MARY LYON FROM THE LEFT: The Lazy Man’s Guide to Riches (& Port Security)

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By Mary Lyon -- World News Trust

I’m really getting tired here -- damned hard to keep up with some of this stuff, anymore. We’re now averaging about a scandal a week from our lovely Bush Administration. A few weeks ago the uproar was brought to you by Dick Cheney, a smoking gun and a buddy’s face. This time, it’s direct from Dubya himself. What some are now referring to as “Portgate” in which we’re supposed to be selling off six of our major ports, on our soil and our coastline to the United Arab Emirates. Love it. And this is the one Young George supposedly knew nothing about.

Like I really believe that from the boy who’s been crying wolf since shortly after the World Trade Center came down. Well, he knew something. He knew he had a treasury secretary who’d been a business buddy of Dubai Ports World only a scant couple of years back, and that he was recruiting a top executive from DP World -- as recently as a month ago.

DP World has at least two ties to the White House. One is Treasury Secretary John Snow, whose department heads the federal panel that signed off on the $6.8 billion sale of an English company to government-owned DP World -- giving it control of Manhattan's cruise ship terminal and Newark's container port.

Snow was chairman of the CSX rail firm that sold its own international port operations to DP World for $1.15 billion in 2004, the year after Snow left for President Bush's cabinet.

The other connection is David Sanborn, who runs DP World's European and Latin American operations and who was tapped by Bush in January to head the U.S. Maritime Administration.

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http://worldnewstrust.org/modules/AMS/article.php?storyid=2567

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1. :D

kick...

[ClassWarrior]

4. Go slugger!!

B-):thumbsup:

16+5=2006

NGU.

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6. Thanks, you!

Take. Back. The. House.

And John Conyers will Take. Care. Of. The. Rest.

NGU!

[ClassWarrior]

11. John Conyers is my shadow President.

:patriot:

NNNGU, Mar!

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12. Mine, too, my friend.

I've got a lot riding on him this fall and winter...

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2. k

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9. Gracias - I appreciate it!

Cheers!

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3. K & R... get thee to the Greatest Page : )

Excellent, excellent article!

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8. Cheers, Sapphire Blue!

BTW, everybody: Sapphire Blue's GD thread is worth revisiting, as long as we're passing around kudos here...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x580153

WELL worth checking out if you missed it over there.

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5. great post-K&R

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7. Thanks!

And I learned something from this. All about the Wonderful World of Tinyurls!

And here, all along, I thought it was "tiny"-something...

DOH!!!!

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