Sir Ivan Rogers Plays Cassandra Again, Warns of Likely 2020 Brexit Trade Negotiations Train Wreck
Another incisive Brexit reading by Sir Ivan.
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Lack of Right to Repair Limits Ability of US Military to Maintain its Own Equipment
Support for right to repair from an unlikely quarter: US military. Military hardware is sometimes shipped back to the states for repair.
Read more...PG&E Failed California. Here’s How the State Could Turn Things Around.
How PG&E came to dominate California’s electricity market, plus discussion of options to fix the fiery mess it has created.
Read more...US Medical Data Security Gets Worse 2 Months After Expose of Hundreds of Millions of Images, Related Patient Info Open on the Internet
Another medical data horrorshow.
Read more...Private Equity Under the Hot Lights Today at House Financial Services Committee Hearing, “America for Sale?”
Private equity gets some long overdue scrutiny.
Read more...FAA Pushes Back on Boeing Pressure to Recertify 737 Max by Year End; Agency Also Considering Major Revamp of Certification Process
Remarkably, the new FAA chief Steve Dickson is standing up to Boeing and planning widespread reforms at the agency.
Read more...Former CalPERS Board Member JJ Jelincic Files Protest Against Election Abuses
JJ Jelincic is still fighting the uphill battle of cleaning up CalPERS.
Read more...‘Enormous Victory’: US Judge Rules Suspicionless Searches of Travelers’ Electronic Devices Unconstitutional
A judge slaps down DHS for its abuses of border searches of citizens’ devices.
Read more...Google Collecting Medical Data on Millions Without Informing Patients or Doctors
Google now wants to play doctor.
Read more...Police Deadly Force: Then and Now
Some important findings from efforts to develop a more comprehensive picture of the police use of “deadly force” in the US.
Read more...What’s Inside That Black Box: What Regulating Data Privacy and Policing Drunk Driving Have in Common
Two recent NYT stories – on data privacy and drunk driving – highlight the dangers of unquestioned reliance on omnipotent back boxes.
Read more...Monsanto Wins $7.7 Billion Lawsuit in Brazil – but Farmers’ Fight to Stop its ‘Amoral’ Royalty System Will Continue
Monsanto wins $7.7 billion Brazil lawsuit – thus preventing farmers from saving seeds for replanting if the seeds are harvested from Monsanto’s patented Roundup Ready soybeans,.
Read more...Waste Watch: Single Use Plastics, Please Ban Them, Now
Why we need single-use plastics bans: to save us from our worst selves; plus a positive development on the recycling front.
Read more...The Sanders Plan to Legalize Marijuana Does More Than Legalize Marijuana
Discussion of comprehensive Sanders plan to legalize marijuana: legal and political implications.
Read more...Why Have Facebook and Other Tech Giants Gotten Away With Gobbling Up Competitors?
Why have regulators sat pat as Big Tech companies like Facebook and Google have done deals that look like violations of antitrust law?
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