Why Are We Mostly Ignoring the Climate Crisis? The Message Is Wrong
Why is there so little urgency about combatting climate change? What can be done to reverse that?
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#MeToo Under the Golden Arches at McDonald’s
#MeToo on Capitol Hill, and #MeToo at McDonald’s
Read more...Adam Ashton of the Sacramento Bee Publicizes This Blog (and CalPERS’ Frustration With It)
Adam Ashton of the Sacramento Bee questions why we would want to expose public corruption and incompetence at CalPERS. No, I am not making that up.
Read more...California Treasurer John Chiang Calls for an Independent Investigation of CalPERS CEO Marcie Frost’s Hiring Misrepresentations
California Treasurer John Chiang objects to CalPERS efforts to treat documented evidence of CEO Marcie Frost making repeated misrepresentations about her background as a PR problem and calls for a serious investigation.
Read more...How CalPERS CEO Marcie Frost’s Efforts to Organize Astroturf Support Are Compromising Her
If she succeeds, the survival efforts of CalPERS CEO Marcie Frost will come at a cost to the giant pension fund.
Read more...Los Angeles Times’ Mike Hiltzik Says CalPERS Needs to Come Clean About CEO Frost’s Educational Claims
Pulitzer Prize winner Mike Hiltzik makes clear he is not buying the stories CalPERS has been selling about CEO Marcie Frost’s resume misrepresentations.
Read more...Financial Times’ FundFire Unambiguously Confirms Our Reporting of Misrepresentations by CalPERS CEO Marcie Frost
Financial Times’ FundFire reporter Fola Akinnibi has written three stories this week that referred to misrepresentations made by CalPERS CEO Marcie Frost during and after her hiring by the giant pension fund. His latest report, CalPERS CEO Misstated Educational Background During Hiring Process (no online version) not only flatly calls out Frost’s falsehoods, but also […]
Read more...Social Media vs the Constitution
ocial media players like Facebook and Twitter increasingly informational town squares yet still carry themselves as private companies.
Read more...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...Why I Hate The New York Times Front Page Redesign
Moar crapification.
Read more...Matt Taibbi on Facebook and Google Playing the Censor
Matt Taibbi weighs in on how tech giants are endangering your civil liberties.
Read more...A Rough Guide to the 12 Intelligence Officials Who Condemned Trump for Revoking John Brennan’s Security Clearance
Chutzpah!
Read more...The Trump-Media Logrolling
Looking at who the media has silenced in the Trump era, such as critics of America’s wars and of Israel.
Read more...Hubert Horan’s Quick Take on Uber’s Second Quarter Results
Uber’s latest financial report confirms Hubert Horan’s predictions.
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.
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