Postscript: The Best of Bildt
1984When the Swedish parliament voted for sanctions against the Apartheid regime in South Africa, Carl Bildt introduced a motion against them, with the motivation that it wasn't tenable 'to claim that one particular form of oppression in one particular country was particularly distasteful'.
1992
When the serial killer 'Laser Man' was still on the loose, prime minister Carl Bildt traveled to the immigrant neighbourhood Rinkeby to try to calm people down, but he had the opposite effect, and his response to their hostility was to tell them to calm down. Bildt's blunder was overshadowed by Birgit Friggebo who tried to get the angry crowd to sing along to 'We Shall Overcome'.
2003
Carl Bildt became a multimillionaire off the US invasion of Iraq, thanks to his seat on the board of directors of Legg Mason who had huge investments in Lockheed Martin, who won contracts for billions on the war. Carl Bildt also worked for the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq where he lobbied for the invasion.
2011
WikiLeaks revealed that Carl Bildt and migration minister (and fellow 'Moderate') Tobias Billström had stressed the importance that former Iraqi informers be kept in Iraq (where their lives were in danger) and this because their situation would supposedly become 'untenable' in Sweden. Bildt and Billström said that many Iraqis who come to Sweden are poor, lack education, and have difficulty assimilating into Swedish society.
2011
Sweden held the chair in the Artic Council, Carl Bildt held the gavel, and he gave his friends at Lundin, through the subsidiary Lundin Norway A/S, the green light to drill for oil in the polar cap. At least until 2006 Carl Bildt was active in the Lundin parent company Lundin Petroleum, accused of genocide and overexploitation in Africa.
2012
Carl Bildt decided to visit Sarajevo for the 20 year anniversary of the siege, something that caused a strong reaction with the locals who'd declared him persona non grata. For not everyone was impressed with his skills as a peacemaker. Bildt was accused of being too compliant and slow to deal with Milošević.
2012
A social democrat government signed an agreement to build a weapons factory in Saudi Arabia. The agreement was carried out by Bildt's new government. Minister for defence Sten Tolgfors was forced to resign, but Carl Bildt somehow again survived.
Carl Bildt is thought to be the puppet master at the
Swedish end responsible for the diplomatic standoff with Sweden,
Assange, and Ecuador.
Brains'll only get you so far and luck always runs out.
- Hal Slocumb
Brains'll only get you so far and luck always runs out.
- Hal Slocumb
See Also
Rixstep Special Report: Our Man Bildt
Rixstep Special Report: The Bildt Files
Industry Watch: Carl Bildt Runs Own Race
Julian Assange: The Rolling Stone Interview
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Published time: 25 Oct, 2016 13:18 - rt.com
Former Swedish Prime Minister Carl Bildt has become the latest
high profile figure to accuse RT of conspiring with WikiLeaks in the
hacking and release of the #Podesta emails.
Monday
saw the whistleblowing website leak its 17th batch of messages from
Hillary Clinton’s campaign chair John Podesta and, not for the first
time over the last fortnight, RT broke the story prior to WikiLeaks
tweeting the announcement.Really impressive by Russia state media to report on Wikileaks releases before they are released. Contacts counts. pic.twitter.com/ZLNCxDrUUa— Carl Bildt (@carlbildt) October 24, 2016
@Miriam411 It means nothing other than RT saw the new releases on the #WikiLeaks site before #WikiLeaks Tweeted. @carlbildt@michaelh992— OfThePeople (@Of_the_People7) October 24, 2016
WikiLeaks releases new batches before tweeting about it. This myth is laughably ignorant (& disingenuous)@carlbildthttps://t.co/QmsxFz7w0W— Ben Norton (@BenjaminNorton) October 24, 2016
@BenjaminNorton Yes, they're called #Wikileaks NOT #TwitterLeaks! He didn't think they create the page before tweeting it? RT visited site?— Representative Press (@RepPress) October 24, 2016
@charlesadler@carlbildt They released the docs well before the tweets. Anyone with half a brain can find that out. Hillbot propaganda.— Brett Gartin (@BrettGartin) October 24, 2016
Hey @carlbildt I tweeted before @RT_America!! I guess my American passport is a lie. #CallMeNatasha#PodestaEmails17pic.twitter.com/ClUdZjChbW— Tweeting Yarnie (@TweetingYarnie) October 24, 2016
Tweet time ≠ release time.— WikiLeaks Task Force (@WLTaskForce) October 24, 2016
We don't always immediatly tweet when we release. Everyone can check our website.
Was that so hard to figure out? https://t.co/zNgWXn9eIv
He was also a major supporter of the Maidan movement which eventually toppled the democratically-elected government of President Viktor Yanukovich in Ukraine and has caused continued unrest in the east of the country.
Former Swedish PM & FM @carlbildt inducted as honorary member of #Euromaidan Ottawa (@EU_MaidanOttawa) #Ukrainepic.twitter.com/YSlj8MhCUS— Yaroslav Baran (@YaroslavB) November 26, 2014
Having worked as an EU High Representative for Bosnia in the ’90s, Bildt was one of three people nominated by controversial tycoon George Soros, in an email to Clinton, to be a senior EU mediator in Albania during a period of civil unrest in 2011.
He is far from the first high profile political figure to suggest RT was in some way involved in the Podesta hack.
In early October Christopher Miller, a journalist with Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and a freelance writer inaccurately claimed RT had published a story about the email drop before WikiLeaks had posted the documents on its website.
Clinton’s press secretary Brian Fallon made similar claims on Twitter while the campaign’s director of communications, Jennifer Palmieri, accused RT of collusion during a TV interview.
RT beats internet to break #Podestaemails6 & everybody loses their minds (conspiracy theory warning) pic.twitter.com/gGJ8tN2CUw— RT (@RT_com) October 14, 2016
@ChristopherJM@RT_com No they didn't. The release was visible to anyone looking at https://t.co/wzxeh7hZLU well before our first tweet.— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) October 13, 2016