Disinformation
Because they held important positions in government the
neocons were able to promote the war in Iraq by using disinformation. They supported questionable people and groups
whose agenda was to assure U.S.
involvement in the war. One of these
unreliable neocon favorites even had the nickname “Curveball” due to his
frequent drinking and schizophrenic personality problems. It was Ahmed Chalabi who coined the “WMD’s in
Iraq phrase,” and then
planted this false information in U.S. and foreign news sources. A neocon favorite, he was placed as an
interim government administrator in Iraq. Supposedly Chalabi was in touch with the
Iraqi people. Actually he left Iraq when he was eight years old and later was
under indictment in Jordan
for fraudulent banking practices. Most of his life was spent in London and the U.S. where he schooled at MIT.
There were so many other instances of using faulty information but we must move
on.
This is a brief synopsis of the manipulations that brought
us the present disaster. But backtracking our history
we should have been forewarned. Wars
since the Revolution have been arranged.
The League of Nations set up the
entrance for the UN that now permeates every aspect of our lives. It is global everything even though it is
sometimes thinly disguised. War,
immigration and trade are the tools by which internationalism advances.
Congressional Irresponsibility
Let’s take a look at the ease with which Congress has
signed away our freedoms. They accepted
questionable information and didn’t read the bills they voted on. Senators were briefed on the UN Charter by a
man who was a communist, Council on Foreign Relations member as well as a
friend of Alger Hiss. All voted in favor
of the Charter except for two members. There
were two Senators who read the Charter themselves. They were the only ones to cast a negative
vote.
H.R. 3450, the 445- page NAFTA implementation legislation
wasn’t completely written before the House voted for it. NAFTA itself contained 1,400 pages. All this paper was placed on a cart and
brought into the room so it would be present for the vote. Treaties require a 2/3rds vote in the Senate. To avoid this restriction NAFTA was called an
agreement. This just entailed a majority vote.
Before long NAFTA was being called a treaty. Soon the true agenda for bringing all aspects
of trade under the global umbrella surfaced. The WTO became enforcer for the
World’s trade arena. Meanwhile the U.S. has trade packs with separate cities, Chili
and Singapore
while also trying to implement CAFTA.
The NAFTA/GATT International
Highway
America
was the acknowledged target for imported goods.
With a disposable income above most countries the U.S. was to be
the dumping ground for third world imports.
Many of the foreign containers docking here are filled with merchandise
formerly made in the U.S. Long Beach and
Los Angeles Ports became very crowded. Transporting all this cargo to market meant
building new infrastructure. While thousands of incoming containers flood our
ports, very few leave our shores for exporting. The U.S. has a $68.5 billion trade
deficit.
I’ve written and spoken about the NAFTA/GATT International Highway before
so this will be a quick summary for those who have forgotten or never knew the
details.
Most congressmen weren’t aware that the six transportation
bills they passed were funding for the NAFTA/GATT International Highway. Some of them still don’t know about this most
expensive project in American history. Our tax dollars are building a 12 lane
International expressway with a railroad running alongside. All this to accommodate
foreign imports. The highway reaches from the Panama Canal up through
the middle of the U.S. into Canada. It is a UN global public/private partnership
designed by the WTO. How’s that for
outsourcing? Forty-two Corridors ending at the NAFTA/GATT Highway fan out across the
country. These corridor webs connect to
ports, rail terminals, international airports and navigable rivers. The Alameda
Corridor in our area joins the ports of Long Beach
and Los Angeles. From there the corridor advances to the Los Angeles rail terminal
and eventually of course to the International
Highway. In
Orange County there is the Riverside Orange
Corridor Authority, besides other Orange county Transportation Corridor
Agencies. Different states and
government levels use their regional corridor agency names.
Besides all levels of government funding, our roads will
soon become toll roads with the income transferred to the Super Highway. Eventually the gas tax will be replaced with
a tax by the mile. An ITS, Intelligent
Transportation System embedded in the Super
Highway will be duplicated on our roads as
well. Transponders in our vehicles along
with the GPS, Global Positioning Satellite will track all vehicles. Costco has announced it may sell toll-road
transponders.
Of course we know all of this is being predicated on a
global basis. In England a toll
of one pound (more than a dollar) and 34 pence per mile may be in place within
four years. Parliament is deciding
whether to go with road pricing (tax by the mile) A
‘black box’ (transponder) would be inserted in every car that would be
monitored by satellite the identical way as it is in the U.S. Drivers in England
and America
will receive a monthly financial statement sent by computer. In both countries, driving in a polluted
district, during rush time, or in congested areas will institute an added cost.
Urban Lifestyles
Is there a government plan to alleviate traffic jams by
changing our life styles? Yes, and it is
called Urbanization. NAFTA plans called
for people to live close together near transportation hubs. Vertical high rises and lofts will replace
horizontal single family homes.
Apartments or condos will be above business establishments with garage
parking below. There will be a mix of
housing, business, work, entertainment and
transportation facilities all within walking distance. This will mean fewer cars. A glance at the newspaper lists the
following: Urban Village for suburban Irvine, Chapman in Orange urban
lifestyle, Condo Country, dozens of towers are planned, Costs Mesa plans 400
lofts and condos inside an industrial district, An Uptown in Downtown, living,
working, playing in LA, A Selection of Live/Work Lofts in Downtown LA, Central
City Condos for Those who Live to Shop, San Diego Inspires Downtown
Dreams. The list is endless in California and other
states. We’re told traffic
considerations are the key. Is this the
only reason?
Another aspect not mentioned is conditioning. A vehicle mile tax, charging different rates
under certain circumstances is conditioning people to restrict their
travel. Placing many people within a
small area promotes group -think and control.
Public transportation buses now have video cameras and more surveillance
cameras are being installed in the interests of security.
Richard Capka, Bush nominee in charge of the Federal
Highway Administration is into the NAFTA "free trade" agenda. This administrator wants to privatize roads
like the Indiana Toll Road,
whose management would then be outsourced to a Spanish-Australian company. Capka wants more toll roads. He also wants foreigners as managers for the
Chicago Skyway as well as the Trans-Texas Corridor. Texas
is very involved in the construction of the NAFTA/GATT International Highway. Roads in twenty-three states, encompassing
23,000 miles are foreign managed
Enabling Legislation for the Infrastructure Agenda
There has been no government notification, nor has a word
been written about Executive Order 12803, April 30, 1992, Section 1. It is titled Infrastructure
Privatization. This Order states the
President has the authority to transfer for sale or extend a long -term lease
infrastructure from state or local government to a private party. This would ensure that the U.S. achieves
the most economic benefit use of its resources.
The "infrastructure asset" means any asset
financed in part or whole by the federal government. These assets include, but aren't limited to
roads, tunnels, bridges, mass transit, rail transportation, airports,
waterways, wastewater treatment facilities, electricity supply facilities,
ports, housing, schools, prisons and hospitals.
In essence the U.S.
infrastructure is for sale on the world market.
Thanks to Bernadine Smith for this information.
The Not so Secure Infrastructure Assignments
Sometimes the government obfuscates things. Other times there seems a deliberate attempt
to hide information form the public. A
recent example would be the Dubai
attempt to manage six American ports. Even the President doesn't know who
manages our ports? There is a secretive U.S. panel that
passes on whether foreigners are security risks. Who is on this panel, when was it set up and
who authorized it? Now we are informed that
non-U.S. firms manage almost all of the terminals at Los Angeles ports. A terminal manager at the Los Angeles ports said only one of the
terminals is all-American.
COSCO, the Chinese government shipping company has
occupied Pier J at the Long Beach
port for 15 years. With President
Clinton's help several years ago, the Chinese tried to get control of the Long
Beach Naval Station that includes port.
Intense opposition caused congress to stop the Clinton -COSCO agreement. However the Chinese have quietly been buying
terminals from other countries. They are
now one of the biggest operators in the Long
Beach facility.
Supposedly COSCO is a 300 commercial ship enterprise. In reality COSCO is a Chinese intelligence
gathering operation. Western nations
especially the U.S. have
transferred technology to China. As a result China's economy will outpace the
developed nations by 2050. The Long Beach Port
and International Highway
will expedite China's
mega imports into this country. Only
five percent of the 14 million containers going through our ports are
inspected. What might be in those
Chinese containers?
This is just a micro look at the manipulations of those
who are supposed to be “protecting us.”
As Charley Reese said," In the meantime, why don't we
start thinking about outsourcing the federal government?"
April 6, 2006