Lobbying Is Corruption(carette.xyz)
336 points by LucidLynx | 157 comments
A personal blog post arguing that lobbying in the US amounts to corruption, responding to a George Hotz piece explaining lobbying to non-Americans.
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Lobbying(geohot.github.io)
134 points by smilelamp | 40 comments
A satirical blog post by George Hotz explaining American lobbying and campaign contributions as thinly disguised bribery.
Albania Is Not for Sale: Kushner's $4B Resort Triggers'Flamingo Revolution'(yacnews.com)
361 points by ortr | 120 comments
YAC News article reporting Albanian protests and an asset freeze over a Kushner-linked $4 billion resort project on protected wetlands, plus an EU warning.
Corruption erodes social trust more in democracies than in autocracies(frontiersin.org)
682 points by PaulHoule | 357 comments
A Frontiers in Political Science research article finding that corruption erodes social trust more in democracies than in autocracies.
French ex-president Sarkozy begins jail sentence(bbc.com)
325 points by begueradj | 441 comments
BBC News article reporting that former French president Nicolas Sarkozy has begun serving a jail sentence for criminal conspiracy over campaign financing.