torsdag den 9. august 2012

Research - The LIBOR Scandal.



Wikipedia: Libor Scandal

Immanuel Wallerstein: The LIBOR Scandal: Why is it Scandalous?

The Guardian: This global financial fraud and its gatekeepers.

The Guardian: Banking scandal: 'the rot was widespread, the corruption endemic'

The Guardian: Banking scandal: how document trail reveals global scam.

The Telegraph: Libor scandal: at the root of all financial crises is a lack of transparency.

Rolling Stone: A Challenge To American Regulators Over LIBOR Scandal.

Rolling Stone: Why is Nobody Freaking Out About the LIBOR Banking Scandal?

Rolling Stone: The Scam Wall Street Learned From the Mafia.

Democracy Now: Matt Taibbi on the Libor Scandal.

Washington's Blog: The Many Ways Banks Commit Criminal Fraud.

Washington's Blog: Big Banks Have Become Mafia-Style Criminal Enterprises

Washington's Blog: Have Banks Been Manipulating Libor for DECADES?

Washington's Blog: The Biggest Financial Scam In World History.

The Economist: The rotten heart of finance.

Danmarks Radio: Ugebrev: Banker snyder kunder for milliarder.

Truth-out.org: The Wall Street Scandal of All Scandals

Al Jazeera: Inside Story - Rigged bank rates: Is there more to come?

Al Jazeera: How Barclays manipulated the libor rates.

Reuters: Exclusive: Germany pushes Libor probe of Deutsche Bank

NYTimes: Trade Group for Bankers Regulates a Key Rate.

NBC: The LIBOR Scandal Is Bigger Than You Think.

Washington Post: Why the LIBOR scandal is a bigger deal than JPMorgan.



Quote of the Day: Kropotkin



"Every machine has had the same history -- a long record of sleepless nights and of poverty, of disillusions and of joys, of partial improvements discovered by several generations of nameless workers, who have added to the original invention these little nothings, without which the most fertile idea would remain fruitless. More than that: every new invention is a synthesis, the resultant of innumerable inventions which have preceded it in the vast field of mechanics and industry.

Science and industry, knowledge and application, discovery and practical realization leading to new discoveries, cunning of brain and of hand, toil of mind and muscle-all work together. Each discovery, each advance, each increase in the sum of human riches, owes its being to the physical and mental travail of the past and the present. By what right then can any one whatever appropriate the least morsel of this immense whole and say -- This is mine, not yours?"

- Pjotr Kropotkin, The Conquest of Bread.

Research - US Chemical Warfare.



VIETNAM.

Truth-Out: The Toxic Effects of Agent Orange Persist 51 Years After the Vietnam War.

Wikipedia: Wikipedia: Agent Orange

United States Department of Veterans Affairs: Veteran's Diseases Associated With Agent Orange

BBC: Agent Orange blights Vietnam.

The Guardian: Australia cancer deaths linked to Agent Orange.


FALLUJAH.

Al Jazeera: Fallujah babies: Under a new kind of siege

Al Jazeera: Inside Story Americas: Did the US cause Fallujah's birth defects?

The Guardian: Research links rise in Falluja birth defects and cancers to US assault

New Scientist: What is causing deformities in Fallujah's children?

The Independent: Robert Fisk: The Children of Fallujah - the hospital of horrors

Uruknet: Deformed babies in Fallujah - Letter to the United Nations.

The Arab American: New study from Ann Arbor toxicologist links Fallujah birth defects to U.S. weapons

World Health Organization: Depleted Uranium Factsheet.

Wikipedia: Depleted Uranium.

Information: Forarmet Uran, Forarmet Verden.

Wikipedia: White phosphorus use in Iraq.

Independent: The fog of war: white phosphorus, Fallujah and some burning questions

Washington Post: Pentagon Used White Phosphorous in Iraq.

BBC: US used white phosphorus in Iraq.

IPS: Those Laboratory Mice Were Children

International Journal of Environmental Studies and Health: Genetic damage and health in Fallujah Iraq worse than Hiroshima

Update [08-29-2013]: Foreign Policy: Exclusive: CIA Files Prove America Helped Saddam as He Gassed Iran