There's nothing to argue about the way business is runn or using their influences and money to promote what a companie or corporation is doing cq. exploiting. I wont always be fair indeed, but when a business becomes big it There's a difference to political agenda's that incorporate their influences for their own benefits. Trust me, most corporations are the least to worry about, but...
Let me give you a runn down of US politics starting with some names, not all;
James Baker III, former United States Secretary of State under George H. W. Bush, Staff member under Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush, Carlyle Senior Counselor
George H. W. Bush, former U.S. President, Senior Advisor to the Carlyle Asia Advisory Board from April 1998 to October 2003.
Frank C. Carlucci, former United States Secretary of Defense from 1987 to 1989, chairman emeritus and currently strategic business advisor
Richard Darman, former Director of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget under George H. W. Bush, Senior Advisor and Managing Director of The Carlyle Group
William Kennard, former chairman of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission, Carlyle's Managing Director in the Telecommunications & Media Group
Arthur Levitt, chairman of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) under President Bill Clinton, Carlyle Senior Advisor
John Major, former British Prime Minister, Chairman, Carlyle Europe until May 2004, and other posts to the present
Frank McKenna, Canadian ambassador (effective March 1, 2005) to the United States, former member of Carlyle's Canadian advisory board
Mack McLarty, President of Kissinger McLarty Associates, Carlyle Senior Advisor
Anand Panyarachun, former premier of Thailand
Fidel Ramos, former president of the Philippines, Carlyle Asia Advisor Board Member until the board was disbanded in February 2004
Park Tae Joon, former prime minister of South Korea
Colin Powell, former United States Secretary of State
Alice Albright, daughter of ex-Secretary of State Madeleine Albright
The Saudi Arabian relatives of Osama bin Laden (not Osama bin Laden himself) were also minor investors in Carlyle until October 2001 when the family sold its $2.02 million investment back to the firm in light of the public controversy surrounding the bin Laden family after September 11.
Not the least of persons, but here's another few, again not all;
Paul Desmarais, Chairman of the Power Corporation of Canada
Arthur Levitt, former chairman of the SEC
Karl Otto Pöhl, former president of the Bundesbank
George Soros, international investor
No minorities either, no ordinary board members as usuall, the people are power players with interesting contacts and influencing a global network of other powerplayers you dont ever hear about....about 550 of take up the board of members...the investors...mostly billionaires and funds...
In case you haven't figured it out, Im talking about the "iron triangle", the military-industrial complex based on capitalism, made possible by the Bush administration called the Carlyle group, a "private" equity investment firm. Founded by 4 attorneys Carlyle employs 240 people, as opposed to the 10 or 12 typical of most private-equity firms. It has ownership stakes in 164 companies, which collectively employ more than 70,000 people. They focus on (1)LBO's/HLT's(bootstraps), companies aquired by debt or borrowed money, mostly ,(2)Venture capital, a vehicle that invests in initialising businesses for a above avarage profit returns, but is at high risk. Mostly the venturing capitalist aims for a three year term to harvest the profit befor a company could go down (20-90% of these ventures go down the drain with investors wondering where all the money wennt to exactly, but it's a vehicle and easy money for powerplayers).(3) real estate and (4) high yield investments, a corporate debt vehicle mostly in the form of bonds that sells when interest rates still create revenue but (for example) the company is still putting people on the street.
People at high ranks with the bush administration and any other republican party from 1989 till now has been affiliated with this NWO. Their only concerns has been to enrich themselves by using their political assets for exploits of carlyle, or set up a situation by political power to create an exploit for one of their ventures with their main interest is "hawking" into aerospace and defense, although they claim it's a very small part of the firm ( take notice that these industries are indeed very small because were talking specialised labs and test facilities which isnt a major industry because their always government related/protected. They're mostly considered terrorists cells when their not government related of course because what they produce are basicaly weapons by one means or another).
The other assets of the company are Automotive, Consumer & Industrial, Energy & Power, Healthcare, Real Estate, Technology & Business Services, Telecommunication & Media, and Transportation. You can include firms/holdings like;
Dr.pepper/Seven up bottling company, Disneyland Europe, Le figaro - French newspaper, Philip Morris (they love this one), Qinetic - recently privatized UK defence company, Voight Aircraft (B1/B2 bomber manufacturing), United Defense - Paladin Gun & Bradley vehicles, magnavox - Radar imagery, DGE - cruise missile maps, magnetek/IT group/ EG&G technical services ( respectivly nuclear, chemical and biological decontamination specialists), Fiat Aerospace - untill recently under state control by the Iatlian military agency.
I can go on with the names but you get the idea, politicians all over the world had or have power over these companies, constructed for a reason that has never served the public but takes more than half of the nations financial deposit. Not even starting on arguments for cutting budgets on social political activities, you pay tax and you deserve health insurrance that anyone can pay for or is covered by when unemplyed. It's not free in our country but it's cheap compared to america and that's not because our doctors are retarded. I would hate it if the reasons of any government was to cut on such basic neccesities for sake of their own PERSONAL wealth via means of war or how bush call it " security and protection"
now the practices;
The IT Group, a company that cleans up hazardous materials and won a very lucrative contract to clean up the Hart Senate Building in Washington, D.C., which had been tainted by anthrax.
I find that rather suspect...well you do the math
George W. Bush, also knows Carlyle well. The group found him a job in February 1990, while his father occupied the White House: administrator for Caterair, a Texas company specialized in aerial catering. The episode does not figure in the president's official biography. When George W. Bush left Caterair in 1994, before becoming Governor of Texas, the company was in bad shape.
This man is you president... He has a record list of companies "he" helped down the drain. But it wasn't his imcompetence that actually killed those companies but the strategy on venture capital marketing to diminish or cut budgets on a firm to raise the liqiudity in order to sell it. This means firing lots of people and probably sell it for a mere profit to an aquinted investor when the product fits within the carlyle's hawkish preferences (defence and all technology applicable to war exploits, defensive or offensive).
In case you're wondering why the fug I'm bugging you with all this is because some of you have tainted image or one sided perspective of your present situation, looking for reason why this country is going down the drain... Every month a reasonable amount of your hard earned money partly goes to finance the exploits of Carlyle industries. The whole war on Iraq is a boost to the fortune of Carlyle, because everything involved through out the process is a service by a company/firm/oem under Carlyle industries. 400.5 billion US dollars, your tax money was spend on this war at a cost of what's to come. Bush had been cutting budgets in a lot of fields to open up account that services in favor of Carlyle, and has continued doing so during the war...again this is your tax money. He asked the parlement to start this war, more clearly, asked for the funding of the operation which was eventualy 400.5 billion dollar. Cuts start in 2004, now if you havent been aware but the US owes China 650 billion US$...do the math...the total currency transactions in the world amounts to US$600 trillion and the USA accounts for 45% of these total currency transactions; and the American share of these US$600 trillion is 40% of this amount. There's a whole story to this but where it comes down to eventualy is that the US also owes 45% of the 600 trillion US$ against a US production capacity of teeny 1% of the huge debt.
So you just gave a great deal of 400.5$ billion into the hands of a private company, Carlyle, under control of the Bush registration....
I think your either getting robbed or leeched here.
Someting more recent, the senior Bush has spearheaded the group's successful entrance into the South Korean market some time ago, paving the way for buyouts of Korea's KorAm Bank and Mercury, a telecommunications equipment company. For the business to be successful, stability between North and South Korea is critical. Now go do the math again...
Eisenhower warned about “the iron triangle”, the euphemism that is employed in a number of different areas. But among the areas that it’s employed is this confluence of business and politics that Eisenhower was talking about when he referred to the military-industrial complex. This is a combination of power and influence that is very dangerous and can result in foreign policy decisions that are based solely on monetary concerns of very few people and this is just what's happening today.
How that for capitalism oak? Nothing personal but this capitalism isnt going nowhere and you're not aware of what's really going on. America's is going down the drain, I mean, Bush can just step up when america's is worthless while his little imperium legally walks away with your money...
