References On Corruption Of Science And Elites (For The Crisis Of Everything)

About wealth And Power - Forgotten Memory.htm

Preface The genesis of this book over the last decade is twofold. In part, it grew out of the great interest in my 1990 book The Politics of Rich and Poor, but other roots lay in my increasing turn to history, not least economic history, during the 1990s. It is hard to imagine how the excesses bred by that decade – the technology mania and bubble, the money culture, belief that economic cycles were over, policies of market extremism, corruption and a politics ruled by campaign contributions – could have developed so destructively if so much knowledge of the past had not slipped away in stock market and “new era” triumphalism.

As previous periods of excess crested or crashed, books emerged to flesh out the historical context of wealth and its wayward pursuit. Gustavus Myers published The History of the Great American Fortunes in 1909 just as the Gilded Age was ending under the whip of Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressive Movement.  Matthew Josephson published The Robber Barons in 1934 just when mid-depression Americans were blaming another generation of commercial and financial leaders for the speculative bubble and crash in 1929. This book was begun in 1999 for much the same purpose: to inform public understanding and reform aspirations with a sweep of history – wealth, democracy and

Air marshal program in disarray, insiders say Dozens of top agents have quit the service.htm

Air marshal program in disarray, insiders say Dozens of top agents have quit the service. By Blake Morrison, USA TODAY

For years, the government touted federal air marshals as the best of the best -- an ''elite corps'' of undercover officers trained to stop hijackings on commercial flights.

But today, after rushing to hire thousands of new marshals, the program is so beset with problems that sources say at least 80 marshals have quit, and other marshals say they are considering a class-action lawsuit over working conditions that they fear put travelers at risk.

Alternative Media Censorship.htm

  ALTERNATIVE MEDIA CENSORSHIP: SPONSORED BY CIA's FORD FOUNDATION? by bob feldman The mass-circulation weekly TEMPO accused Ford of having once played, at the urging of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, a covert role in Indonesian political affairs by consciously supporting the work of individuals who were deemed to be sympathetic to the anti-communist aims of American foreign policy. — Chronicle of Philanthropy, 12/13/01

The Ford Foundation's history of collaboration and interlock with the CIA in pursuit of U.S. world hegemony is now a well-documented fact...The Ford Foundation has in some ways refined their style of collaboration with Washington's attempt to produce world cultural domination, but retained the substance of that policy...The ties between the top officials of the Ford Foundation and the U.S. government are explicit and continuing.—James Petras in "The Ford Foundation and the CIA: A documented case of philanthropic collaboration with the Secret Police" on 12/15/2001

BBC News ARCHIVE Anthrax attacks By The CIA.htm

Anthrax attacks 14/3/02

A Newsnight investigation raised the possibility that there was a secret CIA project to investigate methods of sending anthrax through the mail which went madly out of control.

The shocking assertion is that a key member of the covert operation may have removed, refined and eventually posted weapons-grade anthrax which killed five people.

In the wake of Sept 11th, the anthrax attacks caused panic throughout the States and around the world. But has the FBI found the whole case too hot to handle? Our science editor Susan Watts reported from Washington.

A "key member of covert operations" - yet covert operations itself can never be suspected.

Former agents say FBI let informants continue violence -- The Washington Times.htm

March 2, 2003      For decades, in cities from coast to coast, FBI agents recruited killers and crime bosses as informants and then looked the other way as they continued to commit violent crimes. When the practice first came to light in Boston — unleashing a continuing investigation that already has sent one agent to prison for obs truction of justice — FBI officials in Washington portrayed it as an aberration.
     But interviews by the Associated Press with nine former FBI agents — men with a combined 190 years of experience in more than 25 bureau offices from Texas to Chicago and from Los Angeles to Washington — indicate the practice was widespread during their years of service between the late 1950s and the 1990s.
 

From the booming tigers of East Asia and to the rapidly lib.htm

Corruption Deters Foreign Investment "... a worsening in a host government's corruption level from that of Singapore to that of Mexico is equivalent to about a 21 percentage point increase in the marginal tax rate for foreign investors."

From the booming "tigers" of East Asia to the rapidly liberalizing markets of Latin America, corruption has become a significant drag on attracting much-needed foreign direct investment (FDI), in some instances acting with the prohibitive power of a 20 percent tax hike, according to an NBER study by Shang-Jin Wei. In How Taxing is Corruption on International Investors (NBER Working Paper No.6030), he analyzes bilateral investment flowing from 14 source countries, including the seven largest investors in the world, to 45 host countries. He finds corruption to be on a par with high taxation in terms of its negative effect on investment.

Narco News Publishes C_A_ Fitts Guide to Narco-Dollars.htm

October 24, 2001 Narco News 2001 Narco-Dollars for Beginners "How the Money Works" in the Illicit Drug Trade Part I in a Series By Catherine Austin Fitts Special to the Narco News Bulletin Narco News Publisher's Note: Catherine Austin Fitts is a former managing director and member of the board of directors of Dillon Read & Co, Inc, a former Assistant Secretary of Housing-Federal Housing Commissioner in the first Bush Administration, and the former President of The Hamilton Securities Group, Inc. She is the President of Solari, Inc, an investment advisory firm. Solari provides risk management services to investors through Sanders Research Associates in London.

Press Release Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index 2002 English.htm

Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index 2002 Corrupt political elites and unscrupulous investors kill sustainable growth in its tracks, highlights new index

The TI Corruption Perceptions Index 2002 ranks 102 countries, the highest number ever. Seven out of ten countries ranked score less than 5 out of a clean score of 10

Berlin, 28 August 2002 Download MS Word versionDownload pdf version Please scroll down or click on the following sections: "Political elites and their cronies continue to take kickbacks at every opportunity. Hand in glove with corrupt business people, they are trapping whole nations in poverty and hampering sustainable development. Corruption is perceived to be dangerously high in poor parts of the world, but also in many countries whose firms invest in developing nations," said Peter Eigen, Chairman of Transparency International, speaking today on the launch of the Corruption Perceptions Index 2002 (CPI).

Rising Tide - Anti-global warming hack list.htm

  HALL OF SHAME Keeping track of the journalists and academics who promote their careers by denying climate change.

One would think that no one could continue to seriously deny our addiction to fossil fuels is damaging the world's climate systems. Who could be arrogant enough to ignore the consensus of 2,000 climate scientists and all the world's scientific institutions; blind enough to miss the melting permafrost, the shrinking glaciers, the regular freak weather?

Yet, as always, there is a small group of people happy to distort the truth to promote themselves and build their careers. Some are directly funded by the fossil fuel industries. Some are self promoting egotists seeking attention. Some just want to be controversial and fill a newspaper column.

Slashdot Alicebot Creator Dr_ Richard Wallace Expounds.htm

The Corporate-Fortified Opposition Of Venezuela.htm

DISPATCH #2 FROM VENEZUELA: Since Chávez is No Liberal, Why Do His Detractors Try To Paint Him Pink? Once upon a time, the U.S. relied on Venezuela to undermine Arab interests in OPEC. Venezuela effectively broke the Arab embargo in the early 1970's by kicking its own production into overdrive to make up for the shortfall. Chávez changed all that. His foreign policy seems tailor-made to irritate a corporate-cozy oilman such as Bush.

by Brad Carlton July 10, CARACAS— One day and counting to the second attempt in three months to overthrow the government. The eleventh seems to be an especially popular date for coups in the Americas. Salvador Allende of Chile was overthrown in a U.S.-backed coup d'état on September 11, 1973. Most recent was the coup here in Caracas last April 11 that unseated the most galvanizing public figure in the Western Hemisphere, President Hugo Chávez, before the replacement government's repressive and anti-democratic policies brought him back to power in two days, an unprecedented development. Nothing if not determined, the frustrated anti-Chavez forces will organize another massive march to the president’s headquarters, Palacio Miraflores, to d

The Ford Foundation and the CIA A documented case of philanthropic collaboration with the Secret Police, 12-15-01.htm

The following is reprinted with permission of the author and mirrored from its source at: http://www.rebelion.org/petras/english/ford010102.htm

The Ford Foundation and the CIA: A documented case of philanthropic collaboration with the Secret Police by James Petras 15 December 2001 Rebelión

The CIA uses philanthropic foundations as the most effective conduit to channel large sums of money to Agency projects without alerting the recipients to their source. From the early 1950s to the present the CIA's intrusion into the foundation field was and is huge. A U.S. Congressional investigation in 1976 revealed that nearly 50% of the 700 grants in the field of international activities by the principal foundations were funded by the CIA (Who Paid the Piper? The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Frances Stonor Saunders, Granta Books, 1999, pp. 134-135). The CIA considers foundations such as Ford "The best and most plausible kind of funding cover" (Ibid, p. 135). The collaboration of respectable and prestigious foundations, according to one former CIA operative, allowed the Agency to fund "a seemingly limitless range of covert action programs affecting youth groups, labor unions, universities, publishing houses and other private institutions" (p. 135). The latter included "human rights" groups beginning in the 1950s to the present. One of the most important "private foundations" collaborating with the CIA over a significant span of time in major projects in the cultural Cold War is the Ford Foundation.

The HUD Scandal.htm, H U D: The Housing & Urban Disaster

 Catherine Austin Fitts

Mortgage Market Unanswered Questions - Hitting On HUD Questions For Investors and Financial Analysts to Ask the United States Department of the Treasuryre: theIntegrity of theUS Mortgage and Mortgage Securities Market Related to the Award of$4 Billion Computer and Information Systems Outsourcing:HUD Information Technology Service (HITS) Solicitation # R-OPC-21970 [1](Award by HUD Expected in Fall 2002)

The Last Circle - inslaws octopus etc.htm

INTRODUCTION RE: "The Last Circle" The following condensed version of The Last Circle was provided in October 1996 to a secret Investigative Committee comprised of Congress people, lawyers and former POW's at their request. I originally contacted Congresswoman Maxine Waters in Washington D.C. and offered information relative to CIA drug trafficking, but was told the information was too complex and would I mind putting the information into a newspaper story, get it published and send it to her office?

I agreed and contacted a local newspaper reporter who, after reading portions of the material, decided it needed to be reviewed by individuals who had special knowledge of CIA drug trafficking, arms shipments, and biological warfare weapons.

After a brief meeting with these individuals, former Special Forces soldiers from the Vietnam era, they asked for copies of the manuscript, guaranteed an immediate congressional inquiry, and advised me NOT to place the information on the Internet as they feared the information could be, in their words, "taken as just another anti-government conspiracy."

The Man Who Paid the Price for Sizing Up Enron.htm

The Man Who Paid the Price for Sizing Up Enron By RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr. Isaac Menashe/ZUMA Press Representative Henry A. Waxman has accused PaineWebber of breaching its fiduciary duties. In DepthUnderstanding EnronWhat happened to the company, and what are the implications? A guide Andersen Chief Quits in Effort to Rescue Firm (March 27, 2002) Waste Management Executives Are Named in S.E.C. Accusation

Up Is Down - expert asks - Were Einstein, Newton Autistic.htm

There's no limit to the idiocy...