BEg2 chapter 8 WoS / more about Transparency.org

[Mark Kohut]

At least one other way to keep The Abyss in play and in our minds.

On Mon, Dec 13, 2021 at 2:41 PM Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
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> On Mon, Dec 13, 2021 at 1:12 PM Michael Bailey <
> michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
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> > But wall of silence?
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> >>> Checking, apparently “blue wall” is sometimes extended to “blue wall of
> silence” and the same sense is extended to any “wall of silence,” which is
> complicity by doing nothing.
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> As Mark also had noted (great minds & all that)
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> What is going on in Wall of Silence in Chapter 8?
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> Young creative woman being exploited sexually and financially by rich
> unattached guy.
> (The “free radicals” of the socius!)
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> Which maybe the bar is a nexus for that sort of behavior not just Lucas?
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> And only Maxine speaks up about it.
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> Transparency.org
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> Is the propagator of Corruption Perception Index (I like how the initials
> are the same as Consumer Price Index) and the Global Corruption Barometer.
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> Their funding is listed
> https://www.transparency.org/en/the-organisation/who-supports-us
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> Their story
> https://www.transparency.org/en/our-story
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> This is another bunch of the good guys. A successful instantiation of the
> Counterforce in real life, if you will.
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> An anti-corruption (which is more diffuse & generalized than fraud? But
> corruption enables fraud…) organization at a different stratum of
> society than that occupied by the ACFE?
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> They have a YouTube channel
> https://youtu.be/jzPSb5Dys4k
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