[-empyre-] black money

[joseph tabbi]

Like the man said (I think he was a U.S. Senator from Illinois back in
the Sixties):

"a trillion here, a trillion there... pretty soon you're talking about
real money."

JPT

On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 7:17 AM, Jim Andrews <jim at vispo.com> wrote:
> a very interesting frontline show called "black money":
> http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/blackmoney/view
>
> "As the global financial downturn continues and pressure for profits
> increases on corporations across the world, a small group of lawyers in the
> U.S. Justice Department is pursuing an aggressive crackdown against an
> international business tactic -- bribery -- which the World Bank says
> amounts to as much as a trillion dollars a year in payments."
>
> The show focusses on an arms deal involving B.A.E., the Saudis, and the UK.
>
> Deeply disturbing.
>
> ja
> http://vispo.com
>
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