Carlyle Group gets its finger in the Google pie.

This is really worrying.

It turns out that Google have taken on as their new Vice President for Global Communications and Strategy a rather dark character by the name of Dan Senor. Who is Dan Senor I hear you ask...

I didn't know who he was until I saw a picture of him.



Then it became clear. You might recognise him as the suit who worked as Director of the Coalition Disinformation Center at CENTCOM during the first stages of the attack on Iraq in 2003.

Then I also read that he was a senior associate of arguably the world's biggest war machine The Carlyle Group. Whoah!

This is really scary. Hadn't expected that from Google. At least not so soon after their inception. On the other hand, when you realise that the Carlyle Group also has its fingers in one of Holland's biggest cable operators, Casema, you get to understand that age-old adage: Information is Power.

Basically this means that the Carlyle Group will soon have access to all your search requests on google. All they need is your IP address and they gonna getcha!

OK, so we don't need to worry too much about our searches for "Paris Hilton sex video". But are they monitoring our searches for "WTC7" or "Osama Bin Laden and the CIA" or "Bush complicit 9-11"?

Makes you think...