Jon Rappoport: How Rockefeller Couped Nixon, and Every President Since Then Has Been Owned…

07 Other Atrocities, 10 Transnational Crime, Commerce, Corruption, Government
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Flashback: Watergate, Nazis, Nixon, Rockefeller

by Jon Rappoport

May 15, 2013

www.nomorefakenews.com

Watergate eventually became the story of two young rookie reporters who exposed and took down a president.

Try to think of another major story in your lifetime where the reporters themselves took center stage, and in the process nearly eclipsed their own work. Odd.

One of them, Bob Woodward, expanded his fame. The powers-that-be permitted him to go on and, with extraordinary access, write books criticizing future presidents. Woodward became the in-house attack dog. Mr. Limited Hangout.

The other reporter, Carl Bernstein, faded into relative obscurity. Well, he began connecting journalists to the CIA. That wasn't a smart career move. That was, perhaps, a case of biting the hand that had fed him.

To learn why Richard Nixon was really blown out of the White House, you could begin with the infamous Nazi chemical/pharmaceutical cartel, IG Farben. The cartel that pushed Hitler over the top into power in Germany.

Phi Beta Iota:  For the convenience of our professionals reluctant to click through, the entire post is reproduced below.  We believe that the assassination of JFK, the cover up by LBJ, and the fact that the Bush and Rockefeller families got away with it, was the beginning of the decline of responsible politics (the art of satisficing the needs of all) in the USA.  There is serious matter for reflection in this post.

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Marcus Aurelius: SECDEF on Furloughs — and No Answer to Question Why Not Contractors First….

Corruption, Government, Ineptitude, Military
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Latest info from SECDEF on furloughs:

a.  BLUF:  11 days, 1 day per week, starting 08 Jul and continuing through end FY13.

b.  Appeared to waffle by providing non-answer to employee's question as to whether mandated savings could be obtained by cutting contractors rather than direct-hire civil servants.

c.  Never pinned blame where it belongs:  catastrophic failure of 535 Members of Congress and POTUS to do their jobs.

SECDEF Furlough Memorandum of May 14, 2013

Defense.gov News Article: Hagel Explains Furloughs in Message to Workforce

The Pentagon Channel Videos | Secretary of Defense Town Hall

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Berto Jongman: EU Emergency Response Centre (no NATO); E-Stonia; Google Takes Hit on Privacy; Strongbox Anonymous Document Sharing Tool

Architecture, Design, Governance, Software
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Emergency Response Centre: for a faster and more efficient European response to disasters

“With the unfortunately increasing frequency and complexity of disasters, EU Member States need to cooperate even more closely. The new EU Emergency Response Centre provides a state of the art platform that allows them to coordinate under the most extreme circumstances, enables them to tackle these challenges even more effectively and thus helps to protect our citizens,” said Jose Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission.

How Estonia became E-stonia

In some countries, computer programming might be seen as the realm of the nerd

World from Berlin: A ‘Clear Defeat' for Google

A German high court has ruled that Google must remove automatically suggested search terms if they violate a person's privacy. Editorialists at the country's national newspapers see a defeat for the Internet giant and a victory for privacy law.

Introducing Strongbox

This morning, The New Yorker launched Strongbox, an online place where people can send documents and messages to the magazine, and we, in turn, can offer them a reasonable amount of anonymity. It was put together by Aaron Swartz, who died in January, and Kevin Poulsen. Kevin explains some of the background in his own post, including Swartz’s role and his survivors’ feelings about the project. (They approve, something that was important for us here to know.) The underlying code, given the name DeadDrop, will be open-source, and we are very glad to be the first to bring it out into the world, fully implemented.

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Berto Jongman: FBI Cracks Down on Medicare Fraud; How Contractors Got Billions for Bases

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Medicare Fraud Strike Force Charges 89 Individuals for Approximately $223 Million in False Billing

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This coordinated takedown was the sixth national Medicare fraud takedown in strike force history. In total, almost 600 individuals have been charged in connection with schemes involving almost $2 billion in fraudulent billings in these national takedown operations alone. The Medicare Fraud Strike Force operations are part of the Health Care Fraud Prevention and Enforcement Action Team (HEAT), a joint initiative announced in May 2009 between the Department of Justice and HHS to focus their efforts to prevent and deter fraud and enforce current anti-fraud laws around the country.

Read full FBI Press Release

How Contractors Got Billions for Bases

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Outside the United States, the Pentagon controls a collection of military bases unprecedented in history. With U.S. troops gone from Iraq and the withdrawal from Afghanistan underway, it’s easy to forget that we probably still have about 1,000 military bases in other peoples' lands. This giant collection of bases receives remarkably little media attention, costs a fortune, and even when cost cutting is the subject du jour, it still seems to get a free ride.

With so much money pouring into the Pentagon’s base world, the question is: Who’s benefiting?

Read full article with itemized links of top 25 recipients of multi-billion dollar base contracts funded by US taxpayer.

Review (Guest): Imperial Contagions: Medicine, Hygiene, and Cultures of Planning in Asia

5 Star, Culture, Research, Economics, Environment (Problems), Health, Nature, Diet, Memetics, Design
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Robert Peckham

Book Description

April 2, 2013

Imperial Contagions argues that there was no straightforward shift from older, enclavist models of colonial medicine to a newer emphasis on prevention and treatment of disease among indigenous populations as well as European residents. It shows that colonial medicine was not at all homogeneous “on the ground” but was riven with tensions and contradictions. Indigenous elites contested and appropriated Western medical knowledge and practices for their own purposes. Colonial policies contained contradictory and cross-cutting impulses. This book challenges assumptions that colonial regimes were uniformly able to regulate indigenous bodies and that colonial medicine served as a “tool of empire.”

Review

Europeans in Asia developed powerful anxieties about contagion and made many plans to keep it at a safe distance. Commercial ventures depended on mobility of people and goods, yet for the personal safety of their members, the Europeans in Asia wished to stabilize and control the spaces they inhabited and the behaviors of those around them. By exploring the tensions and contradictions that arose from these efforts to stay safe, the authors — among the best authorities now writing — offer not only fascinating accounts of historical events but fresh views of the processes often termed colonial or imperial.

(Harold J. Cook, author of Matters of Exchange: Commerce, Medicine, and Science in the Dutch Golden Age )
This substantial collection greatly enriches our understanding of medicine, disease, and policy in colonial Asia. The contributors, from a range of disciplines, grapple fruitfully with questions surrounding medical space and the shift from enclavism to public health. In doing so, they make important theoretical and empirical contributions to medical and imperial history.

(David Arnold, author of Colonizing the Body: State Medicine and Epidemic Disease in Nineteenth-Century India )

About the Author

Robert Peckham is codirector of the Centre for the Humanities and Medicine and an assistant professor in the Department of History at the University of Hong Kong.

David M. Pomfret is an associate professor in the Department of History at the University of Hong Kong.

SmartPlanet: Russia Will Build and Operate Nuclear Reactors for Emerging Countries….

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smartplanet logoRussia to emerging countries: We’ll build, operate your nuclear reactors

Do you run a developing country where you’d like to build and operate nuclear reactors, but you just don’t have the expertise or the money?

Then you could turn to Russia for an all-in-one 60-year bargain.

Sign on the dotted line. Russia's Rosatom will build and operate one of these for you for 60 years. Rosatom retains ownership and handles all the hassle, like waste management. Above is the Novovoronezh II reactor under construction in Russia.-- Click on Image to Enlarge
Sign on the dotted line. Russia's Rosatom will build and operate one of these for you for 60 years. Rosatom retains ownership and handles all the hassle, like waste management. Above is the Novovoronezh II reactor under construction in Russia.– Click on Image to Enlarge

State nuclear power company Rosatom “is offering a special package deal to build and operate nuclear power stations abroad in a bid to win business from developing countries, a company official was quoted on Monday as saying,” Reuters reports. “The offer to ‘Build, Own, Operate’ (BOO), also includes financing to countries seeking to build nuclear plants.”

Rosatom, which competes against the likes of Toshiba’s Westinghouse subsidiary and France’s Areva to construct reactors around the world, has in the past handed over the day-to-day operations of finished reactors to utilities. Now, it’s offering to hang around onsite after completion.

“Under the BOO model, Rosatom not only builds the nuclear plant, but also owns it and runs it for up to sixty years,” Reuters writes, citing French publication Le Figaro. “Rosatom also delivers nuclear fuel to the plants.”

“With this model, we are fully responsible for the plant’s security,” Le Figaro quoted Rosatom deputy CEO Nikolai Spassky as saying.

Spassky said that Turkey is already following the BOO model with the plant that Rosatom agreed in 2010 to build there (Turkey has also ordered a reactor from a French-Japanese partnership).

Rosatom has agreements to build 19 reactors outside Russia, Reuters states. According to the World Nuclear Association (WNA), in addition to Turkey those countries include Vietnam, China, India, Bangladesh, Belarus, Ukraine and Bulgaria. Russia has already built nuclear plants in China, India, Iran and Ukraine, WNA notes.

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SchwartzReport: Airline Fees Criminally Insane — $6 Billion a Year and Rising

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schwartz reportIncreasingly I think we are going insane as a society. The worship of profit is our real religion, and it is consuming us.

The Navigator: Fee-happy Airlines Raise the Bar Again
CHRISTOPHER ELLIOTT – The Washington Post

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Not to be outdone, Frontier Airlines announced that for tickets booked anywhere except on its Web site, it would raise its luggage charges and impose a fee of up to $100 for certain carry-on bags, the third U.S. carrier to do this. Most economy-class passengers will also have to pay $1.99 for coffee, tea, soda and juice.

You read correctly: That fee is for a carry-on bag, not a checked bag.

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