From the mouth of Tulsi Gabbard Director of Intelligence. Congress is full of lazy politicians who simply want to go along to get along and not be ejected from their money-making offices! The lobbyists threaten to pull campaign election funding or they take judges, congressmen, and senators to…

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As far back as 1996 it was reported that the People's Republic of China had been donating to the Presidential Election Campaign of Bill Clinton and that the Chinese Embassy in Washington DC had been used to make discreet contributions to the Democrat Party. Ironically, this was reported by Bob Woodruff and another partner from the Washington Post. Once this was discovered election campaign laws had to be…

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The all seeing CIA is not satisfied with poking its nose everywhere and getting to know your private life. They want your total compliance and no original ideas or embarrassing questions.

"Members of the German media are paid by the CIA in return for spinning the news in a way that supports US interests, and some German outlets are nothing more than PR appendages of NATO, according to a new book by Udo Ulfkotte, a former editor of Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, one of Germany's…

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U.S. business seeks more clarity on foreign bribery law

(Reuters) - U.S. business groups on Tuesday renewed their campaign to amend an anti-foreign bribery law, suggesting authorities should give companies additional defenses against criminal charges.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and others have complained the Foreign…

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A comparison of all the bribery, crookery, profiteering, nepotism, exploitation, and shady dealings of the public sector, by country

Every year since 1995, the nonprofit organization Transparency International has been publishing a "Corruption Perceptions Index" where countries are ranked--based on data from a several surveys and assessments--from 0 to 100, "0" being "totally corrupt" and 100 being "totally clean."

The group just…

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By Press TV



July 06, 2012 "Information Clearing House" -- The former Countrywide Financial Corp., whose subprime loans helped start the nation's foreclosure crisis, made hundreds of discount loans to buy influence with members of Congress, congressional staff, top government…

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January 23, 2012

From the sickening department at…

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JERUSALEM, Feb. 1 (UPI) -- A 10-year Israeli police investigation has resulted in a recommendation that a former prime minister's sons be indicted on bribery charges, officials said.



Police in Jerusalem said Omri and Gilad Sharon, the sons of Ariel Sharon, should be charged with mediating the transfers of $3 million in bribes to Sharon from Austrian billionaire businessman Martin Schlaff, the Jerusalem Post and Ynetnews.com reported Tuesday.



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By Harvey Wasserman

September 14, 2009

www.freepress.org

The Four Courtsmen of the Apocalypse are poised to finally bury American democracy in corporate money. The most powerful institution in human history---the global corporation---may soon take definitive possession of our electoral process.





It could happen very soon.



While America agonizes over health care, energy… Continue