I am tired I have the information regarding transportation and the Inland Port in Kansas. I will post it tomorrow!

GFIW

 

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Sorry I did not post yesterday as I said I would. My husband was home and we went over to my mothers, he wanted to go make Salsa and visit.

Before I get into the Inland Port I would like to post some about the SPP because I believe that this is were the latest announcement came down from.

I believe that somehow the SPP has come out of the Summit of Americas or maybe just NAFTA. Even with everything I have found out about the SPP something I ran across this evening has really got me stumped and I am not finding anything more out about it.

It was very interesting doing some research this evening. I went into http://www.embassyofmexico.org/eng/ but I went into the original Spanish version first that had an English translate.

Many of the articles in the Spanish Version were not in the English version. If anyone wants the link they can PM me because it is VERY LONG. Anyway I found this there in the Spanish translation one.

Official notice of press no. 054
Ottawa, Canada, 23 of February of 2007
Total coincidence between the policies of President Felipe Calderón Hinojosa with the postulates of REELS it.

The Secretary of Outer Relations, Thorny Patricia, maintained here to individual bilateral meetings with his contrapartes of Canada, Peter MacKay, and of the United States, Condoleezza Rice, with those who she made a review of the main points of the bilateral and trilateral agenda.

In his conversations, the holder of the Secretariat of Relaciones Exteriores (SRE) emphasized the total coincidence between the policies of the President of the Republic, Felipe Calderón Hinojosa, with the postulates of the Alliance for the Security and the Prosperity of North America (THEY REEL).

The Canadian Minister of Outer Relations offered the eve a supper to the Mexican Chancellor in the House of Visitors Distinguished of the Governor-general of Canada, Rideau 7.

During the encounter, the Thorny Ambassador and Minister MacKay approached bilateral subjects, as the greater integration of the sector deprived in the mechanisms of consultation settled down, and regional, such as the necessity to consolidate the democracy in all Latin America and the Caribbean.

Equally, the Mexican Chancellor and the Canadian Minister agreed in the necessity to promote a dialogue opened in Mexico and Canada, and to give objective information dissemination on THEY REEL it in its respective countries.


Where in the heck did the THEY REEL come from :shock: This is the first I have read or seen that expression even for the SPP.

Well on to my next post regarding the SPP.

Goin Fer It's Wife

 

I feel it is important to get as much of an understanding as we can regarding SPP because DOT is one agency working with it's Mexican and Canadian counterparts under SPP, as are many other agencies.

I know that the last Ministerial meeting was February 23 the same day that it was announced regarding the Mexican Truck Drivers being aloud in the US.

I believe that much is going on and that the SSP was somehow formed from one of the Summits.

Also they are working on Security together I will post something regarding the Security aspects in another post.

First I would like to post from Ron Paul web-site regarding SSP.

http://www.house.gov/paul/tst/tst2006/tst082806.htm



A North American United Nations?


August 28, 2006

Globalists and one-world promoters never seem to tire of coming up with ways to undermine the sovereignty of the United States. The most recent attempt comes in the form of the misnamed "Security and Prosperity Partnership Of North America (SPP)." In reality, this new "partnership" will likely make us far less secure and certainly less prosperous.

According to the US government website dedicated to the project, the SPP is neither a treaty nor a formal agreement. Rather, it is a "dialogue" launched by the heads of state of Canada, Mexico, and the United States at a summit in Waco, Texas in March, 2005.

What is a "dialogue"? We don't know. What we do know, however, is that Congressional oversight of what might be one of the most significant developments in recent history is non-existent. Congress has had no role at all in a "dialogue" that many see as a plan for a North American union.

According to the SPP website, this "dialogue" will create new supra-national organizations to "coordinate" border security, health policy, economic and trade policy, and energy policy between the governments of Mexico, Canada, and the United States. As such, it is but an extension of NAFTA- and CAFTA-like agreements that have far less to do with the free movement of goods and services than they do with government coordination and management of international trade.

Critics of NAFTA and CAFTA warned at the time that the agreements were actually a move toward more government control over international trade and an eventual merging of North America into a border-free area. Proponents of these agreements dismissed this as preposterous and conspiratorial. Now we see that the criticisms appear to be justified.

Let's examine just a couple of the many troubling statements on the SPP's US government website:

"We affirm our commitment to strengthen regulatory cooperation...and to have our central regulatory agencies complete a trilateral regulatory cooperation framework by 2007"

Though the US administration insists that the SPP does not undermine US sovereignty, how else can one take statements like this? How can establishing a "trilateral regulatory cooperation" not undermine our national sovereignty?

The website also states SPP's goal to "[i]mprove the health of our indigenous people through targeted bilateral and/or trilateral activities, including in health promotion, health education, disease prevention, and research." Who can read this and not see massive foreign aid transferred from the US taxpayer to foreign governments and well-connected private companies?

Also alarming are SPP pledges to "work towards the identification and adoption of best practices relating to the registration of medicinal products." That sounds like the much-criticized Codex Alimentarius, which seeks to radically limit Americans' health freedom.

Even more troubling are reports that under this new "partnership," a massive highway is being planned to stretch from Canada into Mexico, through the state of Texas. This is likely to cost the US taxpayer untold billions of dollars, will require eminent domain takings on an almost unimaginable scale, and will make the US more vulnerable to those who seek to enter our country to do us harm.

This all adds up to not only more and bigger government, but to the establishment of an unelected mega-government. As the SPP website itself admits, "The Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America represents a broad and ambitious agenda." I hope my colleagues in Congress and American citizens will join me in opposing any "broad and ambitious" effort to undermine the security and sovereignty of the United States.



From the SPP Web-Site

Myth: The SPP is being undertaken without the knowledge of the U.S. Congress.

Fact: U.S. agencies involved with SPP regularly update and consult with members of Congress on our efforts and plans.

How nice they can consult Congress of plans and laws they intend to lay out for us. According to Ron Paul they did not even do that.

 

Here is an interesting perspective on the SPP and someone who claims they took his blue print for it. I have not put in all of the paragraphs of this article. To read the article in full.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/ar...TICLE_ID=53378

Posted: December 15, 2006
1:00 a.m. Eastern

By Jerome R. Corsi
© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com


American University Professor Robert Pastor
Robert Pastor, a leading intellectual force in the move to create an EU-style North American Community, told WND he believes a new 9/11 crisis could be the catalyst to merge the U.S., Mexico and Canada.

Pastor, a professor at American University, says that in such a case the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America, or SPP – launched in 2005 by the heads of the three countries at a summit in Waco, Texas – could be developed into a continental union, complete with a new currency, the amero, that would replace the U.S. dollar just as the euro has replaced the national currencies of Europe.

In May 2005, Pastor was co-chairman the Council on Foreign Relations task force that produced a report entitled "Toward a North American Community," which he has claimed is the blueprint behind the SSP declared by President Bush, Mexico's then-President Vicente Fox, and Canada's then-Prime Minister Paul Martin.

Pastor had published an interview in Spanish in the Oct. 24 issue of Poder y Negocios. He told the magazine crises can force decisions that otherwise would not be made.

"What I'm saying is that a crisis is an event which can force democratic governments to make difficult decisions like those that will be required to create a North American Community," he said. "It's not that I want another 9/11 crisis, but having a crisis would force decisions that otherwise might not get made."

Pastor told WND he lamented that the leadership of the three North American countries is not positioned to make the type of tough decisions needed to advance a North American Community agenda.

Pastor further told WND Mexico's Fox made a tactical mistake by laying out an overly ambitious agenda to integrate with the United States.

"President Bush then took on the issue of illegal immigration, and it proved to be much more difficult than anticipated," he said. In the absence of strong North American leadership, is a crisis the way greater North American integration can be expected to happen?


Pastor was asked what North American leaders would need to do to move toward integration.

"We need to form a customs union to move North American integration to a new level," Pastor argued. "A customs union would eliminate rules of origin on the border and agree to a common external tariff. This would not be easy but not as difficult as NAFTA was, and it would lead to efficiencies in our economies and in the end contribute to a better standard of living for all parties."

Pastor also called for a North American Investment Fund to invest in Mexico's infrastructure.

Pastor was careful to distinguish that his proposals were designed to create a North American Community and that he never has proposed to create a North American Union as an EU-style regional government.

"What I am recommending is a series of functional steps that are more than incremental," Pastor admitted. "Each of the proposals I have laid out represent more than just small steps. But it doesn't represent a leap toward a North American Union, or even to some confederation of any kind. I don't think either is plausible, necessary, or even helpful to contemplate at this stage."

The idea seems to be to put new structures in place that change the look of the landscape. WND pointed out to Pastor that this step-by-step approach is the same approach taken to create the European Union.The memoirs of Jean Monnet, regarded as the architect of European unity, finally disclosed he had used a strategy of deceit, knowing his plan to form a European Union would never succeed if it were openly disclosed.

 

Sorry guys but I have to really wonder about our Security, this thing is not just about selling us out economically. Are we getting set up for something else to happen? Ez-Passes for Mexican Trucks (with OAS worried about Man-Portable Air Defense Systems (MANPADS) in Costa Rica getting in the wrong hands). And the things that the SPP are doing I really wonder.

OAS SPOTLIGHTS THREATS FROM UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO PORTABLE AIR DEFENSE SYSTEMS

March 8, 2007

Experts from a variety of national and international institutions talked about the dangers posed by Man-Portable Air Defense Systems (MANPADS) and renewed the call for the international community to act decisively to prevent these legitimate military defense weapons from illegal transfers and unauthorized use.

Ambassador Javier Sancho Bonilla, Costa Rica’s Permanent Representative to the Organization of American States (OAS) and Chairman of the Committee on Hemispheric Security, chaired today’s special meeting, which brought experts together at OAS headquarters to consider effective strategies to mitigate the threat posed by non-state actors using MANPADS.

“Inadequate protection of arsenals and the availability of MANPADS on the black market pose a serious threat,” said Ambassador Sancho Bonilla. He noted that while the hemisphere has never had any attack carried out using MANPADS, there remains a latent threat, and an attack could inflict grave harm. The Costa Rican diplomat called on the OAS member states to prevent the weapons from getting into the hands of non-state actors such as terrorist groups and those engaged in international organized crime.

“MANPADS are a legitimate military weapon—the last line of defense for a soldier against attacking aircraft,” explained Chris Hughes of the United Kingdom Ministry of Defense in his presentation, which used audio-visual aids to demonstrate the serious threat posed to civilian aircraft. Hughes explained that the weapon works via a missile guided by an infrared seeker that locks onto a heat source on the intended target, and can cover a range of up to 5 kilometers and an altitude of 3,500 meters. He also noted that CREWPADS—similar weapons, but fired by a crew—pose a grave danger.

Halina Biernacki, an aviation security expert with the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), said the illicit manufacture, transfer, circulation and use of MANPADS pose a serious threat to civil aviation and to peace, security and stability worldwide, and can also bring economic consequences. She cited more than 40 incidents of MANPADS deployment over the past three decades, mainly in war zones.

For his part, Aaron McCrorie, Chief of Security Policy Research and Evaluation with Transports Canada, outlined Canada’s experience with risk assessment, which helps inform policy choices and develop balanced and appropriate responses to ensure the aviation systems are made secure.

Discussions also focused on national and regional approaches to the MANPADS concern, a review of OAS and Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) initiatives, as well as resources available to assist member states and an OAS General Assembly resolution on implementation of OAS MANPADS guidelines.

http://www.oas.org/OASpage/press_rel...odigo=E-073/07


And for the SPP I am just not comfortable securing our nuclear facilities alon with Mexico and Canada's Help! This from the report to the leaders in August 2006.

http://www.spp.gov/2006_report_to_le...ort_to_leaders



* The United States and Canada renegotiated a Framework for Cooperation to govern joint critical infrastructure protection and emergency management issues.

* The United States, Canada, and Mexico continued work to tighten and verify the security of nuclear and radiological facilities throughout North America. The United States and Canada implemented new enhanced security measures and cooperated on Force-on-Force exercises to test enhancements at nuclear facilities. The United States and Mexico performed security upgrades at key nuclear and radiological facilities.

And our Cargo from Asia being inspected in Mexico then transported up to Kansas City (I will post all about the Inland Port with link tomorrow)
:shock: :shock:

To determine risk in advance and to process maritime cargo more expeditiously, Mexico is successfully implementing the Sea Cargo Initiative, which will allow for the electronic collection of data from the shipping lines 24 hours prior to loading at the port of origin. The United States and Canada are implementing a similar program.

Oh and I feel so much more comfortable about products coming up from Mexico that are unsafe as they will warn our trustworthy SPP.

To make consumer goods safer, save lives, and prevent injuries, the United States and Mexico signed an agreement for advance notifications when consumer goods violate one country’s safety standards or pose a danger to consumers. Canada and the United States signed a similar agreement in June.

I once again am getting tired. I will post about the Inland Port tomorrow.
I know there is allot of things to digest. But these are all official sites that I have been posting, other than the articles.

Goin Fer It's Wife

 

As far as background of the Inland Port as far as I can tell it began with a Summit Mandate. I think most of the Summits originated from NAFTA.

Third Summit of the Americas, Quebec City, Canada 2001

Transport

Recognizing that environmentally sound, safe, and efficient transportation systems, including multi-modal corridors, are essential to the quality of the daily lives of the people of the Americas as well as to trade in goods and services among our countries; and reaffirming our support for the ongoing efforts of our Ministers responsible for transportation, through the Western Hemisphere Transport Initiative (WHTI), to increase the integration of our transportation systems and practices:

Endorse the areas for cooperation identified at the Ministers' meeting in Punta del Este, Uruguay, in March 2001;
*

Promote and facilitate increased cooperation, convergence and information-sharing in the transportation-related activities of the five subregions of the Hemisphere and with multilateral organizations, with a view to furthering the development of human and institutional capacity and ensuring the environmental sustainability of transportation systems and infrastructure; to this end, request that the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) continues to provide its valuable support to the WHTI;

http://www.summit-americas.org/Quebe...ucture-eng.htm

Straight From the good ole United Nations Western Hemisphere Transport Initiative aka WHTI

http://www.transport-americas.org/Ar...-state-eng.htm


ECONOMIC COMMISSION FOR LATIN AMERICA
AND THE CARIBBEAN

The UN symbol here!!!

UNITED NATIONS

ACTION PLAN FOR THE INTEGRATION OF
TRANSPORTATION IN THE AMERICAS
Western Hemisphere Transportation Initiative

Ministerial Meeting


q The WHTI seeks to build a hemispheric transportation system in support of the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas as part of the Summit of the Americas process.

q Keeping in mind this objective and the dynamics of progress on transportation issues in each of the five regions considered in the Western Hemisphere, the WHTI action plan for integration of transportation systems should permit:

§ The establishment of an ongoing mechanism for institutional cooperation among the various agencies responsible in each region.
§ The study of best transportation practices on the trade interchange routes between the five regions.
§ The development of a transportation knowledge network that will serve as a bridge for WHTI to communicate and exchange information with service providers, users and transportation research institutes in the Americas.

q In developing this action plan according to the priorities set by the ministerial meeting in Punta del Este, special consideration will be given to aspects related to easier border crossing, operational safety and the environmental impact of transport in the Western Hemisphere.
Plan of Action

The three main thrusts of the proposed action plan are given below in summary form.

INSTITUTIONAL COOPERATION
Concept:
Establish a permanent mechanism for cooperation among regional institutions responsible for international transportation rules, with a view to ensure the follow-up of progress in each sub-region and to develop a convergence process of regional regulatory and operational systems.

Bodies responsible:
Institutional cooperation activities should remain under the responsibility of the WHTI Ministerial meetings and Executive Committee.

Implementing agency:
A working group of experts appointed by each regional body.


I would like to state that if you go into the SPP web-site and read the reports that everything that is laid out in the Transportation Section in the Summit of the Americas is being put into action through the SPP.

Most people in America are unware of what is happening and I do not believe that Congress has much say in the matters.

Next post links and facts about the Inland Port and the actual web-site of people putting it together. I would also like to point out on the SPP web-site under fact and myths it said that DOT has nothing to do with it. But Dot has awarded the money to the people. And it is really Congress that is having nothing to say about it.

GFIW

 

Somebody knows how to cut and paste. Yay.

 

Okay now for the Inland Port Information. Yes, there will be an Inland Customs Port in Kansas City. I have read two different senerios. One is that most everything coming from Asia will go to a seaport in Mexico and then transported up by Truck and Rail to Kansas City.

The second thing I read on Wikpedea is that the orignal intent was to have the Inland Port equiped with Mexican Custom official to ship to Mexico. I also found what Wikipedia had to say on the Critics to be very true of what I believe will happen.

On Wikpeada under Critics and it is right about effecting the Truckers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_A...idor_Coalition

Critics
Critics of supercorridors complain that existing transportation infrastructure is not being invested in and maintained. Other critics are concerned about the environmental damage which will occur by creating a supercorridor.

Further still, concerns regarding American job preservation (from the resulting influx of migrant truckers) threaten trucking, rail, and longshoremen unions. More American males are employed by semi-trucking companies in the United States, a statistic which will likely be changed by open border crossings.

This also raises concern for U.S. Merchant Mariners, who sail aboard U.S. flag vessels. Ships delivering to Mexican ports instead of U.S. ports may choose to switch to a flag of convenience, if they no longer fall under the Jones Act.

NASCO is often cited by political theorists as an apparatus of the North American Union.

My note** Both appear to be true according to at first it will only be outbound transports on the pilot program but it says inbound and outbound.

Then on a link from the NASCO site I have read this.

http://www.nascocorridor.com/naipn/p...ts.html#topeka

Mexican Customs in KC

Kansas City SmartPort’s involvement with trade missions to and from Mexico has brought about historic progress.

The biggest success from KC SmartPort’s endeavors with Mexico is the project between the U.S. and Mexican governments to place a Mexican customs office in Kansas City. This will be the first such office located anywhere in the United States. The pilot project will allow freight moving southbound to Mexico to clear in Kansas City, seal the shipment on the truck, and enable border crossings to become seamless.

Kansas City has several key components that make it an excellent hub for all transportation and logistics operations. It is the second largest rail center in the United States, as well as having more Foreign Trade Zone space than any other U.S. city.

Other advantages include the city’s location on the largest navigable inland waterway (Missouri and Mississippi River system) and the infrastructure of three of the nation’s major interstate highways (I-35, I-70 and I-29). And, the Kansas City International Airport moves more air cargo each year than any air center in a six-state region.

Many U.S. cities have been vying for the opportunity to host the Mexican customs facility, but as mentioned above, Kansas City has advantages that other cities do not.

Kansas Citians are thrilled to have the opportunity to prove the efficiency of the new Mexican customs facility and to test this innovative system.

This is the main web-site for NASCO and there are maps and many links so that you can understand what is going on with this.

http://www.nascocorridor.com/naipn/p..._projects.html

NAIPN Introduction North American Inland Port Network (NAIPN) is a sub-committee of the North America's SuperCorridor Coalition (NASCO). NAIPN advocates the interests of Inland Ports along the International Mid-Continent Trade and Transportation Corridor (IMCTTC) and supports NASCO's mission to strengthen the Secure, Multi-Modal Trade and Transportation System.

THE NETWORK

"An Inland Port is a site located away from traditional land, air and coastal borders with the vision to facilitate and process international trade through strategic investment in multi-modal transportation assets and by promoting value-added services as goods move through the supply chain."


Inland Ports are efficient Economic Development engines for their regions. By networking Inland Ports together, NAIPN extends economic benefits throughout the whole Corridor. NAIPN improves the efficiency of International Commerce throughout the Mid-Continent. NAIPN increases trade flow with the Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Russia, and Europe.

NAIPN Members contribute their business challenges to NASCO's Special Project Initiatives so that new business process & technology solutions are developed to improve efficiency at the Inland Ports.

NAIPN Introduction North American Inland Port Network (NAIPN) is a sub-committee of the North America's SuperCorridor Coalition (NASCO). NAIPN advocates the interests of Inland Ports along the International Mid-Continent Trade and Transportation Corridor (IMCTTC) and supports NASCO's mission to strengthen the Secure, Multi-Modal Trade and Transportation System.

THE NETWORK

"An Inland Port is a site located away from traditional land, air and coastal borders with the vision to facilitate and process international trade through strategic investment in multi-modal transportation assets and by promoting value-added services as goods move through the supply chain."

Inland Ports are efficient Economic Development engines for their regions. By networking Inland Ports together, NAIPN extends economic benefits throughout the whole Corridor. NAIPN improves the efficiency of International Commerce throughout the Mid-Continent. NAIPN increases trade flow with the Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Russia, and Europe.

NAIPN Members contribute their business challenges to NASCO's Special Project Initiatives so that new business process & technology solutions are developed to improve efficiency at the Inland Ports.

http://www.nascocorridor.com/naipn/index.html

Link with a picture of the map. These things are already a work in progress. How long it will take to have a big impact on the Trucking Industry is yet to be seen. But allowing Mexican Trucks in the country is only a small begining of the impact that this industry will feel.



How much of this has been on the mainstream news? There is allot happening that does pertain to our everyday lifes.

 

Thats right Since it is from the Summit of the Americas, OAS, SPP and the NASCO (mainly from the government) website with links for people to find out what is going on with our govenment and this Hemispheric Integration it makes it tough to just insult a commentary made by me.

Goin Fer It's Wife