Word: corruptability
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Protocols of the Elders of Zion made chilling reading, a description of a conspiracy at the highest levels of Judaism to dominate the world by stealth. Where and when they met is not made clear. But according to the document, the elders carefully laid out a perverse plan: "Corrupt the young generation by subversive education, dominate people through their vices, destroy family life, undermine respect for religion, encourage luxury, amuse people to prevent them from thinking. Poison the spirit by destructive theories, weaken human bodies by inoculation with microbes, foment international hatreds and prepare for universal bankruptcy and concentration...
...language and ideas in the Protocols, however, were taken directly from a French satire published in 1864, Dialogue aux enfers entre Montesquieu et Machiavel (Dialogue in Hell Between Montesquieu and Machiavelli). The conversation reveals Machiavelli (a thinly disguised stand-in for Napoleon III) as a cynical mastermind of corrupt power and how to attain it. The Russian forgers simply adapted his sentiments to fit the imaginary elders...
Even if Reagan can line up political support in Congress and the country for his program, the U.S. will find it difficult to achieve the stability it seeks in Central America. The Salvadoran army is in trou ble, weakened by a corrupt and generally incompetent officer corps. Until recently the army was no more than an overgrown police force that kept 9-to-5 hours, five days a week, in its halfhearted struggle against the leftist guerrillas, and this attitude is changing only very slowly. The commanders had refused to adopt counterinsurgency tactics, like using small mobile units to pursue...
...searching for an alternative to the dizzying national crisis that has brought school closings, gang rapes, and factory shutdowns to their home towns. Many have already found their answer in Falwell and his friends. But many others sense that his answers are too simple--that socially irresponsible corporations and corrupt politicians, not gays and pointy-headed liberals, are to blame. They need articulate leadership. And that doesn't mean the spiritually lifeless neo-liberalism of Gary Hart...
...within a company. Editorialists and protesters may feel uncomfortable with or distrust power (perhaps not least because they have so little), but shares do mean voting power. The people who make decisions in companies are not only visible, but often have Harvard ties themselves. Not everyone in business is corrupt, just as not everyone in journalism is cynical, and working with corporate leaders to change the rules is, I think, much more moral and effective than quitting the fight...