Super HIGHWAY from Mex to Can to get around unions?

I just heard this on INN (Linktv). This is from 1999 and is being ratcheted up.

"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."

Then this from the same article:

"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."

http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=15497 - WARNING this is a conservative website.

Here is the organization that is all set up and ready to proceed:

"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.

The NASCO Corridor encompasses Interstate Highways 35, 29 and 94, and the significant east/west connectors to those highways in the United States, Canada and Mexico. The Corridor directly impacts the continental trade flow of North America. Membership includes public and private sector entities along the Corridor in Canada, the United States and Mexico.

From the largest border crossing in North America (The Ambassador Bridge in Detroit, Michigan and Windsor, Canada), to the second largest border crossing of Laredo, Texas and Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, extending to the deep water Ports of Manzanillo and Lazaro Cardenas, Mexico and to Manitoba, Canada, the impressive, tri-national NASCO membership truly reflects the international scope of the Corridor and the regions it impacts."

http://www.nascocorridor.com/pages/about/about.htm - be sure to look at the map.

It's a signed agreement already?

"The U.S. government has housed within the Department of Commerce (DOC) an “SPP office” that is dedicated to organizing the many working groups laboring within the executive branches of the U.S., Mexico and Canada to create the regulatory reality for the Security and Prosperity Partnership. The SPP agreement was signed by Bush, President Vicente Fox, and then-Prime Minister Paul Martin in Waco, Tex., on March 23, 2005."

http://www.spp.gov/

Here is the already set up website for the KC Smart Port.

http://www.kcsmartport.com/

Is this Clinton's legacy from NAFTA?

Am I the only person who doesn't know about this?

Last night Greg Palast and Paul Krugman were talking about the Bush Adminstration's long term union extinction plan relating to UAW and Airlines. This piece to exterminate the Longshoremen and the Teamsters fits right into the puzzle.

It could cut both ways, though. Once the economy collapses and there are no unions for people to operate in concert through, it will be easier to launch organizing strikes at these massive unified commerce ateries, instead of at a bunch of little ports and highways all over the country.

It will be one strike fits all.

Toss any troublemakers in jail. Use them as free labor, and take away their voting rights for ever. Also, make them captive to convert them to evangelical christians.

Religion just might fall by the way side when that average rank and file republican can no longer "put food on his family".

to make it on the cheap?

I thought this was about making cheap labor more accessible in the US. They won't even have to outsource any more.

It would seem that they would want to keep this secret for awhile. Is this a tester to see what the reaction is. No wonder George seems to be so conflicted about the wall - they have to announce where the super highway it going to run (unless it's stopped).

"The details of the NAFTA Super Highway are hidden in plan view. Still, Bush has not given speeches to bring the NAFTA Super Highway plans to the full attention of the American public. Missing in the move toward creating a North American Union is the robust public debate that preceded the decision to form the European Union. All this may be for calculated political reasons on the part of the Bush Administration."

these monsters are doing to us.

Did PNAC help get Vicente Fox into his Presidency?

this - it's so absurd. Is it well under way?

Any Kansas City people here - is this being discussed and covered in KC?

I'm writing my Senator - the good one.

I remember hearing about this maybe 10 years ago for the first time.

What I find odd is that I can't see WHERE in KC this superport is going to be located. I just poured over all the links connected to this article and even did some Googling. It sounds like it should be a fairly large facility. I live not far from I-35, so I wonder if my house will be in the way of this super highway or the superport.

I will check some of the local KC blog sites and post what I find, if anything.

It is the largest Mexican port on the west coast of Mexico and is beginning work on doubling it´s number of births, so this ¨"freeway" may have something to do with our expansion. Ford leaked a story today that it plans to spend $92 billion expanding in Mexico over the next five years. It would be interesting to know how much socialized health care has to do with the US´s ability to compete. I read that GM spends $52 million a year on Viagra. How long can the US keep it up?

station in KANSAS CITY. It is already under construction according to what I read. The idea is to bipass West Coast (union) ports and bring all far east cargo into Mexico. It will then be put on Mexican (non-union) trucks and sped through the border using a fast check (chip) system. The first stop for those trucks will be in Kansas City at a MEXICAN customs station which will be run by the MEXICAN government but built and paid for by the US government. The program will be jointly administered by the MEXICAN AND CANADIAN government and Private U.S. businesses in conjuction with the states.

Texas is moving big time on this one. They have had several conferences on in. The U.S. Secretary of Tranportation is heavily involved. Million are already allocated for this union busting effort.

Inital planning says about $18 billion but it could run as high as a Trillion dollars by some estimates.

This is what the fundies have been doing in secret. I cannot believe that West and East coast Senators and Reps are not making huge waves about this!! My Senator, Oregon Republican Gordon Smith sits on the Transportation Committee. He has to know about it but not one word out of him. I emailed him yesterday asking what in the hell does he think he is doing helping to undermine west coast ports. I also asked if he had taken money from lobbiest involved in this or if he has financial interests in any of the companies involved.

CONTACT LOU DOBBS. GET HIM ON THIS ONE. IT IS A TRUE OUTRAGE!!