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Friday, November 5, 2010

Today's Wikipedia Crack (You guys remember the bailout of 1971?)


I am not even sure at this point how tonight's wikipedia trip started but I am now staring at 12-ish tabs on my wonderful google chrome browser and they are mostly as follows: 1)New World Order 2)Lockhead Bribery Scandals 3) Operation Mockingbird 4) Project MKULTRA 5) Central Intelligence Agency 6) Joint Chiefs of Staff 7) Ford Foundation 8) Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation 9) Carnegie Corporation 10) Rockefeller Foundation 11) Jewish Telegraph Agency 12) World Conference Against Racism (2001).
ANYWAY, I just love this terminaology from the whole Lockhead Scandal.....
per wiki

Background

The U.S. Government had bailed out Lockheed in 1971, guaranteeing repayment of $195 million in bank loans to the company. The Government Emergency Loan Guarantee Board, set up to oversee the program, investigated whether Lockheed violated its obligations by failing to tell the board about foreign payments.[1]
In late 1975 and early 1976, a sub-committee of the U.S. Senate led by Senator Frank Church concluded that members of the Lockheed board had paid members of friendly governments to guarantee contracts for military aircraft.[2] In 1976, it was publicly revealed that Lockheed had paid $22 million in bribes to foreign officials[1] in the process of negotiating the sale of aircraft including the F-104 Starfighter, the so-called "Deal of the Century".[3][4]

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