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US Democrats plan bill to block Dubai-US port deal
Saturday, February 18th, 2006US Democrats plan bill to block Dubai-US port deal
Two U.S. Democratic senators said on Friday they would introduce legislation aimed at blocking Dubai Ports World from buying a company that operates several U.S. shipping ports because of security concerns.
Robert Menendez of New Jersey and Hillary Clinton of New York said they would offer a measure to ban companies owned or controlled by foreign governments from acquiring U.S. port operations.
“We wouldn’t turn the border patrol or the customs service over to a foreign government, and we can’t afford to turn our ports over to one either,” Menendez said in a statement.
Iner Souster
Friday, February 17th, 2006
Some wild sculptural instruments from Iner Souster, an artist living in Toronto, Canada. Some sound files and video on the site.
Birdshot Ballistics
Friday, February 17th, 2006
Quicktime video of ballistics test showing that Cheney shot Harry Whittington much closer than the claimed 30 yards.
See also:
Cheney account questioned
Park Fast
Friday, February 17th, 2006
Six U.S. Ports for The United Arab Emirates
Friday, February 17th, 2006Administration Outsources Operations Of Six U.S. Ports To The United Arab Emirates
The Bush administration has outsourced the operation of six of the nation’s largest ports to a company owned by the United Arab Emirates (UAE), a country with troubling ties to international terrorism. The $6.8 billion sale would mean that the state-controlled Dubai Ports World would control “the ports of New York, New Jersey, Baltimore, New Orleans, Miami and Philadelphia.â€
Gonzales Withholding Plame Emails
Thursday, February 16th, 2006
Sources close to the investigation into the leak of covert CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson have revealed this week that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has not turned over emails to the special prosecutor’s office that may incriminate Vice President
Dick Cheney, his aides, and other White House officials who allegedly played an active role in unmasking Plame Wilson’s identity to reporters.
Moreover, these sources said that, in early 2004, Cheney was interviewed by federal prosecutors investigating the Plame Wilson leak and testified that neither he nor any of his senior aides were involved in unmasking her undercover CIA status to reporters and that no one in the vice president’s office had attempted to discredit her husband, a vocal critic of the administration’s pre-war Iraq intelligence. Cheney did not testify under oath or under penalty of perjury when he was interviewed by federal prosecutors.
