You thought this 'NAFTA SuperHighway' thing was a dead issue, huh? Over 'n done with. Finis. Finito. Adios. Bon voyage and 'adieu'. Hold on just a danged minute, Chum Lee ... that ain't quite the case ... that engineering marvel consisting of SIX parallel superhighways that's gonna run from places like Lazaro Cardenas (that's in Mejico) to Kansas City, on up to Duluth, MN and finally end in Canada is STILL an operational reality. It's also gonna run right thru the center of our agricultural heartland ... but hey, it's just food, right ... ? Just 'cuz they're keepin' it quiet don't mean they ain't steady workin' ... Trust at your own risk ...

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Yeah, with Gov. Perry just about guaranteed getting re-elected, it's a sure bet the Trans-Texas will go in. Once we get an idea where they'll put it, we're liable to pack it up and sell the place, since they were pushing to have it go in essentially across our property, and the local small towns and homes.

If you don't sell, they can claim eminent domain and steal it.

If we are to really stop it we need to boycott Chinese products. They will be offloading from the Panama Canal to avoid US tariffs.

Who the toll collectors will be is kept secret. They are private companies. I suspect, because most of the tolls collected will be diverted to China, the collectors will be Chinese companies.

(Widening the Panama Canal

Plan to enlarge Canal stirs up controversy: Interesting article on the future of the Panama Canal. They’re hoping to add a third “lane” to handle ships bigger than “Panamax” class.

Shippers bringing toys or furniture from China to ports on the East Coast of the USA sometimes must loiter for days before transiting the 50-mile route. The largest cargo carriers, known as “post-Panamax” ships, are too wide to fit through the 92-year-old canal at all.

[…] the canal authority is proposing a $5.25 billion project that would double the canal’s capacity by adding a deeper, wider third lane.

According to the article, a typical container ship will pay $65,000 in fees to get through the canal. It’s based on size, because in 1936, some guy paid 36-cents to swim it.)

(South America's China Syndrome
by Nikolas Kozloff
http://www.brooklynrail.org/2008/07/express/south-americas-china-syndrome

In his thoughtful and engaging review of my book, Revolution! South America and the Rise of the New Left, Michael Busch raises an important point (see “Something is Happening There,” Brooklyn Rail, June 2008). Busch takes issue with the book for not addressing South America’s growing economic ties to China. “Throughout South America,” he writes, “Chinese direct investment and trade have increased.” Currently, South America exports its resources not just to the United States but also to China in exchange for inexpensive manufactured goods. “As a result,” Busch observes, “local industries are undercut, and the region’s economic development has gradually been cast in doubt.” Busch would like to know whether South America’s increasingly close economic relationship with China will give rise to “classically colonial trade policies” which encouraged great social inequities in the past.

Yeah, that's why we will try and sell ASAP if we can. They won't give fair value on eminent domain. One gets royally ****ed with that.