Concerning the revelation of the financial scandals surrounding Kohl and the Christian Democrats do you know how party funding is organised in Germany? Is there state funding while private funding is disallowed? If so the current financial scandal wrt Kohl is evidence that state funding cannot prevent corporate funding. Warm regards George Pennefather Be free to check out our Communist Think-Tank web site at http://homepage.eircom.net/~beprepared/ Be free to subscribe to our Communist Think-Tank mailing community by simply placing subscribe in the body of the message at the following address: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- from list [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---