An astonishing re-interpretation of Piaf's "La Foule" The Crowd in english. by this young artist "Al.Hy"
It is well worth viewing and listening to this video live-no playback stuff this evening (21/04/2012) It is well worth suffering through TF1 and Co's publicity.
France and the french show business system (the establishment) have at last allowed young vocal talent to express itself and there is lots of it. TF1 by allowing practically instantaneous video downloading is a clearly helping to open the dam flood gates. I never thought that one day I would compliment TF1 Cheers TF1 and The Voice.
"Behind each big (massive) fortune lies a big crime"
Percieved World Corruption Map
quoted from Harlan Cobens Thriller, entitled Promise me _ Promets -moi in the french version I have just finished reading. The remark is attributed to Coben's character, The Big Jake, on page 305 edition pocket (Fr)
I must admit that, such a thought, stated so succinctly, had until now, occured to me, at least not consciously.
Assuming Coben's remark is not a reflection on his own revenue I shall take the remark litteraly and in doing so little did I suspect that the subject is a HOT TOPIC INDEED.
Fact or Fiction
The apparently outrageousness of such a statement shocked me into thought. How far is such a statement true?
I believe that I have a scientific mind and as such facts, evidence must be acquired.
From recent memory what evidence could I muster up?
Numerous cases of dictatorships: for example from recent revolutions in norther africa-The Magreb: Lybia of Gaddafit(1,2), Tunisia of Sidi Bouazid(3,4,5) Egypt's Mubarak, (6,7) and lately Syria's "Marie Antoinette" (8) came rapidly to mind and are references below [1 to 8]
and what about the rest of Africa, most of us from memory can remember a few scandelous and bloody examples: Idi Amin Dada, in Uganda and Jean-Bedel Bokassa (president of Central African Republic) [9,10 ] The length of my first lists are becoming uncumfortably long [ 11 to 17 and far from exaustive!]
In Europe of course Vladimir Putin is a prime suspect.
Reference 7 below brought my attention to Forbres - great defenser of great wealth. This provides an interesting list of people and companies to examine in depth, enought to draw up a reliable statistical population one would think.
20 Aug 2005 – Richard Drayton: The wealth of the west was built on Africa's exploitation ... As Malachy Postlethwayt, the political economist, candidly put it in 1745: ... For the colonial Americas were more Africa's creation than Europe's: ...
The Crusades contributed to increase the wealth of the Church and the power of ... The crusades could not fail to affect in many ways the life of western Europe. ... As to thepolitical effects of the Crusades, they helped to break down the power ...
Google Search Key: Wealth and Politicians Corruption in Western Europe
It rapidly becomes obvious that Political corruption is a central figure in this theme
books.google.fr/books?isbn=9287163553...Council of Europe. Octopus Programme - 2008 - Law - 218 pages Those who have greater wealth can purchase a greater voice in the outcome of the public ... but is also controversial in the established democracies of western Europe. ...Other types of political finances are clearly illegal and corrupt.79 These ...
File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - Quick View by MA GOLDEN - 2001 - Cited by 93 - Related articles litical corruption in a democratic context occurs despite a wealth of ..... Carbó, eds.,Political Corruption in Europe and Latin America (Bassingstoke: Macmillan, ...Political Parties in Italy: A Case of Systemic Corruption,” West European Politics...
Everyone knows what political corruption is, but it is notoriously hard to define. .....Italy is probably considered the most corrupt country in western Europe. .... Marcos bullied wealthy families into giving up their holdings to his family and friends.
12 Jan 2012 – If the West is really serious about combating corruption in the rest of the world, it can ... cost Russian taxpayers in lost income, jobs, and national wealth? ...And neither the British legal system, nor the British political system, cares ...West Europeans, that is, with a large dose of Eastern Europeans on hand to ...
Other peoples, after having thrown off colonial domination, still lag in wealth and power... He believes this is due to the societies' military and political advantages, ...Europewas the ultimate beneficiary of Eurasia's East-West orientation: in the ...
20 Jun 2011 – Former Tunisian president, Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, found guilty of theft... deceived into leaving Tunisia, has accumulated vast wealth from his ...
7 Feb 2011 – ABC News and The Guardian have run stories putting Mubarak's wealthas high as $70 billion. The Forbes wealth team finds this to be highly ...
IdiAmin, who became known as the 'Butcher of Uganda' for his brutal, despotic rule whilst president of Uganda in the 1970s, is possibly the most notorious of all... cf. also recent references BLACK-AFRICA below?
15 Nov 2010 – Three African leaders and their families are to be investigated in Paris for allegedly embezzling state funds to acquire vast assets in France.
14 nov. 2011 – LE CERCLE. La Commission Européenne souhaite renforcer la répression des délits d'initiés, et de nombreux autres abus de marché tels que ...
25 nov. 2010 – La justice américaine met la touche finale à une enquête de trois ans pour délit d'initié, qui pourrait être la plus vaste de l'histoire du pays.
"It would be very convenient to start this article by stating that corruption is a challenge mainly for public officials in developing countries and that it is unrelated to the current global crisis.
I also wish I could claim that corruption has declined worldwide as a result of the global anti-corruption and awareness-raising campaign, the many effective anti-corruption commissions, and the recognition that poverty and culture are the reasons why corruption prevails.
But none of it is true."
"In truth, anti corruption commissions, revised laws and
awareness-raising campaigns have had limited success. Focus on petty or
administrative bribery has been misplaced at the expense of high-level
political corruption."
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