Andy Warhol wanted to be reincarnated as Elizabeth Taylor's ring, but he was serious about his Catholicism. When he met the pope, he even wore a tie...Varhola
Via John Hatton: Bribery, Cooperation, and the Evolution of Prosocial Institutions
A look at ways to reduce bribery and other forms of corruption.
How will you survive if your legal job is replaced by artificial intelligence? [Law and More]
Oliver Stone has gotten to the CIA. [Politico]
Selected Data on Bitcoins
Selected Data on Bitcoins
Just-Released Docs Show Monsanto “Executives Colluding With Corrupted EPA Officials to Manipulate Scientific Data”
The damning documents were released by plaintiffs suing Monsanto in a claim that Roundup caused them to become ill with non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
Reckless bank CEOs should 'face jail'
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Data Driven Journalism: “Among the many tough questions members of the American press are asking themselves about low public trust, three in particular deserve special contemplation and deep introspection:
- Whose trust can be regained?
- Who is a lost cause?
- How can trust be earned (generally, and with particular groups of Americans)?
A recent survey of 1,021 US adults who get news online could energize this discussion and point to an effective solution. The survey, from data.world via the SurveyMonkey Audience Panel, reveals that mistrust may not be as entrenched as it seems, and opening up access to data that informs reporting can have a profoundly positive impact on trust with Americans of all stripes. The results have a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1%. When respondents were asked how much trust they have in the press “when it comes to reporting the news fully, accurately and fairly”, half of those surveyed selected “not much” or “none at all”…
The Painter:
Hatton's underbelly role - Financial Review
Blue Murder: What you need to know about the original true crime blockbuster
Playing Roger Rogerson
Blue Murder: What you need to know about the original true crime blockbuster
Mr Clive Small - partially confidential.pdf - Parliament of NSW
Police Mafia link: John Hatton recalls ordeal of Winchester corruption case - The Sydney Morning Herald
Police Mafia link: John Hatton recalls ordeal of Winchester corruption case - The Sydney Morning Herald
Over the past week in Inside Story we’ve published articles about three well-
known minority governments – Victoria’s (1999–2002), South Australia’s(2002–06) and Tasmania’s (since March this year). Each of the three was – or, in Tasmania’s case, has so far been – more successful than expected, and in at least one case significant long-term parliamentary reform has resulted. Some other minority governments have been just as successful; a few have ended in failure and acrimony. Drawing heavily on two sources – Brian Costar and Jennifer Curtin’s book, Rebels with a Cause: Independents in Australian Politics, and Gareth Griffith’s report for the NSW Parliamentary Library Research Service, Minority Governments in Australia 1989–2009: Accords, Charters and Agreements – here’s an overview of those governments.
John Hatton Biography
Four state Registry of Motor Vehicle clerks and two other people have been charged with conspiring to help illegal immigrants get false identifications — some of which were used to register to vote in Boston — in a blockbuster bust that state officials call “troubling and intolerable.”