Alberta Government Admits NAFTA Superhighway

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Alberta Government Admits NAFTA Superhighway

Published on Wednesday, December 05, 2007.





Source: Rogue Government - Lee Rogers

Alberta's government web site admits to the existence of a NAFTA superhighway. While establishment media hacks continue to deny plans for a continental highway, it is curious that a government web site would openly admit to the existence of it. It is also curious how these liars can get away with calling presidential candidate Ron Paul a conspiracy theorist for citing readily available information. One of the driving forces behind the formation of a NAFTA superhighway is NASCO a non profit organization dedicated to expanding our current highway infrastructure so goods can be more easily traded within the coming North American Union.
What's funny about NASCO's web site is that they deny the existence of a continental superhighway but openly admit to it at the same time. Take for example the following taken from their myth vs fact section.

MYTH: NASCO is spearheading the creation of a NAFTA Superhighway?

FACT: Founded in 1994, NASCO is a nonprofit organization that is working to bring together the public and private sectors along a common corridor. The organization is striving to:

1) solve critical infrastructure problems in innovative ways;

2) maximize the efficient use of our existing resources;

3) better utilize critical diminishing funding for transportation infrastructure; and,

4) employ technology along our existing infrastructure to improve security.

How is it a myth if the goal of this organization is to expand and make improvements on I-35 which is referred to by the Alberta government as the NAFTA superhighway? Why is it that they have a logo that represents the flags of Mexico, Canada and the U.S.? This is a clear cut case of double think. They deny the existence of a NAFTA superhighway, but admit openly that they are doing all sorts of things to ensure that I-35 is improved upon to be used as the NAFTA superhighway.

Here they openly admit that existing highway infrastructure is to be used as the NAFTA superhighway. Below is an excerpt.

"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.

The bottom line is that a NAFTA superhighway will be formed by making improvements to existing highway infrastructure. Technically, there is no new NAFTA superhighway because the NAFTA superhighway will be built around what is already there. NASCO admits this openly on their web site, and the Alberta government actually states that I-35 is the NAFTA superhighway. The continued denial of a NAFTA superhighway by establishment media hacks proves that they are not journalists, but instead are bought and paid for propagandists who are too lazy to do basic research.

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Fake Christians: NAFTA Highway Is Holy

Published on Saturday, December 22, 2007.





Source: Rogue Government - Lee Rogers

A group of fake Christians are claiming that I-35 is a holy highway. They claim that through the help of prayer this holy highway will cleanse strip clubs and other adult businesses that surround it. It is interesting that all of a sudden fake Christians like Pat Robertson and others are talking about how I-35 is a holy highway right when there is a major push by the global elite to expand I-35 into the NAFTA superhighway. The expansion of I-35 into the NAFTA superhighway has been a topic of much controversy as it will force people off of their property via way of eminent domain. Fake Christians like Pat Robertson are attempting to brainwash Christians into believing that I-35 is a holy highway and that because it is a holy highway it is god’s will to take people’s surrounding property in order to expand it. This is a well timed and very diabolical propaganda campaign by the fake Christian right in order to convince people that the expansion of I-35 into the NAFTA superhighway is a divine undertaking.

At left is a video clip of Pat Robertson from the 700 Club talking about how I-35 is a holy highway. One man even claims that the I-35 prayer groups helped cure him of his homosexuality.

CNN also did a report on these phony Christians which is shown below courtesy of Raw Story.

The fake Christians claim that the following quote from the Bible taken from Isiah Chapter 35 is proof that I-35 is a divine highway.

“A highway shall be there, and a road,” reads a portion of the chapter’s verse eight, “and it shall be called the Highway of Holiness. The unclean shall not pass over it…”


Ask yourself this, which is more likely? That I-35 is a divine highway? Or is this a ploy to get Christians to think that the expansion of this highway into the NAFTA superhighway is some how a good thing and is god’s will? The answer seems pretty obvious.

There is an agenda to expand highway infrastructure in the United States to implement a series of North American trade corridors. This is merely propaganda to get people to accept an expanded I-35 even if it means that people will lose their property all in the name of the public good.

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Mexican trucks allowed into U.S. despite new law to stop them

Published on Sunday, January 06, 2008.





Source: Associated Press

WASHINGTON - The Bush administration is going ahead with a controversial pilot program giving Mexican trucks greater access to U.S. highways despite a new law by Congress against it.
The decision to proceed with the four-month-old program, which allows participating Mexican trucking companies to send loads throughout the United States, comes despite language in the recently signed catchall spending bill aimed at blocking it.

But the Department of Transportation is taking advantage of a loophole in the new law, which prohibits the government from spending any money to "establish" the program. The government says the new rules don't apply to the current program since it was started in September.

"The U.S. Department of Transportation will not establish any new demonstration programs with Mexico," said Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration spokeswoman Melissa Mazzella DeLaney. "The current cross-border trucking demonstration project - established in September - will continue to operate in a manner that puts safety first."

Congressional opponents of the programs insist that it's clear what lawmakers were trying to do last year when both House and Senate voted against allowing the program to go forward.

The provision, as signed by President Bush last month, says: "None of the funds made available under this act may be used to establish a cross-border motor carrier demonstration program to allow Mexico-domiciled motor carriers to operate beyond the commercial zones along the international border between the United States and Mexico."

"They know what the law says," retorted Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., who won a 74-24 vote to block the program. "And they're not above the law." Dorgan warned they better follow the law.

The hotly contested program, opposed by labor, independent truck owners and environmental groups, permits up to 500 trucks from 100 Mexican motor carriers full access to U.S. roads.

Opponents have been fighting the measure - part of the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement - since it was first proposed, saying the program will erode highway safety and eliminate U.S. jobs. And they say that there are insufficient safeguards exist to make sure that Mexican trucks are as safe as U.S. carriers.

"When you open up U.S. highways to long-haul Mexican trucks without equivalent safety standards, it poses risks for American drivers," Dorgan said.

Supporters of the plan say letting more Mexican trucks on U.S. highways will save American consumers hundreds of millions of dollars. And they say U.S. trucking companies will benefit since reciprocal changes in Mexico's rules permit U.S. trucks new access to that country.

Since 1982, Mexican trucks have had to stop within a buffer border zone and transfer their loads to U.S. trucks.

Still, there's widespread opposition to the program within Congress. The House voted without a roll call in July to block the program and the Senate's 3-to-1 margin in September to block it came despite administration assurances that safeguards are in place to "ensure a safe and secure program."

The Teamsters Union, Sierra Club and Public Citizen joined together in a lawsuit filed in August seeking to block the program.

A hearing is scheduled for Feb. 12 before the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, Teamsters spokeswoman Leslie Miller said.