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February 15, 2008

Dissolution Of Our Culture: Ultimate Breakdown of America

Filed under: Anti-Illegal Orgs., Illegal Alien, NAU, U.S. Security, Uncategorized — Administrator @ 1:09 pm
By Frosty Wooldridge
October 8, 2007
NewsWithViews.com

"This is our culture - fight for it. This is our flag - pick it up.
This is our country - take it back." --- Presidential candidate Tom Tancredo

We, as a nation, stand on the precipice of our own cultural
disintegration. Our culture stands in the crosshairs of clashing
civilizations via importation of millions of immigrants from incompatible
cultures.

This week, in Denver, Colorado, immigrants want Halloween celebrations
taken out of the school systems. Peter Boyles, talk jock of KHOW 630 AM
said, “Next they will demand Thanksgiving be taken away from us.” Americans
like Boyles do the job Congress refuses to do! Diversity proves a great
divide that dissolves American culture.

Why do we allow multiculturalism to trump 231 years of successful U.S.
culture?

Chicago Sun Times reporter Warner Todd Huston wrote, “At the end of
September the school district in Oak Lawn, Illinois announced it was
considering eliminating holiday celebrations like Christmas in its schools.
Oak Lawn has seen increasing numbers of residents that identify with the
Muslim faith who are naturally sending their children to the public schools
there and school board members are afraid that Christian holidays are
"offensive" to Muslim students.”

What drives the school culture? American history and American values!
Columbus Manor Principal Sandy Robertson said, "It's difficult when you
change the school's culture."

Ask yourself, if you resided in Mexico, would you allow a Middle
Eastern immigrant to change your wedding customs. If you hailed from Nepal,
would you allow immigrants to change your flag festival? Would the Chinese
allow an immigrant to change their national holidays to fit their
sensitivities? Should the French give up their language to placate
immigrants? Would France remain French if all its citizens spoke Arabic?
What if Americans immigrating to Saudi Arabia demanded they speak English
and celebrate Christmas?

“Since we have become a culture that won't back a homogeneous
observance of being an American, how do we address this issue?” Huston
wrote. “How do we serve local communities that are made up mostly of
"immigrants" ­ here unlawfully?”

This travesty illustrates America losing its cultural identity to a
massive influx of people from incompatible cultures that will not assimilate
into America but inject their own culture against ours. They cannot
comprehend that our national culture and history form the bedrock of our
existence. Culture permeates our cells. Our schools must teach our children
about our culture in our country.

Nothing about America remains more sacred than our culture. Without
it, we become listless, lose our moorings and drift on an unidentifiable
sea.

To lose one’s identity is to lose one’s individual self. What happens
next? Depression, apathy and futility--ultimately spiritual and physical
suicide!

A country that loses its identity suffers the same kind of
disintegration as a child who loses its family. As proven around the world
today with examples in Great Britain, France, Holland, Palestine and
Sweden--multiculturalism fails at every level of human interaction. It
proves, ultimately, one of the greatest dangers to humanity.

If America loses Christmas, Halloween, Easter, 4th of July, Labor Day,
Memorial Day, President’s day and Thanksgiving to multiculturalism, we lose
the foundation of our spiritual grounding in an uncertain world. Huston
wrote, “In fact, we should not be celebrating any other holidays but
American holidays. American holidays reflect our national culture.

The holidays and traditions of other cultures deserve to remain in
their homes, not in the halls of our schools. By NOT indulging their desires
to obviate American influences ­ replacing them with ideas antithetical to
our American first principles ­ we would be doing a far better service to
our children than to twist-and-squeeze every district to a different
standard, to placate foreign nationals.”

This greatest of nations on the planet became successful BECAUSE of
its culture. If we bend it, break it and turn it into multicultural mush
soup, we, as a people will not stand together nor will we succeed into the
future. Do we want Spanish to conflict with our language in our schools? Can
we withstand the trauma of multiple languages? Can we bend over backwards
for the Koran that has nothing to do with our history or culture? Do we want
our children bent into the violence and intolerance of much of the world
from which these immigrants fled? Can we survive as a cohesive civilization
if we lose our culture? Do we not see their failed cultures will become our
failed culture if we continue importing millions from failed countries?

When will Americans start speaking out about open borders, American
culture and demand English first. These facts must be publicly and factually
disclosed to every American and their children. That disclosure must be
based on facts, not the emotional rhetoric and deception of teachers,
politicians and biased "politically correct" news media. The discussion of
diversity must be made openly and recognizing the opinions and needs of
Americans, not pro-multicultural vested interests that buy and pay for
elected officials.

Stephen Steinlight answered it best in his, “Amnesty and the Plot
Against America”: “Everything we hold most sacred in our national life and
civil society, in our public places and private spaces, from our splendidly
rambunctious democratic culture to the experience of solitude in our sublime
untouched natural environment is at stake in this battle--because the forces
that reign against us are powerful, the fate of the nation unimaginable—if
they prevail.”

© 2007 Frosty Wooldridge - All Rights Reserved
Read more of Frosty's works and articles at his website:  www.FrostyWooldridge.com

Mexican Gov’t Reveals Plans For Trans North American Corridor.

Filed under: Anti-Illegal Orgs., Blogroll, NAU, Politics, SPP, TTC, U.S. Security, Uncategorized — Administrator @ 1:09 pm
By Jim Kouri
Posted 1:00 AM Eastern
October 8, 2007
NewsWithViews.com

In the midst of the current presidential race, American voters are
being denied information regarding alleged plans to merge the three nations
of North America -- the United States, Mexico, and Canada.

Not only are most political leaders in both major parties failing to
discuss allegations of an impending North American Union, but the mainstream
news media are failing to examine what promises to be THE major news story
of the 21st Century.

Meanwhile, the Mexican government has revealed to its own citizens
that Mexico has entered extensive discussions with government officials in
Texas and top representatives from the Bush administration to extend what it
called the Trans-Texas Corridor into Mexico, with a plan to connect to the
Mexican ports on the Pacific, including Manzanillo and Lazaro Cardenas.

In fact, the official website of the Mexican northeastern state of
Nuevo León contains multiple reports that José Natividad Gonzáles Parás,
governor of the Mexican state of Nuevo León, has actively discussed these
plans with numerous US government officials, including Texas' state and
local officeholders.

"All one needs to do is to look at the social mass viewpoint on
Americans themselves by their own media as well as media outlets in other
countries," Emmy and Golden Globe Award winning actor Michael Moriarty told
NewsWithViews.com during an exclusive interview.

"Americans are looked at [sic] majoritively speaking, as gun-toting,
constitution quoting, trigger happy [sic] misinformee's. Yet, carrying a gun
is the first and foremost sign of being a truly free person. The view that
Americans are stupid is a widely held one, yet they are one of the last
bastions of freedom left to view," added the former Law & Order star.

Texas Governor Rick Perry, Secretary of Transportation Mary Peters and
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice all discussed the extension of the
Trans-Texas Corridor into Mexico to create what's called a "Trans North
America Corridor."

In fact, just last August during a trip to Mexico, Perry made news in
the conservative news media by calling the idea of building a fence along
the US-Mexico border "idiocy."

"Largely unreported in the American press were meetings Perry held in
Mexico with Gonzáles Parás in which the two discussed extending the corridor
into Mexico," said Moriarty.

"In their private meetings, the pair thoroughly discussed extending
Trans-Texas Corridor into Mexico," said Moriarty during his NWV interview.

"We have had interaction with the governor of Texas," Gonzáles Parás
said on the government web site. "We have had a very productive relationship
with Rick Perry, who is also interested in what we can do to continue that
which is known as the Trans-Texas Corridor, that in reality is the corridor
of North America, the Trans North America Corridor, that includes railroads,
bridges, passenger automobile highways, and truck highway lanes."

Gonzáles Parás further explained the extension of TTC-35 into Mexico
would connect through Monterrey, a city which he suggested would function as
a hub for truck-freight traffic. Monterrey is the capital of Nuevo León.

"One of the themes that merited the most attention on the part of the
two governors was the development of the infrastructure needed for the
competitive development of the region as it relates to developing the
Trans-Texas Corridor in connection with the project we call the Corridor of
Northeastern Mexico," the Nuevo León government web site reported Gonzáles
Parás saying Sept. 1, at the conclusion of Perry's visit.

"Gonzáles Parás is reportedly pursuing plans to establish Monterrey as
an 'inland port' where international container freight cargo, largely
delivered into Mexico via the Mexican ports on the Pacific, could be
transported via a Trans North America Corridor into the United States via
Laredo, Texas," claims Moriarty, who's been following this story closely.

Once on I-35, the Mexican trucks transporting the Chinese containers
could travel north, heading toward US inland ports are being established by
the Free Trade Alliance San Antonio in San Antonio and in Kansas City by the
Kansas City SmartPort.

On May 24, Gonzáles Parás announced during his meetings in Austin,
Perry had agreed the envisioned Trans North America Corridor would pass
through Laredo and connect with San Antonio, just as Mexico ultimately
planned to extend the superhighway south into Colombia.

"We have also worked in Monterrey to create an inland port, a
metropolitan center for moving rapidly the commercial traffic from Monterrey
to the inland port at San Antonio," Gonzáles Parás said in the
state-published interview.

"For this strategic project to be accomplished, we have been working
with the federal government in Mexico as well as holding discussions with
the secretary of transportation and the secretary of state in the United
States," he said.

Similar comments made by Gonzáles Parás at a press conference in
Mexico that first announced Transportes Olympic had been selected as the
first trucking firm to cross the border in the Mexican truck-demonstration
project.
In speaking to the group assembled at the company's headquarters,
Gonzáles Parás announced the Trans-Texas Corridor was not just the NAFTA
Superhighway, but "the Logistical Trans-Corridor of North America," uniting
Mexico, the United States and Canada.

He next announced the time had arrived to declare a North American
Economic Community. Gonzáles Parás explained the Trans-Texas Corridor was
more accurately known in Mexico as the "Logistical Trans-Corridor of North
America."

"I want to let you know how much we in this border state of Nuevo León
have been working with our neighbor state of Texas," he said, "making
agreements which permit us to enrich what in Texas is called the
'Trans-Texas Corridor,' but what we in Mexico know as the 'Logistical
Corridor of North America.'"

"We, Canada, and the United States have to perfect this Logistical
Trans-Corridor of North America for our mutual benefit," Gonzáles Parás
continued.

He expanded his vision of a Logistical Corridor of North America to
include the construction of a train and truck corridor that would cut
through the heart of North America.

As far as a NAFTA Superhighway, the first segment is the planned
four-football-fields-wide Trans-Texas Corridor which the Texas Department of
Transportation plans to build parallel to Interstate 35.

"At the recent Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America
(SPP) third summit held in Montebello, Quebec, President Bush and Canada's
Prime Minister Stephen Harper ridiculed the idea that SPP might result in
the creation of a North American Union or NAFTA Superhighways," said
Moriarty.

"However, these reports written in Spanish and published on the Nuevo
León government website suggest that discussions about extending TTC-35 into
Mexico are much further advanced that have been admitted by the Bush
administration or reported upon in the US mainstream media," Moriarty added.

The well-known actor and musician takes a dim view of America's future
if the current trend continues unabated.

"The Old World Order is now legally dead, but is still on life support
in America. The old world was about individual freedom and protection of the
family unit and the family of countrymen. The New World Order is about the
loss of sovereign rights given by God, and the replacement of those rights
with freedoms handed out by man, or "the world government" such as the
United Nations," said Moriarty.

"The New World Order is alive and well today and has been for quite
sometime. The founding of International Banking Cartels, Foreign Relations
advisers and the creation of a World Court were all the political egg and
semen needed to begin the pregnancy, global crisis (real or fabricated) was
all that was needed to give birth to the dreams of powerful men."
Meanwhile, the Mexican government has revealed to its own citizens
that Mexico has entered extensive discussions with government officials in
Texas and top representatives from the Bush administration to extend what it
called the Trans-Texas Corridor into Mexico...
Hitler Meets Christ, A Michael Moriarty film.

Municipio de Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico

Nuevo Leon - Wikipedia

Michael Moriarty, the Emmy and Golden Globe award-winning star of Law
& Order, is set to premiere his much anticipated film Hitler Meets Christ at
the 17th Annual Cinequest Film Festival in San Jose, California.

A dark comedy exploring the polar philosophies of two of the most
controversial figures in human history, Hitler Meets Christ stars Moriarty
as Hitler and Canadian actor Wyatt Page as Christ. Moriarty adapted the
screenplay from a controversial play he wrote in New York in the early 90s
(then called Hitler and Christ Meet Death at the Port Authority Bus
Terminal). The film has already generated sizable online interest due to
both its risky characterization and the recent crop of films and novels
centered on Hitler and the Holocaust.

According to Moriarty, the film is about the tenacity of Christ and
his love — and Hitler's agony in the face of it. "It ultimately comes down
to good and evil," says Moriarty. "And the two greatest, most polar
opposites of good and evil are Jesus of Nazareth and Adolf Hitler of
Germany... It's a comedy in as much as it allows the audience to laugh at
Hitler, and it's a tragedy in that he's really a poor homeless man trapped
and imprisoned by the soul of Hitler."

Shot on location in some of the darkest neighborhoods of Vancouver,
Canada, Hitler Meets Christ was directed by newcomer Brendan Keown and
produced by Keown and Jeremy Dyson, whose previous production credits
include the award-winning Dark Arc (2005).

Moriarty has starred in Law & Order (1990-1994), The 4400 (2004),
Shiloh (1997), Pale Rider (1985), Holocaust (1978) and Bang the Drum Slowly
(1973). He received his most recent Emmy Award in 2003 for the television
movie James Dean.

July 3, 2007

Canada Continues To Ignore NAU

Filed under: Anti-Illegal Orgs., NAU, Uncategorized — Administrator @ 9:19 am

http://www.agoracosmopolitan.com/home/Frontpage/2007/07/02/01643.html

Stéphane Dion continues to ignore New American Union project to take over Canada

The Stéphane Dion led Liberal Party of Canada has totally abdicated supporting vital cross-Canada public discussions on the efforts of the Stephen Harper government to work with the U.S. Bush administration’s effort to consolidate the continentalist agenda to create a “New American Union” (NAU). The NAU is a plan to replace democratically elected governments in Canada, the U.S. and Mexico, with a fascistic “capitalistocracy” run by a greed-driven North American political-military-industrial complex.

While Mr. Dion has apparently elected to ignore the pending destruction of Canada under the New American Union plan, he has chosen to issue the following Canada Day statement:

As we celebrate Canada’s 140th birthday, we must also renew our commitment to build a better tomorrow: a commitment to protect our natural environment and fight the threat of climate change, to strengthen our economy through our committed work ethic and our know-how, and to ensure that all Canadians have the same opportunities to realize their fullest potential.

While Mr. Dion markets his leadership as pro-Canada and pro-environmentalistic, his Office has not championed Canada’s national interest against the “New American Union” agenda, which would led to the accelerated destruction of Canada’s environment. The New American Union would also hasten the privatization of healthcare in Canada, and would totally destroy Canada’s social programs under a greed-driven agenda.

The “plan to create” a New American Union in 2010 is “directly stated only” in the May 2005 task force report Building a North American Community published by the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), Jerome Corsi wrote June 26, 2006.

The “blueprint” which President George W. Bush is following to create a “New American Union” was “laid out” in the May 2005 report, Corsi wrote May 19, 2006. “The CFR report connects the dots between the U.S. Bush administration’s actual policy on illegal immigration and the drive to create the North American Union.”

A “New American Union” is being created through a process of anti-democratic inter-governmental “harmonization”, and “deep integration”, without ever having to bring the issue before Canadians for a clear referendum or vote. The closed door consolidation of the NAU is a fundamental violation of the constitutional democratic rights of Canadians. Stephane Dion’s apparent appeasement of the NAU agenda is a further betrayal of the Liberal Party of Canada’s defence of Canadian sovereignty and independence from the U.S., since the leadership of former Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier.

June 25, 2007

Military Warns Personnel Don’t Go to Mexico while Senate Pushes Open Borders

Filed under: Anti-Illegal Orgs., Homeland Security, NAU, U.S. Security, Uncategorized — Administrator @ 4:46 am

Author: Sher Zieve
Source: The Family Security Foundation, Inc.
Date: June 22, 2007

While President Bush and US Senators continue to fiddle with their open borders amnesty policy, also known as the ”Immigration Reform” bill, the US military is warning its personnel and civilian employees not to enter Mexican border towns. Chillingly, this warning also includes US towns located along our southern border. Towns on the Mexican side of the border, and perhaps those on the US side as well, are increasingly being controlled by Mexican drug lords and their cartels. These same drug lords have placed death-bounties on both our US border patrol agents and US military personnel. Unconscionably, our leftist mainstream media is neither reporting this nor the facts that open warfare is occurring, on a daily basis, along large portions of the US-Mexico border. Mexican illegals are, on a regular basis, burning down portions of the ecologically-sensitive Coronado National Forest to create diversions; so that drug dealers and other illegals can cross unfettered into the United States. Where is the outrage from the supposed environmentalists? It’s nonexistent. Are the arsonists accepted because they’re assumed to be from the politically-correct race—no matter what they do? Apparently so. 
 
Note: Despite the arson and increasing warfare at our southern border, our politicians are still working to bypass the American people and pass their Illegal Alien Amnesty bill. What are they thinking—or better yet, smoking?
 
With the exception of our elite political and business leaders, the Senate Amnesty Bill will—ultimately—help no one. As illegal-turned-legal workers enter the US, in even greater numbers, wages for US citizens will be driven down, members of the US middle class will become fewer and fewer and a new and permanent lower-class structure will have been firmly established upon our shores. Can the Patron-peon scenario be far behind? 
 
After our Congress and President have imbued the current illegals in our country with legal status, said illegals-now-legal will demand somewhat higher wages. Business will then need even more impoverished workers to fill the lower-lower class worker pool. So, illegal entry will continue—aided and abetted by our politicians. It is a never ending cycle of the intentional planned destruction of the United States of America—by those who are sworn to protect it—for the promises of power and larger bank accounts; or additional holdings in the Caymans.   
 
Power and money corrupt and there are always those in line begging to be corrupted. We now hear them on and in the media virtually every day. The current Amnesty Bill also calls for the construction of 370 miles of border fence. HUH??? The Secure Fence Act of 2006, which was passed and funded by Congress, already provides for the building of 700 miles of security fencing along our southern border! Congress is—yet again—ignoring a law that is currently in place in order to attempt to pass a more feckless one. The Senate is simply trying to force their Amnesty Bill upon the American people by trying to convince them that without it there will be no security fence built. 
 
Note: I know Americans are said to have short memories but, holy smokes! The ink hasn’t been dry for even a year on the original 2006 security fence bill! Do our Senators think we’ve already forgotten it? The bottom line is that neither the President of the United States nor any amnesty-supporting senator has any intention—whatsoever—of building any border fence or providing any security for US citizens atthe US-Mexico border. Instead, they are brazenly telling we-the-people that they will not uphold their Constitutional duties and will go against said Constitution by working against the will of the American people. Can we say rule by autocracy? You bet we can. 
 
However, there is an alternative to the deceitful Senate Amnesty bill that is being developed in the US House of Representatives. The King-Smith bill, co-written and sponsored by House Reps Peter King (R-NY) and Lamar Smith (R-TX), seems actually to provide a viable and sensible approach to the illegal immigration problem. King advises that the bill approaches the illegal immigration issue from a “security first” perspective. It also does not denigrate the intelligence of the American people, as does the Senate’s Amnesty-for-illegals Bill, by watering down and attempting to cloud the already-on-the-books border security act. I encourage you to take a look at Rep. King’s NRO article. There are also at least twenty loopholes in the Senate Amnesty Bill that support illegals and punish legal citizens and those attempting to gain legal US status. This is, yet, more insanity from the “minds” and hands of our lawmakers. 
 
The only way that we-the-people have any opportunity of assisting the USA to survive—and therefore our way of life—is to fight the tyrannical elements currently in place in our federal government. These exist in both of our political parties. Continue to call, write, email—whatever it takes—your senators and Congressional representatives. Tell them to “just say NO to Amnesty!” But, due to promises made and secret back-door deals, the Amnesty Bill may pass. Our voices must now be very loud or we may very well lose our republic—and our country. It is just that serious.
 
While the US military warns us not to enter Mexico—it’s just too dangerous nowadays—the Open Borders US Senate and our president are refusing to protect our borders. Does this make any sense at all?  
 
http://www.svherald.com/articles/2007/06/07/news/doc4667a4832180e330133704.txt
 
http://eaglespeak.blogspot.com/2007/06/border-warfare-illegals-using-fire-to.html
 
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZTc4ZjgyMTZhZjlkYzNkY2Q5MDkxNWJjYWNmMDJlOTE=
 

June 24, 2007

Congressman: Cheney Challenges Classified Oversight – ARTICLE

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Congressman: Cheney challenges classified oversight
topic posted Today, 9:35 AM by Xander

www.cnn.com/2007/POLITIC…ts/index.html

WASHINGTON (CNN) — Vice President thingy Cheney’s office refused to cooperate with an agency that oversees classified documents, then tried to abolish the office when it challenged the actions, House oversight committee Chairman Henry Waxman said.

The National Archives’ Information Security Oversight Office is charged by presidential order with ensuring that classified information and documents are properly handled by executive branch agencies.

According to a letter from William Leonard, director of the oversight office, Cheney’s office argued it did not meet the definition of an executive branch agency and therefore was exempt.

Leonard also wrote that Cheney’s office suggested his agency be abolished under a revision of the presidential order now under consideration. (Watch how Cheney’s office defines its role Video)

“I question both the legality and wisdom of your actions,” Waxman, D-California, wrote in a letter Thursday to Cheney.

“Your decision to exempt your office from the president’s order is problematic because it could place national security at risk,” wrote Waxman, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

Cheney’s office would neither confirm nor deny it tried to abolish the Information Security Oversight Office.

“We are confident that we are conducting the office properly under the law,” said Megan McGinn, deputy press secretary for Cheney, when asked about the Waxman letter.

The executive order — intended to maintain the integrity of classified documents — was established by President Clinton and revised by President Bush in 2003.

The 2003 version directed the Information Security Oversight Office to oversee a program of education and supervision of classified document protection and maintenance. According to Waxman, the office has worked with different White House groups, including the National Security Council.

But when the National Archives’ office attempted to visit Cheney’s team in 2004, it was prevented from doing so by Cheney’s staff, Waxman wrote in the letter. The office had complied with the order in 2001 and 2002 but started refusing to do so in 2003.

In 2006, Leonard wrote to Cheney’s chief of staff, David Addington, to contest the office’s refusal to comply and was told that the vice president’s office “does not believe it is included in the definition of ‘agency’ as set forth in the order,” nor is it an “entity within the executive branch that comes into the possession of classified information,” according to letters released Thursday by Waxman’s committee.

In a letter to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales requesting intervention on the matter, Leonard questioned the rationale presented by the vice president’s office.

“If the [office of the vice president] is not considered an entity within the executive branch, I am concerned that it could impede access to classified information by the OVP staff, in that such access would be considered a disclosure outside the executive branch,” Leonard wrote in January.

Justice Department spokesman Erik Ablin said the department had received the letter and that the matter is under review.

The vice president’s office has been criticized for being secretive before.

Last month, it was revealed that the administration was withholding visitor logs to Cheney’s residence. The administration says the secrecy is needed so Cheney can get candid advice from visitors.

In 2001, the office refused to divulge the names of energy executives who had consulted with Cheney on U.S. energy policy.

The decision was challenged and upheld by the courts. The U.S. Supreme Court referred the case back to a lower court.

June 23, 2007

Bush Administration Ask US Judge To Reject Domestic Spying Lawsuits

Filed under: NAU, Politics, Uncategorized — Administrator @ 7:57 pm

Bush Administration Asks US Judge To Reject Domestic Spying Lawsuits
June 22, 2007: 12:26 PM EST

SAN FRANCISCO (AP)–The Bush administration asked a federal judge to toss out lawsuits seeking to unearth information about the U.S. telecommunications industry’s alleged participation in a warrantless government eavesdropping program.

Five states want consumer records the telecommunications companies allegedly turned over to the National Security Administration as part of a domestic eavesdropping program President George W. Bush authorized after Sept. 11, 2001.

Lawyers for New Jersey, Vermont, Maine, Missouri and Connecticut argued that they are pursuing complaints by consumers that their privacy rights may have been violated if phone records were turned over to the NSA without their consent.

Department of Justice lawyers argued Thursday in U.S. District Court that such disclosures would harm national security and foreign affairs.

“It’s plain what they are seeking is information about the intelligence- gathering of the NSA,” Deputy Assistant Attorney General Carl Nichols told Judge Vaughn Walker.

Nichols also argued that the states’ consumer privacy concerns conflicted with national security laws, which take precedent.

New Jersey Assistant Attorney General Patrick DeAlmeida argued that state officials are simply investigating whether any local privacy laws or utility regulations were violated by the telephone companies. He said the government’s national security claims are too broad and general as to preclude all state inquiry.

“They’ve come to federal court to stop state officials from even beginning their investigations,” DeAlmeida said. “They are insulating the federal government from any investigation from state officials by insulating themselves in state secrets arguments.”

Maine Assistant Attorney General Christopher Taub said his state wants Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ) executives to confirm the accuracy of two press releases the company issued denying it turned over customer data to the NSA.

“We simply want that under oath so we can conclude the investigation,” Taub said. “At this point the states are simply trying to find out if there has been any violation of state laws.”

Verizon and several of the country’s biggest telecommunications companies including AT&T Inc. (T) and Sprint Nextel Corp. (S) are among those being sued.

The five states served several telecommunications companies with subpoenas demanding to know what kind of customer information was turned over to the NSA as part of its anti-terror efforts. Those cases, plus about two dozen others brought by consumers, privacy advocates and others are all being heard by Walker, who earlier ruled that one case could continue despite objections from government lawyers that the lawsuit could jeopardize state secrets. The government’s appeal of that ruling is scheduled to be heard in San Francisco in August.

Bush confirmed in December 2005 that the NSA has been conducting warrantless surveillance of calls and e-mails thought to involve al-Qaida terrorists if at least one of the parties to the communication is outside the United States.

The administration contends the program is legal and necessary, but has been mum on whether purely domestic calls and electronic communications are being monitored, as any of the lawsuits allege.

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Bush Urges Lawmakers To Support Immigration Overhaul – ARTICLE

Filed under: Illegal Alien, NAU, Uncategorized — Administrator @ 4:30 pm

WBOC16 Fox 21
http://www.wboc.com/Global/story.asp?S=6700201&nav=MXEFM7m7

Bush urges lawmakers to support immigration overhaul

Associated Press – June 23, 2007 10:43 AM ET

WHITE HOUSE (AP) – President Bush is not giving up.

In his weekly radio address today, he is yet again urging lawmakers to “summon the political courage” to pass his immigration overhaul.

The fragile bipartisan compromise had taken its share of political pelting before being pushed aside two weeks ago. But Congress could take up the issue as early as next week.

The measure would tighten borders and pave the way for millions of illegal immigrants to gain legal status.

In his radio address, Bush stressed the bill’s many enforcement provisions.

Under the bill, people caught crossing the border illegally will be permanently barred from returning to the US on a work or tourist visa.

He also insisted taking “pressure off the border” with a guest worker program is crucial to immigration reform.

NAFTA Super Highway Extends North

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http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=56287

NAFTA superhighway extends north
Plan under way in Texas will extend to Oklahoma, Colorado

Posted: June 21, 2007
1:00 a.m. Eastern

© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com

A NAFTA superhighway plan under way in Texas will be extended to Oklahoma and Colorado, stretching the four-lane, train-truck-car-pipeline corridor from the Mexican border at Laredo, Texas, to Denver, reports WND columnist Jerome Corsi, whose new investigative book, “The Late Great USA: The Coming Merger with Mexico and Canada,” has just been released.

As WND has reported, the Federal Highway Administration is promoting public-private partnership projects to expand superhighway projects, consistent with extending the Trans-Texas Corridor network north.

The plan is for the states of Texas, Oklahoma and Colorado to apply the TTC toll road concept first developed by the Texas DOT to largely rural areas along the Ports-to-Plains Corridor.

To advance this plan, the Ports-to-Plains Trade Corridor Coalition – sponsored by the consulates of Mexico and Canada along with the Texas and Colorado transportation departments – is co-sponsoring a “Great Plains 2007″ international conference Sept. 19-21 at the Adam’s Mark Hotel in Denver.

The brochure recommends the conference be attended by real estate developers, transportation planners, highway services business executives, as well as state, local, county and municipal public officials and international trade professionals.

An April Texas DOT study on the Ports-to-Plains Trade Corridor Coalition website documents the tie between the two groups.

The study says the Ports-to-Plains Corridor offers an opportunity to apply the Trans-Texas Corridor technology to NAFTA superhighway development in rural settings. It concludes by recommending new highway construction be undertaken parallel to the existing Ports-to-Plains Trade Corridor route in order to apply the superhighway design north through Oklahoma into Colorado.

As WND previously reported, the $180 billion needed to build the 4,000 mile Trans-Texas Corridor network over the next 50 years will be financed by Cintra Concesiones de Infraestructuras de Transporte, S.A., a foreign investment consortium based in Spain. Cintra will own the leasing and operating rights on TTC highways for 50 years after construction is complete.

A press release on the Texas DOT website confirms the agency is looking for a public-private-partnership to help finance the construction of the Ports-to-Plains Corridor.

WND also has reported Texas Gov. Rick Perry has received substantial campaign contributions from Cintra and Zachry Construction Company, the San Antonio-based construction firm selected by the Texas DOT to build the TTC.

The homepage of the Ports-to-Plains Corridor Coalition website proclaims, “Together, the communities along the Ports-to-Plains Trade Corridor are becoming the Gateway to trade throughout the nation and with Mexico and Canada.”

The homepage also links the Ports-to-Plains Trade Corridor to the millions of containers from China that are planned to enter North America through Mexican ports, commenting, “The Trade Corridor will allow for the development of less congested ports of entry along the Texas/Mexican border.”

Texas Governor Clears Way For NAFTA Superhighway

Filed under: Big Business, Blogroll, Communities, NAU, News-Television, Politics, TTC, U.S. Security, Uncategorized — Administrator @ 12:06 am

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=56309

Posted: June 22, 2007
1:00 a.m. Eastern

© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com

The path has been cleared for the state of Texas to begin building the new Trans-Texas Corridor, a project that is designed to be four football fields wide, along Interstate 35 from Mexico to the Oklahoma border, according to a new report from WND columnist Jerome Corsi, the author of “The Late Great USA.”

The way was opened when Texas Gov. Rick Perry, a Republican, vetoed a series of proposals the Texas Legislature assembled to slow down the work on what is considered to be a key link in a continental NAFTA superhighway network.

Perry’s latest veto was of a plan to add a number of requirements to the Texas eminent-domain procedures, under which governments can grab and use private property.

But, Corsi reported, Steven Anderson of the Institute for Justice’s Castle Coalition, objected. He said Perry’s action “left every home, farm, ranch and small-business owner vulnerable to the abuse of eminent domain.”

Earlier, Corsi reported, Perry vetoed a plan to impose a two-year moratorium on the TTC project.

As WND previously reported, these measures were approved overwhelmingly by the Texas Legislature.

On learning that Perry had vetoed the eminent-domain legislation, Corridor Watch, a public advocacy group that opposes the TTC project, responded immediately.

“It sure didn’t take TxDOT long to shake off the legislative session and resume their headlong rush to use every available loophole, exception and remaining authority to build toll roads and grant toll road concessions just as fast as possible,” the organization said.

Corridor Watch also noted that in the 49 bills Perry vetoed June 15 were measures that would have required TxDOT to consider using existing highway routes for future TTC routes and a bill that called on the Texas attorney general to study the impact of international agreements on Texas.

An override of Perry’s vetoes is unlikely, since the governor threatened to call a special session of the lawmakers to handle transportation issues if his veto fell by the wayside.

As WND has previously reported, the $180 billion needed to build the 4,000-mile TTC network planned for construction over the next 50 years will be financed by Cintra Concesiones de Infraestructuras de Transporte, S.A., a foreign investment consortium based in Spain. Cintra will own the leasing and operating rights on TTC highways for 50 years after their completion is complete.

WND also has reported Perry has received substantial campaign contributions from Cintra and Zachry Construction Company, the San Antonio-based construction firm selected by TxDOT to build out the TTC.

And WND has established that Cintra is represented in the United States by Bracewell and Giuliani, Republican Party presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani’s Houston-based law firm.

Just this week, WND reported TxDOT already is moving to apply its four-football-fields-wide NAFTA superhighway plan of building new train-truck-car-pipeline corridors to the states of Oklahoma and Colorado in a design that stretches from the Mexican border at Laredo, Texas, to Denver, Colo.

WND has documented a significant reason for the projects is to connect truck traffic from Mexican ports on the Pacific, such as Lazaro Cardenas, to U.S. roads. Mexican ports are being increasingly used as an alternative to West Coast ports such as Los Angeles and Long Beach as a cheaper, non-union alternative for the import of millions of containers from China.

WND also has reported the Department of Transportation plans to start a Mexican truck demonstration project as early as Aug. 15, despite continuing objections from Congress.

June 22, 2007

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