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in the sale of one of france's biggest companies. even before landing into the bush he becomes quite disillusioned the agreement has been leaked to the media taken by surprise he now has to justify his actions. even take it or he knows that a government member is waiting for him. to know montebello minister of the economy is demanding an 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 coffeecup 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
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show of strength with the c.e.o. his defeat is also france's defeat. were. 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 in. 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 thought this is where the company was born in eight hundred seventy two and since then it has literally shaped the region initially gold as a c.m. . the alsatian corporation of mechanical engineering the company adopted the name
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in nineteen twenty eight when it merged with the company francaise thomas who's done 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 liner and connected france to spain by building the train tunnel under the pyrenees and then built the turbo generators for the biggest power station in the world to germany but for the people of bill ford is so much more to deal a ticket passed. from the football football divorced usually to good preach see earlier. this year than he'd evoke to this into the. previous institution. we call the shoulder v. d l skit if you could do that you know and. in about a little is this
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a pharmacist. 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 critique of us explain me don't do. that bin 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 it started immediately. so either she or mad at the thought of the beat now a lot of ideas begin to plan our elderly. men pearl said hi more. soup. this would prove as was a lot of milage it is genie and it are fawcett that genius brings the group international recognition and it will enjoy a golden age for. one hundred sixty zone words. that. you tossed off.
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yet. but the nineteen nineties is when the fall begins a series of strategic errors lead the group to bankruptcy in two thousand and three . of. the. book evil. beach. and look who. does one say else don't bounce 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
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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. thank you. to. my. year yes. now the floor do not use the force as. they are to party. not only take the infamous you why don't get there leave it that way nationals i mean again any cliques. need. the dude are still at that glide here on the floor on the
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under street or says our no mountain bird had however 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. as you test which sean. in a quiver care to take on those for whom he beats internet mean that you won't be shown to be as has at above it to some to moan. on divine ness you 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 ma i still use my my tools who did do you have it all come out as good meanies kodaly can know me but only as dolly i did take the most old also be all crazy dog you got job you know policies
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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 pleasure it new potential in the naked on june. fourth don't succeed to conciseness buskin except as well as you look at local factors means a lot of the you middle falls so low that i think google first on deservedly will buy do food on them is why stop them he called them such as each suppose it should say taxi to initiate c. to shirk 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 not gain. this time. gender when we used to put them on. the gift minor payment did meet international well known book the fight on sinead professor to others ok i met. him i have feel they tend to poke at it and as you
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know person from all. contempt is a pathetic 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 what upon us what if we don't use that at all to do not obey is that it is. that's dunne's that he called me on cause not demagogue a long walk six they made it easy on the exception as well as be visions 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 trolley out on our year old dog out say israel are always where you're going to face your heart's forsaken jerusalem building now she is gone but now it's 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 bug seems helpless against the general electric machine backed by major banks law firms
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and communications specialists the fight already seems to be lost on the poker have found a peep out of 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 on one book. keep them in it than that and yeah no i said not a place 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 on they have no trust on cuz folks on do not really clichy did nationale 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 d. to as you've determined you to know it good person if you can are no one to bug had achieved an incredible act of sheer force he had transformed the general electric
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else dumb pairing into a tripartite partnership with the french state in 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 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 a fake set that you know is where you go and it hasn't caught on it's an equal cookies giveaway still false he saw there exists levy you don't you will know my fake will not not that i don't you politician it to conclusion do not have almost an hour early next year move lobby 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 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
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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 to confessions about his company do they want from him.
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you know world of big partisan logs 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 we're watching closely watching the hawks. there's a saying. i think they're going to be chief justice and then we went through all the country stuff let's idea is really their right to go through this country that he said to give them everything that's lifting the basket.
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in this country except barack this is what we don't understand how we are poor in such a country it's. the nurse into the mines at the same time. he was a non-governmental but. the soon to run off with a similar similar john that i do like. the one that i get by because if you feel if the minutes of phone were not that god can we believe again the melody with the phone about the cup would step with that the plane. would come back to the place story you'd have to see. at least the best the. secure to the. moon. i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter the u.s.
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has over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten point zero or more in tamping each day. eighty five percent of global wealthy loans to the ultra rich eight point six percent market saw a thirty percent rise last year some with four hundred to five hundred trade per second per second and bitcoin rose to twenty thousand dollars. china is building a two point one billion dollar a i industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only numbers you need remember in one one this will show you can't afford to miss the one and only. 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 beneficial suspicions concern bribes allegedly made to members of the indonesian government in return for the contract to build
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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 else dumb systematic and deliberately corrupt practices are revealed across the globe. if it's long. been given then they. do not point out. if that. is exactly more. difficult. to do now as you can then the. political and. although we already condemned a broad it's surprising that alstom should simply brush the us prosecution of.
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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 u.s. 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. overs it isn't do that was it says it. has to i mean they can make it a lot us want to see what it was a walk about a limo visit easy example system to communicate your door in. a battle did you know was it easy people it was actual. example of
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a sat phone. if you. take it if. it is unique. with a refusal to cooperate the d.o.j. is prosecution intensified in april twenty fifth team while traveling to the united states frederick a one time alstom executive was arrested. you won't believe. just evaded. security. i think. we.
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are you cautious it's not just for the record ruchi who is 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 mean. you don't. want to do. in paris on february 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 chronos tense above all he wants to sell for the company he hopes to free. himself from the clutches of the american justice
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system therefore places a condition on the sale general a big trick. settle any fine for. the general electric c.e.o. excepts 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 crown this is the exact moment when irrevocably became america's. next. that's what
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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 a few heath you know you know mom didn't have boarded up these are doing to me in a way to do that if you get off and see who also wanted to 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 not to appease already a problem another country under circuity you know it is you need a few great guy to me and he's always he was he said by the way and question because they were devoted to the place you. develop some of these are truly differences but google more. exceptional play nate the absolutely most. people have gone hundred they look at all the folks that they have it isn't only damon
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again if. indeed it is unique despite several alstom executives being arrested from twenty fourteen on wood 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 is false. forty a week like too long 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. on. good.
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economists fifty years. this yourself and on the just cements be. a tank it surely short short short show like this joan surely. like this you should know if she says it isn't like question thank you there's a full picture of the model. who sent you know that a fake works as well as i can see blood pressure pretty to. spec from that but no proof i'm going to sweat by committee imported you surely can ship. and on your own do do do but other commodity today patrick runs of a savant makes more sense to. it it is so that it on the over be accurate. enough you know money goes. place your safe i had this shot of the economy social issue up by at this hour doc won't see
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postulate a total manali medicare b. now america is now in a money under that if i ask you do. you need to malice sit on your guy any day compliment of your commissions that i can to make it only monday call on it is that quick. it you know. or. was it as you need.
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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 that record is beaten by these lawsuits have systematically put pressure on the companies concerned facilitating the 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.
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so. don't. worry. this is a monkey with yeshua doing. the feel he takes the top should fall to those on the bubble to them was sure looks like he does it all yet it is a major was elected sure wish sure not all places can lead to a point we should choose to see it is a quite a silly show me a gentle typical discipline maybe more because it is a multicultural emanuel mccrum successor to our newmont to bargain the role of minister of economy shares this opinion is it was it a good act. mr khan this. moment three i dig it it can quota so you do good i post gate if it's made to fit on this you call
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it. on the fee as you say. except possible have you can a free os. and get up at mc we tried team knows want to level out of that 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 they and their lesson yet you only need one he said he can do by pointing not to click on his all knew that one day he did a cynical paul c.l. salvina they asked your boss danced on a screws that hold that he knew existed then they. really should hold onto it is it persones if i did a quark which was a. please. id tweak citron surely sell your marshall so you can. get him to go to tweak. the whole mimo you have to live off the money i did a book. duvalle judicial notice i'm annoyed with people vehemently chris i go above
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it all meant dog composite. of wash day go to vote on who plays. it as sort of bhakti he concludes on chanel eight people each of you know mon. been there some eighty dos a lot of men can crawl to to memory. ah there which will be a tweak it a let's read just a top guys george will likely to lead on monday are absolute. bitches up a whole pond to assess s.t.r. before i did a toy before by davies a lot less sampling ellie's defeat look camilla's action committee was announced and it he played us all saying yeah you can book at two o'clock or six hundred ms america or audrey miters the thickness effect and you get it could it be that mr b.s. reporter was here you know he can image the form of the not the mark of the l.a. nyssa. systematic modern facility levels of police their media in
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a police spirit as an enemy gained again you develop the nationally that immunity can cure all it i should be able to compete on skid not i was all geniuses. u.s. secretary of state mike pompei always declared multi-lateralism 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 universal is ation of american law and limited sovereignty for the rest of the world. going to be. the worst point of the losses since going to. take us back. to bush i. told what was going to go
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with. you and you those. kids that you know. your good fortune just preached. christmas to you personally good for. the customer because. in this economy who gets in debt is the winner because everyone's going to default simultaneously and with the biggest debt you're the winner that's it so absolutely right to get to from twenty two to thirty to thirty five to forty trillion dollars and that's the best way to grow the economy without doubt.
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play. the result. is that the public interest. of home for the. british prime minister gets to keep her job off to surviving a confidence vote by members of her own.

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