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Jeffrey Sachs’ Grab for the World Bank BY LAURA FLANDERS,  MARCH 20, 2012 Counterpunch There may be worse candidates for the presidency of the World Bank than Jeffrey Sachs (Larry Summers, also a candidate, comes to mind,) but Sachs is well worth raising an alarm about. He combines a new fangled profile as a progressive with policies that amount to full steam ahead for global growth. And he’s running as the candidate of “change”  clearly hoping no one looks too closely at his record as an economic hit-man.   In the US (if not in much of the rest of the world and certainly not CounterPuncht) Sachs’s closeness with the singer/crusader Bono bestows a liberal glow. He directs the Earth Institute at Columbia University, advises the UN and the Congressional Progressive Caucus, and he’s winning endorsements from among others, Congressman John Conyers and economist Mark Weisbrot.  He’ll attract predictable opposition from the Right who bristle at any mention of for...

  Voting Is Evil Your country needs YOU... not to vote.  NEMO JONES APR 28, 2024 “You’ve got to vote, vote, vote, vote. That’s it; that's the way we move forward.” ~Michelle Obama “We can all agree on the importance of voting.” ~Jenna Bush “Voting is the expression of our commitment to ourselves, one another, this country, and this world.” ~Sharon Salzberg “You cannot complain if you didn’t vote.” ~Barack Obama “The right to vote is the basic right without which all others are meaningless.” ~Lyndon B Johnson “Voting is not just a right, it's a responsibility.” ~Don Santo “Voting is a civic sacrament.” ~Theodore Hesburgh Election day. Inhale deep of the blessed and rarified air. Your moment has come. Your time to shine. Today - at long last - your voice matters. Your voice will be heard. Your dream of a just and sane world is damn near palpable. The diligent and painstaking attention you've paid to the rational, informed and balanced debates of the day, the carefully honed a...

  Electoral Fraud: The Illusion of Democracy   by   Paul Cudenec source:   The Acorn With big elections looming up all over the place, I thought this would be a good moment to remind people of what a fraud they are, on many levels. i. Captured parties. It has become very obvious to very many people, particularly since Covid, that the main political parties everywhere are all controlled by the criminocracy. No politicians are allowed anywhere near power unless they are signed up to the whole agenda of totalitarian “sustainable development”, public-private “partnership”, pouring money into Ukraine and pretending that Israel is not carrying out mass murder in Gaza. Control of the political parties has been in place for a very long time indeed, not just by means of bribery and blackmail but also through infiltration by the public-funded “intelligence” services set up to serve the criminocrats’ interests. Even the smallest and most insignificant political group is targete...