These imitators are plundering intellectual property, often for big treasure.
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This was a minor godsend amid the plundering and killing onscreen.
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Tech companies disagree with the notion that they are plundering academia.
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The proposal amounted to "the plundering of national wealth," the students shouted.
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Estimated costs of the plundering amount to hundreds of billions of rand.
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Occasionally breaking into forest cabins and plundering them for supplies, occasionally not.
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They descend on towns and villages, plundering crops and rampaging through homes.
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But it can be hard to stop treasure hunters from plundering remote sites.
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Dr. Santana-Sagredo worried that the study on Ata might encourage more plundering.
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In his songs, Mr. Buffett imagined himself as a pirate, always plundering toward treasure.
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The nation's growing wealth allows it a new redress against the plundering of the past.
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Times change, technology marches on, and the old ways of plundering go out of fashion.
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Indonesia claims that this is partly because other countries' vessels are plundering its territorial waters.
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They were later accused of plundering the DRC's precious minerals -- a charge the military denied.
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Social media are awash with videos of shoppers plundering supermarkets and brawling with each other.
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Slack was often criticized as a castle without a moat, and thus ripe for plundering.
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"The days of plundering American jobs and American wealth -- those days are over," Trump said.
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That "egocentric worldview," he argued, is the reason we've taken to plundering the natural world.
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In the span of one human lifetime, humankind has become brutally adept at plundering the seas.
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Instead he and his allies were accused of plundering billions from the Arab world's poorest state.
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The problem has become endemic nowadays because powerful computers are so good at plundering Big Data.
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They justified this plundering of humanity with arguments about the supposed inferiority and bestiality of Africans.
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Tradable trends have been rare in this space so rapacious predators are keen on plundering this one.
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Both have track records of executions, killings, exportation of terrorism and plundering of the Iranian people's wealth.
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But for the Coens, the plundering of the past is most evident in their use of genre.
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If anyone could be forgiven for plundering her own archive at this point, however, it's Donatella Versace.
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Tape of President Trump: The days of plundering American jobs and American wealth — those days are over.
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It sees China as an "oppressor" that is supporting the Pakistani government and plundering resources in Baluchistan.
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When the plundering is done, even the pirates will have nothing left to watch, let alone steal.
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This echoes a longstanding Trump argument that plundering fossil fuels should be a goal of American foreign policy.
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Questions like these must be asked when plundering the very real pain of Black bondage in the Americas.
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Her 2000-year-old eyes are warm, lively and occasionally set adrift by the dementia plundering her mind.
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In Peru, the plundering of ancient sites in recent decades has at times imperiled the country's archaeological preservation.
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The absence of vegetation magnifies the horror — a dead life form plundering a protective tool from the living.
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Mungojerrie and Rumpleteazer (Danny Collins and Naoimh Morgan) are making a fine, if slightly risky, living plundering homes.
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A third sin should be added to these: the aggression against Mexico and the plundering of its territory.
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Vertical farming can allow former cropland to go back to nature and reverse the plundering of the earth.
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THE FAVORITE: The Northern Kentucky Norse, the plundering herd from Highland Heights, were a longtime D-II stalwart.
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Take a walk through the centers of Manhattan or Tokyo, with their LED-zeppelin screens and sky-plundering advertisements.
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The couple reportedly did not have a prenuptial agreement, which could leave Captain Jack Sparrow's treasure rife for plundering.
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But they are as frustrated as America is with China's barriers to investment and its plundering of Western technology.
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Rajoelina, the man who ousted him, was accused by conservation groups of profiting from illegal plundering of natural resources.
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If we truly support life, we must stop plundering the earth that enables life to be born and sustained.
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Gambia's new government has accused the former president of plundering many millions of dollars during his 22-year rule.
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Still, to hear reporters who witnessed it tell it, the plundering was more in jest than in ill will.
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Opposition figures say he was the mastermind behind election violence, vote rigging and the plundering of Zimbabwe's natural resources.
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He was presumably aware of the loud rumors that his team had made a science of plundering pitching signals.
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His democratically elected successor has since accused Mr. Jammeh of plundering the treasury and fleeing with millions of dollars.
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One cannot disassociate the rise of private museums with the plundering of public resources and social programs under neoliberalism.
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Meanwhile, it's unclear what Jaime's army is planning to do or where it's going to go after plundering Highgarden.
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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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Microeconomists were having all the fun, plundering new sources of evidence and reinventing old techniques for divining cause and consequence.
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During their rule, the company was notorious for plundering India and overseeing human-encouraged famines that consumed millions of lives.
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For many men, this is not a leveling of the playing field, but a plundering of what was rightly theirs.
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Both Khudabaksh and Zafira desire revenge, capturing ship after ship from the British, plundering their reserves and causing heavy losses.
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But Sanders has gone further than several of his rivals in defining his foreign policy in opposition to plundering autocrats.
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His democratically elected successor has since accused Mr. Jammeh, above, of plundering the treasury and fleeing with millions of dollars.
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Especially with "resurrection men" plundering the cemeteries and lady "undergraduettes" permitted to dissect cadavers at the university's famed medical school.
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But these scourges, they believe, have a common source: the plundering of the country's wealth by corrupt and feckless political elites.
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Mobutu's plundering of the state created widespread misery among his citizens, fueling support for an uprising that would eventually topple him.
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Trump seems to have given up on the plundering Iraq idea even though he has brought it up on several occasions.
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Climate disasters are plundering the nation at will, taking life and property like marauding armies of raiders from the middle ages.
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"Impact investing" is so hot right now, particularly within a private equity market that has developed a lingering reputation for soulless plundering.
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During a rule of over two decades, he and his allies were accused of plundering billions from the Arab world's poorest state.
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He and his gang are terrorizing an American town, which has the bad fortune of being next to a mine he's plundering.
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In reality, the cost and uncertainty of deep-sea exploration has frustrated all attempts to begin plundering the assets in the oceans.
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He hopes for international assistance to prevent the plundering of Somali fish stocks, which is often cited as a grievance by pirates.
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A litigation trust remains in an effort to repay creditors following what attorney Craig Smyser called an "outrageous plundering" of the company.
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The archaeologists also surmise that the attackers were driven by politics and power, not mainly by robbery or plundering the village's riches.
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The country has just emerged, its democracy shaken but intact, from nine years of plundering, corrupt rule by former president Jacob Zuma.
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It throws punches at politicians and the Liberian elite, whom HipCo rappers accuse of plundering the country's wealth and ignoring the poor.
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After years of his government plundering the national pension pot, Mr Ortega imposed by decree a 5% cut in pensions and raised contributions.
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He has been convicted in absentia of plundering a bank he once ran, so he cannot return to Kazakhstan without going to jail.
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Plundering the aquarium further, you will also find cuttlefish crackers next to Cheetos; and Lay's chips come in squid, shrimp, and nori flavors.
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As a new year approaches, stoicism will prevail, decency will prevail, contestation will prevail, over the Great Leader's plundering of truth and thought.
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The African Great Lakes have long tempted outsiders seeking riches, including the European nations that began plundering the continent in the 22.2th century.
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Among these he included misappropriation of public resources, dishonest gain, xenophobia, racism, lack of concern for the environment, and plundering of natural resources.
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Former wearables maker Jawbone initially sued Fitbit for "systematically plundering" trade secrets, including over 300,000 confidential files, but a judge ruled in Fitbit's favor.
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The migrations and massacres of the day were accompanied by mass plundering of the evacuees' properties, and many fortunes were made through false claims.
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The invasive species, originally from Central and North America, arrived in India only in the middle of last year after plundering Sri Lankan produce.
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He signed the plundering tax bill that disproportionately favored businesses and the wealthy, and he and his administration continue to chip away at regulations.
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James Ibori, a former governor of Nigeria's Delta State, served a prison sentence in Britain after admitting to plundering $79m from the public purse.
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He took their side against immigrant rapists, murderous jihadis, plundering trade deals, dangerous city people and disloyal, condescending elites of all parties and persuasions.
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As more end up empty-handed and black market prices soar, plundering is rising in Venezuela, already one of the world's most violent countries.
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An elite Baltimore police task force spent years plundering the city and its residents for hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash, drugs, and jewelry.
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Trump's America might seem like strange material for the fashion world's more left-leaning monarchs, but it's exactly the treasure trove many designers are plundering.
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But as humanity's interest in plundering the deep of its riches heats up, scientists are warning that this new gold rush will have serious consequences.
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It's a flawed game in some ways, but it's still incredibly fun to grab three friends and sail the high seas together, pirating and plundering.
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Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis recently contradicted Trump on America's commitment to NATO and, speaking in Baghdad on Monday, on plundering Iraq of its oil.
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Buhari rode to victory in 2015 on an anti-corruption platform after widespread anger at the plundering of the state under his predecessor Goodluck Jonathan.
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Forbes has listed the English pirate as the highest-earning pirate ever, plundering about $120 million worth of treasure in a little over a year.
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Jammeh finally left the country last weekend, and has gone into exile in Equatorial Guinea, but not before allegedly plundering the Gambian coffers of $11.4M.
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The militant group has made money by selling oil from fields it seized in the Middle East and North Africa and from plundering weapons and ammunition.
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"We cannot tolerate the plundering of our marine resources, which are a source of food security," Agriculture and Fisheries Minister Senzeni Zokwana said in a statement.
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Safranski's strength lies in his ability to blend artistic analysis with swift, sharp renderings of various artists, thinkers, pietists, lovers, and plundering soldiers who shaped Goethe.
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They are also a response to reports that the organization has sharply escalated its abductions and plundering in Central African Republic this year compared with 2015.
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He was indefinitely detained without a trial because he dared to write a play about the complicity of Kenya's rulers in the plundering of the country.
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Jammeh finally left the country last weekend and has gone into exile in Equatorial Guinea, but not before allegedly plundering $11.4 million from the national coffers.
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Iranian parliament speaker Ali Larijani called the U.S-led coalition a "a new means for plundering the region," according to Iran's semi-official Tasnim news agency.
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In an open letter "to the people of Venezuela" making the rounds on social media, Manuel Ricardo Cristopher Figuera accused the Maduro regime of plundering the country.
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The Aden authorities accuse the Houthis of plundering the bank's foreign reserves in Sanaa to fund their war effort, charges the Houthis and the Sanaa bank deny.
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Finally, the financial crisis painfully underscored the need for a more resilient economy, one that grows sustainably without plundering the future at the service of the present.
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They would have been appalled at the green revolution's other consequences, which include soil erosion, a plundering of aquifers and toxic water in much depleted water tables.
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President Muhammadu Buhari rode to victory in 2015 on an anti-corruption platform after widespread anger at the plundering of the state under his predecessor Goodluck Jonathan.
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Last year, Global Witness reported that Congo's biggest logging companies were systematically and illegally plundering the Congo Basin, undermining efforts to protect the world's second largest rainforest.
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In this one, men weren't only reposting pictures of female colleagues but also plundering them—hacking social-media accounts, trading nude images from past and present relationships.
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There is little doubt that marine development could offer profound benefits to communities across the continent, but the continued plundering of oceans puts that prospect in jeopardy.
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Severe, indiscriminate attacks on civilians bring little near-term risks and substantial benefits: disrupting the enemy's control or local support, pacifying potential threats, plundering resources and others.
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The rebels, who say they are fighting for the land rights and empowerment of indigenous people, accuse the government of plundering mineral resources while ignoring the villagers.
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He also noted that the practice may be completely unnecessary: There are far better ways, he said, to groom a champion finch than by plundering wild populations.
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And the more the ayatollahs rule like a religious monarchy — plundering their society while wrapping themselves in the cloak of religion — the more young Iranians resent them.
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In his work, Mr. Soi has questioned those premises, depicting China as the latest in a long line of outside powers intent on plundering Africa's natural resources.
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"Plundering antiquities in the Middle East and South America and legitimizing them with false provenances, that's the major problem in the art world today," Mr. Greenhalgh said.
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I fear that this force will eventually overwhelm Mr. Kristof's poverty reduction dynamic and restore the five-millennium norm of the powerful thriving by plundering the many.
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Trump pointed the finger not just at Maduro, but at the "small handful at the top of the Maduro regime" whom he accused of plundering the nation.
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The overriding goal was the same, however: portray a superpower in terminal decline, ruined by violent race wars and a plundering plutocracy, and hollowed out by imperial overstretch.
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The United States Department of Justice has accused Mr. Najib and his family and friends of plundering billions of dollars from that fund, 1Malaysia Development Berhad, or 7003MDB.
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"She acted like a vulture, attacking weakened banks in order to create conditions for the plundering and redistribution of assets," he wrote in response to questions from Reuters.
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During the Revolution, insurgents ransacked the cathedral, plundering treasures and decapitating statues of Old Testament figures on the building's facade, which they mistook for portraits of French kings.
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Revilla had spent four years in prison awaiting trial for plundering $4.3 million in public funds before being acquitted last December; he still faced 16 counts of graft.
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This has infuriated Venezuela's exiles, who accuse them of plundering their homeland and then escaping to better lives in the United States, a country they have long demonized.
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The exhibit demonstrates fashion's history of plundering the environment for product and the attempts by designers to try and modernize, recycle and use different methods to ease the burden.
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Bruno Mars Online debates about cultural appropriation — which could be broadly defined as plundering or disrespecting a minority culture for one's own artistic benefit without appropriate credit — are cyclical.
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The penalties are the latest effort by the Trump administration to deprive the Maduro government of funding and prevent top officials from plundering what remains of the country's wealth.
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The fundamentalists attempted to win popular support by highlighting corruption in F.S.A. ranks; in nearby mountain villages, one notorious rebel commander had been erecting rogue checkpoints and plundering motorists.
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He has denied wrongdoing and is awaiting trial in India on charges there of plundering archaeological sites and conspiring with black market traders to send illicitly-obtained artifacts overseas.
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The 103s began in '210 and ended at the tragic Altamont Free Concert on December 287th, 21987 (or with Don Draper's hippie-culture-plundering Coke ad in November 1971).
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A representative Soviet poster distributed in Vienna showed an American — identified by American-flag shirt cuffs — offering aid packages with one hand while plundering Austria's gold with the other.
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But Dr. Larsson said that the silk and other artifacts found in the Viking graves suggested not just trade or plundering — but a deeper cultural exchange and shared ideas.
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"Calabria is particularly rich in ancient heritage and is the object of incessant and intense plundering which feeds the clandestine market for art work," the unit said on Monday.
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Image: Department of Natural and Cultural ResourcesOld-timey pirates are typically portrayed as stupid, unrefined thugs whose only interests involved plundering captured ships and forcing enemies to walk the plank.
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Attracting more large-scale investment into Brazilian land will not bring development but result in further plundering of natural resources, destruction of the environment, and exploitation of the rural poor.
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Democrats should be voicing clearly that the real threat to people is the power of big corporations racing across the globe, plundering the planet and exploiting people of all races.
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"Given the redhead has long been a fan favorite, we wanted to keep her as a pivotal part of the story, so we made her a plundering pirate," Mangum said.
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Digital adversaries such as China, Russia, Iran and North Korea have also swooped in unexpectedly, plundering health insurers, airlines, nuclear plants, government agencies and, most memorably, a major movie studio.
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"Zinke's days of plundering our lands and enriching himself and his friends are over," Nicole Ghio, senior fossil fuels program manager for Friends of the Earth, said in a statement.
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But at the same time, Mr. Peña Nieto ruled over an incredible plundering of Mexico's black gold and had no solid plan or political will to try and stop it.
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His reasoning is that if Belgium allows a few hundred migrants to reside illegally on its territory, it could attract millions of others, potentially plundering Belgium's generous social security system.
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After serving his four-year prison term for the "plundering and spoliation of occupied territories," IG Farben CEO Hermann Schmitz went on to take a senior post at Deutsche Bank.
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Despite protecting the forest with their lives - sometimes literally, when confrontations with gangs plundering timber or babmboo risk turning violent - most forest-dwelling communities lack legal recognition of land ownership.
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In Game of Thrones' history and lore, the Iron Islands are home to a plundering class of people called the Ironborn who have to raid other lands for resources to survive.
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In Central African Republic, diamond smuggling gangs are plundering the country's resources and funding conflict by making illegal sales via WhatsApp and Facebook, said a recent report by NGO Global Witness.
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Uncharted models the psychology of the plundering villain, too self-centered to recognize that his impact on the hidden cultures and the people around him are almost certainly a net negative.
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The Washington Post described the plundering of African-American urban populations by police forces as "medieval," although they rely on systems of racial identification, automobile regulations and the modern surveillance state.
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We're now nearing the end of that gold-rush cycle, when lone miners with pickaxes and pans are getting replaced by corporate syndicates plundering with machines and a low-paid workforce.
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Instead, he wants to tackle "King Leopold's Ghost," an epic about the colonial plundering of what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo; Martin Scorsese has signed on as a producer.
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And even then, lithium-ion batteries are shitty for human rights and the environment too (just read an article about how they're about to start plundering the seabed for rare metals).
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Many Qurans in the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts' collection were transferred there from royal tombs at the turn of the 20th century, when Europe was plundering Turkey for art.
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The nearby Griffin Warrior grave was being excavated at this time, and presumably inspired the digging at the tholos tomb, even though plundering antiquities is a serious offense under Greek law.
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Mining and Energy Minister Fernando Coelho Filho said the decree could protect the area from illegal mining operations that the government says are polluting waterways, destroying the forest and plundering national wealth.
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The question of "Seriously, what is a limited series" has been percolating for years, ever since Ryan Murphy started plundering the Emmys annually with American Horror Story and then American Crime Story.
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The Aden authorities accuse the Houthis of plundering the bank's foreign reserves to fund their war effort when it was based in the capital, charges the group and the Sanaa bank deny.
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Not only were these military leaders solely interested in plundering the nation and disregarding human rights, they allowed for the rapid growth of organized crime that has spilled over to Honduras's neighbors.
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Hollywood has now perfected its formula for plundering superhero stories, and it's not just the stereotypical comic book guys who line up to throw their money away on sub-par adaptations anymore.
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But by the time the Ebola virus was detected in her blood, she was in a car bumping her way towards Kalungata, an area controlled by the Mai-Mai, a plundering, raping militia.
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Maoist rebels accuse the Indian government of plundering the mineral rich and underdeveloped east and central regions of the country at the expenses of the poor and landless among whom they draw support.
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The soldiers began by plundering anything made of gold or silver, smashing exquisite objects of porcelain and jade, and dressing themselves up for comic effect in ornate silk clothes from the imperial wardrobes.
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Gizzard Lizard had made his way there after plundering the sparsely populated barns and domiciles of Anarchy Acres, then by avoiding the Wailing Woods and keeping the storm just off to his left.
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"It is clear that violent extremists are plundering our treasures and smuggling them overseas," said Mr. Dammaj, who met with State and Treasury Department officials, American law enforcement authorities and United Nations representatives.
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But whenever societies get turned upside down, wrecking the economy and sapping the resources to post guards at archaeological sites, a rise in looting occurs—especially in countries with a history of plundering.
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Assam has been racked by waves of violence over the years as residents, including tribal groups, have clashed with both Hindu and Muslim settlers, whom they accuse of plundering resources and taking away jobs.
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon has been swept by unprecedented protests against a political class accused of plundering state resources for personal gain, bringing turmoil to the streets of a nation already in deep economic crisis.
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The rebels accuse the Indian state of plundering the mineral-rich and underdeveloped east and central regions of the country at the expense of the poor and landless, among whom they retain some support.
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"Real change and reform really means also decreasing the leverage for stealing, for plundering, pillaging Ukrainian wealth and for the cronies of the president and the others to basically increase their wealth," he said.
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Most of the decline in the stock, however, came after it was reported that then-CEO Lloyd Blankfein attended a 2009 introductory meeting with the Malaysian financier later accused of plundering billions from the fund.
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The secondary school student has joined mass demonstrations that have swept Lebanon for more than a week, railing against a political elite accused of plundering state resources in a nation already in deep economic crisis.
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Then-Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein attended a 20093 meeting with the Malaysian financier later accused of plundering billions of dollars from his country's investment fund, according to a person with knowledge of the situation.
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Much of the book is concerned with the many environmental disasters suffered by Louisiana as a result of under-regulated oil and gas companies plundering its natural wealth with the connivance of local Republican leaders.
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"Corruption and theft without measure to the education of our children, the health of the people as well as the plundering of our institutions and values is an unforgivable act," Fonsi wrote in the caption.
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If Trump really cared about stopping the illegal drug trade, he wouldn't reportedly be plundering $2.5 billion from the Defense Department's drug interdiction program as part of his executive gambit to secure more wall funding.
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The United Nations tribunal dealing with the former Yugoslavia has, through multiple trials, established extensive jurisprudence to treat the plundering and bombing of cultural and religious sites as both war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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A research-heavy work, I read it as weighted with a sense of timelessness, considering the recent upswing of transnational migration due to political and economic displacement, in turn spurred by endless, resource-plundering wars.
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Last month, the Malaysia-based Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization assailed the Houthis for plundering manuscripts, historical texts and Islamic relics from the library of Zabid, Yemen's capital during the 13th and 15th centuries.
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In Namibia, investigators told me that criminal networks are plundering animals, like colonies of brilliantly hued carmine bee eaters and families of pangolin, the scaly anteater that is the most trafficked mammal on the planet.
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Another showed masked demonstrators in black clothes plundering a grocery store; in yet another, masked protesters could be seen being chased by masked and heavily armed police officers against a backdrop of flames and smoke.
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Ibrahim's militia controlled neighborhoods in northeastern Aleppo where they allegedly took part in "plundering and abducting and captivating people ... and torturing and militating members of his militia," according to the Upper District Court in Düsseldorf.
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Mekhlafi accused the Houthis of plundering Yemen's foreign reserves, which he said had stood at $4 billion in 2014, but he said the government delegation had no plan to leave Kuwait, allowing further scope to diplomacy.
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India's northeastern state of Assam, home to 33 million people, has suffered years of violence as residents, including tribal groups, have clashed with suspected Hindu and Muslim settlers they accuse of plundering resources and grabbing jobs.
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Science fiction has long predicted the consequences of such for-profit plundering; in the sci-fi classic Dune, for example, industrial control of a rare resource called "melange" underpins a complete monopoly on all interstellar travel.
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Many southerners now believe their time has come after two decades of what they see as marginalization within the unified state, and the plundering of mostly southern oil reserves by corrupt northern tribal sheikhs and politicians.
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Now tech firms are plundering departments of robotics and machine learning (where computers learn from data themselves) for the highest-flying faculty and students, luring them with big salaries similar to those fetched by professional athletes.
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Yemen's foreign reserves, which stood at around $4 billion before the war, have virtually been wiped out, with the government accusing the Houthis, who control the capital Sanaa and all state institutions, of plundering the funds.
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" During a bizarre digression in North Carolina on Tuesday night, Mr. Trump seemed to accuse America's fighting men and women of plundering the war effort in the Middle East (although a spokeswoman later denied it): "Iraq.
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Many southerners now believe their time has come after two decades of what they see as marginalisation within the unified state, and the plundering of mostly southern oil reserves by corrupt northern tribal sheikhs and politicians.
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In addition, Derbent's cast of Arab, Persian and Turkish rulers long appreciated its role as the choke point preventing the marauding nomads in what became Russia from plundering the far more civilized empires of the Middle East.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis on Sunday called for an end to the plundering of the Amazon basin, as he closed an assembly of Roman Catholic bishops who discussed the challenges the Church faces in the region.
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Fitzgerald admitted she was the inspiration for Daisy Buchanan in The Great Gatsby and their marriage — like Tom and Daisy's — was marred by infidelity, excessive drinking, and her husband's habit of plundering her diaries for his novels.
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He is plundering it for images of wrath and apocalypse, and it might be best if he simply filmed the Book of Revelation, complete with ten-horned beasts, and got the whole thing out of his system.
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Amid continuing violence at a local level, the United Nations team turned a spotlight on how members of the government were plundering the economy to line their own pockets with "catastrophic" consequences for the country's humanitarian situation.
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As well as snatching off each other's players in the night time, clubs can also launch a transfer 'raid' against their foes, 'plundering' smaller and less illustrious teams like marauding vikings dicking on a dark-age monastery somewhere.
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It seems the Department of Justice hopes to make an example of this act of espionage amidst rising tensions between the U.S. and China, which stems in part from accusations that China has been plundering American intellectual property.
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Austerity measures have hollowed out the middle class, while the richest 0.1 percent of the population — which includes many politicians — earns a tenth of the country's national income, much of it, critics say, from plundering the country's resources.
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They do not respect their neighbors' borders or the sovereign rights of nations," Trump said, before slamming Iranian leaders of plundering "the nation's resources to enrich themselves and to spread mayhem across the Middle East and far beyond.
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He is a genealogist of sorts, tracing the bloodlines of Western intellectual history to ask, among other things, how European colonial expansion, environmental plundering and the creation of the museum all relate to the ecological disasters we face today.
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The group's illicit proceeds, which total tens of billions of dollars, are derived from plundering banks, siphoning and trafficking of black market oil, kidnapping for ransom, human trafficking, organ trafficking, and stolen antiquities, according to Western governments and analysts.
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Trying to erase history is a favorite trick for dictators, from regimes destroying older regimes' cultural and religious texts to the Nazis plundering books, art, and artifacts to the way Mao's Cultural Revolution systematically stamped out existing traditions and cultures.
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Gambia's government is promoting oil and gas development to revive an economy gutted by more than two decades of autocratic rule under former President Yahya Jammeh, who financed a lavish lifestyle by plundering the central bank and other public accounts.
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The 250-acre presidential palace itself displayed the extent of his regime's plundering: Yanukovych had built an estate so gaudy that it included a luxury car collection, an ostrich farm, and even a loaf of bread made of solid gold.
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The plundering of Serb property and killings of elderly Serb civilians in the immediate aftermath of the offensive has remained a constant source of tension with Belgrade, where processions and church services were held on Thursday and Friday to commemorate victims.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Criminal gangs are plundering the Earth's natural resources faster than previously thought, with the value of environmental crimes estimated to be as high as $258 billion annually, U.N. and police officials said on Saturday.
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In a video sent to an Indian news service in March, Aslam Baloch, a senior commander of the Baluchistan Liberation Army, accused China and Pakistan of plundering resources in Baluchistan, which his group wants to turn into an independent state.
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As one of the most adventurous reporters of his generation, Mr. Meyer covered Fidel Castro's revolution in Cuba, the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion there, the Soviet Union's invasion of Czechoslovakia, the plundering of the world's cultural patrimony and much more.
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A sense of trespassing, ransacking, and plundering pervades "Vault Room," but most palpable perhaps is the feeling of unshakable solitude, as well as the attendant suspicion that this place was abandoned long ago and we are parsing through its ghostly ruins.
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JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesian prosecutors on Thursday sought a jail term of at least 16 years for former parliament speaker Setya Novanto if found guilty in a graft scandal and demanded that he also repay more than $7 million he is suspected of plundering.
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These include controls on foreign exchange and prices of basic goods, which lead to shortages and corruption; unrestrained public spending; the expropriation of private industry; and the plundering of PDVSA, the state oil company, which provides nearly all of Venezuela's export revenues.
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After the lengthy and soothing opening survey, the narrative turned out to be a tale of mad emperors, feckless elites, the plundering of public wealth, the degradation of venerable political norms, and the rise of a military caste that became de facto government.
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Most investors know the biggest mistakes even if they find them hard to avoid, like saving too little, putting all eggs in one basket, counting on big returns, betting with borrowed money, reaching for big yields or plundering the 290(k) for toys.
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"The mistakes of the past were not enough to stop the plundering of other persons and the inflicting of wounds on our brothers and sisters and on our sister Earth: we have seen it in the scarred face of the Amazon region," he said.
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"There is a serious alternative to the PP. An alternative that respects human rights and democracy, that does not tolerate authoritarian practices, the plundering of public or corrupt practices," spokeswoman for Podemos Irene Montero said on the steps of Parliament after filing the motion.
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Trump said Venezuela is one of the "truly bad places" in the world, hours after the United States imposed new sanctions on Maduro's wife and key members of his government, accusing them of plundering the country's wealth and helping Maduro maintain his grip on power.
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Mr. Ford has had a lot on his plate: 48 hours before his women's show, he held a men's wear show in the same space, used in part to introduce his new underwear line — so it's possible he was simply plundering his own archive.
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"We are going to rescue this industry that is so important for the country's development," Mr. López Obrador told workers recently at a rusting oil refinery in Tula, about 83 miles north of Mexico City, as he accused previous governments of "plundering" the industry.
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Then came Tulsa's 1921 race massacre, when thousands of armed whites, their hatred fanned by accusations that a black boy had attempted to rape a white girl, doused Greenwood in kerosene and burned it down block by block, looting and plundering as they went.
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In July, the CFPB issued a rule prohibiting rip-off clauses — perhaps the single most important tool that big banks and financial companies have used to escape accountability for cheating, conning, fleecing, defrauding and plundering consumers — in the fine print of consumer financial contracts.
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The showstopper was Nicholas Galanin's "God Complex," a wall-mounted, ceramic suit of armor whose pearly, iridescent glaze suggested the greed of white America in plundering Native land for oil and whatever else it desires; an accompanying police baton, hovering nearby, drove home the message of violence.
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"The commercial fishing industry is strip mining oceans and destroying aquatic ecosystems in a way that makes the plundering of the Amazon rain forest seem like small potatoes," said Bruce Friedrich, who runs the Good Food Institute, an organization that advocates alternatives to meat and fish.
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"The commercial fishing industry is strip mining oceans and destroying aquatic ecosystems in a way that makes the plundering of the Amazon rain forest seem like small potatoes," said Bruce Friedrich, who runs the Good Food Institute, an organization that advocates alternatives to meat and fish.
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Any budgetary limit on one agency opens up the other components to plundering, such as when DHS transferred nearly $10 million from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to ICE, the funds at least partially used for immigration detention and deportation, in the midst of the 2018 hurricane season.
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Of course, those problems are often a direct result of policies and actions of the United States and European nations: to name just a few, kidnapping and enslaving their citizens; plundering their natural resources; propping up their dictators and corrupt regimes; and holding them financially hostage for generations.
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If you were a nomadic horseman living on the steppes of Essos enjoying a lifestyle of raiding, raping, and plundering, why on earth would you want to follow a foreign, dragon-riding queen onto a bunch of boats to travel to a distant, poorer continent and start raiding there?
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BERLIN — Amid a resurgence of xenophobia that has reshaped Germany's political landscape, the nation's leaders warned on Friday that Germans must defend democracy to ensure that hate crimes like Kristallnacht, the Nazi-led burning of synagogues and plundering of Jewish shops 80 years ago, "never again" take place.
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Teams of hackers connected to the Chinese Ministry of State Security had penetrated HPE's cloud computing service and used it as a launch pad to attack customers, plundering reams of corporate and government secrets for years in what U.S. prosecutors say was an effort to boost Chinese economic interests.
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Hosted in the Park Avenue Armory's Wade Thompson Drill Hall, in Manhattan's Upper East Side, the day's festivities were in proximity to many leading arts institutions that have benefitted from Indigenous dispossession and, in some cases, Indigenous plundering, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Guggenheim, and the Frick Collection.
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Dressed in a suit of armor, a "wearable libretto" inscribed with lyrics, which she gradually peels off while she walks and sings, Motland appeals to an army of Joan of Arc-type figures to rally together against western philosophy's (masculine) culture of reason that has permitted the plundering of natural resources.
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It's difficult not to feel that universities, held hostage by the student movement in the fight for free education, are being hung out to dry by a political inner circle that's more concerned with protecting a plundering president than with the economic and social stability that higher education can bring.
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As a daughter of colonists from England, I spent my childhood in India, where the British, not satisfied with humiliating Asian Indians by occupying their lands and plundering their riches, historically took to punishing "insubordination" and "rebellion" by suffocating their "lessers," hanging them publicly, and shooting them in cold blood.
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Photo: Some of the thousands of artifacts that were returned to Iraq today (US Immigration and Customs Enforcement)According to the Department of Justice, an expert advised Hobby Lobby in 2500 that the items it sought to purchase could come from unethical looters who were plundering archaeological sites in war-torn Iraq.
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Until one or two of the heads of Wall Street firms go to jail, exchanging their mansions and elite lifestyles for a small cell and a few bucks a month working in the prison kitchen, Americans will continue to be the victims of the plundering of the wealth of the country by a few.
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In Ms. Waight Keller's case, for example, it meant plundering not just gardens, but the house archives — particularly those of the post-"Sabrina" 1950s Audrey Hepburn years — melding past and present in knife-edge skinny cigarette trousers under big, blossoming whorls of organza tops, waists often caught with a slick corset-wide patent-leather belt.
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"He whips his base into a racist frenzy and claims Omar is the one who looks down on hard-working Americans, when in reality he's the one plundering the government, doling out trillions in tax cuts to his rich buddies and partying it up all night because he doesn't have to work on Thursdays," Meyers said.
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Mining companies that often run out of cheaply accessible land-based resources and are increasingly harassed over the deforestation and pollution linked with mining are attracted to the idea of plundering the deep seabed, where there are no truculent communities to protest about local environmental harm and any damage will be out of sight and out of mind.
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"The whole world condemns the destruction of Palmyra by ISIS, the National Geographic cover story this month is about tomb raiders, and just as these things are happening worldwide, they are also happening in the United States with regards to the plundering of native cultures," said Governor Kurt Riley of the Pueblo of Acoma at the meeting.
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Harrison loves his schemers, especially the high-stakes New York City variety, and his exuberance for plundering financiers, money-grubbing heirs and double-dealing musclemen for hire is the fuel that propels "You Belong to Me." At the center is Paul, whose comfortable lifestyle comes from his boutique law practice but whose passion lies in obsessive rare map collecting.
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Itself a plundering of "The Driver," the original "Point Break" and "Heat," the movie is less concerned with the mechanics of police work than with the mind meld that forms between an obsessed cop, Big Nick (Gerard Butler), and his target, Merrimen (Pablo Schreiber), who leads a group of Marines turned bank robbers planning to crack a branch of the Federal Reserve.
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But given the bloody fate of the priest and the rest of his former companions at the end of this episode (they're killed by the remnants of that Brotherhood Without Banners group, which now appears to be outright plundering the countryside), it seems that whatever peace Sandor found will be at an end — and that now the Hound is back, and he wants revenge.
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CAT-AND-MOUSE GAME The Beaufort-Spontins, owners since the early 1800s of the castle in the lush hills 60 km (35 miles) from the German border, fled to Austria at the end of World War Two, having hidden the wines and the Shrine of St Maurus - said to hold John the Baptist's bones - under the chapel floor to keep them from plundering soldiers.
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Those secrets, revealed this month in international news media accounts, including articles in The New York Times, have led to an investigation of Ms. dos Santos, who is accused of plundering Angola's state petroleum company and other institutions to bankroll a sprawling business empire that included stakes in the impoverished country's diamond exports, its dominant mobile phone company, two of its banks and its biggest cement maker.
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While he is plundering our national parks, threatening to deport people who have lived their whole lives in the United States, watering down the defenses that have been established to protect the little guy against banking scams, or threatening to pollute our shorelines with oil rigs, among many other things, he is distracting us with vulgar language, tirades against other countries, and threats to abandon efficient foreign relations agreements.
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