[BanditFlyer]

Why has the media ignored more important stories to give us Dick Cheney's target shooting score? Is it purposefull slight-of-hand? Do they want to keep us blind?

What vested interest do they have in keeping this story from us?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1577034/posts

UAE firm to run 6 U.S. ports(Nation tied to 9/11 hijackers could influence terminals)
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nat...tack-headlines ^ | February 12, 2006 | Associated Press


Posted on 02/12/2006 7:52:30 AM PST by cope85


UAE firm to run 6 U.S. ports Nation tied to 9/11 hijackers could influence terminals, including Baltimore's Originally published February 12, 2006 WASHINGTON //

A company in the United Arab Emirates is poised to take over significant operations at six American ports, including Baltimore, as part of a corporate sale, leaving a country with ties to the Sept. 11 hijackers with influence over a maritime industry considered vulnerable to terrorism.

[Mulderator]

Originally Posted by BanditFlyer

Why has the media ignored more important stories to give us Dick Cheney's target shooting score? Is it puropsefull slight-of-hand? Do they want to keep us blind?

What vested interest do they have in keeping this storu from us?

I think you answered your own question!

[DublHelix]

I wonder whether this report was genuinely motivated by security concerns, be that perceived, or actual ... or whether there was a more basic element of nationalism involved. When in the past, American corporations bought up foreign rivals that was perfectly ok.

Yet when Daimler bought Chrysler - one leading newspaper printed a cartoon ( and we all know the trouble they cause ) ... depicting the new chairman / president of the Daimler Chrysler Corp. with a Hitler moustache. Though despite that, the US Embassy in Germany was not burned to the ground, nor were its citizens there, threatened with death.

When British Telecom tried to establish a market presence in the US, it was foiled at every turn - and when they tried to actually buy out a major telco. there, Worldcom put in a huge counterbid, warning customers of the 'risks' of overseas companies 'gaining control' of the american telecommunications network infrastructure

British Airways ( of whom I an DEFINITELY NOT a fan) has tried for years to reach an 'Open Skies' agreement with US carriers. The US airlines demand more landing slots at UK airports, yet block any reciprocal deal at JFK, O'Hare, and elsewhere.

Either we live by in a 'Global Economy' where multinationals can utilise legal measures to acquire companies to further their interests, or we do not. The reality is that heads of these companies have power that transcends any politician be that Bush, Blair, Chirac, Putin, or whoever .. and they will utilise their financial muscle to break into any country, or business sector that augments their profits.

Its also interesting to note that since the 1950.s, Japanese businesses have made many high profile purchases of American companies ... yet attempts by American companies to do the same in Japan are almost always unsuccessful, owing to clauses in the Japanese constitution, which was itself drawn up by one Douglas MacArthur in 1946 / 48. His intent at the time, was to establish Japan as a bulwark against communist expansion, and was intended to prevent them acquring the likes of Honda, Mitubishi, Toyota, etc ... and gaining a foothold in that country.

These pigeons have come home to roost.

[BanditFlyer]

Do as I say, don't do as I do

No, seriously. This thread was a commentary on the sad state of affairs in the US(and in our media). Why do we want the wolves guarding the hen-house?

There has also been chatter on local(northern California) radio stations of allowing Arabian Peninsula companies ownership in American Airlines and the (sometimes obvious, sometimes less so)threats that this would pose.

As far as the double-standard of caring if US companies are owned by foreign concerns and not caring if US companies own foreign companies, that is a valid point, but tangential to this thread.

This thread was about the wolves guarding the hen-house - about allowing companies(sometimes even state-sponsored companies ) to have controlling interest in US infrastructure companies that have a very real place in the security of this nation.

[linskyjack]

Guess what--two of the 9/11 terrorists were from guess where? The United Arab Emirates. Whomever in the Bush administration is responsible for that contract, should be fired. He will probably get the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

By the way--Hillary Clinton and a Republican Senator (I think the guy from Florida) just co-sponsored a bill that would deny the Emirates the contract.

[bassetman]

Originally Posted by BanditFlyer

Why has the media ignored more important stories to give us Dick Cheney's target shooting score? Is it purposefull slight-of-hand? Do they want to keep us blind?

What vested interest do they have in keeping this story from us?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1577034/posts

Released in Sunday!

[lighthouse]

Hitler moustache - what like the one worn by the bloke I met in a Suffolk town while fund raising for Amnesty - who supposedly 'promoted human rights concerts'? Did he sign up? Nah - did he bleep!(rasp sound)

[BanditFlyer]

Originally Posted by linskyjack

Guess what--two of the 9/11 terrorists were from guess where? The United Arab Emirates. Whomever in the Bush administration is responsible for that contract, should be fired. He will probably get the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

By the way--Hillary Clinton and a Republican Senator (I think the guy from Florida) just co-sponsored a bill that would deny the Emirates the contract.

I heard on local radio that it was Chuck Schumer and the Hilldebeast that were actually concerned with the security of this nation.

What kind of Bizzaro world are we living in when Dubya doesn't care about the security of the US and the Hilldebeast does?

[AcaCandy]

Originally Posted by bassetman

Released in Sunday!

Today is Sunday. I heard it very early Saturday morning.

A Houston paper had it a week ago.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/3652381.html

Bandit's post above is not a newslink:

Posted on 02/12/2006 7:52:30 AM PST by cope85

[bassetman]

Originally Posted by AcaCandy

Today is Sunday. I heard it very early Saturday morning.

A Houston paper had it a week ago.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/3652381.html

Bandit's post above is not a newslink:

Posted on 02/12/2006 7:52:30 AM PST by cope85

Looks suspicious to me!

[plschwartz]

Originally Posted by BanditFlyer

I heard on local radio that it was Chuck Schumer and the Hilldebeast that were actually concerned with the security of this nation.

What kind of Bizzaro world are we living in when Dubya doesn't care about the security of the US and the Hilldebeast does?

Actually it is the real world which doesn't run by the rules set by the Rovean propaganda machine.
And as for why Bushies agreed is one word oy-al.

Actually the notion not to trust a govt cause two of their citizens did something we didn't like borders on the psychotic. What then do you do with that logic when you see two americans supporting AQ?

You will never see it but the demonizing you have of Mrs Clinton and others who see the world differntly then you has formal similarities to the process that fundi Islamists have toward those in the West that see the world differently then they do.

The emerates are actually our allies and are much more in danger from AQ then we are.

I do not blame you for many of your attitudes as they reflect the position of a distressingly increasing number of Americans especially red staters. It is an attitude that is, as much as anything else, undermining the role of the US as the world intellectual leader.

The energy say that is put into ID is at the expense of the rest of the Biology ciricullum. What will those kids learn in biology and how ten years later will they successfully compete in the whole range of biologically based industries ? Of course the answer is that they wont. The jiobs and the cutting edge is and will be going elsewhere

[AcaCandy]

Originally Posted by bassetman

Looks suspicious to me!

Everything except for a bottle of beer looks suspicious to you

[BanditFlyer]

Originally Posted by plschwartz

... It is an attitude that is, as much as anything else, undermining the role of the US as the world intellectual leader.

My own view of the intellectual leadership of the US is that it is based on the work of people like Einstein, Oppenheimer, Igor Sikorsky, etc - Do you see a pattern? Immigrants - Without immmigrants, the US would be as intellectually second-best as the countries these immigrants left.

The energy say that is put into ID is at the expense of the rest of the Biology ciricullum. What will those kids learn in biology and how ten years later will they successfully compete in the whole range of biologically based industries ? Of course the answer is that they wont. The jiobs and the cutting edge is and will be going elsewhere

ID is as much of a joke as the California(or Arkansas) educational system. It only serves to prove that Buckminster Fuller was correct when he postulated that the apes evolved from humans, rather than the other way around - that appears to be the direction we are headed in...

BTW - a topic for another day but... I read a very interesting paper on the modern Islamic view that all of science is explained in the Koran. It said that this view is a relatively recent one that brought about the end of Islamic scientific achievement. This appears to parallel the current situation of the US WRT ID.

[TRS-80 vet]

Originally Posted by linskyjack

By the way--Hillary Clinton ... just co-sponsored a bill that would deny the Emirates the contract.

This is interesting - that a socialist - would sponsor such a bill to stop U.S. ports control from falling into Islamists' hands.

Let us see what earmarks are attached to the bill.

H(&)R Clinton would gladly do our taxes for US

[bassetman]

Originally Posted by AcaCandy

Everything except for a bottle of beer looks suspicious to you

I resemble that remark, unless it's Lite beer!