Transparency International–Hillary Clinton

 

Transparency International is a NGO that monitors political and corporate corruption. There are chapters in 100. There are none in the United States. In March of 2012 Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was given this nation-states award for Integrity. Hillary Clinton is the chief diplomat representing this country vis a vis with over 200 nation-states. She has violated her office as the United States is a hub in a clandestine Chemical Assault – Scorched Earth.

This attack has been in continuo since President Ronald Reagan in June 1987. President Obama has won and campaigned in two elections  2008 and 2012 while the Salton Sea and Colorado River were despoiled.

The Colorado River also is drinking water for areas of Mexico.

The link below is Transparency International’s summary on the United States.

Bhakta David Nollmeyer

https://www.transparency.org/country#USA

Remarks at the Transparency International-USA's Annual Integrity Award Dinner

Remarks

Hillary Rodham Clinton
Secretary of State

The Mayflower Hotel

Washington, DC

March 22, 2012

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Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Well, I am very honored to be here and delighted to be supporting the work of Transparency International-USA. Before government officials spoke as openly and loudly about these issues, Transparency International was already bringing corruption out of the shadows, sunlight being the best disinfectant. And so I am really here, first and foremost, to thank all of you.

I want to thank Alan for his years of service to our country and the foreign service; thank you so much. I want to thank you Claudia for assuming the reins of this very important organization. And I, of course, want to congratulate Coca-Cola. And Sonya, thank you for that very stirring description of the commitment that Coca-Cola has to the values represented by Transparency International-USA.

I know that the former – the predecessor to Claudia Dumas is Nancy Zucker Boswell who was just recognized, and I have a special reason for recognizing her again because she is here with her husband, Eric, who also happens to be the Assistant Secretary for Diplomatic Security at the State Department. So don’t try any funny stuff because Eric and his team are well-prepared. But I wanted to thank both of them for their service.

As you heard Sonya say, she was really accepting the award on behalf of the 700,000 associates of Coca-Cola. Well, I am accepting it on behalf of the people across the United States Government, not only from the State Department and USAID but from Treasury, from Commerce, from the SEC, from Justice – represented by our Assistant Secretary for Criminal Law, from representatives to the OECD, the United Nations, the G-20, and so many other dedicated public servants who serve you by waking up every single morning trying to figure out what more we can do to reduce corruption, to create transparency, accountability, and better governance. They will never receive an award like this and their names are not likely to be known. But they are fighting the fight day in and day out.

Now Al said we have made this a high priority, and indeed we have. We’ve tried to put it right at the center of the work that we do in diplomacy and development. And why? Well, very simply, we have an interest in reducing poverty and sparking economic growth around the world, in creating greater security, prosperity, and even peace. And we know that corruption and the lack of transparency eats away like a cancer at the trust people should have in their government, at the potential for broad-based, sustainable, inclusive growth. Corruption stifles entrepreneurship, siphons funding away from critical services, poor fiscal transparency makes it impossible to hold governments accountable. And if these problems go on long enough, if they run deep enough, they literally can and have been shaking societies to the core.

The vegetable vendor that Al mentioned certainly is a prime example of that. But we so much evidence of the increasing awareness and rejection by people of the corruption that has been for the millennia just taken for granted.

Anyone who doubts the power of frustrated citizens to rise up need not only look at the Middle East and North Africa, but increasingly across the globe because social media has given every citizen a tool in order to report and literally post in the matter of seconds the kind of abuses that have been, up until now, just taken for granted. So this is an integral part of national security.

We also know that corrupt practices contribute to the spread of organized crime and terrorism. They underwrite trafficking in drugs and arms and human beings. And we have a major stake in building up partners who can work with us to take on these transnational threats and to promote stability, who will work with us to champion an international standard of behavior that gives more people in more places the opportunity to fulfill their own God-given potential.

The second priority for us is that the United States needs to spark growth not only abroad but right here at home. I’ve often spoken about what I call economic statecraft. It’s how America’s foreign policy can be the best advocate for U.S. businesses abroad, which will in turn drive our own recovery, and so we are seeking ways to more effectively use economic tools to strengthen America’s global leadership.

American workers and businesses remain the most innovate and productive anywhere in the world. I believe they – we can compete with anybody, anywhere, but it’s very difficult to do that if you don’t have that proverbial playing field being level so that your competition has a shot of winning.

And I know that with all of the businesses represented here tonight, you understand how unfair it is when competitors pay the bribes, pass the money under the table, prey on public officials in other countries to force or extort them to do their bidding. And oftentimes, it prevents American businesses even from making investments in certain places where clearly they should have a competitive advantage.

Now, of course, for every one of those officials who are taking cash under the table just to do his or her job, there are many who are refusing. There are leaders of integrity who are trying to look powerful people in the eye and say, “No.” But they need our admiration, but more importantly, our support.

So we have made it a priority to fight corruption and promote transparency, and the United States has been at this for quite a number of years now. In 1996, the United States played a major role in developing the first legally-binding commitment by governments to fight corruption. And we’ve led on many important fronts since then. But I’d like to just briefly describe what this Administration is doing.

First, we’re expanding and mobilizing a global consensus in support of greater transparency – a global architecture, if you will, of anticorruption institutions and practices. Along with Brazil, we launched the Open Government Partnership. It is a network of support for government leaders and citizens working to bring more transparency and accountability to governments.

Already, it’s helping to shape best practices like Indonesia’s innovative method of involving even small villages in decisions about how government funds should be spent. All told, 53 countries and dozens of civil society organizations are committing to these efforts. And I know that many of TI’s country offices, including TI-USA, will be represented at the Open Government Partnership high-level summit in Brasilia that I will co-chair with the Brazilian foreign minister.

We’re building this anticorruption consensus in other ways as well. In what is called the Deauville Partnership, we are working with our Arab partners on anticorruption, open government, and asset recovery efforts. At the OECD, we were pleased to welcome Colombia and Russia into the Working Group on Bribery last year. It will be an important milestone when both have become full parties to the Anti-Bribery Convention.

Now we know business cultures do not change overnight, but moves like this at least establish beachheads for reform. And through our bilateral diplomacy and at the G-20, we are encouraging major economies such as China, India, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia to join the convention as well. We support the follow-through that’s necessary to enforce anticorruption norms such as the new review process that promotes implementation of the UN Convention against Corruption.

Yet even as we work to build this international consensus and the tools to implement it, we recognize that there’s a lot of work ahead. How do we produce the concrete changes in people’s lives? So we’re working to help countries build institutions and create tools to promote good governance. Now sometimes it’s as simple as cutting down the opportunities for an official to exact a bribe in the first place – for example, by reducing the number of forms you have to fill out, or by encouraging countries to move toward e-Government, electronic government. In Afghanistan, officials have cut down markedly on corruption by paying members of the national police force by mobile phone instead of by cash.

In many countries, we have seen a lot of the security difficulties with their militaries and their police forces, due, in large measure, because the members either don’t get paid at all or get paid sporadically or get paid less than they should because large amounts of cash are transported, and every officer along the line takes his share. So we’ve been pushing militaries and police forces to move to mobile banking as a way to combat that.

Next month, we will launch an innovative fund to encourage countries to be more open about how they spend their revenues. It’s part of a larger effort we’re calling Domestic Finance for Development, an initiative to help developing countries increase their own sources of funding so they can meet more of their own needs. It’s really quite difficult in many countries when we see that they either don’t have any modern tax system or they don’t collect what is owed with the result that they are often unable to meet the most basic needs of their own people.

And so we’re trying to help not only governments, but civil societies get the tools and training needed to hold their governments accountable. I’ve been working for three years to try to improve tax systems and collection efforts in a number of countries, and I was very impressed with the quick work that President Perez Molina in Guatemala has shown in creating a tax system aimed at beginning to collect taxes from the elites in that country.

Corruption is a key focus for our strategic dialogue with civil society, and we encourage them to get educated about what more they can do. When I was in Kenya in August of 2009 and I spoke at the University in Nairobi, I was very struck by a sign at the entrance to the university which read, “You are entering a no-corruption zone.” And the young people who we’ve been working with in Kenya and elsewhere have made efforts against corruption one of the centerpieces of their organizing politically.

Finally, because our credibility depends on practicing what we preach, we are trying to up our own game. We recently announced our intention to implement the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative in the United States, which will require disclosure of payments made by companies to the government and of payments received by the government from companies. Additionally, the Cardin-Lugar Amendment requires extractive industry companies registered with the SEC to disclose, project by project, how much they pay foreign governments. Now I know this has been a difficult issue, and the SEC is still working on the regulations, but we do think it will have a very profound effect on our ability to try to help manage some of the worst practices that we see in the extractive industry and in the relationships with governments at local and national levels around the world.

We’ve also launched groundbreaking efforts to make our development work more transparent. Go to the website foreignassistance.gov, because there, you can see where we are investing our development funds, and you can see that we are very committed to the global effort known as IATI to report our data in a timely, easy-to-use format.

And of course, this Administration, like those before us, has taken a strong stand when it comes to American companies bribing foreign officials. We are unequivocally opposed to weakening the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. We don’t need to lower our standards. We need to work with other countries to raise theirs. I actually think a race to the bottom would probably disadvantage us. It would not give us the leverage and the credibility that we are seeking.

So we’re looking to approach the issues that all of you here tonight are both interested in and committed to, and it does take everyone working together and it does take a lot of persistence and perseverance, but I am absolutely confident that we will make progress. We are so aided by social media now. We have tools at our disposal in the hands of literally billions of people that were never even dreamed of before. And we have worked through our 21^st Century Statecraft Initiative to get those tools into the hands of more people to make them more usable, to encourage channels for people to be able to report corrupt practices – anonymously if necessary – as well as criminal activity of other sorts.

So we know old habits die hard. Human nature is what it is. But we think we have the potential to make even greater progress in the years ahead, and I’m very grateful to all of you and pledge that we will continue working closely together. Thank you very much. (Applause.)

http://www.state.gov/secretary/20092013clinton/rm/2012/03/186703.htm

Holocaust Remembrance Day

Why Holocaust Remembrance Day Is Today
Lily Rothman @lilyrothman

    
Ghetto Uprising
Keystone—Getty Images
1943: Fire breaks out during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Adolph Hitler

1937

The date marks the beginning of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

The calendar year is full of dates that could be chosen for Holocaust Remembrance Day. Some, like January 27, the day of the liberation of Auschwitz, are recognized internationally. And, as Allied forces moved through Europe liberating Nazi death camps throughout early 1945, those dates continue to amass. So why is this Thursday, April 16, marked as Holocaust Remembrance Day in the United States and elsewhere?

As the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum explains, the date corresponds with the 27th of Nisan on the Hebrew calendar, which in 1943 — on April 19 in the Western calendar — marked the beginning of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Though the date may appear to move around from year to year, it’s always on that anniversary.

The once-vibrant Jewish community of Warsaw was forced into a ghetto on the Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur in 1940, stuffed into an area scarcely bigger than a square mile, deprived and diminished and finally deported, as TIME’s Lance Morrow explained in a review of a 2002 book of eyewitness accounts of the infamous ghetto. As the population of the ghetto dwindled, some who remained began to organize for combat. On April 19, 1943, as the Jewish holiday of Passover approached, Nazi forces entered the ghetto with the intention of sending all of its remaining residents to camps — only to encounter the uprising. The Jews of Warsaw managed to fight back for weeks.

It would take years before the Nazi forces were finally suppressed in Warsaw and elsewhere, but the uprising was nearly immediately a touchstone for remembrance. By 1948, on the fifth anniversary, TIME reported on one such memorial:

Last week, on the fifth anniversary of the ghetto uprising, 12,000 Jews assembled on the spot where the first shots were fired. There they dedicated a monument to the heroes of the ghetto and to the 3,500,000 other Jews killed in Poland.

Delegations of Jews from 20 nations, including the U.S., laid wreaths and banners against the monument—a wall built of broken bricks from the ghetto‘s rubble piles. Mounted in a front niche was a bronze plaque showing armed men & women straining toward freedom.
These were moving symbols to the Jews of Warsaw. But what they liked best, perhaps, was the shining granite that sheathed the monument’s wall: it was some of the Swedish granite that Adolf Hitler had ordered for his monument in Berlin.

Tikrit Battle Stalls

Al Bhaghdadi

The Iranian Counterinsurgency against the Islamic State has slowed. It appears perhaps 200 Jihadhi are making a last stand in the city center. This is important.

The Islamic groups will acknowledge some of their actions which appear Irrational.

On the contrary the United States is using censorship and sanitization to obstruct the Domestic Chemical Assault – Scorched Earth.

This appears to be Cambridge Law School designed. It is LGBTi based and also indicates the exposure of this school’s Irrationalism War Criminals.

Bhakta David Nollmeyer

The commander of the powerful Badr Shiite militia has criticized “weaklings” in the Iraqi military who have called for U.S. airstrikes to support an ongoing campaign against the ISIS stronghold of Tikrit. The remarks by Hadi al-Ameri Sunday signal possible rifts between Iraq’s army and the Iranian-backed Shiite militias currently supporting the Tikrit offensive.

"Some of the weaklings in the army ... say we need the Americans while we say we do not need the Americans," Ameri told journalists when asked about U.S. air support, Agence France-Presse reported. The top Iraqi commander in the Salaheddin province where Tikrit is located had told the news agency earlier he airtrikes are needed to fight the militant group.

The battle to recapture Tikrit from ISIS, which began earlier this month, slowed in the past week as militias struggled to uproot militants from the city center where a few hundred insurgents have been holed up surrounded by snipers and landmines, the Wall Street Journal reported. Iraq’s government has had to rely on Iranian-backed Shiite militias to bolster its flagging forces ahead of the crucial battle.

The top commander of Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guard’s Quds Force has played a crucial role in coordinating operations in Tikrit and al-Ameri cited the military leader’s engagement in the campaign as another reason American support was not needed. "Qassem Suleimani is here whenever we need him," he said. "He was giving very good advice.” Tehran also deployed advanced rockets and missiles to the country last week to bolster its efforts in Tikrit.

http://www.ibtimes.com/isis-tikrit-battle-shiite-militia-leader-criticizes-iraq-army-weaklings-calling-us-1855114

Websites

MOEC Mobilization of Empire and Civilization

http://powereality.net/moec-journals.html

http://powereality.net/

http://powereality.net/moec-position-papers.html

http://powereality.net/origin.htm

http://powereality.net/lycurgus.htm

http://www.powereality.net/lycurgus-II.htm

http://powereality.net/mocm-I.htm

http://powereality.net/mocm-pt.III.htm

http://powereality.net/garden-of-enchiridion.htm

http://powereality.net/anglo-american.html

http://www.powereality.net/anglo-american-pt.II.html

http://powereality.net/nollmeyer.htm

MOEC

Convergence

Mobilization of Empire and Civilization or MOEC has emerged as defection model that drives the Rise and Fall of the British Empire. Cambridge Law School is argued as the Proximate Cause. MOEC is an eclectic hybrid of thought that unfortunately has caused catastrophic disaster which equates to War Crimes. In consequence, the Authorship have scripted their escape and their attack on civilization as their intents and acts become exposed.

The History of Western Civilization contains many antecedents that are relevant to a universal archetypical psyche of individual and collective thought. It is clear that the Fall of the Anglo American Paradigm has it's baseline identity here.

Social Engineering in the empirical has become the Theater of Despotism. Here the despot, by necessity, has to orchestrate civilization to stave off identification and prosecution.

The allegation that Cambridge is the Origin and Proximate Cause of the Manifets Chemical Assault Scorched Earth in continuo in the United States and imposed over my natural person is quite persuasive.

The concept of treason creates an exclusive dichotomy:

TITLE 18 - CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
PART I - CRIMES
CHAPTER 115 - TREASON, SEDITION, AND SUBVERSIVE ACTIVITIES

§ 2382. Misprision of treason
Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States and having knowledge of the commission of any treason against them, conceals and does not, as soon as may be, disclose and make known the same to the President or to some judge of the United States, or to the governor or to some judge or justice of a particular State, is guilty of misprision of treason and shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than seven years, or both.

Anglo American Oprichiniki

 The murder of Russian dissident Boris Nemstov strengthens the allegations of an Anglo American Oprichinki.

This is a hub and node system of informants in every police station house worldwide. This is the defection model of the UK - USA.

This is also a LGBTi Blackmail ring named MOEC that has been exposed.

The censured and sanitized Chemical Assault - Scorched Earth in the USA is also attributed to MOEC.

Bhakta David Nollmeyer 

http://powereality.net/garden-of-enchiridion.htm

http://powereality.net/anglo-american.html

http://www.powereality.net/anglo-american-pt.II.html

Addendum: Kasparov on the Boris Nemtsov Murder

Just around midnight on Friday Boris Nemtsov, the Russian opposition leader and former First Deputy Prime Minister, now turned Vladimir Putin critic and one of the loudest voices condemning Russia’s sharp turn toward confrontation with the West, was gunned down as he walked across a central Moscow bridge, less than 100 yards from the walls of the Kremlin and within sight of Red Square. His death came just hours after appealing for a Moscow march against the war in Ukraine. On February 10, while speaking to Russia's Sobesednik news website, Nemtsov said: "I'm afraid Putin will kill me." The Russian President has condemned the murder, the Kremlin says. Nemtsov was 55.

Garry Kasparov, former world chess champion and Russian pro-democracy activist, wrote this in response to Nemtsov’s death: “He always believed Russia could change from the inside and without violence; after 2012 I disagreed with this. When we argued, Boris would tell me I was too hasty, and that in Russia you had to live a long time to see change. Now he'll never see it. Rest In Peace.”


http://en.chessbase.com/post/kasparov-on-putin-ukrainian-nukes-nemtsov