Political corruption is the use of legislated powers by government officials for illegitimate private gain. Misuse of government power, such as repression of political opponents and general police brutality, is not considered political corruption. Neither are illegal acts by private persons or corporations not directly involved with the government.
All forms of government are susceptible to political corruption. Forms of corruption vary, but include bribery, extortion, cronyism, nepotism, patronage, graft, and embezzlement. While corruption may facilitate criminal enterprise such as drug trafficking, money laundering, and trafficking, it is not restricted to these organized crime activities. In some nations, corruption is so common that it has gained normative status. The end point of political corruption is a kleptocracy, literally "rule by thieves".
Bribery around the world is estimated at about $1 trillion and the on the bottom billion people living in extreme poverty.
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News Suspicious Fire, Massive Voter Registration Fraud Plague County with ACORN-tied Congresswoman
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www.drscoundrels.com
Byline: Anita Moncrief - original whistleblower at Acorn
An article posted at the site Texas GOP Vote highlights the close connection between Representative Kristin Thibuat and ACORN:
“The Republican Party of Texas today unveiled a new webs
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Rich Hilts
News National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Recap 08-30-10
08-31-2010
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www.injusticeeverywhere.com
August 31st, 2010 - Here are the 26 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for Monday, August 30, 2010:
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News Cop caught red-handed stealing money gets a paid vacation
08-30-2010
I know if I was at work and was caught red-handed stealing money by a undercover investigator my employer wouldn’t pay me to sit at home while my fellow workers decide if I am allowed to keep my job.
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News “Wall Street Psycho:” 15 Signs of Moral & Ethical Pathology, Soul-Sickness.
08-28-2010
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wallstreetwarzone.com/
They’re morally blind money addicts who believe they’re “God’s chosen.” AA would say: They haven’t “bottomed,” won’t recover from their disease till a disaster hits, with another market meltdown and the “Great Depression 2.” Then maybe they’ll “quit
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News Former DOD Contract Employee Pleads Guilty to Bribery and Money Laundering Related to War Contracts
08-11-2010
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Joel Irving
A former DOD contract employee pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to bribe U.S. Army contracting officials stationed at an Army base in Kuwait, and to money laundering conspiracy, announced the Assistant Attorney General. Agrees to Forfeit $650,000 t
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News Transaction Fees: Home Builders Want To Rob Homebuyers For 99 Years
08-24-2010
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Money.CNN.com
But in some new developments, homebuilders are including in contracts a 1% fee to be paid to them every time the house is sold -- for 99 years. And the money doesn't go for improvements or upkeep: It's just money in the builders' pockets.
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News Are Arizona's Political Leaders Deliberately Blocking Electronic Voting Machine Transparency?
08-23-2010
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www.truth-out.org Denis G. Campbell
Why did Arizona's two main gubernatorial candidates, Gov. Jan Brewer, former secretary of state/head of elections, who contracted for highly criticized and easily-hacked Diebold and Sequoia ballot scanning systems, and Attorney General (AG) Terry God
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News Wikileaks founder accused by Sweden of rape.
08-21-2010
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Yahoo News
"He should get in contact with police so that he can be confronted with the suspicions," authorities say. "The next step is that we interrogate him."
No shit.
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News Chelsea's new father-in-law a bigger crook than daddy Bubba? Wow!!
08-21-2010
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www.thearizonalawmanandphoenixpolicegazette.com
Chalk up another one for the media covering up for the Clintons. I mean, how is it that I'm just learning about this now?!?!?!
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News Banker Bailout Continues: Banks Selling Worthless Loans to Fannie?
08-20-2010
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Market-ticker.denninger.net/
Are the banks knowingly dumping worthless paper on Fannie (and perhaps Freddie) - and if so are they fairly-disclosing the impairments? One has to wonder why Fannie would be interested in buying a long-delinquent second with no collateral behind it.
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News Texas Counties $4.2 Million Drug Search and Seizures Money Funds Trips to Vegas
08-19-2010
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Ginn
Nice work if you can get it. A TX DA uses drug seizures as his own private slush fund. In addition, Three Former Brooks County DA secretaries paid over $1 million in salaries in three year period.
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News List of Goldman Sachs People in the Obama Government: The Giant Squid’s Tentacles
04-27-2010
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fflambeau
It is vital to understand how widespread Goldman Sach's ties are to the Obama administration. This diary shows the pervasive influence of Goldman Sachs and Goldman created institutions (like the Hamilton Project embedded in the Brookings Institution)
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News Pastor Files Civil Suit Against Border Patrol
08-18-2010
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MyFOX Phoenix
Pastor Steven Anderson was beaten and Tased at a Border Patrol checkpoint last year, and has since been cleared of all charges by a jury.
But now he's filing suit against the officers who Tased him.
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News Frank And Dodd Kill Transparency - No More SEC FOIA?
08172010
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This has been released in Massachusetts by Sean Bielat, the candidate who is running against Earl Sholley to try and unseat Frank.....
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News Flipping, flopping and booming mortgage fraud
08-17-2010
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Reuters
Public records show it sold in foreclosure for $25,500 in January 2009, then resold for $355,000 in October. In between, a $110,000 mortgage was taken out on the home, supposedly for renovations. This June, the property went back into foreclosure.
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News Justice Department drops investigation of DeLay ties to Abramoff
08-16-2010
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Washington Post
Former House majority leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) was both defiant and ebullient on Monday after hearing that the Justice Department had dropped its six-year investigation of his interactions with lobbyist Jack Abramoff and a host of other political co
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News Founder Of Reaganomics: "Without A Revolution, Americans Are History"
08-16-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
Whatever the size, the rest of the world will see that the dollar is being printed in such quantities that it cannot serve as reserve currency. At that point wholesale dumping of dollars will result as foreign central banks try to unload a worthless
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News American Socialists Release Names of 70 Congressional Democrats in Their Ranks
08-16-2010
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Gateway Pundit via e-mail from Joan L. (THANKS!)
FIRST NAME ON THE LIST: Co-Chair Hon. Raúl M. Grijalva (AZ-07). Any other Arizonans? But of course - Hon. Ed Pastor (AZ-04).
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News Town council paid for its high salaries with $3M in illegal property taxes
08-15-2010
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The tiny blue-collar city that granted huge salaries to its top officials may have to repay nearly $3 million in illegal property taxes, a state official said Friday.
An audit showed that the Los Angeles suburb exceeded a state cap when it raised
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News Karl Denninger: Reforming Housing GSEs - A National Priority
08-15-2010
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Market-ticker.denninger.net/
Announce that Fannie and Freddie will be closing for all new loan intake as of 12/31/2010. This must be a date-certain, and in the reasonably-current time frame. Four months is enough.
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News "Gresham's Dynamic" Bad Money Destroys Good Money - $6 to 15 Trillion Lost
08-12-2010
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MaxKeiser.com
Max talks to former banking regulator William K. Black about rackets and fraud in the financial sector. The Interview starts at 12:40
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News Despite charges, Rep. Charles B. Rangel says he won't resign
08-10-2010
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Washington Post
In a defiant, dramatic and highly unusual speech, Rep. Charles Rangel defended himself against ethics charges by lashing out at the committee holding his trial, poking fun at Obama, ridiculing conservative Democrats and refusing to go away quietly.
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News High Frequency Trading Algorithms: These Patterns Mean The Cheaters Never Lose
08-09-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
The market is now merely a computerized playground in which human traders have no chance of even breaking even in the long run, as the adversary uses consistently illegal means (intentional bid stuffing) to extract every last penny...
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News US 'fails to account' for Iraq reconstruction billions
7-27-2010
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BBC
US DOD is unable to account properly for 96% of the money. Out of just over $9bn (£5.8bn), $8.7bn is unaccounted for, the inspector says.
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News Coming to a state near you?
08-07-2010
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Freedom's Phoenix
Ran across this in the archives. Could there be more to the reported connection between the Arizona government and local prison industries?
Inmate Slave Labor Will Replace Migrants in Colorado Fields
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As migrant laborers
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Justin Tyme
News Multi-Millionaires and Billionaires Do End Run Around on FDIC Limitations
08-06-2010
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EconomicPolicyJournal.com
Thanks to Nassim Nicholas Taleb, it is now clear that hustlers, like former Fed VC, Alan Blinder, are promoting a loophole that allows multi-millionaires and billionaires to get every penny they have insured by the FDIC, damn the limits.
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News Sean Penn skeptical about Wyclef Jeans presidential campaign in Haiti (video)
08-06-2010
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The Real News
Sean Penn, who has lived in Port-au-Prince Haiti for months to help manage thousands of displaced Haitians living in a camp, has begun to publicly criticize Wyclef Jeans campaign for President of Haiti. In a statement released to CNN Penn explained,
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News August 5, 2010 The New Day of Infamy
08-05-2010
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Simply Your Health
You would think that someone from deep inside the establishment would revel in supporting the opinion of the gods in white smocks.
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Headlines: August 5, 2010 The New Day of Infamy -- Sean Penn skeptical about Wyclef Jeans presidential campaign in Haiti (video) -- Multi-Millionaires and Billionaires Do End Run Around on FDIC Limitations -- Coming to a state near you? -- US 'fails to account' for Iraq reconstruction billions -- High Frequency Trading Algorithms: These Patterns Mean The Cheaters Never Lose -- A Man On Fire: Gerald Celente Speaks the Unvarnished Truth -- Despite charges, Rep. Charles B. Rangel says he won't resign -- "Gresham's Dynamic" Bad Money Destroys Good Money - $6 to 15 Trillion Lost -- Karl Denninger: Reforming Housing GSEs - A National Priority -- Town council paid for its high salaries with $3M in illegal property taxes -- American Socialists Release Names of 70 Congressional Democrats in Their Ranks -- Founder Of Reaganomics: "Without A Revolution, Americans Are History" -- Justice Department drops investigation of DeLay ties to Abramoff -- Flipping, flopping and booming mortgage fraud -- Frank And Dodd Kill Transparency - No More SEC FOIA? -- Pastor Files Civil Suit Against Border Patrol -- List of Goldman Sachs People in the Obama Government: The Giant Squid’s Tentacles -- Texas Counties $4.2 Million Drug Search and Seizures Money Funds Trips to Vegas -- Banker Bailout Continues: Banks Selling Worthless Loans to Fannie? -- Chelsea's new father-in-law a bigger crook than daddy Bubba? Wow!! -- Wikileaks founder accused by Sweden of rape. -- Are Arizona's Political Leaders Deliberately Blocking Electronic Voting Machine Transparency? -- Phoenix Baseline Killer - The Real Story of Death and the Government Coverup -- Transaction Fees: Home Builders Want To Rob Homebuyers For 99 Years -- Former DOD Contract Employee Pleads Guilty to Bribery and Money Laundering Related to War Contracts -- “Wall Street Psycho:” 15 Signs of Moral & Ethical Pathology, Soul-Sickness. -- Cop caught red-handed stealing money gets a paid vacation -- National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Recap 08-30-10 -- Suspicious Fire, Massive Voter Registration Fraud Plague County with ACORN-tied Congresswoman --
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