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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) owns an incredible 3,217 metric tons of gold. At the recent G20 summit, world leaders committed to using funds from selling a small fraction of that gold to help developing countries that are struggling to prevent 53 million people from slipping into poverty by 2010.
Please click here to sign our petition to the Managing Director of the IMF, Dominique Strauss-Khan asking him to use funds from the gold sales to help the world’s poorest countries in ways that won’t create debt or hurt their economies with harmful new conditions:
Petition:
Please use the revenue from gold sales to create as much funding as possible for developing countries and ensure that this doesn’t create new debts or have harmful conditions attached.
Let’s make sure the IMF hears from us that this sale is a golden opportunity to help the world’s poorest people without costing us anything at all. Please add your name to our petition, and send a message that the world is watching and demanding the IMF take action now.
-Chris Scott
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April 17, 2009 at 10:20 pm
Just signed my name to this IMF petition & will pass this around to as many friends as possible.
This is a GREAT opportunity to do a great deal of good – please sign up today!
ALWAYS ONE in the Spirit, debbie
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April 20, 2009 at 11:35 am
Like the corrupt, unconstitutional, privately held Federal Reserve, the IMF and the World Bank are creations of Fabian Socialists for the purpose of creating fiat currencies and establishing a world wide system of excessive taxation and oppression. Wake up.
The IMF is the corrupt clearinghouse and repository for the stolen wealth of the American public through oppressive taxation. The gold they hold rightly belongs to the American taxpayers. Return it to them, and let their innovation not government intervention cure these social issues. The war on poverty is a farce, and like the war on drugs has claimed and destroyed more lives, and local economies then it will ever help.
End this institution, end the war on poverty, stop selling subsidized AG products into once vibrant healthy economies and give people the tools to feed themselves.