Why does no one in Pittsburgh care that the World Bank is descending on their town?
The G20 (Group of 20) Summit, which includes the G-20 + Spain, the Netherlands, NEPAD, ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations), the EU, the UN, the World Bank, the IMF (International Monetary Fund), the WTO (World Trade Organization) and the FSF (Financial Stability Forum) is coming to Pittsburgh September 24, and no one seems to care. This is a HUGE event, and the organizations coming to Pittsburgh are some of the most controversial and unjust in the world. They represent globalization, a corporate movement that rises above all law. Child labor laws? Slave labor laws? The WTO has no such thing. In fact, by World Trade Organization Law, the United States is not permitted to ban imports on products made by slave labor. If we did such a thing, we would be expelled from the organization. Ever take a look at the tags on your clothes? More often than not, they'll say "Made in Bangladesh, Vietnam, Honduras, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, perhaps India, etc". This almost guarantees that they were made in a sweatshop. That's what American companies do: build factories overseas and employ the local population at wages that are unthinkable in developed countries (sometimes $1 a day or less). The World Bank, for example, requires any indebted developing country wishing to borrow from the IMF (International Monetary Fund) to have a privatized water system. That means citizens have to buy their water from usually corrupt corporations, who don't have to abide by government standards, all because the World Bank assumes indebted governments can't provide water to their citizens. So instead, they make it a commodity that can be bought and sold. If you don't have money, you can't have water. Simple as that. What's truly alarming, however, is that no one in the United States seems to care. When the G20 came to London in April, the protests were so intense that one man died. In Pittsburgh, though, the usually question seems to be not "are you angry?" but rather "will i be safe?" "Are the protests going to be too violent?" "Am I threatened by angry protesters?" Or am I just totally uninformed about plans for protests/marches/etc? Perhaps the people of Pittsburgh and the United States really do care??
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You have correctly identified the international corruption for which the IMF, WTO, U.N. and others exist. Excellent point. These people, as well as leftists in our country, seek to establish a one world government as a ruling class all over the planet. They can be stopped, but only if they are totally exposed and opposed by resolute individual nations. Obama supports loaning more than 100 billion to the IMF on very favorable credit terms. Considering we are in debt, that is criminal. it is also likely it will not be paid back, as the IMF has a history of not getting paid back itself.
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it is Pittsburgh Steeler football time of the year,.. when the stuff hits the fan the people will wake up,.. first answerer put it well,.. i e a e,.. avatar of the unification,..
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Perhaps most do not agree with the positions you outlined in your "question," and that's why they're going to rampage and destroy their own town (no, outsiders like you will come to do that). Why is it only rich kids wearing those shirts, jeans, and shoes made in poor countries who are protesting and breaking things, and not the poor people who have the jobs? Because globalization has done more to raise living standards in the 3rd world than any government aid program in history. Look at India and China for examples of the creations of new middle classes that never before existed. So I don't buy your argument that globalization hurts poor countries. They can't have the government run their water systems?? You put a lot of faith in corrupt, power-hungry, bumbling 3rd-world bureaucrats! Sadly, these G-20 "protests" have become violence-fests for bored, wealthy youth seizing many of the crackpot theories you put forward above. Seattle and Genoa will go down in infamy as where the opposition (which has some valid points, if only it had a knowledgeable, mature voice to put them forward on the world stage) forever lost credibility. The G-20 meetings have seen hooligans destroying the hardwork of honest citizens (smashing shops, graffiti, injuring/killing police, etc), and that's the image around the world. I like you word choice re London: "intense" protests resulted in a man's death. I wonder how many of the people protesting so "intensely" went back to cushy flats, drank some imported beer, put their iPod on the stereo (all made in Asia), took off their $50 Hilfiger top made in Bangladesh (the one with the brand name prominently displayed), and made an evening of it with nary a thought to perhaps going to these countries they profess to care so much about and actually help needy people? So, in brief, my answer to you is: because the lack of knowledge, stunning hypocrisy, and violence displayed by so many at these events in years past.
