How much money does the Bush family have invested in the O&P company that wants to run the U.S. Ports?
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While they have some investment in mideast corporations they are not invested in that particual corporation.
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I am Soooooooo glad this is happening.  Republicans are going to have to worry about what theiCONSTITUENTSTS want - we are going into the mid terms and Bush has placed them in an impossible bind.  They will have to override Bushes veto and end his leadership of the party.   How could Bush have gotten this so wrong? \n\nMy guess is that Bush, who likes to hold hands with princes from the Arab Emirates,( check out the footage of him walking and holding hands with Prince Bandar  ), has more vested interests in the financial dealings with Gulf Coast Arab nations - than his own country. \n\nThe Bushes are also  good friends of the Bin Laudens too.\n\nThis is not going down well.  I don't honestly know if this is really a security concern, but Dubai has two of the hijackers, if laundered the money for the 9/11 attack and REFUSED US invetigators access to financial records.\n\nThis port deal has a bad feel to it.  A 62-2 vote in Congress passed to block this Dubai port deal. The acquisition of any leases, transfer is prohibited\nand attached to a bill the president wil find hard to veto. \n\nWith the President's poll levels at their lowest, its time for Republican congressmen to distance themselves.\n\nThis action by the appropriations committes is VETO proof. \nWhat options does the White House have?
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Might as well Bush double talked that Port deal. Said it was off and a Year later the Same Corporation owns most US shipping.\n\nWe gave China most of Americas homes and land. Credit Card Wallmart debt is secured by peoples house value. China owns the debt China owns the mortgage.\n\nWe should sell the Army while we are at it. All those men in Iraq could drive over to Saudi Arabia and become the Saudi oil security force.\n\nGo big Red Go
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The U.S. wants control of Iraq's oil. And they don't care what it costs to get it. And their(the administration's) friends and family are making money from this war.
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They say at the start of vacation season. $100.00 Dollars a barrel is their goal. I have heard though that was a farce too, since they move it by the tanker. I saw that on the news..
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Houston will add another publicly traded energy company to its roster later this year, when Roswell, N.M.-based Hondo Oil & Gas moves its corporate headquarters here. \n\nThis latest corporate relocation, however, isn't likely to excite the Houston housing market too much. \n\nOnly one Hondo employee -- C.B. McDaniel, company secretary and counsel -- will be moving from New Mexico to Houston. The corporate office eventually will house four workers. \n\nThe company's president and chief executive, John Hoey, won't be moving here. He'll continue to live in Pennsylvania. \n\nStill, Paul Hayes, an analyst with Oppenheimer & Co., said the move only makes sense. "Roswell is not exactly the transportation center of the Western Hemisphere." \n\nWith revenues of only $44,000 in fiscal 1995, Hondo Oil & Gas has never exactly been a blue chip stock. \n\nBut the chairman of this oil and gas producer is Robert O. Anderson, the former chairman of Atlantic Richfield Co. and a legend in the Oil Patch. \n\nAnd the company became the talk of the industry when it sold off all its other oil and gas assets and bet the ranch on one investment, development of the Opon gas field in Colombia. \n\nThe partners in the project, led by Chicago-based Amoco Corp., planned to build a $59 million pipeline and sell 80 million cubic feet of gas a day to Ecopetrol, Colombia's state-owned oil company. \n\nImpressed by the field's prospects and by the Anderson mystique, investors pushed up Hondo shares to a high of 241/8 in August. \n\n"This was a good project," McDaniel said. "It made sense." \n\nBut then the Colombian government changed the terms of the deal, insisting on a lower gas price ceiling and less-favorable pipeline tariff terms. \n\nSuddenly, the whole project was in jeopardy. Last week, Hondo's stock plunged to a low of 9¼. \n\nUnder the current terms, "we would think it probably would not go forward," McDaniel said. "We don't know at the moment." \n\nBy Wednesday, the company's stock had rebounded to 107/8 on word that London-based Lonrho PLC, the company's chief creditor, had completed its plan to gain control over 77 percent of Hondo Oil & Gas voting stock. \n\nAnderson will stay on as chairman of the company, though he and his family will retain only a minority stake.
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They are not. UAE is not taking over port management.  Dubai Ports World a company based out of UAE is taking over ports management. P&O based out of Britain(Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation) was managing the ports. P&O was bought by Dubai Ports World.
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ABout $133 million each
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Can't you just buy some women with the millions of American oil dollars you have? Or is it all tied up in building another resort in the ocean?
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I do not agree with it. I think that the President's friends have investments over there and they think that they should use the US army to defend their investments. (Oil)
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Obviously Bush is using his power to line the pockets of his corporate buddies.  It’s no accident that when many businesses are struggling to stay alive, General Electric, Microsoft, and Exxon (a subsidiary of Brown and Root which is a subsidiary of Halliburton) are the three largest money making companies in the country reporting record profits.  The executives of all of these companies have close affiliations with the Republican Party and love Bush.\n\nConsidering much of General Electric’s and Halliburton’s profits are coming from non-competitive over inflated government contracts, they’re making billions off tax dollars.\n\nEnron would have been right up there with them if “Kenny Boy” hadn’t gotten caught with his hand in the till.
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Dubai, one of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is not buying out US ports.   The ports operation will be run by a company based in Dubai.  The company currently running the ports P&O ( Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co )is a London based company that has recently been acquired by Dubai Ports World, the UAE company. \n\nThe purchase and takeover of the contract to run the ports has been approved by a US government agency that investigates security risks of outside control of US companies.  The U.S. Committee on Foreign Investment, the agency, found no security risks.  \n\nThe company will just manage the ports, it will still keep the same workers, the same managers and the same equiptment.  It will hire the same longshoremen - the guys who unload the boats and it will keep American paychecks in America.  \n\nI have linked below to an article about the sale of P&O to DP World as well as links to the companies' web sites. \n\nRemember too that ports deal with international cargo - most everything domestic is moved by truck- and that international companies are involved in international commerce.   The US produces airplanes for the Chinese and UAE,  Mexico assembles a lot of toilets used in the US.  We are truly a global economy.  When the deal finalizes it will be a UAE company running these US ports as opposed to a UK company as it was last week.
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Sounds like a plan. People here do need to get involved in this. The country is in total chaos right now, over so many things: Irag, immigration, oil, deficits, educations, etc. \n\n6 years, hundreds of biliion dollars, millions of illegal immigrants, $3:50/ gallon later, Bush is still an idiot. Selling the country out!
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Whoever owns Halliburton.
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Yes, they own property. The below is taken from the company's 10K report dated FY ending 10/31/2005, filed 3/2006\n\nITEM 2. PROPERTIES \n       The Company has corporate, subsidiary, regional, branch or district offices in over 240 locations throughout the United States and in British Columbia, Canada. Thirteen of these facilities are owned by the Company. At October 31, 2005, the real estate owned by the Company had an aggregate net book value of $2.7 million and was located in: Phoenix, Arizona; Fresno, California; Jacksonville and Tampa, Florida; Portland, Oregon; Houston and San Antonio, Texas; and Kennewick, Seattle, Spokane and Tacoma, Washington. \nRental payments under long and short-term lease agreements amounted to $97.3 million for the fiscal year ended October 31, 2005. Of this amount, $63.7 million in rental expense was attributable to public parking lots and garages leased and operated by Parking. The remaining expense was for the rental or lease of office space, computers, operating equipment and motor vehicles.
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Um..they're members of the Bush family. They're all fucked up.
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The company in Dubai that wanted to buy the ports from Great Britain own ports around the world. They are a reputable company, and I am sure it all boiled down to the all mighty dollar, or pound sterling as the case may be. You have to remember that it was not the government of Great Britain selling the ports, but a company based in Great Britain. I am sure we have many corporations and business in America that do business that the government would not approve of.