Thieves! A global perspective

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Iran:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle-east/top-iranian-banker-flees-amid-embezzlement-scandal/2011/09/28/gIQAhhK14K_story.html

http://www.wemu.org/post/irans-largest-banks-swindled-out-26-billion

Africa:

http://www.vancouversun.com/story_print.html?id=5611372&sponsor=

United States:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/26/us/politics/top-earners-doubled-share-of-nations-income-cbo-says.html

Human greed knows no geographic or political boundaries, no limits except owning it all. That, my friends, is the curse of our species.

Poor man wanna be rich,
rich man wanna be king,
And a king ain't satisfied,
till he rules everything.

--- Bruce Springsteen (no pauper himself), "Badlands"