Comments on: Copenhagen 5: Supping with the World Bank http://blog.greens.org.nz/2009/12/16/copenhagen-5-supping-with-the-world-bank/ hopping along the corridors of power Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:23:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: katie http://blog.greens.org.nz/2009/12/16/copenhagen-5-supping-with-the-world-bank/#comment-99455 katie Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:48:28 +0000 http://blog.greens.org.nz/?p=8601#comment-99455 I just remembered the reason why I can't make it to UN Conferences like this one. Ken, your skill in diplomacy is such that I shall forever defer to you; I'd have wanted to knife the unpleasant apologist for the global MNC's. Or at least be 'ejectably' rude to him... Hope you're keeping that tearaway Rick under control, he's such a whippersnapper he might go feral with the YG delegation ;-)

I just remembered the reason why I can’t make it to UN Conferences like this one.

Ken, your skill in diplomacy is such that I shall forever defer to you; I’d have wanted to knife the unpleasant apologist for the global MNC’s. Or at least be ‘ejectably’ rude to him…

Hope you’re keeping that tearaway Rick under control, he’s such a whippersnapper he might go feral with the YG delegation ;-)

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]]> By: SPC http://blog.greens.org.nz/2009/12/16/copenhagen-5-supping-with-the-world-bank/#comment-99380 SPC Wed, 16 Dec 2009 09:56:17 +0000 http://blog.greens.org.nz/?p=8601#comment-99380 He appears to be philosophically opposed to simply sharing existing wealth with the poor. The gnome concerned appears to believe that growth comes from the use of capital and that this capital will not be supplied unless those who have it profit from this - and at best only a share of the profit will be given to the poor. Thus the Bank operates in the interests of its funders.

He appears to be philosophically opposed to simply sharing existing wealth with the poor.

The gnome concerned appears to believe that growth comes from the use of capital and that this capital will not be supplied unless those who have it profit from this – and at best only a share of the profit will be given to the poor. Thus the Bank operates in the interests of its funders.

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]]> By: tomfarmer http://blog.greens.org.nz/2009/12/16/copenhagen-5-supping-with-the-world-bank/#comment-99336 tomfarmer Wed, 16 Dec 2009 04:17:43 +0000 http://blog.greens.org.nz/?p=8601#comment-99336 bjchip, nice point.. here's one you may like.. money—the monocrop! I think it was JR Saul who first iterated specialism into monetarist ideology, the word above cropping up, as it were, in response to well, what would that look like for these fellows.. and lost for lack of it.. heh

bjchip,
nice point.. here’s one you may like.. money—the monocrop!

I think it was JR Saul who first iterated specialism into monetarist ideology, the word above cropping up, as it were, in response to well, what would that look like for these fellows.. and lost for lack of it.. heh

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]]> By: bjchip http://blog.greens.org.nz/2009/12/16/copenhagen-5-supping-with-the-world-bank/#comment-99320 bjchip Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:57:08 +0000 http://blog.greens.org.nz/?p=8601#comment-99320 I hope I would have been more rude. Because it is the nature of money itself that forces him to think in terms of "growth" being good for everyone. BJ

I hope I would have been more rude. Because it is the nature of money itself that forces him to think in terms of “growth” being good for everyone.

BJ

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]]> By: tomfarmer http://blog.greens.org.nz/2009/12/16/copenhagen-5-supping-with-the-world-bank/#comment-99311 tomfarmer Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:26:57 +0000 http://blog.greens.org.nz/?p=8601#comment-99311 re: Bob Zoellick.. "succinct" or more self-justifying..? When you put him on the spot that is? After all the poor and poverty he would deem has its uses and usage.

re: Bob Zoellick.. “succinct” or more self-justifying..? When you put him on the spot that is? After all the poor and poverty he would deem has its uses and usage.

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]]> By: greenfly http://blog.greens.org.nz/2009/12/16/copenhagen-5-supping-with-the-world-bank/#comment-99309 greenfly Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:23:02 +0000 http://blog.greens.org.nz/?p=8601#comment-99309 There were a host of other images in my mind's eye, Eredwyn, but good manners prevented me from sharing (porcine eyes, bristles and waist-coats with gold chains looped from the fob-pocket, that sort of thing).

There were a host of other images in my mind’s eye, Eredwyn, but good manners prevented me from sharing (porcine eyes, bristles and waist-coats with gold chains looped from the fob-pocket, that sort of thing).

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]]> By: eredwen http://blog.greens.org.nz/2009/12/16/copenhagen-5-supping-with-the-world-bank/#comment-99304 eredwen Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:47:26 +0000 http://blog.greens.org.nz/?p=8601#comment-99304 Nice image greenfly!

Nice image greenfly!

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]]> By: greenfly http://blog.greens.org.nz/2009/12/16/copenhagen-5-supping-with-the-world-bank/#comment-99301 greenfly Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:24:55 +0000 http://blog.greens.org.nz/?p=8601#comment-99301 Sounds like a brush with Jabba the Hutt.

Sounds like a brush with Jabba the Hutt.

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