Geither and “A Revelation Likely to Fuel Conspiracy Theorists”
October 9th, 2009Via: Times Online:
President Barack Obama has “tremendous confidence” in Timothy Geithner, the US Treasury Secretary, even though he has spoken to executives from Citigroup, Goldman Sachs and other banks more than 80 times in his first seven months in office, the President’s spokesman Robert Gibbs said last night
A Freedom of Information request by Associated Press revealed that Mr Geithner had spoken most often to Lloyd Blankfein, having met or spoken to the chief executive of Goldman Sachs more than 15 times between January and July – a revelation likely to fuel conspiracy theorists who believe that the bank has an undue influence on Government policy.
Associated Press speculated that Mr Geithner’s closeness to the banks could be considered inappropriate given that his department oversaw the sector’s bailout with billions of dollars of taxpayers’ funds and plays a role in the banks’ regulation.
Mr Gibbs said: “Secretary Geithner is somebody who has helped steer the financial sector back to stability and has worked on a range of issues and will be heavily involved in regulatory reform as we go forward.”
“helped steer the financial sector back to stability”
oslow and washington are irony-free zones.
(cue the Party’s slogan, “War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength”.
mmmm mmmm, supersize that please!
The alternative to ‘conspiracy theories’ is what?
60’s underground cartoonist Jay Kinney recently wrote a book about his experience in the Masons. I caught Erik Davis’s podcast on it where he interviewed Kinney and was impressed by his sober reasonableness. And his timing. Debunking ‘theory conspiracists’ seems hot right now. Let’s just call that coincidental timing. Let’s.
Gee, the Democratic party has sure seemed co-opted for the last, ummm, well, nearly all of my lifetime -since Eisenhower. Cue in Eisenhower’s farewell speech where he warns of the Military/Industrial Complex… Which has grown, right? Exponentially so. We know all this like our ABCs, yes. Well, what is our ABCs? A natural occurrence? Evolution? What is that? Theory.
Quickly and quicker, we’ve gone from Nancy ‘Off The Table’ Pelosi to ‘centrist’ Obama. -The center has moved so far right as to make Ron Paul’s sober assessments seem radical leftist. Like Dennis Kucinich. (Gee, that youtube has been taken down. ‘Copyright violation’…)
A cottage industry has arisen. A national/global mental health crisis as well. It is a global crisis that has given rise to those. It too is itself an industry *for* industry in general. Like with the privatization of the military, a vested interest that cannot afford to ‘win’ or ‘lose’ but police *all* vested interests, such as oil and it’s pipelines. (Halliburton’s stock keeps on rising, yep.) A veritable book of Revelations, that’s reality. A heavenly chorus of butterfly effects. Or?
False flag ops are the least of revelations. Heaven is in the details. All such thinmgs get lumped into the ‘conspiracy theory’ bucket. Like a bit bucket. Like Webster Tarpley‘s work, or that of countless others in the revelation biz. The conscience biz. (In my view, the most important work being done.) Rather than inciting people to frenzy, it keeps us sane. And human.
Consider this statement inferring a conflict of interest (or business):
BHP Billington on Human Rights
“As the world’s largest diversified natural resources company, we have potential exposure to human rights-related issues that may present us with challenges. Nevertheless, upholding people’s fundamental rights in our day-to-day business is paramount.
New operations or projects must have broad-based community support before proceeding with development. Free Prior and Informed Consent is only required where it is mandated by law.”
To make a dogeatdog world, the dogs must ‘conspire’ (or aspire) to be just such.
Let me close this untutored tyro diatribe on the money. Or power. Or… could it be the stakeholders/stockholders/stickholders -and suggest national governance has become a nonplayer and rather cumbersomely in the way. Money too! Who holds the real stocK?
Backbone of Complex Networks of Corporations: The Flow of Control
I have to wonder how the good got so co-opted. Evolution? Natural occurrence? Or gravest threat? Corporate power and financial power are one and the same. Sure. But. What really silences what I hold to be the genuinely earnest people in government? For silenced they are. Who really has the Football??