[mobglob-discuss] Re: engine of conquest

[Gordon Flett]

      IMF: engine of conquest Monbiot's essay contains economics
     phrases and is very instructive regarding how whole nations
     are made to kowtow unto international lending institutions and
     the families who, as principle (unprincipled) stockholders,
     profit mightly therefrom. A paragraph from the essay: "Desmond
     Tutu once remarked that: "When the missionaries came to
     Africa, they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'let
     us close our eyes and pray'. When we opened them, we had the
     Bible, and they had the land." The Hungarians were handed the
     Bible of economic orthodoxy by its missionaries. Through
     deceit and secrecy, the IMF ensured that their eyes were shut.
     By the time they opened them, foreign banks and corporations
     owned the economy; the public sector was giving way to foreign
     capital; structural unemployment had produced a pliant and
     desperate workforce. The IMF, in other words, had engineered
     the theft of an entire nation. How many more times does this
     need to happen before we can see what the game is?"
     Poisoned Chalice - Wherever it is Prescribed, a Dose of IMF
     Medicine Only Compounds Economic Crisisby George MonbiotAugust
     19, 2003 by the Guardian /
     UKhttp://www.commondreams.org/views03/0819-02.htm _______________________________________________