Chapter 1776 Queen of Hell (47)

There is a movie called "Saving Private Ryan". There is a man named James Ryan, the eldest of four brothers in his family. All three of his brothers have been killed in various places within two weeks. The U.S. Combat Command

After learning the news, the general decided to send a special team to safely rescue her only remaining son from the war zone in order to prevent the unfortunate mother from suffering the pain of losing her son.

The task of rescuing the team fell on Captain John Miller and his team who had just completed the landing mission on the Omaha coast. These soldiers did not understand why so many people were needed to find one person on the dangerous and vast European battlefield.

?To be precise, it is an army similar to theirs.

Why did the employees of the Ritz Hotel want to save the Allied pilots? Because the cost of training them is different from the cost of training an army. The cost of training a Harvard graduate is also very high. From this point of view, in order to protect Harvard graduates

, it’s natural for the low-educated and low-cost army to sacrifice their lives, right?

First of all, "smart people" need to understand that neither the U.S. police nor the government have the obligation to protect citizens from criminals. Citizens have no right to hold the police and government accountable when they are violated, unless there is a special relationship between the plaintiff, the police, and the government.

Relationship. In other words, even if the American police see you about to be shot in the head by a criminal, they are not related to you and have no responsibility to protect you. They will stand far away with their guns and try to fight the crime.

Negotiate with the elements and ask them to put down their weapons. If you are unfortunate enough to be shot in the head, they will send you to the hospital out of humanitarian considerations, provided that you can still be saved.

There was a homeless man like this. He was sleeping at home. He heard something moving downstairs and went to check. As a result, the thief ran up behind him and shot him in the head. The neighbor heard the gunshot and called the police.

When the police arrived, they found that he was still breathing and sent him to the hospital. Fortunately, he survived, but the bullet remained in his brain. He lost his ability to work, and at the same time he had to bear huge medical expenses, so he

He had no choice but to sell the house to pay off the debt, and his girlfriend broke up with him. However, he never saw who the thief who shot the gun was. His experience was comparable to that of the hero in The Shawshank Redemption, but in the movie

The banker was imprisoned, and he lived on the streets and became homeless. And because his tent was an eyesore to the city, his neighbors called the police and asked the police to remove them, so he had to donate money to the public welfare

Ask a lawyer for help.

At this time, the local court explained to him that police service is a service provided by the government to the entire society to maintain peace, security and order. The government only provides police services to the "whole public" as a whole and does not provide services to individual members of society.

It was the community residents who had to drive away vagrants like them, so the police had to enforce the law. Then he settled for the next best thing and hoped that public interest lawyers would help him fight for it. Even if he was to be driven away, at least the police would return his belongings.

give him.

There was a bullet in his brain, and he had to take painkillers prescribed by the doctor. In English, the word drug has two meanings. The police confiscated the "drug" when they returned the pile of junk to him.

This medicine is called OxyContin, which contains opiates. The tablet must be swallowed whole and must not be broken, chewed or ground. If the tablet is broken, chewed or ground, it will cause the rapid release of oxycodone and a potentially fatal amount.

absorption. It is very expensive. A bottle of tablets with a dosage of 10 mg per pill costs nearly US$100 wholesale. The highest dosage of 80 mg tablets costs six to seven hundred US dollars per bottle.

Even though it is so expensive, this drug is still very popular. It has been at the top of the sales list since its inception, with annual sales of billions of dollars. Other painkillers on the market at that time could only last for 8 hours or even 4 hours, and patients had to take it every day.

After taking the medicine 3 times and 6 times, I couldn't bear the disturbance. The 12-hour drug effect is good news for the patient, which means that I will no longer be woken up by pain when the painkillers expire in the middle of the night, and I can sleep peacefully until dawn.

It is precisely because of this dangerous addiction that before OxyContin was launched, doctors in the United States regarded nicotine-based painkillers as a scourge and were generally only used by long-term cancer patients or patients who were terminally ill and at the end of their lives.

But the situation of homeless people is very special. At that time, the public relations team of the pharmaceutical company gave "pain" an emotional meaning. Pain relief should not only be the privilege of cancer patients, but should be the natural human right of all pain patients. Pandora's box was quietly

Opening up, in 1996, there were only 300,000 OxyContin prescriptions issued by doctors in the United States. By 2001, the number had increased 20 times to more than 6 million.

The reason OxyContin is considered a miracle drug is because it works for 12 hours. Without this, it would be no different from ordinary painkillers.

In order to maintain the image of miracle drugs, pharmaceutical companies require all doctors in the United States to insist that patients take the medicine once every 12 hours and never allow patients to shorten the medication interval on their own.

But people soon discovered that the effect of the medicine lasted less than 12 hours. One reason was that patients had developed drug resistance, and the other was because of false propaganda, so the pharmaceutical company asked doctors to increase the dose. Some sales representatives even reminded doctors privately that they could tell patients

There is no upper limit to the dosage of each medication.

Although the law stipulates that each prescription is a one-time use and cannot be filled for more than 30 days. The doctor can only prescribe it after it is used up, and patients cannot prescribe medicine in advance. But addicted people can only find other ways to get more medicine.

For example, if you see several doctors at the same time and go to different pharmacies to pick up medicines, you can get a lot of OxyContin at one time.

All of a sudden, various small clinics were popping up all over the place, and addicts even traveled across state lines to prescribe medicine. If there was federal low-income medical insurance, a thirty-day supply of medicine would only cost $3, while the medicines on the market cost hundreds of dollars. This was a profitable business.

black market transactions.

Eventually, even doctors' blank prescription notes could be sold on the black market. Later, the situation got even more out of control. Some "middlemen" even crushed the medicine and sold it to children. At this time, the police who were driving away the homeless came to find them.

Got him.

Providing the arrested with opportunities to cooperate and improve their situation is the "most common" means of recruiting informants. For the police, once the arrested person is imprisoned, his value as an informant will be greatly reduced, because soon he will

News of the arrest will spread on the streets.

Even if there is insufficient evidence, the police will deliberately approach or arrest someone in order to recruit informants. When a potential informant believes that his words and actions may lead to prosecution, he will agree to cooperate. Once the informant agrees to cooperate, he will reach an agreement with the police officer.

, This kind of agreement can be written or oral, and the relevant details will be finalized in future activities. The federal government also has informant fees included in its expenditures.

The French know "polite" very well, and they know that corruption and bribery will inevitably occur in business activities, so the French government has given those large enterprises a privilege to obtain "subsidy" through tax refunds, and this point just hit the target of "

The purpose of the Foreign Bribery Act.

It is difficult to pass a law in the United States, but it is very simple to amend it. The slow activation of this dormant law requires an adaptation process. To train a sniper requires a lot of practice. Once you are familiar with it, you will become familiar with it.

In other words, the Talahan incident was just a practice, involving only Alstom's subsidiaries and not the "target" entity. At the same time, through this experiment, the U.S. judicial department also verified that they buried a secret in 2000.

"foreshadowing".

In 2000, the U.S. government organized countries that dared to resist the United States through the OECD, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, to sign an agreement called the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention. All countries that signed this convention authorized

The United States can investigate and prosecute any company that is a signatory to the Convention, but these signatories cannot retaliate against U.S. companies through legal means because the United States has investigative priority. For example, in the Talahan incident, it is not that the French court does not want to pursue U.S. companies, but

Because France signed that agreement, they cannot pursue U.S. companies for compensation. And when it comes to such multinational companies, even if France initiates prosecution and accuses them of bribery, eventually the U.S. company will return to the United States for trial, and France still has no priority.

right.

These things are all interrelated. For example, Goldman Sachs saw the crisis caused by the real estate bubble in the United States, and set up a remote-controlled bomb in Greece, Europe. When the time is right, it will detonate to divert public attention and prevent the domestic situation from heating up and destabilizing.

The people’s self-confidence that “America comes first”.

In other words, the United States has penetrated European intellectual circles and media through the Marshall Plan. People are everywhere who speak for them. They will denounce the Greek sovereignty issue and the refugee issue in the media without mentioning the problems of the United States.

They would say that the refugee problem is caused by the United States.

The herd mentality has a huge impact on people's choices and cognition. Some people will quote the opinions of celebrities to warn everyone. Even if these opinions are fake and biased, people still enjoy it.

People always accept those who agree with them and reject those who disagree with them.

But what makes them feel even more happy is that people who originally had different opinions changed their opinions through their own persuasion, which gave them a greater sense of victory than those who agreed with their opinions from the beginning.

It is a terrible thing to lose your true self in the crowd. Everyone is telling lies and doing things against their will, which ultimately leads to huge irrational behavior.

A person who insists on standing alone in the torrent of the times is like a pillar standing in the water. He has to withstand the impact of many winds and waves. Others will regard him as a madman or a fool.

The executives and senior officials on that "hunting list" are all potential informants of the Americans. As long as they are willing to cooperate, they can be used as "tainted witnesses" to have their sentences reduced, and they can even receive certain financial compensation from the government's compensation.

This is a trick that has been tried and tested by the Americans. Many low-level operators in the London Stock Exchange were bribed in this way. They exist to bring down a larger target, and all the transaction records in their hands are just evidence.

Before launching the offensive against France, the Americans already had informants in Swiss banks, and repeat criminals often deposited stolen money in Swiss banks.

Although according to the regulations of Swiss banks, customer information is not disclosed to the public, but which one is better, a life sentence, being a tainted witness, or a light sentence and a reward?

It is easy for people to encounter prisoner's dilemma. Alstom's potential informants are not only the person in charge of the Indonesian project, but others have confessed. Why are you still resisting? Do you want to be sentenced to life?

Alstom is France's pillar energy industry. If it is dismembered and acquired by the United States, it will be equivalent to the Suez Canal. It is located on Egyptian territory and was built by Egyptians. The toll collectors are not Egyptians.

Unless the French want to go back to the 18th century without electricity, they have to pay Americans for electricity.

Even if other power companies are established, it will not only take time, but nuclear power technology is also in the hands of the Americans. How many patents does such a large company have?

And nuclear power is only 70% of Alstom's business, as well as rail transit and satellites. If we lose this battle, not only will building another Eiffel Tower be unable to drive away the sense of insult, but even France's rail transit may be replaced by the EU.

Purchased from other countries.

The Japanese lost their self-confidence after being hit by the atomic bomb. The Foreign Bribery Act can be understood as an economic nuclear weapon, and unlike real nuclear weapons, it cannot easily press its button and can be wielded and used at any time.

Once the world is controlled by Americans, women will not want to give birth to a child and let him come to this desperate world.

Unless the French, like the Egyptians, use force to drive away the blood-sucking Americans entrenched in Alstom and other companies, Pepsi's acquisition of Danone is just a local battle, and there will be many more financial battles in the future.

The *** was originally a stick to uphold the law, but later it symbolized power, violence, reign of terror, and foreign aggression and plunder.

The methods of struggle invented by mankind are becoming more and more advanced, much more civilized than before, and less easy to detect than before. If there must be a dictator, it would be to tear up the agreement that established the priority of judicial power in the United States.

Or using network services not provided by the United States, they can no longer wield that big stick.

Then there are the "tainted witnesses". As long as the witness recants his confession or lies, just like the Italian who was protected by the U.S. military in the Godfather movie. He was originally going to accuse McCorleone, but he changed his testimony temporarily. The person who was originally confident

Many FBI officials were puzzled and looked surprised. It might be hard for him to imagine what could be more tempting than a reduced sentence?

This is what Yankee doesn't understand. Isn't it just to be popular if you put in so much effort, exercise, lose weight, and study?

Who welcomes Americans who fish for law enforcement into their homes?

They can find an agent who travels around the world looking for weapons orders, and he bribes officials, and then the audio and video recordings of these bribes can become evidence under the Foreign Bribery Act.

One of the differences between white-collar crime and blue-collar crime is that these gentlemen can easily be threatened and put on bugs and other auxiliary equipment to assist in investigations.

Yes, brother, you have been betrayed by your own people, and the second difference between white-collar criminals and blue-collar criminals is that they call themselves profit-seeking industrial and commercial people rather than criminals. Their criminal values ​​are different from those of unemployed blue-collar criminals.

Taking credit for themselves and blaming others for their mistakes is what politicians on Capitol Hill in Washington are like.

The reason why Roosevelt did not have so much resistance to implementing the New Deal was because the situation at the time was so bad.

As long as the United States has a strong president, there is hope for them to come back from the dead, and the crisis will be over and the country will be better off for another few decades.

It is unknown how many "young leaders" have been infiltrated into French government departments.

In addition to the superficial government, France also has a black cabinet called the Mining Group. The mineral agreement with Germany approved by De Gaulle on the Alsace-Lorraine region is also related to them.

If Germany's steel is in the hands of France, it can restrict the development of Germany's military industry. Who said that Germany lost World War II, and the lifeblood of the steel empire that had flourished since the Prussian period was in the hands of others.

The movie The Godfather opens with: "I believe in America."

Those Muggle wizards who were born as civilians cannot be counted as the American Muggle elite. The diplomacy of the Ministry of Magic is inextricably linked to the strength of the Muggle nation. When Grindelwald made a big fuss all over the world, wasn't it the British Ministry of Magic?

Does the world need to send Aurors?

The French Ministry of Magic's internal affairs were interfered with, so they could only swallow their anger. At most, they wanted Newt Scamander, who had entered the country illegally.

It is very painful to endure, but you still have to endure, everything can be adapted to.

Although so-called hatred is accumulated in patience, and painkillers obviously cannot solve this problem.
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