The Internationale

"The Internationale" (French: L'Internationale) is a widely-sung Left-wing anthem. It has been one of the most recognizable and popular songs of the socialist movement since the late 19th century, when the Second International (now the Socialist International) adopted it as its official anthem. The title arises from the "First International", an alliance of workers which held a congress in 1864. The author of the anthem's lyrics, Eugène Pottier, attended this congress.

The original French refrain of the song is C'est la lutte finale / Groupons-nous et demain / L'Internationale / Sera le genre humain. (English: "This is the final struggle / Let us group together and tomorrow / The Internationale / Will be the human kind."). "The Internationale" has been translated into many languages.

It is often sung with the left hand raised in a clenched fist salute and is sometimes followed (in English-speaking places) with a chant of "The workers united will never be defeated." The Internationale has been celebrated by Socialists, Communists, Anarchists, Democratic Socialists, and Social Democrats. It was also used by Republicans during the Spanish Civil War.

Politico

Politico is an American political journalism organization based in Arlington County, Virginia, that covers the issues, ideas and personalities behind politics and policy in the United States and in the global arena. Its content is distributed via television, the Internet, newspaper and radio. Its coverage in Washington, D.C. includes the U.S. Congress, lobbying, media and the Presidency. It was a sponsor of the 2008 Republican Presidential candidates debate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library on May 3, 2007, the 2008 Democratic Presidential candidates debate at the Kodak Theater on January 31, 2008, and the 2012 Republican Presidential candidates debate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library on September 7, 2011.

John F. Harris and Jim VandeHei left The Washington Post to become Politico's editor-in-chief and executive editor, respectively, launching the newspaper on January 23, 2007. Frederick J. Ryan Jr. was its first president and chief executive officer.Robert L. Allbritton is founder and publisher. In October, 2013, Jim VandeHei, longtime editor at Politico, took over as CEO and president.

James Rickards

James G. Rickards is an American lawyer. He is a regular commentator on finance, and is the author of The New York Times bestseller Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Global Crisis, published in 2011, and The Death of Money: The Coming Collapse of the International Monetary System, published in 2014.

Biography

Rickards graduated from Lower Cape May Regional High School in Cape May, New Jersey, in 1969. He graduated from The Johns Hopkins University in 1973 with a B.A. degree with honors and in 1974, from the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.C. with an M.A. in international economics. He received his Juris Doctor from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and an LL.M in taxation from New York University School of Law.

As general counsel for the hedge fund Long-Term Capital Management (LTCM), he was the principal negotiator in the 1998 bailout of LTCM by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

Rickards worked on Wall Street for 35 years. Rickards was the senior managing director for market intelligence at Omnis, Inc., a consulting firm. On March 24, 2009, Rickards presented his view at a symposium at Johns Hopkins, that the U.S. dollar was facing imminent hyperinflation and was vulnerable to attack from foreign governments through the accumulation of gold and the establishment of a new global currency.

Sindika Dokolo

Sindika Dokolo (born (1972-05-16) May 16, 1972 in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo) is a Congolese arts collector and businessman. He owns the most important collection of contemporary African art which includes more than 5.000 pieces. He is the husband of businesswoman Isabel dos Santos from Angola.

He was brought up in Belgium and France by his parents, bank owner, millionaire and passionate for African arts, Augustin Dokolo and his Danish wife Hanne Kruse. He attended the Lycée Saint-Louis-de-Gonzague in Paris from which he graduated, later he studied economics, commerce and foreign languages at the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris.

In 2003 he married Isabel dos Santos, the eldest daughter of José Eduardo dos Santos, President of Angola.

Promoting African arts

Through Sindika Dokolo's father initiative, he started an arts collection at the age of 15. During an interview to Angolan TV network TPA, Sindika Dokolo said his parents already very much liked art: his mother took him to visit all the museums in Europe and his father was a great collector of classical African art. In 1995 he decided to return to then Zaire to join the large - in total 17 companies consisting family business - (banking, breeding, fishing, coffee exportation, real estate, consumer goods distributor, merchandise conveyance, printing, insurance, mining and car selling). The country collapsed and their activity couldn’t survive. Sindika took in hand the family business. These family businesses were later nationalized by the then Government of Zaire in 1986 under former head of state Mobutu Sese Seko.

Moïse Katumbi

Moïse Katumbi Chapwe (born December 28, 1964) is a Congolese politician and businessman. He was the Governor of the Katanga Province, located in the southern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, from 2007 to September 2015. He was a member of the People's Party for Reconstruction and Democracy (PPRD) until 29 September 2015. He has been described as "probably the second most powerful man in the Democratic Republic of Congo after the president, Joseph Kabila" and was named "African Personality of 2015" by Jeune Afrique.

Personal life

Moïse Katumbi was born to a Congolese mother and a Greek father, Nissim Soriano, who fled Rhodes between the two world wars when it was controlled by Fascist Italy. He settled in Katanga, near the Moero lake.

Moïse Katumbi is married to Carine Katumbi.

Education

Moïse Katumbi studied at the Kiwele school of Lubumbashi and the Kapolowe mission where he obtained a State diploma, graduating in psychology.

By the time he managed his brother's business and started other activities in Zambia, he got to learn English and followed management classes.