Goldman Sachs/Trilateral Commission/Bilderberg Rules! (You Do Realize That The Technocrat Placed In Charge of Italy's Finances Is From Goldman Sachs and Bilderberg?)

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If you couldn't figure out at the beginning of the European bad news cycle about how Goldman Sachs could also be deeply involved in their very bad international financial decisions, we learn now that Italy's new President is from Goldman Sachs, the Trilateral Commission and the Bilderberg group.

No wonder Obama was told to rehire them.

The more things change . . . .

Goldman Sachs Conquers Europe

November 21st, 2011 
 
Via: Independent:

The ascension of Mario Monti to the Italian prime ministership is remarkable for more reasons than it is possible to count. By replacing the scandal-surfing Silvio Berlusconi, Italy has dislodged the undislodgeable. By imposing rule by unelected technocrats, it has suspended the normal rules of democracy, and maybe democracy itself. And by putting a senior adviser at Goldman Sachs in charge of a Western nation, it has taken to new heights the political power of an investment bank that you might have thought was prohibitively politically toxic.

This is the most remarkable thing of all: a giant leap forward for, or perhaps even the successful culmination of, the Goldman Sachs Project.

It is not just Mr Monti. The European Central Bank, another crucial player in the sovereign debt drama, is under ex-Goldman management, and the investment bank’s alumni hold sway in the corridors of power in almost every European nation, as they have done in the US throughout the financial crisis. Until Wednesday, the International Monetary Fund’s European division was also run by a Goldman man, Antonio Borges, who just resigned for personal reasons.

Even before the upheaval in Italy, there was no sign of Goldman Sachs living down its nickname as “the Vampire Squid”, and now that its tentacles reach to the top of the Eurozone, sceptical voices are raising questions over its influence. The political decisions taken in the coming weeks will determine if the Eurozone can and will pay its debts – and Goldman’s interests are intricately tied up with the answer to that question.

Related: Chairman of the European Branch of the Trilateral Commission and Bilderberg Member Becomes Leader of Italy

Ya think?