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Yeah right like Obama decides who is going to head the World Bank. This World Bank/IMF Wall Street cabal runs Obama just like they ran Bill Clinton.
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President Barack Obama is considering nominating Lawrence Summers, his former National Economic Council director, to lead the World Bank when Robert Zoellick’s term expires later this year, according to two people familiar with the matter.
Summers has expressed his interest in the job to White House officials and has backers inside the administration, including Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and the current NEC Director, Gene Sperling, said one of the people. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is also being considered, along with other candidates, said the other person. Both spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal White House deliberations.
Lael Brainard, the under secretary of Treasury for international affairs, is compiling a list of potential candidates to replace Zoellick, who was nominated to a five-year term that began in July of 2007 by then-President George W. Bush. By tradition, the U.S. president chooses the leader of the World Bank while the head of the International Monetary Fund is selected by European leaders. The nomination is subject to approval by the World Bank’s executive board.Yeah right like Obama decides who is going to head the World Bank. This World Bank/IMF... more
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... the creeps at the World Bank are out to take over the world water, how's that for corporate support by a 'world bank' read it and really get made. It's time to Occupy World Bank. Here's part of the story...
"The World Bank has launched a new partnership with global corporations including Nestlé, Coca-Cola and Veolia. Housed at the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC), the new venture aspires to “transform the water sector” by inserting the corporate sector into what has historically been a public service. The new partnership is part of a broader trend of industry collusion to influence global water policy.
The venture — called the 2030 Water Resources Group Phase 2 Entity — aligns global corporations that have major financial stakes in water governance with the World Bank, one of the world’s leading development institutions. Nestlé Chairman Peter Brabeck-Letmathe has been appointed to chair the Water Resources Group, which has already received $1.5 million in IFC funding. Nestlé is the world’s largest water bottling corporation."... the creeps at the World Bank are out to take over the world water, how's that... more
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Global poverty did not just happen. It began with military conquest, slavery and colonization that resulted in the seizure of land, minerals and forced labor. Today, the problem persists because of unfair debt, trade and tax policies — in other words, wealthy countries taking advantage of poor, developing countries.
Renowned actor and activist, Martin Sheen, narrates , a feature-length documentary directed by award-winning director, Philippe Diaz, which explains how today's financial crisis is a direct consequence of these unchallenged policies that have lasted centuries. Consider that 20% of the planet's population uses 80% of its resources and consumes 30% more than the planet can regenerate. At this rate, to maintain our lifestyle means more and more people will sink below the poverty line.
Filmed in the slums of Africa and the barrios of Latin America, The End of Poverty? features expert insights from: Nobel prize winners in Economics, Amartya Sen and Joseph Stiglitz; acclaimed authors Susan George, Eric Toussaint, John Perkins, Chalmers Johnson; university professors William Easterly and Michael Watts; government ministers such as Bolivia's Vice President Alvaro Garcia Linera and the leaders of social movements in Brazil, Venezuela, Kenya and Tanzania. It is produced by Cinema Libre Studio in collaboration with the Robert Schalkenbach Foundation. Can we really end poverty within our current economic system? Think again. http://www.theendofpoverty.com/
More at the linkGlobal poverty did not just happen. It began with military conquest, slavery and... more
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A year or so ago I met an attorney on a plane who explained to me that his was a very niche practice. He explained what he did as “defending companies whose operations were being threatened by governments,” and cited examples of oil companies that had been drilling in Venezuela when Chavez came in and restructured resource rights. “Obviously the Venezuelan courts are going to back Chavez, so these companies need an objective third party to review their grievances.”
That’s where the World Bank comes in. More specifically, the World Bank investment court, called the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID). “And companies need someone familiar with that process to help them navigate it,” my flight-mate explained, “because it’s really a different ballgame altogether.”
Indeed. Recently, the ICSID and the proceedings it oversees have come under fire. Arbitration tribunals at the ICSID have historically been closed, with labor and environmental activists often criticizing this lack of transparency. The right of the ICSID to decide issues between countries and companies has also been called into question. The practice gained popularity and participants via free trade agreements and bi-lateral investment treaties in which developed countries would require developing countries to agree to have disputes handled by the ICSID.A year or so ago I met an attorney on a plane who explained to me that his was a very... more
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The Securities Exchange Commission announced on August 8 that it is investigating the downgrade. According to the Financial Times, the move is part of a preliminary examination into potential insider trading. Whatever can be said about the first two weeks of August, their market action was unprecedented, unnatural, and bears close observation. http://www.webofdebt.com/articles/s_p.phpThe Securities Exchange Commission announced on August 8 that it is investigating the... more
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Assassination as US Foreign Policy, Islamabad Demands Veto on Drones, Who & What Are Behind the “Official History” of the Bin Laden Raid, the Empire at Dusk, More ‘War with Iran’ Propaganda, $360 Millions in U.S. Tax Dollars Ends Up with Taliban & Criminals, Shaping a New World Order, Al Jazeera Journalist Held in Israeli Prison, AIG Sues Bank of America for $10 Billion Over “Massive Mortgage Fraud”, Investors Hedge Their Bets on America’s Biggest Banks & More!ttp://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2011/08/17/bfp-select-nightly-news-editorials-august-17-2011/Assassination as US Foreign Policy, Islamabad Demands Veto on Drones, Who & What... more
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Who will escape the new harsh economic realities place upon us by our leaders? If my insight is correct and if our illustrious superiors get their way, then the answer is no one will escape. In my introductory essay, I outlined the basic agenda put into place by a Royal Elitist Class (REC) who remain hidden behind our governmental leaders. If you have not done so already, please read my introductory piece at www.wethehumanrobots.blogspot.com, titled Chapter 1. Since exposing the REC will take a tremendous amount of time, it is best to concentrate our efforts on the evidence trail left by these Elitists. http://wethehumanrobots.blogspot.com/p/chapter-2.htmlWho will escape the new harsh economic realities place upon us by our leaders? If my... more
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In 1993, in response to public outcry created by Oliver Stone's film JFK, Congress passed the JFK Act, a law requiring federal agencies to release all the remaining withheld evidence relating to the assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy. While some pretend the case is closed, the case can never be closed so long as the documents pertaining to the assassination and the investigations that followed remain locked away from public scrutiny.
Citizens for Truth about the Kennedy Assassination was organized as a result of the April 1993 Chicago Midwest Symposium on Assassinations. At the end of that conference, it was generally decided that the time had come to create a political action group, which would urge the executive branch of our government to re-open the unsolved assassinations of the 1960s-i.e., the murders of President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and Dr. Martin Luther King. CTKA endeavors to ensure that the Review Board fulfill its mandate to release all the remaining records pertaining to the JFK assassination; to amend the current Freedom of Information Act to render future covert actions more difficult to hide; and to urge the American people to discover the truth about their history. http://www.ctka.net/In 1993, in response to public outcry created by Oliver Stone's film JFK,... more
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On Nov 22, 1963, Lyndon B. Johnson became President of the United States of America. On that same date, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated at Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas. On Nov 26, 1963, President Johnson signed a National Security Action Memorandum #273, the highest level national security document, as guidance for future Vietnam plans and policy. This brief directive most significantly initiated changes reversing Kennedy's Vietnam policy of NSAM #263, Oct 11, 1963. Kennedy had decreed then that "the bulk of U.S. personnel would be out of Vietnam by the end of 1965." http://www.prouty.org/johnson.htmlOn Nov 22, 1963, Lyndon B. Johnson became President of the United States of America.... more
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You can’t fully understand what is happening now in America until you fully understand what happened 48 years ago in Dallas, Texas when the slick and well orchestrated assassination of a sitting president, John F Kennedy, was accomplished in broad daylight. The power was then handed over to the CIA, Military Industrial Complex, the Pentagon, Big Oil and the Banks and their retainer was Lyndon B Johnson who later died with JFK’s blood on his hands. http://allenlrolandsweblog.blogspot.com/2011/08/first-great-american-coup-jfk.htmlYou can’t fully understand what is happening now in America until you fully... more
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Notes, References, and Links for further study:
1. (Video) Bilderberg Group 2003, by BBC
2. (Video) The Last Word on Utopia, by James Corbett (on CorbettReport.com)
3. (Video) Maafa 21: Black Genocide in the 21st Century(on YouTube)
1. Margaret Sanger (on Wikipedia)
2. Eugenics (on Wikipedia)
3. Eugenics Record Office (on Wikipedia)
4. Eugenics and Population Control (in The Brain Model)
5. Charles Darwin (on Wikipedia)
6. Francis Galton (on Wikipedia)
4. (Video) Webster Tarpley Interview “The Elite’s Plan for Global Extermination”,by InfoWars & PrisonPlanet.tv (on YouTube)
1. (Article) “Obama’s Science Czar Considered Forced Abortions, Sterilization as Population Growth Solutions” (via FoxNews.com)
2. John Holdren(on Wikipedia)
1. Ecoscience (on Amazon.com)
3. Paul Ehrlich(on Wikipedia)
1. “The Population Bomb” (on Wikipedia)
http://peacerevolution.podomatic.com/entry/2011-08-14T18_46_27-07_00Notes, References, and Links for further study:
1. (Video) Bilderberg Group 2003, by... more
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Once a tourist attraction and home to thousands of Cambodians, Phnom Penh's biggest lake is now having muddy sludge pumped into it by property developers. Residents are fighting back, but is it too late to save their homes?
"We never used to have flooding before the company came."
"The company" is Shukaku, an entity which does not have a listing in the local Yellow Pages, but is otherwise very well-connected. It is owned by a senator from the governing Cambodian People's Party. His wife runs Pheapimex, which controls vast areas of land through government-granted concessions.
The authorities signed a 99-year lease with Shukaku in 2007, allowing it to develop Boeung Kak and the surrounding area. A year later, the company started pumping sand into the lake - and the long-time residents' struggle began in earnest.
Now the lake is little more than a puddle - and tourist traffic has slowed to a trickle, depriving business-owners of income.
Residents look out at Boeung Kak lake Developers plan to construct residential and commercial buildings on the lake
Along with the other families on the east of Boeung Kak, Heng Mom says she has a legal right to be there. Many of them have called the lakeside home for decades - and under Cambodia's land law, that should entitle them to full ownership of their properties.
The World Bank funded a land-titling project which was supposed to make the Boeung Kak residents' status official, along with hundreds of thousands of other Cambodians. But it moved at a snail's pace, before it was finally cancelled by the government two years ago.
Without land titles, the lakesiders were in a vulnerable position. Thousands of them left as their homes flooded, and the leafy vegetables they used to harvest for sale from the lake disappeared along with the water.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-14488100Once a tourist attraction and home to thousands of Cambodians, Phnom Penh's... more
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The British government has charged that the riots are being caused by an increase in "criminality". This is patently ridiculous. What is the difference in London or Manchester now than last year? If these riots are presumed to be the act of "criminals", then what triggered these "criminals" to riot? If "criminality" is the reason why people are on the streets destroying neighborhoods and looting shops, why is it happening all over the country? Did the "criminals" all get together and decide to stage a riot in different cities so that they could hone their "criminal" skills? http://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Riots-in-Britain-Could-by-Timothy-Gatto-110813-780.htmlThe British government has charged that the riots are being caused by an increase in... more
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Thanks to an irrational and likely illegal Supreme Court ruling, we have moved into an era of oligarch-run politics. As much as $40 million of our oligarch's money was spent in Wisconsin in a handful of local races -- a testing laboratory for strategies that will now be used against Democrats nationwide in 2012. http://www.opednews.com/articles/Democracy-Died-First-in-Wi-by-Thom-Hartmann-110810-682.htmlThanks to an irrational and likely illegal Supreme Court ruling, we have moved into an... more
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Despite increasing personal financial hardship, most Americans remain unaware of the economic world war currently unfolding. An all-pervasive corporate and government propaganda campaign has effectively obscured this blatant reality. After extensive analysis, it is evident that World War III is a war between the richest one-tenth of one percent of the global population and 99.9 percent of humanity. Or, as I have called it, The Economic Elite Vs. The People. This war has been a one-sided attack thus far. However, as we have seen throughout the world in recent months, the people are beginning to fight back. The following report is a statistical analysis of the systemic economic attacks against the American people. http://ampedstatus.org/exclusive-analysis-of-financial-terrorism-in-america-over-1-million-deaths-annually-62-million-people-with-zero-net-worth-as-the-economic-elite-make-off-with-46-trillion/Despite increasing personal financial hardship, most Americans remain unaware of the... more
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