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America for Sale, and OPEC is buying
Set America Free ^
| January 20, 2008
Posted on 01/21/2008 6:31:01 AM PST by ddtorquee
Petrodollar rich foreign governments buy their way into US board rooms - click the link to watch the video
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: energy; environmentalism; foreignmoney; ganggreen; immoral; oil; opec; uae
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posted on
01/21/2008 6:31:03 AM PST
by
ddtorquee
To: ddtorquee
I suspect China is buying a lot more than OPEC. Not doubting you, just stating an opinion.
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posted on
01/21/2008 6:35:28 AM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Duncan Hunter, Conservative excellence in action.)
To: ddtorquee
Interesting topic. Thanks for posting.
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posted on
01/21/2008 6:36:10 AM PST
by
PGalt
To: cripplecreek
I recall in the 80’s/90’s it was the Japanese.
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posted on
01/21/2008 6:40:59 AM PST
by
theDentist
(Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
To: theDentist
The Japanese weren’t making money off of us and selling weapons to our enemies.
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posted on
01/21/2008 6:42:22 AM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Duncan Hunter, Conservative excellence in action.)
To: cripplecreek
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posted on
01/21/2008 6:43:25 AM PST
by
theDentist
(Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
To: ddtorquee
Didn’t the Japanese get sucked into one of these “Buy High then have to Sell Low” deals a decade or two ago?
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posted on
01/21/2008 6:46:03 AM PST
by
Don Corleone
(Leave the gun..take the cannoli)
To: cripplecreek
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.
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posted on
01/21/2008 6:46:51 AM PST
by
Loud Mime
(It is easier to wash dirt off your hands than blood = Gladiator)
To: ddtorquee
Ahhhh... Belly Girl.
Whatever happened to Protest Warriors?
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posted on
01/21/2008 6:48:37 AM PST
by
theDentist
(Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
To: ddtorquee; cripplecreek; PGalt; theDentist; Don Corleone; Loud Mime
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posted on
01/21/2008 6:59:01 AM PST
by
Red Badger
( We don't have science, but we do have consensus.......)
To: Loud Mime
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.
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posted on
01/21/2008 7:00:36 AM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Duncan Hunter, Conservative excellence in action.)
To: ddtorquee
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?
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posted on
01/21/2008 7:01:28 AM PST
by
joe fonebone
(When in danger, when in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout)
To: Don Corleone
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.
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posted on
01/21/2008 7:03:30 AM PST
by
Alberta's Child
(I'm out on the outskirts of nowhere . . . with ghosts on my trail, chasing me there.)
To: theDentist
Yes... and we bought America back for pennies on the dollar! FR seems to have it’s share of doomers.
LLS
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posted on
01/21/2008 7:10:47 AM PST
by
LibLieSlayer
(Support America, Kill terrorists, Destroy dims and vote Fred!)
To: joe fonebone
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
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posted on
01/21/2008 7:13:44 AM PST
by
texastoo
((((((USA)))))((((((, USA))))))((((((. USA))))))))
To: texastoo
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%.
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posted on
01/21/2008 7:28:39 AM PST
by
Alberta's Child
(I'm out on the outskirts of nowhere . . . with ghosts on my trail, chasing me there.)
To: ddtorquee
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...
To: Don Corleone
"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
To: ddtorquee
We brought this on ourselves. We learned absolutely nothing from the 1970s and permitted radical environmentalists to castrate our energy potential.
To: veracious
"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 themselvesdespite 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
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