SchwartzReport: Lack of Integrity in the US Media – On Murdoch & Petraeus

Why the US media ignored Murdoch’s brazen bid to hijack the presidency Did the Washington Post and others underplay the story through fear of the News Corp chairman, or simply tin-eared judgment? Carl Bernstein The Guardian, Thursday 20 December 2012 So now we have it: what appears to be hard, irrefutable evidence of Rupert Murdoch‘s …

Graphic: UN 0 Big Picture View of Global Intelligence with Integrity Supporting Documents Added

Related Point Papers Doc (2):  Open Source Agency Synopsis 2012 Doc (2):  2012 Reflections on UN Intelligence 2.3 21 Dec 2012 Doc (1):  Virgin Truth 2.6 Background Articles Doc (29):  2012 Reflections on UN Intelligence 2.2 20 Dec 2012 Doc (21):  Steele The Craft of Intelligence 3.3 Miscellaneous: Slide (1):  Big Picture Doc (1):  2013 …

SchwartzReport: The Drugging of America Via Food — Enabled by the Loss of Intelligence and Integrity Across Whole of Government

We’re Eating What? The Drugstore in U.S. Meat. Martha Rosenberg, AlterNet, 2 December 2012 Food consumers seldom hear about the drugs oestradiol-17, zeranol, trenbolone acetate and melengestrol acetate and the names are certainly not on meat labels. But those synthetic growth hormones are central to U.S. meat production, especially beef, and the reason Europe has …

Berto Jongman: Shadow Banking & Tax Loopholes – With Comment by Robert Steele on Integrity & Automated Transaction Payment Tax

Beyond Regulators’ Grasp How Shadow Banks Rule the World By Martin Hesse and Anne Seith Spiegel, 11/14/2012 Beyond the banking world, a parallel universe of shadow banks has grown in the form of hedge funds and money market funds. They’re outside the reach of conventional financial regulation, prompting authorities to plan introducing new rules to …

Worth A Look: BIll Moyers Interviews Neil Barofsky and David Stockman on Crony Capitalism and the Washington Version of Soften Your Stance, Get Gold; Keep Your Integrity, Get a Bullet

Bill Moyers and Neil Barofsky 26 October 2012 Neil Barofsky, Bailout: An Inside Account of How Washington Abandoned Main Street While Rescuing Wall Street (Free Press, 2012) Bill Moyers and David Stockman, 21 January 2012 Charles H. Ferguson, Predator Nation: Corporate Criminals, Political Corruption, and the Hijacking of America (Crown Business, 2012)

Chuck Spinney: Mike Lofgren on How Democracies Die (Loss of Integrity)

Below is an outstanding essay by my close friend and colleague Mike Lofgren. How Democracies Die By Mike Lofgren, Truthout | Thursday, 25 October 2012 10:19 “Picture a country at the height of its international power and prestige. It has military forces stationed around the globe. It is an intellectual leader….” It’s not the one …