US Ports story Continues, Sasha Cohen

Oligarchy
noun plural
a form of government in which power is vested in a few persons
a state so ruled
the persons so ruling
. that really should be in E Space.

Sounds like this might be happening in the US of A. Bruce Springsteen used the word in a New York Times editorial. Bruce is one of those prophet types.
This is the concealed becoming revealed. It is to me at least. The Entire East Coast is Being Controlled, and has been. Wow.

Bush won't take no for an answer, won't listen to anybody, and will have his will be done.

From the New York Times today:

Bush Would Veto Any Bill Halting Dubai Port Deal

DAVID E. SANGER and ERIC LIPTON
Published: February 22, 2006
WASHINGTON, Feb. 21 — President Bush, trying to put down a rapidly escalating rebellion among leaders of his own party, said Tuesday that he would veto any legislation blocking a deal for a state-owned company in Dubai to take over the management of port terminals in New York, Miami, Baltimore and other major American cities.

Mr. Bush issued the threat after the Senate majority leader, Bill Frist, and the House speaker, J. Dennis Hastert, publicly criticized the deal and said a thorough review was necessary to ensure that terrorists could not exploit the arrangement to slip weapons into American ports. Mr. Bush suggested that the objections to the deal might be based on bias against a company from the Middle East, one he said was an ally in fighting terrorism.

If there was any chance that this transaction would jeopardize the security of the United States, it would not go forward," Mr. Bush said, discussing a government review of the deal that began in October and ended on Jan. 16 without producing any objections from officials in his administration.

The president added, "This is a company that has played by the rules, that has been cooperative with the United States, a country that's an ally in the war on terror, and it would send a terrible signal to friends and allies not to let this transaction go through."

The White House was taken by surprise when Mr. Frist and Mr. Hastert joined Democratic leaders in Congress and other prominent Republicans, including Mayor Michael R.Bloomberg and Gov. George E. Pataki of New York, in calling for the government to stop the deal from closing next week as scheduled.

"We have not received the necessary assurances regarding security concerns," Mr. Bloomberg wrote in a letter to the president on Tuesday evening. He said he was joining New York's two Democratic senators, Hillary Rodham Clinton and Charles E. Schumer, in calling for a 45-day investigation of the deal under a federal law that governs the review of foreign investments.

Mr. Bush rarely makes veto threats, and he has not vetoed a single bill in his more than five years in office. He issued his remarks after calling reporters into his conference room aboard Air Force One while flying back to Washington from Colorado, and then repeated them for television cameras after stepping out of his helicopter on the South Lawn of the White House.

The White House appeared to have considered the deal routine, especially because so many foreign firms — from Singapore, Denmark and Japan — run major port terminals in the United States and have for years. But Senator Schumer, in an interview, said: "I don't think China or Britain or many of the others have the nexus with terrorism that Dubai has. What kind of controls do they have to prevent infiltration?"

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And the story goes on.
Bloomberg is a business man first, politician second. I kind of trust his judgement on matters like this.
I never even knew that the East Coast ports were run by a foreign company.
I did get lost in Port Newark and Port Elizabeth more times than I want to remember. The signs at Newark Airport are baaad. Make a wrong turn, and you are in the ports. Not a comforting place to be, let me tell ya.

This is weird. The story is changing. This is what MSNBC is reporting now.

Bush unaware of port deal until after approval
White House: President only learned recently of handover to Arab firm

BREAKING NEWS
Updated: 10:43 a.m. ET Feb. 22, 2006
WASHINGTON -

President Bush was unaware of the pending sale of shipping operations at six major U.S. seaports to a state-owned business in the United Arab Emirates until the deal already had been approved by his administration, the White House said Wednesday.

Defending the deal anew, the administration also said that it should have briefed Congress sooner about the transaction, which has triggered a major political backlash among both Republicans and Democrats.

Bush on Tuesday brushed aside objections by leaders in the Senate and House that the $6.8 billion sale could raise risks of terrorism at American ports. In a forceful defense of his administration’s earlier approval of the deal, he pledged to veto any bill Congress might approve to block the agreement.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11494815/

All of a sudden he didn't know. He knew. There is a history of connections between the current rulers and this Arab Emigrate Company.
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Sasha Cohen is First Place in the Olympics after Women's short program.
She was wearing a red string. I found that quite interesting.
I love Sasha Cohen. I think she's a great skater. I hope she gets the Gold . :D
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