The discussion of corruption–and the urgency of reasserting integrity–permeates this website.
Here are a general comment and a few links.
General comment: Corruption consists of a lack of integrity, which in turn is not just about dishonesty, but about a failure to achieve transparency, truth, trust, and accurate feedback loops. The cost of corruption, calculated in terms of waste, is at least 50% and could be as high as 75%. In the US, on Capitol Hill, the known kick-back for earmarks seen to allocation is 2-5%. In fairness to the lobbyists, they are not offering the money, they are being shaken down by Senators and Representatives. It is the lack of integrity in government that makes the lack of integrity in the private sector so pervasive. What we do know is in the first two links. The first documents health waste, the second the cost of peace versus war (one third).
2010 Reference: HEALTH–The Price of Excess (PWC)
Graphic: Medard Gabel’s Cost of Peace versus War
1961-2011: 50 Years of The Military-Industrial Complex
Afghanistan War Wealth + Corruption Cycle (Opium, Hashish, Minerals, Past Pipeline Attempts)
Climate Change, HAARP, Process, Politics, Power
CORRUPTION Correlates to Earthquake Fatalities
CONVERGENCE of Corruption & Truth
Four Time Bombs Centered on Wall Street
Graphic: Corruption Slide 1 Nine Zones of Concern
Graphic: Corruption Slide 2 Empire as Terrorism
Graphic: Corruption Slide 3 Holistic Analysis
Graphic: GIS Makes Discrimination Black and White
Handbook: Preventing Corruption in Humanitarian Operations–A Handbook of Good Practices
IO 101: US “Brand” defined by its worst
Japan Lost Its Integrity over Nuclear Safety
Joseph Stiglitz, Bank Secrecy, Corruption, and Financing of Atrocities
Journal: Afghanistan & America’s Loss of Integrity I
Journal: Afghanistan as Corruption Squared
Journal: A Tale of Two Flying Pigs
Journal: Barack Obama–Corruption, Not Change
Journal: Bribes from US Okay, from Venezuela Not OK
Journal: Chicago-Style Partisan Corruption & Industrial-Era Organization Killing the USA
Journal: CIA and the Culture of Corruption
Journal: ClimateGate Sunday 6 Dec 09
Journal: Corruption–The Global Disease
Journal: Culture of Cheating at FBI and …
Journal: Democratic Leadership GUTS Federal Reserve Audit Bill–Roll-Call Vote Could Be the Straw that Breaks the Two–Party Tyranny in 2010
Journal: Demopublicans–NO DIFFERENCE
Journal: End of Airwave Tyranny & Corruption
Journal: Five Myths Debunked–Treasury Run by Crooks
Journal: Haiti, Obama’s Katrina, NGO-Foundation Rip-Off
Journal: Huffington Post–Congress is Corrupt
Journal: Integrity 101 for Presidential Aides
Journal: Material Poverty (AF) vs Moral Poverty (US)
Journal: On Experts, Lies, Climate, & Security
Journal: Out-Sourcing Corruption
Journal: Outsourcing Honor, Losing Common Sense
Journal: Pentagon’s Hall of Mirrors Gets a Shine
Journal: Political-Corporate Corruption in USA
Journal: Pork as Usual, John P. Murtha Oinks On
Journal: Rolling Stone on Sick and Wrong (Washington Corruption, Health Care Example)
Journal: ‘Systemic Corruption’–Daunting Challenge in Globalized Era
Journal: Six Big Issues Media Ignoring
Journal: USA Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians
Journal: US Aid To Pakistan ‘Depleted By Admin Costs’
Journal: US Corruption at the Border and at the Top
Journal: Versailles on the Potomac Implodes…Again
Journal: Wall Street’s Naked Swindle
Lack of Integrity = ASSUME Secrecy IGNORE Open
Lack of Integrity = Being on Wrong Side of History
Lack of Integrity = Jim Clapper Blows Off GAO
Lack of Integrity = Obama Loves GE, No Taxes Okay!
Most-Wanted List for Health Care Fraud
Open Source Insurgency: No More Corruption
Pentagon Pathology: Follow the Money
Poligraft: See the Corruption Behind the News
Reference: “True Cost” of Private Military Contractors
Reference: Alternative Views of 9/11–Massive US Financial & Gold Fraud & 240 Billion Covert Fund Against Russia
Reference: At What Cost, Intelligence? [On Ethics]
Reference: Corruption Perceptions Map
Reference: Empire of Lies & Secrecy
Reference: Legitimate Grievances by Robert Steele
Reference: Lying is Not Patriotic–Ron Paul
Reference: On WikiLeaks and Government Secrecy + RECAP on Secrecy as Fraud, Waste, & Abuse
Reference: The Fraud-Based US Economy
Review: Anti-corruption: Webster’s Timeline History, 1954 – 2007
Review: Corruption and Anti-Corruption–An Applied Philosophical Approach
Review: Governments, NGOs and Anti-Corruption–The New Integrity Warriors
Review: Grand Theft Pentagon–Tales of Corruption and Profiteering in the War on Terror
Review: Griftopia–Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America
Review: The Human Factor–Inside the CIA’s Dysfunctional Intelligence Culture
Review: Nobodies–Modern American Slave Labor and the Dark Side of the New Global Economy
Review: Overcoming Corruption–The Essentials
Review: The End of America–Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot
Review: The Two Trillion Dollar Meltdown–Easy Money, High Rollers, and the Great Credit Crash
Review: Threshold–The Crisis of Western Culture
Search: Counterintelligence & Capitalism
Search: Intelligence and the Viet-Nam War
Search: slide designs corruption + RECAP
Secrecy News Headlines: Iraq + Lies Leading to Iraq
Senator (D-MD): Leaks Should Be a Felony + RECAP
Spot-Light on Coca Cola as Evil Incarnate
The Mexico + American Narcosphere (Calling Carlos “Slim” Helu)
Troops or Contractors: Loss of Defense Integrity
U.S. Intelligence Community as Land of Make Believe
US Intelligence Lies to “Defer” to General Petraeus
Veteran Administration Lies & Active Deceit–Covering Up Uranium Exposure, Suicides, Psychosis
Video: Jesse Ventura Rips Wall St & Goldman Sachs
What’s Wrong with America? Let Me List the Books….
Why Isn’t Wall Street in Jail? + US Fraud RECAP
Worth a Look: Corruption Chronicles
