Next week Wolfowitz packs bags for Slovenia, leaves irony at home....
World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz will be traveling to Europe next week where, among other things, he will present an award in Slovenia for an essay competition on anti-corruption. We assume this means he is leaving his fine sense of irony at home.
The Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics (ABCDE) 2007 will take place in Bled, Slovenia, on May 17-18, 2007. The conference will be co-organized by the World Bank and the Government of Slovenia.
For more information about Mr. Wolfowitz's itinerary and scheduled appearances in Europe please contact: Washington, Ms. Merrell Tuck-Primdahl, Mtuckprimdahl@worldbank.org Tel 202-473-9516 or Paris, Ms. Rachel Winter Jones, rjones1@worldbank.org Tel +33-1-4069-3052
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Maybe he can come back from Slovenia with a new squeeze like a Melinaja Knavs look-a-like, and then formally fire Shaha Riza for breaching the Bank's rules....
Have a good trip, Mr. President.
Remember, many palace coups are done while the leader is abroad...
This could be his last Hurrah. Don't think that he will go to the International Investors Board in Turkey next month let alone the Bilderberg annual meeting in Istanbul. Turkey is still looking for a President and the Prime minister isn't liked by the Iraqis. As far as the Bilderberg, he may not be invited- just have to see how the pompous Lord Black was written off the list of invitees as soon as he was perceived to be involved in dipping in Holliger's account to pay for the lavish parties for his wife :-)
I thought External affairs are supposed to be neutral. Today in the News& Broadcast section of the
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Guess what one can read at the bottom:
"The US warned on Thursday that ‘the whole world is watching’ to see that …World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz is treated fairly as critics press him to quit over a pay-and-promotion dispute." [Reuters/Factiva]
Well now we know who controls the press operation :-(
External affairs refer to PW's extramarital affairs, No?
Communications, Outreach, External affairs, PR , spin doctors - they are all the same :-)
I can just picture PW's outreach and communications with Riza.....
Now how he spin doctors while he is with Riza....
Maybe PW is really a witch doctor (instead of just being a PhD) and he got Riza in a spell....
But if he is really a witch doctor, he needs to worry about how to get himself out of the cooking pot that he is in as the temperature gradually rises, a degree at a time.
Maybe he is saying rivet to all this?
Maybe PW is just showing to us that he does have a beautiful sense of irony or maybe he's asking the Slovenians for some tips on tackling corruption....
Paul Wolfowitz Credit Card Recalled by World Bank
By Biff Scuzzy
Apr 13, 2007, 10:43
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WASHINGTON, D.C. - A source at the World Bank has confirmed that the controversial Paul Wolfowitz credit card will be recalled. The announcement came after the World Bank's twenty-four-member executive board met in a catered, sleep-over session last night on a yacht in the Potomac River.
"Mr. Wolfowitz' use of the credit card to obtain sexual favors from women is lethal to the World Bank's credibility," said the source. "We could not afford to allow his card to remain in circulation while it was being used by women to engage in unprotected shopping."
The Wolfowitz card came under scrutiny last month when a database manager at the World Bank's Zurich office noticed that Shaha Riza, one of Mr. Wolfowitz' several current lovers, had been forgiven $856,949.32 in credit card debt for purchases made at Neiman Marcus, Hermes, Victoria's Secret, and Bed Bath & Beyond.
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Shaha Riza, not her good side.
A former topless dancer in her student days at the London School of Economics, Ms. Riza was given a "Wolf Ticket," as many women refer to their vanity Wolfowitz credit cards, with an APR of 12 percent, far below the 50 percent rate charged to persons not providing Mr. Wolfowitz with kinky sex, either singly or in various combinations.
Discontent about Mr. Wolfowitz' abuse of his position came to a climax when he attempted to address two hundred World Bank employees in the $1 million atrium of the bank's Washington headquarters yesterday afternoon. As Mr Wolfowitz pimp walked his way to the podium, many staff members chanted "resign, you freak, resign" while others hissed, booed, made simulated-orgasm noises, or yelled "Do me, you beast, do me."
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Shaha Riza, not her good side either.
Mr. Wolfowitz was forced to quit the stage.
One staff member who was in the atrium said: "To see the president of the World Bank being heckled like a common pimp by his own staff was awesome."
In other news, former radio talk show host Don Imus has apologized to New Jersey governor, Jon Corzine, who was critically injured in a car accident while he was on his way to host a meeting between Mr. Imus and the Rutgers women's basketball team at Drumthwacket, the governor's mansion in Princeton, New Jersey. Mr. Imus also wants to meet with the governor in his intensive care unit as soon as possible.
Cartoon of Wolfowitz and Riza swimming in money...
http://politicalhumor.about.com/
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Bled, Solvenia 16 May (STA) - World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz, who is embroiled in a scandal involving a generous pay package for his girlfriend and faces a vote of no
confidence from the bank's board, was expected to attend as well, but he will not be coming.
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