Heads Up! QWEST Communications Connected to the Carlyle Group!

[radio4progressives]

Thinking about dumping AT&T, SBC, Verizon et al? Go for it, but don't turn to Qwest! It's owned by the Carlyle Group and every good Democratic activist should know who that is!

Tip of the Hat to Mike Malloy, by the way who mentioned this heretofore unreported story in the first hour of his program broadcast last night.. and more!

Mike Malloy program in reference is archived here:
http://www.whiterosesociety.org/Malloy.html (05/13/06)

On QWEST and Carlyle Group, go to this link:

http://linkthing.com/screed/carlyle_group_cluster.html

then scroll down about half in the page to find this:

An overlooked story makes more sense now: The Carlyle Group and Welsh Carson Close Qwest Dex East Deal Formerly thought to be benign, this transaction provides Carlyle with personal and business data profitable for re-selling to Poindexter's Total Information Awareness System "The Carlyle Group and Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe today closed the first part - Dex East - of their purchase of Qwest Communications' yellow page directories business."...

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Happy Reading!


on edit: Changed the subject heading due to error mentioned below..