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tk2kewl

(18,133 posts)
Tue Mar 1, 2016, 12:57 PM Mar 2016

Hillary Clinton *is* the globalists' end-game candidate

http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/larry-summers-and-the-secret-end-game-memo



The Treasury official playing the bankers’ secret End Game was Larry Summers. Today, Summers is Barack Obama’s leading choice for Chairman of the US Federal Reserve, the world’s central bank. If the confidential memo is authentic, then Summers shouldn’t be serving on the Fed, he should be serving hard time in some dungeon reserved for the criminally insane of the finance world.

The memo is authentic.

I had to fly to Geneva to get confirmation and wangle a meeting with the Secretary General of the World Trade Organisation, Pascal Lamy. Lamy, the Generalissimo of Globalisation, told me,

“The WTO was not created as some dark cabal of multinationals secretly cooking plots against the people... We don’t have cigar-smoking, rich, crazy bankers negotiating.”

Then I showed him the memo.

It begins with Larry Summers’ flunky, Timothy Geithner, reminding his boss to call the Bank bigshots to order their lobbyist armies to march:

“As we enter the end-game of the WTO financial services negotiations, I believe it would be a good idea for you to touch base with the CEOs…”


please read Baobab's post as well - i think it is a very good analysis of why and how the very issues that matter have been framed:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1280&pid=130808
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WhaTHellsgoingonhere

(5,252 posts)
5. If you're going to be upfront, call yourself "Third Way Gamecock"
Tue Mar 1, 2016, 01:39 PM
Mar 2016

I was talking about this yesterday. Third Wayers, like Hillary, insist they are Progressives. I say they do this because they're ashamed to admit they're Third Way. Tagging yourself "Lefty" is indicative of this.

That being said, Gamecock did out themselves, so at least they should be acknowledged for that.

 

tk2kewl

(18,133 posts)
17. I agree.
Tue Mar 1, 2016, 07:36 PM
Mar 2016

I like the ones who at least accept their candidate for what she actually stands for rather than trying to pretend she doesn't and convince me that I should be part of their delusion

 

Wilms

(26,795 posts)
4. There is a party tailor made for that.
Tue Mar 1, 2016, 01:32 PM
Mar 2016

I mean, the Clinton's REALLY tried. But rePukes are the Real McCoy

 

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
15. Unless you're already in the 1%, enjoy the serfdom that is headed your way.
Tue Mar 1, 2016, 03:26 PM
Mar 2016

Apparently it can't arrive soon enough.

 

tk2kewl

(18,133 posts)
7. are you actually aware of the ramifications...
Tue Mar 1, 2016, 01:46 PM
Mar 2016

of the global trade deals, WTO and ISDS and you are just deflecting? maybe these deals work to your benefit? or maybe you just don't know enough to have a discussion about their impacts on democracy?

did you follow the link to Baobab's post?

 

randome

(34,845 posts)
8. So is the objection to the term 'end-game'?
Tue Mar 1, 2016, 01:46 PM
Mar 2016

It's in reference to 'wrapping up' the negotiations. I don't quite see the problem here.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]"If you're bored then you're boring." -Harvey Danger[/center][/font][hr]

 

tk2kewl

(18,133 posts)
9. finalizing global financial and corporate control over puplic policy
Tue Mar 1, 2016, 01:48 PM
Mar 2016

that's the problem with WTO, global trade deals and ISDS

 

randome

(34,845 posts)
11. Global trade deals, on balance, are good because they integrate us financially.
Tue Mar 1, 2016, 02:15 PM
Mar 2016

Making the prospect of war much more difficult. They will always be a mixture of good and bad. And corporations will always try go get more and more and more but it's up to Congress to pull on the reins more than they have.

Nothing is 'final' about trade deals. There will always be something else on the horizon. That's how it's pretty much always been.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]"If you're bored then you're boring." -Harvey Danger[/center][/font][hr]

snagglepuss

(12,704 posts)
10. That this is countered only by snide remarks speaks volumes.
Tue Mar 1, 2016, 02:11 PM
Mar 2016

Everyone needs to read Beobab's piece.

"...the crazy ideology behind...the existing and almost completed secret deals are the real cause of almost all of our crazy, unworkable policies. For example, they are why health care is stuck, and can never get better,..."






 

tk2kewl

(18,133 posts)
13. now 2 snide remarks
Tue Mar 1, 2016, 03:11 PM
Mar 2016

Last edited Wed Mar 2, 2016, 12:10 PM - Edit history (1)

and one potential discussion... i'm waiting on a response re ISDS

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