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Joanne98 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-01-04 01:27 PM
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Al-Quaida terrorizing the IMF BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
I can't believe this. Anyone who targets the IMF and actually got them, would instantly become global heroes. The IMF is directly responsible for most of human misery. The IMF especially likes to kill children with their draconian and brutal restructuring programs.
Al-Quaida has some great PR guys, don't ya think. lol:)
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Joanne98 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-01-04 01:37 PM
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1. The IMF is evil and there's a protest scheduled for September.
Edited on Sun Aug-01-04 01:38 PM by Joanne98
A Dozen Reasons to Oppose the IMF and World Bank

By Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman

The next citizen showdown against corporate globalization will be on April 16 and 17, when thousands of people come to Washington, D.C. to protest -- through legal demonstrations and/or civil disobedience -- the politics of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank. For details on events, see www.a16.org

Here's a dozen reasons why you should join the protests:

1. IMF/World Bank structural adjustment programs have increased poverty around the world.

Structural adjustment -- the standard IMF/World Bank policy package which calls for slashing government spending, privatization, and opening up countries to exploitative foreign investment, among other measures -- has deepened poverty around the world. In the two regions with the most structural adjustment experience, per capita income has stagnated (Latin America) or plummeted (Africa). Structural adjustment has also contributed to rising income and wealth inequality in the developing world.

2. IMF/World Bank "debt relief" for poor and indebted countries is a sham.

Many poor countries must devote huge portions of their national budgets to paying back foreign creditors -- often for loans that were made to or for dictators, wasteful military spending or boondoggle projects. The money used to pay back debt subtracts from essential expenditures on health, education, infrastructure and other important needs.

The IMF/World Bank plan to relieve poor countries' debt burden will leave most poor countries paying nearly as much as they currently do. And all of the debt relief is conditioned on countries undergoing years of closely monitored structural adjustment.


http://www.whisperedmedia.org/reasons.html
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