This page has been archived and commenting is disabled.
Government Corruption Has Become Rampant
Government corruption has become rampant:
- Senior SEC employees spent up to 8 hours a day surfing porn sites instead of cracking down on financial crimes
- Nuclear Regulatory Commission workers watch porn instead of cracking down on unsafe conditions at nuclear plants
- NSA spies pass around homemade sexual videos and pictures they’ve collected from spying on the American people
- NSA employees have also been caught using their mass surveillance powers to spy on love interests, such as girlfriends, obsessions or former wives … and to eavesdrop on American soldiers’ intimate conversations with their wives back home. And see this (“routinely shared salacious or tantalizing phone calls that had been intercepted” … “‘Hey, check this out … there’s good phone sex’”)
- An employee of the Transportation Security Administration admitted that TSA agents share – and laugh at – nude scans of passengers.
- Investigators from the Treasury’s Office of the Inspector General found that some of the regulator’s employees surfed erotic websites, hired prostitutes and accepted gifts from bank executives … instead of actually working to help the economy
- The Minerals Management Service – the regulator charged with overseeing BP and other oil companies to ensure that oil spills don’t occur – was riddled with “a culture of substance abuse and promiscuity”, which included “sex with industry contacts”
- Agents for the Drug Enforcement Agency had sex parties with prostitutes hired by the drug cartels they were supposed to stop
- Federal agents with the Drug Enforcement Administration and Secret Service investigating Bitcoin money laundering extorted and stole over $1 million in Bitcoin
- The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has conspired with big banks to manipulate commodities prices for decades
- The government-sponsored rating agencies committed massive fraud (and see this)
- The Treasury department allowed banks to “cook their books”
- Regulators knew of and allowed the use of debt-hiding accounting tricks by the big banks
- The Secretary of Treasury (Tim Geithner) was complicit in Lehman’s accounting fraud, (and see this)
- The former chief accountant for the SEC says that Bernanke and Paulson broke the law and should be prosecuted
- The government knew about mortgage fraud a long time ago. For example, the FBI warned of an “epidemic” of mortgage fraud in 2004. However, the FBI, DOJ and other government agencies then stood down and did nothing. See this and this. For example, the Federal Reserve turned its cheek and allowed massive fraud, and the SEC has repeatedly ignored accounting fraud. Indeed, Alan Greenspan took the position that fraud could never happen
- Paulson and Bernanke falsely stated that the big banks receiving Tarp money were healthy, when they were not. The Treasury Secretary also falsely told Congress that the bailouts would be used to dispose of toxic assets … but then used the money for something else entirely
- A high-level Federal Reserve official says quantitative easing is “the greatest backdoor Wall Street bailout of all time”
- The SEC has been shredding Wall Street documents for decades to help the big banks cover up their fraud
- The non-partisan Government Accountability Office calls the Fed corrupt and riddled with conflicts of interest. Nobel prize-winning economist Joe Stiglitz says the World Bank would view any country which had a banking structure like the Fed as being corrupt and untrustworthy. The former vice president at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas said said he worried that the failure of the government to provide more information about its rescue spending could signal corruption. “Nontransparency in government programs is always associated with corruption in other countries, so I don’t see why it wouldn’t be here,” he said
- Arguably, both the Bush and Obama administrations broke the law by refusing to close insolvent banks
- Congress may have covered up illegal tax breaks for the big banks
- Police have been busted framing innocent people
- Warmongerers in the U.S. government knowingly and intentionally lied us into a war of aggression in Iraq. The former head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff – the highest ranking military officer in the United States – said that the Iraq war was “based on a series of lies”. The same is true in Libya and other wars
- The government lied when it said it doesn’t conduct mass surveillance on Americans, and then lied again when it said that spying was aimed at protecting America against terrorists
- The government also lied when it said American doesn’t torture (and see this), and then lied once again when it said torture was aimed at protecting America against terrorists
- The government made sure that false claims were made about the amount of oil spilled by BP in the Gulf
- The government has framed whistleblowers with false evidence
- The Pentagon falsely smeared USA Today reporters because they investigated illegal Pentagon propaganda
- When one of the most respected radiologists in America – the former head of the radiology department at Yale University – attempted to blow the whistle on the fact that the FDA had approved a medical device manufactured by General Electric because it put out massive amounts of radiation, the FDA installed spyware to record his private emails and surfing activities (including installing cameras to snap pictures of his screen), and then used the information to smear him and other whistleblowers
- In an effort to protect Bank of America from the threatened Wikileaks expose of wrongdoing – the Department of Justice told Bank of America to a hire a specific hardball-playing law firm to assemble a team to take down WikiLeaks (and see this)
- The Bush White House worked hard to smear CIA officers, bloggers and anyone else who criticized the Iraq war
- The FBI smeared top scientists who pointed out the numerous holes in its anthrax case
The biggest companies own the D.C. politicians. Indeed, the head of the economics department at George Mason University has pointed out that it is unfair to call politicians “prostitutes”. They are in fact pimps … selling out the American people for a price.
Government regulators have become so corrupted and “captured” by those they regulate that Americans know that the cop is on the take. Institutional corruption is killing people’s trust in our government and our institutions.
Indeed, America is no longer a democracy or republic … it’s officially an oligarchy.
The allowance of unlimited campaign spending allows the oligarchs to purchase politicians more directly than ever. Moreover, there are two systems of justice in America … one for the big banks and other fatcats, and one for everyone else.
But the private sector is no better … for example, the big banks have turned into criminal syndicates.
Liberals and conservatives tend to blame our country’s problems on different factors … but they are all connected.
The real problem is the malignant, symbiotic relationship between big corporations and big government.
»
- advertisements -
Thank you. I appreciate the quotes
No problem. I read all of his works probably 15 years ago. Might need to take a refresher course and re-read them if I can find them. Very interesting man.
p.s. - If I recall correctly, GW Bush's campaign, or some people in it, tried to co-opt his teachings and claimed his victory was an outcropping of those teachings. That was the moment I knew that what I suspected was true, GW Bush was a worthless POS.................
Once you lose the ability to control where your money goes, the game is over.
With local government you have a slim chance at funneling your money to causes you support, but you'll always have the idiots who are convinced that you need to pass a third tax levy for "Better Schools". In reality you are just funding school administrators $275k a year salaries and "Business Trips".
All taxes should be voluntary and you should choose where your money goes. Essentially turning all city services into charity. If your town's a shithole then it is the citizens fault.
What? no way.......
Thanks for the newsflash captain obvious
dex... time to take a breath, make another cocktail and slow down...
Good advice!
You left out retired college professors who write blogs and suck the blood out of working Americans having to pay their pensions.
very much worth of listening.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0mimIp8mr8
Never heard of this lecture series. Thanks for the link.
oce@mail.house.gov
Today at 1:10 PM Re: DOJ Schlumberger "agreement" posted 3/25/15 Is Treason an "ethics" issue? Am I in the right Dept? http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/schlumberger-oilfield-holdings-ltd-agrees-plead-guilty-and-pay-over-2327-million-violating-us thing is 2 high federal officials were on the SLM Board of Directors at time
Former DOJ#2 Jamie Gorelick http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Gorelick SLM director 2002-2010 Former CIA Director John M Deutch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_M._Deutch SLM director 1997-2009 What SLM admitted to was black letter treason*........ .unless the CIA NSA DOJ was running some sort of stealth black ops foreign policy where we (Americans) simultaneously support terrorist regimes under sanctions with sophisticated oil services that generate billions in regime oil sales out the back door (with high federal officials privatizing the profits) while deploying American troops to fight those same regimes in front of TV cameras. *18 U.S. Code § 2381 - Treason Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.
BTW SLM was on probation for VISA fraud in 2006 at the time of their treason (2004-2010) which they admitted in 2015.
Notice also Gorelick and Deutch (perps) are gone, (now in worse higher risk places). Jamie Gorelick was #2 at the DOJ, she could have appointed her own prosecutors, or they could be appointees of her appointees. As a former CIA director and former Deputy Attorney General were on the SLM boards during the treason, a special prosecutor/investigator should have been appointed. This case also raises serious questions about the Bush administration, and their knowledge and non-prosecution of this crime. Hard to imagine the CIA and NSA not knowing where those regimes got their bits fixed while sanctioned when 2 former federal officials holding security clearances were getting commissions.
Government, all government, is nothing more than a criminal syndicate of theft and violence. Corruption is only the theft and criminality one sees, but much like an iceberg...
The banksters need to repay us.
"Oh my god--another plane has hit the South Tower!!!"
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL....
Anyone remember these disgusting POS?
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/2-pa-judges-admit-jailing-kids-for-cash/
Why yes, they are on my CAAPL list (Treason List).
The banksters need to repay us.
Who's on your list?
Duh Ya think ?
The Stoopid it burns....
I guess I overlooked Hillary and Lois Lerner in the list.
+1 ... I'll add.
I suspect that corruption has always been rampant. The difference now is that corruption is more apparent and more readily made known by alternate media.
A major problem is that, as it becomes known among the workers that the bosses are corrupt, the workers are more likely to eschew moral and ethical behavior - why put your heart and soul into your work and comply with legal and ethical standards when the example set by your leaders is one of profiting from corruption? In such an atmosphere, corruption becomes endemic and accepted behavior. The honest cop, like Serpico, is seen as a pariah by other cops, and may be set up to take a fall.
Corruption survives, and multiplies, as the result of failures of leadership. As the old Chinese saying goes: "A fish rots from the head."
Corruption is as old as history, but the degree is another story. I think that if you give people an opportunity to prosper without corruption, they will be less inclined to be corrupt. There will always be some fucks that want to get theirs no matter what, but for everybody else, their ability to make a decent life for themselves will determine how much they try to game the system.
The World Order
Seems appropriate to repost here about Senior SEC Officials.
How about a list for SEC Organization Web Searches.
- Mary Jo White, SEC, Columbia University, Lawyer, asserted summarily in Rolling Stone magazine that, among other duties at Debevoise, White has used her influence and connections to protect certain Wall Street CEOs from prosecution,[10] including a notable case involving the firing of Gary J. Aguirre for investigations into the CEO of Morgan Stanley executive John J. Mack.
- Elisse B. Walter, SEC & FINRA, Harvard, Walter (a Lawyer) is married to Ronald Alan Stern, the chief antitrust attorney for General Electric.[11]
- Mary Schapiro, SEC & FINRA & CFTC, In 2009, Forbes ranked her the 56th most powerful woman in the world.[4]
An early setback for Schapiro as SEC chairwoman occurred in September 2009 when U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff rejected the SEC's proposed $33 million settlement with Bank of America. BoA had been charged with failure to disclose bonuses paid to Merrill Lynch executive before the two companies merged. Under the settlement's terms BoA was allowed to deny any wrongdoing, which they did when pressed by Rakoff on the matter of guilt.[16] Rakoff said the settlement did not "comport with the most elementary notions of justice and morality".[17] Seven months later, Rakoff approved a $150 million settlement of the BoA case; BoA did not have to change its declaration of innocence.[18]
- Charles Christopher Cox, SEC & US House of Representatives, In September 2008, the U.S. Congress passed and President Bush signed the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, which placed Cox on the newly established Financial Stability Oversight Board that oversees the $700 billion Troubled Assets Relief Program.
- William Henry Donaldson, SEC, Yale & Harvard, Skull & Bones,
- Harvey Pitt, SEC, Pitt became the target of criticism when the Enron scandal broke out on his watch. Democrats alleged that he was too close to the accounting industry [2] and that he subverted efforts to tighten regulation in the wake of the Enron scandal and other cases of corporate malfeasance. Pitt resigned after attempting to appoint a board member (William Hedgcock Webster - former FBI and CIA Director) from a company under SEC investigation to head a commission overseeing the accounting industry.
- Arthur Levitt, Jr., SEC, In 1997, the SEC under Levitt's leadership approved the exemption of some Enron partnerships from the tight accounting controls of the Investment Company Act of 1940, Since May 2001 he has been employed as a senior adviser at the Carlyle Group.[1] Levitt also serves as a policy advisor to Goldman Sachs and as a Director of Bloomberg LP, parent of Bloomberg News.[2]
Only Cubans have announced running on the GOP ticket.
the cop is literally an illegal alien gang banger on the run wanted for murder http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Father-of-Ex-LAPD-Officer-Wanted-for-Murder-Arrested-297713011.html
Fapping at the SEC
Jerking at the NRC
Making big dough bigger perks
noone down there even works
problems stem from crooked bankers
and these .gov high paid wankers.
The delusion of mankind is that the office and/or the vetting for that office ennoble the holder thereof. Those offices corrupted include the media, the courts and the religiously sanctioned. Trusting creates its own moral hazard.
Trust is the opiate of the sheeple. Civil service examinations were promised to eliminate the evil of patronage, but replaced it with a new protected class of malfeasants. The police/prosecutor/ judge justice complex is as dangerous, as the military/industrial complex, or the bureaucrat/regulated industrial complex.
In the end these termites eat out the supports of our ruling structures. All living organisms die, destroyed from within or out.
"Trust is the opiate of the Sheeple."
Nice.
Here's planes own statement addressing congress.
"It was not common knowledge on the Georgetown cocktail circuit that everyone knew where I worked."
THAT EVERYYONE KNEW WHERE SHE WORKED. Your links propaganda bullshit to your own site from a bunch of propagandists.
This is what I mean by you are gutless and a coward who will not complete the circle to give a full view of the entire story.
One only does this to DECEIVE.
COWARD!!!
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/03/16/plame.statement/
Definitely part of the problem.
Prepare to die.
You are both provocative, but GW is doing a layout or laydown of material. He is putting a lot of work into it.
I think you have a lot of catching up to do. I would like to see Solutions from both of you to the problems. There are always problems. You should admit there are problems and if you don't highlight the Journalism or Investigations then Outline your Solutions.
I'm no expert on Disinformation or Propaganda, but aren't your criticisms a typical approach.
What have you got to laydown for us to show you care about your country, government, and banking system?
We all understand that getting legislation passed to getting regulations simplified, shortened or changed is very difficult. But it seems worth the effort for your country...
My usually solutions are to simplify & stream line processes, systems, and regulations like the Federal Income tax Code and Accounting and Auditing. Financial reports are only as good as the utility of them, simplicity of the system. So I usually suggest transparency and less secrets just like in Federal Government which is spinning out of control with eponential growth and spending.
Standardize Accounting & Financial Instruments. This should give small banks a chance to compete and decentralize power from Wall Street. GAAP Rules seem to make sense in my world and I would hate to be an Investor having to rely on current Financial Reporting.
Then Financial Ratings Agencies should be reformed so the Bank or organization is not paying for their own ratings. Financial ratings should down grade organizations that have high dollar administrative costs, expensive perks and compensation for executives, high costs for buildings and offices, planes and limos, slush funds for coke and hookers which was on its way out in most of the USA in the 1990s anyway. Investors lose out when Executives Take excessively from the Profits.
Now how do keep corporations from laying off employees for slave labor overseas. I would guess we need free press. What a novel idea.
I've got a thought - why don't you and George publish your reason for posting on this site. It would be easy enough to compare what each of you state are your goals vs. the substance of your comments.
You do make a good point about using propaganda for both supporting or contradicing a point of view. However, I think a lot of this comes down to what a person wants to believe, regardless of what his/her eyes, ears, intuition are telling them. It's all about who gets to write the history.
It's long overdue that you who post these things stop using the word "Government" this and "Government" that. If you are going to report then dig deeper and list the Individuals' Names who are doing these corrupt things and stop pussy footing around it.
Real human beans' bodies, though likely inhabited now by Alien life forms, are responsible for it so name names!
You've got a good point but holy mackeral, that's a lot of names.
Maybe a list of names of dot gov fucks that don't completely suck would be more feasible?
Why not list all the names, then - not just the .gov ones. Then we'd be on there with the rest. Unless you believe you have overcome your human nature.
Cast the first stone...
What's even worse, some of them know it's bullshit, but would be living under a bridge or in jail if they did more than let a few things slide when it comes to shielding people from bullshit.
An honest person would have no fear of the truth. Tho they should have some fear of the reality of it.
What is truth?
And what is an 'honest person'? Is that you - 100% of the time? Since you're not - nor is anyone else - what are you really saying?
Nice bit of sophistry there.
The truth is. Im in love. All the rest is moot.
Misfire, VWAndy. What is truth? is a quote. But you would have to read a little to know that.
The Bible is the book with the greatest number of critics...who have never read it.
Thanks for offer to do the religatard two step. But no.
The insults are cool tho.
I thought anything would be better than Harry Reid.
This is the next criminal in chief of the Demoncrapic coven squatting in the senate chambers. A Chosenite charlatan of epic proportions.........Clearly psychopathic.
The old demon is currently decomposing in his seat....wearing a soiled diaper.
"A Chosenite charlatan of epic proportions.........Clearly psychopathic" +10,000, epic!
Is he what you call a Red Dog?
Republican Democrat since he supports Wall Street he was ahead of the Trend for Democrats...
I don't know his politics since I ain't from New Yawk.
Notable former aides to Schumer include former US congressman Anthony Weiner; and current New York state senator Daniel Squadron and New York State Assembly Members Phil Goldfeder and Victor Pichardo.[4][5]
- Schumer has worked to secure homeland security funds for New York State and City
- In 2006, Schumer led a bipartisan effort, with the help of Republicans like Congressman Peter T. King (NY), to stop a deal approved by the Bush administration to transfer control of six United States ports to a corporation owned by the government of United Arab Emirates (UAE), Dubai Ports World.
- In 1995, Schumer sponsored the Omnibus Counterterrorism Act of 1995 (H.R. 896), a predecessor to the US Patriot Act,
- On January 28, 2013, Schumer was a member of a bi-partisan group of eight Senators which announced principles for comprehensive immigration reform (CIR).[65]
- Schumer was a supporter of the Iraq War Resolution, is an American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) member, and a strident pro-Israel member of Congress,
- Nat Hentoff of the Village Voice has criticized Schumer for his stance on the issue of torture.[67]
- Foreign Policy Hawk
- Appears to have a hard on for Edward Snowden
- On March 11, 2007, Schumer became the first lawmaker in either chamber to call for Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to resign for the firing of eight United States Attorneys.
- In September 2007, Schumer proposed that the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO) raise Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac's conforming loan ("affordable") limits from $417,000 to $625,000, thereby allowing these GSEs to back mortgages on homes priced up to $780,000 with a 20-percent down payment.[89]
- Schumer's top nine campaign contributors are all financial institutions that have contributed over $2.5 million to the senator.[92]
- May have sparked Collapse of Indy-Mac Bank
- Then-congressman Schumer in 1987, in opposition to the repeal of the Glass–Steagall Act of 1933, wrote in a New York Times op-ed: Don't Let Banks Become Casinos,
- in 1999, in support of Congress’s repeal of the Glass–Steagall Act of 1933, commented: "There are many reasons for this bill, but first and foremost is to ensure that U.S. financial firms remain competitive."[106]
- Securities and Investment industry is the largest donor to Schumer’s senatorial campaigns.[107]
2008, the New York Times published an article on Schumer's role in the Wall Street meltdown. The article stated that Schumer embraced the industry’s free-market, deregulatory agenda more than any other Democrat in Congress, even backing measures now blamed for contributing to the financial crisis.[108] Schumer took steps to protect industry players from government oversight and tougher rules, a review of his record shows. Over the years, he has also helped save financial institutions billions of dollars in higher taxes or fees. He succeeded in limiting efforts to regulate credit-rating agencies. This article also charged that Schumer blocked ratings agencies reforms proposed by the Bush Administration and the Cox SEC.[108]
While I can certainly appreciate the effort to run through a litany of proven examples of government corruption, this is news?
It is news to some. Its the truth and belongs out in the open. If thats a problem for you? Go suck eggs.
Not sure what part of "certainly appreciating the effort" you're missing. Glad to see you're finally getting the news.
Would it be 'news' to you that you are the same as them?
The truth will set you free.
Its not that its all been corrupted but the extent of corruption is just so far out of bounds.
The most scarry part is they are starting to really like it this way. Like that smug twit Bernanky or so many others.
George Washington, keep up the good work!