{"id":847,"date":"2006-03-20T14:06:52","date_gmt":"2006-03-20T22:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/03\/who_cares_about_the_ports_when_they_already_control_that_perfect_likeness_of_whoopi.html"},"modified":"2006-03-20T14:06:52","modified_gmt":"2006-03-20T22:06:52","slug":"who_cares_about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/03\/who_cares_about.html","title":{"rendered":"Who Cares About The Ports When They Already Control That Perfect Likeness Of Whoopi?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chuck Schumer and Peter King will be bummed to hear that <a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/news\/intelligencer\/16476\/index.html\">sensitive New York landmarks are already compromised<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Dubai Holdings, the state company of Dubai, already owns the Helmsley Building, the Essex House, and Madame Tussauds Wax Museum, which boasts American-as-apple-pie wax renditions of eight presidents\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand self-appointed national conscience George Clooney. Dubai International Capital is the third-largest investor in DaimlerChrysler, and through investments with the Carlyle Group and JPMorgan, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum has dollars and dirhams in a wide range of U.S. companies. Each Dunkin&#8217; Donuts&#8217; coffee, Baskin-Robbins sundae, Hertz car rental, and Alain Ducasse dinner New Yorkers buy makes the sheikh richer.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You may be more concerned that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tnr.com\/blog\/theplank?pid=4324\">the Carlyle Group now owns Dunkin&#8217; Donuts<\/a>, in which case <em>New York Magazine<\/em> buried the lede here . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chuck Schumer and Peter King will be bummed to hear that sensitive New York landmarks are already compromised: Dubai Holdings, the state company of Dubai, already owns the Helmsley Building, the Essex House, and Madame Tussauds Wax Museum, which boasts American-as-apple-pie wax renditions of eight presidents\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand self-appointed national conscience George Clooney. Dubai International Capital is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-makes_jack_bauer_scream_dammit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}