Carlyle Group (sourcewatch)
Excerpt:The collection of influential characters who now work, have worked, or have invested in the group would make the most convinced conspiracy theorists incredulous. They include among others, John Major, former British Prime Minister; Fidel Ramos, former Philippines President; Park Tae Joon, former South Korean Prime Minister; Saudi Prince Al-Walid; Colin Powell, former Secretary of State; James Baker III, former Secretary of State; Caspar Weinberger, former Defense Secretary; Richard Darman, former White House Budget Director; the billionaire George Soros, and even some bin Laden family members. You can add Alice Albright, daughter of Madeleine Albright, former Secretary of State; Arthur Lewitt, former SEC head; William Kennard, former head of the FCC, to this list. Finally, add in the Europeans: Karl Otto Poehl, former Bundesbank president; the now-deceased Henri Martre, who was president of Aerospatiale; and Etienne Davignon, former president of the Belgian Generale Holding Company.
- Source: "Carlyle Empire" by Eric Leser, Le Monde, April 29, 2004.
- Also see: "The Big Guys Work For the Carlyle Group" by Melanie Warner, Fortune Magazine, March 02, 2002.
http://www.voltairenet.org/article30024.html
Member of the Financial Crime and Coup d’état. First Part.
George Soros, speculator and philanthropist
Recently, the American newspaper The Nation revealed that George Soros, through the Harken Energy and Spectrum 7 societies, was the one who, in 1990 saved George W. Bush from bankruptcy by eliminating and absorbing his debts. When asked about this by the newspaper, Soros stated that he did so in order to buy a "political influence" (sic) [2]
Like his friend Khodorkovsky, George Soros joined the Carlyle Group when this company became the "financial shelter" for many in the former Bush father administration in 1992. Today, that company is the most important fortune-administration society (financial portfolio) in the world. It is in charge of administering the billionaire wealth of Bush and Bin Laden families through the societies it controls. The Carlyle Group is the eleventh provider of the Pentagon. Recently, the American newspaper The Nation revealed that George Soros, through the Harken Energy and Spectrum 7 societies, was the one who, in 1990 saved George W. Bush from bankruptcy by eliminating and absorbing his debts. When asked about this by the newspaper, Soros stated that he did so in order to buy a "political influence" (sic) [2]
On December 20, 2002, George Soros was sentenced to pay a fine of 2,2 million dollars by the Paris Correction Court for the commission of a financial crime, when he tried to attack the Societe Generale, a French company, in the stock market.
PNAC and the NEOCONS: wanted a new Pearl Harbor youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxz06SwfnlU
NWO, PNAC and Origins S.Ossetia Conflict, Pt 2 youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3Aesbb3w20
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2005/may/11/georgia.usa
Bush toasts Georgia as a 'beacon of liberty'
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The unrest rolling through Russia's near-abroad has irked President Vladimir Putin, who played host to Mr Bush hours earlier.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kmara
Kmara wikipedia
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Kmara (Georgian: კმარა; "Enough") is a civic resistance movement in the republic of Georgia which undermined the government of Eduard Shevardnadze. After international observers condemned his government's conduct of the November 2003 parliamentary elections, Kmara led the protests which precipitated his downfall in what became known as the Rose Revolution.
http://www.newamericancentury.org/iraqclintonletter.htm
January 26, 1998
The Honorable William J. Clinton
President of the United States
Washington, DC
President of the United States
Washington, DC
Dear Mr. President:
We are writing you because we are convinced that current American policy toward Iraq is not succeeding, and that we may soon face a threat in the Middle East more serious than any we have known since the end of the Cold War. In your upcoming State of the Union Address, you have an opportunity to chart a clear and determined course for meeting this threat. We urge you to seize that opportunity, and to enunciate a new strategy that would secure the interests of the U.S. and our friends and allies around the world. That strategy should aim, above all, at the removal of Saddam Hussein’s regime from power. We stand ready to offer our full support in this difficult but necessary endeavor.
The policy of “containment” of Saddam Hussein has been steadily eroding over the past several months. As recent events have demonstrated, we can no longer depend on our partners in the Gulf War coalition to continue to uphold the sanctions or to punish Saddam when he blocks or evades UN inspections. Our ability to ensure that Saddam Hussein is not producing weapons of mass destruction, therefore, has substantially diminished. Even if full inspections were eventually to resume, which now seems highly unlikely, experience has shown that it is difficult if not impossible to monitor Iraq’s chemical and biological weapons production. The lengthy period during which the inspectors will have been unable to enter many Iraqi facilities has made it even less likely that they will be able to uncover all of Saddam’s secrets. As a result, in the not-too-distant future we will be unable to determine with any reasonable level of confidence whether Iraq does or does not possess such weapons.
Such uncertainty will, by itself, have a seriously destabilizing effect on the entire Middle East. It hardly needs to be added that if Saddam does acquire the capability to deliver weapons of mass destruction, as he is almost certain to do if we continue along the present course, the safety of American troops in the region, of our friends and allies like Israel and the moderate Arab states, and a significant portion of the world’s supply of oil will all be put at hazard. As you have rightly declared, Mr. President, the security of the world in the first part of the 21st century will be determined largely by how we handle this threat.
Given the magnitude of the threat, the current policy, which depends for its success upon the steadfastness of our coalition partners and upon the cooperation of Saddam Hussein, is dangerously inadequate. The only acceptable strategy is one that eliminates the possibility that Iraq will be able to use or threaten to use weapons of mass destruction. In the near term, this means a willingness to undertake military action as diplomacy is clearly failing. In the long term, it means removing Saddam Hussein and his regime from power. That now needs to become the aim of American foreign policy.
We urge you to articulate this aim, and to turn your Administration's attention to implementing a strategy for removing Saddam's regime from power. This will require a full complement of diplomatic, political and military efforts. Although we are fully aware of the dangers and difficulties in implementing this policy, we believe the dangers of failing to do so are far greater. We believe the U.S. has the authority under existing UN resolutions to take the necessary steps, including military steps, to protect our vital interests in the Gulf. In any case, American policy cannot continue to be crippled by a misguided insistence on unanimity in the UN Security Council.We urge you to act decisively. If you act now to end the threat of weapons of mass destruction against the U.S. or its allies, you will be acting in the most fundamental national security interests of the country. If we accept a course of weakness and drift, we put our interests and our future at risk.
Sincerely,
Elliott Abrams Richard L. Armitage William J. Bennett
Jeffrey Bergner John Bolton Paula Dobriansky
Francis Fukuyama Robert Kagan Zalmay Khalilzad
William Kristol Richard Perle Peter W. Rodman
Donald Rumsfeld William Schneider, Jr. Vin Weber
Paul Wolfowitz R. James Woolsey Robert B. Zoellick
THE TVNL ROGUES’ GALLERY OFNEO CON ARTISTSTHE MEMBERS OFPNAC - THE PROJECT FOR A NEW AMERICAN CENTURYin the G.W. BUSH Administration! |
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The Project for the New American Century (PNAC) was an American think tank based in Washington, D.C. that lasted from early 1997 to 2006. It was co-founded as a non-profit educational organization by neoconservatives William Kristol and Robert Kagan. The PNAC's stated goal was "to promote American global leadership."[1] Fundamental to the PNAC were the view that "American leadership is both good for America and good for the world" and support for "a Reaganite policy of military strength and moral clarity."[2] The PNAC exerted influence on high-level U.S. government officials in the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush and affected the Bush Administration's development of military and foreign policies, especially involving national security and the Iraq War.[3][4]
http://www.crisispapers.org/Editorials/PNAC-Primer.htm
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The PNAC Paper Trail
Here is a shorthand summary of PNAC documents and strategies that have become U.S. policy. Some of these you may have heard about before, but I've expanded and updated as much as possible.
1. In 1992, then-Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney had a strategy report drafted for the Department of Defense, written by Paul Wolfowitz, then Under-Secretary of Defense for Policy. In it, the U.S. government was urged, as the world's sole remaining Superpower, to move aggressively and militarily around the globe. The report called for pre-emptive attacks and ad hoc coalitions, but said that the U.S. should be ready to act alone when "collective action cannot be orchestrated." The central strategy was to "establish and protect a new order" that accounts "sufficiently for the interests of the advanced industrial nations to discourage them from challenging our leadership," while at the same time maintaining a military dominance capable of "deterring potential competitors from even aspiring to a larger regional or global role." Wolfowitz outlined plans for military intervention in Iraq as an action necessary to assure "access to vital raw material, primarily Persian Gulf oil" and to prevent the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and threats from terrorism.
Somehow, this report leaked to the press; the negative response was immediate. Senator Robert Byrd led the Democratic charge, calling the recommended Pentagon strategy "myopic, shallow and disappointing... .The basic thrust of the document seems to be this: We love being the sole remaining superpower in the world and we want so much to remain that way that we are willing to put at risk the basic health of our economy and well-being of our people to do so." Clearly, the objective political forces hadn't yet coalesced in the U.S. that could support this policy free of major resistance, and so President Bush the Elder publicly repudiated the paper and sent it back to the drawing boards. (For the essence of the draft text, see Barton Gellman's "Keeping the U.S. First; Pentagon Would Preclude a Rival Superpower" in the Washington Post.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zalmay_Khalilzad
Zalmay Khalilzad wikipedia
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Khalilzad began his education at the public Ghazi Lycée school in Kabul. He first visited the United States as a Ceres, California high school exchange student with AFS Intercultural Programs. Later, he attained his bachelor's and master's degrees from the American University of Beirut in Lebanon. Khalilzad received his Ph.D at the University of Chicago, where he studied closely with strategic thinker Albert Wohlstetter, a prominent nuclear deterrence thinker and strategist, who provided Zalmay with contacts in the government and with RAND.[2]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceres,_California
Ceres, California wikipedia
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Ceres is a city in Stanislaus County, California, United States. The population was 34,609 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Modesto Metropolitan Statistical Area.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheryl_Benard
Cheryl Benard wikipedia
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Cheryl Benard (* 1953 in New Orleans, USA) was a senior analyst with the RAND Corporation. She left the RAND Corporation in 2009.
http://www.911review.com/motive/pnac.html
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PIK toggles
http://blogs.wsj.com/deals/2010/03/30/armed-and-dangerous-pik-toggles-are-back/
https://www.lcdcomps.com/lcd/f/article.html?rid=800&aid=12323944
http://www.ropesgray.com/debtfinancing/
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1) Clear Channel Communications. Represented Bain Capital and Thomas H. Lee Partners in over $18.8 billion of aggregate financing, including a receivables facility, senior secured credit facilities and senior cash pay and senior PIK toggle high yield notes, for the acquisition of Clear Channel Communications, Inc., the largest radio broadcasting company in the U.S. and a worldwide leader in outdoor advertising. 1. In 1992, then-Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney had a strategy report drafted for the Department of Defense, written by Paul Wolfowitz, then Under-Secretary of Defense for Policy. In it, the U.S. government was urged, as the world's sole remaining Superpower, to move aggressively and militarily around the globe. The report called for pre-emptive attacks and ad hoc coalitions, but said that the U.S. should be ready to act alone when "collective action cannot be orchestrated." The central strategy was to "establish and protect a new order" that accounts "sufficiently for the interests of the advanced industrial nations to discourage them from challenging our leadership," while at the same time maintaining a military dominance capable of "deterring potential competitors from even aspiring to a larger regional or global role." Wolfowitz outlined plans for military intervention in Iraq as an action necessary to assure "access to vital raw material, primarily Persian Gulf oil" and to prevent the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and threats from terrorism.
Somehow, this report leaked to the press; the negative response was immediate. Senator Robert Byrd led the Democratic charge, calling the recommended Pentagon strategy "myopic, shallow and disappointing... .The basic thrust of the document seems to be this: We love being the sole remaining superpower in the world and we want so much to remain that way that we are willing to put at risk the basic health of our economy and well-being of our people to do so." Clearly, the objective political forces hadn't yet coalesced in the U.S. that could support this policy free of major resistance, and so President Bush the Elder publicly repudiated the paper and sent it back to the drawing boards. (For the essence of the draft text, see Barton Gellman's "Keeping the U.S. First; Pentagon Would Preclude a Rival Superpower" in the Washington Post.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zalmay_Khalilzad
Zalmay Khalilzad wikipedia
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Khalilzad began his education at the public Ghazi Lycée school in Kabul. He first visited the United States as a Ceres, California high school exchange student with AFS Intercultural Programs. Later, he attained his bachelor's and master's degrees from the American University of Beirut in Lebanon. Khalilzad received his Ph.D at the University of Chicago, where he studied closely with strategic thinker Albert Wohlstetter, a prominent nuclear deterrence thinker and strategist, who provided Zalmay with contacts in the government and with RAND.[2]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceres,_California
Ceres, California wikipedia
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Ceres is a city in Stanislaus County, California, United States. The population was 34,609 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Modesto Metropolitan Statistical Area.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheryl_Benard
Cheryl Benard wikipedia
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Cheryl Benard (* 1953 in New Orleans, USA) was a senior analyst with the RAND Corporation. She left the RAND Corporation in 2009.
http://www.911review.com/motive/pnac.html
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The Project For a New American Century
The Project for a New American Century, a think-tank including of some of the core policy advisors for the Bush Administration, has become notorious for articulating the need for a "new Pearl Harbor" in its 2000 policy paper Rebuilding America's Defenses.PNAC Members Appointed to Bush Administration
The following PNAC members were appointed to serve in the George W. Bush administataion following the 2002 appointment of Bush by the Supreme Court.| member | department | title | comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elliott Abrams | National Security Council | Representative for Middle Eastern Affairs | President of the Ethics and Public Policy Center |
| Richard Armitage | Department of State (2001-2005) | Deputy Secretary of State | Leaked Valerie Plame's identity to Robert Novak in the Plamegate scandal |
| John R. Bolton | Department of State | U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations | Previously served as Undersecretary for Arms Control and International Security Affairs in the first administration of GWB. |
| Richard Cheney | Bush Administration | Vice President | Former CEO of Halliburton, which recieved no-bid contracts in Iraq rebuilding |
| Seth Cropsey | Voice of America | Director of the International Broadcasting Bureau | Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict, 1991. Voice of America Director of Policy, 1982-4 |
| Paula Dobriansky | Department of State | Undersecretary of State for Global Affairs. | National Security Council Director of European and Soviet Affairs, 1980-1987 |
| Francis Fukuyama | President's Council on Bioethics | Council Member | Professor of International Political Economy at Johns Hopkins University. CFR member and Foreign Affairs Book Review editor 1 |
| Bruce Jackson | U.S. Committee on NATO | President | Former Lockheed Martin VP for Strategy & Planning |
| Zalmay Khalilzad | U.S. Embassy Baghdad, Iraq | U.S. Ambassador to Iraq | Previously served as U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan from November 2003 to June 2005 |
| I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby | Bush Administration (2001-2005) | Chief of Staff for the Vice President | Indicted by Federal Grand Jury on charges of Obstruction of Justice, False Statements, and Perjury and resigned October 28, 2005 |
| Peter W. Rodman | Department of Defense | Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security since July 16, 2001. | National Review Senior Editor. 2 |
| Donald Rumsfeld | Department of Defense (2001-2006) | Secretary of Defense | Former Chairman of the Board of Gilead Sciences, the firm that developed Tamiflu, Resigned from office December 15, 2006 |
| Randy Scheunemann | U.S. Committee on NATO | International Republican Institute member | Founded the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq |
| Paul Wolfowitz | World Bank | President | Deputy Secretary of Defense, 2001-2005 |
| Dov S. Zakheim | Department of Defense | Comptroller | Former V.P. of System Planning Corporation |
| Robert B. Zoellick | Department of State | Deputy Secretary of State | Office of the United States Trade Representative (2001-2005) |
Other PNAC Members
| member | comments |
|---|---|
| Gary Bauer | Former presidential candidate. American Values president. |
| Abram Shulsky | Former Director of Office of Special Plans. Mentored by Leo Strauss. |
| William J. Bennett | Former Secretary of Education and Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy. Empower America co-founder. Book of Virtues author. |
| Ellen Bork | Deputy director of PNAC, and daughter of failed Reagan Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork |
| Rudy Boschwitz | Former US Senator from Minnesota. |
| Jeb Bush | Governor of Florida. |
| Eliot A. Cohen | Professor of strategic studies at Johns Hopkins University. |
| Thomas Donnelly | Lockheed Martin director of communications. |
| Steve Forbes | Multi-millionaire publisher of Forbes Magazine. Former presidential candidate. |
| Aaron Friedberg | Director of the Center of International Studies. |
| Frank Gaffney | Columnist, founder of Center for Security Policy. |
| Reuel Marc Gerecht | Middle East Initiative director. |
| Fred Ikle | Center for Strategic and International Studies |
| Donald Kagan | Yale University professor. Conservative columnist with State Department ties. |
| Jeane Kirkpatrick | Former U.S. ambassador. |
| Charles Krauthammer | Conservative columnist. |
| William Kristol | PNAC founder and chairman, editor of The Weekly Standard. Political contributor for the FOX News Channel and regular contributor to Special Report with Brit Hume. chief of staff to Vice President Dan Quayle during the Bush administration and to Secretary of Education William Bennett under President Reagan. |
| Christopher Maletz | PNAC Assistant Director. |
| Daniel McKivergan | PNAC Assistant Director. The Weekley Standard Research Director, 1995-7. |
| Richard Perle | A PNAC founder, formerly of the Defense Policy Board. American Enterprise Institute fellow. |
| Norman Podhoretz | Hudson Institute senior fellow. Council on Foreign Relations member. Father of New York Post columnist John Podhoretz. 3 |
| Dan Quayle | Former vice-president |
| Stephen Rosen | Beton Michael Kaneb Professor of National Security and Military Affairs, Harvard University. |
| Henry Rowen | Former Rand Corporation president. |
| Gary Schmitt | Executive Director of PNAC. Appointed by President Reagan to post of executive director of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. Defended Presiden Bush's withdraw from the ABM Treaty. Johns Hopkins University, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies Adjunct Professor. 4 |
| George Weigel | Political commentator. Institute on Religion and Democracy board member. |
| R. James Woolsey | Former director of the CIA for President Clinton, vice-president at Booz Allen Hamilton. |
| Vin Weber | Minnesota congressman. Board member of National Public Radio. "Sperlobbyist" for the National Endowment for Democracy. |
PIK toggles
http://blogs.wsj.com/deals/2010/03/30/armed-and-dangerous-pik-toggles-are-back/
https://www.lcdcomps.com/lcd/f/article.html?rid=800&aid=12323944
http://www.ropesgray.com/debtfinancing/
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2) United Surgical Partners International. Represented Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe in $970 million of aggregate financing, including senior secured credit facilities and high yield senior subordinated cash-pay and PIK toggle notes in connection with the acquisition of United Surgical Partners International, a leading operator of outpatient surgery centers and hospitals.
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