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Bush to recommend Paul Wolfowitz for World Bank president
Edited on Thu Mar-17-05 08:24 AM by Skinner
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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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.

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   Worst choice ever.  chimpsrsmarter   Mar-16-05 09:26 AM   #1 
   Unbelievable. We have been taken over.  The Backlash Cometh   Mar-16-05 09:27 AM   #3 
   yup, you lie about evidence that takes us to war  chimpsrsmarter   Mar-16-05 09:29 AM   #6 
   Bolton, Wolfowitz and Bush. Now there's the real Tri-lateral Commission.  The Backlash Cometh   Mar-16-05 09:31 AM   #13 
      Wait till they spring Salvatore "Sammy the Bull" Gravano  0007   Mar-16-05 09:40 AM   #28 
         Well, you have to admit that the Mafia has far more experience  The Backlash Cometh   Mar-16-05 09:41 AM   #31 
         A good one 0007....ROFL...they probably have thought of it, already!  KoKo01   Mar-16-05 10:32 AM   #71 
         They have lost their minds....definite proof they are totally insane and  KoKo01   Mar-16-05 10:33 AM   #72 
         Yup. Back during Reagan's first year in office my friends and I used to  Seabiscuit   Mar-16-05 12:56 PM   #123 
   Look at it this way, he wont be trying to start any wars as a banker  Snivi Yllom   Mar-16-05 12:50 PM   #120 
   The World Bank will be used as an economic weapon once Wolfy....  Media_Lies_Daily   Mar-16-05 01:55 PM   #144 
      It already is a weapon. Economic wars are waged every day. n/t  GHOSTDANCER   Mar-16-05 02:10 PM   #149 
         No kidding? Really?  Media_Lies_Daily   Mar-16-05 04:25 PM   #173 
         Exactly. Read John Perkins and...  FighttheFuture   Mar-16-05 04:53 PM   #176 
            I saw Perkins on last weeks Now and listened to Coast2Coast episode.  GHOSTDANCER   Mar-16-05 07:10 PM   #182 
   The Wolf running the WB-beyond PUTRID  katty   Mar-16-05 07:41 PM   #187 
   So--it's totally consistent with Bush Regime policies!  Bridget Burke   Mar-16-05 09:27 AM   #5 
   they're nothing if not consistent.  chimpsrsmarter   Mar-16-05 09:31 AM   #12 
   And I said that about Hughes yesterday. I take it back.  Feeney2   Mar-16-05 09:34 AM   #20 
   Well you know they always surprise us....in a bad way  chimpsrsmarter   Mar-16-05 09:42 AM   #33 
      Assholism?  acmejack   Mar-16-05 12:10 PM   #108 
   DITTO!  hue   Mar-16-05 10:12 AM   #52 
   Deleted message  Name removed   Mar-16-05 12:59 PM   #125 
   PUHLEEZZZ....  Flubadubya   Mar-16-05 01:22 PM   #132 
   a poster from little green footballs  chimpsrsmarter   Mar-16-05 01:25 PM   #133 
   Deleted message  Name removed   Mar-16-05 01:29 PM   #134 
   Do yourself a favor before you embarrass yourself any further.....  Media_Lies_Daily   Mar-16-05 01:42 PM   #141 
   Qualifications Mean Nothing  JPZenger   Mar-16-05 03:14 PM   #160 
   LOL (laughed out loud)! I loved your post!  Maat   Mar-16-05 07:32 PM   #184 
   And soon to have....  Knight of Ni   Mar-18-05 03:21 PM   #205 
   I don't believe its up to Bush who leads the world bank  niceypoo   Mar-16-05 03:24 PM   #162 
   OMG, is it Rapture Time yet???  Nickster   Mar-16-05 09:27 AM   #2 
   More like REPTILE time.  dbt   Mar-16-05 09:30 AM   #10 
   Absolutely.  chenGOD   Mar-16-05 11:42 AM   #99 
   F***ing shape-shifting freaks!!!  clem_c_rock   Mar-16-05 12:24 PM   #110 
   Yes,the twilight zone of bushworld  katty   Mar-16-05 07:43 PM   #188 
   Ahh! Another David Icke reader. I do read him as Sci-Fi, BUT......  Skarbrowe   Mar-16-05 02:21 PM   #151 
   I feel the same way! OMG!  AuntiBush   Mar-16-05 11:25 AM   #93 
      bush has facilitated the Orwell World Government, just like  katty   Mar-16-05 07:48 PM   #190 
   Are the moon colonies ready yet?  underpants   Mar-16-05 09:27 AM   #4 
   It sounds as if BushPtuinism is about to reign supreme. The Age of  tom_paine   Mar-16-05 09:29 AM   #7 
   but when I told people the neocons want to take over 4 yrs ago...  Lerkfish   Mar-16-05 09:29 AM   #8 
   I knew what their plans were when they ran that dipshit for governor  Skittles   Mar-16-05 09:32 AM   #18 
   We are right there with you.  anarchy1999   Mar-16-05 09:36 AM   #22 
   The last 4 years  Frederik   Mar-16-05 10:12 AM   #50 
   Totally unbelievable  qanda   Mar-16-05 09:29 AM   #9 
   But not surprising considering the source! n/t  lse7581011   Mar-16-05 10:36 AM   #73 
   WTF, you say?  liberalmuse   Mar-16-05 09:30 AM   #11 
   what a "club"...  berner59   Mar-16-05 09:33 AM   #19 
   cross-pollinating  yorkiemommie1   Mar-16-05 09:39 AM   #27 
   Read the book in one sitting last night. Needless to say, I'm bummed.  Skarbrowe   Mar-16-05 02:32 PM   #155 
      He said on Amy Goodman's show that he had a change of heart after 911  aint_no_life_nowhere   Mar-16-05 02:58 PM   #158 
         Yes. Perkins says that from day one when he was recruited for his job  Skarbrowe   Mar-16-05 03:57 PM   #166 
   It's worse than nauseating.  liberalmuse   Mar-16-05 09:40 AM   # 
      Because that are the ABSOLUTE WORSE!  AuntiBush   Mar-16-05 11:32 AM   #96 
   pls move over  dweller   Mar-16-05 10:03 AM   #42 
   just think, right now he's probably licking his comb....nt  Catfight   Mar-16-05 09:31 AM   #14 
   and his chops  yorkiemommie1   Mar-16-05 09:40 AM   #29 
   Aw jeez, you had to bring that image up!  anarchy1999   Mar-16-05 09:41 AM   #30 
   LOL ~ my thoughts EXACTLY,,,,,  KarenS   Mar-16-05 10:04 AM   #44 
   Pfffffffftttttttt!  AFSCME girl   Mar-16-05 01:16 PM   #130 
   Link here  Jester_11218   Mar-16-05 09:32 AM   #15 
   That link is broken - try this  MadisonProgressive   Mar-16-05 09:49 AM   #37 
   Who makes this decision? Does anyone know the specifics about  Pirate Smile   Mar-16-05 09:32 AM   #16 
   I wondered too - here's from Yahoo news:  pinkpops   Mar-16-05 09:55 AM   #40 
   Thanks. CNN just said "the President will appoint" PW to head the  Pirate Smile   Mar-16-05 10:04 AM   #43 
   I think that US chooses, but Europe has to ratify. It can still be  NCevilDUer   Mar-16-05 12:31 PM   #111 
   Wolfowitz in top World Bank post race  CHIMO   Mar-16-05 07:56 PM   #191 
   they have to keep crime "contained"...information is thier undoing  cthrumatrix   Mar-16-05 09:32 AM   #17 
   The Bush Administration: Failure Rewarded  sjgman9   Mar-16-05 09:34 AM   #21 
   How did this happen?  Amaya   Mar-16-05 09:37 AM   #23 
   makes perfect sense  sniffa   Mar-16-05 09:38 AM   #24 
   Just Like Karen Hughes as a State Department Deputy?  GiovanniC   Mar-16-05 09:47 AM   #35 
      But At Least Hughes' Failure Is Going To Be Funny  Edgewater_Joe   Mar-16-05 10:07 AM   #46 
         But Joe,  acmejack   Mar-16-05 02:04 PM   #147 
   oh. no.  yorkiemommie1   Mar-16-05 09:38 AM   #25 
   Bush has now found a way to screw the world economy....  kentuck   Mar-16-05 09:39 AM   #26 
   2 weeks ago he said he was withdrawing his name  still_one   Mar-16-05 09:41 AM   #32 
   I'm literally crying  Clark2008   Mar-16-05 09:44 AM   #34 
   Will Wolfowitz get the Medal of Freedom like Franks, Tenet, and Bremer?  DemoTex   Mar-16-05 09:47 AM   #36 
   some one 'splain - is the "World Bank" a US institution? and  pinkpops   Mar-16-05 09:50 AM   #38 
   The World Bank is a multi-national institution with 184 member countries.  mcscajun   Mar-16-05 10:14 AM   #54 
   Well, formally  Frederik   Mar-16-05 10:22 AM   #63 
   Nominally, no.  Frederik   Mar-16-05 10:19 AM   #59 
      According to the linked articles, no.  Seabiscuit   Mar-16-05 01:10 PM   #128 
         Didn't bush just take a trip to Europe not too long ago?  cynatnite   Mar-16-05 01:19 PM   #131 
         Maybe, maybe not.  Seabiscuit   Mar-16-05 02:08 PM   #148 
         Maybe  Frederik   Mar-16-05 02:27 PM   #152 
            Is Rodrigo Rato any relation to Ratso Rizzo?  Seabiscuit   Mar-17-05 02:47 AM   #196 
   maybe its for the best  morgan2   Mar-16-05 09:54 AM   #39 
   That is true  Frederik   Mar-16-05 10:24 AM   #66 
   Agree  mmonk   Mar-16-05 12:37 PM   #114 
   Were he to get the job I will renounce my faith in God  ChavezSpeakstheTruth   Mar-16-05 09:58 AM   #41 
   renounce  wildmanj   Mar-16-05 10:17 AM   #55 
      um  ChavezSpeakstheTruth   Mar-16-05 10:24 AM   #65 
   So John Bolton Will Have A Friend To Talk To.  Edgewater_Joe   Mar-16-05 10:05 AM   #45 
   They're all friends/cronies n/t (same ol' gang)  hue   Mar-16-05 11:38 AM   #98 
   I am rolling all over the floor crying.  HuckleB   Mar-16-05 10:09 AM   #47 
   F*ck up, Move up!  Daphne08   Mar-16-05 10:17 AM   #56 
   He hasn't been incompetent I think  Frederik   Mar-16-05 10:27 AM   #67 
   What, like Stimpy?  DS1   Mar-16-05 11:29 AM   #95 
   Heaven help us all....  emad   Mar-16-05 10:10 AM   #48 
   anyone have the Pocket Guide to the PNAC handy?  eek   Mar-16-05 10:11 AM   #49 
   It's there in general  AG78   Mar-16-05 10:17 AM   #57 
   "Confessions of an Economic Hitman" provides  coffeenap   Mar-16-05 10:12 AM   #51 
   Just when I thought it couldn't get any worse.  spinbaby   Mar-16-05 10:13 AM   #53 
   my thoughts exactly  progressoid   Mar-16-05 10:19 AM   #60 
   My guess is this is only the beginning of the "worst."  Clark2008   Mar-16-05 10:30 AM   #70 
   Has Europe reacted yet? China? Latin America?  aquart   Mar-16-05 10:18 AM   #58 
   He is only RECOMMENDING Wolfowitz. He can't appoint him  ChavezSpeakstheTruth   Mar-16-05 10:19 AM   #61 
   Wtf?!?  negativenihil   Mar-16-05 10:22 AM   #62 
   Nice video on the Carlyle Group to go along with this thread  Roland99   Mar-16-05 10:23 AM   #64 
   I'm watching the press conference now....  Catchawave   Mar-16-05 10:28 AM   #68 
   How low must our society fall before the American Sheeple wake up?  mod mom   Mar-16-05 10:30 AM   #69 
   The appointment of these people  jwirr   Mar-16-05 11:53 AM   #103 
   Dictator distraction again  realFedUp   Mar-16-05 10:37 AM   #74 
   WONDERFUL news!  David__77   Mar-16-05 10:43 AM   #75 
   True  info being   Mar-16-05 12:46 PM   #117 
   Wolf at the Bank  LibertyLover   Mar-16-05 10:43 AM   #76 
   3/19 WE MUST GET OUT AND PROTEST THESE THUGS!  mod mom   Mar-16-05 10:49 AM   #79 
   Yeah, because Bush always listens to protestors...  Lone Pawn   Mar-16-05 11:07 AM   #85 
      It's about media attention and getting people involved. Your ideas? nt  mod mom   Mar-16-05 11:22 AM   #92 
         When was the last time a protest was mentioned by the media in....  Media_Lies_Daily   Mar-16-05 02:01 PM   #146 
            What we lack is a leader.  Career Prole   Mar-16-05 05:39 PM   #179 
            Like that'll ever happen!  TankLV   Mar-16-05 10:41 PM   #192 
   World Bank for dummies  jbnow   Mar-16-05 12:15 PM   #109 
   He is just another front man for the shadow government --  NCevilDUer   Mar-16-05 12:49 PM   # 
   President's position at the Bank  LibertyLover   Mar-16-05 12:55 PM   #122 
   Hey Liberty...  Algomas   Mar-17-05 02:30 AM   #195 
   Shit, even Bono was more qualified than Wolfowitz.  bklyncowgirl   Mar-17-05 06:23 AM   #199 
   Well said -  NCevilDUer   Mar-16-05 12:42 PM   #115 
   Will this require the use of extra monopoly money?  nolabels   Mar-16-05 10:47 AM   #77 
   NYT/AP pic of World Bank head --  DeepModem Mom   Mar-16-05 10:48 AM   #78 
   Perfect place for that scumbag.  d_b   Mar-16-05 10:50 AM   #80 
   I've always been serious about talking of a coup here in the USA  bobthedrummer   Mar-16-05 10:58 AM   #81 
   Just when I think I am used to all of this......  DemExpat   Mar-16-05 10:58 AM   #82 
   exactly the words I used to hubby  American in Asia   Mar-16-05 11:48 AM   #102 
   send in the Jackals! read "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man" JohnPerkins  ElsewheresDaughter   Mar-16-05 11:01 AM   #83 
   Really. No. Double Really!  AuntiBush   Mar-16-05 11:27 AM   #94 
   Why the hell  Wabbajack   Mar-16-05 11:06 AM   #84 
   Wow! Look for Colin Powell to begin spilling his guts now.  Merlin   Mar-16-05 11:13 AM   #86 
   Like Powell, Is there ANYONE out HERE that can SAVE Us!  AuntiBush   Mar-16-05 11:35 AM   #97 
   Bush nominates hawk to World Bank  jhain   Mar-16-05 11:14 AM   #87 
   Good one  Frederik   Mar-16-05 02:30 PM   #154 
   In other news, bush names Ariel Sharon head of Dept of Housing  burythehatchet   Mar-16-05 11:19 AM   #88 
   Damn! I had him pegged for Bureau of Bulldozers.  Merlin   Mar-16-05 11:20 AM   #89 
   SWEENEY TOOD goes to H Street  TomClash   Mar-16-05 11:21 AM   #90 
   AFP now...Bush nominates Wolfowitz to head World Bank  Career Prole   Mar-16-05 11:21 AM   #91 
   Welcome to the next world depression  realpolitik   Mar-16-05 11:43 AM   #100 
   Stiglitz: Wolfowitz has no training or experience in economic development  allemand   Mar-16-05 11:45 AM   #101 
   Here's where we're heading... Or maybe we're already there.  AuntiBush   Mar-16-05 11:55 AM   #104 
   Can someone please explain all of the implications of this? TIA! eom  TheGoldenRule   Mar-16-05 11:56 AM   #105 
   TheGoldenRule I don't know much about it, other than what  rockedthevoteinMA   Mar-16-05 04:41 PM   #174 
   This guy??? ...... Pres of World Bank????....  bvar22   Mar-16-05 11:57 AM   #106 
   Oh please, did you have to go and post that at lunchtime? nt  mod mom   Mar-16-05 12:49 PM   #118 
      This picture should be...  bvar22   Mar-16-05 01:09 PM   #127 
   Bush probably did it so he wouldn't have to remember another nic-name.....  ClintonTyree   Mar-16-05 12:01 PM   #107 
   Holy shit! n/t  bitchkitty   Mar-16-05 12:32 PM   #112 
   INACCURATE HEADLINE  democracyindanger   Mar-16-05 12:33 PM   #113 
   The world is fucked  info being   Mar-16-05 12:44 PM   #116 
   That doesn't even make sense.  Zynx   Mar-16-05 12:49 PM   #119 
   ***** PEOPLE, HE HAS NOT BEEN APPOINTED!!! *****  Beware the Beast Man   Mar-16-05 12:53 PM   #121 
   Yes he has. POTUS nomination = appointment  Merlin   Mar-16-05 01:32 PM   #137 
   That's not the way the World Bank works...  tx_dem41   Mar-16-05 01:39 PM   #140 
      I see lots of people on the World Bank Board that can be "influenced"...  Media_Lies_Daily   Mar-16-05 01:52 PM   #143 
      If he were bounced, it would be a first, would it not?  Merlin   Mar-16-05 02:40 PM   #156 
   America usually gets its way on WB nominations  katty   Mar-16-05 07:39 PM   #186 
      Always, in fact, up until now..  American in Asia   Mar-17-05 10:36 PM   #204 
   correct me if I'm wrong but there is precedent:  blindpig   Mar-16-05 12:57 PM   #124 
   But the pattern is in REBELLION.  Merlin   Mar-16-05 01:31 PM   #135 
   Apparently if you know Bush you're qualified for anything  madmark   Mar-16-05 01:01 PM   #126 
   I guess you also don't understand how the majority of.....................  nolabels   Mar-16-05 01:35 PM   #138 
      LOL  Locut0s   Mar-16-05 01:43 PM   #142 
   Any PNAC gems on world economics?  KamaAina   Mar-16-05 01:15 PM   #129 
   The reason why this news is announced today is distract ANWAR vote today.  Rainscents   Mar-16-05 01:31 PM   #136 
   They must of been holding this one in the can for a few weeks at least  nolabels   Mar-16-05 02:46 PM   #157 
   Linkism!  Locut0s   Mar-16-05 01:36 PM   #139 
   economic hit man  yorkiemommie1   Mar-16-05 07:48 PM   #189 
   wonder when dubya's gonna give him the medal of freedom?  unhappycamperDU Moderator   Mar-16-05 02:00 PM   #145 
   Neocon economic war, but the enemry is the US middle class! n/t  Robert Oak   Mar-16-05 02:19 PM   #150 
   Deleted message  Name removed   Mar-16-05 02:30 PM   #153 
   This CNN poll shows how popular junior's decision is  0007   Mar-16-05 03:12 PM   #159 
   What happened to the missing $9 billion in Iraq?  aint_no_life_nowhere   Mar-16-05 03:23 PM   #161 
   absorb this - new FCC Chairman's wife = Cheney's press secretary  phoebe   Mar-16-05 03:24 PM   #163 
   Scumbags on Parade  Cugel the Clever   Mar-16-05 03:32 PM   #164 
   the comment in my house was about monkeys picking  methinks2   Mar-16-05 03:44 PM   #165 
   tip for World Bank members, "dont borrow his saliva soaked comb to freshen  Guckert   Mar-16-05 04:06 PM   #167 
   remember the rest of the members have to vote him in first  penpal7   Mar-16-05 04:09 PM   #168 
   They need to move that sculpture "Banker's Heart" to the World Bank  KamaAina   Mar-16-05 04:12 PM   #169 
   The nightmare is never ending.  daleo   Mar-16-05 04:15 PM   #170 
   At least this scumbag is out of the country. (nt)  w4rma   Mar-16-05 04:16 PM   #171 
   Sometimes things have to get worse before they get better.  oxbow   Mar-16-05 04:21 PM   #172 
   worldbankpresident.org  worldbankpresident   Mar-16-05 04:50 PM   #175 
   Wolfowitz was US Ambassador to Indonesia during worst part of violence  aint_no_life_nowhere   Mar-16-05 05:18 PM   #177 
   Wolfowitz is the scummiest of the scum  nonconformist   Mar-16-05 05:26 PM   #178 
   The American neocon problem is now the WORLD's neocon problem  TorchesAndPitchforks   Mar-16-05 06:17 PM   #180 
   Deleted message  Name removed   Mar-16-05 06:37 PM   #181 
   I'll always picture him slicking his hair down.  bloom   Mar-16-05 07:19 PM   #183 
   Alaska Drilling and the Wolf up for WB all in days evilcraft  katty   Mar-16-05 07:37 PM   #185 
   May The Farce be with us!  Anakin Skywalker   Mar-16-05 11:10 PM   #193 
   This is almost comical.. what's next,  President Kerry   Mar-17-05 12:59 AM   #194 
   Say it isn't so...  artemisia1   Mar-17-05 04:11 AM   #197 
   Thanks to those on this thread who reccommended "Confessions of an  Judi Lynn   Mar-17-05 05:11 AM   #198 
   God help us all! Neocons as far as the eye can see ...  V Lee   Mar-17-05 07:17 PM   #200 
   military option didn't pan out for neocons...  CONN   Mar-17-05 09:21 PM   #201 
   I'm sorry but  proud2Blib   Mar-17-05 09:23 PM   #202 
   Deleted message  Name removed   Mar-17-05 09:29 PM   #203 
   Rumsfeld on Nomination of Paul Wolfowitz  paineinthearse   Mar-18-05 05:54 PM   #206 
 
AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-16-05 09:26 AM
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1. Worst choice ever.
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3. Unbelievable. We have been taken over.
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6. yup, you lie about evidence that takes us to 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.
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The Backlash Cometh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-16-05 09:31 AM
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13. Bolton, Wolfowitz and Bush. Now there's the real Tri-lateral Commission.
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0007 (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-16-05 09:40 AM
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28. Wait till they spring Salvatore "Sammy the Bull" Gravano
to replace Al Greenspan.

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The Backlash Cometh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-16-05 09:41 AM
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31. Well, you have to admit that the Mafia has far more experience
in free market ventures.
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KoKo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Wed Mar-16-05 10:32 AM
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71. A good one 0007....ROFL...they probably have thought of it, already!
:D
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KoKo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Wed Mar-16-05 10:33 AM
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72. They have lost their minds....definite proof they are totally insane and
have been. I can't imagine this flying....If true it shows how desperate they are!
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Seabiscuit (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-16-05 12:56 PM
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123. Yup. Back during Reagan's first year in office my friends and I used to
say the country's "gone to the dogs".

Well, the "dogs" have by now been replaced by "werewolfies".
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Snivi Yllom (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-16-05 12:50 PM
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120. Look at it this way, he wont be trying to start any wars as a banker
silver cloud
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Media_Lies_Daily (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-16-05 01:55 PM
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144. The World Bank will be used as an economic weapon once Wolfy....
...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.
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GHOSTDANCER (550 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-16-05 02:10 PM
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149. It already is a weapon. Economic wars are waged every day. n/t
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Media_Lies_Daily (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-16-05 04:25 PM
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173. No kidding? Really?
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FighttheFuture (728 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-16-05 04:53 PM
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176. Exactly. Read John Perkins and...
Edited on Wed Mar-16-05 05:14 PM by FighttheFuture
"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... /


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GHOSTDANCER (550 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-16-05 07:10 PM
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182. I saw Perkins on last weeks Now and listened to Coast2Coast episode.
Edited on Wed Mar-16-05 07:11 PM by GHOSTDANCER
can't wait to read the book.
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katty Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-16-05 07:41 PM
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187. The Wolf running the WB-beyond PUTRID
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Bridget Burke (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-16-05 09:27 AM
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5. So--it's totally consistent with Bush Regime policies!
At least there are some things you can depend upon....
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-16-05 09:31 AM
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12. they're nothing if not consistent.
i bet Wolfowitz cut are funding to the IMF as his first order.
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chelsea0011 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-16-05 09:34 AM
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20. And I said that about Hughes yesterday. I take it back.
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-16-05 09:42 AM
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33. Well you know they always surprise us....in a bad way
their level of assholery never ceases to amaze me, it's like the worst nightmare ever.
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acmejack (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-16-05 12:10 PM
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108. Assholism?
It's measured in units of Asshole Quotient (AQ). Wolfowitz is indeed a rarity-a perfect 10, a "Gaper"!
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hue (237 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-16-05 10:12 AM
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52. DITTO!
Cronyism at its best!
I suppose we should have expected this! :mad:
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Flubadubya Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-16-05 01:22 PM
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132. PUHLEEZZZ....
GO AWAY!! UGH!!!
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-16-05 01:25 PM
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133. a poster from little green footballs
i expect nothing more.
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Media_Lies_Daily (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-16-05 01:42 PM
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141. Do yourself a favor before you embarrass yourself any further.....
...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.
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JPZenger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-16-05 03:14 PM
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160. Qualifications Mean Nothing
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.

---
P.S. - Do you think Wolfowitz understands the economic importance of Appropriate Technology in the Third World?
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Maat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-16-05 07:32 PM
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184. LOL (laughed out loud)! I loved your post!
Don't forget Negroponte (Mr. Death Squads).
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Knight of Ni (110 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Fri Mar-18-05 03:21 PM
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205. And soon to have....
...a U.N. Ambassador who doesn't believe in the U.N.!
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niceypoo (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-16-05 03:24 PM
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162. I don't believe its up to Bush who leads the world bank
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.
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Nickster Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-16-05 09:27 AM
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2. OMG, is it Rapture Time yet???
WTF is going on? How can they put that animal in charge?
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dbt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-16-05 09:30 AM
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10. More like REPTILE time.
The more I read "The News," the more sense David Icke makes.

:freak:
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chenGOD (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-16-05 11:42 AM
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99. Absolutely.
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
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clem_c_rock (989 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-16-05 12:24 PM
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110. F***ing shape-shifting freaks!!!
Yeah - I try to fight the David Icke alien side and some days it's very difficult.

Everything just gets more unreal everyday.
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katty Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-16-05 07:43 PM
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188. Yes,the twilight zone of bushworld
these kinds of stunning events will only increase.
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Skarbrowe (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-16-05 02:21 PM
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151. Ahh! Another David Icke reader. I do read him as Sci-Fi, BUT......

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
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AuntiBush (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-16-05 11:25 AM
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93. I feel the same way! OMG!
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.
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katty Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-16-05 07:48 PM
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190. bush has facilitated the Orwell World Government, just like
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.
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-16-05 09:27 AM
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4. Are the moon colonies ready yet?
Yikes
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tom_paine (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-16-05 09:29 AM
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7. It sounds as if BushPtuinism is about to reign supreme. The Age of
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.
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Lerkfish Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-16-05 09:29 AM
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8. but when I told people the neocons want to take over 4 yrs ago...
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.
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Wed Mar-16-05 09:32 AM
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18. I knew what their plans were when they ran that dipshit for governor
I knew what would come - endless war and a wrecked economy - I shudder to think of what is to come
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anarchy1999 (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-16-05 09:36 AM
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22. We are right there with you.
Edited on Wed Mar-16-05 10:02 AM by anarchy1999
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?
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Frederik (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-16-05 10:12 AM
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50. The last 4 years
conspiracy theories have been better guides to predicting the future than coincidence theories. Sadly...
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qanda Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-16-05 09:29 AM
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9. Totally unbelievable
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lse7581011 (937 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-16-05 10:36 AM
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73. But not surprising considering the source! n/t
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liberalmuse Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-16-05 09:30 AM
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11. WTF, you say?
Slick is going to run the World Bank? That's it. I'm jumping out the window.
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berner59 (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-16-05 09:33 AM
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19. what a "club"...
They just move their members around... How nauseating is this???
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yorkiemommie1 (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-16-05 09:39 AM
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27.  cross-pollinating
Edited on Wed Mar-16-05 09:40 AM by yorkiemommie1
read 'confessions of an economic hit man' john perkins


edit to add: The Power Elite by C. Wright Mills
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Skarbrowe (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-16-05 02:32 PM
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155. Read the book in one sitting last night. Needless to say, I'm bummed.

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.
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aint_no_life_nowhere Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-16-05 02:58 PM
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158. He said on Amy Goodman's show that he had a change of heart after 911
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.
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Skarbrowe (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-16-05 03:57 PM
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166. Yes. Perkins says that from day one when he was recruited for his job
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.

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liberalmuse Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-16-05 09:40 AM
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It's worse than nauseating.
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.
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AuntiBush (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-16-05 11:32 AM
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96. Because that are the ABSOLUTE WORSE!
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?
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dweller (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-16-05 10:03 AM
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42. pls move over
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

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Catfight (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-16-05 09:31 AM
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14. just think, right now he's probably licking his comb....nt
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yorkiemommie1 (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-16-05 09:40 AM
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29. and his chops
n/t
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anarchy1999 (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-16-05 09:41 AM
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30. Aw jeez, you had to bring that image up!
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?
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KarenS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-16-05 10:04 AM
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44. LOL ~ my thoughts EXACTLY,,,,,
when I think of him, this is the image I see

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I am so disgusted with all that is happening ~ I am beyond words.
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AFSCME girl (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-16-05 01:16 PM
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130. Pfffffffftttttttt!
Fellow DU'er etherealtruth goes crazy when I bring up that image! (It is quite disgusting) }(
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Jester_11218 (914 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-16-05 09:32 AM
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15. Link here
Edited on Wed Mar-16-05 09:34 AM by Jester_11218
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.
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MadisonProgressive (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-16-05 09:49 AM
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37. That link is broken - try this
Edited on Wed Mar-16-05 09:52 AM by MadisonProgressive
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Pirate Smile Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Wed Mar-16-05 09:32 AM
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16. Who makes this decision? Does anyone know the specifics about
how this choice is made and by whom?

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pinkpops (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-16-05 09:55 AM
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40. I wondered too - here's from Yahoo news:
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
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Pirate Smile Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Wed Mar-16-05 10:04 AM
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43. Thanks. CNN just said "the President will appoint" PW to head the
World Bank.

That answers that question.

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RaleighNCDUer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-16-05 12:31 PM
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111. I think that US chooses, but Europe has to ratify. It can still be
stopped.
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CHIMO Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-16-05 07:56 PM
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191. Wolfowitz in top World Bank post race
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...
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cthrumatrix (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-16-05 09:32 AM
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17. they have to keep crime "contained"...information is thier undoing
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sjgman9 (142 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-16-05 09:34 AM
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21. The Bush Administration: Failure Rewarded
If this post requires Senate Confirmation, let 'er rip!
Lets tar and feather Paul FullofSHIT with everything we got!
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Amaya (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-16-05 09:37 AM
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23. How did this happen?
:wtf:
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sniffa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-16-05 09:38 AM
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24. makes perfect sense
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. :puke:
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GiovanniC (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-16-05 09:47 AM
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35. Just Like Karen Hughes as a State Department Deputy?
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Edgewater_Joe (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-16-05 10:07 AM
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46. But At Least Hughes' Failure Is Going To Be Funny
"What?! You mean the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth aren't believed by those ragheads?!?"
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acmejack (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-16-05 02:04 PM
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147. But Joe,
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.
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yorkiemommie1 (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-16-05 09:38 AM
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25. oh. no.
every day a new insult.
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kentuck Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-16-05 09:39 AM
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26. Bush has now found a way to screw the world economy....
just like he has the American economy...
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still_one Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-16-05 09:41 AM
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32. 2 weeks ago he said he was withdrawing his name
what a bunch of fu*king lying scum bags
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Clark2008 (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-16-05 09:44 AM
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34. I'm literally crying
:cry:

This is just HORRIBLE!

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DemoTex Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-16-05 09:47 AM
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36. Will Wolfowitz get the Medal of Freedom like Franks, Tenet, and Bremer?
My guess is he will. :puke:

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pinkpops (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-16-05 09:50 AM
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38. some one 'splain - is the "World Bank" a US institution? and
who confirms?
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mcscajun (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-16-05 10:14 AM
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54. The World Bank is a multi-national institution with 184 member countries.
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.
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Frederik (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-16-05 10:22 AM
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63. Well, formally
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.
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Frederik (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-16-05 10:19 AM
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59. Nominally, no.
It's inter-governmental, like the UN. But it has always been dominated by the US, who gets to choose its president.
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Seabiscuit (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-16-05 01:10 PM
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128. According to the linked articles, no.
Edited on Wed Mar-16-05 01:12 PM by Seabiscuit
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.
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cynatnite Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-16-05 01:19 PM
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131. Didn't bush just take a trip to Europe not too long ago?
Maybe some dealing went on so he could insure PW's nomination being approved.
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Seabiscuit (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-16-05 02:08 PM
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148. Maybe, maybe not.
Despite all the gee-howdy photo-ops, I don't think any European country has much respect for Dubya and his gang any more.
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Frederik (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-16-05 02:27 PM
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152. Maybe
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.
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Seabiscuit (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Thu Mar-17-05 02:47 AM
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196. Is Rodrigo Rato any relation to Ratso Rizzo?
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morgan2 (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-16-05 09:54 AM
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39. maybe its for the best
What country wiil take the world bank loan sharks seriously with Wolfowitz at its head.
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Frederik (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-16-05 10:24 AM
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66. That is true
More countries could follow Venezuela's example and just ditch them.
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mmonk Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Wed Mar-16-05 12:37 PM
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114. Agree
this will destroy any legitimacy the World Bank enjoyed in the eyes of many nations. Could eventually mean its unraveling.
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ChavezSpeakstheTruth (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-16-05 09:58 AM
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41. Were he to get the job I will renounce my faith in God
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wildmanj (611 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-16-05 10:17 AM
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55. renounce
hate to tell you this but MAMMON is GOD
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ChavezSpeakstheTruth (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-16-05 10:24 AM
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65. um
ok
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Edgewater_Joe (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-16-05 10:05 AM
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45. So John Bolton Will Have A Friend To Talk To.
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.
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hue (237 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-16-05 11:38 AM
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98. They're all friends/cronies n/t (same ol' gang)
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HuckleB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Wed Mar-16-05 10:09 AM
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47. I am rolling all over the floor crying.
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.
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Daphne08 Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Wed Mar-16-05 10:17 AM
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56. F*ck up, Move up!
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Frederik (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-16-05 10:27 AM
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67. He hasn't been incompetent I think
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).
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-16-05 11:29 AM
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95. What, like Stimpy?
:crazy:
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emad (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-16-05 10:10 AM
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48. Heaven help us all....
???
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eek (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-16-05 10:11 AM
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49. anyone have the Pocket Guide to the PNAC handy?

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


:scared:
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AG78 (840 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-16-05 10:17 AM
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57. It's there in general
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
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coffeenap Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-16-05 10:12 AM
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51. "Confessions of an Economic Hitman" provides
important insight into the situation--also, John Perkins needs to be heard from. (he wrote the book).
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spinbaby Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-16-05 10:13 AM
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53. Just when I thought it couldn't get any worse.
Worst choice ever.
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progressoid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-16-05 10:19 AM
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60. my thoughts exactly
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Clark2008 (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-16-05 10:30 AM
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70. My guess is this is only the beginning of the "worst."
The president's pancake makeup is struggling to cover the evil within.
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aquart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-16-05 10:18 AM
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58. Has Europe reacted yet? China? Latin America?
Edited on Wed Mar-16-05 10:19 AM by aquart
Because I don't think this will in any way impede dollar dumping.
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ChavezSpeakstheTruth (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-16-05 10:19 AM
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61. He is only RECOMMENDING Wolfowitz. He can't appoint him
Chill
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negativenihil (519 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-16-05 10:22 AM
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62. Wtf?!?
Edited on Wed Mar-16-05 10:22 AM by negativenihil
This all really came out of left-feild if you ask me...

(err... or should that be "right-feild"? heh heh heh)
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Roland99 Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Wed Mar-16-05 10:23 AM
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64. Nice video on the Carlyle Group to go along with this thread
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. ;)
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Catchawave Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-16-05 10:28 AM
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68. I'm watching the press conference now....
as much as I try to respect the Office of the President...he is so painful to watch. What a horrible speaker. x(
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mod mom Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Wed Mar-16-05 10:30 AM
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69. How low must our society fall before the American Sheeple wake up?
definitely a new low. Let's hope the position requires travel to unstable countries with less security and angry mobs.
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jwirr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Wed Mar-16-05 11:53 AM
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103. The appointment of these people
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.
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realFedUp Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-16-05 10:37 AM
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74. Dictator distraction again
While the news might focus on Wolfowitz's
nomination, what's happening in the Senate
this week is more important to focus on.
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David__77 (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-16-05 10:43 AM
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75. WONDERFUL news!
Nothing else could help bury this foul "globalization" better than such a provocative choice.
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info being (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-16-05 12:46 PM
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117. True
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.
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LibertyLover (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-16-05 10:43 AM
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76. Wolf at the Bank
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.
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mod mom Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Wed Mar-16-05 10:49 AM
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79. 3/19 WE MUST GET OUT AND PROTEST THESE THUGS!
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Lone Pawn (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-16-05 11:07 AM
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85. Yeah, because Bush always listens to protestors...
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mod mom Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Wed Mar-16-05 11:22 AM
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92. It's about media attention and getting people involved. Your ideas? nt
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Media_Lies_Daily (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-16-05 02:01 PM
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146. When was the last time a protest was mentioned by the media in....
...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.
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Career Prole Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-16-05 05:39 PM
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179. What we lack is a leader.
We need a Lech Walesa of our own.
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TankLV (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-16-05 10:41 PM
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192. Like that'll ever happen!
Nice to dream tho.
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jbnow Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-16-05 12:15 PM
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109. World Bank for dummies
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.

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RaleighNCDUer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-16-05 12:49 PM
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He is just another front man for the shadow government --
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.
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LibertyLover (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-16-05 12:55 PM
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122. President's position at the Bank
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.
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Algomas (576 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Thu Mar-17-05 02:30 AM
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195. Hey Liberty...
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!
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bklyncowgirl Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Thu Mar-17-05 06:23 AM
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199. Shit, even Bono was more qualified than Wolfowitz.
It probably wasn't a serious suggestion but at least he knows the third world.
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RaleighNCDUer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-16-05 12:42 PM
Response to Reply #76
115. Well said -
but I think your 'Wolf at the Bank' said it all.
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nolabels (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-16-05 10:47 AM
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77. Will this require the use of extra monopoly money?
(snip)
You'll need Acrobat Reader to view and print the money. Just click the link below if you don't already have it - its free
http://www.hasbro.com/monopoly/pl/page.treasurechest/dn...
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DeepModem Mom Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Wed Mar-16-05 10:48 AM
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78. NYT/AP pic of World Bank head --

Charles Dharapak/Associated Press
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d_b Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-16-05 10:50 AM
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80. Perfect place for that scumbag.
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bobthedrummer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Wed Mar-16-05 10:58 AM
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81. I've always been serious about talking of a coup here in the USA
that helped to install this administration, they are fascists capable of anything, Straussian zealots with their fingers on the nuclear trigger-and now the World Bank by decree of The War President.

Is there anyone still asleep?

Our US Constitution is our rallying point, as always. A military empire is not democracy, my father fought against military empires in WWII as a US Marine as did all WWII veterans.

Nazi war criminals were brought into the foundation of our US national security community to battle godless communism, they were given identities and jobs as Americans working in "national security".

Today the crazies claimed the World Bank-this is economic warfare to all that have been paying attention to the world's markets lately--this is a countermove to China's recent behavior imo.

God help US all.
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DemExpat (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-16-05 10:58 AM
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82. Just when I think I am used to all of this......
I feel another kick in the stomach and sense of deepening dread for our world.

:grr: :cry:

DemEx
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American in Asia (332 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-16-05 11:48 AM
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102. exactly the words I used to hubby
tonight when he came home. We are demolishing a bottle of sake and trying to pretend that when we wake up in the morning this will have all been a bad nightmare.

I can't believe this is happening...nothing should surprise me at this point, but this one got me right between the eyes.
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ElsewheresDaughter Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-16-05 11:01 AM
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83. send in the Jackals! read "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man" JohnPerkins
Edited on Wed Mar-16-05 11:37 AM by ElsewheresDaughter
i'm about to blackout/passout/squirrels are running around inside my head/head will eplode from all the evilness coming out of this admin!...i feel like i am going INSANE...who can save us and the world from so much darkness?
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AuntiBush (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-16-05 11:27 AM
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94. Really. No. Double Really!
Isn't it making you sick!?!? Everyone I know is OUTRAGED! Republicans included! Trust me, they're soooo sorry they voted for (their words) this evil sick regime! We're talking very prominent world reknown doctors here saying this. They're depressed and angry over all of this, too.
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Wabbajack (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-16-05 11:06 AM
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