Malfeasance And Skulduggery

What some corporations and governments get up to

Does everybody behave the way that they should ? What about the corporates and governenment agencies ?

There are leaks sites that help to expose wrong doing:

• Wikileaks, the main site is (currently) https://www.wikileaks.ch/ There are many mirrors, try: https://our.wikileaks.org/Mirror. Wikileaks recently had its .com address shut off by a judge apparently trying to protect people with enough money to ensure that he made the right decision. Just in case you can also find it in the UK.

  Expect the links above to go bad, there seems to be a lot of churn as some are shut down.

• Al Jazeera Transparency Unit (AJTU): https://www.aljazeera.com/investigations/
• EFF lists some others in the making
• Winter is Coming. HBO make a DMCA takedown on a 13 year old girl's picture read about it

What are our governments up to ?

UK Government

USA Government

• Kidnapping people
  Did CIA kidnap vacationer?
  US says it has right to kidnap British citizens [PAY LINK]
  
• Abuse of Internet
  Freeze the domain of a European company not doing business in the USA because it does not like that it sells travel tours to Cuba [PAY LINK]
• Timeline of United States military operations
• Encouraging people to become a 'terrorist' and then arresting them. Many are easily led and follow authority figures

French Government

• Blow up Rainbow Warrior in Auckland in 1985
  Rainbow Warrior

Corporations & Big Business

Microsoft

• A little insight on how to Get Your Platform Accepted as a Standard - Microsoft Style.
• The whole OOXML debacle is interesting on how Microsoft has gamed the system:
  • UKUUG sues BSI
  • No to OOXML
  • MS-OOXML: A format without a future?
  • Rob Weir's comments on OOXML [search for OOXML]
• The EU Provides A History of Microsoft's AntiCompetitive Behavior and Groklaw's analysis of it.
• Microsoft is pushing Windows 10 onto users; downloading 3GB without asking: filling disks and taking up monthly broadband usage. Stop Windows 7 through 10 Nagging and Spying updates, Tasks, IPs, and services. Works with Windows 7 through 10

Chiropracters

These people have made highly dubious claims about what they can do. A Guardian reporter invesigated, the British Chiropractic Association hit him with a libel suit. It appears that libel is increasingly being used to stifle criticism rather than show it to be wrong. The only conclusion that can be drawn in that the BCA cannot show the journalist's findings to be wrong. More on this.

Another organisation makes medical claims for cancer treatment that appear to have no real evidence to back it up. So the Burzynski Clinic sues those who criticise them. Sounds like something to avoid.

Scientology

Scientology is so Evil that it has a page of it's own.

Solicitors

A few comments by Jonathan Swift on the legal system.
An interesting view on how lawyers operate:

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