America for Sale, and OPEC is buying

Set America Free ^ | January 20, 2008

[ddtorquee]

Petrodollar rich foreign governments buy their way into US board rooms - click the link to watch the video

[cripplecreek]

I suspect China is buying a lot more than OPEC. Not doubting you, just stating an opinion.

[PGalt]

Interesting topic. Thanks for posting.

[theDentist]

I recall in the 80’s/90’s it was the Japanese.

[cripplecreek]

The Japanese weren’t making money off of us and selling weapons to our enemies.

[theDentist]

Perhaps not directly....

[Don Corleone]

Didn’t the Japanese get sucked into one of these “Buy High then have to Sell Low” deals a decade or two ago?

[Loud Mime]

Have you seen the movie “No Country for Old Men?”

It’s a story of how “innocent” greed results in the death of others.....and other things. The old adage that the capitalist would sell the rope to their own hangman is logical. If we sell the rope, we have to take great measures to ensure that rope is never used.

[theDentist]

Ahhhh... Belly Girl.
Whatever happened to Protest Warriors?

[Red Badger]

http://www.thetrumpet.com/index.php?q=4634.0.101.0

[cripplecreek]

Capitalism needs to be tempered with morality. Without it, we start looking at dead soldiers and victims of illegal immigrant crimes as little more than collateral damage.

Drug runners can be seen as pure capitalists without morality. Anything that gets in the way of them making a buck, dies.

Capitalism is what made this country great but when morality is removed it always results in collapse.

[joe fonebone]

oh god, here we go again.....first the japanese were coming....then the germans were coming....then the chinese were coming....now the arabs are coming.....who’s next?

[Alberta's Child]

Right. The Mitsubishi Estate Company of Japan paid something like $2 billion for Rockefeller Center in New York City back in the 1980s, then ended up walking away from it when the partnership it had formed to own the buildings turned over the entire asset to a company that held a $1.3 billion mortgage on it.

[LibLieSlayer]

Yes... and we bought America back for pennies on the dollar! FR seems to have it’s share of doomers.

LLS

[texastoo]

Figure it out for yourself. Here is our debt.

MAJOR FOREIGN HOLDERS OF TREASURY SECURITIES
(in billions of dollars)
HOLDINGS 1/ AT END OF PERIOD

http://www.treas.gov/tic/mfh.txt

[Alberta's Child]

Great information there. It’s interesting that holdings of U.S. treasury securities by Japan and China have declined in the last 12 months, while U.K. holdings have grown more than 400%.

[veracious]

Exactly, the subtle way to take over America is via the boardroom and the mortgage business.

All this, compliments of the capitalism without morality or borders crowd, where nothing that matters (matters): a _huge_ trade deficit (transfer of wealth), moving most production overseas to your future enemies (national or religious) countries (transfer of wealth), uncontrolled migrations between countries. nation states.

Welcome, to a great country/civilization gone wild...

[ddtorquee]

"no one should be under any illusions that Abu Dhabi's investment is a normal commercial transaction. It comes from a sovereign wealth fund controlled by a foreign government, which has political as much as business interests; from an Arab government that has a troubling history with American banking laws; and it offers a Middle Eastern entree into the U.S. financial system that since 9/11 plays a pivotal role in the war on terror. "
Wall Street Journal
http://opinionjournal.com/editorial/?id=110010920

[montag813]

We brought this on ourselves. We learned absolutely nothing from the 1970s and permitted radical environmentalists to castrate our energy potential.

[ddtorquee]

"Sovereign wealth funds from the Persian Gulf are changing the face of global finance in ways that unnerve many Westerners. In recent months Gulf funds have bought large chunks of Citigroup (C), the private equity giant Carlyle Group, semiconductor heavyweight Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), planemaker European Aeronautic Defense & Space (EADS), and many other big companies. Gulf funds are also getting into leveraged buyouts, sometimes alongside private equity firms and sometimes by themselves—despite having little experience operating companies. "Large sovereign wealth funds have become major players in private equity, not only as investors but also as competitors," says David Rubenstein, a founder of Carlyle, which sold a 7.5% stake to an Abu Dhabi fund in September. Soon, says Gregory A. White, managing director at Thomas H. Lee Partners, "they will be the industry. We will be working for them." "
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_03/b4067042272294.htm?campaign_id=rss_eu