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Business & Politics

Business & Politics. Symbiosis. Business & Politics Why the nexus ?. Business woo Politics for Access to Government resources like Land Permits Electricity Favourable tax arrangements Ownership rights etc. Business & Politics. Politics woo Business

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Business & Politics

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  1. Business & Politics Symbiosis

  2. Business & PoliticsWhy the nexus ? Business woo Politics for Access to Government resources like • Land • Permits • Electricity • Favourable tax arrangements • Ownership rights etc

  3. Business & Politics Politics woo Business Stems from interests in maintaining maximum levels of political control over politics and economy alike.

  4. Business & Politics – An example • “Good evening Scottish”, • “Clipper 103” • “We are at • level 301”

  5. Business & Politics – An example • Last words from Capt. James Bruce and • First Officer Raymond Ronald "Ray" Wagner • of Pan AM Flight No. 103 a Boeing 747-100 named • Clipper Maid of the Seas.

  6. Business & Politics – An example Scheduled Transatlantic flight from LHR to New York's JFK International Airport On Wednesday 21 December 1988 Crashed at Lockerbie, Scotland Killing 270 people

  7. Business & Politics – An example

  8. Business & Politics – A Hero’s Welcome home – An example

  9. Business & Politics – Pay off • BP Signed an (7 Year)exploration deal in the year 2007 = USD 25 billion • 30,000sq Km offshore in the Gulf of Sirte Libya • Roughly the size of Belgium

  10. Business & Politics – Payoff • The release of Megrahi resolved the string of bureaucratic obstacles. • BP is now a frontrunner in the Libyan market • Considered next to Russia • Due to its proximity with Europe and • Very strategic

  11. Business & Politics - Everywhere • Nexus prevail in all countries • American presidents – most of them belong to rich business houses • Russia – blackmails nations for GAS • Japanese Govt made bridges leading to nowhere to favour construction companies

  12. Business & Politics – All over • Third world Countries • Nigeria – Niger Delta - No set standards • Toxic waste from oil fields seeped into rivers and soil • The military dictatorship cruelly crushed the resulting revolt to help oil companies • De-Beers in Botswana • Instrumental in removing the Sans Tribe from their homeland

  13. Business & Politics • “Politics is the shadow cast on the society by big business” • --John Dewey

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