NOW I understand why Wolfowitz is at the World Bank

[serryjw]

I'm having such a good time with my new Comcast. I can watch video's I could never see before. I just watched Amy Goodman's interview with John Perkins of Economic Hit Man. What a perfect job for Wolf owitz to continue raping 3rd world countries. can't wait to read the book

[MADem]

1. Plus, his Saudi galpal is there!!! Talk about your senior-subordinate

relationships!!!

An historical piece, from the normally not-hostile Times ONLINE (UK):

...Germany said that it was underwhelmed by Mr Bush’s choice and France suggested that Mr Wolfowitz’s candidacy might be challenged. Even Downing Street said that it was only the beginning of the appointment process. Greenpeace said that it was “very disturbed”.

Mr Bush’s move marked the second time this month that he has risked a rift with allies over an important appointment. Last week he named John Bolton, the fiery State Department hawk, as Ambassador to the United Nations....Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul, the German Development Minister, said: “The enthusiasm of old Europe is not exactly overwhelming.”

...There is Republican pressure to reform the World Bank so that it becomes more of a facilitator for private-sector involvement and less of a direct intervener.

Mr Wolfowitz’s girlfriend, Shaha Ali Riza, works at the World Bank. Ms Riza, who was born in Tunis and grew up in Saudi Arabia, is an ardent proponent of spreading democratic rights throughout the Arabic world. Her low-key presence in Mr Wolfowitz’s life surprises critics, who assert that he masterminds a Zionist conspiracy from the Pentagon.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,11069-1528465,00.html
Edit to repair hosed up HTML.

[Cooley Hurd]

2. She gets hot when he licks her...

...COMB!:rofl:

[MADem]

4. Hide this photo, then!

[SammyWinstonJack]

6. EWWW!

:puke:

[cliss]

13. ....ugh

Good Lord, that's so revolting.

Here's a link to the place.
http://www.worldbank.com

I even sent them an email, complaining about corruption. I never got an answer back.

[serryjw]

15. NOW that's funny!

Thanks for the try!

[serryjw]

3. Obviously any objection's fell on deaf ears

OMG, Wolfowitz has a girlfriend? The woman needs to be committed.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

5. Want to see a photo of Wolfowitz' Muslim girlfriend?

&category=World

[serryjw]

7. She sounds like an accomplished woman

What they hell does she see in him? He is so gross.

[SammyWinstonJack]

9. Money and power? nt

[republicansarewhores]

29. Another neo-con from the "family values" crowd is a womanizer?

What a fucking surprise...

"After they moved to America, Riza worked for the Iraq Foundation, set up by expatriates to overthrow Saddam Hussein after the first Gulf War. She subsequently joined the National Endowment for Democracy, created by President Ronald Reagan to promote American ideals.

It was this time that Riza, a British citizen eight years younger than Wolfowitz’s wife — started to meet with Wolfowitz about reforming the Middle East. They allegedly began dating two years ago.

Even by the discreet standards of Washington’s powerful inner circle, their relationship is a remarkably closely guarded secret. The Washington Post says the couple rarely goes out together or demonstrates 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.

“His womanizing has come home to roost,” a Washington insider told reporters. “Paul was a foreign policy hawk long before he met Riza but it doesn’t look good to be accused of being under the thumb of your mistress.”

A Wolfowitz opponent at the World Bank told a reporter: “Unless Riza gives up her job, this will be an impossible conflict of interest.”

Wolfowitz married his wife Clare Selgin in 1968. But they have lived separately since 2001, after allegations he had an affair with an employee at the School of Advanced International Studies where he was dean for seven years. They are now believed to be legally separated."

"Can I have that when you're done Paul?"



RAW

[MADem]

30. Isn't HE quite the swordsman!!!!

...But Wolfowitz, a married father of three, is said to be so blinded by his relationship with Riza, that influential members of the World Bank believe she played a key role in influencing the Pentagon official to launch the 2003 Iraq war. As his trusted confident, she is said to be one of most influential Muslims in Washington.
...“His womanizing has come home to roost,” a Washington insider told reporters. “Paul was a foreign policy hawk long before he met Riza but it doesn’t look good to be accused of being under the thumb of your mistress.”

...Wolfowitz married his wife Clare Selgin in 1968. But they have lived separately since 2001, after allegations he had an affair with an employee at the School of Advanced International Studies where he was dean for seven years. They are now believed to be legally separated....

[msgadget]

8. What show/channel was that on, Serryjw? n/t

[serryjw]

17. Here you go!

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/09/1526251
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/12/31/1546207

More from Perkins
http://www.economichitman.com/

The problem is more you hear this stuff the more you hate what America has done to the rest of the world.:cry:

[msgadget]

20. Thank you much!

:hug: There, there...how much worse can it get? :crazy:

[serryjw]

21. I stopped asking that question

I'm afraid to learn the answer

[TheBaldyMan]

10. Wolfowitz: "This war (in Iraq) will pay for itself within months" ...

and now the financial genius is in charge of the World Bank. Heck of a job, Wolfie!

I suppose Brownie is going to become High Commissioner for the UNHCR.

[serryjw]

22. He knew when he said it that he was lying

HE KNEW Bushit was going to rape the US Treasury. They want us to be another 3rd world country. When you are in poverty there is no dissent from the masses. Then goes elections, any resistant?..martial law

[TheBaldyMan]

24. I think that Bushco has made a whole bundle of rods for their own back

reality is biting them on the ass on a daily basis. I wonder if BFCE could possibly have that much lack of foresight. I suspect for all the doctorates that they bought they aren't that smart, I'm put in mind of an interview that I heard on the radio.

An old NYC newspaper reporter who over the years had met most, if not all, of the mob bosses. The interviewer was asking about the mafia and why did these guys get involved in organised crime. His answer was simple, they weren't that smart. If they hadn't been mobsters they would have been digging a ditch, they didn't have the education or the brain power to make it any other way.

I think that this explains why the Bush administration is so crooked. They are so stupid, lazy and amoral that they make mob bosses look good.

[caledesi]

11. I read somewhere here that Wolfie is very unpopular.

[American Tragedy]

12. My first reaction was that it certainly matches historical precedent

with regard to the US Defense Department.

[applegrove]

14. Read end of poverty. Very clear info on how to help the extreme poverty

victims.

[CHIMO]

16. It's A Good Read

Found the first two thirds enlightening. The last bit seems a bit repetitive.

After reading the book I wondered why they didn't just continue on the silent route?

There are more interviews with the author on Amy's show than just one.

[welshTerrier2]

18. the IMF in Iraq - bush already got what he wanted

"Additionally, the IMF has demanded that the Oil Ministry remove price-supports for the highly-subsidized Iraqi domestic supplies. This has only increased the public's outrage with the ongoing occupation. The IMF authorized a loan of $685 million to Iraq in December with the predictable "vice-like" provisions that require Iraq to follow its structural adjustment programs. In effect, these provisions put Iraqi resources under the direct control of transnational corporations who can decide the terms under which those resources are sold."

check out this thread too: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=41161

[in_cog_ni_to]

19. After you read "Hit Man" you will hang your head in shame.

I will never look at this country the same. I'm so ashamed.:(

[serryjw]

23. I posted that on another thread

The more I know, the more I hate what this country does to the rest of world in my name. :cry: We had the money and power to change humanity for the good. Now we know why Empires fall.

[rman]

25. Wolfy is shaking things up at the WB

Wolfowitz triggers graft storm at World Bank
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/e125344e-8b8c-11da-91a1-0000779e2340.html

Paul Wolfowitz, president of the World Bank, has triggered a bitter conflict with the bank’s senior career staff by empowering a group of close political advisers to pursue aggressively what he sees as widespread corruption surrounding bank projects.

The dispute has come to a head with the appointment last week of Suzanne Rich Folsom, a counsellor to Mr Wolfowitz with close ties to the Republican party, as the new director of the Department of Institutional Integrity, the internal bank watchdog that investigates suspected fraud and staff misconduct.

Her appointment has raised objections that a person close to Mr Wolfowitz, and with a political background, has been put into a senior position at a unit that was seen as independent of the president’s office since it was set up in 2001.

Robert Hindle, previously the senior manager of the unit and a long-time World Bank employee, resigned in November largely as a result of what four current and former bank sources said was concern at the targeting of employees who had worked on projects that developed corruption problems, and pressure on two occasions from Ms Rich Folsom to bypass internal rules on investigating the e-mail records of a number of employees.

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World Bank employees paranoid about cabal cobbled together by Wolfowitz

Village Voice
http://villagevoice.com/blogs/bushbeat
Wolfie Does Some Trust-Busting at the World Bank
Paranoia about Wolfowitz's new cabal courses through the staff

World Bank employees are acting paranoid about the cabal cobbled together by new boss Paul Wolfowitz. But is it paranoia if they're really out to get you?

Suspicion of Wolfowitz's motives are running rampant among the 10,000 employees of the world's most powerful bank, according to fresh internal memos I obtained. The topic is the 2005 Staff Survey, a huge annual undertaking that depends upon anonymity and confidentiality.

Gee, why should anyone be suspicious of the genial architect of the Iraq debacle? Because the guy is setting up his own little cabal http://villagevoice.com/blogs/bushbeat/archive/002061.php to run the World Bank — recruiting from the White House and Pentagon, naturally.

Sparked by what some bank employees tell me is an unprecedented level of employee suspicion toward a bank president, Xavier Coll, the bank's personnel chief, issued a memo late Wednesday afternoon that said:

The Bank Group's management team is aware of concerns expressed by some staff about the anonymity and confidentiality of responses to the 2005 Staff Survey.

"Concerns"? That's putting it mildly. Coll's memo was an attempt to assure employees that their anonymity would be protected as they filled out the survey. Alison Cave, chair of the World Bank Group Staff Association, which formally represents employees in the bureaucracy of the bank, tried to offer the same encouragement, while noting that "staff are not required to fill in the demographic data, nor answer any specific questions if they are concerned about repercussions. However, the survey results are more useful if this information is filled in." She added:

It helps the Staff Association know which groups in the Bank are particularly happy or unhappy, and tells us where we need to focus our efforts and hold management accountable. In addition, the aggregated information is available to anyone in the Bank — ensuring both transparency and accountability.

But her memo acknowledged some chilling realities, including this:

I am also concerned by reports that managers are pressuring staff to respond positively to the survey, and not be honest and candid about any negatives. I would ask that you let me know which managers are doing this.

[TheBaldyMan]

26. So has he sacked his girlfriend yet?

the nerve of a PNACer lecturing someone else for graft and cronyism.

[rman]

27. No doubt it is a cover for gaining more neocon control

over international financial affairs.

[TheBaldyMan]

28. Wasn't Wolfie another recess appointment and still unconfirmed

Like Bolton the wannabe UN ambassador who continues to overstay his welcome?