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The F-35’s Terrifying Bug List
The Pentagon’s top testing official has weighed and measured the F-35 and found it wanting. By Patrick Tucker.
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Corrupt Silk Road Investigator Re-Arrested for Allegedly Trying to Flee the US
Just when the Silk Road’s saga of dirty money and double-dealing seemed to be winding down, one of the federal agents who investigated the site has added an audacious footnote: What looks like a brazen attempt to flee the United States after he was convicted and sentenced to prison for corruption in his handling of the case. Former Secret Service agent Shaun Bridges was re-arrested on Thursday of last week, just a day before he was scheduled to turn...
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Video Shows State Police Discussing How To Charge Protester
The state police internal affairs division is reviewing a video that surfaced recently that appears to show several troopers discussing what charges to levy against a man who was protesting a DUI enforcement checkpoint near Park Road in West Hartford last year.
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‘This Man Will Almost Certainly Die’
Dozens of men have died in disturbing circumstances in privatized, immigrant-only prisons. The Bureau of Prisons itself says there’s a problem. And yet the privatization scheme continues. By Seth Freed Wessler.
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A Fighter’s Hour of Need
Interviews reveal the events in the 60 minutes after a 2013 bout at Madison Square Garden that left Magomed Abdusalamov with severe brain damage. By Dan Barry.
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Google’s lawyers, Ron Paul’s grandson, and the most depraved campaign crime in decades
It is easily the most depraved little episode of presidential campaign crime in decades, worthy of Nixon’s CREEP or Boris Yeltsin’s goons, and it’s been almost totally ignored by the media—mainstream and otherwise. By Mark Ames. (Aug. 21)
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Japan's economy minister resigns over bribery allegations
Japan’s economy minister is to resign over allegations that he took bribes, dealing a blow to the prime minister, Shinzo Abe, and his attempts to revive the country’s faltering economy. Akira Amari, a central figure in Abe’s economic programme, known was “Abenomics”, acknowledged receiving money from an unnamed construction company executive. But he denied taking bribes, claiming he had instructed his aides to record the envelopes of cash as a political donation.
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Forty-Two Percent Of Russians Believe Corrupt Officials Have Performed Silent Coup
Nearly half of Russians agree that a quiet anti-constitutional coup has taken place in the country through changes of law that favor corrupt officials in power, according to pollster the Levada Center. The survey of 1,600 Russians was conducted at the end of December 2015 and involved two groups of 800 people. The first was asked if “recent changes to Russian legislation defending highly ranked corrupt officials at the top of the national government...
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'Putin is corrupt' says US Treasury
The US Treasury has told a BBC investigation that it considers Russian President Vladimir Putin to be corrupt.The US government has already imposed sanctions on Mr Putin's aides, but it is thought to be the first time it has directly accused him of corruption. His spokesman told the BBC that "none of these questions or issues needs to be answered, as they are pure fiction". Last week a UK public inquiry said Mr Putin had "probably" approved the murder of ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko.
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Michigan’s Great Stink
**Submitter's Note: browse this site in Privacy/Incognito mode.** In the 1850s, London, the world’s largest city, still didn’t have a sewer system. Waste simply flowed into the Thames, which was as disgusting as you might imagine. But conservatives, including the magazine The Economist and the prime minister, opposed any effort to remedy the situation. After all, such an effort would involve increased government spending and, they insisted, infringe on personal liberty and local control.
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The Tennis Racket: Secret Files Expose Evidence Of Match Fixing
Betting worth billions. Elite players. Violent threats. Covert messages with Sicilian gamblers. And suspicious matches at Wimbledon. Leaked files expose match-fixing evidence that tennis authorities have kept secret for years. By Heidi Blake and John Templon.
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DoD Weapons Tester Concerned about F-35 Software Development
Although the Joint Program Office maintains the F-35 program remains on track, the Pentagon’s top weapons tester recently raised concerns that the fifth-generation fighter jet’s software development could fall behind schedule. By Lara Seligman.
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Who Poisoned Flint, Michigan?
A writer returns home to find a toxic disaster, giant government failure and countless children exposed to lead. By Stephen Rodrick.
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The State of the Plutocracy: The Kabuki President on Money in Politics
The promotional build up to Obama’s January 12, 2016 State of the Union speech promised something completely different than his previous performances. Yet, on the day, it seemed completely the same, but more so. By Rob Hager. (Jan. 15)
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How government poisoned the people of Flint [Michigan]
Flint water has poisoned more than just its children. It s poisoned the citizenry's faith in government, which is supposed to provide safe drinking water, one of life's most basic essentials. By John Counts.
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[Wisconsin] Civil service overhaul heads to Scott Walker’s desk after Senate passage
The Senate voted on party lines, 19-14, late Wednesday to pass the civil service bill. By Mark Sommerhauser.
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Militant LaVoy Finicum Says Foster Children Were Pulled From His Home
LaVoy Finicum told OPB his four foster children were removed from his Arizona home due to his involvement in the armed occupation at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. “That was my main source of income,” Finicum said. “My ranch, well, the cows just cover the costs of the ranch. If this means rice and beans for the next few years, so be it. We’re going to stay the course.”
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'Government is the problem' and other Republican delusions
This was the backdrop to the Reagan revolution — and why it suited the moment. Republicans love to quote The Gipper's first inaugural address and its declaration that "government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem." But few bother to note that this statement was preceded by a qualification: "In this present crisis.”
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About half of retiring senators and a third of retiring House members register as lobbyists
Back in the 1970s and '80s, it was relatively rare for former Congress members to become lobbyists. This makes sense, since the lobbying industry was not nearly as big then. The real growth of lucrative Washington lobbying has been since the 1990s, trends that I document in my book The Business of America Is Lobbying: How Corporations Became Politicized and Politics Became More Corporate. Now reported lobbying is a $3.2 billion-a-year activity.
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Undisclosed dollars dominate campaign spending
Candidates and their allies push the limits of the law, while regulators sit on the sidelines. By Kenneth P. Vogel.
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