Posted on 02/22/2006 10:22:09 PM PST by ex-Texan
Coast to Cast AM Discussing Ports Deal Live
Tonight's Schedule: (all times PT):
10-10:30p: Capt. Kelly Sweeney discusses how the port deal exacerbates already vulnerable security.
10:30-11p: Charles R. Smith comments on the US' military relationship with UAE.
11-11:30p: Steve Quayle shares behind the scenes info on the port giveaway.
11:30p-12a: Howard Bloom offers analysis of what the port deal means for the US' future.
12-12:30a: Jerome Corsi discusses UAE relationships with Iran and clerics.
12:30-1a: Douglas Hagmann highlights the terrorism implications of foreign port operations.
1-2a: Alex Jones addresses how the port deal is chipping away at U.S. sovereignty.
Rats. I always find Coast to Coast a lot more enjoyable and believeable when they stick to topics like alien sex and crop circles.
Wouldn't trust anything Alex Jones says.
I must have missed something in the news... When were the ports "given away"?
(/sarc)
One thing I remember being mentioned after 9/11 by this administration was that "We will have to think outside the box' to win this War on Terror.
Well this is pretty much outside the box..I hope its a Rovian Chess move.
George Norrie is a nice guy though. Just wanted to say that he is pretty fair... even if if the show is mostly novelty.
LOL!
But this is very serious stuff that I'm now gonna log off and listen to C2C.
"One thing I remember being mentioned after 9/11 by this administration was that "We will have to think outside the box' to win this War on Terror."
And what about it?
Do you think he can think, either outside or inside the box?
I'll be long asleep by the time
Alex Jones gets on, ;-)
Can a shipping container carry 72 virgins comfortably?
Hmmm. That is a bit like turning to the National Enquiror when they do a "serious" report on astro physics. Or maybe Howard Stern when he does a "serious" report on child welfare.
No thanks.
George DUBAI Bush has offically gone loco.
John Ziegler came out in favor of the port deal just before Coast to Coast began...
Medved now appears to favor the deal (from the 15 minutes I listened today)
PBS Newshour segment with David Brooks and Mark Shields (how I loathe this sappy old man). Shields was all huff and puff and fanning the political hysteria, while Brooks was calm and wise. Read the full transcript for yourself. here Some selected quotations:
DAVID BROOKS: I think it's mass hysteria.
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DAVID BROOKS: Including the president. This was a thing for experts. I think what's happened, we've had some nativism, some isolationism and just mass hysteria and a lot of political pandering.
But the thing that gives me solace about this is I haven't read of a single expert who knows what they're talking about who thinks there's anything to this story. There's not a single person I've read who thinks the security will be changed. The Coast Guard and Customs will still be in charge of security. The American Longshoremen will still be there. The managements will still be there.
That is a globalized industry and the transfer from one holding company to another, according to every expert I've read, doesn't think this will make a difference. So I happen to think this will burn out.
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I think what happened was that you have these technocrats who don't think like politicians going through a process, which was completely well reported in the financial press, much talked about, this was a big firm, it owns a lot of ports or operates a lot of port management in a lot of countries, none of whom are going through this nativist hysteria. And they thought, well, we do this all the time, we check it out; we have 12 agencies check it out. Technocratically it all checks out; this firm's fine, Dubai is fine, so let it go through. So they're thinking like technocrats, then all along - this really started and really got the biggest push from Michael Savage, who is a genius for understanding what's going to --
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DAVID BROOKS: Beyond conservative, reactionary.
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DAVID BROOKS: And so he had a sense this is going to seem weird to people who don't know about it. And it does, UAE, Arabs, ports, ports are insecure, people have a sense that's true. And it's exploded on left and right. But the point for politicians is at some point you have to be a statesman, you have got to resist when you get this popular tide and nobody on Capitol Hill is doing, that except John McCain.
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DAVID BROOKS: There are a whole series of editorial pages, the Washington Post was one of them, which has very persuasive articles -- the Times quoted expert after expert of people saying it's illogical, this whole thing is illogical, so there's just no there, there. You can talk about, you know, the massive terror war. There's sort of this abstract rhetoric about that we're in threat, we're in danger, but when you get actually down to the deal, when you get down to the operation of the ports, there's no even an argument for why this is dangerous...
O M G ....The Illuminati are coming !
Haha! Yeah, that was going to be my explanation for the poster who was looking for some alien sex and crop circles.
The Illuminati are the next best thing. ;)
Alez Jones is the MAN !!!
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