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Rush Limbaugh Live Thread Fed 20th, 2006
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Posted on 02/20/2006 7:52:04 AM PST by MNJohnnie
Well in prepration for the Dubai port deal all day every day Media storm approaching, here is what the Port story is about.
A DNC press release was sent out by Chucky Schumer for the Democrat Senate Election Committee. It is full of rumor, innuendo and guilt by association. A bunch of junk journalists picked up the story and with out checking a SINGLE fact printed the story. A bunch of meat head grandstanding Republicans Congress Critters on Kneepads, read the story and freaked out WITHOUT bothering to find out a single fact.
The Security Agencies, who did all the investigation and background checks were blown off or sneered at by the Democrats, their junk journalists propagandists and Republican Congress critter Media whores. Meanwhile the FACTS of the case are being ignored in order for everyone to gleefully parrot a DEMOCRAT Press release.
HERE is the logical diagram on this story. A company based in UAE is taking over port operations. UAE is an Arab Country. Arabs committed 9-11. Bush is turning Port Security over to the Terrorists! Not ONE fact or logically valid assumption is presented in any of these stories. The fact that the Port Operation company has NO security functions is either willfully or inadvertently left OUT of the story. Instead it is all basically a racist, guilty by accusation and rumor smear job. The people who ACTUALLY know the facts like DHS etc are being laughed at or ignored so supposedly "Conservatives" can gleefully push Democrat Election Campaign propaganda. Simply amazing how willfully ignorant some "Conservatives" are about how the Junk Journalists lie to them. Just like Flush the Koran, Rather Gate, Fitzmus, Downing Street Memo and dozens and dozens of other LIES manufactured by the DNC and fed to the Failed Media, THIS story is a LIE.
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To: MNJohnnie
41
posted on
02/20/2006 9:16:58 AM PST
by
AliVeritas
(Vlad Crusade Crew... Radicals please come to NY to protest. Will travel, have bond.)
To: LS
Oh my, Rush should have played this during the Judge, now Justice :), Alito hearings when he was being badgered about not remembering much about a college organization that he once belonged to.
42
posted on
02/20/2006 9:17:23 AM PST
by
Bahbah
(An admitted Snow Flake and a member of Sam's Club)
To: MNJohnnie
43
posted on
02/20/2006 9:17:42 AM PST
by
AliVeritas
(Vlad Crusade Crew... Radicals please come to NY to protest. Will travel, have bond.)
To: Capn TrVth
Maybe Rush will have it up later
I am ROFL at todays show
44
posted on
02/20/2006 9:18:04 AM PST
by
Mo1
(Republicans protect Americans from Terrorists.. Democrats protect Terrorists from Americans)
To: truthluva
Where am I?? Who am I??? Who are you???
45
posted on
02/20/2006 9:19:38 AM PST
by
acsrp38
To: Mo1
Ditto cam down....darn it...
46
posted on
02/20/2006 9:19:38 AM PST
by
mystery-ak
(Army Wife and Mother.....toughest job in the military)
To: All
Rush just had the greatest show opener I've ever heard in my years of listening. It was a devastating eye-opener on the lying Heinous Former First Couple.
This was a piece for the books!
Still reeling from it.
Leni
47
posted on
02/20/2006 9:20:39 AM PST
by
MinuteGal
(Sail the Bounding Main to the Balmy, Palmy Caribbean on FReeps Ahoy 4. Register Now!)
To: Fawn
More info on Dubai:
U.S. - UAE sign first Container Security Initiative in the Middle East
15 December, 2004
On December 12, 2004, U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Robert J. Bonner and Sultan Bin Sulayem, Chief Executive Officer of the Ports, Customs and Free Zone Corporation signed a Declaration of Principles that governs the implementation of the Container Security Initiative at seaports in Dubai. The ceremony took place at the Burj al Arab and marks the first time CSI has reached an agreement with a country in the Middle East.
The Container Security Initiative was designed as a response to the threat terrorism poses to international shipping. The primary purpose of CSI is to protect global trade routes and containerized cargo that transit between CSI ports and the United States. Dubai ports are now the 6th largest seaport operation in the world and are the most strategic commercial shipping venture in the Gulf.
CSI uses intelligence and automated information to identify and target containers that pose a risk for terrorism. These containers are pre-screened at the port of departure before they arrive at U.S. ports. Host country Customs officials utilize non-intrusive technology to quickly examine the shipments without causing delays in the movement of cargo. Dubai serves as the 34th port to join the CSI program which continues to expand to additional ports in strategic locations.
Google cache: http://uae.usembassy.gov/uae/news.html
Port of Dubai to Implement the Container Security Initiative and Begin Targeting and Pre-Screening Cargo Destined for U.S.
(Saturday, March 26, 2005)
Washington, D.C. -- The 35th Container Security Initiative (CSI) port becomes operational today at the port of Dubai as announced by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner Robert C. Bonner and Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem, Executive Chairman, Dubai Ports, Customs and Free Zone Corporation, United Arab Emirates (UAE). CSI is the only multinational program in place in the world today that is protecting global trade lanes from being exploited and disrupted by international terrorists.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection Press Release
The U.S. Consulate Dubai reported the following:
On May 11 [2005], the Dubai government and the U.S. government signed a Memorandum of Understanding to implement the Megaports Initiative at Dubai port. The Megaports Initiative is intended to identify and intercept illegal shipments of radioactive material. The sixth-largest port in the world by container traffic, Dubai is the first government in the Middle East to sign the Megaports Initiative.
The agreement will provide Dubai Customs with equipment and materials for the purpose of detecting and interdicting illicit trafficking in nuclear and other radioactive materials. Second, the agreement calls for training of Dubai Customs personnel in the detection of radioactive material and use of the equipment.
In December 2004, Dubai also became the first Middle Eastern government to sign the Container Security Initiative, aimed at protecting global trade lines from being exploited and disrupted by international terrorists.
This is a U.S. Government inter-agency Web site managed by the Bureau of Diplomatic Security, U.S. Department of State
http://www.ds-osac.org/Reports/report.cfm?contentID=29570&print
Dubai ports to install special equipment
Dubai Ports, Customs and Free Zone Corporation (PCFC) has entered into an agreement with the United States Department of Energy to install special equipment at Dubai Ports to detect and stop hidden shipments of nuclear and other radioactive materials.
The agreement also ensures specialised training for the staff of Dubai Customs and will result in regular exchange of information on radioactive materials between the two parties.
Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem, executive chairman of the Ports, Customs and Free Zone Corporation, signed the major agreement with US Ambassador Michele J. Sison. The agreement is part of the US Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Megaports Initiative, a programme aimed at stopping illicit shipments of nuclear and other radioactive material. Dubai Customs joins efforts currently in place in the Netherlands, Greece, Spain, Sri Lanka, and Belgium. ...
This agreement is in line with the efforts of Dubai Customs to increase the level of safety with regard to the shipment of goods from the ports. The NNSA will also provide training to appropriate law enforcement officials. The specialised radiation detection technology deployed under this programme is based on technologies originally developed by department laboratories as part of overall US government efforts to guard against the proliferation of nuclear and other radioactive materials.
Gulf Industry Magazine - Online Edition
Al Hilal Publishing & Marketing Group
80 posted on 02/19/2006 3:16:21 PM PST by Cboldt
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1581698/posts?page=80#80
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posted on
02/20/2006 9:20:41 AM PST
by
AliVeritas
(Vlad Crusade Crew... Radicals please come to NY to protest. Will travel, have bond.)
To: MNJohnnie
thanks for the ping...
working hard.. but listening and cheking in on the thread....
49
posted on
02/20/2006 9:20:45 AM PST
by
eeevil conservative
(Islam is not under attack by the US........the US is under attack by ISLAM!)
To: MNJohnnie
On occasion, Rush is wrong. Not often, but sometimes. Often it's because he backs President Bush when the evidence suggests that maybe Bush is wrong on a particular issue.
I don't see any evidence presented here that Schumer is wrong. Nor can I see how the company that supervises and runs the ports and dictates the hiring can be said not to have anything to do with security.
Even if the board of the company are opposed to al Qaeda, this is still an unacceptably risky idea. It would be much too easy for terrorists to work their way in, or for sympathetic Muslim workers to get word out to their friends about the port layouts and security procedures.
Is Rush saying that the port bosses won't be told anything about security arrangements? I fail to see how that could be possible. It would be a very strange way of doing things.
50
posted on
02/20/2006 9:21:18 AM PST
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: MNJohnnie
That Clinton "I don't remember" montage was an Olympic-sized broken record if I ever heard one!
51
posted on
02/20/2006 9:21:24 AM PST
by
BigSkyFreeper
(Proud to be a cotton-pickin' Republican on the GOP Plantation)
To: TheRobb7
Absolutely brilliant Rush riff that thoroughly deconstructs Dem's penchant for secrecy talking point.
52
posted on
02/20/2006 9:22:01 AM PST
by
Milhous
(Sarcasm - the last refuge of an empty mind.)
To: Fawn
53
posted on
02/20/2006 9:22:37 AM PST
by
AliVeritas
(Vlad Crusade Crew... Radicals please come to NY to protest. Will travel, have bond.)
To: advance_copy
Robert Ehrlich, he's a sleeper who could draw more votes than people would guess in '08 since his politics are local to Maryland, a blue state. Very likable guy and he already has destroyed one Kennedy's ambition for power.
To: Fawn
We discussed the port issue on the Sunday thread yesterday. Here are a couple of the posts:
I haven't even gotten to the ports of Philly, New Orleans, New York or Newark (other than to have the formal name for either the Newark or New York Operation), but the Miami operation is just plain fascinating of its own right.
Laredo Morning Times - Thursday, June 4, 1998
BY CATHERINE WILSON
AP Business Writer
MIAMI - Three men associated with the Port of Miami, including its ousted former director, were charged Wednesday with stealing $1.3 million and using the money on Super Bowl tickets, lingerie and bar tabs.
They also are accused of using stolen funds to donate $120,000 to the Democratic National Committee in 1994.
Since 1990, the three "have used the Port of Miami as a personal bank," said U.S. Attorney Thomas Scott. Calvin Grigsby, owner of the company that ran the port's container cargo cranes, and former- port director Carmen Lunetta were charged with conspiracy, embezzlement and money laundering. Port contractor Neal Harrington was charged with embezzlement and theft.
Lunetta was forced to resign as port director last year after a judge ruled that Grigsby's cargo company had to open its books to public scrutiny. The port, owned by Miami-Dade County and the eighth-busiest cargo port in the country, lost a total of $22 million in five years while Lunetta controlled the purse strings.
Grigsby owns Fiscal Operations Inc., which since 1982 has operated the towering gantry cranes that handle all of the port's containerized cargo. Public money diverted from the port was held in Fiscal Operations accounts, the indictment charged.
Fiscal Operations collects nearly $8 million a year in ship fees, with the county's share being around $1 million a year in recent years.
Harrington was part owner and a director of Continental Stevedoring & Terminals Inc., a major port contractor which rented cranes from Fiscal Operations.
The $120,000 donated to the Democratic Party in 1994 came from Harrington at Lunetta's request, and Continental was reimbursed, prosecutors said.
http://www.lmtonline.com/news/archive/060498/pagea9.pdf
Continental Stevedoring & Terminals Inc. has a business relationship with P&O, via interest in a commonly owned entity, Eller-I.T.O Stevedoring Company. I get the feeling that more digging will result in a mass of names that would take a chart or visual aid to grasp. ;-)
731 posted on 02/19/2006 12:06:41 PM PST by Cboldt
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1581542/posts?page=734#734
To: Txsleuth
... when Sec. Chertoff was asked about the Dubai deal, he was VERY closed mouthed and reinterated over and over how it was classified..and he couldn't talk about it...
Well then, time to move on. If the administreation says it's classified, and germane to national security, well, what's with all the questioning?
BTW, good page with lots of links on news regarding this sale:
http://oriental_steam_navigation_co.newstrove.com/ Note too that other countries, notably Australia, need to approve the sale, as it affect ownership rights of container ports there, as well.
A company at the Port of Miami has sued to block the takeover of shipping operations there by a state-owned business in the United Arab Emirates. It is the first American courtroom effort to capsize a $6.8 billion sale already embroiled in a national debate over security risks at six major U.S. ports affected by the deal. The Miami company, a subsidiary of Eller & Co. Inc., currently is a business partner with London-based Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co., which Dubai Ports World purchased last week. ...
The Miami subsidiary, Continental Stevedoring & Terminals Inc., said the sale to Dubai was prohibited under its partnership agreement with the British firm and "may endanger the national security of the United States." It asked a judge to block the takeover and said it does not believe the company, Florida or the U.S. government can ensure Dubai Ports World's compliance with American security rules.
http://www.newsobserver.com/110/story/402067.html 568 posted on 02/19/2006 9:25:38 AM PST by Cboldt
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1581542/posts?page=591#591
Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 19 February 2006
Posted by Seattle Conservative to LibLieSlayer
On News/Activism 02/19/2006 9:21:22 AM PST · 565 of 1,006
Dubai Ports to acquire P&O in $6.8 billion deal
The Daily Star Middle East | Daily Star Staff
Beirut
DUBAI/LONDON: Gulf-state backed Dubai Ports World declared victory in a $6.8 billion bidding war for UK ports group P&O after Singaporean rival port operator PSA International withdrew from the field on Friday. Dubai Ports said it was confident P&O shareholders would back its 3.9 billion pound ($6.8 billion) bid at a meeting next week, giving it control of P&O ports on six continents and creating the world's third-largest ports group.
"We are waiting for the shareholder vote. Yes, we are confident, we have always been confident," Dubai Ports Chairman Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem told Reuters.
The going price was nearly $1 billion above the purchaser's original offer of $5.9 billion in November.
PSA International said earlier it would withdraw from the race, sending P&O shares 3.9 percent lower to 516-3/4 pence by 1026 GMT, a mark slightly below the Dubai Ports offer of 520p.
P&O shares, which have jumped more than 70 percent since the company announced it was in takeover talks in October, were trading higher in recent weeks on anticipation of a higher PSA bid.
"PSA has decided not to increase its offer and will therefore no longer pursue the acquisition of P&O," PSA said in a statement on Friday.
The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co., a 165-year-old maritime icon formed at the height of Britain's sea power, reiterated its recommendation that shareholders accept the Dubai Ports offer. Shareholders vote on the offer on Monday.
"The combination of P&O and DP World has compelling strategic logic and will create significant opportunities for both businesses and their employees," P&O Chairman John Parker said in a statement.
Dubai and Singapore had wrestled for control of P&O's key container ports in Asia, Europe and the Americas, following a three-year boom in shipping on the back of growth in Chinese demand, expanding trade and a global economic recovery.
"For PSA to pay more than this price would not be compatible with commercial business sense and PSA's future success," PSA representatives said in a statement to the London Stock Exchange.
PSA is owned by Temasek, a state investment group.
Dubai Ports' bid has already been cleared by key regulators.
But Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong last month said PSA would have to make a "hard-headed" business decision in the high-stakes battle with DP World, which is backed by Middle East oil money.
In a commentary in Singapore's Business Times last month, Wong Wei Kong said that PSA's play for P&O showed that Temasek Holdings was "playing for big stakes on the global stage."
Wong said the bid marked Temasek's first major foray outside Asia since 2002.
Analysts had said that if PSA won, the deal would have created the world's biggest container port operator by capacity, leap-frogging Hong Kong's Hutchison Ports.
But with Dubai winning, the combined entity with P&O could threaten to eclipse PSA's second-place position globally, analysts said.
In an analysis released before PSA's withdrawal, Macquarie Research said that a win by DP World would give Dubai a 9.3 percent share of global container throughput - just a notch above PSA's 9.2 percent.
But both firms would remain behind Hutchison, which commands a 13.3 percent global market share, researchers said. Credit rating firm Fitch Ratings said in a research note also released before PSA announced the pullout that a win by DP World would make the Dubai port operator "either the second or third largest player" in the world.
Fitch said P&O's global assets would complement either those of DP World or PSA.
P&O has an estimated six percent share of global container throughput - placing it a distant fourth behind Hutchison, PSA, and APM Terminals of Denmark - but the British firm has a strong footprint in Australia and India that its rivals lack.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=3&article_ID=22108 © 2006 The Daily Star
http://www.iht.com/getina/files/309534.html
Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 19 February 2006
Posted by Seattle Conservative to maica
On News/Activism 02/19/2006 8:44:53 AM PST · 511 of 1,006
Here are a couple of articles on the ports:
UPDATE 3-US Democrats plan bill to block Dubai port deal
Reuters ^ | 2/17/06 | Jeremy Pelofsky and Caroline Drees
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1580889/posts Uproar over U.S. ports (excellent editorial)
The Washington Times ^ | 2/17/2006 | Staff
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1580421/posts Lawmakers Urge Greater Review of UAE Firm's Deal to Run Six U.S. Ports
www.foxnews.com ^ | Thursday, February 16, 2006 | Sharon Kehnemui Liss
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1579832/posts Dubai ports takeover prompts backlash
Finacial Times(UK) ^ | 2/16/06 | Stephanie Kirchgaessner and Edward Alden
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1580111/posts http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1581542/posts?page=511#511 392 posted on 02/20/2006 11:24:36 AM EST by Seattle Conservative
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posted on
02/20/2006 9:24:05 AM PST
by
AliVeritas
(Vlad Crusade Crew... Radicals please come to NY to protest. Will travel, have bond.)
To: Fawn
More info on port deal:
Chertoff Defends UAE Port Deal
Fox News.com ^ | 2/20/06 | Fox News; AP
Posted on 02/20/2006 7:28:25 AM PST by standingfirm
WASHINGTON — Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff is defending the Bush administration's review of an international shipping deal two days after one company in the Port of Miami sued to prevent an Arab-owned firm from taking over port operations.
Meanwhile, lawmakers also are considering legislation to stop foreign-owned companies from running U.S. ports.
Chertoff on Sunday said the U.S. Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, or CFIUS, had carefully reviewed the Dubai Ports World purchase of London-based Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co., which runs commercial operations in New York, New Jersey, Baltimore, New Orleans, Miami and Philadelphia.
"We make sure there are assurances in place, in general, sufficient to satisfy us that the deal is appropriate from a national security standpoint," Chertoff told ABC's "This Week."
That doesn't sit well with Miami firm Continental Stevedoring & Terminals Inc., a subsidiary of Ellery & Company Inc. Representatives from that company asked a judge to block the takeover of P&O,
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1582127/posts
398 posted on 02/20/2006 11:27:35 AM EST by Seattle Conservative
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posted on
02/20/2006 9:24:42 AM PST
by
AliVeritas
(Vlad Crusade Crew... Radicals please come to NY to protest. Will travel, have bond.)
To: Cicero
He hasn't touched on the UAE port story yet.
57
posted on
02/20/2006 9:25:00 AM PST
by
BigSkyFreeper
(Proud to be a cotton-pickin' Republican on the GOP Plantation)
To: Fawn
58
posted on
02/20/2006 9:25:54 AM PST
by
AliVeritas
(Vlad Crusade Crew... Radicals please come to NY to protest. Will travel, have bond.)
To: All
59
posted on
02/20/2006 9:27:14 AM PST
by
AliVeritas
(Vlad Crusade Crew... Radicals please come to NY to protest. Will travel, have bond.)
To: angcat
"Is anyone familiar with Malcolm Gladwell books?"
Not really, I think they are sort of about statistics, etc. But his picture was in Wired Magazine and I was very surprised, he looks like the typical High School geek. I have no idea how old he is, but he looks about 17 in the picture. Which is nice for him, I guess.
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posted on
02/20/2006 9:27:20 AM PST
by
jocon307
(The Silent Majority - silent no longer)
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