Josette Sheeran, Samuel Worthington and Robert B. Zoellick - Photo Credit: World Bank

Yesterday, I attended an event at the Brookings Institution, the focus of which was the “silent tsunami,” a term coined by the World Food Program’s Josette Sheeran to describe the growing global food crisis. The panel was comprised of Sheeran, World Bank President Robert Zoellick and Samuel Worthington, President of InterAction, a coalition of U.S.-based NGOs that deal specifically with issues of poverty. To call the topic of discussion dismaying would be a profound understatement. I’ve covered food security a few times before, especially at the height of the crisis in 2008 when food prices around the world were leading political instability in several countries.. Things were bad then, but they can in fact get much worse in the years ahead.

As it stands, some 17% of the world’s growing population lives in hunger and 90% of malnutrition can be found in only 36 countries. Worse, with a little more than 5 years left until 2015, the Millennium Development Challenge goal of reducing global poverty and hunger by 50% seems highly unlikely. With the current global financial crisis, donor countries are finding it increasingly difficult to contribute to organizations such as the World Food Program. And the programs that do exist have neglected agricultural development. All of this while global food prices have increased by 50% since 2000.

According to World Bank estimates, more than 53 million more people will be pushed into extreme poverty as a result of the current crisis. What, if anything, is the solution? What is needed, according to the panelists, is for governments to take ownership of food security issues by implementing targeted safety nets. Food stamps here in the United States, for example, are an effective safety net. Sheeran mentioned Brasil’s Bolsa Família, a safety net program started in 2003 as part of the countries larger Fome Zero plan of eradicating extreme poverty, as a successful model. One reason that Bolsa Família is so powerful is that it is targeted. Under the program, poor Brasilian families are given stipends, but only on the condition that parents put their children in school and have them vaccinated and that pregnant women seek neonatal care. The highly successful program reaches more than 11 million families in the country, especially those in the Nordeste, where poverty is most acute.

The program’s success has also been credited to the fact that the direct cash transfers are preferably made to the mother. The program is hailed as one of the best anti-poverty measures in the world. According to the World Bank, “Ninety-four percent of the funds reach the poorest 40 percent of the population. Studies prove that most of the money is used to buy food, school supplies, and clothes for the children.”

What is needed is for all governments to adopt a similar strategy that gives agency to the poor but also makes the assistance conditioned on other development goals, such as education. The food security issue must shift from a humanitarian one and into a program of long-term stabilization. Simply put, as the food crisis grows and donors are less capable of dealing with it, national governments must tackle the issue head-on and take ownership of poverty.

One part of the discussion specifically interested me. In discussing the causes of the food crisis, Zoellick, who has long championed free trade, mentioned the current impasse at the Doha Round as a contributing factor to global food insecurity. In fact, he mentioned trade barriers and the practice of hoarding as contributing to the crisis. Both these points are very valid. The disconnect, at least in my eyes, is that while trade barriers do often exasperate some problems and lead to market inefficiencies, free trade itself can also make problems worse. For example, Sheeran mentioned the World Food Program’s program of buying all of its iodized salt from Senegal. Under free trade, iodized salt from Senegal would face a tough time competing with cheaper imported salt from the United States or China, putting Senegalese manufacturers out of business. If trade barriers produce negative results, what then are the shortcomings, if any, to the free trade paradigm advanced by Zoellick? Unfortunately, the question and answer session ended before I could ask him the question.

G20 Elite Plan African Union Controlled by the IMF

The Corbett Report
November 11, 2009

Daniel Estulin

In an exclusive interview with The Corbett Report earlier today, Daniel Estulin revealed the behind-the-scenes details of last week’s G20 Finance Minister’s meeting in St. Andrews, Scotland. Many of these details come from actual G20 documents that his sources were able to sneak out of the meetings in spite of security measures which, Estulin notes, were unprecedented “even by Bilderberg standards.” These documents, which contain valuable information about the conference, are available at BilderbergBook.com and have been mirrored on The Corbett Report homepage. They were smuggled out at great personal risk and need to be disseminated widely.

The key issue discussed at the meeting, according to Estulin, was “the next step in globalization, which is the creation of the African Union.” This is part of an unfolding agenda of the ceding of national sovereignty to unnacountable regional governments which can more easily administer and implement the aims of the financial oligarchs. One of these aims is the elite’s exhaustively documented penchant for population reduction, including tying development aid to population control problems. “The creation of the borderless African continent will be spearheaded by the IMF.”

One of the smuggled documents shows that an attendee had the IMF articles of agreement at the meeting and highlighted the fact that funds were made available “under adequate safeguards” to member nations. This is code speak for imposing draconian measures designed to plunge countries into virtual servitude, with the result that in Africa, countries spend five times more revenue on servicing their IMF debts than they do on health care for their own citizens.

Watch an excerpt of the interview in the video below:

The meeting’s attendees, also identified in the smuggled documents, reads like a who’s who of the financial oligarchical elite, including leading Bilderbergers such as U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, World Bank President Bob Zoellick, Turkish Finance Minister Ali Babacan and British Finance Minister Alistair Darling and many others. The Trilateral Commission was also represented at the conference by Japanese members Yoshihiko Noda and Masaaki Shirakawa.

Listen to the full interview by clicking here

~~By InsightAnalytical-GRL

OK, here we go again, in all likelihood, with another big blast of hot air from Barack Obama.

Reuters, like the AP, doesn’t appreciate quoting from their articles.  So, for details follow the link from 11/10/2009:

World Bank: yuan to become alternative reserve currency

Let’s summarize.  Former Bush Adminstration biggie Robert Zoellick who has moved on to become President of the World Bank thinks the dollar as a reserve currency is “relatively secure” but the Chinese yuan is going to become an alternative to the greenback. Zoellick muses that it might take 10-15 years and that we shouldn’t be “complacent” about the dollar.

As if anybody these days is complacent???  And, don’t you think that these comments just confirm the actions of Ben Bernanke and the Fed that are allowing the dollar fall?

Ah, but according to the Telegraph (U.K):

Barack Obama pledges to tackle Beijing on yuan

President Obama, who, since taking office in January, has resisted branding the Chinese government as currency manipulators, promised to discuss the thorny issue of the yuan, and whether it is undervalued, as part of a visit to Shanghai and Beijing.

“Currency, along with a host of other issues, will come up, and I’m confident that both the United States and China can arrive at a broad set of policies that encourages trade that benefits both countries, that allows ongoing economic growth,” said Mr Obama.

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But Mr Obama will have to tread carefully as the Chinese government owns almost $800bn (£477bn) of US Treasuries, its largest foreign creditor.

Earlier in the day, the Chinese premier, Wen Jiabao, urged the US to “effectively discharge its responsibilities” and “maintain an appropriate size” to its budget deficit.

Yup.

A couple of days ago on CNBC, PIMCO’s Bill Gross made this point (see minute 4:30 on the video titled America Still Number 1?:)

Gross notes that over the last year alone the depreciating dollar means that every single Treasury purchased by China, Japan etc with a 1 to 2 % yield has essentially generated a negative 13 to 14% return. Yes, NEGATIVE 13 to 14% return.

Yeah, I guess Obama will HAVE to tread carefully.  China owns us and is not happy, especially about that negative return…

If you read our previous post Globalization/U.S. Decline Right on Schedule Courtesy Obama Backdown…Summer 2010 Projected Completion of Integration of NAFTA with EU to Counter BRIC/ASEAN Bloc, you’ll see an example of Obama’s big talk and big backdown type of leadership.

And, on this currency issue, Obama supporters are urging The Chosen One to live up to his campaign promise:

Yuan Critics Want Obama to Keep Campaign Promise

At the time, Obama said that he would “”insist that China stop manipulating its currency because it’s not fair to American manufacturers, it’s not fair to you and we are going to change it when I am president of the United States of America.”

I can’t wait to see this unfold over the next few days as the Obama crowd hits Beijing…I’ll be looking for the “insisting” part of the trip…

Zoellick

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Baru ini  Presiden Bank Dunia Robert Zoellick telah mengeluarkan kenyataan bahawa pengangguran semakin melonjak. Krisis ekonomi yang sedang merebak ini akan membawa padah yang maha besar.

Ini suara bapak kapitalis.

Selepas itu Paul Krugman, pakar ekonomi telah berkata – mengasaskan ekonomi dengan eksport tidak akan membantu. Ini dibuktikan dengan Jepun yang telah lebih dari 10 tahun sengsara kerana produk ekspot tidak menemui pasaran.

Ini suara pembodek kapitalis.

Di Malaysia ekonomi kita yang bersandarkan eksport sedang menguncup. Zaman meleset – recession – akan sampai atau telah pun berada bersama kita. Pihak berwajib masih belum berani megakui hakikat ini.

Pihak berwajib masih lagi dalam alam ‘denial’. Mereka lupa de nile ialah sebuah sungai di Mesir.

Langkah terbijak dalam keadaan ini ialah menggariskan satu dasar ekonomi yang berasaskan pertanian dan bukan menggunakan teori Keynesian yang mengajukan kerajaan berbelanja membuat projek mega.

Pengangguran

Rangsangan ekonomi seharusnya mengerakkan warga ke arah bercucuk tanam. Berbilion ringgit yang akan dikeluarkan – (entah dari mana nak di cekup – ini satu soal yang lain ) – seharusnya membantu, merangsang dan menggerak pertanian.

Makanan lebih penting dari Ipod. Makanan lebih penting dari beg Luis Vuitton. Makan lebih penting dari kereta.

Syarikat membuat kereta nasional seharusnya membuat injin yang bersangkutan dengan pertanian. Buat trektor bukan Kancil. Buat pembajak bukan Waja.

Ramai warga akan kehilangan pekerjaan. Angka terus meningkat.

Jenayah akan meningkat juga. Kes ragut, samun, rompak, pecah rumah akan meningkat. Kita tidak perlu dapat MBA dari Yale untuk mengetahui bahawa bila ekonomi merundum – jenayah akan naik.

Pertanian

Makanan wajib dijadikan sasaran utama. Pengeluaran makan kita wajib cukup. Tidak perlu membeli sayur dari Taiwan, Indonesia atau Thailand. Hentikan membeli ayam dari Siam. Pilihara ayam sendiri. Hentikan membeli buah buah dari Siam. Tanam sendiri. Tidak perlu membeli beras dari Siam. Tanam sendiri.

Buruh impot yang ada hari ini wajib di hantarkan pulang ke negara mereka. Ekonomi kita tidak seharusnya bergantung dengan buruh impot yang murah. Buruh impot murah tidak menjana pembangunan fikrah penyelidikan dan teknoloji.

Buruh impot ini bekerja di kilang membuat produk eksport. Pasaran eksport telah padam. Ini hakikat. Amerika Syarikat rakan niaga kita yang utama tidak lagi mengimpot produk-produk. WalMart sedang dipenuhi oleh barangan dari China. Bilik simpanan WalMart telah melimpah ruah. Beratus-ratus kilang di China bungkus kerana produk tidak ada pasaran.

Satu dasar pertanian baru wajib difikirkan bukan sahaja oleh pemerintah tetapi oleh semua warga negara.

Kurangkan berpolitik dan banyakkan bertani.(TT)

Lee Kuan Yew is going to the United States next week.  Straits Times:

MINISTER Mentor Lee Kuan Yew will visit New York and Washington DC from Wednesday to Oct 31, said a statement from the Prime Minister’s Office on Tuesday.

In New York, he will have meetings with the Council on Foreign Relations and business leaders.

In Washington DC, he will meet several Secretaries, Chairman of the Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke, Director of the National Economic Council Lawrence Summers and other senior members of the Obama Administration. He will also meet President of the World Bank Robert Zoellick.

Mr Lee will deliver a speech and receive the inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award from the US-Asean Business Council at the council’s 25th anniversary gala dinner in Washington DC on Oct 27.

Il mio vicino americano, Mr.Jones, di solito è  ottimista. Sabato sera, Mr.Jones, mi ha avvertito che, in base all’idea che si è fatto, nel giro di sei mesi il dollaro crollerà. Non so se Mr.Jones abbia ragione. Spero che la sua visione del futuro sia falsata da qualche notizia infondata come tante  che ogni giorno vengono divulgate. So però che non solo Mr.Jones parla del dollaro USA in maniera negativa. Gli articoli che seguono ne sono una testimonianza. Prima di chiedere a Mr.Jones il caffè che ci siamo giocati  devo attendere fino al 3 aprile 2010. Per il momento me ne vado a bere uno a mie spese

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Barile: non più in dollari?
di Debora Billi

La notizia è stata segnalata dai competentissimi lettori. Non ne avrei neppure scritto, prendendola come uno dei tanti “al lupo, al lupo!” complottisti che nel corso degli anni abbiamo visto minacciare mille volte e mai realizzarsi. Sì, perché proprio di complotto si tratta: ma stavolta a riferirne è l’Independent e il giornalista nientemeno che Robert Fisk, quindi bisogna prenderlo sul serio per forza.

Dice Fisk: Gli Stati Arabi stanno inaugurando mosse segrete con Cina, Russia e Francia per smettere di usare il dollaro come moneta di riferimento per il petrolio.(…) Incontri segreti sono stati già tenuti con i ministri delle finanze e i governatori delle banche centrali di Russia, Cina, Giappone e Brasile per lavorare su uno schema secondo cui il petrolio non sarà più prezzato in dollari.

Le fonti sono quelle bancarie degli Stati coinvolti, dice Fisk. Niente a che vedere, a quanto sembra, con le solite voci delle Borse iraniane o i proclami di Chavez: stavolta si fa sul serio. E le ripetute insinuazioni da parte di Pietro Cambi su Crisis (ovvero che tutti scappino dal dollaro), che persino a me coblogger sembravano un tantino azzardate, cominciano a sapere proprio di verità. Cassandre.

Sempre secondo l’articolo, ci si muoverà verso un paniere di valute che includerà anche l’oro. Questo forse spiega il vertiginoso aumento di prezzo degli ultimi mesi, e anche che probabilmente assisteremo ad una miracolosa conversione all’euro della Gran Bretagna. La transizione dal dollaro è pianificata in nove anni, entro il 2018, e fonti cinesi confidano nell’impegno dell’Amministrazione americana con la crisi economica per garantirsi la tranquillità dell’impresa.

Non è facile immaginare le conseguenze di tutto ciò, talmente appaiono enormi e di portata epocale. Ad esempio, è possibile che il prezzo del petrolio per gli USA aumenti in modo vertiginoso. E’ probabile poi che gli stati produttori, non più inondati a forza di dollari, smettano (finalmente, dal loro punto di vista) di comprare asset finanziari americani e rivolgano altrove gli investimenti dei proventi petroliferi. La Cina probabilmente li aspetta a braccia aperte, e infatti si percepisce benissimo come la Repubblica Popolare sia in prima fila nell’operazione.

Non c’è da stupirsi che il Dalai Lama resti in anticamera.

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Sta per arrivare la morte del dollaro
Martedì, 06 ottobre 2009

DI ROBERT FISK
independent.co.uk

Quasi a simboleggiare il nuovo ordine mondiale, gli Stati arabi hanno avviato trattative segrete con Cina, Russia e Francia per smettere di usare la valuta americana per le transazioni petrolifere.

Mettendo in atto la piu’ radicale trasformazione finanziaria della recente storia del Medio Oriente gli Stati arabi stanno pensando – insieme a Cina, Russia, Giappone e Francia – di abbandonare il dollaro come valuta per il pagamento del petrolio adottando al suo posto un paniere di valute tra cui lo yen giapponese, lo yuan cinese, l’euro, l’oro e una nuova moneta unica prevista per i Paesi aderenti al Consiglio per la cooperazione del Golfo, tra cui Arabia Saudita, Abu Dhabi, Kuwait e Qatar.

Incontri segreti hanno gia’ avuto luogo tra i ministri delle finanze e i governatori delle banche centrali della Russia, della Cina, del Giappone e del Brasile per mettere a punto il progetto che avra’ come conseguenza il fatto che il prezzo del greggio non sara’ piu’ espresso in dollari.
Il progetto, confermato al nostro giornale da fonti bancarie arabe dei Paesi del Golfo Persico e cinesi di Hong Kong, potrebbe contribuire a spiegare l’improvviso rincaro del prezzo dell’oro, ma preannuncia anche nei prossimi nove anni un esodo senza precedenti dai mercati del dollaro.
Gli americani, che sono al corrente degli incontri – pur non conoscendone i dettagli – sono certi di poter sventare questo intrigo internazionale di cui fanno parte leali alleati come il Giappone e i Paesi del Golfo. Sullo sfondo di questi incontri valutari, Sun Bigan, ex inviato speciale della Cina in Medio Oriente, ha sottolineato il rischio di approfondire le divisioni tra Cina e Stati Uniti in ordine alla loro influenza politica e petrolifera in Medio Oriente. “Le dispute e gli scontri bilaterali sono inevitabili”, ha detto all’Africa and Asia Review. “Non possiamo abbassare la guardia in merito all’ostilita’ che fronteggiamo in Medio Oriente sugli interessi energetici e la sicurezza”.
Questa frase ha tutta l’aria di una previsione pericolosa su una futura guerra economica tra Stati Uniti e Cina per il petrolio mediorientale – con il pericolo di trasformare i conflitti della regione in una lotta di supremazia delle grandi potenze. L’incremento della domanda di petrolio e’ piu’ marcato in Cina che negli Stati Uniti in quanto la crescita cinese e’ meno efficiente sotto il profilo energetico. Abbandonando il dollaro i pagamenti, stando a fonti bancarie cinesi, potrebbero essere effettuati in via transitoria in oro. Una indicazione della gigantesca quantita’ di denaro di cui si parla puo’ essere desunta dalla ricchezza di Abu Dhabi, Arabia Saudita, Kuwait e Qatar che insieme hanno, stando alle stime, riserve in dollari per 2.100 miliardi.

Il declino della potenza economica americana strettamente connesso all’attuale recessione globale e’ stato riconosciuto dal presidente della Banca Mondiale Robert Zoellick. “Una delle conseguenze di questa crisi potrebbe essere l’accettazione del fatto che sono cambiati i rapporti di forza economici”, ha detto a Istanbul prima delle riunioni di questa settimana del Fondo Monetario Internazionale e della Banca Mondiale. Ma e’ stato il nuovo straordinario potere finanziario della Cina – non disgiunto dalla rabbia sia dei Paesi produttori che dei Paesi consumatori di petrolio nei confronti del potere di interferenza degli Stati Uniti nel sistema finanziario internazionale – a stimolare i recenti colloqui con i Paesi del Golfo.

Brasile e India si sono mostrati interessati a far parte di un sistema di pagamenti non piu’ basato sul dollaro. Allo stato la Cina appare la piu’ entusiasta tra le potenze finanziarie, non fosse altro che per il suo gigantesco interscambio commerciale con il Medio Oriente.

La Cina importa il 60% del petrolio che consuma, per lo piu’ dal Medio Oriente e dalla Russia. I cinesi hanno concessioni petrolifere in Iraq – bloccate fino a quest’anno dagli Stati Uniti – e dal 2008 hanno un accordo da 8 miliardi di dollari con l’Iran per lo sviluppo delle capacita’ di raffinazione e delle risorse di gas. La Cina ha contratti petroliferi in Sudan (dove ha sostituito gli Stati Uniti) e da tempo sta negoziando concessioni petrolifere in Libia dove tradizionalmente questo genere di accordi e’ del tipo joint venture.
Inoltre le esportazioni cinesi verso la regione ammontano ora a non meno del 10% delle importazioni di tutti i Paesi del Medio Oriente e includono una vasta gamma di prodotti che vanno dalle automobili agli armamenti, ai generi alimentari, al vestiario e persino alle bambole. Riconoscendo esplicitamente il crescente peso finanziario della Cina, il presidente della Banca Centrale Europea, Jean-Claude Trichet, ha chiesto l’altro ieri a Pechino di consentire alla yuan di apprezzarsi sul dollaro e, di conseguenza, di diminuire la dipendenza della Cina dalla politica monetaria americana contribuendo cosi’ a riequilibrare l’economia mondiale e ad alleggerire la pressione al rialzo sull’euro.

Dagli accordi di Bretton Woods – gli accordi conclusi dopo la seconda guerra mondiale che ci hanno tramandato l’architettura del moderno sistema finanziario internazionale – i partner commerciali degli Stati Uniti hanno dovuto affrontare le conseguenze della posizione di controllo di Washington e, negli anni piu’ recenti, dell’egemonia del dollaro in quanto principale valuta di riserva.

I cinesi credono, ad esempio, che siano stati gli americani a convincere la Gran Bretagna a non entrare nell’euro per impedire una fuga dal dollaro. Ma secondo le fonti bancarie cinesi i colloqui sono andati troppo avanti per poter essere bloccati. “Non e’ da escludere che nel paniere delle monete entri anche il rublo”, ha detto un importante broker di Hong Kong all’Indipendent. “La Gran Bretagna e’ presa in mezzo e finira’ per entrare nell’euro. Non ha scelta in quanto non potra’ piu’ usare il dollaro americano”.
Le fonti finanziarie cinesi sono convinte che il presidente Barack Obama sia troppo occupato a rimettere in piedi l’economia americana per concentrarsi sulle straordinarie implicazioni della transizione dal dollaro ad altre valute nel volgere di nove anni. Al momento la data fissata per l’abbandono del dollaro e’ il 2018.

Gli Stati Uniti hanno fatto appena cenno a questo problema in occasione del G20 di Pittsburgh. Il governatore della Banca centrale cinese e altri funzionari da anni sono preoccupati per la situazione del dollaro e non ne fanno mistero. Il loro problema e’ che gran parte della ricchezza nazionale e’ in dollari.

“Questi progetti cambieranno il volto delle transazioni finanziarie internazionali”, ha detto un banchiere cinese. “Stati Uniti e Gran Bretagna debbono essere molto preoccupati. Vi accorgerete di quanto sono preoccupati dalla pioggia di smentite che questa notizia scatenera’”.

Alla fine del mese scorso l’Iran ha annunciato che le sue riserve in valuta estera saranno in futuro in euro e non in dollari. I banchieri ricordano, naturalmente, quanto e’ capitato all’ultimo Paese produttore di petrolio del Medio Oriente che ha tentato di vendere il petrolio in euro e non in dollari. Pochi mesi dopo che Saddam Hussein aveva comunicato la sua decisione ai quattro venti, gli americani e gli inglesi hanno invaso l’Iraq.

Versione originale:
Robert Fisk
Fonte: www.independent.co.uk
Link: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/the-demise-of-the-dollar-1798175.html
6.10.2009

Versione italiana:
Fonte: www.unita.it/
Link: http://www.unita.it/news/il_documento/89415/sta_per_arrivare_la_morte…
6.10.2009

Traduzione a cura di Carlo Antonio Biscotto

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Gold Hits New Record High of $1,043/oz

NoWorldSystem.com
October 6, 2009

Owning gold is really a long term investment and a safe-haven when there’s dreary times; with record debt and unemployment, socialism for the banks and auto corporations, plans for mandatory health-insurance, the failed costly-wars in the middle-east and the hawkish stance against Iran and Pakistan.. it’s going to be one hell of a ride in the next few years.

Ron Paul on Fox News – “We MUST go back to the gold standard”

~~By InsightAnalytical-GRL

Well, here at home the FDIC is broke, but guess what?

The World Bank is on the verge of going broke, too…

According to the  Telegraph (U.K.):

World Bank could ‘run out of money’ within 12 months

(SNIP)

The Bank, whose job it is to support low-income countries, has had to hand out so much cash in the wake of the financial crisis that it faces a shortfall in what it can spare for new projects within 12 months.

“By the middle of next year we will face serious constraints,” said its president Robert Zoellick, as he launched a major campaign to persuade rich nations to pour more money into the Washington-based institution.

He conceded that such a task was likely to be extremely difficult, given the difficulties facing countries in the wake of the developed world’s biggest recession since the Second World War.

Although the Bank has enough cash to fund existing projects and its day-to-day operations, the demands thrown up by the global recession have meant it may need extra capital contributions from rich nations to bolster its balance sheet if it is to satisfy such needs.

Mr Zoellick, speaking at the opening of the IMF and World Bank annual meetings in Istanbul, said the Bank needed a capital increase of $3bn-$5bn, though others suspect the eventual need could be higher still.

SNIP

The money would be shared between the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development – the key part of the bank, which lends to poor nations – and the International Financial Corporation (IFC), which lends to companies.

The World Bank has pretty much screwed poorer countries with the terms of the largesse they’ve offered in the past, but, nonetheless, it’s still pretty amazing that this oufit would be afraid of  running out of cash.

What an economic cesspool we’re in…

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By the way, Robert Zoellick is an alumnus of the George W. Bush Administration…

World Bank and IMF Join Global Attack on U.S. Dollar

Larry Edelson
Money and Markets
October 4, 2009

The difference: Back then the U.S. was in a position to lead the devaluation. Today, it’s not. Today, our creditors are going to bulldoze over us.

IMF Catapults From Shunned Agency to Global Central Bank Issuing Debt to the World While U.S. Dollar Plummets

Huffington Post
October 2, 2009

“A year ago,” said law professor Ross Buckley on Australia’s ABC News last week, “nobody wanted to know the International Monetary Fund. Now it’s the organiser for the international stimulus package which has been sold as a stimulus package for poor countries.”

Not long ago, the IMF was being called obsolete. Now it is back in business with a vengeance; but it’s the old unseemly business of serving as the collection agency for the international banking industry. As long as third world debtors can service their loans by paying the interest on them, the banks can count the loans as “assets” on their books, allowing them to keep their pyramid scheme going by inflating the global money supply with yet more loans. It is all for the greater good of the banks and their affiliated multinational corporations; but the $500 billion in funding is coming from the taxpayers of the G20 nations, and the foreseeable outcome will be that the United States will join the ranks of debtor nations subservient to a global empire of central bankers.

Man Throws Shoe at IMF Chief

Yet another imposition on the Real and True American taxpayer.

Beginning in January of 2010, when you purchase an airline ticket, there will be a $2 question.

“Would you like to donate $2 to help fight HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis in Africa”?

Answer: “I decline”!! No!! Absolutely not!! Forget about it!!

Why in the world would we, as Americans, donate to countries whose only purpose to existence is to thrive from handouts and forced pity. The African continent is about as useful as AIDS. Pun intended!!

No morals!! No ethics!! No self honor or dignity!! No responsibility!! No effort!! No intellect whatsoever!! Certainly no global purpose except to deprive others of their hard earned money, prosperity and National Security.

They created their lifestyle, not Americans..

The so-called groups of self proclaimed Not For Profit “agency” fame are nothing more than “do unto others as they would do unto you” bleeding hearts of meaningless propaganda. The difference being that America has never been paid back much less offered anything in lieu of. Has anybody “done unto” the United States of America? Then again, what would these third world countries have to offer?

Has anybody come to the aid of the United States, ever?

NO!!!!

Only have our TRUE allies spilled blood with us and for us on the battlefields of history for freedom, democracy and prosperity which by the way, Americans have to work and sacrifice long and hard.

Don’t talk the “God says” crap as a niche to get American taxpayers to give up one hard earned penny. The US Government ALREADY gives aid to these useless earth goer’s and undeniably so.

Don’t show the poor little kid who has a bunch of flies hanging around their lips and face. I could care less!!  Because these countries abuse and swindle American taxpayer dollars and have no clue as to what to do with the money, don’t look to the American taxpayer for a fly swatter. They, the African people, get what they get and it’s that simple. And any other country for that matter.

There are millions of American kids who are FORCED to go without because some idiotic bleeding heart group or individual wants to “buy” his or her way into the heaven. You know, manipulate their way.

Third world countries and big business reap the rewards while the American taxpayer gets spit on. Literally!!!

Folks and families who travel on airlines nowadays, are already pushing pennies for fuel, better seating and baggage services.

This is supposedly a worldwide effort and only because government aid to these poor countries has been minimized due to the financial mess we are in.

Here is an idea, how about those who are fond of international aid such as the William J. Clinton Foundation and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation write the checks on their dime, not the Real and True American. These two foundations are big on foreign aid so let them handle it.

This whole idea came about due to the thought process or ideology of an unnamed United Nations agency.

United Nations. Does that sound like a fraudulent pity whine to you?

After being formally announced on September 23, at the UN General assembly, British P.M. Gordon Brown and the head of the world bank, Robert Zoellick along with chief executives of Amadeus, Sabre and Travelport/Galileo, representing the worldwide ticketing and reservation systems, said ‘barring any last minute legal glitches, the “scheme” will roll out in late January of 2010″.

Agencies like UNITAID and the World Health Organization are pillars behind this idea and want more private donations even though they have an annual operating and “hand out” budget of $400 million not including the money from the American taxpayer. Ironic isn’t it? American tax dollars are not even added to the budget and the reason for this is that the UN doesn’t want Americans to realize their input and how great it is.

Now the funny and odd part. UNITAID will collect the money and give it to “key” players such as “medical assistance” personnel headed for Africa and other “poor” countries. Surely food and dinnerware are included.

How about another question?

Why do those who supposedly “volunteer” to do this “good deed”, get to fly at the “donors” expense?” Why don’t they fly on their dime? What’s fair is fair. We donate the dough, volunteers donate their own airfare.. Sensible, but considering the racket, what else to expect?

On top of UNITAID handling and “distributing” the money, they will give more money to UNICEF and the Clinton foundation.

Remember a while back, Obama said part of the Healthcare bill would include money for other countries to help with “abortion” issues? Well, parts of the “donated” money are earmarked for these third world countries to “improve” maternal health and to reduce child mortality.

Here is the 2+2 for logic and common sense sake. American taxpayers will not only be FORCED to give through their hard earned tax dollars, but also be asked to donate more when we fly.

No polls. No statistics. No rhetoric. No beating around the bush.

Again, it is what it is. And if that doesn’t help you understand the UN and US racket, maybe this will.

The UN openly stated “that if the “plan” works, it will help the UN out of a dilemma of its own making”. If it created the dilemma, then why must the American tax payer bailout the world AND its own country in the same decade? This is like paying al Qaeda to stay fit.

For decades, the UN and other countries including obviously the United States, have been trying to wipe out poverty, illiteracy and disease in these toilet bowls of earth. Since 2000, world governments have promised $150 billion but ONLY $104 billion has been deposited. This is just a stab in the dark here,but one can logically and with 100% assurance state without a doubt, that the good ole US of A can account for at least 60 – 70% of the already received money.

According to the UN and UNITAID, only 5% of the money donated will account for administrative costs.

Yeah, and WE FULLY SUPPORT OBAMA and his “AGENDA”!!! Better yet, I want socialized medical care. (I’m kidding!!)

5% of the “only” $104 billion already donated is approximately a conservative $5 billion after “figuring” expenses. What administrative efforts cost $5 billion?

Administrative costs:

Kickbacks. To the travel agencies and airlines who partake?

Tide overs.

Pay outs.

Extortion. In the legal form.

Cars. Homes. Yachts.

“Redistribution” – sound familiar? Only now it is “global” redistribution to people who deserve nothing more than a porta potti, if that.

Gordon Wilson, the CEO of Travelport GDS, Galileo and Worldspan said ‘the overall response is that it makes people feel good about travel but also embraces responsibility”.

You son of a puke, who the hell made you the god of responsibility? Don’t tell us what is responsible and what isn’t.

I am responsible without having to “give” you and the world money for nothing. If my feeling good is based on the premise that $2 bucks is going to help a “cause” or “racket” while alienating my wishes of a good and safe flight to be with my family, then I’ll walk or drive. Then again, I can reserve with Amtrak.

Folks, the red flag should go up based on that comment alone.

Embrace responsibility!! I have more responsibility in my sleep than this Wilson marketeer. His business equals his money.

Between this Wilson freakshow and the UN, I wouldn’t give a penny.

America and the Real and True Americans are my concern, not the UN, it’s subsidiaries, big business or thieving scoundrels.

I guess money does grow on trees.

In America!!!!

In my yard, if I did have a money tree, I would be sure of my family’s health and safety first and foremost and never think about those who have not earned what I built and/or created. I took the RESPONSIBILITY and all the pain and suffering that goes along with it..

Don’t get caught up in the global or American socialization of your family or the future.

America, first AND last!!!!!!

To hell with all that matters none!!

America, STOP giving except to yourselves, family and friends. It’s not greedy or stingy or anti religious but it is your right to prosper as you and only you who have the right to smile for an effort you have accomplished through what matters most, the American dream and not the Global dream. Your tax dollars already pay for global messes, don’t get suckered into the global market as you have been suckered into the Obama market.

Absolute No-Go’s:

UNICEF

UNITAID

Clinton

Gates

United Nations (UN)

World Health Organization (WHO)

Most Importantly, DON”T FLY if you can help it. The mere fact that airlines, online ticketing and reservations and their affiliates embark on such a fraud is disgusting not to mention legal, government sponsored panhandling………

 

The federal government spent $167 billion in 1994 on corporate tax breaks and handouts – an average of $1400 per taxpayer (not including subsidies from counties and cities, hazardous waste cleanup costs, or limits on corporate liability).  By contrast, the total price tag for Aid for Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), food stamps and public housing came to $50 billion, or $400 per taxpayer.

Not many politicians talk about this.  A rare exception is former Labor Secretary Robert Reich who said to the Democratic Leadership Council in November 1995 that people are mad because “we are on the way to becoming a two-tiered society composed of a few winners and a larger group left behind.”  Then, he said, “Since we are committed to moving the disadvantaged from welfare to work, why not target corporate welfare as well?”

The White House quickly distanced itself from Reich’s speech, but activists of all kinds picked it up: Perot’s United We Stand-America made it a major target of angry-middle groups; the right-wing Heritage Foundation and libertarian Cato Institute joined Ralph Nader to present a list of corporate pork barrel reforms.  Yet, neither Congress nor the White House makes much of corporate giveaways in budget-balancing plans.

What are the giveaways?  The active variety includes agribusiness, military contractor subsidies, loan guarantees, and the bailout of the S&Ls, and computer databases.  The rights to lumber and minerals on federal lands are routinely granted for $5 per acre, making the United States the only country in the world that virtually gives away its depletable natural resources!  Drugs developed with taxpayer money are routinely given to drug companies for monopoly marketing with no restraint on price, or royalties returned to the people.  The major television networks get free broadcast licenses with minimal public responsibility or obligation.

Passive corporate giveaways come in the form of tax breaks and loopholes.  Private individuals pay taxes at higher rates than corporations.  The investment tax credit designed to increase economic activity is historically taken as a windfall.  Tax breaks granted to be put back into productive equipment, plants and jobs, are commonly used to buy out other companies, creating no new jobs or wealth.  Subsidies actually debilitate innovation and efficiency.

In the debate over budget deficits, many ask, “How can we take food out of poor kids’ mouths and continue to subsidize the rich?”  Scant legislation has been introduced to rid us of tax loopholes for the rich. There’s been no serious move to initiate cost-benefit analysis of corporate giveaways, in the same way they’ve meticulously reviewed health and safety regulation for years, and assaulted affirmative action and the minimum wage.

One problem is that connections are frequently not made between things that people don’t like and what causes them.  Well-funded corporate lobbies and toadies are too adept at directing people’s anger against government in a massive, daily, Rush Limbaugh-/Lars Larsen-esque hate-your-government drumbeat.  They work to keep the focus away from corporations, which are the dominant institution in our society.

Government has been only a minion, a simply willing agent, for transferring tax dollars to corporate coffers. We are the richest nation in the history of the world and our richest (corporate) citizens behave as if divine providence, rather than selfish market decisions doom the poorest (human) citizens.  However, if the corporate greed issue is connected with people’s deprivation – and we brand-name the greediest corporate kings in the United States – we can turn the tide against the self-interested, compassionless and undemocratic aspects of the corporate institution. Corporations should pay their fair share to the citizens and communities, which enable their success.  That can result in real tax reform, without creating unnecessary hardships for the poor and middle class.

WALL STREET LIES BLAME VICTIMS TO AVOID RESPONSIBILITY FOR FINANCIAL MELTDOWN by Nomi Prins, Wiley Press.

To hear it from the big financial companies, the big crash started when poor people bought homes they couldn’t afford. But that was at most 1% of the problem.  Editor’s note: The following is an excerpt from Nomi Prins’ new book, It Takes a Pillage: Behind the Bailouts, Bonuses, and Backroom Deals from Washington to Wall Street.

The Second Great Bank Depression has spawned so many lies, it’s hard to keep track of which is the biggest. Possibly the most irksome class of lies, usually spouted by Wall Street hacks and conservative pundits, is that we’re all victims to a bunch of poor people who bought McMansions, or at least homes they had no business living in. If that was really what this crisis was all about, we could have solved it much more cheaply in a couple of days in late 2008, by simply providing borrowers with additional capital to reduce their loan principals. It would have cost about 3 percent of what the entire bailout wound up costing, with comparatively similar risk.

http://www.alternet.org/workplace/142944/wall_street_lies_blame_victims_to_avoid_responsibility_for_financial_meltdown

ORGANIZED IRRESPONSIBILITY

The Guardian/UK

US DOLLAR SET TO BE ECLIPSED World Bank President Predicts by Heather Stewart

The United States must brace itself for the dollar to be usurped as the world’s reserve currency as American dominance wanes in the wake of the financial crisis, the World Bank president, Robert Zoellick, warned yesterday. United States would be mistaken to take for granted the dollar’s place as the world’s predominant reserve currency, says Zoellick. Speaking ahead of the World Bank/IMF annual meetings in Istanbul, he said it was time for a “responsible globalisation”, in which decision-making was shared between the old powers and developing countries such as China and India.

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/09/28-7

The Real News Network

CLEAN COAL IS FICTION says Jessy Tolkan: Washington saying coal industry can be “clean” is pure fiction.

Paul Jay speaks to Jessy Tolkan at the Tides Foundations’ Momentum conference in San Francisco. They speak about Tolkan’s coalition on climate change fighting Obama to establish a moratorium on all coal mining. Tolkan says that Washington’s push for “clean coal” is not enough because the coal industry’s and President Obama’s argument that the production of coal can be clean is “an absolute, 100% lie.” She also says that “the science is clear that if we don’t address coal head on, it’s almost “game over” for the planet.”

http://www.commondreams.org/video/2009/09/28

The New York Times

CASSANDRAS OF CLIMATE by Paul Krugman

Every once in a while I feel despair over the fate of the planet. If you’ve been following climate science, you know what I mean: the sense that we’re hurtling toward catastrophe but nobody wants to hear about it or do anything to avert it.

And here’s the thing: I’m not engaging in hyperbole. These days, dire warnings aren’t the delusional raving of cranks. They’re what come out of the most widely respected climate models, devised by the leading researchers. The prognosis for the planet has gotten much, much worse in just the last few years.

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/09/28-3

ENVIRONMENT-POPULATION JUMBOPAK

POLLUTER BORN EVERY MINUTE

Robert Zoellick, the President of the World Bank, has cautioned the US that it should not assume that the dollar will remain the world’s reserve currency if it makes the wrong decisions on the deficit and debt.

Well this not really a revelation. Virtually everyone who watches these things outside of Congress and the Administration already knows this. That’s not a fair statement actually. Many people in government do get it, but there are powerful forces on the Left that are more focused on attacking Wall Street than the fact that they are spending us into oblivion.

Mr Zoellick’s assertion that the Euro will gain in importance makes sense though I am not sure that the Europeans will be happy about their currency being bid up even further. His assertion that the yuan will steady internationalize – well, I don’t buy it. Who exactly wants to trade in a non-convertible currency? Which central banks want to hold more than a small part of their reserves in it? So while the Euro will grow in importance, I’m not particularly optimistic for the yuan.

As for the dollar, it may have peaked as a global currency (even in the best case scenario) but it will still be first among equals. Comparisons with the decline of the British pound, while important, can only be carried so far. The US capital markets will still be the deepest and the US economy still the largest for anyone’s lifetime. Sure China will be a major world player – but mainly on the back of US trade, and I just don’t see people in Peoria clamoring to trade in yuan. So there will always be strong demand for the dollar. The problem is that it will lose a lot of its value given our current long term spending plans.

But thanks for the reminder, Mr. Zoellick. I just wish the people in Congress who need to hear this were actually listening.

www.dailyexception.com

El presidente del Banco Mundial, Robert Zoellick, ha cuestionado el predominio del dólar como divisa dominante en el mercado de reservas y advirtió a EEUU que podría equivocarse si se empeña en dar por sentada esta posición, explicó.
Noticia original

BEIJING — World Bank President Robert Zoellick said he is talking to Chinese government officials about cooperating on investments in Africa, which he said could help boost the continent’s economic growth.

Mr. Zoellick told reporters Wednesday during a visit to the Chinese capital that China Investment Corp., the nation’s sovereign-wealth fund, has expressed interest in investing in the World Bank’s recently launched asset management company, which invests private-sector funds into places like sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America.

World Bank President Robert Zoellick
On Wed, stated he will press Group of 20
for more aid to developing countries [WSJ]

“CIC expressed interest in this as a commercial investment vehicle, but obviously there is no decision yet on their part,” Mr. Zoellick said. Other sovereign-wealth funds and pension funds are also interested in the new investment vehicle, he said, which manages some $4 billion in funds.

Click here to read J.R. Wu and Andrew Batson’s complete article at the WSJ

Le président de la banque mondiale (BM) Robert Zoellick se trouve au Congo démocratique, à Kinshasa, première étape d’une tournée cinq jours qui le conduira au Rwanda et en Ouganda, pour “observer les dégâts causés par la crise financière”.

  Le président de la banque mondiale, M. Robert Zoellick

Le président Zoellick  restera trois jours en république démocatique du Congo  RDC, où il verra “comment se traduit l’impact de la crise financière et celui de la réponse que la banque a pu apporter”. Le président Robert Zoellick devra aussi tester sur le terrain les priorités de son mandat, comme  la lutte contre la pauvreté, puis évoquer avec les autorités congolaises les questions d’intégration régionale, de sécurité et de gouvernance économique. M. Robert Zoellick visitera le barrage hydroélectrique d’Inga, dans la province du Bas-Congo situé dans le sud-ouest, des sites d’hebergement des anciens combattants démobilisés et des femmes victimes de violences sexuelles à Goma dans le Nord-Kivu dans l’est du pays.

                                   Le barrage hydroélectrique d’Inga RDC

La banque mondiale à 12 projets en république démocratique du Congo,  ce qui représente des engagements estimés à plus de 2  milliards de dollars, dont plus d’un  milliard non encore décaissés. Cela concerne  le développement du secteur privé, humain (santé, éducation etc.) et durable comme la réhabilitation de routes et infrastructures, la démobilisation et la réinsertion d’anciens combattants. La république démocratique du Congo a connu une guerre régionale d’une durée de cinq années et qui s’est achevé en 2002. Plusieurs groupes armés sévissent actuellement dans l’est et le nord-est du pays.

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   A cincisprezecea conferinta de la Montreal ce este gazduita la Bonaventure Hilton are anul acesta o denumire mai mult decat clara: “Adapting to a New World Order”. Programul il gasiti la:

http://www.conferencedemontreal.com/fileadmin/pdf/2009/Program.pdf

   Invitatii sunt sefi ai Bancii Mondiale, FMI, prim ministri, guvernatori de banci centrale si alte marionete de prim rang ale ELITELOR ce pregatesc ultima etapa din edificarea NOII ORDINI MONDIALE:

   Madeleine Albright (NOTA 1)

   Dominique Strauss-Kahn (NOTA 2)

   Robert Zoellick (NOTA 3)

   Jean-Claude Trichet, President, European Central Bank

   Guillermo Ortiz Martinez, Governor, Central Bank of Mexico

   Mark Carney, Governor, Bank of Canada

   Alvaro Uribe, President of the Republic of Colombia

   Angel Gurria, Secretary-General, OECD

   De asemenea grei de la General Electric, Goldman Sachs, Cisco Systems, GDF SUEZ, etc.

   Fiecare zi a conferintei abordeaza diferite teme. Prima a inceput cu discursul lui Dominique Strauss-Kahn intitulat “Catre o Noua Ordine Globala”. S-a continuat cu “A New World Governance” si “Thriving in a New Financial Order.”

   Temele pentru celelalte zile sunt:

   “Energie, sanatate si dezvoltare durabila”

   “Comertul international si Americile”

   “Finantele internationale”

   “Criza economica si rolul bancilor centrale: cat de departe se poate merge?”

   Ultimul titlu ne aminteste de repetarea scenariului de acum 100 de ani, insa de aceasta data la proportii planetare. In 1907 Jacob Schiff declara intr-un discurs la New York ca fara o banca centrala care sa aiba un control adecvat, tara va aluneca inspre cele mai severe crize din istorie.

   Dupa criza artificiala din 1907,  “rezolvata“ de J. P. Morgan, in 1908 congresul il insarcineaza pe Nelson W. Aldrich cu descoperirea cauzelor si cu cautarea solutiilor pentru prevenirea crizelor …

   Acesta , dupa o vizita la greii din finante banci europeni (Rothschild si prietenii), in noiembrie 1910 la Jekyll Island Club, se intalneste cu Paul Warburg (Kuhn, Loeb & Co.), Frank A. Vanderlip (din partea National City Bank of New York), Henry P. Davison (din partea companiilor J. P. Morgan), Charles D. Norton (din partea First National Bank of New York), Benjamin Strong (reprezentant J. P. Morgan),in cel mai mare secret posibil, si pun bazele Federal Reserve, in conformitate cu intelegerea prealabila Aldrich , Warburg, JP Morgan, Rockefeller. Secretul era necesar deoarece opinia publica nu ar fi acceptat o “banca nationala“ creata de banci private. De abia in 1913 este recunoscuta oficial de catre Woodrow Wilson, influentat fiind de Bernard Baruch.

   Cititi va rog si articolul:

DOCUMENTARE CELEBRE: Aaron Russo – „AMERICA: FROM FREEDOM TO FASCISM“ – subtitrare in limba romana si completari foarte necesare

   Programul mai include un subtitlu interesant: „NAFTA si redresarea economica: necesitatea unei actiuni comune intre bancile centrale nord americane”. Sa ne amintim ca Henry Kissinger o spunea demult:

   “NAFTA este o piatra de temelie la construirea Noii Ordini Mondiale.“

  Daca urmariti inclusiv cele scrise la NOTE, observati formula deja clasica: avertizare-criza-solutie. Aratam in articolul • Criza financiara din SUA, etapa principala in edificarea NOII ORDINI MONDIALE ca ELITELE planetare au declansat de fapt voit aceasta recesiune, ca parte componenta a unei mega crize, formata dintr-un cumul de crize ce va mai cuprinde: razboi (Va fi folosit Iranul pentru declansarea celui de al treilea razboi mondial? Elemente esentiale din istoria sa contemporana (ce nu apar insa in marea mass-medie actuala)). ample manifestari de strada (Un pericol iminent: ANARHISMUL, “alternativa anti-sistem” creata si coordonata de ELITE pentru motivarea statului politienesc) si foamete (O noua amenintare serioasa: “CODEX ALIMENTARIUS”) pentru ca mai apoi tot ele sa faca cele mai negre previziuni (in timp ce se straduiesc ca evenimentele sa decurga spre catastrofa) si evident sa prezinta solutia … GUVERNUL MONDIAL al NOII ORDINI MONDIALE. Sa ne amintim de asemenea ca la reuniunea Bilderberg de anul acesta s-au stabilit modalitatile prin care recesiunea sa fie una foarte scurta dar intensa, care sa puna bazele unei noi economii mondiale sustenabile, ce va oferi statelor lumii mai putina suveranitate, dar va fi mai eficienta.

   NOTE:

   Cuvintele scrise cu litere rosii, ingrosate si subliniate sunt hiperlink-uri spre articole din acest blog si care detaliaza activitatea respectivelor personaje, organizatii sau evenimente

   (NOTA 1)

   Madeleine Korbel Albright (nascuta Marie Jana Korbelová), (1937-), evreica, este prima femeie United States Secretary of State. Directoare la COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS ( CFR ) .

   In 1959 se marita cu Joseph Medill Patterson Albright nepotul lui Joseph Medill Patterson, fondatorul New York Daily News.

   Sefa intre 1981 si 1982 la Center for Strategic and International Studies  pentru Uniunea Sovietica si Europa de Est. Co fondatoare in 1981 si presedinta a Center for National Policy. Inainte de a deveni secretar de stat , a fost US Ambassador to the United Nations . A fost sfatuitoarea lui Barack Obama pe probleme de securitate nationala in campanie . 

   Faptul ca nu da doi bani pe viata plebei o dovedesc inclusiv propriile declaratii. Astfel, pe cand era la ONU, nu a intreprins nimic impotriva genocidului din Rwanda, mai mult , a fost impotriva unei noi misiuni ONU in acea tara. In 1996, in emisiunea “60 de minute“ a postului CBS, Lesley Stahl i-a spus referitor la efectele sanctiunilor impotriva Irakului: “Am auzit ca peste o jumatate de milion de copii au murit. Vreau sa spun ca sunt mai multi decat au murit la Hirosima “. Raspunsul ei: “ Cred ca este o decizie grea dar pretul merita “ S-a opus United States resolution on Armenian genocide, fapt pentru care a primit critici din partea armenilor, dar putin ii pasa ei. O ura deosebita are impotriva popoarelor ortodoxe, prin urmare a insistat pentru bombardamentele impotriva Serbiei. Sa ne amintim ca n-au avut nici un scrupul si au facut-o inclusiv in zi Sfanta de Pasti, cand pe bombele lansate era scris “Paste Fericit“. Mult mai dragi i-au fost insa teroristii albanezi, in frunte cu Hashim-Thaci, seful UCK.

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   Tatal sau, Josef Korbel (1909 – 1977), diplomat ceh pana la fuga sa din calea nazistilor. Mentorul secretarului de stat Condoleezza Rice. Fondatorul Graduate School of International Studies. Membru COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS ( CFR ) .

   A promovat in Romania vaccinul GARDASIL – SILGRAD.

   Center for Strategic and International Studies este un think tank politica externa fondat in 1964 de Arleigh Burke si David Manker Abshire, ultimul fiind si seful National Security Group (ce include si State and Defense Departments,  U.S. Information Agency, Central Intelligence Agency). Fost director la Proctor & Gamble.

   Centrul i-a avut sefi pe greii: Henry Kissinger, Zbigniew Brzezinski, William Cohen, George Argyros si Brent Scowcroft.

   Analizele lor includeau terrorism, homeland security, energy, trade si technology.

   CSIS de asemenea a sponsorizat Iraq Study Group si Operation Dark Winter (numele de cod al unui atac terorist simulat in 22 – 23 iunie 2001).

   (NOTA 2)

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   Dominique Strauss-Kahn (1949-), evreu, Franta, membru al partidului socialist, managing director al FMI din 28 septembrie 2007. Cititi va rog si articolul:

Instrumente ale crearii GUVERNULUI MONDIAL (partea 2): FMI (Fondul Mondial International)

   In tinerete a fost membru al Uniunii Studentilor Comunisti, apoi al Center on Socialist Education Studies and Research, CERES.

   In 1997 prietenul sau prim-ministrul socialist Lionel Jospin il desemneaza ministrul economiei, finantelor si industriei. Participant intruniri Bilderberg Group.

   Cititi va rog si articolul:

Directorul FMI, evreul Dominique Strauss-Kahn: “Situatia economiei mondiale este cumplita, exista riscul tulburarilor sociale si chiar al razboiului”

   (NOTA 3)

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   Robert Zoellick (1953 -), evreu, participant Bilderberg Group , fost Deputy Secretary of State, presedinte al Bancii Mondiale (nominalizat de George W. Bush) , Senior International Advisor Goldman Sachs, familie evrei din Germania, membru Phi Beta Kappa, reprezentantul personal al lui Bush la G7 (1991, 1992), fost sef Center for Strategic and International Studies, fost membru German Marshall Fund, World Wildlife Fund , membru Council on Foreign Relations, membru Trilateral Commission. 

   A semnat in 1998, alaturi de Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, Elliott Abrams, Zalmay Khalilzad, John R. Bolton, Richard Armitage si Bill Kristol, proiectul Project for the New American Century pentru inlaturarea de la putere a lui Saddam.

   Cititi va rog si articolele:

Presedintele Bancii Mondiale, evreul Robert Zoellick: “Ce-i mai rau, va urma de acum incolo”

Presedintele Bancii Mondiale, evreul Robert Zoellick, propune folosirea FMI si a Bancii Mondiale pentru crearea unei NOI AUTORITATI GLOBALE

Local talk radio was all abuzz yesterday with news that World Bank boss Robert Zoellick was heading to Ottawa to ask Canada to pony up more money for international aid.

The request comes only weeks after the Harper government announced it would be running a whopping $50-billion deficit as it struggles with skyrocketing Employment Insurance claims and the cost of bailing out ailing carmakers.

Clean water: an effective use of foreign aid.

Canada currently spends around $4 billion in foreign aid. This seems a significant chunk of change, but it turns out to be only 0.35 per cent of our nation’s GDP, well short of meeting the United Nations target of 0.7 per cent of GDP.

In recent years this has led some, most notably U2 frontman Bono, to chastise the Canadian government for not giving more.

We’re charitable souls, we Canadians. I can’t speak for everyone else, but I’d like our leaders to do what they can to help those who can’t help themselves, here at home and abroad.

In shaky economic times like these, however, I think it’s worth questioning whether it is responsible of our government to be doling out extra dollops of foreign aid, especially when it can’t balance its own books.

More important, does this money even end up doing what it’s intended to?

As a commenter on globeandmail.com put it (rather bluntly) yesterday: “This needs a rethink. I have/had a friend in Zimbabwe and I haven’t heard from her in over a month. There is no way to directly contact her. For all I know her head is on a pike somewhere. These backwards nations can kiss my butt….but I am sure our government – con/lib whatever – will send the dictators money.”

Heads on a pike aside, this post touches on one of the potential problems with foreign aid.

The money is supposed to help poorer countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America with things like clean water, education, health care and infrastructure.

And yet, despite oversight by large institutions like the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, there is always the risk the funds might end up in the hands of corrupt dictators who funnel the cash into personal bank accounts, bankrolling lavish lifestyles while their own people suffer.

The big institutions aren’t above reproach, mind you. Last month, for example, it was revealed that two United Nations agencies spent millions in U.S. aid money on substandard Afghanistan construction projects, including a central bank without electricity and a bridge that was at risk of collapse.

Dambisa Moyo

Dambisa Moyo, an economist and former World Bank consultant, has generated some controversy with her new book, Dead Aid, which argues that foreign aid has actually harmed Africa – not helped it – by propping up despots and/or creating dependence among citizens.

So there’s every reason for skepticism about the effectiveness of foreign aid. What’s more, since the global economy imploded, it’s been harder for countries like Canada to justify any extra spending, let alone the boosting of foreign aid.

While the recession has had a serious impact on Canadians, however, our troubles are nothing compared to what people in sub-Saharan African face on their best days. Besides, when our government is already running a massive deficit, what’s another billion dollars or two, right?

Canada should be helping needier nations, particularly those still trying to find their way forward after centuries of being exploited and picked over by colonial powers (not us) then left to fend for themselves.

Still, it’s hard to accept that our tax dollars might end up bankrolling sleazy, corrupt, power-mongering politicians around the world.

After all, there’s enough of that happening right here at home.

ryan@roadtostarrdom.com

World Bank President Robert Zoellick warned policy makers that fiscal-stimulus plans are insufficient to turn around the “real economy” and rising joblessness threatens to set off political unrest across the globe.

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“While the stimulus has given an impulse, it’s like a sugar high unless you eventually get the credit system working,” Zoellick said in an interview yesterday with Bloomberg Television’s “Political Capital with Al Hunt.” “When unemployment increases, that’s probably the most political combustible issue.”

Zoellick’s caution is a contrast with private economists, who are raising their outlooks for growth from India to China as stimulus measures take effect. The biggest developed and emerging nations have committed spending increases and tax cuts totaling 2 percent of their combined economies, a level the International Monetary Fund recommended to end the recession.

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Robert Zoellick

Robert Zoellick told the Spanish daily El Pais:

“If we do no take measures, there is a risk of a serious human and social crisis with very serious political implications. The stimulus measures could be the decisive factors.”

“There is also what I call the ‘X-factor’, that one can not foresee, such as the (swine) flu.”

“The economic recovery will be weak for a prolonged period and unemployment will continue to rise.”