Goldman Sachs Marches on with Bush’s Candidate for World Bank
“In Goldman Sachs we trust,” was the title of one of the chapters of John Kenneth Galbraith’s The Great Crash, his account of the crooked dealings that triggered the great stock market bust of the 1920s.
President George Bush will not have had that unflattering chapter in the Wall Street bank’s history in mind as he nominated Robert Zoellick to head the World Bank yesterday. 
Mr Zoellick, 53, is a senior executive of Goldman Sachs, who until recently was the deputy US Secretary of State. Before that he was the US trade representative, where he dealt abrasively with “globalisation nihilists,” as he described opponents of American trade policy towards the developing world. World reaction to his nomination was broadly positive, but France’s foreign minister Bernard Kouchner said Mr Zoellick must move swiftly to restore confidence in the World Bank’s role in rolling back poverty. “Between the partners and the World Bank it is mainly a question of confidence.”
President Bush’s nomination of another Goldman Sachs senior executive is unsurprising given that the bank enjoys virtual revolving door access to the White House. Last year the Wall Street bank raised eyebrows when it handed its employees a $500m (£250m) bonus, or $623,400 for each one. The chief executive was given an extra $52m spending money.
At the World Bank he will have to quickly apply balm to the raw wounds caused by the forced removal of Mr Bush’s neoconservative ally Paul Wolfowitz. Those wounds were still in evidence as Mr Bush went out of his way to thank Mr Wolfowitz, while he lavished praise on Mr Zoellick’s record as a diplomat and trade negotiator. Mr Wolfowitz left under a cloud after pressing for a large compensation deal for his girlfriend Shaha Riza, who also worked at the bank.
But for all the honeyed words about Mr Zoellick’s role in reuniting the two Germanys, and bringing China into the World Trade Organisation, it is his hardnosed reputation as a free trade zealot that precedes him at the World Bank.
While calling for a “level playing field” and demanding open markets for American goods in the developing world, the US still subsidises agriculture to the tune of $8bn a year. Development economists say that the combination of subsidies on US cotton, corn and wheat in particular devastate the economies of African countries. The bank’s 24-member board, which is dominated by European donors, must now approve the appointment. In a statement, the board said that it was essential that the next president, among other things, have “political objectivity and independence”.
The bank’s new chief needs to quickly persuade countries to contribute nearly $30bn to fund a high profile programme of providing interest-free loans to the world’s poorest countries.
“The test of Zoellick is whether he manages to turn around the bank, which has been in huge disarray,” said Elizabeth Stuart, a senior policy adviser for Oxfam International.
Favourite bank
Robert Zoellick
The World Bank nominee is formerly a deputy to Condoleezza Rice. He was a key diplomat in Washington’s China policies before joining Goldman Sachs as managing director and vice-chairman for international strategy.
Joshua Bolten
The White House chief of staff is also a former Goldman Sachs executive.
Robert Rubin
The former United States treasury secretary is a former partner with Goldman Sachs.
Jon Corzine
The governor of New Jersey was co-head of Goldman Sachs with Mr Paulson until he left due to a power struggle.
Henry Paulson
The US Treasury Secretary was formerly Goldman Sachs’ chief executive. As a China expert for Goldman Sachs, he helped to manoeuvre the investment bank into pole position in China as the country joined the World Trade Organisation.
© 2007 Independent News and Media Limited
George Bush belongs to the half-witted, incompetent, filthy rich white males club. He does not know anybody else.
They won’t let him in, he is a quarter-wit.
Your search - www.hwifrwmc.org - did not match any documents… anyone know their correct web address?
Check out the “Labor Is Not a Commodity” blog for more views on Bush’s choice of Zoellick to lead the World Bank: http://laborrightsblog.typepad.com/international_labor_right/2007/05/trade_is_not_th.html
Dont overlook Zoellick’s possible connection with Rumsfeld… you know, the one who went to Germany to be pardoned for US War Crimes. Since when do people in Germany make decisions about the United States military? Unless we are overlooking something very important???
What about German banks and the Euro?
Who are the new colonizers of Africa, land of gold, diamonds, platinum (but so many poor people?), as Bill Buckley and Pat Robertson and post-mortem Jerry Falwell, dear friends of the now underground (historically pro-Nazi) Apartheid regime know oh so well.
And note Zoellick’s recent dealings in South Africa.
Are we beginning to piece the puzzle together?
Could it be a Fascist Revival???
More literal than we thought earlier?
And the darling Bushes sit in the middle of all of it.
Prescott got his dream to ally with the Nazis instead of the Brits, after all… and we get more Hoovernomics.
Is that what “Traditional Family Values” really means?
Traditional Bush Family Values is what we have.
So Nice. So Christian.
Go to the GMwatch.org website in Britain to read more about Zoelleck’s connections with Monsanto and Biotech agriculture… more African neo-colonialization and ultimate genocide.
The Nazis also played espionage games to regain their pre-WWI German colonies, and Germany has lots of troops in Africa now, after remilitarization. Is the Bush Junta their ally, or their puppet? Why are Bush policies so indifferent to Americans and our needs?
Is the Bush Junta a Nazi cult?
Thoughts to consider, even if they seem outrageous to some of you.
And look how cute it is to have Condoleeza Rice as their Stepford commander in a policy to recolonize Africa… who would have suspected?
This CRAP is engineered in part at the Hoover Institute at Stanford, where Condo was programmed and prepped.
This guy is just John Bolton with a dye job.
An enforcer for the Bush Gang’s position to keep the rest of the world barefoot and pregnant.
If Bush is the half-wit some declare he is, why is he not removed from office? Cheeky liitle question, isn’t it?
He will not be impeached. Too many from each party would go down with him. He will laugh all the way to 2008. Sad. Where are the leaders with principles and integrity? Integrity is conspicuous by its complete and utter absence in the political, financial and corporate world. Integrity in media and the ‘entertainment’(brainwashing) industry, has been gone for many years. Nothing but a revolution by the citizens of the US,the UK, Canada and Australia will bring any change for the better. This will not happen.
Chavez, Morales, Castro and Hitler improved the lot of the people in their countries, which cannot be said of Bush, Blair, Howard or Harper. It is of more than passing interest that each of those men and their countries are effectively under the control of Israel. Hmm.
Whatever good the World Bank does, it can never compensate the fundamental damage created by bank charters. Loans only addict people to “instant gratification” and force them pay for it later. Do plants and animals take out loans and instantly grow to full size? How can one argue with, let alone try to subvert, the natural growth process?
A more pragmatic purpose of loans is that in order to capture market share in an emerging market the production resources have to be available up front. But an enlightened progressive society can re-allocate resources gradually along with demand growth. Just imagine, like a lung, steady expansion/contraction in supply and demand in microscopic increments, in an orderly, efficient process, in an egalitarian and prosperous society.
The risk of “losing it all” is eliminated, because change occurs gradually. This process eliminates high stakes, the barriers of elitist exclusion, tools of monopoly, domination, oppression. The result is greater security, more people participating in the decision making process, more people developing more valuable experience, and more overall benefits to society. These are the ultimate progressive goals.
So we see that the banker and the industrialist scratch each others’ backs at the expense of the people. They have created what they claim to be a darwinian process, but in fact the loan has no parallel in nature. Recent claims of benefits of micro-loans only confirm it: In the limit, better to have no loans at all.
And that doesn’t even take into account the World Bank’s assaults on public interest policies in the developed world - simply more banker/industrialist barrier-building. Reinforcing the battlements of the castle.
A fundamental problem the world faces today is capitalist aggression fueled by mass consent in the west, most frantically in the United States. Suggestion: Support such organizations as the International Peasant’s Movement. Let’s prove that the world does not need the World Bank, IMF, WTO, G8, Wall Street, etc.
Robert Zoellick was also a signatory to the infamous “Project For A New American Century”, which laid out the Neocon plans for domination of American, and world, politics for the next millennium. These guys are nothing if not insidious…… the worst plague the world has ever seen.
Food for thought:
It was the zionists who taught the nazis how to be nazis, and funded them too.
Now they don’t need proxies.
I feel that Bush is neither a half nor a quarter-wit but rather just a nit-wit.
Incidentally, Zoellick is something of a Zionist, according to what I’ve read, along with many other of Shrub’s sidekicks.
Jim… what a statement. All prejudice, no proof or logic.
Kiss my world bank.
The Bush Crime Family is just doing what it does best.
“In Goldman Sachs we trust,” was the title of one of the chapters of John Kenneth Galbraith’s The Great Crash, his account of the crooked dealings that triggered the great stock market bust of the 1920s.”
Have you ever read “Secrets of the Federal Reserve” by Eustace Millins? He named Goldman Sachs as one the main shareholders of the Federal Reserve Bank.
“There is no free lunch for the creature comforts delivered by the corporation. The ravaging of nature, the erosion of economic security, the destabilization of the family, the commercialization of all human relationships, the corruption of democracy, and the dissipation of spiritual meaning in the face of rampant materialism - these are all part of the cost of the corporate system as we know it. And they add up to a very high price to pay for the bounty of the great American shopping mall.”
Charles Derber
“Globalization can be seen as the triumph of capitalism: the ascendancy of economics over politics, of corporate demands over public policy, of the private over the public interest, of the transnational corporation and its global framework over the national state.”
Gary Teeple
Those in power are blind devotees to private enterprise. They accept that degree of socialism implicit in the vast subsidies to the military-industrial-complex, but not that type of socialism which maintains public projects for the disemployed and the unemployed alike.”
William O. Douglas, former U.S. Supreme Court Justice
“The search of the young today is more specific than the ancient search for the Holy Grail. The search of the youth today is for ways and means to make the machine - and the vast bureaucracy of the corporation state and of government that runs that machine - the servant of man. That is the revolution that is coming. It could be a revolution in the nature of an explosive political regeneration. It depends on how wise the Establishment is. If, with its stockpile of arms, it resolves to suppress the dissenters, America will face, I fear, an awful ordeal.”
William O. Douglas, former U.S. Supreme Court Justice
Anyone else getting worried about elections 2008? The choices all make me nervous..living under this administration has been sheer hell both for Americans and the world. What worries me is once their time is up we may not get something a heck of a lot better. Anyone else having anxiety attacks about this also?
Naran… I think you’re on the wrong blog, or read the wrong one.
As far as Middle Eastern politics go, the Nazis were allied with Palestinians and Saudis. You can’t be serious.
Right now, in the United States, there is an anti-Jewish propaganda machine well-funded by the Saudis (Bush and Cheney’s friends) and cranking out the weirdest double-speak lies, especially about Jews.
The Nazis did the same thing… blamed the Jews for anything and everything, in order to justify the Holocaust. Which was real. Too real to allow to happen again.
The mess in Israel was created by the Neo-fascists meddling in Israeli politics, just like they have in Iraq, Yugoslavia, and any other country they want to destabilize.
dcbeltway May 31st, 2007 10:42 pm
“Anyone else getting worried about elections 2008?”
Yes, and for good reason.
Check out the “donor demographics” from the Center for Responsive Politics: http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/donordems.asp?cycle=2008
Both parties are being supported by Corporate America. This is a government of, by and for the Corporations. Neither party is willing to challenge the 1886 Supreme Court Decision that transformed “chartered” corporations into “natural persons”, giving them more power over the people as a result of their wealth and therefore, the ability to compete against and undermine real persons.
Until this ludicrous decision is challenged along with campaign funding laws, both parties will continue to move this country in the same disastrous direction.
Well, it must ultimately crack one of two ways. Either naturally emergent upheaval, or after an early diagnosis of the problem — and a less painful treatment early on.
The choice isn’t that of the Republicrats. It’s ours.
Zoellick already is tainted. He was appointed by G.W. Bush. Do you know of any Bush appointees with any integrity, decency, honor who are trusthworthy at any level? His administration has been filled with liars and deceivers who have consistently gone against the best interests of the people of the US and the people of the world community. I’m sure Zoellick shares many of the traits of Bush such as arrogance and stubborness. I do not believe that anything good can come from the Bush administration and anyone associated with it must be observed with a high degree of scepticism.
I’m loosing trees here….Who’s doing what!?
How long have all y’all known all that corporate power stuff?
“Hi, I’m a gonna take over here George. You’ve made a mess.” Is that what someone/group is going to have to say? We have no militia! Civil war against the “Corporation” is tough with Blackwater and the likes. Look at the troubles Castro had. His, is a good lesson here. The Dems won’t impeach. The consumers in America are happy if things just groove along nicely, slowly, up and down. Smooth like a finely “greased” ____________(Fill in the blank). (Hmm, “Greased”…puny!) Change has only been talk, politicians won’t back any reforms; health care, lobbying, elections, environment, tax, whatever. The earth is covered with us almost completely, fighting, driving, littering McDonald’s wrappers. If she doesn’t roll over soon, we might asphyxiate ourselves or something stupid like that. US consumers are hooked on the media. My biggest fear is that any Revolution will go unnoticed… like a Mafia style midnight bloodbath. Whats less painful? A Pharmaceutical? Heck, they can bomb your federal building “Fallusia style” having practice and legally, with the right to use the military against civilians. The media has let us know to be scared, any way we can be.
How is a Consumer going to follow this “naturally emergent upheaval, or after an early diagnosis of the problem — and a less painful treatment early on”?….Doc?
“I didn’t mean ‘McDonald’s’!!!!!!”
BANG! BANG!
“Auhggggguh”…………’thud’
“World reaction to his nomination was broadly positive…”
No, the reaction of the world’s elites were broadly positive.
How dare they confuse a tiny handful of political and corporate oligharchs with the “world”!
Think of what we could accomplish if we could get the (elite) media to insert this single word (same word in many languages) into their reports. “The US elites voted for continued war funding” or “The eight most powerful elites of the world will meet in Germany next week…”
Look at this guy. Does he still live with his mother? I’m sorry you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover but it seems like bush is now looking to his C-list cronys for appointments.
restoredemocracy: “The mess in Israel was created by the Neo-fascists meddling in Israeli politics, just like they have in Iraq, Yugoslavia, and any other country they want to destabilize.”
would you mind explaining this? who are these neo-fascists?
“…our first conclusions of Bilderberg 2007. Robert Zoellick and the World Bank nomination
The US delegation is standing unanimously behind Robert Zoellick´s candidacy as the next President of the World Bank. Zoellick is a 53 year old Wall Street executive, former administration official and a free-market fundamentalist. During the meeting he pledged “to work to restore confidence in the bank.”
“We need to put our differences aside and focus on the future together. I believe that the World Bank’s best days are still to come,” Zoellick said.
The chances of Zoellick not being approved for the chair of World Bank Presidency are slim to none. The final decision is to be made by the end of June by the bank’s 24-member board of directors.
The United States and Europe have a tacit agreement between them that the bank’s president should always be a US national while its sister institution, the International Monetary Fund, is headed by a European.
Nevertheless, according to our sources at the conference, European Bilderbergers are not at all pleased with continuing the status quo, in which the US nominates a single candidate after informal consultations with bank members.
The nomination also appears to short-circuit burgeoning calls for reform of this selection process at the bank, one of the cornerstones of the global financial architecture as designed by the victors of World War II.
One Belgian Bilderberger proposed “a merit-based selection process, without regard to nationality,” something which will obviously be discarded by the inept Bush administration. What is rather quite remarkable is that on several occasions European Bilderbergers have openly rejected the current model saying “the nomination reeks of double standards,” especially because both the US and the World Bank preach accountability and transparency to developing countries, the main clients of the bank.
But with IMF under the control of a Spaniard, Rodrigo Rato, European central bank, a Frenchman, Jean Claude Trichet, it was a difficult undertaking to imagine that the USA would give up control of the World Bank. Only the US Federal Reserve would remain in the hands of the Americans.
“Replacing one Bush appointee with another will not resolve the fundamental governance problems of the World Bank,” said one Scandinavian. “Member governments should reject a back-door deal that leaves the bank’s governance structure intact, and should press for an open, merit-based selection process,” he said.
Zoellick’s name also raised eyebrows among development groups for his close ties to the US establishment and corporate interests.
One of the attendees, I have not had the confirmation as to who this individual is, asked Zoellick how he was planning to patch up relationships with third and forth world nations when he is best remembered during his tenure as the USTR, for arm-twisting poor nations’ governments to adhere to US-imposed intellectual-property laws that make medicines, for example, unaffordable to the developing world?
He has been a close friend to the brand-name pharmaceutical industry, and the bilateral trade agreements he has negotiated effectively block access to generic medication for millions of people.
However, what has really riled up both the US and European delegates is the fact that World Bank´s dirty linen is being washed in public, thanks in great part to Paul Wolfowitz´s ineptness which incidentally he has blamed on the press.
What is IMF and the World Bank?
It is widely, but mistakenly, believed that the purpose of the World Bank [controlled by the U.S. Federal Reserve] and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) [of which the U.S. is the principal donor and the only nation with the veto power] is to “encourage development and relieve poverty in the third world, but in practice these organizations have added to the impoverishment and destitution of millions” through the loans scheme called “Structural Adjustment Programmes” (SAPs) that have succeeded in adding to the country´s burden of debt and stagnation.
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Here’s a partial list of the “establishment’s ruling elite. They’re in it for money and power. Peace, Truth and Justice to them - are obstacles that get in their way. We can thank them for the reign of king george (the last two rigged presidential elections in the USA and all over the globe, and for much of the needless human suffering in Afghanistan, Iraq, Africa, and other undeveloped nations.
These folks are apparently enemies of the people, enemies of democracy, the worst menaces to the world. Most of their terrorist activities are carefully hidden in their economic and political policies.
Apparently, they think that the richest 1% are the best and the brightest, and that they have the right to decide which children will starve to death and which ones won’t. They have no love in their hearts for their fellow men and deserve our pity.
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Bilderberg attendees 2007
George Alogoskoufis, Minister of Economy and Finance
(Greece);
Ali Babacan, Minister of Economic Affairs (Turkey);
Edward Balls, Economic Secretary to the Treasury (UK);
Francisco Pinto Balsemão, Chairman and CEO, IMPRESA, S.G.P.S.; Former
Prime Minister (Portugal);
José M. Durão Barroso, President, European Commission
(Portugal/International);
Franco Bernabé, Vice Chariman, Rothschild Europe ( Italy);
Nicolas Beytout, Editor-in-Chief, Le Figaro (France);
Carl Bildt, Former Prime Minister (Sweden);
Hubert Burda, Publisher and CEO,
Hubert Burda Media Holding (Belgium);
Philippe Camus, CEO, EADS (France);
Henri de Castries, Chairman of the Management Board and CEO, AXA (France);
Juan Luis Cebrian, Grupo PRISA media group (Spain);
Kenneth Clark, Member of Parliament (UK);
Timothy C. Collins, Senior Managing Director and CEO, Ripplewood Holdings, LLC (USA);
Bertrand Collomb, Chairman, Lafarge (France);
George A. David, Chairman, Coca-Cola H.B.C. S.A. (USA);
Kemal Dervis, Administrator, UNDP (Turkey);
Anders Eldrup, President, DONG A/S (Denmark);
John Elkann, Vice Chairman, Fiat S.p.A (Italy);
Martin S. Feldstein, President and CEO, National Bureau of Economic Research ( USA);
Timothy F. Geithner, President and CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of New York (USA);
Paul A. Gigot, Editor of the Editorial Page, The Wall Street Journal (USA);
Dermot Gleeson, Chairman, AIB Group (Ireland);
Donald E. Graham, Chairman and CEO, The Washington Post Company (USA);
Victor Halberstadt, Professor of Economics, Leiden University; Former Honorary Secretary General of Bilderberg Meetings (the Netherlands);
Jean-Pierre Hansen, CEO, Suez-Tractebel S.A. (Belgium);
Richard N. Haass, President, Council on Foreign Relations (USA);
Richard C. Holbrooke, Vice Chairman, Perseus, LLC (USA);
Jaap G. Hoop de Scheffer, Secretary General, NATO (the
Netherlands/International);
Allan B. Hubbard, Assistant to the President for Economic Policy, Director National Economic Council (USA);
Josef Joffe, Publisher-Editor, Die Zeit (Germany);
James A. Johnson, Vice Chairman, Perseus, LLC (USA);
Vernon E. Jordan, Jr., Senior Managing Director,
Lazard Frères & Co. LLC (USA);
Anatole Kaletsky, Editor at Large, The Times (UK);
John Kerr of Kinlochard, Deputy Chairman, Royal Dutch Shell plc (the Netherlands);
Henry A. Kissinger, Chairman, Kissinger Associates (USA);
Mustafa V. Koç, Chariman, Koç Holding A.S. (Turkey);
Fehmi Koru, Senior Writer, Yeni Safek (Turkey);
Bernard Kouchner, Minister of Foreign Affairs (France);
Henry R. Kravis, Founding Partner, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (USA);
Marie-Josée Kravis, Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute, Inc. (USA);
Neelie Kroes, Commissioner, European Commission (the
Netherlands/International);
Ed Kronenburg, Director of the Private Office, NATO Headquarters (International);
William J. Luti, Special Assistant to the President for Defense Policy and Strategy, National Security Council (USA);
Jessica T. Mathews, President, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
(USA);
Frank McKenna, Ambassador to the US, member Carlyle Group (Canada);
Thierry de Montbrial, President, French Institute for International Relations ( France);
Mario Monti, President, Universita Commerciale Luigi Bocconi (Italy);
Craig J. Mundie, Chief Technical Officer Advanced Strategies and Policy, Microsoft Corporation (USA);
Egil Myklebust, Chairman of the Board of Directors SAS, Norsk Hydro ASA (Norway);
Matthias Nass, Deputy Editor, Die Zeit (Germany);
Adnrzej Olechowski, Leader Civic Platform (Poland);
Jorma Ollila, Chairman, Royal Dutch Shell plc/Nokia (Finland);
George Osborne, Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer (UK);
Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, Minister of Finance (Italy);
Richard N. Perle, Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research (USA);
Heather Reisman, Chair and CEO, Indigo Books & Music Inc. (Canada);
David Rockefeller (USA);
Matías Rodriguez Inciarte, Executive Vice Chairman, Grupo Santander Bank, (Spain);
Dennis B. Ross, Director, Washington Institute for Near East Policy (USA);
Otto Schily, Former Minister of Interior Affairs; Member of Parliament; Member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs (Germany);
Jürgen E. Schrempp, Former Chairman of the Board of Management, DaimlerChrysler AG (Germany);
Tøger Seidenfaden, Executive Editor-in-Chief, Politiken (Denmark);
Peter D. Sutherland, Chairman, BP plc and Chairman, Goldman Sachs International (Ireland);
Giulio Tremonti, Vice President of the Chamber of Deputies (Italy);
Jean-Claude Trichet, Governor, European Central Bank
(France/International);
John Vinocur, Senior Correspondent, International Herald Tribune (USA);
Jacob Wallenberg, Chairman, Investor AB (Sweden);
Martin H. Wolf, Associate Editor and Economics Commentator, The Financial Times (UK);
James D. Wolfensohn, Special Envoy for the Gaza Disengagement (USA);
Robert B. Zoellick, Deputy Secretary of State (USA);
Klaus Zumwinkel, Chairman of the Board of Management, Deutsche Post AG (USA);
Adrian D. Wooldridge, Foreign Correspondent, The Economist.
Rick Perry, Governor of Texas (USA)
Amongst the names appearing on the initial list of invitees which this journalist had access to in January 2007 stand out the names of the now disgraced John Browne, British Petroleum’s Chief Executive Officer and
the disgraced and fired former chief of the World Bank, Paul Wolfowitz.
It will be interesting to see if either of these men makes an appearance at Bilderberg 2007. The Bilderbergers have no trouble accepting criminals
into the fold as long as their misdeeds are conducted away from public spotlight and scrutiny. Once exposed, the culprits are generally discarded. Lord Conrad Black, former chief executive of Hollinger media group is a case in point.
Two others names on the original January 2007 list should raise a few eyebrows. One of them is Bernard Kouchner, the newly appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs in the right wing Nicolas Sarkozy government in
France. Kouchner is a former founder of ONG Doctors without Borders. He was absent from Bilderberg 2006 in Ottawa, Canada. Could his government
position been arranged prior to the French national elections? For my money, the surprise appearance of year award should go to Mahmood
Sariolghalam, Associate Professor of International Relations, School of
Economic and Political Sciences, National University of Iran. What is an
Iranian doing at a NATO alliance controlled Bilderberg conference? We
will know soon enough. Bilderberg 2007 is indeed a good time to look
behind the scenes.
What will be discussed at Bilderberg 2007?
Aside from the Iraq quagmire, energy problems continue to dominate
Bilderberger discussions. Oil and natural gas are finite, non-renewable
resources. That’s because once used up it cannot be replenished. As the
world turns, and as oil and natural gas supplies dwindle while demand
soars dramatically, especially with Indian and Chinese booming economies
who want all the trinkets and privileges of an American way of life, we,
as the Planet, have crossed the midpoint of oil production and discovery.
From now on, the only sure thing is that supply will continue to diminish
and prices will continue to increase. In these conditions world conflict
is a physical certainty. End of oil means end of world’s financial
system, something which has already been acknowledged by Wall Street
Journal and the Financial Times, two full time members of the
Bilderberger inner circle. Goldman Sachs oil report, [another full time
member of the Bilderberger elite] published on March 30, 2005 increased
the oil price range for the year 2005-6 from $55-$80 per barrel to
$55-$105. During 2006 meeting, Bilderbergers have confirmed that their
short range price estimate for oil for the 2007-08 continues to hover
around US$105-150/barrel. No wonder Jose Barroso, President of the
European Commission, announced several months ago during the unveiling of
the new European energy policy that the time has come for a
“post-industrial age.” To bring the world into the post industrial age,
you first need to destroy the world´s economic base and create another
Great Depression. When people are poor, they don´t spend money, they
don´t travel, and they don´t consume.
As the economic impact sinks in, and as the after effects of Peak Oil
become evident in the face of breakdown of civilization, the United
States will be forced to challenge Europe, Russia and China for the
hegemony of control and the ever depleting hydrocarbon, non-renewable
reserves most of which are contained in the Middle East. That will be
point number two on the Bilderberg 2007 agenda.
Third item on the agenda is European relations with Russia not only in
Europe but also in Central Asia. With Moscow making a deal with
Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan over the transport of gas to Europe, the US
geo-strategic goal of driving a wedge between the Central Asian countries
and Russia lies in shambles. While the US says this is “not good for
Europe”, the Europeans are divided. Iran, overnight has become America’s
last hope in the energy war.
Iran war, after two years of huffing and puffing by the Bush government
is definitely off the table. Furthermore, with France, Russia, Japan and
China investing heavily in Iran, the world has drawn a line in the sand
and the U.S. will be told at the conference not to cross it. There is
blood in the water, and blood in the water usually leads to a good fight.
That notwithstanding, the United States needs to control the region, not
only for its oil reserves but, most importantly to help it sustain world
economic hegemony. Under this strategic design, regional states will be
turned to weak domains of sectarian sheikhs with little or no sovereignty
and, by implications, a pathetic agenda of their economic development.
Regional chaos favours the spread of Islamic fundamentalism, which in
turn reinforces the process of political and social disintegration
supported by the Bilderbergers.
With Blair leaving, the UK will be told yet again, that they must, at all
cost, do what is necessary to integrate the country into the European
Community.
Finally, with Wolfowitz resigning from the World Bank, Bilderberg
luminaries will try to come to a consensus on how best to overhaul not
only the bank but its sister organization, the International Monetary
Fund (IMF), led by a Spaniard, Rodrigo Rato. Wolfowitz became entangled
in controversy seven weeks ago after World Bank whistleblowers leaked to
the Washington-based non-governmental organization Government
Accountability Project (GAP) documents that showed Wolfowitz pushing a
high pay raise in a secondment deal to the US State Department for his
girlfriend.
We, as a society, are at a crossroads. In almost every corner of the
planet, stress points are beginning to fracture. The roads we take from
here will determine the very future of humanity. It was former British
Prime Minister, Benjamin Disraeli, who stated that “the world is governed
by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not
behind the scenes.”
It is not up to God to bring us back from the “New Dark Age” planned for us. IT IS UP TO US. Whether we go into the next century as an electronic global police state or as free human beings depends on the action we take
now. Forewarned is forearmed. We will never find the right answers if we don’t ask the proper questions.
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