The tag 'Carlyle Group' is associated with 36 posts.

FTR #744 The Shape of Things to Come

Pan­ul­ti­mate exam­ple of “off­shore,” the seasted­ding move­ment sees “free­dom and democ­racy” as incom­pat­i­ble. Those left on shore must accept dis­so­lu­tion of pri­vacy, free­dom and, yes, democ­racy. Hedge fund man­agers buy­ing up all arable land in antic­i­pa­tion of eco­nomic and social armageddon.

“Somewhere . . . Beyond the Sea . . . ” (Apologies to Bobby Darin)

COMMENT: Some very scary peo­ple, includ­ing extreme right-wingers asso­ci­ated with Face­book, as well as Car­lyle Group alumni, have been back­ing the con­cept of estab­lish­ing enor­mous, float­ing “Utopia” lin­ers as seago­ing liv­ing and recre­ational enclaves for the ultra-rich.
Pro­filed in FTR #718, Face­book finan­cial backer Peter Thiel is a major backer of this under­tak­ing. Along with associates, [...]

FTR #722 The “9/11 Mosque” Tea Party and its Multiple Mad Hatters

“9/11 Mosque” Imam no mod­er­ate; sec­ond gen­er­a­tion Mus­lim Broth­er­hood, his for­eign lan­guage pro­nounce­ments and actions belie his “mod­er­a­tion;” Sup­port­ers and oppo­nents ignore pro­found ties between their “side” and what they oppose.

Bush, Bin Laden Families Linked To Funding of Ground Zero Mosque

Com­ment: Con­ser­v­a­tive com­men­ta­tor Pamela Geller has researched the fund­ing appa­ra­tus behind the con­tro­ver­sial “Ground Zero Mosque” project in New York City–the build­ing of a Mosque and Islamic activ­i­ties cen­ter two blocks from the site of the World Trade Cen­ter.
It turns out that the fam­ily and milieu of Abdul­lah Alireza are involved with the insti­tu­tions working [...]

FTR #699 Miscellaneous Articles and Updates

Anti-Semitic GOP big­wig shep­herd­ing Sarah Palin around Wash­ing­ton; McVeigh men­tor work­ing with Alaskan seces­sion­ists; Ger­many doesn’t like US cozi­ness with China and Under­ground Reich ele­ments work­ing to sub­vert that rela­tion­ship; British fas­cist rep­re­sents EU Par­lia­ment at Copen­hagen talks.

Axis of Evil (Carlyle’s Way)

For the Record #347
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Cen­tral to the dis­cus­sion in this broad­cast is the Car­lyle Group. One of the most suc­cess­ful invest­ment firms in the world, Car­lyle is an orga­ni­za­tion that cements the Bush fam­ily, key offi­cials from the Rea­gan and George H.W. Bush admin­is­tra­tions to the “Petrodol­lar” milieu of which the Bin Laden [...]

FTR #658 Update on the Meltdown

Wal­ter Ben­jamin: With the upheaval of the mar­ket econ­omy, we begin to rec­og­nize the mon­u­ments of the bour­geoisie as ruins, even before they have crumbled.

FTR #656 The Obama File, Part III: Badjacketing Obama, Part 2, The Headscarf Incident

Exam­in­ing the “head­scarf inci­dent” and Mus­lim Broth­er­hood ele­ments in the United States.

FTR #655 The Obama File, Part II: Badjacketing Obama

We should be mind­ful of the polit­i­cal and psy­cho­log­i­cal war­fare strat­a­gems that were used to smear Obama.

FTR #632 Update on September 11 and Related Matters

Cyndi Shee­han aids Mus­lim Broth­er­hood; Grover Norquist’s con­ver­sion to Islam; dis­in­te­gra­tion of the United States helped by chil­dren of SS officers.

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