w8liftinglady
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Sat Feb-25-06 11:06 AM
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The Actual ports affected by the DP world deal |
JDPriestly
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Sat Feb-25-06 11:16 AM
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New Orleans -- the food from the midwestern bread basket
Houston, Galveston, etc. -- oil
New York -- everything imaginable
Whoever controls those ports has the power to determine what and how much we export and import and how fast. And in the "free trade" economy, that means they can starve us or inundate us with junk or whatever they want. And if they take our seaports today, who is to prevent them from taking over contracts for our airports tomorrow. We should never have allowed any foreign company to control our seaports -- especially those seaports.
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Sat Feb-25-06 11:48 AM
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5. As Gary Hart stated last night on Maher |
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Edited on Sat Feb-25-06 11:48 AM by Whoa_Nelly
There are 23,000 cargo containers that enter through our ports every day. Only 5% are inspected.
He also went on to state that, Dubai aside, our ports are already so porous that it creates a serious problem in terms of national security.
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Sat Feb-25-06 11:17 AM
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The Canadian ports list does not work.
Can you post the list?
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w8liftinglady
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Sat Feb-25-06 11:18 AM
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3. Take the link off the North American site home page- |
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it's in macromedia,so I can't cut and paste it(or I don't know how:P )
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Sat Feb-25-06 11:24 AM
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4. Also-is this part of the deal? |
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Edited on Sat Feb-25-06 11:25 AM by w8liftinglady
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Sat Feb-25-06 12:01 PM
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6. Brit War Barons now run P&O run operations in most of Developing World |
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Edited on Sat Feb-25-06 12:02 PM by Inspector77
Only 6% of P&O port contracts are in the U.S. Most are in the non-anglo non-white world. Is that ok? But it is not ok for an Arab conglomerate to buy them out. Are we going to continue to subsidize neo-colonialism on the backs of the third world for ever.
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