In Patchen's eyes, organized churches are as odious as organized governments, and Christian symbols, having been taken over by the moneyed classes, are now agents of corruption.

From 1992 to 1997, Italy faced significant challenges, as voters, disenchanted with past political paralysis, massive government debt, extensive corruption, and organized crime's considerable influence — collectively called Tangentopoli after being uncovered by Mani pulite — demanded political, economic, and ethical reforms.

Problems in Southern Italy still include widespread political corruption, pervading organized crime and very high unemployment rates.

He also focused on prosecuting drug dealers, organized crime, and corruption in government.

The police, courts and prisons were overwhelmed with new cases ; organized crime increased in power, and corruption extended among law enforcement officials.

Because smuggling can generate substantial profits for those involved, which in turn can fuel corruption and organized crime in countries traveled from, through, or to during the smuggling process.

The era of rampant and open corruption ended in the 1950s, when the Senator Kefauver's traveling organized crime hearings came to town and were followed by the sensational misconduct trials of several local officials.

More positively, the newspaper has also published important exposes of political corruption and organized crime in the city, and also takes a strong stance in favor of mutant rights, which has led to its being targeted by various criminals and hate groups.

Amnesty International notes that China “ has the largest recorded number of imprisoned journalists and cyber-dissidents in the world .” The offences of which they are accused include communicating with groups abroad, signing online petitions, and calling for reform and an end to corruption .< ref >< nowiki > http :// www. internetfreedom. org / Background </ nowiki > Background Global Internet Freedom Consortium ( do not download anything from this site – it is a known Trojan supplier )</ ref > The escalation of the government's effort to neutralize critical online opinion comes after a series of large anti-Japanese, anti-pollution, anti-corruption protests, and ethnic riots, many of which were organized or publicized using instant messaging services, chat rooms, and text messages.

* June 11 – Violence erupts at the Seventh Festival of Neapolitan Song in a scandal that sparks a parliamentary inquiry amidst accusations of corruption and involvement of organized crime in a song competition that is seen to have become increasingly commercialised.

The result was an overall decrease in drinking and an enormous increase organized crime, gang warfare and civic corruption, as well as a decline in tax revenue.

In the Philippines in 2001, a group of protesters organized via text messaging gathered at the EDSA Shrine, the site of the 1986 revolution that overthrew Ferdinand Marcos, to protest the corruption of President Joseph Estrada.

Traditional chiefs have tended to oppose gaming on moral grounds and out of fear of corruption and organized crime.

In the run-up to the 2006 election in Canada, Conservative Party leader Stephen Harper denounced the ruling Liberal Party on the floor of the House of Commons, contending that the government ran " a massive corruption ring using organized crime to defraud taxpayers.

Instead, he finds a city racked by police corruption and in the grips of organized crime consolidated by Roland Desmond, the gargantuan genius Blockbuster.

Dick has destroyed the police corruption and removed the greater part of organized crime from this city, but his role in Blockbuster's death is still a source of tremendous guilt for him.

At Hoover's direction, Boyd leaves the FBI and begins working with Hoover's personal nemeses-Kennedy and his younger brother Robert — on the U. S. Senate Select Committee on Improper Activities in Labor and Management's investigation of organized crime and union corruption.

He worked as a Special Agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation in its Chicago office, specializing in organized crime and public corruption, 1989 – 1994.

He was soon promoted to the Chief of the State's Attorney Office Investigative Division, pursuing organized crime, political corruption, and drug trafficking.

The development of the tourism industry and the prosperity derived from it ( the municipality accounts for between 7 and 10 % of GDP in Andalusia according to some sources ) have attracted a population of diverse national origin, but have also facilitated international organized crime activity, which, together with corporate corruption scandals, has marked the contemporary image of Marbella.

Rothstein was widely reputed to have organized corruption in professional athletics, most notoriously conspiring in the fixing of the 1919 World Series Black Sox Scandal.

One common form of police corruption is soliciting or accepting bribes in exchange for not reporting organized drug or prostitution rings or other illegal activities.

Congress investigated Elliott numerous times: for the attempted sale of bombers to the USSR ( 1934 ); for allegations of broadcast industry corruption ( 1937-45 ); for the Blaze affair ( his dog ’ s travel on emergency war priority, 1945 ); for his promotion to general, demanded by his father ( 1945 ); for the Hartford loan scandal ( 1945 ); for his denunciation of U. S. foreign policy during a visit to the USSR ( capped with a visit with Stalin ) ( 1946 ); for the Hughes F-11 purchase ( 1947 ); and for involvement with organized crime and securities fraud in Miami and the Bahamas ( 1973 ).

Regular proselytization methods included door-to-door, distributing tracts and other gospel literature, and organized classes on various aspects of Christian life, with heavy use of TFI music.

Groucho was not allowed to join an informal symphonietta of friends, organized by Ben Hecht, that included Harpo because he could only play the mandolin.

( See Browser wars ) These included extensions to control stylistic aspects of documents, contrary to the " belief the academic engineering community that such things as text color, background texture, font size and font face were definitely outside the scope of a language when their only intent was to specify how a document would be organized.

Oldcastle escaped from the Tower of London and organized an insurrection, which included an attempted kidnapping of the king.

Lines of poems are often organized into stanzas, which are denominated by the number of lines included.

A tribute show to Wilson, organized by Coldcut and Mixmaster Morris and performed in London as a part of the " Ether 07 Festival " held at the Queen Elizabeth Hall on March 18, 2007, also included Ken Campbell, Bill Drummond and Alan Moore.

In 1991, UCLA's film school organized a festival of great but forgotten American films, and included Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia in the program.

It is clear that many ancient peoples used the sling in combat and that organized armies included specialist slingers as well as equipping regular soldiers with slings as a backup weapon.

Volume I contains the major works, and volume II contains shorter writings, both published essays and a selection of letters, but confusingly organized ; in addition, Foner's attributions of writings to Paine have come in for some criticism in that Foner may have included writings that Paine edited but did not write and omitted some writings that later scholars have attributed to Paine.

Worms Armageddon also included a much more organized and functional internet play service, known as " WormNET ", which required registration and utilized leagues and ranks.

Association football's important events included two World Cups, one organized in South Korea, Japan, which saw Brazil win a record fifth title, and the other in Germany, which saw Italy's fourth title.

Local 8 of the Marine Transport Workers was led by Ben Fletcher, who organized predominantly African-American longshoremen on the Philadelphia and Baltimore waterfronts, but other leaders included the Swiss immigrant Waler Nef, Jack Walsh, E. F. Doree, and the Spanish sailor Manuel Rey.

The first organized group exhibition by Cubists took place at the Salon des Indépendants in Paris during the spring of 1911 in a room called ‘ Salle 41 ’; it included works by Jean Metzinger, Albert Gleizes, Fernand Léger, Robert Delaunay and Henri Le Fauconnier, yet no works by Picasso and Braque were exhibited.

At his repeated insistence, new laws were passed against ‘ sodomy ’ ( which included male and female same sex relations ), adultery, public drunkenness, and other moral transgressions, while his lieutenant fra Silvestro Maruffi organized boys and young men to patrol the streets to curb immodest dress and behavior.

On July 3, 1766 the English organized Cumberland County, and on March 16, 1770 they organized Gloucester County, both containing territory now included in the state of Vermont.

The movement was organized from the " hillside " to the national level and included elected and appointed officials.

In Virginia, Senator Harry F. Byrd, Sr. organized the Massive Resistance movement that included the closing of schools rather than desegregating them.

A group was organized to support Flynn, named the American Boys ' Club for the Defense of Errol Flynn ( ABCDEF ); its members included William F. Buckley, Jr.

This piece was to be included in the 2007 Praxiteles exhibition organized by the Louvre Museum in Paris, but pressure from Greece, which disputes the work's provenance and legal ownership, caused the French to exclude it from the show.

Achilles then organized an athletic competition to honour his dead companion, which included a chariot race ( won by Diomedes ), boxing ( won by Epeios ), wrestling ( a draw between Telamonian Aias and Odysseus ), a foot race ( won by Odysseus ), a duel ( a draw between Aias and Diomedes ), a discus throw ( won by Polypoites ), an archery contest ( won by Meriones ), and a javelin throw ( won by Agamemnon, unopposed ).

Tillamook County, the twelfth county in Oregon to be organized, was established on December 15, 1853, when the Territorial Legislature approved an act to create the new county out of an area previously included in Clatsop, Yamhill and Polk Counties.

Astronomers organized a large observing campaign which included every available ground-based ( e. g. CCD optical photometry ) and space observatory, including major observations with the Hubble Space Telescope, the Chandra X-ray Observatory, the INTEGRAL Gamma-ray space observatory, and the Very Large Telescope.

The county was organized at Woodsville in 1771, and originally included the entire northern frontier of New Hampshire, including a number of towns that are now in Vermont.