Here is none other than
change agent Katherine Jose writing a blog on the Huffington Post concerning the coming so-called "NAFTA superhighway".
The planning of the Pan-American Highway goes back to the 5th Conference of American States, held in Santiago, 1923 - and beyond.
The article oddly seems to be aimed at trashing people who are writing about this, and at the same time attempting to shield George W Bush from somehow having any part or knowledge of it. This while "criticizing" the "left" for being "taken in" by the Pan-American Highway "conspiracy theory".
Very odd? Not if you can see through a World Wrestling "fight".
Of course, the ubiquitous "conspiracy theory" is thrown in there to "debunk" it all .....
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ARTICLE:
Katharine P. Jose
The NAFTA Superhighway: Anatomy of a Conspiracy Theory
Posted August 20, 2007 | 04:08 PM (EST)
Conspiracy theories don't brew overnight.
It was a little more than a year ago that Human Events journalist and right wing whisperer Jerome Corsi began slinging a series of accusations at President Bush in an article about an alleged "NAFTA Superhighway." Corsi said the president was secretly planning to build a giant twelve-lane highway using millions of acres of private land between the Mexican border and the Canadian; he said it was part of a broader plan to merge the three nations into a North American Union; he also said a certain planned highway -- the Tran Texas Corridor -- was only the beginning.
Human Events isn't a terrific place to turn for news, and Corsi isn't the sort of writer on which to rely, but the topic was seductive. No one in mainstream or left wing media took much interest in these stories, but over the next months articles began piling up on the web's most conservative sites: Human Events, World Net Daily, The John Birch Society.
Several months later, in September of 2006, Representative Virgil Goode authored a bill opposing the highway, among other things. Representative Ron Paul, Internet darling and current candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, signed on as a cosponsor and issued a statement to his constituents expressing his concern over the highway.
The bill earned a mention on Wonkette, but all the other media attention was rants and raves from the aforementioned websites and bloggers with names like patriotsteve and joeblogusa. They were bilious over the erosion of U.S. sovereignty, terrified of this new conduit for illegal immigrants, and indignant over the proposed government land grab. Over the course of the winter and spring, the NAFTA Superhighway was making noise only in one very small corner of the Internet.
Two things have happened during this frenetic campaign summer. One, everyone seems to have suddenly noticed the NAFTA Superhighway. And two, it has become very clear that it doesn't exist.
This new wave began back in May, when McClatchy became the first mainstream media outlet to address the topic, eliciting at least one official denial in an the article that failed to take a position on whether the entire endeavor was a rumor or not.
Between then and now, Google Alerts for "nafta superhighway" went from one or two a day to more like six or eight: more editorials in local papers opposing the highway, more blogs from more or less anonymous bloggers. This month, the dam burst. Corsi reported an official denial from Dick Cheney. A piece on The New York Times' Caucus blog reported that constituents in Iowa were posing questions about the highway to Republican candidates. A segment on the Colbert Report poked fun at an author convinced not only that the highway will be built, but that it will destroy the American way. Finally, just as I sat down to write this blog, the final word. Christopher Hayes' article for The Nation appeared online last week, putting to rest the rumors, the whispers, and the doubts. The left-leaning media agrees that the highway doesn't exist, which is not entirely a surprise since the right has long taken ownership over this particular conspiracy theory. Townhall.com, a conservative website whose contributors have repeatedly declared opposition to the NAFTA Superhighway, this week published an editorial that outed the Superhighway as a conspiracy -- one that right wingers were orating about but failing to address as a decoy.
For most of us, this is over. But discussion about the NAFTA Superhighway isn't going to disappear.
It won't go away, partly, of course, because it's self-perpetuating in a media world where every blog post means three circular blog posts about the first post. It's also pre-elections jitters, and there are perhaps more political questions being asked than during the average vacation month.
Most significantly, it isn't going away, and it won't go away, because the highway has never been the point. For every journalist, blogger, politician, constituent and lonely heart that has raged about this highway, the anger has never been about the highway itself as much as about fear for the future of America and anger at what has happened to the country under this administration. It's no great mystery that many conservatives feel betrayed by Bush -- on immigration, on spending, on the economy. Many Americans on the right thought the Christian Texan might make their nation feel more like their own again, but he's failed them. Which might also explain why the right has been so seduced by this particular conspiracy. The left are no happier with Bush, but they had fewer stairs to fall down.
The left won't let it go either. This is the inverse of the 9/11 truth movement: it's the evidence for the non-conspiracy-prone left that the other side has a fringe they would rather disown. It is with unbridled glee that the left leaning media outlets are starting to pick up on just how deep the NAFTA highway conspiracy river runs.
During these blurry dogs days of August the "highway" has been a method for getting into madness of American politics: how fractious we have become, how uncertain the future is, and the degree to which we can be forgiven for failing to trust our current government.
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FROM:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/katharine-jose/the-nafta-superhighway-a_b_61172.html?page=3So ... Jose's blog was closed to comments, thus the fact that this has been, and is, openly recorded and written about for the last
eighty-five years can not be posted for all readers of her deceptive tripe to see.
Just
a few co-conspirators in spreading this awful "conspiracy theory":
... In October 1925, MacDonald was appointed a delegate to the Pan-American Road Congress in Argentina, leading to United States support for the Pan American Highway (Alaska to Argentina) and a direct role in construction of the Inter-American Highway...
http://www.tfhrc.gov/pubrds/fall93/p93au1.htmPaving the Pan-American gap.
By Korten, Alicia
Publication: Multinational Monitor
Date: Wednesday, November 1 1995
PANAMA - If Latin American governments and business interests have their way, a century-old dream to complete a trans-American highway will be realized by the turn of the century.
http://www.allbusiness.com/specialty-businesses/539492-1.htmlLEAGUE OF NATIONS IN AMERICA ASKED; Uruguay Will Propose a Plan at Pan-American Conference in Santiago Next May. FOR WESTERN HARMONY American Association in Montevideo Hears Foreign Minister Outline North and South Union.
July 23, 1922, Sunday
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, July 22 (Associated Press).--Formation of an American League of Nations will be proposed by Uruguay at the next PanAmerican conference to be held in Santiago, Chile, in May, 1923. This announcement was made in a speech by ...
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9E02E2D71E30E633A25750C2A9619C946395D6CFPan-American Highway
network of highways connecting North America and South America. Originally conceived in 1923 as a single route, the road grew to include a great number of designated highways in participating countries. The Inter-American Highway, from Nuevo Laredo, Mex., to Panama City (3,350 miles [5,390 km]), is a part of it.
The Mexican section was built and financed entirely by Mexico, while the sections…
http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9058195/Pan-American-HighwayPan-American Highway
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition | Date: 2008
Pan-American Highway system of roads, c.16,000 mi (25,750 km) long, linking the nations of the Western Hemisphere. It was suggested at the Fifth International Conference of American States (1923) and supported and financed by the United States during the 1940s and 1950s. Gaps are in Panama (Darién Gap) and N Colombia, in the section called the Inter-American Highway . The route from Yaviza (Panama) to Colombia is surveyed but not constructed. The section between the United States and the Panama Canal is popular with tourists driving to Mexico. Climatic zones along the highway vary from lush jungle to cold mountain passes nearly 15,000 ft (4,572 m) high. The scenery is often spectacular, and the highway crosses many picturesque localities. The system is far from uniform; some stretches are passable only during the dry season, and in several regions driving is occasionally hazardous. In the late 1960s, much of the highway was improved.
- PAN-AMERICAN HIGHWAY., The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition 2008
Paving the Pan-American gap.(Pan-American highway; Panama's Darien Gap)
Multinational Monitor; 11/1/1995; Korten, Alicia; 2012 words ; ... Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, the Pan-American highway lumbers to a muddy halt in Panama ... officials to complete the highway. The Pan-American Highway is the only unfinished international ... completion of the last section of the Pan-American Highway, says a ... Read more
Track record; At a whopping 15,000 miles, the Pan-American Highway is the world's longest thoroughfare. And as Simon Calder discovers when he undertakes the ultimate road trip, it really goes the distance.(Features)
The Independent (London, England); 12/3/2005; Calder, Simon; 2370 words ; ... miles west from here, at which the Pan-American Highway crosses the Panama Canal: where ... to take escapees south along the Pan-American Highway. The first rule of bus travel in ... standard joke among backpackers on the Pan-American Highway: How many people can you ... Read more
High road could pierce the heart of darkness. (completing the Pan-American Highway through Panama)
Insight on the News; 12/12/1994; Otis, James; 1451 words ; Completing the Pan-American Highway would link North and South ... task of completing the Pan-American Highway remains bogged down in ... border: When completed, [the Pan-American Highway] will make immeasurably ... Read more
Plans to close 60-mile gap on Pan American Highway are controversial. (Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; 2/24/1995; Glenn, Reed; 684 words ; CLOSING THE GAP?: The Pan American Highway stretches 17,000 miles from ... with the missing link in the Pan American Highway. ``It is an embarrassment that ... complete its 30-mile side of the highway. The Panamanian government ... Read more
On North-South Artery, a Lost Vision of a United Continent; Pan- American Highway Still Unfinished
The Washington Post; 12/22/2002; Niko Price; 1347 words ; ... American unity and solidarity," the Pan-American Highway stands unfinished at the dawn of ... Americas endorsed the proposal for a Pan-American Highway. With infusions of U.S. cash, laborers ... pedestrians. The original route of the Pan-American Highway traverses ... Read more
New interstate should boost local economies: 'Pan-American highway' could be finished in as little as 12 years. (Focus Delta & River Cities).
Mississippi Business Journal; 5/27/2002; Kirkland, Elizabeth; 1080 words ; ... Mexico and Canada continue to increase exponentially. A Pan-American Highway -- it has been talked about for nearly 20 years. Interstate ... road, Caruthers said. It's going to really be the first Pan-American highway, uniting three markets of 360 million consumers. Caruthers ... Read more
NEXT STOP ALASKA The Pan-American Highway is 16,500 miles long and passes through some of the world's most dangerous countries. How could Geoff Hill resist?
The Sunday Telegraph London; 11/12/2006; Geoff Hill; 1921 words ; ... up a copy of The Adventure Motorbiking Handbook by Chris Scott and accidentally opened it at the section on the Pan-American Highway, at 16,500 miles the world's longest road, running from Quelln in Chile to Fairbanks in Alaska. It was a road on ... border with Colombia, a country that everyone had told us ... Read more
Cruising the Pan-American Highway
The Washington Post; 8/11/1991; Harry Middleton; 785 words ; ... lead him, McGuire navigated but a single path - that of the Pan-American highway. He kept to the knotted spine of the Andes and to the mollifying ... With No Names? An efficient, rather cold and dispassionate, news-soaked travelogue, one with plenty of description and fact ... Read more
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Pan-American Highway
World Encyclopedia Pan-American Highway Road system linking s USA, Mexico, Central America and South ... Inter-American Highway, which connects Panama and Texas. Work on the Pan-American Highway started in the late 1920s, and the system is still being extended ... Read more
Pan-American Highway
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia International highway system connecting North and South America. Conceived in 1923 as a single route, the road grew to include a number of designated highways in participating countries, including the Inter-American Highway from Nuevo Laredo, Mex., to Panama City, Pan. The whole system, extending from ... Read more
Inter-American Highway
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ... 5,470 km) long, section of the Pan-American Highway system from Nuevo Laredo, Mexico ... Panama City, Panama. Much of the highway prior to 1941 had been built by ... by each nation on its own. The highway includes alternate routes and ... Read more
Barquisimeto
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition , city (1990 pop. 625,450), capital of Lara state, NW Venezuela, on the Pan-American Highway . Surrounded by good grazing country, the city is a commercial center that ships cattle, coffee, cacao, sugar, and sisal. There ... Read more
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If we want relative legitimate government, relative security and stability in this country; it is people like Katherine Jose that need to be the focus of real attention. Not phantoms half way round the world.
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