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A friend of mine who often emails me humerous things sent me this. As I started reading it, I was looking for the punchline. It had to be a joke. How can something this big that will radically change commerce in America been kept quiet? Then I started doing a search on it. It ain’t no joke. There are a number of links in the article to other websites about the project.
Puts a whole new spin on our relations with Mexico, immigration reform, and so on.
Bush Administration Quietly Plans NAFTA Super Highway
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.
Found by Mike Bossick.
You people have in Cali haven’t heard of jack squat. This is NWO doing, and here in TExas we have been up in arms about the whole deal. Here, listen to Alex Jones on the issue.
http://infowars.com/
You think immigration is an issue now ? Wait until the immigrants aren’t illegal anymore.
And how is such a massive project that seems to welcome illegal immigrants in American interests?
If this is true then congressmen from several states are seeing dollar signs and jobs for their states. When it comes to money and jobs, security will take a back seat. Just think, more traffic more fuel used.
May be Florida should push for a bridge to Cuba. Must think about all those refugess that do not or cannot find a boat.
Hey, living in S. Az, this actually sounds GOOD.. because it will bypass the planned superhighway(s) up through Tucson, Phoenix, and into CA via here.
Though, considering an ad for Ann Coulter on the side of the page, I tend to be a bit skeptical….
J/P=?
Wouldn’t it be more energy efficient to build rail lines? Oh, sorry, this is the Bush administration…
#7, you read my mind.
And, uh, I wonder who will get all the construction jobs on this piece of pork? There are plenty of unemployed highway construction crews — who speak English — in my part of the Southwest.
I have read that the cost of new rail lines exceeds roads. There was an attempt in my state to establish daily passenger service on old lines abandoned in the early 60’s. The cost was unbelievable to bring a few hundred miles of track to minimal safety standards.
I love it when republicans shoot themselves in foot.
So I looked over the plan and I’m happy to report that it includes rail lines. I’m wondering if the linked report is a bit alarmist because it supposes we’re making something as big as the E.U. just by building a good international transportation system. I tend to disagree with that. Europe has had good train transportation for years. The Eurail Pass was available long before the Euro (currency). I doubt the purposes of the project are simple job generation and moving the sea to land transfer to Mexico for cheaper labor. It will be interesting to see how the political landscape plays out over the next 50 years, to be sure!
It’s unfortunate that when faced with a plan that would basically subjugate our Constitution to bureacrats of a new government all some can think about is whether rail lines would be more efficient.
The current article is part of a series, so I’d suggest doing a bit more reading if you think this post is in any way alarmist:
humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=15233
humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=14965
Also see:
eagleforum.org/column/2005/july05/05-07-13.html
And, here’s the CFR’s proposal:
cfr.org/publication/8102
Note that most of our leaders are CFR members.
And, here’s a report on the Bush/Fox/Martin meeting in 2005:
mexidata.info/id436.html
And, here’s a website from our own government:
spp.gov
Hey I just read all the Human Events stories and saw all the pictures of Novak and Coulter and girls wearing t-shirts about being a Conservative and a good kisser. I’m thinking to myself, “Isn’t Bush THEIR MAN!?!?” What gives?
…a plan that would basically subjugate our Constitution to bureacrats of a new government…
And I’m not supposed to think this is “alarmist”?
Our no gay marriage, no flag burning, no asisted suicide, prayer in schools, flag-waving politicos are actually working to subjugate our Constitution and form a new government?
Oh wait, that’s right… the Constitution is ” …just a god-damned piece of paper!…”
Last I heard, all three countries in the “North American Union” were democracies…. so this is all going to be with our blessing, or a “fait accompli”?
Yep, I-35 from San Antonio to Dallas-Fort Worth is currently choked with trucks and is only two lanes wide each way. I have heard talk of a new parallel highway just for trucks. This must be it. I didn’t know it had advanced this far.
I think Ann Richards, former Texas Governor, pushed hard to make I-35 the “NAFTA highway”. Obviously, it is not up to the task of full up and unfettered free trade with Canada and Mexico.
This all seems to be part of the globalists’ plan to tie all of North America into one huge free trade zone. There has been talk in the past of making the U.S. dollar the official currency of Mexico. At that point, we will have saddled our economy to the burro that is Central America.
IT wont go thru, as Bush WONT be in office when it takes affect.
I would WISH,
that SOME one would build a giant water Underground way from East to west, in the nothern, and southern routes.
with French wells and Cesterns, accross the states, to gather the rain waters, filter them, and disperse them WHERE NEEDED, and to aleaveate the flooding in areas.
BUT, NO, this wont happen, its to SMART to rescourceful, to take the Flood waters from 1 area and dump them into a Drought farm area, or to use them to water those Golf courses in AZ, TX, NV, CA….Instaed of using Water in those areas to DRINK.
Critical observation..
enlarge the pic from the site…
LOOK close at the route.
Thru the Mississpi Flood plains,
Hitting MAJOR growth spots.
I would have suggest going though the Desert, and NON farming areas WEST of the designated locations, JUST along the foot hills EAST of the rocky moutains, INSTEd of through the farm lands, and commercial areas OWNED by rich concerns.
THIs is going to be UGLY..
Its only to placate the US corps to bring NAFTA goods (non-taxed) up from US companies in Mexico, to compete with US goods, that are to EXPENSIVE to sell in Mexico..
ECA – through the Mississippi flood plains?!? Look at the map on their website and you will see it doesn’t even go into Mississippi. There is a feeder highway that comes in through Southern Louisiana. There is also a feeder from Oklahoma City to Memphis, but not Mississippi.
Which picture are you looking at?
As for a giant east-west underground waterway, what have you been smoking? How many trillions of $$$ would that cost?
HumanEventsOnline wrote:
“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.”
Currently, I-35 is predominantly four lanes (two each way). Apparently, transportation for citizens is of much less importance than the transport of cheap Mexican goods and Canadian oil. The trucks on the TTC-35 (Trans Texas Corridor) will get ten lanes to the citizens four.
IMHO, this must be tied into a plan to get everyone out of their cars and make them ride the train, which is also covered in the TTC-35 plan. The social engineering continues. “Sure, you can drive your car, but we just won’t build any more highways for you to drive on.” I also like the fact that they are going to throw in an oil and gas pipeline into the plan to boot.
Personally, I think that all of the transportation of goods between Canada and Mexico should be via rail. Let the containers be loaded onto flatbed tractor trailers once they get within 100 miles of the final destination. It may not be as fast but it would be much more fuel efficient.
I wonder if there going to lay fiber along the highway?
Neal Saferstein
Can we call it the Al Queda Expressway?
May I suggest an exclusive express lane leading out of the country with no domestic exits for illegals. No tolls and free gas so long as they keep going.
Actually has anyone thought about the outcome if we prevent illegals from gaining employment in the US? They won’t leave; they have roots, families to feed, etc – just like the rest of us. How would you like it if you had to go to Mexico and leave your family behind with no resources? With no alternative, it would be the biggest crime wave since the 30’s. Can you say Juan Dillinger?
Maybe we can put them all to work building this highway instead.
3C3. Heavy Metal ran a few stories a while back (maybe there’s been more, there should have been) about a Romanian trucker called “Gypsy” that went around the earth.
Couldn’t do that now, with the poles melting and all, but the future was actually pretty cool for a while, a couple years back.
Maybe instead of a wall, we’re just planning to make it easier for Mexicans to enter Canada illegally?
I’m missing the 2nd part of this puzzle – among other things, I know – to wit:
When does the other shoe drop? i.e. once we have an enormous North-South corridor built, when does the planning for the East-West corridor start?
Or, will our existing roads/trains be adequate to handle to increase in volume? [no, I didn’t think so…]
Thanks for the links, #13. If we consider the transportation corridor from a protectionist view, it certainly is trouble. If we consider it from a globalization view, it’s just another step towards the inevitable free trade. Of course we should get our feathers ruffled over the effects of globalization and particularly the way the WTO trumps the Constitution at every turn, and commerce seems to be searching hard to find additional avenues around the Constitution. Is this corridor an affront to the Constitution? I for one don’t see it as such. What about other negotiations between our neighbor nations? I imagine some are trouble while others aren’t. How I wish we could trust our elected officials to follow the rules…
19, the Mississippi, GOES TO Minnisota…DUH..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Mississippi_River_map.png
Mississippi Flood plain STARTS THERE…
Please take a Geography class…
Undergraound Aquapher?? WHY, no more then THIS WAR, and would FEED more people, and grow more crops, to SELL to other nations..
You have to give these guys credit. This takes giant balls to pitch this at a time where the existing highway system needs to be reworked in most urban areas, their poll numbers are tanking and their general credibility makes John Lovett look like George Washington. If they pull this off they can use the left over wheelbarrows to carry those giant pork balls around. On second thought make that left over fork-lifts, wheelbarrows just won’t be enough.
I’m curious has anyone see an explanation of why this $50,000,000,000 brain fart is a better alternative than modernizing existing highways?
Maybe we are lucky they didn’t decide to do this with a canal. Jeez.
The Arizona *super highway* has never gotten off. It still is mostly old 2 lane or 3 lane roads.
Maybe this is why, the money is going to this instead.
#1: You hit it right on. The THC Highway! W()()T!!!
Cheap herbs, and siesta time… bueno!
USA: get high, smile, come down, and take a nap — or have some fries and a beer, watch prime time TV, and ignore the rest of the world. Same effect. Habla espanol?
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I’m curious has anyone see an explanation of why this $50,000,000,000 brain fart is a better alternative than modernizing existing highways?
I was wondering that, too… till I followed Uncle Dave’s link to the Human Events site, and read this blurb about the “Trans-Texas Corridor”:
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 Cintra consortium to be operated as a toll-road.
Get over it Prima Donas, No Nation is a island,
And God in NOT an American!
This is a Win Win Win situation!
WIn, WIN???
find out WHOM is buying the land FIRST. And THEN selling to the USA.
DUH!!!.
24,
CORRECT, but add a subsidy to the rails??
It STILL wont happen…BUSH will be out of office before anythang can be done.