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SPECIAL REPORTS
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Global Rulers
Journalist and filmmaker John Pilger's recent
documentary
'The New Rulers Of The World'
was broadcast on 18 July 2001.
It investigates economic globalisation
and specifically its impact on one country - Indonesia
The film
looks at the new rulers of the world -- the great multinationals
and the governments and institutions that back them -- the IMF and the World Bank. Under IMF rules, millions of
people throughout the world lose their jobs and livelihood. The reality behind much of modern shopping and the
famous brands is a sweatshop economy, which is being duplicated in country after country.
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Rule By Secrecy
The Hidden History That Connects the Trilateral Commission, the Freemasons,
and the Great Pyramids
Jim Mars, celebrated reporter and New York Times bestselling authorpainstakingly
explores the world's most closely guarded secrets, exposing clandestine cabals and the power they have wielded
throughout time. Defiantly rooting out the truth, he unearths starting evidence that the real movers and shakers
covertly collude to start and stop wars, manipulate stock markets and interest rates, maintain class distinctions,
and even censor the six o'clock news. And they do all this under the mindful auspices of the Council on Foreign
Relations, the Trilateral Commission, the Bilderbergers, the CIA, and even the Vatican.
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The Bilderberg Group
Delving into a world once shrouded in complete mystery and impenetrable security, this investigative report
provides a fascinating account of the annual meetings of the world’s most powerful people—the Bilderberg Group.
Since its inception in 1954 at the Bilderberg Hotel in the small Dutch town of Oosterbeek, the Bilderberg Group
has been comprised of European prime ministers, American presidents, and the wealthiest CEOs of the world, all
coming together to discuss the economic and political future of humanity.
For some 15 years, Estulin has been a thorn in the sides of the Bilderbergers, relentlessly hunting down their
secret meeting places, gaining inside sources who divulge what goes on behind closed doors, even photographing
attendees and publicly disclosing it all. Now he has put it all in a book that every person who values freedom
and democracy should read.
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US Relations 64-68
The CIA, as well as action officers at the State Department, have prevented the
official release of either volume, already printed and bound by the Government Printing Office. The National Security
Archive obtained the Indonesia volume posted today when the GPO shipped copies to various GPO bookstores; but the
Greece volume is still locked up in GPO warehouses.
The Indonesia volume includes significant new documentation on the Indonesian
Army’s campaign against the Indonesia Communist Party (PKI)
in 1965-66, which brought to power the dictator Suharto.
On another highly controversial issue – that of U.S. involvement in the killings
– the volume includes an “Editorial Note” on page 387 describing Ambassador Marshall Green’s August 10, 1966 airgram
to Washington reporting that an Embassy-prepared list of top Communist leaders with Embassy attribution removed
“is apparently being used by Indonesian security authorities who seem to lack even the simplest overt information
on PKI leadership at the time….” On December 2, 1965, Green endorsed a 50 million rupiah covert payment to the
Kap-Gestapu movement leading the repression; but the December 3 CIA response to State is withheld in full (pp.
379-380).
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Suharto: A Declassified Documentary Obit
The documents include transcripts of meetings with Presidents
Richard M. Nixon, Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan, as well as
Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, Vice-President Walter Mondale,
then Vice-President George H. W. Bush, and former Assistant
Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke.
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Corruption
Corruption is a persistent huge problem in Indonesia, detrimental to the country's development ambitions
Corruption eradication, establishing and upholding ethical business standards is a difficult process. A start
has been made.
Corruption is deep-rooted and became an accepted culture in the developing society craving power and wealth starting
with the foreign asisitance and investment influx in the 1970's..
Corruption is a 2-way street with a giving and a receiving end. In the development years the foreign corporations
were the givers, the Indonesia power elite the receivers. In their strive to conquer favorable infrastructural,
industrial and mining concessions, deep-pocketed foreign corporations did not hesitate to pay bribes to the power
elite. This continued over the 30 years of the Suharto regime and created an in-bred culture of corruption and
wealth spread deeply into several layers of the reigning government.
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East Timor
The Indonesian invasion of East Timor in December 1975 set the stage for the long, bloody, and disastrous occupation
of the territory that ended only after an international peacekeeping force was introduced in 1999.
Two newly declassified documents from the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library, released to the National Security
Archive, shed light on the Ford administration’s relationship with President Suharto of Indonesia during 1975.
Of special importance is the record of Ford’s and Kissinger’s meeting with Suharto in early December 1975.
The document shows that Suharto began the invasion knowing that he had the full approval
of the White House.
Both of these documents had been released in heavily excised form some years ago, but with Suharto now out
of power, and following the collapse of Indonesian control over East Timor, the situation has changed enough that
both documents have been released in their entirety.
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