Posted on 03/05/2006 5:16:49 AM PST by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
Sunday, March 5th, 2006
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Michael Brown, former head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency; National Weather Service Director David Johnson.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Pace; former Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C., and former Rep. Jack Kemp, R-N.Y., co-chairmen of the Council on Foreign Relations' task force on U.S. policy toward Russia.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind.; Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine; Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif.; retired Gen. Wesley Clark; comedian Stephen Colbert.
LATE EDITION (CNN) : Gen. James Jones, NATO supreme Allied commander; Iraqi Parliament member Adnan Pachachi.
Hard Data on Port security at link. Thanks to Sandy in Seattle from Tuesday (God was it only last Tuesday seems months ago) Tony Snow Thread.
http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/newsroom/fact_sheets/2004/factsheet_container_security.xml
If any of you happen to come across defeniative word about the the "Scanning means reading the manifest" data would you post it on the Rush Limbaugh or Sunday Threads? Since the statement was reported, the facts are now hazy. Did he mean 100% at the Airports? Could they been talking about the Airports with the Ports seeming to be the next stage under development? Unfortuanely with work so hectic, it is hard to do as much reading as I would like. Been trying to make the people who post stuff DOCUMENT more of it so I can keep it on hand.
Well I can go to bed now. Talk to you all later :-)
It seems to be time to start the COUNTDOWN. It is exactly 26 Hours and 25 minutes until the next episode of "24". It is a special two hours long beginning at 8PM Eastern time. Be there or be square.....
"WHITE HOUSE REPORTER SYNDROME"? Now THAT is just too funny for words! LOL
More here
That would be www.whitehouse.gov, by the way.
If we refuse to let them operate the terminals (9 terminals out of 300 in those east coast ports, BTW) then we still have to deal with them in all of the ports of origin. And they'll be pissed off. And they'll have no "enlightened self interest" on the line to make them want to make the cargoes safe.
thank for the reminder. I would have missed the first hour.
LOL...what would a Sunday Talk Show thread be without the countdown to "24"????
Thank you samantha...I am sure that rodguy would also thank you if he was in town...lol
Actually, I am surprised that eeevil conservative hasn't snuck in and posted it before now....
Of the balance of the containers (those deemed to be outside of the "identified as posing a terrorist risk"), we don't know how many are X-ray and radiation scanned.
This conclusion is at odds with your assertion, "We scan 100% of the containers coming into the US for radiation all ready."
Cargo Container Security - U.S. Customs and Border Protection Reality
(10/20/2004)Myth: Only a small number of the containers that come into the seaports are inspected.
Summary of Reality:
- CBP uses intelligence to screen information on 100% of cargo entering our seaports, and all cargo that presents a risk to our country is inspected using large x-ray and radiation detection equipment.
- Following 9/11, the Administration developed and implemented a smarter strategy to identify, target, and inspect cargo containers before they reach U.S. ports. Anyone can secure a nation by closing its borders and inspect everything and everybody that enters. Closing the borders is not an option.
- None of the security measures implemented as a result of this strategy existed before 9/11.
- The CBP strategy is to rule out potential threats before arrival at our borders and ports. In fact, the security measures now in place allowed us to rule out 94% of the cargo as potential threats prior to arrival. This year, six percent (6 %) of total cargo containers were identified as potential threats and were physically inspected immediately upon arrival. (The percentage will change annually because the inspections are based upon identified risk following intensive screening.) Dramatically increasing physical inspections after arrival is not necessary. It will not appreciably increase our national security. In fact, the type of increase in physical inspections implied by this allegation would cost billions of dollars in resources and cripple not only our economy, but the global economy as well.
Key Facts That Did Not Exist Before 9-11:
http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/newsroom/fact_sheets/2004/factsheet_container_security.xml
- CBP uses intelligence to review information on 100% of all cargo information entering U.S. ports, and all cargo that presents a risk to our country is inspected using large x-ray and radiation detection equipment.
- Following 9/11, under the leadership of President Bush we developed and implemented a smart cargo container security strategy to identify, target, and inspect cargo containers before they reach U.S. ports. Under this strategy:
- All containers, 100%, identified as posing a terrorist risk are inspected using x-ray scans and radiation detection equipment. (i.e. Potential for concealment of terrorist weapons or terrorists.)
- The Administration requires that advance information be given to our border agency, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, about all containers well before they arrive. In fact, the information is required 24 hours before cargo is loaded on to vessels at foreign seaports (24-Hour Rule).
- Containers posing a potential terrorist threat are identified and targeted before they arrive at U.S. seaports by the National Targeting Center (NTC). The NTC was established as the centralized coordination point for all of CBP's anti-terrorism efforts. Prior to 9/11, no national level targeting of people or goods crossing our borders existed.
- NTC uses intelligence and terrorist indicators to review advance information for all cargo, passengers, and imported food shipments before arrival into the U.S.
- NTC coordinates with other federal agencies such as U.S. Coast Guard, Federal Air Marshals, FBI, Transportation Security Administration, and the Departments of Energy and Agriculture, as well as the intelligence community.
- CBP works with our foreign partners to allow U.S. officers working at major international seaports, currently 26, to identify and inspect containers prior to being loaded onto ships destined for the U.S. Container Security Initiative (CSI)
- Under the Administration's leadership, CBP created a public-private and international partnership with over 7,000 businesses, including most of the largest U.S. importers -- the Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT). Under this program, legitimate companies that do regular business with the U.S. have increased their own security to prevent terrorists from infiltrating their shipments. (We check not only the company shipping the goods, but also the companies that provided them with any services.)
- Approximately 40% of all cargo headed for the U.S. is transported by C-TPAT partners and is therefore better secured.
- Additional technology has been added, including Radiation Portal Monitors, Isotope Identifiers, and Personal Radiation Monitors. For the first time CBP has added chemical and explosive detector dogs.
It is a great way to spend an hour or so.
I bet he's in the red sports car, my thang is small club.
Thanks very much for the links to the Katrina on the spot reporting.
Here is something else our Republicans should be looking into - some snips from O'Reilly with DM and NewsMax article by Dick Morris.
snip...Dick Morris,--- " Clinton is a paid agent of the crown prince of Dubai, --" snip... "Bill Clinton is a senior adviser - a paid adviser - to a company called Yucaipa which recently set up a relationship with a group called the Yucaipa Investment group to set up a new company called DIGL," Morris said on "The O'Reilly Factor."
Try to follow those dots!!!!!!
snip..."DIGL Inc. is in charge of managing the investments of the crown prince of Dubai throughout the world. Bill Clinton is paid by Yucaipa a percentage of the profits it makes, and Yucaipa said its profits have exceeded 40 percent in recent years." clinton has also suggested Joe Lockhart as adviser to Dubai. Said he knew the ropes. And we pay for those trips -- also hillary goes to Dubai as a Senator and we have to pay for her. clinton is making millions doing speeches and we pay for it.
Neat way for clinton to pay off hillary and help in her election to the White House.
How about a look at their taxes. Oh yea!! bill bought a home in Ireland - tax right off!!!
LOL!
I watched DAY ONE this week....never saw it before...
working on DAY THREE this weekend....I saw about the first 6 hours of DAY THREE but not the rest.. and none of DAY FOUR...
I started for DAY TWO.... but then life got nutz....and have seen every minute of DAY FIVE now...
I missed FOX NEWS SUNDAY this morning.. church...
gonna watch it coming up in less than 10 minutes....
then back to DAY THREE!
LOL!
laundry piling up here over Kiefer and 24~! LOL!
Well we want to let Rodguy know that we will hold the fort down until he returns. We must also make sure the thread continues it's great talking points for the Conservative Talk Shows, even if some of them are really dumber than dirt right now. Since the freepers on this thread do their homework for them, some of them have become really lazy.
Yep. More from the same source at ...
WH Fact Sheet: The CFIUS Process And The DP World Transaction - 02/22/06
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1584353/posts
If we refuse to let them operate the terminals then we still have to deal with them in all of the ports of origin. And they'll be pissed off. And they'll have no "enlightened self interest" on the line to make them want to make the cargoes safe.
Sure they will have self interest. Just like COSCO, they'll work all the harder to keep their nose clean. This is strictly business, IMO. They'll be disappointed, sure, but not in a way that is wilfully self-destructive. USA is by far the largest desination for the cargo they are paid to handle.
From a couple weeks ago: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1581542/posts?page=988#988
I haven't seen Fox News Sunday either...
I am going to watch it now...then will comment..see ya then!!
And how amazing is it that it is by and large dems who have come out screaming about this.[the ports deal]
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The longshoremen's unions do not want to negotiate a new contract which will inevitably include more mechanization and streamlining of the work, aka fewer hours of work for the union members, aka increased productivity.
This whole brouhaha seems to have started with the Miami unions.
said the spider to the fly.
Enlightened self interest is the only motive I trust. I want to see the "other side" totally enmeshed in "the game" with a positive outcome for them by playing it our way that is better than playing it their way. It's the only way I can trust anyone.
I want there to be Chinese and Muslim and Indian and French BILLIONAIRES who realize that they'll lose it all if they screw us over. So when Osama, Xu, Indira or Philip pipes up about some "great plan" to destroy us those people will know that it is going to screw them over as much as it screws us.
Make a note:
Enlightened self interest
...so the names and faces might have been unfamiliar and those that were there may have been inexperienced, as well as lacking resources because of the graft.
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And our intrepid cable channel news agencies never bothered to mention that such folks existed.
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