The End of the American Trucker: NASCO Emails Uncovered!

Hannity.com ^ | July 6, 2006 | EagleClaw

[WatchingInAmazement]

As they, like the harassers who 'protest too much', are, in fact, in complete agreement with Bush's NAU/SSP agenda and wish to discredit ANY disagreement of ANYTHING Bush does. That is why I have not received a reply.

Most would agree that you have perceived correctly, and that my dear, is the bottom line.

[hedgetrimmer]

PING

[hedgetrimmer]

Thanks for posting. There are many of us who are following this issue.

That being said, you certainly have brought the name callers out from under their rocks, haven't you! They must be very threatened by this information.

[Spiff]

Lou Dobbs is a moron and ask the mods and Jim; don't ask me.

Well, that settles it. The mods and Jim are the ultimate authority on everything in the universe, of course. I don't need to form another individual opinion, read anything other than Free Republic, or watch any more news reports. Thank goodness I have Jim and the mods to think for me.

[Diddle E. Squat]

Are you saying his Swift Boat work was dishonest?

Sadly, I'm not sure now. He's blowing a lot of credibility with his nonsense and jumping to ridiculous conclusions, so now I wonder if he's done this in the past on other subjects. Luckily for him, there has been years and oodles of evidence that John Kerry is a liar and a fraud through and through, as opposed to perhaps just someone with poor analytical skills and a penchant for drawing wrong conclusions.

[Diddle E. Squat]

You seem to be taking this personally. Is there a particular reason?

Gee, good point. Obviously there was nothing personal in the post I was responding to:

Those kind of assinine comments may work on liberal know-nothings, but to anyone who has a reading level over 5th grade can see the internal emails for themselves. They can read the documents for themselves. Anyone who has lost or had a friend or family member who has lost a job due to NAFTA or other "outsourcing" knows this is not a "conspiracy" Incidentally... if you cannot read at a 5th grade level, atleast it explains your addiction to kool-aid.

[hedgetrimmer]

Some say Robert Pastor is not part of the government and his paper has no influence. Quite obviously he has a lot.

He has testified numerous times at the Capitol, promoting his plan, was the architect of the Panama Canal surrender and was a National Security Advisor for Jimmy Carter.

Daily Digest - Thursday, June 9, 2005

CROSS-BORDER TRAVEL

Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, Peace Corps and Narcotics Affairs concluded a hearing to examine the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative (WHTI), focusing on plans to augment United States border security and facilitate international travel by establishing new documentary standards, and regarding safety and convenience in cross-border travel, after receiving testimony from Frank E. Moss, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs; Elaine Dezenski, Acting Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security for Policy and Planning, Border and Transportation Directorate; Paul M. Ruden, American Society of Travel Agents, Inc., Alexandria, Virginia; and Robert A. Pastor , American University Center for North American Studies, Washington, D.C.

THE PANAMA CANAL -- (Senate - October 04, 1999)

Ambassador Hughes came close to being declared persona non grata for protesting the rigged deal 3 years ago. It should be noted that Hughes is now parroting the administration's line on Panama and the PRC. President Clinton then appointed Robert Pastor, architect of the 1977 canal surrender. He appointed him, and Pastor's nomination was blocked by Foreign Relations Committee Chairman JESSE HELMS.

INTELLIGENCE AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 2000 -- (House of Representatives - May 13, 1999)

A review by the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library staff for the still classified Bzrezinski files on Chile, human rights violations, and sanctions against Chile for the Letelier assassination; and the files of National Security Council advisor on Latin America, Robert Pastor, for similar documentation.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

I can't stand dishonest demagogues, no matter what side of politics they are on.

Hear, hear!

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Thanks for da pingie!

[hedgetrimmer]

From NAFTA to NASCO to Customs in Kansas City
By Linda Bentley

WASHINGTON, D.C. A plan is underway by the Bush Administration to globalize North America through the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (www.spp.gov).

Although this particular agenda has been moving forward since 2005, its beginnings date back to 1995 with NAFTA.
While the three countries have formed commissions to forge ahead with what they have stated is a permanent process, a pilot project is also underway in the background to set up business processes, systems architecture and data flow to comply with the World Customs Organizations (WCO) Framework of Standards to further facilitate North American trade and transport.

Also establishing a foothold is North Americas SuperCorridor Coalition, Inc. (NASCO), which entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with The North American International Trade Corridor Partnership (NAITCP) last year to amalgamate the two nonprofit organizations into one called NASCO.

While NASCO has been successful in achieving Canadian and U.S. membership, NAITCP has been successful in solidifying U.S. and Mexican participation.

The MOU sets up timetables and ground rules as to how the merger will proceed.

NASCO represents the corporate entities and local governments that promote the North American Union ideology, and is dedicated to furthering economic development along the evolving transportation and trade corridor between Lazaro Cardenas in the state of Michoacan, Mexico, through the heart of America to an inland port in Kansas City, Mo., where a 1,300-mile railroad seamlessly connects Mexican seaports to the central United States, and where American taxpayers are funding a $3 million Mexican customs building.

Robert C. Bonner, Commissioner, United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Department of Homeland Security, called the pilot proposal bold and imaginative and said it could transform Kansas City into a major new trade link, which he said worked well with new border security initiatives to pre-approve cargo.

As of last November, the United States and Mexico had worked out an agreement, although certain aspects of that agreement were still being ironed out by customs officials, including security issues and whether Mexican customs officials have legal standing to work in the United States.

At a luncheon last year, hosted by the Kansas City Chamber of Commerce and Kansas City SmartPort, Bonner said the Mexican governments cooperation in security initiatives have been instrumental in making the Mexican-U.S. border more secure.

The border at Laredo, Texas and Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, where drug lords and violent gangs reign free, suggests otherwise.

Since 1995, the Mexican government has been aggressively moving toward decentralization and privatization of infrastructure and its seaport operations to promote business-friendly partnerships and expand international trade.

In 2002, Mexico hosted the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit, after which it started the Trans-Pacific Multimodal Security System (TPMSS) to create greater transportation infrastructure capacity, more cooperative customs processes and greater security, which in the end will facilitate economic growth along the Lazaro Cardenas Kansas City Corridor.

Last April, Kansas City Southern Railroad purchased a controlling interest in Transportacion Ferroviaria Mexicana, which will operate under common leadership, paving the way for a ships-to-rail inland transportation system for shippers who wish to bypass the West Coasts ports.

Kansas City also signed a cooperative agreement with representatives from both the state of Michoacan and the city of Lazaro Cardenas last year to increase cargo volume between the two cities.

Instead of paying Mexican customs up to $100,000 per container passing through Mexico, new rules allow shippers to move as many containers as they like for a single $55,000 bond, which will make shipping through Mexican ports up to 15 percent less costly than through Long Beach or Los Angeles.

According to its Web site (www.KCSmartPort.com), Kansas City SmartPort, Inc. is a nonprofit organization dedicated to transforming the Kansas City region from an historic trade hub to a cutting-edge, high tech inland port, with a goal to make it cheaper, faster and safer for importers and exporters to move their goods.

Kansas City SmartPort is tag-lined Americas Inland Port Solution and is supported by dozens of area companies, communities and trade-related organizations in the Kansas City area.

Its Web site claims the Lazaro Cardenas Kansas City Transportation Corridor offers opportunities for international shippers and greater prosperity for North America. The promo goes on to say: 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, and states, Thanks to an innovative series of international agreements, infrastructure improvements and new technologies, this corridor is a reality. NASCOs planned 10-lane highway and connecting railways will facilitate the movement of air, rail and ground cargo, principally from Asia and South America, through Mexico and into the United States via KellyUSA, an inland port located in San Antonio, Texas on through to Kansas City and Winnipeg, Canada.

So, as public relations firms attempt to put a positive spin on this New World Order and the Bush Administrations globalization agenda, which is moving forward at a breakneck pace, there hasnt been a peep out of the mainstream media.

And those in D.C. who are aware of these plans also remain mum, with the exception of Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., who recently demanded the Bush administration fully disclose all activities and provide the names of all those involved in the implementation of this trilateral agreement with Mexico and Canada, which appears to be on the path of creating a North American Union, with neither authorization nor oversight by Congress, or the American people for that matter.

But it explains why all efforts to control Americas borders have been nothing more than smoke and mirrors and political posturing, while American taxpayers are unknowingly funding this globalization drive with federal transportation dollars.

http://66.218.69.11/search/cache?p=naitcp++&ei=UTF-8&fr=FP-pull-web-t&u=www.sonorannews.com/headline3.html&w=naitcp&d=WX78UTmtNB-b&icp=1&.intl=us

[Rockitz]

Basically west coast ports are reaching buildout...

Actually, you're missing another important consideration. Port of Long Beach longshoremen are pulling down $150K a year and there have been near zero improvements in efficiency thanks to union stonewalling. The longshoremen are basically holding the US consumer hostage. A little competition may be good, but I'd personally like to see just enough Mexican and Canadian competition to get back to wage parity. I've got multiple graduate engineering degrees and >20 years of experience and I'm not making that kind of coin.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

PING!

See especially Reply 50 by hedgetrimmer.

[hedgetrimmer]

Hemispheria, held in San Pedro Garza García, Nuevo León, in May, aims to increase North America’s global competitiveness by fostering cooperation among mayors and private-sector leaders, local chambers of industry and commerce, and academia.

Attendees discussed best practices for local government and business. Hemispheria also targets the integration of local transportation systems throughout the NAFTA region.

http://news.dallaschamber.org/e_article000406067.cfm?x=b11,0,w

FYI, Hemispheria 2006, which was to feature NASCO, was cancelled.

[hedgetrimmer]

Are you part of the war on wage earners?

[hedgetrimmer]

Carlos Slim[Speaking at the Hemispheria 2005], Mexico's telecom magnet and Latin America's richest man, said one of the flaws of the trade agreement was not creating a regional immigration agreement.

NAFTA "was an incomplete accord because it globalized trade but labor integration remains incomplete," Slim said.

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Labor integration meaning the 'harmonization' of US wages down to Mexico's level?

[r9etb]

Fight the good fight, Mr. Squat. I've lost patience with these loons.

[Smartass]

Excerpt:

 Washington Post:

Cities and states that aid illegal immigrants without reporting them to the authorities risk losing millions of dollars in homeland security and other federal money under two spending bills approved last month by the House. The bills, which fund the departments of Homeland Security, Commerce, State and Justice, were amended to refuse federal money to any city or state with policies that prohibit local government officials from alerting federal authorities about possible immigration law violators. House supporters of the provisions said cities that prevent police officers from sharing information about illegal immigrants with the federal government put Americans at risk. "No police officer should be barred from contacting federal immigration authorities about a criminal alien suspect," said Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, who offered the amendment to the 2007 Homeland Security appropriations bill.

 

Go PUBS...

 

[Smartass]

Excerpt:

 Washington Post:

The utter collapse last weekend of a global trade conference is the latest evidence that, among developed and developing countries alike, there is simply little appetite for another round of globalization. In places where globalization has generated the greatest gains -- the United States, China and Korea come to mind -- there is a need to come up with mechanisms to spread the benefits more broadly and fairly while working off some of the excesses that show up in things such as asset bubbles and unsustainable trade imbalances. Up to now, globalization has been the project of business and economic elites who have largely foisted it on a wary or unsuspecting public. Now, from remote villages of China to a gathering spot for day laborers in Herndon, globalization has entered its more democratic phase. And it's likely to be a messy phase, at that.

[Czar]

Good for Rep. Steve King.

[Czar]

"Up to now, globalization has been the project of business and economic elites who have largely foisted it on a wary or unsuspecting public."

Which explains the frantic attempts to hide information, cancel conferences, and delete information from websites.

Who you gonna believe--the globalists or your lyin' eyes?