| 2000-08-30 | Clear Channel Acquires AMFM Inc. Creating Radio Monopoly with Over 1,200 Stations Clear Channel Communications · Lowry Mays | 2 |
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| 2000-08-30 | Clear Channel Radio Empire Reaches 1,240 Stations After AMFM Acquisition - Conservative Talk Radio Infrastructure Dominates American Airwaves Clear Channel Communications · Rush Limbaugh · AMFM Inc. · +2 | 5 |
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| 2000-06-14 | Media Magnate Gusinsky Arrested, Marking Putin's Media Crackdown Vladimir Gusinsky · Vladimir Putin · Media-Most | 3 | |
| 2000-05-05 | ALEC's 'Environmental Literacy Improvement Act' Mandates Teaching Climate Denial in Schools American Legislative Exchange Council · Sandy Liddy Bourne · Heartland Institute · +6 | 9 |
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| 2000-05-03 | FCC Approves $35.6 Billion Viacom-CBS Merger Despite Ownership Concentration Violations Viacom · CBS Corporation · Sumner Redstone · +2 | 5 |
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| 2000-04-05 | Duncan Campbell Delivers Interception Capabilities 2000 Report to European Parliament, Forces ECHELON Inquiry Duncan Campbell · European Parliament · STOA (Scientific and Technological Options Assessment) · +2 | 5 |
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| 2000-03-10 | Dot-Com Bubble Peaks, Exposes IPO Fraud and Analyst Conflicts Investment banks · Securities Analysts · Securities and Exchange Commission · +3 | 6 |
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| 2000-03-06 | Bush Creates Rangers/Pioneers Pay-to-Play Appointment System George W. Bush · Karl Rove · Mercer Reynolds · +4 | 7 |
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| 2000-03-01 | Subprime Lending Explodes as Predatory Practices Spread to Minority Communities Household Finance Corporation · Associates First Capital · Citigroup · +2 | 5 |
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| 2000-02-01 | Halliburton Opens Tehran Office While Cheney Still CEO, Completing $40 Million Annual Iran Business Through Cayman Islands Subsidiary Designed to Circumvent U.S. Sanctions Dick Cheney · Halliburton · Halliburton Products and Services · +1 | 4 |
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| 2000-01-21 | Bolivia's Cochabamba Water War: Indigenous-Led Uprising Forces Reversal of World Bank-Mandated Bechtel Privatization Bechtel Corporation · Aguas del Tunari · World Bank · +4 | 7 | |
| 2000-01-11 | AOL-Time Warner $164 Billion Merger Creates Largest Media Conglomerate in History America Online · Time Warner · Steve Case · +3 | 6 |
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| 2000-01-09 | Ecuador President Mahuad Announces Dollarization 'Jump Into the Abyss' Amid Economic Crisis Jamil Mahuad · Gustavo Noboa · CONAIE · +2 | 5 | |
| 2000-01-01 | ALEC Membership Reaches 2,000+ State Legislators - Represents One-Quarter to One-Third of All State Legislators Nationwide American Legislative Exchange Council · State Legislators (2,000+ members) | 2 |
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| 2000-01-01 | ALEC Promotes Private Correctional Facilities Act Written by CCA Executives on Criminal Justice Task Force American Legislative Exchange Council · Corrections Corporation of America · Brad Wiggins · +4 | 7 |
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| 2000-01-01 | CNP and Federalist Society Coordination - Leonard Leo Links Judicial and Political Networks Council for National Policy · Federalist Society · Leonard Leo · +1 | 4 |
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| 2000-01-01 | Florida Disenfranchises 1.4 Million Citizens Through Felony Voting Bans, Highest Rate in Nation Florida Legislature · The Sentencing Project | 2 |
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| 2000-01-01 | Indigenous Consensus Decision-Making: A Democratic Innovation Framework Indigenous Leadership Networks · Governance Scholars · Native American Governance Experts | 3 |
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| 2000-01-01 | Major Strikes Collapse to 16 Annually, Down 95% from Pre-PATCO Era American workers · Bureau of Labor Statistics · U.S. unions | 3 |
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| 2000-01-01 | Opioid Epidemic Death Toll Reaches 500,000 Americans Between 2000-2020 Purdue Pharma · Sackler Family · Food and Drug Administration · +2 | 5 |
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| 2000-01-01 | Ron Burkle becomes Diddy's business partner and godfather to his children Ron Burkle · Sean Combs · Bill Clinton · +1 | 4 | |
| 2000-01-01 | Stock Options Become Primary Executive Compensation, Aligning CEO Interests with Short-Term Stock Price Manipulation Corporate boards · Compensation consultants · Wall Street | 3 |
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| 2000-01-01 | Systematic Coordination Emerges in Corporate PAC Explosion Post-Buckley Corporate PAC Strategists · Campaign Finance Lawyers · Political Fundraising Experts · +1 | 4 |
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| 2000-01-01 | Top 10% of Firms Capture 90% of Profit Growth Between 1980-2000, Documenting Monopolization Dominant firms · Smaller competitors | 2 |
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| 2000-01-01 | Trump, Epstein, Maxwell, and Melania at Mar-a-Lago Charity Event Donald Trump · Jeffrey Epstein · Ghislaine Maxwell · +1 | 4 | |
| 1999-12-31 | Yeltsin Resigns, Oligarchs Elevate Putin to President: KGB Officer Chosen to Protect 'The Family' Transforms Russia into Kleptocracy Boris Yeltsin · Vladimir Putin · Boris Berezovsky · +4 | 7 |
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| 1999-12-27 | Club New York shooting involving Diddy creates kompromat opportunity Sean Combs · Jennifer Lopez · Shyne · +3 | 6 | |
| 1999-11-20 | Wassenaar Arrangement Cryptography Provisions Liberalized, US Export Controls Follow Wassenaar Arrangement Secretariat · Department of Commerce · William Daley · +2 | 5 |
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| 1999-11-12 | Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act Retroactively Legalizes Citigroup Merger, Repeals Glass-Steagall President Bill Clinton · Phil Gramm · Jim Leach · +4 | 7 |
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| 1999-11-05 | President's Working Group Recommends Exempting $80 Trillion Derivatives Market from Regulation Lawrence Summers · Robert Rubin · Alan Greenspan · +3 | 6 |
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| 1999-10-26 | Robert Rubin Joins Citigroup for $126 Million After Engineering Glass-Steagall Repeal Robert Rubin · Citigroup · Sandy Weill · +2 | 5 |
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| 1999-09-01 | CIA Establishes In-Q-Tel as Revolutionary Venture Capital Arm Central Intelligence Agency · George Tenet · Gilman Louie · +2 | 5 |
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| 1999-09-01 | Fannie Mae Eases Credit Requirements Under HUD Affordable Housing Pressure Fannie Mae · Franklin Raines · U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development · +3 | 6 |
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| 1999-08-09 | Putin Appointed Prime Minister by Yeltsin Vladimir Putin · Boris Yeltsin | 2 |
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| 1999-07-02 | Lawrence Summers Becomes Treasury Secretary, Accelerates Derivatives Deregulation Campaign Lawrence Summers · Bill Clinton · Robert Rubin · +2 | 5 |
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| 1999-04-27 | DARPA's Brian Sharkey Coins "Total Information Awareness" at DARPATech Conference Brian Sharkey · John Poindexter · Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency · +1 | 4 |
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| 1999-04-06 | Abramoff and Reed Formalize Tribal Money Laundering Subcontractor Scheme Jack Abramoff · Ralph Reed · Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians · +4 | 7 |
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| 1999-04-05 | NSA Launches NSANet Classified Network Consolidation, Fort Meade Reaches "Crypto City" Scale Michael Hayden · National Security Agency · Barbara McNamara | 3 |
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| 1999-03-25 | Long-term Geopolitical Consequences of IMF Structural Adjustment International Monetary Fund · World Bank · Asian Development Bank · +5 | 8 |
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| 1999-02-15 | Time Magazine Celebrates "Committee to Save the World" While They Block Derivatives Regulation Robert Rubin · Lawrence Summers · Alan Greenspan · +2 | 5 |
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| 1999-02-12 | Senate Acquits President Clinton on Both Impeachment Articles Bill Clinton · U.S. Senate · Senate Republicans · +1 | 4 |
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| 1999-01-25 | IMF Concludes Comprehensive Structural Adjustment in Southeast Asia International Monetary Fund · World Bank · Asian Governments · +2 | 5 |
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| 1999-01-01 | Cellebrite Founded in Israel to Develop Mobile Phone Data Transfer Technology Cellebrite · Avi Yablonka · Yaron Baratz · +1 | 4 |
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| 1999-01-01 | Trump Launches Model Management Agency with Systematic Visa Violations Donald Trump · Trump Model Management · Alexia Palmer · +1 | 4 | |
| 1998-12-31 | Asian Financial Crisis: Comprehensive Economic Transformation International Monetary Fund · World Bank · McKinsey & Company · +2 | 5 |
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| 1998-12-19 | House of Representatives Impeaches President Clinton on Perjury and Obstruction Charges Bill Clinton · House Republicans · Kenneth Starr | 3 |
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| 1998-10-30 | NSA's Menwith Hill Station UK Expansion Completed, Reaches 1,200+ Personnel and Peak ECHELON Capacity National Security Agency · Government Communications Headquarters · Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom) | 3 |
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| 1998-10-28 | Digital Millennium Copyright Act Section 512: Safe Harbor Provisions Create Dual System of Corporate Protection and Individual Vulnerability Bill Clinton · U.S. Copyright Office · Google · +2 | 5 |
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| 1998-10-27 | Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act: Disney Lobbying Creates 'Mickey Mouse Protection Act,' Extending Corporate Rent Extraction by 20 Years Walt Disney Company · Bill Clinton · Time Warner · +4 | 7 |
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| 1998-10-07 | Higher Education Act Reauthorization Loosens Regulations, Enables For-Profit College Explosion President Bill Clinton · U.S. Congress · University of Phoenix · +2 | 5 |
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| 1998-10-01 | Electronic Industries Alliance Blacklisting - K Street Project Enforcement Tom DeLay · Newt Gingrich · Dave McCurdy · +4 | 7 |
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| 1998-09-30 | NationsBank-BankAmerica $62 Billion Merger Creates First Coast-to-Coast National Bank NationsBank · BankAmerica · Federal Reserve · +2 | 5 |
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| 1998-09-23 | Federal Reserve Orchestrates $3.6 Billion Bailout of Long-Term Capital Management to Prevent Systemic Collapse William McDonough · Alan Greenspan · John Meriwether · +2 | 5 |
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| 1998-09-01 | Federal Reserve Grants Citigroup Temporary Waiver for Glass-Steagall Violation Federal Reserve · Alan Greenspan · Citicorp · +6 | 9 |
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| 1998-09-01 | Narus Founded, Israeli-Origin Deep-Packet-Inspection Firm Becomes NSA Infrastructure Supplier Narus Inc. · Ori Cohen · Stas Khirman · +2 | 5 |
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| 1998-08-17 | Russia Defaults on Debt and Abandons Ruble Defense: Largest Sovereign Default in History Caps Decade of Economic Devastation Boris Yeltsin · Sergei Kiriyenko · International Monetary Fund · +2 | 5 | |
| 1998-06-30 | IMF Finalizes Systematic Economic Transformation of Southeast Asian Economies International Monetary Fund · World Bank · Indonesian Government · +3 | 6 | |
| 1998-06-30 | McKinsey Leverages Asian Financial Crisis for Consulting Expansion McKinsey & Company · International Monetary Fund · World Bank · +3 | 6 |
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| 1998-06-15 | Corporate Exploitation of Asian Financial Crisis Structural Adjustment Goldman Sachs · Citigroup · McKinsey & Company · +4 | 7 |
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| 1998-06-12 | McKinsey Advises Comprehensive Asian Market Restructuring During Financial Crisis McKinsey & Company · International Monetary Fund · World Bank · +1 | 4 |
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| 1998-06-12 | South Korea Completes IMF-Mandated Economic Restructuring International Monetary Fund · World Bank · South Korean Government · +2 | 5 |
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| 1998-05-18 | DOJ Files Microsoft Antitrust Suit, Establishes Tech Monopoly Precedent U.S. Department of Justice · Microsoft Corporation · Bill Gates · +3 | 6 |
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| 1998-05-07 | Brooksley Born's Derivatives Regulation Warning Systematically Suppressed Brooksley Born · Robert Rubin · Lawrence Summers · +2 | 5 |
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| 1998-05-07 | Coordinated Regulatory Opposition Suppresses CFTC Derivatives Oversight Inquiry Brooksley Born · Alan Greenspan · Robert Rubin · +5 | 8 |
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| 1998-05-01 | ALEC Adopts Paycheck Protection Act to Defund Democratic Party by Restricting Union Political Activity American Legislative Exchange Council · Corporate donors · state Republican legislators · +1 | 4 |
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| 1998-05-01 | Sandline "Arms-to-Africa" Scandal: UK Parliamentary Inquiry Tests PMC Accountability and Finds It Wanting Tim Spicer · Sandline International · Robin Cook · +2 | 5 |
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| 1998-04-06 | Citicorp-Travelers $70 Billion Merger Directly Violates Glass-Steagall Act Citicorp · Travelers Group · Federal Reserve Board · +3 | 6 | |
| 1998-04-03 | American Petroleum Institute "Victory" Memo Outlines Climate Disinformation Strategy American Petroleum Institute · Randy Randol · ExxonMobil · +2 | 5 |
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| 1998-04-01 | American Petroleum Institute Drafts Secret Climate Denial Strategy Document American Petroleum Institute · ExxonMobil · Chevron · +3 | 6 |
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| 1998-03-15 | McKinsey and International Organizations Outline Restructuring Strategy for Asian Markets McKinsey & Company · International Monetary Fund · World Bank · +1 | 4 |
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| 1998-02-15 | McKinsey Develops Corporate Restructuring Strategy for Asian Markets McKinsey & Company · International Monetary Fund · World Bank · +1 | 4 | |
| 1998-02-07 | James Dobson Threatens to Lead Evangelical Exodus from GOP: Focus on the Family Demonstrates Political Leverage James Dobson · Focus on the Family · Republican Party | 3 |
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| 1998-02-05 | IMF and World Bank Coordinate Massive Corporate Restructuring in Asian Markets International Monetary Fund · World Bank · Corporate Leadership · +1 | 4 | |
| 1998-02-05 | McKinsey Strategizes Corporate Capture in Asian Markets During Financial Crisis McKinsey & Company · World Bank · International Monetary Fund · +2 | 5 | |
| 1998-01-17 | Monica Lewinsky Affair Becomes Public as Clinton Issues Denial Bill Clinton · Monica Lewinsky · Kenneth Starr | 3 |
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| 1998-01-15 | IMF Forces Massive Corporate Restructuring in South Korea International Monetary Fund · South Korean Government · Chaebol Corporations · +2 | 5 |
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| 1998-01-01 | ALEC's 'Economic Impact Statement Act' Uses Cost-Benefit Analysis to Kill Environmental Regulations American Legislative Exchange Council · Koch Industries · ExxonMobil · +3 | 6 |
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| 1998-01-01 | CIA Begins Developing In-Q-Tel Concept -- Intelligence Community Plans Entry Into Venture Capital George Tenet · Central Intelligence Agency · Sue Gordon · +3 | 6 |
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| 1998-01-01 | Deutsche Bank Loans Trump $2.5 Billion Despite Russian Money Laundering and Red Flags Deutsche Bank · Donald Trump · Trump Organization · +2 | 5 |
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| 1997-12-01 | Kroll Associates Merges with O'Gara-Hess & Eisenhardt, Expanding Into Full-Service Security and Intelligence Firm Jules Kroll · Kroll Associates · O'Gara-Hess & Eisenhardt · +1 | 4 |
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| 1997-11-21 | FDA Modernization Act Accelerates Drug Approvals and Expands Direct-to-Consumer Advertising Under Pharma Pressure Bill Clinton · PhRMA · Food and Drug Administration · +1 | 4 | |
| 1997-10-24 | IMF Structural Adjustment Policies Implemented in Asian Economies International Monetary Fund · World Bank · McKinsey & Company · +3 | 6 |
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| 1997-10-23 | IMF Imposes Harsh Structural Adjustment on Indonesia International Monetary Fund · Indonesian Government · World Bank · +3 | 6 |
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| 1997-10-15 | IMF Imposes Radical Structural Adjustment on Indonesia International Monetary Fund · Suharto Government · World Bank · +2 | 5 |
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| 1997-10-04 | Promise Keepers' "Stand in the Gap" Rally Fills National Mall: Masculine Christianity as Political Infrastructure Bill McCartney · Promise Keepers | 2 |
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| 1997-10-01 | 287(g) Program Created, Deputizing Local Police for Immigration Enforcement U.S. Congress · Immigration and Naturalization Service · Department of Justice · +1 | 4 | |
| 1997-10-01 | FBI Begins Development of Carnivore/DCS1000 Internet Surveillance System Louis Freeh · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Marcus Thomas · +2 | 5 |
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| 1997-09-01 | USAID Cancels Harvard Russia Project After Discovering Shleifer and Hay Used Insider Positions to Profit from Russian Investments Andrei Shleifer · Jonathan Hay · Harvard Institute for International Development · +4 | 7 |
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| 1997-08-19 | UPS Strike Ends in Rare Labor Victory, Teamsters Win Part-Time Worker Protections United Parcel Service · International Brotherhood of Teamsters · Ron Carey · +1 | 4 | |
| 1997-08-01 | Boeing-McDonnell Douglas Merger Approved: Defense Contractor Consolidation Creates Oligopoly Boeing · McDonnell Douglas · Federal Trade Commission · +3 | 6 |
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| 1997-08-01 | Northrop Grumman B-2 Bomber Program Reaches $44 Billion Total Cost Northrop Grumman · U.S. Air Force · U.S. Department of Defense · +2 | 5 |
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| 1997-07-02 | Thai Baht Collapses, Triggering Asian Financial Crisis Thai Central Bank · International Monetary Fund · World Bank · +2 | 5 |
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| 1997-06-01 | NSA Creates Signals Intelligence Automation Research Center, Binney and Wiebe Lead Bulk-Collection Technical Design William Binney · J. Kirk Wiebe · Ed Loomis · +2 | 5 |
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| 1997-03-09 | Notorious B.I.G. murdered in Los Angeles, Diddy's control through chaos Notorious B.I.G. · Sean Combs · Bad Boy Records · +1 | 4 | |
| 1997-01-01 | Felon Disenfranchisement Expansion: States Tighten Voting Bans as Prison Population Explodes State Legislatures · American Legislative Exchange Council · The Sentencing Project · +1 | 4 |
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| 1997-01-01 | Financial Industry Spends $300 Million on Deregulation Lobbying and Campaign Contributions Banking industry · Insurance Industry · Securities Industry · +3 | 6 |
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| 1997-01-01 | First Complaints Against Larry Nassar Dismissed by Michigan State Coach Kathie Klages Larry Nassar · Kathie Klages · Michigan State University · +1 | 4 |
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| 1997-01-01 | Koch Industries Launches Massive Climate Denial Funding Network Koch Industries · Charles Koch · David Koch · +6 | 9 |
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| 1997-01-01 | SEC Fort Worth Examiners Identify Allen Stanford Ponzi Scheme, Enforcement Division Ignores Warnings for 12 Years Allen Stanford · Securities and Exchange Commission · Spencer Barasch · +1 | 4 |
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| 1996-12-31 | Telecommunications Act Triggers Mass Layoffs and Destruction of Local Journalism Media Conglomerates · Local News Stations · Radio Journalists · +2 | 5 |
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