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Date Posted: 22:00:44 02/23/06 Thu
Author: 23
Subject: Re: ARRGH! They must think we are so stupid.....
In reply to: carson1 's message, "ARRGH! They must think we are so stupid....." on 12:53:16 02/23/06 Thu

I don't understand that, either. Why were they owned by a British company before? We're a big country. I'm sure we can find an american company to run our ports.

I'm not being xenophobic, either. I'm not particularly afraid of the threat of terrorism or anything. It just doesn't make sense to me. It almost seems like hiring Brazil's army to come be our military.

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[> Re: ARRGH! They must think we are so stupid..... -- a light, 13:00:03 02/25/06 Sat [1]

Currently, port ownership/management is typically global in nature. Some west coast US ports are owned by companies from other countries as well (mostly Asian).

At least in NYC's case, P&O Ports, the British company, leased our very active cruise port for 10 years starting in '97. That's the company that Dubai Ports World is taking over. A difference between DP World and companies based in other countries, is that DP is not a private company, it's the financial institution of the U.A.E. itself.

Our Mayor is working to break the lease, for amongst other things, not being informed of/approving the take-over. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey filed a suit to terminate their lease for the cargo port that DP World plans to take over. New Jersey filed a suit Thursday to block the company from taking over operations until the federal government investigates possible security risks. The Governor of NJ is asking the Governors of the remaining states directly affected to join in his suit. There is a court order to the federal government as to why they did not conduct a 45 day investigation, which would legally be required in this case, before approving this deal, and why they didn't provide timely information about it.

Senator Charles Shumer thinks his bill to block the deal can override a Presidential veto in the Senate. He feels the aministration might have more luck in the House.

There will be a major protest rally against the take-over among dock-workers on Monday.

Any commission on national security cites our ports as majors concerns, and notes that they are already very vulnerable to terrorist actions. Despite what the administration is trying to sell us about the U.A.E.'s contributions to the 'fight against terrorism' their track record speaks otherwise.

We are afraid of terrorism here, for good reason.

Sometimes I think Bush and his cronies just want to kill us off.

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