{"id":1620,"date":"2010-02-28T14:49:16","date_gmt":"2010-02-28T03:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sjaroundthebay.org\/?p=1620"},"modified":"2010-02-28T14:51:05","modified_gmt":"2010-02-28T03:51:05","slug":"from-the-bbc-on-the-trail-of-the-vultures-picking-over-liberias-debt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sjaroundthebay.org\/?p=1620","title":{"rendered":"From the BBC &#8211; On the trail of the vultures picking over Liberia&#8217;s debt"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"mr_social_sharing_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t<!-- Social Sharing Toolkit v2.2 --><\/div><p>From Blog the Debt (Jubilee USA)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/programmes\/newsnight\/8538889.stm\"><strong>VIDEO: On the trail of the vultures picking over Liberia&#8217;s debt<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Posted: 26 Feb 2010 11:55 AM PST<\/p>\n<p><em>Watch BBC Newsnight&#8217;s great report on vulture funds in Liberia. It really makes the complicated story of vulture funds come to life. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>BBC reports: Over the last five years the UK, US and other countries have written off billions of dollars in loans to the world&#8217;s poorest countries in an attempt to make poverty history.<\/p>\n<p>But a small group of ruthless financiers &#8211; the vulture funds &#8211; have been trying to divert that money into their own pockets. Greg Palast reports on their latest target, Liberia, and on moves by UK MPs, prompted in part by a previous Newsnight investigation, to outlaw such funds.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/programmes\/newsnight\/8538889.stm\">WATCH VIDEO HERE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"mr_social_sharing_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t<!-- Social Sharing Toolkit v2.2 --><\/div>\n<p>From Blog the Debt (Jubilee USA)<\/p>\n<p>VIDEO: On the trail of the vultures picking over Liberia&#8217;s debt<\/p>\n<p>Posted: 26 Feb 2010 11:55 AM PST<\/p>\n<p>Watch BBC Newsnight&#8217;s great report on vulture funds in Liberia. It really makes the complicated story of vulture funds come to life. <\/p>\n<p>BBC reports: Over the last five years [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[52,93],"class_list":["post-1620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-messages","tag-debt","tag-vulture-funds","odd"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sjaroundthebay.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sjaroundthebay.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sjaroundthebay.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sjaroundthebay.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sjaroundthebay.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1620"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sjaroundthebay.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1623,"href":"https:\/\/sjaroundthebay.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1620\/revisions\/1623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sjaroundthebay.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sjaroundthebay.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sjaroundthebay.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}