YouTube Video:   Ron Paul, Lou Dobbs On NAFTA Superhighway. May 2008 FL:   Up for [Foreign -- (CINTRA, spanish com.)] Lease:  Alligator Alley.   (Herald Tribune) TX:   Local Governments Fight Trans-Texas Corridor...   the first leg of the NAFTA Superhighway. (Liberty Matters, May 27, 2008) Pennsylvania:   Bonanza from Lease of Turnpike (to International co.) Not So Big?   $12-$18 billion projection is half of the amount expected year ago. ...controversial Act 44 transportation bill, which includes raising turnpike tolls and converting Interstate 80 to a toll road, Mr. Rendell will push to lease the 360-mile east-west mainline and 110-mile Northeast...The bill includes the controversial 10 percent drink tax that Allegheny County Council enacted to support public transit...In similar deals made in 2005-06, a consortium of Australia-based Macquarie Group and Spain-based Cintra paid $1.83 billion to lease the 7.8-mile Chicago Skyway for 99 years and $3.8 billion to lease the 157-mile Indiana Toll Road for 75 years. (Post-Gazette) [Other new articles indicate that Gov. Rendell prefers the same Spanish co. (Cintra) which is slated to run the NAFTA Highway from TX to Canada and already runs several other toll roads in the U.S. not to mention all around the world.] (May 6, 2008) Obama's and Clinton's NAFTA Trade Stance Altered for Indiana, N. Carolina.   Indiana, NC are considered states which have gained from NAFTA. ...But unemployment has soared in the rural parts of the state where textile mills and furniture factories have been hard hit by foreign competition...(Wall St. J., May 5, 2008) Guest Commentary By Pres. of American Trucking Asso.:   Leasing Toll Roads Is Wrong Fix for State Money Woes.  ...For example, in January 2005 the city of Chicago leased the Chicago Skyway (Interstate 90) to a joint venture of the Australian Macquarie Infrastructure Group and Spanish Cintra for $1.83 billion to pay off city debt and fund nontransportation projects. In June 2006, Indiana leased the Indiana Toll Road (Interstate 80/90) to Macquarie-Cintra for a one-time payment of $3.85 billion... a thorough review must be done to ensure there is a clear understanding of the long-term implications. Does it really make sense to surrender control of an existing roadway for two, three or even four generations in exchange for an up-front cash payment that is likely to be gone in 10 years? That hardly sounds like a fair exchange to me...(Naples Daily) [Cintra is the company slated to manage the entire NAFTA Highway from TX to Canada.] (May 5, 2008) TX:   Local Governments Fight Trans-Texas Corridor...   the first leg of the NAFTA Superhighway. (Liberty Matters, May 5, 2008) New Jersey Toll Roads Going Up for Bid to Foreign Countries.   Cintra, who is to run the NAFTA Highway between TX and Canada is one of the bidders. $12-$18 billion projection is half of the amount expected year ago. (Post-Gazette) Pennsylvania:   Bonanza from Lease of Turnpike (to International co.) Not So Big?   $12-$18 billion projection is half of the amount expected year ago. ...controversial Act 44 transportation bill, which includes raising turnpike tolls and converting Interstate 80 to a toll road, Mr. Rendell will push to lease the 360-mile east-west mainline and 110-mile Northeast...The bill includes the controversial 10 percent drink tax that Allegheny County Council enacted to support public transit...In similar deals made in 2005-06, a consortium of Australia-based Macquarie Group and Spain-based Cintra paid $1.83 billion to lease the 7.8-mile Chicago Skyway for 99 years and $3.8 billion to lease the 157-mile Indiana Toll Road for 75 years. (Post-Gazette) [Other new articles indicate that Gov. Rendell prefers the same Spanish co. (Cintra) which is slated to run the NAFTA Highway from TX to Canada and already runs several other toll roads in the U.S. not to mention all around the world.] April 2008 Great Lakes Water Treaties Convoluted.   From a Canadian point of view:   As aquifers and rivers in the United States run dry, there seems little doubt that the Americans will be turning their thirsty eyes north toward our seemingly plentiful water supply. Indeed, no less an authority than former Alberta premier Peter Lougheed has predicted: "The United States will be coming after our water in three to five years." -- But isn't our water protected by federal-provincial agreements and legislation, such as Bill C-6, which amended the International Waters Treaty Act in 2000 to ban water exports from the Canadian side of the Great Lakes and other regional basins? ...such protections would have no real force against World Trade Organization rules, which prohibit the use of export bans or limitations on any product that a trade partner has contracted to buy – especially when these WTO rules are considered in combination with the provisions of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)...Noting that transfers of water to the U.S. were discussed a year ago at a closed-door meeting of Canadian, American and Mexican business leaders operating under the auspices of their governments' Security and Prosperity Partnership, Tony Clarke, author of the Polaris paper, stressed the urgency of developing a strategy to strengthen Canadian sovereignty over our waters. (The Star) (April 9, 2008) Thousands Turnout for Trans TX Corridor Protest Rally.  Don’t Mess with Texas TURF. ...whose Mayor Carolyn Jones spread misinformation telling constituents the “TTC-69 project was dead so you don’t need to go to that rally Saturday.” One of her constituents quipped that “she must think we didn’t learn to read or write. Well, we did and we’re not stupid. We couldn’t wait to get to this rally.” (Texas Turf) (April 8, 2008) NAFTA Super Highway Facts, Maps.   (Jerome Corsi, April 14, 2008) Text of Manhattan Declaration On Climate Change (April 22, 2008) Toll Road Offers NJ a Fiscal Test Drive.   But when a private Australian-Spanish consortium took control of the Indiana East-West Toll Road in 2006 after leasing the adjoining Chicago Skyway the previous year, the move touched off a fierce debate in Indianapolis that is reverberating in Trenton, Harrisburg and other statehouses across the country, where the struggle to finance soaring transportation costs goes on. “I go to these governors’ meetings and 49 of them are wringing their hands,” Gov. Mitch Daniels of Indiana said in an interview. “It’s not very complicated. Most of them can see it and are astonished at how great a deal Indiana got.” (NY Times, April 13) [When liberals talk of "privatizing" take note that they usually mean using a foreign business enterprise.] National Survey Reveals Strong Opposition to the NAFTA Highway (Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP).   (Borderfire Report, April 24) Oklahoma:   Several OK Legislators Concerned Over Potential Push to Run Cintra Run Toll Road Through OK.   Worried about individuals and organization quietly working on plans to create a privately-operated (by foreign company) tollway in OK. Many referred to Spain-based Cintra, which has been involved in the development of a proposed Trans-Texas Corridor. Cintra also took over the operation of the Indiana East-West Toll Road from the Indiana Department of Transportation in 2006. (Midwest City Sun, April 7) Florida Considering Leasing Alligator Alley to Cintra.  SPECIAL REPORT: Leasing Alligator Alley -- benefit or boondoggle? Try predicting the value of your home 75 years from now. Or forecasting the return on an investment over 99 years. (Naples News, April 26)