[Peace-discuss] ***Spam*** Re: Conyers Urges Obama to Nominate Jeff Sachs to Lead the World Bank

[Robert Naiman]

Yes, as I wrote in my piece, that is the default and the status quo,
not just for this Administration, but for every other.

We're trying to make the status quo more controversial in the case of
the World Bank nomination. If they nominate Summers or Geithner, we
lose. But if they nominate someone who is not a Wall Street/Treasury
robot, it's a partial victory. I think a partial victory is plausible.
Putting Jeff Sachs into play raises the bar somewhat.

On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 3:02 PM, E. Wayne Johnson <ewj at pigs.ag> wrote:
> The only Sachs that Obot is tuned into is Goldman, and their sacks of cash.
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> On 3/8/2012 10:55 PM, Robert Naiman wrote:
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>> President Obama has a historic opportunity to help reform the World
>> Bank, by nominating development expert Jeffrey Sachs to be the World
>> Bank's next president. Sachs has said that as president he would
>> sharpen the focus of the Bank on achieving the Millennium Development
>> Goals for reducing poverty and extending access to health care and
>> education. Coming from Sachs, this pledge is change you can believe
>> in, because for years Sachs has a leading international advocate of
>> efforts to achieve the world's poverty reduction goals, currently
>> serving as an adviser to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.
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>> Now Members of Congress are starting to speak up.
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>> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/jeffrey-sachs-world-bank_b_1327864.html
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