Papua New Guinea, Barrick Gold Corp Canadian transnational crimes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-EqSi9Egwc

Four members of the Ipili tribe of Porgera in Papua New Guinea (PNG), at a news conference in Ottawa, demanding that Barrick Gold address serious human rights abuses and environmental destruction (related to Barrick's Porgera Joint Venture gold mine) and promoting Bill C-300 on corporate social responsibility - recorded in Ottawa    <here we have indigneous commonuties from papua new ginea demanding that canadian government pass bill c-300 in order to reign in this and many otehr canadian transnational mining corporate crimes abroad..now the libertarian position is less government intervention..so then,who would protect and safeguard these communities affected?the invisible hand?then another argument is,oh but if there was less governemnt intervention competition would protect it..this is bs because  other transnational canadian corporatiosn are there competing ..like pacific as well and both are committing similar crimes...see...

Indigenous Peoples Unite Against Canadian Mining in Palawan http://intercontinentalcry.org/indigenous-peoples-unite-against-mining-in-palawan/

here is more cases where ppl are being effecetd by thes etransnationals demanding accountability...with less government intervention,who will do it?nobody,th crimes will actually increase..see...India Campaign to Hold Coca-Cola Accountable http://www.indiaresource.org/campaigns/coke/  Communities across India living around Coca-Cola's bottling plants are experiencing severe water shortages, directly as a result of Coca-Cola's massive extraction of water from the common groundwater resource. The wells have run dry and the hand water pumps do not work any more. Studies, including one by the Central Ground Water Board in India, have confirmed the significant depletion of the water table. 
When the water is extracted from the common groundwater resource by digging deeper, the water smells and tastes strange. Coca-Cola has been indiscriminately discharging its waste water into the fields around its plant and sometimes into rivers, including the Ganges, in the area. The result has been that the groundwater has been polluted as well as the soil. Public health authorities have posted signs around wells and hand pumps advising the community that the water is unfit for human consumption. In two communities, Plachimada and Mehdiganj, Coca-Cola was distributing its solid waste to farmers in the area as "fertilizer". Tests conducted by the BBC found cadmium and lead in the waste, effectively making the waste toxic waste. Coca-Cola stopped the practice of distributing its toxic waste only when ordered to do so by the state government. Tests conducted by a variety of agencies, including the government of India, confirmed that Coca-Cola products contained high levels of pesticides, and as a result, the Parliament of India has banned the sale of Coca-Cola in its cafeteria. However, Coca-Cola not only continues to sell drinks laced with poisons in India (that could never be sold in the US and EU), it is also introducing new products in the Indian market. And as if selling drinks with DDT and other pesticides to Indians was not enough, one of Coca-Cola's latest bottling facilities to open in India, in Ballia, is located in an area with a severe contamination of arsenic in its groundwater. 

Destroying Lives, Livelihoods and Communities

Water shortages, pollution of groundwater and soil, exposure to toxic waste and pesticides is having impacts of massive proportions in India. In a country where over 70% of the population makes a living related to agriculture, stealing the water and poisoning the water and soil is a sure recipe for disaster. Thousands of farmers in India have been affected by Coca-Cola's practices, and Coca-Cola is guilty of destroying the livelihoods of thousands of people in India. Unfortunately, we do not even know the extent of the damage as a result from exposure to the toxic waste and pesticides as these are long term problems. Most affected are the marginalized communities such as the Adivasis (Indigenous People's) and Dalits (formerly untouchables), as well as the low-income communities, landless agricultural workers and women. Taken in its entirety, that's a lot of people in India. Coca-Cola is destroying the food security of the people of the land, and by stealing the water and poisoning the water and soil, it is also responsible for ensuring a life of misery for future generations to come.

more crimes by transnationals..

India: Corporate Crimes and Environmental plunderhttp://www.sacw.net/article1305.html

Corporate Dirt Archiveshttp://www.corporations.org/corplist.html

33 Libertarian Organizations: Think Tanks http://stason.org/TULARC/ideology/libertarian/33-Libertarian-Organizations-Think-Tanks.html

American Enterprise Institute
1150 17th St., NW
Washington, DC 20036
202-862-5800
Private research organization dedicated to preserving and
improving open and competitive private enterprise, limited and
public spirited government, and strong and well-managed defense
and foreign policies. Apparently owns a net address, but always
refuses HTTP connections to same (aei.org).

comment-http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=American_Enterprise_Institute AEI rents office space to the Project for the New American Century, one of the leading voices that pushed the Bush administration's plan for "regime change" through war in Iraq. AEI reps have also aggressively denied that the war has anything to do with oil.  The Guardian reported further that AEI "has received more than $1.6m from ExxonMobil, and more than 20 of its staff have worked as consultants to the Bush administration. Lee Raymond, a former head of ExxonMobil, is the vice-chairman of AEI's board of trustees," added The Guardian.Connections

The following was compiled by RightWeb.[16]
The Center for the Study of American Business and the Center for Strategic and International Studies are said to be spinoffs of the AEI (Saloma, 1984).
The Business Roundtable: according to journalist Sidney Blumenthal, making contributions to AEI was a pitch made at almost every policy committee meeting of the Roundtable
During the 80s, staff members were funded with the hawkish anticommunist group Committee on the Present Danger.
Staff alumni Jeane Kirkpatrick and William Simon were vice president and chairman of the Nicaraguan Freedom Fund.
Alumni Michael Novak and Irving Kristol co-founded the Coalition for a Democratic Majority
Heritage Foundation
Council for National Policy
Center for Strategic and International Studies
Center for Security Policy founded by Frank Gaffney with an alleged mission to "promote peace through American strength".
Project for the New American Century, PNAC
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Heritage Foundation
214 Massachusetts Ave., NE
Washington, DC 20002-4999
202-546-4400
Email: info.AT.heritage.org
Web Page: http://www.heritage.org/ 
Public policy research institute designed to make the voices of
"responsible conservatism" heard. Some research of interest to
libertarians, but be careful of religious-conservative bias.
"The Heritage Foundation is committed to rolling back the
liberal welfare state and building an America where freedom,
opportunity, and civil society flourish."
[1999.09.02]

comment-Heritage Foundation http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Heritage_Foundation The Foundation wields considerable influence in Washington, and enjoyed particular prominence during the Reagan administration. Its initial funding was provided by Joseph Coors, of the Coors beer empire, and Richard Mellon Scaife, heir of the Mellon industrial and banking fortune. The Foundation maintains strong ties with the London Institute of Economic Affairs and the Mont Pelerin Society. While the Foundation has contributed many ideas and positions on contemporary public policy, it is best known for the support generated by its foreign policy analysts in the 1980s and early 1990s to provide military and other support to anti-communist resistance movements in Afghanistan, Angola, Cambodia, Nicaragua and other nations, a policy that came to be known as the Reagan doctrine.hroughout the late 1980s and early 1990s, the Foundation's support for the Nicaraguan contras and Angola's Savimbi proved extremely influential with the United States government, including the Central Intelligence Agency, the Defense Intelligence Agency, the National Security Council and other governmental agencies. The Heritage Foundation presented its case for armed support for these movements, and United States support soon followed.

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Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-6010
650-723-0603
Web Page: http://www-hoover.stanford.edu/ 
"The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford
University, is a world-renowned library and archives, and a
unique center of scholarship and public policy research,
committed to generating ideas that define a free society." . .
. "The purpose of the Institution is to promote peace." Founded
1919.
[1999.09.02]

comment-Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Hoover_Institution_on_War,_Revolution_and_Peace   The Hoover Institution mission statement [1] expresses the basic tenets for which it stands: representative government, private enterprise, peace, personal freedom, and the safeguards of the American system.

The Hoover Institution is influential in the American conservative and libertarian movements, and the Institution has long been a place of scholarship for high profile conservatives with government experience. A number of fellows have connections to or positions in the Bush administration, and other Republican administrations. A non-political figure who played a key role in the Bush Administration's Iraq policy, Retired Army Gen. John P. Abizaid, former commander of the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), recently joined the Hoover Institution (as the first Annenberg Distinguished Visiting Fellow) [2]. Other fellows of the Institution include such high profile conservatives as Condoleezza Rice, George Shultz, Thomas Sowell, Shelby Steele, and Edwin Meese.

Honorary fellows
Margaret Thatcher, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Distinguished fellows
George P. Shultz, former U.S. Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice, U.S. Secretary of State

The Hoover Institution receives much of its funding from private charitable foundations, including many attached to large corporations. A partial list of its recent donors includes:Archer Daniels Midland Foundation
ARCO Foundation
Boeing-McDonnell Foundation
Chrysler Corporation Fund
Dean Witter Foundation
Exxon Educational Foundation [6]
Ford Motor Company Fund
General Motors Foundation
J.P. Morgan Charitable Trust
Merrill Lynch & Company Foundation
Procter & Gamble Fund
Rockwell International Corporation Trust
Transamerica Foundation

also see-Herbert Hoover, wartime documents, and the Hoover Institution http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/world_order/WorldCh07-3.htm  Stanford University's campus is world headquarters for Hewlett-Packard and the multi-billion electronics industry. The 8800 acres of Stanford's campus was originally Leland Stanford's Palo Alto Stock Farm, which he endowed with some $20 million. The campus houses a $105 million Atomic Energy Commission laboratory (SLAC) built through the influence of L.L. Strauss, chairman of AEC and director of Hoover Institution. Two thousand acres have been set aside for rental units. A shopping center on the campus pays $500,000 rent annually.

The 300 acres Stanford Research Park houses the world headquarters of Hewlett-Packard. In 1912, Lee de Forest invented the vacuum tube in Palo Alto, launching the radio industry. Prof. Louis Terman of Stanford invented the Stanford-Binet IQ test; his son Fred became professor of electric engineering at Stanford, and persuaded two of his students, Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard, to start an electronics concern. Hewlett-Packard now has $4.4 billion annual sales, 68,000 employees. Fortune says Bill Hewlett is worth $1.045 billion, Dave Packard is worth $2.115 billion.

Prof. William Shockley invented the transistor here, launching the Silcon Valley complex. His invention was later taken over by Fairchild Semiconductor, which is now owned by Schlumberger Inc. Shockley received little or nothing for his discovery.

Stanford received $3 million from the Ford Foundation for a medical center, and in Sept. 1959, the Ford Foundation gave Stanford $25 million, its largest gift to any educational institution. The New York Times noted on Oct. 10, 1977, that Stanford "known as the Harvard of the West", had completed a $300 million fund-raising campaign headed by Arjay Miller, former president of Ford Motor Co. The Harvard influence has always been strong at Stanford and the Hoover Institution. Donald Kennedy, who became president of Stanford in 1980, married Jeanne Dewey, took his AB., MA., and PH.D. from Harvard, and served on the Harvard Board of Overseers from 1970-76. He was Commissioner of Food & Drugs under President Carter 1977-79, before becoming president of Stanford.

Stanford has other important real estate holdings. Time, Jan. 14, 1966 noted that Stanford has a German castle at Beutelsbach, a villa in Florence, a hotel in Tours, and occupies Harlaxton Manor, a 365 room stone mansion in Lincolnshire leased to Stanford by the Jesuits.

Cato Institute http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Cato_Institute

The Cato Institute is a non-partisan libertarian think tank headquartered in Washington, D.C. Cato was founded in 1977 by Edward H. Crane and Charles Koch, [2] the billionaire co-owner of Koch Industries; the largest privately owned company in the United States. Though diversified, the company amassed most of its fortune in oil trading and refining

Aside from its own advocacy efforts, the Cato Institute has become a substantial funder of other "like-minded" think tanks around the U.S. In its 2006 annual report Cato lists 26 organizations and one individual it provided grants totaling $1,243,00 to. Groups the benefited from Cato's generosity were Agencia Americana ($30,000 "to help fund study on S.A. corruption"); the Philanthropy Roundtable ($5,000); the Manhattan Institute ($5,000); the American Enterprise Institute ($5,000); the Fund for American Studies ($10,000); the Bluegrass Institute ($50,000); the Cascade Policy Institute ($25,000); the Ethan Allen Institute ($50,000); the Evergreen Freedom Foundation ($100,000); the Grassroot Institute of Hawaii ($40,000); the Illinois Policy Institute ($50,000); the James Madison Institute ($100,000); the John Locke Foundation ($20,000); the Maine Heritage Policy Center ($50,000); the Maryland Public Policy Institute ($40,000); the Nevada Policy Research Institute ($50,000); the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs ($50,000); the Rio Grande Foundation ($50,000); the Show-Me Institute ($50,000); the South Carolina Policy Council ($90,000); the Sutherland Institute ($40,000); the Tennessee Center for Policy Research ($50,000); the Texas Public Policy Foundation ($100,000); the Virginia Institute for Public Policy ($25,000); the Yankee Institute ($68,000); and the Independent Institute ($60,000). In addition Jim Powell received $25,000 as a Hoiles Fellowship.[12] (note, the Cato annual report refers to the "South Carolina Policy Institute" when the correct name of the think tank is the "South Carolina Policy Council". Similarly, the Maryland Public Policy Institute was misidentified as the Maryland Public Policy Center.

In 2006 Cato raised approximately $612,000 from the following 26 corporate supporters:
Altria (the report identifies Altria Corporate Services as the contributor)
American Petroleum Institute
Amerisure Companies
Amgen
Chicago Mercantile Exchange
Comcast Corporation
Consumer Electronic Association
Ebay Inc
ExxonMobil
FedEx Corporation
Freedom Communications
General Motors
Honda North America
Korea International Trade Association
Microsoft
National Association of Software and Service Companies
Pepco Holdings Inc.
R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
TimeWarner
Toyota Motor Corporation
UST Inc
Verisign
Verizon Communications
Visa USA Inc
Volkswagen of America
Wal-Mart Stores

The 2010 Libertarian Party of New York State Convention http://www.lp.org/event/the-2010-libertarian-party-of-new-york-state-convention

Convention Speakers - Bob Ward – Deputy Director of the Nelson Rockefeller Institute of Government, a public policy think tank of the State University of New York and author of New York State Government. He is a former newspaper and editor and has studied and written extensively about the workings of our state government.

Libertarians call for more finance industry freedom http://www.lp.org/

WASHINGTON - Libertarian Party Executive Director Wes Benedict issued the following statement today, regarding the financial regulation legislation in Congress:"The Libertarian Party opposes the legislation currently in Congress. Instead of removing harmful regulations that reduce competition, create winners and losers, and stifle the choices of consumers and financial firms, this legislation merely adds to that heap of regulations.