Final UK Election Polls: YouGov Still the Outlier, Predicts Tories Get Only 302 Seats
Conventional wisdoms still pegs the Tories as comfortable winners in today’s election, with the election map working against Labour.
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Mark Ames: When Mother Jones Was Investigated for Spreading Kremlin Disinformation
Mother Jones’ sad transformation from target of Kremlin scaremongering to perp in its “evil Putin” reincarnation.
Read more...CalPERS Legal Department Employee Trolls Naked Capitalism Site, Putting Focus on Violations of Bar Rules
A CalPERS employee appears to have broken state bar rules in a meant-to-be anonymous comment left at Naked Capitalism.
Read more...Down the Memory Hole: Living in Trump’s United States of Amnesia
Trump’s ever-changing explanations, “alternative facts,” and program of destroying Federal data is straight out of Orwell’s “memory hole”.
Read more...Wall Street Journal Trolls CalPERS After Getting It to Correct Expense Misrepresentation
The Wall Street Journal forced CalPERS to retreat on its misleading private equity expense reporting.
Read more...4 Lies in 25 Seconds: CalPERS’ Wylie Tollette, PR Staff, Keep Cooking Cost Numbers Despite Being Called Out
Another example of institutionalized lying is deeply rooted at CalPERS, even though they aren’t very good at it.
Read more...Why Did the FBI Leak the Comey Memo?
Putting the Comey leak in the context of US-Russia relations and the domestic factions that are keen to maintain hostilities.
Read more...Gaius Publius: Trump – A Nation in Crisis, Again
Trump’s opponents are using the Comey scandal to up their efforts to force Trump out. Is this likely to succeed?
Read more...United Tinpot Tyrant Violates Contract, Abuses Customer by Cancelling Ticket for Being Videoed
United hasn’t given up its “kick the customer” service norms.
Read more...Ilargi: Comey and the End of Conversation
Political and media reactions to the Comey firing show that American democracy is becoming dangerously factionalized.
Read more...Andrew Bacevich: What Obsessing About Trump Causes Us To Miss
Why fixating on Trump has the convenient effect of shifting attention away from other important topics. Cui bono?
Read more...NY Times Lets a Charter School Propagandist Distort the Facts on Its Op-Ed Page
Quelle surprise! Card carrying neoliberal David Leonhardt of the New York Times twists facts to try to make a case for charter schools.
Read more...Facebook Hews To Democratic Party Line on 2016 Election Manipulation
Facebook amplifies Team Blue’s message in announcing measures to deal with “information operations” that seek to manipulate public opinion.
Read more...Wall Street Journal Reports on Appearance of Private Equity Self-Dealing at Blackstone and Other Firms Nearly Four Years After We Broke the Story
So why is the Wall Street Journal years late in reporting on private equity self-dealng, and underplays its seriousness to boot?
Read more...Mark Ames: Credit Suisse Decries Russian Inequality After Playing Leading Role in Creating It
Credit Suisse criticizes Russian inequality after having profited handsomely from playing a big role in creating it.
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