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Trump’s 2018 State of the Union speech: Drinking games, bingo, punditry, live feeds
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UK Political Pressures Rise….Because EU Does Exactly What It Has Been Saying It Would Do on Brexit
When you think the UK has made as much of a mess of Brexit as it possibly can, it manages to do even more.
Read more...Ilargi: Shithouses
How Trump’s widely deplored shithouses comment was an unintended, uncomfortable truth about US policy.
Read more...New Dept of Justice Guidelines Will Stymie Whistleblowers
DoJ policy will give staff attorneys discretion to thwart legit claims by whistleblowers, thus allowing corporate wrongdoers to skate.
Read more...Fallout from Carillion Collapse Hits KPMG
Carillion collapse demonstrates Big Four auditing firms are not only too big to fail, they’re too big to replace.
Read more...Rewriting the History of the Vietnam War, to the Detriment of Everyone Save the Military-Industrial Complex
Identifying the main players behind Vietnam War revisionist history and how they have succeed in forging disastrous policies.
Read more...Puerto Rico’s New Power Struggle: Privatization
Puerto Rico announces plans to privatise its public utility, even though many residents still lack power 4 months after Hurricane Maria.
Read more...Big Pharma Greets Hundreds Of Ex-Federal Workers At The ‘Revolving Door’
An update on one of the biggest users of DC revolving doors: health care industry executives.
Read more...Latest Tory Brexit Row: Another Bun Fight or a Cage Match?
More Brexit hissing and spitting from the Tories.
Read more...A Day in the Life of an NHS Nurse – How Our Government Is Failing Both Patients and Nurses
Nurses are leaving the NHS, and that’s no accident.
Read more...Amazon Scores Two More $5+ Billion Bids
More grifting, Amazon-style.
Read more...Fiduciary Counsel Ashley Dunning Encourages CalPERS to Muscle Actuary to Change His Forecasts of Funding Needs
How CalPERS’ fiduciary counsel encouraged its board to pressure its actuary to produce more politically-convenient results.
Read more...Gaius Publius: Democrats Laying Their Own Bonfire
The Democrats are increasingly cocky as potential voters become more and more angry over their pro-Establishment policies.
Read more...Amazon, City Killer?
The unseemly bidding war to have the opportunity to have Amazon ruin your city moves to its finalist phase.
Read more...The CIA Bull in Glenn Simpson’s Russia Shop
Russia case was a black job assigned by Republican candidates for president, then the Democratic National Committee, to discredit Trump in favor of Hillary Clinton.
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