It seems that the IMF and the World Bank have been weaving their "magic" in Egypt for quite a while....privatisation and reform have been the catchwords. Egypt was one of the World Bank's top reformers and topped the scale in 2010.....but all the profits have been funnelled to the top echelon of Egyptian society and out into the coffers of corporate globalised entities - and ordinary people are left hungry and and out of work....

I wonder why they are in revolt - surely a regular pat on the back from the World Bank is enough to satiate hunger pains?
http://anilnetto.com/corporate-led-globalisation/imfworld-bank/egypt-followed-imfworld-bank-ideas/

Poirot

At least we all agree with Steven on his revelation that:

>> I’ve been thinking the IMF and World Bank should be disbanded for decades. <<

He just doesn't like to have his opinions challenged is all.

At least he won't be blaming the starving victims of World Bank "Reform", for their dire circumstances anymore. Good one Steve.

the scape goat is the imf
http://dailybail.com/home/dominique-strauss-kahn-tim-geithner-and-the-imf.html

but we need to ask why
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGETccFkVCc

As I woke up this Sunday morning,
http://presstv.com/usdetail/180077.html

I turned on my computer as I usually do.
http://presstv.com/detail/180018.html

The first thing that I noticed
http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=24773

was the “Middle East on Fire”...
or broke as well as being broken?..

This was and still is the headlines
on Drudge even now as well as http://www.debka.com/
which is Mossad run.

If I can recall the past 2 months or so,
it seemed to start with the Japan earthquake..and subsequent tsunami.

Then we are all familiar with the Fukushima nuclear disaster which seemingly dropped off the American headlines since all was seemingly well.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1367698/Radiation-good-says-Ann-Coulter-weighs-Japans-nuclear-crisis.html

besides there was a right royal wedding

but then...the Obama/Soetoro birth certificate
became the ‘hot issue’ of the week.[a photoshoppped full extract was created and exposed]..

so the raid of bin larden
was put into action
[it got photoshopped too]

of course now its buget's
money debt/bailouts...austerity measures
an impoverished concumer...and multinational takeover fevers/looking for a safe place to hide their loot/booty

imf.....?
if not there then where?
bubbbles bubbles EVERYWHERE
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/15/us-usa-stocks-weekahead-idUSTRE74C76320110515?feedType=RSS&feedName=businessNews&dlvrit=56943

a true wealth is your people
grow their skill's ambitions...not your bank acount
[or your odious debts passed onto our austerity measures]
http://allenlrolandsweblog.blogspot.com/

and govts making new laws
http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2011/05/15/congress-vote-declaration-world-war-3-endless-war-borders-clear-enemies-22785/
http://desertpeace.wordpress.com/2011/05/15/al-nakba-remembering-the-land-that-never-was-photo-essay-video/
recall the release of a damming report of refugees employments..?

http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2011/05/14/a-supine-submission-to-wrong-and-injustice/

http://saladin-avoiceinthewilderness.blogspot.com/2011/05/holding-world-hostage.html

Poirot,

I wish you'd stay on topic, this thread is about a clash of ideologies and vilifying Islam, and nothing so tawdry as real material inequalities.
I'm sure it suits the US and the IMF and the capitalist hegemon in general that we in the censorial West are not diverted in their displeasure by side-issues like bread. Let them eat cake.

Absolutely Ammonite!

Sorry Squeers, but you know I'm a notorious indigenous "leftie" : )

Just been having a squizz at the reasons why reforms went bounding ahead in 2004 - and wouldn't ya know it, I believe I've come up with something:

One Yusaf Boutros Ghali who began his carreer in the IMF and was a bog-shot in that organisation from 2008 to 2011 happened to take over as Egyptian finance Minister in 2004.

Here's a little more on him:
http://www.whistleblower.org/blog/31-2010/1083-arab-uprisings-show-the-impact-of-the-world-bank-and-the-imf

That should, of course, be "big-shot".