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Dragonbreathp9d

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17. I was friends with the President's daughter in college

Reply to G_j (Original post)

Thu Mar 22, 2012, 05:08 PM

Mar 2012

She was heavily involved with Amnesty International- she didn't like to talk about the World Bank- as several profs contuially tried to pry information or prod about its workings. Just thought that was an interesting tid bit

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Why the World Bank has no real intentions of reducing poverty [View all] G_j Mar 2012 OP

i think we should be sceptical of all our institutions whose purpose is said to be xchrom Mar 2012 #1

If you look at the governments in Latin America who really have reduced poverty EFerrari Mar 2012 #4

+1 xchrom Mar 2012 #5

this. KG Mar 2012 #8

yes G_j Mar 2012 #18

When in the history of the world has any bank cared about reducing povery? The bottom line has demosincebirth Mar 2012 #2

When FDR started the World Bank (and GATT and the IMF) at the Bretton Woods conference in 1944. pampango Mar 2012 #3

Corrupt and want to protect Corporations lovuian Mar 2012 #6

This New World Order? pampango Mar 2012 #7

Another heavily debunked conspiracy theory from the Birchers Zalatix Mar 2012 #12

If HW said it, that's good enough for me. The Birchers must have been right. pampango Mar 2012 #13

My point is that the New World Order problem is not invalidated just because Birchers pointed it out Zalatix Mar 2012 #14

It wasn't just the Birchers. "The militantly anti-government right, and secondarily fundamentalist pampango Mar 2012 #15

Yeah, the NWO hardly has to be secretive. Zalatix Mar 2012 #16

Population control Zalatix Mar 2012 #11

rec. KG Mar 2012 #9

If the numbers don't fit just change the numbers. raouldukelives Mar 2012 #10

I was friends with the President's daughter in college Dragonbreathp9d Mar 2012 #17