Corruption – Page 464 – Public Intelligence Blog

This is an extract from Beatrice Edwards' new book, The Rise of the American Corporate Security State. It is another tale of the corruption that has become the leitmotif of America in the 21st century.

In Banking World, Fraud Is an Epidemic
BEATRICE EDWARDS – Berrett-Koehler Publishers/Truthout

Reason to be afraid #6:

Systemic corruption and a fundamental conflict of interest are driving us toward the precipice of new economic crises.

Read full article.

See Also (The Book):

The Rise of the American Corporate Security State: Six Reasons to Be Afraid (2014)

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2014/07/042014/07/03

Berto Jongman: Charles Lewis on 935 Lies – Can A Democracy Lie to Death?

Corruption, Government

Great interview.

Can a democracy die of too many lies?

BOOK: 935 Lies: The Future of Truth and the Decline of America’s Moral Integrity

Facts are and must be the coin of the realm in a democracy, for government “of the people, by the people and for the people,” requires and assumes to some extent an informed citizenry. Unfortunately, for citizens in the United States and throughout the world, distinguishing between fact and fiction has always been a formidable challenge, often with real life and death consequences. But now it is more difficult and confusing than ever. The Internet Age makes comment indistinguishable from fact, and erodes authority. It is liberating but annihilating at the same time.

2014/07/032014/07/01

Mini-Me: T-Mobile Criminal Business As Usual — 100s of Millions of Dollars in Bogus Texting Charges

03 Economy, 09 Justice, Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Corruption, Government

Huh?

T-Mobile took ‘100s of millions of dollars' from bogus txt charges – Feds

Network CEO slams FTC, FCC allegations as baseless

>By Shaun Nichols

The Register, 1 Jul 2014

T-Mobile US was accused today of slapping bogus text-message charges worth hundreds of millions of dollars on customers' bills.

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2014/07/022019/01/05

2014 Robert Steele On Defense Intelligence – Seven Strikes

Corruption, Director of National Intelligence et al (IC), DoD, Ineptitude, Military, Office of Management and Budget, Officers Call, Peace Intelligence, Threats, True Cost

On Defense Intelligence: Seven Strikes

I consider defense intelligence today to be incoherent and ineffective. It has no grasp of the totality of the threat; it is largely worthless in providing SecDef with evidence-based decision support relevant to strategy, policy, acquisition, and operations; and it does not help DoD within the Cabinet when decision-support is needed to keep the Department of State honest (on the Afghan run-off election, for example), or to make the case for Whole of Government (USG) alternatives to military employment, particularly in the critical peaceful preventive measures and post-war stabilization & reconstructions domains.

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2014/06/262014/06/27

Jimmy Savile: Poster Child for Elite Pedophilia

07 Other Atrocities, Corruption, Government, Law Enforcement

Britain Chronicles Abuse by Jimmy Savile at Medical Facilities

Jimmy Savile abused corpses and boasted he made jewellery from their glass eyes: NHS report reveals shocking new details about paedophile's crimes

Jimmy Savile claimed to have performed sex acts on dead bodies, investigators say

Jimmy Savile: timeline of his sexual abuse and its uncovering: Investigators now believe the late host preyed on around 500 vulnerable victims as young as two years old

NEW: Inside the mind of Jimmy Savile

Phi Beta Iota: When Americans realize the full extent of elite pedophilia across the land, that might — possibly — trigger the revolution. It is the last taboo — the last denial still in place.

See Also:

Pedophilia @ Phi Beta Iota

2014/06/262014/06/24

Berto Jongman: Insecticides put world food supplies at risk, say scientists

01 Agriculture, 03 Economy, 03 Environmental Degradation, 07 Health, 07 Other Atrocities, 11 Society, 12 Water, Commerce, Corruption, Earth Intelligence, Government, Idiocy, Ineptitude, IO Impotency

Insecticides put world food supplies at risk, say scientists

Regulations on pesticides have failed to prevent poisoning of almost all habitats, international team of scientists concludes

The world’s most widely used insecticides have contaminated the environment across the planet so pervasively that global food production is at risk, according to a comprehensive scientific assessment of the chemicals’ impacts.

The researchers compare their impact with that reported in Silent Spring, the landmark 1962 book by Rachel Carson that revealed the decimation of birds and insects by the blanket use of DDT and other pesticides and led to the modern environmental movement.

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2014/06/242014/06/24

SchwartzReport: It’s the 1% of the 1% …

03 Economy, 07 Other Atrocities, 10 Transnational Crime, 11 Society, Commerce, Corruption, Government, Ineptitude, Law Enforcement

Here is what I think is a correct assessment of the new global aristocracy that owns a growing percentage of the world's wealth, and wants more. We think of peasants as agricultural workers. But that is the past. In the present day it is increasingly ordinary workers — both blue and white collar. The wealth differential now is even greater than it was in the 14th century. Click through to see the very useful graphs.

How You, I, and Everyone Got the Top 1 Percent All Wrong
DEREK THOMPSON – The Atlantic

For years, I've been making the same embarrassing mistake about U.S. economic inequality. Sorry.

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