Posted on 02/26/2006 7:13:19 PM PST by Andy from Beaverton
That was merely a rhetorical question. Obviously no one is going to tell anyone how we detected radiation aboard a ship at sea. No doubt we could have done it from space, or maybe below the surface. However we did it the fact that we could do it was revealed at that time.
Do you know what a port really is? All anybody is talking about is a handful of "terminals".
BTW, if I could buy 6 major ports for $8 billion, you'd better believe I'd have the banks outside my door at home waiting to loan me the money.
The 6 major ports are probably worth nearly a trillion dollars, not 8 billion.
This story has been reported and analyzed without any realistic recognition of scale.
This is the direct effect of globalization. It is the desired effect for the globalists. In the early 1990s it was decided by the government and the french NGO, the OECD, that US ports generated too much wealth for America. So Bill Clinton, in that most famous phrase of the "free traders" decided to "level the playing field" with the rest of the world. Working with his VP, Al Gore, they began "reinventing government". One "reinvention" was the sale of US port facilities, which up until that time were considered too sensitive with respect to national security to allow foreign governments or foreign interests to operate. So this is a recent phenomena in the history of the US and can be turned back, in spite of the globalists screaming that 'globalization is inevitable'.
Globalists, "free traders" whatever you call them care nothing for nations, or OUR nation. Nations and national security get in the way of their 'supply lines' doncha know.
Late last week the Harper government in Canada green-lighted the UAE port deal. DPW will effectively start operating the port in Vancouver that P&O operated. Harper's government couldn't figure out all the hysteria going on south of the border.
Would these all become illegal, along with others, if Hillary's bill becomes law?
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