Tijuana Airport Parking, Just Over the Border
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#2The Swiss-French airports mentioned in the article are Basel-Mulhouse and Geneva:
http://www.euroairport.com/en/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EuroAirport_Basel%E2%80%93Mulh...
http://www.gva.ch/en/desktopdefault.aspx
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geneva_International_Airport
Unlike the Tijuana project, which is an airport in Mexico with a bridge to the US, in both BSL and GVA you could use either the French or Swiss side of the airport without crossing over to the other side. (Both are now in the Schengen zone, meaning French visas are valid in Switzerland and vice versa, so the distinction is no longer necessary.)
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#3So how does this annoying paywall work? I clicked the link 5 times. At the 6th time it showed me the full article without the url-tail. Can someone confirm that?
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#4Having just spent a couple of weeks in Mexico the amount of paranoia and ignorance that their northern border mates tend to exhibit towards them is just completely ridiculous.
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#5Having just spent a couple of weeks in Mexico the amount of paranoia and ignorance that their northern border mates tend to exhibit towards them is just completely ridiculous.
The wall between the United States and Mexico is a make-work project that will be dismantled in two hundred years once humanity grows out of its nationalistic tendencies.
The North American countries should loosen borders, not tighten them, paving an open road to unification. Building a border barrier feels like erecting another Berlin Wall.
Last I checked, we all live on the same planet, and are all tied to its fate for the foreseeable future.
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#6So how does this annoying paywall work? I clicked the link 5 times. At the 6th time it showed me the full article without the url-tail. Can someone confirm that?
They show the page and then block it from you afterwards, so if you load the page then keep spamming the escape key to stop anything else from running the content will stay there. Therefore my guess is that your 6th time it just happened to not work (maybe you accidentally hit escape, maybe your browser decided not to execute a script, or your internet timed preventing it from doing so, or....) - but I could be wrong.
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#7Having just spent a couple of weeks in Mexico the amount of paranoia and ignorance that their northern border mates tend to exhibit towards them is just completely ridiculous.
The wall between the United States and Mexico is a make-work project that will be dismantled in two hundred years once humanity grows out of its nationalistic tendencies. The North American countries should loosen borders, not tighten them, paving an open road to unification. Building a border barrier feels like erecting another Berlin Wall. Last I checked, we all live on the same planet, and are all tied to its fate…
1. Not defending the concept or execution of that wall, but the list of reasons behind its existence includes many more things than just nationalistic tendencies. If and when it's dismantled, it'll say far more about the relative functioning of the two nations' respective institutions and economies than it will about any decrease in nationalistic tendencies.
The original signatories to the Schengen Agreement were some of the most nationalistic countries on the planet, and still are, 29 years later.
2. It only feels like the Berlin Wall if you ignore the fact that the Berlin Wall was built to prevent emigration and defection.
3. You and I live on the same planet; mind if I enter and leave your home without restriction? Mind if everyone else is free to, also?
I agree with what you're saying in principal, but the application of ideals is where things become far more complex.
Also, it's worth reflecting on the fact that the federal republic of the United States has totally open borders between its 50 states, which is too often taken for granted, and basically provided the model the EU is struggling to imitate.
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#8Having just spent a couple of weeks in Mexico the amount of paranoia and ignorance that their northern border mates tend to exhibit towards them is just completely ridiculous.
The wall between the United States and Mexico is a make-work project that will be dismantled in two hundred years once humanity grows out of its nationalistic tendencies. The North American countries should loosen borders, not tighten them, paving an open road to unification. Building a border barrier feels like erecting another Berlin Wall. Last I checked, we all live on the same planet, and are all tied to its fate…
But we have different agendas on the same planet.
For example, some want to live in the middle ages and kill everyone who doesn't.
US-Mexico border is an easier border: remove war on drugs and half its reason is gone.
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#9Having just spent a couple of weeks in Mexico the amount of paranoia and ignorance that their northern border mates tend to exhibit towards them is just completely ridiculous.
Agree 100%.
I spent 4 months driving South through Mexico and had a fantastic time. I know of at least 50 people that have done the same thing in recent years and they all had the same experience.
Mexico is nothing like the American media portrays it to be. Hell, most of the world is nothing like the American media portrays it to be.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
The wall between the United States and Mexico is a make-work project that will be dismantled in two hundred years once humanity grows out of its nationalistic tendencies. The North American countries should loosen borders, not tighten them, paving an open road to unification. Building a border barrier feels like erecting another Berlin Wall. Last I checked, we all live on the same planet, and are all tied to its fate…
1. Not defending the concept or execution of that wall, but the list of reasons behind its existence includes many more things than just nationalistic tendencies. If and when it's dismantled, it'll say far more about the relative functioning of the two nations' respective institutions and economies than it will about any decrease in nationalistic tendencies. The original signatories to the Schengen Agreement were som…
Schengen doesn't only include rich Western European countries, though, but quite a bit of economic differences. Bulgaria and Romania are both poorer than Mexico, and yet there's no wall keeping them out of Germany or Scandinavia. Poland was also quite poor when it joined, though it's now slightly wealthier than Mexico.