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The NAFTA Superhighway
The Nation ^ | August 9, 2007 | Christopher Hayes

Posted on 08/10/2007 8:03:45 PM PDT by yorkie

When completed, the highway will run from Mexico City to Toronto, slicing through the heartland like a dagger sunk into a heifer at the loins and pulled clean to the throat. It will be four football fields wide, an expansive gully of concrete, noise and exhaust, swelled with cars, trucks, trains and pipelines carrying water, wires and God knows what else. Through towns large and small it will run, plowing under family farms, subdevelopments, acres of wilderness. Equipped with high-tech electronic customs monitors, freight from China, offloaded into nonunionized Mexican ports, will travel north, crossing the border with nary a speed bump, bound for Kansas City, where the cheap goods manufactured in booming Far East factories will embark on the final leg of their journey into the nation's Wal-Marts.

And this NAFTA Superhighway, as it is called, is just the beginning, the first stage of a long, silent coup aimed at supplanting the sovereign United States with a multinational North American Union.

Even as this plot unfolds in slow motion, the mainstream media are silent; politicians are in denial. Yet word is getting out. [SNIP}

Grassroots movement exposes elite conspiracy and forces politicians to respond: It would be a heartening story but for one small detail.

There's no such thing as a proposed NAFTA Superhighway.

(Excerpt) Read more at thenation.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: mexicocity; nafta; superhighway; toronto
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This article is five pages long - why is 'The Nation' trying so hard to convince it's readers there is no such thing as the NAFTA Superhighway?
1 posted on 08/10/2007 8:03:48 PM PDT by yorkie
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I don’t know, but we will stop it!


2 posted on 08/10/2007 8:05:46 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker ( Hunter/Thompson/Thompson/Hunter in 08! "Read my lips....No new RINO's" !!)
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My guess would they are worried about the effect on the conservative movement of energy focused on problems that don’t exist when we have so many real problems. The whole NAU conspiracy thing is really draining.


3 posted on 08/10/2007 8:06:19 PM PDT by gondramB (Preach the Gospel at all times, and when necessary, use words)
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It was just starting to get good when Hemingway morphed into Cockburn.


4 posted on 08/10/2007 8:08:52 PM PDT by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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I'd like to make only one but significant change to this question.

Why are 'The Nation Socialists' trying so hard to convince it's readers there is no such thing as the NAFTA Superhighway?

They know doing so overtly will cause Americans to rise up against the Socialist goal of taking power from individuals and placing it in a stronger centralized form of government.
5 posted on 08/10/2007 8:12:46 PM PDT by Man50D (Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it!)
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like a dagger sunk into a heifer at the loins

Gotta love that objectivity!!

6 posted on 08/10/2007 8:15:36 PM PDT by sionnsar (trad-anglican.faithweb.com |Iran Azadi| 5yst3m 0wn3d - it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY) | UN: Useless Nations)
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What globalist organizations/corporations will benefit from this highway? Whoever has the most money wins. That’s how things are run in this country these days.


7 posted on 08/10/2007 8:15:37 PM PDT by abigailsmybaby (I was born with nothing. So far I have most of it left.)
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To: gondramB

But so entertaining...

uggh...


8 posted on 08/10/2007 8:16:45 PM PDT by ejonesie22 (I am not really a Fred basher, I am a Paulitroll. THOMPSON 2008!)
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Well as long as US citizens stand in opposition to bills like the Kennedy\McCain\Bush immigration bill there may NOT be a proposed NAFTA Superhighway.However let the conservative stand against illegal immigration falter and we just might get that damn highway !!!


9 posted on 08/10/2007 8:24:58 PM PDT by Obie Wan
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the highway will run from Mexico City to Toronto

So that's the end goal:
Moving more good weed further, farther, faster, cheaper!
Toronto thanks you America!

(yes, I'm just joking...but I suspect that is on aspect of the
Superhighway that will keep Toronto in smiles...and with the munchies!)
10 posted on 08/10/2007 8:31:49 PM PDT by VOA
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We won’t get it if Congressman Duncan Hunter has any say about it. See this article posted on July 26, 2007, here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1871880/posts

Late last evening, Congressman Duncan Hunter (R-CA) successfully offered an amendment to H.R. 3074, the FY2008 Transportation Appropriations Act, prohibiting the use of federal funds for participation in working groups under the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP), including the creation of the NAFTA Super Highway. The Hunter amendment gained strong bipartisan support, passing the House by a vote of 362 – 63.

“The proposed NAFTA Super Highway presents significant challenges to our nation’s security, the safety of vehicle motorists, and will likely drive down wages for American workers,” said Congressman Hunter. “Much like NAFTA, the super highway is designed to serve the interests of our trading partners and will lead to neither security nor prosperity.

“This 12 lane highway, which is already under construction in Texas, will fast-track thousands of cargo containers across the U.S. without adequate security. These containers will move from Mexico, a country with a record of corruption and involvement in the drug trade, across a border that is already porous and insufficiently protected.

“Unfortunately, very little is known about the NAFTA Super Highway. This amendment will provide Congress the opportunity to exercise oversight of the highway, which remains a subject of question and uncertainty, and ensure that our safety and security will not be comprised in order to promote the business interests of our neighbors.”

SPP working groups are advancing a plan to build the NAFTA Super Highway – an international corridor extending between the U.S., Mexico and Canada.

Comment: (And, if it was just a tin-foil hat issue, why would a Congressman go to all the trouble to offer and pass this amendment?)


11 posted on 08/10/2007 8:34:32 PM PDT by yorkie
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Anything that takes five pages to justify cannot have anything good in it!


12 posted on 08/10/2007 8:35:43 PM PDT by tailgunner (USMC KoreaEra)
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. . . why is 'The Nation' trying so hard to convince it's readers there is no such thing as the NAFTA Superhighway?

LOL--you read all five pages? How about the first two words?

13 posted on 08/10/2007 8:37:37 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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Ya gotta love the guy,AND vote for him if the other candidates won’t step up to the plate !!!


14 posted on 08/10/2007 8:39:19 PM PDT by Obie Wan
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15 posted on 08/10/2007 8:43:27 PM PDT by getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL (****************************Stop Continental Drift**)
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16 posted on 08/10/2007 8:44:10 PM PDT by getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL (****************************Stop Continental Drift**)
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http://transtexascorridor.blogspot.com/
17 posted on 08/10/2007 8:46:07 PM PDT by samtheman
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I’ve heard some otherwise intelligent-seeming talk show hoasts claim this is all one big conspiracy theory. I don’t believe it is and I would like to see those who are pushing it strung up from the highest tree. Let it be a lesson to others who wish to parcel off our nation to the highest FTAA bidders.


18 posted on 08/10/2007 8:46:32 PM PDT by DoughtyOne
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How many miles of fence will be include in this project.


19 posted on 08/10/2007 8:47:48 PM PDT by jocko12
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0-nada-none,I’don’t see any,take your pick !!!


20 posted on 08/10/2007 8:50:25 PM PDT by Obie Wan
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