Bushists plot NAFTA Superhighway through Plains to bypass union ports

Pardon the winger source, but I got to it through Huffington. It's an important story nevertheless.

http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?print=yes&id=15497


Bush Administration Quietly Plans NAFTA Super Highway

by Jerome R. Corsi
Posted Jun 12, 2006

Quietly but systematically, the Bush Administration is advancing the plan to build a huge NAFTA Super Highway, four football-fields-wide, through the heart of the U.S. along Interstate 35, from the Mexican border at Laredo, Tex., to the Canadian border north of Duluth, Minn.

Once complete, the new road will allow containers from the Far East to enter the United States through the Mexican port of Lazaro Cardenas, bypassing the Longshoreman’s Union in the process. The Mexican trucks, without the involvement of the Teamsters Union, will drive on what will be the nation’s most modern highway straight into the heart of America. The Mexican trucks will cross border in FAST lanes, checked only electronically by the new “SENTRI” system. The first customs stop will be a Mexican customs office in Kansas City, their new Smart Port complex, a facility being built for Mexico at a cost of $3 million to the U.S. taxpayers in Kansas City.

As incredible as this plan may seem to some readers, the first Trans-Texas Corridor segment of the NAFTA Super Highway is ready to begin construction next year. Various U.S. government agencies, dozens of state agencies, and scores of private NGOs (non-governmental organizations) have been working behind the scenes to create the NAFTA Super Highway, despite the lack of comment on the plan by President Bush. The American public is largely asleep to this key piece of the coming “North American Union” that government planners in the new trilateral region of United States, Canada and Mexico are about to drive into reality.

Just examine the following websites to get a feel for the magnitude of NAFTA Super Highway planning that has been going on without any new congressional legislation directly authorizing the construction of the planned international corridor through the center of the country.

* NASCO, the North America SuperCorridor Coalition Inc., is a “non-profit organization dedicated to developing the world’s first international, integrated and secure, multi-modal transportation system along the International Mid-Continent Trade and Transportation Corridor to improve both the trade competitiveness and quality of life in North America.” Where does that sentence say anything about the USA? Still, NASCO has received $2.5 million in earmarks from the U.S. Department of Transportation to plan the NAFTA Super Highway as a 10-lane limited-access road (five lanes in each direction) plus passenger and freight rail lines running alongside pipelines laid for oil and natural gas. One glance at the map of the NAFTA Super Highway on the front page of the NASCO website will make clear that the design is to connect Mexico, Canada, and the U.S. into one transportation system.

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paid for by your tax dollars. When are we going to stop these government boondoggles where there is a negative return on investment save for the cronies that rake in the loot.

This woulkd be the eqwuivalent of the Dubai Ports deal if it is true and if it ever sees the light of day.

This is something that the left and right should agree on as symptomatic o the gutting of America for corporate purposes....And tnink of the security implications.

I don;t agree with the anti-immigration zealots -- but this would be a "last straw" for them if they think about it.

to do is build big highways to move big trucks.

and this plan would be too expensive for anyone to pull off even if they're serious.

the only acceptable mean long-distance transportation is electric powered railroads. Anyway they will give up when the oil price goes up.

...because this could be environmentally sound if that were the FIRST priority. A trucks-only express route from Mexico to Canada with a focus on efficiency and environmentalism, would force the industry to start applying the 'green' technology that is gathering dust because of other concerns.

We could let the BFEE build it(with their own money) so it is there when the people reclaim North America and its' infra-structure, and are put to use for the public interest.

there are other impacts (the mere building is) and it's hardly believable that biofuel could sustain this enterprise without other impacts on the US ecology. Train is the only real alternative, combined with hubs towards minor cities.

This is either:

a) Proof that this is just nonsense.
b) Put in there to distract rationale people into believing that this is nonsense, when in fact they are working on a more managable plan.

here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=1426431&mesg_id=1430024

Corsi has not created this.

Follow the links - I went to the links and am still reeling from the reality of the planning and the money already being spent and invested.

"Quietly but systematically, the Bush Administration is advancing the plan to build a huge NAFTA Super Highway, four football-fields-wide, through the heart of the U.S. along Interstate 35, from the Mexican border at Laredo, Tex., to the Canadian border north of Duluth, Minn.

Once complete, the new road will allow containers from the Far East to enter the United States through the Mexican port of Lazaro Cardenas, bypassing the Longshoreman’s Union in the process. The Mexican trucks, without the involvement of the Teamsters Union, will drive on what will be the nation’s most modern highway straight into the heart of America. The Mexican trucks will cross border in FAST lanes, checked only electronically by the new “SENTRI” system. The first customs stop will be a Mexican customs office in Kansas City, their new Smart Port complex, a facility being built for Mexico at a cost of $3 million to the U.S. taxpayers in Kansas City."

Then this from the same article:

"The American public is largely asleep to this key piece of the coming “North American Union” that government planners in the new trilateral region of United States, Canada and Mexico are about to drive into reality."

http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=15497 - WARNING this is a conservative website.

Here is the organization that is all set up and ready to proceed:

"North America’s SuperCorridor Coalition, Inc., is a non-profit organization dedicated to developing the world’s first international, integrated and secure, multi-modal transportation system along the International Mid-Continent Trade and Transportation Corridor to improve both the trade competitiveness and quality of life in North America.

The NASCO Corridor encompasses Interstate Highways 35, 29 and 94, and the significant east/west connectors to those highways in the United States, Canada and Mexico. The Corridor directly impacts the continental trade flow of North America. Membership includes public and private sector entities along the Corridor in Canada, the United States and Mexico.

From the largest border crossing in North America (The Ambassador Bridge in Detroit, Michigan and Windsor, Canada), to the second largest border crossing of Laredo, Texas and Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, extending to the deep water Ports of Manzanillo and Lazaro Cardenas, Mexico and to Manitoba, Canada, the impressive, tri-national NASCO membership truly reflects the international scope of the Corridor and the regions it impacts."

http://www.nascocorridor.com/pages/about/about.htm - be sure to look at the map.

It's a signed agreement already?

"The U.S. government has housed within the Department of Commerce (DOC) an “SPP office” that is dedicated to organizing the many working groups laboring within the executive branches of the U.S., Mexico and Canada to create the regulatory reality for the Security and Prosperity Partnership. The SPP agreement was signed by Bush, President Vicente Fox, and then-Prime Minister Paul Martin in Waco, Tex., on March 23, 2005."

http://www.spp.gov /

Here is the already set up website for the KC Smart Port.

http://www.kcsmartport.com /

Is this Clinton's legacy from NAFTA?

I am slowly changing my mind about the Clintons. I am beginning to feel betrayed more than I ever have in my life.

I googled Nafta Superhighway, and bloggers/journalists of all stripes have written about it; I never heard about it until today, probably because - as the article says - it's being promoted QUIETLY by GWB. That's probably the only reason this hasn't become, as another poster noted, a political bombshell on the order of the Dubai Ports issue. Otherwise, btw, why in the world would Corsi have made the rare move of writing an written that article basically *critical* of something being supported by GWB? (Think about it, people!)

Here's another article I found:

NAFTA Superhighways Threaten North America

Many realize that NAFTA÷affecting the U.S., Canada and Mexico÷has caused a corporate exodus to the south, robbing the U.S. of over 600,000 jobs.

But this new, lesser-known NAFTA-related scheme could possibly be even more disastrous than the trade agreement itself. Yet the media outside Indiana have generally steered clear of this international issue. <SNIP>

...'it is the (great sucking) sound of corporate America gravitating toward this international trade corridor. It is the surge of products moving to market and the sound of money filling corporate coffers... It is the free enterprise system at work.' <SNIP>

Majority Whip Tom Delay has also been a major NAFTA Superhighway supporter. As a senior member of the Appropriations Subcommittee, he doles out federal highway money. His brother, Randy, a $300,000 per year highway lobbyist for the I-69, helped organize Texas fund raisers for Shuster.

More at: http://www.imaja.com/as/environment/cars/SuperhighwaysThreatenNA.html

...but if it requires "the gummint" to make it happen, it ain't "the free market at work".

But they just say that anyway, to give businessmen a warm fluffy feeling before tthe small ones are driven to bankruptcy, right?

Super Highway To Destruction

,,,A buddy of mine sent me an e-mail about this massive superhighway that will connect central Mexico to Canada. Trucks would be allowed to pass through our borders being checked electronically. The Non profit group who is organizing this destruction of our national border is NASCO. The have received 2.5million dollars from the USDOT...<SNIP>

Of course El Jorge is silent about this impending disaster. <SNIP>

This superhighway will further erode our national identity and open up a potential pipe line of terrorism. It is also a sure bet that wages of truck drivers and their supporting labor will be kept low.

This appears to be one more nail in the coffin of what was a fiercly independant and self reliant nation. God help us.

More at:
http://thehive.modbee.com/?q=node/1439

contact EVERY East and West Coast Senator and Rep and let them know that we will not stand for them destroying our state Ports, Unions and economies. Not one dollar should be approved for this. Ask them if they have any financial interest in any of the companies involved in this misadventure? God, this is so horrible I can't even believe that the Repugs are going along with it. If you need addresses for your Senators and Reps go here:

http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/

That fucking thing would run through my back yard. Just fucking try it.