Manuel Barroso (former president of the so-called European Commission - which should really be called the EU Commission, because the EU is not Europe) has been hired to lead Goldman Sachs' international arm, a role he takes over from Peter Sutherland aka the gentile's Soros.
This reminds me of how Gordon Brown now sits on PIMCO's board, and how Tony Blair now makes lots of money contracting for oil deals. Elite politicians finishing their political careers and going on to join their elite business friends. I am sure there are many other examples.
Is there anything wrong with this? Does it show that we are literally ruled by Goldman Sachs and the other powerful businesses? Does it suggest undue influence of big business over our politicians? Or is it normal that politicians leading big governments obsessed with the economy should be bedfellows with big business?
>http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/07/09/former-european-union-president-hired-as-new-chairman-of-goldman-sachs-international/
>kikebart
Fuck off clickbait merchant.
>>57274
My apologies, my Lord. What was I thinking, posting a link from a website which doesn't tow the line.
http://www.euractiv.com/section/global-europe/news/barrosos-new-job-described-as-greatest-boon-for-europhobes/
>Pedro Filipe Soares, a leader in Portugal’s radical Left Bloc that supports the ruling leftist coalition, said: “This nomination shows that the European elite of which Barroso is part knows no shame.”
>France’s Minister of State for Foreign Trade, Matthias Fekl, meanwhile, tweeted: “Serving the people badly, serving yourself at Goldman Sachs: Barroso, an obscene representative of an old Europe that our representative will change.”
>Fekl’s Socialist colleagues in the European Parliament also condemned Barroso’s move, calling it “scandalous”.
>Leftwing French daily Liberation described Barroso’s appointment as “the worst timing for the Union and a boon for Europhobes”, adding that it was tantamount to giving Europe “the finger”.
>Marine Le Pen, leader of France’s far-right National Front (FN) party, said on Twitter that the appointment was “nothing surprising for people who know that the EU does not serve people but high finance”.
>>57274
Fuck off, liberalfag
Watch the movie "Requiem for the American Dream" and you will understand how banks took over democracy.
>>57287
Fuck you, leave him alone
>>57292
You talking shit to my mate?
>>57298
fighting is the point of kikebart stories. that's why kikebart writes them.
the more they exaggerate and sensationalize, the more they piss people off.
the more they piss people off, the more adsense shekels they get from outraged people.
>>57313
>>>/plebbit/
>>57313
riiight
>literally one comment on the story itt
If anyone is shocked or outraged by this, you must have been living under a rock. This is how the world works now. At least here in the US we've gotten back to corrupt politicians (see: all politicians) feeling scared. Doesn't look like that's the case in Europe. Anyone in the UK that can speak to this? Have politicians there seemed to clear up lately in light of liberalization and technological transparency?
>>57387
Take your straw men and your shitposting and push it deep into the closet next to your penis pump and represed sexuality.
>>57391
Corbyn and Sanders tell you that this shit is starting to annoy people.
It's a shame that the other Anglo nations don't seem to have similar candidates, but then they probably have lower levels on inequality.
>>57387
You mean like every other news company ever? The fuck do you think they work for free?
>>57451
No not like any other news company, ever. Andrew Breitbart and Matt Drudge ruined journalism together when they invented interneet clickbait journalism in the mid 90s. AB ruined it further when he helped make the Huffington Post. All that breitbart.com and drudgereport.com is today is a cancerous legacy AB left behind.
>>57415
How about instead you take Breitbart's "get-paid-by-the-pageload, not for quality content" business model and stick it up your ass. OP could have started this thread with any version of this story but he chose the worst possible version.
>>57453
How do people ITT not already know this?
>>57463
Because a good percentage of all the people on this board are from /pol/ and /pol/ is saturated with breitbart interns who promote and market both their clickbait stories and their e-celeb writers there. breitbart has been using /pol/ for material while marketing themselves there for over a year now without mods seemingly caring. The mods are probably in on it anyway ever since Milo bought that banner ad on /g/.
>>57444
>Corbyn and Sanders
I'm sorry, usually people only discuss relevant political figures.
>>57453
U mad. Breitbart is actually one of the better news sites on the interwebs. Looking at spidr.today, most others are just too boring.
>>57274
>doesn't provide evidence as to why Breitbart is bad
>>57387
>assuming that it isn't every news agency's prerogative to piss you off
>>57996
Andrew Breitbart is that evidence. You do understand what it means that he cursed the world with concept of internet clickbait, right? Nobody had heard of breitbart.com before drudgereport started linking there.
>>57981
>Breitbart is one off the better news sites on the interwebs
Hi Milo, get fucked by any BBCs lately?
>>57997
If you think this then you're definitely a breitbart reader. In the real world there are these people called journalists who just try to report what happened, regardless of whether or not it pisses you off enough to click their links or not. None of them actually work at breitbart however, because reporting what actually happened in a non-framed and spun way is boring and doesn't sell a lot of ads.
>>58000
If I actually were Milo, then yes. Yes, indeed. Problem?
>>57487
>I'm sorry, usually people only discuss relevant political figures.
You live in a world where Corbyn and Sanders haven't been discussed?
>>58071
Yes, that's unsanitary.