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POPSObama’s broken promise on Transparency So, who’s operating under false pretenses here: the last administration that’s calling for a full review of its most controversial program or the new one that wraps itself in the political glamor of “transparency” only to take an incoherent shot at its predecessor and move on?
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POPSMaking Government Transparent Using R Simply said: R is an open-source language to analyse data in a statistical way. Combine this with the idea of open government & open data and you get a powerful way for transparency in government.
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POPSGaining steam: Ron Paul’s HR 1207 Ron Paul, that gadfly presidential candidate from 2008, has been making headway in Congress with his new bill, HR 1207. The bill, entitled the Federal Reserve Transparancy Act, was crafted by Rep. Paul in order to allow the Government Accountability Office the ability to Audit the Federal Reserve.
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POPSObama Opens Up Government UPDATE: President Obama issued two more documents related to government transparency today. A new executive order reverses changes made in recent years to the Presidential Records Act, while a second memorandum provides the Administration's general policy on transparency and open government. 1st memo (on the Freedom of Information Act): http://www.eff.org/files/filenode/foia/2009foia.mem.rel.pdf Executive Order on the Presidential Records Act: http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/news/20090121/2009_PRA_EO.pdf 2nd memo (on the Administration's general policy on transparency and open government): http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/news/20090121/2009_transparency_memo.pdf
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POPSAnother day, another trillion dollars Not for the faint hearted, borrow borrow borrow how far down the burrow do you want to go.The future of the US economy is discussed for 32 mins.What they dont want you to know.