Paul Wolfowitz on shortlist to be the next World Bank President

[truthpusher]

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Wolfowitz on shortlist for World Bank top post
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By Andrew Balls and Edward Alden in Washington
Published: March 1 2005 00:43 | Last updated: March 1 2005 00:43
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Paul Wolfowitz, US deputy secretary of defence, has emerged as a leading candidate to replace James Wolfensohn as the president of the World Bank.

Mr Wolfowitz is one of a small number of people being considered for the US nomination, administration insiders said.

The nomination of Mr Wolfowitz, one of the chief architects of the Iraq war and a former US ambassador to Indonesia, would likely be highly controversial, and could raise new questions about the process by which the World Bank chief is selected. One administration official said his nomination “would have enormous repercussions within the development community”.

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The effort to pick the US candidate has been led by the White House National Security Council and the Council of Economic Advisers. The Treasury is leading consultations with other World Bank shareholders. Asked about Mr Wolfowitz's possible nomination, Rob Nichols, Treasury spokesman, said: “We don't speculate on personnel appointments before they are made.”

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[frank frankly]

1. we're all going to die

:(

[rooboy]

4. ROFL !!! n/t

[saigon68]

36. Nice TEETH

[Swamp Rat]

40. Oooo! Good one for me to photoshop! n/t

[leftchick]

46. you know, you would think with the mountains of money these assholes

have, you would think they might make a dental visit one in a while. Rummy could use some MAJOR help as well. Condi, well she is a cosmetic dentists dream!

[prodigal_green]

78. that's what happens to your teeth

when you lie through them constantly...erodes the enamel.

[Roland99]

74. GAH!!!

More like a Werewolf!



Does he "disappear" on nights of a full moon?

[BrklynLiberal]

2. We are doomed.....

:puke: :puke: :puke:

[ElectroPrincess]

21. Gee, after coming in from shoveling snow, THAT is a

perfectly sh*tty ending (Wolfy running the World Bank!?!) to a crappy day. And way too bizarre. I want to believe that this is a spoof that should be in the lounge. But alas, it's probably true. Yikes! and Nite Nite ;)

[KoKo]

3. Oh F**k IT! Why even post this.....what a POS this guy is...n/t

[bushcrab]

15. Please, someone stick a yellow Bush flag in Wolfie's hair n/t

[ebayfool]

88. A *ush poo flag?

Works well for repub neighbors that don't clean up their dog's poo! Stick a *ush flag in it & just watch how fast they hop on it w/a scooper. (LOL - nothing else worked till the poo flags!)

But will Wolfie fit down the commode?

[mbperrin]

5. Wolfensohn-Wolfowitz? You gotta have

Wolf in your name for the World Bank? Figures.

Apologies to actual wolves.

[kwassa]

6. What about Wolf Blitzer?

He might be better.

But Paul Wolfowitz can be following the footsteps of Robert MacNamara as a failed foreign policy architect into the World Bank.

[PurityOfEssence]

18. MacNamara has some decency in his heart and soul

And if that isn't being damned by faint praise, then your moral compass has been degaussed by the horrendous realities we face. (We're all at risk of that, after all...)

Still, MacNamara DOES have some sense of decency and culpability, whereas Wolfowitz, like all true ideologues, will kill the entire species painfully for some abstract power trip.

Must crush all inferiors.

[punpirate]

7. Well, I can't say I feel much safer...

... with him there (as compared to feeling much safer were he in jail), but getting him out of the Pentagon would be an improvement. At least at the World Bank, he has to ask someone else about using their army....

[hopein08]

14. ROTFLMAO!

I agree that getting him out of the Pentagon would be an improvement. As much as he belongs in jail, he'll never end up there. The World Bank is too important for anyone in the Chimperor's administration.

But the new American way is to reward the man who can get away with the most rather than reward the man who does the most.

[DoYouEverWonder]

8. Wasn't Wolfie the one that said the Iraq War

would only cost us a billion or two, and that once we got rid of Saddam, that the Iraqis' Oil Revenue would pay for everything else?

I would say he's not very good with money? I guess these days that makes him highly qualified to lead the World Bank.

[Erika]

11. He said it would cost us $300 mil

and Iraqi oil sales would repay it. A liar among liars.

[saigon68]

37. JUST HANGING OUT AT THE VA

[Swamp Rat]

41. Wolfowitz is a bastard! n/t

[Skidmore]

43. That arrogant SOB....

how do you willfully lie and and manipulate a whole people to go to war, and then have the gall to grin in the face of someone who has lost a family member or is maimed by the war? How does someone ever arrive at deciding that they have the right to choose who lives and dies in this world? That unleashing a massive war machine is the only way to solve problems in the world?

[Erika]

9. He is a world corporatist

and Bush is king of the planet.

Remember the disgusting pics of him repeatedly licking his comb on Fahrenheit 9/11?

[BrklynLiberal]

12. Riiiiiight!!!

And, as hard as this is to believe, he is supposedly hooked up with some Middle Eastern woman!! I cannot picture any female coming anywhere near him.

[Gloria]

16. I was told she is Arab and an executive at the World Bank!

[sundancekid]

33. that's correct -- see links and a few graphs below

http://www.nndb.com/people/290/000023221/
Father: Jacob Wolfowitz (mathematician, b. 19-Mar-1910; d. 16-Jul-1981)
Mother: Lillian Dundes
Sister: Laura Mary Wolfowitz (biologist, b. 1941)
Wife: Clare Selgin (m. 1968, div. 2002)
Daughter: Sara Wolfowitz
Son: David Wolfowitz
Daughter: Rachel Wolfowitz
Girlfriend: Shaha Ali Riza (World Bank official)

University: BA Mathematics, Cornell University (1965)
University: PhD Political Science, University of Chicago (1972)

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http://scoop.agonist.org/story/2004/8/2/10037/36792
In fact, there is a woman from whom Wolfowitz does draw support and backing for his views, but she comes from a very different — and unexpected — background. His closest companion and most valued confidantes is a middle-aged Arab feminist whose own strongly held views on instilling democracy in her native West Asia have helped bolster his resolve.

Shaha Ali Riza is a senior World Bank official who was born in Tunis, grew up in Saudi Arabia and holds an international relations masters degree from St Anthony’s College, Oxford. Close acquaintances of the couple have told The Daily Telegraph that she is romantically linked with Wolfowitz, 61, a fellow divorcee with whom she has been friends for several years.

Even by the discreet standards of Washington’s powerful inner circle, it is a remarkably closely guarded secret. They rarely go out as a couple openly or demonstrate affection publicly, according to friends who are aware of the relationship. They attend low-key Washington social events and visit friends’ homes together and Riza also sometimes goes to official functions and dinners with him, but is not identified as his partner, an acquaintance said.

“Most people would never guess there was a relationship, even if they saw them together,” he said. It is a sign of the sensitivity surrounding the relationship that the few friends willing even to acknowledge it last week did not want to be named. “Shaha Riza runs around with Wolfowitz a lot. I gather she is his current girlfriend but they are very careful about this,” said one.

[tom_paine]

80. And his PhD was at the feet of famed "Jewish Nazi", Leo Strauss

"The only law is that of the superior over the inferior."

Which just goes to show that Jews can embrace Nazi-like ideals (just don't actually CALL them that), too.

(before you flame me, I am Jewish)

[bemildred]

10. A trial balloon.

For another disastrously stupid nomination.

[MissB]

13. That is wrong on so many levels.

I just don't know where to start. :shrug:

[KingoftheJungle]

17. What a surprise. Dont be alarmed, the world bank was always owned by them

This was probably long in the making

[TahitiNut]

28. Exactly. The World Bank is part of the Global Plantation Economy.

Their job is to keep the "developing" nations barefoot, in debt, and working for the man.

[UTUSN]

19. Well, That Would Get Him off OUR Ass

Years back the prez of Mexico, the bald dude, was in line for this job, and now is in exile in Ireland. Plus having a couple of his kin knocked off.

[Gloria]

20. Look what the scummy World Bank is doing re: Kyoto

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/GB26Dj03.html

Carbon rush at World Bank
By Daphne Wysham

As the Kyoto Protocol comes into force this month, a carbon rush is gaining steam in the financial industry. Investors predict that the carbon trade could become one of the largest markets in the world with a trading volume of US$60-$250 billion by 2008 and some unlikely actors are gearing up to profit from this new, invisible market. Foremost among them is the World Bank.

The Kyoto Protocol requires industrialized country signatories to reduce their emissions by 5.2% below 1990 levels during the 2008-12 commitment period. However, the scientific community has determined that, to avoid dangerous climate change, greenhouse gas emissions reductions of over 60% below 1990 levels were necessary by 2000, rendering the commitments made at Kyoto insufficient. Moreover, some of the largest emitters - the United States and Australia - are not even participating in the protocol. And the Kyoto agreement is weakened further by the fact that virtually all of the emission reductions required of industrialized nations can be achieved by trading carbon credits between nations, thus avoiding real reductions. For example, since Russia has already met and exceeded the Kyoto targets due to its economic collapse following the fall of the Berlin Wall, Soviet-era ghost emissions are now for sale to the highest bidder, creating the illusion of reductions where none have occurred.

Why is there so much support for carbon trading? Well, there is plenty of money to be made. The average citizen won't make any; instead, the very same corporations who fuel the problem - the large oil, gas, and coal companies - are among those who will profit from this trade in invisible gases. For instance, just last month, Danish power utility Energi E2 sold hundreds of thousands of dollars of the rights it had been granted free by its government to Shell Oil Company after mild temperatures kept the utility's carbon emissions below expected levels. No such free rights have been granted to ordinary Danish citizens, however.

One institution that is well versed in this complicated market is the World Bank. It was eight years ago that confidential documents were leaked to the Institute for Policy Studies from within the bank, revealing the early internal debates and plans regarding the World Bank's involvement in carbon trading. That year, Washington was forging Kyoto's Joint Implementation (JI) trading scheme , whereby carbon emission credits could be traded exclusively among industrial Northern countries. Brazil and other developing countries countered with the much more intuitive Clean Development Fund (CDF). The CDF, based upon the polluter-pays principle, would have financed projects in developing countries with levies against industrialized Northern countries that failed to comply with Kyoto's emissions reduction goals. Northern negotiators, wary of any fines, transformed the CDF into the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), a market-based emissions trading scheme, similar to JI.

Here, the World Bank saw opportunity. One leaked document exposed World Bank plans to profit handsomely by charging a 5% commission on carbon transactions in a self-appointed role as a broker between Northern and Southern governments and industries. (The commission - which the Bank now claims is merely to cover costs - will be closer to 8-10%.) With a potential market in carbon dioxide that could reach $2 billion by 2005, the World Bank noted in the leaked memo, it could quickly earn $100 million in one year - and that was just for starters.

Leaked 1997 World Bank Group document
The leaked documents make clear that "low hanging fruit" - the easy pickings in the world of carbon emissions reductions - would be the first to be capitalized in a global market. Renewable energy would not come online via the CDM until carbon reached a price of $50/ton or more, the bank predicted.

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[AuntiBush]

22. Good Grief! The Anti-Christ really is on the Hill!

Jeez! Honestly... un-fricked believable. I mean, just when you think you've heard it all and they're just can't be anymore coming down that stinkin' dirty filty pike, bang... another one hits!

Hey, hey, ho, ho... this adm has gotta go!

And the rich just keep gettin' richer!

:kick:

[saigon68]

38. "FREEDOM" IS ON THE MARCH SON

[Swamp Rat]

42. motherfuckingcocksuckingsonofabitch!

AAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :grr: :mad: :grr: :mad: :grr: :mad: :grr: :mad: :grr: :mad: :grr: :mad:

Goddammit saigon68! I wish I could REALLY speak my mind!!!! :mad:

[Zhade]

45. Indeed. I'd be arrested for what I'd like to say.

Even though I don't believe in it, I hope that traitor rots in hell.

[Swamp Rat]

47. Hope Springs Eternal!

I will call upon Thor, Zeus, and Ogun to smite him! :grr:

[saigon68]

86. Dammit Rat, why don't you just tell us how you really feel

LOL
I mean REALLY.

[Just Me]

23. The man can hardly keep from pissing his pants,...

,..are they gonna' diaper him in that position?'

He's barely a humpty dumpty with half his pieces as he falls off a crappy wall he built with his constituents,...who never really gave a damn about his ever-bleeding wounds.

When he stops suffocating himself and others in his own personal shit,...maybe fresh air will be offered. But, this man who had a soul is so buried in temptation,...I wonder if he will ever get a grip before it's too late.

[paineinthearse]

24. Heard on the radio a few minutes ago that LA Times is calling for Bono...

...to be next WB head. Can anyone confirm?

[WorseBeforeBetter]

27. Here's the link (and a few Ps) for the editorial...

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-ed-bono25feb25,1,3305816.story?ctrack=1&cset=true

Bono for the World Bank
February 25, 2005

Bono, the U2 rock star, has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, and he is a credible candidate. But we have a better idea on how best to recognize his effective lobbying on behalf of African development — Bono should be named the next president of the World Bank.

Don't be fooled by the wraparound sunglasses and the excess hipness. Bono is deeply versed in the issues afflicting the least-developed nations of the world, as former Treasury Secretary Paul H. O'Neill learned when he traveled the continent with the musician.

O'Neill, an uber-wonk, came back singing Bono's praises. Bono even brought ultra-conservative Sen. Jesse Helms to tears by relating poverty in Africa to passages in the Bible.

Bono may not have a PhD in economics, but he'd have plenty of real economists around the bank to consult. Bono is the most eloquent and passionate spokesman for African aid in the Western world. And given that both ex-President Bill Clinton and British Prime Minister Tony Blair have in recent years made Africa one of their focuses, that's saying something.

[paineinthearse]

77. Link to the DU BONO thread

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=3196777

[bunny planet]

25. Now that, is scary.

[LynnTheDem]

26. ROTFLMAO!!!

Cronyism at its worst, LOL!!!

[MattNC]

29. Just like McNamara n/t

[Tempest]

32. Exactly what I was thinking

From corporate executive to high government official to World Bank leader.

God help 3rd world nations.

[yorkiemommie1]

30. cross-pollination of the power elite

disgusting, sickening, nauseating and fully expected.

again i recommend john perkins' 'confessions of an economic hit man'.

a highly readable insider's look at the corporatist juggernaut.

[MisterP]

31. he's a vampire, so he'll fit right in

[jpgray]

34. The guy who estimated the Iraq war would cost one to three billion?

Yeah, he's great with finances.

[truthisfreedom]

39. paul "bad at numbers" wolfowitz

who can't estimate past the amount of time it will take him in the bathroom.

[shaolinmonkey]

79. Doesn't he have a PhD in Mathematics?

Reminds me of all my professors who would say stuff like "and the answer from here is trivial"...yeah right, as in 10 more pages of calculations trivial.

[applegrove]

35. BAIT?

[DemBones DemBones]

44. Wonderful, just wonderful.

(Yes, that IS sarcasm.)

Wolfie will be well-suited to the World Bank's take from the poor and give to the rich ways. The little bastard!

[Pepperbelly]

48. but will he market his hair tonic?

Wolfotalis, I think it's called.

[BadGimp]

49. Wolfowitz on shortlist for World Bank top post

Wolfowitz on shortlist for World Bank top post

>By Andrew Balls and Edward Alden in Washington
>Published: March 1 2005 00:43 | Last updated: March 1 2005 00:43
>>

Paul Wolfowitz, US deputy secretary of defence, has emerged as a leading candidate to replace James Wolfensohn as the president of the World Bank.

Mr Wolfowitz is one of a small number of people being considered for the US nomination, administration insiders said.

The nomination of Mr Wolfowitz, one of the chief architects of the Iraq war and a former US ambassador to Indonesia, would likely be highly controversial, and could raise new questions about the process by which the World Bank chief is selected. One administration official said his nomination “would have enormous repercussions within the development community”.

Others on the US shortlist include Randall Tobias, former head of Eli Lilly and the administration's co-ordinator on Aids.

Leadership of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund is decided by all the shareholders in the institutions. But the US and Europe in effect divide up the top jobs, with an American heading the bank and a European running the fund.

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This is so sickening...I can't summon the words.

[shadowknows69]

50. more good news n/t

[lovuian]

51. Nothing like having a man who had spies in his office

Be head of the World Bank!!! Yes the Regime is taking over all the Worlds money!!!

[zann725]

60. War Money Laundering comes to mind...

n/t

[Pachamama]

52. Guess the PNAC plan for One World Order is on tract...next stop to put him

(Wolfowitz) in charge of the World Bank and control that....NICE MOVE...what else do they have to do next? They seem to be ahead of schedule...

PS: Remind me again of Wolfowitz's qualifications as to head the World Bank?

[Erika]

53. He licked his comb with egocentricity

But that's the Bushies

[magellan]

55. His girlfriend works for them

Revealed: the special relationship behind America's Middle East policy

...In fact, there is a woman from whom Mr Wolfowitz does draw support and backing for his views, but she comes from a very different - and unexpected - background. The Telegraph can reveal that his closest companion and most valued confidantes is a middle-aged Arab feminist whose own strongly held views on instilling democracy in her native Middle East have helped bolster his resolve.

Shaha Ali Riza is a senior World Bank official who was born in Tunis, grew up in Saudi Arabia and holds an international relations masters degree from St Anthony's College, Oxford. Close acquaintances of the couple have told The Telegraph that she is romantically linked with Mr Wolfowitz, 61, a fellow divorcee with whom she has been friends for several years.

Even by the discreet standards of Washington's powerful inner circle, it is a remarkably closely guarded secret. They rarely go out as a couple openly or demonstrate affection publicly, according to friends who are aware of the relationship. They attend low-key Washington social events and visit friends' homes together and Ms Riza also sometimes goes to official functions and dinners with him, but is not identified as his partner, an acquaintance said. 'Most people would never guess there was a relationship, even if they saw them together,' he said.

[nadinbrzezinski]

54. My, my so PNAC will also crash the world economy?

Tehy deffinitely NEED a world depresion to ensure the plan goes forth... remind me please what happened the last time we got one...

[bluestateguy]

56. Following the footsteps of Bob McNamara

The architect of the other fucked up war.

There is a special place in hell for this vile human being.

[lala_rawraw]

57. Bad fucking idea...

I say this both as an American and as a Jew... the anti-Jewish sentiment is really rising right now thanks to Cheney's rumor contributions (ex. Jews did not show up for work on 9/11, said to Brit Hume), all we need is the face of "torture man" as the face of "world bank" and it will unleash the kind of hate the KKK has wet dreams about. Not good. Have you noticed how this administration uses minorities as the public face? Blacks, Jews, Gays, Latinos... and they are all rich white men from the plantation? Does this not flip anyone out?

[Robert Oak]

58. that's just sick n/t

[autorank]

59. RockOn Bushco...How about Charles Manson for Chief Justice

:wtf: Bush could pardon him after Charlie undergoes a rebirth. Great stuff.

[shadowknows69]

63. well, Charlie is Jesus himself

so they should be springing him from the pen any day now.

[autorank]

84. Gee, thanks, I'd forgotten that. The missing chapter from Sanders book

But remember, * zapped Carla Fay whatever even after she converted.

[The Backlash Cometh]

61. Time to withdraw your money from the banks.

My confidence level just dropped to the ground.

[sweetheart]

62. Well you can't say they're not consistent

Putting grossly unqualified people in jobs they are incompetent to
administer seems the neocon way... and this wanker is just another
par for the course.

I'm sure those insurgents who almost killed that evil shit in bagdhad
are kicking themselves that they missed... world bank... ha!! Seems
all one needs to do any job requiring extroadinary experience these
days is the experience of sticking ones head up the bush sphincter...
and wolfowitz can't keep his hair straight for all that shit that
won't wash off.

[Disturbed]

64. Rumor has it that...

Colon Bowel was slated for that job.

[DFWJock]

65. Hey, sure why not...

It seems everyone in this administration that is a total failure gets promoted.

[Rose Siding]

66. Why would a world body accept PNAC?

[cthrumatrix]

72. it's all a horrible circle of corruption and greed played upon the people

of this planet

[reichstag911]

67. A worthy successor to Robert McNamara, no? n/t

[bvar22]

68. This guy????

Why would anyone put him in charge of anything?

[Acryliccalico]

70. This is just par for

the * gov. I guess spit goes with any thing.:puke: :kick:

[Logansquare]

69. It must be true--World Bank really doesn't care about their public image

Talk about bringing it on...

[Moderator]

71. kick

[hector459]

73. Look at this in the context of "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man"

I feel sorry for the developing countries.

[bunny planet]

75. Start licking your combs everyone, its going to be a bumpy ride.

[Roland99]

76. So, the PNAC has funding for well after Bush's term?

[Zerex71]

81. In keeping with the Peter Principle

which says that people are promoted to their level of incompetence. In this case, he's been promoted way past it. I'm thinking high-school janitor would be appropriate.

[AnneD]

82. OH ...Sweet Jesus.....

I'm all out of duct tape and aluminum foil....

[ElsewheresDaughter]

83. WB & wolfiwitz are equally EVIL! read Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

[Solly Mack]

85. Some days I accept America's govt. is as corrupt as they come

on those days the "news" doesn't make a dent in my cynical hide. After all, it just figures...


On those rare occasions when I awake with a glimmer of hope that America's govt. just might have a chance of becoming something worth admiring...

Shit like this happens.

Oh well...figures.

[this_side_up]

87. New post rumored for Fiorina Reports say ex-CEO of HP is in running to hea

...

"If she has aspirations to go into politics, this would be a way to recover from the HP thing," said Enderle. "It could be a powerful intermediate step to politics."

...

While the World Bank gives out about $20 billion in loans a year to developing nations, it also has been criticized for imposing harmful financial policies on poor nations.

...

The bank has also been criticized for allegedly being partial to U.S. economic and political interests.

"It casts itself as a charitable organization, but it is actually an attempt to structure poor economies along the lines that will integrate them into the global system, and that hasn't always served them well," he said.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/03/02/FIORINA.TMP