It's not the first capital of a country to be built on plunder, but it must be one of the prettiest that was built entirely on plunder.
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Both countries used proxy militias to plunder Congo's mineral resources.
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No promise to clean up corruption and then plunder away.
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They promise to clean up corruption and then plunder away.
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He helped invade Cuba and joined Cortés to plunder Mexico.
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He's prioritizing the plunder of our seas over their protection.
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All of government, it's increasingly clear, is his personal plunder.
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The plunder continued during civil wars between 1996 and 2003.
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DESANTIS: Wow, the Iran deal, talk about the plunder and deceit.
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He also indicated the U.S. might reinvade Iraq for imperial plunder.
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No longer, the Dail avowed, would British firms plunder Irish pastures.
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The system was unsustainable and rested on decades of economic plunder.
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We&aposre the bank that everybody wants to steal from and plunder.
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Ukrainians had been subject to the plunder of grain by soldiers in
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"The fruits of peace always outweigh the plunder of war," Obama said.
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These works slated to return to Benin are clear examples of plunder.
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Or they would be, if Monopoly players could plunder the bank at will.
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I'd plunder Standing Rock not for oil, but a new way of being.
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Commanders knew that the plunder of new lands could garner them vast riches.
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One source that the service could plunder from is ABC, which Disney owns.
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In recent years, a handful of countries have tried to slow the ocean plunder.
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Now, scientists confirm it was part of a plunder by Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés.
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It's driven by a desire to keep the elites from continuing to plunder them.
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The Waterloo view downplays the role of imperialism and plunder in the making of Britain.
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Partly because the state is easy to plunder, big men fight for control of it.
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Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, strove to woo her with plots to plunder Spanish ships.
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Two decades of dictatorship, corruption and plunder by Marcos left the Philippines in a shambles.
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They plunder nearby crops, and have caused around $854,000 in damage to agriculture in Fukushima.
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One of the most remarkable aspects of Trump's candidacy has barely been touched on: He has brought into political discourse the idea that we should plunder countries for oil, and that the United States military should be turned into an agent of that plunder.
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Opposition critics scoffed that the government would quickly plunder the Kellogg plant and ruin its business.
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"You evoke 22011/21 to rationalize everything from domestic plunder to imperialist aggression worldwide," said Glick.
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Donald Trump unmasked global warming as a international conspiracy to plunder the American economy on Thursday.
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Few objects have turned up so far that can be traced to the Islamic State's plunder.
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Jammeh also used a number of corrupt schemes to plunder state coffers for his personal gain.
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To those charged with rooting out fraudsters, the current regulations seem like an invitation to plunder.
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The scale of this plunder is unclear—Jamaica publishes no estimate of its corporate-tax gap.
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"We still think foreigners are spies or imperialists bent on plunder," grumbles an Iraqi fund manager.
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South Africa has ditched a president, Jacob Zuma, who presided over the plunder of the state.
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Pre-colonial people lived with shifting borders due to constant plunder and subjugation of rival people.
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Oh, for the days when Goths, Vandals and Nazis were free to rape, pillage and plunder.
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Like Lebanon itself, the trees have survived one challenge after another: tough terrain, invasion, plunder, conflict.
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But criminal prosecution is not a particularly effective weapon for battling hackers who plunder cryptocurrency wallets.
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On our group text, we plotted out which houses we would plunder and in what order.
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He adopted his father's position that capitalism and free markets are code words for economic plunder.
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Even before the camera completes the task, my act of plunder has given them aesthetic clout.
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Bringing home the plunder was "very difficult," Huang Shuxian, deputy head of the agency, said in April.
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But he may have also read Cooke's accounts to get fresh ideas about new places to plunder.
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He ransomed a Christian woman from her kidnappers; he generously redistributed the wealth he took in plunder.
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The migrants can kill, plunder and rape with impunity because their rights as migrants must be protected.
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The plunder is illegal in China, and trade in giant-clam shells is banned under international treaties.
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We have come to see ourselves as her lords and masters, entitled to plunder her at will.
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"The budget has been converted into plunder," said Mariano Ruiz Funes, a former Pemex chief of staff.
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The purpose here is to equate Republican rule with legitimacy, and Democratic rule with lawlessness and plunder.
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The Irish saved civilization, the story goes, in protecting European treasures during a time of plunder elsewhere.
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And to plunder a quote from a quintessential Washington hack: God, I hope he never gets it.
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Power and plunder are powerful temptations in young democracies with weak institutions and incomplete familiarity with democracy.
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The past five centuries of world history have featured conquests, plunder, torture, genocide, slavery, occupation and worse.
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These dishes are rich, a plunder of animal salts, and yet the chicken is what I remember.
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Which is fitting: The men of the Golden Company like to wear their plunder — hence their name.
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But Jules Bonnot, the leader of their gang, was more committed to plunder than to the cause.
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People realize that we can no longer plunder the planet, because we are interdependent with the earth.
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It was of a piece with the plunder and lies of a half-century of military rule.
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Luxembourg is attractive to space companies because a law adopted in 2017 lets space miners keep their plunder.
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In Maeve's understanding, the Ghost Nation showed up in the name of violence, to attack, pillage and plunder.
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Rather, she says, they plunder it, taking that wealth from their workers or from the public at large.
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Pew did a study a couple years ago and I have it in my book plunder and deceit.
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In the meantime, traders continue to plunder the wild for the lizards, and collectors continue to buy them.
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But as a result of overlapping remits, vested interests and patchy data, the plunder continues apace (see article).
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For some on the left, that faith was always a joke, a sanctimonious alibi for imperialism and plunder.
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The entire American story was and continues to be based on "plunder," the violent crushing of minority bodies.
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The plunder is heaping more pain on battered businesses, raising questions about how much longer they can survive.
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Sectarian parties plunder official resources to build up militias and buy support, while providing little for the people.
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They came over the barricades like extras in a pirate movie, all hot-eyed and eager to plunder.
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This little salmon haven in Alaska draws in masses of brown bears every year to plunder its natural splendor.
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Left freely to plunder the sea, individuals will fish more than is best for the group, depleting fish stocks.
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That should include giving them more cash, by increasing TANF or limiting the ability of states to plunder it.
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For this kind of plunder, there is in fact a precedent for Trump's plan: Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait.
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There's also a Plunder Mode, in which teams of players compete to loot the most cash over 30 minutes.
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These stories emerge from the ashes of the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, out of despoliation and environmental plunder.
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More than half of the world's oceans fall into that category, which often makes their riches ripe for plunder.
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"We go into the natural world, and we plunder it for its resources," Phoenix said in his Oscar speech.
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There would, after all, be no need for racial justice movements if the country wasn't founded on racial plunder.
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But those who prevailed on the battlefield could more than compensate for their military costs through occupation, plunder and enslavement.
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Then UMNO's grip on power was unquestioned, and Ferdinand Marcos had assumed absolute power the better to plunder the Philippines.
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That plunder had been stopped by one intrepid Englishwoman, Gertrude Bell, who was her heroine for all kinds of reasons.
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We must reverse the systemic plunder of middle and working class families to provide massive tax breaks for the rich.
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And no liberal democratic peer nation has anything resembling the system of plunder described in the Justice Department's Ferguson report.
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The Caribbean sea floor, the treasure ship, the plunder and the nature all at once—all Sloane's for the taking.
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The story they envision begins with invasive destruction and plunder, as is contextually necessary, yet concludes with a planted seed.
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That is unusual: Centuries of plunder by treasure hunters and professional tomb raiders have spoiled many ancient Egyptian burial sites.
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Koditschek noticed, Jewish laborers, marked by badges, would carry the plunder of war — furniture, a piano, clothing — into her home.
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" "Instead, Iran's leaders plunder the nation's resources to enrich themselves and spread mayhem across the Middle East and far beyond.
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Thousands of years earlier, the Romans routinely quarried rock as imperial plunder, decorating their palaces (and later churches) with veined marble.
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For each session with a mother and child, Cesari might spend two or three hours, capturing whatever peace or plunder unfolds.
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Royalty, dictators, and sundry other unsavory sorts who plunder whole countries' economies through corruption and offshore accounts tend to be excluded.
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Hence his longstanding complaint that the United States didn't "take the oil," and his general advocacy of a policy of plunder.
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" He argued, "Practically all governments of history have used their exclusive power to issue money to defraud and plunder the people.
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Moreover, he is hobbled by party bigwigs and generals who fiddle the foreign-exchange rates and continue to plunder the treasury.
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As often as not, these will be corrupt elites eager to exploit a populist mandate to plunder with ever greater impunity.
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UNITED NATIONS — More than half of the world's oceans belong to no one, which often makes their riches ripe for plunder.
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Reviving a country from the devastation and plunder of a dictator is a daunting challenge for the best intentioned of leaders.
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Instead, Iran's leaders plunder the nation's resources to enrich themselves and to spread mayhem across the Middle East and far beyond.
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Washington led the forces into battle personally, and he characteristically insisted that there should be no plunder or mistreatment of the rebels.
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Yes, the world of nations is full of arbitrary borders, invented traditions, and convenient mythologies layered atop histories of plunder and pillage.
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Najib now faces dozens of graft and money laundering charges linked to the plunder of funds from sovereign fund 1Malaysia Development Bhd.
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Norma not only suffers from the "hereditary hypertrichosis" that makes her cascading locks top-grade material for Lambert's brutal clan to plunder.
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"We go into the natural world and plunder it for its resources," he said as he accepted the Oscar for best actor.
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Museums are storehouses of imperial plunder (especially in Europe), and the systems of knowledge that structure them have direct lineage to colonialism.
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Under administrations it opposed — like that of Joseph Estrada, who was eventually convicted of plunder — The Inquirer was unmitigated in its denunciations.
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Although recording music rarely rises to the level of plunder, the power imbalance between the expert and the native subject was stark.
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I want my elected leaders to protest every decision that may further destabilize our climate, plunder the earth's resources and destroy wildlife.
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Some of Star Wars' best moments used all this literary and cinematic plunder to make new moments, not constantly callback old ones.
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The mullahs' regime is also known to plunder billions from the Iranian people's pockets, leaving millions across the country living in poverty.
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Vikings did have a real history — from the 8th to 11th century, the famous Scandinavians really did explore (and even plunder) Europe.
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Or, on the album "The Routes of Slavery" (a project assisted by UNESCO), he crafted a memorial to communities targeted by historical plunder.
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Klaue — and Michael B. Jordan's Erik Killmonger, an exile from the nation — plan to exploit those divisions and pry open Wakanda for plunder.
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Al Qaeda and ISIS have discovered vast new reservoirs and support in terms of manpower, funding and easy plunder in several African nations.
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The next room contains images made by amateur naturalists — male and female, colonizer and colonized — as well as portraits and objects of plunder.
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But do not plunder stores for masks unless you're a health worker or are presenting symptoms indicative of infection, such as difficulty breathing.
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More than 21,000 prisoners were released, 2,000 of whom were sentenced for heinous crimes, like rape, drugs, murder, bribery, plunder, kidnapping and arson.
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Not only is there a trick to this puzzle by Joe Deeney, but there is also more than one way to plunder it.
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It boasts the English language, good schools and, ironically, a respected legal system (which shields tycoons against the arbitrary plunder they suffer at home).
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The wave of plunder has spooked many in Ciudad Guyana, leading more people to stay indoors come nightfall and dissuading some stores from opening.
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In the past, there have been occasional skirmishes between archaeologists, who want to preserve the past, and some divers, who want to plunder it.
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Only when one looks abroad — to countries where corruption and plunder are the norm rather than the exception — does the danger truly become clear.
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Eventually, truth broke through that consensus, but not before it did immense damage in the form of federal complicity with lynching, segregation, and plunder.
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No, they were instead born of one group's primitive desire to plunder and control another, to claim the spoils of victory and assert dominion.
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The chaos caused by the cash crackdown led Modi's predecessor, Manmohan Singh, to describe it as "organized loot and legalized plunder" of the country.
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I decided to plunder ceviche's larder of avocado, tomato, jalapeño, scallion, cilantro and citrus juice, along with lobster, and let them mingle with pasta.
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Outside the hotel, other protesters, including those from tribal communities, chanted and held streamers saying "Stop Mining Plunder" and "No to Large-Scale Mining".
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Congo's biggest logging companies are systematically violating national laws to plunder the country's forests, campaign group Global Witness said in a report last year.
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He's been accused of war crimes, and has touted victories against pockets of ISIS fighters that have taken advantage of instability to plunder oil.
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These artists began to plunder mass media, appropriating images in diverse ways, and revealing the forms of identity and power encoded in our images.
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" President Nyusi earlier this year described the insurgents as "faceless evil-doers" who "sow terror, kill, destroy and plunder the goods of defenseless populations.
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He's promising a large, unspecified US military buildup, a policy of routine torture, and the use of military force to plunder foreign natural resources.
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Environmentalists have long lamented that GDP treats the plunder of the planet as something that adds to income, rather than being treated as an expense.
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But they do not plunder; elementary school authors happily give them their fiction, which the literary buccaneers turn into musical-comedy sketches with inspired plotlines.
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The most recent drought has prompted some herders to plunder the livestock of rival communities or sneak into nature reserves to graze their hungry droves.
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"Chimalhuacán has always been seen as plunder," said Cruz Hernández, who at 65, is old enough to have fished in the remnants of Lake Texcoco.
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Trump's greed-first agenda, under the guise of job creation, treats the Arctic Refuge as just another fossil fuel deposit for Big Oil to plunder.
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The Revolution in this telling is a war like any other, characterized not by dexterous verbal battles but by rape, plunder and blood-soaked battlefields.
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Duterte supported the burial of Marcos, who was widely accused of brutality and plunder and enriching his cronies and family, which remains influential in politics.
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"Under cover of darkness and using a militarized police, as usual, taking advantage of a coup d'état to plunder Catalonia with absolute impunity," he wrote.
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England didn't need the pillaging, plunder and famine caused by the "Brentry" of the conquest to prosper in the good times of the early medieval period.
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Among the rules that Ching Shih imposed was that all plunder had to be registered, with 80 percent of the loot paid into a general fund.
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Watching J.J. Redick plunder the half-court for open looks is, in a unique and impressively uncomfortable way, a reflection of the burden of guarding him.
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The high-flying cyberscam at the Federal Reserve pales in comparison with the routine plunder of Bangladesh's financial system, including by some of its purported guardians.
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The gold rings, engraved gemstones and many other items in the grave bear Minoan themes, so they could have been plunder from a raid on Crete.
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The clampdown led to the suspension of democracy for 14 years and resulted in shameless plunder, vast poverty and tens of thousands of human-rights violations.
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Let's see, could it possibly be those of the men who guard their stranglehold on the levers of power and the spoils of plunder so fiercely?
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These are stories of painful awakenings and refusals of innocence, emerging out of the ashes of the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, despoliation and environmental plunder.
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Mr. Diaz's long study of North American literature, much of it steeped in the 19th century, allowed him to expertly plunder an antique genre for parts.
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The Supreme Court in 2016 dismissed plunder charges against her and ordered her release from hospital detention, throughout which she still held her seat in Congress.
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" Spain's association for conserving and restoring artwork denounced Menéndez's work as a "plunder," asking "what kind of society" allows its ancestors' legacy to be "passively destroyed.
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In a 58-page verdict, the court "acknowledged the atrocities committed during martial law under the Marcos regime and the 'plunder' committed on the country's resources".
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"Colonial plunder is a perfect example of the misuse and disrespect of artworks," one Decolonize This Place member explained to the group in their quiet discussion.
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The powerful family has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing, of human rights abuses and wanton plunder of national assets, during Marcos&apos reign, which finally ended in 1989.
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Mobutu impoverished a mineral-rich country by building palaces in the jungle, chartering Concorde jets to go shopping and letting officials at every level plunder with impunity.
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"The Congolese national police are actively seeking out the ... authors of these grave acts of murder and plunder," Attorney General Flory Kabange Numbi told reporters in Kinshasa.
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Travelling around the world to plunder classified documents, Jazzpunk sees you photocopying your ass, eating underwear and spraying pigeon musk on unsuspecting bystanders with the utmost discretion.
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Public lands can then be sold off to the highest bidder, or be thrown open to every corporation that would like to plunder their valuable natural resources.
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It also alludes to the debates surrounding climate change and the doctrine of Manifest Destiny, which saw this country seize, through war and plunder, California from Mexico.
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Both the plundered objects and people forced from their homes (some now by their own governments) continue to bear the burden of imperial plunder and imperial dispossession.
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The context is that of contextless postmodern plunder optics: the ahistorical globalized trend that mixes together anything thematically interesting (or superficially similar), ignoring era and original context.
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The contracts some crews drew up and signed included disability benefits: payments for lost eyes and limbs taken from the shared plunder before it was divvied up.
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He loves to stuff a line full of sound ("the lunk, the chump, the hunk of plunder"), to write for the ear as well as the eye.
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But Mr. Masire and Mr. Khama saw to it that De Beers did not simply plunder Botswana's resources, as many big companies had historically done in Africa.
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"Greenfield trots out the plunder and of course the shoes — those notorious emblems of Marcos's excess — but also examines the appalling costs of that luxury," Dargis wrote.
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Since then, Putin has transformed the anarchic plunder of the 1990s into a centralized structure of state-approved oligarchs, with himself at the top of the pyramid.
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The future belongs to the people of Iran -- those who seek peaceful coexistence and cooperation, not the terrorist warlords who plunder their nation to finance bloodshed abroad.
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With healthy doses of irony and camp, Al Solh's works poked fun at autocratic politicians in moments of excess, surrounded by the trappings of plunder and pillage.
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The hunters here are not the heavily armed international poaching rings that plague reserves in other parts of Africa that have far more bountiful game to plunder.
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It was referring to a program dating from 2014 that has drawn on the resources of several Chinese agencies to track and repatriate corrupt officials and their plunder.
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Venture into deeper space and there's even richer plunder—like Davida, an asteroid that the wanna-be space mining company Planetary Resources values at more than $100 trillion.
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Judges voted 11-4 in her favor to throw out the plunder case due to a lack of evidence, court spokesman Theodore Te told a televised news conference.
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They'll be fighting conquerors on the international stage, as well as infighting among tribal factions who want to plunder Wakanda's resources and sell them to the highest bidder.
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Throughout the region, entire villages have emptied, leaving a string of ghost towns with few people for Boko Haram to dominate — and little for the group to plunder.
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The first category includes any programs that promote the sustainability of fish stocks — basically, subsidies to help ensure that we don't plunder every last fish in the oceans.
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And they're doing this in the face of considerable evidence that the rush into industrial plunder of these lands is a huge source of planet-convulsing carbon emissions.
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" They meet the Wiggins family, white Southerners without slaves, who killed Union soldiers in search of plunder and now suffer the terrible guilt of choosing "them or us.
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Not only were the lives of countless soldiers in both armies saved but avoiding a prolonged siege surely reduces the amount of plunder the local smallfolk are subjected to.
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The paper was in part a response to environmentalist concerns that GDP treats the plunder of the planet as something that adds to income, rather than as a cost.
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Ms. Gaivoronskaya credits the presence of so many armed men with saving the sanitarium from the plunder and mayhem that wrecked so much else along the Black Sea coast.
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I live the paradox that though my brown skin has excluded me from so called white privilege, all my life I have benefited from the plunder of privileged whites.
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She had been charged with plunder, which disqualified her for bail, but her lawyers said a spinal problem made her eligible for humanitarian release as she awaited trial. Mrs.
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In the film, directed by Terry Gilliam, of Monty Python fame, and starring John Cleese and Michael Palin, a band of time-travelling dwarfs plunder treasure from the past.
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At the end it resorted to the strategy that had proved successful in Hungary: raising the specter of a flood of refugees who would rape, attack and plunder Poland.
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The plunder is then sold in markets like the one in San Salvador Huixcolotla, on roadsides, door-to-door or to shady gas station owners who then resell it.
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The inquiry has shocked South Africans with revelations about the brazen way in which some people close to Jacob Zuma allegedly tried to plunder state resources and influence policymaking.
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China's own problems with debt have also raised alarm with investors, and Mr. Xi's crackdown on official corruption has revealed levels of plunder that have no equivalent in Washington.
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There are plenty of those things, of course, but there is also a conscientious attempt to reckon with the legacy of plunder and racism that flickers behind the legends.
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MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines' Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed a plunder case against influential former President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and ordered her immediate release after five years under hospital arrest.
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The most worrying involved revelations that several big fishing companies financed politicians who should have regulated them, but instead allowed them unrestricted rights to plunder Chile's depleted seas in perpetuity.
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Owens Lake was made famous by the story of its plunder: in the early 20th century, Los Angeles piped its water south to slake the thirst of its growing metropolis.
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The Antiquities Act was primarily intended to be an anti-looting statute that would allow the President to prevent the plunder and irreparable loss of artifacts and other national treasures.
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Even if the new president were Looten Plunder, arch nemesis of Captain Planet, environmentalists would be pushing him to enact reforms, even if he just cackled maniacally in their faces.
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In order to get away with the plunder—and also with his improper connections to Russia—Trump must in self-preservation turn off the 'burglar alarms' of the American state.
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He and Clyde used to fear a Logan family curse, but their exploits here—not the plunder alone but the patent elixir of hope, savvy, and silliness—break the spell.
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Their respect for Putin, however misguided, does not transfer to the trophy wives, princelings and mafia princesses who are at once the mules and chief beneficiaries of the Kremlin's plunder.
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"As we are seeing today in Iraq and Syria, a generation ago in Cambodia, brutal civil war led to the wholesale plunder of a great ancient civilization," Ms. Davis said.
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"T2" never strays too far from laughs, most memorably in an exhilarating sequence that sends Renton and Simon to plunder a private club where partying Protestants belt out sectarian ditties.
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In order to get away with the plunder — and also with his improper connections to Russia — Trump must in self-preservation turn off the "burglar alarms" of the American state.
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In 2017, the then speaker of the national parliament Setya Novanto was arrested for orchestrating a scheme to plunder $173 million from a government contract for a national electronic identity card.
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Prime plunder of a 10-year war they never asked for, they will be slaves to the Greeks, assigned one by one to masters and ripped from the land they love.
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Just across the street from Zakhar Zakharich lies Dry Bridge, where collectors, antique vendors and craftsmen set up shop for the Dry Bridge Flea Market, a scavenger's wonderland of Perestroika plunder.
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He stands for the idea that liberal democracy descends into chaos when there is no social trust, that it is a fraud that allows the well-connected to plunder everyone else.
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A person born into the faith, he was seeking answers about the its history, naming past issues of "polygamy, child abuse, stoning disobedient children, pillage, plunder, sexism, racism" in the letter.
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MEDELLÍN, Colombia — President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela ordered a temporary shutdown of air and maritime traffic with three Caribbean neighbors on Friday, accusing smugglers there of seeking to plunder his country.
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Somali officials say the decline in piracy in recent years has emboldened foreign-flagged illegal fishing vessels to plunder Somalia's fish stocks closer to shore, bringing them within reach of pirate gangs.
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The roots of cash bail in this country wind back to a set of laws created after the Civil War that criminalized black Americans and led to generations of plunder and servitude.
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Alexander Etkind, an émigré historian, has argued that the root of Russia's misfortunes is its natural wealth, which encourages its rulers to plunder the country, like colonial masters, rather than develop it.
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We make it to the car with seconds to spare; lightning splits the sky in half as I slam the side door, and we drive away with our plunder in the backseat.
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Zuma has ducked and dived this week at the inquiry, which is testing allegations that he allowed cronies to plunder state resources and influence senior appointments during his nine years in power.
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"Jokowi's Indonesia has evolved into something of an enforcer of the seas, arresting vessels that plunder not only its own fisheries but others too," Philip Jacobson wrote at conservation news site Mongabay.
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The new administration saw the splashy Chinese infrastructure projects like the East Coast Rail Link and a $2.5 billion gas pipeline deal as opportunities for corrupt senior politicians to plunder government coffers.
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The aggression a nation inflicts on others will be visited upon it in turn: "Because you have plundered many nations, all the remnant of the peoples shall plunder you" (Habakkuk 2:8).
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Trump being Trump, he feels no need to explain how his policy will require sending tens of thousands of American troops to the Middle East for an indefinite occupation whose purpose is plunder.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Former Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday tore into his successor Narendra Modi's clampdown on the cash economy, calling it an "organized loot and legalized plunder" of the country.
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Reasoning that the artifacts were being carried on a Spanish ship as plunder after the raid on the Fort Caroline colony, Pritchett had expressed hopes that GME would be allowed to salvage them.
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The bank has said just two employees were primarily responsible for a deepening international scandal in which Goldman bankers helped a Malaysian financier plunder billions of dollars from an investment fund called 2000MDB.
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The Goldman executives who signed off on the deals couldn't have known that Malaysian financier Low Taek Jho, known as Jho Low, would allegedly plunder billions from the fund, according to this person.
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Assuming the box-office winds are favorable, that means these "Pirates" might not see much dry land if there are more moviegoers to plunder -- or rather, willingly hand over their hard-earned loot.
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Youth become members of such groups to loot and plunder, gain power over others or settle scores, said Bréma Ely Dicko, a Mopti expert at the University of Arts and Humanities of Bamako.
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If enough of them do, Republicans will have given up the Reaganite pretense of America as a "city on the hill" and accepted a grim destiny as "killers" out to plunder the world.
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"Because there are artifacts from Mesopotamia in the collection of the Pergamon, we feel that the silence of the institution with reference to Hasankeyf is a byproduct of plunder and profit," Doğan said.
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"The Story of the Jews" is a pageant of microhistories, told in an engaging and dramatic style, which some novelist or playwright ought to plunder for material, the way Shakespeare used Holinshed's Chronicles.
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From roughly the second century B.C. to the eleventh century A.D., successive waves of tribes swept out of the north to plunder, kidnap, rape, and murder the native inhabitants of more southerly lands.
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Rare plant species and gray wolves don't have lobbyists; big oil does, and companies pay significant money to get politicians on their side so that they can plunder habitats to make more money.
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Mr. Spears has the rare gift of artful plunder, knowing how to pluck stylistic elements from earlier centuries and weave them into a sleek and propulsive score that is accessible but unmistakably modern.
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After its descent into a messy, multi-sided civil war in 2011, when the country was fragmented into numerous enclaves, the warring parties began to plunder that inheritance, looting museums and excavating ancient sites.
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I can't overstate how well this sequence was put together, from showing us both sides' clear military strategy to immersing us in the chaos of being surrounded by burning men, horses, carts, and plunder.
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Yes, it would be quite terrific to have a car that's beautiful and spacious enough to fit both people and plunder, and so delightful to drive as to make me forget about its rivals.
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Unlike the conservatism espoused by Reagan and Bush, the Tea Party and now the Trump administration propose adding the teeth of explicit racial and sexual discrimination to the small-government model of corporate plunder.
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In August, the Department of Justice charged five people in an identity theft and fraud scheme, wherein they allegedly used stolen identities to plunder millions of dollars in benefits from elderly and disabled veterans.
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He opened his rucksack and revealed plunder hidden for 21550 years: the bronze right foot, including spur and stirrup, severed from a statue of Don Juan de Oñate, the despotic conquistador of New Mexico.
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Then, of course, there's Owens, who performs daredevil raids on art history, borrowing from ''Peanuts'' cartoons and El Greco and seemingly every other artistic movement imaginable, chewing her plunder up into a hallucinogenic mess.
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The move by Jesus College will likely step up pressure on other institutions holding plunder from the historic Kingdom of Benin and other objects from other cultures taken by colonialists during the 19th century.
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Try the first six-RBI game by a San Diego Padres player in St. Louis, enabling them to become the latest team to plunder the Cardinals' suddenly-shaky pitching in a 03-4 rout.
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She was initially detained for alleged electoral fraud but was later charged with plunder in connection with 366 million pesos ($7.82 million) in state lottery funds, some of which had been allocated for intelligence gathering.
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A destroyed statue of a mythical Kurdish hero is a reminder of the plunder of the city after its capture earlier this year by Arab and Turkoman rebels backed by Turkish tanks, from Kurdish rebels.
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Unlike most Hollywood movies, it regards racism less as a matter of personal wickedness — though the white characters range from grotesquely bigoted to mostly decent — than as a system of economic plunder and social domination.
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If plunder often serves as a kind of wedding gift in the ritual marriage of hard and soft power, perhaps this lyrical form of vandalism is a fitting tribute to the survival of Palmyra's theater.
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There was no reminder, in the optimistic and apolitical notion of "development," that industrialization had depended upon slavery and colonial plunder in the past, or that it might lead to environmental disaster in the future.
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In the BBC television adaptation of "I, Claudius" in 1976, he played the mad Roman emperor Caligula, who commanded his armies to plunder seashells from the god Neptune and appointed his horse to the Senate.
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The government retaliated by arming mainly Arab militia, known as Janjaweed, but Khartoum says it is not responsible for their campaign of murder, rape, arson and plunder which has driven 2 million villagers into squalid camps.
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The inquiry is looking into allegations that Zuma, ousted by the ruling African National Congress (ANC) party in February 2018, allowed cronies to plunder state resources and influence senior appointments during his nine years in power.
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" The ruling Conservative party, by contrast, is often accused of defending an "island story" version of history that omits narratives of imperial slaughter, rape and plunder, in favor of boundless lessons on "Hitler and the Henrys.
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With United languishing in sixth place, and struggling to put together a consistent run, this seems like as good a chance as any for the North London side to plunder three points from their old rivals.
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There is a lot of church history, as there must be, which he handles quite well, and a fair number of plagues, floods and earthquakes to go with the violence and plunder of the sackings themselves.
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In this version, the undifferentiated "swamp" matters more than the gradations along the wide scale from the new member of Congress desperate for campaign funds to the raw plunder of Mr. Trump, his family and allies.
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More than 21,000 inmates were released, but justice department officials say more than 2,000 of them were sentenced for crimes like rape, drugs, murder, bribery, plunder, kidnapping and arson, and were therefore not eligible for release.
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We have him and his Mongol horde traveling across Asia and Europe, insatiable, stopping at nothing to plunder, rape, and kill not just the people who stood in their way, but the cultures they had built.
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In "Inequality and Democratization," the political scientists Ben W. Ansell and David J. Samuels show that this demand for political inclusion generally isn't driven by a desire to use the existing institutions to plunder the elites.
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Novanto, who was taken into custody in November, is accused of orchestrating a scheme to plunder $173 million from a government contract to introduce a national electronic identity card - almost 40 percent of the project's entire budget.
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Third, Mr Umar promises to overhaul the state sector, taking state-owned enterprises from the purview of ministers and bureaucrats, for whom they represent tempting targets for plunder and misrule, and into a professionally run holding company.
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How marvellous it must have felt to break free from her biographer's careful diligence and plunder "the grab bag of the actual," as she puts it in the novel—to be the artist and not the interpreter.
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The GOP agenda aims to plunder as much of our public lands as possible for fossil fuel development—and if that becomes politically impossible, to hand them over to states or localities to do the dirty work.
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Likewise, the American colleges that copied their English counterparts at the dawn of the 20th century weren't looking to plunder African-American athletic labor—not when their sports and campuses, like society at large, were still segregated.
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His appearance at the inquiry – set up to test allegations that Zuma allowed cronies to plunder state resources and influence government appointments – marked a dramatic fall from grace for a politician who long dominated the country's politics.
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"We are determined to build a society defined by decency and integrity, that does not tolerate the plunder of public resources, nor the theft by corporate criminals of the hard-earned savings of ordinary people," he added.
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With his power restored, whenever he wanted state permission to plunder — doling out streetcar franchises, confiscating private property (often his own, at inflated prices) for public purposes, consolidating power — he invoked a good government demand: home rule.
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The United States suffered a black eye during the invasion of Iraq in 2003, when it was faulted for failing to protect the Iraq National Museum in Baghdad from plunder amid the chaos of the city's fall.
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The transaction illuminates the role individuals can play in rectifying Europe's history of colonial plunder, but it also reveals the inner workings of a system that allows such objects to land in private hands to begin with.
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In a matter of months, the militants began to plunder and destroy ancient artifacts, including the 1,800-year-old Arch of Triumph, once a popular draw for tourists, and the nearly 2,000-year-old Temple of Baalshamin.
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If these influential companies don't take a clear and principled stand against Mr. Bolsonaro's promises to open the Amazon for business, they will also bear responsibility for abetting his plunder of the world's largest tropical rain forest.
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Voting 216 to 54 with one abstention, lawmakers passed the third and final reading the bill to bring back the death penalty, but in a watered-down draft that excludes crimes like rape, kidnap-for-ransom and plunder.
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Here the frame creates a novelistic sense of story — the woman is at home, occupied with weaving and maintaining the home, like Penelope, while her Dutch Odysseus plies the bounding mane to return with the plunder of trade.
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We go into the natural world and we plunder it for its resources, we feel entitled to artificially inseminate a cow, and when she gives birth, we steal her baby, even though her cries of anguish are unmistakable.
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The American world number 52 made light of high winds to plunder nine birdies in a brilliant display which earned him a four-shot advantage, the biggest opening-round lead in the year's first major for 62 years.
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Many sit wide-eyed when I bring up provisions they've never heard of, like "letters of marque" (letting private individuals plunder enemy ships in wartime) or that there is no habeas corpus right (it is only a privilege).
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Pakistan's history is so intertwined with plunder that some older Pakistanis who lived through the partition of India in 1947 don't call it partition or freedom: They refer to it as the time of lut, Punjabi for loot.
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Although such figures are becoming less rare on a continent infamous for its coups and gerontocrats, a peaceful departure after years of plunder does not guarantee the prize as the hopeful's record while in office is also considered.
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Where modernists and postmodernists boldly plunder the collective treasuries of myth, legend, fairy tales, and art for their own idiosyncratic purposes, commercially minded writers replicate formulaic situations, characters, and plots in order to appeal to a wide audience.
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For far too long, governmental institutions have failed to protect the rule of law, to defend the defenders of human rights, to investigate corruption and the abuse of power, and to prosecute those who plunder the country's wealth.
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As it turns out, after centuries of enslavement and state violence against black people, decades of plunder of black wealth and resources, and herding black people into the least desirable neighborhoods, the byproducts of poverty and trauma emerge.
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Opposition activists, taking advantage of the proliferation of high-speed internet access to get around the Kremlin's control of the television airwaves, have pushed the message that Mr. Putin has allowed his wealthy friends to plunder Russia's riches.
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Here the motto is "Live Dirty, Eat Clean,'' which seems to sum up rather efficiently the prevailing ethics of the current moment: "Plunder and pillage all you want, just stay away from trans fats and farm-raised salmon.
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The charges against both men relate to an alleged scheme by the country's former leaders to plunder 1MDB, which used Goldman's investment banking services to issue $6 billion in bonds meant to finance infrastructure projects in the country.
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It should be clear that the evidentiary standard advocated by the Chinese companies is a self-serving ruse intended to get the administrative law judge to shut down the case — leaving them free to plunder the U.S. market.
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Museum boards are crowded with the worst of the moneyed elite, permitting them to launder their reputations for plunder and pelf as they impress their rivals with lavish tax-deductible donations, reap prestige, and celebrate themselves with galas.
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As the Chinese government tries to make China a world leader in technology-intensive industries like semiconductors, driverless cars and biotechnology, the fear is that it will plunder its foreign partners' intellectual jewels, and then get rid of them.
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The contingent that took part in the recent Trident Juncture exercise had to plunder all sorts of gear from other units, according to Julie Smith, an American expert on transatlantic security currently at the Robert Bosch Academy in Berlin.
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The play juxtaposes moments of comedy and horror, creating a collective feeling of unease: jokes about the casually racist "Umbongo" song referred to in the play's title collide with discussions of mass rape and the plunder of natural resources.
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A Justice Department report in 2015 uncovered enthusiastic and systemic abuses of power by the city's municipal officials, who had effectively converted the city government into a collection agency that targeted black residents for plunder to fill budgetary gaps.
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One candidate is the grandson of a president, another a former mayor who established a dynasty that is accused of being grossly corrupt, while the third is a neophyte senator allied with a president who was ousted for plunder.
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Just this week, he showed again how far he would move the United States to the dark side, gushing about his soul mate Vladimir Putin, and dreaming of a plunder force under our flag, stealing oil from the Mideast.
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The importance of the report is in its call for the abolition of nation-states' laws that protected the practice of plunder and made justice illegal by proclaiming plundered objects inalienable, so they could never leave French imperial institutions.
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In the first archaeological mission in 1748, the area's Bourbon rulers had all the treasures sent to Naples, a plunder that damaged the integrity of the site but produced the wonderful collection in the city's grand National Archaeological Museum.
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Soldiers plunder houses and rape wives and daughters, sometimes in front of their husbands and fathers, the violation of the women justified as a weapon of war, "a fortunate stroke … in mending the breed," as one newspaper puts it.
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" Though redlining was banned fifty years ago, we are still plagued by the racist policy as it institutionalized neighborhood segregation, predatory loans for black and brown people, and continued the tradition of plunder that built America's "racial wealth gap.
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"Some people may have misgivings over our participation in the development of the Arctic, worried we may have other intentions, or that we may plunder resources or damage the environment," Vice-Foreign Minister Kong Xuanyou said at a briefing.
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Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko, who once joined Indonesian dictator Suharto and Serbian genocidaire Slobodan Milošević among the ranks of the world's most corrupt leaders, relied on a network of anonymous shell companies in Wyoming to plunder Ukraine.
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WARSAW (Reuters) - A growing number of Polish firms are preparing share buybacks because they fear the government plans to plunder stocks from privately run pension funds to plug holes in the state budget, company chiefs and fund managers say.
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He writes, "a presidential self-pardon … would only be plunder to take home after a career-ending disgrace ..." and that the president's self-pardon would continue to benefit him even after leaving office, and even if he is impeached.
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The US government had busted huge money laundering operations in recent years, ranging from narcos in Mexico washing drug profits through money exchanges and New York banks, to Russian oligarchs using remote South Pacific islands to clean up their plunder.
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Today, after a century and a half that encompassed Western imperial occupation, republican turmoil, the plunder of warlords, Japanese invasion, civil war, revolutionary upheaval and, more recently, phenomenal economic growth, China has resumed its own sense of being a great power.
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If they want a shot to compete against Republicans in rural America, they can start by standing up for the right of rural Americans to compete against the corporate monopolies that have been left free to loot and plunder our communities.
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These two acres of space are loaded with meaning: a statement about the not-quite-faded power of modern Britain; a bright, illuminated courtyard that leads to rooms housing the world's treasures, the spoils and plunder of a once-imperial power.
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Poland's conservative government has said that it has no plans to plunder pension funds' shares, but Kaczynski's latest announcement said that their assets "could be a basis for new, important ventures" and "could build the power of our economic policy".
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Allegations that Zuma allowed the three Gupta brothers to plunder state resources and influence senior government appointments are one of the main areas of focus for the inquiry, which began in August and is expected to last into next year.
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Relations between London and Beijing have been complicated by the weight of history, particularly the 1860 Opium War when British and French troops stole piles of plunder from the Summer Palace in the Chinese capital, then burned it to the ground.
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Other twists on Asian food will show up at places like Tavo in the West Village, where the Mexican chef Julieta Ballesteros, formerly of Crema and China Latina, will plunder the Asian larder for wasabi guacamole and huitlacoche chow fun.
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LONDON (Reuters) - A London museum has handed back locks of hair cut from the corpse of an Ethiopian emperor during a British invasion 150 years ago, after a campaign by activists seeking the return of hundreds of pieces of colonial plunder.
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For many young readers, the die-cut magnifying glass that pops out of the book's front cover will be an affectation, but for middle-agers-and-up tasked with helping them with the hunt, it's worth a pirate's plunder. LOOK!
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It's also true that Mr. Trump is not singular and that versions of his plunder can be found in more banal form across the spectrum of political vice — like the fact that two Republican members of Congress are under indictment.
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He successfully prosecuted Mayors Hugh J. Addonizio of Newark and Thomas J. Whelan of Jersey City; John V. Kenny, the Hudson County party boss; and Mafia leaders with whom local politicians, power brokers and officials conspired to plunder the public coffers.
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It was that, particularly at a time when amnesiac designers ruthlessly plunder the back pages of those who never made it far enough to understand or to enjoy their accomplishments, Mr. Owens has the dignity to remember and give credit.
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In the early days of the occupation of Marawi last May, as black-clad fighters burned churches, released prisoners and cut the power supply, other militants targeted banks and the homes of wealthy citizens, commandeering hostages to help with the plunder.
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I see images of slaves belched up on beaches from the hulls of foundered ships, a trussed-up deer waiting to be eaten and I know what connects them is that both have been rendered into plunder in the formation of empires.
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British soldiers seized thousands of metal castings from the then separate Kingdom of Benin in 1897, one of a series of acts of plunder that have long tainted relations between London and the territories where its agents held sway in the 19th century.
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There's a lack of order to the encrusted thing; a lack of borderline between the man-made and the naturally-occurring; a lack of material distinction between the spar, which was after all a product of plunder, and the Caribbean Sea itself.
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On Monday, February 26, scholar and Brown University professor Ariella Azoulay will discuss modernism's problematic provenance in "Plunder: The Origins of Modern Art," a lecture at the Cooper Union co-organized by New York University's Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies.
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The malware, which enabled criminals in Eastern Europe to take control remotely of infected computers and plunder victims' bank accounts, focused on a Washington law firm, a Texas church, a California furniture business and a Mississippi casino, among others, the Justice Department said.
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And these days, when farm-to-barstool mixologists plunder Greenmarkets, back bars and spice caravans for their concoctions, it's refreshing to revisit these basics, as Robert Simonson, a spirits expert who reports for The New York Times, has done in his new book.
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Onavo remains by far one of the most grotesque attempts by Facebook to plunder its users' data for marketing purposes, and it was reportedly ejected from the Apple App Store specifically on that basis almost exactly a year ago to the day.
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It deserves a wide audience — but it especially deserves to be read by the next generation of young men, the could-be Brocks and Elliots, who have grown up seeing women's bodies as property to plunder, who believe that sex is their right.
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The transaction illuminates the role individuals can play in rectifying Europe's history of colonial plunder, especially given glaring government inaction — but it also reveals the inner workings of a system that allows such objects to land in private hands to begin with.
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By 2007 — following three assassination attempts and a deadly riot in Kabul — Karzai's regime had become synomymous with corruption, waste, plunder, and fraud; the U.S. scheme had backfired, as the conditions for a Taliban resurgence were spread across the nation like poppy seeds.
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The region's rapid growth, along with the emergence of new industries like vacationing and tourism in rural and coastal areas, created an insatiable demand for land and made black property owners targets for removal by white officials and plunder by profit-seeking speculators.
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Throughout the 90s he continued his work, commissioned by Elektra Records to plunder their back catalog for Rubáiyát, and by the Grateful Dead for Grayfolded, where he "folded" 100 live performances of their song "Dark Star" into one gorgeous, 109-minute-long opus.
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And when Euron Greyjoy promised the Ironborn toward the end of season six that he would sail the seas to plunder towns and give Daenerys his "big cock," he was embodying the kind of swaggering, sexist bravado that's fueled his men for centuries.
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The boomers, according to Gibney, have committed "generational plunder," pillaging the nation's economy, repeatedly cutting their own taxes, financing two wars with deficits, ignoring climate change, presiding over the death of America's manufacturing core, and leaving future generations to clean up the mess they created.
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PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (Reuters) - Marit Bjoergen's sprint to Olympic victory over her fierce Swedish rivals in the women's relay may well be the sweetest of her glittering career and with two races to go the 37-year-old could still plunder more gold in Pyeongchang.
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In a piece for the Atlantic, he wrote that Jackson was a "black god dying to be white"; when he sang and danced, he tapped "into a power formed under all the killing, all the beatings, all the rape and plunder that made America".
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An old cliché goes that you rob banks because that's where the money is, so it stands to reason that you find every which way you can to plunder Google and Facebook and Twitter and Amazon because that's where the golden veins of data are.
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But does that mean that el-Sisi's warmed-over Mubarakism — dictatorship without fanaticism; institutional corruption without outright plunder; a security state without mass murder; cooperation with the West in international affairs without the adoption of Western political values — is the best Egypt can hope for?
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Late 21871th-century conservatives increased budget deficits, defanged government regulators, and used the mechanisms of mass incarceration to plunder the poor and stifle mobility, but they rhetorically resisted outright discrimination on the basis of race — particularly in George W. Bush's "compassionate conservatism" in the early 22012s.
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"Senior LNA commanders who have stood by since 2014 while their forces torture and disappear people and plunder their property can and should be held to account by local or international courts," Eric Goldstein, HRW's deputy Middle East and North Africa director, said in a statement.
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A thousand years after the Vikings braved the icy seas from Greenland to the New World in search of timber and plunder, satellite technology has found intriguing evidence of a long-elusive prize in archaeology — a second Norse settlement in North America, further south than ever known.
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But under any of these scenarios, we are left with a very unsettling portrait of the sort of behavior that Trump has enabled -- if not endorsed -- in his closest associates, who took his unlikely rise to power as an opportunity not to govern, but to plunder.
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Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly ruled on Friday, however, in federal court in Washington that since the Nazis' organized plunder of Jewish property was part and parcel of their later genocide of the Jews - a crime under international law - the court had jurisdiction to hear the case.
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But also, conquest here means not the retrieval of plunder but escape; as in the ubiquitous escape room genre, common in both IF and graphical adventures, the "prize" to be earned from this environment is freedom; narratives of escape follow naturally from spaces meant to imprison.
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It cuts back the intro and interludes to plunge right into the vamp, moving through ever more urgent verses (about colonialism and plunder) punctuated by bellicose interjections from paired guitars and a horn section, rapidly culminating in a thrilling full-band drive that unites them all.
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That's getting closer to becoming a reality in the Philippines, where in the past seven weeks, 2677 bills have been filed before the lower house and Senate to reinstate the death penalty, collectively covering crimes ranging from drug trafficking and plunder to kidnapping, rape and murder.
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As Guy Standing of the School of Oriental and African Studies in London writes in his book, "The Plunder of the Commons", property rights can create an incentive for owners to use resources well, but they also grant the liberty to squander the fruits of their holdings.
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But all is not lost for Johnson and there are three sources he can plunder for support: Some pro-deal Labour MPs have already confirmed they will defy their party to vote with Johnson while, conversely, some rebel Conservative lawmakers are set to reject Johnson's proposal.
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The complaint against Ms. Wiener provides a rare look at how looters, smugglers, art dealers and others may conspire to plunder relics from Indian shrines or Cambodian jungle temples, ferry them into the United States, give them fake pedigrees, and burnish them for sale as lawful imports.
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"We lived entirely on tortoise meat, the breastplate roasted … with flesh on it, is very good; and the young tortoises make excellent soup," Darwin wrote in 1839, near the peak of the tortoise plunder in which some 200,000 were killed or carried away from the islands.
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"Treasury is designating the Central Bank of Venezuela to prevent it from being used as a tool of the illegitimate Maduro regime, which continues to plunder Venezuelan assets and exploit government institutions to enrich corrupt insiders," said Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin in a statement released shortly after Bolton's remarks.
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What Hap and Florence are up against as they try to provide for their children and hold onto their dignity is a system of organized expropriation — a heritage of plunder (to borrow a term from the writer Ta-Nehisi Coates) designed to keep them poor, precarious and dependent.
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As late as the fourth and fifth centuries, bishops and theologians as eminent as Basil the Great, Gregory of Nyssa, Ambrose of Milan, Augustine and Cyril of Alexandria felt free to denounce private wealth as a form of theft and stored riches as plunder seized from the poor.
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All parties thought the war would be a short one; none imagined the speed with which the conflict would degenerate into a series of local atrocities (the Belgians became the conflict's first group of refugees, as they fled German rape and plunder) and mass slaughter across many fronts.
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There is too much gratuitous death, as in the images of hunters taking down polar bears, which once powerful and stately after the crack of a hunter's rifle are made into an inert mound of fur and flaccid carcass which is then dragged across the ice as some scavenger's plunder.
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The phrase "trick or treat" was reportedly first used in 1927 by a Canadian journalist who wrote, "the youthful tormentors were at back door and front demanding edible plunder by the word 'trick or treat,' to which the inmates gladly responded and sent the robbers away rejoicing," according to the Sun.
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And a vulturous frenzy of rising costs of living, low-wage jobs, government-aided corporate plunder, and real estate speculation have ensured that the economic "recovery" over the past decade has all but institutionalized this fear as a perpetual fact of everyday life for millions of people in the United States.
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In the early years of the 20th century, when archaeologists and others became alarmed by the plunder and damage to some of these accessible and fragile sites, Chaco Canyon was the chief catalyst for Congress to protect such places on federal land by authorizing the president to declare them national monuments.
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Clinton's staff has conducted autopsies that, she said, suggested that two of the most important factors were the plunder and release of her campaign emails and the last-minute announcement by the F.B.I. director, James Comey, that the investigation into her use of a private email server could be reopened.
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With a fearsome floating army at her back, Ching Shih negotiated a very good deal: Not only were she and any other pirates who surrendered completely pardoned by the government for their many, many crimes, but they kept all their ill-gotten plunder and even received jobs from the government if they wanted.
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" In the book's final scene of defeat and retreat, a Catalan girl whose home has just been bombed shames a band of her own starving countrymen who are attempting to plunder her pantry: "You're such cowards and hopeless fighters," she taunts them, "and on top of that will you steal from us?
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After the British, the Burmese military pursued plunder of their own: crony business deals; the plundering of history to produce enemies that might justify its predations; the plundering of truth in an attempt to cover up the villages destroyed, the thousands slaughtered in a succession of wars against Myanmar's ethnic minorities and dissidents.
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Ms. Grimsted's work has been central to the task, and her publication, "Reconstructing the Record of Nazi Cultural Plunder: A Guide to the Dispersed Archives of the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (ERR) and the Postwar Retrieval of ERR Loot" is, among other things, an inventory of where the many documents can be found.
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It is no coincidence that the day after the Great August Pivot, one of his two—two—campaign chairs (the corrupt one, not the white nationalist one) resigned amid a torrent of news stories about how he helped oligarchs plunder poor Ukrainians, in contravention of of U.S. interests, and probably federal law as well.
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"Treasury is designating the Central Bank of Venezuela to prevent it from being used as a tool of the illegitimate Maduro regime, which continues to plunder Venezuelan assets and exploit government institutions to enrich corrupt insiders," said Treasury Secretary Steven MnuchinSteven Terner MnuchinFive key players in Trump's trade battles Pelosi warns Mnuchin to stop 'illegal' .
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In the 19th century, I was told, the densely wooded Sierra Morena range, more than 300 miles in length from east to west, was known for the bandits who trawled for spoils among mail and gold wagons en route to the southern cities from Madrid, sharing their plunder, like Robin Hood, with the poor.
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His definition of "legal plunder" (if the law takes from one to give to another) remains a living sentiment for those who resist state expansion, as does his definition of what comprises good economic policy: it must be judged on not only what would be produced but what would be lost—the innovations and activities that do not occur.
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When (rich, white) men convince themselves that (poor, black) athletes need to be shielded from the corrupting influence of money, measures to keep them from it — even as the world of collegiate sports begins clearing more than $900 million a year in revenue — are not seen as plunder; they are seen as noble, just and vital.
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Throughout time, access to food has been important to ensuring the satisfaction of a population: Think of the inflated bread and salt prices that played a huge role in fomenting the French Revolution, or New York City's flour riot of 1837, when outlandish flour prices led hungry workers to plunder private storerooms filled with sacks of hoarded grain.
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But they also empowered (and were exploited and worsened by) the great new gods of modernity, the almighty market and the centralizing state, which claimed their own kind of authority over everyday life, making the divided churches into handmaidens or scapegoats, and using Christianity as an excuse for plunder rather than a restraining counterforce to worldly lust.
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Based on the most recent surveys, among those ranking in the top 12 in the Senate race are the president's closest aide, Bong Go; Duterte's hand-picked former Philippine national police chief, Ronald "Bato" dela Rosa; Imee Marcos, daughter of the infamous dictator; and former senator Jinggoy Estrada, who is facing plunder charges and is out on bail for the campaign.
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The conflicts over the common property are at stake: The lands that are being appropriated by transnational companies displacing peasants and indigenous [people] (such is the case of Benetton in Patagonia); the state that is being dismantled, leaving women with no access to education, healthcare, or protection; and our bodies are taken as plunder of conquest, as we are exploited and disciplined.
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For decades people referred to it as a Roman shipwreck, like in Jacques Cousteau's documentary "Diving for Roman Plunder," but the team's findings since 2012 — such as a chemical analysis of lead on the ship's equipment that trace it back to northern Greece and the personal possessions they found with Greek names etched on them — are changing that narrative, Dr. Foley said.
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Just as British lies had enabled outrageous acts of colonial plunder, Myanmar's lies now cover up the attempt to exterminate the hapless Rohingya, more than 10,000 of whom died in the "clearance operations" that began after the August 2017 attack, according to a United Nations report; another 740,000 have fled to Bangladesh, and about 120,000 remain internally displaced from conflicts in 2012.
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CreditCreditRobert Rausch for The New York Times I was trying not to slip as I traipsed over the stone pavement in the drizzle at the old fort at Port Royal in Kingston, the "wickedest city in Christendom," a warren of iniquity and plunder, a den of pirates and buccaneers and the core of British naval power in the Antilles for 200 years.
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While not, he insisted, an expert in the technical aspects of hacking nor, a spy, Mr. Akhmetshin talked openly about how he had worked with a counterintelligence unit while serving with the Red Army after its 1979 invasion of Afghanistan and how easy it was to find tech-savvy professionals ready and able to plunder just about any email account.
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Or again, more skeptically, one could have been forgiven for thinking the increasingly woke museum is yet the newest gambit to preserve the stranglehold of the ruling elite (who continue, in the broader scheme of things, to profit from distinctly unwoke border detention centers, the militarized police, surveillance of dissidents and journalists, looting and plunder for shareholder profit, and looming ecocide).
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Whether it is obscuring state language or the faux-language of mindless media; whether it is the proud but calcified language of the academy or the commodity-driven language of science; whether it is the malign language of law-without-ethics, or language designed for the estrangement of minorities, hiding its racist plunder in its literary cheek—it must be rejected, altered and exposed.
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