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Sparkie, I read the linked story.

I’m dumber than a stick.

What does all that mean?  I don’t understand.  Maybe a little elaboration would help.  And who the heck is Carlyle and why should I care?

Sorry for being an imbecile.

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Old Tigers are more dangerous when they believe this could be their last hunt.

From , “The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen”
Old tigers, sensing the end,
they’re at their most fierce. 
And they go down fighting.

Carlyle is an buyout group that manages 75B USD. It is populated with the sorts of people that make the Illuminati conspiracy types go nuts. I think they were just dumping some hot air on Europe to make the euro dip so they could have a window of opportunity to convert some dollars when the euro is temporarily low. who knows what transactions followed that. they lost some loot though. i see it as crisis control and isolation tactics.
or maybe they are trying to haul the euro down a bit so the dollar doesn’t look so bad by dumping some less-than-nothing on the dutch.
what will be most interesting, in the weeks and months ahead, will be to see what happens with china and japan. japan makes 30% more than they spend and china is closer to 50%. the chinese now have 1.4 trillion USD. if the dollar falls, they loose savings. its like when we were staring down the russains, mutual destruction with bombs. now its the chinese and instead of bombs, its money.

Carlyle is totally owned and controlled by Democrats. Good for their ass. About time they got fucked like they routinely fuck investors.

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George H.W Bush and James Baker, noted Democrats

Neither of whom have any controlling interest in the company. Why do you skate around who actually owns the controlling balance of stock? You insist that Republican members of Congress and Admins divest themselves of such, and yet not a word about 5 senior Democrats who are deeply invested in and voting controlling blocks in several corporations which are being bailed out of their financial mismanagement with tax dollars. Why is that, lestupid?

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2hotel9: help me out here… who are the 5 dems who run Carlisle?

"Here lies, in honored glory, an American soldier, known but to God.”

The stakes are high. Whether the issue is the economy, or energy, or the federal courts or national security, the right answers are coming not from the Democrats, but from the Republicans. The surge of operations that began a year ago is succeeding. The only way to lose this fight is to quit. Richard M. Cheney, Vice President, 30 May, 2008

it is a bipartisan phenomenon. its also extra-national and heavy into the arms business.

Here is the publicly available listing of “team members”. Note that this is employees, not board members, nor is it openly accessible to get a list of voting board members. Such notables as J. Rockefeller, Henry Waxman, Teddie Kennedy, John Murtha, Richard Gephardt, David Bonior, and lets not forget Mr Nancy Pelosi, a man who is very well connected in international business and finance circles.

Start following the interconnections and incestuous relations and you find all kinds of odd bedfellows. And here I thought only evil Republicans were involved in business.

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