Category: Corruption

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Antechinus: 9/11 Insider Trading — Multiple Independent Reports

07 Other Atrocities, 09 Terrorism, 10 Transnational Crime, Commerce, Corruption, Government, IO Deeds of War, Officers Call
Antechinus
Antechinus

9/11 – The Evidence For Insider Trading

After 9/11, there were indications that traders with inside information had benefited financially from the terrorist attacks. The list was long and included traders in the US, Germany, Japan, France Luxembourg, the UK, Switzerland, Spain, and even Hong Kong. Ernst Welteke, President of the German Deutsche Bundesbank, told the Miami Herald that “a preliminary review by German regulators and bank researchers showed there were highly suspicious sales of shares in airlines and insurance companies, along with major trades in gold and oil markets, before September 11 that suggest … advance knowledge of the attacks. Welteke said that his researchers came across … almost irrefutable proof of insider trading.” Welteke himself was emphatic: “If you look at the movements in markets before and after the attacks, it really makes your brow furrow..”

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Mongoose: Counterintelligence Failure — FBI Goes After Diplomat — Stupid Agents Using Stupid Tools

Corruption, Government, Idiocy, Law Enforcement
Mongoose
Mongoose

Stupidity, both technical and human, looms large in the US Government.

When diplomats get punished for doing their jobs

The threat that government surveillance and national-security investigations pose for private citizens has been hotly debated for the past decade. Less understood is the damage done to government officials themselves when they fall into the dragnet. Raphel’s experience is a case study in what can happen when the government launches a toxic investigation without adequate due diligence.

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Berto Jongman: Populist Uprising in Europe with Frame Breakdown of Humanitarian Assistance System

01 Poverty, 04 Inter-State Conflict, 05 Civil War, 07 Other Atrocities, 08 Wild Cards, 09 Justice, 10 Transnational Crime, 11 Society, Corruption, Government, Ineptitude
Berto Jongman
Berto Jongman

Europe migrant crisis: EU faces ‘populist uprising'

Europe faces a “populist uprising” if it is unable to show people it can control the migrant crisis, former MI6 head Sir Richard Dearlove has said.

Angelina Jolie Pitt: Refugee system breaking down

Ms Jolie Pitt said that more than 60 million people – one in 122 – were displaced globally – more than at any time in the past 70 years. “This tells us something deeply worrying about the peace and security of the world,” she said, adding: “The average time a person will be displaced is now nearly 20 years.”

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Antechinus: Toxic US Media — All Show No Substance

Corruption, Ineptitude, Media
Antechinus
Antechinus

U.S. TV News and Communicative Architecture: Between Manufacturing Consent and Mediating Democracy

By sidelining communicative architectures that facilitate democracy and an informed electorate, dominant journalistic conventions are key components of propaganda, or the manufacture of consent. Cottle and Matthews argue that ‘communicative structures’ or ‘communicative architectures’, are an under-studied and under-recognised instrument for the manufacture of consent. The ‘classic reporting' structure (57.2 %) involves brief updates on stories in the news cycle, which  “deliver at best thin accounts of events”. The ‘balance’ structure (18 %) ‘ contest and contention', in which “opposing views and arguments [are] generally given approximately equal weight or representation”, but rarely presents more than two perspectives. “The exposé/investigation frame conforms to the idealized liberal democratic role of journalism as public watchdog where journalists actively set out to investigate, expose, and uncover information and practices that would not otherwise be revealed within the public domain. This includes traditional investigative journalism based on intensive research and exploratory fact-finding as well as exposé journalism of public or private affairs.” This accounted for just 0.4 %.

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Antechinus: US Vote Rigging Favors Clinton

09 Justice, 11 Society, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Government, IO Impotency
Antechinus
Antechinus

Vote rigging the primaries – old software, uncertified voting machines, no paper trail, registration switching – the numbers add up for Clinton.

Hundreds of jurisdictions throughout the United States are using voting machines or vote tabulators that have flunked security tests. Those jurisdictions by and large are where former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is substantially outperforming the first full wave of exit polling in her contest against Senator Bernie Sanders.

 

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Jon Rappoport: Huffington Post Censors Post on Connection between Merck, Vaccinations, and Autism

07 Health, Commerce, Corruption, Government, Media
Jon Rappoport
Jon Rappoport

Merck, Huff Po, Vaxxed: the censorship connection

Six steps to Huff Po blackout heaven

Recently, long-time blogger/columnist for the Huffington Post, Lance Simmens, wrote an article in which he made positive comments about the film, Vaxxed (trailer).

Huffington Post censored Simmens’ article. His account with Huff Po was blocked without explanation.

Read full post for connections that make Huffington Post a “controlled” source.