GREAT! United Arab Emirates firm to operate 6 US ports!!!!

[LuCifer]

:puke::mad::wtf::argh::grr::nuke::banghead::rant:

Oh my goddamn GOD! Let's take a break from DICKhead drinking his breakfast and lunch, and going hunting (ALLEGEDLY) shall we?

Every American with a PULSE should be FREAKING THE HELL OUT after reading this. So THIS is how the BU$Hitler 4th Reich Nazi Regime is going about WINNING THE WAR ON "TERRA" huh? This is unfrigginbeliable!!!!!!!!! By letting a country that FUNDS TERRORIST ACTIVITIES take over shipping ports in NYC, Philadelphia, Miami, NJ, Baltimore and New Orleans! This is just, this just goes beyond the pale. How the HELL can they justify this?! Countries like the U.A.E., Saudi Arabia (oh especially this piece of CRAP country, scumbags), Yemen, Pakistan, etc., are where the REAL heros of the USA SHOULD BE, and NOT Iraq. Sorry if I sound militant here, but why didn't we make tolietbowl countries like them into parking lots on Sept. 12th, 2001? Oh I know, NO, NO OIL THERE, SO SORRY CHARLIE, GOTTA STOP IRAQ FROM TRADING THEIR OIL IN EUROS CUZ IT'LL MAKE THE AMERICAN DOLLAR NOT WORTH A DAMN. Emperor Pissypants takes the good will of the rest of the world that America had after 9/11, yes even countries like Iran and Syria--which DUHbya want to do a war with as well, can you believe this KOOKAMYER!--had candle light vigils for US, yes US. And this TWIT completely pissed it all away with this psycho Iraq deal. This is just SO DISGUSTING. Will someone PLEASE save America from these wackjob CROOKS who are turning this country into a fucking dictatorship?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? Anyone care to join me while I :puke: liver bile and blood?
____________________________________________________________

United Arab Emirates firm to operate six major U.S. ports

SPECIAL TO WORLD TRIBUNE.COM
Monday, February 13, 2006

WASHINGTON — The Bush administration has approved a deal in which a United Arab Emirates company would operate six major ports in the United States.

A U.S. government panel has determined that the UAE firm, DP World, would not endanger national security.

DP World, based in Dubai, has offered $6.8 billion for the purchase of a British firm that operates the ports of Baltimore, Miami, New York, New Jersey, New Orleans and Philadelphia. DP World intends to acquire the London-based Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co. The sale was expected to be approved on Monday.

Full article:
http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/06/front2453780.0986111113.html

[Blue_In_AK]

1. Excellent rant, and I couldn't agree with you more...

There was some discussion of this over the weekend, but not what it deserves.

[SoCalDem]

3. "A US panel"....(comprised of Bush1, Bush2, Cheney, Rumsfeld)

Of course this is just the flip side of outsourcing.. Corporate INsourcing by foreign companies....

CRAZY!

[rastaman]

33. What the fuck is going on!!

[SammyWinstonJack]

47. buchco.,inc is wtf is going on.

:banghead:

[LynnTheDem]

2. The country that helped finance 911. That's bush for ya.

Frigging unreal, isn't it.

[converted_democrat]

4. This needs to be shouted from the mountain tops.. This will piss both

sides off.. Let Rush spin this..

[MadMaddie]

5. They are selling out America....

This should be a federal crime....

<snip>
A U.S. government panel has determined that the UAE firm, DP World, would not endanger national security.
<snip>

There are certain industries that the US must always control. No other country in the world would do this. Why are US companies not running these ports? Do you think that the jobs are going to go to American workers?


Why is this not National News?

[pitohui]

39. sounds like it wasn't usa run to begin with

says the purchase is from a british firm?

so apparently it was never usa-operated

[CrazyOrangeCat]

6. helluva rant!

I saw this yesterday and I still can't believe they're getting away with this shit.

Just one huge fucking power grab after another.

And they're poised to sell off the Nat'l Forests and BLM land.

The Corporation has arrived.

[LynnTheDem]

7. bush is also outsourcing airline security to Saudi.

But hey, Saudi knows all about our airline security & where the weaknesses are.

Don't they.

Edit; anyone have a link to this, was last week & now I can't find it, of course. Arrrgh! Some Saudi firm or other...

[LuCifer]

19. WHAT!

I'm glad I wasn't taking a drink of my soda when I read that, but are you shmitting me! The Saudis, those dirtbags, are doing AIRLINE SECURITY in Ameirca now!??!!?!?! Good GOD! Ok, I'm not flying anymore, screw that. I would rather walk!

THIS IS INSANITY!

Oh please folks, someone HAS to have a link to this. This HAS to be exposed as well.

And I really REALLY did try to NOT cuss up a storm in my rant. You should see the version of it I did on myspace!!!!! Drunken sailors, eat your heart out.
But this just, damn, I need to take a deeeeeep breaaaaath, ahhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!

Lu Cifer, any aliens from another planet reading this, ANY DAY NOW! INVADE! SAVE US! PLEASE!

[LynnTheDem]

21. There was a tiny article last week about it.

Some firm in Saudi...but damned if I can find it now. I can't remember what the dang headline was & search gets me nada.

I'm still searching...hopefully a DUer will remember.

[upi402]

68. and Port of Seattle booted out local union workers

and brought in non-union workers who were foreign or from out of town.

What the fuck is so wrong about being an American worker????

How rich do the rich need to be???

One thing's for sure, DINO's back this kind of shit.

[FreedomAngel82]

75. I wonder if it's related

to BinLadin. Heh.

[petgoat]

40. The Kuwait American Corporation

owns Securacom (now renamed Stratesec). Marvin Bush was a director for ten years.

According to this article at commondreams, Securacom did security for the World
Trade Center.

http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0204-06.htm

According to this entry ar cooperativeresearch, Securacom had done electronic security at Dulles
Airport before 9/11, and had done security work for United Airlines before 1998.

http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/searchResults.jsp?searchtext=securacom&events=on&entities=on&articles=on&topics=on&timelines=on&projects=on&titles=on&descriptions=on&dosearch=on&search=+Go+

[LuCifer]

59. Oh and how do you like that!

Damn, all this crap keeps coming back to the BU$Hitler Crime Family!
Well son'bitch. It's almost like, shit, it's almost like these people all, uh, conspire to, you know, take over the whole entire WORLD. Silly me, I must be drinking more than DICKhead Cheney. Well I gotta go hunting now...see ya!

Lu

[HockeyMom]

8. My Dad was a Port of New York Longshoreman,

mostly Manhattan and sometimes Brooklyn, he must be rolling over in his grave.

[Coexist]

9. k & r

unbelievable.

[laruemtt]

10. is it treason yet?

<snip>

trea·son ( P ) Pronunciation Key (trzn)
n.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------



Main Entry: trea·son
Pronunciation: 'trEz-&noun
Function: noun
Etymology: Anglo-French treison crime of violence against a person to whom allegiance is owed, literally, betrayal, from Old French traïson, from traïr to betray, from Latin tradere to hand over, surrender
: the offense of attempting to overthrow the government of one's country or of assisting its enemies in war; specifically : the act of levying war against the United States or adhering to or giving aid and comfort to its enemies by one who owes it allegiance —trea·son·ous /-&s/ adjective

<snip>

yeppers, we're there.

[LuCifer]

22. Ok, slow down, lemme think this through...

...YES IT IS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Uh, isn't the punishment for treason, you know...I'm just sayin'!

[laruemtt]

23. is ANYBODY besides us

paying any attention at all to what's being done to our country?????????? ARGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[BeHereNow]

29. Quite simply, no.

That is what makes the whole experience
like being trapped in a bad episode of
the Twilight Zone.
Cue the music...
BHN

[laruemtt]

32. perfect analogy. n/t

[petgoat]

42. Anybody besides us? WorldCan'tWait is pretty on top of it, and

active.



http://www.worldcantwait.net/

[LuCifer]

61. Why do you hate America?

Watch America Idol! Worry about important things, like, who will win it! Seesh, ya commies!!!!! :sarcasm:

[converted_democrat]

11. Just a question...What color are these ports?? Are they blue or red? n/t

[MrMonk]

16. Mixed, but the port areas are blue

Baltimore, Miami, New York, New Jersey, New Orleans and Philadelphia

[blm]

12. NOW will freepers wake up and smell the global fascism? They've been

supporting the House of Saud and the House of Bush, those dumbasses.

Do they even realize the power the House of Saud has over our news media? Both CNN and FOX.

[converted_democrat]

15. I'd like to think that they are smart enough to see through this..

I'm not going to hold my breath though.. Moderates will see it, but I wouldn't bet money on the freepers..

[flyarm]

13. this is the #1 story the White House press should have been all over

instead od the fucking hunting accident..

this is the #1 story...so the *boys continue to protect our national security...my ass!

and seems we all fall for the bogus shit..and this stuff passes under the radar..remember the rnc is going to say they are running in 2006 on that fact that they are better at national security and that they will keep us safwr than dems...

in a pigs pen...

this story must break into msm..this is the biggest story of the day..and week and month and year!

fly

[AntiFascist]

51. Maybe this is why the hunting accident occured....

and why there were so many posts about it. :tinfoilhat:

[BeHereNow]

14. I hear ya Lucifer...I was banging my head against the wall all day

yesterday...
I'd say, by now, it should be fairly obvious to everyone
in this country that this group of thugs could care a less
about this country. There is no "America" in their view
of the world. All the rhetoric is simply designed to keep
the people cowering and agreeing to what ever it
takes to keep them "safe." The irony is, through it
all they have never been less so.
It's mind boggling, is it not?
BHN

[pinto]

17. This Forbes article (2/11) has a little more info.

http://www.forbes.com/work/feeds/ap/2006/02/11/ap2518368.html

[WinkyDink]

18. I canNOT BELIEVE THIS!!

I mean, I KNOW it's TRUE, but...!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

KO has to do a segment on this.

[arcane1]

20. no shit! I work in the shipping industry and just read this...

all I can think of is how fucking EASY it would be to smuggle a nuke into the country with these bastards running the ports

it was bad enough that the Brits were doing it

[datadiva]

24. Outsourcing

Next thing you know, they'll be outsourcing elected office. Oh, I forgot, they already did that. Courtesy of Diebold.

[LuCifer]

60. Now now now!

Don't forget to throw ES&S right up under the bus, as they damn well deserve!

[BeHereNow]

25. Here's what I find most troubling to contemplate:

Los Angeles is one of the ports NOT being included
in the arrangement.
It would be politically advantageous to the powers
that be to point to us and say,
"See, the major port that WASN'T being managed
by our UAE friends is the one that was hit."

I mean, think about the way these thugs operate and
don't forget to factor in that they are looking for
a reason to "get it on" in Iran.

BHN:scared: :scared:

[centristo]

26. isn't Michael Jackson in Dubai?

How bad could it be? :sarcasm:

[pitohui]

41. dubai just voted itself "hippest city in the world"

i shit thee not

i can't make this crap up

however i don't think dubai is real interested in blowing the crap out of any financial capitals, they just want the $$$

[sasha031]

27. Than You For Posting

This is Big, I am mailing this to CNN Dobbs, we all should, this is the sort of thing he will cover...

[LuCifer]

30. Thank ALL of you!

:hi::loveya:

I had to mark-out here like a groupie, but ya know, I love having a post that FINALLY grows some legs, gets a tons of replies and nominations! And if this one didn't, I would be like HUH!

This is really wacked out shit. So who's to say who has the final say what stuff comes in that gets inspected, AND WHAT SHIT DOESN'T! Oh gee, can you say SMUGGLE IN A NUKE OR TWO OR MORE?!!?!!?!?!?!?! This is just I don't know how I can type, I am so blown away by this! And I mean, I'm not one that gets freaked out easily by stuff, but this for some reason just has NOT GOOD written ALL over it.

:crazy:

Lu

[Stephanie]

28. K&R

:mad:

[ClayZ]

31. This is BAD! K & R

:kick:

[StefanX]

34. A lot of the financing for 9/11 went through Dubai (UAE)

So it is totally bizarre to be putting a Dubai firm in charge of American ports.

[petgoat]

44. Osama was in the American Hospital in Dubai six weeks before

9/11 getting kidney treatments by Dr. Terry Callaway, according to a report
by the French newspaper Le Figaro. While there, Osama met with Larry Mitchell,
a CIA agent, and also with Prince Turki bin Faisal, who was then the chief of
Saudi Security. Prince Turki is now the Saudi ambassador to the USA, and he
appeared at the State of the Union Address.

http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/searchResults.jsp?searchtext=mitchell&events=on&entities=on&articles=on&topics=on&timelines=on&projects=on&titles=on&descriptions=on&dosearch=on&search=+Go+

http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/RIC111B.html

[sasha031]

35. address for Randi, Kieth, and Dobbs

KOlbermann <[e-mail]>

rrhodes <[e-mail]>

[e-mail]

[LuCifer]

37. We can only HOPE...

...that even ONE of them cover this. I mean, I hope ZERO hope that Lou Dobbs will, but COME ON RANDI! Don't let us down! And KO, com'on G, go out on a limb! Hell, he was really the only MSM person to say ANYTHING about the Ohio 2004 election FIX AND FRAUD.

Lu Cifer, any gov't spies reading this, I will be making use out of the FREDERICKS OF HOLLYWOOD catalogue that came in the mail today, so please make a note of it...

[buzzard]

36. Lou Dobbs will be addressing this coming up soon FYI.n/t

[LuCifer]

38. Well uh urm I knew that!

This is assuming CNN doesn't pull a triple jones magillicity and pulls the plug on him.

[malaise]

43. Have no fear that

it's probably a front company for Bushco.

[progressoid]

45. Even heard it on CNN just now.

[Ksec]

46. Our corporations and their government have become the enemy

The outsourcing to communist China which is making China a military giant. Stuff like this report of giving away our ports to countries which have shakey govs.

Down the road a few years and were gonna be in huge trouble over these things.

Profit over everything Republicans, and some Democrats.

Capitalism is beginning to show us the reason it cannot work without being regulated.

[LiberalAndProud]

48. Who is on this committee?

The company said the U.S. Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States "thoroughly reviewed the potential transaction and concluded they had no objection." The committee includes representatives from the departments of Treasury, Defense, Justice, Commerce, State and Homeland Security.

They ignore small details.

But officials said the UAE has not fully responded to repeated appeals from the Treasury Department to halt money-laundering activities exploited by Al Qaida and aligned groups. They said that for years Dubai served as a base for Al Qaida operatives, including those who destroyed the World Trade Center and a Pentagon wing in 2001.

And should be dismissed for dereliction of duty.

[Initech]

49. Dubai = tax free

Come on, dont you guys know the REAL reason they want to operate out of Dubai? They can get away with doing this tax free! Which means that any number of scary companies could start operating our ports. And tax free means that OUR government sure as hell wont be able to trace it. Just like they couldnt immediately trace 9/11.

:nuke:

[BeHereNow]

62. You are SO right. That's the OTHER outrage to this move!

These corporate fucks have been draining the tax
money that once supported social infrastructures
in other countries for decades.
Now they are sucking every tax dollar they
can out of this one.
Out sourcing and off shoring to not pay taxes;
it's the multi national way.
WE are SO fucked.
Memo to freeper trolls:
Do you understand YET?

BHN

[Initech]

63. Exactly, these corporations are becoming money leeches.

That is, they're sucking the money (blood) out of one entity like a leech, destroying the landscape, then moving onto the next entity, only to continue sucking the money (blood) out of the next.

[Ksec]

64. Yep, profit over national security or

any other issue. Theyve become obsessed with making money for shareholders at everyone elses expense.

This attitude of the GOP enablers has become very dangerous.

[Initech]

66. Yup, last five years I've been trying to figure out:

Which is a bigger threat to America - Iraq or the Republican Party? It's a definate mystery.

[BeHereNow]

70. Neither- in my book

The biggest threat to EVERYONE on the planet
are the multi-national corporate thugs who control
BOTH the democrats and the republicans as well
as the media who was SUPPOSED to warn us
and report on the take over.
Too late- WE BE SCREWED.
That's the way I see it anyway.
We are now in the same shape as every other
country raped and pillaged by them.
Most of us just don't now it yet.
BHN

[BeHereNow]

71. Neither- in my book

The biggest threat to EVERYONE on the planet
are the multi-national corporate thugs who control
BOTH the democrats and the republicans as well
as the media who was SUPPOSED to warn us
and report on the take over.
Too late- WE BE SCREWED.
That's the way I see it anyway.
We are now in the same shape as every other
country raped and pillaged by them.
Most of us just don't now it yet.
BHN

[BeHereNow]

65. Americans just haven't quite figured out the fact

that the multi national corporates view Americans
no differently than the citizens in the other
countries they have destroyed.
Americans think they are "special" somehow.
Boy are they in for a big surprise, eh?
Americans are about to find out
why the livng the "American dream" has been
living the "American nightmare" for the rest of the world.
It's all about to catch up to them and bite them in the ass.
BHN

[Initech]

67. Exactly why I want to get the fuck out of this country

And go experience what it's like living in other countries and interacting with other cultures before the Republicans make it illegal to do that. :mad:

[BeHereNow]

69. My brother is doing just that- he leaves for Angola next week.

I am not thrilled that he will be working there, but I understand
his logic and why he is willin to take the risk.
He has been flying copters in the gulf for several years.
He takes the workers out to the oil platforms and
picks them up again.
He HATES working there and is surrounded by
bushbots.
He is about to start flying for Chevron in Angola
because he can make three times the money and
not pay taxes.
He plans to buy a house in South America.
He says I can come live there too.
I just hope he survives being stationed
in Angola long enough to do it.
I am really worried about what he is doing, but
I understand completely.
He wants OUT and sees no other way to do it
financially.
BHN

[AntiFascist]

50. By the time they're done with all this....

Middle Eastern countries, European banks, and China will own us outright, and we won't have a judicial system left to do anything about it.

[The Stranger]

52. Here we go again.

Here we go again.

:mad:

[AntiFascist]

55. Considering the cash flow connections....

what's so racist about pointing these out?

[The Stranger]

80. What are "cash flow connections"?

Any articles or reports would be appreciated.

[AntiFascist]

81. On Page 91 of "The Forbidden Truth:....

U.S.-Taliban Secret Oil Diplomacy and the Failed Hunt for Bin Ladin", by Jean-Charles Brisard & Guillaume Dasquie,

Another bank believed to have facilitated transfers for Osama bin Ladin's networks was the Dubai Islamic Bank<30>, created in 1975, based in the United Arab Emirates, and run by none other than the current minister of finance of the United Arab Emirates<31>. According to the CIA, these transfers fed organizations associated with bin Ladin. The Dubai Islamic Bank was also one of the principal shareholders in the BCCI with more than $80 million in assets there. The bank has been involved in several scandals...

<30> Bankers Almanack, 2000; IAC Company Intelligence, 2001.
<31> Among its shareholders are the governments of Dubai and Kuwait (which account for 10 percent of the capital). The bank is a shareholder in Bahrain Islamic Bank, Islamic Bank Bangladesh Ltd., and Tadamon, and also has investments in Al Shamal Islamic Bank.

[muriel_volestrangler]

53. It's the Bob Boudelang thread!

He's back - and angrier than ever! :rofl: Still not making much sense, though - but that's the way we like him. Thanks for the laugh.

[AzDar]

54. Kick ..(WTF??) n/t

[jazzjunkysue]

56. Who else can you trust to keep your secrets, but a bloodthirsty dictator?

Perfect. Unless Chertok isn't doing anything...

[jazzjunkysue]

57. These people really are this stupid.

[LuCifer]

58. Very

Very very stupid. I've talked to a few dozen others about this, and gee, guess what?! NOT ONE thinks this is a good idea. Gee, sorry NSA spies. I was really hoping to give you some GOOD news...NOT! Fuck you, bastards!

[slaveplanet]

72. The fine line between dream and illusion

that big shiny mansion on the hill. It's still there, can't you see it? surely everyone can still see it?

The thing is tho, The grand house,has been relieved of it's jewels, no longer contained within the house are the fine clothes, same goes for the exquisite furnishings, rare artwork, fine china, crystal-ware and silver place settings.Likewise, all the appliances that made day to day life a pleasure, have as well, been liberated.

Yet the shiny mansion remains and everyone who drives by, gazes in admiration...If they only knew the truth.

The truth that the looters are on their way back ...yes they haven't finished, they have a busy schedule, and they intend to fetch the marble sinks, the chandelier, the beautiful draperies...yes folks they're even on their way back for the pipes and old wiring.

and the neighbors, they just say ... boy they really let the place go (deep down they really know better)
but there are no cops to call, and they all live in FEAR.

and they need to keep the illusion alive

[entanglement]

73. A reply to your flame

/asbestos

It's the UAE, not Saudi Arabia. AFAIK, the UAE had nothing to do with 9/11 or related events. Dubai, a city in the UAE is actually quite a liberal oasis in that region. Of course, I oppose letting ANY foreign company operate something unless *we* can't do it ourselves for some reason, but that is not the point here

"Toilet bowl countries...parking lots?"
That could have been cut and copied from FR. Gee, I'm sure you're delighted we've killed 100,000+ Iraqis?


/asbestos:eyes:

[JCMach1]

77. Besides the British were already operating these ports...

Operations were sold to a foreign company years ago. IF you open things up, expect competition.

[FreedomAngel82]

74. IHOP all the way

[Wilms]

76. K&R n/t

[JCMach1]

78. Ports will be safer! Why?

Dubai already runs and operates one of the busiest, most modern and safest ports world.

AND, they have have the capital to make security improvements... UNLIKE the British corporation!!!


Your choice... or, would you prefer to continue with a crappily run near bankrupt port company with no money to spare for security improvements.

[Neil Lisst]

79. This kind of thing is insane. What is Bush thinking?!

UAE in charge of ports? Yeah, that's gonna work. NOT!!