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Cidersomerset
10th January 2014, 20:50
Military Interventions are ordered by Corporates not Politicians and Governments

Friday 10th January 2014 at 05:00 By David Icke


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‘It is time the world realized that the West’s politicians are mere political stooges
placed as nominees for elections by a handful of global corporates and a
transnational ruling class who use them to invisibly rule the world.

‘Direct investment’ has been redefined and it is this direct directive by corporates
that has forced Western political leaders to advocate military interventions of the
immoral and unethical nature we see unfolding before us. All these compilations of
war crimes, abuses etc are nothing but a sham to give a touch of ‘we did justice’ to
the injustice taking place. The fact is military interventions are happening primarily
for the economic interests of not the country invading by the corporate lobbyists
who are waiting to land and plunder invaded nations. It is not foreign invasion it is
corporate invasion that is taking place and national leaders/governments are
getting eliminated for standing in the way of that quest.’

Iraq was a neoliberal invasion – so too have been all the countries that have fallen
before and after Iraq. If it is not oil, it is some other ‘monetary’ interest that leads
to the declaration of ‘war’ without any provocation. What happens thereafter is
removal of restrictions to foreign ownership and trade, contracts given to foreign
corporations to develop this that and the other. The smokescreens are ‘production
sharing agreements’ where governments own the oil but the development of the oil
field, the pumping, refining, shipping are all done by the foreign companies. It is
simply draining out everything that should belong to the country and its people.
American corporates NOT America or its people have secured the world’s second
largest oil reserves which belonged to Iraq! This was why Bush immediately
announced after the invasion of a Middle East Free Trade Area to spread the
economic invasion to the rest of the region by 2013. That has happened through
the Arab Springs! When Bush said he would ‘counter terror with trade’ it was a
giveaway. The war plan was prepared by US consultancy firm Bearing Point Inc –
which received $250millon contract to make Iraq’s economic infrastructure!

The plan was to fire entire Iraqi military (500,000), so that many of these jobless
would take to guns and start an insurgency, which happened according to plan.
120,000 of Iraq’s senior bureaucrats were fired throughout government, schools
and even hospitals, new laws reduced taxes on all corporations by 25% to open up
for foreign investment and these firms were allowed to own 100% of Iraqi
businesses as opposed to partnership framework, corporates could send their entire
profits home without investing a cent in Iraq. More than 150 US companies won
contracts in Iraq worth over $50billion. There was no law to state foreign
companies had to hire Iraqis – so these firms imported foreign workers! What
resulted were the Iraqis turning against the new invaders who came in
as ‘liberators’. Whats more new laws entitled foreigners to buy land in Iraq that are
now exclusive holiday homes for foreigners – is it difficult to picture what Iraq
would look like in time to come?

The American troops are just kept in Iraq until the contracts are secured and this is
the case in all other countries where military intervention have taken place.

The foreign contracts:

· Halliburton - $12 billion

· 13 other US companies received contracts worth more than $1.3billion each

7 largest reconstruction contracts (water, bridges, roads, hospitals, sewers, electricity)

1. Parsons Corporation of Pasadena, California ($5.3billion) - $243m contract
given to build 150 health care centres was cancelled when only 6 centres had been
built in 2 years and only 2 are useable!

2. Fluor Corporation of Aliso Viejo, Calif. ($3.75 billion)

3. Washington Group International of Boise, Idaho ($3.1 billion);

4. Shaw Group of Baton Rouge, La. ($3 billion);

5. Bechtel Corporation of San Francisco ($2.8 billion);

6. Perini Corporation of Framingham, Mass. ($2.5 billion);

7. Contrack International, Inc. of Arlington, Va. ($2.3 billion).

Halliburton’s subsidiary KBR is also been investigated for waste, fraud and abuse.

With all these foreign experts in Iraq, Iraqis enjoy only 11 hours of electricity a day
in a country that had 24 hours electricity during Saddam’s rule. Potable water
projects are useless when there is no electricity to pump water to homes, hospitals
or Iraqi businesses! To add to Iraq’s woes the IMF has enforced a structural
adjustment program that equates to nothing but the globalist agenda.

The real winners are actually the oil and gas industry – these are the people that
donate billions for presidential campaigns to elect a President that would do what
they want done. Is this not why for the 1st time under Bush, the President, Vice
President and Secretary of State were all former energy company officials!

The references to local puppets comes in the form of local traitors who actually
create and endorse laws that gave Iraq’s oil to foreign firms and allowed these
firms to control virtual all of Iraq’s oil and they use a lot of Ox-bridge English to
fool the masses! The traitors in Iraqi Government end up changing Iraq’s
constitution so that all of Iraq’s developed and undeveloped oil fields fall into the hands of foreigners!

What happens in turn with the wave of corporate mooted military interventions
taking place is that a 1% global transnational ruling class has emerged and they
are far more dangerous than the terrorists using guns! They are the one’s creating
the guns to use.

To this list of 1% includes global central banks, major investment
money management firms, insurance companies etc and governments are only in
their service!

It is this 1% who plan, manipulate, create and enforce policies - politicians are told
to only carry them out.

This is what the US/NATO military industrial-media empire is all about and they are
simply serving the interests of a group of transnational corporate class to protect
their international capital and amass more wealth.

The transnational capitalist class is divided into

1. Owners and controllers of TNCs and their local affiliates

2. Globalizing bureaucrats and politicians

3. Globalizing professionals

4. Consumerist elites (merchants/media)

Note: the four are unlikely to be doing everything in cohesion – conflicts have
arisen at times but the structure never changes.

· It is estimated that the total world’s wealth is close to $200trillion with US
and Europe holding approximately 63%.

· To belong to the wealthiest half of the world, a person needs to have only
$4000 in assets (with debts subtracted).

· To belong to the top 10% of global wealth holders, a person needs to have
more than $72,000.

· If a person has more than $588,000 he belongs to the top 10% of global
wealth holders and people with more than $588,000 automatically belong to the top 1%.

· It is believed that the top 1% of the wealthiest in the world had hidden
$21trillion to $32 trillion in secret tax exempt bank accounts.

· The wealthiest 1% of the world represents approximately 40million adults.

· The assets of 10million of these exceed $1million. Approximately 100,000
have financial assets worth over $30million.

· The tier below the 1% are working people in major
corporations/government, self-owned businesses and make up 30-40% of
employed in developed countries while there are only 20% of the 3rd world
belonging to this group.

· What is alarming is that 1% of global elite dominates and controls world’s
public relations firms and corporate media and the global corporate media protects
the interests of the 1% by serving as a propaganda machine for the super rich.
There is no such thing as an unbiased media if it is a corporate media especially if it
is own or linked to the First World.

· There are over 1000 billionaires but they are not part of the superclass and
they don’t influence global policies but these 1000 billionaires have twice as much
wealth as the 2.5billion least wealthy.

According to the World Bank there are 1.2billion living in extreme poverty making
$1.25 a day (2008)

According to www.starvation.net35,000 people die every day from
starvation. When farmers grow enough food why are people dying from hunger?
That is because the corporations are making a killing from hunger! They control
global food prices and distribution and also manipulate the scarcity.

ROLE OF NATO

It is to protect the capital of the superclass that NATO countries now account for
85% of the world’s defense spending. NATO’s agenda is to quell or crush rebellions
and other forms of unrest.

The Third World needs to start worrying when NATO’s global agenda was laid bare
at the 2012 NATO Summit in Chicago wherein its declaration read “ . . . we have
confidently set ourselves the goal of NATO Forces 2020: modern, tightly connected
forces equipped, trained, exercised and commanded so that they can operate
together and with partners in any (emphaisis added) environment.” This must ring
alarm bells that NATO is emerging as a police force for the transnational corporate
class.

NATO remains in the Balkans, it is now in Afghanistan, NATO started training in
Iraq since 2005, it is now inside Libya and NATO is also eyeing Syria.

The strategy to use NATO as a global security for the super rich is all too clear and
will work in unison with the industrial-military-media empires fooling the masses
while plundering the world. Plugged onto this are numerous initiatives that are
being drafted and launched through the UN like the depopulation programs as well
as other methods to wipe out entire populations or starve them to death. Notice the
increase in private security forces, mass incarceration, new forms of social
apartheid. Drone killings, extrajudicial assassinations did not just happen. These
were all planned.

US private firms like Blackwater and DynCorp are receiving contracts via CIA and
billions from the US federal government. If the military does wrong there are
channels to address but when Blackwater contractors killed 17 unarmed civilians in
2007 in Iraq – nothing was done because they were immune from Iraqi law.

Privatizing what belonged to the Government is said to improve efficiency. So
prisons became privatized because companies were said to guard, house and feed
prisoners better. What happens when private prisons cut guard pay, food quality,
abuse prisoners as a management tool? Nothing.

Then there is the media – you can be rest assured that no one reports wrong doing
and those that do end up fired or blacklisted from the media. Nothing will get
published regarding big corporates or their shady deals because they influence
editorial content and that which gets relayed. That is why we are still to know if
powdered milk is nutritious or not, or whether we are importing foods that are
GMOs, what is really inside the drugs/medication we take – a lot is being
concealed. Doctors are given perks and privileges depending on the drugs he/she
prescribes. We call these kickbacks. Then in the realm of education/research
companies spend millions to see how they could manipulate things. Since 2002
ExxonMobil donated over $225million to Stanford to research how to ‘curb
greenhouse gas emissions’ and the panel were made up of oil industry.

The Trade Laws Shaping Future

We are looking at a future of permanent war, spending on destruction means
spending for reconstruction and this cycle is just perfect for the transnational
corporates.

The US and 11 Pacific Rim countries (US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan,
Mexico, Malaysia, Chile, Singapore, Peru, Vietnam and Brunei) representing 40% of
global GDP will sign the Trans Pacific Partnership and Transatlantic Trade and
Investment Partnership. The document being drafted by US has been given access
to only 3 individuals in each of the TPP nations while 600 ‘trade advisors’ of
companies such as Monsanto, Chevron, Halliburton, Walmart have been granted
access. Wikileaks disclosed its contents which covered medicines, publishers,
internet services, civil liberties and biological patents, it also covered patents,
copyright, trademarks and industrial design. The draft detailed new policing
measures that would curtail civil liberties, individual rights wherein sovereign
national courts would have to defer to supranational litigation tribunals where
hearings would be conducted with secret evidence.

The TPP is just part of the other project – the EU/US Trade and Investment
Partnership (TTIP) which will roll out principles for EU and UK. 65% input to this
secret agreement came from companies and industry associations. What the
agreement proposes to do is to remove/reduce trade tariffs that favors consumers,
would reintroduce US led anti-counterfeiting trade agreement (ACTA) without any
democratic mandate, creating grounds for corporates to sue national governments
directly at supra-national courts, the US proposes to use TTIP to overturn EU food
standards on GMOs, meat (chlorine washed chicken, growth hormones etc).

What would happen if tariffs are removed? Haiti is a good example. Haiti could feed
itself. Then the US and IMF entered forcing Haiti to reduce its tariffs on imports. US
subsidized US farmers to undercut domestic producers decimating Haiti’s domestic
rice market resulting in Haiti importing rice from US and Haiti became recipient of
US food aid (US taxpayer pays $1.5billion to US food corporations to produce food for Food Aid).

The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership between EU and US is aimed
to conclude before 2016 and the transnationals are using various means to ensure
all government barriers are removed. The corporates will get the US President to
invoke the President’s Trade Promotion Authority to make it impossible for
Congress to amend or debate TPP.

The corporates will force Downing Street to cede powers enabling sections of the
agreement to come into force before UK Parliament ratifies it.

We are slowly walking towards corporatized governments where agreements will
soon suppress internet freedom, restrict civil liberties, take apart internal
economies, directly overturn state subsidies on drugs, healthcare and other social
benefits.

We may end up holding elections to elect leaders under what we believe
is ‘democracy’ but these elected leaders will not be able to amend any of the
agreements which would be written by the corporates.

Some alarming revelations were made by Karen Hudes with over 20years
experience in the World Bank legal department (1986-2007) who was dismissed
because she investigated the elites agenda and formed a whistleblower group.

The findings were as follows:

· 43,000 transnational corporations hold shares on capital markets

· The banks Citibank, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank
own US Federal Reserve System

· These banks control 60% of annual earnings of capital markets and 40% of
vales of these companies.

· Their investments were done by placing the same directors from one
company to another and another.

· They also control the media

· Existing gentleman’s agreement – US appoints World Bank head, EU
appoints IMF head.

· The banksters plan is to keep people imprisoned in debt

· Hude also says that if the Treasury Department issues currency then interest
is not required to be paid. If Treasury Department issues a promissory note to the
Federal Reserve, Federal Reserve issues currency and that note will have interest –
that’s why debt increases annually. In the US when tax forms are sent to one place,
the cheque is sent to the Federal Reserve, that cheques is then sent to the UK, the
UK banksters (not the government) keep 40% and then send 60% to the Jesuits in
the Vatican. Hude gives an explanation for this. She says that in 1200, the King of
England borrowed money from the Vatican to finance wars and signed a treaty to
guarantee repayment of loan – this is the war reparation being paid to the UK since
1812.

· Karen Hude goes on to say “this has absolutely nothing to do with the
Catholic faith….. this has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with the people of
faith who are not aware of this…..read what our founding fathers had to say about
the Jesuits. After Lincoln was assassinated, the Jesuits were not allowed certain
privileges in the United States….the ban on the Jesuits was lifted by Ronald Regan.”

· Karen Hude says that the US government stays afloat by selling drugs grown
in Afghanistan.

· Karen also says that the CIA was created to guard the world’s gold. She says
Hawaii possesses 170 thousand tons of gold. Now she says the Jesuits are in
charge of the CIA.

· Karen also says that a nuclear bomb was to be detonated in South Carolina
but 2 army generals made sure the bomb went off 600miles off the coast and under
the sea – these 2 officers were fired and so too will be 180 generals because they
are protecting the US citizens.

· The last of Karen Hude’s whistleblower findings ends with the fact that Pope
Benedict Ratzinger was removed because of child trafficking and financial crimes
and that is why Pope Francis is not using the papal apartment.

The International Tribunal for Crimes of Church and State [ITCCS] has declared
that the Roman Catholic Church as a Transnational Criminal Organization under the
terms of another corporate entity known to the world as the United Nations, and is
about to issue an international warrant of arrest against Pope Francis.

We are told that officials are coming to ‘investigate’ ‘review’ and what not but they
are all being tasked to help draft decrees that would make legitimate illegal actions
usurping all customary laws. The only fear these superclass has is the real
democratic movement. But only a handful realizes the transnational agenda and
links it to the governments that push their agendas.

Now that we know the scenario – the next question what can we do about it?

Shenali D Waduge



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Odd little report referencing former CIA official John Rizzo's book , we know Hollywood
has always been part of govt/intelligence info'mercials and they could have said a lot
more but thought it worth highlighting.

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Ex-CIA official exposes cozy relationship with Hollywood

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Published on 9 Jan 2014


There's a great deal of dirt in former CIA official John Rizzo's new book, Company Man,
including allegations about the torture program administered under the administration
of former-President George W. Bush. That's not all there is to read, however. In his just
released memoir, the long-time government agent says Hollywood actors and producers
are all too willing to work with Central Intelligence Agency when it came time to make
motion pictures about secret spy operations. According to Rizzo, one silver screen star
even asked the CIA if he could be compensated in $50,000 worth of contraband —
namely "primo" cocaine confiscated by the government—during the course of that cozy
relationship. RT's Ameera David has more.

Tesla_WTC_Solution
11th January 2014, 00:40
Please read the Frank Herbert book Hellstrom's Hive for a glimpse into corporate-espionage in the hands of the CIA!
Of course, it's a fictional example, but it makes the fine point of "it might seem like the president/executive branch is in control of the agencies, but it's really big money"!

In the book, the CIA is so obsessed with using the Hive's weapon program for metallurgy, they fail to notice the global implications of a remote particle pump.
Soon, a new island rises from the sea next to Japan, as the Hive deploys its seismic "STING"...

ponda
11th January 2014, 03:34
Interesting post Cider


This article (http://www.riseearth.com/2014/01/exposing-shadow-elite-controlling-world.html#.UtC3Ra4zKRm) below ties in with some of the info on how the banks,corporations and media are interconnected.


Exposing The Shadow Elite Controlling The World

So who really controls the world? The Illuminati? Freemasons? The Bilderberg Group?

Or are these all red herrings to distract your prying eyes from the real global elite? The answer, like most topics worth exploring, is not quite so simple. Have no doubt, there are secretive global powers whose only goal is to keep and grow that power. But it really may not be as secretive as you would think. And that is what makes it even more nefarious.

But don't take my word for it, we have both science and insider testimony to back it up.

We are going to break this down into three categories: Financial, Political and Media. This is a harder task than you may imagine, since they all work in concert by design.

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Financial Elite


Thanks to the science of complex system theory, the answer may actually be right in front of our faces. This scientific process sheds light on the dark corners of bank control and international finance and pulls some of the major players out from the shadows. It goes back to the old credo: Just follow the money. Systems theorist James B. Glattfelder did just that.

From a massive database of 37 million companies, Glattfelder pulled out the 43,060 transnational corporations (companies that operate in more than one country) that are all connected by their shareholders.

Digging further, he constructed a model that actually displays just how connected these companies are to one another through ownership of shares and their corresponding operating revenues.

See the globe chart bellow:

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I will openly admit that this graphic almost scared me off. Complex scientific theories are not my forte, and this looks like some sort of intergalactic snow globe.

But Glattfelder has done a remarkable job of boiling these connections down to the main actors — as well as pinpointing how much power they have over the global market. These "ownership networks" can reveal who the key players are, how they are organized, and exactly how interconnected these powers are.


From New Scientist:

Each of the 1318 had ties to two or more other companies and, on average, they were connected to 20. What is more, although they represented 20% of global operating revenues, the 1318 appeared to collectively own, through their shares, the majority of the world's large blue chip and manufacturing firms—the "real" economy — representing a further 60% of global revenues.

When the team further untangled the web of ownership, it found much of it tracked back to a "superentity" of 147 even more tightly knit companies — all of their ownership was held by other members of the super-entity — that controlled 40% of the total wealth in the network.

According to his data, Glattfelder found that the top 730 shareholders control a whopping 80% of the entire revenue of transnational corporations. And — surprise, surprise! — they are mostly financial institutions in the United States and the United Kingdom. That is a huge amount of concentrated control in a small number of hands.

The Financial Deception


Here are the top ten transnational companies that hold the most control over the global economy (and if you are one of the millions that are convinced Big Banks run the world, you should get a creeping sense of validation from this list):

1). Barclays plc
2). Capital Group Companies Inc.
3). FMR Corporation
4). AXA
5). State Street Corporation
6). JPMorgan Chase & Co.
7). Legal & General Group plc
8). Vanguard Group Inc.
9). UBS AG
10). Merrill Lynch & Co Inc.

Some of the other usual suspects round out the top 25, including JP Morgan, UBS, Credit Suisse, and Goldman Sachs.

What you will not find are ExxonMobil, Microsoft, or General Electric, which I found shocking.

In fact, you have to scroll all the way down to China Petrochemical Group Company at number 50 to find a company that actually creates something.

The top 49 corporations are financial institutions, banks, and insurance companies — with the exception of Wal-Mart, which ranks at number 15.

The rest essentially just push money around to one another.

Here is the interconnectedness of the top players in this international scheme:

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Here is a fun fact about the number one player, Barclays:

Barclays was a main player in the LIBOR manipulation scandal, and were found to have committed fraud and collusion with other interconnected big banks. They were fined $200 million by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, $160 million by the United States Department of Justice and £59.5 million by the Financial Services Authority for "attempted manipulation" of the Libor and Euribor rates.

Despite their crimes, Barclays still paid $61,781,950 in bonuses earlier this year, including a whopping $27,371,750 to investment banking head Rich Ricci. And yes, that's actually his real name.

These are the guys that run the world.

It is essentially the "too big to fail" argument laid out in a scientific setting — only instead of just the U.S. banks, we are talking about an international cabal of banks and financial institutions so intertwined that they pose a serious threat to global economics. Instead of "too big to fail," we are looking at "too connected to fail".

Glattfelder contends that "a high degree of interconnectivity can be bad for stability, because stress can spread through the system like an epidemic."

Industrialist Henry Ford once quipped, "It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and money system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning."

It is one thing to have suspicions that someone is working behind the scenes to control the world's money supply. It is quite another to have scientific evidence that clearly supports it. But these guys can only exist within a political system that supports their goals. And those political systems are pretty much operating in the open.


Political Elite

For the sake of brevity, let us cut right to the chase. Every major geopolitical decision of the last few decades has been run through one of these three organizations: the Trilateral Commission, the Council on Foreign Relations and the World Bank/International Monetary Fund (IMF).

An IMF whistle blower has admitted that the IMF was deeply involved in global fraud and contends that “the public doesn't really know what's going on and... we do not have a democracy.” (This will be covered in a future article).

The Trilateral Commission

In 1973, the infamous David Rockefeller created a group of the world's power brokers to work together — outside of any official governmental or political allegiance — to bring about cooperation of North America, Western Europe and Japan. They launched under the guise of working together to solve the world's problems. A noble goal — but “problems” are very subjective.

Here is the rundown of members:

The North American continent is represented by 120 members (20 Canadian, 13 Mexican and 87 U.S. citizens).

The European group has reached its limit of 170 members from almost every country on the continent; the ceilings for individual countries are 20 for Germany, 18 for France, Italy and the United Kingdom, 12 for Spain and 1-6 for the rest.

At first, Asia and Oceania were represented only by Japan. However, in 2000, the Japanese group of 85 members expanded itself, becoming the Pacific Asia group, composed of 117 members: 75 Japanese, 11 South Koreans, 7 Australian and New Zealand citizens, and 15 members from the ASEAN nations (Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand). The Pacific Asia group also included 9 members from China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Currently, the Trilateral Commission claims "more than 100" Pacific Asian members.

It is a global who's-who of power brokers. While the Trilateral Commission excludes anyone currently holding public office from membership, it serves as a revolving door of the rich and powerful from the financial, political and academic elite.

Most suspicions of the group began during the Jimmy Carter administration, when Carter — himself a member of the Trilateral Commission — made Zbigniew Brzezinski his National Security advisor. Brzezinski was the Trilateral Commission's first executive director.

Carter's Vice President Walter Mondale was also a member. Perhaps most importantly, Trilateral member Paul Volker served as Carter's Chair of the Federal Reserve. He is still the North American Honorary Chairman.

Such a concentration of power in a U.S. president's cabinet obviously made people nervous.

Notable recent additions include Austan Goolsbe — former chairman for Obama's Council of Economic Advisors. I would suggest you familiarize yourselves with the entire member list here. You will be shocked at who else is part of this secretive organization.

And we haven't yet talked about the rest of the financial global elite: the Council on Foreign Relations, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank.

One Bank to Rule Them All: World Bank Whistle-blower Reveals Bank Conspiracy

Note: This is not some wild conspiracy theory. It’s systems theory, a serious scientific discipline, used by researcher James B. Gladfelder to prove that a small group of banks essentially control the world’s finances.

Gladfelder’s research proved that the top 730 shareholders control a whopping 80% of the entire revenue of transnational corporations.

But the truth is the global banking elite simply cannot maintain a stranglehold on the world’s power all by themselves. And so, while they run off with the money, their lackeys in the political sphere acts as gatekeepers.

Again, we’re not relying on labyrinthine explanations and vague fears of domination; we’re looking at the matter through scientific discipline and actual admissions from the power brokers themselves.

The fact is we simply cannot talk about global control without talking about the World Bank…

The World Bank represents 188 different countries from Albania to Zimbabwe. However, it is controlled by a small number of powerful countries, each with its own serious economic interests.

Since there is no voting for the leadership and chief economists at the bank, the United States and other large countries have complete control to appoint who they’d like to do their bidding — and they have appointed some highly questionable folks to run the behemoth:

Robert McNamara – JFK’s former secretary of defense and president of Ford Motor Company was chosen to lead the Bank in 1968, fresh off his disastrous handling of the Vietnam War.

Lewis T. Preston – a bank executive with J.P. Morgan. We all know J.P. Morgan doesn’t have the interest of the working poor at heart, as evidenced by years of abuse of regular folks, culminating in their record $13 billion fine this year.

Robert Zoellick – a bank executive with Goldman Sachs. Again, if the head of Goldman Sachs is at the helm, you know the bidding of the powerful will get its due… After all, you don’t earn a nickname like “The Great Vampire Squid” for your altruism.

Paul Wolfowitz – Much like McNamara, Wolfowitz was handed the reigns to the World Bank after helping orchestrate George Bush’s outrageous war on Iraq. While president of the Bank, he gave his girlfriend massive pay raises — more than double what she was entitled to!

The fact that the head of the World Bank could engage in such petty corruption doesn’t bode well for the bank at large, considering the immense power they wield. Wolfowitz was eventually forced to resign.

Perhaps more alarmingly, the World Bank also receives complete immunity from any and all countries it does “business” with, so it cannot be held legally accountable for its actions.

The United States has complete veto power over the Bank’s actions as well, which it can use to block any action by the Bank that may threaten national interests — and the interests of the global financial powers that control them.

The World Bank’s stated purpose is to help poor and developing countries by providing loans.

The catch? To obtain one of these loans, you have to comply with the Bank’s draconian wish lists.

Examples of the conditions countries must meet to gain access to a loan include suppressing wages, cutting programs like education and health care, and easing limits on foreign investment.

How do the results stack up with its stated mission?

Not well. In fact, data shows most countries that have taken the World Bank’s money and agreed to its terms are no better off today then they were when they received their first loan — and many are actually worse off.

From the Heritage Foundation:


Of the 66 less-developed countries receiving money from the World Bank for more than 25 years (most for more than 30 years), 37 are no better off today than they were before they received such loans.

Of these 37 countries, most (20 in all) are actually poorer today than they were before receiving aid from the Bank.

Former less-developed countries that have prospered over the past 30 years did so by freeing up the productive forces of their economies. The best examples are Hong Kong and Singapore: Even though a country like Singapore received a small amount of money from the World Bank, the evidence shows that what most affected economic growth was not World Bank aid, but economic freedom.

What’s more, an ex-World Bank employee described something far more nefarious than ineptitude…

Karen Hudes watched first-hand as the World Bank manipulated and covered up corruption in its economic development projects.

It’s important to know Hudes wasn’t some disgruntled lackey; she served as Senior Counsel and worked for the bank for 20 years. During those two decades at the World Bank, Hudes saw systematic and widespread corruption.

“It’s a mafia,” she told the New American.

“These culprits that have grabbed all this economic power have succeeded in infiltrating both sides of the issue, so you will find people who are supposedly trying to fight corruption who are just there to spread disinformation and as a placeholder to trip up anybody who manages to get their act together. Those thugs think that if they can keep the world ignorant, they can bleed it longer.”

Hudes saw large-scale enrichment of the powerful, while the poor the Bank was supposed to be helping were getting stiffed.

“I realized we were now dealing with something known as state capture, which is where the institutions of government are co-opted by the group that’s corrupt,” she noted.

Hudes was eventually fired after she spoke out against the Bank’s attempt to cover up a botched bailout of a crooked bank in the Philippines.

Here are a few choice examples of what happens to the $2.5 billion in U.S. taxpayer money that is funneled into the World Bank each and every year, from the American Enterprise Institute:

38 countries have amassed $71 billion in unpayable multilateral loans, encouraged by the Bank’s self-serving projections of country growth, on which rich-country taxpayers must now make good.

Corruption has been exposed both within the World Bank and in its programs, and is now estimated at more than $100 billion.

Protest is rising among leading African scholars who seek to stop all aid because it serves only to entrench and enrich a series of corrupt elites. Massive anecdotal evidence of waste, ineptitude, and outright theft can no longer be ignored.

Not exactly the poverty-fighting superhero the institution makes itself out to be.

The World Bank works in conjunction with the International Monetary Fund, which operates in the same vein of enriching Wall Street and supporting dictators.

By Jimmy Mengel, Outsider Club;

Source: http//www.HumansAreFree.com

Atlas
11th January 2014, 06:38
Industrialist Henry Ford once quipped, "It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and money system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning."

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ponda
11th January 2014, 07:54
Industrialist Henry Ford once quipped, "It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and money system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning."

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/44908464/avalon/divers/henry-ford-banking.jpg


Yes people don't realize the con and we can thank the media for that.

cheers

Cidersomerset
11th January 2014, 12:04
What we have learn't is that most conspiricies are in fact....

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A twig-mimic caterpillar in the genus Lytrosis

The caterpillar in the photo above is standing on four pro-legs (leg-like stumps with
grippy hooks) that are firmly latched to my white shirt. Its head end is sticking out.
You can see three pairs of tiny legs just behind the head. If you look closely you
can see a thread of silk dangling from the head; it's the caterpillar's belay line. The
strand would normally help support the caterpillar's head end while it leaned away
from a plant stem, allowing it to stay horizontal to the ground in a twiggish attitude.

Looking like a twig helps the caterpillar evade sight-hunting predators. It will
eventually become a small brown bark-camoflaged geometrid moth. I took it off my
shirt and put it on the plant below. Looks like a little piece of fallen wood, doesn't it?

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Nothing to see here. Fallen twig. Move along.