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Warren Buffet Purchased Burlington Northern In Anticipation of Increased Business from the Venezuela Columbia War and communi$t$' Merging Canada, United States and Mexico (Also, info on Swine Flu From High Density Farms)

Logic dictates that a big reason for Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway success is he is a buddies with the top bad guys, Rothschilds and Rockefellers, and they feed him with what the bad guys have planned for the Universe. Mr. Buffet turns his communi$t$' inside information in to investment ideas. It is becoming clearer that the bad guys are manipulating and planning a big South American war (The USA through its Blackwater subsidiary manipulates war with Venezuela. Venezuela is financed, armed, and supported by China, Russia, India and Iran.) This deliberately planned war will move North and eventually this war will spill over into the United States. How do the communi$t$' manipulate war? They order drones to bomb and murder innocent people to anger them to hate and kill Americans. The communi$t$' direct their Omega/Blackwater/CIA thugs to kill innocent people in horrible ways for the purpose of filling with hate for the United States Pakistani, Latin Americans, Yemen people to manipulate them to take up arms supplied them by the USA to fight to destroy the USA.

It is my guess a major transportation vehicle to arm the Rothschild's South American war will be railroads. Mr. Buffet purchased Burlington Northern in anticipation that Burlington Northern sales and profits will increase as rail arms, munitions and war supplies transportation to Venezuela from Canada, the United States and Mexico increases.

It is interesting to find out that the United States has a big beauacracy in play SPP.GOV

Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP)

and there is almost no media attention to this US government department. If the communi$t controlled media is not telling the American people of this Canada, United States, and Mexican alliance then they have important reasons for keeping SPP.GOV secrete. Also it is interesting the Canada, USA, Mexican alliance is named a Security Partnership. Canada, the USA and Mexico do not face a security threat. Not now anyway. So logic dictates the bad guys are manipulating a security threat down South between Venezuela and Columbia where the United States is arming and manning 8 military bases it has in Columbia with Blackwater/CIA mercenaries. So the USA is training and arming terrorists in the Ukraine for the purpose of angering Russia to arm forces in Venezuela to fight USA Blackwater forces holed up in US military bases in Columbia.

{How does Swine Flu play into helping the Rothschilds and Rockefellers conquer the world and what will cause the swine flu pandemic? Besides war Swine Flu will be another tool the Rothschilds use to panic the people to give up and become Rothschild/Rockefeller slaves. Well I just so happen to live in Bladen County, North Carolina. Bladen County is home of the world's largest hog slaughter plant owned by Smithfield Foods. Smithfield Foods, in my opinion, does not allow its contract high density hog farms to use the latest high tech sewage treatment methods. Aerobic methods of treating lagoons filled with hog waste do not exist here although injecting hog lagoons with air is inexpensive and good method of treating hog waste especially relative to the cost of a pandemic which could cost the planet a billion lives or so. So it is my guess the Rothschilds and Rockefellers finance Smithfield Foods and Smithfield's continued loans is dependent upon Smithfield preventing its contract farmers from treating its animal waste with the highest tech methods. Why? The Rothschilds/Rockefellers know hog farm untreated lagoons will one day be a trigger for a world pandemic. Not too long ago I read that increases in life span have been tied to increases in treatment of human waste. High density animal farms, and they do not treat their animal waste as well as available and existing modern technology animal sewage treartment methods, are pandemic outbreaks waiting to happen. Accident? No way. It is the bad guys way of murdering possibly billions of people on this planet.

1-8-10 Part II of how high density animal farms, factories, are putting the world on a course of a major pandemic which has the potential of killing 2-3 BILLION people.
E. Coli, Salmonella and Other Deadly Bacteria and Pathogens in Food: Factory Farms Are the Reason
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kathy-freston/e-coli-salmonella-and-oth_b_415240.html}

Flu Season: Factory Farming Could Cause A Catastrophic Pandemic

1-5-2010 - Saw this article on how high density farms might end up being responsible for a serious pandemic and thought it was interesting as I had said this in this article dated 12-17-2010. My suggestion and possible cure for the problem, high tech sewage treatment plants for high density animal farms, should be implemented yesterday.

Christopher Ruddy

Warren Buffett Agrees: Burlington Was an Inflation Play

Wednesday, December 2, 2009 3:09 PM

http://moneynews.newsmax.com/publishers_corner/ruddy_buffett_inflation/2009/12/02/293365.html

By: Christopher Ruddy Article Font Size

I tuned into Charlie Rose's program this past weekend to watch a re-run of his November interview with Warren Buffett, and I was pleased to find out someone agrees with my view that inflation is our real worry.

Recently, I gave my analysis of Buffett's Burlington Northern deal, which had perplexed many on Wall Street. A railroad? In this economy?

As I explained in "Warren Buffett's Anti-Inflation Strategy," the deal was an investment play by Buffett as a hedge against inflation.

The Sage of Omaha knows that the last thing you want to own in a period of high inflation is actual cash.

Interestingly, Rose asked Buffett if the Burlington deal was an inflation play against a weakening of the dollar.

At first, Buffett cleverly brushed past the question and talked about how he always like to own a business than own cash (which doesn't fully explain why he has kept boatloads of cash at Berkshire for years).

But Rose, who is a master at interviewing, pressed Buffett about the Burlington deal as a hedge against the dollar devaluing.

In response, Buffett not only fessed up to his inflation worry, then added — another line from my article — almost all asset classes will rise in value when inflation hits.

He also warned that most currencies will also devalue. As Buffett sees it, and I agree, inflation is the only way out for debt-ridden economies. Those who cling to the belief that deflation will be our enemy are simply wrong.

Here's the exchange between Rose and Buffett:

CHARLIE ROSE: When you look at the future, there’s also the argument

made that this is something that goes with your philosophy today -- get out

of cash and get into assets. Because we don’t know what’s going to happen

to the dollar.

WARREN BUFFETT: Well, cash is always a bad investment. I mean, when

people say cash is king a year ago, I mean that’s crazy. I mean, cash

wasn’t producing anything, and it was sure to go down in value over time.

And then you always want to be sure you have enough. It’s like -- like

oxygen -- you want to be sure it’s around, you know. But you don’t need to

have -- you don’t need to have excessive amounts of it around. And cash,

we will always have enough cash around.

CHARLIE ROSE: Yes.

WARREN BUFFETT: But anytime we have surplus cash around, I’m unhappy.

I mean, I would much rather have good businesses than cash. And we found a

chance in the last year, thereabouts, to deploy -- we came in with

something over $40 billion in cash ...

CHARLIE ROSE: Right.

WARREN BUFFETT: ... and we have got about $20 billion now, and we’ve

had some earnings. So, we -- we’ve put a lot of cash to work. And I like

that. No, I’d much rather own a good business than have cash.

CHARLIE ROSE: And it is a hedge against the dollar?

WARREN BUFFETT: Well, you can say all assets are a hedge against the

dollar. I mean, but -- all you know is that the dollar is going to be

worth less 10, 20, 30 years from now. I say "worth less." Not worthless.

CHARLIE ROSE: Right.

(LAUGHTER)

WARREN BUFFETT: You want to watch that. But it will be -- you know,

and that’s true of almost every currency that I can think of. The question

is how much it depreciates in value. But cash -- cash is not a place...

CHARLIE ROSE: Now, why is that?

WARREN BUFFETT: Well, because ...

CHARLIE ROSE: ... that the dollar is going to be worth less?

WARREN BUFFETT: Because we’ll print more of them in relation to the

amount of goods that are moving. You know, if we dropped -- if we dropped

a million dollars of cash into every household in the United States today,

everybody would feel very good except the people that invested in things

that were denominated in dollars. You know ...

CHARLIE ROSE: Exactly. Got it.

WARREN BUFFETT: There will be no tendency toward deflation in this

country over time or -- or virtually ...

CHARLIE ROSE: A tendency towards inflation.

WARREN BUFFETT: Absolutely.

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North American Union to Replace USA?

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=14965
by Jerome R. Corsi
05/19/2006

President Bush is pursuing a globalist agenda to create a North American Union, effectively erasing our borders with both Mexico and Canada. This was the hidden agenda behind the Bush administration's true open borders policy.

Secretly, the Bush administration is pursuing a policy to expand NAFTA politically, setting the stage for a North American Union designed to encompass the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. What the Bush administration truly wants is the free, unimpeded movement of people across open borders with Mexico and Canada.

President Bush intends to abrogate U.S. sovereignty to the North American Union, a new economic and political entity which the President is quietly forming, much as the European Union has formed.

The blueprint President Bush is following was laid out in a 2005 report entitled "Building a North American Community" published by the left-of-center Council on Foreign Relations (CFR).

The CFR report connects the dots between the Bush administration's actual policy on illegal immigration and the drive to create the North American Union:

At their meeting in Waco, Texas, at the end of March 2005, U.S. President George W. Bush, Mexican President Vicente Fox, and Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin committed their governments to a path of cooperation and joint action. We welcome this important development and offer this report to add urgency and specific recommendations to strengthen their efforts.

What is the plan? Simple, erase the borders. The plan is contained in a "Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America" little noticed when President Bush and President Fox created it in March 2005:

In March 2005, the leaders of Canada, Mexico, and the United States adopted a Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP), establishing ministerial-level working groups to address key security and economic issues facing North America and setting a short deadline for reporting progress back to their governments. President Bush described the significance of the SPP as putting forward a common commitment "to markets and democracy, freedom and trade, and mutual prosperity and security." The policy framework articulated by the three leaders is a significant commitment that will benefit from broad discussion and advice. 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 perspective of the CFR report allows us to see President Bush's speech to the nation as nothing more than public relations posturing and window dressing. No wonder President Vincente Fox called President Bush in a panic after the speech. How could the President go back on his word to Mexico by actually securing our border? Not to worry, President Bush reassured President Fox. The National Guard on the border were only temporary, meant to last only as long until the public forgets about the issue, as has always been the case in the past.

The North American Union plan, which Vincente Fox has every reason to presume President Bush is still following, calls for the only border to be around the North American Union -- not between any of these countries. Or, as the CFR report stated:

The three governments should commit themselves to the long-term goal of dramatically diminishing the need for the current intensity of the governments’ physical control of cross-border traffic, travel, and trade within North America. A long-term goal for a North American border action plan should be joint screening of travelers from third countries at their first point of entry into North America and the elimination of most controls over the temporary movement of these travelers within North America.

Discovering connections like this between the CFR recommendations and Bush administration policy gives credence to the argument that President Bush favors amnesty and open borders, as he originally said. Moreover, President Bush most likely continues to consider groups such as the Minuteman Project to be "vigilantes," as he has also said in response to a reporter's question during the March 2005 meeting with President Fox.

Why doesn’t President Bush just tell the truth? His secret agenda is to dissolve the United States of America into the North American Union. The administration has no intent to secure the border, or to enforce rigorously existing immigration laws. Securing our border with Mexico is evidently one of the jobs President Bush just won't do. If a fence is going to be built on our border with Mexico, evidently the Minuteman Project is going to have to build the fence themselves. Will President Bush protect America's sovereignty, or is this too a job the Minuteman Project will have to do for him?

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Mission

Its purpose is to conduct military operations, planning, developing and implementing assault operations, surveillance, interdiction, security and support, combating and neutralizing the narco-terrorist organizations, with an emphasis on neutralizing their leaders, their logistics infrastructure, economic base, and precipitate the military defeat of their armed paramilitaries.
[edit]Organization

The JTF OMEGA was formed by the best 15,000 soldiers in the military of Colombia selected from the Army, Air Force and Navy. The task force headquarters is located in the Military Fort Larandia in the Department of Caqueta.

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http://journals.democraticunderground.com/omega%20minimo/487

omega minifesto
So, the XeIA was killing people in Katrina NOLA?
Posted by omega minimo in General Discussion
Fri Dec 04th 2009, 01:37 AM
Not only was the United States inflicted with televised GENOCIDE by the unelected, criminal, negligent Bush/Cheny administration, which used the reconfigured, post 9-11 FEMA under the Homeland Security Department and the predicted levee failure courtesy of the Army Corps of Engineers, to intentionally fail to save the disenfranchised left behind in the flooding, while not notifying local authorities that they knew the levee had already broken, the Blackwater mercenaries were working for the XeIA the whole, bloody time.

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Mission

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Omega Minifesto

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North American Union
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Union

It has been suggested that Mexamericanada be merged into this article or section. (Discuss)

Map showing the theoretical union located in the world map.
The North American Union (NAU) is a theoretical regional union of Canada, Mexico, and the United States possibly similar in structure to the European Union, sometimes including a common currency called the Amero or the North American Dollar. While the idea of regional integration has been discussed, proposed,[1] or debated in academic, business and political circles for many decades,[2] government officials from the nations say there are no plans to create such a union and no agreement to do so has been signed.[3] The formation of a North American Union has also been the subject of various conspiracy theories.[4][5][6][7]
Contents [hide]
1 Concepts for regional communities and unions
2 North American Union conspiracy theories
3 Features of the NAU
3.1 Amero
3.2 NAFTA superhighway
4 Official statements
5 See also
6 References
7 External links
[edit]Concepts for regional communities and unions

Main articles: Independent Task Force on North America and Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America
Since at least the mid-19th century, numerous concepts for a regional union between Canada, Mexico and the United States, some including Caribbean, Central American and South American countries, have been proposed, such as the North American Technate. Several concepts for a European Economic Community- or European Union-style integration of North America were developed in academic circles following the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).[8] The first popular use of "North American Union" as a name for a regional union was by critics of the idea.[7]
In the early 2000s a number of proposals were put forward for an expansion of the NAFTA agreement, generically called "NAFTA-Plus." Following his election as President of Mexico, Vicente Fox proposed a NAFTA-plus plan to President Bush of the United States and Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien that would move towards a continental union in the form of the European Union. Fox's proposal was rejected by President Bush.[9] Around the same time, a number of academic and business groups advocated less dramatic changes involving the formation of a customs union or common market. The September 11th attacks made security a high priority, particularly within the United States, and concerns about restrictions on North American trade also served as an impetus for greater integration. Amid this push for greater integration and concerns about the impact of heightened security on trade relations was an effort organized by the Canadian Council of Chief Executives, U.S. Council on Foreign Relations, and the Mexican Council on Foreign Relations called the Independent Task Force on North America.[10] Several weeks before a meeting of North American leaders on March 23, 2005 the Task Force issued a press release and a statement from the Task Force's chairmen calling for a deepening integration of the NAFTA trade area.[11]
The Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP) was formed at the meeting of North American leaders. It was described by the leaders of Canada, Mexico and the United States as being designed to provide greater cooperation on security and economic issues.[12]
In May of 2005 the Task Force published a report which praised the SPP initiative and called for greater economic integration by 2010.[3][13] The Task Force recommended the "establishment by 2010 of a North American economic and security community, the boundaries of which would be defined by a common external tariff and an outer security perimeter."[14] In the report the Task Force said that a North American Community, which would be similar to the European Community which preceded the EU, should not rely on "grand schemes of confederation or union" and did not suggest a regional government or a common currency. The Task Force’s recommendations included developing a North American customs union, common market, investment fund, energy strategy, set of regulatory standards, security perimeter, border pass, and advisory council, among other common goals.
Former Mexican president Vicente Fox is the only leader involved in the SPP process who has expressed a desire for a North American Union-style body. He has noted the success countries like Ireland and Spain have had in modernizing their economies and bringing higher standards of living for their citizens by joining what is now the European Union and has expressed the hope that Mexico could have a similar experience in a trade body of comparable scope in North America.[15][16] Fox has, however, expressed frustration with the lack of progress on measures such as immigration reform, which proved to be contentious within the United States.[17]
[edit]North American Union conspiracy theories

In 2005, claims emerged from critics of North American integration that a "North American Union" was not only being planned, but was being implemented by the governments of Canada, Mexico and the United States. These critics cited the formation of the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America and claimed it was an attempt to dramatically alter the economic and political status quo between the countries outside of the scrutiny of the respective national legislatures, a critique heightened by the subsequent publication of the Independent Task Force on North America report which praised the SPP initiative and called for greater economic integration by 2010.[3][13]
While a broad spectrum of observers criticize the secrecy of the SPP and its dominance by business groups,[18] the specific claim that its true aim was to expand NAFTA into a North American Union analogous to the European Union (EU), with open borders and a common currency among other features, was being made by the fall of 2006, when conservative commentators Phyllis Schlafly, Jerome Corsi and Howard Phillips started a website dedicated to quashing what they perceived as the coming North American "Socialist mega-state."[7]
The belief that a North American Union is currently being planned and implemented in secret has become widespread, so much so that the NAU was a topic of debate during the 2008 American presidential campaigns and the subject of various U.S. Congressional resolutions[19][20] designed to thwart its implementation. Prominent critics such as CNN’s Lou Dobbs[21] and Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul[22] denounced the concept, joined by left-wing groups in Canada,[23] internet blogs, and widely viewed videos and films such as “Zeitgeist.” Corsi’s 2007 book “The Late Great USA: The Coming Merger with Mexico and Canada” also helped bring the NAU discussion into the mainstream. Others who dismiss these beliefs maintain they are the latest example of a long line of erroneous conspiracy theories which suggest the United States’ sovereignty is being eroded by a secret cabal of foreign and domestic players.[3][7]
Some of these NAU skeptics, while expressing concern about the lack of transparency of the SPP, note that this is not evidence of a plot to create a North American Union. “The idea of a regional union that effaces U.S. sovereignty is light-years away from George W. Bush's foreign policy of unilateral action and disdain for international law and institutions.”[24]
Some NAU critics claim the actual goals of the SPP were confirmed by the Task Force,[25] and by the Task Force’s co-chair American University professor Robert Pastor. [11] Critics often cite Pastor as being the “father”[26] of the NAU[7][27] and his 2001 book "Towards a North American Community: Lessons from the Old World for the New" has been called a blueprint[28] for the plan, and includes a suggestion to adopt a common North American currency called the amero.[7][29][30] Professor Robert Pastor is a Vice Chair of the Independent Task Force on the Future of North America who has suggested forming a North American Commission similar to the European Commission and other governing institutions for North America.[31]
Various positive comments about a North American Union concept and an eventual common currency for the Americas by Vicente Fox, in particular some made during a promotional tour for a book in 2007, have been cited by critics as evidence that the body is in fact being enacted or planned.[32]
[edit]Features of the NAU

Internal divisions of Canada, Mexico and the United States.
Concepts of a North American Union share a number of common elements between them. NASCO and the SPP have both denied that there are any plans to establish a common currency, a "NAFTA Superhighway", or a North American Union in "Myths vs Facts" pages on their websites.[33][34]
[edit]Amero
Main article: North American currency union
The amero is the appellation given to what would be the North American Union's counterpart to the euro. It was first proposed in 1999 by Canadian economist Herbert G. Grubel.[7] A senior fellow of the Fraser Institute think-tank, he published a book entitled The Case for the Amero[29][30] in September 1999, the year that the euro became a virtual currency. Robert Pastor, vice-chairman of the Independent Task Force on North America, supported Grubel's conclusions in his 2001 book Toward a North American Community, stating that: "In the long term, the amero is in the best interests of all three countries."[8] Another Canadian think-tank, the conservative C.D. Howe Institute, advocates the creation of a shared currency between Canada and the United States.[35] Although then-Mexican President Vicente Fox had expressed support for the idea, when Grubel brought up the idea to American officials, they said they were not interested, citing lack of benefits for the U.S.[7]
The Director of International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations, Benn Steil, has called monetary nationalism and globalization a dangerous combination. Furthermore, he's recommended that, in order to safely globalize, the world must "abandon unwanted currencies, replacing them with dollars, euros, and multinational currencies as yet unborn."[36] Lending support for the end of national currencies, an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Eric van Wincoop, coauthored a journal article that argued the economical prudence of a common currency between nations, "The use of different moneys across borders can form a barrier as there are costs in exchanging currencies in spot and forward markets and traders face uncertainty about currency movements that cannot always be hedged. A common currency also leads to greater transparency of price differentials."[37] Cross border trade costs are likened to that of a tariff roughly equivalent to 170%. Forty-four percent of that "tariff" is attributed to "border related trade barriers" which breaks down as follows, "a 8% policy barrier, a 7% language barrier, a 14% currency barrier (from the use of different currencies), a 6% information cost barrier, and a 3% security barrier."[38]
On August 31, 2007, Internet broadcaster and conspiracy theorists Hal Turner and Ace Sabau claimed to have arranged for a United States Government minted amero coin to be smuggled out of the U.S. Treasury Department by an employee of that organization. Snopes has assessed both Turner's story and the existence of the amero as "false."[39]
[edit]NAFTA superhighway
Main article: NAFTA superhighway

Interstate 29 and Interstate 35.
The Trans-Texas Corridor was first proposed by Texas Governor Rick Perry in 2002. It consists of a 1,200 foot (366 m) wide highway that also carries utilities such as electricity, petroleum, and water, as well as railway track and fiber-optic cables.[6] In July 2007, U.S. Representative and candidate for the Republican nomination in the 2008 presidential election Duncan Hunter successfully offered an amendment to House Resolution 3074, the FY2008 Transportation Appropriations Act, prohibiting the use of federal funds for U.S. Department of Transportation participation in the activities of the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP). Hunter stated that:
"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 compromised in order to promote the business interests of our neighbors."[40]
Fellow Republican Congressman and presidential candidate Ron Paul brought the issue to mainstream prominence during the December 2007 CNN-YouTube GOP debate, where he rejected the concept and also called it "the NAFTA Superhighway" and, like Hunter, framed it within "the ultimate goal" of creating a North American Union.[6]
The Ministry of Transportation for the province of Alberta displays a diagram on their website that labels I-29 and I-35 as "NAFTA Trade Corridors".[41]
[edit]Official statements

In 2001, then President of Mexico Vicente Fox said in an interview for Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy that in the long term he sought with the United States a "convergence of our two economies, convergence on the basic and fundamental variables of the economy, convergence on rates of interest, convergence on income of people, convergence on salaries." He suggested this might take as long as 20 years to be realized, but the ultimate "convergence" he saw between the United States and Mexico would allow them to "erase that border, open up that border for [the] free flow of products, merchandises, [and] capital as well as people".[42] After leaving office, he continued to support the concept, while expressing his disappointment with the changed American political situation which made it seem more difficult to come to fruition.[43] In an online discussion of his book Revolution of Hope: The Life, Faith, and Dreams of A Mexican President Fox cited the process of European integration and asked a questioner, "Why can't we be not only partners in the long term, but a North American Union?"[44]
In September 2006, U.S. Representative Virgil Goode proposed with six co-sponsors non-binding House Concurrent Resolution 487, which specifically outlined opposition to a North American Union or a NAFTA Superhighway as a threat to U.S. sovereignty. The bill never left committee.[45] The same resolution was reintroduced by Goode in January 2007 for the 110th Congress as House Concurrent Resolution 40, this time with forty-three cosponsors,[46] including 2008 Republican presidential candidates Duncan Hunter, Ron Paul and Tom Tancredo, who have all expressed opposition to a North American Union during their campaigns.[47][48][49]
U.S. Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez stated in 2007: "There is no secret plan to create a North American union, or a common currency, or to intrude on the sovereignty of any of the partner nations".[50][51]
Regarding the NAFTA superhighway, officials from the Federal Highway Administration have denied such a scheme.[4] Also, the NASCO denies a new proposal for a "NAFTA superhighway" saying, "it exists today as I-35."[34]
In an August 2007 press conference in Montebello, Quebec, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper stated that he didn't believe that the NAU was a "generally expressed concern", while U.S. President George W. Bush called concerns of a North American Union "political scare tactics" and described as "comical" the "difference between reality and what some people are talking on TV about."[52]
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