Bush to recommend Paul Wolfowitz for World Bank president

CNN just now.

It is one of the topics George to discuss at news conference at 10:15.

No link yet.

EDIT: Jester below has listed a link to Reuters, but I can't open it - must be a pretty busy site at the moment.

Also from MSNBC breaking news:

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Bush to recommend Paul Wolfowitz for World Bank president -
Wolfowitz is currently deputy secretary of defense and a key strategist for the Iraq war.

you are incompetent in your current job so lets move you over to an even higher profile job. So he'll head up the world bank and Bolton will be the un ambassador, what an awful duo. No one should ever wonder why they hate us.

to replace Al Greenspan.

in free market ventures.

have been. I can't imagine this flying....If true it shows how desperate they are!

say the country's "gone to the dogs".

Well, the "dogs" have by now been replaced by "werewolfies".

silver cloud

...gets installed and the WB Board of Directors are properly and totally intimidated. Withholding money already promised by the WB, along with outright refusing to make loans to "enemies" of the American Reich are very effective ways of waging war.

"Confessions of an Economic Hitman". Very illuminating. More info at his site: http://www.johnperkins.org /
and
http://www.johnperkins.org/Books%20&%20Tapes/overview_o...

and Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/157675301... /

can't wait to read the book.

At least there are some things you can depend upon....

i bet Wolfowitz cut are funding to the IMF as his first order.

their level of assholery never ceases to amaze me, it's like the worst nightmare ever.

It's measured in units of Asshole Quotient (AQ). Wolfowitz is indeed a rarity-a perfect 10, a "Gaper"!

Cronyism at its best!
I suppose we should have expected this!

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GO AWAY!! UGH!!!

i expect nothing more.

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...click on the following link:

<http://www.newamericancentury.org />

...and then click on the following link on the upper right of the homepage:

**Statement of Principles.

Note the names of the participants...do any of those names look familiar?

If you don't know anyting about PNAC, then I invite you to read the following:

<http://www.pnac.info />

This site does a very good job of cutting through the bs and telling you exactly what the PNACers believe and think.

After reading this material, I doubt seriously that you will consider Wolfowitz to be a good choice for anything that has to do with the US Government or any other assignment. IMHO, Wolfowitz and his PNAC friends are nothing more than the American version of the Nazi Party.

Loyalty means everything. Qualifications mean nothing.

That is why we now have:

- a Texas local TV news reporter and spinmaster as Undersecretary of State in charge of improving relations with the Muslim World,

- someone who wanted to abolish the UN as UN Representative

- a math professor as head of the World Bank

- a bug exterminator as House Majority Leader

- someone who has never worked inside a school or college as Secretary of Education

- a person who felt that Geneva Convention was quaint and outdated as the Chief Law Enforcement Officer of the country.

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P.S. - Do you think Wolfowitz understands the economic importance of Appropriate Technology in the Third World?

Don't forget Negroponte (Mr. Death Squads).

...a U.N. Ambassador who doesn't believe in the U.N.!

There are 4 or 5 countries that run it and the last thing they would do is approve a NEOCON for such a position. He is just nominated.

WTF is going on? How can they put that animal in charge?

The more I read "The News," the more sense David Icke makes.

The lizard people are here....

TLC/Bilderberg/Skull&Bones

"...somebody has to take governments' place, and business seems to me to be a logical entity to do it." - David Rockefeller

Yeah - I try to fight the David Icke alien side and some days it's very difficult.

Everything just gets more unreal everyday.

these kinds of stunning events will only increase.

now I see reptiles everywhere. Even if the people David Icke says aren't reptillian or aliens from Mars, or some kind of mixture between those two and humans, they are just as scary and just as damaging.

I wonder. Are we truly doomed? Can this be stopped? Voting doesn't seem to make a difference.

Yep. It's just as bad as those 50's Sci-Fi movies.

Invasion of the Body Snatchers

The Tri-Lateral is now in place. This is long past bearable, intolerable, and justice - it's sick! Really, really sick!

Imagine. Any and everything we enjoyed as should be as Americans, has been gutted and derailed in a matter of months. Un-fricked believeable.

his father always wanted to do but could not finish. america is being deliberately crippled - all those who failed, who lied, and sent others to execute a land grab will be elevated for their service to the Puppet Masters. Everything is upside down. Black is white, white is black.

Yikes

Totalitarianism has begun.

Will Freedom survive. I have to think so, but only time wil ltell if it can survive somewhere or if we are on the fast track to pre-Enlightenment.

Fucking world. They learned NOTHING from Hitler and are back to appeasing Nazis.

Let us know if that works out any better THIS time.

they made tinfoil hat comments and called me a conspiracy theorist....they also denied that neocons even existed.


I'm very, very sorry to have been right.

I knew what would come - endless war and a wrecked economy - I shudder to think of what is to come

It hurts just a little/maybe a lot to have to sit here and watch this all happen.

We're sorry too.

Have you wallpapered yet in tin foil, it helps a little, (we've become able to come to terms with being "conspiracy" theorists), maybe now all we need is a group support organization like AA?

conspiracy theories have been better guides to predicting the future than coincidence theories. Sadly...

Slick is going to run the World Bank? That's it. I'm jumping out the window.

They just move their members around... How nauseating is this???

read 'confessions of an economic hit man' john perkins


edit to add: The Power Elite by C. Wright Mills

I had my doubts about Perkins as I was reading the book. Not about his facts or truth in what he was saying, just something about his self-aggrandizement. Then I realized that he would have had to have been that way to justify what he did all those years. No matter what I think of him as a person, I still believe the most important parts of his book and that belief has made me more jaded than ever.

I do remember reading about some of this years ago. I knew the World Bank policies were always detrimental to the poor countries they were supposed to have helped. The difference here, in this book, is that we hear it from someone who was actually doing it.

When I was in the military during the late 70's, I used to cry when we saluted the flag. God, if there is one out there, I would love to have that feeling once again.

AMY GOODMAN: How closely did you work with the World Bank?

JOHN PERKINS: Very, very closely with the World Bank. The World Bank provides most of the money that’s used by economic hit men, it and the I.M.F. But when 9/11 struck, I had a change of heart. I knew the story had to be told because what happened at 9/11 is a direct result of what the economic hit men are doing. And the only way that we're going to feel secure in this country again and that we're going to feel good about ourselves is if we use these systems we’ve put into place to create positive change around the world. I really believe we can do that. I believe the World Bank and other institutions can be turned around and do what they were originally intended to do, which is help reconstruct devastated parts of the world. Help -- genuinely help poor people. There are twenty-four thousand people starving to death every day. We can change that.

with MAIN that he had some misgivings, but he admits that the money and the power were too enticing. I did notice that just about every one of his "major" changes or small moves toward aleviating his conscience came after something happened in the company that would have possibly forced him to make a change anyway. He did have his eyes open to the struggle of the people his company and our country were screwing over because he had an innate interest in their diversity and culture. I'm assuming a lot of people doing what he did could have cared less about the "natives" and never ventured out of their 4 star hotels.

I can believe that over the years he honestly did see why we were hated by all these countries and that someday we would pay. He was warned many times about the growing anger seething in the Muslim nations.

For two weeks before September 11, 2001, I had been going to physical therapy and although the therapist had an odd picture of Jesus Christ on one of the desks,(odd only because it was on a desk, like a family photo) I knew they were all from the middle east. I was crazy about everyone in the office. I had an appt. the day after 9/11 and even I said something like "I guess we know how it feels now." My therapist looked me in the eye and slowly nodded.

I will always wonder about this guy. A few days before 9/11 he had not been his usually cheery self. He was always joking around, teasing people, a very friendly guy. On the Friday and Monday before 9/11, I noticed that he would go to his office with a man that had come into the clinic and close the door. His smiles were gone.

You never know. I moved just a few days after 9/11 and when I came back to where I was living at that time, his office was gone.

How in fuck's name did this happen??? Again, a HUGE, W*T*F??? I take a break from the Bushshit * for a couple of weeks and come back to see all hell has broken loose.

*You'll have to excuse my language, these bastards bring out the absolute worst in me.

Amazing isn't it. Everyday offers more and more fricked unbelievable wickedness. And not 1, think about this... not one Repub bends. They all think alike!?!?

This goes against all definitions of "normal" human behavior. What are they hiding? Or better yet, what is someone holding over each of them? Is that it?

there's still room on that ledge for another...

i'm not scared of falling. It's landing that scares the sh*t out of me.

dp

n/t

I almost lost my coffee onto keyboard with that one. DAMN!

Is there anyone out there that can stop this damned cabal of thieves and flat out sick criminals? Maybe China taking it down is a good thing?

when I think of him, this is the image I see

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I am so disgusted with all that is happening ~ I am beyond words.

Fellow DU'er etherealtruth goes crazy when I bring up that image! (It is quite disgusting)

http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml ;jsessionid=2POIIPVLH5GCICRBAE0CFFA?type=topNews&storyID=7920007


Related: If you are interested in the Federal reserve and you want to know who owns this planet...
http://tvnewslies.org/cart/view_product.php?product=MON...

FYI.

how this choice is made and by whom?

The United States is the World Bank's largest member nation. The bank traditionally has had an American president. Its sister institution, the International Monetary Fund (news - web sites), traditionally has been headed by a European

from Yahoo

World Bank.

That answers that question.

stopped.

Deputy US Defence Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, one of the main advocates for the Iraq war, is President George Bush's choice for World Bank president, according to administration officials.

Wolfowitz would replace outgoing World Bank chief James Wolfensohn, who said earlier this month that Wolfowitz was no longer in the running for the top job after a Pentagon official suggested he wanted to stay at the Defence Department.

Bush's choice of Wolfowitz must still be ratified by other World Bank members, a process that could prove unusually contentious.

Wolfowitz is a deeply controversial figure in Europe because of his role in designing and promoting the Iraq war.

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/25043834-935C-44...

If this post requires Senate Confirmation, let 'er rip!
Lets tar and feather Paul FullofSHIT with everything we got!

i'm waiting for ashcroft, and reid, and a few of the other stepper-downers to be brought back for an even more-unquaLified post.

"What?! You mean the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth aren't believed by those ragheads?!?"

Her failure has such serious repercussions for us. I have no use for KPH, but her task is of real importance to me. Of course, if it were as important to W he would appoint someone who was up to the task.

every day a new insult.

just like he has the American economy...

what a bunch of fu*king lying scum bags

This is just HORRIBLE!

My guess is he will.

who confirms?

The president of the World Bank Group is chairman of the Bank’s Board of Executive Directors and president of five interrelated organizations. The President is selected by the Bank's Board of Executive Directors. The Articles of Agreement do not specify the nationality of the president, but by custom the United States executive director makes a nomination. By a long-standing, informal agreement, the president of the Bank is a United States national, while the managing director of the International Monetary Fund is a European. The initial term is five years while a second term could be five years or less.

More info on the World Bank here: http://tinyurl.com/5hel2

It is my understanding that this appointment is subject to Senate confirmation, but I could be wrong about that.

he is selected by the Board of Executive Directors of the WB, so I doubt the US Senate gets a say in it? It's not a US govt. job, after all.

It's inter-governmental, like the UN. But it has always been dominated by the US, who gets to choose its president.

The U.S. gets to nominate the World Bank's president, which by informal agreement is an American, but the nomination must be "ratified" by other members who are from other nations, including European nations.

My take on this is Bush's move will backfire on him when the World Bank's members refuse to ratify Wolfowitz.

Then we'll have "freedom" paella, "freedom" kraut, "freedom" pie, "freedom" wine, "freedom" ale, "freedom" whiskey, "freedom" rice, etc., etc.

Maybe some dealing went on so he could insure PW's nomination being approved.

Despite all the gee-howdy photo-ops, I don't think any European country has much respect for Dubya and his gang any more.

but that would be very unusual. Usually, the American candidate is selected. IMF chief Rodrigo Rato welcomed the nomination, calling Werewolfowitz "distinguished", so at least he has some supporters among the people he will be working with.

What country wiil take the world bank loan sharks seriously with Wolfowitz at its head.

More countries could follow Venezuela's example and just ditch them.

this will destroy any legitimacy the World Bank enjoyed in the eyes of many nations. Could eventually mean its unraveling.

hate to tell you this but MAMMON is GOD

ok

Of course, this just puts more dirt on the World Bank's reputation as being a bunch of vampires sucking what little blood they can get out of the poorest of the poor countries ... which makes it a perfect BushCo offshoot.

The vile get more vile.

This is just bizarre. This guy has been incompetent at everything he has ever done and yet he continues to get new and ever more "important" work.

Ugh.

I think he has accomplished much of what he was supposed to, from the PNAC's perspective (which is a little different from ordinary, sane people's perspective).

???

Seriously.
I don't know their manifesto well enough to find the section that covers World Bank stuff.

The Project for the New American Century is a non-profit educational organization dedicated to a few fundamental propositions: that American leadership is good both for America and for the world; that such leadership requires military strength, diplomatic energy and commitment to moral principle; and that too few political leaders today are making the case for global leadership.

The Project for the New American Century intends, through issue briefs, research papers, advocacy journalism, conferences, and seminars, to explain what American world leadership entails. It will also strive to rally support for a vigorous and principled policy of American international involvement and to stimulate useful public debate on foreign and defense policy and America's role in the world.

William Kristol, Chairman

important insight into the situation--also, John Perkins needs to be heard from. (he wrote the book).

Worst choice ever.

The president's pancake makeup is struggling to cover the evil within.

Because I don't think this will in any way impede dollar dumping.

Chill

This all really came out of left-feild if you ask me...

(err... or should that be "right-feild"? heh heh heh)

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3995.ht...

Note: The first one minute forty seven seconds of this program is in broadcast in Dutch, The remainder is in English.

Of particular note is their link to Citibank (where Wolfowitz worked before and where his buddy, Aziz, worked who is now the PM of Pakistan.)



BTW, NetTransport is a nice program to dl streaming video/audio.

as much as I try to respect the Office of the President...he is so painful to watch. What a horrible speaker.

definitely a new low. Let's hope the position requires travel to unstable countries with less security and angry mobs.

means nothing to the average American. We have educated ourselves to the politics of this administration. The ordinary people of this country will only understand when the results of the policies made now begin to effect their personal lives. Unfortunately, it may be too late by then.

While the news might focus on Wolfowitz's
nomination, what's happening in the Senate
this week is more important to focus on.

Nothing else could help bury this foul "globalization" better than such a provocative choice.

The sooner this school of thought is exposed for what it is...the better. Let them show their true colors. Progressives need to prepare themselves, personally, for a long winter...and then emerge strong when this is all over.

I work for the Bank Group and this is a disastrous appointment - one of the worst in a long series of bad appointments and a new low, even for Bush. Even though the Bush cabal telegraphed their intent several weeks ago I kept hoping that it was a feint or a ruse. I should have known better. He wants to run the Bank into the ground as he did with all his other business enterprises and as he is doing to the US. I truly fear for the US now in a way I never have before - heck we made it through Nixon and Reagan. But now the malevolence and hatred towards the middle class in the US and the entire rest of the world that is such a strong part of this administration, coupled with the aristocratic disdain, blinkered mentality and unwillingness to compromise of Bush, are overwhelming. I am depressed. I have to go draft an agreement and I'm almost too depressed to even contemplate working because of this announcement.

...anything but disparaging terms?

Here's an idea that will attract a LOT of attention...it's called a General Strike where everyone sympathetic to your cause stops working for a certain amount of time.

Can you imagine what several thousand stopped 18-wheelers on major highways around major cities would do? Or cabs stopped in NYC, Chicago, Washington, DC, and every other major city? Or autos stopped all across the country? Or pilots refusing to fly?

Economic warfare is the answer...but nobody has the guts to try it. The ringleaders would go to jail for a LONG time.

We need a Lech Walesa of our own.

Nice to dream tho.

Since this guy is not a financial wizard or economist, this doesn't even make sense to me. Is it a token position or should there be certain qualifications?

Can you explain to someone without expertise in this area...what is a person in this position expected to do? What would his role be?

What a nightmare time in the US...and those we affect. Another appointment of someone who is part of our deepest shames. I just don't understand what he is doing in this area.

like the Chimp himself. He's not there to bring his expertise and knowledge to the position, but to be a spokesman for the ones who are pulling the strings.

And those people are?

Maybe the less public names, the ones we don't know who are signitories to PNAC. The Carlyle board. The Heritage Foundation. Who knows.

That's why it's called a shadow government.

Conspiracy theories make sense where there's real conspiracies behind them.

According to the Articles of Agreement of the Bank, the president is chairman of the Executive Directors (who are appointed by our member countries) but only votes in the event of a tie. He may participate in meetings of the Board of Governors (usually the finance ministers of our member countries) but has no vote at those meetings. He is the chief of the operating staff of the Bank and conducts under the directions of the Exec. Directors, the ordinary business of the Bank. Subject to the general control of the Exec. Directors he is responsible for the organization, appointment and dismissal of officers and staff. The president owes his highest duty to the Bank and to no other authority. He shall respect the international character of his duty and refrain from all attempts to influence any of them in the discharge of his duties (the last two lines apply to all staff of the Bank). In appointing officers and staff the President shall, subject to the paramount importance of securing the highest standards of efficiency and competence, pay due regard to the importance of recruiting personnel on as wide a geographical basis as possible.

So basically he runs the day-to-day operations of the Bank, and by extension the Bank Group (IBRD, IFC, MIGA, ICSID), determines what areas he wants emphasis placed, etc. Jim Wolfensohn wanted the Bank Group to do more in Africa and more about AIDS, so we did. I know that some, perhaps many, here have issues with the Bank. I've been here almost 10 years and believe me, I have seen many changes in policy, most for the better. And all of us who work here believe passionately in our charge, which is to reduce poverty.

The branch of the Bank Group I work for, the International Finance Corporation (IFC), is also looking for an Executive Vice President (EVP). The EVP runs the day to day operations of IFC and is usually a European. It will be interesting to see who gets it in light of this announcement.

Don't give your identity away. I am sure all of us here will be very interested in the inside scoop you can dish after PNAC takes the reins at the WB.
Stay anonymous for us please!

It probably wasn't a serious suggestion but at least he knows the third world.