The NAFTA Super Highway

by **nomo** » Thu Jun 15, 2006 1:01 pm

First I've heard of it. Right wing fear mongering? <hr /> <a href="http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=15497">www.humaneventsonline.com...p?id=15497</a> 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. <a href="http://www.nascocorridor.com/"><img src="http://www.humaneventsonline.com/images/nafta_map.jpg" style="border:0;"/></a> 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 "<a href="http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=14965">North American Union</a>" 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. <ul><li>NASCO, the <a href="http://www.nascocorridor.com">North America SuperCorridor Coalition Inc.</a>, 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 <a href="http://www.nascocorridor.com">NASCO website</a> will make clear that the design is to connect Mexico, Canada, and the U.S. into one transportation system.</li></ul><ul><li><a href="http://www.kcsmartport.com">Kansas City SmartPort Inc.</a> is an "investor based organization supported by the public and private sector" to create the key hub on the NAFTA Super Highway. At the Kansas City SmartPort, the containers from the Far East can be transferred to trucks going east and west, dramatically reducing the ground transportation time dropping the containers off in Los Angeles or Long Beach involves for most of the country. A <a href="http://www.kcsmartport.com/pdf/SmtPrtOneRoute.pdf">brochure on the SmartPort website</a> describes the plan in glowing terms: "For those who live in Kansas City, the idea of receiving containers nonstop from the Far East by way of Mexico may sound unlikely, but later this month that seemingly far-fetched notion will become a reality." </li></ul><ul><li> 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 <a href="http://www.spp.gov">SPP agreement</a> was signed by Bush, President Vicente Fox, and then-Prime Minister Paul Martin in Waco, Tex., on March 23, 2005. According to the DOC website, a U.S.-Mexico Joint Working Committee on Transportation Planning has <a href="http://www.spp.gov/report_to_leaders/index.asp?dName=report_to_leaders">finalized a plan</a> such that "(m)ethods for detecting bottlenecks on the U.S.-Mexico border will be developed and low cost/high impact projects identified in bottleneck studies will be constructed or implemented." The report notes that new SENTRI travel lanes on the Mexican border will be constructed this year. The border at Laredo should be reduced to an electronic speed bump for the Mexican trucks containing goods from the Far East to enter the U.S. on their way to the Kansas City SmartPort.</li></ul><ul><li>The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) is <a href="http://www.keeptexasmoving.org/about/">overseeing the Trans-Texas Corridor</a> (TTC) as the first leg of the NAFTA Super Highway. A 4,000-page <a href="http://www.keeptexasmoving.com/projects/ttc35/deis.aspx">environmental impact statement</a> has already been completed and <a href="http://www.keeptexasmoving.org/publications/files/NR%20announce%20pub%20hearing%20list.pdf">public hearings are scheduled</a> for five weeks, beginning next month, in July 2006. The billions involved will be provided by a foreign company, Cintra Concessions de Infraestructuras de Transporte, S.A. of Spain. As a consequence, the TTC will be privately operated, leased to the <a href="http://www.keeptexasmoving.org/pdfs/projects/ttc35/final%20cda%20overview.pdf">Cintra consortium to be operated as a toll-road</a>. </li></ul> The details of the NAFTA Super Highway are hidden in plan view. Still, Bush has not given speeches to bring the NAFTA Super Highway plans to the full attention of the American public. Missing in the move toward creating a North American Union is the robust public debate that preceded the decision to form the European Union. All this may be for calculated political reasons on the part of the Bush Administration. A good reason Bush does not want to secure the border with Mexico may be that the administration is trying to create express lanes for Mexican trucks to bring containers with cheap Far East goods into the heart of the U.S., all without the involvement of any U.S. union workers on the docks or in the trucks.

by **Et in Arcadia ego** » Thu Jun 15, 2006 1:38 pm

<a href="http://www.nascocorridor.com/">www.nascocorridor.com/</a> <a href="http://www.kcsmartport.com/">www.kcsmartport.com/</a> <a href="http://www.spp.gov/">www.spp.gov/</a> <a href="http://www.keeptexasmoving.org/about/">www.keeptexasmoving.org/about/</a>

by **Et in Arcadia ego** » Thu Jun 15, 2006 1:40 pm

<blockquote>Quote:<hr>This White House-driven initiative is premised on our security and our economic prosperity being mutually reinforcing. The SPP recognizes that our three great nations are bound by a shared belief in freedom, economic opportunity, and strong democratic institutions.<hr></blockquote>

by * » Thu Jun 15, 2006 2:16 pm

<a href="http://www.ceocouncil.ca/en/north/north.php">Canadian Council of Chief Executives</a> North American Security and Prosperity The Canada-United States and North American free trade agreements have proven to be extraordinary successes for Canada, the United States and Mexico. They have increased investment, employment and incomes in all three countries. But issues of trade and investment are now inextricably intertwined with those of defence and security. The need for a comprehensive North American strategy integrating economic and security issues led the CCCE to launch its North American Security and Prosperity Initiative (NASPI) in January 2003. This initiative proposes a strategy with five major elements: * Reinventing borders * Maximizing regulatory efficiencies * Negotiation of a comprehensive resource security pact * Reinvigorating the North American defence alliance * Creating a new institutional framework The CCCE believes that Canada’s interests, as well as those of the United States and Mexico, will be served best by a strategy that is continental in its scope, comprehensive in its approach, and coherent in its development and execution. While progress on some issues may require negotiations on a bilateral basis, the heart of Canada’s strategy for North America must remain trilateral. And to develop and execute a winning strategy, Canada must ensure coherence both within the federal government and across all levels of government. Consistent with this vision, the CCCE in April 2004 published a major discussion paper titled New Frontiers: Building a 21st Century Canada-United States Partnership in North America. Some of the paper’s 15 recommendations expand on the NASPI framework in areas such as tariff harmonization, rules of origin, trade remedies, energy strategy, core defence priorities and the need to strengthen Canada-United States institutions, including the North American Aerospace Defence Command (NORAD). Other recommendations focus on the process for developing and executing a comprehensive strategy, including the need for greater coordination across government departments, between federal and provincial governments and between the public and private sectors. In addition to its own research and advocacy in this area, the CCCE was a key supporter of the Independent Task Force on the Future of North America, a trilateral panel sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations. The final report of the task force put forward 39 specific recommendations aimed at making North America safer, creating a single economic space, spreading the benefits of economic development more evenly, and institutionalizing the North American partnership. In March 2005, the leaders of Canada, the United States and Mexico launched the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America, a comprehensive agreement that advances the North American agenda in a multitude of concrete and practical ways that will improve the safety and economic wellbeing of Canadians and of our neighbours in North America. The CCCE strongly welcomed the partnership agenda, calling it a “a bold step forward that will produce real gains for people in all three countries.” The CCCE is also a strong supporter of the Canada-Mexico Partnership (CMP), which was launched during the visit of President Vicente Fox to Ottawa in October 2004. Among other contributions, the CCCE has agreed to work closely with its Mexican counterpart, the Consejo Mexicano de Hombres de Negocios, to ensure effective business support in realizing the ambitious goals of the CMP. many embedded links at original

by **OnoI812** » Thu Jun 15, 2006 2:20 pm

yep and it's not just mexican offloaded containers travelling up that artery that will destroy the unions. There will be people too. Lots and lots of them. It's pretty easy to see why a border fence or troops will be of no use. I guess on the bright side there will be no more folks dying of thirst in the desert, entire families, including the old or sick will be mainlined right into the United States heartland, all that will be required is the digital ID that can be read on the fly like a smart pass.

by **TroubleFunk** » Thu Jun 15, 2006 2:39 pm

..."Sniper Alley".

by **greencrow0** » Thu Jun 15, 2006 11:48 pm

My feeling is that this super highway is a highway built specifically for invading Canada and transporting recalcitrant Canadians back to the many already prepared concentration camps in the southern US [land which has diminished in value due to environmental degradation and frequent storms]...then moving pro invasion Americans up into the properties 'vacated' by the imprisoned Canadians...who will be forced to live out their lives, like Palestinians, in concentration camps. But, that's just me...a Canadian going by the present lawless, criminal and avariciousness of the current US government. GC

by **steve vegas** » Fri Jun 16, 2006 12:11 am

WOW! That is an amazing theory, at last an explanation for the camps. I really hope that's not true. I think I first heard of this about 2 years ago, it's definitely from the right, and I'm not sure it's even really happening in spite of statements to the contrary. I think the idea is basically to privatize all the highways in America, this is their pilot project. They want to destroy unions, and circumvent Federal Transportation regulations about truck safety, and of course charge tolls to keep the riff-raff off their road. (edited for spelling) Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=stevevegas>steve vegas</A> at: 6/15/06 10:15 pm

by **greencrow0** » Fri Jun 16, 2006 1:12 am

Steve Look closer at the map. It's not really coming up from Mexico through the US...rather it's coming from the environmentally degraded areasof NA to the pristine and resource rich areas. I have had a sickening feeling about those camps ever since I first heard about them several years ago. I think they're for Canadians....and of course, any Americans who don't go along with the inevitable invasion/resource grab. GC

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