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Title: Tony Blair Expected to Join Carlyle Group
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Published: Aug 26, 2005
Author: London Mirror
Post Date: 2005-08-26 02:05:02 by Coral Snake
Keywords: Expected, Carlyle, Blair
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Tony Blair Expected to Join Carlyle Group
London Mirror | August 25 2005
TONY Blair is expected to join one of the most exclusive groups of businessmen in the world after he leaves Downing Street.
The PM is being lined up for a highly lucrative position with the Carlyle Group - an American-based investment giant with strong links to the White House and the defence industry.
The firm has been nicknamed "The Ex-Presidents Club" because it has had a host of former world leaders on its books including George Bush Senior, his former secretary of state James Baker and former British PM John Major. There a also a large number of former US Army top brass.
Mr Blair has been keeping quiet about his plans after his departure from Number 10 - which could be as early as 2007 according to some Labour insiders.
But sources in the City have revealed that he is "seriously considering" a high-profile role with Carlyle - which manages $30billion (£20million) of investments worldwide.
The job could net Mr Blair up to £500,000 a year for only a few days work a month giving speeches and making "networking" trips on behalf of the company.
The move comes after it emerged that the premier's financial affairs are in an increasingly perilous state His dream home has crashed in value by £700,000 in just seven months and he and Cherie have to find £13,000 a month for the mortgage.
The £3million loan the couple took out to buy the house in London's Connaught Square is 17 times Mr Blair's current salary.
Last night one leading City source said: "Private equity firms don't come any more powerful than Carlyle. It would be a huge coup for them if they could bring Tony Blair on board.
"But the job is likely to infuriate MPs and campaigners opposed to Britain's role in the Iraq War because of Carlyle's strong links to the defence industry."
A senior Government source admitted: "We know that Tony is looking at a number of options for life after Downing Street including writing his memoirs.
"But taking certain jobs could present the Labour Party with a large headache, particularly with firms investing in the US arms industry.
"We are trying to move links with the US and the Iraq War down the agenda - and linking up with a firm like Carlyle could reopen all those wounds."
At one time, Carlyle's multi-million pound investors included Saudi members of the estranged family of al-Qaeda warlord Osama bin Laden, who have disowned him. But the family have not been involved with the group for several years.
It has been criticised for using George Bush Senior to help land business deals in the Middle East while advising the American President on sensitive issues in the region at the same time.
City experts believe Mr Blair would be ideally suited to the investment world because he has "the charm to schmooze almost anyone", according to one financier in the Square Mile.
The PM would have the added advantage of having met many of the world leaders with whom Carlyle is keen to do business.
But friends of Mr Blair insist he is considering other money-making options after leaving frontline politics.
They include a lecture tour in the United States which could net him more than £1million and the possibility of a visiting professorship at an American university.
Job.. Bush Snr White House
HOW THE FIRM HAS LINKS AT THE TO
THE Carlyle Group is an American private investment firm which has branches across the world.
It was named after the Carlyle Hotel in New York - although it made its headquarters in Washington DC.
A range of former US leaders either work for the company or invest in it including Frank Carlucci, President Ronald Reagan's former Defence Secretary.
Former US President George Bush Senior was also involved with the huge corporation, but he left two years ago.
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#1. To: Coral Snake (#0)
Why the short title? ;)
Are we but an organic computer influenced by our environment to desire one set of neuropeptides over another, equating into competition for self worth on a primitive level never realized by the shallow and self empowering.
Meet the Carlyle Group http://hereinreality.com/carlyle.ht ml
The mind once expanded by a new idea never returns to its' original size
The £3million loan the couple took out to buy the house in London's Connaught Square is 17 times Mr Blair's current salary. Ironically, this is why Clinton's BJ's were a big deal.. If Blair's sinking financially, I see an opportunity for someone to get their hooks in him. Always a bad thing and his finincial situation is definately in the public interest. It should be weighed against his policy decisions, imo.
"Working Three Jobs is: Uniquely American, isn't it? I mean, that is fantastic... Get any sleep?" (Laughs) ~ George W Bush
http://libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=14170 bin Laden Money Manager Carlyle Group to Meet in Lisbon (War is a Business)
The mind once expanded by a new idea never returns to its' original size
Should we expect any different? This is Blair's reward for backing the Bush Crime Family's War on Terror.
"But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of." Lord Byron
Maybe this will persuade Blair to leave office soon.
Sorry, the title was a mistake caused by placing the full article in both the article and title boxes. ;c)
I suspected Rabbi Guiliani's visit to London during the bombings had a little more to do with Terrorism PR...
Every obedient sycophant deserves his just reward. "Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't." - Mark Twain - Victory and Energy cartoon animations.
http://iraqwar.mirror- world.ru/article/61181 Carlyle Group To Take over U.S. Nuclear Weapons Program
The mind once expanded by a new idea never returns to its' original size
University of Texas, who posted the nnmb list of grads from that school?
"Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't." - Mark Twain - Victory and Energy cartoon animations.
I should have ping you to this list...
#2. To: Coral Snake (#0)
#3. To: Coral Snake (#0)
The move comes after it emerged that the premier's financial affairs are in an increasingly perilous state His dream home has crashed in value by £700,000 in just seven months and he and Cherie have to find £13,000 a month for the mortgage.
#4. To: timetobuildaboat (#1)
#5. To: Coral Snake (#0)
Tony Blair Expected to Join Carlyle Group
#6. To: Coral Snake (#0)
#7. To: timetobuildaboat (#1)
Elapidae, Micrurus fulvius 
#8. To: BTP Holdings (#5)
“Under this roof are the heads of the family of Rothschild, a name famous in every capital of Europe, and every division of the globe." -Benjamin Disraeli
#9. To: Coral Snake (#0)
which could be as early as 2007
#10. To: robin, All (#9)
#11. To: Itisa1mosttoolate, Eoghan (#10)
In a stealth takeover by the Carlyle Group, facilitated by five admirals, the management contract will be transferred next year to the University of Texas, where the military and the Carlyle Group will have control. A new “ramping up” of the nuclear weapons program is underway, with program funding at the highest level ever - even higher than during the Cold War – extending nuclear weapons into outer space, into the very atmosphere that makes life on earth possible, and with no “real” enemy in sight.
#12. To: robin (#11)
“Under this roof are the heads of the family of Rothschild, a name famous in every capital of Europe, and every division of the globe." -Benjamin Disraeli
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