To reiterate:

There are very few articles which relate the truth about what’s afoot.  This is one of them (( the first link in “Open Letter to Walter Williams” may not open, and which may be accessed here
http://foundersamerica45.blogspot.com/ )) :

Open Letter to Walter Williams
http://www.rense.com/general67/realpurposeofcafta.htm

Rush Limbaugh is a Kook
http://rushlimbaughisakook.blogspot.com/

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Regarding how to define “NEOCON,” read
this eye-opening article about Zionist Jews:

http://www.newoxfordreview.org/article.jsp?did=1205-ed itorial

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The Internationalists
http://foundersamerica62.blogspot.com/

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Evil Traders
http://www.rense.com/general69/dirty.htm

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I live in the Middle East now.
There is lots of talk here amongst the
ex-pats about the growing conservatism even
in, yes, Dubai.

At first I was surprised by the decision not to award the contract to a Dubai based company. But upon reflection, ex-pats here, like myself have seen enough to know that this tribal cultural can not be trusted with such an open door to Americas port system. 

Sorry to say it.  But it is a tribal society and a deep one indeed.  To understand tribalism I suggest you read some books on it. I am no expert and can’t fit it into this forum.  I do know what I know from being here and seeing how just daily life works here and yes it is all based on who you are connected to in the tribe.

This doesnt mean they support violence, but it does mean they are very unlikely to warn you about their crazy cousin Ahmed.

peace.

What a bunch of whining - Bush hating - think they know it all - wannabe conspiracy theorist - liberal blather ! AT LEAST many republicans had the guts to go against thier own President and peers and block this proposal ... On the other hand, count on the Democrats to always march lock step behind any legislation or idea THEY promote, no matter how foolish or harmful to the country it may be i.e. Bill Clinton et al . As an independent, I appreciate the courage to stand up for the best interests of this country even if it means going against thier own party.Try skipping the kool-aid once in awhile.

It was obvious early on that this was something that had a lot of subtlety and that it was nothing as described.  But the Bushevics never did subtlety well and it is fun to watch them pretzel themselves, however when they are shooting themselves in the foot, it is important not to help them avoid it.

It is great to see Robert Scheer was also sitting back with the popcorn

Here is the path, now follow the money ..........

$$$$$$$$ ALWAYS SPEAKS WITH MOTIVATION......

Us Dollar was ( used to be IS) the world reserve currency......IE we control the pettro-dollars = = we control the world economy = our deficits!
Saddam stateD “no OIL for DOLLARS, only EURO’s on 11/2000”. Hello Bush welcome to the president office , sincerely saddam!

25 EU countries USE more OIL than all of USA combined!

We invade IRAQ, first barrel out is NOW shipped in DOLLARS not EURO’s by the “provisional Government = fine print of that little agreement reads USA owns it..till we leave”
Don’t tell the arabs.......we own iraq through the back door.  Same as the back door DRAFT!

Next Iran catches ON ...they announce to the world they are going to open up a Brand New OIL EXCHANGE in bourse = EURO’s on 2006.  Note IRAN hits the axis of evil list.......hmmmmmmmmmm

Fed pulls the rug out for the long bond treasury us government in 2001.

All USA debit is recycled down to cheap dirt rates....making the massive deficit pie
look smaller ...or so we were told.......meanwhile back at the BUSH RANCH he can spend more and more....here comes your INFLATION....as M3 FED figures show the printing presses HARD AT WORK.

Note according to the IMF site how many FOREIGN countries have DUMPED the US Dollar in the past 4 years..hmmmmmmmmmmm
Now We need to do something about IRAN little oil exchange Neutron BOMB...so we OPEN an exchange in DUA with NYMEX and UAE in control.  Oil now sells for euro’s ther to counter IRAN ‘s bomb.  FED announces to the world no more M3 figures as of march 2006.  Geepers I wonder why?  Do we have currency issues for the good old american Greenback?  Will Petro-Dollars live on?

Well UAE let us open up the Nymex exchange ........for a price.  What is that PRICE TAG?  Just what are the rules for a foreign company doing business in the country of UAE?  Whose hands are getting washed NOW?

Psst.....the long bond 30 year bond is back 3/2006.........hmmmmmmmm.

Will this all work out............my brain says NOT!

Happy Digging: Cause the good old american government surely will not tell you the TRUTH!
Please reference the meaning of TRUTH in websters dictionary forward send same to the White House!

Responce to 4636. What do you expect from Dubya? One of his reasons for for going into Iraq was that we should fight terrorist where they live instead of trying to keep them out. The problem with this reasoning is that terrorists are all over the world not just in one country. The intellegent thing to do would be to keep them from getting into the US in the first place, but no one ever accused Dubya of being a Mensa member. I wonder if he considered he might be insulting Pakistian by giving Nukeula (sic) info to India (their rivals) and refusing them. In exchange for Indian mangos no less! I love mangos but damn! When I was in south FL we had a tree in the front yard! Yep! Our economy is going to fall apart unless we eat lots of mangos. The prudent thing to do would have been not to give the info to either of them!

Response to 4521

Yes well the real number of ports is 21 not 6.

Each port contains many container terminals. LA has something like 20, none of which are run by American firms. Yet the ports remain firmly in US control.

To address your second point re number inspected, even allowing for the inspection before shipping, the percentage is still only about 35%.

Yet the port of Singapore, the busiest in Asia, X-Rays 100% of containers. Billions to fight Arabs. Peanuts for port security. Doesn’t make sense to me?

As far as who will run for president in 2008, my fear is nobody democrat or republican will WANT the job of running the nation once Dubya’s through with it! How in the hell would someone even START to clean up this mess.

It’s not xenophobia that has most americans in arms over this particular port deal. Most americans had no idea that everyone BUT us owned our ports, that our essential infrastructure was being sold to the highest bidder. We don’t want China, Singapore, or anyone else owning our ports. It’s simply too risky in this day and age. Does anyone have any idea what happens if oh, say China for example, got a case of the pissies and decided they no longer wanted to be friendly? Do we then have an enemy controling how our goods come and go? The Arab nations, including the Saudis have shown themselves time and again to be fair weather friends at BEST. As far as the Coast Guard, they do the best they can with what they have. Bush is saying they will still handle security, but the Coast Guard doesn’t inspect containers. Yet he’s cutting their budget. As far as homeland security, they couldn’t handle Katrina and they had a three day warning she was comming. And don’t mention FEMA! Truth is, if anything goes wrong at any port, Arab owned or not, this government is incapable of handeling it.

Instead of the British selling the container terminals to Dubai, they should be encouraged to sell the terminals to a trustable company like Halliburton.

Are You Insane? If so, you may have contracted this condition through no fault of your own. I mean just look around the nation, there seems to be an epidemic of insanity going around. Dick Cheney, in all likelihood drunk, shoots his friend in the face, which leads to him having a heart attack, and his friend apologizes for what the Cheney family had to go through. The New York Times exposes illegal warrant less wiretapping of US citizens and the government’s response is not that the illegal activity should be punished, but the exposure of it. The President spends five years trying to foster fear of all things Arab and Muslim, and leads the public to confuse Osama with Saddam, and then tries to sneak by the public and the congress a deal to sell port operations to a government known to have been friendly with Osama in the recent past. He seems irritated that anyone would be suspicious of Arab princes who have partied with, and laundered money for, the world’s most famous terrorist, perhaps because both parties have been friendly with the Bush family for far longer than anyone can remember.
And now I read that the Los Angeles DA’s office is set to prosecute a man who blew the whistle on a company, Diebold, whose entire raison d’etre is to deceive state and federal officials into handing over to it the opportunity to steal elections for their republican patrons. Kafka-esque is the word that comes to mind. Shame on The LA District Attorney and on Diebold.
And of course the democrats, most of whom are republicans, still can’t bring themselves to challenge this chimp in any meaningful way, like shutting down the senate and the house, like calling Bush on his incompetence, like insisting that computerized, paperlesss, unverifiable, hackable voting machines be banned. Will they nominate Hillary? Kerry? Gore? Dean? An unknown? It won’t make a bit of difference if the tactics used in Florida in 2000 and Ohio in 2004 are allowed to continue in 2006 and 2008. Also I’m not voting again for anyone who lacks the guts to fight for an election they actually won.
Ken

Dubai...Dubya
hmmmmmm…

Mr. Abdallah,

Thank you for your post.  Those of us who have followed the Bush family corruption for the past four generations note that they are as corrupt as the oil families you describe, and often fail in their religious duty to God, neighbor and creation.  If the Bush family, Skull and Bones members, and the Carlyle Group is for it, you can almost guarantee it is bad for folks on the Arab Street, US Mainstreet AND any other place on the planet.  These groups are about preserving their wealth and power, not “democracy” or God’s creation.  But all our prayers and peaceful actions help.  Violence doesn’t.  Besides the spiritual reasons, there are practical ones: the extended Bush family(it’s big!) has its hands in most of the companies that profit from violence!!

I have to apologize to the person who posted a response to Peter Meldrum. I noticed in Peter’s post he states it is only one terminal in a port, but there are 6 ports involved or maybe more. A managing company is responsible for the security of those containers once they are unloaded off the ships and since only 5% or so of containers are inspected by the Coast Guard/Custom Agents one would or should come to a rational conclusion which would be; “How can the President and all his drones guarantee our safety?”

F. Abdallah is right on the mark.  I’ve lived in the Middle East, and trust me there is no love lost between the Arab people and the Arab royals.  Remember, Bin Laden’s original, and I’m sure still true, goal was to boot the Saud family out of Saudi Arabia.  Bin Laden believes that their close ties to westerners, the Bush family among others, is a corruption on the holy land of Islam, the land of Mecca and Medina.

As for Robert’s view on the port deal and do not have a good feeling about this at all. Could this be the UAE’s trojan horse? The final act to 911?

Fadel Abdallah, your response sounds a lot like most Americans think about Government. Thank you for your perspective on the port deal. I might disagree with the financial state of the ports and I say this only because two of the British companies shareholders have file suit to stop the deal

Peter Meldrum (#4401)--you need to do your homework, buddy.

Please elaborate a little further or is this all you have to offer? I would argue your point if I knew what your point is.

For everything Team Bush represents I despise to the Nth degree, I have to remind myself of what they are not: stupid. Bush is, but he’s just the figure head for the real cogs in power, like Rove, Rice, Hadley, Hastert and the 18% Veep. Knowing this, I am deeply troubled as to WHY they sank the only ship afloat in their sea of malfeasance: “safety first.” This administration is so nefarious, that the underlying agenda is frightening; I believe the Dubai deal is a harbinger of things to come. It is the portent in the port and if America does not wake up and stop them, we may drown in the stormy waters.

On this one, I would say ‘follow the money’ is the way to go: the John Show connection mentioned and anything else that tries to find a payola link. But, without any well-funded investigative reporters out there and no U.S. Congress willing to take a look, how does one do ti?

Whether or not this deal is a threat is irrelevant in my view.What i do find relevant though is the way we’ve been browbeaten for the last 4 years about “terrists” being behind every shrub on the block,and to report any suspicous activity.Well if you don’t find this to be suspicous activity then i have no idea what is now.This would be akin to turning our ports over to the French during ww2.What next?Handing over border security to the Mexicans?Airspace security to the Pakistanis?Bush is an asshole and so are his supporters.

“Give me liberty, or give me death” Patrick Henry, March 23, 1775

VS:

“Civil liberties do not mean much when you are dead,” Sen. Jim Bunning, R-Ky., told the Senate.  02/28/06

In the day Patrick Henry was a respected revolutionary leader, Quaker, and spokesman for the greatest human experiment that we call the United States of America, risked all to help invent, protect, and then preserve civil liberties of men as a matter of principle. He presumed from centuries of religious fervor and greed of a aristocracy in Europe which produced the Dark Age, that government should now and forever be subservient to it’s citizens if it were to be anything like civilized.

Today; we have a hard throwing, pampered baseball player, with all the privileges society could possibly offer, drop to his knees to tell the nation that civil liberties should be to sacrificed because he is to frightened to protect and preserve these same liberties that his counter part, but certainly not equal, presumed to lay his life. Patrick Henry would presume that a future of a nation without liberty is not a future worth having.

I want to know what in the Patriot Act has served to protect us so much better than the 230 years we lived without it.

I want to know what security we are getting for our surrender of civil liberties that make a life worth living.

I want to know why a pair of draft-dodgers should be allowed to fabricate cause for a foreign war for political gain, and use this very crime to undermine our civil liberties earned with the blood of true patriots of the past, present, and if some of our Congressional & Senate leaders should grow a spine, future.

I want to know where our patriots are. I want to know how cowardice and greed became such a virtue of our American Democracy.

I want to know what the Republican does with their conscience when they go to the polls to cast a vote to end American Democracy. I want to know how a Republican can live with themselves when our form of government is indistinguishable to a Franco Dictatorship.

Happy Thoughts;

DAN GRADY

A Perspective from Arab-Muslim Street on the Dubai Ports’ Deal!

Leaving aside what governments, corporations and merchants of death do to further their economic interests bottom line, I think that conscientious Americans should think more about what the average Arab and Muslim street person thinks about such deals, and how this is going to further complicate the bad feelings that already exist towards the West in general and the United States and Britain in particular.

First of all, the average Arab and Muslim street person considers the Gulf Arab oil rich countries as being corrupt systems, based on family rule, which they perceive as incompatible with Islamic principles of justice and ruler-ship. Further more, they consider that all the governments of these countries are stooges of British and American imperialists and occupiers, serving the West’s economic and political interests at the expense of their coreligionists. They also consider, with justification, that the billions of dollars invested in Western economies should be spent in Arab and Muslim lands to improve the economic conditions of the Arab and Muslim masses. And in light of this, any multi-billion investments in Western countries and economies are seen as a further indication of these governments betrayal of their causes and concerns, and as a result these regimes are considered traitors.

Many would further think that the British company would not have been sold if it was profitable. So the argument goes that the books must have been cooked to show that the company was profitable, and this is another scheme to steal these stupid governments’ money in the name of free trade.

So it might come as a surprising irony, for the uneducated Westerners, that there are millions and millions of average Arabs and Muslims who might be praying that this deal will not go through. If it goes, then there are many American Muslims, like myself, who worry that this deal might help the radicals in recruiting more angry people who would try to sabotage the oil facilities of the United Arab Emirates, as they are trying to do to the Saudi facilities, with two attempts at sabotage in the last week alone.

Furthermore, I do worry that once the Dubai Company takes over, there will be radical and fanatic Americans and foreigner merchants of death, who would go to work on staging another big 9/11 style event to create another justification this time for the take over of all the gulf states and freeze the billions and billions those dirty rich have invested here and many other places in the West.

My conclusion is that, it is in the interest of both Arab-Muslim nations and American people that this deal would not materialize. I am just one among millions who are praying for this!

Peter Meldrum (#4401)--you need to do your homework, buddy.

Since Americans don’t save a dime anymore (the savings rate is now in negative territory as we spend more than we earn, both as individuals and as a nation), we have little money to invest in our own economic capacity. Therefore, we depend on the kindness of strangers to keep us afloat. A major necessity is foreign direct investment. That is why so many terminals at so many ports are owned and operated by foreign nations, including China. That is what this deal is really all about. The bottom line: bolstering the dollar. It doesn’t hurt that the Bush dynasty is thick as thieves (he said advisedly) with the Saudis. Things will only get hairier for the U.S. dollar when/if Iran goes ahead with its plan to open a bourse buying and selling oil only in euros. If other countries don’t need so many dollars to buy oil, the dollar will resume its inexorable plunge to eventual worthlessness.
The planned date for the opening of the Iran oil bourse is March 20. Look for a buildup of war hysteria until then and for military action thereafter. After all, we invaded Iraq shortly after Saddam said he would only sell oil for euros, and briefly toppled Chavez in Venezuela for planning the same.

TINFOIL HAT ALERT!  Deacon Elurby, in 4413, has some issues, mostly with the reality that there are people in this country whose skin doesn’t look like his… anyone who hasn’t laughed in a while should checked out the linked bozo-rant essays.  Honestly, if you’re going to bloviate about all kinds of -isms and -ists, do yourself a favor and learn how to frickin’ spell them, at the very least. Oh, btw, links to your own non-factually-based dribblings do not constitute proof of the validity of later spewings.  It doesn’t work for those of us who have experience with reasoning and research, or whose parents who weren’t siblings… A for enthusiasm, though.

Yes, and while we are all watching the dog and pony show regarding port security

The republicans are all over at the supreme court waiting for it to rule on Tom Delay’s redistricting of Texas to hand heretofore non existing seats to more republicans, shifting the balance of power in Texas…

and the U.S.

Anyone have any educated guesses how the court that interfered in the 2000 election is going to rule on this one?

Yes this is the worst administration since I can’t remember when.  What frightens me more is that the Democrats have not found a voice at this most opportune time in political history. 

Let us all remember one thing, the Democrats will not be running against BUSH in 08.  If they cannot find the right Leader for these times, I’m afraid we will have another Republican president

And then there’s that small, annoying and persistant voice in the back of my mind that tells me that this could all be a setup for a very nasty Pearl Harbor type incident that could easily be blamed on Iranians or Palestinians or some other Arab/Muslim group we are required to despise.

But then I calm down and remind myself that our government would never do something like that, I mean kill a bunch of us so they could launch a war.

Mardi Gras I was dressed as a sheik and had “PORT SECURITY” on my chest. Cops, and several Muslims stopped to have their picture taken with me. Many said it was the best costume they’d seen all day. A longshoreman from NJ talked to me and said Hell would freeze over has before they’ll let this happen. Even some hardcore republicans shook my hand and said they can’t understand this one. Hopefully this is the proverbial straw that breaks bush’s back. But I’ve been disappointed so many times already ... who knows? It seems every other day this administration pulls a “they did what?” thing.
But this port deal, this is something that even Fat-ass Limbaugh would have a hard time putting a happy-face on.

I say sell --ummumm --approve it in 45 days and that is that folks.

Congress cannot and will not stop this deal. It is a done deal. All the fuss will go away. We’ll get other headlines in coming days. Don’t worry. The corporate media will focus on a newsworthy story soon enough -and the port deal will be gone from our short memories long before anyone can sayd Dubai!

IMMMMMMM-PEACHABLE !!!!
Say it with me, now
IMMMMMMMMM-PEACHABLE!!!!!!

Comment 4419 ..."The ether is wearing off the American public”...reminds me of two movie moments. A Cheech and Chong skit depicting a Japanese Aircraft carrier pep talk where the flight captain is ordering his pilots to fly their planes loaded with explosives into the enemy ships and asks: “Are there any questions?...Yes you in the back....and Cheech or Chong (I forget which one)says: “Yes sir. I have a question...Are you out of your F**king MIND?!”
The other movie moment where I equate the American public with the actor in trouble is Jurrasic Park when the injured Jeff Goldblum character says in the rear of the jeep as a giant angry T-Rex comes charging out of the jungle: “I’m feeling fairly alarmed here...must go faster...Must GO FASTER!”

From England they came, from France and Spain
Braving the oceans, wild and tame
To fight the good fight, and it called for flight
From the hell of opression, to form a new nation

For the cause lives were lost as they fled the
great kingdom
Bullets flew but they made no pause; their minds
were set on freedom
Thus, became America; the land of the Indian
Brave
Knowing nothing of the white man;
landing on his conclave--
The rest is recorded in history, beginning at
Plymouth Rock
Much which is buried in mystery, resting at
Plymouth Rock

Our freedom is fast disappearing
Lo, civilization takes a fall
While hearts and souls of men searing
Under terrorism standing tall
Within our nations top men
Proclaiming it’s all for the good---

The saber is sharpened again
The musket is loaded for blood!_ [c.SBM

I believe there are well over one hundred ports in the US, and all of them are owned or operated by foreign entities.  Why are these most recent acquisitions of more concern than the others?

Why did London want to sell USA Ports contract to UAE?

Let’s follow the money here, as the Dude said.

Treasury Secretary John Snow was CEO of CSX which sold out to London. Now, Snow is part of group which decided in secret meetings to agree to sell USA Ports contract to London/CSX.

What’s the deal here (besides corrupt corporate capitalism)?

Hey, lighten up ,gang--it’s all part of the Bush Plan:

“WE BRING YOU CHAOS. And chaos is the way to go”

Be it the Ports, Iraq, New Orleans…

You want plans, rationales, etc- VOTE for the other guy.

Perhaps the White House could maintain a list to guide us on what’s good and bad. Logic is no longer useful. Here’s a start:

Good: Awarding a port management contract to Dubai Ports World. 

Bad: Buying a Cuban cigar.

It’s not a foregone conclusion that the deal will go through, at least not in New York. They have a good case that the P&O;contract with the Port Authority was breached by this invalid assignment to Dubai Ports World, so they can cancel the contract and award it to a different company.

I do find it interesting that the only issue the press takes an interest in are non issues.  At the same time ignoring the threats to the Constitution, our economic security, the well being of our entire military, ect.

I wonder if this is because the press is being controlled by their corporate masters or have they dumbed themselves down to such a point that they only thing that holds their interest is which blond did who.

to david, #4420 i would assert that we are not the new, but same old nazis. as for port security, the usa would permit neither the ship st. louis nor it’s passengers entry. too busy being the world standard of freedom and democracy and all. the reality of politics is a virginia reel of duplicity, as ever. the one ship that got past our very own political axis of evil, the one that eludes them yet, is that of katherine anne porter.  robert puglia

The only part that is left out is “ Who exactly is making the 6.8 billion dollars in revenue for the lease of the port terminal” ?  Does the money go to the U.S. government or who ?

As usual, Robert Scheer is right on the money with this column about the Dubai Ports deal.  He should add David Brooks to the pity party, however.  As one of the Bush Administration’s most reliable apologists, he had to write a column in the Times about how this deal is just about business, has nothing to do with security. He appears to have so little insight into himself that he doesn’t even squirm when he has to take these positions . . .

So what exactly is DPW’s relationship to the ports.  1)They’re buying title.  2)They’re managing the ports.  3)They’re leasing the ports. All three of these have been mentioned via the MSM. Dubai is paying us about 7 billion dollars - for what?  Is this on the order of the Katrina debacle?  Coming out of this WH, where’s the surprise. The most definitive statement given ink recently, “We’re so broke, we’re selling off our assets.” TTTThat’s all folks!

Bob,

I’ve been “working hard” to resist the temptation to get hysterical on this one and leap to too many over-the-top assumptions about how a global management company, wherever they hail from, is going to be a solitary threat to security.

(As a personal aside, I’m also trying to restrain my giddy schadenfreude at the boggle the Right (Politicians, Pimps and Pundits) find themselves in over this one).

I like many left-leaning moderates was saying, “Yeah, Yeah I know about all that history (9/11 terrorists, hostility to Israel, terrorist money laundering, nuclear technology transfers, etc.) all of which is being laid that the Emir’s royal feet. But steady on, it’s the Coast Guard that really manages port security.”

Then I read this piece. Then I started thinking about all the other things I’ve been reading and hearing and before long, I didn’t feel too secure anymore.

For instance, one of the consistent arguments of the “Promote-Free-Trade / Don’t-Be-A-Racist” apologists for this transaction, is that the UAE is very pro-commerce and not at all religious. Defenders of the Deal seem to be saying that the Emirate (Oligarch) of Dubai and all his loyal Subjects (20% of the population) as well as all the foreign-born workers (80% of the population) are rigorously “untainted” by religious fanaticism or Islamic fundamentalist ideology and are therefore much less likely to be influenced by terrorist dogma.

I heard one academic say, sure they could be laundering terrorist money, but they don’t pick favorites. They very likely launder Mafia money, or Drug Cartel money or Child Pornography money as well. It’s all commerce to them and they have no stake in any of it.

Moving actual terrorists or transferring WMD nuclear technology through their country? Yeah, OK that happened but they move lots of other stuff too, probably much scarier stuff that we don’t even know about.
If the customer pays, they play.

Besides, didn’t “Trust-Builder” Chertoff say we have to “balance” our security needs with the overarching ideological goal of the neo-con party? And isn’t that goal the open, unrestricted access to free trade … and damn the consequences!?

The Monarchy of Dubai is in this sense, like Switzerland, or the Cayman Islands. Neutral. Irreligious. Amoral. Accountable to no one. And no thing … except the invisible hand of the markets. He’s kind of like Wall Street. Or Wal-Mart. You trust them don’t you?

They exist to make money.

So what they are all saying – if I have this right – is that they don’t officially believe in anything.

Now that makes me feel really safe.

The port deal will go through.  There is nothing Congress or the American people can do to stop it.  The war will continue.  There is nothing Congress or the American people can do to stop it.  The Republicans will continue to own the government and be owned by K Street.  There is nothing the Democrats or the American people can do to stop it.  America, the country and the idea have been morphed into a christian taliban style kingdom.  There is nothing the American people can do about it.  It is a fact.  We are the barbarians now.  We are the New Nazis.  We will level the earth and lay waste to humanity.  Why?  Profit.

Scheer is head and shoulders above anyone else I read these days.  He was right on the money when the saber rattling started about Iraq; right on the money after the war started and it initially looked like Bush and Co would actually have a victory.  And now he adds satire to his repetoire.  Touche and keep it coming Mr Scheer.  Looks like maybe the ether is wearing off of the American public.

Update as of yesterday’s news:  The United Arab Emirites have joined in the Arab League’s boycott of trading with Israel.  Will that extend to rejecting cargo coming from Israel to U.S. ports run by the UAE-owned company?

We’ve been witnessing this Theatre of the Absurd ever since the “world’s greatest democracy” was subverted by the butterfly ballot.  And to top it off…

“Who’s on first, What’s on second, I Don’t Know’s on third.”

There are very few articles which relate the truth about what’s afoot.  This is one of them (( the first link in “Open Letter to Walter Williams” may not open, and which may be accessed here
http://foundersamerica45.blogspot.com/ )) :

Open Letter to Walter Williams
http://www.rense.com/general67/realpurposeofcafta.htm

Rush Limbaugh is a Kook
http://rushlimbaughisakook.blogspot.com/

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Regarding how to define “NEOCON,” read
this eye-opening article about Zionist Jews:

http://www.newoxfordreview.org/article.jsp?did=1205-ed itorial

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The Internationalists
http://foundersamerica62.blogspot.com/

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Evil Traders
http://www.rense.com/general69/dirty.htm

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By now, we all know, or should know, that this is a failed administration.  My hope is that democrats can successfully craft their message and regain control of the congress, muzzle this president and then recapture the oval office in 2008.

It appears that in order to do that, we may have to have new messengers.  The American people have not responded thus far to the current democratic leadership in spite of our witnessing the worst president in our history and a compliant concress.

Indeed, if it weren’t for the huge losses of life, the Bush administration’s incredible incompetence would be fun to watch. Keep up the good work. How could 59 plus million of us have been so dumb? THE great question.

Robert

Nice piece ... Just like the War in Iraq, Katrina, we just don’t get it ... King George knows what’s good for us ...

I have him kicking back over on The Garlic: All The Cloves Fit To Peel

Bush To Tackle First Lady’s “To-Do” List During Port Review

Mowing Lawn, Painting White House Shutters Among Chores; Will Dial Up Veto Threat “As Needed”

http://puregarlic.blogspot.com/2006/02/bush-to-kick-ba ck-for-45-days.html

Peace
JTD

I have not enjoyed an article so much as “Dubai: Great Theater"and let’s add another act--let’s say Congress gives in--and the spoiled Texas Child has his way---and for some reason “God forbid"Dubai lets a container full of nasty stuff in--I can hear it all now from the White House--you had 45 days to look this company over--it’s the Congress slip shod review of the company--Bush has taken the blame game to places where no man has gone before--and I love it!!just to watch the sick looks on Fox’s faces brighten my day--do not Robert Scheer hide youself--we all need more of your “Great Theater"--thank you--Virginia Johnston--Gainesville, FL

Well, I am inclined to trust the Coast Guard;
I mean at least we have not yet sent all of them
to Iraq!  WHY, having lived through 9/11, no matter who one believes to hold ultimate respon
sibility for that one, are we inclined to put
our ports, for heaven’s sake, in charge of - -
Dubai? 

Aaaah! Stupid me!  It’s OUTSOURCING again!
I still wonder how much Middle Eastern money is
underwriting All the banks of Western Europe,
and the Americas.

I do wish that the media would get the story RIGHT!!

DWP is NOT taking over US Ports. It is taking over ONE container terminal in a port.

Ports will continue to remain American, owned by Americans, run by Americans.

Most bigger ports contain several container terminals. P&O;had one terminal in a given port, that’s what DWP is taking over.

The media coverage is bilge and crap including this one.

It certainly is a farce, too bad the cost of the performance is outrageous.  Are you aware the the little piece of land at the southern most point, Key West, has been visited by Cubans who pull up at the Navy Mole and abandon the boat, or better yet, pilot their craft into the Hilton Marina and walk to the police station. This island is lierally 2x4 miles. walkable. It has a Navy base, and a heavy coast guard presence.  Laughable, that this small piece of real estate that has so much goverment presence is still vulnerable.
These two incidents happened two or three years back, in February.
Fun and informative, thanks.

In your desperation to lay a glove on the Bush presidency, I think you’re veering off course here.  To me, what you write above sounds awfully snarky but seems low on substance.

As for the Coast Guard document, I don’t know what it means.  But for sure it doesn’t say there IS a terror threat from DPW.  It merely says the Coast Guard refuses to make any threat assessment.  To me, that just sounds like military double-speak & avoidance of saying anything definitive.  Like they’re saying: “we’re gonna be responsible if there is a terror strike involving DPW port facilities & we don’t want to go out on a limb and give this deal our seal of approval.”

The hysteria of the anti-ports deal crowd (your post is not quite in that category) and its willingness to accept at face value reports from the likes of the NY Post boggles the mind.

I’m all for “taking down” George Bush, but this issue is the wrong one to do it.

Luv it, Bob. It is FARCE!
and the cartoon with your wise and whimsical meanderings about the media nuts is also
a Wow. 
What makes it more interesting is Mr. B’s dry alcoholic Bubble will not allow him to step back and let go of it either.
More and more hilarious by the hour, by the day.
Is not one raison de existence of the world of politics today to provide CIRCUS for us?
Old Salty Dog
Lexington, Ky

Tax the tea and let only English sell the tea besides.

How about tax only the rich and pay us peons union to unload the goods.

Sound familiar?