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Jason Linkins

Patrick Byrne, Under SEC Investigation, Featured As Panelist On Fox Business Network

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.23.2009 | Media

Read More: Video, Disclosure, Media Criticism, Fox Business Channel, Securities and Exchange Commission, Patrick Byrne, Media News

Byrne was touted as an expert on SEC regulations, as well he should be, considering the fact that he and his company are in the middle of an SEC investigation. Not that this was disclosed!

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Arthur Delaney

Booze, Pot And Peanuts In LobbyBlog's Third-Quarter Lobbying Roundup!

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 10.21.2009 | Business

Read More: Big Pharma, Transparency, Big Tobacco, Lobbying, Disclosure, Alcohol Lobby, Booze Lobbying, Lobbyblog, Tobacco Lobby, Business News

Third-quarter lobbying spending totals are in, and that means it's time to see how much the most special of special interests spent peddling influence...

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FTC to Social Media Marketers and Bloggers: Y'all Play Fair Now!

Andy Sernovitz | Posted 10.06.2009 | Media

Read More: Sernovitz, Ftc, Sponsored Posts, Social Media, Wom, Disclosure, Ethics, Social Media Policies, Word of Mouth, Blogging, FTC Social Media Regulations, Media News
Andy Sernovitz

"I'm a free-speaking blogger" doesn't give you a free pass from consumer protection laws. If you get compensation, you're a business now. You don't get a free pass just because it's social media.

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Passive Bank Directors Pose Systemic Risks

Emma Coleman Jordan | Posted 09.24.2009 | Business

Read More: Bank of America, Disclosure, Merrill Lynch Bonuses, Judge Jed Rakoff, Taxpayer Money, Taxpayers, Business News
Emma Coleman Jordan

A new report finds that an amazing 92 percent of the directors of TARP recipients who were in place before the financial crisis of 2008 still hold their jobs.

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Government Uses Commercial Email and Texting to Avoid FOIA Laws

Peter Scheer | Posted 09.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Twitter, Transparency, Email, Democracy, Foia, Disclosure, Texting, Politics News
Peter Scheer

Many elected officials have become proficient at using technology to thwart public access to government. Why not, instead, use technology to enhance transparency and accountability?

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Interview with Alan Dean Foster, Author of Terminator Salvation: The Official Movie Novelization

Jenna Busch | Posted 09.10.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Humanx Commenwealth, Mcg, Terminator: Salvation, Books, Movie Novelization, Transformers, Star Trek, Alan Dean Foster, Star Wars, Hollywood-Screenwriters, Aliens, Screenwriting, Writers Guild of America, Titan, Disclosure, George Lucas, Screenwriters, Writer's Guild, Screen Actors Guild, Entertainment News
Jenna Busch

You have to have a script to work with in order to do the novelization. An outline would be horribly inadequate. You also hope for supplementary materials.

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The Baseball Player Steroid Outings

Judge H. Lee Sarokin | Posted 09.09.2009 | Media

Read More: Steroids, Media, Disclosure, Baseball-Players, Media News
Judge H. Lee Sarokin

There can be no dispute that baseball players, indeed many of the famous ones, have taken steroids. Conceded it is news, but all media disclosures accomplish is the ruining of reputations.

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See Which House Health Care Committees Excel In Disclosure

Sunlight Foundation. | Sunlight Foundation | Posted 09.03.2009 | Home

Read More: Transparency, House Committee, House Health Care Bill, Disclosure, House Energy Committee, Health Education Labor and Pensions Committee, Home News

Two of the key House committees that have passed health care reform legislation are disclosing significant information from the committee markups on t...

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Obama's Schooling the Bank on Transparency

Chad Dobson | Posted 07.24.2009 | Business

Read More: Transparency, Disclosure, Ifi, Open Government, Multilateral Development Banks, World Bank, Bretton Woods System, Business News, Imf, Freedom of Information, Obama Transparency, Business News
Chad Dobson

Over the past five months, President Obama has made great strides in improving transparency within the USG. Mr. Zoellick and his team of experts over at the World Bank could stand to learn a thing or two from the U.S. Government.

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Where To Find Stimulus Contracts

Real Time Investigations, Sunlight Projects | Posted 06.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Transparency, Recovery Sites, Government Contracts, Disclosure, Federal Contracts, Contract Award, recovery.gov, Politics News

A company that offers outsourcing services to federal and state governments got a a contract award for $2.8 million in funds from the American Recover...

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Should Lobbyists Be Required to Disclose Anything?

Paul Blumenthal | Posted 06.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Transparency, Sunlight Foundation, Lobbying, Lobbyists, Barack Obama, Disclosure, Politics News
Paul Blumenthal

The need for a better system of lobbying disclosure, that increases registration and disclosure, is necessary to provide the public with the information that actually matters.

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Civil Society to the World Bank: Adopt Transparency 2.0

Chad Dobson | Posted 06.05.2009 | World

Read More: Structural Adjustment Loans, Multilateral Development Banks, Freedom of Information, Ifi, Disclosure, Bretton Woods System, World Bank, Imf, Civil Society, Accountability, World News
Chad Dobson

Various civil society groups reiterated the need for disclosure of deliberative World Bank documents, especially those relating to the Development Policy Loans.

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Time for Disclosure that We're Not Alone

Suzanne Taylor | Posted 02.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Documentary, Letter to the President, Worldview, Ufo, Crop Circles, Consciousness, Disclosure, Politics News
Suzanne Taylor

President Barack Obama should demand and receive a full briefing by his military services and intelligence agencies regarding the extraterrestrial presence and related phenomena.

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Lack of Disclosure the Root Cause of the Financial Crisis

Peter Scheer | Posted 11.07.2008 | Business

Read More: Transparency, Federal Reserve, Financial Crisis, Ben Bernanke, Disclosure, Liquidity Crisis, FInancial Markets, Mortgages, Depression, Housing, Credit Default Swaps, Business News
Peter Scheer

The market did not understand that families buying homes would have an incentive to default on their mortgage obligations if housing prices stopped rising or actually declined.

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Where the Politicians Party

Paul Blumenthal | Posted 09.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: 2008 Elections, Democratic Convention, John McCain, Sunlight Foundation, Disclosure, Campaign Contributions, Fund Raiser, Republican Convention, Transparency, Fundraiser, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Party Time, Campaign Finance, Politics News
Paul Blumenthal

There are already over 400 reported parties for the two presidential conventions. Hosts include Qwest, Eli Lilly, AT&T, the RIAA, PhRMA, and lobbying giant Patton Boggs.

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Pass S. 223!

Paul Blumenthal | Posted 09.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Transparency, Senate Elections, Politics, Senate, 2008, Disclosure, Activism, Campaign 2008, Campaign Finance, Politics News
Paul Blumenthal

Thanks to outdated rules, Senate campaign finance information takes weeks, if not months, to reach the public after it is disclosed. Now it's time to change that.

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