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I am not sure of I am recalling this episode correctly, but wasn't Soros very upset about the deal falling through?

    "I don't think you hear me. I don't think you understand. Glenn Beck is hurting Mr. Soros and his business,"  was the message delivered to Beck via a front man for George Soros.Though certainly a silkier  warning compared to crudeness of Mexican drug cartels with their  fondness for  special delivery of a human head delivered in a suitcase, in George Soros' world, the inference is equally chilling.If Glenn Beck was frightened, troubled or disturbed by the ominous message, it didn't show.  Beck used the warning, told as a personal story,as a mere post script to his first segment...

The Carlyle Group occupies two slots on the National Council on Energy Policy, writes the PEU Report. Their two members are: Robert E. Grady: Managing Partner, Carlyle Venture Partners, The Carlyle Group and former Executive Associate Director of the OMB R. James Woolsey: Senior Executive Adviser, Booz Allen, Hamilton; former Director of Central Intelligence Keep in mind that Carlyle CEO and co-founder David Rubenstein is on record predicting $200 per barrel oil. I wrote when he made the forecast: Rubenstein sees inflation climbing to the 5% range. If the Fed starts printing again, I think it could go to double...

President Obama’s pick for Treasury Secretary, Timothy Geithner, is being urged to lay the foundation for “global governance” by considering “international taxation” measures to loot more money from U.S. taxpayers. The recommendation is included in the report, “The Global Agenda 2009,” which is being considered by the World Economic Forum (WEF), meeting in Davos, Switzerland, January 28th - February 1st. The WEF is not an official government group but does include dozens of government, corporate and labor leaders at its annual meetings. Media companies such as News Corporation (parent of Fox News, the Fox Business Network, and the Wall Street...

The ultimate insider, David Rubenstein, Managing Director and co-Founder of The Carlyle Group, told the Milken Institute Global Conference that a terrorist attack before the elections would have a dramatic impact on the elections and that it would result in Rudy Giuliani winning the election. He told the conference that following another attack Giuliani would be viewed by voters as the "Protector in Chief"...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Public investment funds based in Texas could invest directly in transportation projects through a new corporation under a plan unveiled on Thursday by the state's legislative leaders and the governor. Texas has the nation's biggest road privatization plan but the legislature, reacting to criticisms that developers were enriching themselves at the expense of taxpayers, enacted a two-year moratorium. That has crimped road-building projects and led to a series of clashes between the governor and the legislature, who now have agreed on a compromise plan. Developers, including overseas companies, investment banks and private equity funds all vie...

Carlyle sells off steel group for $3.53bn By Julie MacIntosh in New York Published: August 13 2008 00:24 | Last updated: August 13 2008 00:24 The Carlyle Group agreed on Tuesday to sell John Maneely, a US manufacturer of steel pipes and tubes, to Russian steelmaker Novolipetsk Steel for $3.53bn, culminating a two-year turnround process. Carlyle has voluntarily filed to have the deal reviewed by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (Cfius), a panel that seeks to protect certain US national security interests from foreign investment.

Lenders take the last of the fund's mortgage-backed securities TEL AVIV (MarketWatch) - After 19 months in business and eight months as a public company, Carlyle Capital Corp., the Channel Islands affiliate of the Washington private-equity firm Carlyle Group, said Monday it would apply under Guernsey's companies law to liquidate the firm. The company late Sunday said it "received default notices from its remaining two lenders and it believes that its lenders have now taken possession of substantially all of its U.S.-government-agency AAA-rated residential-mortgage-backed securities," Carlyle Capital said in a statement. "As a result, the company believes its liabilities exceed...

The credit crisis has claimed another victim. Carlyle Capital Corp. said late Wednesday that it expects that its lenders will seize its assets, causing the likely liquidation of the fund. "Although it has been working diligently with its lenders, the Company has not been able to reach a mutually beneficial agreement to stabilize its financing," the fund said in a statement. The fund's likely collapse would be a major black eye for Carlyle Group, the powerful Washington-based private-equity firm whose executives own 15% of the fund. Though it's registered in Guernsey, U.K., and trades in Amsterdam, Carlyle Group runs Carlyle...

The severity of its liquidity problems indicates that the unfolding financial crisis is taking major parts of the US financial and political elite down with it. Carlyle Capital Corp Ltd, a subsidiary of one of the most influential US private equity funds and closely tied to the Bush family, is in default on several of its securities. Carlyle is an offshore subsidiary of the Washington-based Carlyle Group, one of the most politically powerful private equity firms of the past two decades. Among the leading partners of the Carlyle Group in recent years have been George H W Bush, father of...

At the front of a quiet, dimly-lit auditorium inside Weatherford High School Thursday, Gov. Rick Perry and other friends eulogized the late Ric Williamson. Perry borrowed a quote from author Jonathan Swift to describe Williamson, who, as chairman of the Texas Transportation Commission, was often at the center of controversy. “When a genius comes into the word, you will know him by this sign: that the dunces are all in confederacy against him,� Perry recited. “Jonathan Swift didn’t know Ric Williamson, but he pegged him.� Williamson, 55, was pronounced dead on Sunday after suffering an apparent heart attack while at...

NEW YORK -- A rare 710-year-old copy of the Magna Carta, among the most important historical documents ever to hit the auction block, sold for US$21.3 million Tuesday at Sotheby's. The document was bought by a Washington businessman who said he was determined to see it remain in the United States, where it has been on display at the National Archives and Records Administration since 1988. The last remaining copy in the United States and the last in private hands, the Magna Carta, one of 17 known to exist, was sold by The Perot Foundation, created by billionaire former U.S....

President George W. Bush's Iraq policy is now in the political equivalent of receivership?a bankrupt project that is about to be placed in the hands of the worldly-wise pragmatists who surrounded the president's own father. Think of them as receivers in bankruptcy, looking for ways to salvage America's military and moral assets after a post-September 11 adventure that voters (and most of the rest of the world) concluded was a waste of blood and treasure.

American universities rank among the best in the world, but they also boast another, more dubious distinction: They are home to some of the world’s most radical academics. Last month, one of these select individuals, UC Berkeley professor Hatem Bazian, brought his hate-filled show to two extremist Islamic Centers in South Florida. Both of these institutions are in the process of building large-scale mosques in their respective cities. And, given that their guest had previously called for attacks on the United States, the question naturally arose: Were these institutions looking to make friends in the community or to start a holy war?Past...

Amtrak service on both north and southbound tracks has come to a halt after a bridge support was damaged in Rocky Mount Wednesday evening. -- Until the repairs are made, no rail traffic north or southbound can happen south of Rocky Mount. All trains between Florida and Rocky Mount will be cancelled as a result, as well as any trains in northern areas headed south of Rocky Mount. There is no current estimate on the number of trains affected.

Private equity firm The Carlyle Group established a team to acquire public-purpose facilities such as ports a day after a United Arab Emirates company said it would transfer newly acquired operations at American ports to a U.S. organization. Washington, D.C.-based Carlyle Group announced an eight-person team would invest in public-purpose infrastructure projects such as ports, transportation and water facilities, airports, bridges and stadiums. The team will begin work March 13. The new infrastructure team had been planned for six months, but the Carlyle Group decided Thursday to launch it. DP World, a company owned by the United Arab Emirates, acquired...

Is Carlyle Group at heart of DPW deal? Posted: March 3, 2006 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2006 WorldNetDaily.com What does Dubai Ports World have in common with CSX, Treasury Secretary John Snow, and the Bush Family? The Carlyle Group is the answer currently gaining ground on the Internet. What once seemed the propaganda ramblings of none other than "Fahrenheit 911's" Michael Moore may end up becoming the subject of the Senate's upcoming investigation into what Washington insiders are beginning to call the "Dubai Debacle." As reported in the Guardian as early as 2001, Bush '41 and '43 have been connected...

Dubai Ports International to Acquire CSX Corporation’s International Terminal Business Dubai, Hong Kong, Jacksonville, FL, 9 December 2004 - Dubai Ports International (“DPI”), one of the world’s leading port operators, announces that it has signed a definitive agreement with CSX Corporation (NYSE: CSX) to acquire the international terminal business conducted by CSX World Terminals (“the Company”) and other related interests for a cash consideration of US$1.15 billion, subject to customary adjustments. The transaction will be financed from a committed facility arranged and underwritten by Deutsche Bank. Completion of the transaction is expected to take place in the first quarter of...

CHICAGO (AP) - Federal prosecutors investigating corruption at a state pension fund have subpoenaed records concerning $4.5 million in fees a Washington-based investment firm is paying the new treasurer of the Republican National Committee, government sources confirmed Tuesday. The subpoena calls for documents related to the fund, the Carlyle Group and Robert Kjellander, said sources familiar with the investigation who spoke only on condition of anonymity, saying prosecutors want details of the probe kept secret. Kjellander, a lobbyist who headed President Bush's re-election campaign in three states, was named the RNC's treasurer over the weekend. Illinois Teachers Retirement System officials...

BAE Systems to buy UDI for $4.2 bln Largest transatlantic defense deal in recent years By Aude Lagorce, MarketWatch Last Update: 3:35 AM ET March 7, 2005 LONDON (MarketWatch) -- BAE Systems, Europe's largest defense contractor, said Monday it has an agreement to buy United Defense Industries, the Bradley tank maker, for $3.97 billion in cash and $218 million in debt assumption. The deal values Arlington, Va.-based United Defense Industries, Inc., (UDI: news, chart, profile) which also makes artillery systems, naval guns and missile launchers, at $75 a share, setting a 29 percent premium to the UDI close Friday at...

BAE Systems, the British military contractor, reached a deal to acquire United Defense Industries for about $4 billion last night, according to executives close to the deal. United Defense, maker of the Bradley Fighting Vehicle, had been put up for auction several months ago, the executives said. BAE appears to have beaten several other rivals, including Northrop Grumman, for control of United Defense. The deal is expected to be announced today, the executives said. Such a combination would further accelerate trans-Atlantic alliances between United States and British military contractors. BAE Systems already has an $18.9 billion partnership with Lockheed Martin...

Despite his best efforts, left-wing filmmaker Michael Moore did nothing to hurt the business of an American investment firm with past links to Saudi Arabia and the family of Osama bin Laden. London’s Guardian newspaper reported The Carlyle Group says 2004 was its "best ever" year, despite Moore's attempt to tarnish the firm's reputation in his schlockumentary "Fahrenheit 9/11." According to the paper, Carlyle reported a return of $5.3 billion to its investors last year, shedding all or part of 71 investments while acquiring 107 new ones and raising $7.8 billion for investment. The amount the firm paid out to...

LONDON (AFP) - US President George W. Bush's special envoy for Iraqi debt, James Baker, is simultaneously working for a commercial concern that is trying to recover money from Iraq, a British newspaper said. The Guardian said that Baker, a former US secretary of state, has a reported 180-million-dollar (150-million-euro) stake in the merchant bank and defence contractor the Carlyle Group. This consortium, it said, is secretly proposing to collect 27 billion dollars on behalf of Kuwait, one of Iraq's biggest creditors, by using high-level political influence. According to the Guardian, the Carlyle Group claims that Baker will not benefit...

In his film "Fahrenheit 9/11," Democratic Party propaganda-meister Michael Moore accuses President Bush of being too cozy with Osama bin Laden's relatives, claiming Bush once accepted money from an international investment consortium known as the Carlyle Group, on whose board bin Laden family members used to sit. But it turns out that Moore, not Bush, may have the more active financial relationship with Carlyle. Reports Sunday's New York Post: "The Carlyle Group - which [Moore] bashes in the movie as some sort of shadowy war profiteering company - has become part owner of Loews Cinemas, which is currently showing his...

<p>WASHINGTON: He was known as the man who broke the Bank of England. In 1997, he destroyed the lives of millions of people in Thailand through his greed for money. A billionaire philanthropist, he meddles in politics and now blatantly buys and sells countries. He has never been elected to office, but easily uses the phrase "regime change" as an excuse for making even more money.</p>

After Quail hunting in Texas Friday, President George W. Bush had lunch with his father and others, including U.S. envoy James A. Baker III, who was secretary of state in his father’s administration. Baker recently returned from a trip to Asia, part of his efforts to reduce Iraq's massive foreign debts. He's already been to Europe. Bush said Baker's next stop was the Middle East. Is it possible that in James Baker's recent travels to encourage world leaders to reduce the billions of dollars of Iraqi debt, he [the U.S.] was asked to apply even greater pressure on the Israelis...

WASHINGTON The two fateful questions of Russian history are, "What is to be done?" and "Who is to blame?" Now, almost four years into the presidency of Vladimir Putin, who came into office asserting that Russia needs a "dictatorship of law," Russians are asking a new question: "What is to be done with those who are to blame?" Black humor has long been part of the Russian character, of course. But events of recent weeks have caused this question to be considered with a new seriousness. With the arrest last month of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the former chief executive of Russia's...

George Bush, former US president, is retiring from his position as senior adviser to the Carlyle Group, officials at the well-connected Washington-based private equity firm said yesterday. Mr Bush, whose son George W Bush is the current US president, had been a senior adviser to Carlyle's Asia Advisory Board since 1999. Carlyle offered no particular explanation for the retirement of Mr Bush, other than his age and desire to move on to other endeavours. Mr Bush was one of a handful of former politicians to occupy high-level positions at Carlyle. Others include James Baker, secretary of state in Mr Bush's...

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. Carlyle Group, the powerful investment house with close links to the Bush family, is facing acute embarrassment after the emergence of sardonic remarks the company founder made about the president. In a talk to investors, David Rubenstein said George W Bush did little but tell dirty jokes while on the board of a company owned by Carlyle, and that he wouldn't have appeared in the top 25m people he would have suggested for president of the US. Carlyle employs the first President Bush and a host of other luminaries including John...

IBM Chairman Lou Gerstner has been named chair of private equity company The Carlyle Group, a role he'll assume shortly after leaving his Big Blue post at year's end. Gerstner will join Carlyle on Jan. 7, the company announced Thursday, offering strategic advice, lending perspective to the management of Carlyle's portfolio companies and reviewing Carlyle's global investments. Gerstner will also serve on the company's various committees. "Carlyle is a world-class firm with an outstanding record of achievement--a record built on a strong, global business base and a team of creative, focused professionals," Gerstner said in a statement. "This is...

<p>Bangkok, July 26 (Bloomberg) -- Greetings from Thailand, where accounting standards are more rigorous than those found in the U.S.</p> <p>A bold pronouncement for sure, yet that's exactly what Thailand's Securities and Exchange Commission is saying these days. In the wake of scandals at Enron Corp., Global Crossing Ltd., WorldCom Inc. and elsewhere, Thai regulators are calling on investors to be careful about putting money into the world's biggest economies.</p>

NEW YORK - Enron's name is poison these days, so anything that can be slapped with that label already has one foot in the grave. Among the victims might be the Army's Crusader howitzer, which is championed by Army Secretary Thomas White, whose old Enron ties just might help Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld kill off the new howitzer by scaring away its Congressional supporters. White, a former Enron executive, has been criticized for his contacts with his old firm. That has made White something of a political liability for the Bush Administration, which naturally wants to distance itself from the...

Softbank Asia Infrastructure Fund, Carlyle Group and two other partners hope to buy cash-strapped Asia Global Crossing Ltd for about 10 percent of the value of its assets. The group is in "the early stages" of weighing a bid for the network operator, a unit of bankrupt Global Crossing Ltd, said Andrew Yan, president of the Softbank Corp fund. Yan, whose fund counts Cisco Systems Ltd as its leading investor, declined to value such a bid. The unit valued its net fixed assets at US$2.6 billion in a November filing. A takeover may ensure the future of Asia Global Crossing's...