Friday, June 8, 2007

On irony.

In the days of the G8 summit in Heiligendamm, Germany:

Two weeks ago I attended Faithless at Dubai World Trade Center's Za'abeel Hall.
That's the same spot where Dubai hosted the Annual Meetings of the Board of Governors of the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund.

Listening to Maxi Jazz chanting "Whether Halliburton, Enron or anyone...Greed is a weapon of mass destruction" took me into thought of the irony that a mere 4 years ago Dr. Wolfensohn (who was later Condi's man to oversee "Israel's" PR-ed withdrawal from Gaza in 2005) was on that similar stage with his entourage knitting financial assistance plans for "impoverished" countries.

"Impoverished" "third-world" countries like Kenya. IMF's
reform policy in this country cost it 10% of its GDP at one point during the days of what led to be the Goldenberg Scandal. Still these policies are used to feed corruption and increase poverty in a resourceful land!

What irony! Would the IMF people with their monetary policies that sent Argentina to economic crisis in 2001 ever thought that Faithless, with their indivualistic hype would host a show from that same spot!

"Whether Halliburton, Enron or anyone
Greed is a weapon of mass destruction
Inaction is a weapon of mass destruction"

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