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Out of Africa: The great money migration

Almost $2 trillion has left Africa illicitly since 1970, thwarting poverty reduction and economic growth.

This is far more than the external aid the continent received over the same period, and almost five times its current external debt. According to researchers, the continent also loses at least $100bn a year in this financial haemorrhage.

African leaders convened this week in the Ethiopian city of Bahar Dar to discuss illicit financial flows and what can be done to staunch them. A study commissioned by the Tana High Level Forum on African Security, which organised the conference, found that illicit flows from Africa grew at an average rate of 12.1 percent per year since 1970, and that capital flight from West and Central African countries accounted for most of the illicit flows from sub-Saharan Africa.

Illicit financial flows consist of money earned illegally and then transferred for use elsewhere. The money is usually generated from criminal activities, corruption, tax evasion, bribes and smuggling. Yet the numbers tell only part of the story – a story that exposes how these highly complex and deeply entrenched practises have flourished, with a devastating impact on Africans' efforts to extricate themselves from grinding poverty.

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Robert Young Pelton: General Dostom is INNOCENT of the Dasht-i-Leili Massacre [PBI: What’s It Worth To Set Record Straight in Time for Run-Off?]

05 Civil War, 07 Other Atrocities, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, Government, Military, Peace Intelligence

ROBERT STEELE: General Dostom is accused of the being directly responsible for the Dasht-i-Leili massacre aka container massacre that has been hugely overblown — as well as civilian collateral damage over time — and this remains a sore point with many Pashtuns and of course those that also consider themselves Taliban. What is your understanding?

ROBERT YOUNG PELTON: I was there for all this and have told many journos (NYTimes, Newsweek, BBC etc) that they are full of shit since they use second hand sourcing and constantly avoid using my first hand testimony since I was in the prison, saw the containers unloaded, took real time photos, notes etc. I also was there with Doran when his doco on Dostum got cancelled by the BBC and he had to make a “massacre” doco, first with British then American troops…using second hand footage and testimony. I have already gathered all the facts at: www.generaldostum.com, see especially the Conflict & Controvery section including the detailed timeline inclusive of photographs. I have been out of touch but this is a long beaten horse started by Atta [Muhammad Nur] with the eager ear of the State Dept flunkies. They wanted to minimize the threat of Dostum to promote Karzai. Ghani was no where near all this but the Pansjiris love to spread this bullshit before every election. One also has to be aware that there are Massoud groupies in the journo world that hate Dostom blindly and have been caught fabricating stories.

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Sterling Seagrave: Chinese Cornering Gold, Saudi Rejection of Petro-Dollars, Eastern Gold-Backed Currencies

02 China, 03 Economy, 05 Iran, 06 Russia, Corruption, Ethics, Government

Have a nice day!

Cornering the Gold Market: China Close to Buying Half of World Gold Production

In 2013, China bought 1,132 tonnes of the precious metal, making it the biggest buyer of gold in the world. According to the World Gold Council, demand for gold bullion in China will increase by 20% by 2017 to 1,350 tonnes annually. (Source: World Gold Council, April 15, 2014.)

Saudi Petro-Dollar Rejection and The Arrival Of Eastern Gold-Backed Currencies – Jim Willie CB

Systemic failure and its pathogenesis have been over 50 years in progress, with countless events. The origin is found with the cabal murder Kennedy, but the climax finale will be found with the Saudi Petro-Dollar rejection and the arrival of Eastern gold-backed currencies.

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Eagle: Deadly MERS virus spreading out of control in Saudi Arabia, leaps to Egypt [and Malaysia] as global pandemic begins

07 Health, 08 Wild Cards, Commerce, Earth Intelligence, Government, Ineptitude

300 Million Talons... — 300 Million Talons…

Deadly MERS virus spreading out of control in Saudi Arabia, leaps to Egypt as global pandemic begins

Healthcare workers increasingly infected: 7% death rate reported

Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) more effective than Western medicine

Camels and bats suspected as contagion carriers

SARS-Like MERS Virus Spreads to New Countries

Cases of the MERS Coronavirus have significantly increased in the last few months, and in recent weeks there have been reports of the virus in new countries including Egypt, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Indonesia, leaving officials struggling to figure out why infections have increased.

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Berto Jongman: Net Neutrality — Guide to and History of a Contested Idea

Corruption, Government, Idiocy, IO Impotency

Net Neutrality: A Guide to (and History of) a Contested Idea

If net neutrality is so important, why is it so controversial? It’s complicated.

Alexis C. Madrigal and Adrienne LaFrance Apr 25 2014

EXTRACT

But this debate isn't just about the specific wording of the possible FCC rules (though those are important). People have been talking about the principle of net neutrality, in one way or another, for more than 15 years, since Monica Lewinsky dominated the headlines.

This idea of net neutrality—this cherished idea, even, among Internet entrepreneurs and activists—has a long history, roughly as long as the commercial world wide web. It is, Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig has argued, what makes the Internet special.

He used to call the principle e2e, for end to end: “e2e. Not b2b, or b2c, or c2b, or b2g, or g2b, but e2e. End to end. The core of the Internet, the core value that defined its power, the core truth that made innovation around it possible, is this e2e,” Lessig said in a 1999 talk. “The fact – a fact – that the network could not discriminate in the way that AT&T could.”

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A decision by the FCC in 2002 to classify companies like Comcast as “information service providers” instead of “telecommunications carriers” ultimately undermined the agency's efforts to regulate those companies the way a telecommunication carrier would be regulated.

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By common law, common carriers were 1) required to serve upon reasonable demand, any and all who sought out their services; 2) held to a high standard of care for the property entrusted to them; and 3) limited to incidental damages for breach of duty. The concept of common carriage crossed the Atlantic and became part of the American legal system. Common carriage was broadly applied to railroads and later other transportation as well as communications media. In 1901, following many state courts, the U.S. Supreme Court held that at common law– i.e., even without a specific statute– a telegraph company is a common carrier and owes a duty of non-discrimination.

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Berto Jongman: North Korea Flooding US Markets with Pure Crystal Meth

04 Inter-State Conflict, 07 Health, 07 Other Atrocities, 08 Wild Cards, 10 Transnational Crime, 11 Society, Government, IO Deeds of War, Officers Call

The ultimate asymmetric threat — and one that can be repurposed by others.

Brea-KIM bad! 99% pure crystal meth made in North Korea floods U.S. drug markets

U.S. police intercepted batch of highly addictive drug bound for New York
Tests revealed the ice-like crystals were 99 per cent pure
Communist state is said to be in the grip of a crystal meth epidemic
In some parts up to 50 per cent of the population are addicted
Parents said to offer the drug to their children ‘to help them concentrate'

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SchwartzReport: LIBOR Rigging a Known Crime Against Humanity – Federal Reserve & Treasury Known Co-Conspirators. Say What?

Commerce, Corruption, Government, Law Enforcement

The sad reality is that international finance has largely become a criminal enterprise. This is part of the growing Inequity Trend and, I think, it is going to lead to another worldwide economic collapse sometime in the near future. Click through to see the video.

Fed Knows LIBOR Rate Rigging is a Criminal Conspiracy-Ellen Brown
GREG HUNTER – USAWatchdog

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