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Trump surgeon general nominee discloses tobacco, pharma investments
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Cat Zakrzewski: "For months, Katie Miller* has denounced ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini in nearly 500 posts. She did not tell her followers that she holds a more than $1 million stake in their top competitor, Elon Musk's xAI."
#AI #ConflictOfInterest.
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Cat Zakrzewski: "For months, Katie Miller* has denounced ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini in nearly 500 posts. She did not tell her followers that she holds a more than $1 million stake in their top competitor, Elon Musk's xAI."
#AI #ConflictOfInterest.
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Cat Zakrzewski: "For months, Katie Miller* has denounced ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini in nearly 500 posts. She did not tell her followers that she holds a more than $1 million stake in their top competitor, Elon Musk's xAI."
#AI #ConflictOfInterest.
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Cat Zakrzewski: "For months, Katie Miller* has denounced ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini in nearly 500 posts. She did not tell her followers that she holds a more than $1 million stake in their top competitor, Elon Musk's xAI."
#AI #ConflictOfInterest.
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Samsung Union Chief Bought Supplies From Father-in-Law’s Firm
Choi Seung-ho, chairman of the Samsung Electronics branch of the Cho Kiup Labor Union, arrives at the Suwon…
#EuropeSays #Korea #KR #SamsungElectronics #ChoGi-eopUnion #ChoiSeung-ho #conflictofinterest #laboruniontransparency #performancebonus #Samsung #unionblacklist
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No contracts, no paperwork. If I worked him hard I’d sling him some money - this is how Jez talks about ‘his’ solicitor. Solicitor & friend. 🙉
Who is also Jean Nassif’s solicitor. 🙉Then Jez apparently apologetic that he’s not really across conflict of interest… 🙈
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Corporate Hegemony in the Banking Sector and the Deposit Crisis
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Michael Ranger brings us the latest of Corb Lund's Citizen Initiative.
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While the Citizen Initiative Act is used to bring dangerous and unconstitutional petitions forward, like those in favour of Alberta Separation, the UCP arguably have conflicts of interest that can lead to "issue fixing" surrounding the Act due to how much power it holds over Elections Alberta. The UCP controls the selection for the very same offices that manage the Citizen Initiative Act, and other critical pieces of legislation intended to regulate the Politician. The UCP controls the resources available to Elections Alberta to investigate offences.
As noted by the CBC’s Michelle Bellefontaine, in “Alberta government ignores AG’s offer to stay on 2 more years, starts search for replacement”,
>The motion to begin a search for an auditor general was passed by the five UCP MLAs who make up the majority on the standing committee on legislative offices that overseas the office of the auditor general, the chief electoral officer, the ombudsman and public interest commissioner, the ethics commissioner and the information and privacy commissioner.
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Committee member Scott Cyr, who is the MLA for Bonnyville-Cold Lake-St. Paul, introduced the motion to set up an auditor general search committee near the end of a contentious meeting.
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>Cyr, and four of his UCP MLA colleagues — Nolan Dyck from Grande Prairie, Chelsae Petrovic from Livingstone-Macleod, Jackie Lovely from Camrose and Chantelle de Jonge from Chestermere-Strathmore — voted in favour of the motion.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/auditor-general-wylie-alberta-9.6965562
The UCP has also moved goal posts concerning Elections Alberta's ability to investigate offences and the time limits. According to the Globe's "A watchdog curtailed", by Tom Cardoso and Carrie Tait:
>Marc Mayrand, a retired public servant and Elections Canada’s chief electoral officer from 2007 to 2016, said the timelines established by the Alberta government are “not realistic.”
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>“I’ve never seen an investigation completed within a year of the commission of an offence,” he said. “It would be extremely difficult to imagine an acceptable rationale for such a short time period. Twelve months from the commission of an offence – it’s almost unimaginable to think that it can be done.”
The article also includes a table of other provinces and their time limits on Election offences, some of whom have no time limit.
https://kopitalk.net/c/canada/p/381433/alberta-justice-minister-curtailed-election-regulator-when-sam-mraiche-was-under-investi
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-alberta-justice-minister-sam-mraiche-investigation/
https://archive.ph/bXXb9
When Canadians recall that the UCP also tightly controls the funding to this very same Watchdog, there's a real fear that foxes are in the henhouse.
Global's Jack Farrell and Lisa Johnson, in "Province denies Elections Alberta’s request for $13.5 million to handle recall petitions", explored the issue of Elections Alberta requesting additional funding to properly carry out recall petitions and Citizen Initiatives. The UCP issued a chilling reminder to Chief Electoral Officer, Gordon McClure, who controls the purse strings, and who he answers to. I would suggest this does raise questions about the Chief Electoral Officer's independence, and why would such an Officer not consider resigning from the appearance of political interference.
>“To say this is straining our organization from both a staffing and space perspective is an understatement,” said McClure.
https://globalnews.ca/news/11511194/elections-albertas-recall-petition-funding/
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#EthicalFading #Corruption #UCP #ClimateDefense #CorbLund #ElectionsAlberta #water #AlbertaUnderSiege #WaterNotCoal #GordonMcClure #conflictofinterest #CitizenInitiativeAct
https://kopitalk.net/c/[email protected]/p/931126/corb-lund-seeks-court-review-after-rejection-of-anti-coal-petition
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Corb Lund seeks court review after rejection of anti-coal petition
Michael Ranger brings us the latest of Corb Lund’s Citizen Initiative.
Country musician Corb Lund and his advocacy group Water Not Coal have launched a legal challenge against Elections Alberta, asking the courts to review the decision to reject a citizen-led initiative aimed at banning new coal mining projects on the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains.
The court application follows Elections Alberta’s early July ruling that the petition failed to meet the threshold required under the province’s Citizen Initiative Act, despite organizers submitting more than 207,000 signatures in support of the proposal.
Water Not Coal is arguing the decision was unfair and runs counter to the intent of the legislation designed to encourage public participation in democracy. The group alleges Elections Alberta applied overly strict standards when validating signatures, required voters to accurately recall details months after signing, and relied on a flawed statistical sampling process to determine whether enough signatures were valid.
While the Citizen Initiative Act is used to bring dangerous and unconstitutional petitions forward, like those in favour of Alberta Separation, the UCP arguably have conflicts of interest that can lead to “issue fixing” surrounding the Act due to how much power it holds over Elections Alberta. The UCP controls the selection for the very same offices that manage the Citizen Initiative Act, and other critical pieces of legislation intended to regulate the Politician. The UCP controls the resources available to Elections Alberta to investigate offences.
As noted by the CBC’s Michelle Bellefontaine, in “Alberta government ignores AG’s offer to stay on 2 more years, starts search for replacement”,
The motion to begin a search for an auditor general was passed by the five UCP MLAs who make up the majority on the standing committee on legislative offices that overseas the office of the auditor general, the chief electoral officer, the ombudsman and public interest commissioner, the ethics commissioner and the information and privacy commissioner.
Committee member Scott Cyr, who is the MLA for Bonnyville-Cold Lake-St. Paul, introduced the motion to set up an auditor general search committee near the end of a contentious meeting.
Cyr, and four of his UCP MLA colleagues — Nolan Dyck from Grande Prairie, Chelsae Petrovic from Livingstone-Macleod, Jackie Lovely from Camrose and Chantelle de Jonge from Chestermere-Strathmore — voted in favour of the motion.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/auditor-general-wylie-alberta-9.6965562
The UCP has also moved goal posts concerning Elections Alberta’s ability to investigate offences and the time limits. According to the Globe’s “A watchdog curtailed”, by Tom Cardoso and Carrie Tait:
Marc Mayrand, a retired public servant and Elections Canada’s chief electoral officer from 2007 to 2016, said the timelines established by the Alberta government are “not realistic.”
“I’ve never seen an investigation completed within a year of the commission of an offence,” he said. “It would be extremely difficult to imagine an acceptable rationale for such a short time period. Twelve months from the commission of an offence – it’s almost unimaginable to think that it can be done.”
The article also includes a table of other provinces and their time limits on Election offences, some of whom have no time limit.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-alberta-justice-minister-sam-mraiche-investigation/
When Canadians recall that the UCP also tightly controls the funding to this very same Watchdog, there’s a real fear that foxes are in the henhouse.
Global’s Jack Farrell and Lisa Johnson, in “Province denies Elections Alberta’s request for $13.5 million to handle recall petitions”, explored the issue of Elections Alberta requesting additional funding to properly carry out recall petitions and Citizen Initiatives. The UCP issued a chilling reminder to Chief Electoral Officer, Gordon McClure, who controls the purse strings, and who he answers to. I would suggest this does raise questions about the Chief Electoral Officer’s independence, and why would such an Officer not consider resigning from the appearance of political interference.
“To say this is straining our organization from both a staffing and space perspective is an understatement,” said McClure.
https://globalnews.ca/news/11511194/elections-albertas-recall-petition-funding/
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@xgranade If it was a step by step graduation of Search Engine tech, then calling it LLM, AI, or any other removed moniker, would suffice.
But the rapid acceleration of crypto, opening up the wealthiest #TechBros to compete with #FossilFuels in cornering #energy markets, led inevitably toward more #Capitalism abuses, with #AI #DataCenters doing 'all-of-the-above(below)'. Add #ConflictOfInterest #politicians writing policy for said abusers, and further abuses compile.
They'll continue to do this, in Western Capitalism countries, along with global shifts toward authoritarian autocracies (#ClimateCrisis is another major topic), until there's only them left, to reemerge from their luxury bunkers. The 99% are CLEARLY expendable. So if you have offspring, look toward #EmergingEconomies in #DevelopingCountries - like those piggybacking off of the #BeltAndRoadInitiative in the #GlobalSouth - and root there.
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Why #BCNDP won't EVER get my vote or any of my family's vote again.
Why I hate cops even more.
Why I yell at people who support cops.
You would shut your coploving mouths if they pulled the same shit on your family & your Dad dies on same night.Why I still believe no Mayor should be heading ANY municipal police boards. FUCK YOU, DEAN - SAANICH MAYOR & #BOOTLICKER
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Why #BCNDP won't EVER get my vote or any of my family's vote again.
Why I hate cops even more.
Why I yell at people who support cops.
You would shut your coploving mouths if they pulled the same shit on your family & your Dad dies on same night.Why I still believe no Mayor should be heading ANY municipal police boards. FUCK YOU, DEAN - SAANICH MAYOR & #BOOTLICKER
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Let the grilling of the commissioner-nominees begin https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/podcast/let-the-grilling-of-the-commissioner-nominees-begin/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #commissionerdesignate #conflictofinterest #EuropeanCommission #JURI
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More than 140 fossil fuel and chemical industry lobbyists have been admitted to participate in the #INC3 #PlasticsTreaty talks meeting this week in Nairobi.
That’s more participants than 70 countries combined.
It is also greater than the 38 Scientists’ Coalition for an Effective Plastics Treaty participants.#BreakFreeFromPlastics #FossilFuels #ConflictOfInterest #GlobalPlasticsTreaty
https://www.ciel.org/news/fossil-fuel-and-chemical-industries-at-inc-3/
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#Woodward currently represents #WaltNauta, one of the two Trump employees also #charged in the documents case, in addition to having previously repped the IT head, who is not named in Wed's filing.
Prosecutors have said the employee is likely to testify at #trial, posing a potential #ConflictOfInterest for Woodward, who will face the prospect of a fmr client testifying against a current client. (& who is paid by the primary actor in the case)
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Following up on ↑ stories:
After Paying #Lawyers, Trump’s #PAC Is Nearly Broke
The scramble to cover #legal bills for #Trump & his associates has prompted what appears to be the largest #refund in federal #CampaignFinance history.
#FEC #ConflictOfInterest #Ethics #ABA #MRPC #Law #Influence #DeOliveira #Nauta #Criminal #Conspiracy #Obstruction #DOJ #SpecialCounsel #JackSmith
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/31/us/politics/trump-pac-filing.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare -
Reminds me of Succession when Greg wanted independent legal counsel, but then a Waystar RoyCo lawyer showed up at his door….
#ConflictOfInterest #Ethics #ABA #MRPC #ModelRulesOfProfessionalConduct #Law #Legal #WitnessTampering #Influence #Bribery #Extortion #Trump #DeOliveira #Nauta #Criminal #Conspiracy #ClassifiedDocuments #Obstruction #DOJ #SpecialCounsel #JackSmith
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“#Trump’s #PAC paid $189,040 in 2022 to the law firm where #DeOliveira’s #lawyer, #JohnIrving, is a partner.”
#ConflictOfInterest #Ethics #ABA #MRPC #ModelRulesOfProfessionalConduct #Law #Legal #WitnessTampering #Influence #Bribery #Extortion #Criminal #Conspiracy #ClassifiedDocuments #Obstruction #DOJ #SpecialCounsel #JackSmith
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/revised-trump-indictment-raises-new-questions-lawyer-conflicts-interes-rcna96853 -
The Hinman docs: Implications for XRP, SEC credibility and more - The Hinman documents have been available to Ripple for over two y... - https://cointelegraph.com/news/hinman-docs-xrp-sec #conflictofinterest #hinmandocuments #gabrielshapiro #laurajarsulic #fredrispoli #etherspeech #johndeaton #jamesfilan #ripplelabs #jayclayton #billhinman #cryptolaw #howey #eth
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IMO, if passed, this bill will decrease sales of #EVs. The #TaxCredit is a buyer #incentive. This limits buyers to specific makes/models. I’m for #AmericanMade, but as a #CoalBaron w/financial ties to #oil & #gas, #JoeManchin’s bill isn’t about American made/sourced components, but #SelfEnrichment.
#Corruption #Greed #ConflictOfInterest #FossilFuels #ClimateCrisis https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/27/climate/manchin-coal-climate-conflicts.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare