Has Dubai Ports World Sold Port Operations Yet?

Rep. Frank LoBiondo (R-NJ)

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From the transcript of Lou Dobbs Tonight (CNN) aired June 19, 2006 -It’s been more than three months since Dubai Ports World agreed to sell its port operations at 22 U.S. ports. But as of today, all 22 of these terminal facilities remained under the control of Dubai Ports and the government of Dubai. You thought we weren’t watching, didn’t you? Bill Tucker reports.

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BILL TUCKER, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The bottom line of the Dubai Ports World deal is pretty easy to understand.

JOE MULDOON, FULLER & COMPANY: Since March 6th, Dubai Ports World has owned and controlled operations in 22 U.S. ports and that Congress now has dropped the provision that would prohibit their approvals.

TUCKER: The reference to Congress has to do with the House and Senate stripping out language, put in by the House, that specifically forbid DP World from owning or controlling operations in our ports. With the removal of that language, it’s not clear if DPW even legally is bound to sell the properties. The announced agreement by Dubai Ports World to sell was voluntary.

But the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States says “CFIUS does, in fact, retain the authority to bring the company back into the CFIUS process if it acts inconsistently with its announced plan to sell to a U.S. buyer.” DP world, in a recent letter to congressional leaders, assured them that the sale is proceeding as planned, which seems to be reassuring Congress for now.Continue reading “Has Dubai Ports World Sold Port Operations Yet?”

Bush Urges Nation to Be Quiet For a Minute While He Tries to Think

This is from www.theonion.com

Washington DC—In a nationally televised address Monday, President Bush urged all citizens, regardless of race, creed, color, or political affiliation, “to quiet down for just one minute” so he could have “a chance to think.”

BushIn a televised address to the nation, Bush called for “a little peace and quiet.”

“Every American has an inalienable right to free speech and self-expression,” Bush said. “Nonetheless, I call upon the American people to hold off on it for, say, 60 seconds. Just long enough for me to get this all sorted out in my head.”Continue reading “Bush Urges Nation to Be Quiet For a Minute While He Tries to Think”

Freyne Land in Vermont

http://7d.blogs.com/freyneland/2006/08/the_next_vermon.html

Wednesday, August 30, 2006

The Next Vermont Delegation?

Vermont’s senior senator, elected in an upset way back in November 1974, was standing in front of the soda coolers at the Radio Deli on Pearl Street in Burlington Wednesday morning. At one of Patrick Leahy’s elbows stood Independent U.S. Rep. Bernie Sanders, a candidate for the open U.S. Senate seat created by Jeezum Jim Jeffords’ retirement. At the other stood State Sen. Peter Welch, the Democrat shooting for Ol’ Bernardo’s open House seat.Continue reading “Freyne Land in Vermont”

Article on Angelina and Brad and New Orleans

As residents work to rebuild their lives and homes a year after Hurricane Katrina, actor Brad Pitt says he and girlfriend Angelina Jolie will be frequent visitors to the city observing the progress. The couple was in New Orleans on Thursday, though only Pitt appeared at an afternoon news conference to announce the winner of the design competition he launched in April for plans to rebuild hurricane-ravaged neighborhoods using environmentally friendly designs and construction. 

“We’re going to be spending a lot of time down here,” Pitt said just after the announcement was made. Preproduction for his next movie was scheduled to begin in November, and Pitt said he would be in
New Orleans for much of January and February for filming.

This is from an article in the International Herald Tribune on August 31, 2006

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt to help rebuild New Orleans

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are going to spend a lot of time in New Orleans overseeing the rebuilding of the city. They deserve credit for doing something! More people should show an interest in what goes on there. I don’t know how many people want to return to what was once their home but I know if I wanted to go back there (and I have never even been to NO), I would appreciate the support.

Good Morning, September

Stay for just a while

Stay, and let me look at you

It’s been so long I hardly knew you

Standing in the door

Stay with me a while

I only want to talk to you

We’ve travelled halfway round the world

To find ourselves again

September morn

We danced until the night became a brand new day

Two lovers playing scenes from some romantic play

September morning still can make me feel this way

Look at what you’ve done

Why, you’ve become a grown-up girl

I still can hear you cryin’

In the corner of your room

And look how far we’ve come

So far from where we used to be

But not so far that we’ve forgotten

How it was before

September morn

Do you remember how we danced that night away

Two lovers playing scenes from some romantic play

September morning still can make me feel this way

Written by: Neil Diamond and Gilbert Becaud

Keith Olbermann’s Response to Rumsfeld

Aug. 30, 2006 | 8:34 p.m. ET

Feeling morally, intellectually confused?

The man who sees absolutes, where all other men see nuances and shades of meaning, is either a prophet, or a quack.

Donald H. Rumsfeld is not a prophet.

Mr. Rumsfeld’s remarkable speech to the American Legion yesterday demands the deep analysis—and the sober contemplation—of every American.

For it did not merely serve to impugn the morality or intelligence — indeed, the loyalty — of the majority of Americans who oppose the transient occupants of the highest offices in the land. Worse, still, it credits those same transient occupants — our employees — with a total omniscience; a total omniscience which neither common sense, nor this administration’s track record at home or abroad, suggests they deserve.

Dissent and disagreement with government is the life’s blood of human freedom; and not merely because it is the first roadblock against the kind of tyranny the men Mr. Rumsfeld likes to think of as “his” troops still fight, this very evening, in Iraq.

(To continue click on the link)

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12131617/#060830b

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