Infrastructure development is crucial in every country that wants to escalate forward in their economic status. However, there are those that cannot afford because of the lack of resources. The World Bank, established in 1994, is such a vital spring in international business and finance that has been assisting countries all over the world.
It is not a bank, as the name suggests, but it is a global organization that is made up of two special progressive institutions. This international Business and finance source consists of 184 nations together with the International Bank for Reconstruction & Development (IBRD) and International Development Association (IAD).
Each has a specific responsibility supportive of its mission to alleviate poverty and lifestyle improvements. The International Bank for Reconstruction & Development (IBRD) concentrates on middle income and creditworthy poor regions while the International Development Association (IDA) is on the poorest regions in the globe. Both offers low- interest loans and interest- free credit that also provides Education, health, communications and other beneficial purposes.
This international business and finance group also has its own affiliates like the International Finance Corporation (IFC), Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID). IFC grants advisory services, loans, structured finance, equity and management products that build the private sector in developing countries. MIGA promotes global immediate investment into developing nations to assist economic growth, improve lives and reduce poverty. ICSID imparts facilities for the pacification and mediation of feuds between member countries and investors.
Some of the members of World Bank are Afghanistan, Albania, Barbuda, Belize, Chile, China, Denmark, Dominica, Ecuador, Egypt, Guinea, Germany, Haiti, Hungary, Iceland, Indonesia,. Korea, Kuwait, Jordan, Jamaica, Kenya, Kazakhstan, Libya, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, Pakistan, Panama, Poland, Philippines, Romania, Rwanda, Samoa, Senegal, Thailand, Tanzania, Uganda, Ukraine, Venezuela, Vanuatu, Zambia and Zimbabwe. In the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, it has a total of 184; 165 for International Development Association; 178 for International Finance Corporation; 167 for Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency and 143 for International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes.
Since it is an international business and finance cooperative, the shareholders are represented by a Board of Governors. They gather every once a year at the Annual Meetings to make policies as well as discuss about the International Monetary Fund. Since their convention only happens very seldom, they delegate specific responsibilities to about 24 executive directors who work on- site at the headquarters located in Washington D.C. The biggest depositors are United Kingdom, France, Germany, Japan and United States who are the ones who appoint. At present, the president of World Bank is Paul Wolfowitz who holds a five- year and renewable term. He is accountable for the overall management of the organization and chairs meetings that are called for.
T J Madigan
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#1 by Enigma on April 30, 2010 - 3:36 am
Why is Infragard infiltrating private business with preparations for Martial Law? Orders Shoot to Kill?
http://www.progressive.org/mag_rothschild0308
More than 23,000 representatives of private industry are working quietly with the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security. The members of this rapidly growing group, called InfraGard, receive secret warnings of terrorist threats before the public does—and, at least on one occasion, before elected officials. In return, they provide information to the government, which alarms the ACLU. But there may be more to it than that. One business executive, who showed me his InfraGard card, told me they have permission to “shoot to kill” in the event of martial law.
InfraGard is “a child of the FBI,” says Michael Hershman, the chairman of the advisory board of the InfraGard National Members Alliance and CEO of the Fairfax Group, an international consulting firm.
To join, each person must be sponsored by “an existing InfraGard member, chapter, or partner organization.” The FBI then vets the applicant. On the application form, prospective members are asked which aspect of the critical infrastructure their organization deals with. These include: agriculture, banking and finance, the chemical industry, defense, energy, food, information and telecommunications, law enforcement, public health, and transportation.
"They said when—not if—martial law is declared, it was our responsibility to protect our portion of the infrastructure, and if we had to use deadly force to protect it, we couldn’t be prosecuted,”
Is this going to be the Blackwater for US citizens?
whip: Will you say that when you have been deemed a terrorist as defined by the Patriot Act which says that anybody can be deemed a terrorist?
rickinno: "InfraGard is a perfectly open and legitmate organization, membership in which confers NO law enforcement powers on its members."
Yeah I feel a lot safer knowing that exMcDonalds employees with twitchy fingers will be toting around 9mm’s in my place of employment.
My friends if you are interested in this story change the link above to…..
http://www.progressive.org/mag_rothschild…..take the periods off the end of the link and replace them with 0308.
Something funny is going on here I quess Yahoo is being infiltrated too.
Spell out the full name rothschild too.
rothschild0308
#2 by rickinnocal on April 30, 2010 - 8:38 am
You REALLY need to loosen up your tinfoil hat.
This is pure ‘black helicopter’ fantasyland gibberish.
InfraGard is a perfectly open and legitmate organization, membership in which confers NO law enforcement powers on its members. It’s not some sort of ’secret society’.
Individual membership is open to any US Citizen working in any of the infrastructure areas – it’s not a restricted membership at al.
Richard
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http://www.infragard.net/
#3 by Zelda Hunter on April 30, 2010 - 8:40 am
I don’t know, but you could post this information in a question I asked a while ago about under-reported US news stories this week> http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AjsP0qZVNkis3ByYHQFe.Lrsy6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20080207170229AAcTTOb
It sounds suspicious, when they do’t bother to put the proper safeguards into place on a local and legal level.
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#4 by doug4jets on April 30, 2010 - 8:42 am
Yes, and thanks for the info.
Rick and Whip, you’re fascists. Do you know that?
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#5 by LadyZania on April 30, 2010 - 8:44 am
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Fri, 02/08/2008 – 10:40am — Anonymous (not verified)
Re: Exclusive! The FBI Deputizes Business
The best thing that could happen to America right now would be another depression, one that makes the Great Depression look like a party, bankrupting US Fed, state & local gov’ts, and forcing all these gov’t sponsored thugs, in both public & private sector, to stand in bread & soup lines instead of living off the tax dollars of those of us who sweat & labor for a living. Only this time, real Americans, those that believe in a literal translation of the Constitution, those that believe in individual liberty over corporate/state authority, those that believe freedom & security are not mutually exclusive entities, will prevent the members of the Round Table from rewriting the rules, once again, to benefit the global elite. We in American must stand with our brothers & sisters in Central/South America who are struggling to throw off the shackles of 400 yrs of colonial rule. We must stand with our brothers & sisters in Africa, Asia & anywhere else working people fight for human rights, individual liberty and the right of self-determination. The only way to stop the elite from taking over the whole planet is to starve them of funds. Starve them of our tax dollars. Starve them of our labor. For, without our assistance, their plans of global domination cannot be completed. And, for any American out there that thinks this is all far fetched, take a good look around you. The gap between the rich & poor is greater now than at any time in our nation’s history, even greater than that of the Guilded Age which led us into the Great Depression. They won’t stop until we’re just another third world nation. They’re greed knows no bounds. Wake up, people, before it’s too late.
Thanks for the heads-up!
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Fri, 02/08/2008 – 10:12am — Jim (not verified)
Re: Exclusive! The FBI Deputizes Business
Frankly, it is time for the far left and far right to come together. Even with differences we both respect the Constitution and seem to be the only folks who see this coming. The CorpaGovernment does not honor the Constitution – they want to keep us squabbling over small matters, a la "divide and conquer" while they trash our liberties and sovereignty for the Only thing they care about – Money and Power.
We can quibble After This Present Danger is over. There are no enemies in a foxhole. *sm*
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