What Does A Scam Look Like?

Scams involving politics follow a narrow path. They end up generally, with a politician being influenced by the money of a corporation to behave a certain way. A way favorable to the corporations interests. Click here for a video detailing the anatomy of the ethanol scam.

Click here for a video discussion of the inherent difficulties with bio based fuels:

Questions raised in video on Fox News.

Following are a number of interesting resources to aid your understanding of what is being done to you and the future you might expect to reap from this activity by the federal government and global corporations.

This is a tremendous website that gives a historical overview of government scams dating back as far as 1795.

Here is an excerpt:

YAZOO LAND SCANDAL (1795)

"In 1795 the state of Georgia sold 35 million acres of western land in an area known as Yazoo to four companies for half a million dollars, about a penny and a half an acre. It was the most corrupt deal in American history. Every member of the Georgia legislature but one accepted a bribe in return for their vote. At the next election the voters tossed out the thieves. The contract with the four land companies was burned. In 1802 the state sold the land to the federal government for $1,250,000. A few years later the Supreme Court ruled that the original deal, flawed as it was, was legal and had to be honored. In 1814 Congress awarded the claimants over $4,000,000.

Click here for another interesting document on scams and scandals by those who run our lives.

There's quite a few more before we get to this century. Check them out at the link above.

At the MSNBC website:

I found this and other scam related items:

"Questionable, unethical – and even outright illegal – behavior extended beyond the boardroom. Boeing CEO Phil Condit resigned after it was learned that the company offered a job to a defense department official who was involved in awarding a $18 billion contract for Air Force refueling tankers. Boeing was already in the Pentagon dog house; in May, the Justice Department launched criminal and civil investigations into whether Boeing gathered sensitive Lockheed documents in the late 1990s while bidding to make the rockets used to launch U.S. government satellites. Boeing may have to pay civil damages in that case.'

This resource, Fairness.com, lists 239 articles and resources on the topic of government scandals and corruption


Here is an excerpt from Fairness.com:

Tales of oil industry's influence in Alaska: As federal investigation continues, and political figures are charged, a new oil-tax bill seeks to undo the industry's influence.

QUOTE: The investigation covers vast political territory, including federal fisheries policies, budget earmarks, federal grants, and even ambitions for private prisons in Alaska – but most of what has been revealed so far involves the staggering amount of leverage the oil industry exerts over fundamental oil policy, including last year's oil tax.