explanation how dare he sell without consulting the state the deal must be cancelled the c.e.o.'s refusal threatens a social plan tensions rise and it's pointed out that the minister has already broken other bosses and their dreams and he will be next this is the last time he will stand in his office or inside the ministry this is the coffee cup of a convicted man. two months later and after a fierce jewel the two men meet again same office different atmosphere. the ministers stand straight and tall but is stunned and defeated the last in the show of strength with the c.e.o. his defeat is also france's defeat. the c.e.o. is patrick cronin. the company sold to the u.s. without consulting the french. in a deal that was sealed in circumstances where the of a spy novel from prying eyes and public opinion on. the sale deals

a terrible blow to french industry and its energy independence today this affair of state is shrouded in a deafening silence. story begins in the city of bell fort this is where the company was blown in eighteen seventy two and since then it has literally shaped the region initially gold as a c m l station corporation of mechanical engineering the company adopted the name in one nine hundred twenty eight when it merged with the company francaise thomas who stood ever since then has played a major part in many major french projects it designed the propulsion system for the normandy then the world's fastest line up and connected france to spain by building a train tunnel under the pyrenees and then built the turbo generators for the biggest power. in the world of germany but for the people of bell fort l.

storm is so much more to deal a ticket bust you distance your mental from the football football devolved usually to good preach see earlier. this year than the devote to this into the the tonight yet to be privy to the universe we call the shoulder view. deputy d.l. . do they you know and who hired. him about it as well or is this information is just true in june one hundred forty four france had been freed but almost destroyed by four years of war contributes to the political project of rebuilding and modernizing the country to put it teach us explain me don't do go next door as. i've been shit. you pour into my nuclear 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

are so eager she'll make it up the thousand beat no load of ideas begin a plan not outwardly. it pretty don't do men do toss pearl since high more. this would prove as was a lot of miletus genie. fawcett that genius brings the group international recognition and it will enjoy a golden age from the one nine hundred sixty s. on words dog set on this from now on they live to toss off. i may not be still in the sixth when there are yet. but the nineteen nineties is when the fall begins a series of strategic errors led the group to bankruptcy in two thousand and three . north of well who's east. the book the evil.

beach. does it. really. does one say. to back spectacularly in two thousand and seven the group recorded the best figures in its history boosted by the t.g.v. historic 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 was selling its energy bridge 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.

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shown to be as has at above it to some to moan. divine unless you do it don't you know what a fifty years out they are but all crazy dog a set of cookies good not all nationalities in most you buy t. call i don't really at all she do most certainly in my i still use my my tools who did do you have it all come out as good meanies could only could know me but only as dolly i did take the most old also be all crazy dog you got job you know policies really. geography i don't know 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 conciseness bustin except also as well as you look at local factors means a lot of these you mean all false so on you i did a google search on deservedly will do food on them is why i still eat the problem

such as each suppose i should say taxi to initiate c. to sure you know but i think he does he do it on i don't show up i got a call shows of course when i press you come among us and. we don't do this and you may. just as you this time. of only you to put them on. the gift minor payment did you meet international well known bookie mfighter she need professor to others ok i met. my half ago they tend to poke at it and as you know person from all. contempt is a pathetic when i see if 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 what upon us what if we don't know is that i thought of that awful days that they did. that stuns that he called me on causing a demagogue a long look six be mad at any of the exception as well as be visualization the i

really think if they emailed good sources and also all of us all caught on to my screws just all along saying oh we're on the true god don't know your dog out see israel are always going to face your heart's forsaken jerusalem building where she had been i was like you seriously don't they come to love point to point to this and he. says what he said are you that still me get my place means that are you that stone he will meet you said and then you are no meant 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 poker have found a. now that 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 home one book on the. conduct key married then to india no i said not

a prince probably as most petitions he has termed don't who could do city of it would let us that was he but you know their policy and they have no trust on cars forced on do not really to she did nationality. this is all tal. old place only only could see we see don't. sense in a comp we don't know when we will not it. is too numb destroys 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 it that going to play morning was set to off you know not discuss them is that they have on a manual that. and you look at shows. on them oh a clean way yonder of said tell us where you go and it doesn't all it took these

people i still false just saw there exists a levee you don't. know if a cleanup is not good i don't you politician at the conclusion do not diplomacy now the next you'll move lobbies don't sit you know 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 to the battle file storm appears to have been won however we have to go back a few years to understand the stakes. were. looked up to 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 crone 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 to confessions about his company do they want from him. you know world of big part of the mafia and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that made stream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smart we need to stop slamming the. door. 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. and. trying to help you come up with a lot of statements seem to be our states of the gulf should take care of the middle east or other we're still committed to the middle east so there's there's a lot of incoherence there but i think saudi arabia is hugely important to the united states and i think trump understands that and this is this is exactly what was driving his kind of commentary on the. killing i think that's at the end of the day it's not going to change the status quo of america's policy so if you go. there. while give easy vowels find this us.

and. the union said yeah yeah it's the rational south. designer of the need the feel. that the new doc was on the. right people in the zuma. system and he. has a small fortune in the beginning to your. fortune for the outnumbered a lot of. more of an active sourced financially.

in twenty years and u.s. department of justice launches an extensive investigation into they suspected the french company of using corrupt practices for more than ten years to will contracts in many countries initial suspicions concern bribes allegedly 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 extends to other suspected cases in taiwan saudi arabia egypt and the bahamas alstom systematic and deliberately corrupt practices are revealed across the globe book was the gay community think if it's long. been given then me it's not do not point out that you answered it as soon as you. like to more than you think. accounting and difficult to.

beat you know i can then assume but if you call it. then you. have you. already condemned a broad it's surprising that alstom 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. even if it was it as you need to be able when you take the a pleasurable us law is the foreign corrupt practice. yes 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 to them overseas it. was it. was a welcome back to limo was it easy example system to communicate. with america. was it easy. example. do i step in with the model that if you. take it if you cannot will please keep boss. as it is unique. but on this one can do i mean again it's links was. with tom's refusal to cooperate with the d.o.j. as 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 the minute. evaded you get on the increase on do it security or give i think. the navy the young twenty. we. all need to become almost. designed to take over you question it's not just for the record ruchi who is under arrest three other former l. storm employees some of whom have been retired for years brought before american courts they plead guilty to corruption judges and the case against al stone becomes overwhelming. solace a song. by the name on plus you do i mean yeah i mean i mean. sixty two has to. be true. do.

the ninth twenty fourteen at the lugs derrius bristol hotel patrick crone meets the general electric see this is the first encounter the first face to face meeting between the two men. he wants to sell the company he hopes to free. himself from the clutches of the american justice system. places a condition on the sale general of a drink we'll settle any fine for. the general electric c.e.o. exempts and commits to the condition having killed two birds with one stone patrick . day. has been and its economic and legal difficulties are evaporating into the american sky perhaps the department of justice will even defer payment of the five patrick crown 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 emotion deval elate people forget it it's an atheist it's one thing to hans it just kind of a new if you heath ask you know you know mom didn't have voted in about these are doing to me if only to get off and see who else on today's date on this you know so happy army do 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 zero it is you need to create died to me and he's always he was he said by the way and question because they were devoted to this young. develop some of these are truly differences but google more. exceptional they need the absolutely most. people who own hundred they look at all the folks that they have it is a daily daemon again if. indeed 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 routine has been imprisoned for a year from executives are detained by the f.b.i. the moment they set foot on american soil so much so that dumbs 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 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 don't shout. because most fifty year. sure something on the earth just cements be. a tank it surely short short short show like this joan surely. like this you should notice she says it isn't like question i think it is a for the more they need to do something more that afic works as well as i can see blood pressure plea to. spec when it by no prove i'm going to buy

community imported you surely can ship. and on the other commodity today patrick runs of a savant makes more sense to. it it is so that it on d. over be accurate. he left you no money goes the place you're safe as a dish out of the economy social issue up by at this hour doc will see postulate a total manali medicare b. now america. last many of them that if i ask you do. you need to malice sit on the economy any day compliment of your commissions that our economy kick only monday call on it is that quick. it you know. or. was it as you need. just give us. just give you an. idea.

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 dollars 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 eight years later. is

beaten by these lawsuits have systematically put pressure on the companies concerned facilitating a purchase by general electric for patrick cronin admitting a connection between any corruption prosecution against him and the acquisition of storm 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. explain. don't. worry. this is a monkey just yet if you do it. if you don't he takes the top should fall to those on the bubble the i'm less sure looks like that he doesn't tell you he does i mean i john was elected sure wish sure not all places can lead to point b.

short used to shoot it is a quite a silly show me a gentle difficult discipline maybe because it is a multicultural emanuel mccrum the successor to our newmont to book in the role of minister of economy shares this opinion. on many occasion act. this group. can quota so you do good i post gate if it's made to fit on this you call it. on the fee as you say. except possibly one of you can a free os. and get up at mc we tried team knows when to level to start and it was until this woman never again we had let there be a no is a demo. tapes he explicit talk and all that lesson yet you only need one he said he can do by pointing not to click on design knew that one day he did a cynical point all sale solving of the os your boss danced on

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merry go round be the one percent. we can all middle of the room sick. real need real. fracking gave americans a lot of new job opportunities i needed to come up here to make some money i could make twenty five thousand dollars as a teacher or i could make fifty thousand dollars a year truck so i chose to drive truck people rush to a small town in north dakota was an unemployment rate of zero percent like gold rush is very very similar to a gold. but this beautiful story ended with pollution and the bus station a lot of people have left here i don't know too many people here and just slow down too much the last jobs that laid off the american dream is changing that's not what

it used to be. and that's a tough reality to deal with. i would prefer to say they're the human spaces must be come into prana terry wish me instead so we have a living in the solar system. and for sure we show the fans on the other on other all this all dishonest system i see this as a way all bring in and developing more technologists new technology so that they can even learn to say increase. in improve the quality of life on earth. to bomb a really was very european in his approach he would be very well suited is the key in brussels for example doesn't represent america is america for better or worse and i think what we're trying to do here is to let the world see what we're all

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