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NAFTA Highway; Anybody have a cool calm analysis?
Topic Started: Dec 23 2006, 07:38 AM (208 Views)
Mikhailoh
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I have read a couple times on here now about the so called NAFTA Highway that will help facilitate trade and freight on the North American continent.

All I have seen thus far is the below link, which Alberta Crude feels has the air of the tinfoil hat about it.

http://www.thenewamerican.com/artman/publi...icle_4088.shtml

Does anyone know more about the highway and its ramifications?
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Mark
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It does read somewhat like a "conspiracy theory" website but I do not put the topic in the realm of impossibility.

I would like to read more about this from different sources.


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apple
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http://www.thenewamerican.com/artman/publi...icle_4218.shtml
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DivaDeb
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http://www.teamster.org/06news/hn_060714_1.asp

I don't have a ton of time right now, but I can tell you it's *big* news in my little town. There have been many, many news reports and hours and hours of local radio devoted to the topic. We are slated to be the big jumping off point on this thing. Burlington Northern has, not coincidentally, forced their way into town to build a massive intermodal facility. Obviously, the placement of the facility near the proposed big damn highway makes it not so difficult to connect the dots.

Oh...and just a stone's throw away from this town, Kansas City is allowing the Mexican government to open a Mexican customs office...the first foreign customs facility to be located on US soil. Now...Kansas City isn't real close to Mexico last time I checked. Perhaps we're going to be seeing a lot more traffic from the south.

There are a load of great "non-looney" reports to be had, I'll have to post links later, I gotta go get ready for tomorrow's guests.

The main website to explore and understand thoroughly is:

http://www.spp.gov/
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Mikhailoh
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There are some discrepancies between these diagrams in Apple's link and the original posting, not that this is terribly significant.

If you follow the link to the list of priority corridors, they are primarily internal to America.
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DivaDeb
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my understanding, Mik, is that the precise location of portions of the highway remains to be determined, but that it will be basically Highway 69 (in Kansas...I don't know what the highway numbering would be in other states, if it changes) or I-35. The original idea (again, as I understand it) was to follow 69 or 169, but because large sections of those highways are not really complete-able in the sense these folks are proposing, I-35 has been called, as of late, "the real NAFTA highway."

You can search and read all day long. Don't draw any conclusions on just a few things, there is a *huge* amount of reading to do if you really want to get a grasp of what's coming to a theatre near me pretty soon. While you read...bear in mind the nearly numberless local governments they're dealing with along the way. The fact that it is already well under way and hardly anybody knows about is, to say the least, interesting.

Here's another fun one to look at:

http://www.kcsmartport.com/pdf/SmtPrtOneRoute.pdf

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Mikhailoh
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Deb, that is exactly what interests me.. this is, by any reckoning of how beneficial or detrimental, BIG, BIG NEWS.

Yet it seems quiet as a mouse. I'll take a look at those links, but I think this kind of thing should be very common knowledge in great detail among American citizens, especially with the empahsis on border security of late.
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Daniel\
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I don't have any links or helpful analysis, but I read about this and have a few thoughts about it.

I read a newspaper article (a long time ago) that there would be a highway, and that it would have no exits in the US, all of the servicing- gasoline, etc. would be connected to the highway.

Colin Powell was quoted in the article (I guess he was the Secretary of State at the time) and he said something to the effect (from memory) "I called the presidents of Mexico and Canada to find out about this and they said there was nothing they could do about it."

As surreal as this seems- I am sure that's what the quote said. If I want to build a deck off the back of my house, I have to a permit to do it. None of this makes any sense to me. I think it's going to create a lot of destruction and a lot of pollution (and there are other concerns about it no doubt) and we've heard almost nothing about it.

I've talked about this newpaper article and been told by some that it's not true, that it must be a conpiracy theory, that I must be mistaken and that I never read such an article. I did though.

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David Burton
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Daniel - "Colin Powell was quoted in the article (I guess he was the Secretary of State at the time) and he said something to the effect (from memory) "I called the presidents of Mexico and Canada to find out about this and they said THERE WAS NOTHING THEY COULD DO ABOUT IT." "

Emphasis mine. You know I wonder what you people are all going to say when all of this just suddenly happens - will you remember that you've been warned - by many people, many of whom you take to be kooks - because that's exactly what THEY want? What will you say when there's a sudden terrorist attack that makes 9/11 look like a picnic? The entire North American continent will seal itself off from the rest of the world as the plague begins. The United States, Canada and Mexico as separate entities will meld into the North American Union and all our dollars, which have gotten more colorful and more like "other people's money" - even eventually, because ironically "it discriminates against the blind," becoming of that disconcerting feature of foreign money; that it varies in size so it can't be neatly folded in a billfold, all that presages the eventual rise of the Amero, which will resemble the Euro. I find it ironic that the "union" will base its survival and prosperity on what amounts to an economic plundering of China before our own curtain slams down. I predict that the Democrats in the coming presidential race (and come on there isn't a GOP on the scope who can win next time and the Democrats will run Hillary, so she'll end up being elected, as I predicted), will make an issue of the loss of American jobs abroad while every effort will be made, operating on directives from behind the scenes, to sidestep, frustrate or stop anything that will threaten eventual merger with Mexico. It is known that about a quarter of the Mexicans are either middle class or rich and most of them want their country to rise to middle class standards of living. They're even willing to work as a means of attaining this future at tasks considered too menial for the average Anglo to want to waste time doing. Meanwhile, the continued technical skill of America - with significant contributions from Canada, and massive commodities available on this continent will be put to the task of building a "New Order" one of the pillars of the Earth, the patrimony of the British who are in on it too. More later.

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