but he sold to the u.s. without consulting the french data. 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 bell ford this is where the company was blown in eighteen 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 one 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 and then built the turbo generators for the biggest power station in the world a gemini but for the people of bell fort else dome is so much more to feel that a ticket. as wonderful wolf will the vault usually two would preach the early. jazz this year and the seed 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 give you. an opposite of you to echo bank do they you know and these are two hundred. in a bottle as well or is this a pharmacy that. in june one thousand and 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 put it teach us the free me don't do. that binge. 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 immediately knew. that he thought it would be no no no just begin the plan now with. it pre-dawn to do men save him more. soup. for you for proof as to see that 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 dog set on this from now on they live off yeah. it's. still in six words 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 well which is a nice for the. book evolved. beach in. this show and looked astrally does it who. did all to pieces should do movie bows one say l. stone 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 stark 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 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 just. take. them one book you see and if two. matches. year yes syquest voted late this year they volunteer basis. now the floor do not use the force as i stone put it washed they are too potty. generally take the infamous you i don't get to leave it and they can deny it creaks and they need to do it are so at that clark is on the floor on the under street for says are no mountain berg and whether 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.

care i take orders from your home he eats internet to me that you own the best i says at above 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 a set of cookies did not cause for all action are immature by t. call i don't really at all she do most certainly in my i still use my my to do you have it all come out as good meanies could only can know me like dolly asked dolly i did think don't do most old also be all crazy dog you got job you know policies really mouth do you know who other no war is declared between the two men and the first battle takes place in a public arena sure going to closure it new potato naked on june. fourth don't succeed to conciseness bustin except i also think if you look at local factors

means a lot of you do you mean all false so on you i did google first on deserve all doing well by do food on them is wise to eat the problem such as each suppose it should sit x e t in a she see you know but i think he does she do it on i dont. got it all shows off her ass when i press you come one go. this and you may. just as you this time. and of on me you to put them on. give it minor payment the meat is no it don't go well no one bookie fight on she need not 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 their i phone to do not obey

is that they did. that's done badly call it causing a demagogue along book six premeditated the exception as well as be visionary i really think if they e-mailed good sources and also all of us all caught on to my scrooge just all along saying we're on the trolley out on the idea of 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 when 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 man to berg 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. 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. key. then to india no i said not a place probably as most petitions he has termed don't who could use a thick of it would let us to proceed you know the policy and they have no trust on cuz folks on do not really clichy did nationale if. this is all polish. old place only only could say we don't. send in a comp we don't know when we will not it. is too numb detour 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 alstom 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 that they often than not discuss the music they play out 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 hasn't been at all it's equal to a peacekeeper why steal falls just saw there exists a levee you don't you will know my roof a cannot is not that i don't you care to conclusion do not have almost an hour early next you'll move lobbies don't sit you know use their own terms of people these any on june twenty first twenty fourteen the agreement is signed by general electric alstom 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. 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 all end. how did one ranking alstom executive lose everything overnight and. why is he. these men who question him so insistently. want confessions about his company do they want from him. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to get off of the world of politics small business i'm show business i'll see that.

you know world big partisan movie 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 smarter 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 truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. since. the losses. thanks. to bush. balls but watts still ended up when you got to what.

you're. doing you know it's not so. good fortune just a creature who has a purpose to have played a. customer because they. i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter the u.s. has over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crime tamping each day. eighty five percent of global wealth you loans to the ultra rich eight point six percent market saw a thirty percent rise last year some with four hundred to five hundred three per second per second and bitcoin rose to twenty thousand dollars. china's building two

point billion one. ai industrial park but don't but the numbers overwhelm. the only number you need to remember is one one doesn't show you can't afford to miss the one and only. luck. there is a saying. i think there could be chief justice and then you went through all the countries from let's idea is really their right to go to his country he said if we give them everything slipped into fast. this country. this is what we don't understand how we are in such a country. the nicer to the ones at the same time. noticing fundamental.

the soon to one of the similar similar to me. i do not. need one of those if you feel if the minutes of kong were not that god can we believe again in the world with the phone without the food without the plane. would come back to the place story you have to see. it at least in the best the. mood for. the. next good earth but survival guide book stacie just like all the start simply at least. be sure it's still there you don't get it back. oh heck no good susan repatriations forget the rest is seven years. till the separate march guys are for. in twenty four tests the 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 and extends to other suspected cases in taiwan saudi arabia egypt and the bahamas systematic and deliberately corrupt practices are revealed across the globe. even then they. do not point out. that. more. difficult. to do now then the. political and.

then it's. already condemned abroad it's surprising that alstom should simply brush the u.s. prosecution of. corporate leaders are convinced that the u.s. department of justice has no jurisdiction over events that occurred outside the u.s. territory. even if it was it as you need to be able when you take the a political u.s. law is the foreign corrupt practices act. 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. was it.

it was a walk up the limo was it easy example system to communicate you. know was it easy. example. do i step in would be most of america if you don't wish you could 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 a can do with tom's refusal to cooperate the d.o.j. is prosecution intensified in april twenty fifth teen 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 don't do it security do you forgive i think did. the

navy don't learn quickly. we. need to become almost. designed to take over you. 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. solves a song. by the number one perceived i'm yeah i'm yeah. sixty two i. tell you. you don't know this when all are. on is what if you did do long division i played. in paris on february the ninth twenty fourteen at the lug syria. bristol hotel patrick crone meets the general electric's. this is the first encounter the first face to

face meeting between the two men. tense. the company he hopes to free both. from the clutches of the american justice system. places a condition on the sale general electric 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 . day. and its economic difficulties are evaporating into the american sky perhaps the department of justice will even defer payment of the five patrick this is the exact moment when irrevocably became america.

that's a city a genetically be a very. well so you could call it if you see the fall of the elite people if you get it and they don't think once it just kind of in you if you heath ask you know you know mom didn't have parted in about these are doing to me if only 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. indias i want it more for before too general sickly delusional talk is already a problem another country under circuity zero 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 it'll be differences because it will be on more.

exceptional play need the absolute. hundred they 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 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 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 yes and use a simple ordeal would 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 last fifteen. or so. economists fifty year. sure saturn on the earth just cements be. a tank it surely sure sure sure sure like this joan sure. sure nuff says. the question i think it is the more they. do something more there are fake works as well as a conceivable. spec but no proof i'm going to buy a community. you surely can't ship. and on the other commodity today patrick runs of a savant makes more sense to. it at emmel is so that it on

the over be accurate. l.f. you know money goes. a place you're safe allowed this shot of the commie socialist . and at this hour the quo city postulate a total manali medicare bonaire merica. last many of them that if asked do you see even unit m.l. is sitting there going at it a compliment of your commissions that our economy only monday call on it is that. the commission is that i can to meet all of the loss of innocent and internet to barrackpore develop possibly. middle class or is it as you need intellect. just give you a feel it of course a guest of your fellow parliament us at the fair listen illegal problem is going really elaborate that we are numb just a sock usually 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. get your wish should not all. this report made. emanuel mccrum. successor to on

a monthly book in the role of minister of economy shares this opinion. page acts. this group. can pull over so you do good i post get if it's made to fit on this you call it. on the fee as you say could end up alcoholic suppose you don't have you can a freelance. second look which went to him. and get up at mc we tried to even knows what level to start and that was until this woman never again we had let there be no is a demo. tapes he explicit talk at all that lesson yet you only need one he said he can do by pointing not to click on the news i want to he did a cynical point i'll say also mean that they are still plush danced on a screws that hold that he knew existed then they. really should hold on to it is it persones if i did a quark which was a. you know to please. a tweak citron surely sell your marshall if she can.

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u.s. secretary of state mike pompei always declared i'll take a lot of them in international affairs a failure what is needed according to him is a new liberal order led by the united states such an order calls into question some important issues does this mean the universe was ation of american law and limited sovereignty of the rest of the world. yet there is a saying. look there on the cheap. and then you went through all the countries don't let the idea of the right things go to us companies he said if you give them everything they do to bust. this country. this is what we don't understand how we are in such contracts.

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