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Sarkozy threatens walkout of G20 summit
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For which many in the British MSM are roundly lambasting him. But he's right isn't he? But the real question is whether his ploy works and real commitments to corral the banksters and global financial market plunderers are centre stage.

Not much chance of that methinks.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/po...005810.ece

Quote:From The Times
March 31, 2009
Nicolas Sarkozy’s threat to walk out of global summit
Anglo-Saxon gibe strains relations with Obama

[Image: Sarkozy-2_512918a.jpg]
Nicolas Sarkozy

Charles Bremner in Paris and Philip Webster

President Sarkozy yesterday threatened to wreck the London summit if France’s demands for tougher financial regulation are not met.

France will not accept a G20 that produces a “false success with language that sounds good but contains no commitments”, his advisers said.

Asked if this meant a possible walk-out, Xavier Musca, Mr Sarkozy’s deputy chief of staff for economic affairs, said: “A basic rule with nuclear deterrence is that you do not say at what point you will use the weapon.”

The French threat dramatically raised the temperature hours before President Obama arrives in London today. If carried through, it would ruin a summit for which Mr Brown and Mr Obama have high ambitions, believing it vital to international recovery.

Mr Sarkozy, who blames the “Anglo-Saxons” for causing the economic crisis, told his ministers last week that he would leave Mr Brown’s summit “if it does not work out”.

A deal to tighten regulation will be one of the key features of the G20 accord but France wants a global financial regulator, an idea fiercely opposed by the United States and Britain. Mr Brown has described the notion as ridiculous.

Germany and other nations are reported to be against a global regulator and sources said that President Sarkozy must know that the proposal would not make progress.

Instead, countries will agree that their national regulators should cooperate more. So-called colleges of supervisors are likely to be established to monitor the activities of companies that operate in several countries.

British officials said it looked as if Mr Sarkozy was picking a fight he could present as a victory back home.

Mr Sarkozy’s threat underlines the emerging splits between world leaders. Germany and France have led opposition to plans to coordinate public spending, championed by the Administration of President Obama.

The importance of action to ease the economic decline will be underlined today by a report from the OECD, the umbrella group for Western democracies. It now expects the economies of its 30 member nations to slump by 4.3 per cent this year, against the 0.4 per cent drop that it forecast last November.

The group also warns that unemployment will reach 10 per cent by next year in most developed nations.
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
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#2
May there even be fist-fight and floor wrestling. Don't these idiot see the whole planetary [corrupt] economic order is collapsing and fast?!....I think most not....a fig-leaf here a fig-leaf there and back to home....to watch TV.
"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws. - Mayer Rothschild
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass
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I don't buy it for a second. He's Washington's man. Bought and paid for. He is making an ambit claim for the theatre audience back in France. It will be rejected. Back to business as usual. He has never done a thing for the majority of people in France and wants to dismantle hard won rights. At best a small division with in the ruling classes but nothing to worry about.
"The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it." Karl Marx

"He would, wouldn't he?" Mandy Rice-Davies. When asked in court whether she knew that Lord Astor had denied having sex with her.

“I think it would be a good idea” Ghandi, when asked about Western Civilisation.
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I'm sorry to say I agree Magda. It's rubbing balm on to voters. But the voters don't know that the balm contains an agent that numbs their nerves so they don't feel it as they the get shafted.
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14
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David Guyatt Wrote:I'm sorry to say I agree Magda. It's rubbing balm on to voters. But the voters don't know that the balm contains an agent that numbs their nerves so they don't feel it as they the get shafted.

Aha, the 'old' 'roll-up your sleeve and bend over' routine!
Anyway, no 20 [read really about 5 (one a gorilla)] should decide the fate of the world economically. There should be a special meeting of the UN GA and this discussed and resolutions passed. Don't hold your breath - just 'roll-up your sleeve and bend over'.....this won't hurt much.......ha!
"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws. - Mayer Rothschild
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass
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Magda Hassan Wrote:I don't buy it for a second. He's Washington's man. Bought and paid for. He is making an ambit claim for the theatre audience back in France. It will be rejected. Back to business as usual. He has never done a thing for the majority of people in France and wants to dismantle hard won rights. At best a small division with in the ruling classes but nothing to worry about.

Precisely.

De Gaulle gave NATO the middle finger and spent the rest of his life dodging the bullets of Gladio-run assassins.

Sarkozy is NATO's, and quite possibly Gladio's, highest placed asset in Europe.

This G20 posturing is all theatre.

In fact, it's all a rather puerile, and irrelevant, Punch & Judy show.
"It means this War was never political at all, the politics was all theatre, all just to keep the people distracted...."
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."

Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon

"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war
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