1 Dont put the UAE fox in charge of the ports henhouse

2 Got - additional security consessions and modifications prior approval. Seems to me everybody doing their job is "doing their job". Now this doesn't seem to be good enough for some people. Seems they believe the admin and involved govt agencies are doing a piss poor job of national security and are a failure that can't be trusted. Er, where have I heard this before? Fine - everyone here can now happliy jump on the Hillary, Kerry, Corzine, Dean & Company Dem bandwagon - now they know how national security should be run! A lot of people in those agencies (including myself to a degree) who have worked very hard on national security. Seems all was for naught since so many of you think we had done such a shitty piss poor incompetent job. A perfect track record after 9/11 just isn't good enough for you. Fine - maybe Hillary & co. will build for you a time machine with assistance from the ACLU and set everything straight. Oh - its not port operation - its terminal/berths operation. See - the actual Port of NY/NJ is hugh! And within it are about a couple of dozen port terminal facilities which is what's involved here - see the term port is interchangable - english is a funny language. Most are operated by foreign mitli-national corporations and foreign & domestic shipping carriers. Wasn't always like that - the old days (pre-70s) was paradise for the unions!

3 Actual port security & overseeing control is in the hands of several federal and state govt agencies - I'd name them for you but some here would just take the opportunity to trash them - I've got a lot of dedicated friends there and I don't want to here it.

4 The Council on Foreign Relations strongly advocates such deals, referring to the practice as "proactive global interdependence", touting it also as a necessary step toward WORLD GOVERNMENT. The CFR also advocates "Corporate Powerbuilding", as a means to outstrip government in wealth, in order to then subvert it through direct economic influence. Of course W Bush, like his father, is a member of the CFR. I believe the Iraq War, soon to be followed by the Iran War, is a device being used to simultaneously decrease government wealth, as it increases both corporate wealth and power. "Fascism should more rightly be called corporatism, as it is the merging of State and Corporate power." - Benito Mussolini

5 Don't try using the old "liberal" vs "conservative" distraction ploy. This is NOT a partisan issue. It is an issue of National Security no matter how you try to spin it. I tell you what. You CFR Globalists can just keep your Hillary and W Bush. Oh yes. They are both alike members of the CFR, as is Bill Clinton, Dick Cheney, Carl Rove, Donnie Rumsfeld, John Kerry, ... etc etc. Stop the Globalist oligarchy now folks. The partisan divide is just one of their devices. The old divide and conquer trick. Don't buy it people.

6 Rupert Murdoch, the owner and CEO of FOX, is also a CFR member, along with Tony 'the poodle' Blair, and yes lots of phony liberals are too. FOX "news" is where you idiots got that CFR spin you were just using, by the way.

7 Anyone who thinks that anyone in a position of power can be trusted is a sucker anyway.

8 That is a very insightful observation Improb.

9 Even the twilight zone seems to have a fringe element.

10 John Buchanan, lamented Clinton doing the same thing, back when Bill was President. {excerpted under fair use] A Chinese Naval Base -- at Long Beach by Patrick J. Buchanan March 13, 1997 "And last year, Johnny Chung, who gave $366,000 to the Democratic National Committee, showed up for a Clinton radio broadcast at the White House, with six Chinese in tow, including an adviser of Cosco. The president begged off being photographed with his guests, which raises a question: If Bill Clinton is leery of being seen with these characters, why is he giving them a Long Beach naval base?... Does anyone care about national security anymore?" Read the rest @ http://www.buchanan.org/pa-97-0313.html [end excerpt] Clinton sold the Long Beech California Port to the Chinese commies?! Those damned liberals! That adulterous slimy lying bastard Clinton! Sadly, he is not alone, in the selling of America. Here is a really incredible coincidence too. The UAE based multinational corporation, set to buy 21 Ports in the US, also gave "us" a gift also, just weeks before the UAE Ports deal was announced. Only Bush must be a better salesman than Clinton, because he got "us" 366 MILLION dollars! It supposedly went to the Katrina relief effort. Who knows. Why would a supposed conservative, hell bent on National Security and improving our economy, sell off our infrastructure? Really, it doesn't matter what foreign outfit he sells them to, or which party is involved now obviously. The question is why? Bush does not need the money, and it didn't go to him. I guess. So what the hell is going on? Could globalization have anything to with this, and does that have anything to with Globalism? Of course it does. What the hell is Globalism, and who are these guys anyway? Now that is THE question, and here is the answer. George W Bush, like his father, is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, as are both Bill and Hillary Clinton, Dick Cheney, Carl Rove, Donnie Rumsfeld, and yes of course John Kerry and other phony liberals and phony conservatives also. WHAT THE HELL! WHO ARE THESE GUYS? The Council on Foreign Relations strongly advocates such deals, referring to the practice as "proactive global interdependence", touting it also as a necessary step toward WORLD GOVERNMENT. That's right. the CFR is a Globalist organization. They want a world government, 'and' they want to 'be' that world government. How could they ever hope to accomplish this?! Well, nobody is stopping them, and they can certainly afford it, because "they" are also BIG OIL, not just here in the US but everywhere on earth. Now that is some serious economic power right there. The CFR along with the Bilderburg Group, seems to be the headship of globalization, and they have long advocated "Corporate Powerbuilding" as a means to outstrip governments in wealth, in order to then subvert governments everywhere through direct economic influence. Oh by the way. Did I mention that Bush Jr and Sr, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Carl Rove, John Kerry, and others you have heard of recently, are also members of the Bilderburg Group? SURPRISE! They are! So is the owner of FOX, and many other media owners, major newscasters, and yes even some cute and fuzzy pundits are members too. Hello, Rush? Is that why you are so well fed? How could it even be possible, for this group of super wealthy corporate heads 'and' heads of state the world over, to ever hope to take over governments all over the world? Can they do it? Well obviously, they have so much money now, they can both buy the infrastructure 'and' the political cooperation necessary. In effect they are buying the world as we speak. Both Clinton and Bush, and Reagan and Carter, and Ford, and others, have been selling our nation all along, like, well, like hotcakes. How does that make you feel? Wont it be wonderful?! Imagine the same ethic displayed by EXXON, McDonalds, "The Good Guys", WAL-MART and that place you slave at, applied mercilessly on a global scale, without the government or civil restrictions now protecting you. Wont it be great?! Do you think maybe they (repubs and dems alike), got us all so divided and blinded with partisan squabbling, thanks Rush, that we didn't notice what they were up to in secret behind our backs? Ya think? I mean do you think at all? "Fascism should more rightly be called corporatism, as it is the merging of State and Corporate power." - Benito Mussolini