Archive for November, 2008
The Amero – North American Currency
Posted in NAFTA with tags NAFTA on November 28, 2008 by zion2dayLiberty Diminishes
Posted in Liberty with tags Liberty on November 17, 2008 by zion2day
That governments will over time, as they become accustomed to wielding power, forget the source from whence that power springs is an eternal truth. There can be little doubt either from the study of history or from personal experience that as government grows liberty diminishes.
This has been the history of all forms of governments, in all countries, throughout the ages.
The turning point comes when governments no longer see frontiers but empires.
This is the point at which rather than being borne by the people, governments seek to find how much the citizens may be forced to bare and fully places the utmost burden upon them.
Our Founding Fathers laid out not only a Declaration of Independence but the course of action to be taken when this government, like all governments, seeks out empire for the state rather than seeking after the welfare of its people.
“Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”
Unless redress is forthcoming, the time must unavoidably stand not to far distant when citizens shall again pledge their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor to declare independence from despotism and reclaim their liberty.
NAFTA: NASCO (North America’s Super Corridor Coalition)
Posted in NAFTA with tags NAFTA on November 1, 2008 by zion2dayNorth America’s Super Corridor Coalition
(From Wikipedia) The North American SuperCorridor Coalition is a non-profit organization that seeks to develop an international multi-modal transportation system along the International Mid-Continent Trade Corridor, which it claims will improve trade competitiveness and quality of life in North America.
Scope
NASCO’s scope encompasses Interstate highways I-35, I-29, and I-94 and the significant east/west connectors to those highways in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. The public has referred to I-35 as the “NAFTA superhighway”.
Border crossings
The project includes the largest border crossing in North America – the Ambassador Bridge in Detroit, Michigan and Windsor, Ontario – and the largest inland port, Laredo, Texas and Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, the ports of Manzanillo, Colima and Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán. It runs as far north as Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
Affiliations
NASCO now includes the former North American International Trade Corridor Partnership, a nonprofit organization in Mexico. Membership includes public and private sector entities along the corridor in all three participating countries, including the Texas Department of Transportation, who is building the Trans-Texas Corridor.
Funding
NASCO has received $2.5 million in earmarks from the United States Department of Transportation for the development of a technology and tracking tools. NASCO states that the deployment of a modern information system will reduce cost, improve efficiency, reduce trade-related congestion, and enhance security of cross-border and intra-corridor trade and traffic.
http://blogdg.ctl.ca/2008/01/nasco_north_americas_super_corridor_coalition.html