Poitical Ruse behind port sell to Arab Emirates
Dubai Ports World, What is the real cost US Security
By Isiah R. Scott, Jr
Afro centric analysis
Everyone in America has understood for generations that the America oil companies will do anything to take care of the rich Arab oil countries. Few Americans understood that meant their national security.
After spending almost a trillion dollar after 9/11 to purportedly create new layers of protection around America, selling forign access to six major ports for less than 7 billion dollar appear to be shameless and very dangerous. This one sell pushes over a 100 million Americans in the northeastren section of the US at greater risk of attack.
One Rasmussen poll registered 17 percent support for the deal, and showed Bush narrowly trailing congressional Democrats on his signature issue of national security.
Imagine selling control of some of America’s most strategic ports to a unsavory, but oil rich Arab state that could have a change of leadership and over night become a rogue state, a.k.a Iran, and having your chief Homeland Security federal agencies rubber stamp the deal before every reading the intelligence brief to notice that there may be serious major security concern.
Particularly after the same agency mess up New Orleans so badly, one would think Homeland Security would be a model federal agency.
Black American understands that hustlers never stops their hustle until it stops paying. Every body got pay from New Orleans, but Blacks and poor whites left behind.
Its sounds absurd, but it’s just what are happening in the debate over control of US port. In regards to selling American ports to the United Arab Emirates, the Department of Homeland Security approved the sale without reading a critical memo in which the US Coast Guard had questions about the deal because of “intelligence gaps” about potential security risks.
Even more troubling is the fact that after the US Costal Guard after raised very important questions about billions of dollars of new port protection instrastructure, the Costal Guard was administratively beaten down behind closed doors by the Oval Office cabal and oil companies and made to publicly support the deal 12 hours later.
Finally the major sticking point is not who will manage or operate the ports, but if United Arab Emirates will drop its economic boycott of Israel.
The public rhetoric and posturing about the sell was piercing because it touches on a collection of American raw nerves: Terrorism, security, globalization, secrecy, and a very real 9/11 fears and raw white racism toward Arabs.
According to a cross section of security experts reported in the mainstream media, the actual threat from the Dubai is overstated.
A review by the NubianObserver of the public domain formation does not support this view.
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.
It hard to find any anyone in Congress—of either party – who would dare say anything nice about the transaction, a 6.8 billion dollar deal allowing Dubai Ports World, which is owned by the UAE government, to take over the lease for terminal at six ports.
But at the end of the day, with rigid partisan majority in Congress, President Bush is most likely to have is way. So why the big political ruse.
New Orleans ruse all over
Like the New Orleans political and media ruse, many things are happening just out of public scrutiny and observation. The Dubai deal is being used just like former FEMA director Michael Brown to focus public attention away from other critical issue. India is being positioned as the new America nuclear watchdog over China. While the American rage about the Arabs is being stoked, 60 years of US nuclear policy is being torn up, in order to help US nuclear hustler billion of dollars of nuclear technology to India.
From a purely business stand point; the deal is a win/win for both countries if the Coast Guard’s infrastructure concerns are addressed and operational management remains American centric. Given the fact that the US is 700 billion in debit and lack the political will to federalization the ports in question, the UAE strategic partnership in could help the upgrade what’s left of US industrial infrastructure and American industrial competitiveness.
Real threat, cruise missile
Its is generally agreed that the US Homeland and the no longer talked about 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 powers are rushing to arm their surface ships and submarines with cheap yesterday nuclear tip cruise missiles. Asia cruise 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 threat.
Millions of Americans are at serious risk of a cruise nuclear attack from inside American ports. A cruise nuclear attach on the New Orleans region would destroy the oil and gas production in the Gulf of Mexico. A nuclear attack on New York City would destroy the financial center of the world, while putting 20 million Americans at risk.
Cost of India nuclear proliferation
It is very clear to many in American political culture that the Bush administration is playing a very dangerous shell game with American national security to fit his political needs and corporate centric agenda. As a senior Bush adviser shared with the New York Time, contemptuously dismissing “the reality-based community” most of us live in, by saying –“We ‘re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality”.
President Bush, who used specious claims about a nuclear threat in Iraq to start a war, against the warning of US Sec of State Powell, now agreed to a deal with India—“ in blatant violation of international accords and several decades of bipartisan US policy—that would enable India to double or tripe its annual production of nuclear weapons. This agreement will force China to speed development of the next three 094 ICBM nuclear submarines and their deployment to the Middle East to protect Chinese oil shipment from Africa and the Middle East from Indian attack.
The dropping of the nonproliferation policy to allow US nuclear energy companies to fuel India’s civilian reactors, while freeing up their resources for an accelerated nuclear arms race with China and the Middle East. The Bush empire-based corporate centric thinking, the Indian agreement appear to be a good thing. The reality is that the Bush deal is bring a greater Chinese nuclear presence to the Middle East region and nuclear tip Chinese cruise missiles closer to Arab states.
Security 2016
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 the most.”
Mr. Robb offer to 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 political code about African Americans and 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 cities. 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 stand point of the long-term needs of America ports.
At the end of the day with Bush pushing the oil company’s agenda to do the Dubai Port and the India nuclear exports will in fact end up arming and bring the very insurgents into America.
By Isiah R. Scott, Jr
Afro centric analysis
Everyone in America has understood for generations that the America oil companies will do anything to take care of the rich Arab oil countries. Few Americans understood that meant their national security.
After spending almost a trillion dollar after 9/11 to purportedly create new layers of protection around America, selling forign access to six major ports for less than 7 billion dollar appear to be shameless and very dangerous. This one sell pushes over a 100 million Americans in the northeastren section of the US at greater risk of attack.
One Rasmussen poll registered 17 percent support for the deal, and showed Bush narrowly trailing congressional Democrats on his signature issue of national security.
Imagine selling control of some of America’s most strategic ports to a unsavory, but oil rich Arab state that could have a change of leadership and over night become a rogue state, a.k.a Iran, and having your chief Homeland Security federal agencies rubber stamp the deal before every reading the intelligence brief to notice that there may be serious major security concern.
Particularly after the same agency mess up New Orleans so badly, one would think Homeland Security would be a model federal agency.
Black American understands that hustlers never stops their hustle until it stops paying. Every body got pay from New Orleans, but Blacks and poor whites left behind.
Its sounds absurd, but it’s just what are happening in the debate over control of US port. In regards to selling American ports to the United Arab Emirates, the Department of Homeland Security approved the sale without reading a critical memo in which the US Coast Guard had questions about the deal because of “intelligence gaps” about potential security risks.
Even more troubling is the fact that after the US Costal Guard after raised very important questions about billions of dollars of new port protection instrastructure, the Costal Guard was administratively beaten down behind closed doors by the Oval Office cabal and oil companies and made to publicly support the deal 12 hours later.
Finally the major sticking point is not who will manage or operate the ports, but if United Arab Emirates will drop its economic boycott of Israel.
The public rhetoric and posturing about the sell was piercing because it touches on a collection of American raw nerves: Terrorism, security, globalization, secrecy, and a very real 9/11 fears and raw white racism toward Arabs.
According to a cross section of security experts reported in the mainstream media, the actual threat from the Dubai is overstated.
A review by the NubianObserver of the public domain formation does not support this view.
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.
It hard to find any anyone in Congress—of either party – who would dare say anything nice about the transaction, a 6.8 billion dollar deal allowing Dubai Ports World, which is owned by the UAE government, to take over the lease for terminal at six ports.
But at the end of the day, with rigid partisan majority in Congress, President Bush is most likely to have is way. So why the big political ruse.
New Orleans ruse all over
Like the New Orleans political and media ruse, many things are happening just out of public scrutiny and observation. The Dubai deal is being used just like former FEMA director Michael Brown to focus public attention away from other critical issue. India is being positioned as the new America nuclear watchdog over China. While the American rage about the Arabs is being stoked, 60 years of US nuclear policy is being torn up, in order to help US nuclear hustler billion of dollars of nuclear technology to India.
From a purely business stand point; the deal is a win/win for both countries if the Coast Guard’s infrastructure concerns are addressed and operational management remains American centric. Given the fact that the US is 700 billion in debit and lack the political will to federalization the ports in question, the UAE strategic partnership in could help the upgrade what’s left of US industrial infrastructure and American industrial competitiveness.
Real threat, cruise missile
Its is generally agreed that the US Homeland and the no longer talked about 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 powers are rushing to arm their surface ships and submarines with cheap yesterday nuclear tip cruise missiles. Asia cruise 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 threat.
Millions of Americans are at serious risk of a cruise nuclear attack from inside American ports. A cruise nuclear attach on the New Orleans region would destroy the oil and gas production in the Gulf of Mexico. A nuclear attack on New York City would destroy the financial center of the world, while putting 20 million Americans at risk.
Cost of India nuclear proliferation
It is very clear to many in American political culture that the Bush administration is playing a very dangerous shell game with American national security to fit his political needs and corporate centric agenda. As a senior Bush adviser shared with the New York Time, contemptuously dismissing “the reality-based community” most of us live in, by saying –“We ‘re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality”.
President Bush, who used specious claims about a nuclear threat in Iraq to start a war, against the warning of US Sec of State Powell, now agreed to a deal with India—“ in blatant violation of international accords and several decades of bipartisan US policy—that would enable India to double or tripe its annual production of nuclear weapons. This agreement will force China to speed development of the next three 094 ICBM nuclear submarines and their deployment to the Middle East to protect Chinese oil shipment from Africa and the Middle East from Indian attack.
The dropping of the nonproliferation policy to allow US nuclear energy companies to fuel India’s civilian reactors, while freeing up their resources for an accelerated nuclear arms race with China and the Middle East. The Bush empire-based corporate centric thinking, the Indian agreement appear to be a good thing. The reality is that the Bush deal is bring a greater Chinese nuclear presence to the Middle East region and nuclear tip Chinese cruise missiles closer to Arab states.
Security 2016
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 the most.”
Mr. Robb offer to 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 political code about African Americans and 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 cities. 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 stand point of the long-term needs of America ports.
At the end of the day with Bush pushing the oil company’s agenda to do the Dubai Port and the India nuclear exports will in fact end up arming and bring the very insurgents into America.
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