belding the french data is. in a deal that was sealed in circumstances worthy of a spy novel and far from prying eyes and public opinion. the sale deals a terrible blow to french industry and its energy independence today this affair of state is shrouded in a deafening silence. alstom story begins in the city of belfort this is where the company was born in eight hundred seventy two and since then it has literally shaped to the region initially gold as a c.m. the alsatian corporation of mechanical engineering the company adopted the name alstom in nine hundred twenty eight when it merged with the company francaise thomas hoost and ever since then else dumb has played a major part in many major french projects it designed the propulsion system for the normandy then the world's fastest liner and connected france to spain by

building a train tunnel under the pyrenees then built the turbo generators for the biggest power station in the world in general but for the people of belfort else dome is so much more to feel that a ticket cost. us wonderful wolf will divorce if will he too would preach the early. jazz this year in the cd of rope two days into this one will nationals and the tonight have to be privy to the universe we have well the police will do he. left it to you d.n. . bi do they you know and he's a new hire. in about it as well or is this a pharmacy that. in june one thousand forty four france had been freed but almost destroyed by four years of war else dumb contributes to the political project of rebuilding and modernizing the country to pretty teach us the creamy don't do.

you pointed out it's not any good enough look if you don't it will if you want. to . get anything out loud then you started in august when you. said either she omitted that he thought it would be a lot of ideas begin a plan not outwardly. it pretty don't do men since i'm more. use for proof as i said i don't don't milledge this genie. that genius brings the group international recognition and it will enjoy a golden age from the one nine hundred sixty s. own words. on this from now on they live off yeah. it's. still in six thousand now. but the nineteen nineties is when the fall begins

a series of strategic errors led the group to bankruptcy in two thousand and three . of. the schnaase the book evolve well jake shops and i preach in. this show and look as to what he does if who doesn't promote. me a. little piece should do movie buzz one say else film bounced back spectacularly in two thousand and seven the group recorded the best figures in its history boosted by the t.g.v. as his start speed record worldwide by eight hundred million viewers why then in two thousand and fourteen did everything suddenly change on the morning of the twenty fourth of april bloomberg revealed that in a surprise move else dome was selling its energy branch which accounted for three quarters of the entire group to the american giant general electric and the economy minister at the time. is done. so.

you. take your. calendar. on one block you see as if to. my just. year yes syquest voted late this year the volunteer basis with a young america now the floor do not use the force as a stone put it to patti. generally take the infamous you i don't get to leave it badly nationals and they can deny it creaks up and they need to do it are still at that clock in the throne don't understand for says our no more to brag about how ever been questioning patrick grown over his intentions for months with his back to the wall his reaction is a media and a particularly strong among who also comport. in the

cover care but take on those for whom he eats internet media joined the b.s. yep is. it to some to moan. and of on this you it don't you know what a fifty years out they are but all crazy dog doo set out so please give no cause for all action are immature by t. call i don't really at all she do most certainly in ma i still use my my to do you have it all come out as good meanies totally going to me. as dolly i did take the most old also be all crazy dog jowett you know policies really mouth that there are no war is declared between the two men and the first battle takes place in a public arena shows on the pleasure it new potential in the naked on june. fourth don't succeed to. accept i also think as you look at the vatican is means a lot of the you mean all false so on you i did

a google search on deservedly willow to food on them is wise to eat the problem such as each suppose it should sit in a sheet see you know but i think he does he do it on i don't. got it all shows of course when i press you can one go out and. this and you may. just as you this time just invest and of on me you to put them on. the gift mind of payment the me too suggestion don't go well no one bookie fight all she need professor to this ok i met. my half ago they tend to poke at it and as you know person from all. capital patrick when i see steve i felt unable to sway public opinion patrick crown receives heavy support from his american partner general electric together they launch a media counter offensive upon us what if we don't use that at all to do not obey is that it is. that's done that because it means of course not demagogue the long

walk six they made it easy on the exception as one of the big vision is in the early plagued if they e-mailed good sources and also all of us all caught on to my scrooge just all along saying oh we're on the trail don't know your life dog out say israel are always where you're going to face your heart's forsaken jerusalem building or she want to know what you seriously don't they come to love point to point to this and he. says when he said are you that still me get my place needs allow you that stone it will meet you said and then you are no man to bug seems helpless against the general electric machine backed by major banks law firms and communications specialists the fight already seems to be lost on the program perhaps. and it is unique as a dentist as soon as tim but in a dramatic twist the minister pulls a new weapon from his pocket and invites himself to the negotiating table you know now to take on one book on the. key america

then to india no i said not a place probably as most petitions he has termed don't you could a city of it would let us to proceed you know the policy and they have no trust on cuz folks on do not really clichy denies your knowledge if. this is all tal. old place only only could see we don't do that. says in a comp we don't know when we will not it. is too numb ditto as you've determined you to know it good person if you can are no one to book had achieved an incredible act of sheer force he had transformed the general electric else dumb pairing into a tripartite partnership with the french state in the areas of renewable energy and nuclear power it appeared that french interest and sovereignty had been preserved so it was at that going to play morning was that they often than not discuss them as if they have on a manual that. and you look at shows. on the mall

a clean way yonder a fail safe that you know is where you go and it doesn't all it's equal to the keys do you want to steal false she saw ruefully there exists a levee you don't. roof a clean up not that i don't you care to conclusion do not have almost an hour early next you'll move lobbies don't see to not use their own tam's of people these any on june twenty first twenty fourteen the agreement is signed by general electric and the french state the sale has become an alliance at this moment the battle file storm appears to have been won however we have to go back a few years to understand the stakes. of the fourteen months fourteen months in a foreign prison fourteen months of never seeing

a familiar face. bend and by all still management ignored by patrick grown and forgotten by his country. fourteen months of wondering when it will end. how did one hundred ranking alstom executive lose everything overnight. why is he. these men who question him so insistently. want confessions about his company do they want from him. when the whole make this manufacture come sentenced to the public wells. when the ruling classes protect themselves. when the crime and

merry go round lifts only the one percent. we can all middle of the room sick. i mean real news is. you know world of big partisan movies lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smart we need to stop slamming the door on the back and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the troops the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks. after almost two years in office many

still question whether donald trump has a coherent foreign policy the same cannot be said about the president's national security adviser john bolton when you think of bolton the word subtlety and diplomacy don't come to mind so is there now a bolton doctrine. in twenty years a u.s. department of justice launches an extensive investigation into no stone they suspect the french company of using corrupt practices for more than ten years to will contracts in many countries initial suspicions concern bribes. legibly made to members of the indonesian government in return for the contract to build a power station refuses to cooperate with the u.s. department of justice but the investigation continues regardless and extends to other suspected cases in taiwan saudi arabia egypt and the bahamas systematic and

elaborately corrupt practices are revealed across the globe book with again if it's not. been given then me it's not do not point out to answer let us finish off that . is exactly more do you think. accounting and political if you. don't you know you can i can then assume for that eclipse. then. you will go all the way already condemned abroad it's surprising that all storm should simply brush the us prosecution of. corporate leaders are convinced that the us department of justice has no jurisdiction over events that occurred outside the us territory. as.

a prop dogs. use it as you need to be able when you take the a pleasurable us law is the foreign corrupt practices act home you have sepia this allows the d.o.j. or department of justice to prosecute a foreign company for corrupt practices not on u.s. soil provided that the company has an identifiable connection to the united states after them over. was it. a limo was it easy for example. no was it easy. example. if you. take it if. it is unique.

with tom's refusal to cooperate the d.o.j. is prosecution intensified in april twenty first team while traveling to the united states frederick a one time alstom executive was arrested. you won't believe. as you just evaded. security or give i think did. we. were you question it's not just for the record ruchi who's under arrest three other former employees some of whom have been retired for years before american courts

they plead guilty to corruption judges and the case against becomes overwhelming. you do i mean yeah i'm. sixty two i. tell you. you don't. do long division i've been. in paris on february the ninth twenty fourteen at the log sirius bristol hotel patrick crone meets the general electric see this is the first encounter the first face to face meeting between the two men chronos temps above all he wants to sell the company he hopes to. and himself from the clutches of the american justice system. places a condition on the sale general of a trick will settle any fine for. the general electric c.e.o.

accept and commits to the condition having killed two birds with one stone patrick . and its economic and legal difficulties are evaporating into the american sky perhaps the department of justice will even defer the payment of the five patrick this is the exact moment when irrevocably became america. that's what he did genetically it be a that he. said. so you could call it

if you see deval in the late people forget it it's an atheist it's one thing to a horse it just kind of a new if you heath ask you know you know mom didn't have boarded up these are doing to me either late to get off and see who else on today's date on this you know solo up the army do i don't see the book is already doing these i want it more for peaceful to general sickly delusional talk is already a problem another country under circuity you know it is you need to create died to me and please always he said by the way and question because they were devoted to the place you. develop some of these are truly differences but google feel more. exceptional they need to be absolutely more. people they only had to take a look at all the folks that they have it is a daily daemon again. within days it is unique despite several alstom executives being arrested from twenty fourteen onward patrick cronin his team went

to the united states several times never arrested nor concerned they could proceed with the sale to general electric and peace it's hard to imagine that at the same time very true she has been imprisoned for a year from executives or detained by the f.b.i. the moment they set foot on american soil so much so that else dom's director of legal affairs urges company managers not to travel to the united states strangely patrick cronin remains welcome tonight to news is false and use a simple ordeal will look like tomorrow in france however patrick runs astonishing ability to enter and leave the united states on hindered is raising eyebrows he's questioned by m.p. jack ma at the french national assembly. hall. yeah. because most fifty year. sure saturn on the earth just cements be. a tank it surely sure sure sure sure sure.

sure yes says. question thank you to the more those. who do something or that effect works as well as i can see it. but no proof i'm going for it by committee. surely can't ship. and on the other commodity today patrick runs a vase of makes more sense to. it at emmel is so that it on the over be accurate. he left you no money goes the place you're safe. this out of the economy social issue up and at this hour doc won't see postulate a total manali medicare being there merica the last element of that if i ask you do

you see even you need to malice sit on your car and it's a compliment of your commissions that our economy only monday call on it is out. that commission is that i can to meet all of your the loss of innocent an internet . or develop possibly. middle class or is it as you need intellect just couldn't feel it of course a case could be until about among us at a fair listening regional problem or to a new western media loves that we are numb some peers e.g. a p.c. . thank you. and this isn't general electric's first attempt over ten years the american company has bought five companies that were being prosecuted by the department of justice for corruption the pattern is always the same an investigation is conducted and an

acquisition unfolds under the threat of conviction and a severe fine which is avoided have been american british and french companies a twenty six million dollar fine was paid by the gray company in two thousand and seven after it was bought by general electric this was described as the biggest fine ever imposed under the foreign corrupt practices act eighty years later that record is beaten by these lawsuits have systematically put pressure on the companies concerned facilitating a purchase by general electric for patrick cron admitting a connection between any corruption prosecution against him and the acquisition of als dom is out of the question according to the c.e.o. the reasons were purely financial some experts and journalists even said the same thing at the time of the sale. if you don't get. it does she explain more. don't.

worry. if you don't. wish cheryl don't. disappoint me. emanuel mark ron's. successor to the no money to bargain the role of minister of economy shares this opinion is it was it a good act. mr cohen this. moment three d. could sit it can pull over so you do good i've been skate if it's made to fit on this you call it. on the fee as you say could end up alcoholic suppose you'll have you can a freelance. second look which went to him. and you know but nick we tried team knows

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