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Superhighway to Turn Nation Inside-Out
Excellent excellent news coming in from the Scotsman recently about a plan in the US to create a ten-lane superhighway that bisects the country:
A MASSIVE road four football fields wide and running from Mexico to Canada through the heartland of the United States is being proposed amid controversy over security and the damage to the environment.
The “nation’s most modern roadway”, proposed between Laredo in Texas and Duluth, Minnesota, along Interstate 35, would allow the US to bypass the west coast ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach to import goods from China and the Far East into the heart of middle America via Mexico, saving both cost and time.
Not surprisingly, this is one of those things that seems to be bigger news outside of the US than inside it. This part is also great, that they openly admit they are trying to smash the power of two labor unions:
According to a weekly Conservative magazine published in the US, the US administration is “quietly yet systematically” planning the massive highway, citing as a benefit that it would negate the power of two unions, the Longshoremen and Teamsters.
Apparently there will also be a “SmartPort” in Kansas City, Okahoma which will act as a distribution hub to sort out where all these cheap goods need to get sent to. Check out the KC SmartPort corporate website which is already “fully operational.” Integral to this whole system will also be RFID tracking technology - WAHOOO!! And best yet, work on this Trans-Texas Corridor is set to begin as soon as next year.
I’m also seeing mention of a group called NASCO (short for North America SuperCorridor Coalition Inc)which has been given the responsibility of studying this proposal. You can view their website here which calls this project the NASCO International Mid-Continent Trade And Transportation Corridor. (Notice how the map of the proposed system has a strange mystical light spreading outward from the center like God’s grace moving upon the face of the nation!)
Tiffany Melvin, a NASCO employee is also oddly quoted in that article as saying “We get comments that we are working to bring in terrorists and drug dealers, but this is simply not true.” It’s odd because who exactly is making these comments - because nobody here in the US seems to even know about this project? And why on earth would anybody think that the United States has a vested interest in importing drugs and violence? I mean, huh, that’s just crazy!
What nobody mentions in this article though are the political and economic implications of such a bold plan. What are they, you ask? Well, they would simply turn the United States inside-out! Remember all those pesky “blue” states that didn’t vote for Bush? Well fuck em, because we’ll just cut em out of the loop. We’ll kill their international shipping business by simply circumventing them. We’ll pull money and business away from the annoyingly liberal coast lines in towards the center of the nation, the Heartland, where people actually LOVE this country and HATE terrorists and everything else we tell them to hate. Kansas will become the new Metropolis (hey, wait!) and the outlying limbs of the United States will be left to wither and die as the oceans rise and Microsoft’s robots begin patrolling the earth, while UAV’s patrol the skies and Sony churns out mind control technology to keep everybody pleasantly ensconced in a totally controlled consensus reality.
God, the future’s so bright, you really *do* have to wear shades!
PS. For an extra kick in the pants, scroll down to comment number 6 by “Rod” from Canada describing some sort of plan to create a trilaterl North American Union, named the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America, or SPP for short (check out SPP.gov). Who needs the USA, Canada and Mexico when you have the the SPP and the North American Union! New World Order here we come! w00t!
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June 21st, 2006 at 6:35 pm
A quick correction: Kansas City straddles the Missouri/Kansas line, in north Missouri. I’ve been watching this story, since I live in KC (the NSA can geolocate my ip anyway, right
)
It is certainly interesting to me to see the massive underground storage, the airport, railway convergence point, and the riverport mentioned in this context.
There is very little awareness of this issue in the city at the moment, afaics.
June 21st, 2006 at 9:39 pm
Ooh… just a few steps away from having the 3 world superpowers from1984.
Yeah, that would be fun seeing the construction on I35 near Dallas. We don’t have ENOUGH road construction going on.
June 21st, 2006 at 10:21 pm
“With this question of doing”(G.emphasized the word),”yet another thing is connected.It always seems to people that others invariably do things wrongly,not in the way they should be done.Everybody always thinks he could do it better.They do not understand,and do not want to understand,that what is being done,and particularly what has already been done in one way,cannot be,and could not have been,done in another way.Have you noticed how everyone now is talking about the war?Everyone has his own plan,his own theory.Everyone finds that nothing is being done in the way it ought to be done.Actually everything is being done in the only way it can be done.If one thing could be different everything could be different.And then perhaps there would have been no war.
“Try to understand what I am saying:everything is dependent on everything else, everything is connected,nothing is separate.Therefore everything is going in the only way it can go.If people were different everything would be different.They are what they are,so everything is as it is.”
–Gurdjieff from P.D. Ouspensky’s IN SEARCH OF THE MIRACULOUS
June 22nd, 2006 at 8:53 am
(i had a previous comment disappear?)
Quick correction: KC straddles the MO/KS line, with the majority of it and its suburbs are in north MO.
I live there, so it surprises me to see this here! Alex Jones has been talking about these panamerican plans for years, I’m frankly surprised to see something actually happening.
June 22nd, 2006 at 5:34 pm
the qoute from ouspensky is particularly pertinent in such hyper-politicised times where people need to blame someone for all the shit flying around…….yet they fail to see the similar amount of sheer beauty and perfection occuring around them.
June 22nd, 2006 at 5:55 pm
My dear Tim,
I am amazed by your post - but by your “subtle” xenophobia?
“… why on earth would anybody think that the United States has a vested interest in importing drugs and violence? I mean, huh, that’s just crazy!”
Do you mean that Canadians and Mexicans are going to be the ones to deliver drugs ans violence to the US??
“…Who needs the USA, Canada and Mexico when you have the the SPP and the North American Union!…”
My dear Tim, the US says dont want Mexicans doing the work Americans dont want, but - differently to the EU, that finances the development of the poor European countries, like Portugal and Greece - the White House just says to Mexico: drop dead! Why not to give a chance to a kind of “North American Union”? But the US goverment just wants free trade but not share the responsabilities of being the superpower neighbor: give me your oil, i give you my toxic waste.
Europeans are working for their union because they value peace. My question then is: what do Americans value?
Keep your smart mind, but deliver us - at least the Mexicans - from your “patriot” cynicism please….
June 22nd, 2006 at 11:06 pm
Alfredo, I think you may have misinterpreted my sarcasm. I am quite the opposite of xenophobic. I in fact do believe that the US government itself is behind both the importation of drugs and terrorism in the United States. I don’t however believe that it is Mexicans or Canadians doing that work for them.
Further, you asked me:
But you answered your own question already by saying:
That’s exactly what’s wrong with the way that the US government is approaching this. They want to just take advantage of everyone as cheaply as possible and crap on everybody. You show me a North American Union that doesn’t do that and I will be happy to hear it.
June 22nd, 2006 at 11:13 pm
PS. I posted a halfway tongue-in-cheek piece about this on ConspiracyFic:
http://www.conspiracyfiction.com/17/decoding-the-republican-party-logo
June 23rd, 2006 at 3:09 am
I just got home from work. It’s 4 am. I have to be in in five hours. And I come home to this. Thanks, Tim. I’m feeling fragile as it is. I honestly want to cry about it. It’s hard to feel the battle hasn’t already been lost. fuck. good night, and best wishes in a dismal world.
June 23rd, 2006 at 10:54 pm
If they build the thing, it could create a golden opportunity to bring on a new mass protest movement. Show up in wave after wave, up and down the line, blockade traffic, shut down the flow of goods, make ‘em mow everybody down, or fill up the jails, if that’s what they want to do. People are going to have to go into the streets over something at some point, if they actually want to stop the giant rolling boulder of globalization and bring on a meaningful change in direction…why not target the World’s Biggest Street, it seems like the perfect choice.
July 27th, 2006 at 7:00 pm
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