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Wolfowitz: Head of the World Bank
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story....html?gusrc=rss
So who does good old Dubya nominate to lead the World Bank??? None other than our warmongering redneck buddy Paul Wolfowitz.. yay!! What business does the US Deputy Defense Secretary have to do with the dealings of the World Bank??!! Even World Bank employees are kicking up a stink..
Go home wolfie
Some interesting facts....Wolfowitz works for the Republican administration but is auctually registered as a Democrat,his girlfriend an Arab is also a feminist and as stated in the article she also works at the World Bank.
The Europeans could still try to scupper his appointment as they hold 30% of the votes on the banks board,even though Americans traditionally select the president of the bank.Germanys Development Minister has been quoted as saying "enthusiasm in Europe is not exactly overwhelming" at his proposed appointment.
America traditionally appoints the president of The World Bank,on the other hand Europe traditionally appoints the president of The International Monetary Fund....in a nutshell the jobs are divvied up.
The president of the world bank has already been chosen. What you see is just the cud being handed out.
Chew carefully.
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holy shit, it's true!!
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I just stumbled on this article talking about how Joseph Stiglitz (former chief economist of the World Bank and Nobel Laureate) claims "The World Bank will once again become a hate figure. This could bring street protests and violence across the developing world." He described President Bush's determination to appoint his deputy defence secretary to the important post as "either an act of provocation or an act so insensitive as to look like provocation".
Lets also note that: "He has no training or experience in economic development or financial markets," Stiglitz said. The Bank was the most important institution addressing poverty, he said. "We need someone in charge who knows. . . development."
Source
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/ma..._requestid=9721
Personally, I think that the opinions of a man like Stiglitz will leave most people dumbfounded to come up with any decent rhetoric. I have studied this mans work over the last few years, and he is no doubt a genious.
Paul Wolfowitz is pure scum and sod getting a job as president of the World Bank he should fuck off back to his old job as playing an extra in Lord of the Rings in the Orc scenes
he's getting the job so bush can hand out money to countries who are our 'friends' and punish our 'enimies' by withholding them financial aid. This signals a shift to economic warefare and in that case Wolfowitz is perfect for the job.
Always the fall guy is shown never the guy that pushes.
Who did you think Bush was going to appoint?
While there can be little doubt that Bush is unsurpassed for his ability to send big "fuck you"s to his allies, and that this is yet another one, I didn't really see any alternatives to Wolfie?
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| Originally posted by BadBadNeil Who did you think Bush was going to appoint? |
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| Originally posted by Dupz Yeah, his idiotic choice doesnt suprise me in the least.. I wouldnt have expect Bush to nominate someone with some credibility, or heaven forbid, someone with an economics background.. Wolfowitz has been educated in International Relations (lol, i know.. it's funny), mathematics, and political science.. No mention of anything to do with Economics, or Economic Development. There are 1001 candidates whom I'm sure would have a better CV. |
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| Originally posted by Trancer-X Wolfie is a good friend of Cheney's. That's the only credential he needed to get the job - well, that and the fact that he was a PNAC founding member. http://rightweb.irc-online.org/ind/.../wolfowitz.html |
This happens every day in society. People always say "it's who you know not what you know" and to a large extent that is true. My dad (who is a policeofficer) often tells stories of how guys get promotions, breaks of various goods, and people that are well connected generally have more opportunities in life. Sure this is on a much larger scope being the head of a world bank but it really is no different than what happens in all facets of our society every single day.
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| Originally posted by BadBadNeil Who did you think Bush was going to appoint? |
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| Originally posted by igottaknow I was hoping for someone more qualified like Don Rumsfield or Ken Lay (oh snap! he's on trial) . |
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| Originally posted by ogvh5150 The president of the world bank has already been chosen. |
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| MSNBC.com Wolfowitz named as World Bank president U.S. candidate approved in unanimous vote by bank directors Reuters Updated: 3:38 p.m. ET March 31, 2005 WASHINGTON - The World Bank unanimously confirmed Paul Wolfowitz as its president Thursday, despite quiet misgivings by some members over the deputy defense secretary�s role as the Bush administration�s architect of the Iraq war. The outcome had already largely been decided in the capitals of the bank�s major shareholder governments when the 24-member board met in a vote that was conducted by consensus. Wolfowitz will have a few months of transition before he takes the reins of the bank on June 1, when James Wolfensohn steps down after 10 years at the helm of an organization that spends billions of dollars a year in projects aimed at reducing poverty in the world�s least developed countries. �It is humbling to be entrusted with the leadership of this critically important international institution,� Wolfowitz said in a statement. He said the next six months would be important for international development policy decisions, before a U.N. summit in September to measure progress on meeting global targets to reduce poverty. He also said he understood the urgent need for easing the debts of the bank�s poorest borrowers, infrastructure improvements and regional integration if poverty was to be tackled. The Pentagon�s No. 2 civilian official was the only nominee for the World Bank job, which by informal agreement is headed by an American, while the top post of the International Monetary Fund usually goes to a European. A group of U.S.-based anti-poverty activists from 50 Years is Enough, ActionAid International USA and Mobilization for Global Justice held a small demonstration outside the bank�s headquarters in Washington to oppose �the one-horse race�. But Wolfowitz�s nomination was assured despite private disquiet among Europeans who opposed the U.S. invasion of Iraq but who are hoping Washington will support their candidates for top jobs in other international agencies like the World Trade Organization. Wolfowitz won their backing during a visit Wednesday to Brussels, where he acknowledged he was a controversial figure but vowed to consult broadly with bank members. Copyright 2005 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved. Republication or redistribution of Reuters content is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Reuters. URL: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7348473/ |
THE INNER CIRCLE
On the Job and at Home, Influential Hawks' 30-Year Friendship Evolves
By ELISABETH BUMILLER and ERIC SCHMITT
WASHINGTON, Sept. 10 � At a dinner this spring for former President Gerald R. Ford, Vice President Dick Cheney so artfully skewered his old boss, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, that the crowd got an instant glimpse into one of the closest and most important relationships in the nation's capital.
"So much has changed since I started out as an assistant to Don Rumsfeld," Mr. Cheney said, deadpan. "Today I look at Don and see the secretary of defense. He looks at me and sees � well, an assistant to Don Rumsfeld."
The crowd roared at a joke that summed up the three-decade friendship between the two superpowers of the Bush administration, who first worked closely together in 1969 in the Nixon administration, when Mr. Rumsfeld was director of the Office of Economic Opportunity and Mr. Cheney was his 28-year-old aide.
But what few people even in the capital understand is that each man also has a powerful deputy � Paul D. Wolfowitz for Mr. Rumsfeld and I. Lewis Libby for Mr. Cheney, who have known each other for 30 years in a parallel association and friendship that makes them closer to each other than to Mr. Bush, or to Mr. Cheney and Mr. Rumsfeld.
These relationships, according to people who know all four men, are essential to understanding their current status as the most influential hawks in an already hawkish administration.
The events of Sept. 11 have made their bond even stronger, administration officials say, and their stands on crucial issues � from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty to the International Criminal Court to the Middle East to Iraq � have often won out over the more cautious, more multilateralist camp led by as formidable a figure as Secretary of State Colin L. Powell. The terrorist attacks made their arguments even more powerful with Mr. Bush, several senior administration officials said.
"They're very certain of their views," said Kenneth Adelman, a former Reagan administration official who knows all four men. "They're not the kind of agonizing, Hamlet-like figures."
Though the four have weaved in and out of government over seven administrations, this is the first time they have assembled under the same president. Their supporters say that their coming together is a fortuitous development in an administration that has made the campaign against terrorism its priority. But detractors describe the four as dangerous and arrogant interventionists.
The men have "a pervasive philosophy of `We have to do what we think is right,' " a Republican ally of Secretary Powell said. " `And when it comes out, the rest of the world will know it's right, too.' "
In a recent interview, Mr. Rumsfeld acknowledged how important his longtime relationship with Mr. Cheney and others in the administration was to doing his job.
"It helps enormously," he said. "If you're dealing with people who you know how they think and how they move and what they do and what they worry about and what they think is important, and you don't have to begin at the beginning every time you meet with them, it's a big help."
Mr. Cheney and Mr. Rumsfeld, as well as their deputies, declined to be interviewed for this article.
Together, the group has pushed forward a muscular American foreign policy toward Iraq with preemption as its central thrust, and arguing that in a dangerous, post-cold-war world the United States must reserve the right to strike first.
The men believe that if the United States doesn't shape the world order, it will spin out of control, and as a group supported the "evil empire" beliefs of Ronald Reagan more than the internationalism of the first President Bush.
Of the four, Mr. Cheney is closest to Mr. Bush, and operates as the president's No. 1 foreign policy adviser. But Mr. Rumsfeld counseled Mr. Bush on national security issues during the 2000 campaign, especially the need for missile defenses to thwart threats from countries like North Korea and Iraq. Mr. Wolfowitz was also a top national security adviser during the campaign.
The core of the quartet is the relationship between Mr. Cheney and Mr. Rumsfeld, who three times have found themselves in the same supervisor-subordinate role. Mr. Rumsfeld was not only Mr. Cheney's boss at the Office at Economic Opportunity, but also as director of the Cost of Living Council later in the Nixon administration. Mr. Rumsfeld was Mr. Cheney's boss again as White House chief of staff during the Ford administration.
Eventually, the two shared some of the same titles: congressman, White House chief of staff (Mr. Cheney took Mr. Rumsfeld's place under Mr. Ford) and secretary of defense.
Over the years, Mr. Rumsfeld and Mr. Cheney became close friends. Mr. Rumsfeld and his wife Joyce were guests at the 35th wedding anniversary celebration in Wyoming that Mr. Cheney and his wife Lynne had in the summer of 1999, and are frequent guests in each other's homes.
Mr. Wolfowitz and Mr. Libby have a similar close friendship that began in 1973 when Mr. Libby was a student in Mr. Wolfowitz's political science class at Yale. Mr. Libby then worked for Mr. Wolfowitz in the Reagan administration beginning when Mr. Wolfowitz ran the State Department's policy planning office.
Mr. Libby worked again for Mr. Wolfowitz at the Pentagon in the first Bush administration, when Mr. Wolfowitz was undersecretary for policy and Mr. Libby was his deputy.
The four men do not see each other socially as a formal group, colleagues say, but they are frequently together at meetings arguing their point of view. Still, they are not a single policy bloc, and play different roles in relation to each other.
Mr. Rumsfeld is the chief executive, the man who likes to be in charge and bark out orders. "Rumsfeld is a kind of typical lightweight wrestler," said one senior administration official. "His management style is always to be in your face, raising questions, playing for the advantage and to take someone down."
Mr. Wolfowitz is the strategic thinker with a strong moral streak who provides Mr. Rumsfeld with his intellectual underpinnings. "Paul is the big brain who's thinking about strategies, policies and geostrategic implications," said Vin Weber, a former Republican congressman from Minnesota who knows Mr. Cheney, Mr. Rumsfeld and Mr. Wolfowitz.
Mr. Cheney is the politician and synthesizer who relishes the process and worries about how to get from one place to another in the maze of Washington. "This is a vice president who's a prime minister, a senior counselor, a chief of staff, whatever he wants to be," said Senator Chuck Hagel, a Nebraska Republican on the Foreign Relations Committee.
Mr. Libby, a lawyer known by his nickname, Scooter, is Mr. Cheney's chief of staff and national security adviser. Once a speechwriter for former Secretary of State George P. Shultz, Mr. Libby is adept at articulating and carrying out the vice president's ideas and troubleshooting for his boss. "Scooter always brings a trained lawyer's eye," said a senior administration official.
The four men met in ways both ordinary and unusual.
As a young graduate student on a fellowship in 1968, Mr. Cheney had a 30-minute job interview with Mr. Rumsfeld, then a Republican congressman from Illinois. The interview went badly, and Mr. Cheney went to work for another lawmaker. A long memorandum he later wrote on how to set up the White House Office of Economic Opportunity caught Mr. Rumsfeld's eye, and he hired Mr. Cheney as the new agency's Congressional liaison.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/11/p...4&ei=5070&fta=y
That's pretty crapy news. A neocon Head of the World Bank.
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| Originally posted by shaolin_Z That's pretty crapy news. A neocon Head of the World Bank. |
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| Originally posted by BadBadNeil This happens every day in society. People always say "it's who you know not what you know" and to a large extent that is true. My dad (who is a policeofficer) often tells stories of how guys get promotions, breaks of various goods, and people that are well connected generally have more opportunities in life. Sure this is on a much larger scope being the head of a world bank but it really is no different than what happens in all facets of our society every single day. |
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