Ok, this was reported in 2003, but worthy of noting in light of Summers topping the list for Obama's appointment to the Federal Reserve chairmanship.
Kissinger and Summers CFR Council-sponsored Task Force on Transatlantic Relations is made possible by generous grants from ENI SpA and Merrill Lynch."
April 14, 2003 - With the United States facing the greatest transatlantic rift in 50 years, former Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger and former Secretary of the Treasury Lawrence H. Summers will co-chair a Council-sponsored independent task force on a new U.S. policy toward Europe.
The bi-partisan task force will bring together leaders from business, former senior government officials, and policy experts to issue a report that will address the rift. The group will also include a number of European experts.
"I can’t imagine two more able people than Henry Kissinger and Larry Summers to take on this challenge,” said Council President Leslie H. Gelb. Kissinger is currently Chairman of Kissinger Associates; Summers is President of Harvard University.
Well, we now know the reason for our shadow government Council on Foreign Relations intentions were back in 2003: The US/EU Free Trade Agreement
I wish someone would do some research and report on what could be titled
Obama's Toadies: Recycled, Revolving Door, even Republican Appointments.
I have compiled some great Larry Summers Dkos diaries below. Obama even hinting a preference for Summers makes me feel like a puppy must feel when his nose is rubbed in his carpet doo doo.
If you haven't, do read
Why Larry Frigging Summers is "failing upwards"
There's a petition you can sign, if you still believe Obama et al give a rats ass about petitions:
Keep Larry Summers away from the Fed Chairmanship
And that War on Woman? read
President Obama is about to pick a full-blown sexist to be the next Federal Reserve Chair
And here's another Dkos excellant article:
Yellen, Summers and rebuilding after the fire
Open thread for night owls: Hasn't Summers done enough damage? Why not Christina Romer for the Fed?
Freak! Is Obama ourBuz Windrip?
OUT ON A LIMB HERE:
A RAMBLE
This is how I see what has happened in a nutshell.
After NAFTA was such a huge corporate hit, going worldwide became the next goal, but corporations and hedge funds needed capital.
Start a couple of wars (money hard to follow)
Create a huge bubble to rake in the dough,
steal the homes,
crash the economy,
destroy unions, wages, pension funds, build lots of rental properties
vote to bail out the TBTF banks who used OUR FREAKING MONEY to
bank roll corporate and hedge fund takeovers and mergers while laying off, not hiring Americans (like Chertoff and Bank of America helping Eric Prince/Blackwater sell Blackwaterto one of his close friends for $200,000,000. BoA helped bankrull the deal, Chertoff helped do the deal.)
Thus creating the largest cash-on-hand ratios for corporations in history, impoverishing Americans, and creating the widest income gap since the 1920s.
Larry Summers and all of the other Recycled, Revolving Door and even Republican Obama team are part of this global initiative.
Now we have the Pacific/US Free Trade Agreement which is really angering those across our western pond.
Maybe the same toadies are recycled from Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama because they can be depended on to ZIP IT and go with the program, whatever that program is.
It's time to revisit this blockbuster reporting by Bill Moyers:
I'm so angry about all this I could scream.