thenewamerican.com
March 11, 2014
The globalist establishment, Russian authorities, and the Obama
administration are pushing hard for a series of controversial “reforms”
aimed at massively expanding the power and resources of the
International Monetary Fund (IMF) while further scaling back U.S.
influence at the institution. Using various pretexts — and especially
the crisis in Ukraine
— governments and dictatorships, including Vladimir Putin’s Russia, are
even threatening to proceed with the radical plot to empower the IMF
whether the U.S. Congress approves it or not.The most important and far-reaching elements of the “reform” agenda include a doubling of taxpayer resources available to the IMF. Member governments would have to supply twice as much taxpayer funding to meet their “quota” under the agreement. Even more important, the reforms would also dramatically reduce U.S. influence while handing more power to what propagandists refer to as “emerging markets.” In reality, “emerging markets” would continue to have no influence whatsoever at the powerful globalist institution. The dictators and governments that rule them, however, would be given far more authority to dictate IMF policy and decisions.
Chief among the regimes that would be empowered under the “reforms” is the communist dictatorship ruling over mainland China, which for years has been calling for the IMF to become a sort of planetary central bank in charge of a global currency. Other governments that would have more influence include those ruling over the rest of the so-called BRICS — primarily socialist and communist regimes in Brazil, Russia, India, and South Africa. All of the “BRICS” regimes have been strongly pushing for more control over the IMF in recent years, even as they push to radically expand its mandate to include a planetary currency.
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