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Ideal_Rock
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Miss Prudential...this is one time it is EXTREMELY different.
According to Transparency International, Marcos is the second most corrupt head of government ever, after Suharto. The plan was to gain power as a dictator and create a dynasty. Their fortune was amassed at the cost of the people of the Phillipines. Unlike those who just drive by in a car they work hard to pay for, this is the ill gotten gains of an corrupt government. These "foils" you see were deliberate. While the people hungered, suffered, and many were tortured...while they (the Marcos'') were dripping in extravagance.
It has been some time since I had thought of the Marcos. I recall the extravagance but seeing the jewels made me yearn for more insight...I felt this thread needed it. Wikipedia provided the following excerpts:
...Imelda''s extravagant lifestyle reportedly included five-million-dollar shopping tours in New York, Rome and Copenhagen in 1983, and sending a plane to pick up Australian white sand for a new beach resort. She purchased a number of properties in Manhattan in the 1980s, including the $51-million Crown Building and the $60-million Herald Centre; she declined to purchase the Empire State Building for $750m as she considered it "too ostentatious". Her New York real estate was later seized and sold, along with much of her jewels and most of her 175 piece art collection, which included works by Michelangelo, Botticelli, and Canaletto. She responded to criticisms of her extravagance by claiming that it was her "duty" to be "some kind of light, a star to give [the poor] guidelines." (Miss Prudential... read that again!
) Not to give to the poor...but to give them GUIDELINES...for what? Where to place your Michelangelo where it best matches your curtains?
"....having looted billions of dollars from the Philipino treasury. Much of the lost sum has yet to be accounted for"
"It was reported that when Marcos fled, U.S. Customs agents discovered 24 suitcases of gold bricks and diamond jewelry hidden in diaper bags; in addition, certificates for gold bullion valued in the billions of dollars are allegedly among the personal properties he, his family, his cronies and business partners had surreptitiously taken with them."
My intentions are not to offend...or to hijack this thread...but to provide some insight into this story.
DKS
Is it correct to spell Phillipino with a P or is an F used? As in Filipino? Many writings had both. I had never noticed...forgive my ignorance.
According to Transparency International, Marcos is the second most corrupt head of government ever, after Suharto. The plan was to gain power as a dictator and create a dynasty. Their fortune was amassed at the cost of the people of the Phillipines. Unlike those who just drive by in a car they work hard to pay for, this is the ill gotten gains of an corrupt government. These "foils" you see were deliberate. While the people hungered, suffered, and many were tortured...while they (the Marcos'') were dripping in extravagance.
It has been some time since I had thought of the Marcos. I recall the extravagance but seeing the jewels made me yearn for more insight...I felt this thread needed it. Wikipedia provided the following excerpts:
...Imelda''s extravagant lifestyle reportedly included five-million-dollar shopping tours in New York, Rome and Copenhagen in 1983, and sending a plane to pick up Australian white sand for a new beach resort. She purchased a number of properties in Manhattan in the 1980s, including the $51-million Crown Building and the $60-million Herald Centre; she declined to purchase the Empire State Building for $750m as she considered it "too ostentatious". Her New York real estate was later seized and sold, along with much of her jewels and most of her 175 piece art collection, which included works by Michelangelo, Botticelli, and Canaletto. She responded to criticisms of her extravagance by claiming that it was her "duty" to be "some kind of light, a star to give [the poor] guidelines." (Miss Prudential... read that again!
"....having looted billions of dollars from the Philipino treasury. Much of the lost sum has yet to be accounted for"
"It was reported that when Marcos fled, U.S. Customs agents discovered 24 suitcases of gold bricks and diamond jewelry hidden in diaper bags; in addition, certificates for gold bullion valued in the billions of dollars are allegedly among the personal properties he, his family, his cronies and business partners had surreptitiously taken with them."
My intentions are not to offend...or to hijack this thread...but to provide some insight into this story.
DKS
Is it correct to spell Phillipino with a P or is an F used? As in Filipino? Many writings had both. I had never noticed...forgive my ignorance.
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