Abu 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...
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