Revealed: Japan’s Bribes on Whaling

A Sunday Times investigation has exposed Japan for bribing small nations with cash and prostitutes to gain their support for the mass slaughter of whales.

The undercover investigation found officials from six countries were willing to consider selling their votes on the International Whaling Commission (IWC).

The revelations come as Japan seeks to break the 24-year moratorium on commercial whaling. An IWC meeting that will decide the fate of thousands of whales, including endangered species, begins this month in Morocco.'

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Sarkozy Caught up in Kickbacks Scandal

A report by Luxembourg police has revealed President Sarkozy's involvement in a bribery scandal in the sale of French submarines to Pakistan in 1994.

It is suspected that the money from the contract was used to finance a 1995 presidential campaign managed by Mr. Sarkozy to support candidate Edouard Balladur against Jacques Chirac, France 24 reports.

On the sidelines of the sale of the submarines, tens of millions of euros were received by a company called Heine.

The reports suggest that Nicolas Sarkozy, who at the time served as French finance minister in 1994, may have been involved in the creation of this company.'

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UK Chief Scientist Makes £500,000 From Fishery Firm ‘Jeopardising’ Sea Life

The government’s chief scientist and his wife have made £500,000 in the past year in a company overseeing commercial fishing that allegedly threatens one of the world’s most pristine marine environments.

Professor John Beddington and his wife, Caroline, are joint shareholders in Marine Resources Assessment Group (MRAG), a London-based consultancy that manages fisheries and provides specialist advice around the world.

Conservationists claim that a fishery managed by the company in British territorial waters in the Indian Ocean has been catching threatened species including blue sharks and manta rays. It is estimated that between 2003 and 2008 more than 120,000 were caught as “bycatch” from commercial tuna fishing.'

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Canada's Biggest Scandal?

For decades, political and business insiders, with Canadian and British Columbian governments, have known that the water resources in the American southwest and Mexico were dwindling in the face of an increasing population. A small group of Canadian political insiders saw the opportunity to earn massive profits for themselves from the export of Canada's fresh water and set about on a fraudulent and corrupt scheme to capture for themselves an illegal water export monopoly so they could line their pockets with revenues from the sale of Canadian public assests and gouge American consumers.'

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Ethics Panel Clears Seven on Earmarks

The House ethics committee ruled Friday that seven lawmakers who steered hundreds of millions of dollars in largely no-bid contracts to clients of a lobbying firm had not violated any rules or laws by also collecting large campaign donations from those contractors.'

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200,000 Rally in Rome to Say 'Enough' to Berlusconi

Tens of thousands of Italians have taken to the streets of Rome to protest a court decision to adjourn Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's trial for a month.

Tens of thousands of Italians congregated on Saturday in Piazza del Popolo in central Rome to protest against Berlusconi under a banner reading "Enough. The law is the same for everyone."

Organizers put the turnout at 200,000.'

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One Billion Dollars to Pay off the Taliban

Our criminal government is proposing a plan is being considered to pay up to $1bn to Taliban fighters to persuade them to lay down their arms.

In advance of an international conference in London to discuss Afghanistan’s future on Thursday, Japan, the United States and Britain are said to be leading the proposal.

The scheme would offer cash, jobs and other incentives to the Taliban and fighters in other armed groups.

“The sum could be as much as between $500m and $1bn over the next five years”, Al Jazeera’s James Bays, reporting from London, said.'

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Doctors Vaccinate For Profit

Years ago children were sent up chimneys or sold as servants to earn their parents extra money. Now they are being vaccinated by doctors, to boost their takings. Doctors, Governments and Pharma see our children as their property and are making thousands of pounds/dollars/euros out of them right under our noses. This, they call ‘Health Care’, I call it the legalization of child labour.

For years now we have been told that vaccines are good for us, that vaccines eradicate illness and that vaccines will save us from killer diseases. What we are not told is that the doctors and Governments telling us this are often linked to the drug companies who are manufacturing the vaccines that they promote and many are making thousands of pounds/dollars profit from vaccinating our children.'

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Vatican Bank Charged With Money-Laundering

The Bank of the Vatican has been accused of laundering USD 200 million by proxy through an Italian creditor, a report indicates.

The allegation of the Vatican bank's financial corruption has been made by an Italian magazine that pointed to the financial institute's purported involvement in stealth fiscal transactions —via several accounts —with Italy's UniCredit Bank, Russia Today television network quoted the Panorama magazine as reporting.

“This corruption is continuing on a regular basis in the Vatican,” claimed Janathan Levy, a lawyer familiar with the bank.'

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The Best Democracy Money Can Buy

The American corporate businesses can now freely spend their money to prop-up political candidates as the US Supreme Court overrules a ban on campaign financing by corporations.

The nine justices of the top court ruled on Thursday by a 5-4 vote to abolish a two-decade ruling urging the companies to only use specially earmarked funds from a political action committee for political purposes, AFP reported.'

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Johnson & Johnson Engaged in Elaborate Drug Profit Kickback Scheme, says Dept. of Justice Lawsuit

Drug maker Johnson & Johnson paid tens of millions of dollars in kickbacks to nursing home pharmacies in order to boost the sale of its drugs, says a Justice Department lawsuit.

The payments were often disguised as grants or "educational funding," says the lawsuit, and they were directed to Omnicare, a prominent nursing home pharmacy company.

The elaborate kickback scheme caused sales of Johnson & Johnson drugs to skyrocket. Sales of the antipsychotic drug Risperdal, for example, helped J&J drug purchases from Omnicare nearly triple from $100 million to $280 million a year.'

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H1N1 'False Pandemic' Biggest Pharma-Fraud of Century?

Obama Received $20 Million From Healthcare Industry in 2008 Campaign

While some sunlight has been shed on the hefty sums shoveled into congressional campaign coffers in an effort to influence the Democrats' massive healthcare bill, little attention has been focused on the far larger sums received by President Barack Obama while he was a candidate in 2008.

A new figure, based on an exclusive analysis created for Raw Story by the Center for Responsive Politics, shows that President Obama received a staggering $20,175,303 from the healthcare industry during the 2008 election cycle, nearly three times the amount of his presidential rival John McCain. McCain took in $7,758,289, the Center found.'

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Judicial Watch Announces List of Washington’s “Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians” for 2009

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Swine Flu Gate: Is Virologist Albert Osterhaus the Ringleader?

Albert Osterhaus, a professor for virologie at Erasmus University in The Netherlands, and a key advisor of WHO and EU, is under investigation for having concealed slush funds from pharmaceutical companies, according to Polskaweb.

Polskaweb reports a Dutch parliamentary committee of inquiry has been launched into the connection between the large sums of money paid by big pharma into Osterhaus' private bank accounts and his role in ratcheting up the swine flu scare to allow a pandemic level 6 declaration – something which, in turn, has allowed big pharma to reap huge profits through the sale of toxic pandemic vaccines.

Osterhaus also played a leading role in creating the bird flu scare by maintaining that he had proved that the bird flu virus could be transmitted to humans.

The bird flu alarmism resulted in health minister pushing through pandemic plans that strip people of their constitutional rights and also to profits of 100 million euros for Roche.

But Osterhaus appears to have financial links not just to Roche but also to GSK, Aventis and Baxter.'

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Rothschild Zionist Mandelson Faces Probe Over His 'Favours' to Oligarch

Lord Mandelson is facing a fresh inquiry into accusations that he did 'improper' favours for his Russian billionaire friend, Oleg Deripaska.

A German MEP has demanded that the European Commission investigate what she claims is the Business Secretary's 'conflict of interest' when he twice lowered aluminium tariffs during his time as Brussels Trade Commissioner.

Those moves directly benefited Mr Deripaska, whose company Rusal is the world's largest aluminium concern.'

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Vice Chairman Of IPCC Endorses Supermarket’s Green Policies After £25 Million Donation

A climate change expert endorsed Tesco’s position on reducing plastic bags after his institute received a £25million donation, it has been revealed.

Professor Mohan Munasinghe claimed the supermarket’s policy of rewarding customers who reuse bags with ClubCard points was ‘more effective’ than charging.

The idea that Prof Munasinghe could endorse the Tesco scheme as ‘more effective’ has raised new questions about the integrity of some climate change scientists.'

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Chirac Exposed in Illegal Arms Trade Scandal

A former French minister, who is convicted of illegal arms trade, says former president Jacques Chirac and several other officials knew about the affair.

Former interior minister Charles Pasqua said on Friday that he had secret documents that would prove his claim.'

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Karzai Rules Out Sacking Corrupt Afghan Ministers

Hamid Karzai began his new presidency yesterday with a pledge to reach out to opponents and tackle the corrosive corruption which has deeply tainted his government and led to widespread international condemnation. But he appeared to rule out sacking ministers and officials accused of corruption and did not say how he would tackle the systemic malpractice and criminality which has undermined governance during his tenure.'

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Jacques Chirac: Former French President Charged With Embezzlement

The unprecedented move against a former French head of state was ordered by Xaviere Simeoni, a Paris magistrate.

A statement from Mr Chirac's office said he and nine others were charged with a role in awarding 21 contracts for non-existent jobs, which the former French leader denies. The statement described him as "serene".'

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