Category: 13. Rampant Cronyism and Corruption
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Press Accuracy Rating at 20-Year Low
The public’s assessment of the accuracy of news stories is now at its lowest level in more than two decades of Pew Research surveys, and Americans’ views of media bias and independence now match previous lows. Just 29% of Americans say that news organizations generally get the facts straight, while 63% say that news stories […]
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Conde Nast Assists in Blackout of Putin Expose
“Conde Nast management has decided that the September issue of U.S. GQ magazine containing Scott Anderson’s article ‘Vladimir Putin’s Dark Rise to Power’ should not be distributed in Russia,” Birenz wrote. He ordered that the article could not be posted to the magazine’s Web site. No copies of the American edition of the magazine could […]
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AIG CEO Defends Holiday Villa Overlooking Adriatic
Wearing flip-flops, khaki shorts and a green polo shirt, the new chief executive of bailed-out insurer American International Group Inc says he’s getting a lot of work done from his massive villa overlooking the Adriatic. “People criticize me for being on vacation. I actually started work a week before I was actually supposed to,” Robert […]
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Goldman Sachs Tells Highest Paying Clients the Real Tips
The report said that the firm’s researchers hold weekly meetings, referred to as the “trading huddle,” at which analysts discuss their latest views of individual stocks, and that those views are passed on to the firm’s top clients and Goldman traders who run the firm’s own money. The paper, citing company documents, said few of […]
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Leaked Memo Proves DEP Head Lied to Congress About Mountaintop Removal
Though everything seemed to contradict the words of Huffman, it was inconceivable that he would be lying. After all, he was under oath and wouldn’t dare commit perjury. Or we thought until a package arrived at reporter Ken Ward’s office, mailed anonymous with no return address, within it an internal memo written by a respected […]
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How the Prison Guard Union Controls California Prisons
In three decades, the California Correctional Peace Officers Association has become one of the most powerful political forces in California. The union has contributed millions of dollars to support “three strikes” and other laws that lengthen sentences and increase parole sanctions. It donated $1 million to Wilson after he backed the three strikes law. And […]
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You'll Never Guess Who's Funding the Taliban – Nah You Will
Virtually every major project includes a healthy cut for the insurgents. Call it protection money, call it extortion, or, as the Taliban themselves prefer to term it, “spoils of war,” the fact remains that international donors, primarily the United States, are to a large extent financing their own enemy. via Who is funding the Afghan […]
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Me-First, Screw Everyone
What they will scream: But the rich still “pay close to 60 percent of this nation’s taxes!” What you should say: Such statistics refer only to the federal income tax. When considering all of “this nation’s taxes” including payroll, state and local levies, the top 5 percent pay just 38.5 percent of the taxes. What […]