As I read the news and try to connect the dots of the events of our time, past and present, I really get exasperated. I can't believe the extent of destruction caused by the exportation of American Capitalism around the world. But two recurring fundamental societal problems come to my mind as I digest the daily news: GREED and HYPOCRISY, as to say that the free marketeering leaders cover up their greedy public policies with their hypocritical behaviour.

I began to express my frustrations of a world for the few and privileged as I criticized the policies of Romanow's government in Saskatchewan. Sadly, I concluded at the time that we must think for ourselves before we ever trust our Saskatchewan's government. The story is the same all over the world, as this world has been plagued by the sickness of American Capitalism characterized by its Military Industrial Complex. On several occasions I have mentioned the Carlyle Group, a private investment firm, which makes bloody money out of the business confluence of government, industry and the military.

Here are the names of the people belonging to Carlyle Canada::

James A. Baker III ; Laurent Beaudoin; Frank C. Carlucci; Peter J.G. Bentley; Andre Bisson; Paul G. Desmarais; Allan E. Gotlieb; E. Peter Lougheed; Frank McKinna; David P. O'Brien; Hartley T. Richardson;  William Sinclair; Lynton R. Wilson

Do you recognize any of these hypocritical people who preach peace and a fair market while supporting wars and a belligerent Free Market?

This Carlyle Group is a sickening enterprise and includes the membership of Russian billionaire and philanthropic Mikhail B. Khodorkovsky, former CEO of Yuko's company and currently in a Moscow's jail for charges of corruption, and Filipino Fidel V. Ramos, former president of the Philippines and current blamer of rich nations' unfair trade practices. In my last article I identified Lord Black's Hollinger International as an umbrella organization connecting many of the few and privileged of this world and now I hear that the Pentagon's bankers, an oxymoron for the Carlyle Group, may be bailing out Lord Black.

GREED and HYPOCRISY lead us to never ending WARS and it is time to change this bloody moneyed American Capitalism so that we can create a shared Capitalism with a social soul and which is generous, risk taking and conducive to peace.

References

Pertinent articles published in Ensign

Greider, William The Soul of Capitalism September 11, 2003 The Nation, http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20030929&c=1&s=greider

HereInReality Meet The Carlyle Group: Former World Leaders and Washington Insiders Making Billions in the War on Terrorism http://www.hereinreality.com/carlyle.html

New York Times The Rigged Trade Game July 20, 2003 http://www.globalpolicy.org/globaliz/econ/2003/0721rigged.htm

The Carlyle Group Advisory Boards http://www.thecarlylegroup.com/eng/company/l3-company738.html

deSantis, Mario Bush's advance of freedom: The Soul of American Capitalism November 23, 2003 Ensign

Doward, Jamie and Jessica Hodgson Pentagon bankers may bail out Black: 'Ex-Presidents Club' ready to throw lifeline to embattled Telegraph owner November 23, 2003 The Observer, http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,1091483,00.html

Raimondo, Justin CONRAD BLACK & THE CORRUPTION OF EMPIRE. The War Party ? they're thieves as well as liars November 21, 2003 Antiwar.com, http://www.antiwar.com/justin/j112103.html

Shared Capitalism Institute Ownership Statistics: Why a Shared Capitalism is Needed http://www.sharedcapitalism.org/scfacts.html