Carlyle Group co-founder buys Magna Carta copy for $21.3-million

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Magna Carta sold for $21.3-million National Post, Canada - 48 minutes ago A copy of the Magna Carta, the 13th century document that was the blueprint for constitutions the world over, has been sold at auction for $21.3-million. ... Last Magna Carta bought at US auction Telegraph.co.uk This Magna Carta to Remain in US New York Times Magna Carta copy sells for $21.3M CNN International Guardian Unlimited - Sydney Morning Herald all 508 news articles »

Magna Carta, mucho rewardo Financial Times, UK - 55 minutes ago By Robert Shrimsley The news that David Rubenstein, co-founder of the private equity firm Carlyle, has bought a rare copy of the Magna Carta raises some ... David Rubenstein sees plenty of opportunity in 2008 Blogging Buy Outs all 4 news articles »

AFP	Magna Carta sold for 21.3 million at New York auction AFP - Dec 18, 2007 NEW YORK (AFP) — One of only 17 existing copies of the Magna Carta, the iconic 800-year-old English royal manuscript setting out the rights of man, ...

Let Freedom Remain, Says Magna Carta Buyer New York Times, United States - 41 minutes ago By ANAHAD O’CONNOR The man who paid $21.3 million for a 710-year-old copy of the Magna Carta, which laid the framework for the United States Constitution ...

Bush to sign energy bill...CIA interrogation tapes...Magna Carta ... KXMC, ND - 17 hours ago Magna Carta auction WHITE HOUSE (AP) President Bush is set to sign the first increase in auto fuel economy standards in 32 years. ...

War money approval...Court order...Magna Carta copy's new owner ... Reiten Television KXMB Bismarck, ND - 21 hours ago NEW YORK (AP) A private equity firm is now the owner of a 710-year-old copy of the Magna Carta. An auction official says David Rubenstein of the Carlyle ...

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How much for the Magna Carta? Marketplace, CA - Dec 18, 2007 We have the Magna Carta to thank for documents declaring the rights of man and the sovereign system of government. And now for a few million, you can own it ...

Bookmaker partybets.com Predict Magna Carta Will be Sold for ... ITNews, Italy - Dec 18, 2007 GIBRALTAR, December 18 /prnewswire/ -- A copy of Magna Carta is up for auction in New York tonight and bookmakers http://www.partybets.com are betting on ...

Magna Carta Toronto Star, Canada - Dec 16, 2007 To the highest bidder shall go the only privately owned, 13th century copy of Magna Carta. There are 17 known copies surviving from the 13th century. ...

Magna Carta downgraded by SABR based on Historic Timelessness Factor The Serious Sports News Network (satire), IL - Dec 17, 2007 NEW YORK–The Magna Carta is scheduled to be auctioned off this week for a historic price, potentially fetching $20-$30 million. ...

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David Rubenstein is the co-founder of The Carlyle Group, an American private equity firm. Rubenstein grew up in Baltimore, and graduated from the Baltimore ...

David M. Rubenstein - SourceWatch

David M. Rubenstein was presidential advisor to James Earl Carter, Jr.. He is a member of the Trilateral Commission and he is a director of the Institute ...

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David Rubenstein is Managing Director of The Carlyle Group, which he co-founded in 1987. Since then, he has helped develop Carlyle into a private-equity ...

The Carlyle Group : Bio : David M. Rubenstein -

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The 'new world order' is the 'same old order' for Jews

On Line opinion, Australia - Dec 17, 2007
This opinion piece is based on a recent paper (PDF 200KB) presented at the Racisms in the New World Order Conference in Queensland, December 6-7, 2007.

Racisms in the New World Order: Realities of Culture, Colour and Identity Conference

Presented by the Centre for Multicultural and Community Development, University of the Sunshine Coast

8-9 December 2005

Hyatt Regency Hotel, Coolum Beach, Queensland, Australia

This conference provided an opportunity to examine the contemporary manifestations of racism across the world around key themes. The Centre for Multicultural and Community Development invited representatives from community, government and other organisations, as well as academics, to attend the conference to develop a better understanding of racism and ways to combat it.

Conference aims
Conference themes
Enquiries
Keynote Speakers
Organising and Advisory Committees

Conference proceedings

1. Racisms in the New World Order Part 1 (PDF 1500KB)
2. Racisms in the New World Order Part 2 (PDF 792KB)
3. Racisms in the New World Order Part 3 (PDF 525KB)
4. Racisms in the New World Order Part 4 (PDF 1700KB)
5. Racisms in the New World Order Part 5 (PDF 1200KB)
6. Racisms in the New World Order Practice Papers (PDF 245KB)

Conference aims

• Create dialogue on theory and practice of racism
• Share information on experiences of racism in a global context
• Identify issues in policy and program responses to combat racism
• Determine strategies and education tools to increase community awareness
• Showcase best practice and innovative programs
• Create an impetus for change and development, and
• Place racism in public discourses

Conference themes

• Media and racism
• Official racism
• Racism and the War on Terror
• Racisms in the New World Order
• New manifestations of racism
• Responses to racism

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New NAFTA NASCO Superhighway Docs released from MnDOT: The whole plan!
The design of transportation systems carries its own ideology: the routes, exit placement, the eminent domain actions, the financing, carpool or toll road lanes; all these issues loom large in Minnesota, especially since no one can agree how to pay for needed work. St. Paul's Rondo neighborhood, the heart of the black community, got split in half by I-94, and many people today fear similar effects from massive new roads. Recently, people on the 'fringes' of the left and right who might be considered hostile to corporate globalization have talked about a 'NAFTA Superhighway' project which would link Mexico, Canada, and the United States, but little hard evidence illustrates how this plan could work. PIM first reported in July that a Twin Cities lawyer, Nathan Hansen, used Data Practices Act requests from MnDOT to get several rounds of documents released regarding NASCO, the North American Super Corridor Coalition, a non-profit organization based in Texas. Hansen has kept at it (here's his blog), filing a lawsuit to leverage the release of more documents, more of which finally came out recently. We have packaged everything MnDOT released into a ZIP archive of PDFs (60 MB!).

No 'superhighway' is planned for NAFTA trade DesMoinesRegister.com, IA - Dec 18, 2007 NASCO can state unequivocally that plans for a new giant NAFTA superhighway do not exist. Our map depicts existing transportation infrastructure not drawn ...

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Atlantic-Pacific route would allow cross-continental goods deliveries WorldNetDaily, OR - 13 hours ago ... is designed to interface with the NAFTA Superhighway, extending down into Mexico. The CISCOR map strongly models the continental map displayed by NASCO ...

15 billeder Dear Deluded TV2, Denmark - Dec 4, 2007 NASCO has received $250 million in earmarks from the US Department of Transportation to plan the NAFTA Super Highway as a 10-lane limited-access road (five ...

Boston Globe

The amero conspiracy Boston Globe, United States - Nov 24, 2007 The NAFTA Superhighway has a more complicated origin. One piece is a nonprofit organization, called the North America's Supercorridor Coalition, or NASCO, ...

Paul believes in threat of North American superhighway Los Angeles Times, CA - Nov 30, 2007 "It's complete fiction," said Tiffany Melvin, executive director of NASCO, a consortium of transportation agencies and business interests caught in the ...

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Readers bombard Newsweek with evidence after adverse story on Ron Paul WorldNetDaily, OR - Dec 7, 2007 ... including Interstate Highways 35, 29 and 94, that the North America's SuperCorridor Coalition, or NASCO, designates as the I-35 NAFTA Superhighway.

From: Dan Feidt
Subject: Exclusive: New NAFTA NASCO Superhighway Docs released from MnDOT: The whole plan!
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 02:24:13 -0600

I don't usually send mass emails, but I found a big batch of government documents that sort of cut across many different issues and I want to let various groups who might be interested know. I'm not on a crusade about this issue, but this stuff seems so crazy I needed to send it out. Please forward it to anyone who might be interested.

This sounds pretty crazy, but hey: I stumbled across 1000+ pages from the Minnesota Department of Transportation, which basically entirely spell out the NASCO/Lockheed plan to 'militarize' I-35 and I-94 by building the NAFTRACS tracking system. MnDOT released documents show how Lockheed setup NASCO to host NAFTRACS (controlling the contracts), cloning the current military container tracking system, and implementing it right down I-35 via RFID. Yep!

http://www.politics inminnesota. com/2007/ dec/14/pim- exclusive- superrondo- ii-new-nasco- nafta-superhighw ay-docs-released -mndot

They want to set up the "Presence" which would run from "Total Domain Awareness Centers of Excellence." Really! This is all about militarization - it's really a crazy batch of stuff. Full of ugly terms and creepy RFID schemes. Lockheed explicitly would market all the supply-chain data generated. Also, all of NASCO's internal public relations / strategy communications with MnDOT are in here, too.

Everything released from MnDot is about 60 MB in PDFs (ZIP). What a weird thing to find, thought everyone should know.

http://www.politics inminnesota. com/files/ NASCO-documents. zip

Anyone is welcome to repost the article below on their own websites, but it would be nice to get a link back to our URL too:

http://www.politics inminnesota. com/2007/ dec/14/pim- exclusive- superrondo- ii-new-nasco- nafta-superhighw ay-docs-released -mndot

This stuff turned up at my job as web editor at Politics in Minnesota, a small political publishing company in St. Paul. Please contact me if anyone has questions. Thanks for taking a moment!

--Dan Feidt - dan.feidt@gmail. com

NASCO

Non-profit organization dedicated to developing a multi-modal transportation corridor within the continent. Includes maps. www.nascocorridor.com/ - 9k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this

About NASCO

"NAFTA Superhighway" - As of late, there has been much media attention given to the "new, proposed NAFTA Superhighway". NASCO and the cities, counties, ... www.nascocorridor.com/pages/about/about.htm - 22k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this [ More results from www.nascocorridor.com ]

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Minn. man shoots cops after SWAT team kicks down wrong door

A Minneapolis police SWAT team kicked in the wrong door yesterday during an early morning raid, prompting the man of the house to grab his gun and open fire on the officers who entered the house.

"He took out his shotgun and he said if they are bad guys I'll shoot, I'll scare them away," Dao Khang, the brother of the homeowner, Vang Khang, tells the Star Tribune. "He fired first, he told me it was two shots."

Dao Khang says his brother was trying to protect his wife and six children. No one from the family was hit during the exchange of gunfire. Vang hit two officers, but the Pioneer Press says they were protected by ballistic vests and helmets.

"I must've heard over 20 or 30 shots, I swear, it was scary," Ruth Hayes, the family's next-door neighbor, tells WCCO-TV. "It was like 30 SWAT guys out here ... it was crazy it was just like havoc."

KARE-TV reports that Vang was detained at the scene and released a few hours later. Police say there may have been a "language barrier" between the residents and the officers.

"It was some bad information that was received on the front end that kind-of trickled all the way through," police Sgt. Jesse Garcia tells the station. "It's unfortunate because we have officers that were hit by gunfire and this truly, truly could have been a much worse situation."

Police haven't decided whether they'll try to charge Khang with a crime. KMSP-TV says the Khang family is consulting with a civil attorney.

What would you do? This story reminds us of the postings we wrote earlier this year about an elderly woman who was shot death when Atlanta cops kicked in the wrong door during a drug investigation.
• 92-year-old woman dies in shootout with police
• In Atlanta: 'Somebody is lying'
• Report: D.A. plans murder charges against Atlanta cops

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