Naked American racism mask merits of Port deal
Shame of the United Arab Emirates Affair
By Isiah Scott, Jr.
The greatest shame of reviewing the failed sell of access to six American ports to the United Arab Emirates was that the Republican controlled Congress used the Race Card to win public support to reject the DP World deal rather than the underlying bankruptcy of the Bush political economy of United State security.
The Port of New Orleans and other capital starved ports in need of modernization and upgrade to digialized contrainer operations will suffer most.
The real security and industrial infrastructure concerns of North America were never critical elements of the public or congressional debates. Because of the Arab racial issue and fear of Middle Eastern terrorism, the larger industrial policy issues were replaced with a baseless argument against Arab vs. white management of some terminal operations of American strategic.
European and Asian firms are free to buy almost anything in Americans that they can pay for, i.e. IBM laptops manufactruring, but Arabs, Africans and South Americans are only free to buy what the white man views as yesterday technology.
South Africa white firms can buy more different stragegtic American assets than Arabs. The South African nuclear program was based on US components, via Israel.
This is wrong and must be attacked by Americans. There is a political price America is paying every day for this naked racsim.
A rare political critical mass between gross root Republicans and Democrats was forming in Congress about the large issue of US industrial infrastructure collapse over the past six years cuttings and a general lack of a comprehensive nation port security master plan. The DP deal triggered the begaining of a national debate. For this reason, the deal was killed and the debate in the media stops.
The critical role of the Oval Office, super secrete “Committee on Foreign Investment”, the Superior Court of in Exxsex County New Jersey, the Pentagon and the in fighting between the Department the Homeland Security and the US Coast Guard will never be examined in public view. The business aspect of the acquisition was pushed aside by the racial dynamics.
The media and radio talk shows and Internet websites and bloggers were able to shape the public debate around the mythical notion of what the New York Times called in its Friday main editorial article “Our Porous Port Protection”. This nightmare notion is base on an atomic or some other weapon, i.e. biological or chemical agent being smuggled into our country on a containers ship.
The Rock
In the 1996 Hollywood film “The Rock” written by David Weisberg and Douglas Cook, a rouge US Army unit positions never gas arm missiles on Alcatraz for a terrorist attack against San Francisco exchange for million of dollar and safe passage to another country. The city leadership of Francisco was helpless and remains helpless to today against such a cheap threat.
This film came out the same year a missile shot down TWA flight 800 over New York City. New York leaders were helpless to offer a defense then and would be equally helpless today.
The cost of city-base radar defense and Patriot anti-missile missile defense system, Aegis radar systems and anti-terrorist intelligence units model on New York City, would be a first approximation of the addition costs not under debate. A second approximation of real security cost would be the cost to buy, own and maintain a regional National Guard air force 500 all weather helicopters for the top 10 metro-regions in the lower 48 state so another New Orleans ever happens.
The outward looking centric America defense system is totally defenseless against an internally launched missile attack. The missile attack on flight 800 in New York City made this fact very clear to New Yorkers and the situation has not changed in ten years. A missile attack on a land target is the next step. The critical needs for anti-missile defenses around major ports and cities in not even in the public debate. Homeland Security has not even welcome public white papers on the subject. Biological warfare is even more of a nightmare.
Given the statement by John Robb and other urban security planners at Forrester Research about the near-term collapse of security in the inner, Black Americans and other people who are forced to work or live in cities should be very concern.
History does not support the Porous container path to attack
Every major terrorist attack on the American homeland to date has come from cells and networks inside the United States using chemical weapons. Both attacks on the World Trade Center, Olamhma City and the Pentagon were American locally made chemical weapons. The 600 chemical and oil spills that destroyed the whole industrial region of New Orleans, after the still unexplained rupture of the 17th Street levee, were chemical agents not imports from a Arab Country but locally manufacture chemicals.
The Washington spiders would have been more effective if they had targeted chemical plants and storage facilities than human beings. When Israeli agents stole nuclear materials near Cleveland, Ohio they had the means to detonate in the US. Nothing or no could have stopped them. No elements of these terrorist operations were imported, beyond the human beings.
The DP World deal reconfirmed what Katrina and the massive 8 million gallons of toxic chemicals and oil clearly spill demonstrated in New Orleans. That is, American industrial infrastructure in very old, fragile and at serious risk of terrorism attack from within, more so than without. The new levels of security that exists in some of the New York area airports should exist in all ports and internal transit points in America.
A toxic chemical event at the Trenton, New Jersey train state would stop all rail traffic between Boston and Washington, DC. This station increasing floods unabated every year.
The incoming port traffic security debate is a small aspect of the total national security question. Most major cities around the world protected from incoming and outgoing traffic than most American cities. North Jersey and Southern New York are the exception between they maintains they’re own independent intelligence and security infrastructure from Homeland security and the federal government.
The 9/11 attack on the New York and the 9/11 Commission report, very critical of the federal government has allow the North Jersey/New York local governments and private corporate security infrastructure to developed and evolved to a degree equal to the federal government. This has not been the case nationally because most states lack the financial means to create even the most rudimentary local security infrastructure and remain junior partners to the federal agencies. CIA, FBI and other federal security infrastructures are being subsumed under the US military domestic security network.
Only a fool at this point would believe that the US Department of Homeland Secuirty is a stand-alone department independent of the US military control.
The lack of basic all-weather communication in New Orleans is typical of the weaken communication grids of most major cities and just the tip of the iceberg of first responders infrastructure limilations imposed by the US militiary. Even with this deepening gap between need and resources, the Bush administration has been quietly cutting funding to mission critical elements of Homeland Security and building the US Space Command function.
The Department of Homeland Security has only handed out 629 million dollars in port grant since 9/11, but the US Coast Guard said ports need 5.4 billion dollars within 10 year basics like fences and lighting. DHS slashed the number of ports eligible for grants from 360 to 66. US seaports have just 181 portal monitors—the device that checks for radiation in containers—only a handful of commercial ports can use them on all cargo. There is no aggressive pro-active master and funding to support a migration of major US port to be able to screen all cargo or use of “smart” containers. DHS’s 12,400 hand-held monitors have an error rate of 50 percent. Like New Orleans, DHS has not forced companies to adopt “smart” containers, boxes equipped with sensors that indicate tampering. (See NubianOberserver Dubai Ports World, What is the real cost US Security)
Real threat, cruise missile
Its is generally agreed that the US Homeland and the National Defense shield is defenseless against a nuclear tip cruise missile attack popping up from a container loaded on a commercial ship in a American port. India, China, Israel, Iran and other want-be nuclear power are arming their ships and submarines with cheap yesterday nuclear tip cruise missile. International production of these deadly missile delivery systems is increasing. Asia cruises missiles sale for as cheap as 250,000 dollar a copy on the international black market.
Who owns the port will not change this cruise missile and other threats.
That the core of the cruise missile threat is the untrained 7 dollar an hour port security guard and stand alone port security system that lack systems intergation with local law enforcement, and the state and Homeland security.
The international security community knows that American security is like an egg shield. Hard on the edges and nothing on the inside. None of this reality is lost to American crimuals, slave traders, drug dealers, gun running or terrorists. People walk from America to Canada and Mexico with no ID papers every day, all day. Trucks with chemicals pass within major cities every minute of every day, never monitored or stopped.
Insurgents around the world also know this reality.
In a very timely Forrester Research analysis on Security 2016, by John Robb, former mission commander for “black” counterrorism unit that worked with Delta Force and Seal Team 6, before joint Forrester Research Group---Talking about “Open –Source Warfare” Mr. Robb says –“These groups (Arab insurgent), of course, have access to the same tools we do—and use them every bit as well.
But their single most important asset is their organizational structure, an open-source community network very similar to work we now see in the software industry. It is an extremely innovative structure, sadly, and results in decision-making cycles much shorter than those of the US military. Indeed, because the insurgents in Iraq lack ac recognizable center of gravity—a leadership structure or an ideology—they are nearly immune to the application of conventional military force”. With the downsizing of the US military and migration to US Space Command centric intervention mode, the counterrorism function will suffer even more.
Mr. Robb offers shocking points to ponder in term of the Dubai Ports deal, first that “the end of oil will also force corrupt (United Arab Emirates), now propped up by energy income, to make the reforms they need to be accepted internationally, improving life for their people.
Ghetto 2016, security major risk
Secondly, Mr. Robb talking in urban political code about African Americans left behind in the inner cities, he says, “As for those without the means to build their own defense, they will have to make do with the remains of the national system (Homeland Security). They will gravitate to America’s cities, where they will subject to ubiquitous surveillance and marginal or nonexistent services. For the poor, there will be no other refuge. Most of American’s functional ports are in or near Mr. Robb’s urban stragetic hamlets cities. The spread of urban youth gangs out of the ghettos into white communities suggest a new migration path for terrorist’s cells.
The US Coast Guard suggestion ports need 5.4 billion dollars within 10 year for basic infrastructure upgrades take on a new meaning. The DHS slashing of the number of ports eligible for grants from 360 to 66 also becomes criminal from the standpoint of the long-term needs of America ports.
Fiscal Terrorist
Multinationals, mostly US, operationing from China, Mexico and Canada account from over 800 billion dollars of US imports. Most of this US traffic is ship-based. These companies should pay the cost migration to digitalization container shipping. To really address the exterior threat coming into American ports, the security should start with these companies and major importers like Wel-Mart. Up grades these company’s modes of transport and shipping into the US, should pay for digitalization of shipping by the multinationals, not the American taxpayer.
The real problem is a lack investment in industrial infrastructure and upgrade. Security infrastructure is an element of industrial infrastructure. The federal government and coperations have hidden the real cost industrial infrastructure development by underestimation of the real problem. New Orleans industries are better protected, even with a problemic 17th Street levee than Houston TX and most other US industries near water in North America.
During the last 20 years of deinvestment in levee maintenance in New Orleans, the critical levee protection was allowed to drop. Katrina and the chemical and oil spills have destroyed almost all non-oil centric production in the New Orleans region. This same degeneration of industrial infrastructure is taking place in other industrial cities.
The tragedy of the United Arab Emirates port deal is that the debate never reached the critical level of details discussion about infrastructure investment, either in port security or America’s industrial base because the race card was used.
By Isiah Scott, Jr.
The greatest shame of reviewing the failed sell of access to six American ports to the United Arab Emirates was that the Republican controlled Congress used the Race Card to win public support to reject the DP World deal rather than the underlying bankruptcy of the Bush political economy of United State security.
The Port of New Orleans and other capital starved ports in need of modernization and upgrade to digialized contrainer operations will suffer most.
The real security and industrial infrastructure concerns of North America were never critical elements of the public or congressional debates. Because of the Arab racial issue and fear of Middle Eastern terrorism, the larger industrial policy issues were replaced with a baseless argument against Arab vs. white management of some terminal operations of American strategic.
European and Asian firms are free to buy almost anything in Americans that they can pay for, i.e. IBM laptops manufactruring, but Arabs, Africans and South Americans are only free to buy what the white man views as yesterday technology.
South Africa white firms can buy more different stragegtic American assets than Arabs. The South African nuclear program was based on US components, via Israel.
This is wrong and must be attacked by Americans. There is a political price America is paying every day for this naked racsim.
A rare political critical mass between gross root Republicans and Democrats was forming in Congress about the large issue of US industrial infrastructure collapse over the past six years cuttings and a general lack of a comprehensive nation port security master plan. The DP deal triggered the begaining of a national debate. For this reason, the deal was killed and the debate in the media stops.
The critical role of the Oval Office, super secrete “Committee on Foreign Investment”, the Superior Court of in Exxsex County New Jersey, the Pentagon and the in fighting between the Department the Homeland Security and the US Coast Guard will never be examined in public view. The business aspect of the acquisition was pushed aside by the racial dynamics.
The media and radio talk shows and Internet websites and bloggers were able to shape the public debate around the mythical notion of what the New York Times called in its Friday main editorial article “Our Porous Port Protection”. This nightmare notion is base on an atomic or some other weapon, i.e. biological or chemical agent being smuggled into our country on a containers ship.
The Rock
In the 1996 Hollywood film “The Rock” written by David Weisberg and Douglas Cook, a rouge US Army unit positions never gas arm missiles on Alcatraz for a terrorist attack against San Francisco exchange for million of dollar and safe passage to another country. The city leadership of Francisco was helpless and remains helpless to today against such a cheap threat.
This film came out the same year a missile shot down TWA flight 800 over New York City. New York leaders were helpless to offer a defense then and would be equally helpless today.
The cost of city-base radar defense and Patriot anti-missile missile defense system, Aegis radar systems and anti-terrorist intelligence units model on New York City, would be a first approximation of the addition costs not under debate. A second approximation of real security cost would be the cost to buy, own and maintain a regional National Guard air force 500 all weather helicopters for the top 10 metro-regions in the lower 48 state so another New Orleans ever happens.
The outward looking centric America defense system is totally defenseless against an internally launched missile attack. The missile attack on flight 800 in New York City made this fact very clear to New Yorkers and the situation has not changed in ten years. A missile attack on a land target is the next step. The critical needs for anti-missile defenses around major ports and cities in not even in the public debate. Homeland Security has not even welcome public white papers on the subject. Biological warfare is even more of a nightmare.
Given the statement by John Robb and other urban security planners at Forrester Research about the near-term collapse of security in the inner, Black Americans and other people who are forced to work or live in cities should be very concern.
History does not support the Porous container path to attack
Every major terrorist attack on the American homeland to date has come from cells and networks inside the United States using chemical weapons. Both attacks on the World Trade Center, Olamhma City and the Pentagon were American locally made chemical weapons. The 600 chemical and oil spills that destroyed the whole industrial region of New Orleans, after the still unexplained rupture of the 17th Street levee, were chemical agents not imports from a Arab Country but locally manufacture chemicals.
The Washington spiders would have been more effective if they had targeted chemical plants and storage facilities than human beings. When Israeli agents stole nuclear materials near Cleveland, Ohio they had the means to detonate in the US. Nothing or no could have stopped them. No elements of these terrorist operations were imported, beyond the human beings.
The DP World deal reconfirmed what Katrina and the massive 8 million gallons of toxic chemicals and oil clearly spill demonstrated in New Orleans. That is, American industrial infrastructure in very old, fragile and at serious risk of terrorism attack from within, more so than without. The new levels of security that exists in some of the New York area airports should exist in all ports and internal transit points in America.
A toxic chemical event at the Trenton, New Jersey train state would stop all rail traffic between Boston and Washington, DC. This station increasing floods unabated every year.
The incoming port traffic security debate is a small aspect of the total national security question. Most major cities around the world protected from incoming and outgoing traffic than most American cities. North Jersey and Southern New York are the exception between they maintains they’re own independent intelligence and security infrastructure from Homeland security and the federal government.
The 9/11 attack on the New York and the 9/11 Commission report, very critical of the federal government has allow the North Jersey/New York local governments and private corporate security infrastructure to developed and evolved to a degree equal to the federal government. This has not been the case nationally because most states lack the financial means to create even the most rudimentary local security infrastructure and remain junior partners to the federal agencies. CIA, FBI and other federal security infrastructures are being subsumed under the US military domestic security network.
Only a fool at this point would believe that the US Department of Homeland Secuirty is a stand-alone department independent of the US military control.
The lack of basic all-weather communication in New Orleans is typical of the weaken communication grids of most major cities and just the tip of the iceberg of first responders infrastructure limilations imposed by the US militiary. Even with this deepening gap between need and resources, the Bush administration has been quietly cutting funding to mission critical elements of Homeland Security and building the US Space Command function.
The Department of Homeland Security has only handed out 629 million dollars in port grant since 9/11, but the US Coast Guard said ports need 5.4 billion dollars within 10 year basics like fences and lighting. DHS slashed the number of ports eligible for grants from 360 to 66. US seaports have just 181 portal monitors—the device that checks for radiation in containers—only a handful of commercial ports can use them on all cargo. There is no aggressive pro-active master and funding to support a migration of major US port to be able to screen all cargo or use of “smart” containers. DHS’s 12,400 hand-held monitors have an error rate of 50 percent. Like New Orleans, DHS has not forced companies to adopt “smart” containers, boxes equipped with sensors that indicate tampering. (See NubianOberserver Dubai Ports World, What is the real cost US Security)
Real threat, cruise missile
Its is generally agreed that the US Homeland and the National Defense shield is defenseless against a nuclear tip cruise missile attack popping up from a container loaded on a commercial ship in a American port. India, China, Israel, Iran and other want-be nuclear power are arming their ships and submarines with cheap yesterday nuclear tip cruise missile. International production of these deadly missile delivery systems is increasing. Asia cruises missiles sale for as cheap as 250,000 dollar a copy on the international black market.
Who owns the port will not change this cruise missile and other threats.
That the core of the cruise missile threat is the untrained 7 dollar an hour port security guard and stand alone port security system that lack systems intergation with local law enforcement, and the state and Homeland security.
The international security community knows that American security is like an egg shield. Hard on the edges and nothing on the inside. None of this reality is lost to American crimuals, slave traders, drug dealers, gun running or terrorists. People walk from America to Canada and Mexico with no ID papers every day, all day. Trucks with chemicals pass within major cities every minute of every day, never monitored or stopped.
Insurgents around the world also know this reality.
In a very timely Forrester Research analysis on Security 2016, by John Robb, former mission commander for “black” counterrorism unit that worked with Delta Force and Seal Team 6, before joint Forrester Research Group---Talking about “Open –Source Warfare” Mr. Robb says –“These groups (Arab insurgent), of course, have access to the same tools we do—and use them every bit as well.
But their single most important asset is their organizational structure, an open-source community network very similar to work we now see in the software industry. It is an extremely innovative structure, sadly, and results in decision-making cycles much shorter than those of the US military. Indeed, because the insurgents in Iraq lack ac recognizable center of gravity—a leadership structure or an ideology—they are nearly immune to the application of conventional military force”. With the downsizing of the US military and migration to US Space Command centric intervention mode, the counterrorism function will suffer even more.
Mr. Robb offers shocking points to ponder in term of the Dubai Ports deal, first that “the end of oil will also force corrupt (United Arab Emirates), now propped up by energy income, to make the reforms they need to be accepted internationally, improving life for their people.
Ghetto 2016, security major risk
Secondly, Mr. Robb talking in urban political code about African Americans left behind in the inner cities, he says, “As for those without the means to build their own defense, they will have to make do with the remains of the national system (Homeland Security). They will gravitate to America’s cities, where they will subject to ubiquitous surveillance and marginal or nonexistent services. For the poor, there will be no other refuge. Most of American’s functional ports are in or near Mr. Robb’s urban stragetic hamlets cities. The spread of urban youth gangs out of the ghettos into white communities suggest a new migration path for terrorist’s cells.
The US Coast Guard suggestion ports need 5.4 billion dollars within 10 year for basic infrastructure upgrades take on a new meaning. The DHS slashing of the number of ports eligible for grants from 360 to 66 also becomes criminal from the standpoint of the long-term needs of America ports.
Fiscal Terrorist
Multinationals, mostly US, operationing from China, Mexico and Canada account from over 800 billion dollars of US imports. Most of this US traffic is ship-based. These companies should pay the cost migration to digitalization container shipping. To really address the exterior threat coming into American ports, the security should start with these companies and major importers like Wel-Mart. Up grades these company’s modes of transport and shipping into the US, should pay for digitalization of shipping by the multinationals, not the American taxpayer.
The real problem is a lack investment in industrial infrastructure and upgrade. Security infrastructure is an element of industrial infrastructure. The federal government and coperations have hidden the real cost industrial infrastructure development by underestimation of the real problem. New Orleans industries are better protected, even with a problemic 17th Street levee than Houston TX and most other US industries near water in North America.
During the last 20 years of deinvestment in levee maintenance in New Orleans, the critical levee protection was allowed to drop. Katrina and the chemical and oil spills have destroyed almost all non-oil centric production in the New Orleans region. This same degeneration of industrial infrastructure is taking place in other industrial cities.
The tragedy of the United Arab Emirates port deal is that the debate never reached the critical level of details discussion about infrastructure investment, either in port security or America’s industrial base because the race card was used.
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