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rodeodance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-11-06 10:58 PM
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NAFTA Super Highway (Mike Malloy host talked a bit of this tonight)




http://www.infowars.com/articles/nwo/nafta_superhighway_coming_through.htm

Coming Through! The NAFTA Super Highway

New American | August 7, 2006
by Kelly Taylor

The planned NAFTA Super Highway would radically reconfigure not only the physical landscape of these United States, but our political and economic landscapes as well.

Kelly Taylor is an Austin-based writer and filmmaker, and the producer of a politically based TV talk show.

All across America, mammoth construction projects are preparing to launch. The NAFTA Super Highway is on a fast track and it's headed your way. If you don't help derail it, you may soon be run over by it - both figuratively and literally.

The NAFTA Super Highway is a venture unlike any previous highway construction project. It is actually a daisy chain of dozens of corridors and coordinated projects that are expected to stretch out for several decades, cost hundreds of billions of dollars, and end up radically reconfiguring not only the physical landscape of these United States, but our political and economic landscapes as well.

In Texas, the NAFTA Super Highway is being sold as the Trans Texas Corridor. In simplest terms, the TTC is a superhighway system including tollways for passenger vehicles and trucks; lanes for commercial and freight trucks; tracks for commuter rail and high-speed freight rail; depots for all rail lines; pipelines for oil, water, and natural gas; and electrical towers and cabling for communication and telephone lines. One of the proposed corridor routes, TTC-35, is parallel to the present Interstate Highway 35 (I-35), slightly to the east, running north from Mexico to Canada. Its present scope is 4,000 miles long, 1,200 feet wide, with an estimated cost of $183 billion of taxpayer funds. It runs through Kansas City.

Integration vs. Independence.......

http://www.humanevents.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..........
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Counciltucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-11-06 11:02 PM
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1. Oh great. Every form of transportation centered in one place.
Why don't we just name this "The terrorists' wet dream"?
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rodeodance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-11-06 11:06 PM
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2. Its the new 'North American Union" (like the EU)
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rodeodance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-11-06 11:12 PM
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3. Mike M. will do a whole segment on it soon: (Wikipedia below)
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laststeamtrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-11-06 11:41 PM
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4. So, let's not run a neo-liberal for president in '08
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davidwparker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-11-06 11:44 PM
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5. yeah, one who slams NAFTA and that NAFTA-signing Clinton in
every speech. People understand the failure of NAFTA. That will resonate with the working class in both parties.
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dmosh42 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-12-06 12:52 PM
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6. Lou Dobbs brought this out two months ago...
As part of an 'open borders' thing that Fox, Bush and the Canadian PM had agreed on. Amazingly, no hearings have been started, so I don't know how it would be legal to even plan this. 'Fast track' only deals with trade agreements, as far as I know. I'm sure they will be holding hearings, because it would need appropriations to do anything.
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rodeodance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-12-06 01:05 PM
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7. I believe he said that the DHS was involved also
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