The Fact-Checker, by Michael Dobbs

Technically, if what they are said is based on truth (improvement of certain interstate highways), even if grossly exaggerated, shouldn't it get 2 Pinnochios? I quote: "Significant omissions and/or exaggerations. Some factual error may be involved but not necessarily."

Isn't this politics as usual? Politicians taking something trival and mundane (highway repairs and improvements), inflating it into an issue of national importance (immigrant smuggling, terrorism, and a tripartate commission), and wasting time, energy, and money on a "solution" to the issue of national importance, while the real issues -- social security/medicare/medicaid, the economy, security at ports -- go unaddressed? Much easier to address imaginary issues, I guess.

To paraphrase a famous neo-con phenomenologist, the absence of evidence does not necessarily mean the "superhighway" is evidently absent. Having just completed a loop tour of Mexico, I can tell you the infrastructure is "evidently" being completed to link the port of Lazaro Cardenas near Acapulco to the Texas border, while in southern Texas, lightly used north-south roads east of Corpus Christi are being widened and improved at a time of budget austerity: for what?

If one is an objective observer and not a left wing spinner, one could conclude in this day and age that any Mexico-to-Canada highway - super or not - would undermine US sovereignty and serve as a conduit for illegal immigrants, terrorists and illegal drugs.

It is fact that President Calderon said: "Mexico has no borders and wherever there is a Mexican, there is Mexico." Next step?

It is fact that Post Offices, public schools and private businesses, along with 2-3 million highly visible protesters, have replaced American flags with Mexican and Salvadoran flags. Next?

It is fact that members of Council LaRaza and Mecha are reconquistas and have publically sworn to reclaim US lands that belong to them. (It is not fact that their forefathers settled in Virginia or North Carolina or New York).

It is fact that the US now has thousands of 24/7 TV and radio broadcasts in Spanish, not Korean, not French, not Mandarin, just Spanish. Next step?

It is fact that corporate interests, left wing political interests and socioetnocentric interests are hell bent to allow anyone, from illegals to drug cartels to Mexican corporate exporters, free access to the United States.

It is fact that Bill Clinton issued Exec Order 13166 which required America (private and public) to begin its conversion to a bilingual culture and spend billions of Dollars on translators and printing for sake of Mexico and their socioethnocentric special interest lobby. Businesses were more than happy to comply with Bill Clinton's EO 13166 forcing Americans to Press 2 for English a it expanded their advertising market. Next step?

So, Michael Dobbs, in context of related historical and contemporary events, your denial of plans to construct a conduit is more a lie than the assertions made by Paul, Tancredo or Hunter.

Upgrades to Hwy 35 are the beginning - the first step - of a multi-Administration project....just as Clinton's NAFTA, EO-13166 and thousands of FCC licenses for Spanish only TV and radio broadcasts were first steps to forcing open borders and bilingualism and their tax debts and job losses on American citizens, a Clinton initiative carried on by Bush.

Michael - your focus is blurred - forest through the trees syndrome - biased by open border miopia.

Open your mind, not the borders.

One aspect of the matter does not define the matter, much like defining the elephant by its tail. Pinocchio also grew a tail - a Donkey's tale which wags apparent from your positions.

You can't see past your own nose Michael which, by all reasonable assumption, has grown much too long.

This is NOT an EXAGGERATION!!! Several RESPECTED experts have witnessed TESTS of advanced construction eguipment that will be NEEDED to bulldoze all the guainte towns, hystoric bildings, and senior citazen apartments in the WAY! These equipmets use supersecret allays, and are being tested in UN BASES in Arizona! Don't be fueled!

The author has issues to say the least,his article is hopeless as to time frame and most everything else,The internet overflows with information as to the "trans texas corridoe" as the under construction 12 lane highway is called,,billboards in the east west construction zone brag about the benefits,aa lot of property taken by imminent domain mock the article.. It sounds a lot like the mention of a world global economy,open borders etc several tears ago,anyone saying that was a "conspiracy nut" then came clinton -bush nafta and nixons china.

Smoking gun?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Br31mdP8-Ug

I thought this whole road was done years ago.

You are incorrect.

"It is true a consortium of business interests and state governments would like to upgrade the highway system between Mexico and Canada, using existing interstates, particularly I-35 and I-29, as the basis for the network."

Those roads aren't the basis for the network, they define the corridors that they would like *new* roads to run alongside. Not all of the roads will require completely new land to build, but the whole point of the project is to remove traffic from the interstate highways they run near.

http://ttc.keeptexasmoving.com/projects/ttc35/master_development_plan.aspx

The map at the bottom of the page gives you an idea of what they're trying to do. Note that the routes for the new highways aren't I-35 itself for the most part, they run parallel to it. This directly contradicts the misleading map you used that identifies existing interstates as the highway in question. They're not.

You also don't bother to fact check the FHA spokesperson, as many of the facts you cite contradict what he's saying. The spokesperson isn't directly lying: the federal portions of the project just involve improving the parts of the existing interstates that are part of the project, but these existing interstates form a minority of the project. The new roads are being built by the state, not the federal government, and are being sold to private companies to operate as toll roads.

You also try to call into question the "four football fields" width of the highway. That width is accurate.

http://www.keeptexasmoving.com/index.php/faqs#a12

"The width will vary depending upon need. In order to minimize the impact to landowners, we are seriously examining how best to incorporate existing roads and railways. If highway, rail and utilities are located adjacent to each other, the corridor width would be 1,200 feet or less."

The highway exists, and you should update the article to reflect that fact. You should have used this opportunity to assess the validity of the candidates claims that the highway would undermine our nation's sovereignty, as I haven't heard any of them explain the logic behind that.

With the public tired of so-called "9/11 truthers" I guess the conspiracy industry needs a new boogeyman to generate web page hits and make money.

There only thing new about this is that it's gotten the attention of the rabid Paulians who only serve to make their candidate look foolish for concentrating on niche issues rather than the real crises that face the nation.

And it's not just I-35 to Canada. I-5's been done for decades. I-69 from Mexico to Canada is almost done. You can read up on it and the Trans Texas Corridor on the Houston Architecture web site: http://www.theHAIF.com

And anyone who thinks expanding imports from Mexico into the U.S. is a bad thing should put their money where their mouth is and stop shopping at Wal-Mart or any other redneck discount store that still brings in merchandise from Mexico as well as China.

With the public tired of so-called "9/11 truthers" I guess the conspiracy industry needs a new boogeyman to generate web page hits and make money.

There only thing new about this is that it's gotten the attention of the rabid Paulians who only serve to make their candidate look foolish for concentrating on niche issues rather than the real crises that face the nation.

And it's not just I-35 to Canada. I-5's been done for decades. I-69 from Mexico to Canada is almost done. You can read up on it and the Trans Texas Corridor on the Houston Architecture web site: http://www.theHAIF.com

And anyone who thinks expanding imports from Mexico into the U.S. is a bad thing should put their money where their mouth is and stop shopping at Wal-Mart or any other redneck discount store that still brings in merchandise from Mexico as well as China.

A fine column.

We need more conspiracies to take hold in this area, so that DC area residents can drive to their DC area jobs and otherwise go about their lives with minimal traffic delays.

Facilitating the flow of drugs and immigrants??? What a specious argument. Every U.S. city and many small towns are already overflowing with drugs, illegal and legal. The same is true for immigrants. It is highly doubtful that one road, 6-lane or 12-lane, is going to impact this situation one way or the other. The demand for drugs and cheap labor assures the supply will never wane no matter what actions are taken by government. U.S. manufacturing jobs will continue to vanish, because U.S. firms are closing domestic factories at an ever-increasing rate to take advantage of slave-labor rates in China, Mexico, and ... The U.S. consumer demand for lower prices and equity investors demands for returns are the causes.

While I'm waiting for this huge highway to be built, where can I get a moose taco?

Me, too! I want a moose taco!

I used to live in Iowa, and the Des Moines-to-Austin commute is a seriously dull drive. I'd think some lost hockey players and dudes walking around with machine gun filled guitar cases like Antonio Banderas would really spice things up.

And I guess the Kansas City Smart Port is a fallacy too?

http://www.kcsmartport.com

And the Security and Prosperity Partnership?

http://www.spp.gov

Anyone who is against this idea should stop shopping at Walmart and Target, stop buying goods made in China and Mexico, and stop electing corporate stooge Republicans. If you don't than all this verbal diarrhea is worthless...

Whats that strange North American Seal on the backs on North Carolina drivers licenses?

Google it....

Nice post Natrius. As Tim Johnson mentioned people may also want to visit the US Dept. of Commerce website for the Security and Prosperity Project at www.spp.gov. I would advise the Paul and Hunter campaigns to issue a FOIA request to Commerce regarding the SPP. True, the highways already exist, but as other posters mention, there is a private, business led push to expand on these, if not replace them. Who is the SPP? Good question. What we do know is it is composed of governments and business groups meeting w/o public interest group, labor, or environmental input. Think Cheney Energy Task Force. Sounds like a conspiracy? Maybe b/c it could be. In any event, worth looking into the SPP.

I think any Mexicans or Canadians who want Kansas City are welcome to it.

Its not the superhighway, stupid.

Its the North American Union. Once the Repukes crash the dollar and sink our economy, the US will be bailed out by Mexico and Canada and become part of the NAU.

The dollar will be replaced with the Amero.

I used to laugh at this stuff, but after 7 years of the Chimpy Regime wrecking America, I wouldn't be surprised anymore.

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With all this talk about creating "superhighways" between Mexico and Canada, I'm surprised no one's taken a look at the highways built to accommodate invasive species from the Atlantic to infiltrate the heartland and, sooner or later, the Pacific.

Take a look at this map for just one example of what I'm talking about:

http://tinyurl.com/2o6aya

The highway is already there folks, making it wider won't do anything but help move traffic faster.

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Oh, sure. And how much is the Trilateral Commission paying you to convince us that the NAFTA highway is all a product of Lou Dobbs' fevered imagination? Hmmmm?

Michael Dobbs: You think I am going to believe a WaPo reporter instead of actual elected government officials? You are calling quite a few respectable people liars.

I submit that the strong denials of this Nafta Superhighway (or whatever its called now) provides further of the existence of this project.

I also submit that the Media is owned by the same huge corporate interests that ae trying to form this plan, and the NAU.

I researched this highway last year and found plenty of documented evidence, maybe you should do some THOUROUGH UNBIASED research and report back when you are more informed.

What's wrong with better infrastructure through Mexico to the US? If you want the quickest way of reducing the number of illegals coming to the US - increase jobs and wages in Mexico.

And this talk of political union with Mexico and Canada, wouldn't Canada and Mexico want to join with us? And wouldn't the US people have just a little say in this?

Think about the improvements that have been made in our living standards over the past 20 years, very little of that would have been possible without an increase in global trade.

I'm a Ron Paul supporter who could care less about any superhighway.

But the Congressman ain't makin' this stuff up!

As another poster here wrote, please view this video on YouTube!

here's the video link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Br31mdP8-Ug

hey while you're reviewing the debate, could you please write up fred thompson for his blatant social security lies:

"In 2017, Social Security will be in the red. Pretty soon it'll be out of money, it'll go bankrupt."

in fact, SS is not projected to go "in the red" until 2042 (bush appointed trustees' estimate) or 2052 (non-partisan CBO estimate).

also, there is no projection which shows SS ever running "out of money" or going "bankrupt." the only way SS could run "out of money" is for the entire working age population of the USA to suddenly die off.

Michael Dobbs is just playing word games. There's something in the planning that looks like it could be the NSH, but as long as it's not called by that name it's just an "urban legend". And, it's certainly interesting how all these supposed debunking articles take the word of administration officials as fact.

I collect articles relating to the wider issue here:

http://lonewacko.com/blog/archives/nau-digest.html

That includes VicenteFox promoting a NAU at least three times, Mexico wanting to extend the TTC south to their port, and more, including even a Ruuudy link. Whatever the reasons for this article, I won't put too much faith in Michael Dobbs' future posts.

If you have enough information to create a map of what was purportedly a Canada to Mexico superhighway - one that goes through Texas where Dr. Paul served 10 terms as a congressman, and several other lawmakers other than Dr. Paul have passed resolutions against such a highway - and still you say that the statement is a lie winning four Pinnochios, then it is very clear that you are biased, and people should disregard your 'column' as you are abusing the public's trust.

Can these people be that stupid? I can now understand how George W. Bush got elected... twice.

Mr. Dobbs,

Talk to Jerome Corsi. Nah, that would be doing some due diligence. Read his book.
Do SOME research. Stop this "conspiracy theory" crap. Why is the Dollar getting trashed? Why are the borders wide open? Why is Congress not being consulted about "trade agreements"? It's about sovereignty.

http://www.purdueexponent.org/?module=article&story_id=8692

You guys in the dying print media think you are ahead of the curve on stuff. You are about to get lapped.

Watching the video linked above (youtube.com/watch?v=Br31mdP8-Ug) should just about eliminate any credibility Michael Dobbs has as a "fact checker".

There's a transcript of the first part of the video here: gov.mb.ca/throne.html (that link will probably change with new speeches).

After watching the video, I'm willing to say that they've confirmed the existence of the highway.

Texas Governor Rick Perry, a dyed in the wool Republican who is *still* making Al Gore global warming jokes, has indeed championed the Trans-Texas Corridor, a toll road/rail system a quarter mile wide from the border to Oklahoma that sure looks like a Superhighway.

Rural interests are up in arms but pretty defenseless. Perry's already on a toll road building binge in partnership with a Spanish company that will continue to reap profits long after the roads are paid for.

So if Hunter, Paul et al. have a beef, they should take it to their brother Republican, Bush Lite hisself.

Next time, the NAFTA Highway questions should be posed to Mr. Giuliani:

http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/grassi/070504

Talk to Patrick Buchanan:

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PatrickJBuchanan/2006/08/29/the_nafta_super_highway

You're so much smarter than Congress, Mr. Dobbs:

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=51730

official link to Trans-Texas Corridor:

http://www.keeptexasmoving.com/

official link to TTC opponents:

http://www.corridorwatch.org/ttc/index.htm

FACT CHECKER YOU ARE SO WRONG. THERE IS AND HAS BEEN FOR QUITE SOME TIME PLANS FOR A SUPER HIGHWAY. mY HUSBAND WORKS FOR A MAJOR ENGINEERING FIRM THAT DOES ONLY WORK FOR STATE AND FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AND THEY HAVE BEEN CONTACTED TO DO THE JOB. i ASKED HIM ABOUT IT HE SAID IT WAS NO JOKE. IT'S REAL.

yOU ARE DOING A MISERABLE JOB AND NEED A FACT CHECKER YOURSELF. yOUR NOT LOOKING IN THE RIGHT PLACE. FOR ONE, READ jIM CORSI'S BOOK "THE LAST GREAT USA". i HAVE READ IT. fURTHER, THE SUPERHIGHWAY IS PART OF THE nORTH AMERICAN UNION. PLEASE DO YOUR HOMEWORK BEFORE YOU CALL SOMEONE ELSE A LIAR. YOUR WRONG AND SHOULD BE FIRED FOR SUCH A BLATANT LIE WHEN YOU ACTUALLY KNOW NOTHING ABOUT IT YOURSELF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

fURTHER -REGARDING THE nafta SUPERHIGHWAY, CHINA IS GOING TO BE RESPONSIBLE FOR COLLECTING THE TOLLS FOR ITS UPKEEP. SO PUT THAT IN YOUR PIPE AND SMOKE IT.yOU SURE MUST BE SMOKING SOMETHING.

OK, Factchecker, do some more research, as indicated above, and your NAFTA Highway will be as real as the nose on your face!

Posted by: CT | December 3, 2007 10:30 AM:
While I'm waiting for this huge highway to be built, where can I get a moose taco?

Steinbach, Manitoba - lots of Mexican Mennonites moved there over the last few years.

The idea that connecting the rail port at Churchill - which shipped out all of 1 (one) vessel of goods this year but connects to the artic via rail is a massive conspiracy is a joke, it's more like the civic leaders of Winnipeg (and the places on down the line) trying to recapture the "Chicago of the North" image they lost as a major rail center once the Panama Canal opened. The same rhetoric has been pushed on the wpg intl. airport for years (and does the KC intl. airport have any flights that actually leave the country before touching down somewhere else first?)

What about the St. Lawrence Seaway? Beware, Duluth may be about to ship more folk singers to Greenwich Village, the last one is about used up.

Sheesh.

FYI for the Fact Checker:

Laredo is in the U.S., not Mexico (2nd paragraph).

You might try Nuevo Laredo.

Your are so wrong. There is going to be a 12 lane superhighway. Guest what? Giuliani's firm is involved in it. Anderson Cooper should have asked Rudy that question. Why didn't he. I am now c onvinced, the questions asked were designed to protect some, while discrediting others. what a sham. This is the website set up to help contractors and INVESTORS of the superhighway.
http://www.kcsmartport.com/

Please America is tired of the bs and lies. We are wising up and on to all of the media. It won't work anymore.

Why don't you do something constructive and check out the widespread tyranny at the the Florida and Texas polls perpetrated by the Romney Camp. BLANTANTLY! PROOF IS ALL OVER THE INTERNET BLOGS AND VIDEO TAPED. CLINTON AND ROMNEY CAMPS ARE LOSING GROUND BECAUSE WORD OF THEIR CORRUPTION IS GETTING OUT.

go take a break. This is not the first time you have been wrong. you should be fired!

No kidding, Gooch.

There are none so blind as those who would not see. Take back those four pinocchios and apologize for your gullibility. Check into the activities of Citibank/Banamex on Oct.17,2007 when this nation's Citibank bought Mexico's largest airline. It is the intention of unelected billionaires to meld together Mexico and the United States, and gain an even larger, easily manipulated class of cheap labor. It is a threat to our sovernity,with the goal of building untold wealth (soley for themselves) through trade. Two social classes, rich and poor, suits the rich boys just fine. No middle class necessary.

Who has the longer nose? George W. Bush and Dick Cheney who MANIPULATED the American people to go to war with Iraq, who had the nerve to make jokes about those weapons of mass destruction that has lead to the death of thousands of Americans... or Ron Paul who has been looking out for the American people's civil liberties not to mention OUR MONEY?

Fact Checker, why aren't you blogging about something a little more significant? You are offending not only my intelligence, but that of the American people.

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This author is an idiot.
I live in Canada and the issue is being debated here as a reality not as some twisted fiction

http://video.canada.com/Global_VideoContentHTML.aspx?fl=1

why not also see the youtube clip where our Manitoba premiere discussed this as a matter of fact rahter than fiction?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Br31mdP8-Ug

You paranoid Yanks are a real treat. It would be absolutely hilarious if it weren't so sad.

Only you guys could turn the widening of a highway--a HIGHWAY, guys!--into a conspiracy to destroy the United States with illegal immigrants and drugs. Oddly enough, said immigrants and said drugs have managed to find their way into your country without the aid of a massive highway project. Roads are not your problem. Addictions to cheap labour and cheap drugs are your problems. Those addictions will be there, highway or no damned highway.

And, by the way, every country in the developed world has to deal with illegal immigration, drug addiction, and challenges to sovereignty. Only you Americans turn it into a massive "the world is out to destroy us" conspiracy. Give it a rest, fellas. Your country (like all countries) has real problems, but you choose to waste your time and energy on fake problems like this. You are your own worst enemies.

ummmmm, yea.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Br31mdP8-Ug

Mike Dobbs is a d-bag for focusing on this issue... just like CNN/Youtube showed their d-bag colors by airing that Superhighway question at the debate instead of something more substantial.

Hey D-bag Dobbs, how about putting some REAL issues under the microscope like our welfare/warfare economy and how we sell debt to China and other foreigners just to keep our leviathan nanny-state FedGov running daily? How about focusing on the Dems and their promises at every debate to provide everything to every person based on Marxist equal outcome, as opposed to equal opportunity?

VOTE RON PAUL, so we can find out the real truth. Do your own research first!!

Notice that the author wrote "Paul warns":
"Proponents envision a ten-lane colossus the width of several football fields, with freight and rail lines, fiber-optic cable lines, and oil and natural gas pipelines running alongside. This will require coordinated federal and state eminent domain actions on an unprecedented scale, as literally millions of people and businesses could be displaced. The loss of whole communities is almost certain, as planners cannot wind the highway around every quaint town, historic building, or senior citizen apartment for thousands of miles."

Let's see: Because he doesn't want Federal MONEY used to be spent on something of questionable benefit, and he described what "proponents" believe, you call him a liar? That doesn't make him a liar!
He is, simply put, principled by the Constitution.

Although, that you used the word "warns", might make you a liar, because I think it should be "informs". Folks can be their own judge without misinformation spread by you and your Newsweek cohorts.

http://www.house.gov/paul/tst/tst2006/tst103006.htm

Your reports are false and it shows the typical integrity of work you have to show. Nice reporting as usual in the falsehoods of bs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Br31mdP8-Ug

Jesus, I usually post to Redskins Insider.

I was taking a little grown-up break here to find some heavier lifting on another WaPo blog.

Um, not here, not now.

The Dobbs piece is great. Four Pinocchios sounds on the mark.

But geez, the posters--who are these morons?

Seriously, Mr. Dobbs, does this happen to your entries often, or is this superhighway a pet topic of the loonies?

Oh, and you loonies: Um, sorry to call you "loonies"--but hey, no worries. I'm sure my sputtering amazement won't leave a mark on you. Carry on. No doubt there are more websites with "secret" maps to scout out, and officials who've spoken about enhancing transportation infrastructure. The devils.

TRUTH IS STRANGER THAN FICTION!

THIS CANADIAN GOVERNMENT WEBSITE EVEN CALLS IT THE NAFTA SUPERHIGHWAY!

http://www.infratrans.gov.ab.ca/INFTRA_Content/docType56/Production/pol306.htm

The Bush already signed something that allows 100 mexican trucking companies free reigh in the us. If you dont think that the mexican and canadian borders will have a fast pass (like they already do) so that truckers can pass with no search....

dont be fools. All of these lead to somewhere and it is the globalist ideals.

Do go to the above gov.ab.ca link. Alberta Canada's infrastructure page on highways. Note the name of the I35-I29 link. Oh and the page is about expanding and improving the infrastructure - multi trailer trucks and heavier payloads.

I think what Michael Dobbs is discounting is the idea that this highway is some monstrosity that will take out whole towns as the first step for a North American Union. We are talking about a highway that will hopefully bring more commerce between the three countries.
Closer cooperation between the U.S.A., Canada and Mexico is a good thing. Canada has been a good friend to the U.S. for over a hundred years and Mexico needs to be closer.
People are always so worried about the U.S. losing our sovereignty. This is a road. What's more if it were to develop into anything more the U.S. would definitely take the lead. A stronger Mexican economy would mean less people wanting to come into the U.S. illegally and we already have stronger ties with Canada than any other country. People need to get off the conspiracy bandwagon. Besides, The world is a more dangerous place and a more united North America, under U.S. leadership would not be a bad thing.

This is about free trade, which is something that I thought that Americans were in favour of. I live in WInnipeg and our lousy highways are a problem for truckers who bring goods in and out of province. The idea is to make it easy for manufacturers and producers in the midwest to ship their products to ports other than Seattle, L.A. or the St. Laurence Seaway. You can ship it north to Canada and then through the Arctic Ocean to new markets in Asia, including China and Russia.

All of the things mentioned - including pipelines, better transportation infrastructure and a fibre optic network - would enhance services to communities and improve access to foreign markets.

It is a "Trade Corridor" not a plan to join the U.S., Canada and Mexico. Canadians don't want to be Americans, nor do we like having our public policy dictated to us. But that is not what is happening.

So, no retraction from the fact checker?
No clarification from the fact checker?
Just move along, nothing to see here?

http://www.infratrans.gov.ab.ca/2760.htm

Canadian Gov Site naming highways.

Is the "NAFTA Superhighway a myth?

1. Go to the Indiana DOT website
http://www.in.gov/indot/

2. Click on "Projects/Studies"
http://www.in.gov/indot/2353.htm

3. Open the file "Document 2" under "I-70 Dedicated truck lanes..."
http://www.in.gov/indot/files/I-70CorridorsOfTheFuture2of4.pdf

Look up the word "NAFTA" by clicking on the PDF search button (the binoculars)

Here's one place in the document where it appears:

"I-69 is the nafta highway..."

Woah, Paul, Hunter and Tancredo are complete idiots? Who knew!?

Question: Bush and Cheney are big on fighting terrorism and the war on drugs, right? Well how come they have done nothing to secure our borders? Mexico is the biggest supplier of drugs to the U.S. and millions of drug smugglers and criminals cross the border unchecked. Our prisons are overcrowded with drug users and we spend billions to lock them up. We also spend billions "fighting terrorism". Wouldn't it be cheaper and safer to put troops and a fence on the border? It is obvious that there is a political agenda to keep our borders open, superhighway or not.

If you lived on the route of the planned NAFTA super Highway, like I do. You'd know it is no myth. This is a project that is well under way. Check out the Inland ports and the Texas highway plans. The NAFTA highway is a reality no matter what detractors want to call it.

That video is a CLINCHER - the opening speech of the Manitoba parliament confirms the planning of the corridor. Watch it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Br31mdP8-Ug

What a bunch of nutjobs!

Merry Christmas, trufers!

Federal Legislation Overview
For over ten years, NASCO has been developing a strong coalition of cities, counties, states, Canadian provinces, and private sector companies to lobby for federal funding and promote a "SuperCorridor" to address the transportation, trade and security needs from Canada, the United States and Mexico.
We have assisted in the lobbying effort to bring hundreds of millions of dollars to the NASCO I-35 Corridor, resulting in High Priority Corridor status for I-35 in 1995 under the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (ISTEA). In addition, we successfully assisted in lobbying for the creation of two new categories under the Transportation Act of the 21st Century (TEA-21) - the National Corridor Planning & Development Program and the Coordinated Border Infrastructure Program.
NASCO also successfully lobbied to take the Highway Trust fund "off-budget" which resulted in increased transportation formula funding for NASCO's corridor states.
NASCO has received $2.5 million in Congressional funding from the United States Department of Transportation (USDOT) for the development of a technology and tracking project. The project will have a team approach, using members of NASCO as the primary participants in the project, to the extent possible. NASCO believes the deployment of a modern information system will reduce the cost, improve the efficiency, reduce trade-related congestion, and enhance security of cross-border and corridor information, trade and traffic.
The NASCO "SuperCorridor Caucus" was formed on Capitol Hill to promote corridor development and to help secure NASCO legislative initiatives in both the authorization and appropriation processes.
We continue to be recognized as the strongest International Trade Corridor Coalition on Capitol Hill, and we are the only Corridor Coalition with true international representation from Canada, the United States and Mexico.

Federal Legislation Overview

For over ten years, NASCO has been developing a strong coalition of cities, counties, states, Canadian provinces, and private sector companies to lobby for federal funding and promote a "SuperCorridor" to address the transportation, trade and security needs from Canada, the United States and Mexico.

We have assisted in the lobbying effort to bring hundreds of millions of dollars to the NASCO I-35 Corridor, resulting in High Priority Corridor status for I-35 in 1995 under the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (ISTEA). In addition, we successfully assisted in lobbying for the creation of two new categories under the Transportation Act of the 21st Century (TEA-21) - the National Corridor Planning & Development Program and the Coordinated Border Infrastructure Program.

NASCO also successfully lobbied to take the Highway Trust fund "off-budget" which resulted in increased transportation formula funding for NASCO's corridor states.

NASCO has received $2.5 million in Congressional funding from the United States Department of Transportation (USDOT) for the development of a technology and tracking project. The project will have a team approach, using members of NASCO as the primary participants in the project, to the extent possible. NASCO believes the deployment of a modern information system will reduce the cost, improve the efficiency, reduce trade-related congestion, and enhance security of cross-border and corridor information, trade and traffic.

The NASCO "SuperCorridor Caucus" was formed on Capitol Hill to promote corridor development and to help secure NASCO legislative initiatives in both the authorization and appropriation processes.

We continue to be recognized as the strongest International Trade Corridor Coalition on Capitol Hill, and we are the only Corridor Coalition with true international representation from Canada, the United States and Mexico.

Reminds me of the posters on the Y2K sites in 1999. They were so amusing to read, but it was unsettling that there could be so much stupidity in the country. Glad they all found another cause to obsess over.

How come the Washington Post is suddenly acknowleding that the superhighway really exists? Perhaps anyone can google NAFTA Superhighway. Just don't call it a NAFTA Superhighway.

The most important issue, is NOT the war, NOT healthcare, NOT the economy. Wake up!

The most important issue is American Sovereignty.

RON PAUL 2008.

To learn the whole picture about integration and the globalism movement, rather than getting controlled information from a second rate newspaper site like this one (or from any other mainstream media site), read Joan Veon's material. She is an independent reporter that has been to over 80 United Nations conferences and wrote the book "Global Straight Jacket--she isn't a prostitute for the mainstream media. Thomas Jefferson said that Americans would be better off reading nothing than reading what the newspapers of his time had to offer (It's only gotten worse over the years)--garbage in, garbage out. To learn about how the media controls public opinion, read "Operation Mockingbird", where CIA operatives were placed in all of the major media outlets and publishing houses to control the information Americans were exposed to.

Why would "proposals to upgrade the U.S. interstate highway system to facilitate travel between the United States, Mexico, and Canada" include both the destruction of National Parks (The Big Thicket National Preserve) as well as the seizure of land through emminent domain? It seems odd that the Texas State Legislature would condemn something that is "largely fantasy"

Souces
Time (In partnership with CNN):
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101041206-832224,00.html
2006 Texas State Legislature:
http://www.texasgop.org/site/DocServer/2006_Plat_with_TOC_2.pdf?docID=2022

Is it wrong for Canada to trade with Mexico? How is America harmed if so-called illegal immigrants bypass the US and go straight to Canada? Are Ontario and Quebec likely to redirect all their overland trade to Mexico by way of Winnipeg, or vice versa? Is it possible that Minnesota, Texas, and states in between will use this highway that connects them, to their mutual benefit?

It's hard to imagine that traffic from Winnipeg to Fargo is going to need ten lanes.

This Ron Paul guy is so wacky he's starting to make Huckabee sound reasonable. The Republicans are starting to go the way of the Soviet Communist Party, so wrapped up in their own lies and propaganda that they don't even recognize reality anymore.

MMMMM Moose tacos sound good. Los tacos de alce suenan muy ricos, ¿no es cierto,guey?
Vilindio

building the highway would be werid and it would blow a donkey's testicle for everyone that lives in the places that the highway is goin through...