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igotthisguitar



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PostPosted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 1:55 am    Post subject: Bush Administration Quietly Plans NAFTA Super Highway Reply with quote

Bush Administration Quietly Plans NAFTA Super Highway
by Jerome R. Corsi
Posted Jun 12, 2006

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Quietly but systematically, the Bush Administration is advancing the plan to build a huge NAFTA Super Highway, four football-fields-wide, through the heart of the U.S. along Interstate 35, from the Mexican border at Laredo, Tex., to the Canadian border north of Duluth, Minn.

http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=15497
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mateomiguel



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PostPosted: Fri Jun 16, 2006 8:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

that's freakin awesome! This is not a 'quiet' as in menacing project, this is a 'quiet' as in surprise birthday party project.

Maybe they'll have different lanes at different speeds like the Autobahn in Germany. I'd love driving on that!
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igotthisguitar



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PostPosted: Sun Jun 18, 2006 12:32 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Bush Sneaking North American Super-State Without Oversight

Tuesday, June 13, 2006

THE NEW WORLD DISORDER
Bush sneaking North American super-state without oversight?
Mexico, Canada partnership underway with no authorization from Congress

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=50618


By Jerome R. Corsi

2006 WorldNetDaily.com
Despite having no authorization from Congress, the Bush administration has launched extensive working-group activity to implement a trilateral "agreement" with Mexico and Canada.

The membership of the working groups has not been published, nor has their work product been disclosed, despite two years of massive effort within the executive branches of the U.S., Mexico and Canada.

The groups, working under the North American Free Trade Agreement office in the Department of Commerce, are to implement the Security and Prosperity Partnership, or SPP, signed by President Bush, Mexican President Vicente Fox and then-Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin in Waco, Texas, on March 23, 2005.

The trilateral agreement, signed as a joint declaration not submitted to Congress for review, led to the creation of the SPP office within the Department of Commerce.

The SPP report to the heads of state of the U.S., Mexico and Canada, -- released June 27, 2005, -- lists some 20 different working groups spanning a wide variety of issues ranging from e-commerce, to aviation policy, to borders and immigration, involving the activity of multiple U.S. government agencies.

The working groups have produced a number of memorandums of understanding and trilateral declarations of agreement.

The Canadian government and the Mexican government each have SPP offices comparable to the U.S. office.

Geri Word, who heads the SPP office within the NAFTA office of the U.S. Department of Commerce affirmed to WND last Friday in a telephone interview that the membership of the working groups, as well as their work products, have not been published anywhere, including on the Internet.

Why the secrecy?

"We did not want to get the contact people of the working groups 'distracted' by calls from the public," said Word.

She suggested to WND that the work products of the working groups was described on the SPP website, so publishing the actual documents did not seem required.

WND can find no specific congressional legislation authorizing the SPP working groups. The closest to enabling legislation was introduced in the Senate by Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., on April 20, 2005. Listed as S. 853, the bill was titled "North American Cooperative Security Act: A bill to direct the Secretary of State to establish a program to bolster the mutual security and safety of the United States, Canada, and Mexico, and for other purposes." The bill never emerged from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

In the House of Representatives, the same bill was introduced by Rep. Katherine Harris, R-Fla., on May 26, 2005. Again, the bill languished in the House Subcommittee on Intelligence, Information Sharing, and Terrorism Risk Assessment.

WND cannot find any congressional committees taking charge for specific oversight of SPP activity.

WND has requested from Word in the U.S. Department of Commerce a complete listing of the contact persons and the participating membership for the working groups listed in the June 2005 SPP report to the trilateral leaders. In addition, WND asked to see all work products, such as memorandums of understanding, letters of intent, and trilateral agreements that are referenced in the report.

Many SPP working groups appear to be working toward achieving specific objectives as defined by a May 2005 Council on Foreign Relations task force report, which presented a blueprint for expanding the SPP agreement into a North American Union that would merge the U.S., Canada and Mexico into a new governmental form.

Referring to the SPP joint declaration, the report, entitled "Building a North American Community," stated:

The Task Force is pleased to provide specific advice on how the partnership can be pursued and realized.

To that end, the Task Force proposes the creation by 2010 of a North American community to "enhance" security, prosperity, and opportunity. We propose a community based on the principle affirmed in the March 2005 Joint Statement of the three leaders that "our security and prosperity are mutually dependent and complementary." Its boundaries will be defined by a common external tariff and an outer security perimeter within which the movement of people, products, and capital will be legal, orderly, and safe. Its goal will be to guarantee a free, secure, just, and prosperous North America.

The CFR task force report called for establishment of a common security border perimeter around North America by 2010, along with "free" movement of people, commerce and capital within North America, facilitated by the development of a North American Border Pass that would replace a U.S. passport for travel between the U.S., Canada and Mexico.

Also envisioned by the CFR task force report were a North American court, a North American inter-parliamentary group, a North American executive commission, a North American military defense command, a North American customs office and a North American development bank.

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Jerome R. Corsi received a Ph.D. from Harvard University in political science in 1972 and has written many books and articles, including co-authoring with John O'Neill the No. 1 New York Times best-seller, "Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry." Dr. Corsi's most recent books include "Black Gold Stranglehold: The Myth of Scarcity and the Politics of Oil," which he co-authored with WND columnist Craig. R. Smith, and "Atomic Iran: How the Terrorist Regime Bought the Bomb and American Politicians."
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igotthisguitar



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PostPosted: Wed Jun 21, 2006 3:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Alberta Labour Crunch Will Worsen In Next 20 Years, Report Warns
Tue Jun 20, 07:53 AM EST

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/june2006/210606cfrplan.htm

OTTAWA (CP) - The Conference Board of Canada is predicting Alberta's labour crunch will likely worsen over the next 20 years.

In a report entitled Alberta's Labour Shortage: Just the Tip of the Iceberg, the conference board estimates Alberta's annual shortfall of workers will reach 332,000 by 2025 if current trends continue.

The board's vice-president and chief economist, Glen Hodgson, says something will have to give because no economy can sustain such a huge and growing gap between labour demand and supply.

The conference board report says markets will have to adjust to compensate for the labour crunch, with a rapid increase in wages making some projects too expensive to proceed.

The conference board suggests several solutions to Alberta's labour shortage, including attracting more immigrants, wider recognition of foreign credentials, better training programs and more labour mobility agreements with other provinces.

It says the province should also encourage more First Nations and older workers to enter or remain in the workforce.

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/20062006/2/national-alberta-labour-crunch-worsen-next-20-years-report-warns.html

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PostPosted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 3:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Dr. Ron Paul On The North AmeriKan Union
(Republican Presidential Debate, Florida)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qc36BkyfHNI
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Ya-ta Boy



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PostPosted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 3:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm with mateomiguel. It looks like a great idea.
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 3:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

That's really cool. I thought for years that we needed north/south and east/west super highway that includes high speed rail service bundled in.

America needs new developments that will increase physical economic growth on the ground and get people going places faster.

When the interstates were widened to 4 and 8 lanes around 20 to 30 years ago, it produced economic growth and development, but it was not enough.

The problem was that government contracted high way building runs super slow where it takes a lifetime or two to get a project done as I saw duel lane highways take 10 to 20 years to be built. It took 10 years to build 30 miles of duel in Missouri.
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 3:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan-American_Highway

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mindmetoo



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PostPosted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 3:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

igotthisguitar wrote:

Despite having no authorization from Congress, the Bush administration has launched extensive working-group activity to implement a trilateral "agreement" with Mexico and Canada.


Does Bush require approval from Congress to form working groups?

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The working groups have produced a number of memorandums of understanding and trilateral declarations of agreement.


Oh god say it isn't so! The executive makes international agreements? Why this has never happened in the history of America! Oh wait SALT, FTAs...


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"We did not want to get the contact people of the working groups 'distracted' by calls from the public," said Word.


What they don't want Alex Jones standing outside their home with a megaphone? Understandable.

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The CFR task force report called for establishment of a common security border perimeter around North America by 2010, along with "free" movement of people, commerce and capital within North America, facilitated by the development of a North American Border Pass that would replace a U.S. passport for travel between the U.S., Canada and Mexico.


As a software professional I sure wouldn't mind the ability to move freely between borders and do my work. This is not scary. I would say the freedom gained by high tech professionals in Canada under the TN (treaty nafta) visa and their brain drain to the USA to escape high taxes significantly contributed to the lowering of Canadian taxes. When human capital gains the ability to move like money capital, it's a benefit to all.

And why is a border pass "scary"? Peanuts or popcorn. Take your pick. They're both an official travel document. Hell, before 9/11 one could get into the USA sometimes with only a driver's license.
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hubba bubba



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PostPosted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 7:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Oh no.. Not INFRASTRUCTURE!!!!!! What ever will we do if they build roads highways and railways???




Those damn reptilian Freemasons are at it again.
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Pluto



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PostPosted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 7:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Have you ever heard of the Interstate Interste Highway System.
Interstate 5 already extends from Baja California to British Colombia.
Interstate 35 extends from Loredo, Texas, on the Mexican boarder, to Duluth, MN. There you just take Highway 61 to International Falls.
There are are other Interstates one can take. In other words, such highways already exist and have existed since the fifties. Rolling Eyes
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Ya-ta Boy



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PostPosted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 11:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I think I've got this figured out. Did you look at the two maps? The stealth highway will go right up the middle, by-passing the east and west coasts. The opposition is coming from those places because they are afraid of a little competition from the cabal running Minnesota/Iowa/Nebraska/Missouri/Kansas/Oklahoma and Texas.
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keane



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PostPosted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 11:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

sojourner1 wrote:
America needs new developments that will increase physical economic growth on the ground and get people going places faster.


Oh, yes. At the rate we are currently going we will use up all the oil within about 70 years. Literally. The fisheries are going, land is being denuded.

Yes, let's pump up that growth because there simply is NO LIMIT to how far it can go!

Rolling Eyes
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Captain Corea



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PostPosted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 11:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

huffdaddy wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan-American_Highway



That'd be a cool road trip!
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mindmetoo



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PostPosted: Fri Nov 30, 2007 12:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Captain Corea wrote:

That'd be a cool road trip!


Long time ago Letterman sent Larry Bud Melman on a roadtrip down the Pan American Highway. They were trying to reach Terra Del Fuego or however you spell it. But Larry got really sick and tired and he came home.
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