Um, 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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