Posted on 03/19/2013 3:31:04 PM PDT by Nachum
The director of a documentary on fracking has withdrawn from a conference hosted by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Oxford University after organizers refused to screen a clip from his film that was critical of Russia.
Phelim McAleer, the co-director of FrackNation, was scheduled to screen clips from his film at a conference on international commodity prices being held Wednesday and Thursday at IMF headquarters in Washington, D.C.
However, organizers informed McAleer that one of the clips concerning Russia’s manipulation of Eastern Europe’s gas supply would not be shown. McAleer withdrew from the conference as a result and told the Washington Free Beacon that IMF’s decision is “an attack on journalism and an attack on free speech.”
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The IMF may very well believe that Russia is manipulating the oil market. They may even have castigated Russia privately for its behavior, but it may be part of the diplomatic process not to state this publicly.
Screening a film with this accusation could be viewed as IMF publicly acknowledging that Russia is manipulating the oil market.
I tend to be in favor of organizations that depend on taxpayer money to report their plans and internal documents to the taxpayers that fund them. I also tend to believe there shouldn't be an IMF at all. But unless we as a nation decide to force them to be more public, or force them out of existence, we have to tolerate this behavior as typical diplomatic obscurantism.
Sure glad I have my copy of “Dr. Strangelove”.
Well, let me finish, Dmitri. Let me finish, Dmitri. Well, listen, how do you think I feel about it? Can you imagine how I feel about it, Dmitri? Why do you think I’m calling you? Just to say hello?
Of course I like to speak to you! Of course I like to say hello! Not now, but any time, Dmitri. I’m just calling up to tell you something terrible has happened.
It’s a friendly call. Of course, it’s a friendly call. Listen, if it wasn’t friendly, you probably wouldn’t have even got it.
“Russia manipulating EU gas supplies”
Translation: Russia not allowing the EU to own, control and direct every aspect of the Russian gas industry.
The EU is free to buy gas elsewhere, are they not?
“If his film was critical of the US of A they would have paid him to come”
So true
The director of a documentary on fracking has withdrawn from a conference hosted by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Oxford University... organizers informed McAleer that one of the clips concerning Russia’s manipulation of Eastern Europe’s gas supply would not be shown.
Bump
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