Tuesday, March 11, 2008

NAFTA SUPERHIGHWAY

Think about It
The Council on Foreign Relations describes itself as a non-partisan and independent membership organization promoting understanding of foreign policy and America’s role in the world. I describe it as an elitist, invitation only organization dedicated to bringing about a one world economy, to the detriment of the sovereignty of the United States. It was founded in 1921 by Col. Thomas House, alter ego to Woodrow Wilson in his White House, and protégé of the Rockefeller financiers. While most of our recent Presidents have been members, I find it interesting that all its actual meeting records are sealed from public view for 25 years after inception.
In 2006, Dr. Robert Pastor, Vice-chair of CFR’s Independent Task Force on the Future of North America (ITF)), appeared before the US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations (no connection to CFR) to call for nominally erasing all US Borders and a merger of the US, Canada and Mexico in a North American Union running from Prudhoe Bay, Alaska to Guatemala. “Instead of stopping North Americans on the borders,” he said, “we ought to provide them with a secure, biometric Border Pass that would ease transit across our border like an E-Z pass permits our cars to speed through tolls.” Such a move is underway in what some people say is a NAFTA superhighway, which would run from the Mexican port city of Lazaro Cardenas, through Kansas City, onward through Duluth, Minnesota to Canada. Other people would tell you such an idea does not exist.
What does surely exist is a quasi-government organization called “Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP) launched in Waco, TX in 2005 by George W. Bush, Vicente Fox of Mexico, and Paul Martin of Canada. Because it is quasi-government, it is somewhat opaque and does not require the sanction of our Congress. Speaking in 2002, Fox said, “Our long range objective is to establish with the United States…an ensemble of connections and institutions similar to those created by the European Union, with the goal of attending to future themes as important as…the freedom of movement of capital, goods, services and persons. The new framework we wish to construct is inspired in the example of the European Union.”
What also surely exist are plans for the Trans-Texas Corridor (TTC). Governor Rick Perry of Texas has signed a $1.3 billion contract with Cintra, SA, a foreign company listed on the Madrid Stock exchange, which already operates US toll roads known as the Chicago Skyway and the Indiana Toll Road. TTC will be operated by Cintra, SA as a toll road, in partnership with Zachry Construction Co. of San Antonio. Is this the first leg of the NAFTA superhighway?
What also surely exists is Kansas City SmartPort, Inc., an investor based organization supported by the public and private sector to create the key hub on the NAFTA superhighway. Their brochure states, “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.” In 2005, Kansas City signed a cooperative pact with representatives from the Mexican State of Michoacan and its port city of Lazaro Cardenas; to increase cargo volume between the two cities. According to author Jerome Corsi, container ships from China would unload at Lazaro Cardenas, and Mexican drivers would speed their cargo on the Fox-Bush autobahn directly to the first customs inspection terminal at Kansas City; without US customs or US workers being theretofore involved. The freight would then fan out across the US and Canada.
According to economist and researcher Miguel Pickard, the aforementioned Dr. Pastor of the ITF has since met 3 times in Toronto, New York and Monterrey, with foreign representatives. The 3 called for a unified North American Border Action Plan (i.e. open borders). The 3 then signed close to 300 regulations, which are intended as a substitute for any treaty, which the US Senate would need to approve.
Do you really care? .

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