Cliff Kincaid:
"The notion that President Obama is trying to fire up his “base,” as he prepares for a re-election campaign, raises the question of what constitutes his base. It is becoming increasingly clear that the “workers” he is supposedly concerned about are going to be dismissed or ignored so that wealthy environmental groups can be accommodated.
Consider the words of Cecil Roberts, president of the powerful United Mine Workers, an affiliate of the AFL-CIO, after EPA administrator Lisa P. Jackson made a ruling against coal plants. “The Navy SEALs shot Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan and Lisa Jackson shot us in Washington,” Roberts said. Those who missed the news about Jackson shutting down coal plants through executive branch rules and regulations may have been unprepared for the Roberts assault. It was a big story for the media but framed in a way that played down the significance of what is taking place....." (Read more? Click title)
"Unapologetically pursuing and tracking patterns within the news others make since 2010."
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Showing posts with label Accuracy in Media. Show all posts
March 8, 2012
SandBoxBlogs: Accuracy in Media "Scandal at The Washington Post: Fraud, Lobbying & Insider Trading "
Rusty Weiss:
"In the summer of 2010, business columnist for The Washington Post Steven Pearlstein lifted the veil on the little-known company operating procedure that involves an incestuous relationship between his own employer, and the scandal-plagued, for-profit university known as Kaplan.1 In his column, Pearlstein made the argument that while personnel in the newsroom may have nothing to do with Kaplan, they most certainly have “benefited from its financial success.”...." (Read more? Click title)
"Unapologetically pursuing and tracking patterns within the news others make since 2010."
"In the summer of 2010, business columnist for The Washington Post Steven Pearlstein lifted the veil on the little-known company operating procedure that involves an incestuous relationship between his own employer, and the scandal-plagued, for-profit university known as Kaplan.1 In his column, Pearlstein made the argument that while personnel in the newsroom may have nothing to do with Kaplan, they most certainly have “benefited from its financial success.”...." (Read more? Click title)
"Unapologetically pursuing and tracking patterns within the news others make since 2010."
December 6, 2011
SandBox Comments: Accuracy in Media "The Case of CH2M HILL: $2 Billion in Crony Stimulation "
Ever wonder what it adds up to on local levels?
Cronyism. Worse yet, cronyism combined with unjust enrichment.
Few thousand here and there. Few tens of thousands over there. Start heading up valley into high-end construction and business and a few hundred thousand to millions.
There are many good things that eventually will come out of the exposure from Solyndra and the rampant abuses in Fanny, Freddie and the housing bubble.
The question is.
Will the folks survive that long? Especially when every time they turn around on federal levels, state levels and local levels more evidence of more abuses keeps rising like cream to the surface.
“Not very much.”
This was the answer that the Department of Energy Secretary, Steven Chu, recently provided when asked of the amount the federal government will be able to recover from the Solyndra bankruptcy.
“Not very much.”
The same could be said for the amount of research that the federal government has put into other companies involved in the Solyndra scandal. One such company, CH2M HILL, should be next on the House GOP radar, having used nearly $10 million in stimulus funding to design the elaborate Solyndra facility in Fremont, California. While CH2M HILL is in no danger of suffering the same bankruptcy plight, they also languish in a pool of mismanaged taxpayer funds. The firm has a history of fraud, kickbacks, violations, and cover-ups, not to mention one particular parallel with the Solyndra scandal—layoffs. This, despite receiving almost $2 billion in stimulus funding.
Why, having been awarded more than three times as much funding as Solyndra, has CH2M escaped serious scrutiny?
(Read more? Click title. Comment to discuss)
Cronyism. Worse yet, cronyism combined with unjust enrichment.
Few thousand here and there. Few tens of thousands over there. Start heading up valley into high-end construction and business and a few hundred thousand to millions.
There are many good things that eventually will come out of the exposure from Solyndra and the rampant abuses in Fanny, Freddie and the housing bubble.
The question is.
Will the folks survive that long? Especially when every time they turn around on federal levels, state levels and local levels more evidence of more abuses keeps rising like cream to the surface.
“Not very much.”
This was the answer that the Department of Energy Secretary, Steven Chu, recently provided when asked of the amount the federal government will be able to recover from the Solyndra bankruptcy.
“Not very much.”
The same could be said for the amount of research that the federal government has put into other companies involved in the Solyndra scandal. One such company, CH2M HILL, should be next on the House GOP radar, having used nearly $10 million in stimulus funding to design the elaborate Solyndra facility in Fremont, California. While CH2M HILL is in no danger of suffering the same bankruptcy plight, they also languish in a pool of mismanaged taxpayer funds. The firm has a history of fraud, kickbacks, violations, and cover-ups, not to mention one particular parallel with the Solyndra scandal—layoffs. This, despite receiving almost $2 billion in stimulus funding.
Why, having been awarded more than three times as much funding as Solyndra, has CH2M escaped serious scrutiny?
(Read more? Click title. Comment to discuss)
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