Filed under: 1984, 4th amendment, Big Brother, Britain, car tax, Carbon Tax, Congress, Control Grid, Dictatorship, earl blumenauer, Echelon, Empire, Europe, european union, Fascism, global tax, gps, h.r. 3311, HR 3311, Income Tax, infrastructure, london, microchips, nanny state, Neolibs, Oppression, Oregon, orwell, Police State, portland, privacy rights, RFID, road tax, slavery, Spy, spy satellite, Surveillance, tax, Taxpayers, toll road, Toll Roads, Uncategorized, United Kingdom, US Constitution, US Treasury, Vehicle Miles Traveled tax
HR 3311: Vehicle Tracking Devices and Road Taxes
Noworldsystem.com
September 21, 2009
This is just one of many bills that is evidence that America is falling into an Orwellian police state, the eye of big government, tax slavery and despotism is becoming even more clear as the republic fades into the night.
Democratic Congressman Earl Blumenauer has introduced HR 3311, if passed the Senate would use $154 million of taxpayer money to fund the development of vehicle tracking devices and roadside RFID scanning devices that would record your everyday driving habits for the sake of creating a new taxation scheme and quite possibly help law enforcement penalize every mistake you make on the road. The money would also be used to research and study how to enforce this on a nationwide scale and how to present this scheme to the public as something necessary to fund failing infrastructures.
The bill will allow the US Treasury Department to establish this program which is called the “Road User Free Pilot Project” that was developed by Oregon legislators to impose a gas tax on Oregon motorists, the pilot program now studies the Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT) tax instead, to better track and tax motorists. Within eighteen months of the HR 3311 passing the US Treasury would file an initial report outlining the best methods of adopting this new tax scheme on a nationwide scale.
Here’s what the bill’s sponsor, Congressman Blumenauer had to say about this insidious track and tax plan: “Oregon has successfully tested a Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT) fee, and it is time to expand and test the VMT program across the country,”!
Just imagine all vehicles in the United States fitted with this federal tracking device, why don’t they just shackle us all and tax every footstep we make while they are at it!?! This is completely un-constitutional and threatens the 4th amendment of the United States constitution, I doubt that anyone would actually accept something this Orwellian to be used against them.. but of course I’m sure if this bill passes all new vehicles would be secretly fitted with these devices without anyone knowing about it.
Here is what we know the device is capable of recording:
1. The device can calculate miles driven based on GPS data
2. The device can store the number of miles driven
3. The device can determine when the vehicle has left certain states
4. The device can store the states the vehicle entered
5. The device can determine what time a vehicle was being driven
6. The device can store the times the vehicle was driven
7. The device can produce all data stored since its last reading
This device must be receiving precise positional data as an input from its GPS unit. It must also have a clock set to the real time and date as an input. This means that the device is getting data on the exact position of the vehicle at any moment, and that the control software is only storing certain data-points based on this. This is an adequate privacy safeguard, right? Probably not.
Considering this is a tax device, it will very likely need to be updated to reflect changes in the tax law. The need for this capability is clear. One year, the zone around Portland might incur a tax at any time of day, the next year only during rush hour. Oregon’s program might spread to other states, so now the control software in the device has to start recording miles driven in those states as well. If this is the case, then the control software could one day be updated in nearly any way, including complete tracking of movement and speed.
The other thing to consider is that the readers for these devices will be readily available, since every gas station in the state will need one. Even if the software stays the same, there’s nothing stopping a rogue police department from getting its hands on a reader and using it to gather info on people. More likely, though, if these devices became pervasive, law enforcement would push to have readers of their own.
Imagine this scenario: You’re driving a car with one of these GPS devices at the leisurely clip of 60 MPH on the highway leading into Klamath Falls. Like all highways in Oregon, the limit is still 55 MPH. A cop catches you going over the limit and pulls you over. You go through the normal rigmarole with him, except this time he checks your GPS devices and finds out that you’ve exceeded 55 MPH in the state of Oregon 22 times since the device was last read. You leave this encounter with 22 speeding tickets instead of one.
That scenario is possible with the hardware described in the device and minimal changes in the software. Only the good will of the Oregon state government is keeping it from being so. Should Oregonians really rely on that alone to protect their privacy? [Source]
Filed under: 1st amendment, 2008 Election, Abu Ghraib, Anti-War, brazil, Britain, civil liberties, civil rights, demonstration, Detainee, Dictatorship, Dissent, Empire, Europe, european union, Extraordinary Rendition, Fascism, free press, free speech, Guantanamo, human rights, london, Minneapolis, Nazi, Oppression, pain compliance, police brutality, rendition, RNC, Taser Guns, Toll Roads, Torture, United Kingdom, US Constitution, War On Terror | Tags: Delaware, Elliot Hughes, minneapolis police department, peter willimae, queensland, queensland police department, Ramsey County, ramsey county jail, Rio de Janeiro, st. paul police, st. paul police department
RNC police brutality and torture victims speak out
Queensland Police Brutality
Aiken County Sheriff stops group for saggy pants
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/skynews/20080916/twl-rio-cops-kill-three-people-a-day-3fd0ae9.html
Cop who arrested TV cameraman has been fired
http://kob.com/article/stories/S578979.shtml?cat=500
Delaware Bridge cops want toll cheats’ money, or their cars
http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/186/story/260008.html
Filed under: Alan Greenspan, Argentina, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Australia, Big Banks, brazil, California, carlyle group, Chicago, Cintra, consolidation, Credit Crisis, Credit Suisse, DEBT, ecnomic collapse, economic depression, Economy, florida, food prices, foreign buyout, foreign investors, global economy, gold, Goldman Sachs, Great Depression, Greenback, hyperinflation, Inflation, infrastructure, JPMorgan, Lehman Brothers, liquidation, morgan stanley, privatization, South America, spain, Stock Market, tax, Taxpayers, Toll Roads, US Economy | Tags: highways, indiana toll road, infrastructure transactions, investing, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, Krugerrands, Macquarie, Midway Airport, Pennsylvania Turnpike, roads, run on banks, skyway
Cities Debate Privatizing Public Infrastructure
NY Times
August 29, 2008
Cleaning up road kill and maintaining runways may not sound like cutting-edge investments. But banks and funds with big money seem to think so.
Reeling from more exotic investments that imploded during the credit crisis, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, the Carlyle Group, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Credit Suisse are among the investors who have amassed an estimated $250 billion war chest — much of it raised in the last two years — to finance a tidal wave of infrastructure projects in the United States and overseas.
Their strategy is gaining steam in the United States as federal, state and local governments previously wary of private funds struggle under mounting deficits that have curbed their ability to improve crumbling roads, bridges and even airports with taxpayer money.
With politicians like Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger of California warning of a national infrastructure crisis, public resistance to private financing may start to ease.
“Budget gaps are starting to increase the viability of public-private partnerships,” said Norman Y. Mineta, a former secretary of transportation who was recently hired by Credit Suisse as a senior adviser to such deals.
This fall, Midway Airport of Chicago could become the first to pass into the hands of private investors. Just outside the nation’s capital, a $1.9 billion public-private partnership will finance new high-occupancy toll lanes around Washington. This week, Florida gave the green light to six groups that included JPMorgan, Lehman Brothers and the Carlyle Group to bid for a 50- to 75 -year lease on Alligator Alley, a toll road known for sightings of sleeping alligators that stretches 78 miles down I-75 in South Florida.
Until recently, the use of private funds to build and manage large-scale American infrastructure assets was slow to take root. States and towns could raise taxes and user fees or turn to the municipal bond market.
Americans have also been wary of foreign investors, who were among the first to this market, taking over their prized roads and bridges. When Macquarie of Australia and Cintra of Spain, two foreign funds with large portfolios of international investments, snapped up leases to the Chicago Skyway and the Indiana Toll Road, “people said ‘hold it, we don’t want our infrastructure owned by foreigners,’ ” Mr. Mineta said.
And then there is the odd romance between Americans and their roads: they do not want anyone other than the government owning them. The specter of investors reaping huge fees by financing assets like the Pennsylvania Turnpike also touches a raw nerve among taxpayers, who already feel they are paying top dollar for the government to maintain roads and bridges.
And with good reason: Private investors recoup their money by maximizing revenue — either making the infrastructure better to allow for more cars, for example, or by raising tolls. (Concession agreements dictate everything from toll increases to the amount of time dead animals can remain on the road before being cleared.)
Politicians have often supported the civic outcry: in the spring of 2007, James L. Oberstar of Minnesota, chairman of the House Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, warned that his panel would “work to undo” any public-private partnership deals that failed to protect the public interest.
And labor unions have been quick to point out that investment funds stand to reap handsome fees from the crisis in infrastructure. “Our concern is that some sources of financing see this as a quick opportunity to make money,” Stephen Abrecht, director of the Capital Stewardship Program at the Service Employees International Union, said.
But in a world in which governments view infrastructure as a way to manage growth and raise productivity through the efficient movement of goods and people, an eroding economy has forced politicians to take another look.
“There’s a huge opportunity that the U.S. public sector is in danger of losing,” says Markus J. Pressdee, head of infrastructure investment banking at Credit Suisse. “It thinks there is a boatload of capital and when it is politically convenient it will be able to take advantage of it. But the capital is going into infrastructure assets available today around the world, and not waiting for projects the U.S., the public sector, may sponsor in the future.”
Traditionally, the federal government played a major role in developing the nation’s transportation backbone: Thomas Jefferson built canals and roads in the 1800s, Theodore Roosevelt expanded power generation in the early 1900s. In the 1950s Dwight Eisenhower oversaw the building of the interstate highway system.
But since the early 1990s, the United States has had no comprehensive transportation development, and responsibilities were pushed off to states, municipalities and metropolitan planning organizations. “Look at the physical neglect — crumbling bridges, the issue of energy security, environmental concerns,” said Robert Puentes of the Brookings Institution. “It’s more relevant than ever and we have no vision.”
The American Society of Civil Engineers estimates that the United States needs to invest at least $1.6 trillion over the next five years to maintain and expand its infrastructure. Last year, the Federal Highway Administration deemed 72,000 bridges, or more than 12 percent of the country’s total, “structurally deficient.” But the funds to fix them are shrinking: by the end of this year, the Highway Trust Fund will have a several billion dollar deficit.
“We are facing an infrastructure crisis in this country that threatens our status as an economic superpower, and threatens the health and safety of the people we serve,” New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg told Congress this year. In January he joined forces with Mr. Schwarzenegger and Gov. Edward G. Rendell of Pennsylvania to start a nonprofit group to raise awareness about the problem.
Some American pension funds see an investment opportunity. “Our infrastructure is crumbling, from bridges in Minnesota to our airports and freeways,” said Christopher Ailman, the head of the California State Teachers’ Retirement System. His board recently authorized up to about $800 million to invest in infrastructure projects. Nearby, the California Public Employees’ Retirement System, with coffers totaling $234 billion, has earmarked $7 billion for infrastructure investments through 2010. The Washington State Investment Board has allocated 5 percent of its fund to such investments.
Some foreign pension funds that jumped into the game early have already reaped rewards: The $52 billion Ontario Municipal Employee Retirement System saw a 12.4 percent return last year on a $5 billion infrastructure investment pool, above the benchmark 9.9 percent though down from 14 percent in 2006.
“People are creating a new asset class,” said Anne Valentine Andrews, head of portfolio strategy at Morgan Stanley Infrastructure. “You can see and understand the businesses involved — for example, ships come into the port, unload containers, reload containers and leave,” she said. “There’s no black box.”
The prospect of steady returns has drawn high-flying investors like Kohlberg Kravis and Morgan Stanley to the table. “Ten to 20 years from now infrastructure could be larger than real estate,” said Mark Weisdorf, head of infrastructure investments at JPMorgan. In 2006 and 2007, more than $500 billion worth of commercial real estate deals were done.
The pace of recent work is encouraging, says Robert Poole, director of transportation studies at the Reason Foundation, pointing to projects like the high-occupancy toll, or HOT, lanes outside Washington. “The fact that the private sector raised $1.4 billion for the Beltway project shows that even projects like HOT lanes that are considered high risk can be developed and financed privately and that has huge implications for other large metro areas,” he said .
Yet if the flow of money is fast, the return on these investments can be a waiting game. Washington’s HOT lanes project took six years to build after Fluor Enterprises, one of the two private companies financing part of the project, made an unsolicited bid in 2002. The privatization of Chicago’s Midway Airport was part of a pilot program adopted by the Federal Aviation Administration in 1996 to allow five domestic airports to be privatized. Twelve years later only one airport has met that goal — Stewart International Airport in Newburgh, N.Y. — and it was sold back to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
For many politicians, privatization also remains a painful process. Mitch Daniels, the governor of Indiana, faced a severe backlash when he collected $3.8 billion for a 75- year lease of the Indiana Toll Road. A popular bumper sticker in Indiana reads “Keep the toll road, lease Mitch.”
Joe Dear, executive director of the Washington State Investment Board, still wonders how quickly governments will move. “Will all public agencies think it’s worth the extra return private capital will demand?” he asked. “That’s unclear.”
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Greenspan: Don’t use Fed as a ‘magical piggy bank’
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080905/D930B0EG1.html
Economic downturn worst in ‘60 years’
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/itn/20080830/tuk..-worst-in-60-years-dba1618.html
Brazil, Argentina to eliminate US dollar
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Food prices rise at the fastest rate on record
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/..ney/2008/09/08/bcnfood108.xml
Gold Falls Below $800 Again
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Incomes Of Americans Plunge
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World’s Richest Got Richer Last Year
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Oil nears $100 a barrel ahead of Opec meeting
U.K. House Prices Fall as Sales Drop to Record Low
Greenspan: Don’t use Fed as a ‘magical piggy bank’
China central bank may need government bailout
Filed under: 1984, Big Brother, Britain, car tax, carbon dioxide, Carbon Tax, Co2, environmental taxation, Europe, european union, global tax, Global Warming, gordon brown, london, Oppression, orwell, road tax, Spy, spy satellite, Surveillance, tax, toll road, Toll Roads, Tony Blair, United Kingdom | Tags: pay as you drive, pay per mile
London drivers may face “pay as you drive” road taxes
David Millward
London Telegraph
August 18, 2008
A prototype road-pricing device: the scheme involves a satellite tracking a vehicle’s movements. Motorists will then receive a bill for their time on the road
Motorists are being warned they may face “pay as you drive” road taxes as ministers launch the first ever trials of a scheme that could see them charged for every mile they drive.
The Telegraph can disclose that the Government is pushing ahead with plans for a national road-pricing scheme, including testing “spy in the sky” technology.
Eight areas of the country have been selected by ministers for secret pay-per-mile trials which will begin in 2010 and are expected to pave the way for tolls on motorways.
Motorists face paying up to £1.30 a mile during peak periods on the busiest roads.
Gordon Brown was thought to be against national road pricing, a flagship policy of the Blair administration.
But the detailed level of planning now underway indicates the issue it set to become a key battleground in the next general election – which is likely to coincide with the trials beginning.
It will leave Ruth Kelly, the Transport Secretary, particularly vulnerable as she defends her marginal Bolton West constituency.
The Daily Telegraph has learnt that eight areas – Leeds, North Yorkshire, Milton Keynes and Buckinghamshire, south west London, Suffolk and Essex – have been selected for the trials.
Drivers face higher parking charges under controversial new car tax band linked to engine emissions
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/ne..-car-tax-band-linked-engine-emissions.html
Filed under: bailout, Big Banks, central bank, Credit Crisis, DEBT, deficit, Dollar, Economic Collapse, economic depression, Economy, Euro, freddie mac, global economy, gold, Great Depression, Greenback, housing market, hyperinflation, Inflation, infrastructure, liquidation, Mexico, morgan stanley, mortgage companies, mortgage lenders, ohio, Oil, privatization, real estate, Stock Market, tax, Toll Roads, US Economy, Wall Street | Tags: highways, infrastructure transactions, investing, roads, run on banks
U.S. Roads, Airports Being Sold To Private Investors
Reuters
August 4, 2008
Cash-strapped U.S. state and city governments are likely to sell or lease more highways, bridges, airports and other assets to investors desperate for stable returns after being frazzled by the credit crisis.
The trend is set to pick up speed given worsening budget deficits in state capitals and city halls nationwide.
It will also be welcomed by Wall Street bankers hoping to help create and market so-called “infrastructure” transactions at a time many debt markets remain paralyzed, and after major U.S. stock indexes fell into bear market territory.
“When you are nervous about everything else, you put your money in a toll road,” said John Schmidt, a partner at the law firm Mayer Brown LLP in Chicago. “That’s the logic of infrastructure. Returns are stable and predictable. You won’t get fabulously rich, but you’ll get stable cash flow.”
The latest enthusiasm for at least partially privatizing infrastructure assets came on July 30 from New York Gov. David Paterson, who is trying to plug a budget deficit caused in part by lower tax revenue as Wall Street retrenches.
“We’re just looking at ways to be more efficient and that’s why I used the term public-private partnerships — trying to find some creative solutions,” Paterson said. “The reason I’m avoiding taxes is because I think taxes are addictive.”
Bankers and others in the industry say there is pent-up demand from dedicated infrastructure funds and public pension funds to invest in hard assets — perhaps $75 billion to $150 billion of equity capital — but not enough supply.
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Dropping USD Makes Mexican Vacations Go Up
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2008-08-06-mexico_N.htm?csp=1
Dollar soars to 5-mth high vs euro as turnaround eyed
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/feedarticle/7709840
list of ’fastest-dying’ cities includes four in Ohio
http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/busin../05/forbes.html?sid=101
Mexico’s Poor Forgo Goods as Income From U.S. Drops
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20..A2CsXnpEac&refer=home
Freddie Mac’s negative net worth raises questions
http://www.reuters.com/article/news..geNumber=2&virtualBrandChannel=0
Gold sinks to $860
http://uk.reuters.com/article/goldMktRpt/idUKL144962020080808
Oil Falls To $118
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080805/oil_prices.html?.v=13&printer=1
Report: Freddie Mac Chief Disregarded Warnings
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Roubini: Hundreds Of Banks Will Fail
http://www.reuters.com/article/bondsNews/idUSN0344130720080803?sp=true
No Change Expected In Fed Interest Rates
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080..1D3M8_8.Si1pc1w4tgtv24cA
Filed under: 2-party system, 2008 Election, 4th amendment, 9/11, Barack Obama, biometrics, bob barr, Congress, Control Grid, DMV, Drivers License, House, John McCain, left right paradigm, national id, neocons, Neolibs, North American Union, obama, privatization, Real ID, Senate, Toll Roads, US Constitution
Barr Blasts McCain and Obama for Supporting National ID, Again Urges Congress to Repeal Real ID Act
Bob Barr 2008
August 1, 2008
“’September 11’ has become the catch-all excuse for virtually every proposed expansion of government power,” notes Bob Barr, the Libertarian Party nominee for president. “One example is a national identification card and data base, long desired by some in government, and which was mandated by legislation passed by the Congress in 2005 with the support of both Senators McCain and Obama. Although I was no longer in the Congress when this bad legislation was passed, I had vigorously opposed it in the years since it became law, just as I led the successful effort to rescind a previous mandate for a national ID card.”
Unfortunately, he explains, “the Real ID Act establishes a new and privacy-invasive national ID card program. By forcing states to standardize their driver’s licenses and creating a vast national data base of private information on the citizenry, the law establishes through the back door something Americans would never have accepted directly—a National Identification Card.” In fact, “there was no open and honest vote on Real ID. The mandate was slipped into a supplemental appropriations bill, discouraging any real debate over the issue.”
“Creating anything close to a national ID card threatens Americans’ basic civil liberties and privacy while doing little or nothing to make us more secure,” warns Barr. The legislation also “means higher fees, longer lines, and greater inconvenience for Americans getting a driver’s license. The burden on states, which have to redesign and remake state licenses and include all manner of information on citizens applying for new driver’s licenses, would be extremely high and immensely costly, since they would have to restructure computer databases, security systems, verification measures, and more.”
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB12173..1.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
North American Union: The dream ’is dead’???
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=70864
Filed under: Amero, Canada, catastrophic event, CBC, DHS, global government, global police force, Globalism, Homeland Security, i-69, Maine, montana, NAFTA, NAFTA Superhighway, North American Union, NORTHCOM, Propaganda, Real ID, south carolina, SPP, Texas, Toll Roads, trans texas corridor, TTC, world police force
CBC Airs NAU Propaganda Mini Series
Rogue Government
April 2, 2008
The CBC is airing a mini series called Trojan Horse. In the film, Canada is merged with the United States. This is most likely being aired to get the Canadian people used to the idea of a merged North American Union. Below are some video clips taken from the mini series.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2M9m_u55i4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfapw7wlj-0
Christopher Hayes on Post National America
http://youtube.com/watch?v=KEwkL5BS_AY
http://www.landlinemag.com/todays..Mar08/031008/031308-04.htm
Corruption Fueling Canada’s Merge Into U.S.
http://www.agoracosmopolitan.com/home/Frontpage/2008/04/01/02317.html
Canadian Army May Assist Maine In Emergency
http://www.mainemediaresources.com/ffj_03260801a.htm
Homeland Security Flinches at Real ID Opposition
http://www.news.com/8301-13578_3-9909928-38.html?tag=nefd.lede
States Maneuver to Avoid Penalties of New Federal ID Program
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-..2034.html?hpid=moreheadlines
Promoting the North American Union
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=60317
Governor: South Carolina will not file extension for Real ID
http://www.thestate.com/statewire/story/361101.html
NH Joins Montana In Real ID Victory
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/03/new-hampshire-j.html
Two More States Stand Up Against The NAU
http://www.thenewamerican.com/node/7514
States Urged To Comply With Real ID Rule
http://www.usatoday.com/travel/flights/2008-03-23-licenses_N.htm
Filed under: Al Gore, Canada, carbon credit, carbon dioxide, Carbon Tax, Co2, DHS, environmental taxation, global elite, global tax, Global Warming, Globalism, Homeland Security, New York, tax, Toll Roads, War On Terror | Tags: Dr. Tim Ball, National Resources Stewardship Project
Climate Scientist Compares CO2 Hysteria to Terrorist Hysteria
James Corbett
The Corbett Report
March 4, 2008
Dr. Tim Ball, the Chairman of the National Resources Stewardship Project and an environmental consultant who has authored numerous scientific publications in the field of climate science joined The Corbett Report recently to discuss the B.C. government’s recent move to impose a carbon tax on the province, among other issues. Carbon taxes, he asserts, are “another grab for money; politicians are always looking for ways to get more funding.”
A YouTube video featuring an extract from the interview is available here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCpood11mnk
The hysteria over manmade global warming is akin to the hysteria over the terrorist scare: a convenient excuse to raise funds and take basic liberties from citizens. “In the U.S. and in fact the Western world, they’re using terrorism and [the need for] Homeland Security as a way of taking away people’s individual rights.”
The point is not a trivial one. Indeed, others have noted that the global warming hysteria is being pushed by many of the same globalists pushing the Global War on Terror fantasy.
In the long and wide-ranging interview, Dr. Ball also points out that carbon dioxide is not the vile pollutant some claim it to be: “In fact, reducing CO2 in the atmosphere is the worst thing you can do because it’s absolutely essential to plant life. So here they’re proposing something that in fact is going to be detrimental, and yet they’re saying that they’re doing it to save the planet and people have got to pay for it.”
Dr. Ball is appearing this week at a major climate conference in New York put on by the Heartland Institute which is bringing together scientists to discuss the widespread dissent in the climate science community to the alleged “consensus” that climate change is being caused by human activity. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the event is being ignored by the controlled corporate media, but is receiving alternative media coverage.
For the full interview, which includes Dr. Ball’s response to recent allegations against The Friends of Science, click here to download the mp3 or listen to the interview in the player below.
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State lawmakers consider highway tolls to fight global warming
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Temperature Monitors Report Widescale Global Cooling
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Forget global warming: Welcome to the new Ice Age
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NOAA: Icecaps Coming Back to Original Levels
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British Columbia Imposes Carbon Tax On All Fossil Fuels
http://www.canada.com/t..a6-3ad8ba909a98&k=46314
General Motors Exec Calls Global Warming A Croc
Bill To Require Teaching Kids Global Warming
Skeptical Global Warming Scientists To Challenge “Consensus”
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Shutting Off Lamps To Fight Climate Change
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Filed under: Airport Security, biometrics, Canada, defense department, DHS, DoD, Drivers License, Homeland Security, HR 5405, i-69, michael chertoff, NAFTA Superhighway, national id, North American Union, Real ID, Social Security, SPP, Toll Roads, trans texas corridor, TTC
New Secure Social Security Cards Proposed
Lee Rogers
Rogue Government
March 4, 2008
Two Illinois Congressmen are now proposing reforms to secure Social Security cards under the guise that these reforms will help against identification theft. This is ironic because this is the same excuse that Department of Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff used to justify the Real ID Act which mandates standardized Real ID compliant driver’s licenses. The Real ID Act is of course nothing short of a mandated national ID card system but like all government programs that erode liberty, they use the excuse that it is for the public good. Since the federal government has had a tremendous amount of difficulty implementing their national ID card agenda via the Real ID Act with states refusing to go along with the program, it appears as if they are now going with plan B to implement their national ID card agenda. If forcing states to make their driver’s license compliant with the Real ID standards fails, they will simply use these new so called secure Social Security cards as the national ID card. Even worse, we could have both a nationally standardized driver’s license and a nationally standardized Social Security card which will both serve as a national ID card.
These so called secure Social Security cards will be modeled after the Common Access Card issued by the Department of Defense to members of the military. These identification cards contain a photograph, fingerprint, computer chip, bar code and magnetic strip. In effect these new cards will in fact be a national ID card because it is standardized, contains personal biometric data and a picture. The notion that these new cards will protect against identification theft is ridiculous. These cards have more data on them and as a result, if a card does get compromised it opens up an even larger can of worms. These new cards will contain even more of your personal information on them and could be ripe for abuse by tech savvy criminals. The proposal requires anyone over the age of 15 to have one of these new Social Security cards. So the vast majority of the population would be forced to accept one of these new cards.
Why should we trust the government with more of our information? In 2006, sensitive information of military veterans stored on a laptop was incompetently mishandled by the VA. Over in the UK, the government mishandled information on millions of taxpayers. The incompetence of government is proven and we should resist any effort by the government to demand more information from us. These new Social Security cards are just another incremental step by the establishment to further enslave the American people.
Strangely enough, the press conference announcing this proposal was held on February 11th, 2008. On January 11th 2008, Chertoff made the announcement that individuals with non-compliant Real ID driver’s licenses would be subjected to additional security screenings. The deadline for this to take effect is May 11th, 2008. It is clear that these people have some sort of sick obsession with the number 11. Maybe they think they get great power out of announcing and implementing great evil on the 11th day of a month.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=_UA72rwOy9I
More details on this story to come in the next few weeks. Special thanks to Gary Franchi from Republic Magazine for bringing this story to our attention.
Truth Be Tolled; WOAI 4
http://youtube.com/watch?v=KaVEolCxKB0
http://www.restoretherepublic.com/content/view/627/
Feds Warn States Of Real ID Deadline
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23456198/
Local British Columbia Council Passes Motion to Halt SPP
http://www.opednews.com/artic..4_local_british_columb.htm
Joint Statement By Ministers Of SPP
http://www.thought-criminal.org/article/node/1342
Filed under: 2008 Election, amnesty, Canada, GOP, i-69, Illegal Immigration, lou dobbs, NAFTA Superhighway, Neolibs, New World Order, Real ID, Ron Paul, SPP, Texas, Toll Roads, trans texas corridor, TTC
Ron Paul on Lou Dobbs About NAFTA Superhighway – (2/19/2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uWScCy5oj8
Toronto Opposes the SPP
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQWjc8lmd5Q
Landowners pack Trans-Texas Corridor meeting
http://youtube.com/watch?v=8VzTDq8DD2g
http://www.ronpaulwarroom.com/?p=6764
Analysis: States fall into line on REAL ID
http://www.spacewar.com/report..EAL_ID_999.html
Dems Discussing 5-Year Amnesty Plan
http://www.onenewsnow.com/Security/Default.aspx?id=67357
NDP Tables Motion that Would Make SPP Working Groups More Accountable
http://stoplying.ca/news/08/feb/0218.._SPP_groups_more_accountable.php
Overview of the Security and Prosperity Partnership and Implications
http://tribes.tribe.net/nonorthameric..aec4d8-f885-4958-a935-988f16a7fa5b
Filed under: 2-party system, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, carbon credit, Carbon Tax, Chuck Hagel, DEBT, Dianne Feinstein, Dick Durbin, Economy, environmental tax, foreign aid, George Bush, global elite, global government, global poverty tax, global tax, Global Warming, Globalism, H.R. 1302, infrastructure, Iran, joe biden, kyoto protocol, Law of the Sea Treaty, left right paradigm, Neolibs, New World Order, North American Union, Nuke, planted audience, richard lugar, Russia, Soviet Union, tax, Taxpayers, Toll Roads, UN, US Economy, Wall Street, WW2, zbigniew brzezinski
Obama’s Global Tax Up For Senate Vote
GOP USA
February 14, 2008
A nice-sounding bill called the “Global Poverty Act,” sponsored by Democratic presidential candidate and Senator Barack Obama, is up for a Senate vote on Thursday and could result in the imposition of a global tax on the United States. The bill, which has the support of many liberal religious groups, makes levels of U.S. foreign aid spending subservient to the dictates of the United Nations.
Senator Joe Biden, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has not endorsed either Senator Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton in the presidential race. But on Thursday, February 14, he is trying to rush Obama’s “Global Poverty Act” (S.2433) through his committee. The legislation would commit the U.S. to spending 0.7 percent of gross national product on foreign aid, which amounts to a phenomenal 13-year total of $845 billion over and above what the U.S. already spends.
The bill, which is item number four on the committee’s business meeting agenda, passed the House by a voice vote last year because most members didn’t realize what was in it. Congressional sponsors have been careful not to calculate the amount of foreign aid spending that it would require. According to the website of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, no hearings have been held on the Obama bill in that body.
A release from the Obama Senate office about the bill declares, “In 2000, the U.S. joined more than 180 countries at the United Nations Millennium Summit and vowed to reduce global poverty by 2015. We are halfway towards this deadline, and it is time the United States makes it a priority of our foreign policy to meet this goal and help those who are struggling day to day.”
The legislation itself requires the President “to develop and implement a comprehensive strategy to further the United States foreign policy objective of promoting the reduction of global poverty, the elimination of extreme global poverty, and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goal of reducing by one-half the proportion of people worldwide, between 1990 and 2015, who live on less than $1 per day.”
The bill defines the term “Millennium Development Goals” as the goals set out in the United Nations Millennium Declaration, General Assembly Resolution 55/2 (2000).
The U.N. says that “The commitment to provide 0.7% of gross national product (GNP) as official development assistance was first made 35 years ago in a General Assembly resolution, but it has been reaffirmed repeatedly over the years, including at the 2002 global Financing for Development conference in Monterrey, Mexico. However, in 2004, total aid from the industrialized countries totaled just $78.6 billion – or about 0.25% of their collective GNP.”
In addition to seeking to eradicate poverty, that declaration commits nations to banning “small arms and light weapons” and ratifying a series of treaties, including the International Criminal Court Treaty, the Kyoto Protocol (global warming treaty), the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, and the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
The Millennium Declaration also affirms the U.N. as “the indispensable common house of the entire human family, through which we will seek to realize our universal aspirations for peace, cooperation and development.”
Jeffrey Sachs, who runs the U.N.’s “Millennium Project,” says that the U.N. plan to force the U.S. to pay 0.7 percent of GNP in increased foreign aid spending would add $65 billion a year to what the U.S. already spends. Over a 13-year period, from 2002, when the U.N.’s Financing for Development conference was held, to the target year of 2015, when the U.S. is expected to meet the “Millennium Development Goals,” this amounts to $845 billion. And the only way to raise that kind of money, Sachs has written, is through a global tax, preferably on carbon-emitting fossil fuels.
Obama’s bill has only six co-sponsors. They are Senators Maria Cantwell, Dianne Feinstein, Richard Lugar, Richard Durbin, Chuck Hagel and Robert Menendez. But it appears that Biden and Obama see passage of this bill as a way to highlight Democratic Party priorities in the Senate.
The House version (H.R. 1302), sponsored by Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.), had only 84 co-sponsors before it was suddenly brought up on the House floor last September 25 and was passed by voice vote. House Republicans were caught off-guard, unaware that the pro-U.N. measure committed the U.S. to spending hundreds of billions of dollars.
It appears the Senate version is being pushed not only by Biden and Obama, a member of the committee, but Lugar, the ranking Republican member. Lugar has worked with Obama in the past to promote more foreign aid for Russia, supposedly to stem nuclear proliferation, and has become Obama’s mentor. Like Biden, Lugar is a globalist. They have both promoted passage of the U.N.’s Law of the Sea Treaty, for example.
The so-called “Lugar-Obama initiative” was modeled after the Nunn-Lugar program, also known as the Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) program, which was designed to eliminate weapons of mass destruction in the former Soviet Union. But one defense analyst, Rich Kelly, noted evidence that “CTR funds have eased the Russian military’s budgetary woes, freeing resources for such initiatives as the war in Chechnya and defense modernization.” He recommended that Congress “eliminate CTR funding so that it does not finance additional, perhaps more threatening, programs in the former Soviet Union.” However, over $6 billion has already been spent on the program.
Another program modeled on Nunn-Lugar, the Initiatives for Proliferation Prevention (IPP), was recently exposed as having funded nuclear projects in Iran through Russia.
More foreign aid through passage of the Global Poverty Act was identified as one of the strategic goals of InterAction, the alliance of U.S-based international non-governmental organizations that lobbies for more foreign aid. The group is heavily financed by the U.S. Government, having received $1.4 million from taxpayers in fiscal year 2005 and $1.7 million in 2006. However, InterAction recently issued a report accusing the United States of “falling short on its commitment to rid the world of dire poverty by 2015 under the U.N. Millennium Development Goals…”
It’s not clear what President Bush would do if the bill passes the Senate. The bill itself quotes Bush as declaring that “We fight against poverty because opportunity is a fundamental right to human dignity.” Bush’s former top aide, Michael J. Gerson, writes in his new book, Heroic Conservatism, that Bush should be remembered as the President who “sponsored the largest percentage increases in foreign assistance since the Marshall Plan…”
Even these increases, however, will not be enough to satisfy the requirements of the Obama bill. A global tax will clearly be necessary to force American taxpayers to provide the money.
– Americans who would like their senators to know what they are voting on can contact them through information offered by GOPUSA.
Barak Obama Fronts Wall Street’s Infrastructure
Bruce Marshall
Information Clearing House
February 17, 2008
Do not be fooled! Barak Obama’s call for National Infrastructure Reinvestment Bank (NIRB) does not signal the return of the Democratic Party to the values of FDR and a revival of the Constitutional prerogative to ‘promote the general welfare’, but would rather provide more welfare for Wall Street and worse. Obama’s plan is nothing more than the direct means of instituting the Rohatyn-Rudman National Investment Corporation (NIC) plan called for in 2005, which in essence is a revival of Mussolini’s methods of corporatist control of the state in a politically correct post modern fashion..
When Senator Obama states that his National Investment Reinvestment Bank will magically turn $60 billion into trillions of dollars as he did in his Feb 13th Jamesville, WI speech, one can easily realize that the only way that this can happen is through the perverse magic of Wall Street. What would happen is that bonds floated by the NIRB will be bought on the open market, to then be speculated upon, securitized as derivatives, traded and ultimately used as collateral on the newly built infrastructure. What we will see is the emergence of an infrastructure bubble to replace the mortgage bubble, propped up by initial government expenditures towards infrastructure. This is just the start as Obama will fund the feel good ‘carbon credit’ swap to be the next blast of hot air to make Wall Street giddy. This is a key insight to a true understanding of what is going on. Bailout the financial powers with a clever plan that will raise money to then buy up hard assets, in other words the remaining wealth of our nation, as the meltdown crisis of over a quadrillion in derivatives losses grows and grows..
Besides artificially propping up the markets, Obama’s NIRB, as an initiation of the Rohatyn/Rudman infrastructure investment model, opens the door to the privatization of public assets. International predators and asset-strippers want to buy up public highways and impose cutthroat tolls, as they are already doing in many states. Then they run the turnpikes into the ground as cash cows while they mercilessly bilk the users. Privatization is a key goal of the Anglo-American financiers behind this scheme. Both the NIC and NIRB rely on the new darling of the markets, PPPs, known as public private partnerships. PPPs are the means by which market forces will dictate, and that is the word, the implementation of these projects. The argument is that the PPP will keep costs down, but in reality only because the private corporations, now controlling the public sector, will own the assets of what is being constructed. The PPP model is none other than the model implemented by Mussolini in his fascist corporate state. The creation of NIRB funds hark back to Hjalmar Schact’s ‘MEFO’ bills that created the speculative bubble of money so that the National Socialists could rearm Germany and fight World War II..
6 Different Women Faint For Obama
http://youtube.com/watch?v=zy1O8RCh6PI
Filed under: Big Brother, biometrics, car transponder, Control Grid, David Rockefeller, DHS, e-zpass, Felipe Calderon, Homeland Security, Illegal Immigration, national id, new jersey, North American Union, Real ID, Spitzer, Surveillance, Toll Roads
Author of the REAL-ID Act Gets Confronted
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Apblj9X2EY
The Newspaper.com
February 12, 2008
Drivers who use E-ZPass toll transponders are having their movements recorded even when driving on free public roads. New Jersey Star-Ledger columnist Paul Mulshine confirmed that the state’s department of transportation uses E-ZPass scanners to know when, for example, a motorist drives to the mall on Route 24 in the Short Hills area.
“This isn’t some kind of surveillance,” New Jersey DOT spokesman Erin Phalon told the Star-Ledger.
Instead, the official purpose of the program is counting traffic volume. The http://www.njcommuter.com website keeps track of traffic volume and accidents on important routes statewide. It is not clear whether the state has access to the identity of the motorists involved, because the New Jersey E-ZPass terms and conditions fail to disclose even the public tracking program.
“Nor are we liable for any third party act taken by reason of your use or display of the E-ZPass tag,” the terms and conditions state.
Toll transponder companies frequently hand over sensitive personal information regarding the movements of individual motorists in cases involving divorce and similar proceedings.
Homeland Security easing immigrant background checks
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/27280.html
Mexico’s President to meet with David Rockefeller and Fed President
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5j..t0B66uusow1AK7k7w
What is the ‘North American Union’?
Filed under: i-69, imminent domain, NAFTA Superhighway, North American Union, Ron Paul, Texdot, Toll Roads, trans texas corridor, TTC
Landowners protest Trans-Texas Corridor
KETK News
February 8, 2008
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-dxa4z0yN8
The Texas Department of Transportation held another hearing last night about the proposed Trans-Texas Corridor.
Before last night’s meeting at the Trinity High School gym, people boarded decorated tractors and trucks for a parade downtown. Many made posters displaying their anger about the proposed superhighway.
Landowners say the highway would divide their county in half and cost them about 5800 acres of land.
Truth Be Tolled; KENS 5
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=664sjX3sExo
What is the ‘North American Union’?
Filed under: Canada, Cintra, Globalism, i-35, Iowa, kansas, Mexico, NAFTA Superhighway, NASCO, North American Union, Ron Paul, SPP, Taxpayers, Texas, Toll Roads
NASCO Wrong On Paul’s NAFTA Highway Claims
Lee Rogers
Rogue Government
December 18, 2007
The North America’s SuperCorridor Coalition (NASCO) continues to deceive the American public on the issue of the NAFTA superhighway. In a letter written to the Des Moines Register, NASCO’s executive director, Tiffany Melvin counters a piece written by Congressman Ron Paul published in the Des Moines Register in which the Congressman briefly mentions the NAFTA superhighway. It is a proven fact that the NAFTA superhighway already exists as I-35 but Melvin states that there are no plans for a new NAFTA superhighway. While that is true, that statement is ridiculous considering that NASCO openly admits that the NAFTA superhighway exists as I-35 on their web site. The Alberta government also confirms that I-35 is the NAFTA superhighway on a graphical map of the U.S. and Canada on their infrastructure and transportation web site. Considering the mission of NASCO and other associated groups to expand and improve these highways, this leaves little question that the NAFTA superhighway is I-35 and will be expanded and improved upon in order to form the finalized version of this continental highway system connecting Mexico, U.S. and Canada. Melvin’s argument is the equivalent of arguing against people who say the Statue of Liberty exists by stating that there are no plans to build a new Statue of Liberty. As insane as that sounds, that is the argument Melvin is making.
Ron Paul states the following regarding the NAFTA superhighway in his article.
We should also reclaim our national sovereignty by first securing our borders. By now, many have heard about the proposed “NAFTA Superhighway.” This superhighway would connect Mexico, the United States and Canada, cutting a wide swath through the middle of Texas and through Kansas City. One proposed path takes the superhighway right through Iowa. This superhighway can be built only by sacrificing family farms through eminent domain.
In response Melvin states the following.
Paul states the NAFTA superhighway will cut a wide swath through Iowa. For decades, I-35 has carried international trade with Canada, the United States and Mexico. Since the enactment of NAFTA, people have referred to the existing I-35 with the slogan “NAFTA superhighway” because it is a major north-south artery that moves a substantial amount of international trade.
Recently, there have been rumors of a new NAFTA superhighway – a giant new highway being planned to link the three countries – and North America’s SuperCorridor Coalition Inc.’s promotional map has been used erroneously as proof that a blueprint of the proposed giant highway is, in fact, a reality.
NASCO can state unequivocally that plans for a new giant NAFTA superhighway do not exist. Our map depicts existing transportation infrastructure not drawn to scale, but enlarged for promotional purposes.
Paul is confused and has tied separate initiatives together into a sinister plot to destroy the sovereignty of the United States. NASCO has nothing to do with any of his concerns. NASCO is good for Iowa.
What Melvin doesn’t understand is that nobody is saying that there are plans for a new NAFTA superhighway. The proposal consists of using and expanding I-35 as the NAFTA superhighway. If Paul is confused about this proposed NAFTA superhighway, why is it that information on various North American trade corridors and the NAFTA superhighway is available on various government web sites? Why is it that on NASCO’s web site it states that the NAFTA superhighway already exists as I-35? It is hard to believe that the executive director of NASCO is unfamiliar with what is posted on their web site.
Private organizations like the North American Forum On Integration, CANAMEX as well as different government institutions openly discuss the NAFTA superhighway proposal and other continental superhighways to facilitate the movement of goods between the three nations. Below are links to some of these sites.
North American Forum On Integration’s Page On North American Trade Corridors
Alberta Government Outlining the NAFTA superhighway
These continental superhighways will be expanded under the guise of eminent domain where many U.S. citizens could risk losing their property in the name of public good. Earlier this year, Australian toll road giant Macquarie agreed to purchase forty local newspapers in Texas and Oklahoma in order to silence critics of NAFTA superhighway expansion. Macquarie has already joined with Spanish company Cintra in a 75-year lease of 157 miles of Indiana highway. This is just a small part of a diabolical plan by traitors within our own government to sell highway infrastructure that is owned by American taxpayers over to foreign investors. These foreign investors will no doubt profit greatly from the tolls they will collect on these roads.
These proposed North American trade corridors including the NAFTA superhighway are foundational building blocks towards the formation of an eventual North American Union. The Security and Prosperity Partnership outlines plans to merge and harmonize policies between all three North American nations that will be overseen by non governmental organizations and unelected bureaucrats.
All of this information makes Melvin’s argument of no new NAFTA superhighway a ridiculous assertion. There already is a NAFTA superhighway and nobody is saying that there are plans for a new NAFTA superhighway. The American people and Dr. Paul are concerned that the control of these roads are being transferred to foreign investors and that people’s property will be seized under eminent domain when these highways are expanded. Melvin’s statements are insulting to the intelligence of any free thinking person and she should stop spreading propaganda and lies in order to hide the true nature of what NASCO is a part of.
Steve Watson from Infowars also provides excellent analysis on the same subject material. Check out his story by clicking here.
Only 6 states opposing ID cards. Welcome to 1984 America
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-06-18-id-cards_N.htm
Rick Perry, Giuliani and the North American Union
http://prisonplanet.com/articles/december2007/141207Ties.htm
Fake Christians: NAFTA Highway Is Holy
http://www.roguegovernment.com/news.php?id=5628
Birching Congress on the North American Union
http://www.jbs.org/node/6634
What is the ‘North American Union’?
Filed under: 2008 Election, al-qaeda, bilderberg, Cintra, citigroup, colombia, Credit Suisse, Fred Thompson, global elite, Globalism, Goldman Sachs, GOP, Greg Abbott, Mexico, Michael Mukasey, money laundering, NAFTA Superhighway, neocons, North American Union, Pakistan, Rick Perry, Rudy Giuliani, Texas, Toll Roads, TTC, TxU, Vicente Fox | Tags: Cliff Kincaid, Gonzáles Parás, Greg Abbott, Grupo Modelo heiress María Asunción Aramburuzabala, Kohlberg, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., Macquarie, Mary Peters, PAC, spain, Terri Hall, Texans Uniting for Reform and Freedom, Texas Pacific Group Hafiz Naseem, tony garza, TURF
The Ties That Bind Rick Perry & Rudy Giuliani
Aaron Dykes
JonesReport
December 14, 2007
As Texas Governor Rick Perry goes on the road to stump for Giuliani’s campaign, it is increasingly clear that the two figureheads not only share a penchant for presiding over thinly-veiled corruption, but do their presiding in the same globalist circles.
Perry’s appearance at the secretive Bilderberg meeting in 2007 gives credence to whispers about the Texas Governor becoming a GOP running mate alongside Giuliani, even as Perry denies interest in being VP. Bilderberg has a noted and well-deserved reputation as kingmaker.
Together, Rick Perry, as Governor, and Rudy Giuliani, as a named partner in the Houston-based Bracewell & Giuliani, have been instrumental in selling off Texas infrastructure and utilities while ushering in agents of globalism and (North American Union) regional control.
TRANS-TEXAS CORRIDOR
Giuliani’s law firm is heavily tied to Rick Perry’s Texas-style ‘Big Dig’– a highly contentious and very real Trans-Texas Corridor that has foreign firms building up on land seized in the face of opposition from both the state legislature and the people.
Bracewell & Giuliani is exclusively representing the Spanish-owned Cintra and essentially won the contract to build the first ever private toll road in Texas. The Online Journal refers to Bracewell & Giuliani as “the ‘guiding’ law firm on the privatization of Texas State Highway 121”
Cintra is further partnered with the Australian company Macquarie, who “previously acquired the business and assets of an investment bank known as Giuliani Capital Advisors,” according to Cliff Kincaid who further observes:
Terri Hall, founder and director of Texans Uniting for Reform and Freedom (TURF), notes that Giuliani clients with an interest in acquiring Texas roads and infrastructure have also invested in his presidential campaign. She comments, “This could explain why Giuliani has spent so much time fundraising in Texas. The monied proponents of the Trans-Texas Corridor, of which there are many, would like to see this man become President.“
Perry’s advocacy for the TTC has been unwavering and he has refused to back down even after the legislature passed a two-year moratorium. Perry called in U.S. Secretary of Transportation Mary Peters to lobby against the moratorium while publicly declaring that there is no alternative to toll roads (Peters has, of course, been present at a number of NAFTA super-highway meetings as well).
Bracewell & Giuliani gave Rick Perry $20,000 in PAC money in the 2006 cycle. Current Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott was also a partner in Bracewell & Giuliani, which Lobby Watch suggests was related to his run for office after stepping down from the Texas Supreme Court. He received $25,000 in PAC contributions in the 2006 cycle.
TxU BUYOUT
As we previously reported, the ‘largest ever’ buyout of TxU (now slashed from $45 billion to $32 billion) was managed by KKR, who are represented annually at Bilderberg by partner Henry Kravis.
“Energy Future bought TXU Corp. in a $32 billion leveraged buyout that closed in October. It was formed by Kohlberg, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., TPG, formerly Texas Pacific Group, and other investors,” reports the Dallas Morning News.
The deal stalled over environmental issues with TxU’s plans for new coal plants, but never faltered thanks to cheerleading by Rick Perry as well as personal appearances by Henry Kravis, who is known as a virtuoso in the world of leveraged buyouts (see Barbarians at the Gate which dramatizes his infamous high-priced buyout with R.J. Reynolds and also features a younger but no less-aged Fred Thompson).
Governor Perry was involved in facilitating the TxU buyout, including the issuance of an executive order to instigate fast-track approval for TxU plant deals:
“Last year, after private meetings with TXU executives, Perry fast-tracked the permitting process for TXU’s 11-plant expansion through an executive order, slashing the time frame in half, to six months….”
“The bottom line: Only Governor Perry and TXU, which stands to make a lot of money, are championing these plants.”
Goldman Sachs and Credit Suisse First Boston (both deeply nested in Bilderberg) were also involved in the deal while Bracewell & Giuliani represented TxU (as they handle a number of energy companies). A number of criminal insider trading cases involving Pakistani financiers working inside these firms– including Hafiz Naseem– have already been prosecuted as a result of the buyout. Others, still under investigation, are potentially outstanding.
In fact, Hafiz Naseem, then a Credit Suisse investor, was defended by Bracewell & Giuliani’s Marc Mukasey, who is the son of U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey. Bracewell’s Mukasey commented that the “case is inference built on inference built on inference.” However, prosecutors were investigating other links to alleged inside trading that went as high as Pakistani Prime Minister Aziz, who is also a former Citigroup chairman. Investigators also believe there was a link to al Qaeda money laundering.
MEXICO
And what about Mexico? If a continent-wide merger is underway, it seems to coincide with the cozy relationship Perry and Vicente Fox had as contemporaries. As WND reports, the vision to expand the Corridor into Mexico is heavily discussed and well under way.
On May 24, Gonzáles Parás announced during his recent meetings in Austin, Perry had agreed the envisioned Trans North America Corridor would pass through Laredo and connect with San Antonio, just as Mexico ultimately planned to extend the superhighway south into Colombia.
Note also that the current U.S. ambassador to Mexico is none other than Bracewell & Giuliani partner Tony Garza (who is, incidentally, married to Mexico’s richest woman, billionaire Grupo Modelo heiress María Asunción Aramburuzabala).
What is the ‘North American Union’?
Filed under: car transponder, Drivers License, Homeland Security, Illegal Immigration, Immigration, North American Union, Real ID, Toll Roads
Real ID Standards Coming Soon
FCW
October 24, 2007
The Homeland Security Department’s delay in releasing the standards for states to implement the Real ID Act seems to be coming to an end.
Stewart Baker, DHS’ assistant secretary for policy, today said it was a matter of months before the agency will issue the standards for enhanced driver’s licenses. Congress passed the Real ID Act in May 2005 calling for states to develop tamper-proof driver’s licenses and keep digital images of verification documents by 2008. DHS has since extended the deadline to Dec. 31, 2009.
DHS officials had hoped to release standards earlier this year, but Baker said they ended up making significant changes and still are figuring out how much money these changes will save states.
Experts estimate Real ID could cost states about $11 billion to implement, and DHS is not providing much of that funding.
“We have figured out what we want to do,” he said in a speech during an identity management event sponsored by the Information Technology Association of America in Washington. “Once we figure out how much it will save states, we will send it to the Office of Management and Budget for their approval.”
Baker added that OMB has 90 days to review it, but he said he thinks they will not take that long to send it back to DHS to release the final rule.
Baker, who would not offer further information on the new standard, said he would hope it would be out in the next two to three months.
One source who is familiar with DHS’ work on the standard said the biggest changes will be affect security and time frame.
The source, who requested anonymity, said DHS likely will leave it to the states to decide how to secure the driver’s license instead of prescribing security requirements.
The source also said DHS likely will ask states to implement Real ID by around 2013.
Brendan Peter, senior director of industry affairs at LexisNexis Special Services, said he didn’t think the Real ID standard would converge with the standards for Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12.
“Each state is unique and has unique requirements,” he said.
Dan Combs, a former director of digital government for Iowa and the director of the National Emergency Preparedness Coordinating Council, said states are looking at HSPD-12 as a model for Real ID.
“The federal government needs to look at what it has done and reference back to it,” he said.
Jeremy Grant, senior vice president for emerging technologies market at Stanford Research Group, added that the new standards likely will be a floor for states instead of a ceiling.
“If DHS prescribes less stringent requirements than what states are doing to upgrade their systems now will go above and beyond that,” he said.
How the Government Will Toll Existing Roads
http://youtube.com/watch?v=f7yoC79rdBE
Companies push for DHS ID card work
http://www.fcw.com/online/news/150581-1.html
Is A North American Union In The Future?
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarep…4conspiracy1024.html
What is the ‘North American Union’?
Filed under: Big Brother, Canada, car transponder, George Bush, Globalism, Kansas City Smart Port, Mexican Trucks, NAFTA Superhighway, North American Union, Oklahoma, paul martin, Police State, Rick Perry, SPP, Surveillance, Texas, Toll Roads, Vicente Fox
‘NAFTA Superhighway stops here,’ says Okla. senator
Trans-Texas Corridor needs to make ‘Texas turnaround’ at state border
Jerome R. Corsi
World Net Daily
October 1, 2007
 Oklahoma state Sen. Randy Brogdon |
“The NAFTA Superhighway stops here, at the border with Oklahoma,” Randy Brogdon, a Republican state senator who has championed the fight to keep the Trans-Texas Corridor out of Oklahoma, told a packed 300-person audience at the first public meeting of OK-SAFE in Tulsa on Saturday.
Oklahomans for Sovereignty and Free Enterprise, Inc. is a non-profit, Oklahoma corporation set up to oppose a NAFTA Superhighway and North American Union as threats to the sovereignty of the U.S.
Brogdon objected to the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America, arguing President Bush had entered the agreement after secret discussions with Mexico’s then-president Vicente Fox and Canada’s then-prime minister Paul Martin in Waco, Texas, March 23, 2005.
“President Bush has proven that he is more than willing to over-step his executive authority when it came to trade policy,” Brogdon told the group.
“Ariticle 1 Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution says, ‘Congress shall have the Power to Regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States,’ not the president,” Brogdon pointed out. “Yet President Bush has entered into an agreement with Mexico and Canada called SPP that seeks to eliminate our trade and security borders and he has failed to get the explicit approval of Congress.”
The SPP website, in a section entitled “Myths vs. Facts,” supports Brogdon’s argument, openly admitting that SPP is neither a law nor a treaty.
“Texas highways are famous for ‘Texas turnaround’ U-turns,” Brogdon quipped. “Maybe it’s time we tell Governor Perry to do a Texas turnaround at the border with Oklahoma.”
“We don’t need a new superhighway four-football-fields-wide coming through the heart of our state just so Mexican trucks can carry Chinese containers from Mexican ports to Kansas City,” he said.
Brogdon objected that the Bush administration’s below-the-radar push for a new continental NAFTA Superhighway will risk the supremacy of U.S. laws on U.S. highways.
“Anyone driving on an international highway system running through the United States would be subjected not to U.S. law, but to international law,” Brogdon argued. “We would be subject to an international tribunal in case of a dispute, including accidents or other lawsuits.”
Brogdon objected to the Department of Transportation’s push to allow 100 Mexican trucking companies to have free access on U.S. roads for their long-haul rigs.
“The Bush administration is pushing the Trans-Texas Corridor under the cause of better roads and economic development,” Brogdon stressed. “I’m sure we all want good roads and bridges, but not at the expense of our nation’s sovereignty.”
As WND previously reported, Brogdon has opposed legislation that would have pre-authorized the extension north into Oklahoma, as a deceptive piece of legislation (HB 1917) that would have put Oklahoma in a highway “pilot project” that was unlimited in scope and required Oklahoma to waive its 11th Amendment rights.
“The 11th Amendment gives protection to Oklahoma from being sued in federal court by a foreign nation,” Brogdon explained. “So for us to be a part of this project we had to waive our 11th Amendment rights. This benign piece of legislation that started out as a simple re-surface project in Southeast Oklahoma was in fact the first step to create the NAFTA Superhighway through Oklahoma.”
The bill was strongly supported by the North America’s SuperCorridor Coalition, Inc., a Dallas-based trade organization of which the State of Oklahoma is a member.
Brogdon has championed legislation demanding Oklahoma withdraw from NASCO, saving the state a $25,000 annual membership fee.
“NASCO’s mission statement says their goal is ‘to create the world’s first ‘international, intermodal superhighway’ system,” Brogdon pointed out. “NASCO lobbied the Oklahoma state legislature to pass HB 1917 and they found many of my colleagues sympathetic to their cause. In the state senate, we were able to kill the bill during debate. We won a battle, but the war is not over.”
Brogdon predicted that the battle to extend the Trans-Texas Corridor north into Oklahoma would be pressed once again by NASCO in the Oklahoma legislature’s next session.
“NASCO will probably work with legislators favorable to their cause to package the next bill with a catchy name,” Brogdon warned. “The bill will come down as something like, ‘Economic Development and Transportation for the Next Generation and Our Kids.’ It will be disguised, but I assure you, the outcome will still be the same. Our sovereignty will be under attack.”
Still, Brogdon expressed his confidence in winning the battle against the NAFTA Superhighway in Oklahoma.
“I’m encouraged at what lies ahead for this state and for the nation,” Brogdon told the group. “History reveals that Americans always rise to the occasion to protect this country. We are in a battle for this nation’s sovereignty. But I see American patriots here today, in this assembled group, men and women still dedicated to the Constitutional cause so eloquently laid out by our founding fathers.”
“Ladies and gentlemen, know this – our future will not be determined by the politicians,” Brogdon concluded. “Our future lies solely in our hands because ‘We the People,’ and not some bureaucrats in Washington or a trade group in Dallas, are the government of the United States.”
WND reported NASCO changed its name from the original name, North America’s Superhighway Coalition.
NASCO also has repeatedly redesigned its webpage so as to de-emphasize the continental nature of the “super corridor” NASCO supports.
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What is the ‘North American Union’?
Filed under: Amnesty Bill, Canada, China, Congress, corporation, Defazio, Felipe Calderon, George Bush, Globalism, Immigration, John McCain, Mexican Trucks, Mexico, NAFTA, NAFTA Superhighway, North American Union, secret meetings, SPP, SPP Summit, Stephen Harper, Ted Kennedy, Toll Roads, Virgil Goode
Congress debate begins on North American Union
WND
September 25, 2007
A House resolution urging President Bush “not to go forward with the North American Union or the NAFTA Superhighway system” is – according to its sponsor Rep. Virgil Goode, R-Va., in an exclusive WND interview – “also a message to both the executive branch and the legislative branch.”
As WND previously reported, on Jan. 22 Goode introduced H.C.R. 40, titled “Expressing the sense of Congress that the United States should not engage in the construction of a North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) Superhighway System or enter into a North American Union with Mexico and Canada.”
The bill has been referred to the House Subcommittee on Highways and Transit of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.
WND asked Goode if the president was risking electoral success for the Republican Party in 2008 with his insistence on pushing for North American integration via the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America, or SPP.
“Yes,” Goode answered. “You won’t hear the leadership in the Republic Party admit it, but there are many in the House and Senate who know that illegal immigration has to be stopped and legal immigration has to be reduced. We are giving away the country so a few very rich people can get richer.”
How did he react when President Bush referred to those who suggest the SPP could turn into the North American Union as “conspiracy theorists”?
“The president is really engaging in a play on words,” Goode responded. “The secretary of transportation came before our subcommittee,” he explained, “and I had the opportunity to ask her some questions about the NAFTA Superhighway. Of course, she answered, ‘There’s no NAFTA Superhighway.’ But then Mary Peters proceeded to discuss the road system that would come up from Mexico and go through the United States up into Canada.”
Goode is a member of the Subcommittee on Transportation, Treasury, Housing and Urban Development of the House Committee on Appropriations.
“So, I think that saying we’re ‘conspiracy theorists’ or something like that is really just a play on words with the intent to demonize the opposition,” Goode concluded.
Goode stressed that the Bush administration supports both a NAU regional government and a NAFTA Superhighway system: “The Bush administration as well as Mexico and Canada have persons in the government in all three countries who want to a see a North American Union as well as a highway system that would bring goods into the west coast of Mexico and transport them up through Mexico into the United States and then in onto Canada,” Goode confirmed.
The Virginia congressman said he believes the motivation behind the movement toward North American integration is the anticipated profits the large multinational corporations in each of the three countries expect to make from global trade, especially moving production to China.
“Some really large businesses that get a lot from China would like a NAFTA Superhighway system because it would reduce costs for them to transport containers from China and, as a result, increase their margins,” he argued.
“I am vigorously opposed to the Mexican trucks coming into the country,” Goode continued. “The way we have done it and, I think, the way we should do it in the future, is to have the goods come into the United States from Mexico within a 20-mile commercial space and unloaded from Mexican trucks into U.S. trucks. This procedure enhances the safety of the country, the security of the country, and provides much less chance for illegal immigration.”
As WND reported, the Department of Transportation has begun a Mexican truck “demonstration project” under which 100 Mexican trucking companies are being allowed to run their long-haul rigs throughout the U.S.
Previously, Mexican trucks have been limited to a 20-mile commercial zone in the United States, with the requirement that goods bound for locations in the U.S. beyond the 20-mile commercial zone be off-loaded to U.S. trucks.
WND reported last month that Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., successfully offered an amendment to the Department of Transportation Fiscal Year 2008 appropriations bill to block DOT from spending any federal funds to implement the truck project.
Dorgan’s amendment passed 75-23, after Sen. Elizabeth Dole, R-N.C., changed her vote to support Dorgan.
By a voice vote, the House passed an amendment offered by Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Ore., to the DOT appropriations bill comparable to Dorgan’s, designed to block the agency from using federal funds to implement the truck project.
DeFazio chairs the House transportation subcommittee that oversees motor carriers.
“With the Trans-Texas Corridor, which I would say is part of the NAFTA Superhighway system, and with this NAFTA plot with the Mexican trucks just coming in and not loading off to U.S. trucks, they will just drive right over the Rio Grande and come on over into Texas,” Goode argued. “A lot of these Mexican trucks will be bring containerized cargo from the west coast of Mexico where they will be unloaded in Mexican ports to avoid the fees and costs of unloading at U.S. ports.”
“So, when you look at the total package,” he continued, “we do have a NAFTA Superhighway system already in place. There are those in all three countries that believe we should have a North American Union and the Security and Prosperity Partnership, in my opinion takes us down that road. And I am vigorously opposed to the loss of our sovereignty.”
Why, WND asked, do so many congressmen and senators insist on writing and telling their constituents that they don’t know anything about the Security and Prosperity Partnership, or that SPP working groups are really just to increase our competitiveness?
“In the House, a strong majority voted to provide no money in the transportation funding bill,” Goode responded. “I commend Congressman Duncan Hunter for submitting an amendment to the Department of Transportation funding bill [which] got over 360 votes that said no funds in the transportation appropriation measure, prohibiting Department of Transportation funds from being used to participate on working groups that promote the Security and Prosperity Partnership.”
As WND reported, Hunter’s amendment to the FY 2008 Department of Transportation funding bill prohibiting DOT from using federal funds to participate in SPP working groups creating NAFTA Superhighways passed 362 to 63, with strong bipartisan support. The House approved H.R. 3074 by 268-153, with the Hunter amendment included.
“So, I think a majority the House, if you had an up or down vote on the SPP, would vote down on the SPP,” Goode concluded. “But some still say, and it’s a play on words, that we don’t have a Security and Prosperity Partnership that will lead to a North American Union. I don’t think they can say anymore that we don’t have a Security and Prosperity Partnership arrangement between the U.S., Mexico, and Canada, because that was done in Waco, Texas, on March 23, 2005, and the recent meeting at Montebello was to talk about it further.”
WND asked Goode to comment on the North American Competitiveness Council, or NACC, a group of multinational corporations selected by the Chambers of Commerce in Mexico, Canada and the U.S. as the central adviser of SPP working groups.
At the SPP summit in Montebello, Quebec, the NACC met behind closed doors with the three leaders, cabinet secretaries who were present, and top SPP working group bureaucrats, while various public advocacy groups, environmental groups, labor unions – and the press – were excluded.
Should SPP working group meetings be open to the public?
“I wish they were,” Goode responded. “If it is as the Bush administration says, ‘We’re not planning any North American Union,’ then why wouldn’t those meetings be open, why wouldn’t you let the media in?” Goode asked.
“But some of the very big corporations want the goods from China to come in here unchecked,” he continued. “It costs money for U.S. trucks to transport Chinese goods from West Coast ports like Los Angeles or Long Beach. But if you can have a Mexican truck and Mexican truck driver, that’s going to be cheaper. And it’s all about the margins. The margins relate directly to how much money the multi-national corporations are going to make.”
Has the Senate debate on the Dorgan amendment brought the issues of the NAU and NAFTA Superhighways more to the attention of the Senate?
“I think so,” Goode said. “That debate had a very positive effect. You had grassroots support calling the Senate on the Dorgan amendment.
“The Bush administration engages in the same play of words with all these issues,” Goode added. “Take a look at the Kennedy-McCain comprehensive immigration reform, which the Bush administration has now tried to jam through the Senate not once, but twice.
“The Bush administration claims it’s not [amnesty] when you let someone stay in the country and give them a path to citizenship,” Goode pointed out. “Well, that’s their definition, not my definition, and not the definition of the majority of the public. The majority of the public called in and buried the amnesty bill because of public pressure. Public pressure also got de-funded the pilot program on Mexican trucks in this country.”
So should the U.S. pull out of the SPP?
“Yes,” Goode answered, “but the best way to end SPP would be to have a chief executive that wouldn’t do anything with it.”
What does Goode think of the state legislatures that are passing anti-NAU, anti-NAFTA Superhighway and anti-SPP resolutions?
“If enough state legislatures pass resolutions like that, it surely should have an impact on the House and the Senate,” Goode said.
“President Bush’s position is that we need to carry out NAFTA and we need to have this free flow of goods with Mexico and Canada,” Goode explained. “Well, Bush’s approach involves a derogation of our sovereignty and it also undermines the security and the safety of the country.
“It will be much easier for a truck to get a container on the west coast of Mexico and haul in a biological or radiological or nuclear weapon than it would be if you are going to have to unload the trucks on the Texas-Mexico border and put the goods and material in a U.S. truck,” he continued.
“The problem is that the NAU, NAFTA Superhighways and SPP all go back to money,” Goode stressed. “The multinational companies want their goods from Mexico and China because they want the cheap labor.”
What about the U.S.’s large and growing trade imbalance with China?
“I don’t want to have to be an ‘I told you so’ person,” Goode answered, “but I was a vigorous opponent of PNTR (“permanent normal trade relations”) and before that of ‘most favored nation’ trade status with China. We need tariffs and quotas with China. Personally, if I know food is coming in from China, I won’t buy it. The American people with the adoption of COOL, country of origin labeling, with the food clearly labeled, I think you will see the American public will shy away from Chinese products.”
In 2000, Congress voted to extend to China PNTR. “Most favored nation” or MFN trade status, was given to China first in 1980 by the Carter administration. COOL rules are administered by the Department of Agriculture.
Goode concluded the interview by thanking WND for covering the SPP, NAU and NAFTA Superhighway issues: “I want to thank you for putting these issues out where people can read it,” Goode said. “You have enlightened hundreds of thousands if not millions of American citizens who otherwise would have been greatly in the dark on the SPP.”
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What is the ‘North American Union’?
Filed under: Big Brother, Drivers License, Globalism, Immigration, NAFTA Superhighway, North American Union, Police State, RFID, Surveillance, Texdot, Toll Roads
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What is the ‘North American Union’?
Filed under: Globalism, NAFTA Superhighway, North American Union, Rick Perry, Taxpayers, Texas, Texdot, Toll Roads
Secret TexDot Plan To Toll Existing Highways
Jim Forsythe
WOAI
August 30, 2007
At the same time local officials assure us that tolls will ‘never’ be charged for traveling on existing highway lanes, 1200 WOAI news has obtained a Texas Transportation Commission report in which Tex-DOT officials discuss ways to impose tolls on existing interstate highways.
The report, entitled ‘Forward Momentum, a Report to the 110th Congress,’ makes several recommendations to Congress on how best to upgrade the state’s highway system.
One section, entitled “Tolling Authority EXPANSION” (the capital letters are included in the report), discusses strategies Congress could use to allow Texas to charge tolls on existing Interstate highways, including Interstates 10, 35, and 27.
“Federal law generally prohibits imposing tolls on interstate highways for which federal funds have been used,” the report reads on page 11. “In several situations, however, Congress has enacted specific legislation to allow states to ‘buy back,’ or re-imburse the federal government, for federal funds applies to a highway segment, thereby relieving it of the prohibition against tolls.”
That’s right. Your state tax money would be used to ‘buy back’ highways your federal tax money has already paid for, so the state could charge you tolls to drive on that highway.
Chris Lippincott of TexDOT confirms the language in the report, but stresses that any tolling would not be done without the consent of local officials and the public.
“Even if the Congress allowed states to purchase back parts of the interstate, state law would still be in effect, and it would require TexDOT to seek the approval of not only a county’s Commissioners Court, but also the voters in that county, before we tolled existing lanes,” Lippincott said.
So we’ve gone from ‘existing lanes will never be tolled,’ to ‘existing lanes might be tolled with your consent.’
The TexDOT report proposes that ‘restrictions on tolling programs’ be removed, to ‘give states such as Texas, as many opportunities as possible for new funding alternatives.’
The report suggests that if Congress ‘authorizes states to implement interstate tolling options beyond current pilot programs’ it would ‘allow revenues from toll-financed facilities to be used for other critical system needs.’
“I’m not a political guru, but I would suggest to you that the likelihood of an existing lane being turned into a toll lane is pretty slim,” Lippencott said.
The TexDOT also brags that the Government Accountability Office has ‘cited Texas (and Governor Perry specifically) as a leader in using tolls to “reduce congestion”)’ Texans are being told that tolls would be collected to build badly needed highways, not to ‘reduce congestion.’
What is the ‘North American Union’?
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