[AnimalLover]

Does this bring back memories?????

[freepatriot32]

Libertarian ping.To be added or removed from my ping list freepmail me or post a message here

[ex-Texan]

I heard Coats2Coast live with George Noorey. The show repeats in a few minutes. First guest was Charles R. Smith a conservative expert on China. He is really p@ssed about what is going. (I lived in Long Beach, CA back when China was smuggling illegal arms to Mexico Zapatistas.) Apparently, China just smuugled missle launchers into Los Angeles. Tune in Coast2Coast if you do not believe me. Long shoremen were calling the talk show.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

WTF???

[AlexW]

This is a duplicate thread.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1601915/posts

I posted earlier that Coast to Cost, aka Nuts to Nuts
was going crazy over this.
Loony Noory was jumping out of his pants, claiming this was the biggest story of the century, and it would destroy Bush and lead to his impeachment.

It only got worse when he had this conspiracy freak, Alex Jones (9/11 was an inside job) kook spew his tinfoil.

In the US, I am lucky that this nut show is on in the middle of the night, but here, I have to wake up to it.

Beam me up now.

[beyond the sea]

Li Ka-Shing

.......... is a slimy character............. he started selling plastic flowers and now look.

One more indication of a "one world order" in the cards.

I wonder what will happen to our Constitution, and we thought CFR legislation and the "eminent domain ruling" were bad.

[WhiteGuy]

Does this bring back memories?????


Yes indeed. I guess all those overseas campaign donations (bribes?) have carried over from one administration to the next..........................

[Beckwith]

The administration acknowledges the no-bid contract with Hutchison Whampoa Ltd.

This no-bid contract is a "Sole Source" contract. The Sole Source contract is used when there is only a single person or organization who can perform a particular task.

Since "Hutchison operates the sprawling Freeport Container Port on Grand Bahama Island," if you want your goods inspected at "the sprawling Freeport Container Port on Grand Bahama Island," then Hutchinson will manage the task because "Hutchison operates the sprawling Freeport Container Port on Grand Bahama Island."

The Sole Source contract is appropriately used in this case, because Hutchinson is the only game in town.

As far as that sleazeball senator from New York is concerned, he's still beating his "Bush is incompetent" drum, by lying his ass off.

Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y. lied three times in his quoted statement, "Giving a no-bid contract to a foreign company to carry out the most sensitive security screening for radioactive materials at ports abroad raises many questions."

1. The contract wasn't given, it was awarded according to federal regulations.

2. It's not a no-bid contract it's a properly applied sole source contract.

3. Hutchinson won't be doing any screening of containers or cargo.

"Supervised by Bahamian customs officials, Hutchison employees will drive the towering, truck-like radiation scanner that moves slowly over large cargo containers and scans them for radiation that might be emitted by plutonium or a radiological weapon."

"Any positive reading would set off alarms monitored simultaneously by Bahamian customs inspectors at Freeport and by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials working at an anti-terrorism center 800 miles away in northern Virginia. Any alarm would prompt a closer inspection of the cargo, and there are multiple layers of security to prevent tampering, officials said."

[Modok]

Wow, a little Clinton years again. I distinctly remember voting for Bush twice in order to prevent this kind of stuff from happening again.

[IrishMike]

Let's see how this comes out in the wash.

There was a test of TSA late last week, illegal objects in airline baggage...
Results : TSA 100% failure.

Whomever dose it, it's got to be done right.

[DustyMoment]

Apparently, one of two things is going on - either there is something in the air or the water in Wash., DC, or W is becoming a certifiable idot. He didn't get the ports deal and he doesn't get this!

Are there simply no American companies that can provide these services, or is Bush too wrapped around his globalization agenda?

[DustyMoment]

Apparently, one of two things is going on - either there is something in the air or the water in Wash., DC, or W is becoming a certifiable idiot. He didn't get the ports deal and he doesn't get this!

Are there simply no American companies that can provide these services, or is Bush too wrapped around his globalization agenda?

[putupjob]

This whole thing is all good. After all we have a Republican President and we've already been told that everything is ok on this. And besides, this is the same Chicom outfit the Clinton people were working with. There, now everybody can be happy....both sides are doing it to us. I feel better now.

[Non-Sequitur]

I was in Freeport a week ago when my cruise ship docked there. We were in the middle of the commercial port, next to a container facility. Security was a joke. In U.S. ports each passenger had to show his shipboard ID when entering the dock areas. The Freeport dock had no security at the gate at all. Taxis and buses leaving at will. You could get off, hop the fence, and be in the container port. How does this improve security in an area with no security whatsoever.

[palmer]

This is obviously work that needs to be done by overpaid union longshoremen. I'm sure our dem friends will be all over this.

[flg]

Li Ka Shing became Hong Kong's leading business tycoon way back in the 1960s, under the British rule. Huchingson was a British multinational company acquired by him in the 1960s and he has been doing port business since then. The Chinese only took over Hong Kong in 1997. I doubt he's a Chinese agent of some sort.

[GladesGuru]

Hutchinsom-Wampoa is a de facto branch of the Peoples Liberation Army of China (PLA). Just who is minding America's interests in Washington, anyway?

Allowing the PLA to inspect American bound cargo for radiation is a waste of time. The PLA is well known to be one of the most likely sources of such an attack.

Much more of this deliberate making America more open to terrorist attack and I'll begin to believe it is time to impeach Bush.

[Baby Bear]

I knew I should have checked my pings before posting the AP/Yahoo story. I heard the story last night on the radio--this should be big news! Hutchison Whampoa Ltd. is well-known as a front company with ties to the Chinese govt and military.

[stuartcr]

It seems that almost anything that has to do with container/cargo shipping, is done by foreign companies. Does anyone know what it is about trans-ocean shipping and cargo handling, that keeps US companies from even wanting to be in that business?

[RightWhale]

The most major shipping container node in the world is in the Bahamas and has been built and run by this very company. Why should they not add this extra step of inspection if somebody offers to pay for the equipment?