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ocial media players like Facebook and Twitter increasingly informational town squares yet still carry themselves as private companies.
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Financial Times Publication Confirms Accuracy of Our Reporting on CalPERS CEO Marcie Frost’s Resume Misrepresentations; Board Refuses to Investigate and Instead Attacks Us
CalPERS is making credulity-straining defenses of its CEO Marcie Frost, and even a normally friendly publication isn’t buying them.
Read more...A Stopped Clock Asks Two Good Questions — Will Trump Resign? Will Democrats Impeach Him?
Looking at presumed end-games for the pursuit of Trump.
Read more...White-Collar Criminals Got Off Scot-Free After the 2008 Financial Crisis — and That Helped Fuel President Trump’s Rise
Ten years later, Trump’s rise to power is a consequence of poor governance.
Read more...Cover-Up of CalPERS’ CEO Frost’s Misrepresentations of Her History: Document Destruction/Loss at CalPERS, Pressure on The Evergreen State College
While CalPERS CEO Marcie Frost’s cover-up of her resume misrepresentations is not worse than her crime, it looks awfully guilty.
Read more...A Private Investigator on Living in a Surveillance Culture
An insider’s take on surveillance.
Read more...Gaius Publius: Verizon Throttled Firefighters’ Data As Mendocino Wildfire Burned
Verizon shows that extortion is fundamental to its business model.
Read more...Landmark Kentucky Pension Case Against KKR, Blackstone, and PAAMCO to Move to Trial?
An update on an important pension fund fiduciary duty case.
Read more...Robo-Signing, CalPERS-Style: Travel Expense Claim Forms Regularly Had Approval Signature of Board President Rob Feckner Faked by Staffers; Deputy CEO Doug Hoffner Also Participated in Approval of Undated, Pre-Signed Expense Forms
Yet another addition to the long roster of Board and senior executive misconduct at CalPERS.
Read more...The Digital Freedom Pass: Emancipation from Digital Slavery
A libertarian case against Silicon Valley’s digital slavemasters.
Read more...Gaius Publius: What to Expect from a Kavanaugh Court – Government-Funded “Religious” Education
Why Brett Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court would be very bad news.
Read more...Half-Baked Plan to Institutionalize CalPERS’ Kangaroo Court by Board President Priya Mathur and General Counsel Matt Jacobs Suffers Embarrassing Rejection by Board; Instigators Unduly Eager to Revive It
CalPERS General Counsel Matt Jacobs and Board President Priya Mathur get well-deserved black eyes.
Read more...Why Elizabeth Warren’s Accountable Capitalism Act Will Be Good for Shareholders
Why shareholders are getting a raw deal out of the misguided corporate fixation on “maximizing shareholder value,” and Elizabeth Warren’s new bill is therefore good for them.
Read more...Sacramento Bee Fingers CalPERS CEO Marcie Frost, General Counsel Matt Jacobs, and Board President Priya Mathur in Asubonten Resume Fabrication Scandal
Even the Sacramento Bee is compelled to call out CalPERS executives for their failure to do basic checking when hiring former CFO Charles Asubonten.
Read more...Plastics: Don’t Microwave, or Place in the Dishwasher
American Academy of Pediatrics highlights health concerns for children from plastics, and recommends reducing use of plastics, and not microwaving them or placing them in the dishwasher.
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