BEg2 chapter 8 WoS / more about Transparency.org

[Mark Thibodeau]

B-But I thought Bellingcat was untrustworthy because they refuse to admit
what a great guy al-Bashear really is (liberator of Syria, man!), and fail
to acknowledge that the White Helmets are the photo-fakingest, single most
deadliest elite trained paramilitary strikeforce in that entire bloody
conflict... no?

Jerky

On Mon, Dec 13, 2021 at 3:35 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> If so, more Pynchon prescience. Artist as prophet of what he sees can
> therefore will happen;
>
> Bellingcat is a Netherlands-based investigative journalism website that
> specialises in fact-checking and open-source intelligence . It was founded
> by British journalist and former blogger Eliot Higgins in July 2014.
> en.wikipedia.org <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellingcat>
>
> On Mon, Dec 13, 2021 at 2:57 PM Michael Bailey <
> michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > reminds one of Bellingcat, no?
> > >
> > >
> > More clout. More mainstream.
> > Bigger scale & duked in to a lot of official channels, middle of the
> road,
> > white bread blue chip - their funding is pretty small c catholic:
> > The US Dept of State among them!
> >
> > Government agencies
> >
> >    - Auswärtiges Amt, Germany <https://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/en>
> >    - Bundesministerium fur Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit
> >    (BMU), Germany <https://www.bmu.de/en/>
> >    - Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung
> >    (BMZ), Germany <https://www.bmz.de/en>
> >    - Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), Australia
> >    <https://dfat.gov.au/pages/default.aspx>
> >    - Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development (DFATD), Canada
> >    <
> >
> https://www.international.gc.ca/global-affairs-affaires-mondiales/home-accueil.aspx?lang=eng
> > >
> >    - Gesellschaft für internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), Germany
> >    <https://www.giz.de/en/html/index.html>
> >    - Government of the Republic of Korea, South Korea
> >    - Irish Aid, Ireland <https://www.irishaid.ie/>
> >    - Ministère des Affaires étrangères et du Développement international,
> >    France <http://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/en/>
> >    - Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, New Zealand
> >    <https://www.mfat.govt.nz/>
> >    - Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark (Danida) <http://um.dk/en>
> >    - Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Estonia <http://www.vm.ee/?q=en>
> >    - Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Netherlands
> >    <https://www.government.nl/ministries/ministry-of-foreign-affairs>
> >    - Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Taiwan <https://en.mofa.gov.tw/>
> >    - Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA), Sweden
> >    <https://www.sida.se/English/>
> >    - Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), Switzerland
> >    <https://www.eda.admin.ch/deza/en/home.html>
> >    - US Department of State, United States <http://www.state.gov/>
> >    - UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), United Kingdom
> >    <
> >
> https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/foreign-commonwealth-development-office
> > >
> >
> > Multilateral institutions
> >
> >    - European Commission (EC) <http://ec.europa.eu/index_en.htm>
> >    - European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)
> >    <https://www.ebrd.com/home>
> >    - United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
> >    <https://www.unodc.org/>
> >
> > Foundations and Trusts
> >
> >    - BHP Foundation <
> http://www.bhp.com/community/bhp-billiton-foundation>
> >    - Foundation Open Society Institute (FOSI)
> >    - Open Society Institute, Development Foundation
> >    <https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/>
> >    - William and Flora Hewlett Foundation <http://www.hewlett.org/>
> >    - Foundation to Promote Open Society
> >    - Open Society Initiative for Europe
> >    <
> >
> https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/who-we-are/programs/open-society-initiative-for-europe
> > >
> >    - John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
> >    - Fund for the City of New York
> >
> > Businesses
> >
> >    - SNAM S.p.A. <http://www.snam.it/en>
> >    - Duff & Phelps <https://www.duffandphelps.com/>
> >
> > Other organisations, institutions and coalition partners
> >
> >    - Journalism Development Network (JDN) <https://www.occrp.org/en/jdn>
> >    - Christian Michelsen Institute (CMI) <https://www.cmi.no/>
> >    - Financial Transparency Coalition
> >    - International Republican Institute (IRI) <https://www.iri.org/>
> >    - International Association of Women Judges (IAWJ) <
> > http://www.iawj.org/>
> >    - Transparency International France <https://transparency-france.org/
> >
> >    - Transparency International UK <https://www.transparency.org.uk/>
> >
> > Individuals
> >
> > Thank you to our individual supporters.
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Dec 13, 2021 at 2:51 PM rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > reminds one of Bellingcat, no?
> > > rich
> > >
> > > On Mon, Dec 13, 2021 at 2:41 PM Michael Bailey <
> > > michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> Transparency.org
> > >>
> > >> Is the propagator of Corruption Perception Index (I like how the
> > initials
> > >> are the same as Consumer Price Index) and the Global Corruption
> > Barometer.
> > >>
> > >> Their funding is listed
> > >> https://www.transparency.org/en/the-organisation/who-supports-us
> > >>
> > >> Their story
> > >> https://www.transparency.org/en/our-story
> > >>
> > >> This is another bunch of the good guys. A successful instantiation of
> > the
> > >> Counterforce in real life, if you will.
> > >>
> > >> 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?
> > >>
> > >> They have a YouTube channel
> > >> https://youtu.be/jzPSb5Dys4k
> > >> --
> > >> Pynchon-L: https://waste.org/mailman/listinfo/pynchon-l
> > >>
> > >
> > --
> > Pynchon-L: https://waste.org/mailman/listinfo/pynchon-l
> >
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