The Carlyle Connection (Shuchen Tan, VPRO Backlight 2003) Ublad: Amerikaans bedrijf investeert fors in studenten kamers. Carlyle exploiteert al een studentenflat in Luik en heeft in Den Haag het Van Limburg Stirum Huis aangekocht.
Het pand, nu een zorginstelling, wordt in 2012 omgebouwd tot studentenflat met 250 kamers. Het bedrijf wil in Nederland en België ruim twintig flats neerzetten of verbouwen. De gemeubileerde kamers worden vanaf 95 euro per week verhuurd, desgewenst ook aan uitwisselingsstudenten, als de vaste bewoners met vakantie zijn. Ublad: Amerikaans bedrijf investeert fors in studenten kamers. Van Limburg Stirumstraat 30 2515 PG Den Haag. Scienceguide: Romney geen HO vriend. 13 augustus 2012 - Wat gaat een president Romney doen in het HO-beleid?
Zijn nieuwe 'veep' Paul Ryan wil eigenlijk alle grote publieke diensten via vouchers privatiseren en zo belastingen verlagen. Zelf heeft Romney nog een 'dirty little secret' in het HO-beleid. Mitt Romney zet zich graag tegenover Barack Obama als succesvol zakenman en gouverneur tegenover een buurtopbouwwerker en professor staatsrecht. Governor Romney was inderdaad een opmerkelijk fenomeen: een Mormoons Republikein die won in de staat van de Iers-katholieke Kennedy-clan der Democrats. Bush special envoy embroiled in controversy over Iraq debt.
President Bush's special envoy, James Baker, who has been trying to persuade the world to forgive Iraq's crushing debts, is simultaneously working for a commercial concern that is trying to recover money from Iraq, according to confidential documents.
Mr Baker's Carlyle Group is in a consortium secretly proposing to try to collect $27bn (£15bn) on behalf of Kuwait, one of Iraq's biggest creditors, by using high-level political influence. It claims Mr Baker will not benefit personally, but the consortium could make millions in fees, retainers and commission as a result. Other countries, including Britain, have been urged by Mr Baker to relieve the new Iraq regime of its $200bn debt burden. Iraq owes Britain approximately $1bn.
Naomi Klein: The Manchurian cover-up. Less than 24 hours after it was disclosed that former secretary of state James Baker and the Carlyle Group were involved in a secret deal to profit from Iraq's debt to Kuwait, NBC was reporting that the deal was "dead".
At The Nation magazine, which broke the story that was then carried on these pages, we started to get congratulatory calls. They were commending us for costing the Carlyle Group $1bn, the sum the company would have received in an investment from the government of Kuwait in exchange for helping to extract $27bn of unpaid debts from Iraq. We were flattered (sort of), until we realised that Carlyle had just pulled off a major PR coup. When the story broke, the notoriously secretive merchant bank needed to find a way to avoid a full-blown political scandal.
Naomi Klein: Big Oil's Iraq deals are the greatest stick-up in history. In the column below we stated that Dr Fadhil Chalabi met with oil companies before the invasion of Iraq.
This assertion was based on exchanges during an interview given by Dr Chalabi on the US radio programme To The Point, broadcast on June 24. Cheney is still paid by Pentagon contractor. Halliburton, the Texas company which has been awarded the Pentagon's contract to put out potential oil-field fires in Iraq and which is bidding for postwar construction contracts, is still making annual payments to its former chief executive, the vice-president Dick Cheney.
The payments, which appear on Mr Cheney's 2001 financial disclosure statement, are in the form of "deferred compensation" of up to $1m (£600,000) a year. When he left Halliburton in 2000 to become George Bush's running mate, he opted not to receive his leaving payment in a lump sum but instead have it paid to him over five years, possibly for tax reasons. An aide to the vice president said yesterday: "This is money that Mr Cheney was owed by the corporation as part of his salary for the time he was employed by Halliburton and which was a fixed amount paid to him over time. " "Also, the vice president has nothing whatsoever to do with the Pentagon bidding process," the aide added.
Bush's Iraq Envoy. Amazon: The Iron triangle , inside the carlyle Group Dan Briody. Making a mint inside the iron triangle of defense, government, and industry, by Dan Briody, Red Herring, 1/8/02. By Dan Briody, , 8 January 2002 Like everyone else in the United States, the group stood transfixed as the events of September 11 unfolded.
Present were former secretary of defense Frank Carlucci, former secretary of state James Baker III, and representatives of the bin Laden family. This was not some underground presidential bunker or Central Intelligence Agency interrogation room. Heady times for Carlyle in the wake of chaos and grief that gripped a nation. Analysis: Oil and the Bush cabinet. A majority of President Bush's new cabinet are millionaires and several are multimillionaires.
According to information from financial disclosure reports, released by the Office of Government Ethics, most cabinet appointees have amassed their fortunes in stock options. Now a Washington-based think tank is questioning whether some of the cabinet members could face a possible conflict of interest. It is not unusual for American politicians to be rich. For the last two decades more than half of all cabinet members have been millionaires. Boogie Down: Hoe Bush rijk wordt van de oorlog. Crossing The Rubicon: The Decline Of The American Empire At The End Of The ... - Michael C. Ruppert, Catherine Austin Fitts.
Bush's Iraq Envoy.