BEg2 chapter 8 WoS / more about Transparency.org

Mon Dec 13 22:52:41 UTC 2021

So much more enlightened to think of America and Saudi Arabia and murderous Salafists as the liberators of Syria. Thank god for CIA  and British Intelligence approved independent journalism like Bellingcat.

https://thegrayzone.com/2021/10/09/bellingcat-intelligence-contractors-extremists-syria/ <https://thegrayzone.com/2021/10/09/bellingcat-intelligence-contractors-extremists-syria/>
http://www.ericvandebeek.nl/Bellingcat_disrupts_MH17_trial.html <http://www.ericvandebeek.nl/Bellingcat_disrupts_MH17_trial.html>
https://thegrayzone.com/2021/02/20/reuters-bbc-uk-foreign-office-russian-media/ <https://thegrayzone.com/2021/02/20/reuters-bbc-uk-foreign-office-russian-media/>

> On Dec 13, 2021, at 3:47 PM, Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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
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>>>>> 
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