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Daily Briefing—27th May 2010
Posted: 27 May 2010 by Editors in Daily BriefingTags: Af-Pak War, airstrikes, Amnesty International, black jails, Britain, Canada, Catholicism, Charles Davis, China, CIA, Colombia, DoD, drones, Dyncorp, Freedom Flotilla, Futenma, Gaza, Gaza blockade, Gitmo, Guantanamo, habeas corpus, Hezbollah, IDF, IMF, India, Iran, Israel, Japan, Jeremy Scahill, Jonathan Cook, Kashmir, Kurt Nimmo, Middle East, military industrial complex, Nathan Hodge, NPT, nuclear weapons, Obama Administration, Okinawa, Pakistan, Paul Joseph Watson, Pentagon, Philip Giraldi, POWs, PSYOPS, SDRs, Somalia, Syria, Thomas Friedman, torture, TTP, UK, USAF, USD, Vietnam War, William Pfaff
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U.N. Official Calls for One World Currency
Posted: 6 October 2009 by Editors in Political ScienceTags: banking, China, corporatism, dollar hegemony, euro, fascism, fiat money, global currency, global economic crisis, globalism, IMF, IMF bonds, international banking, pound, SDRs, Sha Zukang, special drawing rights, Turkey, UN, US, US dollar, World Bank, yen
At the heavily protested World Bank-International Monetary Fund (I.M.F.) meetings with global finance oligarchs, a U.N. undersecretary-general suggests special drawing rights (SDRs) from the I.M.F. as a world currency. Such a policy would turn the I.M.F. into the global central bank.