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Originally posted 2008-10-05 10:44:35.

People think this whole North American Union (NAU) is good idea???

A Mexico-U.S.-Canada highway? Roll it out | ajc.com.
By ROBERT P. CADY

Published on: 06/23/06

Reading
recently on a conservative Web site about the Bush administration’s
quiet support for a major highway from Mexico through the heart of the
United States to join Canada — a so-called NAFTA superhighway — I
couldn’t help but think the timing may be right to form the
controversial North American Union. There has been talk of this for
years. Support has grown since the successful formation of the European
Union.

The EU is a success? Everyone in Europe is living better than they were before? Even if they are what makes this a good idea for US? If it was just us and Canada maybe. But why drag us down to Mexico’s level. So between the two of us we can bring them inline with the us? At what cost?

The idea is simple; create an
open federation of the three countries, with a common set of trade
rules. In so doing, allow the free flow of citizens within the Union.
Finally, create a new currency that would combine the economic
strengths of each country and compete against the Euro, the common
currency of the European union.

Sounds so simple. But so far the only country benefiting is Mexico.

The NAFTA superhighway is
a good example of this. Building it would allow container ships to land
at Mexico’s new "Smart Port" at Lazaro Cardenas, travel in Mexican
trucks up through the center of the United States, drop loads at
designated depots and deliver containers all the way through to Canada,
all under the watchful eye of a common security system.

We haven’t heard about this from the administration but the plans
are reportedly in place, with custom centers being built and the road
ready to start in Texas next year. Perhaps it’s been kept quiet until
it is a fait accompli because such a plan bypasses the dockworkers’
unions in the U.S ports, and the Teamsters truckers until after the
offloads. It also becomes fodder for the jingoists.

You think? Maybe we need a few more Jingoists to balance out the nuts that want to destroy our way of life. Like I said, the only benefactor here is Mexico. Oh yeah, companies in the US and Canada get cheap labor and their cheap crap from China even cheaper.

I know this gets a little long, the really scary part is on the next page!

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Originally posted 2006-07-01 03:00:00.

Here I go telling everyone how right I am, again. I just received my copy of "Sailors of the Concrete Sea". It’s about the study the University of Michigan did about trucking in 199. After reading only a little bit of it, I’m sure most of the conclusions are still true today. Like the one about the "driver-shortage", the authors say it only looks like a shortage to the carriers because of all the job hopping the drivers do. The same drivers are going from company to company and it only looks like people are leaving.

I only started it, but it’s amazing the conclusions these guys come up with. Of course if they would have only called me, I could have come up with the same answers and saved them the research. When I’m right, I’m right. A more detailed review coming soon.

Originally posted 2005-02-09 13:26:00.

Fate of Nations discusses Atlantica a plan to merge the North Atlantic Canadian and American economies. 

The North American Union (NAU) is coming: ‘Borderless’ Economic Regions Well on Their Way at Fate of Nations.

Continental integration has been kept very quiet In the United
States with national media coverage nearly non-existent. It would
appear only those who gain to profit from such mega-billion dollar
projects are ‘in the know’ about the planning and execution of such
large-scale endeavors.

Atlantica is not the only planned ‘borderless economic region’
inspired by NAFTA, but is a “tiny piece of that larger conversation”
between Canada, US and Mexico.” Atlantica’s own web site reveals the
following regions to be already under way:

It goes on about the Northeast and Northwest but my favorite –

NASCO, North America’s Superhighway Coalition Inc.
A not-for-profit corporation founded in 1997 that advocates for the
international trade corridor that includes US highways I-35, I-29,
1-80/I-94, and highway 75 in Canada. Members come from Texas,Oklahoma
,Kansas,Missouri,Iowa, and South Dakota, and Manitoba, and are working
on corridor-related technology and infrastructure improvements.
For more information, visit: http://www.nascocorridor.com/index.htm

These type of backroom public-private partnership projects have only recently come to light such as the North America’s SuperCorridor Coalition, Inc. (NASCO) ‘Super Highway Trade Corridor’ which was exposed and later found to be one of several trade corridors. The looming ‘North American Union‘
which is seldom known or heard of by the average American is making its
way ever so silently creeping and slithering like a snake in the night.

Free trade is one thing, but merging our economies, military and governments is a horrible and frightening idea.

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Originally posted 2006-06-30 03:00:00.

Here’s the news I received today -

The Senate Appropriations Committee voted yesterday to block the reckless pilot program proposed by the Department of Transportation to allow hundreds, if not thousands, of unsafe Mexican trucks onto our roads and highways.

You can read more about the vote here.

But we need to keep the pressure on. The full Senate takes up the bill next week. Call (202) 224-3121 to let your senators know that unsafe Mexican trucks don’t belong on our highways.

In solidarity,

Jim Hoffa,
General President
International
                  Brotherhood of Teamsters

Thanks for forwarding that to me!

Plus, please check out the comment and the response I gave to a Mexican Truck driver reader here. I offered him an entire post to himself because I am seriously interested in what the drivers there are hearing about what’s going on and why. And if any of my concerns about smuggling and Cabotage rules are legitimate issues down there.  Personally, I could care less about the environment and safety, look at all the crappy trucks and companies in the US already! FMCSA is so overworked now, does anyone expect them to actually oversee this fiasco?

Originally posted 2007-03-24 17:00:57.

This is the trade show I picked up in Vegas and took to Garden City, CA (south of LA). One shows a flatbed being loaded while the other shows a bulldozer on the left loading the end dumps with trash and debris. This is all inside the Sands Convention Center. I’ve driven inside herebefore. Trucks have to drive inside because there are no loading docksand no space to load outside the building.

Originally posted 2006-02-24 18:12:54.