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[PhilipShore]

CorrenteWire
Bush Family, Dubai Ports World and the Carlyle Group: More incest than a village in Appalachia
2006-02-24

http://www.correntewire.com/bush_family_dubai_ports_world_and_the_carlyle_group_more_incest_than_a_village_in_appalachia

Via Randi Rhodes, the Goddess of Progressive Talk Radio. BTW: Air America is a great way to keep up on things if you can’t read blogs at work. But keep the volume down or you might get questions from co-workers like “what is she bitching about now?”.

The Lou Dobbs show, CNN, 2/22/06:

CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice over): The oil-rich United Arab Emirates is a major investor in The Carlyle Group, the private equity investment firm where President Bush’s father once served as senior adviser and is a who’s who of former high-level government officials. Just last year, Dubai International Capital, a government-backed buyout firm, invested in an $8 billion Carlyle fund.