I generally don't trust government programs ceding control to corporations with the expectation that it will lower costs. This was a republican plan and it worked out well for the insurance lobbyists and their bosses. What did the fed think would happen? Same thing happening with the privatization of the prison system.
There doesn't look like there is any political defense for this, rep. or dem., except to invest in the corporations that have the most lobbyists, lol, at least you will defer some of the added expense if the CEOs are willing to share.
@Hobbes86 said:
I generally do not trust the government or their programs.
But you vote? Voting is a government program... Lol #wasteoftime
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"While British households head into a winter of soaring energy costs, a tumbling currency and nearly double-digit inflation, the country's banks are in line for a handsome payday as mortgage prices spike after a decade of stagnation."
--Reuters
"THERE ARE MORE eyes on students today than just a teacher’s watchful gaze. Thousands of school districts use monitoring software that can track students’ online searches, scan their emails, and in some cases, send alerts of perceived threats to law enforcement. A recent investigation by The Dallas Morning News revealed that colleges have been using an AI social-media-monitoring tool to surveil student protesters.
While technology companies claim to be able to prevent violence, there’s little proof that surveillance can actually protect students. Meanwhile, monitoring software has been used to reveal students' sexuality without their consent. Low-income, Black, and Hispanic students are also disproportionately exposed to surveillance and discipline."
"Act Like You’re Being Watched, Even After School
Whether you’re using your phone on your school’s Wi-Fi, or you’re using a school laptop at home, assume that everything you do is being scanned and logged by monitoring software. Did you plug in your personal phone to your school laptop? The photos on your phone might be scanned too. Nude photos sent from students’ personal phones, if plugged into school devices to charge, have triggered alerts to school administrators.
“You should assume that anything touching your school-issued device is going to be monitored in some way,” says Jason Kelley, associate director of digital strategy at the nonprofit Electronic Frontier Foundation. Monitoring doesn’t stop after school or off-campus either."
"I drink a great deal. I sleep a little, and I smoke cigar after cigar. That is why I am in two-hundred-percent form." -- Winston Churchill "LET'S GO FRANCIS" Peter
I saw that crap in a movie.
Now it's real.
Yep. I googled it. https://bradenkelley.com/2021/01/the-one-movie-all-electric-car-designers-should-watch/ Vince Vaughn and Kevin James’ characters are best friends and partners in a small auto design firm. The two have recently been given an opportunity to pitch an eco-friendly car to Dodge. One of the main features of this car is that it looks like a muscle car and it sounds like a muscle car, but it’s actually an electric car.
Perfect timing
More investigative journalism from the Wall Street Journal is reporting on how federal officials working on the government response to COVID-19 made some "well-timed financial trades" when markets tanked and rallied at the beginning of the pandemic. In fact, March 2020 was the most active month for trading by officials across the federal government, including the Department of Health and Human Services, while some officials even started trading in January 2020, when the U.S. public was largely unaware of the threat posed by the coronavirus.
Some examples: Then-Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao scooped up more than $600K in two stock funds while her agency was involved in the pandemic response, while her husband, Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell, led negotiations for a market-enhancing stimulus bill. Similarly, a deputy to top health official Anthony Fauci, Hugh Auchincloss, sold off thousands of dollars in stock funds after learning about pandemic risks in January. Treasury's Jeff Goettman also bought Boeing (BA) shares while being involved in administering the stimulus package for the planemaker, and invested in GE (GE) before the company secured lucrative contracts to supply ventilators.
To be clear, it is very hard to convict lawmakers of insider trading, as agency ethics officials rarely have a full picture of what employees are working on or the information that they are privy to. Many of the rules center on the types of stocks officials can trade, not when they can trade, and there are no restrictions on diversified mutual funds or funds managed by external accounts. Another hurdle is proving the "material" part of "material non-public information," as well as events that happen on the macro scale (like the pandemic) or affect entire industries.
Go deeper: Members of Congress have a lot of privileged and classified information that could move stock prices, as well as financial incentives from companies that routinely lobby Congress. Those decisions could also play a role in how much a given stock is worth, and Congress sought to counteract that in 2012 by passing a bill known as the STOCK Act. While the legislation requires lawmakers to disclose trades within 45 days, many say it doesn't do enough to prevent insider trading and conflicts of interest. Another report by the WSJ last week centered around trades by government officials that invested in companies that lobbied their agencies for favorable policies.
@silvermouse said:
Perfect timing
More investigative journalism from the Wall Street Journal is reporting on how federal officials working on the government response to COVID-19 made some "well-timed financial trades" when markets tanked and rallied at the beginning of the pandemic. In fact, March 2020 was the most active month for trading by officials across the federal government, including the Department of Health and Human Services, while some officials even started trading in January 2020, when the U.S. public was largely unaware of the threat posed by the coronavirus.
Some examples: Then-Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao scooped up more than $600K in two stock funds while her agency was involved in the pandemic response, while her husband, Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell, led negotiations for a market-enhancing stimulus bill. Similarly, a deputy to top health official Anthony Fauci, Hugh Auchincloss, sold off thousands of dollars in stock funds after learning about pandemic risks in January. Treasury's Jeff Goettman also bought Boeing (BA) shares while being involved in administering the stimulus package for the planemaker, and invested in GE (GE) before the company secured lucrative contracts to supply ventilators.
To be clear, it is very hard to convict lawmakers of insider trading, as agency ethics officials rarely have a full picture of what employees are working on or the information that they are privy to. Many of the rules center on the types of stocks officials can trade, not when they can trade, and there are no restrictions on diversified mutual funds or funds managed by external accounts. Another hurdle is proving the "material" part of "material non-public information," as well as events that happen on the macro scale (like the pandemic) or affect entire industries.
Go deeper: Members of Congress have a lot of privileged and classified information that could move stock prices, as well as financial incentives from companies that routinely lobby Congress. Those decisions could also play a role in how much a given stock is worth, and Congress sought to counteract that in 2012 by passing a bill known as the STOCK Act. While the legislation requires lawmakers to disclose trades within 45 days, many say it doesn't do enough to prevent insider trading and conflicts of interest. Another report by the WSJ last week centered around trades by government officials that invested in companies that lobbied their agencies for favorable policies.
Joe Rogan and Tulsi Gabbard were talking about the insider trading of congress the other day on his podcast. Some crooked a$$ shít. Pelosi had promised to bring to vote a bill that would prohibit the trading but keeps pushing it back as she and her husband rake in millions.
"I drink a great deal. I sleep a little, and I smoke cigar after cigar. That is why I am in two-hundred-percent form." -- Winston Churchill "LET'S GO FRANCIS" Peter
@silvermouse said:
Perfect timing
More investigative journalism from the Wall Street Journal is reporting on how federal officials working on the government response to COVID-19 made some "well-timed financial trades" when markets tanked and rallied at the beginning of the pandemic. In fact, March 2020 was the most active month for trading by officials across the federal government, including the Department of Health and Human Services, while some officials even started trading in January 2020, when the U.S. public was largely unaware of the threat posed by the coronavirus.
Some examples: Then-Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao scooped up more than $600K in two stock funds while her agency was involved in the pandemic response, while her husband, Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell, led negotiations for a market-enhancing stimulus bill. Similarly, a deputy to top health official Anthony Fauci, Hugh Auchincloss, sold off thousands of dollars in stock funds after learning about pandemic risks in January. Treasury's Jeff Goettman also bought Boeing (BA) shares while being involved in administering the stimulus package for the planemaker, and invested in GE (GE) before the company secured lucrative contracts to supply ventilators.
To be clear, it is very hard to convict lawmakers of insider trading, as agency ethics officials rarely have a full picture of what employees are working on or the information that they are privy to. Many of the rules center on the types of stocks officials can trade, not when they can trade, and there are no restrictions on diversified mutual funds or funds managed by external accounts. Another hurdle is proving the "material" part of "material non-public information," as well as events that happen on the macro scale (like the pandemic) or affect entire industries.
Go deeper: Members of Congress have a lot of privileged and classified information that could move stock prices, as well as financial incentives from companies that routinely lobby Congress. Those decisions could also play a role in how much a given stock is worth, and Congress sought to counteract that in 2012 by passing a bill known as the STOCK Act. While the legislation requires lawmakers to disclose trades within 45 days, many say it doesn't do enough to prevent insider trading and conflicts of interest. Another report by the WSJ last week centered around trades by government officials that invested in companies that lobbied their agencies for favorable policies.
Joe Rogan and Tulsi Gabbard were talking about the insider trading of congress the other day on his podcast. Some crooked a$$ shít. Pelosi had promised to bring to vote a bill that would prohibit the trading but keeps pushing it back as she and her husband rake in millions.
Yeah it’s bullshít, but they’re fine ones to talk. They were both all for the socialist movement until they lost popularity because of it. They’re both media whores.
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I generally do not trust the government or their programs.
"Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another." - Proverbs 27:17
I generally don't trust government programs ceding control to corporations with the expectation that it will lower costs. This was a republican plan and it worked out well for the insurance lobbyists and their bosses. What did the fed think would happen? Same thing happening with the privatization of the prison system.
There doesn't look like there is any political defense for this, rep. or dem., except to invest in the corporations that have the most lobbyists, lol, at least you will defer some of the added expense if the CEOs are willing to share.
As I always say… the left wing and the right wing are flying the same plane
I like that one, Rusty, I'll have to remember it.
"Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another." - Proverbs 27:17
But you vote? Voting is a government program... Lol #wasteoftime
there is something very wrong about this:
"While British households head into a winter of soaring energy costs, a tumbling currency and nearly double-digit inflation, the country's banks are in line for a handsome payday as mortgage prices spike after a decade of stagnation."
--Reuters
I can always hope.
"Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another." - Proverbs 27:17
Brave new world:
"THERE ARE MORE eyes on students today than just a teacher’s watchful gaze. Thousands of school districts use monitoring software that can track students’ online searches, scan their emails, and in some cases, send alerts of perceived threats to law enforcement. A recent investigation by The Dallas Morning News revealed that colleges have been using an AI social-media-monitoring tool to surveil student protesters.
While technology companies claim to be able to prevent violence, there’s little proof that surveillance can actually protect students. Meanwhile, monitoring software has been used to reveal students' sexuality without their consent. Low-income, Black, and Hispanic students are also disproportionately exposed to surveillance and discipline."
"Act Like You’re Being Watched, Even After School
Whether you’re using your phone on your school’s Wi-Fi, or you’re using a school laptop at home, assume that everything you do is being scanned and logged by monitoring software. Did you plug in your personal phone to your school laptop? The photos on your phone might be scanned too. Nude photos sent from students’ personal phones, if plugged into school devices to charge, have triggered alerts to school administrators.
“You should assume that anything touching your school-issued device is going to be monitored in some way,” says Jason Kelley, associate director of digital strategy at the nonprofit Electronic Frontier Foundation. Monitoring doesn’t stop after school or off-campus either."
https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-protect-yourself-school-surveillance-tech-privacy/
good citizenship in action:
https://www.newswise.com/coronavirus/survey-finds-more-than-40-of-americans-misled-others-about-having-covid-19-and-use-of-precautions/
Tour Amazon’s dream home, where every appliance is also a spy
Here’s everything Amazon learns about your family, your home and you
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2022/amazon-smart-home/
This is why I don't use the new techy stuff.
"Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another." - Proverbs 27:17
I'm honestly shocked this got published in the Washington Post.
🤣🤣
-- Winston Churchill
"LET'S GO FRANCIS" Peter
I've heard of rain fade, backhoe fade (where a backhoe accidentally cuts fiber optic lines), now there's cat fade.
The hellcat for sissies and green weenies.
Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.
Special exhaust system for an EV?
Speakers that make it sound like an exhaust system.
I saw that crap in a movie.
Now it's real.
Yep. I googled it.
https://bradenkelley.com/2021/01/the-one-movie-all-electric-car-designers-should-watch/
Vince Vaughn and Kevin James’ characters are best friends and partners in a small auto design firm. The two have recently been given an opportunity to pitch an eco-friendly car to Dodge. One of the main features of this car is that it looks like a muscle car and it sounds like a muscle car, but it’s actually an electric car.
Supposed to use Topp baseball cards.
I had one of those as a kid, Bob. The playing card.
That's how I motorized my bike before I discovered motorcycles.
Speaking of motors, I think I will wait until maybe never for the bugs to be worked out
https://www.autoevolution.com/news/tesla-model-3-owner-gets-stranded-in-the-middle-of-the-freeway-in-her-third-drive-201326.html
Perfect timing
More investigative journalism from the Wall Street Journal is reporting on how federal officials working on the government response to COVID-19 made some "well-timed financial trades" when markets tanked and rallied at the beginning of the pandemic. In fact, March 2020 was the most active month for trading by officials across the federal government, including the Department of Health and Human Services, while some officials even started trading in January 2020, when the U.S. public was largely unaware of the threat posed by the coronavirus.
Some examples: Then-Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao scooped up more than $600K in two stock funds while her agency was involved in the pandemic response, while her husband, Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell, led negotiations for a market-enhancing stimulus bill. Similarly, a deputy to top health official Anthony Fauci, Hugh Auchincloss, sold off thousands of dollars in stock funds after learning about pandemic risks in January. Treasury's Jeff Goettman also bought Boeing (BA) shares while being involved in administering the stimulus package for the planemaker, and invested in GE (GE) before the company secured lucrative contracts to supply ventilators.
To be clear, it is very hard to convict lawmakers of insider trading, as agency ethics officials rarely have a full picture of what employees are working on or the information that they are privy to. Many of the rules center on the types of stocks officials can trade, not when they can trade, and there are no restrictions on diversified mutual funds or funds managed by external accounts. Another hurdle is proving the "material" part of "material non-public information," as well as events that happen on the macro scale (like the pandemic) or affect entire industries.
Go deeper: Members of Congress have a lot of privileged and classified information that could move stock prices, as well as financial incentives from companies that routinely lobby Congress. Those decisions could also play a role in how much a given stock is worth, and Congress sought to counteract that in 2012 by passing a bill known as the STOCK Act. While the legislation requires lawmakers to disclose trades within 45 days, many say it doesn't do enough to prevent insider trading and conflicts of interest. Another report by the WSJ last week centered around trades by government officials that invested in companies that lobbied their agencies for favorable policies.
https://seekingalpha.com/news/3893013-wsj-flags-well-timed-trades-in-washington-that-coincided-with-the-pandemic
Cleveland school allows armed teens into building to avoid cops.
https://bearingarms.com/tomknighton/2022/10/19/cleveland-armed-teens-n63414?utm_source=badaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&bcid=c7bdc1cb908c7aa24593103c607179d577e53ef54b595575371986e4e7d1d31f
Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.
Joe Rogan and Tulsi Gabbard were talking about the insider trading of congress the other day on his podcast. Some crooked a$$ shít. Pelosi had promised to bring to vote a bill that would prohibit the trading but keeps pushing it back as she and her husband rake in millions.
-- Winston Churchill
"LET'S GO FRANCIS" Peter
These two assistant principals are numb in the head.
"Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another." - Proverbs 27:17
Yeah it’s bullshít, but they’re fine ones to talk. They were both all for the socialist movement until they lost popularity because of it. They’re both media whores.