Why is George Bush so interested in places with deep water?

[Joanne98]

Maybe it has something to do with parking Poppy's boat?

Bush visits aircraft carrier named after father
By DEB RIECHMANN – 42 minutes ago
NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — President George W. Bush is aboard the USS George H.W. Bush, a new aircraft carrier named after the president's father — the ultimate honor for a decorated Navy pilot from World War II.
With just days left in his presidency, Bush joined his father, now 84 years old, and other Bush family members at Naval Station Norfolk in Virginia for the commissioning on Saturday.
The steel-gray vessel is more than three football fields long, one in the Nimitz class of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers that are the largest warships on the world. Its price tag is just as hefty: $6.2 billion.
The elder Bush paid an unexpected visit to the warship on Friday to tour his namesake.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j057jBReERcsF-FcZRSWe0h1gaXQD95KCG180

A deep-water win
Mariana Trench
The areas saved by the president are natural aquariums teeming with migrating sharks and tuna, coral reefs, hot-water vents and the rim of the Mariana Trench, the ocean's deepest spot. Above the waves are island roosts for millions of sea birds and the planet's largest species of crab.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/01/08/EDGS1558C3.DTL&type=green

Paraguay

Uses

Deep water port on the River Paraguay in Asunción, ParaguayThe River Paraguay is the second major river in the Río de la Plata watershed, covering a vast area of land that includes major portions of northern Argentina, southern Brazil, Uruguay, parts of Bolivia and the entire country of Paraguay. Unlike many of the other great rivers of the Parana basin, the Paraguay has not been dammed for hydroelectric power generation, and as such it is navigable for a considerable distance, second to the Amazon River only in terms of navigable length on the continent. This makes it an important shipping and trade corridor, providing a much needed link to the Atlantic Ocean for the otherwise landlocked nations of Paraguay and Bolivia. It serves such important cities as Asunción and Concepción in Paraguay and Formosa in Argentina.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraguay_River

[patrice]

1. Food?

[Joanne98]

2. Is a deep water port right next to his new "nature reserve"

"Apra" redirects here. For other uses, see APRA (disambiguation)

Aerial view of Apra HarborApra Harbor is a deep-water port on the western side of Guam in the Mariana Islands. It serves both as a U.S. Navy station and a commercial port, which handles about 2 million tons of cargo a year .

The harbour is formed by Orote Peninsula to the south, and Cabras Island in the north. To the south the harbor narrows and then widens again to form an inner harbor. The southern end of the harbor is the location of Naval Base Guam, while the northern end is the commercial port

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apra_Harbor

[Joanne98]

3. Deep water port applications.. pending. There's one in Texas filed Dec 8th 2008

http://www.marad.dot.gov/ports_landing_page/deepwater_port_licensing/dwp_planned_ports/dwp_planned_ports.htm

Texas Offshore Port System

On December 8, 2008, the Texas Offshore Port System project filed an application with the Maritime Administration seeking approval to build, own, and operate a crude oil deepwater-port facility 30 miles off the coast of Texas in the Gulf of Mexico. In accordance with the Deepwater Port Act, the project must also seek approval from the U.S. Coast Guard to build such a facility.

If approved and constructed as planned, the deepwater port should be capable of importing 1.7 million barrels of oil per day into the United States, and should also facilitate delivery of the waterborne crude to refining centers along Texas' Gulf Coast. Project plans call for the proposed deepwater port facility to be located in the Gulf, approximately 30 miles southeast of Freeport, Texas.

Current Status: The application is being reviewed for completeness.

A HA!

Patrick Burnson, Executive Editor -- Logistics Management, 9/29/2008
WASHINGTON—Some of the nation’s fastest growing ocean cargo gateways have come to be recognized as sound investments by the capital markets, some industry analysts contend.
“Institutional investors with long-term horizons look upon container port facilities as an investment that offers returns comparable to those from traditional asset classes,” said C. Kenneth Orski, publisher of Innovation Briefs, a newsletter tracking trends in domestic surface transportation.

“A growing scarcity of deep water port capacity and environmental obstacles to building new ports have enhanced the value of existing seaports and raised expectations of higher returns on invested capital in container terminals and other port facilities,” said Orski.

Some current examples of the growing involvement of private capital in port infrastructure include Portland, Ore., which is reviewing the qualifications of ten potential private bidders for its container terminal (Terminal 6)—the first long-term concession of an existing U.S. seaport facility.

According to Korski, The Commonwealth of Virginia has also established a commission to consider privatizing the public Virginia Port Authority.

“The Port of New Orleans has invited the private sector to participate in a two-billion dollar program of facilities expansion including a new container terminal and a new cruise ship terminal,” Korski noted.

In the wake of Hurricane Ike, The Port of Corpus Christi is nonetheless proposing to build new container terminal facilities with the help of private capital.

“A private consortium is also planning a $2 billion petroleum terminal 36 miles off the cost of Freeport, Tex.,” Korski said.

The project, called the Texas Offshore Port System (TOPS), will comprise two floating connections for supertankers to unload crude, 160-mile pipeline to bring the oil onshore and along the cost to refineries in Houston, Port Arthur, and Beaumont.

http://www.logisticsmgmt.com/article/ca6600438.html

[Joanne98]

4. Enterprise, Oiltanking Holdings to build Texas offshore oil port

Enterprise, Oiltanking Holdings to build Texas offshore oil port


Offshore

Affiliates of Enterprise, TEPPCO, and Oiltanking each have a one-third ownership in the new joint venture and expect to invest approximately $600 million each in the initiative, which, subject to obtaining certain regulatory approvals and permits, is scheduled to begin service in 4Q 2010.

"With refining capacity along the upper Texas coast continuing to expand, TOPS offers a comprehensive solution for ensuring reliable access to supplies of crude oil," says Michael A. Creel, president and CEO of Enterprise. "This project should provide refiners with cost savings, operating efficiencies and access to additional supplies beyond the Gulf Coast region. We are very pleased to be working with our joint venture partners, each of which brings complementary assets and expertise in the crude oil logistics business. In addition, TOPS should provide Enterprise with a new source of fee-based cash flow for decades to come."

08/18/2008


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http://www.pennenergy.com/index/articledisplay/enterprise-oiltanking-holdings-to-build-texas-offshore-oil-port/337229/s-articles/s-offshore/s-pipeline-transportation/s-us-gulf-of-mexico/s-3.html

Enterprise, Teppco to Construct Biggest U.S. Oil Port

By Joe Carroll

Aug. 18 (Bloomberg) – Enterprise Products Partners LP, Teppco Partners LP and a unit of Marquard & Bahls AG plan to build a $1.8 billion Texas oil port that will be the biggest U.S. crude-import terminal when it opens in 2010.

The facility, known as Texas Offshore Port Systems, or TOPS, will take deliveries from tankers 36 miles (58 kilometers) offshore and pump the oil to onshore refineries through a subsea pipeline, according to a statement today.

TOPS will mostly handle light crude shipments from West Africa and the Persian Gulf for Texas-based gasoline producers, said Dan Duncan, the Houston billionaire who controls Enterprise. The port will cut costs for refiners who now rely on barges to haul oil to inland ports. It will also be less susceptible to fog that hinders deliveries.

“This is going to relieve bottlenecks and allow for more efficient routing of crude oil to refineries,” Darren Horowitz, an analyst at Raymond James & Associates Inc., said in a telephone interview. “It’s really going to improve the efficiency” of importing crude.

Demand for the port’s capacity will be driven by environmental rules that are making it harder and costlier for refiners to ship crude through the Houston Ship Channel and other waterways in smaller vessels, Duncan told investors and analysts today on a conference call.

Exxon, Shell Accord

http://royaldutchshellplc.com/2008/08/18/enterprise-teppco-to-construct-biggest-us-oil-port-update3/

[Hawkowl]

5. Alien spaceship parking

It is commonly known that the aliens use the deepest part of our oceans to hide their spacecraft while they are abducting us. Bush has made a deal with them.

[Joanne98]

6. David D Duncan... ports okayed for exotic animals..scandal

http://www.citizensforethics.org/files/execcorruption/exhibits/SMITHEXHIBITS.pdf

[Joanne98]

15. That's Dan Duncan

[Joanne98]

7. American billionaire's aerial hunting violates Russian law

www.hsus.org
http://presszoom.com/story_137579.html

video of the blood sport of the idle rich such as Dan Duncan
of Texas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGPFPBmzRrQ

RUSSIA AND MANY OTHER COUNTRIES HAVE OUTLAWED THE
AERIAL HUNTING WHICH IS PROMOTED BY SARAH PALIN,
WHO BEFORE 2006 HAD WON ONLY ONE ELECTION AND
IN THAT ONE RECEIVED 616 VOTES




The HSUS Urges Feds to Prosecute Billionaire Trophy Hunter for Federal Wildlife Crimes. Duncan broke Russian law

(Besides having killed many kinds of endangered species,
Duncan has raised the price of oil and natural gas for all
with his oligarchical control of pipelines)

The Humane Society of the United States, the nation's largest animal protection organization, called on federal prosecutors to fully investigate filing charges and prosecuting Dan Duncan, a Texas trophy hunter and canned hunt operator, for illegally shooting wild animals from a helicopter.


(PressZoom) - The Humane Society of the United States, the nation's largest animal protection organization, called on federal prosecutors to fully investigate filing charges and prosecuting Dan Duncan, a Texas trophy hunter and canned hunt operator, for illegally shooting wild animals from a helicopter.

http://engforum.pravda.ru/archive/index.php/t-221520.html

[Joanne98]

8. The Safari Club

http://www.safariclub.org/

[Joanne98]

9. Safari Club Source watch

Safari Club International (SCI) is a U.S. based organisation with a membership of trophy hunters. Safari Club members aspire to collect the heads or skins of big game animals.

SCI and the Republicans
In an article on the Humane Society website a consultant to the Humane Society, Michael Satchell, writes "the club contributes large sums to mostly Republican candidates and, not surprisingly, has been able to ingratiate itself with various administrations, most notably the Bush Administration, and with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS)."

"With the help of friendly members of Congress and officials in USFWS, SCI has consistently attempted to navigate around the intent of the Endangered Species Act (ESA) and the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) and import once-banned trophies of endangered and threatened wildlife. Sometimes, the club has succeeded, sometimes not," he wrote. <1>

On March 17, 2005 the second Bush administration appointed Matthew J. Hogan, the former chief lobbyist for Safari Club International, as the Acting Director of the Fish and Wildlife Service.

Contact details
4800 West Gates Pass Road
Tucson, Arizona 85745-9490
USA
Main Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
Web: http://www.safariclub.org

External links
Michael Satchell, "A View to a Kill: How Safari Club Int'l Works to Weaken ESA Protections", Humane Society US, undated, accessed August 2005.
Jeffrey St Clair, "Adventures in the Endangered Skin Trade: Why Elephants Hate Neo-Liberals", CounterPunch, June 21 / 22, 2008.

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Safari_Club_International

[Joanne98]

11. The Safari Club and BCCI

1976: CIA and Other Intelligence Agencies Use BCCI to Control and Manipulate Criminals and Terrorists Worldwide
Agha Hasan Abedi. Investigative journalist Joseph Trento will later report that in 1976, the Safari Club, a newly formed secret cabal of intelligence agencies (see September 1, 1976-Early 1980s), decides it needs a network of banks to help finance its intelligence operations. Saudi Intelligence Minister Kamal Adham is given the task. “With the official blessing of George H. W. Bush as the head of the CIA, Adham transformed a small Pakistani merchant bank, the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI), into a world-wide money-laundering machine, buying banks around the world to create the biggest clandestine money network in history.” BCCI was founded in 1972 by a Pakistani named Agha Hasan Abedi, who was an associate of Adham’s. Bush himself has an account at BCCI established while still director of the CIA. French customs will later raid the Paris BCCI branch and discover the account in Bush’s name. Bush, Adham, and other intelligence heads work with Abedi to contrive “a plan that seemed too good to be true. The bank would solicit the business of every major terrorist, rebel, and underground organization in the world. The intelligence thus gained would be shared with ‘friends’ of BCCI.” CIA operative Raymond Close works closely with Adham on this. BCCI taps “into the CIA’s stockpile of misfits and malcontents to help man a 1,500-strong group of assassins and enforcers.” Soon, BCCI becomes the fastest growing bank in the world. Time magazine will later describe BCCI as not just a bank, but also “a global intelligence operation and a Mafia-like enforcement squad. Operating primarily out of the bank’s offices in Karachi, Pakistan, the 1,500-employee black network has used sophisticated spy equipment and techniques, along with bribery, extortion, kidnapping and even, by some accounts, murder. The black network—so named by its own members—stops at almost nothing to further the bank’s aims the world over.”
Entity Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, Bank of Credit and Commerce International, Safari Club, Agha Hasan Abedi, George Herbert Walker Bush, Raymond Close, Kamal Adham
http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=072291bcciirancontra

[MidwestTransplant]

10. Build refineries near the ports?

[Joanne98]

12. Maybe! Thanx

[Joanne98]

13. Safari Club visits Crawford......

Shelby writes: Thursday, December, 11, 2008 4:07 PM
Palin's Speechwriter re: Safari Club
Matthew Scully, former speechwriter for President Bush and the writer of Palin's big debut convention speech, has this to say about the Safari Club, from witnessing it first hand:

Excerpts:

"I don't recall Mr. Bush having hunted before then as president, or having hunted since. Left to himself, without the pleadings of political advisers or hunting groups in need of affirmation, the president seems to prefer more innocent recreations like riding bikes, clearing brush or playing with the dog."

"Also present in Crawford was a fellow from Safari Club International. Based right here in Arizona, this is a group of 30,000 or so people whose all-consuming passion in life is killing big game, with all sorts of competitions to see who can kill the most and biggest "trophy animals." To win the highest award, for example, you have to kill upward of 360 animals – from an African elephant to an exotic sheep in Russia (yes, there are actually sheep safaris) to some wolf or polar bear minding his own business in the farthest reaches of the Arctic."

"The official transcript of that Crawford meeting is filled with unctuous praise for the president, punctuated by vague talk of all the "conservation" initiatives the hunters were seeking. (There are no cold-hearted killers among sport hunters anymore – only really passionate "conservationists.") The president seems uneasy with his guests, and if he looked into Safari Club a little more he'd know why. They are arrogant, merciless people who have no business sitting down with the president of the United States, much less shaping, as they do, the environmental policies of the administration."

http://www.matthewscully.com/sportsman_politics.htm

http://townhall.com/blog/g/2aa1e56d-b69f-4aba-881a-6aaac1c1595c&comments=true

[SmileyRose]

14. It will be harder to find the bodies?

[Joanne98]

17. Maybe. lol Could be anything to do with evil and money.

[Joanne98]

16. .........

http://www.unique-design.net/library/manipulation.html

[Joanne98]

18. Motiva

Three Southeast Texas refineries will be part of a $2 billion project to build and operate an oil terminal 36 miles off the coast of Freeport.

As politicians continue to debate how to reduce U.S. dependency on foreign oil, Motiva and Valero of Port Arthur and ExxonMobil Corp. of Beaumont are involved in a Houston partnership to prepare for an energy future that inevitably will include oil imports.

Enterprise Products Partners and TEPPCO Partners, both affiliated with Houston billionaire Dan Duncan, and the German company Oiltanking Holdings Americas, call the project the Texas Offshore Port System - TOPS.

It would include two floating connections for supertankers to unload crude, 160-miles of pipelines to bring the oil onshore and along the coast to refineries in Houston, Port Arthur and Beaumont, as well as new onshore storage for more than 5 million barrels of crude. ExxonMobil Corp. and Motiva have committed to take shipments through the system for their coastal refineries.

Motiva is a joint venture of Royal Dutch Shell and Saudi Arabia's state-owned oil company Aramco.

http://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/local/27088119.html