Showing posts with label Carlyle Group. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Carlyle Group. Show all posts
Monday, October 3, 2022
Zelensky; the kind of leader who doesn't wince at the rattle of a machine-gun
What a Churchill!
None other than Alan Dershowitz nominated him for the Nobel PP.
But then Al had to go write an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal calling out the Z-man for his claims that the Ukrainian nation "saved Jews" during the Holocaust.
Ya, Zelensky was a comedian before he was a Churchill.
How about that Dershowitz, eh? I'd thought he'd lowered his standards when he joined the Trump defence team, but I just took a gander at his Wikipedia page, and the guy's been defending world-class shit-bags his entire career! Everybody from Leona Helmsley to OJ Simpson!
And he's pretty good at it too!
But I digress. Suffice it to say, if Zelensky wins this war, the Dersh-man will be on Putin's defence team at the war crimes trials.
If Putin wins this war. the Dersh-o-nator will be on Zelensky's defense team at the war crimes trials.
Either way. he's gonna be in the headlines for years to come.
So who is winning this war? Zelensky has been pushing the Russians back since February. Putin is losing so bad he just held bogus referendums and annexed 100,000 sq. km. of Ukraine. But the forces of GOOD are forcing the bad guys back all over the place. With just a few more months and a few more billions in weapons, victory is assured!
Weapons weapons weapons!!!
Billions billions billions!!!
Sure glad I bought into that Carlyle Group Defence Portfolio when I did!
Monday, October 17, 2016
Why America's "Deep State" cannot allow a Trump win
It's all about Putin.
Trump is on the record more than once claiming he wants to "get along" with the evil dictator.
Consider the ramifications.
If America were to get along with Putin, that would put paid to the Russia-USA rivalry.
Good-bye Carlyle Group shareholder value, and many others as well.
What's going to happen to the fabulous Lockheed-Martin F-35 boondoggle when people realize it's a boondoggle?
If America didn't have to spend trillions on imaginary military solutions to imaginary problems, America might be able to afford health care and housing for her veterans.
Any candidate who calls out this great boondoggle will of course be roundly vilified by the establishment that stands to lose everything if the American people sniff out this scam that's been funded by their tax dollars since forever.
That's why Trump can't be allowed to win in November.
And if he does, he'll meet an unfortunate plane crash or a random shooter before January.
Trump is on the record more than once claiming he wants to "get along" with the evil dictator.
Consider the ramifications.
If America were to get along with Putin, that would put paid to the Russia-USA rivalry.
Good-bye Carlyle Group shareholder value, and many others as well.
What's going to happen to the fabulous Lockheed-Martin F-35 boondoggle when people realize it's a boondoggle?
If America didn't have to spend trillions on imaginary military solutions to imaginary problems, America might be able to afford health care and housing for her veterans.
Any candidate who calls out this great boondoggle will of course be roundly vilified by the establishment that stands to lose everything if the American people sniff out this scam that's been funded by their tax dollars since forever.
That's why Trump can't be allowed to win in November.
And if he does, he'll meet an unfortunate plane crash or a random shooter before January.
Thursday, June 25, 2015
US keeps starting stupid wars because they're highly profitable
Which war profiteers have profited from the Ukraine escalations these past couple of years?
Who is profiting from the carnage in Syria?
America has been arming all sides in Iraq for over a decade. That's been very bad for a lot of Iraqis but it's been very profitable for some American war profiteers.
In fact, the entire "War on Terror" has been way too close and way too profitable to a constellation of war-industry insiders who also happen to be State or Defence insiders.
There's no such thing as a bad war as long as you can make a buck on it.
Who is profiting from the carnage in Syria?
America has been arming all sides in Iraq for over a decade. That's been very bad for a lot of Iraqis but it's been very profitable for some American war profiteers.
In fact, the entire "War on Terror" has been way too close and way too profitable to a constellation of war-industry insiders who also happen to be State or Defence insiders.
There's no such thing as a bad war as long as you can make a buck on it.
Monday, December 29, 2014
The first order of business is to keep yourself in business
That's a game the Carlyle types have mastered.
When your business is selling guns and bullets and bombs and rockets to the people who need guns and bullets and bombs and rockets, and half of your board of directors are or were State Department bigs, then it's not hard to see how a lot of folks in Washington have a vested interest in stirring up and stringing out violent conflict all over the globe.
Forget the horseshit about the city on the hill; America has become the purveyor par excellence of death-dealing hardware around the world. Apparently they have easy payment plans to go with the hardware. Not ready to pay cash up front?
No problem!
101 international institutions will be more than happy to find a way to allow otherwise bankrupt failed states to spend billions in Uncle Sam's great weapons bazaar!
As long as you've got something valuable in the ground, be it oil or gas or rare earth metals, Uncle Sam's got a financing package for you!
No credit? No problem!
Money is never an issue! Here in Uncle Samistan we just print more of the stuff when the fundamentals don't add up!
After all, spending more on guns and bombs than all our "enemies" combined has to count for something!
Monday, February 24, 2014
What the Pentagon budget cuts really mean
Chuck Hagel's proposed budget cuts at the Pentagon have unleashed a carnival of hand-wringing and teeth-gnashing.
Relax. It's all window dressing.
First of all, Hagel isn't actually pitching hard numbers. He's proposing very modest reductions of troop numbers and the mothballing of some hardware that is reaching the outer margins of its useful life anyway.
The very idea of large standing armies is so 19th century. In the modern era, if the US government needs boots on the ground, the company formerly known as Blackwater or one of its many rivals can provide them quickly and cost-effectively. You'll also notice that quick-reaction special forces numbers are scheduled to go up rather than down, for those special occasions where "America's strategic interests" just can't be farmed out to the private sector or local proxies.
For routine invasions and occupations, "local proxies" like the armed forces of Kenya or Uganda or Ethiopia are a much more cost-effective way of pacifying restless locals than sending the US Army into some African backwater that happens to sit astride vast mineral or oil wealth.
What Hagel is really signalling is this; American military spending going forward will be much more focussed on buying the latest hardware. Not necessarily last-century hardware like ships and planes and tanks, but new-age "intelligent" hardware, that special niche of technology where Silicon valley meets the Valley of Death.
So rather than mourn lost Pentagon funding, patriotic investors need to do their homework and sniff out those high-tech start-ups whose products can thrive in that niche.
There's a new high-tech boom on the horizon!
Relax. It's all window dressing.
First of all, Hagel isn't actually pitching hard numbers. He's proposing very modest reductions of troop numbers and the mothballing of some hardware that is reaching the outer margins of its useful life anyway.
The very idea of large standing armies is so 19th century. In the modern era, if the US government needs boots on the ground, the company formerly known as Blackwater or one of its many rivals can provide them quickly and cost-effectively. You'll also notice that quick-reaction special forces numbers are scheduled to go up rather than down, for those special occasions where "America's strategic interests" just can't be farmed out to the private sector or local proxies.
For routine invasions and occupations, "local proxies" like the armed forces of Kenya or Uganda or Ethiopia are a much more cost-effective way of pacifying restless locals than sending the US Army into some African backwater that happens to sit astride vast mineral or oil wealth.
What Hagel is really signalling is this; American military spending going forward will be much more focussed on buying the latest hardware. Not necessarily last-century hardware like ships and planes and tanks, but new-age "intelligent" hardware, that special niche of technology where Silicon valley meets the Valley of Death.
So rather than mourn lost Pentagon funding, patriotic investors need to do their homework and sniff out those high-tech start-ups whose products can thrive in that niche.
There's a new high-tech boom on the horizon!
Tuesday, January 28, 2014
Top war profiteers invest in Africa
Canadian journalist Brian Stewart has an "analysis" on view at CBC that purports to tell us why the US and France are sending troops to Africa.
What's striking is that this far-flung and little noticed U.S. Africa Command — AFRICOM as it's called — has been on a roll at a time when the Pentagon is undergoing a big downsizing.
But the move coincides with new thinking in Washington that big wars like Iraq and Afghanistan are far less likely in future, so it's now time to shift priorities toward preparing for smaller regional conflicts
Little noticed? AFRICOM has been the subject of thousands of articles and numerous books. Brian goes on to inform us that America's interest in Africa may have something to do with China;
While the U.S. military objectives seem clear enough, it is assumed Washington has an unstated strategic goal as well — to lay down markers again in an Africa increasingly being courted by China and other Asian nations.
Again, hardly a fresh observation, and if I may say, an altogether too delicate way of stating the matter. Let us assume the worst; American troops are being prepared for African adventures in order to protect American capital. And nowhere do the interests of the American military and American capital co mingle, coalesce, and congeal more serendipitously than in the Carlyle Capital Group. "Making a buck on your bad luck" is their motto, especially where your bad luck attracts the attention of the Pentagon.
Nowhere else in the wacky world 'o inbred crony capitalism does big money snuggle tighter with big guns. So it should come as no surprise that Carlyle just announced a $100 million investment in African logistics.
As you know, "logistics" is just a ten dollar word for trucking, and anyone at all who has paid attention to America's doomed adventures in Afghanistan knows that this most ordinary of enterprises was the achilles heel of NATO and US re-supply. It was also phenomenally lucrative for the contractors providing the services, often running into the hundreds of millions of dollars per month.
Obviously lucrative enough to capture the attention of the big dogs at Carlyle.
What's striking is that this far-flung and little noticed U.S. Africa Command — AFRICOM as it's called — has been on a roll at a time when the Pentagon is undergoing a big downsizing.
But the move coincides with new thinking in Washington that big wars like Iraq and Afghanistan are far less likely in future, so it's now time to shift priorities toward preparing for smaller regional conflicts
Little noticed? AFRICOM has been the subject of thousands of articles and numerous books. Brian goes on to inform us that America's interest in Africa may have something to do with China;
While the U.S. military objectives seem clear enough, it is assumed Washington has an unstated strategic goal as well — to lay down markers again in an Africa increasingly being courted by China and other Asian nations.
Again, hardly a fresh observation, and if I may say, an altogether too delicate way of stating the matter. Let us assume the worst; American troops are being prepared for African adventures in order to protect American capital. And nowhere do the interests of the American military and American capital co mingle, coalesce, and congeal more serendipitously than in the Carlyle Capital Group. "Making a buck on your bad luck" is their motto, especially where your bad luck attracts the attention of the Pentagon.
Nowhere else in the wacky world 'o inbred crony capitalism does big money snuggle tighter with big guns. So it should come as no surprise that Carlyle just announced a $100 million investment in African logistics.
As you know, "logistics" is just a ten dollar word for trucking, and anyone at all who has paid attention to America's doomed adventures in Afghanistan knows that this most ordinary of enterprises was the achilles heel of NATO and US re-supply. It was also phenomenally lucrative for the contractors providing the services, often running into the hundreds of millions of dollars per month.
Obviously lucrative enough to capture the attention of the big dogs at Carlyle.
Sunday, December 30, 2012
666
666 million dollars that is.
That's the number the original story at Bloomberg News gave when they first reported the buyout of Duff and Phelps.
I notice that they have since amended that to $665.5 million. Maybe some mid-level editor glanced at the headline and said WTF! We're gonna have the NWO crowd crawling all over us!
No matter. Rounded that still ends up as 666.
And you're not going to escape the New World Order types anyway. Look who's buying Duff and Phelps.
A consortium.
A consortium led by Carlyle Group!
And if that's not enough, the consortium includes the Edmond de Rothschild Group!
Carlyle. Rothschild. 666 million. I couldn't make this stuff up!
I'm heading out back to check on the crop circles...
That's the number the original story at Bloomberg News gave when they first reported the buyout of Duff and Phelps.
I notice that they have since amended that to $665.5 million. Maybe some mid-level editor glanced at the headline and said WTF! We're gonna have the NWO crowd crawling all over us!
No matter. Rounded that still ends up as 666.
And you're not going to escape the New World Order types anyway. Look who's buying Duff and Phelps.
A consortium.
A consortium led by Carlyle Group!
And if that's not enough, the consortium includes the Edmond de Rothschild Group!
Carlyle. Rothschild. 666 million. I couldn't make this stuff up!
I'm heading out back to check on the crop circles...
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