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LITERARY, POLITICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL ONLINE MAGAZINE
October 6, 2002 |
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The Carlyle Group
by Victor Thorn
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A few weeks ago, James Baker publicly offered advice to
the Bush Administration on how they should proceed with their war on Iraq.
What he and every newscaster or commentator failed to mention was that
Baker is now employed by the highly-influential Carlyle Group, which is
the eleventh largest defense contractor in the United States. In essence,
then, we have a man trying to influence public policy while privately
employed by a company that has a vested interest in activating America’s
War Machine.
If you’re not familiar with them, the Carlyle Group
has become a powerhouse in affecting the direction in which our foreign
policy takes, especially in regard to war. They accomplish this by hiring
former government officials, then investing in private companies that are
subject to government change (i.e. the military and telecommunications).
Who, you may ask, do they employ to secure their government contracts?
Well, check-out this list for starters:
Frank Carlucci –
Department of Health, Education and Welfare - 1970’s
Deputy
Director, CIA – 1978-81
Deputy
Secretary of Defense – 1981-82
National
Security Director – 1987-89
George Bush - CIA Director –
1976-77
Vice
President of the United States – 1981-89
President
of the United States – 1989-93
James Baker - Chief of Staff –
1981-85
Secretary
of the Treasury – 1985-89
Secretary
of State – 1989-93
Dick Darman - Former White House Budget
Chief
William Kennard - Former Head, FCC
Arthur
Levitt - Former Head, SEC
John Major - Former Prime
Minister, Britain
Fidel Ramos - Former Philippine President
Afsaneh Beschloss - Treasurer & Chief Investment Officer of
the World Bank Anand Panyarachum – Former President, Thailand
Karl Otto Pohl - Former President, Bundesbank
Louis
Vuitton - French Aerobus Company
Park Tae Joon - Former
South Korean Prime Minister
Alwaleed Sin Talal bin Abdulaziz
Alsaud – Saudi Arabian Prince
George Soros - New World
Order/Bilderberg luminary & int’l financier
Fred Malek -
George Bush Sr’s campaign manager
There is also one other “family”
that invested in the Carlyle Group, but I’ll keep that as a surprise for
next week’s article. In the meantime, take a look at that list. It’s like
walking onto a baseball field and having the New York Yankees behind you.
The best team money can buy! And I didn’t even mention all of the players.
Carlyle also employs the former chairman of BMW and Nestle, is
interviewing former Clinton cabinet members (to insure that they have both
sides of the aisle covered), plus once hired Colin Powell and AOL
Time-Warner Chairman Steve Case to speak at a meeting at Washington D.C.’s
Monarch House. Plus, if we look at James Baker again, we’ll find that he’s
on the board of Azerbaijan International Oil Company, in which two U.S.
oil companies hold 40% of the shares. Who are these two companies? The
first is Amoco, who has on their payroll none other than Zbigniew
Brzezinski (Trilateral Commission founder, National Security Advisor for
the Carter Administration, Globalist supreme, and David Rockefeller’s
puppet on a string). The second is Pennzoil, who has on their payroll
Brent Scowcroft, former National Security Advisor under George Bush, Sr.
But the man that really brought it all together is Frank Carlucci,
who holds directorships on such companies as General Dynamics,
Westinghouse, the Rand Corporation, and Ashland Oil, plus sits on the
board of directors of twelve other companies. Carlucci was also the
college classmate of someone very closely related to our current
administration’s War Machine – Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld! What
relevance does this association have you may wonder? I think it is of
great importance, for in February, 2001, Carlucci and Vice President Dick
Cheney met with Donald Rumsfeld when the Carlyle Group had several
billion-dollar defense projects under consideration. (If you haven’t
guessed, the Carlyle Group fared quite well when all was said and done.)
Do you still think these ties don’t matter? Philip Agee, in his book “On
the Run” details all of Carlucci’s CIA connections, many of whom he hired
(along with his Pentagon cronies) when he joined Carlyle in 1989. (And all
of us know what influence the CIA has, don’t we?)
A former Carlyle
employee honed-in on these dynamics when he said, “The firm understands
that having Bush and Major is like having movie stars around.”
It’s all about power and access, folks, as Oliver Burkeman and
Julian Burger pointed out in “The Guardian” on October 31, 2001. “Carlyle
has become the thread which indirectly links American military policy in
Afghanistan to the personal financial fortunes of its celebrity employees,
not the least the current President’s father.”
Is the picture
becoming clearer? Now we’re getting to the bottom of America’s War
Machine. The Carlyle Group is set to make huge amounts of money from our
upcoming military conflicts and weapons expenditures. In other words, when
I talk about the War Machine, these folks are at the crux of it. They’re
the war profiteers that keep its wheels greased!
Dan K. Thomasson,
former editor of the Scripps Howard News Service, summed it up best in
March, 2001. “Nothing in recent history seems to approach the success this
group has had in the wholesale conversion of former high government rank
to gigantic profits.”
Peter Eisner, Managing Director of the
Center for Public Integrity, adds, “It should be a deep cause for concern
that a closely held company like Carlyle can simultaneously have directors
and advisors that are doing business and making money and also advising
the President of the United States.”
The Washington Business
Journal simply says, “The Carlyle Group seems to play be a different set
of rules.”
But who is the Carlyle Group? Well, their office is
located only a few blocks from the White House, and it was founded by
three men:
David
Rubinstein – aide in the Carter Administration
Bill
Conway – Chief Financial Officer at MCI
Dan
D’Aniello – financial executive at Marriott
They named their group
“Carlyle” after a New York hotel favored by one of their first investors,
the Mellon family. They now have an ownership stake in 164 different
companies, have 535 investors, operate in 55 different countries, and have
$13.5 billion in capital. International financier George Soros invested
$100 million in them, while the California Public Employees Retirement
System dumped $305 million into their laps. They also recently purchased
the KorAm Bank, thus accelerating their entry into the highly lucrative
Asian markets.
But how did they become so successful so quickly?
I’ll let the Carlyle Group’s company brochure answer that question: “We
invest in niche opportunities created in industries heavily affected by
changes in government policies.” Stated differently, the Carlyle Group
buys what it knows best – companies regulated by the government. In fact,
2/3 of their business is either in the defense or telecommunications
industries … those affected by changes in government spending or policy!
And how do they affect these policies? It all revolves around
ACCESS! That’s the key. Basically, they operate within what is called the
“Iron Triangle” – industry, government, and the military. A spokesman for
Oklahoma Representative J. C. Watts understood this connection when he
said, “Carlyle’s strength was within the Department of Defense because
they have staff types that work behind the scenes, in the dark, that know
everything about the Army and Capitol Hill.”
Charles Lewis,
ex-Director at the Center for Public Integrity, adds credence to this
argument. “Carlyle is as deeply wired into the current administration as
they can possibly be.”
On May 5, 2001, the New York Times
described the Carlyle Group as such: “It owns so many companies that it is
now in effect one of the nation’s biggest defense contractors and a force
in global communications. Its blue-chip investors include major banks and
insurance companies, billion dollar pension funds and wealthy investors.”
Hmm, they have a firm, controlling grip on both the War Machine and the
media … convenient, don’t you think?
After reading how deeply
established they are as “Insiders,” do you think that the Carlyle Group
has America’s best interests at heart, or their own which entails
capitalizing on war? An excellent example can be found in the recent $470
million contract that “United Defense,” a Carlyle subsidiary, received.
And what did they get it for? To develop the CRUSADER, which is such a
faulty, antiquated, horrendous product that it was described by Eric
Miller of “The Project on Government Oversight” as follows. “The Crusader
has been the GAO’s (Government Accounting Office) poster child for bad
weapons development.” The Crusader Project was so maligned that the
government was set to drop it completely. But lo and behold, what
happened? War was on the horizon, Carlyle pulled a few strings, and welluh
– a $470 million contract is thrown Carlyle’s way for the Crusader. Funny
how things happen, huh?
If that’s not bad enough, the Carlyle
Group is also the financial advisor to a certain government. Who? Saudi
Arabia. In fact, they make nearly $50 million/year training the Saudi
Arabian National Guard --- troops that are sworn to protect the Saudi
royal family! Now, if all hell breaks loose in the Middle East, and
considering that Saudi Arabia has said that it won’t support our efforts
against Iraq, who do you think the Saudi soldiers will kill? Their own
kind – Arabs – or the invading “white American devils?”
If you ask
me, we’ve entered very treacherous waters, all for the sake of making
money off of warfare. Regardless of what they say, these men in the
Carlyle Group epitomize a very nefarious form of evil via their actions.
Next week: The Bush Family’s ongoing relationship with the
Bin Laden Family
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