Carlyle Group strong candidate for US Ports Purchase

[JCMach1]

Among the strongest contenders for inclusion in the second round of bidding are understood to be the infrastructure fund of Morgan Stanley, the investment bank; Carlyle Group, the private equity group; and Carrix, parent of SSA Marine, a Seattle-based container terminal operator. The shortlist marks the start of the most intense phase of the sale process for the five container terminal operations and other US cargo and passenger-handling businesses. DP World acquired the businesses as part of its takeover this year of the P&O, the UK container terminal... http://www.gulf-news.com/business/Shipping/10063336.html

Now, looks like you could have the bin Laden family owning our ports... or, God knows who...

It's a private equity firm, so they don't have to name their ownership! :grr:

[Human Torch]

1. Another big payday for Poppy Bush...

[mod mom]

9. and the bin Laden family!

:mad:

[flyarm]

2. THIS MAKES ME SO FUCKING SICK..ONE BIN LADEN KILLS MY CO-WORKERS AND

now other bin ladens get to run my states ports...i swear i am going to blow a cork!

f%%$#@ the bushes..f%%#@ them all to hell!

those &^%%$#@# whores!

%$##@$%% %$##@$% suckers!

edit to remove all my cuss words..i am sooo angry!

fly

[The Backlash Cometh]

3. Well, might as well cut out the middle man.

[bklyncowgirl]

4. What a SHOCK! Not. nt

[Deja Q]

5. Like this one?

[sweetheart]

6. What happens when carlyle own everything

Will that be capitalism? Will it be democracy when a shadowy group of retired figures
on telephones rule the world without any oversight or transparency. Is that the new
definition of democracy, that political economy is not political, and that slavery can
be reintroduced if we erase debate by isolating people in to jobs and a social structure
designed to disenfranchise genuine social solidarity.

[JCMach1]

7. Sounds like a description of good ole' USA to me

:(

[UTUSN]

8. Whenever Carlyle is mentioned I remind that a Jimmy CARTER staffer

co-founded it. I've never grokked why he, David RUBENSTEIN, stocked his company with Repukes instead of making money for Dems.

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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3994.htm

.... In a column posted yesterday on Salon.com, Joe Conason writes: "Preferring to avoid public scrutiny for obvious reasons, executives at the Carlyle Group usually say nothing about their firm's connections with the Bush dynasty. But last April 23, Carlyle managing director David Rubenstein spoke quite frankly about the comfy sinecure he provided to George W. Bush more than a decade ago -- and how useless Bush turned out to be. Whether he knew it or not, Rubenstein's remarks to the Los Angeles County Employees Retirement Association were recorded."

Rubenstein said, "We put (Bush) on the board and (he) spent three years. Came to all the meetings. Told a lot of jokes. Not that many clean ones. And after a while I kind of said to him, after about three years - you know, I'm not sure this is really for you. Maybe you should do something else. Because I don't think you're adding that much value to the board. You don't know that much about the company.

Rubenstein continued: "He said, 'Well, I think I'm getting out of this business anyway. And I don't really like it that much. So I'm probably going to resign from the board.' And I said, thanks - didn't think I'd ever see him again. His name is George W. Bush. He became President of the United States. So you know if you said to me, name 25 million people who would maybe be President of the United States, he wouldn't have been in that category. So you never know. Anyway, I haven't been invited to the White House for any things." ....

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[Joanne98]

10. GRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!

[helderheid]

11. Who and What is the Carlyle Group? VIDEO

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/helderheid/8

Broadband
http://cgi.omroep.nl/cgi-bin/streams?/tv/vpro/tegenlicht/bb.20030516.rm

Dial Up
http://cgi.omroep.nl/cgi-bin/streams?/tv/vpro/tegenlicht/sb.20030516.rm

Must have Real Player.

(short intro in Dutch - the rest is English)

It is close to an hour long (I think it's DU required viewing)

[stubtoe]

13. Thank You!

Bookmarking for later perusement (dialup)

[helderheid]

17. It is WELL worth it!!! :)

[blm]

12. Carlyle fronting for UAE - Just another way to get the Dubai folks in.

.

[earthboundmisfit]

22. I agree. This was why Dubai supposedly "backed down",

backed off so relatively easy with the deal - the fix was already in place for Carlyle to take care of it - no fuss, no muss...

[donsu]

14. kicking cause Carlyle is the neo con bushmilhousegang

poppy's plastic face is in the middle of it

[Marie26]

15. I'm shocked, shocked.

Dubai is, of course, a major investor in the Carlyle Group.

CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice over): The oil-rich United Arab Emirates is a major investor in The Carlyle Group, the private equity investment firm where President Bush’s father once served as senior adviser and is a who’s who of former high-level government officials. Just last year, Dubai International Capital, a government-backed buyout firm, invested in an $8 billion Carlyle fund.

http://www.correntewire.com/bush_family_dubai_ports_world_and_the_carlyle_group_more_incest_than_a_village_in_appalachia

[Not_Giving_Up]

16. I'm sending this to MSM...Maybe they'll get fired up and cover it

I can hope.

[helderheid]

18. KO

[Not_Giving_Up]

19. Absolutely!

I hit them all...I don't have cable in my new place yet, so I won't see it, but I'm hoping they'll cover it!

[helderheid]

20. Thank you NGU!

[jackstraw45]

21. Hah hah hah..good one...Corporate media "get fired up and cover it"

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Patsy Stone]

23. They were my second guess

My first was Halliburton.

:mad: