(Opinion) There is a rule: a distinguished politician in a rustic, a former prime minister or head of the central financial institution is abruptly chosen and promoted to the IMF, the president of the Council of Europe, or another highest workplace for which everybody on the planet has respect.
These are sometimes superb careers, and one wonders if individuals have competencies.
That’s what occurred with Poland’s Donald Tusk. He didn’t block the development of the Northern Stream beneath Merkel, which might have been in keeping with the Polish state’s raison d’être on the time.
The favourite baby of “Mummy” (Merkel) in Poland grew to become the president of the European Council.
A value for the companies rendered to Germany and Gazprom Bank.
Now Tusk’s arch-enemies have been ruling Poland for greater than 8 years, and Kaczynski’s favourite baby, the previous head of the state tv station Jacek Kurski, abruptly obtained a job on the World Bank.
His competences? None.
But someway, the pharmaceutical lobbyists and the monetary elites needed to present gratitude to him.
For being a right-wing politician within the Covid pandemic, resisting the “right-wing” and “conspiracy-theory” temptation to query the sense of vaccinations by his essential journalists, and scaring all residents hand in hand with left-liberal media through the pandemic day-after-day.
Equally controversial was the election of Louis de Guindos, Spain’s former economic system minister, to the ECB board.
De Guindos was a banker at Lehmann Brothers and, after the autumn of the U.S. financial institution – at Pricewaters Coopers.
Likewise, President Macron and Polish Prime Minister Morawiecki rose from the banks to authorities circles.
The excessive places of work are a value for devoted service to bankers, not for service to the nation’s individuals.
In the autumn of 2014, Jose Manuel Barroso resigned as president of the European Commission after 10 years in workplace.
He then waited the legally required 18 months earlier than accepting a job supply from Goldman Sachs.
If Barroso cared within the least in regards to the scenario of the individuals of Europe, he wouldn’t have taken a job at a financial institution that helped Greece conceal its debt simply earlier than it joined the eurozone.
However, it’s tough to count on a person who started his political profession within the communist group to care about peculiar individuals.
Goldman Sachs is unmatched on this regard.
The establishment successfully pushes its workers into positions within the constructions of assorted international locations after which takes them over on the finish of their tenure.
Sometimes the order is reversed.
This is true, for instance, of Mario Draghi, Italian Finance Minister, then CEO of Goldman Sachs, and now President of the European Central Bank.
There are many extra well-known politicians with ties to Goldman Sachs.
Before Mario Monti was appointed to go the Italian authorities (changing the democratically elected Silvio Berlusconi), he was a senior advisor at Goldman Sachs.
When Greece manipulated its debt simply earlier than becoming a member of the Eurozone, the top of the National Bank of Greece was Petros Christodoulou, who started his profession at Goldman.
Until 2015, Peter Sutherland held the Managing Director of Goldman Sachs International place.
In the Eighties, Sutherland was Attorney General in Ireland. He was later appointed EU Commissioner for Competition.
He was additionally Ireland’s key consultant within the negotiations over the nationalization of the banks and the phrases of the nation’s bailout package deal.
This exhibits that the elites are intently linked to the monetary world and that it’s not the politicians who rule the world however the masterminds on Wall Street and within the City of London.
Not that this surprises anybody who is aware of the way to learn between the traces of mainstream narratives.