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Author Topic: Obama Creates World's First Superstate With US-Canada Merger  (Read 22375 times)

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Re: Obama Creates World's First Superstate With US-Canada Merger
« Reply #195 on: February 23, 2011, 06:22:24 pm »
If it happens, Russia can eat it! The new state will have the largest land area on Earth! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!

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Re: Obama Creates World's First Superstate With US-Canada Merger
« Reply #196 on: February 23, 2011, 07:02:56 pm »
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« Reply #197 on: February 23, 2011, 07:06:22 pm »
All of them  :P
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Re: Obama Creates World's First Superstate With US-Canada Merger
« Reply #198 on: February 23, 2011, 07:12:26 pm »
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No, I'm not going to read the entire thread but...

I dismissed this thread as a mere repetition of the standard Russian propaganda of a incipent US civil war with the adoption of Amerco.

Then I read this. If the State is nothing more than an entity with a monopoly of force, then I cannot help but think that this IS a super-state in the works. Oh well. A stopped clock is right twice a day.

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The agreement is big on promises, although short of specifics. It said the two sides would work “together within, at, and away from the borders of our two countries” to toughen security and promote trade.

This could, for example, include creating a single border surveillance agency that transmits data on people entering the United States or Canada to both countries. It could mean joint pre-screening of cargo in European ports before it is sent to North America, or the ability to clear a container from abroad when it arrives in Halifax and send it to the United States without a border check there.

As well, a new agency called the United States-Canada Regulatory Co-operation Council (RCC), composed of officials from both countries, would seek to streamline regulations governing product safety and quality, making it easier to make goods in one country and sell them in the other.

After all, it's only a short skip, hop and inferential leap from "a council to streamline customs regulations between two nations" to "establishing the Maple Curtain". Or something. If this were of any note, the EU would have merged into a superstate 20 years ago. They've had customs unions for decades and the Schengen Agreement made internal borders in Europe mostly transparent starting 26 years ago.

Not customs. Single-Border Surveillance Agency, which is clearly an example of both Canada and the United States cooperating together on the issue of "national security". If we have one surveillance agency rather than two, I say this is a pretty big step in the monopolization of force.
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« Reply #199 on: February 23, 2011, 09:37:11 pm »
I am confused, is this a troll thread or a real discussion?
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Re: Obama Creates World's First Superstate With US-Canada Merger
« Reply #200 on: February 23, 2011, 09:37:53 pm »
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I am confused, is this a troll thread or a real discussion?
Yes.
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Re: Obama Creates World's First Superstate With US-Canada Merger
« Reply #201 on: February 24, 2011, 12:15:02 am »
DEATH TO THE TROLL
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Re: Obama Creates World's First Superstate With US-Canada Merger
« Reply #202 on: February 24, 2011, 10:09:24 am »
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Just so you all know, even I don't think Obama would do something like the OP suggests.

The Collective has noted and will factor your good intentions in ascending order. Have a nice day, citizen.

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« Reply #203 on: February 24, 2011, 06:10:18 pm »
RESIST COMMUNISM
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Re: Obama Creates World's First Superstate With US-Canada Merger
« Reply #204 on: February 24, 2011, 06:12:38 pm »
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« Reply #205 on: February 24, 2011, 08:07:57 pm »
I also find the whole "World's FIRST Superstate" a bit hilariously absurd.

The United States is a state that is made up of fifty states. That makes it a super state, does it not?

The United States of Mexico is organized in much the same way. That makes it a super-state as well, right?

The European Union is sort of the same in a more decentralized sort of way, is it not, made earlier?

Soviet Union?

Union of Kalmar?

Holy Roman Empire?

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and North Ireland consists of four states, England, Wales, Scotland, and North Ireland.

Throw in the Commonwealth Realms, and others. The Crown is more like a Super-Superstate

The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth?

Spain; the Crowns of Aragon, Catalonia, Navarra, Castile, Leon, Asturias, Galicia, Grenada, etc.

Two Sicilies? Sicily and Naples.

The Austrian Empire? Austria, Styria, Bohemia, Silesia, Hungary, Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia, Transylvania, Polish Galicia, Slovakia, etc.

Yeah. Calling a United States-Canada Merger the Worlds First Superstate is patently absurd.
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Re: Obama Creates World's First Superstate With US-Canada Merger
« Reply #206 on: February 24, 2011, 08:11:11 pm »
Quiet dude, if you laugh at the USA the CIA will come and crush your balls in their hand while wearing surgical gloves.
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« Reply #207 on: February 24, 2011, 08:26:43 pm »
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« Reply #208 on: February 24, 2011, 09:43:29 pm »
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« Reply #209 on: February 24, 2011, 10:34:34 pm »
One could almost be led to believe that this isn't a reputable news source.
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