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Court Rules the Public Has a Right to Know

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The House Oversight and Judiciary Committees are considering a resolution that would recommend holding Hunter Biden in contempt of Congress. This comes after Biden failed to comply with a subpoena related to the Ukraine investigation. The committees are seeking documents and testimony from Biden as part of their probe into allegations of corruption and abuse […]

House Considers Contempt for Hunter Biden in Ukraine Probe: Trump, Corruption, and Family Drama #abuseofpower #accesstoinformation #businessdealingsinUkraine #conflictofinterest #constitutionalduty #contemptofcongress #contemptproceedings #corruptionallegations #documentsandtestimony #Housevote #hunterBiden #impeachmentinquiry #potentialwrongdoing #presidentsfamily #privilegeconcerns #Rep.JimJordan #subpoena #subpoenas #supremecourt #Trumpadministration #Ukraineinvestigation #Ukrainianaffairs #whitehouse #Witnesses

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Smart Classroom Tenders in 2023: Shaping the Future of Learning

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Opción extrema: derrocar a Allende.

Esta fue la orden de #RichardNixon: Opción extrema: derrocar a Allende. #accesoainformación #accesstoinformation #FOIA #Freepress #Press #Prensa #PrensaLibre #NSA

Nixon: Hacer que la economía grite; orden emitida hace 50 años Génesis de la infame directiva de cambio de régimen de Nixon en Chile registrada en documentación desclasificada

Washington, D.C., September 15, 2020 – On September 15, 1970, during a twenty-minute meeting in the Oval Office between 3:25 pm and 3:45 pm, President Richard Nixon ordered the CIA to foment a military coup in Chile.…

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Google News: Leading The Road to Free Access of Information

Whenever you woke up to a new day and want to see the news over the internet, you would have to do one of these things. First, you type the headline, Google presents what’s found, and you do your second job—pick one of the options. Then read. This is a sort of ‘dig and read’, at it has now become especially when what you want is simply updating your eyes without getting deeper into the sites or when you do not want to limit yourself to a news site. The second way works for you if you have established tastes or habits on the news world where you would directly visit the news site you prefer and read: BBC or anything else.

But since Google News (2006), you have a third option: news.google.com, where you can mix the two options, if of course your site is aggregated by Google News which is most likely than not under normal course of things. Once you got there, you unleashed all the news world to run for you on your screen; getting whatever you want or (or rather ‘and’) more than what you wanted.

On Thursday morning, I heard about Asgardia briefly in a local radio and I wanted to check some details about it. I simply went to Google News. Igor Ashurbeyli’s idea was of course absorbing and is like one of the stories that we already have been familiarized with in many sci-fi stories such as The 100 and Elysium. Putting that story aside, since I was also amazed a lot on the way Google has placed the news for visitors I made a thought on Google News itself. Feeling how I experienced my screen, I realized I am being helped a lot to know the story I was interested at with super ease. I would simply pick those which were aggregated and were presented the way I prefer depending my mood or taste. But most important of all, the fact that it was easy, I thought, can affect the way we access information.

It is an age of free information. And Google News helps a lot in getting the news very easily and comprehensively. And that could help us all. It places the news sites near to us which we could otherwise might have not visited or even known for that matter. And the sites reach whoever wants to look at them effectively in a better way. Rather than focusing on the marketing or property rights issues, therefore, I wanted to see the effect of Google News from the freedom of information side.

For that Google News has done now a breakthrough in a structurally perfect configuration and made stories reach you if you like them or even do not. And the ease to share those information by reaching a centralized news centre that has all the best things on a topic means freedom of information or Google News.

We get what is available in an amazing ease. The new structural approach Google News has made its life from simply shocks our habit by taking us to the information itself rather than news sites, so even if what it does is collecting the sites. We get the news by topic, from all the sites that matters on the topic. We reduce the fad of visiting some sites only, reducing by that the fact of us missing information not or miss-covered in some news site. With the synchronized thematic presentation of the news, we learn deeper and reduce surfing time. Yet we compare the stories and be aware of deeply.

Yet once again, on October 14, 2016, Google was reported to launching fact check label. And with the amazing feature it already had, this is surely one of the reasons to make Google News a prime destination one has to visit for updates. You not only get all the news, but also more: help in getting facts clearly.

This clearly is a great leap towards accessing information untainted. Beyond the other markings provided by Google News already, the fact checking now would improve the way not information is obtained but beyond-what sort of information is also accessed. Ultimately, this would bring the fine information sharing (for the media) and accessing for who needs it.

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State Governments Riddled With Secrecy, Corruption, and Conflicts of Interest

The Center for Public Integrity and Global Integrity ranked all 50 United States on how “corrupt” they were.  All but 3 states received D’s and F’s. The first study of its kind was conducted in 2012. 

Overall, states scored notably worse in this second round. Some of that decline is because of changes to the project, such as the addition of questions asking about “open data” policies, which call on governments to publish information online in formats that are easy to download and analyze. The drop also reflects moves toward greater secrecy in some states.

“Across the board, accessing government has always been, but is increasingly, a barrier to people from every reform angle,” said Jenny Rose Flanagan, vice president for state operations at Common Cause, a national advocacy group with chapters in most states.

The investigation looked at data in 13 different categories including public access to information, political financing, electoral oversight, executive accountability, legislative accountability, judicial accountability, state budget processes, state civil service management, procurement, internal auditing, lobbying disclosure, state pension fund management and ethics enforcement agencies.

Dennis Daugaard, the Governor of South Dakota, has already responded to the state’s poor ranking saying he doesn’t put “any stock” in the study. 

[educationomics]

One-to-something

We made a huge leap today in my school with the administrative team (as in tech director, headmaster, and me) deciding that it's time to place a Chromebook in the hands of every one of our students in the middle school. That means that any student will have access to the Internet, Google apps for Ed, and all of our digital programming moving forward. While not a true 1:1 environment, students will pick up their device in the morning and utilize it throughout the day with teacher direction. We will now have the means to be intentional with our tech integration - helping kids learn to act with integrity online while discovering the educational value of a connected device. However, we will remain focused that the goal here is access to information, not simply tech usage. Students will be able to research faster and connect to each other quicker. Laptops will continue to be a supplement, not a principle tool, to learning. Our commitment to intelligent dialogue and hands-on learning will not waiver. Can you tell I'm a bit excited?