Corruption

Corruption
Interest of	• 'WhatsHerFace' • 'reallygraceful' • Activist Post • Attempted Coup of the Libertarian Party of New Hampshire • Jimmy Dore • Daphne Caruana Galizia • Michael Gillard • Charmian Gooch • Susan Hawley • Integrity Initiatives International • International Centre for Parliamentary Studies • Robert Klitgaard • Viktoria Marinova • Rob McCusker • Andrei Nekrasov • Pieter Omtzigt • Project Veritas • Mark Pyman • The Jimmy Dore Show • Transparency International • WeAreChange • WhoWhatWhy • World in Action • Eric Zuesse

Not to be confused with "anti-corruption".

Gerald James noted that "secrecy is the road to corruption and the two are never far apart."

 

Examples

Page name	Description
"Bilderberg/Effect"	A sudden career advancement, such as might happen to a deep state functionary who attends a Bilderberg meeting
"Public-Private Partnership"	An economic concept invented to loot public assets.
Attempted Coup of the Libertarian Party of New Hampshire	An event in June 2021.
Bofors Affair	A collective name for two deals in which the Swedish arms manufacturer Bofors was involved in, including smuggling and bribes.
Bribery	Influencing people by illicit gifts, very commonly of money.
Cheney Loophole	A 'get out of jail free card' for the Fracking industry, to permit them to poison the US drinking water.
Conflict of interest	Where does loyalty lie? Corruption thrives when there is a conflict of interest.
Elite deviance	Criminality done by the rich and powerful.
FBI/Corruption
Lockheed/Bribery scandals	A series of bribes made by officials of the U.S. aerospace company Lockheed from the late 1950s to the 1970s in the process of negotiating the sale of aircraft.
Pay to play
US/2020 Presidential election/Iowa DNC Caucuses	More proof that voting is a rigged joke.
US/Congress/Corruption
White-collar crime	Crimes by well educated people, often with high social status.

 

Related Quotations

Page	Quote	Author	Date
Accountability	“Accountability remains something that is assumed in the United States as well as the nations of the European Union. In Japan it is not. Accountability, everyone will agree, is good and necessary for democratic transparency and related platitudes. But there is a less immediately obvious but an actual primary reason why you want structures enforcing it in a political system. Its less visible function is that it protects powerholders against madness. When officials and politicians are held to account they are not only kept on their toes, but they themselves are forcefully reminded of what precisely it is that they are doing. If they do not accustom themselves to making a convincing case for their policies to outsiders, they tend to lose the habit of explaining it all to themselves.”	Karel van Wolferen	4 April 2017
Marcia Angell	“No one knows the total amount provided by drug companies to physicians, but I estimate from the annual reports of the top 9 U.S.-based drug companies that it comes to tens of billions of dollars a year in North America alone.By such means, the pharmaceutical industry has gained enormous control over how doctors evaluate and use its own products. Its extensive ties to physicians, particularly senior faculty at prestigious medical schools, affect the results of research, the way medicine is practiced, and even the definition of what constitutes a disease.”	Marcia Angell	2009
John le Carré	“Big Pharma is also engaged in the deliberate seduction of the medical profession, country by country, worldwide. It is spending a fortune on influencing, hiring and purchasing academic judgement to a point where, in a few years' time, if Big Pharma continues unchecked on its present happy path, unbought medical opinion will be hard to find.”	John le Carré
Rodrigo Duterte	“I'm not claiming to be clean. I also stole a lot, but it's all used up. So, it's gone. ...corruption is really out during my term.”	Rodrigo Duterte Wikiquote	2017
European Parliament	“A fourth Euro MP caught up in a "cash-for-laws" scandal has denied wrongdoing as the European Parliament investigates corruption allegations. Spanish MEP Pablo Zalba said he had been "deceived" by the Sunday Times undercover reporters and had not accepted their offer of cash. But he said he did amend draft legislation at the request of the reporters posing as lobbyists. Two other MEPs have resigned in the affair and a third has left his party. Mr Zalba, of Spain's centre-right Popular Party (PP), said he was the victim of a "trap", in which the pretend lobbyists had requested two amendments to draft legislation on consumer protection. He said he rejected the first amendment but agreed to put forward the second because he thought it would help protect small investors, Spain's El Pais news website reported. According to the UK's Sunday Times newspaper, the undercover team made it clear to Mr Zalba that he would be paid for his services”	BBC Laurence Peters	2010
Peter Gøtzsche	“Bribery is routine and involves large amounts of money. Almost every type of person who can affect the interests of the industry has been bribed: doctors, hospital administrators, cabinet ministers, health inspectors, customs officers, tax assessors, drug registration officials, factory inspectors, pricing officials and political parties. In Latin America, posts as ministers of health are avidly sought, as these ministers are almost invariably rich with wealth coming from the drug industry. In the beginning of this chapter, I asked the question whether we are seeing a lone bad apple now and then, or whether pretty much the whole basket is rotten. What we are seeing is organised crime in an industry that is completely rotten.”	Peter Gøtzsche	2013
John Hnatio	“Do not believe for one minute the FBI’s pretty little webpage declaring what a good job they are doing in fighting government corruption. In my job, I have been reporting U.S. government criminal conduct against small businesses to the FBI for many years. In every case, the FBI has simply turned a blind eye to the corruption whenever it involves another federal agency. The harsh political reality of the matter is that investigating corruption in the government has fallen to last place on the list of the FBI’s priorities.”	John Hnatio	2016
Law	“Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.”	Jonathan Swift	1709
Unmarked helicopter	“More than seven years ago a group of Americans traveled to Siberia to buy a pair of Russian Mi-17 helicopters for the CIA's post-9/11 clandestine operations in Afghanistan. As with many "black" programs, the contract had elements of craziness: Contracting officials paid the multimillion-dollar contract on a credit card at a local El Paso bar and then used the credit card rebate to redecorate their office; the team traveled under the guise of being private contractors; and the charter crew transporting the group abandoned the team in Russia in the middle of the night. Ultimately, a five-year investigation into the mission led to the conviction of the Army official in charge and the contractor who bought the helicopters on charges of corruption. The two men, currently in federal prison, are appealing their convictions. At first glance, it's a simple case: A few days after returning from Russia, the contractor paid off the second mortgage of the Army official in charge of the mission. Prosecutors argued that the contractor, Maverick Aviation, was unprepared for the mission, and the Army official helped cover up the problems in exchange for a payoff. The defendants at trial were barred from mentioning the CIA, Afghanistan or even 9/11. In an article for The New York Post, this author looks at what really happened in Siberia based on over two dozen interviews with people involved in the mission and trial. It's a story, that in some respects, is very different than the portrait painted by the government at trial. One interesting comparison not mentioned in the article is worth noting in light of recent purchases of Russian helicopters: In 2001, Maverick Aviation was paid $5 million for two freshly overhauled Mi-17s and spare parts, as well as travel and logistics for team of Army/CIA personnel, and got the helicopters out of Russia in under 30 days. In 2008, ARINC, a major U.S. defense contractor, was paid $322 million dollars to buy 22 Russian helicopters under a U.S. foreign military sales contract. Guess how many helicopters ARINC has delivered to Iraq after 18 months? Zero.”	Wired Sharon Weinberger	2009

 

Related Documents

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:Censorship and Freedom of Speech	blog post	1 October 2008	Craig Murray	A brief introduction by Murray followed by the parts of the book which his publishers, Messrs Mainstream Publishing Company (Edinburgh) Ltd., under threat of legal action from Tim Spicer's lawyers, insisted must be removed for them to proceed with publication. It ends with a pithy comment from Murray. Murray posted the full book on various internet sites as a pdf file and self-published it in hardcover format later...
Document:Shell Game, A Whistleblowing Report to the United States Congress	report		Scott Bennett	A report to congress
Document:Stench of Corruption	article	5 August 2014	William Engdahl	Brief introduction to a story of deep in-your-face corruption involving the US Vice President Joe Biden, his son Hunter Biden, oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky and the shale gas deposits of Eastern Ukraine
File:Vw-ramdoubler.pdf	comment	5 September 2015
File:WikiLeaks-Australian-suppression-order.pdf	legal document	19 June 2014	Australia/High Court	Australian Supreme Court secret super-injunction preventing the publication of information about a corruption case involving 17 named individuals including senior Malaysian, Indonesian, Vietnamese politicians and Reserve Bank of Australia directors

 

Convicted of Corruption

Person	Born	Died	Nationality	Summary	Description
Gianni De Michelis	26 September 1940	11 May 2019	Italy	Politician	Attended the 1991 Bilderberg as Italy's Minister of Foreign Affairs
Siti Fadilah Supari	6 November 1949		Indonesia	Politician Doctor	Indonesian health minister who strongly believed that the US Naval Medical Research Unit Two operation in Indonesia performed intelligence activity on behalf of the US government, to gather information and resources that could be used in biological warfare.

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