Alberta Government Admits NAFTA Superhighway

Lee Rogers
Rogue Government
December 5, 2007

Alberta’s government web site admits to the existence of a NAFTA superhighway. While establishment media hacks continue to deny plans for a continental highway, it is curious that a government web site would openly admit to the existence of it. It is also curious how these liars can get away with calling presidential candidate Ron Paul a conspiracy theorist for citing readily available information. One of the driving forces behind the formation of a NAFTA superhighway is NASCO a non profit organization dedicated to expanding our current highway infrastructure so goods can be more easily traded within the coming North American Union.

What’s funny about NASCO’s web site is that they deny the existence of a continental superhighway but openly admit to it at the same time. Take for example the following taken from their myth vs fact section.

MYTH: NASCO is spearheading the creation of a NAFTA Superhighway?

FACT: Founded in 1994, NASCO is a nonprofit organization that is working to bring together the public and private sectors along a common corridor. The organization is striving to:

1) solve critical infrastructure problems in innovative ways;

2) maximize the efficient use of our existing resources;

3) better utilize critical diminishing funding for transportation infrastructure; and,

4) employ technology along our existing infrastructure to improve security.

How is it a myth if the goal of this organization is to expand and make improvements on I-35 which is referred to by the Alberta government as the NAFTA superhighway? Why is it that they have a logo that represents the flags of Mexico, Canada and the U.S.? This is a clear cut case of double think. They deny the existence of a NAFTA superhighway, but admit openly that they are doing all sorts of things to ensure that I-35 is improved upon to be used as the NAFTA superhighway.

Here they openly admit that existing highway infrastructure is to be used as the NAFTA superhighway. Below is an excerpt.

“NAFTA Superhighway” - As of late, there has been much media attention given to the “new, proposed NAFTA Superhighway”. NASCO and the cities, counties, states and provinces along our existing Interstate Highways 35/29/94 (the NASCO Corridor) have been referring to I-35 as the ‘NAFTA Superhighway’ for many years, as I-35 already carries a substantial amount of international trade with Mexico, the United States and Canada. There are no plans to build a new NAFTA Superhighway - it exists today as I-35.

The bottom line is that a NAFTA superhighway will be formed by making improvements to existing highway infrastructure. Technically, there is no new NAFTA superhighway because the NAFTA superhighway will be built around what is already there. NASCO admits this openly on their web site, and the Alberta government actually states that I-35 is the NAFTA superhighway. The continued denial of a NAFTA superhighway by establishment media hacks proves that they are not journalists, but instead are bought and paid for propagandists who are too lazy to do basic research.

Bolton Takes to Factor, Promises Neocon Objection to NIE

Kurt Nimmo TruthNews December 5, 2007

Not unlike cockroaches scurrying when a light is flipped on, the neocons are scurrying to recover from the blow delivered by the “intelligence services” after they reported there is no reason to bomb Iranian school children and grandmothers back to the Paleolithic.

Of course, the latest NIE didn’t stop Bush from characterizing Iran as an imminent threat. “Iran was, is and will be dangerous,” declared Bush. “All options are on the table,” in other words Iran may still be bombed, no matter the rationale no longer exists, not that such a thing matters to neocons, infamous for launching mass murder campaign predicated on lies and dissimulation.

But it is not simply the scheduled bombing campaign. It is the U.S.-brokered sanctions as well.

“China for one says that the new information about Iran has altered the situation. Beijing now doubts whether new sanctions against Iran are still necessary,” reports Radio Netherlands Worldwide. No doubt Russia and others will soon chime in. It looks bleak for the warmongers in Israel and the perfidious neocons.

Israel, however, continues to consider Iran a real danger. Defense Minister Ehud Barak has doubts about the judgment of the US intelligence services. Barak agrees that Iran suspended its arms program “for some time” but he thinks that “Iran is probably continuing its program of fabricating a nuclear bomb.”

Never mind Israel’s 200 or so nukes. But then the Israelis are not Persian or Arab. Israel would never nuke Tehran or Damascus at the drop of a hat, would they?

Google “Samson Option.”

“The threatening of wild, irrational violence, in response to political pressure, has been an Israeli impulse from the very earliest days,” writes David Hirst. “Israel will remain at least as likely a candidate as Iran, and a far more enduring one, for the role of ‘nuclear-crazy’ state.” In his book on the Samson Option, Seymour Hersh quotes an Israeli government official who declared: “You Americans screwed us” for not supporting Israel in its 1956 war with Egypt. “We can still remember the smell of Auschwitz and Treblinka. Next time we’ll take all of you with us.”

Nope, no crazy people here.

In order to set things back on the neocon track, former “ambassador” to the United Nation — never confirmed by Congress, probably because they realized he was insane and dangerous — John Bolton now dedicates his life to “a congressional witch-hunt into the intelligence community” in the wake of the latest NIE. In the meantime, “VoteVets is calling for an congressional investigation into the Bush administration for warning of a false Iran threat despite knowing the key findings of the NIE,” according to Think Progress.

Finally, Bolton marched out on the stage at Fox to tell fellow warmonger and psycho case Bill O’Reilly that the NIE is irrelevant. Instead, what matters is the “public judgment… namely that Iran continues to enrich uranium.” Of course it does and John knows why, although he is not telling the public — under the NPT, signed by Iran (not signed by Israel), they have all the right in the world to enrich uranium.

Bolton complains that “policy bias have crept into this so-called intelligence analysis,” a rip roaring side-splitter considering the entire invasion of Iraq and the subsequent mass murder of over a million Iraqis was predicated on neocon “policy bias,” otherwise known as lies and outrageous fabrication of the most devious and injurious sort.

In effect, Bolton is informing us that the neocons will slog through the flak created by the latest NIE and remain faithful to their mass murder agenda.

In a bit more perfect world, concerned citizens would be visiting the neocon foundations and making citizen arrests. In the far less than perfect world we now have, the neocons are allowed to get on Fox News and CNN and twist and distort and furiously attempt to get their serial murder juggernaut back on the tracks.

Dobbs And Goodman Clash During Firey Immigration Debate

CNN host slams Democracy Now anchor for implying Minutemen are responsible for killing illegal immigrants

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet
Wednesday, December 5, 2007

CNN host Lou Dobbs, who has gained widespread notoriety for his scathing condemnation of the Bush administration's open border policy and the push for a North American Union, slammed Amy Goodman during an immigration debate on Democracy Now yesterday for implying that the Minutemen are responsible for killing illegal immigrants on the border.

Dobbs and Goodman clashed numerous times during the hour long segment on a whole host of issues, notably when Goodman attempted to smear Dobbs by linking him with individuals that the Southern Poverty Law Center and the ADL castigated as belonging to hate groups. Dobbs responded by pointing out that the SPLC and the ADL are both advocacy groups that favor open borders.

Goodman later attempted to trip Dobbs up by playing a clip of him discussing the North American Union, an ad hominem swipe at suggesting such an agenda was non-existent. Dobbs calmly retorted by detailing the factual progression of the NAU, to which Goodman had no comeback.

The climax came at the very end when Goodman implied, with no evidence to back up such an absurd claim, that the Minutemen border patrol group were responsible for killing illegal immigrants attempting to enter America.

Dobbs slammed Goodman and asked her to cite one example of violence involving the Minutemen, to which she was mute, before asking why she was seemingly unconcerned about Mexican drug runners that shoot at and kill American border patrol agents as well as Mexican and American citizens on a routine basis.

Watch the video.

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TRANSCRIPT

AMY GOODMAN: Are you concerned with, among others, one of the founders of the Minutemen being found with a gun, patrolling the border; issues like these? This is of concern, when there are so many immigrants who are found in the desert dead, not clear why they die.

LOU DOBBS: Oh, are you implying that the Minutemen are killing them?

AMY GOODMAN: No. But just—

LOU DOBBS: Then why would you say such a thing?

AMY GOODMAN: My question is—

LOU DOBBS: That’s terrible, Amy. I mean, good Lord!

AMY GOODMAN: My question is, when—

LOU DOBBS: Let’s answer one question: has there ever been a single incident of violence recorded on the part of the Minutemen on the border?

AMY GOODMAN: I believe—wasn’t there—

LOU DOBBS: There has never been.

AMY GOODMAN: I’m not—haven’t there been cases of immigrants who come over the border, who have been chased, who have been shot at, who have been beaten?

LOU DOBBS: That would be an incident of violence. That would be an incident of violence, wouldn’t it? To my knowledge, there has never been an incident of violence on the part of the Minutemen.

AMY GOODMAN: But the idea of armed men on the border—

LOU DOBBS: Oh, come on!

AMY GOODMAN: —not authorized by the United States?

LOU DOBBS: Does it bother you that there are armed drug cartel members firing on law enforcement officers on the border, killing Mexican citizens, US citizens?

JUAN GONZALEZ: Absolutely.

LOU DOBBS: Does any of this bother you?

JUAN GONZALEZ: Absolutely does, yes.

LOU DOBBS: I would hope to heck it bothers you. Why would the Minutemen even be under discussion by comparison to that issue?

Parts 1-6 of the debate are embedded below.

COMMENT

Democracy Now often promotes the concept of free speech. I have watched numerous shows regarding this issue on the site. Yet when it comes to a dissenting political view Democracy now is all to ready to jump the gun and give it derogatory labels in an attempt at censorship.

Democracy Now apparently stands for control of speech, more then free speech. Control of those that would offer the dissenting view. If this is what democracy has become, I want no part of it. Remember the concept, I may not agree with you, but I will support your right? Where did that idea of free speech go?

Amy Goodman should be so critical of her own shows. A recent show had a guest from Southern Poverty Law Center on along with Lou Dobbs. While criticizing Lou Dobbs, Amy failed to note that SPLC has the actions of the two border partrol agents Ramos and Compean as an example of a hate crime.

Ramos and Compen shot a Mexican native transporting large quanities of illicit drugs into the U.S. They were convicted of crimes regarding the shooting and given prison terms. Members of both sides of the aisle in Congress has asked Bush to pardon them. A court has said the case went to far. Yet SPLC blames the out cry against the injustice on "right wing misinformation campaign".

The case is available on the internet, and most readers find it a miscarrige of justice rather then a 'hate crime'. Most do not take the time to read it.

Further cases of SPLC's unjustified labeling exist.

Iris scans let law enforcement keep eye on criminals

Wendy Koch
USA Today
Wednesday, December 5, 2007

A growing number of sheriff's departments are using iris scans to identify sex offenders, runaways, abducted children and wandering Alzheimer's patients.

More than 2,100 departments in 27 states are taking digital pictures of eyes and storing the information in databases that can be searched later to identify a missing person or someone who uses a fake name, says Sean Mullin, president of BI{+2} Technologies, which sells the devices.

"It's evolving quickly," he says. Most of the sheriffs are doing voluntary iris scans of senior citizens and children.

At least 10 metro areas are doing scans of criminals to identify them should another crime occur or to be sure the right inmate is released.

"This is the wave of the future. This will become as common as fingerprinting," says Sheriff Greg Solano of Santa Fe County, N.M. Last month, his department began scanning the irises of convicted sex offenders. He says the level of detail and central database can make matches within seconds, compared with weeks for fingerprints and months for DNA.

Iris recognition technology has been used by airports to expedite security checks of low-risk travelers and by the government to track possible terrorists. When a patent expired last year, other companies rushed in to expand its uses.

The widening use of iris recognition concerns privacy advocates. Some advocates for children say it could give parents a false sense of security.

"It's part of the growing surveillance society. We're going to be identified and tracked everywhere we go," says Barry Steinhardt, technology program director at the American Civil Liberties Union.

FULL STORY: CLICK HERE

Italy politician urges Nazi policies for immigrants

Philip Pullella
Reuters
Wednesday, December 5, 2007

ROME (Reuters) - A local politician has shocked Italians, and Jews in particular, by proposing that immigrants be treated with the same severity the Nazis used when they occupied the country.

Giorgio Bettio, a city councilor in the northern city of Treviso, said during a council meeting earlier this week: "With immigrants, we should use the same system the SS used, punish 10 of them for every slight against one of our citizens."

His comments revived memories of the 1944 Ardeatine Caves massacre, when Hitler ordered that 10 Italians be executed for each of the 33 German soldiers killed in a partisan attack against occupying forces on a Rome street.

mmigration has been a burning issue in the rich northern Veneto region where Treviso is located. Tensions have flared regularly between residents and immigrants, some of them seeking work in the area's factories and fields.

Bettio, a member of the anti-immigrant Northern League, was roundly condemned by politicians and editorialists.

"Even if he was drunk or his brain short-circuited ... he must be condemned without appeal," Il Giornale, a conservative newspaper which normally supports the Northern League, said in a front-page editorial on Wednesday.

Bettio told Reuters by telephone that he was "agitated and mad" when he made the remarks because an Asian immigrant had threatened his mother.

"I certainly made a mistake in citing the SS," Bettio said, adding that he believed "the whole thing has been blown out of proportion" by national politicians and the media.

Riccardo Pacifici, a leader of Rome's Jewish community, which lost some 75 members in the 1944 massacre, said Bettio should resign. "It's one thing to call for immigration controls ... but this is intolerable, truly squalid," he told Reuters.

While parliamentarians accused Bettio of fomenting racism and asked that the government formally censure him, the episode again put the spotlight on Italy's immigration problems.

Many Italians, worried by rises in crime rates and unemployment, have called for crackdowns on immigrants.

Social Affairs Minister Paolo Ferrero said the Northern League was using immigrants as scapegoats for social problems "just as the Nazis used Jews as scapegoats for all the social problems of their era".

FULL STORY: CLICK HERE

Texas To Track Emergency Evacuees Using RFID

Ann Shibler
JBS
Wednesday December 5, 2007

The Texas Governor's Division of Emergency Management (GDEM) announced a contract with AT&T to build the Texas Special Needs Evacuation Tracking System. The system will use a variety of radio-frequency identification (RFID), wireless and mobile data technologies to continuously monitor and track all evacuees.

Follow this link to the original source: "AT&T To Deliver Country's First Statewide Citizen-Evacuation Management System"

"Oh, grandmother, what big ears you have!" said Little Red Riding Hood.

"The better to hear you with, my child," replied the Big Bad Wolf.

"But, grandmother, what big eyes you have!" she exclaimed.

"The better to see you with, my dear," he responded.

"But, grandmother, what large hands you have!"

"The better to hug you with."

"Oh, but, grandmother, what a terrible big mouth you have!"

"The better to eat you with, my dear!"

Reminiscent of the Big Bad Wolf in the Brothers Grimm's Little Red Riding Hood, comes this newest trick from the Texas Governor's Division of Emergency Management (GDEM). AT&T is going to furnish the wireless network and hardware support for the new emergency tracking system that will, according to AT&T, "provide real-time information on evacuees," in order to "better support the evacuees and their families during a crisis."

The tracking system was developed and tested in 2006 and 2007 in simulations. It is supposed to help "safely" (an all-encompassing term of fake compassion and concern) evacuate citizens in the event of man-made or natural disasters. Citizens are to present themselves at a registration site and don a radio-frequency identification (RFID) wristband. The wristband is to be scanned by a wireless device when citizens calmly board state-contracted buses to be sent to locations decided by the state. The bus itself will be equipped with a GPS system so that it, too, along with all the passengers can be monitored and tracked.

At destination's end, the system will "update evacuee profiles and provide real-time information." We are told that this is for the express purpose of enabling state employees to "respond to inquiries from the public about the safety of evacuated family members and to reunite families that have been separated during a large-scale disaster." But what does the phrase "update evacuee profiles," mean exactly?

Jack Colley, chief of the Texas Governor's Division of Emergency Management said, "We wanted to enhance our existing emergency evacuation planning strategy with a new system for tracking and locating evacuees," which is probably a pretty truthful statement. In keeping with the ever-present "safety" concerns Colley continued: "We are confident that the statewide emergency-evacuation tracking system will not only help save lives and effectively ascertain the location of the displaced citizens … The RFID solution will improve the GDEM's command and control management of large-scale disasters."

Nowhere in any of the information on the nascent system provided by GDEM is the question of citizens' rights addressed. As we saw in the Katrina tragedy in New Orleans, citizens were summarily stripped of their rights in the wake of the disaster. Guns were confiscated, contrary to the Second Amendment. Subsequently, people gathered in the Superdome and elsewhere were prevented from leaving while, conversely, help from the Salvation Army and others was prevented from reaching those in need. It is this sort of statist incompetence and authoritarian heartlessness that makes one wonder what the GDEM's new tracking system will really be used for. Additional "command and control" measures would only serve, most likely, as a further means of controlling victims, rather than as a means for helping disaster victims.

AT&T — in conjunction with other assorted tech companies they are partnering with — is only too happy to further police state tactics with their project management, engineering, staging and technical information, and products. Chris Hill, vice president of government solutions for AT&T's wireless unit said, "The statewide emergency-evacuation tracking system is an innovative new custom solution that enhances our already robust portfolio of mobility solutions." Used by AT&T in their press release a couple of times, the phrase "mobility solutions" seems to mean moving people while under constant surveillance. Apparently anything is permissible in order to turn a profit these days.

The moral of this tale is: "Beware of the big bad wolf."