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Search results for "British government" ...
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"Black Money"
This investigative report reveals that a "trillion dollars in bribes," are paid each year regardless of an international anti-bribery treaty that is in place. The bribes, also known as "black money," are used by "multinational companies" to get overseas business. The bribes cause a break in the "stability of governments" and "distort the marketplace."
Tags: Margaret Thatcher; British Aerospace; Department of Justice; Saudi Arabia; bribery; bribes; World Bank; Securities and Exchange Commission; Jimmy Carter
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Special Report: 17 Years of Ocean Dumping
The KBS team obtained a South Korean government report documenting years of industrial pollution in the East Sea. They interviewed fishermen who said their catches were contaminated. Analysis of sampled crabs revealed high concentrations of heavy metals in them. The story includes on-site examination of a location where pollutants were discharged into the sea. The investigators looked at the British government's solutions to offshore dumping in British waters.
Tags: water pollution; ocean; sea; South Korea; environment; marine; crabs
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Coup d'etat 1955
During World War II, General Sun Li-Jen was a general for China. He never lost a battle. He was awarded four Legion of Merit awards by the United States, and he received the Commander of the British Empire medal from King George VI. In 1955, however, Li-Jen was forced to resign, taking blame for his subordinate's spy case. After the resignation, he was under house arrest for 33 years. In the year 200, however, Taiwan's opposition party won the presidential election for the first time and the case was re-examined by the new government. This documentary investigates the case and the US' involvement in the events.
Tags: Taiwan; war; world war II; army; general; Chiang Kai-shek
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Here, there, everywhere. How did the British government get so deeply involved in the U.S. weapons complex cleanup?
Hugh Collins, the chairman of British Nuclear Fuels was delighted by Vice President Dick Cheney's recommendation that the United Stats take a new look at nuclear power and nuclear fuel reprocessing. What makes the Cheney plan particularly significant for BNFL is the fact that in 1999 the company bought Westinghouse Electric Co., which designed half of the world's nuclear power plants and 60 percent of those in the United States. The article has more on the history and plans of the BNFL in America.
Tags: weapons; British government; British Nuclear Fuels; BNFL
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Tobacco Companies Linked to Criminal Organizations in Lucrative Cigarette Smuggling
This nine-part investigative report by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, a project of the Center for Public Integrity, reveals "how Philip Morris, R.J. Reynolds and British American Tobacco became enmeshed with organized crime worldwide as they fought to expand markets and increase profits through cigarette smuggling." While corporate officials were pleading ignorance in explaining how one-third of the world's exported cigarettes end up on the black market they were in fact working closely with companies and officials directly connected to organized crime in the United States, Canada, Italy, China, Taiwan and other countries, the investigation reports.
Tags: Sicilian Mafia; Latin America; Cocaine barons; crime; smoking; smokers; business; government; tax evasions; Third World countries; money laundering; financial crimes; customs; witness protection; transit trade; exports; imports; racketeering
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Patient Crisis at VGH
Global News Vancouver "looked for the effect of government cutbacks in public health care and found British Columbia's largest hospital, Vancouver General, has deteriorated to such a point that patient care is in jeopardy. Our investigative series convinced patients, nurses and top doctors to blow the whistle on the dismal conditions and raised concerns about management of the hospital
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Radioactive Risk
A KCOP-TV investigation of "a new US government plan involving the recycling of radioactive waste for possible use in consumer goods" revealed that the plan was going forward , despite questions regarding the validity of the methods proposed to clean the radioactive metals.This plan would allow the "recycling of blocks of metal that were contaminated with radioactivity throughout, not just on the surface."
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The Committee; Political Assassination in Northern Ireland
In 1991, the author produced "The Committee" as a sensational documentary for British television that revealed that a group in Northern Ireland - drawn from the Unionist members of the business community, Protestant clergy, the police (RUC), and the British security forces - was systematically colluding with Loyalist terrorists to murder Irish Republicans and other Irish Nationalists. The broadcast resulted in highly publicized legal proceedings in the High Court in London when the British Conservative government tried unsuccessfully to force the program makers to identify their confidential source.
Tags: BOOK; terrorism; foreign government
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E Magazine investigates fears of a Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) or Mad Cow Disease epidemic in the United States. Five years ago, in an attempt to stop the spread of BSE and its human counterpart, Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, the British government banned the feeding of cow and other animal parts to British cattle herds. In the United States, however, in order to produce stronger, larger cattle, the Food and Drug Administration has allowed the continuation of "cow cannibalism", leading some scientists fear for the health of U.S. cattle herds and U.S. meat consumers. (July/August 1996)
Tags: Mulvaney Mad Cows and the Colonies Health Livestock FDA 6 pgs.
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Radiation Risks Revisited
Technology Review reports that "In the late 1970s, British epidemiologist Alice Stewart and her colleagues released a study claiming that workers exposed to low-level ionizing radiation at the U.S. government's Hanford nuclear weapons complex in Washington state had a heightened cancer risk. This troubling conclusion - with potentially far-reaching implications for radiation exposure standards, medical practices, and nuclear industry operations - ignited a major controversy....An analysis by Stewart and statistician George W. Kneale, her longtime collaborator, soon to appear in the 'American Journal of Industrial Medicine,' claims to further establish a connection between exposure of nuclear workers to supposedly safe doses of low-level ionizing radiation and the risk of contracting cancer..."