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NAFTA Superhighway Mid Continental Corridor is under way
JOE HUGELIN ^ | 08 DECEMBER 2007 | THE CANADIAN

Posted on 12/08/2007 10:21:28 AM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist

Two provinces, Manitoba through its Speech from the Throne, and Alberta, through a map of NAFTA Trade Corridors have provided strong evidence that there are plans for a NAFTA Superhighway, or Mid-Continent Trade Corridor. President Bush and Prime Minister Harper dismissed this idea after the Montebello meeting as comparable to planning an "interplanetary" superhighway or a scare tactic whereby a "conspiracy" is laid out.

There is no conspiracy. Plans are going forward. This question is as yet unanswered: does what now recognized as reality stands alone or is part of a wider plan? The one Former Mexican President Fox spoke of a as "a new vision", first NAFTA, then integration through the Security and Prosperity Partnership.

The American Presidential candidates are discussing the existence of what is contained in the Manitoba Speech from the Throne and the Albertan North American Trade Corridors map. Americans concerned about their country losing sovereignty in a North American Union are circulating YouTubes contrasting the reality of the Speech, and Map, to the words of those denying the Superhighways' existence.

Though our political system differs, Canadians will do well to watch the influence of these contributions from Canada as Americans select their next president. Will the person selected be following the denial policy of President Bush or charting a different course?


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: canada; cuespookymusic; icecreammandrake; naafta; superhighway
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To: Grig

LOL

I thought I saw something large and yellow yesterday that was hanging in the sky just the way a brick wouldn’t.


121 posted on 12/08/2007 8:09:43 PM PST by Don W ( Police were called to a day care where a three-year-old was resisting a rest.)
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To: nicmarlo

Mexico running its own customs site on our soil? Isn’t that a little like the wolf guarding the hen house?


122 posted on 12/08/2007 8:35:54 PM PST by NotJustAnotherPrettyFace
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To: NotJustAnotherPrettyFace

Yep; you’ve about covered that one.


123 posted on 12/08/2007 10:23:56 PM PST by nicmarlo
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To: Dog Gone

EVERY thread is about illegal aliens. It’s a rule. :D


124 posted on 12/09/2007 12:04:43 AM PST by Constantine XIII
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To: Dog Gone
“Frankly, many people do everything they can TO get a highway through their land in the hopes of selling the frontage property to developers.”

Yes, when SH toll road 130 frontage was being bought, people with buildings or land along the existing roadways received as much as $1.5 million for 5 acres. That doesn’t hold true for people on the southern leg of SH 130 from 71 to I-10 in the rural areas. My Wife's Uncle is one of those directly effected. In the state’s deal with Cintra-Zachry to build this road, the state buys the ROW then, leases it to the Spanish builder to operate for 50 yrs. They in turn have the rights to all concessions along the highway not, the previous owners. They also have a non-compete clause saying any roads that might compete with or take money away from the toll road, can not upgrade.

Honestly, I’m not trying to make you believe anything because you’re not alone in that frame of mind. Just want to relay some facts you might not have heard.

125 posted on 12/09/2007 8:13:33 AM PST by wolfcreek (The Status Quo Sucks!)
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To: wolfcreek

I appreciate your efforts. I had heard all of that, but I’m also aware that everyone is treating every proposed idea as a done deal, when it’s not. They are proposals.

It’s extremely unlikely, in my opinion, that everything that has been floated will be incorporated into the final contract, and we don’t even know who the operator of the tollway will be at this point. I’ll admit, there’s a very good chance it will be Cintra-Zachry, but we might be surprised.

A new high-volume expressway through Texas would help alleviate a lot of congestion that we have. That’s exactly why we build new roads, and why we will never be through building new roads. Of course, there are winners and losers with any major project that involves taking land for public projects. Generally, the winners are those with advance knowledge of where the project will be sited.

It’s soft corruption, but we all know it happens.

What I don’t like is the approach that many opposed to the highway take. Yes, eminent domain is involved, but without it, this nation would have very few roads at all. We’d certainly have no electrical grid or pipelines for oil and gas, and even water. We wouldn’t like living in that world.

We can argue about how this road should be built, where, and even by whom. What we shouldn’t argue about is whether it should be built. Taking the position that no more roads should be built in Texas is insanity.


126 posted on 12/09/2007 9:31:12 AM PST by Dog Gone
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

I have no problem with super highways from Mexico to Canada as long as there are no exit ramps......


127 posted on 12/09/2007 9:40:47 AM PST by Hot Tabasco (Visions of sugarplums dancing in your head are probably caused by bad drugs.....)
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To: Don W

The route up the west coast showed as a double route in one planning map. One branched up to Alaska and the other terminated somewhere around there.


128 posted on 12/09/2007 10:18:10 AM PST by RightWhale (anti-razors are pro-life)
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To: nicmarlo; Borax Queen

Check out the maps on this link:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1904319/posts

And, 10,000 people just outside of Tucson will lose their homes to the Canamex Corridor.


129 posted on 12/09/2007 10:45:18 AM PST by yorkie ( For God so loved the world........................ that He didn't send a committee.)
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To: yorkie; Borax Queen
This is for the Phoenix area. Arizona looks like it'll be seizing lots of property through eminent domain for this future 'foreign owned' road:

MINUTES OF THE MARICOPA ASSOCIATION OF GOVERNMENTS
REGIONAL COUNCIL MEETING
November 1, 2000
MAG Office, Saguaro Room
Phoenix, Arizona

Mayor Hull expressed concern with considering the investments of those property owners who have planned large development projects that may be in the way of a future designation. He explained that Lyle Anderson, who is a property owner in the area, is planning on building a golf course in June or July. Ms. Peters stated that ADOT cannot preclude development plans without a specific designation of an established corridor. Mayor Hull asked for confirmation that the corridor would not be designated through the middle of developed property. Ms. Peters replied that eminent domain would apply if the designation was made.

130 posted on 12/09/2007 11:14:09 AM PST by nicmarlo
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To: nicmarlo

No. Can’t be true. No one is planning Corridors running from Mexico to Canada. This meeting is probably a fabrication of those tin foil hat people.


131 posted on 12/09/2007 11:31:29 AM PST by yorkie ( For God so loved the world........................ that He didn't send a committee.)
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To: yorkie; Borax Queen
No. Can’t be true.

Now, whadya have to go and say that for???? You know what I have to do with posts like that!!!

No one is planning Corridors running from Mexico to Canada.

*grins*
132 posted on 12/09/2007 11:38:46 AM PST by nicmarlo
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To: nicmarlo

LOL. I forgot the “/s”. Dang - I hate when I do that! ;-)


133 posted on 12/09/2007 11:46:38 AM PST by yorkie ( For God so loved the world........................ that He didn't send a committee.)
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To: yorkie
From the PDF file:
MEMBERS ATTENDING

Mayor Skip Rimsza, Phoenix, Chairman
* Mayor Ron Drake, Avondale
Mayor Dusty Hull, Buckeye
* Mayor Edward Morgan, Carefree
* Mayor Vincent Francia, Cave Creek
Mayor Jay Tibshraeny, Chandler
* Mayor Steve Garza, El Mirage
* Mayor Sharon Morgan, Fountain Hills
* Mayor Chuck Turner, Gila Bend
* Governor Donald Antone, Gila River Indian Community
Mayor Cynthia Dunham, Gilbert
Mayor Elaine Scruggs, Glendale
Mayor Bill Arnold, Goodyear
* Councilmember Margarita Garcia, Guadalupe
Mayor J. Woodfin Thomas, Litchfield Park
* Supervisor Andy Kunasek, Maricopa County
Mayor Keno Hawker, Mesa
Mayor Edward Lowry, Paradise Valley
Mayor John Keegan, Peoria
* Mayor Wendy Feldman-Kerr, Queen Creek
* President Ivan Makil, Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community
Councilmember Robert Pettycrew for Mayor Mary Manross, Scottsdale
Mayor Joan Shafer, Surprise
* Mayor Neil Giuliano, Tempe
Mayor Adolfo Gamez, Tolleson
Mayor Larry Roberts, Wickenburg
Mayor Eugene Russell, Youngtown
F. Rockne Arnett, ADOT
Dallas Gant, ADOT
Bill Beyer, Citizens Transportation Oversight Committee

*Those members neither present nor represented by proxy.

Chairman Rimsza stated that for agenda item #11, recommendation for the Future Designation of the CANAMEX Corridor Through the Maricopa Region, a letter from the Chair of the Transportation Subcommittee of the Governor’s CANAMEX Task Force was at each place.

--- > Public comments are limited to three minutes.

from page 7:

Mr. Beyer moved to approve the MAG/ADOT CANAMEX report and the resolution for the future designation of the CANAMEX Corridor through the Maricopa region with the understanding that the remainder of the route undetermined in Maricopa County be recommended within nine months, with the provision that within three months, ADOT would provide a report if more time is needed. Mayor Scruggs seconded.

Mayor Tibshraeny made a substitute motion to approve the MAG/ADOT CANAMEX report and the resolution for the future designation of the CANAMEX Corridor through the Maricopa region with the understanding that the remainder of the route undetermined in Maricopa County be recommended within a target of twelve months. Roc Arnett seconded.

134 posted on 12/09/2007 11:52:17 AM PST by nicmarlo
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To: yorkie

lol!


135 posted on 12/09/2007 11:52:54 AM PST by nicmarlo
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To: nicmarlo

From:

http://conservativetimes.org/?p=796#more-796

What does the North American Union, the European Union, IMF, World Bank, GATT, WTO, NAFTA, CAFTA, FTAA, CANAMEX, NASCO, CODEX, the present state of American health care, The United States Conference of Mayors, The National Governor’s Association, The American Legislative Exchange Council, The Trilateral Commission, The Council on Foreign Relations, The Department of Education, No Child Left Behind legislation, the EPA, hate speech legislation, multiculturalism, Smart Growth, The FDA, The Federal Reserve, the global warming “crisis,” amnesty legislation, the rise of the American corporatocracy, record numbers of eminent domain proceedings, genetically modified foods, the implementation of communitarian law, the Earth Charter, the declining standard of living of the American middle class, the draconian police state tactics of Patriot Acts I & II and the Military Commissions Act of 2006, and the unrestricted use of highly volatile fiat money have to do with each other?

All of the abovementioned are inextricably interwoven into a United Nations program, known as Agenda 21. Agenda 21 is in nearly every country and in nearly every city and county in America (Soveriegnty.net, 2007; United Nations, 2007a).


136 posted on 12/09/2007 12:02:08 PM PST by nicmarlo
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To: nicmarlo

It is so obvious by ALL reports that major corridors are going to be built from Mexico directly to Canada - with land and homes being taken away from families - and all corridors will be built, run by and profited by countries other than our own.

Ten thousand will lose their homes outside of Tucson - and either people refuse to believe it (or worse) or they just plumb don’t care.

IMO, our citizens are made up of four groups:

1. The uninformed (the ‘don’t read’ folks)
2. The “I don’t really care group (it won’t affect me)
3. The informed who just sit back and say, “oh, well”. (I call this group the “apathies”).
4. The outraged citizens (the few and far between)

Guess which group is the largest?


137 posted on 12/09/2007 12:08:20 PM PST by yorkie ( For God so loved the world........................ that He didn't send a committee.)
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To: yorkie

You missed the “well informed but traitors” group.

There are lots of them in this country.


138 posted on 12/09/2007 12:13:45 PM PST by nicmarlo
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To: Balding_Eagle
Medved says not.

I listen to Michael Medved nearly every day, and while he is one of the smartest, most articulate radio hosts out there (he's got a bit of ego - he's ALWAYS right, which does get a bit old) - he's just wrong on this issue, and disparages anyone who disagrees with him as a nut case. He's going to be proved to be embarrasingly wrong on the whole NAU business, and I can't wait to hear his excuse for it.

139 posted on 12/09/2007 12:18:43 PM PST by Hardastarboard (DemocraticUnderground.com is an internet hate site.)
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To: nicmarlo
Hmmmmm. You wouldn't be talking about our elected (or appointed) officials, now, would you? Yep. I left them out. I have repressed all politicians, these days.
140 posted on 12/09/2007 12:19:16 PM PST by yorkie ( For God so loved the world........................ that He didn't send a committee.)
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