Re: Mexico Teaming Up With China vs the United States - WHAT'S THE PAYOFF? (fwd)

"GeorgeWashingtonAdmirer" <guybannister58@aol.com> wrote in message

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> Has the government of China promised the NarcoGovernment of Mexico to aid

> it in "regaining" (even though Mexico just "claimed" it but in reality

> never truly owned or controlled it) territory it claims the U.S. "stole"

> from it?

>

> Remember, it was only a decade ago that China was caught trying to

> smuggle thousands of machine guns destined for Los Angeles street gangs

> into the Port of Los Angeles (Senator Dianne Feinslime's billionaire

> husband has lonstanding and close business connections to the Chinese

> company involved - look it up yourself!)

>

> The following is an email I received from The California Coalition for

> Immigration Reform (http://www.ccir.net).

Barbara Coe is owner of ccir.net:

From http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?pid=1256

Vitriolic, conspiracy-minded and just plain mean, Coe routinely refers to

Mexicans as "savages." She claims to have exposed a secret Mexican plan (the

"Plan de Aztlan") to reconquer the American Southwest. Last May, at a "Unite

to Fight" anti-immigration summit in Las Vegas, she launched the kind of

defamatory rant for which she is infamous. "We are suffering robbery, rape

and murder of law-abiding citizens at the hands of illegal barbarians," she

warned her cowering audience, "who are cutting off heads and appendages of

blind, white, disabled gringos."

>

> Reading the disturbing information it contains, one is reminded of the

> fact that just last century the government of Germany (look up "The

> Zimmermann Telegram" online) had actually offered to help Mexico regain

> the

> lands is used to claim as its own (even though Mexico never actually

> controlled them) if Mexico would ally itself with Germany. Mexico still

> claims all the land up to Alaska as its own plus the land it sold to the

> United States for millions of dollars (billions in today's currency). Read

> THIS in case you're unfamiliar with Mexico's delusional claims on U.S.

> (and

> Canadian) territory: Mexicans migrate to 'their land' at

> http://deseretnews.com/dn/print/1%2C1442%2C635200794%2C00.html

>

> Has China -- the land where even as recently as the 1960s millions of

> innocents were murdered due to their being "politically incorrect" --

> promised to help Mexico "get back" the lands(again, lands it never even

> truly owned) it sold to the U.S. but (especially now that it's been

> developed by American sweatnd ingenuity) eyes enviously?

>

> <BEGIN EMAIL RECEIVED>

>

> All....

>

> Long but important READ. PLEASE heed the words of Jerome Corsi.

> PLEASE share this data with as many as possible. PLEASE make the decision

> to work together to HALT this treachery NOW before greed- mongers insure

> that we a) lose our sovereignty and b) lose our lives!

>

> ------- Forwarded message follows -------

> Date sent: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 09:55:45 -0700 (PDT)

> From: BRIAN MICKELWAIT <brianmickelwait@sbcglobal.net>

> Subject: Re: OFF-TOPIC (NAU, ETC.): CHINA WINS NAFTA SUPER-HWY. BATTLE:

>

> Peri ... wrote:

>

> In case you didn't see this before.

>

> Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 7:39 PM

>

> Subject: OFF-TOPIC (NAU, ETC.): CHINA WINS NAFTA SUPER- HWY. BATTLE:

>

> http://www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=193592

>

> LibertyPost.org

>

> News & Current Events

> See other News & Current Events Articles Title: China Wins NAFTA

> Super-Highway Battle

> Source: Americans For Legal Immigration

> URL Source: http://www.alipac.us/modules.php?

> name=News&file=article&sid=2361

>

> Published: Jul 8, 2007

>

> Author: Jerome R. Corsi

> Post Date: 2007-07-11 06:30:13 by Itisa1mosttoolate

> 21 Comments

>

> China Wins NAFTA Super- Highway Battle By Jerome R. Corsi 7-10-7

> Red China is investing heavily in developing deep-water ports in Mexico to

> bring an unprecedented volume of containers into the U.S. along the

> emerging NAFTA Super Highway.

>

> This move signals China's emergence as the unexpected economic winner

> in the North American Union free market.

>

> Hutchinson Ports, a wholly owned subsidiary of China's giant Hutchinson

> Whampoa Limited (HWL) is investing millions to expand the deep water ports

> the company manages at Lazaro Cardenas and Manzanillo on Mexico's Pacific

> coast.

>

> Now Hutchinson Ports is pledging millions more to develop Punta

> Colonet, today a desolate Mexican bay in Baja California. Mexico plans

> over

> the next seven years to dredge and convert Punta Colonet into a 10 to 20

> berth deep-water port facility capable of processing some 6 million

> standard 20-foot-long TEUs (industry terminology for the "Twenty Foot

> Equivalent Unit" that describes a single standard container).

>

> According to Judicial Watch, "Hutchinson, Whampoa, Ltd. is the holding

> company of billionaire Li Ka-shing, a well-known businessman, whose

> companies make up 15 percent of the market capitalization of the Hong Kong

> Stock Market."

>

> A Judicial Watch complaint filed in 2002, at the time HWL was

> purchasing the then-bankrupt Global Crossing, notes that Li Ka-Shing's

> holdings includes ports, telecom, and energy assets around the world.

>

> Topics: Red China, NAFTA Super Highway, Hutchinson Ports, Hutchinson

> Whampoa Limited, Lazaro Cardena, Manzanillo, Mexico, Mexican bay in Baja

> California, Li Ka-shing, Chinese Government, Global Crossing, Democratic

> National Committee, Terry McAuliffe, Robert Pastor, Chinese People's

> Liberation Army, China Ocean Shipping Company, North American Union, Dubai

> Ports World, HWL, detect nuclear material, NAFTA corridors, North

> America's

> SuperCorridor Coalition Inc, Bush Administration, Wal-Mart, Kmart, and

> Home

> Depot, slave labor prison camps, abuses of human rights, George Bush, Bush

> Administration free- trade policies, Global Policy Forum, William Hawkin,

> open bordes, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Communist

> Chinese, super- highway, NAFTA super-highways, European-style North

> American Union dominated by the Chinese

>

> According to a declassified U.S. government intelligence report

> that Judicial Watch obtained in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)

> request, "Li is directly connected to Beijing and is willing to use his

> business influence to further the aims of the Chinese Government."

> Judicial

> Watch had objected that "Li Ka-shing's agency relationship to the

> Communist

> Chinese should disqualify him from owning Global Crossing's network, which

> controls a significant percent of all the fiber optics currently leaving

> the United States."

>

> Global Crossing was a Clinton Administration darling, noted for turning

> former Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe's $100,000

> investment into an $18 million personal fortune.

> Global Crossing's bold move to control the U.S. international

> fiber-optics network over-reached, ending in a corrupt corporate melt-down

> that was an unfortunate prelude to the Enron debacle. Hutchinson Ports was

> forced to drop the bid to purchase Global Crossing when the Committee on

> Foreign Investments in the United States (CFIUS) refused to approve the

> transaction on national security grounds.

>

> Li Ka-shing's Hutchinson Ports also operates both ends of the Panama

> Canal, which we have previously documented was returned to Panama under

> the

> Carter administration by National Security Council advisor, Robert Pastor,

> whom we have called the "Father of the North American Union." HWL also has

> business dealings with the China Ocean Shipping Company (COSCO), China's

> largest shipping line, which is owned by the Chinese People's Liberation

> Army. In 1998, Congress blocked on national security grounds an attempt by

> the Clinton administration to allow COSCO to lease the abandoned Long

> Beach

> Naval Station.

>

> Still, HWL has established a North American beachhead, despite the

> continuing security concerns. The Standard in China reports that today

> COSCO has established a little-known presence in U.S. ports, co-managing a

> terminal with Seattle-based SSA Marine at the mouth of Long Beach's port.

>

> Remarkably, in the aftermath of the Dubai Ports World blow-up in

> Congress, the Bush administration hired HWL to operate in the Bahamas

> sophisticated equipment designed to detect nuclear material inside TEUs

> headed for the U.S., without requiring U.S. customs agents to be present.

>

> Now, investing millions to deepen Mexico's ports in a plan to access

> the developing NAFTA corridors, HWL has found perhaps the most effective

> backdoor of all for gaining access to the continental U.S. market.

>

> A set of China-promoting business projections are driving the

> frenzy to open Mexican ports to NAFTA corridors. Container traffic from

> China and the Far East has exploded, with industry experts expecting the

> cargo traffic from China to double by 2020.

>

> Today jumbo cargo ships containing 8,000 TEUs routinely cruise

> Pacific Trade routes. Unloading 8,000 containers from a single ship can

> take up to 3 days, even with experienced dock workers and state-of-the-art

> cranes.

>

> West coast ports such as Los Angeles and Long Beach are regularly

> described

> as overwhelmed with containers arriving from China and the Far East,

> resulting in a virtual gridlock that causes expensive delays.

>

> As a result, "inland ports" such as the Free Trade Alliance of San

> Antonio and Kansas City Smartport, both members of the North America's

> SuperCorridor Coalition Inc. (NASCO), are exploring with enthusiasm

> opening

> NAFTA corridors to facilitate the movement from Mexican ports 50% to 60%

> of

> all containers entering the U.S. from China that are destined for delivery

> in the heart of the U.S.

>

> Why the sudden enthusiasm for cheap goods from China? The Bush

> Administration continues to give the green light to mass-marketing

> retailers such as Wal-Mart, Kmart, and Home Depot, to name just a few, to

> import Chinese and Far Eastern goods without restraint, despite their

> under- market nature.

>

> Evidently the Bush Administration has decided to follow the path set

> by the Clinton Administration in the decision to turn a blind eye to the

> repeated accusations that many of the goods from China and the Far East

> are

> produced in slave labor prison camps where abuses of human rights are

> everyday occurrences.

>

> Opponents of Bush Administration free-trade policies, such as Global

> Policy Forum, have argued for enforcing "anti-dumping" provisions commonly

> designed in traditional international trade agreements to prevent the

> import of under-market goods produced by countries exploiting near- zero

> labor costs. The argument is that in opening the U.S. to cheap Chinese

> goods, we are leading a worldwide "race to the bottom," in which "the only

> priority is cost effective production, at the expense of workers,

> resources

> and sustainability."

>

> The result is that the international capitalists owning companies such

> as Wal-Mart earn additional billions, while U.S. manufacturing continues

> to

> out-source an increasing number of jobs and poor countries such as Mexico

> are only pulled deeper into poverty.

>

> Strong conservatives are concerned today that China is the only clear

> winning in NAFTA. William Hawkins of the U.S. Business and Industry

> Council, a strong critic of our open borders with Mexico and Canada, has

> recently written that Mexico itself has filed 90 complaints against China

> at the World Trade Organization.

>

> Hawkins has argued that "the new energy being put into expanding the

> transportation network from Mexico into the United States heralds the

> collapse of NAFTA, and further discredits the trade strategy followed by

> the administrations of George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush."

>

> Upon closer examination, something other than the "success" of the

> NAFTA model, as sold to the American voter, is propelling all this

> transportation and Smart Port activity-and that is the massive wave of

> imports from the previously unrecognized export superstar, China. U.S.

> west

> coast ports are swamped with container ships filled with Chinese goods,

> and

> a scramble is on to find new Pacific ports to bring even more Chinese

> products into the United States.

>

> Hawkins views the plans to develop NAFTA Super-Highways as a disaster: "

> What is being built is truly a 'Highway of Death' for both NAFTA and

> CAFTA.

> The resulting turmoil in the region will be felt in the United States, and

> will be an additional benefit to Beijing as the rising geopolitical

> challenger to American power."

>

> Yet, as sound as Hawkins' arguments are, their subtly is likely to be

> lost on the Wal-Mart capitalists who see rising quarterly profits and

> handsome executive bonuses from importing an ever-increasing volume of

> cheap Chinese goods into the U.S. market.

>

> So too, the Robert Pastor enthusiasts can be counted upon to welcome

> any reason to knit together the U.S., Canada, and Mexico into a North

> American Union, even if the driving force turns out to be a super-highway

> and inland port transportation scheme designed to benefit the Communist

> Chinese.

>

> Cheap Mexican remarkably undercut by the Chinese in manufacturing and

> assembly can still be used in transport, to land the Chinese goods on

> Mexican docks and then carry the Chinese containers by truck and train

> into

> the heart of North American.

>

> Increasingly gone is the dream that NAFTA would stimulate the

> development of a Mexican middle class as a means of economically

> developing

> Mexico itself. At the dawning of NAFTA, few expected that Chinese slave

> labor would be allowed to undercut the sweat-shop maquiladoras that

> developed south of the border in the 1990s.

>

> Even fewer expected that the only Mexican labor that would remain

> competitive under NAFTA would be Mexican dock workers, truck drivers, and

> railroad workers -- and these only because these Mexican "government

> union"

> workers undercut U.S. Longshoremen, Teamsters, and United Transportation

> Union labor.

>

> As for Mexico's underclass masses, Vicente Fox and his successor can be

> relied upon to maintain their mantra, "Go North," at least as long as

> President Bush and Congress remain unwilling to secure the border. In the

> end, the American middle class will pay the tab of increased social costs

> for millions of more uneducated, unskilled Spanish-speaking immigrants

> from

> Mexico and the other Hispanic countries south of the border.

>

> At the same time, the squeeze on middle class employment opportunities

> will intensify as NAFTA super-highways and U.S. "inland port" cities

> replete with Mexican custom facilities encourage yet more outsourcing to

> China.

>

> All this sounds like a good deal for China. But are cheap sneakers at

> Wal-Mart really worth the damage being done to the most successful middle

> class ever built in world history?

>

> Aristotle's Politics give reason to ask whether the U.S. constitutional

> republic we have enjoyed for 230 years will long endure a middle class

> squeezed by an original NAFTA market that evolves into a European-style

> North American Union dominated by the Chinese.

>

> The EU and the NAU ~ Two Peas In A Pod!

> http://www.stopthenorthamericanunion.com/TwoPeas.html

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> Barbara Coe

> Chairman

> California Coalition for Immigration Reform

> http://www.ccir.net

>

> PLEASE EMAIL THESE LINKS TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW:

>

> "The Illegal-Alien Crime Wave" by Heather MacDonald

> http://www.City-Journal.org/html/14_1_the_illegal_alien.html

>

> http://www.PredatoryAliens.com

> http://www.ImmigrationsHumanCost.org

> http://www.DayLaborers.org

> http://www.Alipac.us

> http://www.ImmigrationWatchdog.com

> http://www.AmericanPatrol.com

> http://www.SaveOurState.org

> http://www.EscapingJustice.com

> http://www.MothersAgainstIllegalAliens.org

> See the COLOSSAL costs of illegal aliens to the American taxpayer:

> http://www.ImmigrationCounters.com

> ---------------------------------------------

> "Por La Raza todo. Fuera de La Raza nada"

> ("For The Race everything, for those outside The Race nothing")

>

> -- Motto of MEChA, one of the nation's largest publically-funded

> organizations with cells on high school and college campuses across the

> USA

> (Note: Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez says he "used to be" a member)

> ---------------------------------------------

>

Roger wrote:

> "GeorgeWashingtonAdmirer" <guybannister58@aol.com> wrote in message

> news:pa0b5hgrthc2$.w69jh7lc258d$.dlg@40tude.net...

>> Has the government of China promised the NarcoGovernment of Mexico to aid

>> it in "regaining" (even though Mexico just "claimed" it but in reality

>> never truly owned or controlled it) territory it claims the U.S. "stole"

>> from it?

>>

>> Remember, it was only a decade ago that China was caught trying to

>> smuggle thousands of machine guns destined for Los Angeles street gangs

>> into the Port of Los Angeles (Senator Dianne Feinslime's billionaire

>> husband has lonstanding and close business connections to the Chinese

>> company involved - look it up yourself!)

>>

>> The following is an email I received from The California Coalition for

>> Immigration Reform (http://www.ccir.net).

>

> Barbara Coe is owner of ccir.net:

>

> From http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?pid=1256

>

> Vitriolic, conspiracy-minded and just plain mean, Coe routinely refers to

> Mexicans as "savages." She claims to have exposed a secret Mexican plan (the

> "Plan de Aztlan") to reconquer the American Southwest. Last May, at a "Unite

> to Fight" anti-immigration summit in Las Vegas, she launched the kind of

> defamatory rant for which she is infamous. "We are suffering robbery, rape

> and murder of law-abiding citizens at the hands of illegal barbarians," she

> warned her cowering audience, "who are cutting off heads and appendages of

> blind, white, disabled gringos."

>

>

And your point is...?

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On Jul 24, 12:20 am, "Roger" <roge...@hotmail.com> wrote:

> "GeorgeWashingtonAdmirer" <guybanniste...@aol.com> wrote in message

>

> news:pa0b5hgrthc2$.w69jh7lc258d$.dlg@40tude.net...

>

> > Has the government of China promised the NarcoGovernment of Mexico to aid

> > it in "regaining" (even though Mexico just "claimed" it but in reality

> > never truly owned or controlled it) territory it claims the U.S. "stole"

> > from it?

>

> > Remember, it was only a decade ago that China was caught trying to

> > smuggle thousands of machine guns destined for Los Angeles street gangs

> > into the Port of Los Angeles (Senator Dianne Feinslime's billionaire

> > husband has lonstanding and close business connections to the Chinese

> > company involved - look it up yourself!)

>

> > The following is an email I received from The California Coalition for

> > Immigration Reform (http://www.ccir.net).

>

> Barbara Coe is owner of ccir.net:

>

> Fromhttp://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?pid=1256

>

> Vitriolic, conspiracy-minded and just plain mean, Coe routinely refers to

> Mexicans as "savages." She claims to have exposed a secret Mexican plan (the

> "Plan de Aztlan") to reconquer the American Southwest. Last May, at a "Unite

> to Fight" anti-immigration summit in Las Vegas, she launched the kind of

> defamatory rant for which she is infamous. "We are suffering robbery, rape

> and murder of law-abiding citizens at the hands of illegal barbarians," she

> warned her cowering audience, "who are cutting off heads and appendages of

> blind, white, disabled gringos."

>

>

>

>

>

> > Reading the disturbing information it contains, one is reminded of the

> > fact that just last century the government of Germany (look up "The

> > Zimmermann Telegram" online) had actually offered to help Mexico regain

> > the

> > lands is used to claim as its own (even though Mexico never actually

> > controlled them) if Mexico would ally itself with Germany. Mexico still

> > claims all the land up to Alaska as its own plus the land it sold to the

> > United States for millions of dollars (billions in today's currency). Read

> > THIS in case you're unfamiliar with Mexico's delusional claims on U.S.

> > (and

> > Canadian) territory: Mexicans migrate to 'their land' at

> >http://deseretnews.com/dn/print/1%2C1442%2C635200794%2C00.html

>

> > Has China -- the land where even as recently as the 1960s millions of

> > innocents were murdered due to their being "politically incorrect" --

> > promised to help Mexico "get back" the lands(again, lands it never even

> > truly owned) it sold to the U.S. but (especially now that it's been

> > developed by American sweatnd ingenuity) eyes enviously?

>

> > <BEGIN EMAIL RECEIVED>

>

> > All....

>

> > Long but important READ. PLEASE heed the words of Jerome Corsi.

> > PLEASE share this data with as many as possible. PLEASE make the decision

> > to work together to HALT this treachery NOW before greed- mongers insure

> > that we a) lose our sovereignty and b) lose our lives!

>

> > ------- Forwarded message follows -------

> > Date sent: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 09:55:45 -0700 (PDT)

> > From: BRIAN MICKELWAIT <brianmickelw...@sbcglobal.net>

> > Subject: Re: OFF-TOPIC (NAU, ETC.): CHINA WINS NAFTA SUPER-HWY. BATTLE:

>

> > Peri ... wrote:

>

> > In case you didn't see this before.

>

> > Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 7:39 PM

>

> > Subject: OFF-TOPIC (NAU, ETC.): CHINA WINS NAFTA SUPER- HWY. BATTLE:

>

> >http://www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=193592

>

> > LibertyPost.org

>

> > News & Current Events

> > See other News & Current Events Articles Title: China Wins NAFTA

> > Super-Highway Battle

> > Source: Americans For Legal Immigration

> > URL Source:http://www.alipac.us/modules.php?

> > name=News&file=article&sid=2361

>

> > Published: Jul 8, 2007

>

> > Author: Jerome R. Corsi

> > Post Date: 2007-07-11 06:30:13 by Itisa1mosttoolate

> > 21 Comments

>

> > China Wins NAFTA Super- Highway Battle By Jerome R. Corsi 7-10-7

> > Red China is investing heavily in developing deep-water ports in Mexico to

> > bring an unprecedented volume of containers into the U.S. along the

> > emerging NAFTA Super Highway.

>

> > This move signals China's emergence as the unexpected economic winner

> > in the North American Union free market.

>

> > Hutchinson Ports, a wholly owned subsidiary of China's giant Hutchinson

> > Whampoa Limited (HWL) is investing millions to expand the deep water ports

> > the company manages at Lazaro Cardenas and Manzanillo on Mexico's Pacific

> > coast.

>

> > Now Hutchinson Ports is pledging millions more to develop Punta

> > Colonet, today a desolate Mexican bay in Baja California. Mexico plans

> > over

> > the next seven years to dredge and convert Punta Colonet into a 10 to 20

> > berth deep-water port facility capable of processing some 6 million

> > standard 20-foot-long TEUs (industry terminology for the "Twenty Foot

> > Equivalent Unit" that describes a single standard container).

>

> > According to Judicial Watch, "Hutchinson, Whampoa, Ltd. is the holding

> > company of billionaire Li Ka-shing, a well-known businessman, whose

> > companies make up 15 percent of the market capitalization of the Hong Kong

> > Stock Market."

>

> > A Judicial Watch complaint filed in 2002, at the time HWL was

> > purchasing the then-bankrupt Global Crossing, notes that Li Ka-Shing's

> > holdings includes ports, telecom, and energy assets around the world.

>

> > Topics: Red China, NAFTA Super Highway, Hutchinson Ports, Hutchinson

> > Whampoa Limited, Lazaro Cardena, Manzanillo, Mexico, Mexican bay in Baja

> > California, Li Ka-shing, Chinese Government, Global Crossing, Democratic

> > National Committee, Terry McAuliffe, Robert Pastor, Chinese People's

> > Liberation Army, China Ocean Shipping Company, North American Union, Dubai

> > Ports World, HWL, detect nuclear material, NAFTA corridors, North

> > America's

> > SuperCorridor Coalition Inc, Bush Administration, Wal-Mart, Kmart, and

> > Home

> > Depot, slave labor prison camps, abuses of human rights, George Bush, Bush

> > Administration free- trade policies, Global Policy Forum, William Hawkin,

> > open bordes, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Communist

> > Chinese, super- highway, NAFTA super-highways, European-style North

> > American Union dominated by the Chinese

>

> > According to a declassified U.S. government intelligence report

> > that Judicial Watch obtained in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)

> > request, "Li is directly connected to Beijing and is willing to use his

> > business influence to further the aims of the Chinese Government."

> > Judicial

> > Watch had objected that "Li Ka-shing's agency relationship to the

> > Communist

> > Chinese should disqualify him from owning Global Crossing's network, which

> > controls a significant percent of all the fiber optics currently leaving

> > the United States."

>

> > Global Crossing was a Clinton Administration darling, noted for turning

> > former Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe's $100,000

> > investment into an $18 million personal fortune.

> > Global Crossing's bold move to control the U.S. international

> > fiber-optics network over-reached, ending in a corrupt corporate melt-down

> > that was an unfortunate prelude to the Enron debacle. Hutchinson Ports was

> > forced to drop the bid to purchase Global Crossing when the Committee on

> > Foreign Investments in the United States (CFIUS) refused to approve the

> > transaction on national security grounds.

>

> > Li Ka-shing's Hutchinson Ports also operates both ends of the Panama

> > Canal, which we have previously documented was returned to Panama under

> > the

> > Carter administration by National Security Council advisor, Robert Pastor,

> > whom we have called the "Father of the North American Union." HWL also has

> > business dealings with the China Ocean Shipping Company (COSCO), China's

> > largest shipping line, which is owned by the Chinese People's Liberation

> > Army. In 1998, Congress blocked on national security grounds an attempt by

> > the Clinton administration to allow COSCO to lease the abandoned Long

> > Beach

> > Naval Station.

>

> > Still, HWL has established a North American beachhead, despite the

> > continuing security concerns. The Standard in China reports that today

> > COSCO has established a little-known presence in U.S. ports, co-managing a

> > terminal with Seattle-based SSA Marine at the mouth of Long Beach's port.

>

> > Remarkably, in the aftermath of the Dubai Ports World blow-up in

> > Congress, the Bush administration hired HWL to operate in the Bahamas

> > sophisticated equipment designed to detect nuclear material inside TEUs

> > headed for the U.S., without requiring U.S. customs agents to be present.

>

> > Now, investing millions to deepen Mexico's ports in a plan to access

> > the developing NAFTA corridors, HWL has found perhaps the most effective

> > backdoor of all for gaining access to the continental U.S. market.

>

> > A set of China-promoting business projections are driving the

> > frenzy to open Mexican ports to NAFTA corridors. Container traffic from

> > China and the Far East has exploded, with industry experts expecting the

> > cargo traffic from China to double by 2020.

>

> > Today jumbo cargo ships containing 8,000 TEUs routinely cruise

> > Pacific Trade routes. Unloading 8,000 containers from a single ship can

> > take up to 3 days, even with experienced dock workers and state-of-the-art

> > cranes.

>

> > West coast ports such as Los Angeles and Long Beach are regularly

> > described

> > as overwhelmed with containers arriving from China and the Far East,

> > resulting in a virtual gridlock that causes expensive delays.

>

> > As a result, "inland ports" such as the Free Trade Alliance of San

> > Antonio and Kansas City Smartport, both members of the North America's

> > SuperCorridor Coalition Inc. (NASCO), are exploring with enthusiasm

> > opening

> > NAFTA corridors to facilitate the movement from Mexican ports 50% to 60%

> > of

> > all containers entering the U.S. from China that are destined for delivery

> > in the heart of the U.S.

>

> > Why the sudden enthusiasm for cheap goods from China? The Bush

> > Administration continues to give the green light to mass-marketing

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