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Cronyism
Cronyism

Cronyism

The practice of partiality in awarding jobs and other advantages to friends or trusted colleagues, especially in politics and between politicians and supportive organizations. For instance, this includes appointing “cronies” to positions of authority, regardless of their qualifications.

Cronyism exists when the appointer and the beneficiary such as an appointee are in social or business contact. Often, the appointer needs support in his or her own proposal, job or position of authority, and for this reason the appointer appoints individuals who will not try to weaken his or her proposals, vote against issues, or express views contrary to those of the appointer. Politically, “cronyism” is used to imply buying and selling favors, such as: votes in legislative bodies, as doing favors to organizations, giving desirable ambassadorships to exotic places, future job, campaign funds, etc.

Crony capitalism is a term describing an economy in which success in business depends on close relationships between business people and government officials. It may be exhibited by favoritism in the distribution of legal permits, government grants, special tax breaks, or other forms of state interventionism. Crony capitalism is believed to arise when business cronyism and related self-serving behavior by businesses or business people spills over into politics and government, or when self-serving friendships and family ties between businessmen and the government influence the economy and society to the extent that it corrupts public-serving economic and political ideals.

Chronological History of Events Involving Cronyism or Crony Capitalism

The 1933 'Business Plot': Smedley Butler Blows the Whistle on Industrialists & Bankers Coup to Overthrow the Gov't, or Ruse for FDR Support?

The 1933 ‘Business Plot’: Smedley Butler Blows the Whistle on Industrialists & Bankers Coup to Overthrow the Gov’t, or Ruse for FDR Support?

An outstanding Major General of the Marine Corps, Smedley Butler, became involved in a controversy known as the Business Plot, when he told a congressional committee that a group of wealthy industrialists (including Goodyear, US Steel, JP Morgan, Heinz, and Maxwell House) were planning a military coup to overthrow the US government & FDR, with Butler selected to lead a march of veterans, install a Fascist ...
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'Mein Kampf', or 'My Struggle', is Published by Adolf Hitler: His Struggle to Save the Aryan Race from the Jews and their Allies

‘Mein Kampf’, or ‘My Struggle’, is Published by Adolf Hitler: His Struggle to Save the Aryan Race from the Jews and their Allies

In 1 January 2016, Mein Kampf came out of copyright. It had been 70 years since the author’s death, and by international copyright law, legal protection for the book had expired. Thus it is perhaps a good time to reconsider and reexamine this most notorious work—and perhaps to banish some of the many myths surrounding it to history. In fact, we are long overdue for a ...
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The Sykes-Picot Agreement is Ratified: The Secret Agreement that divided the Oil-Rich Spoils of the Ottoman Empire following WWI

The Sykes-Picot Agreement is Ratified: The Secret Agreement that divided the Oil-Rich Spoils of the Ottoman Empire following WWI

Officially known as the Asia Minor Agreement, the Sykes-Picot Agreement was a secret 1916 agreement between the United Kingdom and France, to which the Russian Empire assented. The agreement defined their mutually agreed spoils of war and control in Southwestern Asia. In 1919, the British and French implemented the 1916 agreement and divided the Arab world into nation states. The Sykes-Picot Treaty divided the Ottoman Empire ...
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Ben Franklin: "...There are Two Passions Which have a Powerful Influence in the Affairs of Men – the Love of Power and the Love of Money."

Ben Franklin: “…There are Two Passions Which have a Powerful Influence in the Affairs of Men – the Love of Power and the Love of Money.”

Ben Franklin address at the Constitutional Convention titled “Dangers of a Salaried Bureaucracy,” June 2, 1787: "It is with reluctance that I rise to express a disapprobation of any one article of the plan for which we are so much obliged to the honorable gentlemen who laid it before us. From its first reading I have borne a good will to it, and, in general, wished ...
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The Tea Act of 1773: Catalyst for the Boston Tea Party

The Tea Act of 1773: Catalyst for the Boston Tea Party

The Tea Act, passed by Parliament on May 10, 1773, granted the British East India Company Tea a monopoly on tea sales in the American colonies. This was what ultimately compelled a group of Sons of Liberty members on the night of December 16, 1773 to disguise themselves as Mohawk Indians, board three ships moored in Boston Harbor, and destroy over 92,000 pounds of tea. The ...
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