[CNSNEWS] Lois Lerner ...the former head of the IRS Exempt Unit. She is a past president of the Council on Governmental Ethics Laws and a member of the Massachussetts bar. She was held in contempt of Congress for her role in the IRS targeting of regime political enemies and refusing to testify. The dog ate her computer's hard drive with all her emails on it... , former director of the Exempt Organizations Unit at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS ...the Internal Revenue Service; that office of the United States government that collects taxes and persecutes the regime's political enemies... ), warned other IRS officials that lower-level employees "are not as sensitive as we are to the fact that anything we write can be public--or at least be seen by Congress," according to documents obtained by Judicial Watch and released on Thursday.
In the latest batch of documents the IRS released to Judicial Watch under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), which the agency heavily redacted before handing over, Lerner proposed training to help IRS employees "understand the pitfalls" of discussing "specific Congress people, practitioners and political parties" in emails that could be "seen by Congress" or the public.
"We are all a bit concerned about the mention of specific Congress people, practitioners and political parties. Our filed folks are not as sensitive as we are to the fact that anything we write can be public--or at least be seen by Congress," Lerner wrote in an email to Holly Paz, former director of the IRS Office of Rulings and Agreements, on Feb. 16, 2012.
"We talked with Nan and she thought it would be great if R & A could put together some training points to help them understand the potential pitfalls, as well as how to think about referrals," Lerner continued.
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Shitcan 500 to 1,000 of these bastards and remove civil service protections from all Federal hacks; it's the only way to be sure...
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15 years ago, I had a brief fling with a public agency. The Director warned me e-mails are not protected, so watch what you write.
I never had to worry - I don't have two faces.
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Emails from work are the property of the company and can be accessed legally. Court rulings for years. Anyone should always assume they can be read by others even in the private sector, and stored by the server for at least 3-7 years. That was way before the NSA enlightenment and Snowden's revelations so I imagine most people would not care to have their cyberlives publicly revealed but her new reminder shows how blind the Culture of Entitlement is to ethics and persona accountability.
[Breitbart] PANAMA CITY (AP) -- With a cordial evening handshake, President Champ Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro moved Friday toward a groundbreaking meeting on the sidelines of the Summit of the Americas in what would be a remarkable display of reconciliation between two nations.
The powerful symbolism of a substantial exchange Saturday between the leaders with the leadership of the Western Hemisphere gathered around them could signal progress. Both sides are still working through nettlesome issues that would lead to the opening of embassies in Washington and Havana, the first stage in a new diplomatic relationship.
The first visual clues of an improved relationship -- at least among leaders -- came Friday evening as Champ and Castro arrived at a Panama City convention center for the summit's opening ceremonies. A reporter for a Venezuelan TV network posted video online showing the two greeting each other comfortably with multiple handshakes and extended small talk, while U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez looked on.
The White House said the interaction was informal and said they didn't engage in substantive conversation. Nothing new here. The Champ seldom if ever engages in 'substantive conversation.'
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It's all smiles and handshakes for the camera. Nothing is done, or little said within earshot of the media or a potentially open microphone. Clandestine negotiations conducted by unnamed WH intermediaries run from the 'situation room' is the new reality. Foggy Bottom theater remains the political, logistical, and public face.
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My earlier attempted posts alluding to fellatio were rejected...
This is a family site, Raj. The trailing daughters started reading over my shoulder when they were in junior high school, as have a number of other Rantburg offspring.
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China got Hong Kong, Russia got the Crimea, China is working for Formosa, why not reach out for Cuba? Maybe Britain will give up the Falklands and we can make a move on Baja California.
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President Raul Castro, a white Hispanic like Zimmerman. Bets on the number of MSM Permanent Party Propaganda Machine pubs that use that little adjectival descriptive?
[Wash Times] President Obama told Latin America leaders in Panama Friday that the days of U.S. exploitation of the region are over, and that America owes a debt to the rest of the world for helping to bring equality to the U.S.
"We are respectful of the differences among our countries," Mr. Obama said at the Summit of the Americas. "The days in which our agenda in this hemisphere so often presumed that the United States could meddle with impunity, those days are past."
The crowd erupted in sustained applause.
Mr. Obama urged leaders in the region to embrace democratic principles, including public debate and dissent. Recommended reading 'Rules for Radicals' by Saul Alinsky, now available in Spanish.
"It's not to say that my country's perfect, we are not. And that's the point," Mr. Obama said. "We have to wrestle with our own challenges from issues of race to policing to inequality. We embrace our ability to become better through our democracy."
Referring to slavery and Jim Crow-era segregation in the U.S., Mr. Obama also said that outside forces helped to improve life in America.
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Mr. Obama also said that outside forces helped to improve life in America.
Riiiiiight.... like Communism.
Everything that made this country great you hate asshole. So instead of importing poison how about you fuck off and move back to the camel humping lands you so love.
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2015 Apology Tour: Champ says days of U.S. 'meddling' in Latin America are over
Cause he's too busy overthrowing a Constitutional country at home.
Referring to slavery and Jim Crow-era segregation in the U.S.
That would be the slavery that was abolished by blood payment in the US while it continued to flourish in Latin America for many more generations. As for segregation, how many mestizos are running those countries south of the border? Meet Fidel, your typical "white Hispanic" autocrat.
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Recommended reading 'Rules for Radicals' by Saul Alinsky 'Las Venas Abietas de America Latina' by Eduardo Galeano, now available in Spanish English.
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Champ's timing is as usual impeccable, since this is the 70th anniversary of the day the Third Army meddled in the administration of Buchenwald.
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An article appeared in the Wall Street Journal in 2013 which stated: Obama's SOS, John Fn Kerry told the OSA that the Monroe Doctrine was dead.
One only has to look at the detractors of the Monroe Doctrine to understand the usefulness of the MD: Obama, Kerry, Noam Chomsky--all radical left. On the other hand those who have cited the Monroe Doctrine are: Ulysses S. Grant, T. Roosevelt, Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, etc.--patriots.
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^10. Yes. The oligarchs of the Latin countries are dumping their indios y mestizos on the US to avoid reform or revolution. Works for them. The 'Clinton Doctrine' established by the Haitian Occupation was to remove those oligarchs when they did stuff like that or at least doing it for swing states that were important for an upcoming election.
[CBSNEWS] With cities such as Seattle phasing in higher minimum wages, one city has already had a taste of a $12.25 hour baseline rate, and the experience hasn't been all that painless.
After voter approval, Oakland, Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, a neighbor to the Socialist paradise of San Francisco ...where God struck dead Anton LaVey, home of the Sydney Ducks, ruled by Vigilance Committee from 1859 through 1867, reliably and volubly Democrat since 1964... , boosted its minimum wage by more than one-third to $12.25 an hour on March 1. With one month of higher wages under their belts, 223 businesses provided feedback on their experiences to the Employment Policies Institute, a fiscally conservative think tank.
The experiences haven't been entirely positive as more than one-quarter of respondents said they're somewhat or very likely to shut down as a response to the new wage law. Almost half of businesses have increased prices to cope, while another one-third said they've reduced employee hours or their hours of operation to meet the higher costs.
The study could serve as a barometer for other cities that are considering boosting the minimum wage, the EPI said.
"The effect is going to be on the employees," said Muriel Sterling, the owner of a small Oakland-based child care business, on a conference call to discuss the study. "People are [letting] employees go and increasing the duties of the employees present." She added, "It's a bad situation."
To be sure, 70 percent of businesses that responded were small employers with fewer than 15 employees, and those smaller businesses may be less capable of absorbing higher labor costs than larger corporations.
Some Oakland restaurants have boosted prices by as much as 20 percent as a result, The San Francisco Chronicle reported last month. Others have added a mandatory service charge to help cover the higher costs. That's causing some restaurant owners to worry that they'll lose customers to competing restaurants in other towns.
However, a hangover is the wrath of grapes... minimum wage hikes remain popular with voters and politicians. Three-quarters of Americans support an increase in the federal minimum wage to $12.50 by 2020. In January, 21 states raised their minimum wages, benefiting more than 3.1 million workers.
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Just wait until it hits $15/h. All your Starbucks will go out of business. Or get robots.
Either way... the people that actually need the minimum wage jobs are fucked.
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Hell raise it to 25 dollars an hour. Central Planning(tm) should work at least once through sheer chance. <- Left Right over there in the .0005% of probability ->
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Raising minimum wage also raises all the other wages between the old and new minima. Further, I understand a lot of union contracts have minimum wage multipliers embedded in them. Eventually the whole manpower cost structure shifts upward. Prices go up.
Workers have more money to spend though, so once everything shakes out, we might be back where we started (as long as government outlaws automation.) There is one big exception to that - since income taxes are 'progressive', inflation of the wage structure increases government tax revenues by MORE than the wage increase.
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It's called Supply and Demand. Flood the labor market and you drive down wages. Minimum wage is just a patch to cover the damage caused by that act. H/T Powerline -
The first “great wave” of U.S. immigration took place from roughly 1880 to 1930. During this time, according to the Census Bureau, the foreign-born population doubled from about 6.7 million to 14.2 million people. Changes were then made to immigration law to reduce admissions, decreasing the foreign-born population until it fell to about 9.6 million by 1970. Meanwhile, during this low-immigration period, real median compensation for U.S. workers surged, increasing more than 90 percent from 1948 to 1973….
In the 1960s, Congress lifted immigration caps and ushered in a “second great wave.” The foreign-born population more than quadrupled, to more than 40 million today.
This ongoing wave coincides with a period of middle-class contraction. The Pew Research Center reports: “The share of adults who live in middle-income households has eroded over time, from 61% in 1970 to 51% in 2013.” Harvard economist George Borjas has estimated that high immigration from 1980 to 2000 reduced the wages of lower-skilled U.S. workers by 7.4 percent — a stunning drop — with particularly painful reductions for African American workers. Weekly earnings today are lower than they were in 1973.
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Further, I understand a lot of union contracts have minimum wage multipliers embedded in them.
My Dad the Teamster Terminator used this a lot. My understanding is that such clauses are exceedingly rare and a minimum wage raised is just that. Now, however it does lead to wage compression which is either
A. Good
B. Bad
So pay more for the same shit, but maybe the guy across the counter buys another carton of Winstons per year, all the while the junior assistant night manager watches and considers stuff.
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I remember it like it happened yesterday - when Schumer first got elected to the Senate, he says 'I love to legislate'; in other words, passing laws for the sake of passing laws. Schmuck.
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The continuing thread in this silly article is the fact that it is a "pro-Israeli" lobby stirring up the trouble, not common sense and use of cognitive power and critical thinking when reading the agreement.
BTW, has DOS and the WH actually released the full text of the "agreement/let's kiss Iran's ass memorandum?"
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BTW, has DOS and the WH actually released the full text of the "agreement/let's kiss Iran's ass memorandum?"
BC, I've not seen anything that would indicate an agreement--the WH is calling it parsing words and calling it an outline of an agreement. Iran seems to be at a sticking point as they want all sanctions lifted before there is an agreement. Unless Obama is desperate to appease our enemy and cave the rest of the way, this probably won't happen.
BTW, why does the Congress have to pass legislation to enable them to review the agreement and approve the agreement? The Constitution says the role of the Senate is to provide "advice and consent on treaties." To me consent means approval or an O.K.
[Wash Times] The State Department's inspector general has agreed to investigate the program that allowed former Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton to hire one of her key advisors, Huma Abedin, for government work even as she was also employed by a private firm, a senator revealed Friday. If you were married to this man, you should be investigated.
Inspector General Steve A. Linick also said he wasn't aware of Mrs. Clinton's or Ms. Abedin's use of a non-government email account to conduct official business, and said that's generally been frowned upon at the department. He pointed to a 2012 report that instructed an embassy to stop using a commercial email system as evidence.
And Mr. Linick said he is looking into whether those employed as Special Government Employees -- the designation Mrs. Clinton gave to Ms. Abedin -- are following the law, and avoiding conflicts of interest. Legal compliance would also be maintained if Teneo was discovered not to be a private entity, but perhaps we shouldn't go there. "The OIG intends to examine the department's SGE program to determine if it confirms to applicable legal and policy requirements," Mr. Linick said in response to a request from Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles E. Grassley, Iowa Republican.
Mrs. Clinton approved hiring Ms. Abedin, her long-time assistant, as an SGE, which allowed her to collect a government salary while also continuing to work for Teneo, a private firm. Mr. Grassley said there the usual conflict-of-interest questions in an arrangement like this are only heightened by the report that Ms. Abedin used the same non-official email server Mrs. Clinton set up for herself.
Interesting little consulting business you've got there, with numerous strategic overseas offices and such. Be a shame if someone took a real close look at it. I suggest we start with the financials, then move on to your IT department.
Oh, your financials are unavailable due to an lengthy and sensitive IRS audit, and your computer servers and desktops have recently been replaced? Well then, that just about wraps it up. Have a wonderful day.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...the former head of the IRS Exempt Unit. She is a past president of the Council on Governmental Ethics Laws and a member of the Massachussetts bar. She was held in contempt of Congress for her role in the IRS targeting of regime political enemies and refusing to testify. The dog ate her computer's hard drive with all her emails on it...
[Breitbart] PANAMA CITY (AP) -- With a cordial evening handshake, President Champ Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro moved Friday toward a groundbreaking meeting on the sidelines of the Summit of the Americas in what would be a remarkable display of reconciliation between two nations.
[Wash Times] President Obama told Latin America leaders in Panama Friday that the days of U.S. exploitation of the region are over, and that America owes a debt to the rest of the world for helping to bring equality to the U.S.
All your Starbucks will go out of business. Or get robots.
