer costly border delays. The arrangement would become even more lucrative when Asian markets that shipped through Mexican ports were figured into the mix. “We applaud the efforts of Kansas City and the Mexican government in developing a Mexican customs facility there,” said Jorge Canavati, marketing director for Kelly USA [former name for San Antonio’s inland port established on the former site of Kelly Air Force Base]. He said a Mexican customs function for KellyUSA “is something that is still far away … We may be looking at that” in the future.





A world map on the North American Inland Ports Network (NAIPN) (http://anonym.to/?http://www.nascocorridor.com/naipn/pages/san_initiative.html) on the NASCO website graphically highlights in yellow the trade routes from China across the Pacific ocean, to Mexico at the ports of Manzanillo and Lazaro Cardenas, entering the U.S. through San Antonio.





A Free Trade Alliance San Antonio 2005 summary (http://anonym.to/?http://207.36.209.164/admin/images/docs/4th%20qtr%202005%20highlights.pdf)of goals and accomplishments documents the direct involvement of the Bush administration into the development of San Antonio’s inland port NAFTA plans. The following were among the bulleted points:

Organized four marketing trips to Mexico and China to promote Inland Port San Antonio and met with prospects. Met with over 50 prospects/leads during these trips.
Continued to pursue cross border trucking by advocating a pilot project with at least two major Mexican exporters as potential subjects. Worked with U.S. Department of Transportation, Dept. of Homeland Security and U.S. Trade Representative on this concept.
Working with Mexican ports to develop new cargo routes through the Ports of Manzanillo and Lazaro Candenas.
San Antonio is on the route of the Trans-Texas Corridor planned to be built (http://anonym.to/?http://www.keeptexasmoving.org/flash/interactive_map/interactive.htm) along I-35 from Laredo, Tex., on the Mexican Border, north through Dallas, en route to the Oklahoma border.



The development of a China-Mexico trade route reflects a fundamental shift since the passage of NAFTA. At the peak in the mid-1990s, there were some three thousand maquiladoras located in northern Mexico, employing over 1 million Mexicans in low-paying, assembly sweat-shops. Today, even Mexican labor is not cheap enough for the international corporations seeking only to maximize profits. According to the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas (http://anonym.to/?http://www.dallasfed.org/research/pubs/fotexas/fotexas_canas.html), that bubble has burst and the maquiladora activity is down over 25 percent from the peak as the international corporations have found even cheaper labor in China.





As the Port of San Antonio evidences, linking NAFTA inland ports with NAFTA super-highways and NAFTA railroads is an important part of the development plan for the emerging global free trade economy. San Antonio officials by working with the communist Chinese to open Mexican ports for NAFTA trade evidence that plan. International capitalists are now determined to exploit cheap Mexican labor, not so much for manufacturing and assembly, but as a means of saving port and transportation costs in the North American market.





The Bush Administration seems on-board with the plan, aiming to increase corporate capital gains in NAFTA markets rather than worrying about the adverse consequences to Mexican low-skilled workers or to the U.S. labor movement that transferring increasing amounts of manufacturing and assembly to China entails.







http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=16077 (http://anonym.to/?http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=16077)

North American 'Trusted Traders' Begin Rolling on the NAFTA Super-Corridor




by Jerome R. Corsi (http://www.humaneventsonline.com/search.php?author_name=Jerome R. Corsi)
Posted Jul 19, 2006





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Through a series of acquisitions including Mexican railroads, Kansas City Southern (http://www.kcsi.com/) (KCS, NYSE: KSE) has declared itself the nation’s first NAFTA Railroad.





On April 1, 2005, KCS completed the acquisition of Mexican Railroad TFM, S.A. de C.V., an acquisition which gained for KCS all the common stock of Groupo Transportacion Ferrovaria Mexicana, S.A. de C.V., the holding company that owned TFM. In December 2005, KCS changed the name of TFM to Kansas City Southern de Mexico (KCSM). The acquisition of KCSM was a key piece in putting together the “NAFTA railroad,” the marketing brand that KCS uses to market its North American service for both KCSM in Mexico and Kansas City Southern Railroad (KCSR) in the United States.





The KCS website makes clear (http://www.kcsi.com/corporate/kcsm.html) the importance of Kansas City Southern de Mexico in the KCS NAFTA-focused marketing plan linking into network developing to use Mexican ports for the deliver to North America of goods manufactured in China and shipped across the Pacific Ocean in container ships:





The 2,661-mile KCSM operates the primary rail route in northern and central Mexico, linking Mexico City and Monterrey with Laredo, Texas, where more than 50 percent of the U.S.-Mexico trade crosses the border. The line also connects the major population centers of Mexico City and Monterrey with the heartland of the U.S. and serves the ports of Veracruz, Tampico and Lazaro Cardenas, a primary alternative to West Coast ports for shippers in the route between Asia and North America.

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As the map demonstrates, KCS has put together a “North American” railroad network consisting of three wholly owned operating subsidiaries: the Kansas City Southern Railroad (which operates Texas to Kansas City, along the eastern borders of the states of Oklahoma and Kansas), the Texas Mexican Railway Company (operating from Port Arthur to Laredo, Texas on the Mexcian Border), and the former TFM in Mexico (operating now as KCS de Mexico, extending from Laredo and Brownsville, Texas, through Monterrey, Mexico, down to Mexico City and the Mexican port of Lazaro Cardenas on the Pacific Ocean).





Kansas City SmartPort acknowledges the importance of the NAFTA Railroad in the Kansas City “inland port” concept. A brochure (http://www.kcsmartport.com/pdf/SmtPrtOneRoute.pdf) on the Kansas City SmartPort website outlines the marketing plan:





Kansas City offers the opportunity for sealed cargo containers to travel to Mexican port cities such as Lazaro Cardenas with virtually no border delays. It will streamline shipments from Asia and cut the time and labor costs associated with shipping through the congested ports on the West Coast.





In April 2005, Kansas City Southern completed purchase of a controlling interest in Transprotacion Ferroviaria Mexicana (TFM), enabling TFM, The Kansas City Southern Railroad and The Texas Mexican Railway Company to operate under common leadership, creating a seamless transportation system spanning the heart of North America known as “The NAFTA Railway.”





The same brochure emphasizes how extensively KCS is preparing for this cross-border traffic:




Kansas City Southern is installing Spanish language versions of its computer operating system (MCS) in an effort to increase train speeds, reduce waiting times at terminals and enable the free flow of locomotives and rail cars between the United States and Mexico via Kansas City Southern’s railroad bridge at Laredo, Texas.





Tasha Hammes of the Kansas City Area Development Council verified in a June 29, 2006 email to the author that, “The containers that come in through the port of Lazaro Cardenas will enter the U.S. on a U.S. railroad (Kansas City Southern). Yet, in a July 6, 2006 email to the author, Doniele Kane, an AVP for Corporate Communications & Community Affairs for KCS acknowledges that “TFM will remain a Mexican corporation with Mexican leadership,” even though TFM is now a wholly-owned subsidiary of KCS, an U.S. corporation. Moreover, Ms. Kane acknowledges that KCS de Mexico (KCSM) will retain Mexican management and Mexican railroad workers.





Railroad lines are a major design component of the Trans-Texas Corridor (TTC), what we have argued (http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=15839) is the prototype NAFTA Super-Highway to be replicated in north-south corridors throughout the country.





As specified according to the 4,000-page Environmental Impact Statement (http://www.keeptexasmoving.com/pdfs/deis_05/document/ttc-35_deis.pdf) on the Trans-Texas Corridor website maintained by the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT), the 4 football fields-wide TTC-35 is planned to have separate lines for railroad cargo lines. Nowhere does the TxDOT website specify that railroads like the KCS NAFTA Railroad will have to pay for the new and improved rail beds being laid by the TxDOT, with funds provided by the Spanish Cintra capital consortium. Even though the TTC rail lines will be available on a toll basis, the plan to parallel I-35 should provide minimum disruption to KCS, whose rail route north roughly parallels the current I-35 route.





KCSM employees are then not represented by the various U.S. rail unions such as the United Transportation Union and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen. Ms. Kane also made clear that “KCSM employees unionized employees in Mexico who are represented by Sindicato de Trabajadores Ferrocarrileros de la Republica Mexicana, the Mexican railroad workers union.” This union is a member of the Confederacion de Trahajadores de Mexico (CTM), a traditionally government-dominated union confederation that has a history of opposing worker efforts to establish independent unions along the U.S. model.





Mexican labor union historian and analyst Dan La Botz has argued that Mexican railroads were privatized as part of a World Bank- imposed settlement in the 1990s. La Botz wrote the following (http://multinationalmonitor.org/mm1998/98april/labor.html) in 1998:





The first big privatization came on December 5, 1996, when the Mexican government sold the Northeast Railway to Mexican Railway Transportation (TFM), a consortium which included Kansas City Southern Industries (KSCI), for $1.4 billion.





With the approval of the Mexican labor authorities, the old state-company and the new TFM railroad management laid off the workers and nullified the old collective bargaining agreement. To keep a job, workers had to accept termination and their severance pay and be re-contracted without their previous seniority, pay or benefits. Many hundreds of the Northeast Railway workers lost their jobs altogether.





Ms. Kane of KCS points out that “No Mexican crews operate in the U.S. and no U.S. crews operate in Mexico.”





Frank N. Wilner, Public Relations Director of the United Transportation Union (UTU) agrees that at present KCS trains switch to UTU crews for all U.S. operations. The UTU strongly objects to any suggestion that Mexican crews would ever be permitted to operate trains in the United States. Mr. Wilner in a June 30, 2006 email to the author still that, “It is criminal that the rail industry, enjoying the highest profitability in its history, would roll the dice on public safety and national security by booting experienced American citizens from the locomotive cabs and replacing them with foreign nationals with limited skills in English and American railroad practices.”





The working groups organized in the U.S. Department of Commerce under the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP). The 2005 Report to Leaders found (http://www.spp.gov/report_to_leaders/index.asp?dName=report_to_leaders) at the first tap to the left on SPP.gov makes clear that a North American “trusted trader” program will be run mostly on electronics “to substantially reduce transit times and border congestion.” NAFTA Railroad trains should be easily identified for immediate border passage, especially with the containers with appropriate “SENTRI” type systems that mark the containers to have originated from “trusted trader” shippers, even if the point of origin is China or the Far East.





We should also note that KCS and the company’s Chairman & Chief Executive Michael R. Haverty have been very prominent in SPP activities.





The 2004 Summit held in Kansas City, Missouri, by the North American International Trade Corridor Partnership (NAITCP), an affiliate organization of the North America’s Super Corridor Coalition, Inc. (NASCO) (http://www.nascocorridor.com/pages/about/about.htm) produced a brochure (http://www.kcmo.org/international/executivesummary.pdf)with a front page photograph of Mr. Haverty, documenting his attendance. Mr. Haverty is photographed at the right of the first row in the photo, with Dr. Robert Pastor of American University at the left of the row.





Dr. Pastor, who spoke at the summit, was the vice chair of the Council on Foreign Relations task force report “Building a North American Community (http://www.cfr.org/publication/8102/building_a_north_american_community.html?breadcrumb=default),” which we have argued (http://www.humaneventsonline.com/rightangle/index.php?1=1&title=john_hawkins_vs_jerry_corsi_round_1) serves as the blueprint for SPP.gov. Dr. Pastor is the author of five books, including "Toward a North American Community (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0881323284/sr=1-1/qid=1153182461/ref=pd_bbs_1/102-7064593-4548165?ie=UTF8&s=books)," published in 1991. Dr. Pastor has consistently argued (http://www.american.edu/internationalaffairs/cnas/PastorTrilateral.pdf) that NAFTA should be transformed by a process of tri-lateral administrative regulations and executive branch negotiated trilateral agreements into a North American Union regional government on the model of the European Union.





According to the Council of the Americas (http://www.counciloftheamericas.org/coa/NACC/NACC5.pdf), Warren Erdman, senior vice president of Kansas City Southern Industries (KCSI) attended (http://www.kcsi.com/corporate/corporate.html) as one of the 10 business representative council members representing the United States at the first SPP “Ministerial Meeting” held with the newly formed North American Competitiveness Council (NCAA) on June 15, 2006, held at the U.S. Department of Commerce in Washington, D.C. We have previously questioned (http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=15954) the Congressional authorization for NACC which has been organized under the auspices of the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America, a “treaty like” status that the Bush administration executive branch has declared to be a second-stage NAFTA arrangement to be in existence currently between the U.S., Mexico, and Canada.





As KCS evidences, the concept of a NAFTA Railroad is at the heart of the corridor transportation system being designed right now by international corporations and capital managers to bring goods from Asia into the emerging North American Union (NAU) via Mexican ports, to be delivered ultimately throughout North America by cheap transportation labor in which Mexican trucks and Mexican trains will play a key role.





As SPP develops into the NAU, the government executive branch agencies and the cabinet-level “ministers” in Canada, the United States, and Mexico will work very hard behind the scenes to erase our borders with Canada and Mexico. Border crossings for “trusted travelers” and “trusted traders” are intended to involve nothing more under SPP than a speed bump, an inconvenience not dissimilar from using an EZ-pass to go through a toll booth on a limited access highway. Whether moving by car, truck, or rail, government-issued electronics including biometric North American Union border passes will be all that is necessary to allow free passage, provided a toll is charged and collected.







http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=16093 (http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=16093)

Congressman presses on 'super-state' plan
Asks Bush administration to fully disclose its activities






Posted: July 20, 2006
1:00 a.m. Eastern







© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com





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Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Ala.
A congressman is pressing the Department of Commerce to fully disclose a congressionally unauthorized plan to implement a trilateral agreement with Mexico and Canada that critics say could lead to a North American union.





Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Ala., chairman of the Subcommittee on Management, Integration and Oversight of the House Committee on Homeland Security (http://hsc.house.gov/content.cfm?id=18), wrote July 11 to Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez requesting detailed disclosure of working groups in the Security and Prosperity Partnership (http://www.spp.gov/) office within his department.



Referring to an attached letter from a constituent, Rogers wrote to Gutierrez:




Judging by information contained in this letter, a number of legitimate concerns are raised regarding the implementation and operation of the SPP, including the membership and charge of its working groups; potential memoranda of understanding with foreign countries; and whether there has been any Congressional oversight of these working group, to name a few.





Rogers concluded by asking Gutierrez for a prompt review of the issues and for a response "as soon as possible."




The attached constituent letter was written by Eunie Smith, president of Eagle Forum of Alabama and by Bob Couch. They posed the following questions to Rogers:

What is the membership of the 30 SPP working groups?

What is the charge/working agenda of each of the 30 SPP working groups?
Please provide to me any trilateral memoranda of understanding and other trilateral agreements with Mexico and Canada.
Please provide findings, reports and presentations of the working groups.
Under what congressional action are these working groups constituted?
What congressional oversight is there of this process?
Are the working groups redefining American laws to make them tri-lateral?
What specific plans are there for reporting to Congress?




The constituents' letter also suggested four lines of inquiry should congressional hearings be convened to examine SPP working group activities:

Is the sovereignty of the United States threatened since it has been reported that a North American court and a parliamentary body are being proposed, complete with the "Amero" to replace the U.S. dollar?
Wouldn't an "outer security perimeter" remove the capacity of policing our borders from the hands of United States citizens?
Isn't "harmonizing entry screening and visa and asylum regulations" code for a quantum leap in liberalizing our country's immigration laws?
What about the May 2005 CFR Task Force documents calling for a "seamless North American market" and for "the extension of full labor mobility to Mexico" and for a "permanent tribunal for North American dispute regulation," as well as calling for allowing Mexican trucks "unlimited access" to the U.S.




The constituents' letter also attached a copy of a July 2005 article by Eagle Forum founder Phyllis Schlafly (http://www.eagleforum.org/psr/2005/july05/psrjuly05.html) entitled, "The Plan to Integrate the U.S., Mexico and Canada."




Schlafly was one of the first analysts and commentators to question the purpose of SPP. In her article, she wrote that the Council on Foreign Relations task force report entitled "Building a North American Community" (http://www.cfr.org/publication/8102/building_a_north_american_community.html) let the "cat out of the bag about what's really behind our trade agreements and security partnerships with the other North American countries."




Schlafly argued the CFR task force report "spells out a five-year plan for the 'establishment by 2010 of a North American economic and security community' with a common 'outer security perimeter.'"




She commented:




This CFR document, called "Building a North American Community," asserts that George W. Bush, Mexican President Vicente Fox, and Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin 'committed their governments' to this goal when they met at Bush's ranch and at Waco, Texas on March 23, 2005. The three adopted the "Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America" and assigned "working groups" to fill in the details.





Rogers' letter to Gutierrez supports a demand for information made last month by Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo. (http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=50657)



Smith, on behalf of Eagle Forum of Alabama, told WND she is "very pleased" with Rogers' commitment to inquire into the SPP operations.







http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=51143 (http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=51143)

July 20, 2006, 2:49PM




Farmers furious at Texas governor over proposed superhighway





By KELLEY SHANNON
Associated Press




HILLSBORO, Texas — Leroy Walters has survived many a threat on the farm that has been in his family for 120 years — droughts, hailstorms, tornadoes, grasshopper attacks.




But now he sees a manmade danger on the horizon: a colossal, 600-mile superhighway that will plow clear across the state of Texas, perhaps cutting through Walters' sorghum and corn fields, obliterating the family's houses and robbing his grandchildren of their land.





"I don't think they're going to want to pay a toll to go across this land," he said. "They want to enjoy it free, as Texans should enjoy it."




That kind of fear and anger among farmers and other landowners across the Texas countryside could become a political problem for Republican Gov. Rick Perry as he runs for re-election in November.




It was Perry who proposed the Trans Texas Corridor in 2002, envisioning a combined toll road and rail system that would whisk traffic along a megahighway stretching from the Oklahoma line to Mexico.




The Oklahoma-to-Mexico stretch would be just the first link in a 4,000-mile, $184 billion network. The corridors would be up to a quarter-mile across, consisting of as many as six lanes for cars and four for trucks, plus railroad tracks, oil and gas pipelines, water and other utility lines, and broadband cables.




The exact route for the cross-Texas corridor has not yet been drawn up, though it will probably be somewhere within a 10-mile-wide swath running parallel to Interstate 35. Whatever course it takes, it is clear many farmers and property owners will lose their land, though they will be compensated by the state. Construction could begin by 2010.




The opposition comes in several forms: Some see it as an assault on private property rights; some object to putting the project in foreign hands (it will be built and operated by a U.S.-Spanish consortium); and some see the project as an affront to open government because part of the contract with Cintra-Zachry is secret.




Of Perry's major opponents — Democrat Chris Bell and independents Carole Keeton Strayhorn and Kinky Friedman — Strayhorn has stirred the most fury.




At campaign stops she calls the plan the "Trans Texas Catastrophe," a "$184 billion boondoggle" and a "land grab" of historic proportions. She refers to Perry's appointees on the transportation commission as "highway henchmen." She lets loose with Texas-twanged jabs at the contract with the "foreign" Cintra-Zachry.




"Texans want the Texas Department of Transportation, not the European Department of Transportation," she says, often to loud applause, whoops and hollers.




Cintra-Zachry is paying $7.2 billion to develop the first segment. For that, it will get to operate the road and collect tolls for years to come. It is part of a growing privatization trend in the United States.




A week ago, Strayhorn picked up a $6,500 campaign donation and endorsement from the Blackland Coalition, a group of anti-corridor farmers who work the rich black soil of central Texas.




Coalition chairman Chris Hammel said Texas needs a new governor who will halt the corridor project, start over and do it right. "One man started it with a pen. One person with a different pen could stop it," he said.




Perry's spokesman, Robert Black, dismissed suggestions that the toll road will hurt the governor's re-election campaign.




"The governor recognizes the concerns that rural Texans have. Remember, he's from rural Texas," Black said. "But he also believes that you have people out there who are spreading bad information."




Supporters say the corridors are needed to handle the expected NAFTA-driven boom in the flow of goods to and from Mexico and handle Texas' growing population.




Despite a state attorney general's ruling that the Cintra-Zachry contract be made public, the Perry administration has gone to court to prevent the disclosure of what is says is proprietary information.




"We don't know for sure whether this is a concept that we can endorse or not because we have not seen it," complained Mayor Will Lowrance of Hillsboro, a town of 8,200 people 55 miles south of Dallas. "I happen to still believe in the open records law in Texas."




Hill County Judge Kenneth Davis, who like Lowrance is a conservative Democrat supporting Strayhorn, agreed with Lowrance and added: "If we're going to build a highway in Texas, let's build it with Texas money, not a foreign company's money."




Both local leaders dislike the rural location under consideration for the corridor route because it bypasses Hillsboro.







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Campaign seizes on 'super-state' highway
Opponents of Texas governor point to plan's foreign control




Posted: July 22, 2006
1:00 a.m. Eastern







© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com





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Texas Gov. Rick Perry (Tyler Morning Telegraph)
Challengers to incumbent Republican Texas Gov. Rick Perry are seizing on the planned Trans-Texas Corridor as a major campaign issue.





The 600-mile mega-highway from the Oklahoma border to Mexico is one section of a larger transportation network seen by some critics as part of a movement to integrate the U.S., Mexico and Canada.




The exact route of the highway has not been set, but it is expected to cut a quarter-mile wide swath through the state, employing as many as six lanes for cars and four for trucks, the Associated Press reports. It also will include railroad tracks, oil and gas pipelines, water and other utility lines, and broadband cables.





The stretch through Texas, running parallel to Interstate 35, would be the first link in a 4,000-mile, $184 billion network. Supporters say the corridors are needed to handle the expected NAFTA-driven boom in the flow of goods to and from Mexico.




But as WND has reported (http://anonym.to/?http://anonym.to/?http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=50981), opposition is mounting to a little-publicized effort by the Bush administration to push North America into a European Union-style merger.




The contractors building the Trans-Texas Corridor have made large contributions to the campaigns of Texas politicians, including Perry (http://anonym.to/?http://anonym.to/?http://www.rickperry.org/).




The transportation plan, proposed by Perry in 2002, has been a major focus of the campaign as rivals – including Democrat Chris Bell and independents Carole Keeton Strayhorn and Kinky Friedman – call it a "$184 billion boondoggle" and a "land grab" of historic proportions, the AP said.




Strayhorn calls the plan the "Trans-Texas Catastrophe" and has dubbed Perry's appointees on the transportation commission "highway henchmen."




"Texans want the Texas Department of Transportation, not the European Department of Transportation," she says to enthusiastic response on the campaign trail, according to the AP.




Perry's spokesman, Robert Black, says his opponents are spreading bad information.




"The governor recognizes the concerns that rural Texans have. Remember, he's from rural Texas," Black said.




Some opponents, including many Texas farmers are concerned about property rights, but many point to the project's foreign control. It's being built and operated by a U.S.-Spanish consortium, Cintra-Zachry. Opponents also point out part of the contract with the firm is secret.



A state attorney general has ruled the Cintra-Zachry contract be made public, but Perry's administration has gone to court to prevent the disclosure of what is says is proprietary information.






http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=51185 (http://anonym.to/?http://anonym.to/?http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=51185)

Senator ditches bill tied to 'superstate'
Makes decision after WND points out link to 'North American Union'


Posted: July 25, 2006
1:00 a.m. Eastern


By Jerome R. Corsi
© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com



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Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas
Responding to information from WorldNetDaily, Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, has taken steps to ensure the Senate will not act on a bill that would further a plan to create a European Union-style alliance in North America.



Cornyn made the decision after WND pointed out Friday the legislation – the North American Investment Fund Act – would constitute an attempt to pass a key piece of American University Professor Robert Pastor's plan to create a "North American Union."


Yesterday, Cornyn's office notified WND the senator had been assured by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that no action will be taken on Senate bill 3622 in the 109th Congress. If the Senate Foreign Relations Committee does not act, the bill will expire at the end of the term in January.

"Senator Cornyn has no intention of filing the bill again until after we have conducted an internal review and inquiry," a spokesman for Cornyn told WND.


The spokesman clarified Cornyn "is adamantly opposed to any 'North American Union' being formed like the EU has been formed in Europe."


Cornyn's office had no explanation, however, for why the legislation was introduced, except to note the senator "continues to believe that if Mexico would adopt free market principles, it would be in the best interest of the United States."


The spokesman further added that Cornyn will continue "to look for ways to encourage the forces of reform within Mexico."


WND showed Cornyn's office Friday that a content analysis of the bill demonstrated its similarity to some of Pastor's writings. The correlation was so strong, WND told the senator's staff, a conclusion could be reliably drawn that the person drafting and proposing the legislation drew from Pastor's writings and intended to advance his political agenda to create a "North American Union."


Pastor's extensive writings repeatedly have called for the creation of a North American Investment Fund, to develop Mexico, as a key step on a road map to a new regional government.


In his 2001 book "Toward a North American Community (http://anonym.to/?http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0881323284/sr=1-1/qid=1153758213/ref=pd_bbs_1/102-7064593-4548165?ie=UTF8&s=books)," Pastor argued a North American Development Fund would advance the "North American integration" needed to produce the union as a regional super-government along the model of the European Union.


Pastor was vice chairman of a May 2005 task force report by the Council on Foreign Relations entitled "Building a North American Community." (http://anonym.to/?http://www.cfr.org/publication/8102/building_a_north_american_community.html?breadcrumb=default) Creating a North American Investment Fund was a key recommendation of the CFR task force report.


On March 14, 2005, Pastor published a 57 page paper entitled "The Paramount Challenge for North America: Closing the Development Gap (http://anonym.to/?http://www.american.edu/ia/cnas/pdfs/NADBank.pdf)."


The paper is Pastor's most comprehensive statement explaining why a North American Investment Fund is central to his plan to integrate North America as a first step in the creation of a continental union.


Pastor presented his recommendation that a North American Development Bank should be created in an address (http://anonym.to/?http://www.american.edu/ia/cnas/pdfs/PastorTestimonyCanada.pdf) to the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade of the House of Commons in Ottawa, Canada, Feb. 7, 2002.


The three leaders [of Canada, Mexico, and the U.S.] 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. If Mexico's growth rate leaped to twice that of its neighbors, the psychology of the relationship would be changed.


The language is similar to Senate bill 3622, which in Section 4, "Projects Funded," states as the first purpose of the fund "to construct roads in Mexico to facilitate trade between Mexico and Canada, and Mexico and the United States."


Section 4, part (b)(2) of the bill further specifies: "PRIORITY – in selecting grantees to carry out projects in subsection (a)(1), priority should be given to projects in the interior and southern regions of Mexico that connect to more developed markets in the United States and Canada."


When Pastor's proposal surfaced in the May 2005 CFR task force report, the name had evolved to the "North American Investment Fund," identical to the title of Senate bill 3622. On page 14, the CFR report says (http://anonym.to/?http://www.cfr.org/content/publications/attachments/NorthAmerica_TF_final.pdf):


The United States and Canada should establish a North American Investment Fund to encourage private capital flow into Mexico. The fund would focus on increasing and improving physical infrastructure linking the less developed parts of Mexico to markets in the north, improving primary and secondary education, and technical training in states and municipalities committed to transparency and institutional development.


The Senate bill in Section 4(a)(2) says a secondary purpose of the fund proposed by Cornyn would be "to encourage the development and improve the quality of primary, secondary, and post-secondary education throughout Mexico," a purpose consistent with the intent and language of the CFR task force report.

Cornyn's decision, however, effectively kills the bill or any effort this year by his office to introduce or sponsor legislation to form a North American Investment Fund to develop Mexico.

http://wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=51222 (http://anonym.to/?http://wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=51222)

Senator ditches bill tied to 'superstate'
Makes decision after WND points out link to 'North American Union'


Posted: July 25, 2006
1:00 a.m. Eastern


By Jerome R. Corsi
© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com



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Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas
Responding to information from WorldNetDaily, Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, has taken steps to ensure the Senate will not act on a bill that would further a plan to create a European Union-style alliance in North America.



Cornyn made the decision after WND pointed out Friday the legislation – the North American Investment Fund Act – would constitute an attempt to pass a key piece of American University Professor Robert Pastor's plan to create a "North American Union."


Yesterday, Cornyn's office notified WND the senator had been assured by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that no action will be taken on Senate bill 3622 in the 109th Congress. If the Senate Foreign Relations Committee does not act, the bill will expire at the end of the term in January.

"Senator Cornyn has no intention of filing the bill again until after we have conducted an internal review and inquiry," a spokesman for Cornyn told WND.


The spokesman clarified Cornyn "is adamantly opposed to any 'North American Union' being formed like the EU has been formed in Europe."


Cornyn's office had no explanation, however, for why the legislation was introduced, except to note the senator "continues to believe that if Mexico would adopt free market principles, it would be in the best interest of the United States."


The spokesman further added that Cornyn will continue "to look for ways to encourage the forces of reform within Mexico."


WND showed Cornyn's office Friday that a content analysis of the bill demonstrated its similarity to some of Pastor's writings. The correlation was so strong, WND told the senator's staff, a conclusion could be reliably drawn that the person drafting and proposing the legislation drew from Pastor's writings and intended to advance his political agenda to create a "North American Union."


Pastor's extensive writings repeatedly have called for the creation of a North American Investment Fund, to develop Mexico, as a key step on a road map to a new regional government.


In his 2001 book "Toward a North American Community (http://anonym.to/?http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0881323284/sr=1-1/qid=1153758213/ref=pd_bbs_1/102-7064593-4548165?ie=UTF8&s=books)," Pastor argued a North American Development Fund would advance the "North American integration" needed to produce the union as a regional super-government along the model of the European Union.


Pastor was vice chairman of a May 2005 task force report by the Council on Foreign Relations entitled "Building a North American Community." (http://anonym.to/?http://www.cfr.org/publication/8102/building_a_north_american_community.html?breadcrumb=default) Creating a North American Investment Fund was a key recommendation of the CFR task force report.


On March 14, 2005, Pastor published a 57 page paper entitled "The Paramount Challenge for North America: Closing the Development Gap (http://anonym.to/?http://www.american.edu/ia/cnas/pdfs/NADBank.pdf)."


The paper is Pastor's most comprehensive statement explaining why a North American Investment Fund is central to his plan to integrate North America as a first step in the creation of a continental union.


Pastor presented his recommendation that a North American Development Bank should be created in an address (http://anonym.to/?http://www.american.edu/ia/cnas/pdfs/PastorTestimonyCanada.pdf) to the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade of the House of Commons in Ottawa, Canada, Feb. 7, 2002.


The three leaders [of Canada, Mexico, and the U.S.] 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. If Mexico's growth rate leaped to twice that of its neighbors, the psychology of the relationship would be changed.


The language is similar to Senate bill 3622, which in Section 4, "Projects Funded," states as the first purpose of the fund "to construct roads in Mexico to facilitate trade between Mexico and Canada, and Mexico and the United States."


Section 4, part (b)(2) of the bill further specifies: "PRIORITY – in selecting grantees to carry out projects in subsection (a)(1), priority should be given to projects in the interior and southern regions of Mexico that connect to more developed markets in the United States and Canada."


When Pastor's proposal surfaced in the May 2005 CFR task force report, the name had evolved to the "North American Investment Fund," identical to the title of Senate bill 3622. On page 14, the CFR report says (http://anonym.to/?http://www.cfr.org/content/publications/attachments/NorthAmerica_TF_final.pdf):


The United States and Canada should establish a North American Investment Fund to encourage private capital flow into Mexico. The fund would focus on increasing and improving physical infrastructure linking the less developed parts of Mexico to markets in the north, improving primary and secondary education, and technical training in states and municipalities committed to transparency and institutional development.


The Senate bill in Section 4(a)(2) says a secondary purpose of the fund proposed by Cornyn would be "to encourage the development and improve the quality of primary, secondary, and post-secondary education throughout Mexico," a purpose consistent with the intent and language of the CFR task force report.

Cornyn's decision, however, effectively kills the bill or any effort this year by his office to introduce or sponsor legislation to form a North American Investment Fund to develop Mexico.

http://wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=51222 (http://anonym.to/?http://wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=51222)
Well, there's a pebble put in the way of the anti-white jew steamroller anyway. Better a pebble than no pebble, I suppose.

Meet Robert Pastor: Father of the North American Union


by Jerome R. Corsi (http://www.humanevents.com/search.php?author_name=Jerome R. Corsi)
Posted Jul 25, 2006



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Robert Pastor intends to give away U.S. sovereignty to a newly forming North American Union exactly as he gave away the Panama Canal to Panama during Jimmy Carter’s presidency.



As we are taught in grade school, George Washington is the Father of our nation. If the North American Union comes into existence as the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) asserts, then we all better get prepared for a new hero. Robert Pastor is the person most likely to be proclaimed the father of the North American Union, a designation consistent with his decades-long history of viewing U.S. national interests through the lens of an extreme leftist almost anti-American political philosophy.



Dr. Pastor’s early professional career involved a working association with the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS). Here he participated on the Ad Hoc Working Group on Latin America, which produced a 1977 report, “The Southern Connection: Recommendations for a New Approach to Inter-American Relations,” arguing for the U.S. to abandon our anti-communist allies in Latin America in favor of supporting “ideological pluralism,” a code word for the revolutionary socialist forces taking hold in Latin America, including the communist Sandanistas and other revolutionary terrorist groups that were developing in countries such as El Salvador. Author David Horowitz’s DiscoverTheNetworks.org (http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6991) identifies the IPS as “America’s oldest leftwing think tank” that “has long supported Communist and Anti-American causes around the world,” with a place for KGB agents from the Soviet embassy in Washington “to convene and strategize.”



From February 1975 to January 1977, Dr. Pastor was executive director of the Linowitz Commission on U.S./Latin American Relations. The Linowitz Commission supported (http://www.dcbar.org/for_lawyers/resources/legends_in_the_law/linowitz.cfm) President Carter’s decision to negotiate a treaty to turn over the Panama Canal to Panama. Pastor left the Linowitz Commission to join become director of the Office of Latin American and Caribbean Affairs in the National Security Council in the Carter White House. There Pastor served (http://www.newsmax.com/articles/?a=1999/11/1/131341) as Carter’s “point man” in getting the Senate to narrowly vote for the Carter-Torrijos Treaty on April 18, 1978, despite staunch objections (http://www.newswithviews.com/Wood/patrick14.htm) from conservative politicians including Ronald Reagan.



In December 1993, President Bill Clinton nominated Pastor to be U.S. ambassador to Panama. Pastor’s nomination was approved by a 16-3 vote in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and his confirmation looked virtually certain. The nomination failed, however, and was withdrawn by the administration in February 1995, after then-Sen. Jesse Helms (R.-N.C.) swore to prevent a Senate vote on Pastor’s nomination. Helms, who had vehemently opposed (http://www.tulane.edu/~libweb/RESTRICTED/WEEKLY/1995_0205.txt) the turn-over of the Panama Canal, placed much of the blame squarely on Pastor, declaring when he opposed Pastor’s nomination that Pastor “presided over one of the most disastrous and humiliating periods in the history of U.S. involvement in Latin America.” Helms also claimed (http://www.tulane.edu/~libweb/RESTRICTED/WEEKLY/1995_0205.txt) that Pastor bore responsibility for what Helms saw as “a Carter administration cover-up of alleged involvement by Nicaragua’s Sandinista government in arms shipments to leftist rebels in El Salvador.”



Dr. Pastor has also co-authored a 1989 book (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0679725431/sr=8-6/qid=1153582405/ref=sr_1_6/102-7064593-4548165?ie=UTF8) with his long-time friend, Jorge G. Castañeda, who began his career (http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2005/10/20/154003.shtml) as a member of the Mexican Communist Party. Castañeda, a life-long admirer of the radical left, published in 1998 an admiring biography (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0679759409/sr=1-1/qid=1153582906/ref=sr_1_1/102-7064593-4548165?ie=UTF8&s=books) of the revolutionary “hero” Che Guevara. Castañeda, like Pastor, has sought to work in government positions to implement his theories, not satisfied to be a political scientist who writes books and teaches at universities. Castañeda too has mixed his career as a government employee by alternating time spent as an author (http://www.allenandunwin.com/shopping/ProductDetails.aspx?ISBN=9780747535201) of more than a dozen books and a university professor at various times on the faculties of the University of California at Berkeley, Princeton University, and the New York University.



Castañeda was an aggressively pro-illegal immigration foreign minister (http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/2/14/223039.shtml) when he accompanied President Vincente Fox in the U.S. in 2001. Those were the days when Vincente Fox was declaring (http://www.ailf.org/pubed/pe_mex_article2.asp) himself to be the president of 100 million Mexicans at home and 23 million Mexicans in the United States. Castañeda also attended with President Fox on a three-day state visit to pre-9/11 Washington. There in a joint statement (http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/09/20010906-8.html) on Sept. 6, 2001, the two leaders announced a bilateral “Partnership for Prosperity,” which after 9/11 evolved into the trilateral summit statement of a “Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/RL32735.pdf),” announced in Waco, Tex., on March 23, 2005. Castañeda is probably best remembered for telling (http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,547248,00.html) in 2001 a group of mostly Latino union workers that Mexico was going to press for “the whole enchilada,” intending to legalize all illegal Mexicans aliens in the U.S.



In his pressing enthusiasm for realizing the NAU, Robert Pastor argued (http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20040101faessay83112/robert-a-pastor/north-america-s-second-decade.html) in a 2004 article in CFR’s Foreign Affairs, entitled “North America’s Second Decade,” that the United States would benefit by giving up U.S. national Sovereignty. “Countries are benefited,” he wrote, “when they changed these [national sovereignty] policies, and evidence suggests that North Americans are ready for a new relationship that renders this old definition of sovereignty obsolete.”



Characteristically, Dr. Pastor has seen the U.S. as a North American bully that needs to be restrained, for the good of the region and possibly even for the good of the world. On Oct. 21, 2003, he testified (http://www.american.edu/ia/cdem/pdfs/PastorTestimonyHIRC.pdf) to the House Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere affairs along these lines:



A new approach to the Americas needs to begin with some humility and a willingness to bridge the post-Iraq gap. The United States needs to realize that its power has limits and obligations. U.S. power can compel other governments to take our agenda seriously, but if we brandish it or ignore other views, we unintentionally invite resistance or simply no cooperation. To achieve our goals in the region (and elsewhere), we need to listen more and lecture less.



In 2004, Dr. Pastor declared his support (http://www.peacecorpsonline.org/messages/messages/2629/2024094.html) for the presidential campaign of John Kerry. Dr. Pastor’s 19-page curriculum vitae (http://www.american.edu/ia/pdfs/pastorcv.pdf) (c.v.) on the website of American University where he is currently a faculty member documents that Dr. Pastor has served (http://www.american.edu/ia/pdfs/pastorcv.pdf) as an adviser to every Democratic Party presidential candidate for three decades, since he first supported Jimmy Carter in 1976.



Dr. Pastor was the co-chair of the May 2005 CFR report, “Building a North American Community (http://www.cfr.org/publication/8102/building_a_north_american_community.html?breadcrumb=default),” argued that the Security and Prosperity Partnership signed by President Bush with Mexico and Canada on March 23, 2005 should become by 2010 a “North American economic and security community, the boundaries of which would be defined by a common external tariff and an outer security perimeter.” According to his published c.v. (http://www.american.edu/ia/pdfs/pastorcv.pdf), Dr. Pastor was the “principal editor” of this CFR report as well as the vice chair of the task force that produced it.



The May 2005 CFR task force report made clear that the borders between the U.S. and Mexico and between the U.S. and Canada would be erased, with the only border to be protected to be around North America. As the report stated on page 3, the boundaries of the North American Union “will be defined by a common external tariff and an outer security perimeter within which the movement of people, products, and capital will be legal, orderly, and safe.” The “outer security perimeter” referred specifically to the border around Canada, the U.S., and Mexico -- such that the borders between these countries would be virtually erased. Dr. Pastor left no doubt about his view of U.S. borders with Mexico and Canada in his June 2005 testimony to the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee:



Instead of stopping North Americans on the borders, we ought to provide (http://www.cfr.org/publication/8173/north_american_community_approach_to_security.html) them with a secure, biometric Border Pass that would ease transit across the border like an E-Z pass permits our cars to speed through toll booths.



Note that Dr. Pastor’s reference was to “North Americans,” a term he meant to replace the current designations of “Mexicans,” “Americans,” and “Canadians,” much as he also was arguing for the NAU to replace the USA.



Dr. Pastor himself proclaims that the May 2005 CFR task force report on which he was vice chair and principal editor was a “blueprint” for the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP). In his June 2005 testimony to the U.S. Senate, Dr. Pastor informed (http://www.cfr.org/publication/8173/north_american_community_approach_to_security.html) the Foreign Relations Committee of this link:



Entitled “Building a North American Community,” the report offered a blueprint of the goals that the three countries of North America should pursue and the steps needed to achieve these goals.



The CFR report, under Robert Pastor’s direction, recommended expanding the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) into a North American military command, creating a North American Development Fund to help pay for Mexico’s economic development, establishing a North American Union Court to resolve disputes, establishing a North American Advisory Council to serve as the NAU executive branch, and creating a North American Inter-Parliamentary Group to act as NAU lawmaker. These recommendations derive directly from Robert Pastor’s many published books and papers, as well as his extensive professional testimony (http://www.american.edu/internationalaffairs/cnas/PastorTrilateral.pdf) to Congress and groups such as the Tri-Lateral Commission. His most comprehensive statement of his views on creating the NAU by transforming NAFTA into a political entity were expressed in his 2001 book, "Toward a North American Community (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0881323284/qid=1151782954/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/102-7064593-4548165?s=books&v=glance&n=283155)", where he also advocated the creation of a common NAU currency, the Amero, as first proposed by Canadian economist Herbert Grubel.



Critics who argue that the NAU is a “conspiracy theory” are well advised to take a hard look at Robert Pastor. With U.S. policy toward Latin America, Dr. Pastor first approached the issue in writing (for the radical IPS, as we have noted), next as a university professor, and finally as a government official. Had John Kerry won the 2004 presidential election, Robert Pastor most likely would have emerged with a government position from which he could have pursued his NAU agenda. Given the re-election of George Bush, Dr. Pastor has surfaced within the CFR, an influential “think-tank” NGO whose history of impacting U.S. policy would suggest the CFR impact on SPP.gov could easily be more than academic.


http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=16189 (http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=16189)

Shipping-Corridor Deal Cuts Heart Out of Heartland

by Phyllis Schlafly
Posted Aug 07, 2006

Grass-roots Americans of all parties and economic classes rose up out of their political apathy a few months ago and forced President George W. Bush to reverse his administration's decision to allow a Middle East government to own America's major ports. But the push for foreign ownership continues: the next port scheduled to be taken over is Kansas City, Mo.

Even though public schools stopped teaching geography a couple of decades ago, most Americans (especially residents of the Show Me State) are surprised to learn that Kansas City (where the only waves are "amber waves of grain") is a port. We are also surprised, and shocked, to discover that Mexico will be running its own inspection facility there.

The plan, shrouded in secrecy, has been in the works for at least three years, but it is now coming to light because of the diligent use of Missouri's Sunshine law by concerned citizens. Joyce Mucci and Francis Semler forced the release of the e-mails from Kansas City to Mexico, including one admitting that "The space (in Kansas City) would need to be designated as Mexican sovereign territory."

SmartPort representatives are now running away from this written admission, blaming "the problems and pressure the media attention has created." However, the stubborn sovereignty issue won't go away; the plan does involve setting up Mexican customs officials in downtown Kansas City.

The mechanism for this deal is a "nonprofit" business economic development corporation called Kansas City SmartPort Inc., whose president is Chris J.F. Gutierrez. The deal calls for Kansas City to lease the valuable property at 1447 Liberty St.

As laid out on SmartPort's Web site, the plan is to enable products made in China to travel in sealed "containers nonstop from the Far East by way of Mexico," through "a ships-to-rail terminal at the port of Lazaro Cardenas, Mexico," then up "the evolving trade corridor" to Kansas City, Mo., where they would have their first inspection.

A Kansas City SmartPort brochure explains further: "Kansas City offers the opportunity for sealed cargo containers to travel to Mexican port cities with virtually no border delays."

A key purpose of the project is to take jobs away from U.S. longshoremen in Los Angeles and Long Beach, Calif., who earn $140,000 a year, and replace them with Mexican laborers at $10,000 a year. U.S. truck drivers and railroad workers will likewise be replaced by Mexicans.

The port of Lazaro Cardenas, on the west coast of southern Mexico, is controlled by Hutchison Whampoa, the same giant Hong Kong shipping firm that owns the ports at both ends of the Panama Canal. Chinese-made goods will be carried by Kansas City Southern Railway de Mexico directly to Kansas City, where freight will be distributed east and west and on to Canada.

Kansas City Southern was originally a belt railway around Kansas City but, after buying various Mexican rail companies and tracks, KCS controls a 2,600-mile artery from Lazaro Cardenas to Kansas City. KCS President Michael Haverty was one of five U.S. businessmen who met with President Bush, Mexican President Vicente Fox and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper at their March summit in Cancun, Mexico.

Mexico was at first expected to pay for the big, expensive machines to conduct high-tech gamma-ray screening for drive-through inspections of containers, but Mexico declined the honor. SmartPort has applied for a $1.5 million grant from the U.S. Economic Development Administration (i.e., to get the U.S. taxpayers to pay for the machines).

The Kansas City City Council has already earmarked $2.5 million in loans and $600,000 in direct aid to SmartPort, which would build and own the facility and then sublet it to the Mexican government. The cost could go as high as $6 million because Kansas City has an existing lease that runs through 2045 on the same property with the 107-year-old American Royal, which uses that land for its annual livestock/rodeo/barbecue event.

The last piece in finalizing this project is getting the U.S. State Department to approve the Mexican operation on U.S. soil by signing off on what is called the C-175 document. It has already been approved by U.S. Customs.

Meanwhile, NASCO (North America's SuperCorridor Coalition Inc.), another nonprofit business organization, has taken on the mission of building an "international, integrated and secure, multimodal transportation system" from Lazaro Cardenas through Kansas City and up to Winnipeg, Canada. This will allow Mexican trucks to haul goods along a 12-lane superhighway through the heartland of the United States.

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=16368

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060803/bs_afp/chinarail

Completed by 2010, just like NAU. The NAU is slated to rely heavily on china for cheap goods, so it makes sense that they will want to move it fast as the Goyem can buy it.

They say it will only be for passengers, but does a government spend 27billion bucks just so people the government cares little fore can move around faster? Not unless it is expecting a huge return. Later it says that 6 years of the railway being open, it will pay for itself. That’s a lot of rice niggers on a train.



BEIJING (AFP) - China is building a 27-billion-dollar train line from Beijing to the southern economic hub of Shenzhen and foreign investors will be invited to join the project, state press reported.

The new 2,300-kilometer (1,420-mile) railway will cut travel time between the capital and Shenzhen, which borders Hong Kong, from 24 hours to 10, the China Daily said, citing the National Development and Reform Commission.
The track will be designed to allow trains to travel at speeds of at least 200 kilometers an hour, more than twice as fast as the current line, it said.
Work on some sections of the railway has already begun and the entire project is expected to be completed by 2010.

The newspaper, citing government officials, said the entire project was expected to cost around 220 billion yuan (27.5 billion dollars), with foreign investment welcomed.

"We encourage investors from home and abroad and we think it will be a profitable railway," a railways ministry official surnamed Huang said in the report.

The total investment will be recovered within six years of services on the line starting, Huang said.

Construction of a section of the line between Wuhan, the capital of China's central Hubei province, and Guangzhou, the capital of southern Guangdong province in which Shenzhen also lies, began in 2004.

However the National Development and Reform Commission, the government's main economic planning body, only released the blueprint for the entire project on Wednesday, the China Daily said.

The commission said the new railway would be solely for passengers, leaving the old track to carry cargo.

The project is separate from another multi-billion-dollar railway to be built between Beijing and Shanghai, which is also expected to be completed by 2010 and be open to foreign investment.

The Beijing-Shanghai line is epected to cut travel time between China's two most important cities from around 13 hours to five, with the trains expected to reach speeds of 350 kilometers an hour.

The investment costs for that project have not been announced although reports have suggested as much as 25 billion dollars will be ploughed into it.
China announced last year an ambitious plan to spend 250 billion dollars by 2020 to renovate and expand the nation's rail network, one of the largest in the world

China Wins NAFTA Super-Highway Battle

by Jerome R. Corsi
Posted Aug 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 Super Highway. 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.

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=16407

by Alan Caruba

Sabotaging U.S. Sovereingnty

August 19, 2006 09:04 PM EST

The problem with the Bush administration is that not enough of its officials have read the U.S. Constitution. Take, for example, Section 2 of Article 2. When dealing with foreign nations, it says that the President “shall have the power, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to make treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur….” So, why is President Bush and his administration seeking to establish a North American Union that would, in effect, abolish the borders between Canada, Mexico, and the United States of America?

http://www.theconservativevoice.com/article/17385.html

http://www.theconservativevoice.com/article/17385.html[/FONT]The jew, Bush, is acting as our dictator -- without proclaiming himself one. Jew stealth and deception.

Globalism's Toll Mounting for U.S. Citizens

by Phyllis Schlafly
Posted Aug 21, 2006

It's not just U.S. ports that are fast slipping into foreign ownership; it's highways, too. A Spanish company, Cintra Concesiones de Infraestructuras de Transporte, S.A., has bought the right to operate a toll road through Texas and collect tolls for the next 50 years.

Hearings held by the Texas Department of Transportation this summer attracted hundreds of angry Texans.

Called the Trans-Texas Corridor, TTC, on which construction is planned to begin next year, this highway would bisect Texas from Oklahoma to its border with Mexico. Plans call for a 10-lane limited-access highway to parallel Interstate 35. It would have three lanes each way for passenger cars, two express lanes each way for trucks, rail lines both ways for people and freight, plus a utility corridor for oil and natural gas pipelines, electric towers, cables for communication, and telephone lines.

Central to this plan is a massive taking of 584,000 acres of farm and ranch land at an estimated cost of $11 billion to $30 billion - property then lost from the tax rolls of counties and school districts. After the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Kelo v. City of New London, Conn., no one need wonder about the power of eminent domain to take private property.

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=16592

Red Chinese Slave Labor Floods NAFTA Marketplace With Cheap Goods

by Jerome R. Corsi
Posted Aug 21, 2006

The NAFTA marketplace unrestrained in the pursuit of cheap labor has driven an increasing volume of manufacturing off-shore to Communist China, where slave prison camps offer a cost of labor that is hard to beat.

Chinese made goods ranging from electronics to toys and clothes are daily sold in mass marketing retailers such as Wal-Mart, Home Depot, K-Mart, Target, Lowes, and dozens of other U.S. corporations. Cheap goods from Communist China increasingly line the shelves of the NAFTA marketplace under marquee product trade names that bear no relationship to the Chinese slave labor that manufactured, produced, or otherwise assembled the goods.

Key to this thriving under-market is a flagrant disregard for human rights, on the part of the Communist Chinese, who still permit the exploitation of slave labor. U.S. capitalists and consumers as well turn a blind eye to the human suffering and abuse involved in producing the under-market cheap goods flooding the American retail market from China.

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=16577

Posted on Thu, Aug. 24, 2006

NAFTA panel dismisses second Devils Lake outlet complaint

Associated Press

BISMARCK, N.D. - A North American Free Trade Agreement commission has rejected a request from environmental groups to investigate the Devils Lake floodwater diversion outlet.

It is the second time this summer that the Montreal-based Commission for Environmental Cooperation has dismissed the complaint - both times on technical grounds. The second rejection ends the process.

The complaint was filed by environmental groups on both sides of the U.S.-Canadian border through a process that enables citizens or groups to draw attention to an issue. Even if the NAFTA commission had agreed to investigate, it has no authority to impose sanctions.

http://www.grandforks.com/mld/grandforks/news/15350720.htm

Joseph Farah
Between The Lines

WorldNetDaily Exclusive Commentary

It's about drugs, idiota

Posted: August 25, 2006
1:00 a.m. Eastern

Sit down.

I want to share some information with you that might otherwise knock you down.

Many of you are still trying to figure out why President Bush and other members of elite U.S. circles refuse to secure our southern border with Mexico.

I think it is safe to say that I have been out front in posing the hypothesis that this open-borders strategy is part of a long-term plot toward economic and political union between the two countries as well as Canada. This secret master plan has since been recognized by other border security advocates, such as Rep. Tom Tancredo and CNN's Lou Dobbs.

Today I want to explore what I believe is another important component of the conspiracy, and I use that term advisedly, to keep the border open – no matter what.

Let me cut right to the chase: It's about drugs, stupid.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=51680

Bush Administration Mortgages U.S. to Red China Over NAFTA Trade

by Jerome R. Corsi
Posted Aug 23, 2006

Under the Bush Administration, the U.S. trade deficit with Communist China has expanded dramatically, increasing our dependency on China as a source of foreign exchange currency into which the U.S. Treasury sells debt to finance the large and seemingly endless Bush Administration budget deficits.

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=16616

NAFTA superhighway to mean Mexican drivers, say Teamsters

Union warns of drug-taking truckers, unsafe rigs on planned trade routes

Posted: August 28, 2006
1:00 a.m. Eastern

© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com

WASHINGTON – The NAFTA superhighway, a north-south interstate trade corridor linking Mexico, Canada and the U.S., would mean U.S. truckers replaced by Mexicans, more unsafe rigs on American roads and more drivers relying on drugs for their long hauls, charges the International Brotherhood of Teamsters – the latest group to weigh in against the Bush administration plan.

The August issue of Teamster magazine features a cover story on the plan for an enlarged I-35 that will reach north from the drug capital border town of Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, 1,600 miles to Canada through San Antonio, Austin, Dallas, Kansas City, Minneapolis and Duluth, while I-69 originating at the same crossing will shoot north to Michigan and across the Canadian border.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=51712

How NAFTA superhighway is built under radar screen

Officials say they see no budget 'earmarks,' because they don't know where to look

Posted: August 29, 2006
1:00 a.m. Eastern

© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com

WASHINGTON – Ask some members of Congress about plans to build a "NAFTA superhighway" connecting Mexico and Canada via the U.S. and you might hear snickers.

Some officials will tell you they have seen no "earmarks" for such a plan and question whether it even exists.

But the plan does exist and the NAFTA superhighway is being built – under the radar screen.

One need look no further than the $286 billion highway bill signed into law earlier this month by President Bush for some of the "earmarks."

The measure gave the state of Tennessee more than $111 million to help plan and build Interstate 69, called "one of the most significant transportation projects in the region's history" by the Commercial Appeal.

No one in Tennessee has any doubts about plans for the NAFTA superhighway. It is being built now with federal taxpayer dollars. And the plan calls for I-69 to extend from Michigan to Texas, linking the Canadian and Mexican borders.

Those supporting the plan, like Transportation Secretary Mario Cino, say it will bring an unprecedented windfall not only to the regions it traverses but for all Americans, Mexicans and Canadians.

Tennessee Department of Transportation Commissioner Gerald Nicely said I-69 "could help position the western part of the state as one of the world's new economic centers of power in the global marketplace."

The entire I-69 project is expected to cost $8.8 billion in current dollars, with states picking up 10 percent of the tab. So where is the money hidden? It's not really. But nowhere in any highway bill is the project referred to as the "NAFTA superhighway." Since the money is doled out to states to spend on their portion of the project, the allocations look like any other highway spending.

Ultimately, the Tennessee portion of the I-69 project is expected to cost $1 billion. It will shadow the present route of U.S. 51, connecting towns like Union City, Troy, Dyersburg, Ripley, Covington and Millington before following what is now I-40/240 through Midtown, according to the Commercial Appeal. The new highway bill focuses on the portion of I-69 through Northwest Tennessee about 80-110 miles north of Memphis. A 20-mile section of that segment – a four-lane stretch of U.S. 51 between Dyersburg and Troy – already is completed. Signs label it as part of the "Future I-69 Corridor." That leaves a 19-mile section to be built from Troy to the Kentucky line before one-third of the I-69 route through Tennessee is completed.

"The route's already been laid out, with survey markers planted in fields and cryptic benchmarks painted on the pavement of country roads," reports the Commercial Appeal.

Detailed drawings are expected to be finished next February. Right-of-way acquisition could begin early next year. Crews could start moving earth as early as 2008.

So why are some officials still questioning whether the project is real?

Last week, in Kansas, Sen. Pat Roberts, a Republican who chairs the Senate Intelligence Committee, seemed like he was short on domestic, backyard intelligence when he was asked in Saline about the NAFTA superhighway project – again, prompted by reports in WND.

"There's nothing I'm aware of in any authorization bill," Roberts said with derision. "I don't know where these things get started. This is one of those blogosphere things that makes you wonder what's going on."

When the Duluth News Tribune followed up WND reports about the project by turning to a local congressman for help, Mary Kerr, an aide to Rep.Jim Oberstar, said: "There are no earmarks for a superhighway like that."

But you can't hide for long a superhighway, in some places, according to plans, four football fields wide.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=51730

Joseph Farah
Between The Lines

WorldNetDaily Exclusive Commentary

The very real NAFTA superhighway

Posted: August 29, 2006
1:00 a.m. Eastern

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.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=51718

Patrick J. Buchanan

WorldNetDaily Commentary

The NAFTA superhighway: Coming soon

Posted: August 29, 2006
1:00 a.m. Eastern

This is a "mind-boggling concept," exploded Lou Dobbs. It must cause Americans to think our political and academic elites have "gone utterly mad." What had detonated the mild-mannered CNN anchor?

Robert Pastor, vice chair of the Council on Foreign Relations Task Force on North America, had just appeared before a panel of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations to call for erasing all U.S. borders and a merger of the United States, Mexico and Canada in a North American union stretching from Prudhoe Bay to Guatemala.

Under the Pastor-CFR plan, the illegal alien invasion would be solved by eliminating America's borders and legalizing the invasion. We would no longer defend the Rio Grande.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=51724

A North American United Nations?

By Congressman Ron Paul, R-Texas, 8/28/2006 12:52:50 PM

Globalists and one-world promoters never seem to tire of coming up with ways to undermine the sovereignty of the United States. The most recent attempt comes in the form of the misnamed "Security and Prosperity Partnership Of North America (SPP)." In reality, this new "partnership" will likely make us far less secure and certainly less prosperous.

http://www.hawaiireporter.com/story.aspx?f1eeda58-4e89-4375-be51-f29a8b4a059c

WorldNetDaily Exclusive

Superhighway 'security' benefits questioned

Texas leader seeks answers about plan that includes NAFTA corridor

Posted: August 30, 2006
1:00 a.m. Eastern

© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com

A Texas congressman is asking his colleagues as well as American citizens nationwide to join him in opposing a plan that describes itself as seeking more security and more prosperity for the United States, when in fact it may do neither.

Rep. Ron Paul has written his weekly "Texas Straight Talk" column about the "Security and Prosperity Partnership Of North America (SSP)," which, he says, "will likely make us far less secure and certainly less prosperous."

A key to that plan, he noted, is a massive new NAFTA superhighway about which WorldNetDaily has run a series of reports.

"A massive highway is being planned to stretch from Canada into Mexico, through the state of Texas," Paul wrote. "This is likely to cost the U.S. taxpayer untold billions of dollars, will require eminent domain takings on an almost unimaginable scale, and will make the U.S. more vulnerable to those who seek to enter our country to do us harm."

Paul said the "Security and Prosperity Partnership" is "misnamed" and is running its course under the notice of most because it's neither a treaty nor a formal agreement, just a "dialogue" launched by the heads of state of Canada, Mexico and the United States during a summit in Waco, Texas, in March, 2005.

"According to the SPP website, this 'dialogue' will create new supra-national organizations to 'coordinate' border security, health policy, economic and trade policy, and energy policy between the governments of Mexico, Canada, and the United States," Paul said.

However, he said it's clear such plans "have far less to do with the free movement of goods and services than they do with the government coordination and management of international trade."

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=51735

Why the secrecy over superhighway?

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=51750

Critic: Americans in danger of slavery

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=51763

Harper Not Just Americanizing, But Abolishing Canada

By Susan Thompson

For all the continuing concern among Canada’s progressives that Harper is Americanizing this country, it’s unfortunate that there has been silence about the fact that if he has his way, this country as we know it will soon no longer exist.

Plans are on track to establish a North American Union (NAU), a new political and economic entity that would take over governance from the existing countries of Canada, the U.S. and Mexico. This is the actual end goal of “deep integration”, also known as the “Big Idea” or “Grand Bargain”, as has been made clear in publications from Robert Pastor’s book Toward a North American Community to the Council on Foreign Relations’ trilateral task force report “Building a North American Community”. It doesn’t seem to matter that the Canadian public seems largely unaware of the plan and its consequences. Nor has it been approved by the U.S. Congress; as Republican Congressman Ron Paul has written, “Congressional oversight of what might be one of the most significant developments in recent history is non-existent. Congress has had no role at all in a ‘dialogue’ that many see as a plan for a North American union”. But political elites in all three countries, in partnership with representatives of giant corporations such as Lockheed Martin, have been working hard to keep making headway despite what the public may think.

In fact, unfortunately, most of the battles have already been won. The steps that have led us down the road towards complete integration with the U.S. have been sometimes slow but still steady since U.S. President Ronald Reagan first spoke about a common North American market back in the early 80s. A series of trade agreements, starting with the first FTA and progressing through NAFTA into the new NAFTA-plus ( the Security and Prosperity Partnership Initiative) have established the framework for union. (Note that according to the U.S. government website dedicated to the project, the SPP is neither a treaty nor a formal agreement; it is a "dialogue", a dubious distinction which simply seems meant to prevent official debate and discussion of the SPP among the rest of the elected representatives of the three countries.) The leaders are to meet again in Canada in 2007 to discuss progress in this “dialogue”, at Harper’s invitation.

http://www.vivelecanada.ca/article.php/20060830210915992

If the NAU becomes a fact, our Constitution, especially the Bill of Rights, becomes a distant memory. Everyone involved with the NAU has repeatedly stated that none of the three nations that the NAU will be comprised of will lose any of their sovereignty. The reality is, however, that once any kind of international treaty or government is put in place, all debates on immigration, trade, foreign companies operating our ports, international peacekeeping forces, etc. will mean nothing because all of these things and much, much more will be a fact engraved in stone, and no 'national' laws can stop them. When a nation loses its ability to control its borders for any reason, it has lost its right to be called a nation.

If you think the illegal spic invasion is bad now, wait until they can come here without worrying about the Border Patrol or ICE.

Never fear, though, here come the minutemen to save the day:

"The illegals are coming!!! (We aren't racist!!!) The illegals are coming!!! (We aren't racist!!!)"

Texas governor leads superhighway rally

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=51767

The superhighway no one is funding

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=51768

Mexican truckers to hit U.S. roadways next year

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=51779

Henry Lamb

WorldNetDaily Exclusive Commentary

SPP: Sovereignty & Prosperity Perversion

Posted: September 2, 2006
1:00 a.m. Eastern

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=51792

Wikipedia has deleted the article on the North American Union. Although I did not create the article, I contributed to it. Here is some of the discussion regarding the article.
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The result of the debate was delete. Titoxd(?!? - help us) 05:24, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

North American Union

ATTENTION!

Original research, at least the article itself does not attempt to establish that it is a serious idea with even a marginal support. Bjarki 17:18, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

Delete - no actual proposal exists and wikipedia is not a manifesto host. --Ajdz 17:24, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

Tag it with a request for sources. If none are given, then delete it. Arctic Gnome 21:24, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

Keep it this is only a theory or a philisophical idea. It's not an actual proposed union. This article does not need to be deleted since it is only a philisophical theory, it needs to be deleted just as much as the article on the theory of capitolism. TBH 06:20, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

It's a non-notable, original research idea with no actual support. Comparison to capitalism is a false analogy. --Ajdz 14:55, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

Delete per WP:NOR. Wikipedia is not for things made up in school one day. Ardenn 15:12, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

Keep Great article, better than the other one-paragraph articles that are numerous on wiki.
Keep there is a lot of room for growth in this idea if wikipedia does not censor it. 137.186.145.102 17:25, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

Strong delete. Almost entirely original research. The thoughts and speculation of a handful of persons, and not particularly profound thoughts at that (e.g. "Cons: Each country would also lose something in the merging.")--Skeezix1000 21:14, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

Delete as rather messy original research. Also per Ajdz. Stifle (talk) 00:39, 29 April 2006 (UTC)


How about that. Articles abound on the NAU on the 'net, and he research was messy. Hmm. Sounds like the jews at Wikipedia don't like what is being said about it.

Wider Panama Canal Would Aid Chinese

by Jerome R. Corsi
Posted Sep 05, 2006

Panama is planning to build a deeper, wider Panama Canal to allow Communist Chinese super-containerships carrying cheap 21st century slave-labor under-market goods to have direct access to the Gulf of Mexico and key NAFTA/CAFTA ports such as Miami.

In the shipping industry, Panamex container ships are defined as those that are able to fit through the 1,000-foot long and 110-foot wide canal. Typically, Panamex containerships were designed to carry 4,500 TEU (“Twenty Foot Units,” the length measurement of the standard ocean steel container). The first generation of post-Panamex container ships was built to carry up to 9,800 TEU. Today, a new class of super-post-Panamex vessels is under construction, designed to carry up to 12,500 TEU.

The post-Panamex fleet in service at the end of 2000 consisted of some 300 containerships. Experts expect that containerships with 9,000 to 10,000 TEU capacity are starting to dominate main arterial shipping, such as between China and the United States. Containerships with 12,000 TEU plus capacity will be phased into operation between 2009 and 2010. Super-containerships with 12,000 TEU capacity have to be built with twin engines to maintain the 25-knot speed required for a maximum load which will involve at least 21 containers stacked across the weather deck.

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=16844

The Globe and Mail just doesn’t get it

Contributed by: robertjb

The lead editorial in the Saturday Sept 2nd edition of The Globe and Mail is titled "The unwelcome landing of another penalty."

For starters, the title is wrong: It should read: "The unwelcome landing of more tribute"--the Washington Tribute Tax (WTT), that is.

The editorial cries foul as the US has just announced user fees for all Canadian commercial flights, passengers, autos, commercial trucks, vessels, and rail cars entering the US, effective November of this year.

The editorial poses the question: Why are the Americans doing this?

It laments that just as the softwood lumber agreement has been settled we are hit with yet another “penalty.” But this agreement might be the very reason these new fees are being levied. After Canada’s complete capitulation on the softwood lumber agreement, word has probably spread around Washington that we are more than willing to pay tribute on demand.

Even though the United States Court of International Trade ruled in Canada’s favor that the collection of $5.3 billion in duties on our softwood lumber was illegal, Canada is determined to go ahead with the agreement and leave behind $1.3 billion to buy the peace. It was subsequently announced that $450 million of that money is going into a slush fund for the Republican Party--and, strangely enough, there is barely a mention of this in Canada’s media when there should be national outrage.

The US government is now running record debt and deficits, largely to finance its foreign intrigues and enormous defense spending. The Iraq conflict alone is costing the US treasury about $1.5 billion dollars a week (yes, a week!). George W. Bush has promised to balance the budget by the time he leaves office (which he has no hope of doing). So we should not be surprised that possibly all US government departments have been ordered to maximize revenues and Canada has become a designated cash cow.

This latest scam could be dealt with through the NAFTA dispute settlement provisions, but as Toronto international trade lawyer Larry Herman points out in the Globe editorial, “(That) will not get us very quick relief.”

Herman’s statement points to the hub of the problem, in that the US continually breaches the NAFTA, while it appears that Canada’s political and business elites are not prepared to do anything about it--which only makes a bad situation worse, thus encouraging the US protectionist bully boy. It appears our political elites have given up on NAFTA without the fortitude to insist that it be adhered to, possibly revised, or even cancelled.

http://www.vivelecanada.ca/article.php/20060903095752882

WorldNetDaily Exclusive

Canadians protest 'North American Union'

Party to fly national flag upside down in protest at convention

Posted: September 9, 2006
6:20 p.m. Eastern

By Jerome R. Corsi
© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com

A Canadian political party intends to fly the national flag upside down during its convention this weekend as a signal of distress and resistance against the integration of Canada with the United States and Mexico into a North American Union regional government.

Connie Fogal, the leader of the Canadian Action Party told WND "we are opposed to the plan to develop the Security and Prosperity Partnership into a EU-style North American Union government" which "amounts to treason and is a total violation of the constitutional rights of Canadian citizens."

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=51904

I-69: Yet Another NAFTA Super-Highway

by Jerome R. Corsi
Posted Sep 12, 2006

Another NAFTA Super-Highway is moving state-by-state from the planning stage to the funding and construction process. As listed on the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration’s website, the “I-69 Corridor” is planned to connect Mexico and Canada through Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois and Michigan.

Still, skeptics -- even congressmen and senators in the nine states where the I-69 corridor will be built -- continue to charge that any idea that NAFTA Super-Highways are being built are nothing more than “internet conspiracy theories.”

Even NASCO (North America’s SuperCorridor Coalition, Inc.) continues to be in denial, refusing to acknowledge that any NAFTA Super-Highways are being built. A second NASCO homepage makeover reflecting a new public relations attempt by NASCO to defuse criticism now lists a “NASCO FAQs” section, which opens to a .pdf file letter on NASCO stationary. In response to the question, “Will the NAFTA Superhighway be four football fields wide?” NASCO answers: “There is no new, proposed 'NAFTA Superhighway.'” Next, NASCO attempts to redefine the “SuperCorridor” in its name as a reference not to a “super-highway,” but intermodal integration along the “existing ‘NASCO Corridor.’”

We have previously argued that as a trade association NASCO itself will never build any highway of any type, but we continue to argue that NASCO’s members, such as the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT), are very actively involved in creating substantial NAFTA corridor infrastructure, including super-highways. Moreover, NASCO not yet responded to our challenge that NASCO repudiate the plans of TxDOT to build the planned Trans-Texas Corridor (TTC-35), the first leg of the NAFTA Super-Highway planned to stretch into Canada parallel to I-35. Otherwise, NASCO is just dealing in semantics, trying to distinguish “Super-Corridors” from “Super-Highways,” or defeating their own straw argument on the basis that we somehow presumed that a trade organization like NASCO would be required to build a NAFTA Super-Highway in order to support a NAFTA Super-Highway one of their members was building.

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=16966

Nafta's Failures Fuel Mexican Illegal Immigration

New America Media, News Analysis, Louis Nevaer, Sep 15, 2006

Editor's Note: The free trade agreement between the U.S., Mexico and Canada helped millions of working and middle class Mexicans achieve wealth and stability. But simultaneously it impoverished millions, pushing the Mexican poor from the countryside into cities, and then across the border to the U.S. It's time for politicians from both nations to take the hard steps needed to better integrate their economies and help the "have nots," writes Louis Nevaer, a New York-based author and economist. Nevaer's forthcoming book, "HR and the New Hispanic Workforce," will be published by Davis-Black in late 2006.

MEXICO CITY--In the impassioned demonstrations this summer in Mexico City in support of defeated presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador are the faces of Mexicans most likely to risk their lives and emigrate illegally to the United States.

Mexico's presidential election on July 2 was not only the most highly contested in modern Mexican history -- the ruling party candidate Felipe Calderon won by less than 1 percent of the vote -- but also an unintended referendum on Mexico more than a decade after Nafta, the North American Free Trade Agreement, was implemented.

The sharp divisions of the Mexican electorate reflect, by class and race, how Mexico's "haves" have benefited handsomely from Nafta, while the "have nots" have been systematically excluded from the economic benefits of increased trade with the United States and Canada.

http://news.ncmonline.com/news/view_article.html?article_id=8023e4f5c6957119ca2aaf18969f6d1a

15 September 2006

Free Trade Vital to Latin American Economies, Says JEW Official

USTR's Eissenstat cites need for free-trade pacts, renewed Doha trade talks

By Lauren Monsen
Washington File Staff Writer

Washington -- Free-trade agreements and a strong commitment to regional economic integration will help Latin America compete successfully in the global market, says Everett Eissenstat, assistant U.S. trade representative for the Americas.

In his September 15 remarks to the 10th annual Miami Herald Conference, which examined "How Will Latin America Compete in a Global Economy," Eissenstat cited trends that point to the benefits of a free-market approach. Although "there isn't a simple, straightforward answer" that will guarantee success, the removal of trade barriers is a prerequisite for sustained economic growth, he said.

"[O]ne thing that is clear from recent years is that countries [that] have been willing to undertake free-market reforms and pursue regional integration, particularly through ambitious trade agreements with the United States, have emerged as strong competitors both at the regional level and in the global marketplace," he said. "Trade agreements such as NAFTA [the North American Free Trade Agreement] and the U.S.-Chile [free-trade pact] are compelling examples of trade's power to build ties, revitalize economies, diversify exports, and attract higher-paying jobs."

http://usinfo.state.gov/xarchives/display.html?p=washfile-english&y=2006&m=September&x=20060915173829GLnesnoM0.1356928

North American Union: Myths, Facts - Truth
By Tom DeWeese
MichNews.com
Sep 15, 2006

"Conspiracy theories." "Fringe nuts." "Lies." "Myths." These are the words being used by officials of the Bush Administration and others to brand those who have reported on the activities of the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP), currently operating out of the U.S. Department of Commerce. Opponents have charged the SPP will result in the establishment of a North American Union, much on the same lines as the European Union.

In response to its critics, the SPP has added a "SPP Myths Vs Facts" section to its website at www.SPP.gov. According to the "Myths Vs Facts" document the SPP is simply a "dialog" among the three countries to "enhance prosperity." It goes on to say the SPP is not an agreement, nor is it a treaty. It says "no agreement was ever signed."

http://www.michnews.com/artman/publish/article_14093.shtml

Saturday, September 16 2006 @ 12:27 PM MDT

Canadian News

NAFTA Highway, The Regina Route

Contributed by: FootPrints

Hundreds have visited my earlier post on the NAFTA Highway, a free trade corridor running from Mexico, through the USA, and north into Canada quietly promoted by Dubya. It’s time for an update, particularly now that there’s a local tidbit tying into Regina’s municipal election this fall.

The recently revised map of the NAFTA Corridor shows the NAFTA Highway passing through Saskatchewan. Just what we need, eh? More trucks on our already overburdened highways, more emissions, more carcinogens, more garbage, etc. It seems that City Hall, the Regina Economic Development Authority (RREDA) and Sask Industry and Resources have bonded to ensure that Regina is a stop on the road. And they’re insisting it will mean increased prosperity for Saskatchewan, particularly if we establish a Multimodal Terminal Site.

http://www.vivelecanada.ca/article.php/20060915214601695

September 17, 2006 at 08:19:44

Dump the WTO, NAFTA and CAFTA and Bring Back Tariffs

by Rob Kall

http://www.opednews.com

In his book, Screwed; The Undeclared War Against the Middle Class -- And What We Can Do About It , Thom Hartmann talks about how tariffs were the primary source of income for the US. Primary!!!. But Reagan, Bush sr. and Clinton totally screwed us by joining the WTO and NAFTA and Dubya signed on the CAFTA-- all good for a few hundred transnational mega corporation, but lousy for US industry and throwing out a major source of income for the US. I say Dump these trade gifts to megacorporations and bring back tariffs. Charge the highest tariffs to the countries that we owe the most to and charge us the most interest on our debt-- and let them help us pay off our debt to them with tariffs.

Sure, we live in different times and there is a need to face the realities of a gobal economy. But that doesn't mean we should just bend over and allow our butts to be kicked and our native industries destroyed, or that we should allow rampant outsourcing of labor. Now, if a company outsources labor, they can report it as contract cost. They should have to report it as exported labor and pay duty on it. Then, they'll have no reason to outsource and we'll keep jobs here.

The temptation to outsource is great. I know. I've been guilty of it. Back in 1993, I travelled to Russia seeking programmers to hire for software development. The idea was to find people over there to do contract work for a tiny fraction of the cost of paying a programmer in the US, where programmers were making $60-$100,000 a year, or $60- $100 an hour.

http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_rob_kall_060917_dump_the_wto_2c_nafta_.htm

September 13, 2006

Meet NAFTA 2.0

Forget sweeping trade deals. CEOs have a new approach to integration with a long, long list of incremental changes.

LUIZA CH. SAVAGE(Jude)

Ron Covais is in a hurry. The president of the Americas for defence giant Lockheed Martin, and a former Pentagon adviser to Dick Cheney, he's one of a cherry-picked group of executives who were whisked to Cancún in March by the leaders of Canada, the U.S. and Mexico, and asked to come up with a plan for taking North American integration beyond NAFTA. Covais figures they've got less than two years of political will to make it happen. That's when the Bush administration exits, and "The clock will stop if the Harper minority government falls or a new government is elected." In Cancún, the executives gathered behind closed doors in a luxury hotel and vented about slow borders, duplicate regulations and the competitive threat from the European Union and Asia. "It was an intimate discussion. It was a lot of fun, there were no reporters, just a freewheeling discussion on the things that drive you crazy," recalls Annette Verschuren, the president of Home Depot Canada, who flew in on Harper's jet and said the PM was "very engaged."

http://www.macleans.ca/topstories/canada/article.jsp?content=20060911_133202_133202

Much more to development

The Leader-Post
Published: Tuesday, September 19, 2006

Regarding the "No reason to think small" editorial in the Sept. 14 edition of the Leader-Post, it appears that it is Leader-Post staff who are thinking small.

If staffers would work to research issues instead of shilling for the corporate sector and worshipping the mayor, Regina's citizens would learn that Mayor Pat Fiacco is simply a patsy in the George W. Bush plan to create one North American empire of Mexico, Canada and the U.S.

And the reported research might actually make for a fair election next month.

http://www.canada.com/reginaleaderpost/news/letters/story.html?id=1fb2dbe9-8515-4540-925f-b55ecc20da98

StopPerry.com

Stop the Trans Texas Corridor

A news Web site has been established to help expose the treasonous antics of Texas Gov. Rick Perry. The site focuses on the massive land grab known as the Trans Texas Corridor. This mess will be a part of the NAFTA superhighway land grab that will destroy American jobs, among other things.

http://americanpatrol.com/

Texas Toll Party - Reach Out to Your Representatives. NO TO TOLLS!

http://stopperry.com/action_tellYourReps.php

SEPTEMBER 20, 2006 - 08:00 ET

West/Dunn Productions-Hoodwinked: The Myth of Free Trade is Released

OTTAWA, ONTARIO--(CCNMatthews - Sept. 20, 2009) - Hoodwinked: The Myth of Free Trade begins screenings and DVD sales across Canada. This feature-length documentary is about and for Canadians. In earlier test screenings audiences reacted with comments like "it gets my blood boiling" and post-screening discussions lasted over two hours. One young woman remarked that she had been intending to study third world problems at university, but this film changed her mind. She realized Canada faces grave problems of its own and she wants to make a difference here.

Screenings booked so far include Wolfville, N.S. on October 3rd, Halifax on October 4th, Kingston, Ontario on October 25th and in Ottawa at the National Library on January 31, 2007. Further bookings and DVD sales can be found on the website: http://hoodwinked.ca

http://www.ccnmatthews.com/news/releases/show.jsp?action=showRelease&searchText=false&showText=all&actionFor=612939

Last Updated: Sep 20th, 2006 - 08:43:02

Creating the North American Union
by Dennis Behreandt
October 2, 2006

The plans for a North American Security and Prosperity Partnership are steps on the way to a North American Union.

On June 21, viewers of CNN's Lou Dobbs Tonight heard the alarming introduction to a segment of the program devoted to the future of the United States of America. "The Bush administration's open-borders policy and its decision to ignore the enforcement of this country's immigration laws is part of a broader agenda," Dobbs intoned. "President Bush signed a formal agreement that will end the United States as we know it, and he took the step without approval from either the U.S. Congress or the people of the United States."

The agreement Dobbs was talking about was crafted a year earlier. On March 23, 2005, then-Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin and Mexican President Vicente Fox met with President Bush in Waco, Texas, to discuss plans for integrating Canada, the United States, and Mexico. During that meeting, the three heads of state argued that the three nations are "mutually dependent and complementary" and need to work together more closely on a range of issues. "In a rapidly changing world, we must develop new avenues of cooperation that will make our open societies safer and more secure, our businesses more competitive, and our economies more resilient," the three leaders said in a joint statement.

The standard diplomatic language was a prelude to a radical proposal calling for the merger of the three nations in several important ways. Under a so-called Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP), the nations will no longer have separate borders, but will "implement common border-security." The three nations will no longer respond on the national level to emergencies but will have a "common approach to emergency response." And, in a move that has tremendous implications for the growing immigration crisis, the three leaders agreed that the United States' north and south borders would be eliminated. Under the SPP plan, the three nations will "implement a border-facilitation strategy to build capacity and improve the legitimate flow of people and cargo at our shared borders."

This plan is nothing short of revolutionary. As Dobbs put it on his CNN program, it is "an absolute contravention of our law, of our Constitution, every national value." Though the plan sounds like a new innovation, it is not new. It is the next step in a progression of steps that, in a manner very similar to the process used in Europe to supplant individual nations with the European Union, will ultimately lead to the formation of a new government for the United States, the North American Union. If not stopped, the plan for a North American Union will supplant the former independent states of Canada, Mexico, and the United States. And this is not conjecture. The North American Union is official U.S. policy.

http://www.thenewamerican.com/artman/publish/article_4213.shtml

High Priority Corridors @ AARoads.com

http://www.aaroads.com/high-priority/table.html

North American merger topic of secret confab

Meeting on integration of U.S., Mexico, Canada brings together top officials

Posted: September 20, 2006
11:55 a.m. Eastern

© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com

WASHINGTON – Raising more suspicions about plans for the future integration of the U.S., Canada and Mexico, a high-level, top-secret meeting of the North American Forum took place this month in Banff – with topics ranging from "A Vision for North America," "Opportunities for Security Cooperation" and "Demographic and Social Dimensions of North American Integration."

While the conference took place a week ago, only now are documents about participants and agenda items leaking out.

Despite "confirmed" participants including Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, former Secretary of State George Shultz, former Central Intelligence Agency Director R. James Woolsey, former Immigration and Naturalization Services Director Doris Meissner, North American Union guru Robert Pastor, former Defense Secretary William Perry, former Energy Secretary and Defense Secretary James Schlesinger and top officials of both Mexico and Canada, there has been no press coverage of the event. The only media member scheduled to appear at the event, according to documents obtained by WND, was the Wall Street Journal's Mary Anastasia O'Grady.

http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52063

Bush Administration Advances on Path of Creating North American Union

by Jerome R. Corsi
Posted Sep 21, 2006

In the face of mounting public awareness and criticism, the Bush Administration is launching an offensive to claim that those arguing issues of NAFTA Super-Highways, a North American Union, or a new currency called the “Amero” are largely Internet conspiracy theorists whose claims should be dismissed as imaginary.

Several months ago, few U.S. citizens had ever heard of the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP). Now, SPP.gov, the Department of Commerce website dedicated to advancing the Security and Prosperity Partnership, has been forced to add a new “Myths v. Facts” section aimed at debunking arguments made that SPP.gov is advancing an agenda to create a new regional government, along the model of the European Union.

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=17142

North America confab 'undermines' democracy

Attendee of high-level meeting says officials wanted to hide it from public

Posted: September 21, 2006
1:00 a.m. Eastern

By Jerome R. Corsi
© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com

A closed-door meeting of high-level government and business leaders that discussed the merger of North America was designed to subvert the democratic process, charged an attendee of the confab in Banff, Canada.

Mel Hurtig, a noted Canadian author and publisher who was the elected leader of the National Party of Canada, provided WND the agenda and attendee list of the North American Forum at the Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel in Banff, Alberta, Sept. 12-14.

Hurtig said the "secret meeting was designed to undermine the democratic process."

"What is sinister about this meeting is that it involved high level government officials and some of the top and most powerful business leaders of the three countries and the North American Forum in organizing the meeting intentionally did not inform the press in any of the three countries," he said. "It was clear that the intention was to keep this important meeting about integrating the three countries out of the public eye."

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52074

NAFTA highway or new silk road?

By William Hawkins
September 24, 2006

On Sept. 7, the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP), a government office established in March to increase cooperation between the United States, Canada and Mexico, released a progress report. Among its achievements was creation of an American Competitiveness Council to enhance North America's posture in the struggle for hotly contested global markets.

Unfortunately, major events are already unfolding that will undermine this belated attempt to respond to ambitious rivals who have been piling up ever-higher trade surpluses at the expense of American-based enterprises.

A flurry of articles over the summer painted the SPP as a step toward a North American Union that would submerge national sovereignty and open the U.S. to mass migration and political corruption. Human Events launched the story from the right, but it spread across the spectrum to the Daily Kos on the left.

One focus of the articles was a planned corridor of highways and railroads from Mexico into the American Midwest dubbed the "NAFTA Highway." Some of the stories sought to revisit the debate over the North American Free Trade Agreement, but what is really behind this transportation network heralds the collapse of NAFTA and its dream of a stronger continental economy. NAFTA was supposed to combine cheap Mexican labor with U.S. capital and technology to improve competition with Asian rivals. C. Fred Bergsten and Jeffrey Schott, of the Institute for International Economics, testified to Congress in 1997: "We wanted to shift imports from other countries to Mexico -- since our imports from Mexico include more U.S. content and because Mexico spends much more of its export earnings on imports from the United States than do, say, the East Asian countries."

Imports from Mexico grew rapidly in the 1990s on this model, but that is not what drives activity now. Today, the massive wave of imports from Asia is clogging West Coast ports and sending shippers and retailers searching for new routes to bring even more foreign products into the United States. Container ship traffic from China is growing by 15 percent a year. Between 2003 and 2005, annual imports from China rose by $92.2 billion, and from other parts of Asia by $41.0 billion.

The final terminus of the planned transport network is the Kansas City, Mo., SmartPort. Its Web site proclaims, "The idea of receiving containers nonstop from the Far East by way of Mexico may sound unlikely, but... that seemingly far-fetched notion will become a reality."

The Chinese firm Hutchison Whampoa has partnered with Wal-Mart in a $300 million expansion of Lazaro Cardenas to handle perhaps 2 million containers annually by the end of the decade. The American Chamber of Commerce in Guangdong, China, has held seminars promoting this Mexican port. Punta Colonet, about 150 miles south of Tijuana, is also eyed for expansion to offload millions of additional containers filled with Asian imports. Kansas City Southern railway has bought the Mexican rail links and the State of Texas is negotiating with a Spanish firm to build a corridor of toll roads from the border heading north.

While American-based manufacturers will continue to suffer under the barrage of Chinese goods, Mexican industry will be smashed flat by what should be called a new Silk Road rather than a NAFTA highway. The economic development goals of NAFTA are being abandoned.

More than 600 of the maquiladoras assembly plants along the U.S.-Mexican border have relocated to China, leaving their Mexican workers behind. There is little chance for Mexican wages to rise if at $1.50 an hour they can be undercut by Chinese labor at 50 cents an hour. NAFTA was to be a way to lift Mexicans out of poverty and stem illegal immigration to America. A similar argument was made last year about the Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA). As South Carolina Republican Rep. Bob Inglis said during that floor debate, "I stand here convinced that it is the best strategy available to combine with our neighbors to the south to compete with the Chinese."

The new transport plans make a mockery of these arguments, as they are aimed purely at helping China improve its competitive advantage over all North and Central American rivals. What is being built is truly a "Highway of Death" for both NAFTA and CAFTA. The resulting regional turmoil will be felt in the United States.

It is well past time to rethink the sophistry of "free trade" with China. Instead of spending billions of private and public funds aiding Chinese traders, a major effort should be launched to rebuild and expand the North American production base, and to stem the massive outflow of capital and technology to Beijing, America's ambitious geopolitical rival. A key part of that effort would be to restructure NAFTA to create a true trade bloc that would drive Chinese goods off the continent, rather than into its heartland.

http://washingtontimes.com/commentary/20060923-084008-4624r.htm

A road of apprehension swerves superhighway idea
By WILLIAM PETROSKI
REGISTER STAFF WRITER

September 24, 2006

The speculation is rampant: Mexican truck drivers, high on cocaine and working days without sleep, will haul cargo through Iowa on Interstate Highway 35, part of a North American free-trade superhighway.

Some U.S. soil will be declared sovereign Mexican territory to handle freight, and thousands of additional American jobs will head south of the border. A mega-highway in Texas - six lanes for cars and four lanes for trucks, plus space for railroads and pipelines - will help funnel the massive shipments of goods up and down the North American corridor, from Mexican ports through the central United States to Canada.

Is this truth or fiction driven by Internet conspiracy theorists?

Iowa business and government leaders acknowledge they are promoting existing Interstate highways 29, 35 and 94 as a free-trade corridor linked to the North American Free Trade Agreement, known as NAFTA. The Iowa Department of Transportation is a charter member of the North American SuperCorridor Coalition, based in Dallas, Texas, and the Iowa Motor Truck Association, representing the state's trucking industry, is a strong supporter.

The Iowa leaders reject the idea, though, that they are promoting plans that would undermine the state's economy, threaten the jobs of Iowa workers or jeopardize highway safety. Questions have been repeatedly raised about the superhighway corridor plans by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, and conservative online publications, such as Human Events and Worldnet Daily.

"These people are conjuring up a globalist scheme that we are going to have this North American country. It is pretty hard to characterize these people as anything other than paranoid," said Dale Vander Schaaf, an Iowa DOT policy analyst who is treasurer of the North American SuperCorridor Coalition.

The frenzy over the superhighway corridor has been so intense that Tiffany Melvin, the coalition's executive director, issued a public statement earlier this month trying to defuse critics.

Although her organization has endorsed construction of the proposed Texas mega-highway, she blamed Internet "watchdog groups" for confusing her organization's mission.

The coalition does favor increased supply chain efficiencies along existing I-35, I-29, and I-94, but there are no plans for a "mid-continent NAFTA superhighway," she said.

Much debate has been prompted by Texas Gov. Rick Perry's endorsement of the "Trans Texas Corridor," which would include construction of a mega-highway parallel to I-35 within his state. The toll-road, twice the width of the existing interstate highway, is aimed at easing serious traffic congestion on existing I-35 in Texas. Texas also supports a 1,600-mile national highway project through eight states on Interstate Highway 69, but it wouldn't pass through Iowa.

Tom Kane, executive director of the Des Moines Area Metropolitan Planning Organization, participated in a conference in Winnipeg, Canada, in June sponsored by the North American Super Corridor Coalition.

Kane said the idea of expanding I-35 in Iowa into a mega-highway has never been discussed. Instead, Iowans are seeking high-tech methods of managing freight and better cooperation to expedite exports of Iowa products on I-35 and I-29, he said.

One example of modern trucking technology, known as "Prepass," is used in Iowa on I-35 and Interstate Highway 80. Trucks preapproved for safety standards and other requirements have electronic communications gear on their dashboards, allowing them to roll past highway weigh stations without stopping. Federal officials have directly awarded $2.25 million to the super corridor coalition "for the development of a technology integration and tracking project" to improve the security and efficiency of cross-border trade.

"This is not a Mexican issue, a U.S. issue, or a Canadian issue," Kane said. "What we are talking about is keeping North America competitive against the European Union, South Asia, China, whatever. It is not about sending jobs to Mexico. The Mexicans are losing jobs to Asia. They are too expensive for business."

In Kansas City, Mo., plans have been made to establish a Mexican customs facility to permit southbound trucks carrying U.S.-made products to quickly clear customs, avoiding logjams on the U.S.-Mexican border. But the first-of-its-kind idea, which is under final review by the U.S. State Department, has drawn fire from conservatives who claim the Kansas City facility may have to be considered sovereign Mexican land.

Chris Gutierrez, president of Kansas City SmartPort Inc., a non-profit group promoting the customs facility, said the critics are wrong. The land would be owned by Kansas City, and the building owned by his organization. "There will not be any sovereign territory" for Mexico, he said.

Iowa would benefit from the Mexican customs facility, and SmartPort wants to work with Des Moines-area officials to consolidate trucking shipments with the goal of expediting the flow of Iowa-made manufactured goods to Mexico, Gutierrez said.

Kane of the Des Moines metro planning group said Iowa officials are aware of the proposed Mexican customs facility in Kansas City, but have not taken a formal stance for or against it.

The Teamsters union has been a major critic of free-trade highway plans. An article published in August in the Teamster magazine detailed interviews with Mexican truck drivers who told how they drove for days without sleep, fueled by cocaine and methamphetamine while earning about $1,100 a month.

Mexican truckers are now restricted to roads near the U.S. border. The Teamsters are concerned the Bush administration wants Mexican truck drivers to drive freely on all U.S. highways.

Teamster President Jim Hoffa, in a Detroit News column, said plans for a NAFTA superhighway would "allow global conglomerates to capitalize by exploiting cheap labor and nonexistent work rules and avoiding potential security enhancements at U.S. ports."

The problem is not Mexican truck drivers, but flawed trade agreements that pit worker against worker, he said.

Ian Grossman, a spokesman for the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration in Washington, D.C., said talks are continuing between U.S. and Mexican officials about expanding cross-border trucking operations, but no decisions have been reached.

"Opening the border has been and remains a top priority for the administration," he added.

Scott Weiser, president of the Iowa Motor Truck Association, said he can't answer for certain whether Mexican truck drivers will be hauling freight on Iowa's highways, but he believes the public shouldn't be concerned.

"No one will operate a truck in the United States who is less qualified than an American truck driver, period. Anyone who is operating here will be subject to the same drug testing, commercial driver's license, background checks, fingerprinting - all the things that go along with driving," Weiser said.

http://desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060924/BUSINESS04/609240333/1033

N. American students trained for 'merger'

10 universities participate in 'model Parliament' in Mexico to simulate 'integration' of 3 nations

Posted: September 25, 2006
1:00 a.m. Eastern

© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com

WASHINGTON – In another example of the way the three nations of North America are being drawn into a federation, or "merger," students from 10 universities in the U.S., Mexico and Canada are participating annually in a simulated "model Parliament."

WorldNetDaily (http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52104)

September 26, 2006

$25-M log suit?

U.S forest company claims NAFTA violation

By CP

VANCOUVER -- A U.S.-based forest company is threatening to sue the Canadian government for at least $25 million for allegedly violating NAFTA by upholding B.C. restrictions on raw log exports.

Merrill and Ring Forestry of Port Angeles, Wash., claims it's being forced to sell timber from its private B.C. woodlots to mills in the province at below market prices.

winnipegsun.com (http://winnipegsun.com/Business/2006/09/26/1899620-sun.html)

I didn't know NAFTA regulations were already intact and in place ...

Documents disclose 'shadow government'

Indicate U.S. far advanced in constructing bureaucracy united with Mexico, Canada

Posted: September 26, 2006
1:00 p.m. Eastern

© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com

Government documents released by a Freedom of Information Act request reveal the Bush administration is running a "shadow government" with Mexico and Canada in which the U.S. is crafting a broad range of policy in conjunction with its neighbors to the north and south, asserts WND columnist and author Jerome R. Corsi.

WorldNetDaily (http://wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52164)

Now ain't that cute. Same idea pushed on us through South Park when the future folks were invading. White men decided they would rather be gay instead helping make the world a better place.


Aside from the fact that's it's funny it's a scary thought isn't it? :D

Texas Eagle Forum president: Fight Trans-Texas Corridor, North American Union

Ruth Campbell<br>Staff Writer
Midland Reporter-Telegram

09/27/2006

Border security doesn't seem to matter to politicians, there is a move afoot to create a North American Union where the United States, Canada and Mexico would essentially be one market with a single currency -- the "Amero," a top Texas Eagle Forum official said Tuesday.

MyWestTexas.com (http://www.mywesttexas.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=17250489&BRD=2288&PAG=461&dept_id=475626&rfi=6)

winnipegsun.com (http://winnipegsun.com/Business/2006/09/26/1899620-sun.html)

I didn't know NAFTA regulations were already intact and in place ...

Canada defends timber export rules

2006-09-28
by BRIAN GAWLEY

PORT ANGELES -- The government of Canada is reviewing the $25 million damage claim filed this week by Merrill & Ring but has no intention of changing the log export rules that prompted it.

peninsuladailynews.com (http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/sited/story/html/264390)

Top U.S. official chaired N. America-confab panel

Agency says he attended secretive meeting in official capacity as assistant secretary

Posted: September 28, 2006
1:00 a.m. Eastern

By Jerome Corsi
© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com

At the recent high-level confab of the North American Forum in Banff, an assistant U.S. secretary of state chaired a panel that featured a presentation by Prof. Robert Pastor, author of a book promoting the development of a North American union as a regional government and the adoption of the amero as a common monetary currency to replace the dollar and the peso.

State Department spokesman Eric Watnik confirmed to WND that Thomas A. Shannon attended the Sept. 12-14 meeting of the North American Forum in his official capacity as assistant secretary of state for Western Hemisphere Affairs.

WorldNetDaily (http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52186)

Pat Buchanan

WND Commentary How to bring manufacturing back home

Posted: September 29, 2006
1:00 a.m. Eastern

In July, our trade deficit hit yet another all-time record, $68 billion, an annual rate of $816 billion. Imports surged to $188 billion for the month, as our dependency on foreigners for the vital necessities of our national life ever deepens.

China's trade surplus with us was $19.6 billion for July alone, moving toward an all-time record of $235 billion for 2006 – the largest trade deficit one country has ever run with another. Our deficit with Mexico is running at an annual rate of $60 billion. With Canada, it is $70 billion. So much for NAFTA. With the European Union, it is running at $160 billion.

America as the most self-sufficient republic in history is history. For decades, U.S. factories have been closing. Three million manufacturing jobs have disappeared since Bush arrived. Ford and GM are fighting for their lives.

WorldNetDaily (http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52208)

NAFTA has hurt living standards, think-tank says

Reuters

Wed Sep 27, 2:14 PM ET

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The North American Free Trade Agreement has lowered the standard of living for workers in the United States, Mexico and Canada, according to a new report.

Yahoo! News (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060927/wl_canada_nm/canada_economy_nafta_col)

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YouTube Video: WHOSE AMERICA?: Lou Dobbs on The North American Union (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCXc8j05Y3w)

I tried to wrap QUOTES around this but this is what I got when I just had the headline plus the inserted link. :confused:

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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

© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com

http://www.wnd.com/images2/goode.jpg
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 – (http://www.thomas.gov/cgi-bin/query/C?c109:./temp/~c1098CK7nV) 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 (http://www.wnd.com/news/archives.asp?AUTHOR_ID=246) 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."

WorldNetDaily (http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52230)

October 2, 2006

Congress says pesticide regulations costing farmers money

By Nicole Duarte
Medill News Service
October 1, 2006

WASHINGTON - Congressman again railed federal regulators for dragging their feet in implementing an important pesticide law that would allow American farmers to cross into Canada to buy lower-priced pesticides.

Lawmakers on the Agriculture subcommittee on conservation, credit, rural development and research, peppered representatives of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and a state agriculture department with questions as to why the government has been slow in carrying out cross-border provisions of the 1993 North American Free Trade Agreement.

The Tribune (http://www.greeleytrib.com/article/20061001/NEWS/110010123)

North American Union Escapes Scrutiny

by Tom Fitton
Posted Oct 03, 2006

Judicial Watch uncovered documents (http://www.judicialwatch.org/SPP.shtml) that shed new light on the “Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America,” announced by President Bush, former Mexico President Vicente Fox and Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin on March 23, 2005.

The expressed goal of the partnership is to create “a safer, more prosperous North America” through enhanced cooperation between the United States, Mexico and Canada. Critics, however, charge that it is a veiled attempt to erase the borders between the countries, creating a “North American Union,” much like the “European Union,” with a common currency. (Under such an arrangement, the U.S. would obviously sacrifice aspects of its sovereignty.) Little has been reported about the inner workings of the partnership in the mainstream press, which is one reason why Judicial Watch decided to investigate.

Our investigations team is still in the process of analyzing the documents released to Judicial Watch in response to its Freedom of Information Act request. But what we have uncovered so far is intriguing. The partnership’s “working groups,” include officials from 10 federal agencies, including Commerce, State, and Homeland Security. These officials, in cooperation with representatives from Mexico and Canada, are addressing a wide variety of topics behind closed-doors, including the movement of goods between countries, traveler security, energy, environment and health.

Some of the more disturbing material, we found in documents concerning the North American Competitiveness Council. The council consists of 30 members, 10 each from the United States, Mexico and Canada, and is responsible for making recommendations to the partnership on a variety of topics. Judicial Watch uncovered its recommendations and meeting minutes. To give you a sampling of just how dangerous this partnership could become, here is what the council recommended on border enforcement: “A reasonable grace period should be established at border crossings, during which time people lacking documents are educated about their options and allowed to pass.” Can you imagine the chaos created at the U.S. border with Mexico if such an insane policy were ever enacted?

While these documents raise many additional questions, one thing is clear about the North American partnership announced just over a year ago: This is not simply a theoretical exercise. These “working groups” are spending your tax money to this project. The project is not about the North American capitals “synchronizing their watches” and making sure they have the right numbers to call in case of emergency. It is about changes in policy and regulations on a host of important issues–including border security. And it’s all happening without any fanfare or much media scrutiny. Judicial Watch will continue to push for transparency in this process.

Human Events (http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=17334)

GRE sues in row over NAFTA, seeks $340m payout

By Steve Buist, Joan Walters
The Hamilton Spectator
(Oct 3, 2006)

Don't be fooled by the modest appearance of the Grand River Enterprises cigarette factory on the Six Nations reserve.

When it comes to court challenges, GRE knows how to play hardball in the big leagues.

Grand River Enterprises is taking on the United States government in a massive $340 million US case launched two years ago over a dispute that has the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) at its core.

Hamilton Spectator (http://www.hamiltonspectator.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=hamilton/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1159825813392&call_pageid=1020420665036&col=1014656511815)

QUIETLY, QUIETLY BUILDING THE NORTH AMERICAN UNION

By Steven Yates
October 5, 2006
NewsWithViews.com

Just when you thought it might be safe to go on to topics other than regional integration and trade practices driven by the love of money and the lust for power, you get blindsided again.

While ordinary Americans were reflecting on the fifth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, globalists of Canada, the U.S. and Mexico were making their way quietly, quietly, to Banff, Alberta for the North American Forum held at the Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel (http://www.banffcragandcanyon.com/News/255375.html) Sept. 12–14. The meeting was closed-doors. According to some reports buses with attendees were arriving at night. There was no print media coverage in the U.S. and very little in Canada; I was able to download an article from the Toronto-based Star. Those who do not get their news from the Internet remain in the dark about one of the biggest unfolding events of the present decade: the globalist social engineering of a North American Union.

NewsWithViews.com (http://www.newswithviews.com/Yates/steven23.htm)

Mexico mega-port plan key to 'NAFTA superhighways'

Facility to be linked by rail, road to U.S., serve as hub for more Chinese goods

Posted: October 7, 2006
1:00 a.m. Eastern

© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com

WASHINGTON – There are mixed signals coming from Mexico about the fate of a proposed mega-port in Baja California for mainly Chinese goods that would be shipped on rail lines and "NAFTA superhighways" running through the U.S. to Canada.

The port at Punta Colonet, planned as a major container facility to transfer Asian goods into America's heartland, got at least a temporary setback when a Mexican businessman announced a competing project in which he was seeking to secure mineral rights in the area.

Gabriel Chavez, originally one of the principal movers behind the port plan, now says there are significant amounts of titanium and iron to be mined offshore – a project he considers more important than the port.

WorldNetDaily (http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52242)

Congressman Paul Opposes NAFTA Superhighway

October 4, 2006

Washington: Congressman Ron Paul joined several of his congressional colleagues in expressing outrage at the planned “NAFTA superhighway” that will require eminent domain actions on an enormous scale in Texas and beyond. H.Con.Res 487, introduced by Virginia Representative Virgil Goode and cosponsored by Paul, expresses the sense of Congress that the United States should not engage in the construction of a NAFTA superhighway or enter into any plans to create a North American Union between Canada, the U.S., and Mexico.

Plans for such a superhighway are part of the so-called “Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP), which is neither a treaty nor a formal agreement. Rather, the SPP is a "dialogue" launched by the heads of state of Canada, Mexico, and the United States at a summit in Waco, Texas in March 2005.

According to the SPP website, this dialogue will create new supra-national organizations to coordinate border security, health policy, economic and trade policy, and energy policy between the three governments. As such, it is but an extension of the NAFTA and CAFTA agreements-- government trade schemes that bypass the express constitutional authority of Congress to regulate trade.

“This is a matter of national sovereignty,” Paul stated. “Any movement toward a North American Union diminishes the ability of average Americans to influence the laws under which they must live. The SPP agreement, which includes plans for a major transnational superhighway through Texas, is moving forward without congressional oversight-- and that is an outrage. The administration needs a strong message from Congress that the American people will not tolerate backroom deals that threaten our sovereignty.”

Ron Paul's Press Releases (http://www.house.gov/paul/press/press2006/pr100406.htm)

Polling Data

As you may know, Canada, the United States and Mexico entered into the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in 1992 to reduce trade barriers and allow for a North American trading zone for the greater flow of goods and services between these countries. This agreement came into force in 1994. Thinking over the past few years, do you think that, on the whole, Canada/ The United States has been a winner or a loser as a result of this trade agreement?

Canada U.S.

Winner

37% 47%

Loser

63% 53%

Source: Ipsos-Reid / Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars / Canada Institute on North American Issues
Methodology: Online interviews with 1,173 adult Canadians and 1,038 adult Americans, conducted from Sept. 21 to Sept. 26, 2006. Margin of error is 3.1 per cent.

Angus Reid Global Monitor (http://www.angus-reid.com/polls/index.cfm/fuseaction/viewItem/itemID/13417)

U.S. to Be Part of North American Union?

James H. Walsh

Monday, Oct. 9, 2006

After all was said and done, the U.S. Congress finally managed to pass immigration legislation in the year 2006.

On Sept. 14, the U.S. House of Representatives passed The Secure Fence Act of 2006 (H.R. 6061); and the U.S. Senate, late on Sept. 29, voted for a bill (S. 80-19), endorsing the House version. Sen. Teddy Kennedy, D-Mass., spokesman for the anti-fence forces, was conspicuous by his absence at the vote.

The House and Senate bills authorize the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to construct a fence along sections of the U.S.-Mexican border.

NewsMax.com (http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2006/10/9/91556.shtml?s=lh)

Free-trade report says outsourcing deals led to Woodburn plant closing

Shutdown is cited as an example of trade agreements' negative impact

MICHAEL ROSE
Statesman Journal

October 11, 2006

A group backed by opponents of expanding U.S. free trade pacts released a study Tuesday that blamed outsourcing and foreign competition for draining 68,000 jobs from Oregon.

StatesmanJournal.com (http://159.54.226.83/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061011/BUSINESS/610110313/1040)

Labor blames NAFTA for loss of 45,000 jobs

Campaign urges senators to challenge free trade pact with Peru

Tam Moore
Capital Press Staff Writer

The Oregon AFL-CIO and its partner, the Oregon Fair Trade Campaign, this week took on U.S. free trade agreements and overseas outsourcing.

In the past decade, starting with signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement in 1993, the campaign claims a loss of 45,000 jobs - from the closure of a french fry plant at Hermiston, Ore., to a beet sugar factory in Nyssa.

Tom Chamberlin, the AFL-CIO state president, said in an Oct. 10 telephone news conference that the Oregon Department of Labor put the job loss at just 32,000. He said that's because the state doesn't count any secondary job losses.

The campaign released a 28-page report filled with personal stories of Oregonians who lost their jobs. It claims 68,000 jobs lost, including some in the farm and forest sectors that supplied the plants that went down.

Arthur Stamoulis, director of the campaign, said NAFTA supporters' claims that the trade agreement created U.S. jobs aren't backed up by facts, and "New jobs (in Oregon) pay $9,000 less (per year) because they are in the service sector."

Diego Castelanoz, the former mayor of Nyssa and a one-time Amalgamated Sugar worker, said in the report that NAFTA shifts in sugar quotas were the cause of his employer shutting down.

Angela Kile, a Hermiston woman who lost her job when J.R. Simplot shuttered the french fry plant, called herself lucky.

She went back to college. "I'm only 29, and I can start a new career., I'm not 60 years old," Kile told reporters.

Stamoulis used the news conference to urge Oregon's U.S. senators to question the most recent free trade pact with Peru. It is expected to come up for ratification in a short congressional session after the November elections.

Gary Hufbauer, an economist who wrote a review of NAFTA published one year ago, told a Sacramento conference earlier this year that concerns over jobs dominated NAFTA debate even before the treaty was signed.

"Job counting has become a popular, if misinformed, way to evaluate NAFTA," Hufbauer said. His data show 123.1 million Americans working in 1994, and 139.3 million working in 2004.

To get a handle on net impact of a trade agreement, Hufbauer said, one needs to count jobs gained as a result of increased export sales as well as jobs lost by plant closures.

Tam Moore is based in Medford, Ore. His e-mail address is tmoore@capitalpress.com.

Capital Press (http://www.capitalpress.info/main.asp?SectionID=67&SubSectionID=618&ArticleID=27975&TM=64425.91)

Anti-North American Union Resolution Introduced (by Mary Benoit)
by Mary Benoit
October 14, 2006


A nonbinding resolution sponsored by Rep. Virgil Goode (R-Va.), and cosponsored by Reps. Walter Jones (R-N.C.), Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.), and Ron Paul (R-Texas), brings official opposition to the creation of the North American Union and the NAFTA Superhighway.



The resolution expresses the sense of Congress that:

(1) the United States should not engage in the construction of a North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) Superhighway System;

(2) the United States should not enter into a North American Union with Mexico and Canada; and

(3) the president should indicate strong opposition to these or any other proposals that threaten the sovereignty of the United States.

thenewamerican.com (http://www.thenewamerican.com/artman/publish/article_4265.shtml)

YouTube - NAFTA: Ten Years of Broken Promises (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNLnBnTuxvU)

The North American Free Trade Agreement was supposed to raise living standards for both American and Mexican workers. Instead America has lost jobs by the thousands and Mexican workers are being exploited. Now the Bush Administration wants to extend the same types of agreements to the rest of Latin America, China and India. Tell Congress not to accept these exploitive agreements. (Running time - 9:28)

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Taxpayer dollars support U.S.-Mexico merger plot

'Continental future' promoted at elite, tax-funded American University center

Posted: October 17, 2006
1:00 a.m. Eastern

By Joseph Farah
© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com

WASHINGTON – The master plan for merging the U.S., Mexico and Canada is being devised in American University's Center for North American Studies whose faculty is subsidized by the U.S. State Department through the Fulbright Program.

WorldNetDaily (http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52467)

Labor organizations file NAFTA complaint against N.C.
10/18/2006 3:26 PM
By: News 14 Carolina Staff

RALEIGH -- More than two dozen labor organizations from Mexico, the U.S. and Canada say they're fighting for justice.

News 14 Carolina (http://rdu.news14.com/content/headlines/?ArID=92720&SecID=2)

Resolution seeks to head off union with Mexico, Canada
Howard Phillips building coalition behind congressional measure

Posted: October 25, 2006
1:00 a.m. Eastern

© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com

A coalition spearheaded by Conservative Caucus Chairman Howard Phillips, author Jerome Corsi and activist Phyllis Schlafly is launching an effort today in support of a proposed congressional resolution that denounces any effort by the U.S. to enter into a North American Union with Mexico and Canada.

WorldNetDaily (http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52604)

'North American Union' major '08 issue?
Coalition mobilizes grass roots, targets Washington lawmakers

Posted: October 26, 2006
1:00 a.m. Eastern

© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com

A coalition united by its determination to stop efforts to merge the U.S. into a North American Union is organizing a grass-roots effort to make it an issue in 2008, vowing to campaign against any candidate, Republican or Democrat, who won't side with them.

Spearheaded by Conservative Caucus Chairman Howard Phillips; WND columnist (http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/archives.asp?AUTHOR_ID=246) and author Jerome Corsi; and activist Phyllis Schlafly, leaders of the 50-member coalition held an event at the National Press Club yesterday, expressing support for a proposed congressional resolution that denounces any effort by the U.S. to enter into a North American Union with Mexico and Canada.

Corsi said lawmakers need to be held accountable, and the plan, along with calling for a congressional investigation, is to train members of Schlafly's Eagle Forum (http://www.eagleforum.org/) to lobby on Capitol Hill when the 100th Congress convenes in January.

"We want to make it a major issue of the 2008 campaign," Corsi said. "The coalition will work to oppose any candidate who doesn't sign on, Republicans and Democrats alike."

WorldNetDaily (http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52621)

Congressmen: Superhighway about North American Union

Paul says goal is common currency, borderless travel, bigger bureaucracy

Posted: October 30, 2006
12:41 p.m. Eastern

© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com

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Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas

WASHINGTON – Rep. Ron Paul, a maverick Republican from Texas, today denounced plans for the proposed "NAFTA superhighway" in his state as part of a larger plot for merger of the U.S., Canada and Mexico (http://www.ask.com/web?o=1099&qsrc=65&q=mexico) into a North American Union.

WorldNetDaily (http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52684)

The NAFTA Superhighway

by Ron Paul (http://www.house.gov/paul/mail/welcome.htm)

By now many Texans have heard about the proposed “NAFTA Superhighway,” which is also referred to as the trans-Texas corridor. What you may not know is the extent to which plans for such a superhighway are moving forward without congressional oversight or media attention.

This superhighway would connect Mexico, the United States, and Canada, cutting a wide swath through the middle of Texas and up through Kansas City. Offshoots would connect the main artery to the west coast, Florida, and northeast. Proponents envision a ten-lane colossus the width of several football fields, with freight and rail lines, fiber-optic cable lines, and oil and natural gas pipelines running alongside.

This will require coordinated federal and state eminent domain actions on an unprecedented scale, as literally millions of people and businesses could be displaced. The loss of whole communities is almost certain, as planners cannot wind the highway around every quaint town, historic building, or senior citizen apartment for thousands of miles.

Governor Perry is a supporter of the superhighway project, and Congress has provided small amounts of money to study the proposal. Since this money was just one item in an enormous transportation appropriations bill, however, most members of Congress were not aware of it.

The proposed highway is part of a broader plan advanced by a quasi-government organization called the “Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America,” or SPP.

The SPP was first launched in 2005 by the heads of state of Canada, Mexico, and the United States at a summit in Waco.

The SPP was not created by a treaty between the nations involved, nor was Congress involved in any way. Instead, the SPP is an unholy alliance of foreign consortiums and officials from several governments. One principal player is a Spanish construction company, which plans to build the highway and operate it as a toll road. But don’t be fooled: the superhighway proposal is not the result of free market demand, but rather an extension of government-managed trade schemes like NAFTA that benefit politically-connected interests.

The real issue is national sovereignty. Once again, decisions that affect millions of Americans are not being made by those Americans themselves, or even by their elected representatives in Congress. Instead, a handful of elites use their government connections to bypass national legislatures and ignore our Constitution – which expressly grants Congress the sole authority to regulate international trade.

The ultimate goal is not simply a superhighway, but an integrated North American Union – complete with a currency, a cross-national bureaucracy, and virtually borderless travel within the Union. Like the European Union, a North American Union would represent another step toward the abolition of national sovereignty altogether.

A new resolution, introduced by Representative Virgil Goode of Virginia, expresses the sense of Congress that the United States should not engage in the construction of a NAFTA superhighway, or enter into any agreement that advances the concept of a North American Union. I wholeheartedly support this legislation, and predict that the superhighway will become a sleeper issue in the 2008 election.

October 31, 2006

LewRockwell.com (http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul349.html)

What do Mexico-beaners have, WE don’t have? The South West of U.S!

NAFTA Super Highway Debate Inflames Texas Governor's Race

by Jerome R. Corsi (http://www.humanevents.com/search.php?author_name=Jerome%20R.%20Corsi)
Posted Nov 03, 2006

In Texas, the Trans-Texas Corridor (http://www.keeptexasmoving.com/projects/ttc35/) (TTC-35) has become a major issue in the gubernatorial campaign where incumbent Republican Gov. Rick Perry (http://www.rickperry.org/) is viewed as a chief proponent for building this new, giant toll road parallel to Interstate-35.

HUMAN EVENTS (http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=17838)

Country’s destruction is now under way

By EDWARD MILTON VENTRESCA / Canyon Country, Calif.

Relatively few Americans are aware that the destruction of the United States is well under way. How can this be? It is because the federal government wants to entangle us in a North American Cooperative Security Act with Canada and Mexico.

This act will be used as a stepping stone to build a North American Union similar to the European Union. Our borders with Canada and Mexico will be erased, and we will be subjected to rulings from an unelected NAU governing body. We will lose our sovereignty and our constitutional protection.

This is not speculation. It is official government policy. If you don’t believe me, go to www.thenewamerican.com/artman/publish/article_4213.shtml for details.

Futhermore, as part of the NAU, the federal government plans to build a NAFTA super highway throughout our country. It will be linked to both Canada and Mexico. It is expected to be about a quarter-mile wide. The government will use the power of eminent domain to condemn private property for this highway.

Inspection stations will be moved from our borders to hundreds of miles inland because our borders will have been erased. This means that terrorists and contraband can easily enter our former independent United States.

Concerned citizens should contact their U.S. Senators and their U.S. representative and urge them to stop this so-called Security Act: S. 853 in the Senate, and H.R 2672 in the House of Representatives.

Coulee News (http://www.couleenews.com/articles/2006/11/04/opinion/ventrescalte.txt)

Truckers call for boycott of foreign-owned road

Union opposes tollway, Trans-Texas Corridor, Mexican drivers

Posted: November 10, 2006
1:00 a.m. Eastern

By Jerome R. Corsi
© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com

Truckers are being called on to boycott a decision by Indiana to lease a highway to foreign investment groups.

WorldNetDaily (http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52882)

Treason Abounds - Gov't Cabal Plots North American Union (NAU)

By Daneen G. Peterson, Ph.D.
September 4, 2006
updated 11/4/06

This research will reveal the betrayal of the American people by a government cabal who are bent on destroying our sovereignty in order to create a North American Union. The miscreants include many who function at the highest levels in our government. Many hold membership in the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and the Trilateral Commission and pursue a subversive agenda. The cabal is deliberately circumventing the U.S. Congress and 'We the People' in blatant violation of our Constitution. Collectively they are committing TREASON. If you continue to believe that the illegal alien invasion is the biggest threat to America, you will never understand that there is something far more dangerous to our country called the "Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America" (SPP). As bad as the illegal alien situation is . . . you will learn that this nation is in dire peril far exceeding the illegal alien problem.

Stop the North American Union (http://www.stopthenorthamericanunion.com/TreasonAbounds.html)

Stop "NAFTA Plus" by Repealing NAFTA

by John F. McManus
November 27, 2006

A growing number of Americans have already been alerted about plans to create a North American Union (NAU), merging the United States, Mexico, and Canada. While news of this monstrous betrayal has yet to reach most fellow citizens, widespread awareness about the enormous harm caused by NAFTA already exists. Closed factories, lost jobs, more open borders, even judicial panels overruling U.S. court decisions are NAFTA's legacy. Now, the newly crafted NAU, rightly dubbed "NAFTA Plus," is being steered toward enactment by some of the very same people who gave us NAFTA in the first place.

The New American (http://www.thenewamerican.com/artman/publish/article_4320.shtml)

North American Union exposed during Senate Debate
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ne1_Hf0Yqo&mode=related&search=

London stock trader urges move to 'amero'

Says many unaware of plan to replace dollar with N. American currency

Posted: November 28, 2006
1:00 a.m. Eastern

By Jerome R. Corsi
© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com

In an interview with CNBC, a vice president for a prominent London investment firm yesterday urged a move away from the dollar to the "amero," a coming North American currency, he said, that "will have a big impact on everybody's life, in Canada, the U.S. and Mexico."

WorldNetDaily (http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53124)

The North American Union!!! Can it be stopped? Will it be Stopped? Who will stop it?
http://www.vnnforum.com/showthread.php?t=41140

November 30 - December 2, 2006

How many will attend this Party???
http://www.vnnforum.com/showpost.php?p=460178&postcount=13

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http://www.kcmo.org/International.nsf/web/naw

The North America Works Conference will focus on key issues that affect North American competitiveness and entrepreneurial development.

Building North American Competitiveness: This topic will involve more than 150 transportation, logistics and economic development specialists from across Mexico, the United States and Canada when they meet in Kansas City. Working together, the North American countries will be positioned to address the dramatic changes that are occurring in the global economy.

The event is co-presented by the City of Kansas City, Mo., International Affairs and Trade Office and the Council of the Americas/Business Committee.

The topic is an extension of the 2005 North America Works Conference held for the first time in Kansas City. Now, joining with the Council of the Americas/North American Business Committee, this forum entitled North America Works II will draw senior business managers and government officials intent on taking a leadership role in public policy and helping to shape North American economic relations.

You are invited to crash this party today
be an integral part of this ground-breaking initiative.

Under a new, exciting format, North America Works II will include roundtable discussions and group dialogue around such topics as:

The impact of transportation infrastructure on North American competitiveness and the creation of a North American transportation strategy

The Security and Prosperity Partnership and the North American Competitiveness Initiative

The role of urban regions in North American competitiveness
Building informed and active constituencies for North American integration in government, the media and the academic community

Registration fee: $175
The fee includes two working breakfasts, a working lunch, an opening night dinner, North America Night closing reception, “exclusive” Hunt Midwest SubTroplis tour and transportation to and from dinner, reception and tour.

Register online now.

Cancellation policy
Conference registrations canceled in writing on or before Nov. 20, 2006 are entitled to a refund, less $50 processing fee. Registrations canceled after Nov. 21, 2006 are non-refundable.

Accommodations
Kansas City Marriott Downtown
Code: OOIOOIA
200 W. 12th St.
Kansas City, MO 64105
Telephone: (800) 228-9290 or (816) 421-6800

Hotel reservations
Please make your reservation directly with the Kansas City Marriott Downtown on or before Nov. 16. There is a special conference rate of $96 plus tax. Indicate code OOIOOIA. Call (800) 228-9292 or (816) 421-6800. Identify yourself as a “North America Works II” attendee in order to receive the special room rate.

Airport and ground transportation information
The Kansas City Marriott Downtown is 22 miles from the Kansas City International Airport. Estimated taxi fare is $40. For shuttle and taxi information, call (816) 243-500, (800) 243-6383 or go online.

Driving instructions from KCI airport: Take I-29 South to Broadway/Highway 169 Exit. Take Broadway to 12th Street. Turn left on 12th Street, go one block east and hotel is on the left.

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Chinese have ownership in U.S. cargo monitors
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53271

A Chinese company with close ties to the communist government owns 49 percent of the Lockheed Martin subsidiary that is negotiating a contract with the North American SuperCorridor Coalition, Inc. – the Dallas-based trade association – to place cargo monitoring sensors along as superhighway stretching from Mexico to Canada.

China's Hutchinson Port Holdings entered into a $50 million joint venture in 2005 with Savi Technology, a Lockheed Martin wholly-owned subsidiary, to form a new company called Savi Networks LLC. Savi Technology owns 51 percent and Hutchinson Port Holdings, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Chinese holding company Hutchinson Whampoa Limited, holds the rest.

Lockheed Martin spokeswoman Leslie Holoweiko confirmed to WND that Savi Networks LLC is the company named in the contract currently being negotiated with NASCO to provide cargo sensors all along the NASCO I-35 super-corridor. If successfully negotiated, the contract would appear to give Hutchinson Holdings operational involvement all along the emerging I-35 NAFTA superhighway. Hutchinson Holdings also operates the port at Lázaro Cárdenas, Mexico.


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. According to the Washington, D.C., government watchdog Judicial Watch, a declassified U.S. government intelligence report that Judicial Watch obtained in a Freedom of Information Act request indicates Li is "directly connected to Beijing and is willing to use his business influence to further the aims of the Chinese Government."

A Judicial Watch complaint filed in 2002 at the time HWL was purchasing the then-bankrupt Global Crossing, notes Li Ka-Shing's holdings includes ports, telecom and energy assets around the world. Hutchinson Ports was forced to drop a bid to purchase Global Crossing when the Committee on Foreign Investments in the United States refused to approve the transaction on national security grounds.

Savi Networks LLC operates RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) equipment and software to track and manage containerized ocean-going cargo. According to the company, the goal of Savi Networks LLC is to install "active RFID equipment and software in participating ports around the world to provide users with information on the identity, location and status of their ocean cargo containers as they pass through such ports."

Conceivably, the Savi-installed RFID software would permit NASCO to track containers from the time they leave ports in China and the Far East to when they enter North America at Mexican ports such as Lázaro Cárdenas.

Data on the cargo could be read then by any sensor-reading station the Savi-NASCO project placed anywhere along what NASCO calls the North American SuperCorridor, generally identified by NASCO as incorporating Interstates 35, 29 and 94.

NASCO and Savi Networks LLC plan to put Savi sensor reading stations all the way north, to destinations in Canada such as Winnipeg.

The Savi technology includes an architecture designed to accommodate Automatic Identification Data Collection (AIDC) technologies, such as is used in barcodes, RFID technologies and Global Positioning Systems (GPS) that can track container ships on the ocean or the containers as they travel on land by truck or train.

The NASCO plan to use cargo tracking technology is consistent with the plans announced by the working groups in the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America, or SPP, to rely primarily on technology, instead of in-person inspection, to track and monitor containers entering the U.S.

As disclosed in the "2005 Report to Leaders" on the SPP website, FAST lanes and SENTRI software will be used extensively to "streamline the secure movement of low-risk traffic across our shared borders" with Mexico and Canada.

The Security and Prosperity Partnership was declared by President Bush, Mexico's President Fox and then-Prime Minister Paul Martin of Canada at their summit meeting in Waco, Texas, March 23, 2005.

Global Crossing was noted for turning Democratic National Committee chairman Terry McAuliffe's $100,000 investment into an $18 million personal fortune. The company's bold move to control the U.S. international fiber-optics network, however, ending in a corrupt, corporate meltdown that preceded the Enron debacle.