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David Rockefeller proud to be an Internationalist and "Conspirator in Chief" of the Global Empire

"there remains a residuum of original and intelligent people in banking or associated with banking or mentally interested in banking, who do realize that banking plays a very important and interesting part in...

13 comments    finance war economics
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The Chase Manhattan Bank: Rockefeller's Bank

After an epidemic of yellow fever in 1798, in which coffins had been sold by itinerant vendors on street corners, Aaron Burr established the Manhattan Company, with the ostensible aim of bringing clean...

6 comments    finance money world bank
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The Green Revolution: mainly instigated by the Rockefeller Foundation, the World Bank and IMF

The term “Green Revolution” was first used in 1968 by former USAID director William Gaud, who noted the spread of the new technologies and said, "These and other developments in the field of...

4 comments    business technology finance
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The Malthus Factor: Poverty, Politics and Population in Capitalist Development

"The problem was how to keep the wheels of industry turning without increasing the real wealth of the World. Goods must be produced, but they must not be distributed" -- George Orwell in 1984, Chapter III -...

0 comments    education food politics
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IMF - International Monetary Fund

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) describes itself as "an organization of 185 countries, Montenegro being the 185th as of January 18th, 2007, working to foster global monetary cooperation, secure financial...

0 comments    finance education corruption
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Paul Wolfowitz President of the World Bank

Paul Wolfowitz is currently the President of the World Bank. Today a prominent member of the neo-conservatives in Washington, he was a former aide to Democratic Senator Henry M. Jackson in the 1970s. He was...

1 comment    finance poverty globalization
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Asian Development Bank (ADB)

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) was established in 1966 to promote economic and social development in Asian and Pacific countries through loans and technical assistance as a clone of the IBRD (World Bank...

0 comments    business finance education
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Beyond the Financial Crisis

It's almost an year since I have posted here. I don't feel like coming back but just an urge to give a last message because of the Financial Crisis that just happened. Why? Because what I feared is beginning...

8 comments    finance money credit
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A Game as Old as Empire: The Secret World of Economic Hit Men and the Web of Global Corruption (free chapter)

Editor Hiatt follows up John Perkins's surprise bestseller, CONFESSIONS OF AN ECONOMIC HIT MAN. With an introduction by Perkins and contributions from numerous others, the book explains how the International...

2 comments    finance bank corruption
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Harry Dexter White: the man behind Bretton Woods, the World Bank and the IMF was a Soviet Spy

Harry Dexter White (1892 – 1948) was an American economist and senior U.S. Treasury department official. He was a primary mover behind the Bretton Woods Conference, the formations of the World Bank and...

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