by Marvin J. Ramirez

Marvin J. Ramirez

When El Reportero started reporting late last year that there were plans to replace the United States dollar for a new currency called, amero, people reacted with disbelief, and probably considered me loco de la cabeza, while most mainstream media fanatics called it “conspiracy theory.”

However, this “conspiracy theory” was true, and it is now – finally – being mentioned in many mainstream news organizations that you know, those that are actually the government’s mouth pieces: FoxNews, CNN, etc. All this is being done behind closed doors from the people in the United States.

See ­http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hiPrsc9g98, where CNBC discusses it as imminent, while it criticizes the same media for giving so little coverage to it.

The amero comes as another deal, also hidden from American reappears in the shadow. And this is the super highway connecting the United States with Mexico and Canada.

The Bush administration open-border policy and its decision to ignore this country’s immigration law, is part of a broader agenda.

President Bush signed a formal agreement that will end the United States as we know it, and he took the steps without approval from neither the U.S. Congress or the people of the United States, as it was reported by CNN.

It is called, the North American Union, a deal that will create one currency and one government, comprised of Mexico, the United States, and Canada.

In 2005, Representative Marcy Kaptur of Ohio gave a presentation about NAFTA Super Highway to the U.S. House of Representatives.

At that time, some people seemed unsure if it was going to happen, but it definitely seems so now, according to several media reports.

Everyone knows that America has been losing its independence as goods that used to be made here are displaced by foreign imports,” said Kaptur. She mentioned the trillion dollar a year trade deficit the United States is facing.

This is something that will hurt our economy even more as large suppliers will be shipping their payloads to Mexico to then be transported on the highway to America. The highway will also be owned privately by Sentra (a subsidiary of a Spanish transportation company owned by a multi billionaire), which could then lease the highway to foreign interests where tolls could be used for independent money collection, according to the news report.

Holding a map of continental America, Kaptur went on to show and explained that what the Bush administration was planning then, was what it would be the continuation or the step after NAFTA.

The plan, she said, was to lack NAFTA even tighter in this country and across the continent. It is called the Agreement on Security and Prosperity what was being negotiated then by the Bush administration very quietly.

Most Americans have not even heard of the term but it really is the successor to NAFTA. “No hearings have been held in this Congress on the subject.”

Kaptur explained with detail about the more than $9 billion that will be invested in Mexico on a super highway, while losing more that 30,000 jobs in the U.S. and employing more than 150,000 workers in Mexico.

“It will employ about 15 percent of all unemployed people in Mexico, so many of them having been uprooted from their farms because NAFTA provided no transition provisions to allow people to have a life and to survive in rural areas in Mexico, and over 2 million families have been uprooted from Mexico’s farm communities, and are doing what?, they are moving north, to eat,” said Kaptur at a Congressional hearing, and broadcast by C-SPAM.

“And this is happening at the heart of the illegal immigration problem, and is NAFTA disruption of the Mexican country side.”

Even worse, as she reported, is that the same Spanish company, Sentra, that has a 99-year concession highway in Ohio, is involved in the concession for the super highway Mexico-United States.

In the NAFTA website, it shows that the super highway is to connect Mexico, the U.S., and Canada. And while Mexico is building the super highway infrastructure with materials from China, and not from the U.S., the people at Mexico’s Lázaro Cárdenas port, are employed by workers making almost nothing. The whole unloading containers now happening in U.S. ports like Oakland and Oregon could be ignored and transported via the super highway.

You can bring massive containers from Asia through Mexico through this corridor, which is leased to a foreign nation, said Kaptur.

With force, she said, “The people of the United States better wake up! We better ask ourselves, why America have to work so hard for less, why is more expensive to send the chil­dren to college and graduate with huge debts? Why isn’t your pension plan secured? Why are we having to pay so much for health care? Why is not your retirement benefi t forever? Because these kind of interests don’t want you to have it, because they are so fi lthy rich off the investment they are making globally, that they don’t care about you, they don’t care about this country, they don’t care about democracy.”

In sum, the change of the currency and the formation of one North American union as one country, it will have a great negative impact on every person, but a great benefi cial one for the banking elite and billionaire international corporations. Americans! Wake up, wake up, or you will not have a country for you and your anymore, soon.

by the University of Michigan

ANN ARBOR, (Michigan). – Despite enduring more invasive tests and medical procedures, patients who were treated aggressively for early stage bladder cancer had no better survival than patients who were treated less aggressively. Further, the aggressively treated patients were more likely to undergo major surgery to have their bladder removed, according to a new study from researchers at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Because bladder cancer is often treated as a chronic disease requiring lifelong surveillance, it is among the most expensive cancers to treat in the United States.

Urologists vary widely in how they approach early stage, or non-muscle-invasive, bladder cancer.

In this study, researchers gathered data from the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results Medicare database. They looked at 940 doctors who provided care to 20,713 early stage bladder cancer patients. Each doctor included in the study had treated at least 10 patients for bladder cancer. Results of the study appear in the April 15 issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

The study found that average per-patient treatment expenditures ranged from $2,830 for doctors in the low-intensity treatment category to $7,131 for doctors in the high-intensity category. At the same time survival rates across all intensity categories were similar.

“What this indicates is that some doctors are providing potentially unnecessary care, or care without measurable benefit to the patient. It makes sense to many doctors and patients that more would be better, but unfortunately there can be unintended consequences of unneeded care,” says study author Brent Hollenbeck, M.D., M.S., assistant professor of urology at the U-M Medical School.

The study found that patients treated more aggressively had more imaging procedures and more invasive surgical procedures.

The aggressively treated patients were also nearly twice as likely to require major medical interventions, and were 2.5 times more likely to undergo radical cystectomy, a procedure to remove the bladder.

The study authors suggest that certain patients might still benefit from greater intensity of care, but further research is needed to determine which patients would benefit.

­Hollenbeck also urges randomized clinical trials to look at the value of some of the more expensive and common health services to determine their optimal use for patients with early stage bladder cancer.

“Urologists should not assume that more aggressive management of early stage bladder cancer will translate into better outcomes for their patients. By reducing unnecessary health care, we can reduce wasteful spending, which will lessen the cost burden of bladder cancer, one of the most expensive cancers to treat from diagnosis to death,” Hollenbeck says.

Bladder cancer statistics: 68,810 Americans will be diagnosed with bladder cancer this year and 14,100 will die from the disease, according to the American Cancer Society.