“Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war...... in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind. And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and gladly so. How do I know? For this is what I have done. And I am Caesar.”
— Julius Caesar
“Today, Americans would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order. Tomorrow, they will be grateful. This is especially true, if they were told there was an outside threat from beyond – whether real or promulgated – that threatened our very existence. It is then that all the peoples of the world will pledge with world leaders to deliver them from this evil. The one thing that every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished with the guarantee of their well-being, granted to them by their world government.”
— Henry Kissinger, at the Bilderberg Conference in Evians, France, 1991
My country 'tis of thee,
Land of lost liberty,
Of thee I sing;
Land where my fathers died,
bloodshed, freedom acquired,
Then, the politicians lied,
Everywhere, deceit!
My native country, thee,
Land of great misery,
No longer free;
Taken by treachery,
Homeland Security,
Bankrupt by 2013,
Vast conspiracy!
Sorrow would fill the air,
If only people cared
'bout her destiny;
Sweet land where I abide,
rips me apart inside,
witnessing her demise,
It doesn't have to be!
Our Father God, to thee,
we pray people wake and leave
their apathy;
Restore for us, this day,
what evil took away,
May all of the traitors pay!
Let freedom ring!
All is not always as it seems...but, sometimes it is:
"Truth is not always found in searching for the right answers...but, rather in asking the right questions."
Slider
Please read on...and simply follow the money...
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This deal was finally approved (whodathunkit?)
cfo.com
Carlyle Group Buys Chinese Company
by Stephen Taub, CFO.com
Private equity giant The Carlyle Group has agreed to buy an 85 percent stake in Xugong Group Construction Machinery Co. Ltd., the largest construction machinery manufacturer and distributor in China, for $375 million in cash.
... is China's first leveraged buyout. The Associated Press noted that LBOs have been difficult to complete in China due to difficulties with financing and regulatory approvals. Until now, the only deals involved foreign investors using their own funds to buy minority stakes in Chinese companies.
As CFO magazine pointed out this month, however, foreign financial institutions have recently been snapping up minority stakes in China's state-owned banks, eager to take a slice of a booming sector in the world's fastest-growing economy.
Carlyle's announcement happens to come on the heels of a high-profile visit to China by Securities and Exchange Commission chairman Christopher Cox, Secretary of the Treasury John Snow, and Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan, who met with top Chinese business and financial leaders.
* [See Bush Family/James Baker/Saudi Royal Family/Big Oil - Carlyle Group relationship here]*
hereinreality.com
re: James Baker -- the lead counsel for the Saudi's in defending them against the lawsuit from the victims families of 911...whodathunkit?
msnbc.msn.com
Now here - James Baker pops up once again -- in restructuring Iraq's debt [Can you say -- follow the MONEY ?!?!
...talk about "political incest"...the Bush family makes the Cosa Nostra seem like an open society...
cnn.com
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iht.com
Carlyle Group buys stake in Chinese insurer
By David Barboza The New York Times
MONDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2005
SHANGHAI Carlyle Group, the global private equity firm, said Monday that it had agreed to invest $410 million for a minority stake in China Pacific Life Insurance in one of the largest private equity deals ever made in China.
Carlyle said it would acquire a 25 percent stake in China Pacific Life, which is the country's third-largest life insurance company after China Life Insurance and Ping An Insurance, both of which are now publicly listed companies in Hong Kong and the United States.
The deal gives Carlyle a foothold in the world's fastest-growing life insurance market, where income from life insurance premiums has already reached $40 billion a year.
This is the second major deal in recent months for Carlyle, which in October acquired an 85 percent stake in the Xugong Group Construction Machinery for 3 billion yuan, or $375 million. That deal was one of the first times a foreign company had ever engaged in a direct buyout of a Chinese state-owned company.
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Bush Family/Carlyle Group Cabal pouring money into Chinese assets as America's infrastructure and real security get's hollowed out...
Out Of Chaos Comes Order..."The New World Order"
What's a few billion among friends:
villagevoice.com
Just a few old friends:
Spy School:
observer.guardian.co.uk
The Queens Banker:
telegraph.co.uk
Former IRS Commissioner joins Carlyle Group:
washington.bizjournals.com
The Five Degree's of Osama bin Laden - Bush Family & Carlyle Group:
money.cnn.com
Many of the same American corporate executives who have reaped millions of dollars from arms and oil deals with the Saudi monarchy have served or currently serve at the highest levels of U.S. government, public records show.
commondreams.org
Published on Tuesday, December 11, 2001 in the Boston Herald
Bush Advisers Cashed in on Saudi Gravy Train
by Jonathan Wells, Jack Meyers and Maggie Mulvihill
Second of two parts:
Those lucrative financial relationships call into question the ability of America's political elite to make tough foreign policy decisions about the kingdom that produced Osama bin Laden and is perhaps the biggest incubator for anti-Western Islamic terrorists.
Nowhere is the revolving U.S.-Saudi money wheel more evident than within President Bush's own coterie of foreign policy advisers, starting with the president's father, George H.W. Bush.
At the same time that the elder Bush counsels his son on the ongoing war on terrorism, the former president remains a senior adviser to the Washington D.C.-based Carlyle Group. That influential investment bank has deep connections to the Saudi royal family as well as financial interests in U.S. defense firms hired by the kingdom to equip and train the Saudi military....
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re: Port Security
...don't worry be happy !
It's all about Free Trade, Capitalism, Truth Justice and the American way....and don't you go believing any of that "conspiracy theory" hooey...
U.S. Hiring Hong Kong Co. to Scan Nukes
- Reference -
By TED BRIDIS and JOHN SOLOMON
Associated Press
March 23, 2006
WASHINGTON (AP) - In the aftermath of the Dubai ports dispute, the Bush administration is hiring a Hong Kong conglomerate to help detect nuclear materials inside cargo passing through the Bahamas to the United States and elsewhere.
The administration acknowledges the no-bid contract with Hutchison Whampoa Ltd. represents the first time a foreign company will be involved in running a sophisticated U.S. radiation detector at an overseas port without American customs agents present.
Freeport in the Bahamas is 65 miles from the U.S. coast, where cargo would be likely to be inspected again. The contract is currently being finalized.
The administration is negotiating a second no-bid contract for a Philippine company to install radiation detectors in its home country, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press. At dozens of other overseas ports, foreign governments are primarily responsible for scanning cargo.
While President Bush recently reassured Congress that foreigners would not manage security at U.S. ports, the Hutchison deal in the Bahamas illustrates how the administration is relying on foreign companies at overseas ports to safeguard cargo headed to the United States.
Hutchison Whampoa is the world's largest ports operator and among the industry's most-respected companies. It was an early adopter of U.S. anti-terror measures. But its billionaire chairman, Li Ka-Shing, also has substantial business ties to China's government that have raised U.S. concerns over the years.
"Li Ka-Shing is pretty close to a lot of senior leaders of the Chinese government and the Chinese Communist Party," said Larry M. Wortzel, head of a U.S. government commission that studies China security and economic issues. But Wortzel said Hutchison operates independently from Beijing, and he described Li as "a very legitimate international businessman."
"One can conceive legitimate security concerns and would hope either the Homeland Security Department or the intelligence services of the United States work very hard to satisfy those concerns," Wortzel said.
Three years ago, the Bush administration effectively blocked a Hutchison subsidiary from buying part of a bankrupt U.S. telecommunications company, Global Crossing Ltd. (GLBC), on national security grounds.
A U.S. military intelligence report, once marked "secret," cited Hutchison in 1999 as a potential risk for smuggling arms and other prohibited materials into the United States from the Bahamas.
Hutchison's port operations in the Bahamas and Panama "could provide a conduit for illegal shipments of technology or prohibited items from the West to the PRC (People's Republic of China), or facilitate the movement of arms and other prohibited items into the Americas," the now-declassified assessment said.
...supervised by Bahamian customs officials, Hutchison employees will drive the towering, truck-like radiation scanner that moves slowly over large cargo containers and scans them for radiation that might be emitted by plutonium or a radiological weapon.
Any positive reading would set off alarms monitored simultaneously by Bahamian customs inspectors at Freeport and by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials working at an anti-terrorism center 800 miles away in northern Virginia. Any alarm would prompt a closer inspection of the cargo, and there are multiple layers of security to prevent tampering, officials said.
"The equipment operates itself," said Bryan Wilkes, a spokesman for the U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration, the agency negotiating the contract. "It's not going to be someone standing at the controls pressing buttons and flipping switches."
A lawmaker who helped lead the opposition to the Dubai ports deal isn't so confident. Neither are some security experts. They question whether the U.S. should pay a foreign company with ties to China to keep radioactive material out of the United States.
"Giving a no-bid contract to a foreign company to carry out the most sensitive security screening for radioactive materials at ports abroad raises many questions," said Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y.
A low-paid employee with access to the screening equipment could frustrate international security by studying how the equipment works and which materials set off its alarms, warned a retired U.S. Customs investigator who specialized in smuggling cases.
"Money buys a lot of things," Robert Sheridan said. "The fact that foreign workers would have access to how the United States screens various containers for nuclear material and how this technology scrutinizes the containers - all those things allow someone with a nefarious intention to thwart the screening."
The Hutchison deal in the Bahamas was flagged in a report in October by ATS Worldwide Services, a Florida firm that identifies potential risks for private-sector and government clients. Company officials said they shared the report with some officials in Congress, the military and law enforcement.
... there are no U.S. customs agents checking any cargo containers at the Hutchison port in Freeport. Under the contract, no U.S. officials would be stationed permanently in the Bahamas with the radiation scanner.
The administration is finalizing the contract amid a national debate over maritime security sparked by the furor over now-abandoned plans by Dubai-owned DP World to take over significant operations at major U.S. ports.
...a separate, no-bid $4 million contract the Bush administration is negotiating would pay a Manila-based company, International Container Terminal Services Inc., to install radiation detectors at the Philippines' largest port.
According to a March 23rd Associated Press story, the administration has admitted that the contract was awarded without allowing American companies to bid on the job. It also states that the company, Hutchison Whampoa Ltd., would not be supervised by American customs officers. The communist Chinese will have unsupervised access.
Keep in mind, when one speaks of Hutchison Whampoa or any other Chinese business, he speaks of a Chinese government-controlled enterprise. There really is no private enterprise in communist China. Despite the happy-faced rhetoric the globalist propagandists are putting on communist states today, there is no real free enterprise. The state owns it all; the state controls it all.
The Associated Press says,
Freeport in the Bahamas is 65 miles from the U.S. coast, where cargo would be likely to be inspected again.
Again? The goods will never be inspected. Not once; not ever! Less than 2 percent of the goods coming into this country from communist China are inspected now!
Furthermore, the Chinese already control operations at the port of Long Beach in California. The China Ocean Shipping Company and its twin, The Overseas Orient Container Line call on American ports every single day. And less than 2 percent of their containers are inspected.
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"...what we are witnessing, is the selling off of America. America is the world's largest debtor country. Yet, our "leaders" keep borrowing more from foreign interests, and giving them American land and infrustructure in exchange for buying up our debt.
This is precisely why the American highway system is being revamped. The International Trade Corridor will be a toll road, built by foreign workers, and Americans will pay to use the highway. Cameras will watch everything we do. A system of inland ports will be built where select cargo can be inspected, after it enters the country. The borders will be eliminated and traffic will pass through what was once our "borders" without stopping."
--Darren Weeks
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Pourous borders....phony Homeland Security...the debasement of our currency and economy...as globalist elitists suck off billions of dollars of American assets in the greatest transfer of wealth in world history...and reinvest the stolen proceeds in foreign ventures that benefit by the ongoing gutting of America.
As we all stand idly by and watch...as we greedily count our newfound pseudo-wealth via that we traded our souls for -- in return for a housing bubble, propped up speculative financial markets and tax cuts for the investor class.
tic toc`
PS: ....for you Oil Bulls...direct from your beloved soul-less shill Matt Simmons... he of Council on Foregin Relations frontman lackey status ...here's what else they've got in store for America:
In case anyone wondered (other than the Billions of Drug $ for US Bankers) why Bush has allowed US/Mexican border security to remain -- non-existant ...it's because of this:
usembassycanada.gov
Summary:
The North American continent is being transformed from three sovereign nations (Canada, USA, Mexico) into one regional corporate power base, the North American Union.
Unlike the creation of the European Union, there is no public political/ academic discourse on the merits, or pros and cons of a North American Union building up to a vote within each nation as to the wish of the people to join such a union.
Instead the union is being created by stealth, is already well on its way to fruition, and is being imposed on us by our own "elected" representatives and government with no opposition.
The ultimate enforcement mechanism for the North American Union is a police state. The tools for the police state are "anti-terrorist" laws. Anti Terrorist laws are a ruse to strip the people of their liberties in order to prevent dissent. The Orwellian justification is "security", "safety".
The plan of this Canada-U.S.-Mexico task force is to establish a continent-wide customs union with a common approach to trade, energy, immigration, law enforcement and security that would virtually eliminate existing national borders.
The task force released its recommendations for a common North American in May 17/18, 2005.There was minor reference to it in mainstream media - no headline presentation.
The recommendations include:
-- a common security perimeter by 2010
-- a North American Border Pass with biometric identifiers.
-- a unified border and expanded customs facilities
-- a single economic space
-- a common external tariff.
-- seamless movement of goods within North America.
-- a North American energy strategy -as a regional alternative to Kyoto.
-- a North American regulatory plan that would include "open skies and open roads" and a unified approach on food, health, and the environment.
-- Expand temporary worker programs and create a "North American preference" for immigration for citizens of North America.
-- A North American Investment Fund to build infrastructure to connect Mexico's poorer regions in the south to the market to the north.
-- Restructure and reform Mexico's public finances.
Fully develop Mexican energy resources (Mexico wisely kept their energy out of NAFTA)
-- A permanent tribunal for trade and investment disputes.( Here is where any vestige of democratic government disappears)
An annual North American summit meeting.
-- A Tri-national Competition Commission with a common approach to trade remedies.
-- Scholarships for a network of Centers for North American Studies. (To serve the corporations)
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Peak Oil...just another "tool" to suck billions out of the pockets of Americans and line the pockets of globalist elitists who are engaging in the wholesale rape & pillage of America's financial system...
PPS:
They've only got 19 months left until the November 2008 Presidential Election...and they face a terrible conundrum:
Plunder the U.S. Social Security System...or, make a couple of hundred billion dollars more on Oil & the Military Industrial Defense Complex - by plundering Iran.
They can't have both...
Or, can they?
Eisenhower is surely spinning in his grave...
He warned us of the Military Industrial Defense Monster...and that giant sucking sound you hear is them sucking the U.S.infrastructure and our financial sovereignty out of America and transfering it into the hands of the Elitist globalists who are wholesaling America right out from under us...
tic toc`
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