Comme la plus heureuse personne du monde est celle à qui peu de choses suffit, les grands et les ambitieux sont en ce point les plus misérables qu’il leur faut l’assemblage d’une infinité de biens pour les rendre heureux. » -La RochefoucauldQuel est l’intérêt de nos maîtres financiers ?
La Françafrique, c’est comme un iceberg. Vous avez la face du dessus, la partie émergée de l’iceberg : la France meilleure amie de l’Afrique, patrie des droits de l’Homme; et puis, en fait, vous avez 90% de la relation qui est immergée : l’ensemble des mécanismes de maintien de la domination française en Afrique avec des alliés africains.
Professor Laurence Kotlikoff tells us that if we use Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) which requires corporations to acknowledge debts as they accrue that America's debt is 211 trillion dollars and not the more than 16 trillion in outstanding Treasury bonds. The real shocker is that our debt grew by 11 trillion dollars in 2011. That is $916,666,666,667 a month. There are 31,536,000 seconds in an ordinary year (60x60x24x365). This works out to $347,705 a second.
16 Feb 2012 : Column 1016 5.20 pm Lord James of Blackheath: My Lords, I hope the minute that that has taken has not come off my time. I do not wish noble Lords to get too encouraged when I start with my conclusions but I will not sit down when I have made them. I will then give the evidence to support them and, I hope, present the reasons why I want support for an official inquiry into the mischief I shall unfold this afternoon. I have been engaged in pursuit of this issue for nearly two years and I am no further forward in getting to the truth.