Saturday 20th of April 2024
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buzzflash says .....

‘Okay so the UAE was one of only
three governments to recognize the Taliban, and the UAE royals have been pals
and houseguests of Osama bin Laden, and the gold that was used to finance the
9/11 attack was transfered through Dubai, and the government has a history of
giving a nod and a wink to terrorists "traveling" through the
country, and two of the 9/11 hijackers were from the UAE, and...

 

 

Oh, well, "1984" is
fiction no longer.  There is no truth in the Bushevik Administration. 

There is no history.  There
is only the twisted government lie of the day. 

And it all adds up to betraying
the American people.  

The Busheviks have made America
numb and passive as a result of lying so frequently -- and with such abandon --
that it has become the coin of the realm. 

Now, like Jim Jones, they are
giving us our cups of arsenic laced Kool-Aid, by paying the financiers and
supporters of terrorism to protect us from terrorists. 

And shouldn't port protection be
a U.S. government role anyway? Why are we outsourcing our national security and
billions of dollars to a foreign government, let alone one that plays footsy
with Al-Qaeda? 

You're not supposed to ask, you
know.  It might get you a face full of birdshot.’

And truthout says .....

Don't Worry: Be Happy

so much for due diligence .....

‘The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey will break
the lease of a big container terminal at Port Newark to stop a company based in
Dubai from taking over part of the operation there, the agency's chairman said
yesterday. 

Anthony R. Coscia, the chairman,
said the company that holds a lease on the terminal through 2030 violated the
contract by selling a half-interest in it to Dubai Ports World without seeking
the landlord's approval. He said the Port Authority would ask a judge in New
Jersey Superior Court in Newark today to affirm its right to end the lease. 

"Fundamentally, this is a
landlord-tenant dispute," said Mr. Coscia, who is a lawyer. "We're
terminating their lease because they sublet illegally." 

Separately, the State of New
Jersey sued the federal government in United States District Court in Trenton
yesterday afternoon to block the Dubai deal. The lawsuit said Bush
administration officials failed to fulfil their duty to fully investigate the
national security implications of the transaction. 

The Dubai company has agreed to
pay $6.8 billion to buy Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation, a port
operator based in London. One of the subsidiaries it would acquire, P & O
Ports North America, owns half of the company that operates the Port Newark
Container Terminal.' 

Port Agency to Break
Lease in Bid to Block Dubai Sale

sold .....