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On 2007-07-03 04:25:19 -0400, David Agnew <DavidAgnew@nospam.nul> said:

> God Bless America!  Land that Bush owns...  LOL.
> 
> On Tue, 03 Jul 2007 01:36:06 GMT, Al Giazirra
> <alwhoever@realitalianlastname.com > wrote:
> 
>> I'm up for a couple of nukes!  Make the sand glow, take the oil, send
>> the illegals in to clean up, build a Las Vegas Mecca, take the money.
>> It's a win win!
>>> 

Bush and the SAUDIS!

Tuesday, June 22, 2004

Firm With Bush-Saudi Ties Buys Loews Movie Theaters

Just days before the release of Michael Moore's film "Farenheit 9/11" 
(which analyzes the Bush-Saudi relationship), the Washington Post 
reports the Bush-Saudi connected Carlyle Group purchased Loews Cineplex 
theaters. The $2 billion deal is part of Carlyle's larger efforts to 
buy up more telecommunications/media companies.

Carlyle, of course, is a firm with deep ties to both the Bush and Saudi 
Royal families. As the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported, President 
George H.W. Bush "joined the Carlyle Group, an investment firm that 
used its contacts in the government to secure lucrative contracts, 
including enormous ones in Saudi Arabia, and then sell them at a high 
profit." Similarly, the conservative Boston Herald pointed out Carlyle 
"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." Additionally, Bush Sr.'s Secretary of State James 
Baker is also a senior official at Carlyle.

Even the Carlyle spokesman commenting today on the media buy up is 
Bush-connected: "Clearly we feel this is a good time to be buying 
telecom," said Carlyle spokesman Chris Ullman. Ullman came to Carlyle 
after a stint as the top spokesman for the White House budget office in 
the current Bush administration.

The Carlyle buy up of Loews probably won't affect the screening of 
Moore's movies at Loews theaters...but it raises troubling concerns 
that such a wealthy and powerful company with connections to both the 
Bush and Saudi royal family is making aggressive efforts to control 
more of what we see and hear - right on the eve of a movie critical of 
the Bush-Saudi relationship, and just as the mainstream media begins 
focusing more scrutiny of that relationship. Coincidence?


-- 
"Naturally the common people don't want war: Neither in Russia, nor in 
England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after 
all, IT IS THE LEADERS of the country who determine the policy and it 
is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a 
democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist 
dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to 
the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is TELL 
THEM THEY ARE BEING ATTACKED, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of 
patriotism and exposing the country to danger. IT WORKS THE SAME IN ANY 
COUNTRY."
�
--Goering at the Nuremberg Trials