follow the money.

Technically they’re still foregin, the casinoboats Abramoff laundered from used the same kind of offshoring to hide sourcing monies.

The reason foreigns even get port contracts is to minimize unions.

They need to control at least a third of the cranes with foreign interests so that ports can run to stop a general strike in reaction to outsourced jobs.

People calling Unions gangsters are part of the long running media campaign to do such. It took decades to smear the collective blue collar efforts of workers.

Meanwhile Bushco. operates unrestrained in scales far in excess of any previously witnessed.

As for Carlyle, look up GH Venture Partners. They were behind the pipeline deals in the gas-stans that led to northern alliance/taliban funding from the state department(43 million) which CHeney had stricken from the record on 9-12-01.

BY THE WAY: Am I the only person who’s gotten the impression that Bill Frist is in over his head as Senate majority leader?

[quote] Frist: Ports Deal Could Work Without Buyer

By HOPE YEN
The Associated Press
Sunday, March 12, 2006; 3:32 PM
WASHINGTON — Congress will closely watch a Dubai-owned company to be sure it transfers its U.S. port operations to an American company, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said Sunday.

But Frist, R-Tenn., acknowledged that if an American buyer is not found, and the Bush administration determines there are no security risks, a deal for DP World to manage and operate major U.S. ports still could go through.

A container ship passes the New York skyline Friday, March, 10, 2006. President Bush today expressed concern that a scuttled deal for a state-owned Arab firm to manage some U.S. port facilities would send the wrong message to Middle Eastern allies in the global war on terror. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan) (Mark Lennihan – AP)
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“If everything that the president, the administration has said, and that is that there is absolutely no threatening or jeopardy to our security and safety of the American people … I don’t see how the deal would have to be canceled,” Frist said on ABC’s “This Week.” [end quote]

- printed in the WaPo

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060309/ap_on_go_co/airlines_foreign_owners;_ylt=AtyBMzQcbxM6v4fW16W8y7FeW7oF;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl

Yes, ports are a very important issue, but I hadn’t given much thot to airlines. How about some of the other areas where foreign nationals are taking over our national security? Very, very scary, indeed. M

Susan, I am so glad that Larry has had you start posting on this board. Your knowledge and insight on such a variety of issues and topics, and your clear, concise way of writing makes the tangled web they weave a little clearer in perspective… Thanks, again. M

Who and what was going on on that ranch that weekend and why?

Digressing here …

It’s typical beahvior or most of us, though. Rare are the Tom Foxes and the Buddhist monks of the world who seek a peaceful world.

Depressing to me is that their rarity is what makes a peaceful world impossible at this juncture in the history of the human species. We can always try. But, … more about that later.