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Strange, I have not seen this newsworthy item in US newspapers. I wonder why?
I have heard nothing about this. Not anywhere from anyone. What's up???
HOW TYPICAL OF THE EMPEROR- THE EMPEROR OF DESTRUCTION AND SUBJUGATING THE AMERICAN WORKER.
When are we going to get tired enough of this scumbag ruining our country every damn chance he gets and oust his rotting bum out of the whitehouse? The STINK is getting unbearable.
In the Dec. 2004 issue of TIME Magazine a 3 page article titled it, "The New Wave in Superhighways, or A Big Fat Texas Boondoggle?". The passage of "real" time has only revealed it to be more dangerous in the broad impacts it promises: to "open" government, eminent domain abuse, national security, the environment, special interests, foreign controlled infrastructure, etc.
I am a citizen of one of the 143 or so rural counties being threatened by 1 of the 4 "priority" corridors in this plan (9 links in the "master vision"). Two of them I-35 and I-69 are in some stage of developing the "nightmare" envisioned by the Governor whose plan this is. No other state has a "footprint" the size of the TTC.
I am part of a grassroots citizens' organization in my county working to oppose this monster & reveal it for the dangers it poses for ALL TEXANS. Both the 2006 TEXAS Republican and Democrat platforms contain planks stating opposition to the TTC. When the bulldozers come to plow our homesteads, farms, & ranches under.. citizens of ALL political stripes will be assured the same outcome.
WHAT IT WILL DO TO WALLER COUNTY : TTC I-69
It will run 35 miles north to south, fracturing the county in two, complicating travel within and beyond the county.
It will take more than 5000 acres away from private property owners and put it in the State's hands.
It will remove 5000 acres from county and school tax rolls, likely increasing taxes & infrastructure costs (911-EMS).
It will expose Waller County residents to increased pollution and to hazardous cargoes.
HOW IT DIFFERS FROM THE INTERSTATE SYSTEM
The right of way for the TTC will be like putting three interstate roads with right of ways side by side.
The TTC will have limited on and off access ramps (at US Highways and Interstates) and NO FRONTAGE Roads.
County Roads and Farm to M
well, the reason you didnt read about this is because it is kind of old news... circa 1998.... and the hiway isnt I-35 but I-69.check out this link for more information http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_69
I am a citizen of one of the 143 or so rural counties being threatened by 1 of the 4 "priority" corridors in this plan (8 links in the "master vision"). Two of them I-35 and I-69 are in some stage of developing the "nightmare" envisioned by the Governor whose plan this is. No other state has a "footprint" the size of the TTC.
There is a reason this is not on the major news networks, because they are paid not to talk about it!!
They are keeping most American's in the dark about this and every real event that happens, especially all of the changes in laws!
Luckily we can get this info from other countries media!
Thanks!
Tracy
http://www.humaneventsonline.com/search.php?author_name=Jerome%20R.%20Corsi
The Plan to Replace the Dollar With the 'Amero'
by Jerome R. CorsiPosted May 22, 2006
The idea to form the North American Union as a super-NAFTA knitting together Canada, the United States and Mexico into a super-regional political and economic entity was a key agreement resulting from the March 2005 meeting held at Baylor University in Waco, Tex., between President Bush, President Fox and Prime Minister Martin.
A joint statement published by the three presidents following their Baylor University summit announced the formation of an initial entity called, “The Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America” (SPP). The joint statement termed the SPP a “trilateral partnership” that was aimed at producing a North American security plan as well as providing free market movement of people, capital, and trade across the borders between the three NAFTA partners:
We will establish a common approach to security to protect North America from external threats, prevent and respond to threats within North America, and further streamline the secure and efficient movement of legitimate, low-risk traffic across our borders.
A working agenda was established:
We will establish working parties led by our ministers and secretaries that will consult with stakeholders in our respective countries. These working parties will respond to the priorities of our people and our businesses, and will set specific, measurable, and achievable goals.
The U.S. Department of Commerce has produced a SPP website, which documents how the U.S. has implemented the SPP directive into an extensive working agenda.
Following the March 2005 meeting in Waco, Tex., the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) published in May 2005 a task force report title
I'd like to thank the British media for once again doing America's reporting for us. Without you, we'd know alot less about what's going on in our own country. Is there any chance we might import some of your journalists?
Personally, I think the supporters of this highway are almost treasonous. Think about it; the sole purpose of building it is to bypass well-paid American transportation workers, who are largely unionized, in favor of employing cheap, foreign labor, all to save multi-national corporations a few bucks. Yes, some savings will be passed along to the consumer, but it doesn't much matter if goods are cheap if there are no jobs. This Highway will undoubtedly be as wonderful for Mexican transportation workers, the super-rich and large companies which transport goods as it will be bad for ordinary, working class Americans.
Here's some information on this theft of workingmen wages to line the coffers of stockholders in the transportation companies involved:http://www.kcsmartport.com/http://www.kcmo.org/international/executivesummary.pdf Key to the matter is Mr. David Eaton, the former Missouri's trade rep in Mexico and whose function is now carried out by an associate from his Monterrey, Mexico based consultancy business. Mr. Eaton is also involved with far east trade organizations as well as other interested parties in trying to circumvent U.S. trucking and the cost its wages represent to the flood of foreign products which undermine the ability of American business to remain competitive even in its own backyard. Between the outsourcing of American manufacturing jobs to third-world sweat-states and the taxpayer financed assault on the few remainig decently paid industries,it appears that our elected officials may be selling us out to the highest bidder. In this case, they also give away the minor matter of sovereignity. Even greater than the scandal this represents is the apparent lack of timely oversight at every level. All public figures involved should be audited to endsure that there has been no unseeming transaction in return for their advocacy of this abdication of their oath of office.
Others who are worth examining are a recently appointee to the KC city council and the former state legislator (and transportation comitee person) turned city councilperson who happens to be shepherding this matter through the system.
You have to wonder if the same people who are deciding to build more road networks are the same people who are deciding to remove the rail networks. Did you know that Canada now has as much railway track as we had in the 1930's? We now have about 70 000km of track. In the late 1970's we had over 90 000kms of railway track. It's interesting to note that 1 train with a couple of locomotvies can carry an amount of shipping containers equal to 200 big-rig trucks. Removing railway tracks and replacing them with road is nothing more then a makework projects for roadbuilders and truckers. And it makes no sense to use road for transportation rather then rail in areas that have snow storms. Snow removal and maintaining rail is much cheaper, easier and safer then road. Why isn't the world talking about completing a railway link hooking up Asia and America via Alaska and Siberia? The distance via the Bering Straight is only 85 kilometers and there's a couple of islands in between.
CourtneygQuinn:In this particular case, the party that is set to reap the most benefit might be the rail carrier KC Southern. With its railheads in Lazaro Cardenas (courtesy of the purchase of a mexican railroad from a politicaly influential character) its railcars would be taking containers off the roads. The time saved by the automation of the customs process will erode the time advantage and flexibility that has afforded OTR trucking an advantage over rail freight. In the end, not only are we transfering jobs from union dokworkers and truckers, but by enabling this project, we may facilitate the flooding of our country by cheap low quality exports which will enjoy an advantage in price thanks to the taxpayer financed smartports. the only jobs that it will create will be no-skill, non-union, loader jobs while the profits of this travesty will end up in the pockets of the few who own the rail servicing this franchise and their bought agents who have carried their water to their mill.
Given today's fuel costs, rail and OTR freight should compete on each other's merits and weaknesses. Instead we have special interests working in concert with foreign organizations to game and undermine the American manufacturing industries to the benefit of the present-day railroad robber-barons.
Carlos-
Why are they considering building 4 lanes of highway when 2 lanes of railway can move more cargo with less pollution and less workers from point A to point B? We are quickly entering into a "robotomated" age when most jobs are going to disappear. In fact, one storey that really turned me off of unions regarded a longshoreman strike in California a few years ago. The union didn't want the dock to bring in new equipment that would have automated the unloading process. Actually, I read last week that certain unionized people in the railroad industry are protesting the use of unmanned locomotives to transfer railcars in a California railyard. It sickens me that unions are fighting progress/process in order to save their highly paid, if obsoulete, jobs (they don't seem to mind that their protectonist policies will cause un-unionized people to pay more for union processed goods). And lets face it, even the lowest paid Chinese workers can't compete with robots, computers and software. We should be entering into an age of workers fighting for "big leisure" instead of "big labor".
Did you know that CN railway is about to take advantage of an upgraded Prince Rupert dock in northern BC to transfer Asian goods to the American midwest and beyond? CN railways (largest shareholder happens to be Bill Gates) train track network goes from the Pacific (Vancouver, Prince Rupert) to the Atlantic (Halifax) to the Gulf of Mexico (New Orleans) and Hudson Bay (Churchill). CN's extensive rails go east west and north south. CN's rail network kinda negates the need for this proposed superhighway plan. Even more so if they bought KC southern. I can't believe KC Southern is still around competing with the likes of Union Pacific, BNSF, CSX, Norfolk Southern, CP and CN.
After doing some research I figure that less then 1/150th of Canada's railway track (not including switch/side yards) is occupied by train cars at any given time. CPR's
As a resident of Kansas City, Missouri I can assure you that even the general population in K.C. knows little about the Mexican Customs Facility.
Although not as sexy as the Dubui ports deal the Mexican facility in Kansas City is (or was) a discrete project that for all practical purposes was supposed to happen under the radar.
I spoke with Mr. Guiterrez, president of Smartport, in September '05 regarding the Mexican customs facility. He indicated at that time that it would not be the sovereign territory of Mexico. That was a falsehood that was revealed by documents obtained from the City under a records request.
The facility will the sovereign territory of Mexico. The land, valued at 400,000 US, was donated by the City. The City earmarked 2.5 million and an additional 600,000 for concrete. There will be addional costs as well.
According to records we received under the Missouri Sunshine law the Mexican government would not have moved on the deal unless the facility would be the sovereign territory of Mexican and that the cost of construction would be shouldered locally: The Kansas City taxpayer. The Mexican government did not have money for the facility or for the screening equipment needed for the trucks.
The City of Kansas City/K.C. Smartport have applied for a Economic Development Administration loan of 1.5 million as well.
In our attempt to obtain records from the City pertinent to the facility and K.C. Smartport two City Council members, Bonnie Sue Cooper and George Blackwood, Jr. (NASCO president) delayed our request for records according to the City Attorney, Galen Beaufort.
So much for transparency in government.
To satisfy a few curiosities about the "Superhighway" check out this link:http://www.kmbz.com/showdj.asp?DJID=27524. Scroll down the page to Darla's Show Notes for the 16th. In response to the Human Events article she did a whole show on the topic yesterday. It's very real, folks!
VDARE.COM IS A GOOD SITE TO CHECK OUT WHAT IS HAPPENING. THEY SOMETIMES HAVE ARTICLES FROM ALLEN WALL. GREAT SITE HE IS IN MEXICO.
i think the us should waist alot more money on a highway that will be destroyed when yellowstone supervolcano blows, the US is going to be flushed down the toilet soon with debt and natural disasters that are it's karmic retrobution for all the suffering it has forced on other nations, the sooner the better for all those who suffer. Because of their false pride, hubris and pompous delight in sadism that fuels the massive egos of these psychopaths, they live in perpetual delusions of granduer. Americans are sociopaths with no souls. soon thier enemies will be aware of americas 2 achillies heels, three super volcanos to target, and without oil to fuel it their mighty military would be nothing. Mystery Babylon the great, the mother of harlots and great abominations of the earth is falling.
So, PATRICK of Virginia #17.. what lobby firm, privatization entity, infrastructure player, or "vested" agency of the federal government brings you into this commentary to tell us "what really happened" and provide us with the "big bucks" websites extolling the virtues of "pledging allegiance to whatever comes down the pike"? Other commentators have revealed or made obvious their perspectives as citizens, truckers, etc. Why not you?
I want to offer a "personal face" of one DIRECTLY affected in the most powerful way by one link of this monster. I do not diminish the the questions and comments of those of you carrying the argument against the overriding principles involved in NASCO. As citizens I believe that it is our right and duty to examine such policies being pushed in the name of OUR government.
The governor of Texas and his Transportation Commission Chairman have declared of the Trans Texas Corridor "it is not about transportation. It is about revenue."
That revenue stream begins with the State's right to take my property from me. Since a ruling in 2004 Condemnation law in Texas does not even require the State (condemnor) to negotiate or offer "fair market value". They can offer anything they choose and the burden (expense) is on the citizen property owners to prove otherwise (bearing the costs of appraisals, legal fees, etc.). A "quick take" provision gives my State the right to drag me from my homestead and off my land after 90 days.
Yes, Texas is known for BIG and the governor's Trans Texas Corridor "vision" is the BIGGEST ABUSE of Eminent Domain in the history of this continent. Transportation is one thing.. HIGHWAY ROBBERY on a scale and with the character of this Texas version of the NASCO fiasco is another!
I am fighting for what I believe in.. my home, my land, and access to MY government. In many respects, the majo
Courtney:You appear to be extremely knowledgeable on the subject of Canadian rail. Not being an industry observer, lobbyist or industry spokeperson, I really could care less as Canadian rail is not germane to the subject of the article. There are roles for rail and "big rigs" in U.S. freight transportation. What is problematic here is that our sovereignity is being compromised to the highest bidder in a relatively opaque process fueled by interests who appear more interesed in lining theirs and foreign pockets at the expense of American jobs and tax dollars. Further, we are letting into our henhouse a weasel of a government like the kleptocracy that is Mexico and opening the door for a loss of soverreignity at the hands of organizations whose allegiance is with industry and not with Nations, countries or peoples. America's railways are underutilized in part due to the PAUCITY of rail freight and American industry's love affair with "just in time" inventory management and short waits for deliveries.
And pardon me if I sound insensitive to trade agreement advocates and industry bootlickers, but I certaily would protect highly paid American jobs over sweatshop wage foreign jobs. I don't expect you to understand this since you appear to be Canadian, but if America's greatest economic strides occured when we had high tariff barriers, strong unions and tight immigration controls, Why then do we embark on these one-world, wage slashing free trade agreements? Or should we call it libertine trade agreements?
It is high time for a political party that supports the interests of the majority of the American people rather than the majority of the transnational's assets.
The government (I hesitate to say OUR government) seems to have forgotten we are a Sovereign Nation whose ideals millions have fought and died for. We are not just an economy! These so called trade agreements sure don't seem to do too much for Americans, just everyone else. When are we going to demand accountability from our ELECTED officials. Bush's legacy will be that he sold out Americans for corporate America. Should we have expected anything less? And do the next round of 'candidates' offer anything different? Forget Republican/Democrat. Check out the Constitution Party at http://www.constitutionparty.com/ We need to change something soon!
http://www.corridorwatch.org/ has more information on this highway plan.
IF ALL OF YOU WILL GO THE AMERICAN PATROL WEB SITE IT WILL KEEP YOU ABREAST OF JUST WHAT IS HAPPENING WITH THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION SELL OUT OF AMERICA. ALSO CONGRESS.ORG.tHIS MAN IS DANGEROUS AND SHOULD BE IMPEACHED AND THE SENATE WHO VOTED FOR THE AMNESTY SHOULD BE RECALLED.
You have not been reading about it in US newspapers because obviously you have not been reading the Dallas Morning News:
Official: Steer Trans-Texas Corridor east of I-35E
State wants corridor to shadow I-35
Don't Bypass D-FW: Keep Trans-Texas Corridor within reach
N. Texas-to-Mexico rail line proposed
County leaders make way for the corridor
Toll developer pitches 600 miles of new railway
Strayhorn blasts Perry over toll road contract
i am an over the road truck driver here in the good old usa.hmmmm if this goes through thousands of owner operators will be out of a job.with companys like snyder,jb hunt and other big trucking companys controling all the freight with there sheer numbers of trucks they have all ready lowered the wage! with fuel prices as high as they are it will be damn near imposible to run youre own trucking company.i wonder why you see all these adds for truck scools?flood the market lower the pay right?and with this ahmm highway they have mexicans bringing the fright in! good thing i own a gun looks like its time for a little house cleanin. o if we dont vote these vermin out of office HA HA HA!
Have you stopped to think about a four-hundred-yard wide no-man's land, with the usual high chain link fences, running from Mexico to Canada? This bisects the country roughly in half and will prevent unauthorized east-west travel. This is a military highway for martial law.
How can anyone suggest that offloading ships in southern Mexico for transport to Canada is just to get around a union? How has any union protected American jobs? How has any labor union threatened the gangsters who are planning martial law? America has some of the biggest, most efficient ports in the world. And how much of a market does Canada present for transcontinental trucking from Mexico? This is just a silly excuse to create a militarized no-man's land to cut the country in half and prevent travel from Sector East to Sector West and vice-versa.
Anyone who is pushing this from an official position should be shot as a traitor to this country. There is no other way to prevent martial law from being declared against us. This is the fruit of the Council on Foreign Relations' plan to erase the borders and create one government over the US, Mexico and Canada. Guess who would be the government? The CFR guys, who are the worst traitors in our history. They never slack off in their plan to be the dictatorship of the world, starting with this fiasco. Their plan is no secret: to reduce the USA down to the level of Mexico so as to remove any resistance to their dictatorship.
North American Super Corridor Coalitionhttp://www.nascocorridor.com/
North American Union to Replace USA?http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=14965
Security and Prosperity Partnership Of North Americahttp://www.spp.gov/
Human Events Online reported on this a few days ago, with an interesting sideline about bypassing unionized US seaports...http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?print=yes&id=15497
Bush Administration Quietly Plans NAFTA Super Highway
by Jerome R. CorsiPosted 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.
I've just recently heard of this even though I travel down I-77 in Texas quite frequently and have noticed the signs posted for future I-69 corridor --- just didn't know what it was. I've also just recently heard of the Bilderberg Group (the Illuminati) --- do the two have anything to do with each other?
It was recently announced that the NAFTA I-35 corridor route, which we expected to run right through Dallas-Ft Worth, has been changed. It will go around Dallas to the east, avoiding the population areas. Mayors of both cities are disappointed.
Canada's rail network does matter with regards to this proposed superhighway plan. As I mentioned, CN's Prince Rupert port will be upgraded soon and able to transport Asian goods into the American midwest cheaper and faster then the California ports. Actually, CN is in the process of upgrading its Memphis railyard to handle the expected increase in traffic.And I still wonder why the big 6 American and Canadian rail corps aren't forming partnerships with their Russian and Chinese rail counterparts in order to link Asia and America via the Bering Straight. Such a move would surely negate the need for this proposed Mexican-American superhighway. Mexico should be talking with Hugo Chavez and his oil rich government to build a connecting Central and South American rail network. If the world got its collective act together it would be possible to take the train from South America to South Africa and from Ireland to Newfoundland within a decade. But alas, people caught up in a nationalistic mindframe and afraid of "globalist" and "new world order" types seem to be afraid of a united world capable of exploring the moon, mars and beyond. Shame really.
In this Globe and Mail online article.. mention is made of the Bilderberg group supporting CLINTON's candidacy with the understanding that he would support NAFTA. Is that what you are asking about a "connection"?
Secretive, powerful Bilderberg group meets near Ottawa
Those who follow the Bilderberg group say it got Europe to adopt a common currency, got Bill Clinton elected after he agreed to support NAFTA...
Martha --- Yes, they seem to be "orchestrating" a lot of global events. George Noory seems to be the only one talking about it.
so if it is not being talked about on major media, that must certainly mean it is not happening. great logic...
i don't care to live in your theoretical happy land. i'd like to keep my nation. the wars our veterans fought weren't to build a "global economy" of "free trade" and "free movement". our capitalist mixed economy has worked fine for many years with overseas competition, and it can continue without creating a fantasy to make everything and everyone a global commodity.
NAFTA, CAFTA, GATT, all of that "free trade" libertarian theory-filled, think-tank pushed legislation works great for business execs and major shareholders, but not much for the middle and working class, which makes up most of the population. these ivory tower ultra-capitalists figure as long as people are working they're happy, with no regard to a worker's standard of living or wage.
go to the third world, where the elite live in gated communities, free from the ills of the rest of the country, with access to all they need, while the rest of the population lives in shambles, struggling, all with a near non-existant middle class. that's what everyone should expect for the U.S. and eventually the rest of the modern world if we let chamber-of-commerce-types make the decisions.
Two comments:
If I was on the outside and wanted to undermine this country, I might try:
(1) Divide and conquer method (via the new Hwy 35) and
(2) Trojan Horse method (via the nes Hwy 35 intra contintal Hwy) (EXCUSE ME BUT WHY IS CUSTOMS IN KANSAS AND NOT AT THE BORDER!!!!!!!!!!!!)
A lot of said things are related to this massive highway. One is that people won't be able to cross it w/o a national ID card. Destruction of private property rights and many more issues. Many truck drivers and longshoremen will lose their jobs. Some of whom I'll guess won't be able to find new ones readily. This will affect all Americans then. These people will need services such as medical, engineering. service, but won't be able to afford them. This then affects the professions. I suggest to all that we contact our congressmen and senators and tell them enough of this nonsense and impeach Bush. If our politicos don't listen, then let's remove them from office. Remember voting for a Democrat or Republican any more is usually a wasted vote. Consider voting Libertarian or American Constitution parties.
It all starts here in Texas. The TTC is the Boondoogle. Read about it here: http://www.texastollparty.com
