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1985-01-01Bradley Foundation Transformation - Coordinated Conservative Infrastructure Funding

conservative-movement powell-memo-implementation think-tank-infrastructure +2

1985-01-01CNP Establishes Three-Times-Yearly Meeting Schedule at Secret Locations

conservative-movement coordination cnp +2

1985-01-01Council of Conservative Citizens Founded by Former White Citizens' Councils Members to Continue Segregationist Agenda

conservative-movement council-of-conservative-citizens white-citizens-councils +2

1985-01-01Murdoch Strategic Media Empire Expansion and U.S. Media Regulatory Navigation

regulatory-capture media-consolidation media-ownership +2

1985-01-01Carl Icahn Phillips Petroleum Hostile Takeover Attempt

junk-bonds financial-manipulation corporate-raiding +1

1985-01-01PROMIS Software Creates Global Intelligence Surveillance Network Through Maxwell Distribution

intelligence-network state-department promis-software +5

1985-01-01Trickle-Down Legacy: Reagan Policies Make Inequality Structural Feature

inequality reaganomics trickle-down +2

1985-01-01Ronald Perelman Receives $750 Million Drexel Blind Pool for Corporate Acquisitions

junk-bonds leveraged-buyout hostile-takeover +2

1985-01-01Maxwell Begins Distribution of Backdoored PROMIS Software to KGB and China

robert-maxwell promis-software kgb +5

1984-12-03Bhopal Disaster Kills Thousands, Exposes Union Carbide Safety Negligence and Regulatory Failure

public-health corporate-negligence environmental +3

1984-10-30Cable Communications Policy Act - Media Deregulation and Consolidation Enabled

regulatory-capture reagan-administration corporate-consolidation +2

1984-10-12Boland Amendment Explicitly Prohibits All U.S. Funding for Contras

congressional-oversight constitutional-law reagan-administration +2

1984-09-24Hatch-Waxman Act Grants Pharma Patent Extensions While Creating Loopholes to Block Generics

regulatory-capture lobbying pharmaceutical-industry +2

1984-07-01Maxwell Acquires Daily Mirror for £113 Million, Expanding Media Empire

information-warfare robert-maxwell daily-mirror +4

1984-05-07Agent Orange Settlement - Chemical Companies Pay $180 Million to Veterans Without Admitting Liability - Victims Receive Average $3,800

corporate-corruption war-profiteering accountability-failure +2

1984-03-01Empire Savings Failure Exposes Land Flip Fraud Networks

s&l-crisis empire-savings land-flip-fraud +3

1984-02-01Charles Keating Purchases Lincoln S&L: Systematic Fraud Network

regulatory-capture fraud keating-five +3

1984-01-22First Fully Privatized Prison Opens in Houston Under CCA Contract with Immigration and Naturalization Service

institutional-capture private-prison prison-industrial-complex +2

1984-01-01Drexel Burnham Lambert Raises $100 Million Blind Pool for Nelson Peltz Corporate Raids

junk-bonds hostile-takeover corporate-raider +5

1984-01-01Manhattan Institute Organizational Profile: Urban Policy Infrastructure and CIA-Connected Think Tank

organizational-profile urban-policy think-tank-infrastructure +5

1984-01-01ALEC Corporate Membership Explodes as Major Corporations Overwhelm Organization with Requests for Legislative Access

lobbying alec corporate-capture +3

1983-12-20Donald Rumsfeld Meets Saddam Hussein as Reagan Special Envoy to Iraq

foreign-policy reagan-administration war-crimes +2

1983-12-01Rita Lavelle Convicted of Perjury: EPA Superfund Corruption Confirmed

regulatory-capture corruption conflict-of-interest +3

1983-11-02Greyhound Strike Ends in Permanent Replacement Victory, PATCO Pattern Spreads to Private Sector

strike union-busting labor +3

1983-10-09James Watt Resigns After Racist Remarks: Interior Department Corruption Ends

regulatory-capture environmental-deregulation racism +2

1983-07-01South Dakota abolishes Rule Against Perpetuities, enabling dynasty trusts and tax haven status

institutional-capture tax-evasion wealth-concentration +2

1983-06-30Phelps Dodge Breaks Copper Strike Using Permanent Replacement Workers, Destroying Union

labor-suppression union-busting mining +3

1983-04-26A Nation at Risk Report Launches Education Reform Industry, Lays Groundwork for Privatization

privatization education reagan-era +3

1983-04-20Medicare Adopts DRG Prospective Payment System Creating Hospital Profit Incentives for Reduced Care

regulatory-capture healthcare medicare +2

1983-03-09Anne Gorsuch Resigns EPA After Contempt of Congress: Regulatory Capture Exposed

regulatory-capture epa environmental-deregulation +3

1983-01-28Corrections Corporation of America Founded in Nashville, Launching Modern Private Prison Industry

institutional-capture corporate-lobbying private-prison +3

1983-01-01Heritage Foundation Expands to 100+ Staff with $10 Million Budget During Reagan Administration Peak Influence

dark-money institutional-capture conservative-movement +5

1982-11-17SEC Adopts Rule 10b-18, Legalizing Stock Buybacks and Creating Major Wealth Extraction Mechanism

corporate-power wealth-extraction reagan-administration +3

1982-11-01RNC Signs Consent Decree Banning Voter Intimidation After Armed Ballot Security Task Force

republican-party voter-suppression voting-rights +1

1982-10-15Reagan Signs Garn-St Germain Act: Massive Thrift Deregulation

regulatory-capture reagan-administration deregulation +3

1982-10-06Josemaria Escriva Beatified Despite Controversies

institutional-capture opus-dei beatification +2

1982-09-16Reagan Supports Philippine Dictator Marcos Despite Massive Kleptocracy

corruption human-rights foreign-policy +2

1982-09-03Reagan Signs TEFRA Reversing Much of ERTA - Largest Peacetime Tax Increase Raises $100 Billion After Revenue Collapse

corporate-corruption reagan-administration wealth-transfer +5

1982-06-30Equal Rights Amendment Defeated After Schlafly's Decade-Long Campaign, Establishing Conservative Movement Model

conservative-movement religious-right grassroots-organizing +2

1982-06-29Voting Rights Act Extension of 1982: Results Test Adopted, Section 2 Strengthened After Reagan Opposition

reagan-administration voting-rights federal-legislation +3

1982-06-14DOJ Issues Baxter's 1982 Merger Guidelines, Revolutionizing Antitrust Enforcement Toward Corporate Permissiveness

corporate-power regulatory-capture antitrust +3

1982-04-25Federalist Society Established: Conservative Judicial Pipeline Inception

supreme-court judicial-capture conservative-legal-movement +2

1982-04-25Federalist Society Organizational Profile: Judicial Pipeline and Conservative Legal Movement Infrastructure

dark-money supreme-court judicial-capture +5

1982-04-22Berkeley Pit Mine Closes on Earth Day, Pumps Shut Off, Creating Toxic Lake Superfund Site

public-health superfund regulatory-failure +4

1982-03-23Guatemala Military Coup Brings Ríos Montt to Power with Reagan Support

genocide human-rights foreign-policy +2

1982-02-09Reagan Appoints Robert Bork to DC Circuit Court of Appeals, Positioning Antitrust Revolution Author for Supreme Court

judicial-capture regulatory-capture conservative-movement +5

1982-01-08AT&T Breakup Settlement Finalized, Becoming Last Major Antitrust Action for Decades

corporate-power antitrust reagan-administration +2

1982-01-01Federalist Society Founded to Capture Conservative Legal Pipeline

judicial-capture federalist-society conservative-legal-movement +3

1982-01-01S&L Deregulation Creates Moral Hazard: Recipe for Systematic Fraud

fraud deregulation s&l-crisis +2

1982-01-01Reagan Deficit Explosion: National Debt Triples From $1T to $3T in Eight Years

supply-side-economics deficit national-debt +2

1981-12-01CNP Completes "Three-Legged Stool" with Heritage and ALEC - Coordination Infrastructure Operational

institutional-capture alec conservative-movement +4

1981-11-13Lee Atwater's Recorded Confession Explains Evolution of Racial Dog Whistle Politics

republican-party racial-politics dog-whistle-politics +3

1981-09-29Reagan Orders Coast Guard Interdiction of Haitian Refugees, Establishing Maritime Asylum Denial

immigration cold-war racism +3

1981-08-13Reagan Signs Economic Recovery Tax Act (ERTA) - Top Rate Slashed from 70% to 50%, Corporate Tax Cuts Total $150 Billion Over Five Years

corporate-corruption reagan-administration wealth-transfer +6

1981-08-13Reagan Signs ERTA: Massive Tax Cuts for Wealthy Begin Inequality Explosion

supply-side-economics reaganomics wealth-inequality +3

1981-08-03Reagan Fires PATCO Strikers: Union-Busting Era Begins

labor strike-breaking reagan +3

1981-06-05AIDS Epidemic Begins: Reagan Administration Maintains Years of Deadly Silence

public-health aids reagan +3

1981-05-18Council for National Policy Founded with Schlafly as Founding Member, Creating Elite Conservative Network

dark-money institutional-capture conservative-movement +2

1981-05-01Council for National Policy Founded - Secret Conservative Coordination Network

powell-memo-implementation religious-right secretive-networks +4

1981-04-13Reagan Appoints William Baxter as Antitrust Chief, Enforcement Collapses as Chicago School Takes Control

corporate-power regulatory-capture antitrust +3

1981-04-01Epstein leaves Bear Stearns amid SEC insider trading investigation

insider-trading epstein-intelligence intelligence-protection +3

1981-04-01Jack Welch Becomes GE CEO, Launches 'Shareholder Value' Era and Mass Layoffs

corporate-power wealth-extraction labor +2

1981-01-28Reagan Appoints James Watt as Interior Secretary - Oil Industry Capture

regulatory-capture oil-industry deregulation +2

1981-01-20Reagan Inauguration Begins Antitrust Revolution: Eight Years of Systematic Enforcement Collapse and Corporate Consolidation

corporate-power systematic-corruption regulatory-capture +4

1981-01-01Reagan Era Wage Stagnation: Real Wages Decline as Inequality Accelerates

inequality labor reaganomics +3

1981-01-01Wealth Inequality Explodes: Reagan Policies Accelerate Income Gap

tax-policy reaganomics wealth-inequality +2

1981-01-01Heritage Foundation's "Mandate for Leadership" Becomes Reagan Administration Blueprint

regulatory-capture conservative-movement think-tank-influence +2

1981-01-01Corporate Tax Avoidance Explosion: Reagan Loopholes Slash Corporate Revenue

tax-avoidance tax-policy reaganomics +2

1981-01-01ALEC Establishes Cabinet Task Forces and Partners with Reagan's Task Force on Federalism

alec reagan-administration federalism +4

1981-01-01Supply-Side Economics Failure: Empirical Evidence Debunks Trickle-Down Theory

tax-policy supply-side-economics reaganomics +2

1981-01-01Reagan Administration Muzzles Surgeon General Koop on AIDS for Five Years

public-health aids c-everett-koop +3

1981-01-01Reagan Environmental Deregulation: Systematic Dismantling of Protections

regulatory-capture public-health epa +2

1980-12-11Superfund Law Passes But Industry Successfully Builds In Weaknesses and Delays

regulatory-capture corporate-lobbying superfund +3

1980-11-05Edward Seaga Defeats Michael Manley in Jamaica Election, Immediately Re-Engages IMF Structural Adjustment

structural-adjustment imf shock-doctrine +4

1980-11-04Ronald Reagan Elected President, Conservative Infrastructure Achieves Powell Memo Goals

conservative-movement heritage-foundation powell-memo +3

1980-08-03Reagan Launches General Election Campaign with 'States' Rights' Speech Near Civil Rights Murder Site

civil-rights republican-party racial-politics +4

1980-07-01Reagan Aide Edwin Meese Coordinates with Heritage on "Mandate for Leadership"

heritage-foundation conservative-coordination mandate-for-leadership +2

1980-07-01Carter Signs Motor Carrier Act, Completing Bipartisan Transportation Deregulation

deregulation bipartisan-consensus chicago-school +2

1980-06-30Schlafly and Falwell Joint Rally Demonstrates Religious Right Coalition Unity

institutional-capture conservative-movement religious-right +2

1980-06-20Powell creates Central Hudson test expanding corporate commercial speech rights

powell-memo-implementation commercial-speech-rights central-hudson-test +3

1980-04-21Mariel Boatlift Exposes Racist Double Standards as Cubans Welcomed While Haitians Detained

immigration cold-war racism +3

1980-03-24U.S. Backs El Salvador Death Squad Government Through 12-Year Civil War

human-rights foreign-policy reagan-administration +2

1980-03-17Refugee Act of 1980 Establishes Systematic Asylum Process, Becomes Target of Enforcement Capture

institutional-capture immigration cold-war +2

1980-01-07Carter Signs Chrysler Bailout, Corporate Welfare Precedent Set

corporate-welfare bailout economic-policy +1

1980-01-01Claim: Epstein and Maxwell Alleged Intelligence Operation (Unverified)

epstein-network intelligence-network intelligence-operations +5

1980-01-01Black, Manafort & Stone lobbying firm founded, nicknamed 'Torturers' Lobby'

foreign-influence lobbying political-operations +1

1980-01-01Corporate Political Mobilization Accelerates Following Powell Memo and Business Roundtable Formation

corporate-lobbying powell-memo business-roundtable +3

1980-01-01Charles Heatherly Produces "Mandate for Leadership" Outline, Assembling 300 Contributors

conservative-movement heritage-foundation policy-coordination +2

1980-01-01Banking Industry Launches Systematic Campaign to Erode Glass-Steagall Act

regulatory-capture federal-reserve glass-steagall +4

1980-01-01NLRB Systemic Underfunding and Weak Enforcement Enables Corporate Union-Busting

regulatory-capture labor-suppression nlrb +3

1979-12-27Soviet Afghanistan Invasion Positions BCCI for CIA Covert Operations Expansion

afghanistan-invasion cia-operations operation-cyclone +5

1979-10-06Volcker Shock - Federal Reserve Raises Rates to 20%, Recession Begins

financial-crisis labor-suppression economic-policy +1

1979-06-01Moral Majority Founded - Corporate Agenda Masked by Religious Cultural Warfare

electoral-manipulation religious-right new-right +3

1979-06-01Falwell and Weyrich Found Moral Majority, Fusing Religious Right with Corporate Agenda

religious-right paul-weyrich corporate-funding +2

1979-01-08Vietnam Veterans File Agent Orange Class Action Lawsuit Against Dow Chemical and Monsanto - Corporations Deny Liability Despite Evidence

corporate-corruption government-deception war-profiteering +2

1979-01-02Federation for American Immigration Reform Founded, Launching Modern Nativist Movement Infrastructure

institutional-capture immigration white-nationalism +3

1979-01-01Wage Stagnation Era Begins: Productivity-Pay Gap Opens as Union Power Collapses

labor-suppression inequality economic-policy +3

1979-01-01Heritage Foundation Begins "Mandate for Leadership" Preparation for Reagan Transition

conservative-movement reagan-administration heritage-foundation +2

1979-01-01ALEC Begins Tobacco Industry Partnership for Legislative Influence

regulatory-capture alec corporate-capture +3

1979-01-01Supreme Court Adopts Bork's "Consumer Welfare Standard," Transforming Antitrust Law

judicial-capture corporate-power consumer-welfare-standard +2