A Plea to GOP Congresspeople Before Tuesday
To Republicans in Congress: This may be a little anticipatory, but I thought I'd make a gesture and ask all of you, before the election, to make a pledge to work with the Democrats over the next two...
View ArticleSibel Edmonds: Hijacking of a Nation. The Foreign Agent Factor
In this op-ed (below), Sibel describes how the US government has been hijacked by foreign agents and their enablers, ex-congressmen and 'dime-a-dozen generals' in the lobbying industry. She discusses...
View ArticleCarlyle Group
Honestly, I just did not know how to "tag" this story. It requires knowledge about a lot of history, clicking a lot of news links about corporate and government activities, and going well back into...
View ArticleSuspicious Carlyle Group Purchase
Given the history of the Carlyle Group and the people directing this organization, I found it worrisome to see the following headline on Yahoo this morning:Carlyle group bids $5.5 bln for Taiwan's ASE...
View ArticleThe James Baker/Saudi "quid pro quo"?
A lot has been made about James Baker, the Iraq Study Group report as well as the Saudi threat that it may start to fund the Sunnis if the US leaves Iraq. However, a comment that Maccabee made in his...
View ArticleISG: Milo Minderbinder strikes again
Fans of the novel Catch-22 recognize the character Milo Minderbinder as the one who specialized in the black market in illegal goods of World War II; trading goods amorally, with the "enemy" and allies...
View ArticleBush\Walker Families=Treason+war profiteering
This legacy is a long one and continues to this day. For a full accounting of thier WWII activities do a google with the key words: bush+walker+hitler+tarpley. If you have not read Mr. Tarpley`s...
View ArticleRico to the Rescue!
As 2006 ends and 2007 begins, each of us must not only make the traditional resolutions, but resolve that we have had enough (remember our cry during the election), that we are not going to take it...
View ArticleFor the love of GOD, make it stop!
IMPEACH AND REMOVE BUSH AND CHENEYStart it NOW.Before the TERRORIST ATTACK that they are waiting for, and willing to LET HAPPEN, so they can exploit it to start a war with Iran.Before ONE MORE DAY...
View ArticleBill Frist and brother stole millions of U.S.
dollars? Andrew Card and some guy named Snow along with the Carlyle Group are abusing federal trust and profiteering from those monies? Karen Hughes stops an equipment shipment to Iran and that is too...
View ArticleWar Profiteers, Carlyle Group, wanting to buy Virgin Media
It's being reported in today's New York Times that The Carlyle Group is in discussions with Virgin Media, the British cable company whose largest investor is Richard Branson, over a potential bid...
View ArticleBush about to drown NASA, EPA, Forest Service in the bathtub
Grover Norquist will be one step closer to his wet dream come October 27, 2007. This is the date by which all entities in the executive branch are required to issue uniform, government-wide form of...
View ArticleCarlyle Group losing boatloads of money
You might remember the Carlyle Group. They are the ones with political connections to both the Bush Family and the House of Saud. Well it seems that the Real Estate Bust has caught them with their...
View ArticleRoger J Stone Writes Another Chapter of GOP Sleaze
The NY Times reports tonight what might seem to be just a nasty piece of insider NY State politics: An anonymous phone call, made to Bernard Spitzer, father of former NY Attorney General and now...
View ArticleThoughts on 9/11
I just don't understand the trend behind "remembering 9/11". It just seems more like a cottage industry to me, a Hallmark holiday if you will. Americans are famous for falling for bullshit...
View ArticleAbu Dhabi Buys Piece of Carlyle
The investment arm of the government of Abu Dhabi has purchased a 7.5% interest in the Carlyle Group, the investment arm of the Bush Crime Family (TM). Perhaps replacing the investments fromerly held...
View ArticleHer Mom Died with Sores Infected By Feces
More news from the country -- America -- where health care and profiteering are colliding, with increasingly disastrous consequences. This time its the takeover of nursing homes for the elderly by...
View ArticleWhat is the Jan. 2009 exit strategy?
I'm not talking about getting out of Iraq...The Bush mafia have barricaded themselves behind the walls of the White House defying any attempts to penetrate those iron gates. Congress cannot enforce...
View ArticleBill: A vote for Hillary is a vote for Bush
Sounds outrageous right?Well that was what I thought until I read a report of Bill Clinton's statements tonight in South Carolina that his wife's "number one priority" includes plans to employ George...
View ArticleThe Case of the Disappearing Habeas
The AP reports that the Carlyle Group, a private equity firm that includes George H.W. Bush, has purchased at auction the Magna Carta:Bearing the seal of King Edward I and dated 1297, it is one of 17...
View ArticleCarlyle Group buys the Magna Carta. No... really.
This seems like news from the Onion: the Carlyle Group BUYS the friggin Magna Carta.But it's not. A 710-year-old copy of the declaration of human rights known as the Magna Carta — the version that...
View ArticleBill Clinton's $20 Million Pay Off
Bill Clinton is working to unwind himself from Yucaipa partnerships in which he is a principal, largely in order to distance himself from the Dubai government which also is a principal in one of these...
View ArticleSubprime's Latest Casualty: The Carlyle Fund
Carlyle Capital, the mortgage debt investment fund of the Carlyle Group (where Bush Sr. and James Baker were top advisers and presumably still large shareholders) is getting hammered by margin calls....
View ArticleFed Bail out of Carlyle Capital Fails, Assets Seized, Updated
Updated: Carlyle Capital's assets were seized by lenders.The Federal Reserve's latest action to deal with the subprime credit crisis temporarily bailed out Carlyle Capital a member of the Carlyle...
View ArticleCarlyle Expects Banks to Seize Assets
NEW YORK (AP) -- Carlyle Capital Corp. said late Wednesday it expects its creditors to seize all of the fund's remaining assets after unsuccessful negotiations to prevent its liquidation.
View ArticleLooting the national treasury--or sucking at the public teat
Once upon a time, before the advent of universal suffrage, consumer rights, government in the sunshine and the Freedom of Information Acts, the primary task of public officials was to dole out public...
View ArticleUS, UK Built "Replica" Iraqi DirtyBomb and Germ Labs Pre-War
2002 Death of Long-Time Associate of Dr. David Kelly Raises New QuestionsThe UK Guardian revealed Monday that the US and Britain jointly ran a highly secret program to build radiological "Dirty Bombs"....
View ArticleGet Osama Bin Laden June 2008 - It’s all good now!
Good on you son, get that bad man and fix all your sins before you waltz into that sunset. Everything will be peaches and cream if you can just get that one bad man, your legacy assured.All the broken...
View ArticleRezko/RNC/Bush/McCain/Rove - What Republicans don't want you to know
This is my first installment of research for our diarist clammyc. I had emailed this wonderful diarist when he posted asking for volunteers to lend research to his "hopefully" ongoing .series"It's...
View ArticleBruce Ivins: A Dead Scientist and The Great Anthrax Vaccine Monopoly
How BioPort (with Ivin's help) Grabbed a a Billion Dollar Monopoly on Anthrax Vaccine There's an important, unnoticed backstory in the death of Bruce Ivins, the biotoxins scientist who is now blaimed...
View ArticleBREAKING: Al Qaeda To Apply For Bailout.
Citing the recent drop in the price of crude oil, its resulting impact on revenue to the Bin Laden family, and the general reversal of fortunes of the organization relative to the United States after...
View ArticleFormer CIA Director William Webster Wants the Truth Buried
On Friday, September 18th, a letter was written to our current president, signed by no less than seven former directors of the Central Intelligence Agency, asking him to halt the investigation into the...
View ArticleObama dines with Carlyle Group (and other shady characters)
I had read that there was a lot of jockeying for attendance with the new world powerhouse China this week, and wondered who Obama loved the most to give an invite to.Here's the list of the CEO...
View ArticleSEC Probing Goldman Sachs, Others, for Possible Bribery Violations.
It looks like the Arab Spring uprising in Libya may lead to Goldman Sachs and others having some major problems. The focus on Libya has brought to light some very odd investment transactions between...
View ArticleLibya, a tasty bite for predatory banks?
If I understand this report in Le Monde correctly, it seems Gaddafi and favorite son, Saif Al-Islam, got suckered by "the three tenors," Stephen Schwarzman (Blackstone), Frank Carlucci (Carlyle) and...
View ArticleUm, Who Owns the Mubadala Development Company?
There is a rather large corporation, Booz Allen Hamilton:Booz Allen, which employs 24,500, had a net profit of $219 million on revenue of nearly $5.8 billion for the fiscal year ended March 31. For the...
View ArticleEnviva's North Carolina Forest Onslaught
Enviva LP—a 2010 acquisition by the $20 billion private equity fund, Riverstone Holdings, LLC and the Carlyle Group—is in the business of harvesting and grinding trees for foreign wood pellet...
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Can we finally—finally!—be done with the Bushes?
The imbroglio over former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's emails has conservatives unsheathing their knives from the scabbards. Politico compared the Democratic frontrunner to Richard Nixon,...
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Jeb Bush Funneled Almost $2 Billion in FL Pension Funds to Brother's...
(illustration by DonkeyHotey)From the International Business Times:While Jeb Bush was governor of Florida, state pension officials committed at least $1.7 billion to financial firms whose...
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The 2015 Ramadi Government Center attack. What is going on over there?
In Ramadi, Iraq, last week a force of some 200 ISIS fighters carried out a successful suicide-based attack on the Government Center building. A chain of cars drove in and blasted check points and...
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The Economist: "Caliphate Strikes Back." The Coalition corrects Iraq map,...
The Economist tries to get it right. The center of Ramadi is indeed under ISIS control.That's "ISIS" as an acronym for Islamic State Is Shxt.What matters most in Iraq goes to three things:-- The Sunnis...
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Is ISIS Disintegrating ???
Word out of Iraq from yesterday is quite different the what I see in the morning war coverage out of MSM/corporate media.-- Over in Iraq the coalition has set up two large-scale victories in the...
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UPDATE: CENTCOM watched 30 ISIS truck bombs roll on Ramadi and did nothing....
See evil. This goes to May 14th when the U.S. military does surveillance and gets all the proper details: how many truck bombs, how many ISIS fighters came in, how many guns. How the attacks formed...
View ArticleCentral Command (CENTCOM) before they knew Ramadi had fallen to ISIS
Ramadi fell to ISIS in a battle that ran from early May 14th through into the 15th. Americans from the Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter down to talk radio meth heads blamed the Iraqi soldiers: "I...
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War in Syria and Iraq: Check CENTCOM's event logs for May and the U.S. is...
Summary:According to U.S. Central Command logs, we are making fewer airstrikes during a whole month today than we did every day in 2003 during the effort to remove Saddam Hussein. Compared to current...
View ArticleSpeaking in the 'Shadows' for a Fee
For a politician who speaks defiantly of the need to “Regulate the Shadow Bankers" and their shady investment instruments, Hillary Clinton sure has spent a lot of time there -- IN THE SHADOWS -- of...
View ArticleWilbur Ross calls Syrian airstrikes "after dinner entertainment" that "cost...
Speaking at the Milken Institute Global Conference on Monday, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross recalled the scene at Mar-a-Lago on April 6, when the summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping was...
View ArticleMedicare for All should be free of profit takers.
It’s the best of times and the worst of times for the advocates of national single payer health care in the United States. So good because the vast majority in the US have embraced the concept of...
View ArticleGlenn Youngkin's Carlyle Group Bought Sedgwick, Infamous Employee Disability...
While Glenn Youngkin was COO of the Carlyle Group the firm made many purchases. Real estate, energy, technology, basically anything a vulture private equity firm could get its hands on. One of those...
View ArticlePres. Biden celebrates Thanksgiving at estate of billionaire David Rubenstein
President Joe Biden spent Thanksgiving at the estate of billionaire David Rubenstein, a co-founder of the controversial Carlyle Group. I do not understand why President Biden would do something like...
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