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Journal: Senator Chris Dodd Broke No Ethics Rules…

Congress (Failure, Reform), Corruption, Government
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Dodd Admits He Personally Added Bonus Provision
Dodd Admits He Personally Added Bonus Provision

Associated Press reports that the Senate Ethics Committee has cleared Senator Chris Dodd of Connecticutt (the state where many of the AIG and other Wall Street executives live) for his uniquely personal role in secretly assuring that bonuses for all these morally hazardous individuals would be protected in the two-party bail-out deal.  His below market mortgage personally arranged by the leadership of Countrywide is “unrelated.”

Click on the photo to read the story on his admission that he personally added the bonus provision to the “stimulus” package.

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Journal: Stronger Signals–Naked Virginia Police Chiefs

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Original Source Online
Original Source Online

+++++++Phi Beta Iota Editorial Comment+++++++

We've seen quite a few stupid, abusive policemen–generally in Third World countries, struggling to make a living, treating corruption as a form of life insurance.  What we have not seen ourselves in Virginia, is stupid, abusive police chiefs and ignorant abusive “undercover” officers who go after citizens whose only crime is being “alert” and sharing information with others about operations so badly managed they are too obvious to laugh about….kind of like CIA running operations out of official installations with kids throwing money around and no real ability to do anything other than take scraps off the foreign liaison table.  Or truly naked, really drunken police sliding down banisters greased with beer in a Washington, D.C. hotel, where local police refused to enforce the law against their visiting brethren.

Editor“JZ” Jason Liszkiewicz surfaced this story and Editor Robert Steele decided to go with it.  Both are law abiding citizens and the latter has given at least 5 of his 9 lives for his country.

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References: Frog Loves FAS & CRS

Congressional Research Service
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We have always held the Federation of American Scientists (FAS), and its prime mover Steve Aftergood, in the highest esteem.  As we have been building this new site for the public, we have noticed others stealing from FAS and relabeling materials downloaded from FAS as their own.  This is unethical and disqualifies any site so doing from being considered a public service.

Our policy is to always link to persistent URLs offered by others.  We only create safety copies when there is a high probability the existing URL will not be persistent.  Below is a Valentine from Frog to FAS (and to CRS, which may one day grow up to be a public service, not just a shallow pond for Members to dip their toes into diluted substance).  Frog links to the FAS CRS master page.

Frog Loves FAS-CRS
Frog Loves FAS-CRS
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Graphic: CD (Congo) 1:50,000 Combat Chart Shortfalls

Advanced Cyber/IO, Geospatial
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Graphic: East View Cartographic Help for UN Forces Eastern Congo
Graphic: East View Cartographic Help for UN Forces Eastern Congo

East View Cartographic, the single most extraordinary geospatial support service in the commercial sector, created the attached without color; the G-2 of United Nations Forces Eastern Congo prioritized their needs (the West still does not have 1:50,000 combat chart with contour line coverage for most of the Third World, i.e. the bulk of the ungovernable unstable zones).  It was this single graphic that got the Dutch government to approve a US$3 million expenditure to meet the needs of UN forces in the Eastern Congo.

NOTE:  Not a single map existed.  Green above represents the least urgent, yellow and red the more urgent.