...Confessions of an Economic Hit Man By John Perkins Preface Economic hit men (EHMs) are highly paid professionals who cheat countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars. They funnel money from the World Bank, U.S. Agency for International Development, and other foreign “aid” organizations into the coffers of huge corporations and the pockets of a few wealthy families who control the planet's natural resources. Their tools include fraudulent financial reports, rigged elections, payoffs, extortion, sex, and murder. They play a game as old as empire, but one that has taken on new and terrifying dimensions during this time of globalization. I should know; I was an EHM. I wrote that in 1982, as the beginning of a book with the working title Conscience of an Economic Hit Man. The book was dedicated to the presidents of two countries, men who had been my clients, whom I respected and thought of as kindred spirits—Jaime Roldós, president of Ecuador, and Omar Torrijos, president of Panama. Both had just died in fiery crashes. Their deaths were not accidental. They were assassinated because they opposed that fraternity of corporate, government, and banking heads whose goal is global empire. We EHMs failed to bring Roldós and Torrijos around, and the other type of hit men, the CIA-sanctioned jackals who were always right behind us, stepped in. I was persuaded to stop writing that book. I started it four more times during the next twenty years. On each occasion, my decision to...
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...Themes of Early American Literature Early American literature does a tremendous job of revealing the exact conditions and challenges that were faced by the explorers and later by the colonists of the New World. From early shipwrecks to the later years of small colonies barely surviving through dreadful winters, the literary works of the time period focus on some very recognizable themes. The theme of any given work – being simply the unifying subject or idea – is a very important element of any piece of writing. As one reviews some of this early literature, it becomes obvious that several themes appear repeatedly, and it is these subjects that were clearly very common among people from all over the New World. While a number of themes can be found in early American literature, the only dominant and recurring themes are exploration, hardship, and religion. It is these central ideas around which all early American writing is based. The first prominent theme that appeared in the literature of Christopher Columbus and the many great explorers that followed in his footsteps was that of exploration. With the mission to sail West across the Atlantic Ocean and report back with their findings, these explorers wrote down all of their noteworthy experiences in journals and narratives. So, it is only natural that the theme of exploration can be found in many of these literary works. For example, in Christopher Columbus’ Report of the First Voyage, he details the discovery of...
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...Christ Blackman Pete Stobie Introduction to Graduate Studies March 8, 2010 Bibliography Koning, Hans. The Conquest of America: How the Indian Nations Lost Their Continent. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1993. In this text, Mr. Koning discusses how the natives of what is now the United States of America lost their land, culture, and livelihoods due to our manifest destiny. Our lifestyles and ultimate waste and hoarding of resources have been established on the premise that our American way is the better way. As we proceed to attain and use more, America spreads its hand and control even further through the uses of its corporations and other services. Koning (1993) has revealed that in 1845, author John L. O’Sullivan coined the term Manifest Destiny. At that time, America was growing at a staggering rate with the independence of Mexico and some Native American nations. People like O’Sullivan felt even larger expansions were inevitable. This phrase justified our divine right to expand westward and to exercise hegemony over our neighbors and ultimately is a defense of what we now call Imperialism. This was a complex set of ideas encompassing opinions of race, religion, culture, and economic necessity. Throughout the nation, settlers traveled in search of land to further expand their wealth and prominence. In Texas and Florida, they found oil. In California, Nevada, and Arizona, they found gold. All the while, settling into these “uncivilized” regions spreading...
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...system, with a softer temperament, are some positive signs demonstrated by Niele,towards solving MSCC’s IS problems. From now, It is essential for MSCC to work with Niele to provide her with every opportunity to succeed, with proper oversight from the upper management .MSCC also has to be extremely careful to avoid past mistakes, or else even with Niele’s effort, MSCC will seize to exist as an organization without a proper IT infrastructure. Cleaning up an Information System debacle at MSCC Leon Lassiter, president of Midsouth Chamber of Commerce, felt the need to introduce UNITRAK software into the organization, to provide MSCC with a competitive advantage (Brown, DeHayes, Hoffer, Martin, and Perkins, 2009, p. 193). Lassiter was introduced to UNITRAK on August 1998, and the system was implemented for MSCC’s IS operations in August 1999.UNITRAK lacked the necessary capabilities to serve MSCC, the most prominent lack of feature, highlighted by its lack of “relation database...
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...with the major parties in this case being the government, clients and third parties. In today’s capitalist society, the accounting profession is deemed to be a common and important feature. Discussing the responsibilities accountants have to the three parties identified above would, therefore, certainly be a prudent and logical move. Responsibility to Clients To begin with, accountants have a responsibility to keep client information confidential. If an accountant discloses confidential client information to a third party, such an accountant would be deemed to have violated Rule 301. The said rule, in simple terms, states that “a member CPA shall not disclose any confidential information without the specific consent of the client” (Perkins, 2004). In that regard, therefore, an accountant must obtain the consent of the client before disclosing information which could be regarded confidential. The said consent could be in writing. It should, however, be noted that an accountant cannot be deemed to have violated Rule 301 if the information disclosed already happens to be in the public domain. Similarly, an accountant cannot be held liable for the violation of client confidentiality if disclosures of client information are made pursuant to proceedings of a legal nature. Yet another critical responsibility of accountants to their clients has got to do with exercise of due professional care. This essentially means that should an accountant neglect professional standards in...
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...John Niendorf 11/29/10 Hour 2nd Film Review Film Title: Psycho Genre: Suspense/ Horror Director: Alfred Hitchcock Actors/Actresses: Anthony Perkins, Jenet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin An office worker by the name Marion can’t stand the way life is turning out for. She is troubled by her lover Sam Loomis as he has to give up most of his money away in alimony. She is then trusted with $40,000 in cash by her employer as she has worked for the company for years. She seizes the opportunity to steal the money and start a new life and heads towards Sam’s California store. Tired after a long day of driving she decides to get off the main road and pulls into Bates motel. She is greeted by a quite and polite young man by the name of Norman Bates who is clearly dominated by his mother. She begins to worry her lover John Gavin and her sister Marion Crane. They go out to go look for her, which leads to one of the most suspenseful and unforgettable endings in movie history. I absolutely loved this film. It was certainly up there with all of the other films we have watched in this class. Definitely one of the best horror films I have seen. What really impressed me about this film was the fact that unlike most modern day horror films, which rely on blood, gore, and special effects this one, was able to get the job done without using any of those. Aside from a little blood during the shower scene, this film was able to create suspense and terror in the audience through...
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...Managing Ethical Decision Making in the Workplace James E. Gleason BUS 275-H01 Calhoun Community College Abstract Business leaders struggle to balance the desire for profit and maximum shareholder return with corporate ethics and social responsibility. Unfortunately, short-term financial bottom line has taken the place of maintaining strong moral character in today’s business practices. In the United States alone, about two-thirds of the top corporations have been guilty of some type of corporate malfeasance. In the face of both damaging and publicly embarrassing litigation, business leaders now recognize the need for sound, straightforward ethics management programs in their companies that makes ethical business practices a top priority at all times. Top executives must lead by example and actively and willingly encourage ethical behavior in their peers as well as employees. The need for stronger ethics in business has prompted business schools to critically examine their business curricula and place greater teaching emphasis on ethics and social responsibility to ensure future generations of new business graduates enter the workforce with the highest moral standards. Keywords: ethics, social responsibility, malfeasance, business schools, business curricula Managing Ethical Decision Making in the Workplace Introduction Ensuring that the necessary steps are taken to create and foster a high level of ethics in the business practices of the workplace is critically...
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...Chua / The Making of Jose Garcia Villa’s A Footnote to Youth 9 THE MAKING OF JOSE GARCIA VILLA’S FOOTNOTE TO YOUTH Jonathan Chua Ateneo de Manila University jchua@ateneo.edu This article recounts the story behind the publication of Villa’s stories and his book Footnote to Youth: Tales of the Philippines and Others (1933) in the United States. First, the conditions of the American literary marketplace are briefly described. Second, documents pertaining to the realization in print of Villa’s stories and his book are analyzed as sites of negotiations between colonial subject (Villa) and the colonial master (his American editors and publishers). Finally, an account of how Villa was made to circulate in the Philippines after the publication of his stories and his book in the United States is given. From these discussions the article hopes to show that Villa’s self-fashioning by publication was both subject to and critical of the colonial condition, alternately reinforcing it and challenging it. Abstract Philippine literature in English, book history, postcolonialism, exotic, author Keywords Jonathan Chua teaches at the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of the Ateneo de Manila University. He is the editor of The Critical Villa: Essays in Literary Criticism by Jose Garcia Villa (2002). His edition of the collected short stories of Jose Garcia Villa is forthcoming from the Ateneo de Manila University Press. About the Author Kritika Kultura 21/22 (2013/2014):...
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...Name:______________________________________________________ Date:_____________ REVIEW FOR PHRASES AND CLAUSES TEST Identifying and Classifying Infinitive Phrases Identify the infinitive phrases and infinitive clauses in the following sentences, and tell how each is used: as a subject, a predicate nominative, a direct object, an adjective, or an adverb. Example: 1. Everyone in the class was eager to learn more about the life of Maya Angelou. 1. to learn more about the life of Maya Angelou – adverb 1. Our assignment was to read I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. to read I Know Why the Caged Bird sings – noun (predicate nominative) 2. I decided to write a report on May Angelou’s descriptions of her childhood. to write a report on Maya Angelou’s descriptions of her childhood. – noun (direct object) 3. To grow up in Stamps, Arkansas, in the 1930s was to know great hardship. To grow up in Stamp’s Arkansas in the 1930s – noun (subject) 4. Maya Angelou tried to show the everyday lives of African Americans during the Great Depression. to show the everyday lives of African Americans during the great Depression – noun (direct object) 5. To accomplish this purpose meant including many descriptions; one such passage told about the process of curing pork sausage. To accomplish this purpose – noun (subject) 6. Angelou has an extraordinary ability to capture vivid details in her writing. to capture vivid details in her writing – adjective 7...
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...The Impact of Privatization of Public Services on the Public Sector Employment in the U.S. Literature review Privatization is one of the most discussed topics in the modern era of public management. Traditional norms of public management are getting unclear day by day because of the increased consideration for the efficiency and effectiveness of affairs of public sector organizations. One of the way governments adopted to increase the efficiency and effectiveness is the privatization of public services. Varner (2006) in his report titled ‘Government Privatization History, Example, and Issues’ given the definition of privatization as “Privatization is the process of transferring property from public ownership to private ownership and/or transferring the management of a service or activity from the government to the private sector”( Varner, 2006, p. 1). This paper assumes and proposes the privatization as independent variable and analyzes its impact on unemployment. So being an independent variable in a study it is very much appropriate to identify different aspects related to privatization. The significant contribution of Varner (2006) is that he has specified the forms of privatization as; “Complete Privatization, Privatization of Operations, Use of Contracts, Franchising, and Open Competition” (p. 1). In addition, he said that moves address the idea of reason what may be the causes ultimately ends up in privatizing the public entities. The provided list of seven reasons...
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...History Back in the 1840s, the presence of granule-like structures within muscle cells and other cell types were being recognized by several scientists. (Ernster and Schatz 1981) In 1890, Richard Altmann, who was a cytologist, used a dye technique to detect the granules and termed them as “bioblasts.” He speculated that they were the basic units of cellular activity. (Ernster and Schatz 1981) It was in 1898 when Carl Benda gave these bioblasts a new the Greek name “mitochondria” meaning thread granules. Discovery of the mitochondrion however, cannot be limited to just a few people. Over decades of time, many contributions have been made in relation to the properties and functions of the mitochondria. (Ernster and Schatz 1981) This organelle is the “power house” of the eukaryotic cell and is located in the cytoplasm. The mitochondrion requires transcription of several genes associated with the organelle along with translocation, targeting and assembly of proteins. (Hood and Joseph 2004) Mitochondria’s main function is to convert energy into forms that can be used by the cell. Along with generating fuel for the cell’s activities, the mitochondrion functions in a range of other processes including, cell signaling, cell division, cell growth, and cell death. Structure The mitochondrion can have different overall structures depending on the cell type. Most mitochondria appear as rod-like shaped organelles although sometimes they can appear like a branched interconnected tubular...
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...achieved fully equal rights as men, “Canceled” illustrates the modern social acceptance of a woman dominated relationship. All three pieces are portrayals of women’s identities and social expectations of the time period in which they were written and each reveals how women today have progressed to establish a more equal role between men and women over the last century. In all three pieces, regardless of the time period, the female characters are presented as being trapped in their relationship. The narrator in “The Yellow Wallpaper” is forced to comply with her husband’s wishes to how she should confront her ailment. As her husband and a physician of high standing, John uses his status to manipulate the narrator into acquiescing to his demands. The narrator is “absolutely forbidden to ‘work’,” (Gilman 317) as John alleges is the remedy for her sickness. She is even banished into a room with barred windows and told to rest. The female character in “Trifles,” Mrs....
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...for selecting the theory of Realistic Mathematics Education (RME) as the theoretical framework in a study carried out with low attaining learners. In the study an intervention for low attaining grade 8 mathematics learners was implemented in an attempt to improve the understanding of the participants with regard to place value, fractions and decimals, and to identify characteristics of this type of intervention and potential design principles that could be applied in similar interventions. In this article, the theoretical framework for the intervention is discussed and theoretical (rather than empirical) reasons for selecting the theory of Realistic Mathematics Education (RME) for use with low attainers are put forward. From a literature review that looked at the teaching and learning of mathematics to learners who fall into the category of performing below the required standard, five common aspects emerged. Once these aspects had been identified, a theory in mathematics education was sought that encompassed these five aspects. The theory of RME was subsequently selected as the theoretical framework to drive the design and implementation of the intervention and is being suggested as a possible way forward for working with low attaining learners. Realistic Mathematics Education Since 1971, the Freudenthal Institute has developed a theoretical approach towards the learning and teaching of mathematics known as 'Realistic Mathematics Education'. RME incorporates views on what...
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...Executive Summary This report pretends to do a review of the Corporate Governance about Amazon.com. The methodology adopted for this work is based in information available from the company in its websites and annual reports. In the brief report the review of the structure, process and effectiveness of the governance of the amazon.com is made and the recommendations for appropriate improvements are given it the end of the report. I concluded that company shows the corporate governance components according to their core business and their environmental business. Table of the Contents 1. Introduction.................................................................................................04 2. Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee Charter.................... 04 3. Code of Business Conduct and Ethics........................................................05 4. Officers and Directors.................................................................................08 5. Conclusion & Recommendation.................................................................09 6. References...................................................................................................11 1. INTRODUCTION: Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) is an American multinational electronic commerce company with headquarters in Seattle, Washington, United States. It is the world's largest online retailer. The company also produces consumer electronics...
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...AMAZON.COM In May 1997, AMAZON.COM, a young American company, applied for a listing on the stock exchange by offering 3,000,000 shares with a nominal value of $0.01 each. The shares were put on the market at the price of $18. The capital thus raised served to cover the enormous financial needs incurred by the extremely rapid growth experienced by the company in just over 2 years. With the sale of 3,000,000 shares, 51% of the share capital remained in the hands of the founder and his family. ORIGINS AMAZON.COM was established in July 1994 in Seattle (USA) by 30-year-old Jeffrey P. Bezos. His idea was to sell books over the Internet: books, Bezos held, are in fact one of the few products that consumers are willing to buy on-line and AMAZON.COM offers them the possibility of doing it round-the-clock, whatever part of the world they are in. The company’s ultimate ambition is to become “leader in the on-line sale of products and services with a high information content” (entering, for example, the video and music business). AMAZON.COM, “Earth’s biggest bookstore”, started sales in 1995. Its first year of life was spent setting up the necessary infrastructure as well as planning and developing its activities and opening a Website. In May 1997, AMAZON.COM had about 2,500,000 titles in its catalogue (or rather, on its virtual shelves), i.e. 10 times the number of titles that can be found in the largest “physical” bookstore in the world. When shopping, the customer who...
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