Showing posts with label government. Show all posts
Showing posts with label government. Show all posts
June 8, 2012
May 28, 2012
Penn Jillette on Sean Hannity: Voter for the Lesser of Two Evils gives you MORE EVIL
Anti-two-party-duopoly solidarity is going trans-partisan!
THE FULL RANT
March 23, 2012
The Horatio Algers Lie
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February 2, 2012
Yale Business School's Jonathan Macey on the Daily Show
It's interesting how he comes on to make the point that capitalism isn't a rigged game, and then in explaining how capitalism really works, demonstrates how rigged it is.
And now you Ron Paul libertarian types are going to rush to Capitalism's defense. You're talking about Markets. Markets and Capitalism are not the same thing and should not be conflated. So shut up and watch the interview.
Part 1
Part 2
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And now you Ron Paul libertarian types are going to rush to Capitalism's defense. You're talking about Markets. Markets and Capitalism are not the same thing and should not be conflated. So shut up and watch the interview.
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
January 10, 2012
Our Government Sucks, Because You Suck (pt 2)
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October 4, 2011
June 22, 2011
Public Citizen @ Netroots Nation: Rachel Lewis aka Citvox
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July 15, 2010
Ralph Nader and Judge Napolitano on C-SPAN
View the entire program here:
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/id/225457
Unfortunately, the C-SPAN isn't allowing this to be embedded, so you have to watch it over on their site.
June 11, 2010
BP to blame in 8,000 oil spills
From the Sunlight Foundation
So here's the least you need to know:
There's plenty more details in the article. If you click through to the original article, there's a robust interface with an interactive map, and a sweet-ass interactive data table.
CHECK IT OUT
So here's the least you need to know:
British Petroleum and its subsidiaries have been the subject of roughly 8,000 reported incidents of spills, emissions and leaks of oil, chemicals and gases into the environment, according to a government database.
There's plenty more details in the article. If you click through to the original article, there's a robust interface with an interactive map, and a sweet-ass interactive data table.
CHECK IT OUT
February 2, 2010
CIA moonlights in corporate world
The CIA is offering operatives a chance to peddle their expertise to private companies on the side.
Full article at POLITICO.com
In the midst of two wars and the fight against Al Qaeda, the CIA is offering operatives a chance to peddle their expertise to private companies on the side — a policy that gives financial firms and hedge funds access to the nation’s top-level intelligence talent, POLITICO has learned.
In one case, these active-duty officers moonlighted at a hedge-fund consulting firm that wanted to tap their expertise in “deception detection,” the highly specialized art of telling when executives may be lying based on clues in a conversation.
The never-before-revealed policy comes to light as the CIA and other intelligence agencies are once again under fire for failing to “connect the dots,” this time in the Christmas Day bombing plot on Northwest Flight 253.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0110/32290.html#ixzz0eNxgZJdE
But sources familiar with the CIA’s moonlighting policy defend it as a vital tool to prevent brain-drain at Langley, which has seen an exodus of highly trained, badly needed intelligence officers to the private sector, where they can easily double or even triple their government salaries. The policy gives agents a chance to earn more while still staying on the government payroll.
A government official familiar with the policy insists it doesn’t impede the CIA’s work on critical national security investigations. This official said CIA officers who want to participate in it must first submit a detailed explanation of the type of work involved and get permission from higher-ups within the agency.
“If any officer requests permission for outside employment, those requests are reviewed not just for legality, but for propriety,” CIA spokesman George Little told POLITICO.
There is much about the policy that is unclear, including how many officers have availed themselves of it, how long it has been in place and what types of outside employment have been allowed. The CIA declined to provide additional details.
Generally, federal employees across the vast government work force are allowed to moonlight in the private sector, but under tight guidelines, that can vary from agency to agency, according to the federal Office of Government Ethics.
“In general, for most nonpolitical employees, they may engage in outside employment, but there are some restrictions,” said Elaine Newton, an attorney at the Office of Government Ethics. She explained that agencies throughout the federal government set their own policies on outside employment, and that they all typically require that the employment not represent a conflict of interest with the employee’s federal job and that the employee have written approval before taking on the work.
But the close ties between active-duty and retired CIA officers at one consulting company show the degree to which CIA-style intelligence gathering techniques have been employed by hedge funds and financial institutions in the global economy.
The firm is called Business Intelligence Advisors, and it is based in Boston. BIA was founded and is staffed by a number of retired CIA officers, and it specializes in the arcane field of “deception detection.” BIA’s clients have included Goldman Sachs and the enormous hedge fund SAC Capital Advisors, according to spokesmen for both firms.
BIA has employed active-duty CIA officers in the past, although BIA president Cheryl Cook said that has “not been the case with BIA for some time.”
But the ties between BIA and the intelligence world run deep. The name itself was chosen as a play off CIA. And the presence of so many former CIA personnel on the payroll at BIA causes confusion as to whether the intelligence firm is actually an extension of the agency itself. As a result, BIA places a disclaimer in some of its corporate materials to clarify that it is not, in fact, controlled by Langley.
BIA’s clients can put the company on a retainer for as much as $400,000 to $800,000 a year. And in return, they receive access to a variety of services, from deception detection to other programs that feature the CIA intelligence techniques.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0110/32290.html#ixzz0eNxlOtw2
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