{"id":193835,"date":"2008-11-13T06:05:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-13T11:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/11\/13\/imf-holding-over-300000-people-hostage\/"},"modified":"2008-11-13T06:05:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-13T11:05:00","slug":"imf-holding-over-300000-people-hostage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/11\/13\/imf-holding-over-300000-people-hostage\/","title":{"rendered":"IMF Holding Over 300,000 People Hostage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is yet another example as to why <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/2008\/11\/12\/business\/imf.php\">the IMF is fundamentally an evil and criminal organization that needs to be shut down<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>However, the board will not in practice approve the loan until Iceland resolves a conflict with European governments over how foreign savers will be compensated for billions of dollars in losses suffered on their deposits in Icelandic banks, mainly at Landsbanki&#8217;s Icesave unit.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Translation, &#8220;We will make the loan, but all the money has to go to foreign creditors.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I may have not given the IMF enough credit earlier. <\/p>\n<p>I thought that they would treat Icenlanders better, because they are white, but not it appears that they are treating Icelanders like N*gg*rs.<\/p>\n<p>I expect a deal for a Russian naval base, along with a Kremlin loan, in the next few months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is yet another example as to why the IMF is fundamentally an evil and criminal organization that needs to be shut down: However, the board will not in practice approve the loan until Iceland resolves a conflict with European governments over how foreign savers will be compensated for billions of dollars in losses suffered &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1004,964,985],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance","category-foreign-relations","category-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193835"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}