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Boiling Frogs Post is an online news, editorial, analysis, and Podcast interview site covering select but significant blacked out stories and issues, while defying blinded partisanship. Each one of our partner investigative journalists brings 20+ years of investigative journalism experience in reporting controversial and daring topics. Our weekly Podcast interview series, the Boiling Frogs Show, features in depth original interviews with well-respected and controversial guests. This site has been set up to bring together members of the irate minority club: Those who have gotten tired of the very-dependent mainstream media & and the agenda-driven and partisan pseudo alternative fluff sites. We may be the irate minority out there, but over here we are the majority, so we rule. Together we hope to increase our numbers and take back our hijacked nation.   Sibel Edmonds- Founder & Publisher :   Sibel Edmonds is the founder and president of the National Security Whistleblowers Coalition (NSWBC), a nonprofit organization dedicated to aiding national security whistleblowers. She has appeared on national radio and TV as a commentator on matters related to whistleblowers, national security, and excessive secrecy & classification, and has been featured on CBS 60 Minutes, CNN, MSNBC, NPR, and in the New York Times, Washington Post, Vanity Fair, The American Conservative, and others. Her book, ‘Shooting the Messenger’, co-authored with Professor William Weaver, is forthcoming from Kansas University Press in the fall of 2010. PEN American Center awarded Ms. Edmonds the 2006 PEN/Newman’s Own First Amendment Award for her “commitment to preserving the free flow of information in the United States in a time of growing international isolation and increasing government secrecy”. She is also the recipient of the 2004 Sam Adams Foundation Award .... "  Peter B. Collins- Partner Producer and Co-host, is a radio producer, talk show host and media consultant, based in San Francisco. He has hosted talk programs on major stations in San Francisco, Chicago and Washington, DC, and for satellite radio and national syndication. He is an independent progressive who covers a range of important issues in his series of podcasts.  Read About Us    Note: The team also includes five (5) partner investigative journalists, as well as five(5) partner-contributor-analysts.  See Sibel's Twitter page to see what's up.

    
NNDB is an intelligence aggregator that tracks the activities of people we have determined to be noteworthy, both living and dead. Superficially, it seems much like a "Who's Who" where a noted person's curriculum vitae is available (the usual information such as date of birth, a biography, and other essential facts.) But it mostly exists to document the connections between people, many of which are not always obvious. A person's otherwise inexplicable behavior is often understood by examining the crowd that person has been associating with. Eventually, we will have synopses and analyses of creative works by the people in the database, including their books, films, and recordings. The NNDB Mapper is a visual tool for exploring the connections between people in NNDB, linking them together through family relations, corporate boards, movies and TV, political alliances, and shadowy conspiracy groups. Maps can be saved and shared for others to explore. 

    
The name Muckety derives, of course, from "muckety mucks". Some follow the money. We follow the muckety, producing a daily news and information site based on online databases (which we enlarge daily), extensive research and old-fashioned journalism. We strive for accurate, timely, objective journalism. Although you may sometimes see ads with a political point of view (served automatically through ad services such as Google AdSense), we aim to be nonpartisan in our maps, news stories and databased information. Our founders/editors are award-winning journalists Laurie Bennett, Gary Jacobson and John Decker. Bennett and Decker were co-founders of ePodunk, a high-traffic web site about places in the U.S., Canada and the UK. They also worked together as members of the founding online team at the Detroit Free Press. Decker previously was multimedia editor of The New York Times on the Web. Bennett, a winner of the George Polk Award, also worked as a reporter for the Free Press, Detroit News, Gannett News Service in Washington, D.C., and as city editor of the Rochester (NY) Times-Union.

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Cryptome welcomes documents for publication that are prohibited by governments worldwide, in particular material on freedom of expression, privacy, cryptology, dual-use technologies, national security, intelligence, and secret governance -- open, secret and classified documents -- but not limited to those. Documents are removed from this site only by order served directly by a US court having jurisdiction. No court order has ever been served; any order served will be published here -- or elsewhere if gagged by order.
Cryptome CN publishes information, documents and opinions banned by the People's Republic of China.  
Cryptome Videos  infrequently released video items.    
Cryptome Out Files  collection of recently released files, and other internal links.

Croc Tail: Information About Corporations and Their Subsidiaries  CrocTail provides an interface for browsing information about several hundred thousand U.S. publicly traded corporations and their foreign subsidiaries. Information from company filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has been parsed and annotated by CorpWatch to provide a way for users to research and add issues related to corporate subsidiaries. CrocTail also serves as a demonstration of the features and data available through the CorpWatch API. 

Crocodyl: Collaborative Research On Corporations  Crocodyl is a collaboration sponsored by CorpWatch, the Center for Corporate Policy and the Corporate Research Project. Our aim is to stimulate collaborative research among NGOs, journalists, activists, whistleblowers and academics from both the global South and North in order to develop publicly-available profiles of the world's most powerful corporations. The result is an evolving compendium of critical research, posted to the public domain as an aid to anyone working to hold corporations increasingly accountable. Get the latest...
Corp Watch: Holding Corporations Accountable  Our interactive guide takes you through the steps of researching a corporation on the Internet -- how to find information about a corporation's business strategy and operations, financial status, and environmental and social record. If you are new to corporate research, develop a research plan before you start your project. Perhaps you are looking to do deeper research. In that case, check out Industry Research or Corporations & Politics. If you're ready to start digging for dirt go straight to our Hands-On Corporate Research Guide. Whether you are new to corporate research or a veteran muckraker, we hope this guide will be of use. CorpWatch founder Joshua Karliner's book, The Corporate Planet: Ecology and Politics in the Age of Globalization (Sierra Club Books, 1997) continues to be an excellent research tool for the impacts of corporate globalization.