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Post accident memory problems sometimes means I get a little mixed up.
I note your comment about Tends. You are of course correct........but corruption is proving a critical problem in the World Today.
We need Checks and Balances; Audits; transparency; accountability; Ethics audits to ensure the world order does not change to Corporatism........
Michelle Clarke
Ní thagaim leis an ainilís go hiomlán anseo.
Tá staid ar bun i nDarfúr na Súdáine. Is cuí a léamh go hoibeachtúil , an locht a aithint agus leigheas a mholadh.
Deir comhfhreagraí anseo go bhfuil amhras ar gach pairtí anseo bheith claonta, go bhfuil ba le chur treasna acu. B'fhéidir gurb ea.
Ach is dual dúinn an fhirinne a scagadh comh maith agus is féidir linn gan dul i mbun seancheisteanna agus seanfhreagraí.
Is mithid dúinn bheith ionraic.
Más "cinedhiothú", beidh ar na NA gníomhú , dar leo, agus i láthair na huaire, ní hacmhainn dóibh, nó ní toil dóibh de dheasca a mbaill a bheith ar a mhalairt de meon. Íoróineach go leor, is é na SAM is mó a ghlaonn cinedhiothú ar staid na taobh tíre sin.
Más "coireanna cogaidh" iad, ní dual dona NA gníomhú, dar leo.
Ach is dual gníomhú toisc go bhfuil éagóir mhór ar bun. Glaoimis ar ár rialtais fhéin gníomhú agus a dtoil a chur le toil na NA.
Notice the absence of "tends" in the second clause and then try to demarcate power and absolute power.
It was Lord Acton (1887) who said: "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. "
Note the word "tends".
A Judge once shared a few words of wisdom - 'Beware of the vested industry'.
Your article brings this to mind.
I lived in Zimbabwe and have a little knowledge of the Continent of Africa, the outcome of the Congress of Berlin in the 1870's when it was divided into 48 countries without any regard from tribal entities etc.
The continent provided the spoils, the plantations, the oil, the rubber etc. The Congo in those days was known as 'King Leopold's Garden (Belgium).
Our own Roger Casement is in fact the first Humanitarian acknowledged by the English for his in situ reports of the atrocities, plundering, looting and violence in Africa and South America. The Amazon Journal (three volumes) by Roger Casement is worth reading.
I want to ask one question - it relates to Capitalism, assets, and powerful entrepreneurs/stakeholders today (formerly landlords).
Lord Mansfield said (again 1800's) 'Absolute power corrupts and power corrupts absolutely' .......... No greedy human being appears to have paid any heed yet....'
Back to the question: Who accepts the funds/assets from corrupt Country Leaders, Entreprenneurs, corrupt beings/companies etc.
I note the following:
Iraq pleads for Asset return (ex. BBC newspage).
Yes, Iraq, like others, is questioning the assets frozen overseas. They ask that the funds be returned to fund humanitarian and reconstruction needs.
Now here is the scary part. $1.6 Billion is invested in the US; $600 m. is placed elsewhere. There is a UN Security Resolution dated 22nd May 2003 from Security Council via the US Ambassador. Then take account of the Oil Commodity and the vested interests there............crippling is the word that comes to mind.
As far as I am aware this has not been repaid.
Lurking all round Africa are predators for Oil, Diamonds, minerals, cheap labour....etc. Currency is a powerful tool for newly emerging leaders and alas money is often not invested in their own country but overseas in investments, bank accounts etc. Who hold the interests in some of elite hotels in London, Paris, the US?
Divide and conquer worked in Ireland and we got Civil War. The same happened in Zimbabwe.......and so it goes on.
Recently, we note that Sir Mark Thatcher may have avoided prison for his alledged involvement as financier in a group of professional, well-known mainly English people, in an African Country. The coup proved a disaster when the plane came down in an emergency landing in Harare, Zimbabwe......The country that the coup was planned for has the 2nd highest supply of oil.......yes that researve that may exist no longer in thirty years!!!! No time really!!!
and people just exploit the resource for the power/money component associated with right wing capitalism.
Simon Mann now is in jail in Zimbabwe - what a place to be for a former SAS man and Etonian.......How many other hidden faces/portfolios have escaped jail?
Whose side were these looters on......Yes it was their own personal gain, it was a greed for power and control and ultimately subservience of those not in their league.
Auschwitz - let us look at this history. Let us look at all the funds hidden away in Swiss bank accounts and other places.......let us start looking at the moral view of history and ensuring the morality in transactions today.
Personal I would recommend Transparency Ireland to get a brief on meetings held in Bulgaria, Switzerland etc. and their policies and disgussinn groups for defeating corruption. Former Taoiseach Garret Fitzgerald, Minister for Justice Michael McDowell and Professor Niamh Kenny are some of the Irish peole involved......this needs to be further catapulted onto the political arena........
Integrative policies are needed to blitz discrimination, disadvantage, plunder of resources.
Michelle Clarke.