NBC talking about Carlyle Group and Kuwait NOW!!!!

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[girl gone mad]

1. Details, please. n/t

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3. James Baker & the Carlyle Group strong arming Kuwait

Influence pedaling of the worst kind. Looking for link. NOthing on their website yet. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032619/

[MidwestTransplant]

2. From the Guardian artcile perhaps?

Jim Baker is working to relive debt while at the same time Carlyle is working to get money back from Iraq for Kuwait. Baker is a partner of Carlyle.

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4. That's the story. Influence pedaling. Of course, Baker knew nothing.

[Eurobabe]

5. NBC also hammering on the vote suppression

WOOHOO! Did they grow testes??

Showed quote from GOPer: "we cannot win this without suppressing the vote in Detroit" or something to that matter.

How disgusting.

[lasttrip]

6. maybe they see the power a grassroots advertiser boycott can do.

way to go DU'ers. Big Part.

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[Gabi Hayes]

8. here....I saw that, too.....amazing LIES from pugs on that one!

Rep. John Pappageorge (R-Troy) was quoted in the Detroit Free Press as saying, “If we do not suppress the Detroit vote, we're going to have a tough time in this election.”

they tried to fob it off by claiming it sprang from a pot-legalization campaign

you KNOW they're desperate when the haul out that Ginsberg assface

[ROakes1019]

7. http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1013-20.htm

Here's the link to Naomi Klein's article in THE NATION.