What the reality will be to who?Typhoon wrote:Deep State? Had to google it.
The military/industrial/financial/bureaucracy complex is very well entrenched across the two party lines.
It's all been talk and wishful thinking until now. Starting today, er, tomorrow [EST] we will begin to see what the reality will be.
Progress for who?The gist of his speech was simple: At a time of "uncertainty" we must double down on the values that made Western democracies great, and not allow the "liberal world order" to be torn apart by destructive forces.
Biden went after Russian President Vladimir Putin by name, saying he is using "every tool" in his power to whittle away the European project, and undermine Western democracies. Biden accused Putin of wanting to "roll back decades of progress."
we had that happen here a decade or so ago and the buggers just re-employed their friends as contractors.Mr. Perfect wrote:Beating the deep state may be easier than anyone ever imagined.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/boom- ... le/2612037#!
Boom: Trump eyes 10% spending cuts, 20% slash of federal workers
Making good on a promise to slash government, President-elect Trump has asked his incoming team to pursue spending and staffing cuts.
Insiders said that the spending reductions in some departments could go as high as 10 percent and staff cuts to 20 percent, numbers that would rock Washington if he follows through.
In Japan, it is more formalized. Amakudari or "descent from heaven" is the name given to the widespread practice of senior govt bureaucrats assuming director type positions at corporations after retirement. Often in the same corporations that they were supposed to oversee/regulate.noddy wrote:we had that happen here a decade or so ago and the buggers just re-employed their friends as contractors.Mr. Perfect wrote:Beating the deep state may be easier than anyone ever imagined.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/boom- ... le/2612037#!
Boom: Trump eyes 10% spending cuts, 20% slash of federal workers
Making good on a promise to slash government, President-elect Trump has asked his incoming team to pursue spending and staffing cuts.
Insiders said that the spending reductions in some departments could go as high as 10 percent and staff cuts to 20 percent, numbers that would rock Washington if he follows through.
it takes a long term concerted effort.
Australia[edit]
In Australia, this is of significant public debate as many state leaders have become private consultants for corporations. There is no legislation against doing so.
France[edit]
A law in the penal code of France governing public officials who move between the public and private sectors[3] requires a three-year wait between working in the government and taking a job in the private sector.
Hong Kong[edit]
The appointment of Leung Chin-man as executive director of New World China Land in 2008 led to much controversy. Leung was previously a senior civil servant and administrative officer in charge of lands. His appointment as an executive director of a subsidiary of a land developer led to allegations of collusion of interests and delayed interests. He resigned after two weeks, and the territory's Legislative Council had, for years, an inquiry into the matter.
Japan[edit]
Amakudari (天下り amakudari?, "descent from heaven") is the institutionalized practice where Japanese senior bureaucrats retire to high-profile positions in the private and public sectors. The practice was increasingly viewed as corrupt and a drag on unfastening the ties between private sector and state which prevent economic and political reforms.
In April 2007, a law to phase out amakudari prohibits ministries from attempting to place bureaucrats in industry with implementation in 2009. However, the law also removed a two-year ban that prevented retiring officials from taking jobs with companies with which they had official dealings during the five years before retirement.
And some discipline.noddy wrote:we had that happen here a decade or so ago and the buggers just re-employed their friends as contractors.Mr. Perfect wrote:Beating the deep state may be easier than anyone ever imagined.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/boom- ... le/2612037#!
Boom: Trump eyes 10% spending cuts, 20% slash of federal workers
Making good on a promise to slash government, President-elect Trump has asked his incoming team to pursue spending and staffing cuts.
Insiders said that the spending reductions in some departments could go as high as 10 percent and staff cuts to 20 percent, numbers that would rock Washington if he follows through.
it takes a long term concerted effort.
flushing 2 or 3 generations from the system is nigh on impossible.NapLajoieonSteroids wrote:And some discipline.noddy wrote:we had that happen here a decade or so ago and the buggers just re-employed their friends as contractors.Mr. Perfect wrote:Beating the deep state may be easier than anyone ever imagined.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/boom- ... le/2612037#!
Boom: Trump eyes 10% spending cuts, 20% slash of federal workers
Making good on a promise to slash government, President-elect Trump has asked his incoming team to pursue spending and staffing cuts.
Insiders said that the spending reductions in some departments could go as high as 10 percent and staff cuts to 20 percent, numbers that would rock Washington if he follows through.
it takes a long term concerted effort.
It is a road to ruin and an easily avoidable one, as there are countless examples throughout history of empires crumbling because a generation of people put in charge decide to start stealing cookies from the cookie jar. It always get out of hand as sociological corruption is a very pernicious threat hard to combat.
http://nypost.com/2017/01/26/senior-sta ... epartment/Four top career officials at the State Department left the same day Secretary of State-designate Rex Tillerson paid a visit to Foggy Bottom to introduce himself, officials said Thursday.
The four — including Patrick Kennedy, State’s long-time undersecretary for management, who had been with the department since 1973 — and the others left on Wednesday.
“As is standard with every transition, the outgoing administration, in coordination with the incoming one, requested all politically appointed officers submit letters of resignation,” acting State Department spokesman Mark Toner said.
Why would Edgar Hoover be spinning in his grave over the CIA? He was in charge of the FBI.Torchwood wrote:So you prefer the Russian Deep State to the US one, do you, Mr.P?
The CIA being on the truthful, I mean liberal, side is actually quite amusing. Edgar Hoover must be spinning in his grave.
To be fair he was virulently anti communist. Wrote a book or two on the subject. OTOH he was anti globalist so like Trump he may have seen an ally in Putin.NapLajoieonSteroids wrote:Why would Edgar Hoover be spinning in his grave over the CIA? He was in charge of the FBI.Torchwood wrote:So you prefer the Russian Deep State to the US one, do you, Mr.P?
The CIA being on the truthful, I mean liberal, side is actually quite amusing. Edgar Hoover must be spinning in his grave.
You gotta aim the snark a lot better than that- at least hit a target.
multiple sources said that next on Trump’s hit list are a series of protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered workers. They were put in place by the Obama administration, and have been irking some conservatives ever since.
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"It's bad," said one tech player who has been read the draft of the order, which is expected to be issued by Trump soon.
Right now, it includes overturning a directive that bars discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in the federal workforce and those who contract with the government.
That might mean anything, such as a federal employee refusing to serve a gay person due to a religious objection. (Is my postman going to refuse to deliver my mail? — thankfully no, since I live in San Francisco’s Castro neighborhood, which I like to call alternative facts to Trump’s America.)
Sound familiar? That's because our new vice president, Mike Pence, shoved through this same kind of awful law when he was governor of Indiana, essentially trying to legalize discrimination against gays by arguing that religious liberties were paramount.
.. Ahmadinejat should be included among Trump advisers. In a typical year, the American Civil Liberties Union gets about $4 million in online donations.
But over this past weekend, the organization received $24.1 million from online donors, six times what it normally receives in a whole year . .
very sad, indeedMr. Perfect wrote:Lol, Jill Stein also raised much money. Did you see how that turned out
http://thehill.com/homenews/administrat ... -workplaceHeracleum Persicum wrote:.
Calling Peter Thiel
multiple sources said that next on Trump’s hit list are a series of protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered workers. They were put in place by the Obama administration, and have been irking some conservatives ever since.
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"It's bad," said one tech player who has been read the draft of the order, which is expected to be issued by Trump soon.
Right now, it includes overturning a directive that bars discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in the federal workforce and those who contract with the government.
That might mean anything, such as a federal employee refusing to serve a gay person due to a religious objection. (Is my postman going to refuse to deliver my mail? — thankfully no, since I live in San Francisco’s Castro neighborhood, which I like to call alternative facts to Trump’s America.)
Sound familiar? That's because our new vice president, Mike Pence, shoved through this same kind of awful law when he was governor of Indiana, essentially trying to legalize discrimination against gays by arguing that religious liberties were paramount.
Reminds me of Ahmadinejat .. poor guy got unjust treatment
MP, you have the mike
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White House: Trump will enforce LGBTQ workplace protections
Doc wrote:.
I was talking to a kid yesterday Who Ironically is Iranian Americans She was really angry about Trump repeating lie after lie about Trump and Immigrants. After a little while it turned out her mother, a naturalized citizen had gone to see family in Iran. Someone had told her that Trump wasn't going to let her mother return to the US. These anti-Trump folks are really cynical bastards that will do anything to destabilize this government of a democratically elected POTUS
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He’s a bariatric surgeon with a large network of colleagues, patients and friends; he's married to an American woman and together they're the parents of three American-born children; and above all, he himself has dual citizenship in Iran and the United States and he has lived in the Chicago area for nearly four decades.
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.. visiting his 88-year-old mother ..
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"It’s really nice getting to the U.S., because when you come through the U.S., you know what they tell you? They just look at your passport and they say, ‘Welcome home, sir.’"
Something was different this time.
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"Typically (customs agents) are just wonderful in Chicago and I’m very proud of that," Heydari said. "They were still extremely nice and I felt they were even somewhat apologetic. That they did not feel comfortable asking these questions but they had to because the order comes from above."
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Through the recent visits to Iran this past decade, Heydari said he's noticed how much life has improved for average Iranians.
It was a surreal feeling speaking to his taxi driver, for example, about how freedoms are expanding in Iran but being taken away in the United States.
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"Things like this happened slowly there as well, little rights were taken away in the name of security. I'm worried this is just the beginning here," he said. "It does not surprise me that this happens in countries that have no human rights, like North Korea. It just surprises me that it's happened in the United States."
Heydari said he doesn't practice any religion and questioned whether the seven countries were selected simply because they are majority Muslim, and questioned why a country such as Saudi Arabia would be left off the list if this is strictly for safety's sake, since many of the terrorists in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks were from Saudi Arabia.
"I understand when they say it's about security, of course, but it's hard when it happens to you. How do they know what religion I am? They don't. So what will they get wrong about you and what price will you have to pay for it?"
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"The United States is the greatest country in the world with regards to many things – particularly our freedoms – and if we have started enacting such oppressive laws in this country, how will we be viewed by other countries?" Heydari asked. "You can’t have the greatest country in the world go down this path."
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