Filed under: Amero, CAFTA, CFR, columbia, Condoleezza Rice, Congress, Costa Rica, El Salvador, european union, global elite, Globalism, guatemala, Honduras, i-35, Illegal Immigration, Mexican Trucks, Mexico, NAFTA, NAFTA Superhighway, New World Order, Nicaragua, North American Union, panama, Peru, single currency, TTC, Vicente Fox
U.S. Plans Outline a Subsidized Pan-American Highway
Jones Report
January 8, 2008
U.S. Title Code TITLE 23 > CHAPTER 2 > § 212 provides for the construction and maintenance of the Inter-American Highway program in cooperation with the Governments of the American Republics in Central America (i.e. Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama).
“Title 23 of the US Code as currently published by the US Government reflects the laws passed by Congress as of Jan. 2, 2006.”
Under the code, the United States essentially pays for up to one-third of the total construction costs (depending on each nation’s wealth):
(a) Not to exceed one-third of the appropriation authorized for each fiscal year may be expended without requiring the country or countries in which such funds may be expended to match any part thereof, if the Secretary of State shall find that the cost of constructing said highway in such country or countries will be beyond their reasonable capacity to bear.
The U.S. also agrees to provide all the maintenance costs:
(5) will provide for the maintenance of said highway after its completion in condition adequately to serve the needs of present and future traffic.
The U.S. has cooperated with Latin America on highway systems since the first Pan American Highway Congress in Buenos Aires in 1925, but footing all the costs for infrastructure can’t be a good sign for expanded globalization to come.
This acceleration of hemispheric-consolidation only correlates with the passage CAFTA in the Central American States and the passage of ‘free trade’ agreements with Panama, Peru and Columbia during 2007. Further, Condoleezza Rice and President Bush have hailed the significant steps towards the broader ‘vision’ of a Pan-American Community.
“The founding ideal of our Pan-American Community, borne across many centuries and carried by us still, is the hope that life in the hemisphere would signify a break with the Old World, and a new beginning for all mankind,” Secretary Rice told the C.F.R. and the Organization of American States in October 2007.
“We now have the potential to create an unbroken chain of trading partners from Tierra del Fuego to the Arctic Circle,” Rice said to the OAS.
Vicente Fox has also advocated not only the North American Union, but hinted at a unified currency throughout the Americas sometime in the future during an appearance on Larry King Live.
An unbroken chain of trading partners– under ever-expanding ‘free trade’ blocs (yes, an oxymoron)– would certainly go hand-in-hand with an inter-connected, well-maintained highway– but subsidizing the expenses is no route to equal or independent nations inside a community, but rather a formula for guaranteeing centralized regional control.
That’s not to say that free travel and reasonably safe and convenient travel is not a worthwhile goal, but certainly many are concerned about the implications such a smaller hemisphere would mean for employment and wages. Even Mexican farmers are now protesting free trade, illegal immigration and the effects of NAFTA, a position American farmers likely never steered from.
Meanwhile, Mexico has already announced its intention to microchip migrant workers coming from Central and South America and other places.
L. Ronald Scheman, founder of the Pan American Development foundation and Senior Advisor to Kissinger McLarty Associates proposes that opportunities to harmonize the Americas can lead to long-term integration along the same route taken by the E.U.— early on, the E.U. was nothing more than a Coal and Steel Community which eventually solidified unification:
“To him, the strategy was clear. ‘This proposal [for a coal and steel community] has an essential political objective: to make a breach in the ramparts of national sovereignty, which will be narrow enough to secure consent — but deep enough to open the way toward the unity that is essential to peace [and we might add, for our purposes in the Americas, for development].'”
http://www.jonesreport.com/article/01_08/090108_ttc_conspiracy.html
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Filed under: CAFTA, George Bush, Illegal Immigration, Immigration, mexican flag, Mexico, North American Union, war on drugs
STUDY: As many as 38 MILLION illegal immigrants in the USA
Houston Chronicle
October 08, 2007
In separate rooms on overlapping morning hours at the National Press Club this week, two very different groups were launching the next rounds in the simmering immigration fight.
In the Zenger Room, named for German immigrant John Peter Zenger, who helped establish free speech law, Californians for Population Stabilization released a study claiming there are 20 million to 38 million illegal immigrants in America, not the 12 million the federal government says.
“Immigration is in a state of anarchy,” organization member James Walsh, a former Immigration and Naturalization Service lawyer, fervently told the room. “Not chaos, anarchy.”
Two doors down in the Murrow Room, named for American broadcaster Edward R. Murrow, the Spanish-language network Telemundo debuted a series of upbeat public service announcements urging their audience to register and vote.
News anchor Jose Diaz-Balart said Telemundo wants to leverage the passion from last year’s immigration rallies into a stronger turnout among Latinos, who historically vote at disproportionately low rates.
“Hispanics in the U.S. will now have a way to channel all that frustration and do some good,” Diaz-Balart said.
Whether the two groups were aware of each other, neither side let on. But each represents emerging new strategies stirring out of the void left by the failure of immigration reform.
The population group from California believes its more alarming population figures, which are not credited or supported by other independent research, will result in tougher policies on immigration.
Result of mistrust
Diana Hull, a behavioral scientist and former Houstonian who is president of Californians for Population Stabilization, said the federal government’s alleged undercount of illegal immigrants is partly the result of mistrust.
“We have a very large group of people who don’t have the same feeling about responding to legitimate questions from their government,” Hull said.
For example, she said, large numbers of illegal immigrants living in a single house may not tell a census-taker how many people are really living there.
“The fact of the matter is they don’t answer the question,” she said.
The population figure presented by the group was tabulated by Fred Elbel, a computer specialist and anti-immigration activist from Colorado. The Social Contract Press, which published his report, also publishes racist works, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Around the corner at the Telemundo event, cheery VJ “Crash” had her own statistic that would no doubt alarm the population stabilization group in the Zenger room.
She said 50,000 Hispanics turn 18 in this country every month, and not enough are registering to vote.
“I am super-excited for this upcoming election, and I really feel like this time we are going to make a difference,” Crash said.
Added Alfredo Richard, senior vice president of communications and talent development for the network, “It’s not enough to grow in numbers, but to gain in political strength.”
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Filed under: 2008 Election, CAFTA, DEBT, economic depression, Economy, election fraud, Globalism, GOP, Greenback, Inflation, NAFTA, poll, republican straw poll, Ron Paul, Stock Market, WTO
Ron Paul Sees Crisis Ahead For Country
Seattle Times
September 17, 2007
Texas Congressman Ron Paul said in Seattle on Friday that America is approaching an economic and constitutional crisis due to growing debt, bad trade deals and assaults on personal liberty.
And even if he beat all the odds and won the presidency next year, he said, the problem would be beyond what he alone could fix.
“The time is coming. I believe that the great debate is coming,” Paul told more than 400 mostly young people who attended his constitutional lecture at Seattle University.
“We have become soft on the issue of liberty and we have become more concerned about our personal safety and our personal economic well-being and an illusionary trust that government can make us perfectly safe and protect us perfectly in an economic way,” he said.
Paul said young people will have to decide whether to go along with the “clichés” that say the Constitution is a living, flexible document.
“It is a philosophical struggle,” he said. “If you are for a strict interpretation of the Constitution, if you are truly for liberty and for limited government … then the law will come along.”
For Paul, who ran for president as a Libertarian in 1988, a strict interpretation of the Constitution would mean a lot of changes. Talking to KIRO-AM (710) host Dori Monson earlier in the day, Paul said he thought the government could be cut by 80 percent. That’d be enough that there’d be no need for the income tax or a replacement tax, he said.
At Seattle University, he said Congress has willingly given away far too much power to the executive branch, particularly when it comes to foreign policy. He said the president is commander in chief of the military, but “he’s not commander in chief of the people of the country.”
Congress should reassert itself with trade policy as well, he said, and not leave the administration to set tariffs or make deals with “WTO or NAFTA or CAFTA,” trade agreements he pronounced with such disdain they sounded like diseases.
States, Paul said, should rely on a principle in the Constitution that allows them to ignore decisions by federal courts on issues that could be described as dealing with states’ rights.
“I see the Constitution as being written precisely for one purpose — to restrain the power of government; never to restrain the people,” he said to great applause.
Paul had a full day of events in Seattle, including fundraisers and rallies. Speeches have become rarer in presidential politics. Some candidates come to town with no public appearances, or only for base-building rallies.
The lecture was organized by Seattle University law students. What’s the appeal of Paul to the young supporters?
“Everything,” said Malisa Gurule, a third-year law student who headed the drive to get Paul on campus.
Gurule, 25, said she had never donated to a presidential candidate until she saw Paul in the Republican debates. She’s also never voted in a presidential primary or been involved in a caucus, though she says she will do whatever is needed to help Paul get the GOP nomination.
“He’s the only person saying something different,” she said. “He’s not afraid to attack the status quo.”
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