When is Globalization not acceptable?

[scotsboy]

It seems that Globalization has gone a step too far in the USA with many questioning the decision to permit the sale of six US ports to Dubai based DP World.

I had some spare time today whilst waiting for a flight and watched with incredulity the news from the USA – can’t remember if it was Fox, NBC or whatever but they had a string of people on decrying the deal as if it was somehow a threat to their whole existence.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060220/pl_afp/uaeusbritainattacks_060220133157

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/3671219.html

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/ny-usport20,0,260189.story?coll=ny-top-headlines

http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=407109&in_page_id=2&ct=5

Found it quite entertaining really:)

[canuck]

Scotsboy thank you for including us in your findings.

I checked out CNN and the reports are that the governmental heavy weights in American security are supporting the decision to allow non-American security at the 6 ports in question.

I hope that you had a good flight to where ever you were headed.

[scorrie]

It seems that Globalization has gone a step too far in the USA with many questioning the decision to permit the sale of six US ports to Dubai based DP World.

I had some spare time today whilst waiting for a flight and watched with incredulity the news from the USA – can’t remember if it was Fox, NBC or whatever but they had a string of people on decrying the deal as if it was somehow a threat to their whole existence.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060220/pl_afp/uaeusbritainattacks_060220133157

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/3671219.html

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/ny-usport20,0,260189.story?coll=ny-top-headlines

http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=407109&in_page_id=2&ct=5

Found it quite entertaining really:)

It seems like this is a bit of a heavy subject for the punters Scotsboy. If ye hevna got e local gossip or hevna seen Polis cars dartin doon Cider Alley, then yeel nae get many takers.

By the way, the post about every window being smashed in Kennedy was cobblers. There are three windows out and they have been like that for many months. Sounds like the "Listeners" need to get a new aerial for their scanners ;o)

Reporter Jen Duff for News at Ten

[JAWS]

We should snigger. As I understand it, without checking through scotsboys links, a Company in Dubai took control of a large British Company and as a result also got the British Firm's contracts with the American Ports.

I'm not sure which British Company is now a Dubai Company except it a bit bigger than a corner shop!

[scotsboy]

Its kinda like in the old days if Danny Craig took over all ice cream distribution in Wick - how could the weekers trust ice cream supplied from Thirsa?

[fred]

It seems that Globalization has gone a step too far in the USA with many questioning the decision to permit the sale of six US ports to Dubai based DP World.


Where will it end :-)

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11473937/site/newsweek/from/RSS/

[canuck]

It seems that Globalization has gone a step too far in the USA with many questioning the decision to permit the sale of six US ports to Dubai based DP World.

I had some spare time today whilst waiting for a flight and watched with incredulity the news from the USA – can’t remember if it was Fox, NBC or whatever but they had a string of people on decrying the deal as if it was somehow a threat to their whole existence.:)


There is something going on with this. It continues to be a very hot topic on the American channels. The news on the street in Toronto, well at least the halls of the political science department at York University, is that there is much more to this story than is meeting the eye.

As to American security, I cannot imagine that it will be allowed to be loosened in any way at the ports in question. When the security code goes up a notch it can take 4 hours for us to cross the border into Buffalo just to get some wings.

[sassylass]

The more I read about this, the more confused I get. Pity there seems to be no honest person who can tell the whole truth, in laymans terms, so us ordinary folk can understand what the heck it's all about.

[wickerinca]

The more I read about this, the more confused I get. Pity there seems to be no honest person who can tell the whole truth, in laymans terms, so us ordinary folk can understand what the heck it's all about.

Sometimes don't think that they want us to understand[para]

[crashbandicoot1979]

If they never objected to the British company owning it, why are they worried about the Arab company owning it? Yes, Arabs were responsible for the the biggest terrorist attack in America, but who was responsible for the second biggest terrorist attack? An American from Oklahoma. So if all Arabs are terrorist, therefore everyone from Oklahoma is a terrorist. Am I right??

[fred]

If they never objected to the British company owning it, why are they worried about the Arab company owning it? Yes, Arabs were responsible for the the biggest terrorist attack in America, but who was responsible for the second biggest terrorist attack? An American from Oklahoma. So if all Arabs are terrorist, therefore everyone from Oklahoma is a terrorist. Am I right??

Yes you are right but unfortunately for Bush his propaganda machine did a very good job of persuading the American public that you are wrong so they wouldn't mind him invading Iraq.

[landmarker]

I find it heartening that many of the movers and shakers in America are reluctant to yield ownership of some of their most important ports to Arabs from the middle-east. The same direction from whence others came calling four and a half years ago.

In Britain the only question would be 'how much'

You dont know what you've got 'til it's gone is an old saying, and very, very true.

[canuck]

You dont know what you've got 'til it's gone is an old saying, and very, very true.

I am wondering if it really is "going to be gone." With a lot of powerful Americans heavily invested in Arab oil interests, is it possible that the company in question, DP World, is not substantially owned by Americans in the first place? The proposal concerning the sale seemed to clear the process of checks and balances so very quickly that I cannot help but wonder if the people in positions of power didn't know more about the real ownership of the company than we know.

I am only guessing and my guesses are often way off the mark. After all it was my theory that Dr.Szin was really the new owner of the Cincinatti Reds.

[fred]

I am only guessing and my guesses are often way off the mark. After all it was my theory that Dr.Szin was really the new owner of the Cincinatti Reds.

It's a state owned company, the state being the United Arab Emirates.

[JAWS]

Say bye bye to the Owners of the Orkney Ferry. I wonder if the service will get better or worse?