Posted on 09/27/2006 11:30:11 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Given Mexico's track record, that was my immediate thought too.
But Adams said it has "morphed" into a NAFTA superhighway set to become a 4,000-mile $184 billion international entity called North America's SuperCorridor, regulated by "international bureaucrats," according to a story Adams wrote in the September issue of "Torch," published by the Texas Eagle Forum.
The 12-lane NASCO corridor will include a railroad system running alongside pipelines laid for oil and natural gas. It will be the width of four football fields running from Interstate 35 at Laredo to the Canadian border north of Duluth, Minn. It would "Y" off into the east coast up to Montreal.
The 184-billion-dollar, 4,000-mile network is all in Texas, and it's a conceptual plan. Whether it will all be built is up to Texas officials. Moving right along, we get:
An agreement dubbed the Security and Prosperity Partnership was signed in 2005 in Waco by President Bush, then-Mexican President Vincente Fox and Canadian Prime Minister Paul Edgar Philippe Martin created the NASCO corridor. The plan is to be put in place by 2010. Adams said the contract is a sole executive agreement that bypasses Congress.
Markets in the United States, Canada and Mexico would be merged into a North American Union, similar to the European Union. This would create a new currency called the "Amero," which would replace currencies for all three countries, she said.
My impression was, the SPP is designed to simply find ways to enhance trade and security in North America, not create a North American Union. The SPP really should make the process more public so that people like Cathie Adams and Jerome Corsi don't creatively fill in the blanks for them.
From NASCO's own website:
"North America’s SuperCorridor Coalition, Inc., is a non-profit organization dedicated to developing the world’s first international, integrated and secure, multi-modal transportation system along the International Mid-Continent Trade and Transportation Corridor to improve both the trade competitiveness and quality of life in North America. We were founded in 1994 as the I-35 Corridor Coalition and in 1996 incorporated into a non-profit organization and became NASCO.
NASCO is not a government agency. We have no authority to build or develop anything unilaterally. NASCO will work with our members, state Departments of Transportation and federal and local agencies involved in transportation, trade and security to accomplish our mission."
http://www.nascocorridor.com/pages/about/about.htm
"SuperCorridor & NAFTA Highway Defined
SuperCorridor - not "Super-sized". As defined in Webster's dictionary, "Super" means "more inclusive than a specialized category". NASCO uses the term "SuperCorridor" to demonstrate we are more than just a highway coalition. NASCO works to develop key relationships along the EXISTING corridors we represent to maximize economic development opportunities along the NASCO Corridor, as well as coordinate the development of technology integration projects, inland ports, environmental initiatives, university research, and the sharing of "best practices". NASCO is particularly focused on coordinating the efforts of local, state and federal agencies and the private sector to integrate and secure a multimodal transportation system along the existing "NASCO Corridor."
"NAFTA Superhighway" - As of late, there has been much media attention given to the "new, proposed NAFTA Superhighway". NASCO and the cities, counties, states and provinces along our existing Interstate Highways 35/29/94 (the NASCO Corridor) have been referring to I-35 as the 'NAFTA Superhighway' for many years, as I-35 already carries a substantial amount of international trade with Mexico, the United States and Canada. There are no plans to build a new NAFTA Superhighway - it exists today as I-35."
Eagle Forum is making things up.
This apparent Bush administration insanity is being confirmed through multiple sources.
Someone gave the once-proud Eagle Forum some Big Foot pills.
I suggest you use the FR search with the phrase, "North American Union" and fasten your seatbelt.
I see valid news reports here, not tinfoil. Looks like there are some ostriches, though.
It's tinfoil and that is a fact.
As to the details, that may well become the subject of Congressional investigation quite soon -- and properly so.
Oh good grief..............most of the tinfoil garbage posted to FR, about this matter, has been by Corsi and is unadulterated piffle, covered in so many layer of tinfoil, that it's been beyond laughable! And the article that heads this thread is no different or better.
I AM right! :-)
Same old crap, different day. On this bit of lunacy, time for me to turn in. Take care and suggest to them they try the new non-stick aluminum foil...perhaps this kind of crap won't stick so long.
I've tried the new non-stick Reynold's Wrap. It's really rather good for food. Perhaps it will also be good for the benighted toinfoilers. LOL
This "new" highway has been in the works for many decades.
Yes, the truth IS out there, but for some reason, you refuse to see it.
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