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Joseph Lim :mastodon:

#Bangkok tower #collapse: Chinese contractors under scrutiny amid ‘ #tofubuilding’ claims🧐
"Massive Myanmar #earthquake reveals cracks in Bangkok’s ‘tofu buildings’
The collapse of a 30-storey tower in #Thailand’s capital during last week’s earthquake has raised questions about the use of shoddy #buildingmaterials and alleged #corruption in the Thai #construction industry tied to #Chinese #contractors." #MadeInChina
scmp.com/week-asia/health-envi

South China Morning Post · Massive Myanmar earthquake reveals cracks in Bangkok’s ‘tofu buildings’The Chinese embassy in Bangkok has called for full cooperation with the Thai authorities’ investigation into the State Audit Office collapse.
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Lisa Gets Politik

Contractors need to be held accountable for mindless cutting of trees.

Contact SKANSKA and tell them that you are outraged that they cut a grove trees without permission, causing erosion and flooding.

Contractors need to be held accountable and heavily fined.

Boston, MA
+1 617 574 1400
101 Seaport Blvd
Boston, Massachusetts 02210

You can also contact RIDOT to see if they will fine them Phone: (401) 222-2450

abc6.com/ridot-says-contractor

#Erosion
#ClimateChange
#Contractors

ABC6 · RIDOT says contractors cut down grove of trees in Providence without permission | ABC6A grove of trees wrongfully cut down in Providence on March 20, 2025. (WLNE)PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE) — The Rhode Island Department of Transportation said that a contractor working on the Interstate 95 15 Project cut down a grove of trees in Providence without permission. The crews worked for Skanska, a construction company previously awarded $600 million to replace several bridges...
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beSpacific

Janis Kluge, German Institute for Int'l & Security Affairs - American #defense #contractors are about to lose #billions in business from #Europe after US disabled jamming equipment in F-16s, withholding maintenance and parts for systems already purchased:“US weapons are toxic, just as Europeans are making plans to spend hundreds of billions on arms procurement. This is against US interests on so many levels. But for #Trump, the end of US supremacy just can't come soon enough.” #economics

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Zhi Zhu 🕸️

"reducing staff is a bad way to save money... Unlike a private company, the #government is required to carry out certain functions by law... the govt wound up merely handing over more jobs to private-sector contractors. “Replacing govt workers to do these #jobs tended not to save money, and, of course, hiring the same employees back tended to cost govt even more, because govt paid twice—once for the buyout, once for hiring them as #contractors”"
theatlantic.com/politics/archi

Text from article: One lesson of Clinton’s Reinventing Government project, if Musk had bothered to learn it, is that reducing staff is a bad way to save money. Cutting the government payroll was, by all accounts, the Clinton initiative’s greatest failure. Unlike a private company, the government is required to carry out certain functions by law. Clinton reduced the federal workforce, but not the responsibilities that those civil servants had carried out. As a result, the government wound up merely handing over more jobs to private-sector contractors. “Replacing government workers to do these jobs tended not to save money, and, of course, hiring the same employees back tended to cost government even more, because government paid twice—once for the buyout, once for hiring them as contractors,” Donald Kettl, a professor of public policy at the University of Maryland, told me.
#Musk#Doge#News
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Nonilex

Typically only a small number of career ofcls control #Treasury’s payment systems. Run by the Bureau of #Fiscal Service, the sensitive systems control the flow of >$6T annually to #households, #businesses & more nationwide. …Hundreds of millions of people across the country rely on the systems, which…distribute #SocialSecurity & #Medicare benefits, #salaries for federal personnel, payments to govt #contractors & #grant recipients & #TaxRefunds, among tens of thousands of other functions.

#Trump
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earthling

US-based security firm UG Solutions is specifically targeting the recruitment of US special forces veterans to work as armed security guards at the #Netzarim Corridor checkpoint, located just south of Gaza City.

US contractors will be paid a daily rate starting at $1,100, with a $10,000 advance, and will be armed with M4 assault rifles and Glock pistols.

@palestine
#Gaza
#contractors

A private security contractor at the Netzarim Corridor in Gaza on January 28, 2025 [Doaa Albaz/Anadolu Agency]
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Zhi Zhu 🕸️

"the #Trump administration never realized how much money the #OMB memo would hold up... the number of civil servants working in the administrative state today is about the same as it was in the 1950s & 1960s... Federal spending has grown tremendously... but that growth has been managed not by federal #bureaucrats but by federal #contractors, who outnumber federal employees more than two to one... we need more civil servants... not fewer."
newrepublic.com/article/190838

Text from article (edited for length): the Trump administration never realized how much money the OMB memo would hold up. It is, after all, committed to the paranoid fantasy that the federal government is managed by an out-of-control Deep State. In fact, the number of civil servants working in the administrative state today is about the same as it was in the 1950s and 1960s. (According to Axios, Trump is offering them all a buyout to quit, though where the buyout money would come from is anybody’s guess.) Federal spending has grown tremendously since the mid-twentieth century, but that growth has been managed not by federal bureaucrats but by federal contractors, who outnumber federal employees more than two to one. Indeed, as Donald F. Kettl argues in the current issue of The Washington Monthly, we need more civil servants to supervise or replace these contractors, not fewer... According to the Government Accounting Office, the federal government spent $759 billion on contracts in the 2023 fiscal year, $478 billion on services, and the rest on goods (mostly military hardware). Most if not all of that $478 billion likely constitutes federal financial assistance and is therefore now frozen. About half of the $478 billion purchases services for a single federal agency, the Pentagon, which makes it likely the OMB memo would bring a great deal of defense spending to a halt.
#GOP#Politics#US
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Nando161

#Trump signed order revoking the Equal #Employment Opportunity Act of 1965 for Federal #Contractors

Section 3: Terminating Illegal #Discrimination in the #Federal #Government

"Executive Order 11246 of September 24, 1965 (Equal Employment Opportunity), is hereby revoked.  For 90 days from the date of this order, Federal contractors may continue to comply with the regulatory scheme in effect on January 20, 2025."

whitehouse.gov/presidential-ac


Here's a #news #article #usa

axios.com/2025/01/22/trump-dei

The White House · Ending Illegal Discrimination And Restoring Merit-Based OpportunityBy the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:Section 1.  Purpose. 
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