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ACTION ALERTS ! ! ! ---Key Bills in Congress
By Bill Lavigne
Nationwide protests: “March for America”
a success!
Saturday, November 17, 2007
Texas Super Corridor Rebellion
spreads to Oklahoma
Monday, October 1, 2007By Patrick M. Wood
The Trilateral Commission:
Usurping Sovereignty
Friday, August 3, 2007By Patrick M. Wood
By WorldNetDaily
North American Union 'a couple years away'
Monday, November 19, 2007By Jim Kouri
First North American Union Drivers Licenses Issued in US
Friday, September 21, 2007By Stefan Christoff
At the Gates of
Fortress North America
Saturday, September 15, 2007
Bush Refuses To Deny
The North American Agenda
Monday, September 10, 2007By Phyllis Schlafly By Vicky L. Davis
“Sustainable Development” and the Fraud of “Free Trade”
Monday, June 18, 2007By Paul Belien
Former Soviet Dissident Warns For EU Dictatorship
Monday, Febuary 27, 2006
Secret memo: One-world agenda dominates SPP summit
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
N. American integration to 'disappear' Canada?
Saturday, June 23, 2007By Jerome R. Corsi By Tom DeWeese
Progress in the fight to stop NAU and NAFTA Superhighway
Friday, May 11, 2007By Mary-Sue Haliburton
Political Tectonic Shift:
Energy Policy under the NAU
Friday, May 11, 2007By Mark Anderson
A Case for Repealing NAFTA and Blocking the NAU - DVD
A merger of the United States, Mexico, and Canada enabled through NAFTA and called the North American Union is arguably the greatest current threat to our freedoms under the U.S. Constitution. This video presents many of the reasons why the American people must take action. (2007, 36 min.)
Montana Legislature Opposes
North American UnionTuesday, March 06, 2007
The 2007 Montana Legislature recently introduced House Joint Resolution No. 25, which opposes any effort to "...implement a trinational political, governmental entity among the United States, Canada, and Mexico..." You can read it for yourself at http://data.opi.mt.gov/bills/2007/billhtml/HJ0025.htm
By Cliff Kincaid
How "North American Integration" Can Lead To a North American Union
Friday, March 9, 2007By Cliff Kincaid By Cliff Kincaid By Cliff Kincaid
North American Union
"Conspiracy" Exposed
Wednesday, February 21, 2007By Todd Dills By Catherine Whelan Costen
What is NAU and
Why Should You Care?
Monday, January 15, 2007By Bob Unruh
Residents of planned union to be 'North Americanists'
January 5, 2007By Dr. Edwin Vieira, Jr., Ph.D. By Dr. Edwin Vieira, Jr., Ph.D.
Will the North American Union be American Patriot's last stand?
Thursday, December 7, 2006By Michel Chossudovsky Canada's media elites covers up U.S.
take-over of Canadian military
Saturday, December 30, 2006By Peter Mackenzie Conservative Party linked to pro-U.S. annexation cabal
Saturday, December 30, 2006By Wes Vernon
AIM Report:
U.S. Borders:
Going-Going-Gone!
Saturday, December 22, 2006By Judi McLeod
Anti-amero coalition needs to tap Prime Minister
Steven Harper
Monday, December 18, 2006By Judi McLeod The North America Union's Mexico Connection
Wednesday, January 3, 2007By Liberty Matters Border Town Lawmaker Authors NAFTA Corridor Bill
December 8, 2006
By Judicial Watch
By Devvy Kidd By Steve Watson
Congressman: American Concentration Camps
"On The Books"
November 13, 2006By Liberty Matters
http://www.keeptexasmoving.com.By Judicial Watch
Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America
September 25, 2006By Tom DeWeese Bush Administration in Denial of
North American Union Plans
Tuesday, September 19, 2006 "The Bush Administration’s efforts to cover up the North American Union Myths, Facts -- Truth"
Monday, September 25, 2006
By William Hawkins
By CBC News Top secret: Banff security meeting
attracted U.S., Mexico officials
September 21, 2006
By Kevin Parkinson
By Dennis Behreandt By Dennis Behreandt By Dennis Behreandt By Dennis Behreandt By Phyllis Schlafly
Bush Opens Our Border To Mexican Trucks
Wednesday, March 14, 2007 What's Up To Date In Kansas City?
August 9, 2006 Shipping-Corridor Deal Cuts Heart Out of Heartland
August 7, 2006 Pursuing The Globalist Agenda By Press Release
August 2, 2006 The Plan to Integrate the U.S., Mexico and Canada
July 2005 CFR's Plan to Integrate the U.S., Mexico and Canada
July 13, 2005By muckrakerreport.com By James Plummer Are You Ready for Your North American Union ID Card?
July 17, 2006By Constance Fogal "Effect of the Bad Laws, some history, and what to do"
November 15, 2005 "Laws, Arrangements and Agreements"
November 14, 2005 "The North American Union"
November 13, 2005
By North American Forum
By Kelly Taylor A Study in North American Union
Monday, March 5, 2007 Coming Through! The NAFTA Super Highway
Monday, August 7, 2006
By Paul Joseph Watson
CFR/Bilderberg Plan To Erase US Borders Finally Gets Attention
June 21 2006By Paul Joseph Watson
Alex Jones Detained On Orders Of Bilderberg Group
June 8 2006By Laura Payton
By Christopher S. Bentley
By Dorothy Pomerantz and Evan Hessel
By Alan Burkhart
By William F. Jasper Goodbye to Independence?
February 7, 2005 A UN Pedigree, Under UN Power
February 7, 2005 On the Road to EU-style Governance
August 7, 2006
By Ricardo Castillo Mireles Across the border: NAFTA Rail finally leaves the station
June 2005
By Railway Age
By Miguel Pickard Trinational Elites Map North American Future
in "NAFTA Plus."
August 24, 2005 Grassroots Protests Force the Mexican Government
to Search for a New PPP Strategy
March 2003
23 May 2005 - Press Release
“ A North American Parliament is Born”
Montreal, May 23, 2005 – The first North American parliament will be held at the Canadian Senate on the initiative of the North American Forum on Integration (NAFI). Seventy university students from Canada, the United States and Mexico will take the political front seat and simulate a North American Parliament, which does not yet exist. From May 23 to 27, participants will recreate the intense atmosphere of negotiations proper to parliaments as legislators of a federal or federate State.
“The creation of a North American parliament, such as the one being simulated by these young people, should be considered,” declares Raymond Chrétien , the TRIUMVIRATE’s distinguished president.
Participants at this event, which is dubbed the TRIUMVIRATE , will discuss draft bills on trade corridors, immigration, NAFTA’s Chapter 11 and renewable energy. A daily newspaper, called “The TrilatHerald”, will cover the debates while lobbyists will attempt to influence the views of parliamentarians.
Ten universities will participate in this pioneer event: Carlton University, Simon Fraser University, Harvard University, American University, Université de Montréal, École nationale d’administration publique (ÉNAP), Monterrey TEC, CIDE, Monterrey University and Instituto Mexicano de la Juventud.
Many political personalities will take part in the event, including Maria Teresa de Madero, the Mexican Ambassador in Canada; Raymond Chrétien, former Ambassador to Mexico and the United States; Gilles Duceppe, leader of the Bloc Quebecois; and James Williams, United States Ambassador in Canada. Raymond Chrétien will be offering a lunch conference followed by a question period, Tuesday May 24 th at 12 pm, Senate, Central Block, Room 214 (please notify Magalie Laliberté).
Foreign Affairs Canada, the Canadian Senate, the United States Embassy, the Government of Quebec, the Government of British-Columbia, Export Development Canada, the Bloc québécois, the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and the Forum of Federations are sponsoring the event.
“ Through the TRIUMVIRATE , we would like to encourage North American youths to take action regarding the challenges faced by the partners of NAFTA and foster the creation of strong relationships among North American youths” stressedChristine Fréchette, President of the North American Forum on Integration.
NAFI was recognized as a leader in the development and consolidation of a North American partnership in the new Canadian International Policy Statement, made public by Paul Martin (p.10).
For further information:
Magalie Laliberté
Tel : Aristocrat Suite Hotel in Ottawa (613) 236-7500
Senate (613) 947-0961
Cell : (514) 708-8792
Fax : (613) 583-2836
mlaliberte@fina-nafi.org
www.fina-nafi.org
The China-Kansas Express
June,19, 2006
By: Dorothy Pomerantz and Evan Hessel
Michael Haverty believes the future of international trade hangs on a dusty Mexican port town.
You take a bumpy ride on a potholed gravel road through a fishing village to a grassy riverbank to get to the most important new shipping terminal in North America. There's nothing here yet, except birds and the blue Pacific. One mile to the south you can see the old terminal, where three cranes idly wait for a few cargo ships to pull in. It's so quiet you can hear the tilapia jumping out of the water.
But when Michael Haverty stands here, at the port of Lázaro Cárdenas in the Mexican state of Michoacán, he hears the whistle of a dozen freight trains and the throaty chorus of oceangoing container ships. He sees wharves and gantry cranes dotting 11 miles of undeveloped waterfront, and thousands of acres given over to railcars and trucks stacked high with goods from Asia.
Haverty, head of the Kansas City Southern railway, has dreamed for four years of turning the dusty town of Lázaro Cárdenas (pop. 80,000) into one of the busiest shipping terminals on the U.S. West Coast. He has spent $1.5 billion of KCS money to buy up control of a 2,600-mile artery linking the tiny port to 400 million North American consumers.
Now the dream is taking shape. In one month Hutchison Whampoa (other-otc: HUWHY.PK - news - people ), the giant port operator controlled by Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing, will break ground on a $200 million terminal that will eventually handle 2.5 million containers per year, more than the ports of Oakland or Seattle.
Haverty bore the brunt of industry scorn for his Mexican investment. It trashed KCS' balance sheet and subjected the company to four years in the byzantine Mexican legal system. The Mexican government still owns the land under KCS' rails south of the border and can revoke its concession at any time. "There were times when I had doubts, and I spent many sleepless nights," he says. "However, we are determined and we persevere."
It's likely that little Lázaro Cárdenas will reshape trade in the Pacific, and KCS has the monopoly on rail freight in and out of it. The trip to Houston is 400 miles shorter than the trip from the congested port of Long Beach, California; the trips from Lázaro Cárdenas to Chicago and Kansas City are only 200 miles longer than from Los Angeles but likely a day or so quicker. Lázaro, blessed by nature with a deepwater channel, will be able to unload the world's largest container ships at 30% of the cost of California dock operations.
Haverty's Mexico bet has made what was once a second-tier railway a valuable acquisition morsel for Burlington Northern and Union Pacific (nyse: UNP - news - people ). Its revenue ($1.5 billion) and profit ($100 million) are one-tenth those of the bigger railroads, but KCS sports a higher multiple on its earnings.
Imports from Asia are growing 18% a year, and Los Angeles and Long Beach, which handle 80% of the trade, are maxed out. Ships can spend as many as eight days in San Pedro Bay waiting to unload. Each day delayed costs retailers importing goods from Asia an extra half-percent of a product's costs, estimates Boston Consulting Group's George Stalk Jr.
"The light is finally coming to Lázaro Cárdenas," says Gonzalo Ortiz, general manager of Hutchison's Lázaro Cárdenas operation. "We can't screw this up."
The port project would have impressed Arthur Stilwell, who founded KCS in 1887 as a belt rail around Kansas City. He often spoke of taking the line all the way to the Pacific Ocean in Mexico. But his vision didn't begin to become a reality until Haverty took over as chief executive in 1995.
Haverty, 62, grew up in Atchison, Kansas, dreaming of running a railroad. Both his father and grandfather were conductors on the Missouri Pacific, and Haverty started there working summers as a brakeman after high school, climbing the ranks at the Missouri. In 1970 he went to work for the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, rising as high as president. When he was later offered the chief executive job at the smaller KCS, he took it.
Haverty arrived eager to play the massive southward shift in manufacturing activity. Mexico privatized its rail lines in 1997. Haverty jumped at the chance to bid for one of the three major concessions. He spent $300 million for 36% of the equity in a rail line running south from Laredo, Texas to Lázaro Cárdenas. His partner, a Mexican logistics company called Grupo TMM, put up $300 million for 38% of the equity. The Mexican government owned the rest. The port was an afterthought.
As part of the deals Haverty got an additional 157-mile line from Laredo to Corpus Christi, Texas and the rail bridge at the Mexican border that carries 60% of trains crossing between Mexico and the U.S. His company could now collect $11 per loaded car. Haverty helped secure use of 400 miles of Union Pacific's track, giving the company a straight shot from Lázaro Cárdenas to Kansas City. Today KCS runs 2,300 carloads a day in Mexico of everything from steel to beer. In 2005 those goods accounted for more than $540 million in revenue.
But when it first bought the company, most of the track in Mexico was outdated and in bad shape, despite heavily staffed repair crews; trains were featherbedded with manned cabooses. KCS and TMM replaced the cabooses with wayside detectors to spot overheated trains and began increasing spending on Mexican tracks from $45 million a year to a projected $100 million this year, doing things like relaying ties and mending cracked rail. KCS struggled to trim the bloated payroll. The first time Haverty went down with his chief operating officer, Arthur Shoener, to meet with national union boss Victor Flores (usually referred to as Don Victor), Flores did not take kindly to their straight-talking ways. KCS fell victim to union grumbling and a work slowdown.
After many long meals Haverty and Shoener won the unions to their side. KCS was able to cut workers per train from eight to three. But it was labor unrest in the U.S.--a walk-off in 2002 by West Coast longshoremen--that reshaped KCS' plans. Shortly before that dock strike Hutchison Port Holdings had bought the Lázaro Cárdenas concession. Haverty had worked with Hutchison in Panama, where KCS co-owns a rail line that runs along the canal. Haverty figured he could work with Hutchison to pitch shippers on an American-run, unbroken rail line from Lázaro Cárdenas to the U.S.
But first Haverty had to gain full control of the railroad. And that meant dealing with a country emerging from decades of corrupt leftist politics. When KCS won the original rail concession in the 1997 privatization, it was expected the Mexican government would refund $200 million in value-added taxes paid. After several requests for the refund were denied, the government said, You know, we never meant to give that back. So KCS sued the finance ministry in Mexican fiscal court in 1997 and won five years later--but the government appealed the decision.
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After eight years of legal conflicts, the NAFTA Railroad has finally gotten underway thanks to the consolidation of three railroad companies: Kansas City Southern (KCS), the Texas-Mexico Railway Company (Tex-Mex) and Transportacion Ferroviaria Mexicana (TFM). Together they have created an integrated intermodal corridor between the Mexican west coast port of Lazaro Cardenas and Kansas City — a corridor that directly connects Asia to the U.S. via Mexico.
A little historical perspective: This opportunity for KCS came about in 1997 when the Mexican government divested itself of TFM, awarding it to Mexico's Transportacion Maritima Mexicana (TMM), a Mexican logistics operator that fell into financial dire straits by over-bidding by some $600 million on the purchase of TFM.
KCS soon became a shareholder of TFM, infusing it with state-of-the-art technology in order to modernize the 110-year-old railroad, which had fallen into disarray under Mexican government management.
KCS and TMM formed a partnership soon after divestment, but the heads of each company — Michael Haverty of KCS and Jose Serrano of TMM — instantly began fighting over the spoils, since KCS wanted the whole cake and so did TMM. There ensued a myriad of lawsuits and appeals until a NAFTA ruling went in favor of KCS. Serrano was forced to sell since TMM could not operate the line alone.
To add insult to injury, TMM fought the Mexican internal revenue service over a $200 million value-added tax (VAT) return. The Mexican government lost the case early this year, and now it not only has to pay back the $200 million, but interest accumulated over the past seven years as well, which brings the total settlement to nearly $1 billion.
As the storm subsided, TMM sold its shares to KCS earlier this spring for approximately $600 million in cash, with $47 million more to be paid in June 2007, $18 million in KCS common stock, as well as additional payments of $110 million in cash and KCS stock due to the favorable ruling on the VAT issue.
"The sale of our stock participation at TFM opens a new door in the history of TMM," says TMM chairman Jose Serrano. "By significantly reducing our debt, we have access to working capital and growth. We believe that by carrying out this sale, Group TMM is positioned to focus on its logistics operations, improve its cash flow and operational functioning. This transaction is in the best interests of the stockholders of TMM and will insure the growth and flexibility of TMM over the long haul."
TMM now owns 22% of KCS stock while the Mexican government retains 20% in TFM operations, but not of the entire 8,500-kilometer long line. TMM does not have the right to participate in daily hands-on operations of the NAFTA Railway.
Javier Segovia, TMM's CEO, says the deal is best for both TMM and KCS, since now his company can devote itself fully to its intermodal business while "the combination of KCS and TFM creates an efficient transportation route between the U.S. and Mexico, offering an integrated railroad service."
The NAFTARailway actually has been in existence since last December, when the Mexican government permitted direct passage of containers from Pacific Rim nations to the U. S. through the ports of Lazaro Cardenas and Manzanillo. However, it wasn't until last month that KCS could claim to be majority shareholder of the company, fully in control of the operation.
On the first day of KCS control at Lazaro Cardenas the air was full of hopeful predictions and good omens stemming not just from Haverty and the new TFM manager, Vicente Corta, but from other participants as well, including the local port authority, Hutchinson Ports officials who manage container cargo at the port, and federal and state authorities.
The first load for the NAFTA Railway was not especially significant in size. Just 10 containers arrived on May 13 from Shanghai on a Maersk Sealand container ship.
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NAU-NAFTA Superhighway agenda: Manitoba Premier Gary Doer exposes NDP leader Jack Layton's campaign of mass-deception
