The Dusty Dog

What do Carlyle Group, Bushies and the UAE Have in Common?

The short answer -- the desire to make money. The desire to control the world. The desire to hold as much as the world's wealth as humanly possible, even if by inhumane means. Dubai is, after all, a part of UAE. The port deal will put the control of major US ports into the hands of the DP World (Dubai Ports World). The cockroaches are even threatening a veto to uphold this dispiccable and self-serving deal.

For those of you who haven't been watching the news lately, though I sure that most of my readers do watch the news, I'd like to report that our fearless and stupid leader, dumbya the cockroach, has vowed to veto any bill that would block the sale of US ports to DP World, the Dubai company. I don't know if US security will definitively be compromised by such a deal, but I am totally convinced that this administration's multitude of conflicts of interest and collection of strange (for lack of a better word) bedfellows has indeed led to our compromise security. I have never actually bought into the notion that this administration actually orchestrated the 9/11 tragedy, but their conflicts of interest certainly, and without a doubt led to the security failures that allowed for it to happen. Of that, I am sure.

This is why this sale of our ports to the United Arab Emerates (UAE) is so disturbing. It's the conflicts of interest. This is a HUGE, ENORMOUS, GIGANTIC AND UTTERLY OUTRAGEOUS CONFLICT OF INTEREST. I am outraged. Apparently, there is this sleazy business connection between, John Snow, US Secretary of the Treasury, David Sanborn, Maritime Administrator, and the Carlyle Group, dubya daddy's corporate ties to the Saudis, to name one conflict. This is just an incestuous bunch of people conspiring to sell off the control of US ports and military shipments to an Arab country for only one fucking reason -- MONEY. Lots and lots of money. Please read on............

According to DP World, "Dubai, 24 January 2006: - Global ports operator DP World today welcomed news that one of its senior executives, Dave Sanborn, has been nominated by US President George W. Bush to serve as Maritime Administrator a key transportation appointment reporting directly to Norman Mineta the Secretary of Transportation and Cabinet Member.

The White House has issued a statement from Washington DC announcing the nomination. The confirmation process will begin in February.

Mr Sanborn currently holds the position of Director of Operations for Europe and Latin America for the Dubai-based company."

It gets worse................

According to MMP Weekly, "MM&P-CONTRACTED CSX LINES PURCHASED BY THE CARLYLE GROUP

MM&P-contracted CSX Lines, the US-flag container shipping subsidiary of CSX Inc., will be sold to the Carlyle Group, a private equity firm based in Washington, DC for $300M. The acquisition will give Carlyle control over the nation's largest Jones Act container fleet and will add to the company's growing transportation portfolio.

CSX Lines will be renamed Horizon Lines LLC, when the transaction is completed early next year pending regulatory approval. CSX Lines is the nation's largest ocean transport company, with 17 US-flag vessels and 22,000 containers, providing ocean transportation and logistics services to and from the US, Alaska, Hawaii, Guam, and Puerto Rico.

Carlyle's other maritime holdings include Seabulk International, formerly Hvide Marine, which owns and operates 10 Jones Act tankers in the Gulf of Mexico. Through United Defense Industries, Carlyle controls United States Marine Repair, the nation's largest non-nuclear ship repair and conversion company.

Carlyle Group is a politically-connected global private equity firm with reportedly more than $13.9 billion under management. The company's directors and advisors include former President George H.W. Bush, former British Prime Minister John Major, and former Secretary of State James Baker. IBM Chairman Louis Gerstner is slated to become chairman of Carlyle on January 7, replacing former Secretary of Defense Frank Carlucci.

John Snow, the CEO of CSX, was appointed Treasury Secretary by the younger President Bush last week. The current CSX Lines President and Chief Executive Charles Raymond and his management team will remain in place. Raymond will also serve as chairman of the board."

Even the neocons are disgusted. And, that says alot. I'm waiting for all these conflicts of interest to actually make it HUGE into the mainstream media. If it doesn't, then we have surely reached Number 6 - Conrol of Mass Media of the 14 Points of Fascism, according to this listing by Old American Century.

posted by Dusty Dog at 2/21/2006