Re: [ZION] Quebec man detained for buying gas in Maine
Marc A. Schindler wrote: > We could call it the Ketchikan Duty Free Zone, like they have in the U.A.E. JWR - what do you think of this? is it a good idea? If so, I could try to get it on the North Carolina Republican Party platform. :-) [SNIP] >Where there's a genuine cloud on the horizon is the Northwest Passage, which has >been too ice-choked to be considered as a serious alternative to the Panama Canal. >However, with global warming breaking up the ice pack, the NWP is ice-free for >longer and longer periods each year. Soon it will be completely navigable. And >we're not sure we want a "Valdez" sailing through our waters (again, the US >considers it an international passageway). Oil tankers from Aberdeen and Bergen >could get to San Francisco, Seattle, Vancouver and Los Angeles faster through the >NWP than they can through the Panama Canal. One compromise that has been proposed >is that every ship register with Ottawa, and be escorted through the Passage by a >Canadian coast guard vessel (this was concept-tested a few years ago with the MS >Manhattan, being led by an RCMP patrol and icebreaker ship.) What cloud? This is sew kewl! The Chinese just wasted quite a lot of time and money grabbing up the Panama Canal! Fooled them, didn't we? And this will provide many, many jobs for the Canadians, what with all the escort services they will have to provide. (I hope this escort service doesn't degenerate into the filth that other escort services have fallen to :-) Jon // /// ZION LIST CHARTER: Please read it at /// /// http://www.zionsbest.com/charter.html /// / ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?aaP9AU.bWix1n.YXJjaGl2 Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
Re: [ZION] Quebec man detained for buying gas in Maine
We could call it the Ketchikan Duty Free Zone, like they have in the U.A.E. Good news, incidentally. Our foreign minister, Graham Fraser, interceded directly with Colin Powell, who made sure the 1990 letter which the INS had issued guaranteeing Pohémétagook residents the right to access all parts of their town (the only way in and out of this gas station, after all, is through Canada, unless you're on foot and jump a fence), made it down to the New York DA's office, who suddenly announced today that they were dropping their appeal of the granting of bail to Mr. Jalbert. The INS also released him about the same time, without explanation, and have allowed him to return to P'gook. His trial is scheduled in Bangor for January. There are a few oddities like this. Kids on a small peninsula that sticks down from Vancouver are on U.S. soil, and have no school. They are bussed every day into Canada, around the bay to White Rock, back into the U.S., to their Bellingham school, and the reverse every evening. There's also the Northwest Angle, which is a piece of land that sticks out eastwards from Manitoba into Lake of the Woods, which is part of Minnesota. You cannot get there without driving through Manitoba. A kind of reverse situation is a strait that separates the Queen Charlottes, which are part of BC (Davis Inlet) and Prince of Wales Island, just south of JWR. The border between Alaska and BC was only settled after a heated negotiation failed to come up with a solution, so the two parties appealed to Britain as a neutral party. Britain basically went with the US proposal, but one thing everyone overlooked, or simply didn't know, was that the 54o40' line, which goes back to the days of sorting out the Oregon Territory between four parties (Spain, Russia, USA and Britain), comes so close to the southern tip of PoW Island that it's actually in what would normally be domestic waters. Technically, you take a dory ride off the island, and you're almost immediately in Canadian waters. The U.S. has repeatedly tried to reopen this for negotiation, and Canada's response has been "only when you recognize the Inside Passage" where at times Vancouver Island is less than 3 km from the mainland "as Canadian domestic waters" (the U.S. considers it an international waterway). So, impasse city. Kind of silly though. In actual fact, the two countries cooperate. Canada ignores the Davis Inlet problem, allows free access to Pt. Roberts WA and the Northwest Angle, and allows Alaskan ferries and pleasure boats to sail the Inside Passage without customs and immigration interference. After all, some of these ferries land in Canadian ports for sightseeing stops, so it's good business for both sides. Where there's a genuine cloud on the horizon is the Northwest Passage, which has been too ice-choked to be considered as a serious alternative to the Panama Canal. However, with global warming breaking up the ice pack, the NWP is ice-free for longer and longer periods each year. Soon it will be completely navigable. And we're not sure we want a "Valdez" sailing through our waters (again, the US considers it an international passageway). Oil tankers from Aberdeen and Bergen could get to San Francisco, Seattle, Vancouver and Los Angeles faster through the NWP than they can through the Panama Canal. One compromise that has been proposed is that every ship register with Ottawa, and be escorted through the Passage by a Canadian coast guard vessel (this was concept-tested a few years ago with the MS Manhattan, being led by an RCMP patrol and icebreaker ship.) Jon Spencer wrote: > I personally think that the land that Canada would cede to the US should > instead be ceded to JWR. He can then move there and live in peace, and not > have to worry that he is invading Iraq. > > Jon > > Sandy Rabinowitz wrote" > > > My goodness. How difficult would it be for the US and Canada > > to sign a treaty and redraw the border by a few yards? Let > > the pumps fly the Canadian flag, and if'll make the U.S. > > happy, let them build their fences and their watchtowers > > behind the filling station. And if the US is concerned about > > losing territory, maybe they can get a few hectares of land > > in the Yukon annexed to Alaska, and then it's all even-steven. > > // > /// ZION LIST CHARTER: Please read it at /// > /// http://www.zionsbest.com/charter.html /// > / > -- Marc A. Schindler Spruce Grove, Alberta, Canada -- Gateway to the Boreal Parkland Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on Winston Churchill Note: This communication represents the informal personal views of the author solely; its contents do not necessarily reflect those of the authors employer, nor those of any organization with which the author may be assoc
Re: [ZION] Quebec man detained for buying gas in Maine
I personally think that the land that Canada would cede to the US should instead be ceded to JWR. He can then move there and live in peace, and not have to worry that he is invading Iraq. Jon Sandy Rabinowitz wrote" > My goodness. How difficult would it be for the US and Canada > to sign a treaty and redraw the border by a few yards? Let > the pumps fly the Canadian flag, and if'll make the U.S. > happy, let them build their fences and their watchtowers > behind the filling station. And if the US is concerned about > losing territory, maybe they can get a few hectares of land > in the Yukon annexed to Alaska, and then it's all even-steven. // /// ZION LIST CHARTER: Please read it at /// /// http://www.zionsbest.com/charter.html /// / ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?aaP9AU.bWix1n.YXJjaGl2 Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
Re: [ZION] Quebec man detained for buying gas in Maine
Its owners live in Canada, so you raise a very good question about taxation, and I'm not sure what the answer is. Sandy and Melinda Rabinowitz wrote: > My goodness. How difficult would it be for the US and Canada > to sign a treaty and redraw the border by a few yards? Let > the pumps fly the Canadian flag, and if'll make the U.S. > happy, let them build their fences and their watchtowers > behind the filling station. And if the US is concerned about > losing territory, maybe they can get a few hectares of land > in the Yukon annexed to Alaska, and then it's all even-steven. > > I mean, don't get me wrong, I don't ordinarily have an issue > with our respective governments trying to enforce a border, > but this is ridiculous! > > Incidentally, that makes me wonder...how is the gas station > itself able to conduct business? Must it file U.S. and > Canadian tax returns? What if the cash register is > on the Canadian side of the line? Does that mean customers > then pay both Maine sales tax and the Canadian GST? Is > there a huge painted red line in the middle of the station's > parking lot that says "Caution: US Border, cross at your > own risk"? And if our government is willing to do all this > for a gas station, what might they do if a "Shopper's Drug > Mart" occupied the same space? Oh, the ideas that abound... > /Sandy/ > > // > /// ZION LIST CHARTER: Please read it at /// > /// http://www.zionsbest.com/charter.html /// > / > -- Marc A. Schindler Spruce Grove, Alberta, Canada -- Gateway to the Boreal Parkland Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on Winston Churchill Note: This communication represents the informal personal views of the author solely; its contents do not necessarily reflect those of the authors employer, nor those of any organization with which the author may be associated. // /// ZION LIST CHARTER: Please read it at /// /// http://www.zionsbest.com/charter.html /// / ==^^=== This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?aaP9AU.bWix1n.YXJjaGl2 Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^^===
Re: [ZION] Quebec man detained for buying gas in Maine
My goodness. How difficult would it be for the US and Canada to sign a treaty and redraw the border by a few yards? Let the pumps fly the Canadian flag, and if'll make the U.S. happy, let them build their fences and their watchtowers behind the filling station. And if the US is concerned about losing territory, maybe they can get a few hectares of land in the Yukon annexed to Alaska, and then it's all even-steven. I mean, don't get me wrong, I don't ordinarily have an issue with our respective governments trying to enforce a border, but this is ridiculous! Incidentally, that makes me wonder...how is the gas station itself able to conduct business? Must it file U.S. and Canadian tax returns? What if the cash register is on the Canadian side of the line? Does that mean customers then pay both Maine sales tax and the Canadian GST? Is there a huge painted red line in the middle of the station's parking lot that says "Caution: US Border, cross at your own risk"? And if our government is willing to do all this for a gas station, what might they do if a "Shopper's Drug Mart" occupied the same space? Oh, the ideas that abound... /Sandy/ // /// ZION LIST CHARTER: Please read it at /// /// http://www.zionsbest.com/charter.html /// / ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?aaP9AU.bWix1n.YXJjaGl2 Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
