20-09-2009, 06:59 PM
Maybe we can contact some mogul and have them make a movie about what is discussed in this thread, or here at DPF ... it'd make the Godfather series look like Sesame Street. Meanwhile:
From the CorpWatch e-mailed newsletter:
Holding Corporations Accountable
"In The Informant!, opening September 18, Matt Damon portrays real-life whistleblower Mark Whitacre, a rising star at agri-industry giant Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), who in the mid-1990s, helped the FBI expose one of the largest price-fixing cases in U.S. history. What I find especially fascinating about Whitacre's story is that it's so different from those of other whistleblowers portrayed on film such as Erin Brockovich or The Insider's Jeffrey Wigand."
NEW RELEASES: CrocTail and CorpWatch open API
http://croctail.corpwatch.org
http://api.corpwatch.org
We're excited to announce another new release: the CorpWatch Community portal! http://community.corpwatch.org
This page brings together our growing tool-kit of free, online resources for
non-profit investigative research and journalism to hold corporations
accountable and push for transparency. Watch for coordinated reporting and company profiles on these themes in the lead up to December's climate negotiations in Copenhagen...and as the debate around private military and intelligence contractors in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq continues to rage.
This summer we released two new, innovative web-based tools.
The CrocTail corporate subsidiaries database provides ways to understand the multinational corporate chain that are accessible (and a lot more fun than poring through SEC 10-K Form Exhibits 21). We hope you've checked it out!
Through our Open API we are sharing this data with like-minded groups. Most significantly yet, our data has been integrated with the RDF data project, http://rdfabout.com/demo/sec/, and keys have been requested by allies like the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre and LittleSis.org. We're now looking at ways to make more of the wealth of data in Crocodyl.org available through this feed, and assessing who else's data we can pull in.
Next week (delayed but almost here!) we will release the SpiesforHire.org
database, providing analysis of the array of U.S.-based private intelligence contractors, with “Spies for Hire” author, and periodic CorpWatch contributor, Tim Shorrock.
http://www.corpwatch.org/
From the CorpWatch e-mailed newsletter:
Holding Corporations Accountable
"In The Informant!, opening September 18, Matt Damon portrays real-life whistleblower Mark Whitacre, a rising star at agri-industry giant Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), who in the mid-1990s, helped the FBI expose one of the largest price-fixing cases in U.S. history. What I find especially fascinating about Whitacre's story is that it's so different from those of other whistleblowers portrayed on film such as Erin Brockovich or The Insider's Jeffrey Wigand."
NEW RELEASES: CrocTail and CorpWatch open API
http://croctail.corpwatch.org
http://api.corpwatch.org
We're excited to announce another new release: the CorpWatch Community portal! http://community.corpwatch.org
This page brings together our growing tool-kit of free, online resources for
non-profit investigative research and journalism to hold corporations
accountable and push for transparency. Watch for coordinated reporting and company profiles on these themes in the lead up to December's climate negotiations in Copenhagen...and as the debate around private military and intelligence contractors in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq continues to rage.
This summer we released two new, innovative web-based tools.
The CrocTail corporate subsidiaries database provides ways to understand the multinational corporate chain that are accessible (and a lot more fun than poring through SEC 10-K Form Exhibits 21). We hope you've checked it out!
Through our Open API we are sharing this data with like-minded groups. Most significantly yet, our data has been integrated with the RDF data project, http://rdfabout.com/demo/sec/, and keys have been requested by allies like the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre and LittleSis.org. We're now looking at ways to make more of the wealth of data in Crocodyl.org available through this feed, and assessing who else's data we can pull in.
Next week (delayed but almost here!) we will release the SpiesforHire.org
database, providing analysis of the array of U.S.-based private intelligence contractors, with “Spies for Hire” author, and periodic CorpWatch contributor, Tim Shorrock.
http://www.corpwatch.org/
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