#government-failure — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #government-failure, aggregated by home.social.
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What was it that our prime minister pledged prior to being elected in 2022? "No one left behind"??? #australia #homelessness #housingcrisis #affordablerent #humanrights #governmentfailure https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/ng-interactive/2026/apr/19/bikram-lama-birdman-sydney-st-james-tunnel-homelessness-ntwnfb
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New research finds few improvements for British Columbia’s endangered wildlife
#Canada #BritishColumbia #WildlifeCrisis #Biodiversity #EndangeredSpecies #Environment #ClimateCrisis #Wildlife #Conservation #GovernmentFailure #Nature
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George Carlin telling it like it is 34 years ago and it is 100% accurate today.
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War, genocide, highest national debt in history, protecting pedophiles, horrible inflation, rising gas prices, a convicted felon as POTUS and an inability to escape the country. This is what Republicans call "Winning".
https://www.npr.org/2026/03/25/nx-s1-5760981/tsa-wait-times-lines
#republicans #GovernmentFailure #tsa #ice #travel #goo #israel #gaza #Iran #fuel #epstinefiles #epstine #trump
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Yet more evidence that America's unreasonable regulations are a national security threat. This unduly red tape does nothing to serve the national interest ... or the common good.
https://reason.com/2026/03/21/chinas-rare-earth-dominance-was-made-in-america/
#bureaucracy #China #freeTrade #geopolitics #governmentFailure #nationalInterest #nationalSecurity #overregulation #permits #rareEarth #UnitedStates
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Republican EPA fails at the words used in its own name
#epa #republicans #environment #pollution #chemicals #governmentfailure
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Guess which percentage of bankruptcies are caused by healthcare in the USA:
40%
52%
66%#usa #healthcare #GovernmentFailure #bankruptcy #MedicalBankruptsy #Capitalism #Insurance #Corporations #ForProfit
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ホームレス危機でカナダが非常事態宣言で大騒ぎ – カーニー首相が癇癪を起こす! https://www.yayafa.com/2526523/ #BreakingNews #CanadaHomelessCrisis #CanadianPolitics #CarneyTantrum #CityInCrisis #EmergencyDeclaration #GovernmentFailure #HomelessnessInCanada #HousingCrisis #MarkCarneyReaction #NationalEmergency #PublicOutrage #SocialCrisis #StateOfEmergency #UrbanCollapse #緊急事態宣言
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David Bernhardt Sets Up His Own Shop to Lobby (indirectly) For Twin Metals
I missed this June Politico story about David Bernhardt breaking with Brownstein Hyatt and setting up his own lobbying shop at 1455 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, just a block away from the White House. The former Secretary of the Interior, who oversaw Trump’s first assault on the Boundary Waters, will now run the Twin Metals lobbying game.
The most recent Senate lobbying disclosures show Brownstein Hyatt filing a termination report on July 16, after collecting $110,000 for lobbying the Senate, House, and the Department of the Interior on behalf of Twin Metals in the second quarter of this year.
Just one day before that, on July 15, the Bernhardt Group LLC filed a new registration, to lobby — not directly for Twin Metals, but for Brownstein Hyatt “obo” (on behalf of) Twin Metals LLC. The Bernhardt Group has the same arrangement “on behalf of” other Brownstein clients, including Barrick Gold, USA Rare Earth, Bakelite, Denver Water, and the Central Arizona Water Conservation District.
In these cases, the Bernhardt Group LLC will lobby for a lobbying firm on behalf of the lobbying firm’s clients. I suppose “subcontractor” is the charitable term here.
Former Brownstein lobbyists with a Twin Metals track record, including Kate Gonzales, William McGrath, and Luke Johnson, will lead the Bernhardt Group’s lobbying effort for their former lobbying firm on behalf of Twin Metals. Their declared focus will be “mine leasing issues.” The Group billed $40,000 in the second quarter for its work.
In 2023, Bernhardt wrote a self-promoting book all about accountability and the “failing” administrative state. So it’s a little odd to see the former Secretary of the Interior’s new lobbying firm enclosed like a Matryoshka doll within another lobbying firm — an arrangement that should raise serious questions about public accountability and what people like Bernhardt call the DC swamp.
Maybe this is just another small reminder that David Bernhardt and the America First crowd were never talking about public accountability; they are complaining that sometimes the DC bureaucracy cannot be brought readily to heel.
For years, this crowd has worked behind the scenes to discredit the very idea of American government while exerting power within it and influence over it; now they are also dismantling the parts that stand in their way, so that their clients and cronies can strip, hoard, and sell our natural resources, our public lands, and other public goods.
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#administrativeState #corruption #deconstructionOfTheAdministrativeState #governmentCapture #governmentFailure #lobbying #lobbyingDisclosures #publicGoods #resourceHoarding
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सात बरस में 80 करोड़ खर्च, अब परियोजना का कार्यालय बन्द होने की कगार पर।
https://aliyesha.com/sub/articles/news/display/uk_metro_rail_project_management
#uttarakhand #dehradun #india #news #press #bjp #CMDhami #Metro #Railway #GovernmentFailure #ProjectMismanagement #BureaucraticHurdles #DehradunMetro #UrbanDevelopment
Enjoy tracker free reading with us. #privacy #privacymatters
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More than 50 members of an uncontacted #IndigenousTribe have been photographed on a riverbank in the remote #Peruvian #Amazon near an area where #logging companies have been granted concessions by the country's government.
The large group from the #MashcoPiro appeared in recent days near the southeastern village of #MonteSalvado, which belongs to the #Yine people. A smaller group of 17 appeared near a neighboring village.
The Yine, who speak a language related to that of the Mashco Piro, have previously reported that the #UncontactedTribe has been angry about the presence of #loggers on their land, according to the #IndigenousRights group #SurvivalInternational.
“This is irrefutable evidence that many Mashco Piro live in this area, which the government has not only failed to protect, but actually sold off to logging companies,” Alfredo Vargas Pio, president of the local Indigenous rights group #FENAMAD, said in a statement from Survival International.
#Indigenous #FirstPeoples #NativeRights #HumanRights #Deforestation #CorporateGreed #GreedKills #GovernmentFailure #Peru #GlobalSouth #StopEcocide #StopIndigenousGenocide #Environmental #SouthAmerica #ClimateCrisis #StopKillingForests #AmazonRainforest #IndigenousLand #NativeLand #EcoJustice
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Hope’s documents, from her citizenship certificate to her original #passport, listed her country of birth as South Africa. However, when the #Toronto family went to renew her passport, the records of the Immigration, Refugees & #CitizenshipCanada system didn’t match.
“Someone at IRCC recorded on her internal record that she was born in Swaziland, not South Africa... It was an error in their system.”
https://toronto.citynews.ca/2024/05/22/canadian-passport-renewal-citizen-8-year-old-girl-toronto/
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#BLABBERMOUTH
FILTER's RICHARD PATRICK: 'American Politics Has Turned Into Just An Absolute S*** Show'#americanpolitics
#filters
#richardpatrick
#sideshow
#absolutechaos
#governmentfailure
#statesofconfusion
#politicalturmoil
#elections2020
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CW: Robodebt
A full recounting of the history of Robodebt and the key players. Luke is one of the few people in the media who consistently sought the truth about the terrible injustices wrought by this horrific scheme. All involved have undermined the trust in government of some of the most marginal people in this society, plus the broader community as well. Just disgraceful
Robodebt: five years of lies, mistakes and failures that caused a $1.8bn scandal
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6/ The Tories must resign themselves to defeat in the present political situation, although like Trump and Bolsonaro they will try to cling to power. In any case the current Labour party, like that of Tony Blair, can be regarded as only a placeholder government devoid of socialist principles, that will basically carry on the same failed policies, giving the Tories the chance to regroup and return.
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Public Comment on the Rainy River Watershed Withdrawal
https://twitter.com/lvgaldieri/status/1478795253108912128?s=20
My written comments ran to five pages, so instead of posting them here, I put them online as a PDF, which you can read here. I also made a three-minute comment in the live session hosted by the Bureau of Land Management and the US Forest Service this afternoon. My comments focus mainly on the story I’ve been pursuing for the past few years — a story of corruption. The first couple of paragraphs convey the general idea:
Federal lands in the Rainy River Watershed should be withdrawn from disposition under US mineral and geothermal leasing laws for the proposed initial twenty-year period, if not permanently. This is an overdue decision, grounded in science, economics, law, and environmental ethics.
Why, then, hasn’t it already happened? How did this withdrawal process, which started in 2017, go off track? Agency records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act show clearly that a foreign mining company, Antofagasta plc, acted to prevent the withdrawal; and from 2017-2021, members of Congress and the executive branch ran political interference on its behalf. Decisions taken behind closed doors during that period served foreign private interests, not the American public interest. The agencies now have an opportunity to rectify the situation.
I end with three recommendations:
The announcement on October 20, 2021, that the Biden administration will complete the “science-based environmental analysis” was encouraging. Given all the political interference, the two-year study really ought to have been started all over again, from scratch, in the interest of scientific integrity. At the very least, USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack should release – unredacted — the preliminary findings of the canceled two-year scientific study, so that they can be compared with the new and complete analysis.
As agencies work toward a science-based decision on the twenty-year withdrawal, they also need to take additional steps to restore public confidence and guard against undue influence. As a first step, the USDA Inspector General could review Secretary Perdue’s decision to cancel the 2017 withdrawal process and report on scientific independence, ethical conduct, and political interference at the agency.
Finally, the agencies can help raise standards. Industry repeatedly assures us that non-ferrous mining in the Rainy River Watershed and elsewhere can be done “responsibly,” and there are a growing number of calls, from Congress and from within the Biden administration, for “responsible mining” for the transition to renewables. How should government respond? Rigorous and practical guidance for agencies on the law and ethics as well as the technical and scientific aspects of “responsible mining” would be a good start.
Here is a recording of my three-minute live comment, which tracks all this pretty closely. Video is cued to the mark.
https://youtu.be/jThQgcFySC8?t=8859
#BoundaryWaters #corruption #environmentalEthics #ethics #ethicsOfMining #goodGovernment #governmentFailure #Water