Goldman Sach runs the world?

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According to its detractors, the European network of influence woven by American bank Goldman Sachs (GS) functions like a freemasonry. To diverse degrees, the new European Central Bank President, Mario Draghi, the newly designated Prime Minister of Italy, Mario Monti, and the freshly appointed Greek Prime Minister Lucas Papademos are totemic figures in this carefully constructed web.
Heavyweight members figure large in the euro crisis

Draghi was Goldman Sachs International’s vice-chairman for Europe between 2002 and 2005, a position that put him in charge of the the “companies and sovereign” department, which shortly before his arrival, helped Greece to disguise the real nature of its books with a swap on its sovereign debt.

Monti was an international adviser to Goldman Sachs from 2005 until his nomination to lead the Italian government. According to the bank, his mission was to provide advice "on European business and major public policy initiatives worldwide". As such, he was a "door opener" with a brief to defend Goldman’s interest in the corridors of power in Europe.

The third man, Lucas Papademos, was the governor of the Greek central bank from 1994 to 2002. In this capacity, he played a role that has yet to be elucidated in the operation to mask debt on his country’s books, perpetrated with assistance from Goldman Sachs. And perhaps more importantly, the current chairman of Greece’s Public Debt Management Agency, Petros Christodoulos, also worked as a trader for the bank in London.

Two other heavyweight members of Goldman’s European network have also figured large in the euro crisis: Otmar Issing, a former member of the Bundesbank board of directors and a one-time chief economist of the European Central Bank, and Ireland’s Peter Sutherland, an administrator for Goldman Sachs International, who played a behind the scenes role in the Irish bailout.
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http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1177241-our-friends-goldman-sachs

So not only does the company have people inside the American government, but also in the Italian, Greeks, Irish, Germany, France and Belgium.

Here is a great example of why America's political system is completely corrupt:

http://www.opensecrets.org/pres12/contrib.php?id=N00000286

Another instance of this is here:

As George Bush's last Treasury secretary, former Goldman CEO Henry Paulson was the architect of the bailout, a suspiciously self-serving plan to funnel trillions of Your Dollars to a handful of his old friends on Wall Street.

Robert Rubin, Bill Clinton's former Treasury secretary, spent 26 years at Goldman before becoming chairman of Citigroup — which in turn got a $300 billion taxpayer bailout from Paulson.
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http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-great-american-bubble-machine-20100405 - Swearing is contained within this link

Coincidently look who was one of the top contributors for Obama:

http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/contrib.php?cycle=2008&cid=N00009638

So why do we really not care about any of this?

Why do you hear people complaining all the time about how the government doesn't do anything they want them to do and yet let things like the above happen and go by unnoticed?

Is this acceptable now? Should we just be happy with the way the "system works" and just conform to it? Why are we not demanding more? A better system?

I'm guessing the answer will be along the lines of "I can't be bothered" or "As long as its not effecting me i don't care".

Sadly it is effecting us all, i guess we just really don't care. :rolleyes:
 
Well, if Goldman Sach [sic] is running the world then he will eventually have to bail it out then....won't he!

If it does effect me, it isn't doing so in a way that I can disern so as I am happy in life then all I can say is.....


Well, you can guess!
 
Start looking up the name "Rothschilds" if you think Goldman Sachs has it covered...

**** got real!
 
You seem suprised?

Don't imagine for one moment tho that one person is in control of the world, there are many powerful groups out there directly or indirectly up against each other so far for the most part maintaining an equilibrium.

Makes me laugh tho when I see people acting as if the economy (and the current problems) is some out of control monstrosity, its a man made phenomenon carefully controlled.
 
Rroff said:
You seem suprised?

Don't imagine for one moment tho that one person is in control of the world, there are many powerful groups out there directly or indirectly up against each other so far for the most part maintaining an equilibrium.

Makes me laugh tho when I see people acting as if the economy (and the current problems) is some out of control monstrosity, its a man made phenomenon carefully controlled.
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I, for one, think it's an absolute travesty that Bob your average builder or Paul the painter consistently gets overlooked in favour of top executives of financial institutions when it comes to high-ranking government financial positions.

I mean seriously, as if years of experience in the financial world could possibly be a substitute for what the Sun says or what Charlie the chippy said about the lizardmen over a tea break last week when it comes to dealing with those same institutions and global economic trends.

Next you'll be telling us that most high-ranking Judges used to be employed as solicitors in the top law firms or barristers in the top sets - perish the thought!
 
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Rich_L said:
I, for one, think it's an absolute travesty that Bob your average builder or Paul the painter consistently gets overlooked in favour of top executives of financial institutions when it comes to high-ranking government financial positions.

I mean seriously, as if years of experience in the financial world could possibly be a substitute for what the Sun says or what Charlie the chippy said about the lizardmen over a tea break last week when it comes to dealing with those same institutions and global economic trends.

Next you'll be telling us that most high-ranking Judges used to be employed as solicitors in the top law firms or barristers in the top sets - perish the thought!
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This.
 
Whoa, this is shocking stuff. Who would have thought that people who have held high level positions would be thought of as attractive staff to hire by large multinationals? And I can't beleive that succesful executives decide to change career and make a difference in politics. It's absolutely shocking. We should have governments filled with stay at home Mums, people who have 4 McDonalds Stars and people from Mumsnet.

It's a good job we have people on the internet to bring us the awful truth. Its time we did something about it. I'm off to Millets for a tent.
 
[TW]Fox;20644870 said:
Whoa, this is shocking stuff. Who would have thought that people who have held high level positions would be thought of as attractive staff to hire by large multinationals? And I can't beleive that succesful executives decide to change career and make a difference in politics. It's absolutely shocking. We should have governments filled with stay at home Mums, people who have 4 McDonalds Stars and people from Mumsnet.

It's a good job we have people on the internet to bring us the awful truth. Its time we did something about it. I'm off to Millets for a tent.
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You must have watched Life's too short last night :D
 
What is really scary is that nearly all doctors and GPs studied Medicine at university!!
It is outrageous that people with the appropriate background work in suitable jobs. About time the Asda checkout girls run the show!
 
Kill yourselves now, it's the only way to solve the problem! Sell your wife and children too!

THEY ARE COMING AFTER YOU AND WILL TAKE YER JERBZ!

RUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUN!
 
This is actually quite interesting. I watched "Inside Job" and the main thing I took away from it was that all the top financial people in American government are all CEOs/directors of the big financial companies (not just GS). Furthermore they all hold high ranking positions in the academic institutions e.g. professors/heads of departments of economics etc. In other words, they are untouchable and what they say, goes.

Yes, this is probably because they are very good at their jobs, but you expect politicians to be just that - politicians. I wouldn't be happy if my GP was also employed by a pharmaceutical company to influence their propagation into the market. As another example, I wouldn't be happy if the PM was some exec of one of the banks.

There is no auditing going on because the same group of people hold all the cards in government, corporations and academia.

That's what the film said anyway :p
 
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