"I'm not offended by having consumer financial protection in one agency, but not an agency that is unaccountable to the president, unaccountable to Congress, unaccountable to the courts, unaccountable to the American people," Hensarling said.
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The court ruled that the unaccountable agency is – well – unaccountable, and thus, the CFPB violates the Constitution's separation of powers.
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These are challenging and troubling issues, no doubt—particularly for a nation run by an unaccountable government and its equally unaccountable institutions.
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Republicans saw "disgusting, unaccountable political bias" that undermines Team Mueller.
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The Bureau's partisan and unaccountable nature is a serious concern.
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Unlike President Trump, the leakers remain anonymous and thus unaccountable.
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They are unaccountable to anyone, and you can't criticize them?
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Brexit has been exemplary: officially targeted at the unaccountable bureaucrats
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In effect, they are unaccountable by the prevailing industry standard.
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Pete King (R) also stood up for unaccountable homicidal cops.
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People prefer agency to the dead hand of unaccountable rule.
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It risks entrenching a class of unaccountable CEOs who lack legitimacy.
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Unaccountable police and prosecutors harass BNP members with arrests and lawsuits.
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Leaders who are unaccountable to voters endanger democracy and undermine institutions.
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But the root cause is the fact that it is unaccountable.
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Oil is the largest source of unaccountable power in the world.
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I have experienced racism and sexism from unaccountable black cab drivers.
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We all want to get secret, unaccountable money out of politics.
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"That speaks to how these companies are held unaccountable," he said.
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By their nature, they're generally unaccountable and undemocratic forces in society.
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Hoover FBI was unaccountable/did great harm w abuses of power.
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Dark, unaccountable money is at the heart of this outrageous inaction.
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Thomson, a stylist extraordinaire, has written an unaccountable and irresistible book.
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We will never surrender America's sovereignty to an unelected, unaccountable, global bureaucracy.
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He argues that Indian public schools are wretched because they are unaccountable.
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It condemned the Chicago police as unaccountable and suggested it was racist.
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The agency essentially runs on autopilot, unaccountable to any branch of government.
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" The department called CFPB's actions "characteristic of an overreaching and unaccountable agency.
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That underscores how unaccountable large tech companies have become, our columnist writes.
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The larger NATO has grown, the more unaccountable its members have become.
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" In 1996, Corbyn blasted the EU bureaucracy as "totally unaccountable to anybody.
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It's not like a politician is unaccountable if you don't impeach them.
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Is all this better than the unaccountable insiders who ran the process before?
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There can be checks on unaccountable leaders, including independently elected parliaments and presidents.
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What's also troubling is that Cebulski so far appears unaccountable for his masquerade.
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They are opaque and unaccountable, and some are vehicles for patronage and corruption.
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Ultimately, when there's unaccountable power in the United States, there's a constitutional revulsion.
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By 22015 some 220% of government contracts were being awarded by unaccountable bureaucrats.
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Its members are unelected, unaccountable, and unfamiliar with the circumstances of ordinary Americans.
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He also blasted their business models and accused the companies of being unaccountable.
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Barring that, what's the answer to the impending prospect of an unaccountable presidency?
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When well-intentioned citizens confront unaccountable officials, their activities can become more political.
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He said people shouldn't listen to "off the record" claims of "unaccountable" people.
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An unaccountable bureaucracy that protects freedom one year can destroy it the next.
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Scott so much power but he's incredible unaccountable to the people he serves.
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"The court has been ineffective, unaccountable and indeed, outright dangerous," Mr. Bolton said.
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The crisis has been caused partly by powerful, unaccountable prosecutors, like Doug Evans.
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This unaccountable power is why the platforms are subject to frequently conflicting demands.
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" He added that "too many charter schools are unaccountable and contributing to privatization.
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But, they also didn't want the president's powers to be absolute and unaccountable.
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" He said this was part of a "broad pattern of unaccountable decision making.
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Our job is to build on that common humanity and do everything that we can to oppose all of the forces, whether unaccountable government power or unaccountable corporate power, who try to divide us up and set us against each other.
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"We will never surrender America's sovereignty to an unelected, unaccountable global bureaucracy," Trump said.
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Migration should not be governed by an international body unaccountable to our own citizens.
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In a brief, the group said it can make deportation proceedings unaccountable and byzantine.
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And unaccountable people in Washington shouldn't be trying to make that decision for us.
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The UN is bloated, seemingly unaccountable, dogged by bureaucracy and tangled in institutional rivalries.
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Human Rights Watch said the constitution facilitated "unaccountable military power and a deepening dictatorship".
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And what is permitted would vary based on the whims of unaccountable political appointees.
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"I think it is wrong to have a completely unaccountable federal bureaucracy," he said.
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They argue it's an unaccountable regulator and an overzealous check on the free market.
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Multiclass structures are bad for ordinary investors because they make founders unaccountable, he added.
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Could it be everybody's favorite scapegoat — the European Union and its faceless, unaccountable bureaucrats?
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This splintering of responsibilities has led to an unaccountable system with patients left behind.
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" She wrote that Israel's "feverish efforts to perpetuate impunity and remain unaccountable will fail.
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In practice, the two often clash, with unelected, unaccountable officials holding the most power.
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Personally, I feel pretty unaccountable for anything I do with sharks, but same difference.
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Dragonfly is part of a broad pattern of unaccountable decision making across the tech industry.
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And yet the politics are still dangerously messy, fuelled by the greed of unaccountable politicians.
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Here it is: We agree that we've got to get unaccountable money out of politics.
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Through a series of massive trials, the influence of these unaccountable agents was slowly punctured.
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But the root danger of monopolies, I'd argue, is massive centers of unaccountable private power.
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By design, the unelected, largely unaccountable Supreme Court serves as a bulwark against tyrannical majorities.
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How can we stop these companies from tracking us without our permission if they're unaccountable?
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As a result, it has been criticized as "creating an unaccountable fourth branch" of government.
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There is no meaningful oversight from the executive branch, which makes the bureau uniquely unaccountable.
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Deregulation, in this case, simply leaves borrowers at the mercy of an unaccountable corporate bureaucracy.
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The European Commission is appointed, not elected, and it is proudly unaccountable to any electorate.
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If the system is completely closed, however, they might revolt against an unjust and unaccountable government.
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Instead, it comes from unaccountable, monopolistic Silicon Valley overlords who have unprecedented access into American lives.
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CLINTON: You know, we — we agree that we've got to get unaccountable money out of politics.
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Some of this is unaccountable, but one measure is the value of donations via "electoral bonds".
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We must always ask up front how unaccountable algorithms impact individuals and society as a whole.
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Meanwhile, in his office at PiS's headquarters, the country's real boss—Mr Kaczynski—will remain unaccountable.
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Since the bureau's inception nine years ago, it has become one of Washington's most unaccountable agencies.
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They want us to be ruled by undemocratic, unaccountable bureaucrats in a faraway place like Brussels.
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In Western Europe, perceptions of freeloading foreigners and an unaccountable EU leadership are fueling nationalist tendencies.
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A sprawling and unaccountable executive branch and metastasizing national security state threatened to make Congress irrelevant.
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For example, the fiscal control board is viewed in Puerto Rico as unaccountable to the people.
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Costs, benefits, transparency and federalism all figured prominently in efforts to fix an increasingly unaccountable bureaucracy.
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Like the best seafaring picture books, this one both evokes deep, unaccountable emotions, and soothes them.
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But this administration has proven time and again that it is unapologetically unaccountable to the press.
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Startups that once seemed like innovative underdogs now loom over the economy as vast, unaccountable monopolies.
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They stare out at us dressed in Victorian clothes, partly obscured by hoods or unaccountable floating forms.
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The party says it is reforming a corrupt justice system overseen by an unaccountable clique of judges.
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The Independent Counsel Act, the law that spawned Ken Starr, was seen as too independent and unaccountable.
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"For all we know, he's there now, working with complete unaccountable authority over immigrant detainees," he said.
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Managers were rigging the system so that they were unaccountable to all but themselves and their doppelgängers.
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Furthermore, research has found that those who comment anonymously are even more likely to feel unaccountable online.
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BI would enhance "republican freedom" from potential as well as actual domination by figures of unaccountable power.
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Circumvention of the Anti-Deficiency Act opens the door to truly big, scary, and unaccountable federal power.
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The Bureau also became unaccountable, acting in its own interests and even flouting Congressional requests for information.
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PHH appealed, arguing (you guessed it) that CFPB was unconstitutional because it had an unaccountable single director.
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It's the irony that holds you unaccountable to the twin factors of where and when you begin.
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The Pentagon has a well-established history of wasteful spending, lost money, unaccountable accounting and doctored ledgers.
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However, Republicans counter that the CFPB is an overbearing, unaccountable and redundant strain on the country's economy.
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"The whole reason the purchaser-provider split was introduced was because of unaccountable local monopolies," he notes.
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The 15 board members of IPAB are unelected bureaucrats, unaccountable to Congress, the President, or the courts.
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And yet, congressional Republicans cannot stop bashing the bureau as a rogue agency unaccountable to the public.
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They say she's the ideal candidate to curb the CFPB's spending, which Republicans call unaccountable and excessive.
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The harm of unaccountable civil service is not lots of shiftless people, but an enervated public culture.
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To most Republicans, giving the consumer bureau's director such independence of the president encourages unaccountable bureaucratic tyranny.
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It is unaccountable how they got the energy and the equipment and the knowhow to make this.
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Second, they believe the bureau to be unaccountable to any elected body, including Congress and the president.
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"Thomson, a stylist extraordinaire, has written an unaccountable and irresistible book," Daphne Merkin wrote in her review.
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That told me that the president believes he is completely unaccountable [and] can do whatever he wants.
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It's the raw exercise of power by a tiny unaccountable minority that believes in its own superiority.
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The foundation's raison d'etre — donor-advised funds — are under attack as unaccountable and prone to outright fraud.
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On this view, the EU isn't just too meddlesome, it's also undemocratic and unaccountable to the public.
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Rather than lodging power in centralised ministries and unaccountable technocracies, they should devolve it to regions and municipalities.
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It's just now you're talking about global things with huge political power that's not elected and is unaccountable.
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Facebook is a two-billion-strong democratic community and the personal plaything of an unaccountable thirty-something billionaire.
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More fundamentally, a capitalism shaped by the few and unaccountable to the many is a threat to all.
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In the last six months, our reporting has shown that the NYPD's disciplinary process is uneven and unaccountable.
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Vendors have to follow some government guidelines and undergo certain audits, but they're largely unaccountable to the public.
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Parakilas: Why Britain should stay Critics of the EU argue that it is undemocratic, overly bureaucratic and unaccountable.
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You have unaccountable prosecutors with total immunity who don't worry about the consequences enough anyway of their actions.
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I think that this sort of centralization of these unaccountable institutions — maybe we need to find alternative places.
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There was something democratic behind that, but there was also something unaccountable and not so democratic about it.
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Yet veterans are intimately familiar with how dangerously unreliable and unaccountable the VA has been in recent years.
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While some congressional Republicans have accused the FSB of being opaque and unaccountable, Quarles has defended the institution.
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Both the council and the parliament are remote and unaccountable, with decisions often agreed on by shifting alliances.
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The GOP critics say the agency is unaccountable and has hurt the U.S. economy and financial services markets.
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Unless they want to keep funneling unaccountable money to influence government decisions on how to spend taxpayers' money.
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"He added: "My word is the law, not some unaccountable person who might be saying something off record.
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That ownership has persistently frustrated them and, what's more, seems to be largely inscrutable and unaccountable to fans.
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Trump may well become the first American king, lawless and unaccountable, by default, by an overall political paralysis.
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"Prosecutors are the most powerful, unaccountable and least transparent actors in the criminal justice system," Mr. Ofer said.
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"This is a truly breathtaking action by an unaccountable political institution masquerading as a legal body," he said.
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"This is a truly breathtaking action by an unaccountable political institution masquerading as a legal body," he said.
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"Today, we need to figure out how to rein in the unaccountable power associated with the digital revolution."
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For too long, we've held them unaccountable and been afraid or unwilling to participate in our own democracy.
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Republicans had challenged the CFPB structure on grounds that the director's position was unaccountable to the executive branch.
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Unaccountable courts may soon decide which party controls state legislatures and, by extension, the U.S. House of Representatives.
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We can no longer allow candidates who are asking for our votes to be unaccountable for their actions.
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Arrogant and unaccountable corporate stooges who run globalist multilateral institutions like the International Monetary Fund and the European Union. ?
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It wasn't especially weird but coupled with my lightning eyes and odd demeanor and unaccountable fixations, maybe it was.
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It has a rambunctious parliament and an elected president, but above that an unaccountable theocracy, led by Mr Khamenei.
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But forsaking one unelected, unaccountable bureaucracy in Brussels for another housed in a leafy district of Geneva seems perverse.
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"ICE juvenile jails are secret and unaccountable," said Heidi Altman, director of policy at the National Immigrant Justice Center.
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Saudis seem to be adapting to the likelihood that one unaccountable man will rule them for decades to come.
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It's clear that WhatsApp offers a conduit for spreading unregulated and unaccountable propaganda at scale with even limited resources.
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The framers of the Constitution didn't want the United States to be ruled by a king unaccountable to anyone.
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They are, of course, completely unaccountable, but they have been free from the bureaucratic constraints that restrict larger organizations.
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Both have built their campaigns as crusaders against entrenched, unaccountable, corrupting plutocracy -- the very thing enshrined by Citizens United.
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The CHOICE Act would turn the CFPB, which Republicans consider abusive and unaccountable, into the Consumer Law Enforcement Agency.
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Unaccountable accrediting bodies should not have the right to overrule a governor or intervene in matters involving state law.
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They consider the agency redundant at best and an unaccountable, overly powerful drain on the American economy at worst.
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Community and labor activists worry that privatization will put Puerto Rico's fate in the hands of unaccountable private corporations.
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They say the bureau — controlled by an independent director with regulatory and punitive power — is unaccountable and too powerful.
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The rule repeal effort comes amid repeated attacks from critics about the , which they say is overreaching and unaccountable.
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Deprived of these basic electoral checks and balances, Puerto Rico lies at the mercy of an unaccountable federal government.
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We have made the presidency too powerful to leave the holder of the office functionally unaccountable for four years.
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Reliance on electorally unaccountable appointees and civil servants to check the president creates a whole new set of problems.
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Elected to a four-year term in January 2005, he's entering the 14th year of a largely unaccountable presidency.
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That few can imagine a Facebook without Mr. Zuckerberg, 34, underscores how unaccountable our largest tech companies have become.
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Go deeper: Erik D'Amato writes about the backlash against so-called philantocracy — rule by unaccountable nonprofits — for Inside Philanthropy.
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Power must be returned from the unelected and unaccountable bureaucrats of the political class as well as the legislature.
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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is a "rogue agency," unaccountable for its wide-ranging actions and must be overhauled, Rep.
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The perception that the value of a CDS might be determined by an unaccountable committee could undermine the CDS market.
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Having just got rid of one unaccountable tyrant, the founders were keen to prevent the emergence of a homegrown version.
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But it's clear that voters across the continent are frustrated by the idea that Europe is run by unaccountable bureaucrats.
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She also backs unregulated, unaccountable charter schools—including for-profit ones—which is why leading charter advocates opposed her nomination.
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Republicans have long insisted that Cordray should be fired from his job directing an agency they call unaccountable and abusive.
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It's like spirit photography, all fuzzy outlines and unaccountable light: a snapshot of something that may or may not exist.
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Batman adheres, instead, to his famous "No killing" rule, while still retaining control through an unaccountable, high-tech surveillance state.
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Unaccountable firms impose massive inefficiencies upon the public thanks to the negative externalities actively encouraged by the limited liability regime.
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"For years Congress has outsourced more and more of its legislative authority to a faceless, nameless, unaccountable bureaucracy," said Hensarling.
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Yet Sebald also extracts from this self-conscious antiquarianism something unaccountable: a mysterious contemporary stillness, an otherworldliness of the present.
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Please email your members of Congress and tell them to get rid of this unaccountable, authoritarian tool of government overreach.
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Some have been given semi-official status by successive governments, but the groups remain unaccountable and involved in criminal activity.
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Nikki Haley put the United Nations on notice that the days of being unaccountable to its top funder are over.
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This unelected and unaccountable body has the mandate to make major changes to Medicare programs with virtually no congressional oversight.
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It is fueled by hatred toward immigrants of color and completely unaccountable and nontransparent about its abuse of our people.
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But the federal government isn't sure how to regulate them, potentially opening up texting to unaccountable money and suspicious texts.
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The superintendents' association ardently opposes school vouchers, saying they take taxpayer resources from public education to finance unaccountable private schools.
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Hardly. All things considered, the Sandy supplemental represented the worst of special interest directed, unaccountable, pork-barrel spending in Washington.
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The problem with the White House response is not that it's wrong, but that it's an assertion of unaccountable power.
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Despite some voluntary transparency efforts by those platforms in the aftermath of 2016, however, they remain largely opaque and unaccountable.
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In their view, independent prosecutors were nothing more than unaccountable, costly political weapons, which Democrats used to smear Republican Administrations.
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That's a task best met by market forces in free and robust competition, not by unelected and unaccountable government bureaucrats.
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From their perspective, Cordray was overzealous in the agency's enforcement and exercised unaccountable latitude in issuing hefty penalties against companies.
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And his outright refusal to provide documents to Congress would fast-track the nation toward an unaccountable monarchy, they added.
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There's the strong suggestion that rural Austria was a land of unspoiled goodness before an unaccountable alien force entered in.
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So while they're poised to become the next frontier in campaigning, they also represent yet another avenue for unaccountable money.
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All too often, in recent years, liberal reforms have been imposed by judges, by central banks and by unaccountable supranational organisations.
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There&aposs simply no broad constituency for the old Bush Republicanism of unaccountable trade deals, lax borders and perpetual military interventionism.
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The counter-argument is that absolute immunity, if accepted, would elevate the Executive Branch and make it entirely unaccountable to Congress.
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Hearthstone's esports community rejoiced; they no longer had to account for the unaccountable, and automatic wins and losses became less common.
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And most of that chaotic speech — yours, mine, everyone's — is now happening in private spaces ruled by massive, unaccountable technology companies.
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Finally, every aspect of this system is underwritten by a flood of unaccountable dark money from the wealthiest percentile of Americans.
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Grade: A-. So glad Democrats institutionalized a vast and unaccountable national security apparatus that will soon be controlled by a madman.
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"The U.S. is considered an uncertain and unaccountable country in the world that does not comply with its commitments," he said.
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Universities have been held unaccountable for far too long and their agenda is now coming to fruition on a national platform.
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"The problem with special counsels, as we've learned again and again, is that they are by definition politically unaccountable," it added.
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Technology has become the perfect dodge for federal officials on all levels to be unresponsive and thus unaccountable to the people.
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The CHOICE Act would also put major restraints on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, long considered unaccountable and redundant by Republicans.
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Checks and balances and separation of powers – key pillars of our government – crumble away and we're left with lopsided, unaccountable representation.
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Even so, we have enough examples of deep harm to know that secret, powerful, and unaccountable technological systems are damaging us.
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Particularly problematic are the "independent agencies" that have become unaccountable, upsetting the balance between the three branches in our constitutional scheme.
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We want a government that listens to the people not the power brokers, which means getting unaccountable money out of politics.
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"This deference empowers nameless, faceless, unaccountable bureaucrats to re-write laws and attach meaning that was never Congress's intent," Ryan said.
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Last week the Supreme Court heard arguments in a in a case that could challenge this unaccountable way of pursuing justice.
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Unfortunately, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) continues to operate in a manner unaccountable to Congress, the president and American taxpayers.
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It is also about the amount of power given to a single person, who is largely unaccountable, at a government agency.
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" In a recent speech at the United Nations, President Trump railed against "the ideology of globalism" and "unelected, unaccountable global bureaucracy.
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"We will never surrender America's sovereignty to an unelected, unaccountable, global bureaucracy," Trump said, in language popular with his political base.
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Monday's debacle leaves little doubt about granting too much authority to unaccountable party officials to manage a high-stakes presidential primary.
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But as we allow unaccountable bureaucrats to accumulate more and more power, we move closer to the tyranny feared by Madison.
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The most obvious problem stems from publicly elected officials delegating authority vested in them by voters to unelected, largely unaccountable bureaucrats.
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Marvin Lewis, who is black and has been without a head coaching job since 2018, acknowledged that owners are essentially unaccountable.
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He's the first and only president ever to declare himself unaccountable, and to ignore subpoenas backed by the Constitution's impeachment power.
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The proliferation of digital surveillance software is making the elimination of unmonitored, unaccountable moments an expected part of a business's service.
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The fund has been attacked as a "cash grab" by Americans for Tax Reform and an "unaccountable bailout" by Freedom Partners.
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The most unaccountable bureaucrat in the federal government may be the director of an agency most Americans have never heard of.
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It enables manipulative advertising and political messaging in ways that make it a lot easier for the messengers to be unaccountable.
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" The longer he spoke, the more portentous it became: "We will never surrender America's sovereignty to an unelected, unaccountable global bureaucracy.
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We want a government that listens to the people, not the power brokers, which means getting unaccountable money out of politics.
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Anger at unaccountable rulers would not be assuaged by a deal in which Britain followed orders from people it could not elect.
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And he should tell Cubans that they deserve better than leaders picked by the Communist Party who are unaccountable to their people.
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It was a familiar set of tunes, from attacks on unaccountable elites to Brussels-bashing to fear-mongering about African birth rates.
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Facebook is big and its CEO is unaccountable to any electorate, and so I would rather the company not referee political speech.
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But what we do know is that most likely Pyongyang will remain unaccountable for the oppression and deprivation of its common citizens.
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In addition to riot police, unaccountable groups of armed thugs loyal to shadowy religious associations rather than the government patrol the streets.
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Those reactions were largely results of the quota system being perceived as an inflexible, top-down imposition of an unaccountable European elite.
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The GOP has long complained the CFPB is too powerful and unaccountable, and answers to a director immune from sufficient congressional oversight.
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None of this is possible when a politically unaccountable lame-duck president arbitrarily makes national policy as he heads out the door.
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Sessions argues that we need less accountability and less transparency in policing, demonstrating his passion for a free rein, and unaccountable, policing.
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This constitutionally unorthodox and fiscally unaccountable practice has now become a way of life for members of the House and for senators.
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Created as part of Dodd-Frank, the CFPB has been a constant target by Republicans, who argue it is overpowerful and unaccountable.
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The disaster and the government's reaction highlighted the flaws of the Soviet system with its unaccountable bureaucrats and entrenched culture of secrecy.
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In reality, they amount to little more than the arbitrary and open-ended micromanagement of a family by an unaccountable government worker.
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"I don't view arbitration as really negotiation, it is just a way of shifting responsibility to an unaccountable third party," Doggett said.
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My instinct is that superdelegates probably have a better chance of coordinating a solution than a bunch of unaccountable and unacquainted delegates.
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And so I would want to see the Supreme Court reverse Citizens United and get dark, unaccountable money out of our politics.
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And when carried out by unaccountable actors (be they authoritarian governments or corporations) through opaque processes, it's important that we question it.
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Unless we fight to unrig the system, millions of us will continue to live and die on the terms of unaccountable power.
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Read more " _____ David Harsanyi in The Federalist: "Republicans have long argued that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is corrupt, unaccountable and unconstitutional.
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He said he had been persecuted by the bishop of Oxford "in the most unaccountable manner," barred from officiating for reasons unknown.
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Unfortunately, these safeguards have been ignored in recent decades, enabling a growing regulatory state to bestow significant authority upon myriad unaccountable bureaucrats.
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The influential political scientist Theodore Lowi called attention to the degree to which Congress had delegated decision-making to an unaccountable bureaucracy.
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To his supporters, Mr. Lei symbolized how even middle-class Chinese citizens are vulnerable to abuses of power by unaccountable authority figures.
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If we've learned anything about the nature of government over the span of John McCain's lifetime, it's that unaccountable power behaves unaccountably.
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And as long as inequality is baked into faith, as long as "men of God" are unaccountable, then sexual assaults will continue.
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It also shows why, years after the financial crisis, big banks are still large, in charge and, basically, unaccountable for their actions.
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And so I would want to see the supreme court reverse Citizens United, and get dark unaccountable money out of our politics.
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We need a plan that increases public investment, especially federal funding, not one that yields control to profit-maximizing and unaccountable corporations.
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Washington, we heard over and over again, has become too unaccountable to the voters and in the minds of many, corrupted by power.
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"There's a lot of this stuff that has gotten pushed out based on unnamed unaccountable sources and it is very troubling," he said.
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Educate yourself, take your security into your own hands, and stop relying on faceless, mostly unaccountable corporations to do the work for you.
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Among the legacies of its crisis are nationalist parties across the continent, rooted in anger at pain seemingly inflicted by unaccountable European politicians.
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She pointed to the popularity of conservative documentaries on Netflix, and the "unaccountable" money related to the decision of Citizens United v. FEC.
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Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas) said CFPB Director Richard Cordray presided over an "unelected, unaccountable and unconstitutional" agency that was hurting the American public.
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Then the authoritarians can do what they need to do with the money to stay in power, and that money is entirely unaccountable.
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Given this dubious track record, we simply cannot trust an unaccountable ATC board dominated by airline interests with such an important public responsibility.
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" To be sure, that's a convenient thing for a coach to say, since it leaves them wholly unaccountable for whether their process "works.
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If Johnson becomes prime minister in the fall, he will be an unelected leader, just like all those "unaccountable" high rollers in Brussels.
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But when the laws are broad, vague and unpredictable, they place entirely too much unaccountable discretion in the hands of local election officials.
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Two strands of thought shape his view: a conservative disdain for big, unaccountable bureaucracies and a hawkish distrust of China's growing international ambitions.
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The 340B drug discount program is a perfect example of what happens when a well-intentioned but unaccountable program creates the wrong incentives.
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The old man, The North China Herald reported, blinked ''at the unaccountable light like a blind man whose sight had been miraculously restored.
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It maintains a terrifying order with unaccountable courts and a jihadist variation on the intelligence apparatus of the Saddam-era Iraqi security state.
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With no real representation in Washington, Puerto Rico has always been subject to the whims of stateside politicians unaccountable to the island's people.
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But conservatives and much of the private sector see the agency as an unaccountable regulator and an overzealous check on the free market.
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In bypassing mayors and governors because Mexico's pre-democratic practices had left them systemically corrupt and unaccountable, the government further reduced their accountability.
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It's a perception seemingly shared by President Trump in his fondness for strong, unaccountable leaders and his America First approach to foreign policy.
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The previous administration created an environment that was so unaccountable that it led to bad actors taking advantage of taxpayers in plain sight.
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His budget cuts may ratchet back or eliminate programs that help supporters, but they see him confronting a government grown bloated and unaccountable.
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But commanders say they are dealing with a patchwork of Libyan militias that remain unreliable, unaccountable, poorly organized and divided by region and tribe.
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Political decision-making slipped from the hands of citizens to distant and unaccountable politicians and bureaucrats, as power was centralized at the federal level.
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I think that's basically right, though it doesn't really address my larger concern, which is the giant unaccountable corporation refereeing what politicians can say.
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Regulatory superstate Our regulatory, administrative superstate, however, has replaced the sovereignty of the American people with the sovereignty of unelected and unaccountable Washington bureaucrats.
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While McCaskill and her opponent, Attorney General Josh Hawley, don't agree on much, they both say that unaccountable "dark money" has flooded the election.
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Republicans have long targeted Dodd-Frank, saying it has created a crushing regulatory burden that suffocates small businesses and banks while empowering unaccountable bureaucrats.
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Their cogent argument is that expanding the amount of privately-owned lands worldwide will increase responsible stewardship as opposed to continued unaccountable government ownership.
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It's unaccountable and restricts business rather than aiding it, he says: It makes rules - such as on state aid - and lets countries break them.
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It is also fraught with risks of establishing independent and unaccountable concentrations of power that are unconstrained by our system's usual checks and balances.
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Or, second, Chairman Wheeler simply does not respect the legitimate role of Congressional oversight and believes and he is unaccountable to the American people.
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An independent corporation — composed of industry representatives and unaccountable to the public — could raise user fees, increasing the cost of air travel and shipping.
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Trump's son-in-law occupies a high-ranking, unaccountable White House post with which he can circumvent the chief of staff at any time.
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" This echoes comments made this month by John R. Bolton, the national security adviser, who called the court "ineffective, unaccountable, and indeed, outright dangerous.
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Billions of dollars in "dark money" continued to fill the coffers of unaccountable political groups, eventually becoming a large part of Trump's 2016 victory.
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But vast swathes of the web that might function well as commons have been left in the hands of rich, relatively unaccountable tech firms.
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She is right that the European Union has given too much unaccountable power to Brussels and Berlin and favored financial interests over ordinary citizens.
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Conservatives have long assailed the agency as an unaccountable regulator and argue that its structure is an unconstitutional restriction on the president's executive powers.
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On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court announced it would consider the constitutionality of one particularly unaccountable federal agency: the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).
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"Unelected and unaccountable presidential electors should not be allowed to decide the presidential election without regard to voters' choices and state law," Griswold said.
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"Now it is time to reclaim this vital public space for everyone rather than a few powerful unaccountable companies in Silicon Valley" said Naidoo.
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"While the federal bureaucracy is largely unaccountable to the American people, its actions have significant implications for our nation and economy." http://1.usa.
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Rather, candidates offered a variety of concerns, including the fear that charters: worsen racial segregation, take money away from "public schools," and are unaccountable.
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A better approach respects the individual choices of patients, rather than using one-size-fits-all, top-down cuts from an unaccountable government board.
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Their votes might force lawmakers to take a closer look at what happens in these institutions before they spiral into unaccountable violence and abuse.
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That is a sign that checks and balances have been chiseled away, leaving state authorities unaccountable, said Zeid Ra&aposad Al Hussein, the high commissioner.
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Explain to me why we need powerful, unaccountable financial institutions that are allowed to stockpile huge amounts of exploitable information on virtually every American, again?
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Some U.S. lawmakers have argued that the FSB is opaque and unaccountable and should not be allowed to impose its rules on the United States.
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That would whittle down the huge and democratically unaccountable Brussels bureaucracy, and it would repatriate a large amount of authority transferred to the EU Commission.
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"This unaccountable agency's lavish spending is a prime example of how unelected bureaucrats in the swamp will spend money without common sense Congressional oversight," Rep.
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Mr Peña is unpopular mainly because his government has been passive and unaccountable on the two issues that matter most to Mexicans, corruption and security.
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Secondly, the government could see tax gains if it succeeds in "unearthing unaccountable money" from the shadow economy, according to analysts from Singapore's DBS Bank.
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So unaccountable money flowing in against me, against other Democrats, in a way that we hadn't seen and then attached to this weaponized information war.
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Yet, the Bureau has been driven by partisan politics from the very start under the leadership of a single, unaccountable director with tremendous unchecked power.
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The search giant responded forcefully to that controversy with more vetting staffers and automated filtering, but some YouTube creators claimed enforcement became uneven and unaccountable.
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Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas) said CFPB Director Richard Cordray has presided over an "unelected, unaccountable and unconstitutional" agency and should be dismissed by the president.
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"Currently unaccountable people have too much power in the process," Assembly Majority Leader Louis Greenwald (D), the amendment's sponsor, wrote in an op-ed Thursday.
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If implemented properly, such an approach would serve as a tremendous catalyst for reining in the bureaucrats who are largely unaccountable to the American people.
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If it too forcefully contests the report, it could feed into fears that Facebook have become so big that it's unaccountable to advertisers or publishers.
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Turning internet service over to unaccountable cable TV-style corporate control is one of the surest ways to strengthen elite power relative to everyone else.
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The building has just one other tenant; the windows won't open; there are odd, unaccountable sounds and large bags full of hair in the closet.
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"We were deceived and betrayed by the defendant's family, who remain wholly unaccountable for their role in the murders of our children," the statement said.
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The most corrosive of these illusions is that the EU is run by unaccountable bureaucrats who trample on Britain's sovereignty as they plot a superstate.
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"This is a truly breathtaking action by an unaccountable political institution masquerading as a legal body," Pompeo said Thursday during remarks at the State Department.
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Cults often display a zealous commitment to a special and unaccountable leader, discourage dissent and control members through shame, guilt and peer pressure, she said.
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Its distinguishing features included a hazy provenance; an obsequious, uninformative text; a lazily organized catalog of songs; and an unaccountable focus on an unknown performer.
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" He said lawmakers should increase transparency and oversight of the company and technology industry, saying that there is a "broad pattern of unaccountable decision making.
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Instead, it is a colossal network of unaccountable profit centers, the pricing of which has been controlled by medical specialists since the mid-20th century.
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Future Presidents may conclude that there is no price for brazen flexing of unaccountable power -- as long as they have the loyalty of sufficient senators.
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In both contests, a star of reality television who initially became famous in another field portrayed himself as an embattled outsider confronting an unaccountable élite.
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Increasingly, the 20 percent of America's electricity supplied by carbon-free nuclear power is controlled by autocratic, unaccountable states – Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and soon, China.
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It was the act of a president who viewed himself as unaccountable and determined to use his vast official powers to secure his re-election.
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If Congress is allowed to lose the power of its oversight role, then we will have an unaccountable presidency with unlimited power on our hands.
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U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo quickly condemned the decision as "a truly breathtaking action by an unaccountable political institution, masquerading as a legal body".
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The weight of this reality is heavy, and playing games that position you as some version of an unaccountable super cop doesn't lighten it much.
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I was compelled to resign my position on August 31, 2018, in the wake of a pattern of unethical and unaccountable decision making from company leadership.
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They are strongmen, and are hired—by administrators who serve cabals of extremely demanding and utterly unaccountable moneyed boosters—to do the things that strongmen do.
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Over the past six months, BuzzFeed News has used a secret trove of internal documents to show that the department's disciplinary process is uneven and unaccountable.
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Few firms have got to grips with the fact that harassment is often a symptom of bigger, subtler problems: unequal access to power and unaccountable cultures.
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Unaccountable bureaucrats rule vast areas of society and the economy at the behest of vested interests, an arbitrary elite who run major businesses and investment funds.
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What used to be a home for funny, irreverent comedy and harmless gags gradually transformed into an unaccountable cesspool of toxic actors and bad-faith harassers.
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Democratically rendering cultural and natural transformations, Matter reveals an unaccountable world where water seeps red, cement cubes fall from the sky, and green foxes are unearthed.
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Much like the European Union, Le Professeur is often accused by the Wenger Out movement of being unaccountable, anti-democratic and even dictatorial in his approach.
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Behind the furor over the memo is our unease with the unaccountable, opaque power Google in particular, and Silicon Valley in general, wields over our lives.
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It was drafted, signed and is now being defended as though the president has unlimited power that makes him unaccountable to the Constitution or the people.
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Even more worrisome, its director can only be fired by the president for "just cause," leaving him or her unaccountable to Congress and the American public.
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Under this proposal, the FAA would hand over control (for free) to an unelected, unaccountable non-profit corporation, likely to be dominated by the airlines themselves.
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He and many conservative media outlets spent the year baselessly tarring the special counsel as a rogue, unaccountable prosecutor leading a witch hunt at Democrats' behest.
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A labor-affiliated coalition of civic groups, known as Fed Up, has taken the argument even further, arguing that the Fed's very structure makes it unaccountable.
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Republicans, who have long accused the CFPB of overreaching and being unaccountable, largely favored Mulvaney's moves to restrain the bureau and came out against Waters's bill.
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All across the country, migrants like her are being shut off from public view in hundreds of facilities that are largely unaccountable to the outside world.
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Either way, its story is a glimpse into the growing online landscape of unaccountable businesses hawking shady products to Christians and conservatives in the Trump era.
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Our Europe must bring under control what is currently unaccountable, what is undermining public trust in democracy and what defines us as simply insatiable, individualistic consumers.
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In 2009 he gave a speech calling the BBC, his biggest competitor, and Ofcom "unaccountable institutions" that were bucking the free market's rules of Darwinian evolution.
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Warren's course of action is to either have unaccountable agency heads willing to follow orders, or browbeat those who won't, regardless of what the law says.
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"It was high time for [Cordray] to leave his post, and his tenure stands as a warning against the dangers of an unaccountable bureaucracy," said Sen.
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The nation's political class has allowed James Madison's institutions to wither, and real authority now rests with the leaders of a largely unaccountable national security bureaucracy.
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Yet today's Europeans take peace, open markets and open borders for granted and fret about bureaucracy, immigration, a loss of national identity and remote unaccountable rulers.
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The digital rights group called Twitter's takedown policy "unaccountable and opaque," and said it is worrying now that it promises to remove posts that promote terrorism.
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Critics of the agency, including Republicans and industry groups, have argued that having one person at the helm created an agency that was overreaching and unaccountable.
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That Trump would attempt such brazen collusion after the Mueller investigation shows the lesson he took from that experience is that he is unchecked and unaccountable.
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Were Leave supporters voting out of xenophobia, or were they voting to reject the EU's unaccountable government and market evangelism (or, if you prefer, its overregulation)?
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And what happens when those traumas are joined by the countless accumulated shocks delivered through unaccountable tech platforms by those whose livelihood is predicated on giving them?
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Conservatives have argued, however, that the CFPB is unaccountable and out-of-control — that it lacks any of the administrative checks that accompany other regulatory agencies. Rep.
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She told CNN the FBI started looking into Strong's disappearance after getting a call from the Yakama Tribal Police, which she said was understaffed and largely unaccountable.
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Drawing inspiration from Tunisia, where protesters toppled a dictator just days before, the Egyptian marchers aimed to shake off the fossilised and unaccountable regime of Hosni Mubarak.
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Republicans have long called the agency a redundant an unaccountable burden on the U.S. economy, while Democrats fiercely defend the agency's record of enforcement actions and regulations.
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The resulting unaccountable cash only market has become a breeding ground for serious criminal activity including, but not limited to, money laundering, tax evasion, robbery, and theft.
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Many Georgians, who see cabinet ministers as puppets of an unelected, unaccountable billionaire, lost hope that the current government is capable of bringing about any positive changes.
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"To choose the former leaves major national problems unresolved; to opt for the latter risks unaccountable policymaking by those not elected to fill that role," White wrote.
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A Newtonian model of motion had worked beautifully for a long time, but then people noticed bits of unaccountable data, and relativity emerged as a stronger theory.
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And because of the ways that patriarchy is racialized I was taught that black men, like myself, were supposed to act in certain ways. Hardened. Shallow. Unaccountable.
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The rules of digital democracy should not be set by unaccountable bosses in the boardrooms of a handful of American firms—let alone, in future, Chinese ones.
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The White House clearly interpreted the Senate's acquittal vote last week as a signal that the president is effectively unaccountable for his actions until the November election.
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But it chose to do so without applying any of its social and environmental safeguards to finance that support, instead channeling its support through unaccountable trust funds.
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Unelected and unaccountable, the bank's governors are committed by treaty to favor deflation over growth, to prohibit state aid to stricken industries and to enforce austerity measures.
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"Crime preventers should not be undisciplined and unaccountable recruits who become the eyes and muscle of the ruling party in every village," said senior researcher Maria Burnett.
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Largely free of government regulation, texts could also be the next pipeline for unaccountable money to flow into American politics, much like social media advertising in 2016.
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Patrick appealed to Texas's tradition of independence, arguing that "unaccountable" leaders like United States President Barack Obama were acting like petty authoritarians, without Texas's interests at heart.
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The combination of misguided but well-intentioned campaign finance reforms that weakened national parties and a Supreme Court decision that empowered unaccountable outside groups has been particularly damaging.
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Pro-Brexit campaigners argued that unaccountable EU judges were chipping away at British sovereignty, while their opponents said EU laws were sensible and had improved human rights protection.
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These days, I spend my time defending the people of Missouri, and one of the biggest threats to Missourians' livelihoods is an out-of-control, unaccountable federal bureaucracy.
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That virtue of decentralization has been under assault for decades by a vast, bureaucratic federal government machine that is as remote, corrupt and unaccountable as the European Union.
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" That report went on to mention "a general unease among partners about how opaque and unaccountable much of the arrangement is—both within the partnership and to outsiders.
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"Without such relief, Charlottesville will be forced to relive the frightful spectacle of August 12: an invasion of roving paramilitary bands and unaccountable vigilante peacekeepers," Charlottesville's lawyers wrote.
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For too long, the American people were told that mammoth multinational trade deals, unaccountable international tribunals and powerful global bureaucracies were the best way to promote their success.
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Executive power The case comes as some conservatives seek to diminish the power of agencies, arguing they are unaccountable to the public and disrupt the separation of powers.
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But that five years is now up, and Google is rankling critics who distrust its intentions and worry that ultimately the search giant is unaccountable to public regulators.
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Our time spent online retweeting and upvoting and clicking on emojis serves mainly to help unaccountable corporations like Facebook, Google, and Twitter to better target us with advertising.
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But when we see how unaccountable powerful institutions can be, and the dark consequences, all this priggishly macho play-fighting looks even more like a like a waste.
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He co-sponsored a measure with Democrats to stop Congress from using a well-worn budget gimmick to boost military spending with an unaccountable off-the-books budget.
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Unaccountable experts combine their notions of "value" with average results from population health studies to cut spending by deciding whether you should get the medical care you need.
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For too long, the American people were told that mammoth multinational trade deals, unaccountable international tribunals, and powerful global bureaucracies were the best way to promote their success.
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Why do the "least of these" keep catching hell while the richest and most powerful slide through life unaccosted and unaccountable, leaving God knows what in their wake?
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We must search for ways of giving voice to and empowering the most vulnerable people among us, and to say goodbye to a world ruled by unaccountable elites.
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He has sold us a whole way of accepting a narrative that has so many layers of unaccountable, unsubstantiated content that you can't possibly peel it all back.
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The former New York mayor is "charisma challenged," has taken controversial stances, and in many quarters is seen as a symbol of the unaccountable one percent, Lockhart noted.
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This is the key work of a democracy, and establishing those community standards shouldn't be left, as they are now, for any for-profit, unaccountable company to decide.
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"The C.F.P.B. was created to pursue an important mission, but its unaccountable structure and unduly broad regulatory powers have led to regulatory abuses and excesses," the report said.
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A few weeks ago, the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) released a report that details numerous harmful regulations and actions by the agency, which is virtually unaccountable to Congress.
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For too long the American people were told that mammoth, multinational trade deals, unaccountable international tribunals and powerful global bureaucracies were the best way to promote their success.
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It is quite ironic that under VA policy, the men and women who protected our nation in the armed forces are effectively becoming disarmed by unaccountable government employees.
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Instead, citizens are reduced to subjects, ruled by an authority dependent not on the consent of the governed, but on the assistance and beneficence of unaccountable foreign actors.
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For too long the American people were told that mammoth, multinational trade deals, unaccountable international tribunals, and powerful global bureaucracies were the best way to promote their success.
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I, and lots of other Americans like me, are sick of the too many unaccountable government bodies, crony capitalist arrangements, and elitist know-it-alls we have here too.
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Its founder, Bart Nijman, thinks this will help solve the biggest problem in Dutch politics: the sense many citizens have that they are ruled by an arrogant, unaccountable elite.
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The rich will grow richer, unaccountable authorities will become more powerful, and the rest of us will be subject to deeply invasive monitoring every time we leave our homes.
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It is also likely to put hard-left advisers such as Seumas Milne and Karie Murphy in the seats that were once occupied by Mrs May's powerful, unaccountable "chiefs".
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Earlier this week, President Obama named seven unelected and unaccountable members to Puerto Rico's Fiscal Control Board, the undemocratic body that will govern the island for the foreseeable future.
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But if a change is to happen, it should come from a democratically elected body -- Congress -- and not the courts and federal agencies, which are unaccountable to the people.
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It also creates serious risks for freedom of expression as legal but controversial content may well be deleted as a result of this voluntary and unaccountable take down mechanism.
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Democrats plan to use it to pass a big package to expand voting rights with automatic voter registration, remove unaccountable corporate "dark money" from politics, and outlaw partisan gerrymandering.
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The Citizens United decision allows vast amounts of unaccountable money to flow through various groups and organizations and is used to discredit and destroy targeted candidates and political opponents.
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Rather than accessing internet content as you see fit, you might have to purchase bundles of services and sites set by the opaque decisions of unaccountable for-profit firms.
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"CFPB's interpretation of the Dodd-Frank Act has resulted in an unaccountable bureaucracy controlled by an independent director with unchecked regulatory authority and punitive power," the White House wrote.
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Regardless of Pyongyang's negotiation strategy and tactics, a strong and certain alliance will help both Seoul and Washington navigate whatever an unaccountable leader such as Kim might do next.
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Clinton is characterized as dishonest, callous, calculating, and unaccountable for her role in Benghazi, as well as in her responses to the breaches in security from her e-mails.
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This should not be reassuring to the recipients of the 168,149 months-late text messages, or anyone else concerned about unaccountable third parties with access to our personal communications.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - Amnesty International accused the United Arab Emirates on Wednesday of diverting arms supplied by Western and other states to "unaccountable militias accused of war crimes" in Yemen.
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Legally, tech companies are pretty much unaccountable for photos that are traded on their platforms, even when sharing those images — particularly those depicting child sexual abuse — is a crime.
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But he seemed intent on conjuring up the phony black helicopter vision of international institutions as an "unelected, unaccountable, global bureaucracy" intent on erasing borders and eliminating national governments.
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I think D'Arrigo's preternatural ability to invade that side of our consciousness — the one that is fearful of the gaze of others — imbues her pieces with their unaccountable presence.
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"The C.F.P.B. was created to pursue an important mission, but its unaccountable structure and unduly broad regulatory powers have led to predictable regulatory abuses and excesses," the report said.
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Simply put, the idea amounts to a wholesale giveaway of the public's aviation system to a private, airline-dominated entity, which would be unaccountable to the public or Congress.
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Decisions made over decades by a variety of actors who collectively shaped public education but were largely individually unaccountable for the result literally invited the voucher/charter school movement.
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Holding the president accountable for the exercise of his powers under Article II of the Constitution is a task entrusted to Congress, not to a largely unaccountable special counsel.
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And yet when given the opportunity to defend himself, the president has refused to participate, defying all of the House's subpoenas for witnesses and documents, effectively declaring himself unaccountable.
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The crisis has raised concerns from diplomats and human rights advocates that Myanmar's military remains unaccountable, despite a Suu Kyi-led civilian government taking power more than nine months ago.
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But he will argue the system has been corrupted by wealthy activists who spent millions to privatize these schools, leaving them unaccountable and draining funds from the public school system.
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" Referring to the Jerusalem embassy move, he said, "The American administration bears all the consequences of the implementation of this unjust decision, and this terrible crime will not pass unaccountable.
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One interesting argument you make in the book is that if we're contrasting accountable transparent philanthropy with unaccountable shadowy billions, you can't really characterize government aid as accountable and transparent.
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Tech titans can afford to police their comments for libel or other unlawful content, although they will inevitably do it poorly, using biased and unaccountable algorithms and minimally trained staff.
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There should be fury in France at the moment over growing inequality, over unaccountable police violence, over a normalized state of emergency, over a political scene bereft of any vision.
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His original arguments against the EEC, that it was an unaccountable bureaucracy making laws with no regard for national parliaments, were exactly those that won the day in June 2016.
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As the online world has moved into something more like middle age, the notion that the anonymous, unaccountable freedom of the web is a panacea for prejudice seems hopelessly outdated.
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They have come on the heels of broader demonstrations last December, led by working-class men in provincial cities, against unaccountable vested interests and the corruption of the religious elite.
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The House bill also makes substantial changes to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), an agency created by Dodd-Frank that the GOP has long called unaccountable, abusive and redundant.
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They object to the whole idea of the G20, seeing the summit as the epitome of a global system based on a rapacious economic model and run by unaccountable elites.
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An unaccountable foreign policy comes with considerable consequences for the country, as we have learned the hard way through difficult experiences like Iran Contra and Kissinger's meddling in Latin America.
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For Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, it was a way to protect themselves from pesky investors interested in short-term gains, even as shareholder advocates blasted the arrangements for creating unaccountable leaders.
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A decentralized approach also gives parents a greater say in what is served in the cafeteria, since it's much easier for parents to influence local leaders than unaccountable federal bureaucrats.
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It already revealed how a networked elite, consisting of neoliberal globalizers and liberal internationalists as well as neoconservative intellectuals, had amassed unaccountable influence while becoming a service class for politicians.
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"There remain many kinds of speech that are objectionable to some in society, but not to the point where huge, democratically unaccountable corporations should completely prohibit such speech," he added.
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What began as a commission tasked with researching and recommending changes to improve Medicare, the program has become a powerful, taxpayer-funded body that is unaccountable to patients or voters.
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The CHOICE Act also places major restraints on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), an agency created by Dodd-Frank that the GOP has long called unaccountable, abusive and redundant.
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Republicans argue that the CFPB is unaccountable and overreaching, and have long sought to make drastic changes to its structure and mission — if not get rid of it all together.
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Party leaders claim they are reforming an inefficient and corrupt court system in the grip of an unaccountable caste of judges and insist their changes are in line with European standards.
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By the end of the year, commentators as well as politicians were invoking nationalism, patriotism and a bigger role for democratic governments as part of a broad backlash against unaccountable multilateralism.
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"I applaud Senator Sanders and his millions of supporters for challenging us to get unaccountable money out of politics and putting greater emphasis to closing the gap of inequality," she said.
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The "heart" argued that the sovereignty of the British people was being eroded as a far-away, unaccountable bureaucracy in Brussels, was passing rules governing an increasing array of everyday life.
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The UK company also sees a growing opportunity for its approach given increasingly complex and increasingly autonomous software risks becoming unaccountable, if it's making decisions without people knowing how and why.
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When the officers involved in King's beating were acquitted on April 29, 1992, the city exploded in rioting ignited by the belief that its police force was abusive, racist and unaccountable.
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The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the National Federation of Independent Business have also criticized DOJ for taking "inconsistent, nonbinding and unaccountable" positions across 9 years of litigation over website accessibility.
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After several rounds of independent counsel such as Ken Starr who seemed overzealous and unaccountable, Clinton and the Republican Congress decided they did not want to defend the law any longer.
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"For the first time, Clinton signaled she will personally work to kill the corporate-written TPP if it comes up after the election in an unaccountable lame-duck Congress," Green said.
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If more of us could trust our ISPs in this way, we might think differently about big policy questions like net neutrality, in which the debate is premised on unaccountable providers.
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He is entitled to his full, unabridged First Amendment rights, especially in the face of such an unprecedented all-powerful, unaccountable machine that has certainly sought to convict him before trial.
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The Leave side, which just months ago was dismissed as hopelessly divided, has put together an extraordinarily effective campaign based on taking back democratic control from unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats in Brussels.
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The concerns were that unaccountable powers given to the ICC and its prosecutors posed a threat to our sovereignty and the constitutional protections of our citizens in or out of uniform.
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While Democrats are fretting about the CFPB's future, banks and others in the financial services sector are eager for a new start at an agency they've long considered unaccountable and harmful.
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But the case illustrates the dangers of a powerful and unaccountable government in which agencies are allowed to serve as judge, jury and executioner, so to speak, in civil enforcement actions.
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Our study, a year in the making, found that 71 percent of rules issued by HHS from 2001 to 85033 were issued by unaccountable bureaucrats instead of politically accountable agency leaders.
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These embedded biases can affect hiring prospects, misidentify innocent people, and give unaccountable actors in the private sector or law enforcement apparatus greater information about our personal lives, without our consent.
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"We have a responsibility to ensure that unaccountable, last-minute regulations don't continue crippling our economy, crushing small business and raising costs on middle-class families," he said in a statement.
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Unlike the House bill, the legislation would not touch the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a longtime target of Republican lawmakers who view it as an unaccountable agency with too much power.
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The Americans feel that these panels—where representatives of the US, Canada, and Mexico adjudicate disputes—are too unaccountable and stacked against the US (although Canada and Mexico would probably disagree).
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Mr. Trump — like right-wing populists across Europe — rode into power on waves of discontent with unaccountable globalization and growing inequality that have increased even under liberal and social-democratic parties.
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He observed that the Constitution gave judges the final word, without appeal, on constitutional questions to the Supreme Court, and asked the crucial question: How would officials with unaccountable power behave?
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The articles point out that Ms. Mason, a powerful member of the Bentley administration, was not paid by the state in recent years and was thus unaccountable under financial disclosure rules.
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He was bemused by the "quick, unaccountable" life of the city, and took to sitting for spells of restorative peace in St. Patrick's Cathedral—unbelieving, but savoring the aura of sanctity.
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Bernie Sanders: [I believe] the most important tech-related issue of today is the enormous concentration of economic and political power in the hands of a few massive, unaccountable technology firms.
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Today Mr. Trump's unaccountable style of governing reflects his Attorney General William Barr's doctrine of unitary executive power, oblivious to the checks and balances and separation of powers in the Constitution.
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" Roberts added in his eloquent dissent that with this decision, the American people would "lose a bit more control over the conduct of this Nation's foreign policy to unelected, politically unaccountable judges.
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"I applaud Senator Sanders and his millions of supporters for challenging us to get unaccountable money out of our politics and giving greater emphasis to closing the gap of inequality," she said.
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He rightly goes beyond inequality of wealth to address inequality of power: how win-win fixes invariably take problems out of the political realm and sub-contract them to unaccountable global elites.
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But it seems a very selective sort of ruthlessness to allow yourself all the conventional comforts of a bourgeois household and then insist on being unaccountable when it comes to the chores.
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But we're also concerned, generally more so, with wasting limited resources and creating large federal bureaucracies that are unaccountable to citizens — their customers — and that make us all poorer as a result.
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It would also risk inflaming the underlying political forces that led to the "Leave" victory: rising populist anger, distrust of seemingly unaccountable government institutions and a belief that the system is rigged.
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Instead of working to reshape a financial sector that remains too large, too powerful and still unaccountable, policymakers are encouraging reckless speculation and passing rules that undermine protections for consumers and investors.
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Katrina was the definitive display of the unaccountable incompetence of the Bush Administration—and a stroke of racial catastrophe visible enough to catalyze, however subtly, the election of the first black President.
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But his special prosecutor title leaves him largely unaccountable to Congress, raising concerns among lawmakers that he could limit what documents the congressional investigations receive or who can appear before their committees.
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Revoking CFPB's authority to crackdown on abuse is one of several measures in the CHOICE Act meant to reign in the agency, which the GOP has long called unaccountable, abusive and redundant.
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Separate teams of American Special Operations forces have also been trying to court allies from a patchwork of Libyan militias that remain unreliable, unaccountable, poorly managed and divided by region and tribe.
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In reality, however, our core social problems stem not from a misguided people but from unaccountable plutocrats who have rigged the rules of the game in order to veto substantive popular reform.
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Post-9/11 foreign policy has been matched here at home by expansive growth of executive power, unaccountable militarization of domestic law enforcement, chronic over-criminalization and pervasive disrespect for civil liberties.
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"We are at risk of a coup d'état in this country if we allow an unaccountable person with no oversight to undermine the duly elected president of the United States," Gaetz said.
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The structure of the bloc, which reflects decades of gradual evolution, contributes to what scholars call a "democratic deficit," the feeling that structures and officials in Brussels are unaccountable to ordinary people.
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" McKinsey "is a hidden, unaccountable power that has a prestigious face," said Janine R. Wedel, a professor at George Mason University who has written extensively on what she calls "the shadow elite.
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Consideration of the impact of today's ruling on democratic principles cannot ignore the effect of the unelected and politically unaccountable branch of the Federal Government assuming such an extraordinary and unprecedented role.
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"I applaud Senator Sanders and his millions of supporters for challenging us to get unaccountable money out of our politics and giving greater emphasis to closing the gap of inequality," Clinton said.
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Unaccountable faceless bureaucrats shldnt get pass every 4yrs Holding agencies accountable is job of Congress not exec branch esp FBI Ive overseen GOP+Dem admins for 40 yrs Not going 2stop now
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It reinforced criticism from the left — by Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, among others — that Amazon, Facebook and Google are unaccountable monopolies, digital analogues to the railroad trusts of the Gilded Age.
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Ultimately, the issue is whether we allow an unaccountable international bureaucracy to attack Israel by fabricating history, replacing fact with falsehood, and denying the legitimacy of the foundations of Judaism and Christianity.
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This is ideological imperialism — six unelected individuals in Silicon Valley imposing their vision on the rest of the world, unaccountable to any government and acting like they're above the reach of law.
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Republicans say the CFPB, established in 2011 by Dodd-Frank to police predatory lending, is an unaccountable agency strangling banks and bullying financial services providers with overreaching, unconstitutional regulations and enforcement actions.
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Instead, it established an autocratic and unaccountable power center for people of Warren's ideological persuasion — those who view our market economy as an enemy that must be managed by a chosen few.
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Rauch, like fellow campaign finance deregulators, argues that attempts to regulate campaign finance have only pushed more money to unaccountable, extremist "outside" groups, which demand purity over compromise, thus pulling politics apart.
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On the album's 18-minute centerpiece, "I Snuck Off the Slave Ship," he envisions himself—clinging to life without food and water on the middle passage, watching "unaccountable bodies" drowning in the water.
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The continued overextension of authority by unelected officials not only violates the separation of powers and diminishes the voice of the American people, but has also led to unaccountable growth in discretionary spending.
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We both agree that we have to get unaccountable money out of our political system and that we have to do much more to ensure that Wall Street never wrecks main street again.
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This could easily become its own domain of unaccountable bureaucratic expertise if treated as an end in and of itself, with a closed-door committee adjudicating the boundary between "good" and "bad" money.
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"I was compelled to resign my position on August 31, 2018, in the wake of a pattern of unethical and unaccountable decision making from company leadership," Poulson wrote in his letter of resignation.
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With a strange unaccountable tenderness she clings onto the piece of property in her mind; 'my little meadow' she says, and smiles just as blissfully as when giving our little Doris her breast.
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"We are at risk of a coup d'état in this country if we allow an unaccountable person with no oversight to undermine the duly elected president of the United States," Gaetz said. Rep.
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Any willingness by Congress to cede its constitutionally entrusted lawmaking power and subject the American people to the edicts of an unelected, unaccountable board that is immune from judicial oversight is downright appalling.
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This leaves the hard-working but largely unaccountable (and often underfunded) humanitarian organisations that care for them, including the UNHCR, to serve as surrogate states, a role for which they are rarely suited.
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For instance, the interpretation of certain laws pertaining to the compensation of loan officers literally makes these employees untouchable and unaccountable for even intentional errors that can prevent consumers from obtaining a loan.
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Until our lawmakers can vote in the best interests of their constituents, without the fear that millions in unaccountable special interest money will be unleashed to attack them, the rebellion will roll on.
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Board of Education—which overturned the "separate but equal" standard established by the High Court nearly 60 years earlier—without reversing itself at every opportunity, rendering the rule of law arbitrary and unaccountable.
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They have depended on its conservative justices to curtail voting rights, to permit an unlimited flow of unaccountable corporate money into the political process and to allow the drawing of undemocratic congressional gerrymanders.
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Republicans have so far seemed more interested in carping about an unaccountable agency constraining lending and crushing small banks (it's not, by the way) than actually undertaking a frontal assault on consumer protection.
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If there's been a single, clear, consistent foreign policy message that's emerged from the last decade of U.S. elections, it's simple: Voters are exhausted of open-ended, expensive, destructive, and unaccountable foreign wars.
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It's a laudable goal, but if the users are fake, or otherwise unaccountable, from the outset, the ease with which they could spread misinformation on encrypted networks would have even more troubling implications.
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Still, Demand Justice, which says the Court is "wholly unaccountable," does not have high hopes that the Justice will acknowledge any implicit bias if matters are left to Kavanaugh or the Court itself.
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"This case really highlights the threats that are posed by a lawless and unaccountable private surveillance industry," said David Kaye, the United Nations special rapporteur who was a co-author of Wednesday's statement.
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John McCain is telling President Donald Trump to stop attacking the media, saying the administration's attitude makes it easier for oppressive regimes to mistreat reporters and for corrupt governments to be left unaccountable.
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Hensarling also said his plan would ramp up oversight of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), which is a frequent target of Republicans, who see it as an unaccountable bureaucracy with overzealous regulations.
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Unprecedented unmaskings, wiretapping opposition campaigns, spying on journalists, directing federal agency power against political opponents: All of these actions were committed by unaccountable federal agency personnel in pursuit of retaining power and influence.
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With Mulvaney settling into his new role, a number of reforms could come both from Congress and from inside the CFPB that could help rein in what has become an unaccountable bureaucratic agency.
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The disaster and the government's handling of it — the evacuation order only came 7 hours after the accident — highlighted the shortcomings of the Soviet system with its unaccountable bureaucrats and entrenched culture of secrecy.
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Meanwhile, in communities around the country, we've heard story after story of gross overreach by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, an unaccountable deportation police force that barges into hospitals and churches at will.
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U.S. President Donald Trump called the decision "a major international victory," and denounced the international court for its "broad, unaccountable, prosecutorial powers," as well as for what he considers its threat to American sovereignty.
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The disaster and the government's handling of it — the evacuation order only came 36 hours after the accident — highlighted the shortcomings of the Soviet system with its unaccountable bureaucrats and entrenched culture of secrecy.
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If you've been on a plane in the past ten to 15 years, then you've at least had a small taste of the utter helplessness that comes from dealing with these faceless, unaccountable corporations.
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They say British citizens are subjected to taxes and other measures by a supposedly unaccountable European Parliament, while Britain as a whole sends far more money each year to Brussels than it gets back.
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"This is a victory for consumers, a defeat for the wealthy trial lawyers lobby and a rejection of the unchecked, unconstitutional and unaccountable CFPB," said House Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas).
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" He eventually decides to refuse the offer, wondering, "Suppose how great the test of virtue must be, or how cold the American constitution, when this unaccountable custom is in hospitable repute, and perpetual practice.
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Congress was slow to realize as much back in April, but it no longer has any excuse for not bringing the full weight of the law against one of America's most arrogant, unaccountable monopolies.
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The threat of big money in politics—as previously articulated by candidates like Elizabeth Warren—comes from unaccountable elites using their vastly inflated resources to influence the political process, often avoiding disclosure and scrutiny.
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His view of unfettered, unaccountable presidential powers defies law and common sense, and smacks of the flimsy excuse-making that has propped up Trump's abuse of the Justice Department to do his political bidding.
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Democrats believe that the witnesses they already called in the House investigation and hope to hear from in the Senate paint a picture of an unaccountable and corrupt presidency that could scare uncommitted voters.
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U.S. President Donald Trump called the decision "a major international victory," and denounced the international court for its "broad, unaccountable, prosecutorial powers", as well as for what he considers its threat to American sovereignty.
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In a democratic society, we should not accept our images being secretly collected and retained to create a mass surveillance database to be used, disclosed, and analyzed at the whim of an unaccountable company.
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A special counsel has the broad authority to conduct a sweeping probe largely unaccountable to Congress, raising fears that Mueller could limit what documents congressional investigators receive or who can appear before their committees.
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More troubling is the fact that the administrative state has given rise to an unaccountable deep state were many forget they aren't above the law but, in fact, are servants of the American people.
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But amid the chaos that followed Gaddafi's demise in 2011, Europe has turned to a patchwork of quasi-government security forces and unaccountable militias in order to prevent asylum seekers from reaching its borders.
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"The SEC's regime of unaccountable adjudicators has left countless casualties on the field - not least Ray Lucia," wrote Lucia's legal team, led by Gibson Dunn & Crutcher's Mark Perry, in the petition to the court.
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It might, as some progressive groups have argued, help make sure money that may otherwise flow to unaccountable "dark money" organizations would instead be managed through the institutional channels of the official party organs.
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As Baker made his way through the art-film canon in the '90s, he consumed and internalized all of it: the meandering narrative, the scenes that seem to lead nowhere but linger in unaccountable beauty.
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The prospects for bipartisan antitrust reform are increasing because the current unfair playing field is depressing economic growth and the bottleneck market power of Amazon, Google, and Facebook is unaccountable to competition and antitrust enforcement.
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But at April's "She the People" conference in Houston for women of color, Garcia watched presidential candidate after presidential candidate take the stage without mentioning ICE — an agency Garcia believes is "rogue," unaccountable to anyone.
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And when the unaccountable regulatory state inevitably gets challenged before the Supreme Court, Clinton-appointed justices will ignore the Constitution and let the red tape keep flowing; Trump-appointed justices will do exactly the opposite.
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It is about how technology has been used to subvert democracy from within—not by foreign powers—but by increasingly unaccountable corporate power, including those tied to the rampant exploitation of oil, gas and coal.
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Hillary Clinton—whose big-money donors from Wall Street, corporate America, K Street, and other special interests have served as her political oxygen throughout her career—lauded Sanders for challenging the Party on unaccountable money.
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Or, they may fashion a W. Bush-type surveillance security regime in which massive, secret, and unaccountable intelligence budgets and executive license produced illegal torture of our enemies and broad surveillance of the American people.
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"Residents and communities, post-Grenfell, need to take center stage rather than large and unaccountable for-profit landlords supported by foreign investment funds," said Kevin Gulliver, director of the Human City Institute, a think tank.
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The head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau defended its record Thursday to critical Republican senators, who charged it with preferring punitive action over transparent rules and stifling the country's credit market through unaccountable actions.
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"This is ideological imperialism — six unelected individuals in Silicon Valley imposing their vision on the rest of the world, unaccountable to any government and acting like they&aposre above the reach of law," he continued.
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The Republicans have been trying to kill it for years: In 2011, they first voted to repeal it because of "wasteful, unaccountable spending," and it has been a mainstay of Obamacare repeal efforts ever since.
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A failure to do so will only undermine the union's effort to demonstrate that it is a civic community held together by democratic values, not just a distant, unaccountable bureaucracy — exactly what the populists claim.
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Russia's "managed democracy" provides a vivid illustration of how institutions and practices that originally emancipated citizens from the whim of unaccountable rulers can be refashioned to effectively disenfranchise citizens (even while allowing them to vote).
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The circle-assembly at the Great Lawn also served to announce a subsequent action later that month at the Department of City Planning targeting the infamously unaccountable Uniform Land Use Review Procedure (ULURP) zoning process.
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In an interview with the Financial Times, he said a new legal or regulatory framework may help to limit the power of big tech companies, which had become overly-dominant and unaccountable to ordinary users.
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In the wake of Barack Obama's devolution into one of the most secretive presidents in history, the ramifications of an emboldened, unaccountable, and opaque Clinton administration will reverberate far beyond a measly basement server in Chappaqua.
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The main corporate-governance problem is that the interests of minority shareholders, whether they are invested in Tata Sons or in the various operating companies, risk being trampled over if unaccountable trustees are ruling the roost.
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Emerging democratic groups tell me they are all too familiar with unaccountable government, corruption at the highest levels, abusing judicial power to go after political rivals, and pliant legislators unable or unwilling to cross party heads.
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In the span of just a few months, Trending had gone from being an example of liberal bias at Facebook to a symbol of the dangers of unaccountable algorithms, and the platform's failure to police misinformation.
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Separate teams of American Special Operations forces have over the past year been trying to court allies from among a patchwork of Libyan militias that remain unreliable, unaccountable, poorly organized and divided by region and tribe.
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THE rallying cry of the campaign for Britain to leave the European Union was that it was time for the country's own national institutions to seize power from the unaccountable courts and parliaments across the Channel.
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You know, as you said, in early May, I put out a piece saying that Facebook had gotten too big and that Mark was unaccountable to not just government but also shareholders and the private market.
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In its filing with the top court, the Chamber of Commerce wrote that the Justice Department has provided only "inconsistent, nonbinding, and unaccountable" rules for when and how websites must be accessible to those with disabilities.
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"The person who has continued to evade accountability in the midst of this crisis is Governor Rick Snyder, who ushered in unaccountable emergency managers whose only focus was to cut costs at any cost," Scott said.
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Maxine Waters is the Wall Street sheriff the people deserve Ex-GOP congressman heads to investment bank MORE (R-Texas), who both say she's well equipped to reform what they consider an unruly and unaccountable regulator.
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Rather than a dismantling of the occupation and an evolution of Palestinian independence as initially envisioned, successive Israeli governments ended up undermining Palestinian statehood and reinventing the occupation as an unaccountable system of control and expansion.
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For while the punishments employers can impose for disobedience aren't as severe as those available to the state, the scope of employers' authority over workers is more sweeping and exacting, its power more arbitrary and unaccountable.
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There now exists a massive and intrusive platform, possessed of an extractive power so immense and a monopoly on information so unaccountable that it can legitimately be said to have a distorting effect on our democracy.
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"We have it being used in unaccountable ways and with no regulation," said Malkia Cyril, executive director of the Center for Media Justice, a nonprofit civil rights organization that signed the A.C.L.U.'s letter to Amazon.
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Hawking, in turn, became a symbol of a distinct Hong Kong identity under threat, of a local underdog oppressed by an overlord government — whether colonial British or communist Chinese — that seems forever unaccountable to the people.
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An impartial risk assessment of the offshore drilling program would reveal that exposing the Gulf to an industry that is simply unaccountable, for the sake of oil supply decades down the road, makes no logical sense.
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For its part, Ocwen has quite an established history of helping borrowers stay in their homes, making it that much more troubling that an unaccountable regulator can force the company to continue distracting and expensive litigation.
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The director of the bureau is essentially an unelected, unaccountable czar of an agency that can exercise enormous power over the economy — and especially over the ability of people on Main Street America to obtain credit.
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Noah, lying hungover and naked in his tent, awakens to realize that Ham has glimpsed him in this state, and, in an unaccountable fit of rage, damns Ham's son Canaan and his lineage to perpetual servitude.
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" AND NOW, A WORD FROM CHARLES… "Given their arrogance, pomposity and habitual absurdities, it is hard not to feel a certain satisfaction with the comeuppance that Brexit has delivered to the unaccountable European Union bureaucrats in Brussels.
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But to stop its advance, the United States and its European allies have been forced to court unreliable allies from among a patchwork of Libyan militias that remain unaccountable, poorly organized and divided by region and tribe.
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For the first time ever, when he unveiled the new budget a month ago, he included previously undisclosed details about how much money went to unaccountable religious foundations, research centers, and other institutions close to the leadership.
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They are angered by a global elite they see flitting from business to politics and back again, unaccountable to anyone, as economic inequality yawns ever wider (though the picture is more complex than that: see chart 210).
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A regime that systematically brutalizes its own people, deliberately starves its population and remains unaccountable to its people or the norms of civilization will feel little moral restraint about making war on its neighbors or arming terrorists.
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Unlike other such agencies where the leadership can be terminated by the president — or where there is a board of oversight including members of both parties — the CFPB had one leader who was all-powerful and unaccountable.
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Instead, these major health policy decisions will rest in the hands of 15 unelected and largely unaccountable bureaucrats, with little or no clinical expertise or the oversight required to protect access to care for our country's seniors.
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Thirdly, I have been interested in new forms of conflict which seem to characterize this war, and in particular trying to explore visual strategies and forms for seeing unseen or unaccountable experiences and the processes of conflict.
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Due to the huge influx of cash from the international donor community, the Afghan government turned into a highly centralized, unaccountable, predatory state rewarding connected elites and incentivizes corruption, rather than establishing the country for productive activity.
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"And I can tell you I've been there long enough to see that there are some issues there -- again, on the other side of the aisle -- that continue to be held -- they're being held unaccountable," Tlaib added.
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His rhetoric targets both suspicious outsiders who could be coming to steal your gains, and — increasingly, as he turns his fire on Hillary Clinton for the general election — the unaccountable transnational elites who feed off your labor.
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"The meat of this whole point is the fear that a lot of people have that automated decision-making will be unaccountable," said Andrew Selbst, a civil rights attorney and researcher with the Yale Information Society Project.
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Richard Shelby (R-AL) in a 221 Wall Street Journal op-ed warned of the "danger of an unaccountable 'consumer-protection' czar" and declared Cordray's nomination "dead on arrival" unless changes to the CFPB's setup were made.
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It's a moment that foreshadows the dark future ahead for the anonymous and unaccountable corners of the internet, the places that aren't escapes from harassment and abuse but rather places where harassment and abuse often cannot be escaped.
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This was enough for Theresa May, Britain's prime minister, to rule out the Norwegian model for her country's post-Brexit relations with the EU. After all, Britain voted last June to take back control from unaccountable EU institutions.
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How Mark Zuckerberg Became Too Big to Fail Farhad Manjoo says Mark Zuckerberg is effectively accountable to no one: That few can imagine a Facebook without Mr. Zuckerberg, 34, underscores how unaccountable our largest tech companies have become.
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But dissatisfaction grew with an establishment widely seen as unaccountable, raising pressure for a new generation to take over capable of modernising the oil-dependent state and giving hope to a young population impatient for a better life.
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But dissatisfaction grew with an establishment widely seen as unaccountable, raising pressure for a new generation to take over, capable of modernizing the oil-dependent state and giving hope to a young population impatient for a better life.
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"Unaccountable, secret money in elections has not only undermined people's faith in our democracy, it has prevented our nation's highest legislative body from fully addressing some of the most critical issues facing the country," the incoming lawmakers wrote.
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One of the groups, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, said Congress had reined in the "overgrown and unaccountable" CFPB, an independent agency created to protect individuals' finances that conservatives say consistently reaches beyond its authority in its rulemaking.
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The dispute comes as some conservatives, including Trump's two Supreme Court nominees Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch, seek to diminish the power of agencies, arguing that they are unaccountable to the public and disrupt the separation of powers.
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One of the groups, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, said congress had reined in the "overgrown and unaccountable" CFPB, an independent agency created to protect individuals' finances that conservatives say consistently reaches beyond its authority in its rulemaking.
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The behavior of the trial Judge and the latitude accorded to the prisoner, who was permitted to conduct her own defense, seemed unaccountable on this side of the Atlantic, where we are inclined to boast of our liberty.
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"Yes I'm afraid," said 28-year-old Danni Paffard, who says the significance of aviation lies not only in the level of pollution it is responsible for, but the fact the industry remains so unaccountable for its polluting.
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Companies and government agencies often introduce such automated systems to cut costs and handle complex datasets, but for years experts have been warning that such algorithms are opaque and unregulated, encoding sexist and racist thinking into unaccountable software.
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If subordinates are unaccountable to superiors and the costs of bad choices are not felt by the firm then those in the executive suite have little incentive to care about what is happening down the chain of command.
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It's complicated, of course, for many of the Catholic victims were boys, but there does seem to have been an element of elevating male clergy members on a pedestal in a way that made them omnipotent and unaccountable.
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Unlike my friend Eli Pariser, who places blame on unaccountable algorithms for "filter bubbles," I see these echo chambers as the result of the basic human drive toward homophily, the tendency of birds of a feather to flock together.
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The NFL perceives of itself as a nation state within the United States, but somehow more American than America; it has its own unaccountable and mostly incompetent justice system, and that justice system is effectively without an appeals process.
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"The new operations in Rakhine State show an unrepentant, unreformed and unaccountable military terrorizing civilians and committing widespread violations as a deliberate tactic," Nicholas Bequelin, regional director for East and Southeast Asia at Amnesty International, said in a statement.
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But the effort to build a bigger, stronger "wall of fear" has further alienated Egypt's people from a state that is not just cruel, arbitrary and unaccountable, but also both too incompetent and too broke to buy their acquiescence.
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Only recently did a few of their key party stakeholders— namely the NAACP and Black Lives Matter—call for a charter moratorium, saying many are under-regulated, unaccountable, drain funds from traditional public schools, and lack civil rights protections.
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But tech as an industry is unrepresentative of the people it serves and unaccountable in the way it serves them, and so there's very little confidence among any group that the people in the room are the right ones.
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The average citizen is likely already caught up by bulk collection, although the proliferation of targeted surveillance technologies are increasingly threatening whistle-blowers, journalists and others that find themselves on the wrong side of unaccountable governments and security agencies.
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"I think what we have today is a bit of buyer's remorse by my Democratic colleagues who created the CFPB in order to be this unaccountable bureau but headed by a Democrat or a Democrat presidential appointee," said Rep.
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Indeed, an infamous Trump TV spot aired widely during the last week of the campaign featured an image of Soros as a sinister, unaccountable funder of globalist interests who was seeking to sway the election on Hillary Clinton's behalf.
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The state's security forces have always been violent and unaccountable for their actions in the favelas, but things have gotten even worse under the country's far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, and an ally, Rio de Janeiro's governor Wilson Witzel.
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The state's security forces have always been violent and unaccountable for their actions in the favelas, but things have gotten even worse under the country's far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, and an ally, Rio de Janeiro's governor Wilson Witzel.
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It is not only a highly unequal society but also one in which rising inequality is normal, and a handful of very rich and politically unaccountable rulers have managed to stay on top without having to use much violence.
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By the time Mindermann and Magallanes stepped out into the cool night air, they had learned from Hoback that $3 million or more in unaccountable cash was sloshing around at Creep, to finance crimes like the Watergate break-in.
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Americans of all backgrounds and political persuasions have the opportunity to effect real change and take political power back from an unaccountable elite by joining the growing movement for a constitutional amendment to get big money out of politics.
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He already takes considerable heat for his unaccountable warmth toward Russia's Vladimir Putin as well as North Korea's Kim Jong Un. Proven poor judgment on bin Salman would open his amiable antics with those autocrats to even more scrutiny.
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I will always appreciate Obama's efforts to unite, but I believe in a certain progressive approach to things because, right now, the scales have tipped very far toward one side — toward the biggest unaccountable economic players in our society.
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Obama didn't name the recent New York Times op-ed by an anonymous Trump official directly, but his allusion seemed clear as he warned against putting hope in unaccountable, unelected bureaucrats to protect the country from Trump's worst impulses.
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There's something a little depressing about shifting participants from one system governed by seemingly arbitrary rules and unaccountable authority figures (student loan management) to another (this game show), and telling them they're being done the favor of a lifetime.
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With an uncharitable interpretation, you could say the rules for overhauling how a key feature of the second most-trafficked website on the planet is effectively being written by external, potentially unaccountable individuals whose expertise and affiliation is not known.
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Among other items, it specifically cited his leadership in "the effort to rein in unaccountable independent agencies" and wrote that Kavanaugh has overruled federal regulators 75 times on cases involving clean air, consumer protections, and net neutrality, among other issues.
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Some see a military link: Mr Ko Ni was a constitutional expert, and had advised the government on reforms to the charter, imposed on the country in 2008 after a sham referendum, that gives vast and unaccountable power to the army.
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The economic and social problems caused by the exceptional unchecked power of three companies — Google, Amazon, and Facebook — has created a rare bipartisan opportunity for the right and left to come together around common interests: holding abuses of unaccountable power accountable.
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The new corporate leviathans that used to be seen as bright new avatars of American innovation are increasingly portrayed as sinister new centers of unaccountable power, a transformation likely to have major consequences for the industry and for American politics.
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Our presumptive nominee, Donald Trump, is giving a voice to millions of Americans who have had enough of unaccountable politicians, an economy that has left middle-class families behind, and a Democratic nominee who thinks she can live above the law.
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What made the first travel ban feel so abnormal wasn't the actual policy, but the way that policy was implemented: The authoritarian chaos of the airports seemed to herald an era in which the government was fundamentally unpredictable and fundamentally unaccountable.
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She claimed the move would claw back power from unaccountable monetary policymakers, whom she accused of undermining property rights, and of favouring wealthy investors and corporate borrowers over savers and pensioners by allowing inflation of 2% rather than none at all.
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Though many on the left have come to see ICE as an unaccountable deportation squad that regularly violates the rights of the people it encounters, few have faced the choice to either work with ICE or refuse to like he did.
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The ruling elite responded to these movements of, by and for the people by turning to an unelected and unaccountable Supreme Court, which created the illegitimate doctrine of "corporate constitutional rights" to allow corporate lawyers to overturn democratically enacted laws.
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And while providing police with the tech tools they need, we must also remain vigilant that we do not create an unaccountable surveillance system that allows potential abuses of the extraordinary power of machine learning, facial recognition, and national databases.
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The current U.S. policy toward Iran threatens to enable the regime's behavior by channeling money into the hands of the individuals and institutions associated with the IRGC and the unaccountable foundations, who still exert the greatest influence on Iranian foreign policy.
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Like many promulgations of the unaccountable administrative state, the opaque formula used in the regulations not only made what should have been a simple issue too complex for the average American to understand, but also raised the specter of bureaucrat abuse.
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"We know that putting this technology into the hands of already brutal and unaccountable law enforcement agencies places both democracy and dissidence at great risk," Malkia Cyril, the executive director of the Center for Media Justice, said in a statement.
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Tim Martin, founder and chairman of the chain of more than 20.7004 pubs, said on Friday he supported the principle of free movement of people and trade in Europe, but added political decisions should not be made by an "unaccountable body".
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Of course, for liberals who believe in investing governmental power in unelected liberal bureaucrats — and they are indeed reliable to pursue liberal objectives with the power of government in their hands — McGahn defeated the kind of unaccountable agency power they desire.
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"The country's extensive penitentiary system and severe restrictions on all forms of free expression, movement and access to information continue to nurture fear of the state and leave people at the mercy of unaccountable public officials," Tomas Ojea-Quintana said.
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In addition to being the author of several books such as "Undemocratic: How unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats are stealing your liberty and freedom," Sekulow is the chief counsel for the American Center for Law and Justice, a politically conservative Christian organization.
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Melodramatic as they may sound, these responses reflect a rational understanding of what YouTube is, and what any social network is, really: a marketplace with goods and currency and winners and losers, governed by an all-powerful and unaccountable corporation.
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From C. Wright Mills ("The Power Elite") to Noam Chomsky ("Manufacturing Consent"), the animating belief of the far left has been, as Tom Hayden put it, that we live in a "false democracy," controlled by an unaccountable, deceitful and shadowy elite.
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"This latest [jurisdictional] expansion is characteristic of an overreaching and unaccountable agency," wrote Education Department officials in a letter sent late last week to the consumer watchdog agency, saying the agreement called for the CFPB to forward all of those complaints.
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"The HJPC is often perceived by citizens and even by members of the judicial community as a center of unaccountable power in the hands of persons serving the interests of a network of political patronage and influence," the report said.
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But in this case, critics of Loto Quebec charge that the agency has been opaque in its operations and unaccountable, and that it is undermining efforts by other parts of the government to promote Montreal as a restaurant destination for tourists.
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We realized, all at once, that what might once have seemed like a "harmless" system of private surveillance—the tracking of our preferences, expressions, and desires for the sake of convenience and personalization—had been handed over to unaccountable state actors.
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Some have argued that the absence of a strong minority party in the Galactic Senate and the significant influence of the Jedi order — an unaccountable, self-governing sect of warrior monks — paved the way for the downfall of the Old Republic.
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The vertical striations on the right, which include unaccountable stains of brown, are transferred to the adhesive side of the tape on the left, but the original surface now bears slight traces of the left half's horizontal edges: each iteration affects the other.
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MOM SHARES LAST PHOTOS OF SON WHO DIED AFTER TAKING ECSTASY Lawmakers have pressed the hospital to create a staffing model that will allow adequate funding for nurses, but the facility keeps asking for overtime funds that are "unaccountable," said state Rep.
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Embiid, Fultz, and Simmons have each suffered significant injuries in their short careers, but, again, the biggest obstacle is less about the unaccountable and more about how their front office is able to progress with limited flexibility as they build around two cornerstones.
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Kavanaugh's opposition is based on the independent agency being managed by a single director who cannot be fired by the president, which proponents say allows it to aggressively respond to potential wrongdoing (say, the Equifax hack) and conservatives argue makes the agency unaccountable.
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They provide helmets, ensure drivers are trained and help if there is an accident — big steps up from the preexisting motorbike taxi market, which was informal and unaccountable — and many offer driver services such as insurance products and asset financing for motorbikes.
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Her comments and others published by regulators on Monday shed light on a process financial firms say is too opaque and unaccountable, indicating big banks and insurers will have to downsize dramatically if they are to shake off the "systemically risky" label.
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" In his Op-Ed article, Mr. Obama was unsparing in his criticism of gun manufacturers and their allies, accusing the industry of being "almost entirely unaccountable" for gun violence, and he said Americans needed to stand up to "the gun lobby's lies.
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"Today may be the last time that ordinary citizens are able to stand up and say 'No' to an overreaching, unaccountable government controlled by a ruling establishment," Charles Munoz, the Nevada state director for Trump's campaign, said in a statement after the ruling.
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As Surman and I chatted about the closely-intertwined dangers presented by large-scale data collection, unaccountable machine learning algorithms, and the pathetically-insecure Internet of Things, it was hard not to be overwhelmed by the sense that we're completely and utterly fucked.
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"Flint is Exhibit A for what happens when a state suspends democracy and installs unaccountable bean counters to run a city," said Michael Steinberg, legal director for the American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan, which joined the environmental group in the litigation.
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But if you see them as an essential part of our democracy, necessary tools for taming conflict, balancing discordant values, ordering democratic deliberation and organizing democratic action, you might recoil when someone like an unaccountable billionaire suggests we'd be better off without them.
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The release this month of millions of leaked documents known as the Paradise Papers establishes what leftists have argued for years: The United States-led push for free trade and a globalized economy has resulted in vast, unaccountable flows of untaxed offshore wealth.
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"I think he has demonstrably failed over the last two years, and the reason he's failed is because he's unaccountable," said Sandy Parakilas, a former Facebook employee who is now chief strategy officer for the Center of Humane Technology, an activist organization.
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"It's something you don't want to talk about very much but it's an unaccountable truth: we will need geoengineering by the mid-2030s to have a chance at the (1.5 degree) goal," Hare said, referring to efforts to cool the planet through engineering.
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"To give the President the power to remove the Director at will would radically reshape the CFPB, creating a mutant version of the agency that Congress envisioned—one that would still be unaccountable to Congress, yet fully within presidential control," the firm argued.
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This specific finding will hit boosters of the transatlantic community as a terrifying instance of a U.S. wobbling on its alliance obligations, but the number actually points to a popular gripe: that NATO is static, unaccountable and in desperate need of internal reform.
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Deirdre, New Jersey The new House Democrats should go as far as they have to go in order to investigate the activities of this administration and a president who by and large continues to hold himself both unaccountable and above the law.
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"The country's extensive penitentiary system and severe restrictions on all forms of free expression, movement and access to information continue to nurture fear of the state and leave people at the mercy of unaccountable public officials," Ojea Quintana told the Council on Monday.
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But your friends all seem to have unaccountable piles of girl lying around, and you cannot in good conscience refuse hospitality, so you inhale line after line, even if it makes you kind of jangly and causes every cigarette to burn up in three seconds.
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"For many decades, federal agencies have been issuing thousands of pages of so-called guidance documents — a pernicious kind of regulation imposed by unaccountable bureaucrats in the form of commentary on how rules should be interpreted," Trump said at the executive order signing ceremony.
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The five Labour MPs are certainly right that Bagehot would have worried about the transfer of power from Britain to the EU. As a creature of his time, he regarded continental Europe as a political backwater, governed by either unaccountable bureaucracies or wilful despots.
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The DUSN (Dad, Uncle, Son, Nephew, pronounced "DEW-son") index is useful mostly for its explanatory power, but it also doubles as a useful critique of the patriarchy: Dads represent it, Nephews resent it, Sons are unaware of it, and Uncles are, somehow, unaccountable.
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Khosla, speaking at the Commonwealth Club of California, also protested what he sees as an overzealous, unaccountable media: He said he certainly still supported Peter Thiel's past lawsuit against Gawker, and that he "would absolutely" fund litigation against media organizations if he felt sufficiently offended.
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It certainly didn't help that President Obama launched a serious effort, in the middle of the presidential campaign, to pass the agreement — aiming for the lame-duck Congress, where the swing votes would be unaccountable and many would soon be taking new jobs as lobbyists.
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" Warren's office in an email on Monday said that she "applauds the [GAO] for its decision to investigate whether unqualified, unaccountable private citizens — cronies of President Trump — with no official government role or responsibilities had or continue to have any undue influence over [VA] decisions.
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Many Dutch feel they are being asked to choose between two unattractive options: EU expansion plans dreamed up by unaccountable bureaucrats in Brussels or helping Russian Putin who they blame for the MH17 plane disaster which killed almost 200 Dutch citizens in July 2014.
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One group, the Judicial Crisis Network, has cited past decisions that it says show his support of "legalizing partial-birth abortion, and unleashing unaccountable bureaucratic agencies," like the Environmental Protection Agency and the Internal Revenue Service, as well as imposing limits on gun rights.
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"The new corporate leviathans that used to be seen as bright new avatars of American innovation are increasingly portrayed as sinister new centers of unaccountable power, a transformation likely to have major consequences for the industry and for American politics," Ben Smith wrote at BuzzFeed.
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NASA and SpaceX choose both Budget deal sparks scramble to prevent shutdown Trump border fight throws curveball into shutdown prospects MORE (R-Ala.), chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee shares similar skepticism regarding opaque and unaccountable international bodies drafting new rules for U.S. insurance companies.
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"It's going to be popular with the commoners who see important parts of the al-Saud family as a rent-seeking, unaccountable caste," Steffen Hertog, an associate professor at the London School of Economics and the author of a book on the Saudi bureaucracy.
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But Burundi's position got a powerful voice of support this week from President Trump, whose national security adviser, John R. Bolton, declared the international court "ineffective, unaccountable, and indeed, outright dangerous," and threatened sanctions against the court's prosecutors and judges who pursued cases against Americans.
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The MTA is bonded to Wall Street creditors and controlled by Cuomo and an unaccountable board of directors; it is geared toward servicing the most wealthy interests in the city even as it continues to tax, harass, and punish Black and brown New Yorkers.
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There is a tendency for both the news media and fans themselves to see goals ruled out by remote control as being "denied by V.A.R.," or goals or penalties awarded as being nothing more than the unpredictable whim of some all-seeing, unaccountable entity.
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" She attempted to highlight the common ground that unites his supporters with hers in the upcoming fight against Trump, noting, "we all want an economy with more opportunity" and that they share a goal of overturning Citizens United by "getting unaccountable money out of politics.
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Nielsen is not the first senior Cabinet official to lose their career after coming up against Trump's vision of his own authority -- or his instinct to elevate largely unaccountable appointees, such as domestic policy adviser Stephen Miller or his son-in-law, Jared Kushner.
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And when look at the fundamental issue of the moment, this idea about whether we will be constitutionalists who really understand the limits of the constitution and threats that a bureaucracy that is unaccountable can pose to limited government, Kethledge is really good on that issue.
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Transferring power from local to the federal government; empowering unaccountable bureaucrats to pursue abstract goods such as "equality of representation" (even if it means riding roughshod over local institutions); and undermining the vitality of civil society tends, they fear, to destroy the building blocks of Tocqueville's America.
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" Sasse, a member of the Banking Committee, and fellow Republican Mike Lee, of Utah, then released a letter to Vice President-elect Mike Pence saying the CFPB "combines the powers of the executive, legislative, and judicial branches into the hands of a few unaccountable Washington elites.
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"The case raises constitutional issues of major importance regarding the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, an agency that wields massive power over the economic activities of the public and sets a dangerous precedent for unaccountable federal bureaucracy," Sam Kazman, Competitive Enterprise Institute's general counsel, said in a statement.
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And because Amazon tends to focus on customer service rather than other values a country might want to prioritize — fraud protection or workers' rights, say — the company could end up becoming the world's most powerful consumer protection agency, but one that is unaccountable to some governments.
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The whole point of Brexit was to liberate Britain from the bureaucratic shackles of the sclerotic, inward-looking, unaccountable EU in order to embrace a dynamic, enterprising, outward-looking future that would make sure the British people got back control over the decisions that affect their lives.
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Having allowed their playing squads to decline to the point of disaster, having allowed their club infrastructure to languish, having proved themselves both unaccountable and almost entirely unsympathetic, these owners have inspired increasingly organised protest movements against them, and further compounded ill feeling in their responses.
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Now, Senator Sanders and I both want to get secret, unaccountable money out of politics, and let's remember, let's remember, Citizens United, one of the worst Supreme Court decisions in our country's history, was actually a case about a right-wing attack on me and my campaign.
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Ambroise Dakouo, an analyst from the Alliance to Rebuild African Governance, said that the low turnout during elections reflected disillusionment with the political establishment, consisting of a rotation of "the same elites" who are unaccountable to their constituents, the majority of whom are poor and illiterate.
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"I allowed myself to be intimidated into doing what I knew in my heart was wrong out of a fear of losing my job and out of a misguided sense of loyalty," Duffy said, railing against what he called the "unaccountable power" of the prime minister's office.
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And while subsequent reviews of the investigation offered yet another chance to hold people responsible, those opportunities fled quickly, leaving the chain of command, in which I had entrusted so much, unaccountable for decisions they made in my absence, but for which I was left responsible.
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There is a desperate need for our work: The world is connected by largely unaccountable networks of power that span industries and countries, political parties, corporations and institutions; WikiLeaks shines a light on these by revealing not just individual incidents, but information about entire structures of power.
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Instead of believing that spending a certain amount of time in America makes a foreigner American, they're concerned about the opposite: that parts of America have been inhabited by unaccountable foreigners and opaque to law enforcement for so long that they've become foreign enclaves on American soil.
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"We object strongly to the way the funding decisions have been approached here – which we feel is unaccountable, non-transparent and irresponsible," said Oscar Reyes of the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington DC. McDonald and Fakir said there was simply not enough time to discuss projects in detail.
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Failure to act now could take important decisions about medical care away from individuals and their doctors and turn them over to unaccountable government officials who don't answer to voters or the courts, and whose main concern is the bottom line, not what's best for an individual patient.
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The people in them would not have become nearly as rich or unaccountable or powerful as they are in this one, but there's no reason to think that they would not have found each other in some refrigerated clubhouse or hotel dining room or breakout session or cigar bar.
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A large class of libertarian-leaning thinkers and politicians, with considerable public following, resemble patients with this condition: They cannot perceive half of the economy — the half that takes place beyond the market, after the employment contract is accepted, where workers are subject to private, arbitrary, unaccountable government.
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Mulvaney and his staff members, for their part, viewed their tussles with Warren as a way to deliver the senator an unpleasant taste of her own medicine — an object lesson in the unaccountable bureaucracy that she had birthed and that he was remaking according to a different vision.
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He seems only interested in maintaining his immense power, and the fact that he is willing to use the resources at his disposal to accomplish that end should give all Americans pause at the amount of power vested in an unelected, and seemingly unaccountable, professional inside-the-Beltway bureaucrat.
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Rao's nomination also represents the Trump administration's latest effort to reshape the judiciary, with a nominee who is dedicated to reforming the so called "administrative state" — the web of federal agencies that critics say has grown too powerful and unaccountable, implementing regulations that can prove burdensome for business.
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Sam Brownback and other conservative Republicans have expressed outrage over State Supreme Court decisions that overturned death penalty verdicts, blocked anti-abortion laws and hampered Mr. Brownback's efforts to slash taxes and spending, and they are seeking to reshape a body they call unaccountable to the right-tilting public.
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Hoover FBI was unaccountable/did great harm w abuses of power Grassley's tweet appeared to be in response to a tweet posted by Comey earlier Wednesday, in which the former FBI director questioned where the defenders of an independent Justice Department and FBI could be found in government.
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"Ending the two-term limit ignores the painful lesson of the Mao era and exposes the Chinese people again to the massive human suffering, abuses and national catastrophe that could result from unaccountable power concentrated in the hands of one person," Sharon Hom, the group's executive director, said in a statement.
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" Ceding that control to TikTok should be worrying, according to a Times op-ed: "Those who complain that American firms like Facebook are invasive and unaccountable are unlikely to prefer China's tech giants, which are often cowed by, and collaborating with, the Party-State's opaque and irascible censorship and surveillance apparatus.
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Barack Obama's evolution in 10 years of hip-hop lyrics "The Republican Party right now is divided between people who recognize now that the criminal justice system is a big failed, unaccountable government bureaucracy that's wasting money and lives on the one hand," CNN political commentator Van Jones told CNN.
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"The Regulatory Accountability Act would allow Congress and the public to reassert control over a federal regulatory bureaucracy that is opaque, unaccountable and often unfair," said the letter, signed by groups like the Associated General Contractors of America, the National Association of Manufacturers and the National Council of Chain Restaurants.
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David BermanNew York To the Editor: The Times's superb coverage of privacy in the digital age might further document those people who don't blindly champion a digital world that has become a blitzkrieg of privacy invasion, social engineering, assaulting marketing and cowboy capitalism overseen by unaccountable lords of big data.
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Letter To the Editor: Re "Failure to Share Data Hampers African War on Boko Haram" (news article, April 24): Concerns about information-sharing aside, the Nigerian military and government have been complicit in enough human rights abuses themselves to make them wholly unaccountable for addressing the threats posed by Boko Haram.
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In just this way, Richard CordrayRichard Adams CordrayWatchdog agency must pick a side: Consumers or scammers Kraninger's CFPB gives consumers the tools to help themselves House rebukes Mulvaney's efforts to rein in consumer bureau MORE, the first director of the CFPB, came to be a person of immense and unaccountable power.
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"The CFPB's concentration of enormous executive power in a single, unaccountable, unchecked Director not only departs from settled historical practice, but also poses a far greater risk of arbitrary decision making and abuse of power, and a far greater threat to individual liberty, than does a multi-member independent agency," Kavanaugh wrote.
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Yet, this bill creates numerous opportunities for further political interference in a contracting process that is set up to be opaque and unaccountable and does not require competitive bidding (the two agencies that would oversee privatization deals — PREPA and the Puerto Rico Public Private Partnership Authority — are effectively controlled by the governor).
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"The CFPB's concentration of enormous executive power in a single, unaccountable, unchecked director not only departs from settled historical practice, but also poses a far greater risk of arbitrary decision-making and abuse of power, and a far greater threat to individual liberty, than does a multi-member independent agency," he wrote.
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Olson, the lawyer for PHH, listed multiple concerns on Wednesday that he said collectively make the agency too unaccountable, saying its budget is not controlled by Congress, the president cannot fire the director at will, and the five-year term forces the director to be held over after a change in administration.
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Michael D. Higgins, president of Ireland We are living with the simultaneous occurrence of deep challenges: of environmental survival; of human need, in terms of the most basic essentials for full citizenship and participation; and of deepening inequality with an ever more unregulated and unaccountable concentration of wealth at the global level.
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"We can have better policing and safer streets and subways at the same time, and it's critical that issues of enforcement bias are found, highlighted, and corrected -- especially as the governor moves forward with his plan for unaccountable officers on our trains," New York City public advocate Jumaane Williams said in a statement.
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"The (North Korean) State's extensive penitentiary system and severe restrictions on all forms of free expression, movement and access to information, added to the poor access to basic needs, especially food, continue to nurture fear of the State and leave people at the mercy of unaccountable public officials," the special rapporteur concluded.
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I also saw that I was slow returning to the T; that I sometimes took an unaccountable extra hop before setting off, like Wile E. Coyote band-sawing his legs in midair; and that when I hit my backhand crosscourt I threw my body wide open, a cuckolded husband ripping aside the drapes.
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To the Editor: Your article about a new rule by the nation's consumer finance watchdog quotes Representative Jeb Hensarling, a Texas Republican, as saying, "In the last election, the American people voted to drain the D.C. swamp of capricious, unaccountable bureaucrats who wish to control their lives" — a stunning example of Orwellian Newspeak.
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"The ability to choose who governs us, and the freedom to change laws we do not like, were secured for us in the past by radicals and liberals who took power from unaccountable elites and placed it in the hands of the people," Gove wrote in a personal statement explaining his position in February.
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They argue that the E.U. is undemocratic, run by unaccountable bureaucrats, and that Britain can somehow reinvent itself, overcome geography and defy several authoritative predictions of economic disaster — most recently from the International Monetary Fund — by linking with fast-growing parts of the emergent world after it turns its back on a stagnant Europe.
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"That is the standard, and so often, charters are not held to that standard, and so what we've pushed back against is not so much charters, but against the proliferation of an industry that takes meaningful resources from public schools, and puts them in the hands of private interests, unaccountable to the public," he said.
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To argue that Guatemala should be a migrant-receiving country, that Guatemalans are coming to take over the U.S., and that the U.S. has no responsibility for Guatemala's lack of land reform, corrupt and unaccountable military culture, disruptive and unbalanced trade, transnational trafficking, and climate change is to insist on the right to ignorance.
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If you allow a president to refuse to comply with congressional-issued subpoenas for documents and testimonies during an impeachment inquiry, then what would be left of the Congress' power to impeach to challenge a president who believes he or she is above the law and is unaccountable for violating his oath of office?
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Taken in conjunction with his hard-edged rhetoric—it remains unclear whether voters are willing to tolerate a candidate who uses blunt terms like "nonsense"—it's not hard to imagine Ainge's opponents painting him as something of a carpetbagger, or a hapless servant of deep-pocketed and unaccountable elites sitting in well-appointed offices in Northeastern cities.
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That means more briefing on the nuances of British Islam for local authority figures (Ms Bowen's book, "Medina in Birmingham, Najaf in Brent", is a good start), arm's-length liaison bodies for Muslim moderates uncomfortable about engaging with the state, efforts to reverse the decline of religious studies and better policing of fashionable but often unaccountable "faith schools".
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Clinton channeled Bernie SandersBernie SandersJoe Biden faces an uncertain path Bernie Sanders vows to go to 'war with white nationalism and racism' as president Biden: 'There's an awful lot of really good Republicans out there' MORE for much of the debate, vowing to get "dark, unaccountable money" out of politics and railing against the Citizens United decision.
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After conducting interviews with Tea Party members, political scientists Vanessa Williamson, Theda Skocpol, and John Coggin concluded that, while Tea Party members did support deficit reduction and cuts to government spending, the movement was powered by the sense that an unaccountable political elite was showering undeserving freeloaders with money taken from the taxes of hard-working Americans.
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""At the same time, however, I encountered an irregular, informal channel of U.S. policy-making with respect to Ukraine, unaccountable to Congress, a channel that included then-Special Envoy Kurt Volker, U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland, Secretary of Energy Rick Perry, White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney, and, as I subsequently learned, Mr. Giuliani.
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Wilson, as it happens, is a favorite Claremont bête noire: the founder of the modern "administrative state," the unelected, unaccountable rule-by-bureaucracy that has, the story goes, usurped the founders' vision of rule by the people (and which reached its apogee with Barack Obama, Mr. Kesler argued in his 2012 book, "I Am the Change").
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"It is unacceptable for federal agencies to operate in such a clandestine and unaccountable manner especially when the result could be the undoing of critical public health and safety protections," Representatives Elijah E. Cummings of Maryland, John Conyers Jr. of Michigan, Gerald E. Connolly of Virginia and David Cicilline of Rhode Island wrote in the letter.
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"The majesty of representative government," in the words of the editorial, demands that we not shirk our patriotic duty to uphold and to defend the Constitution from the corrupting encroachments that subvert our democracy and, if unchecked, set a course toward the authoritarian rule of unaccountable men who presume to govern as if by divine right.
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"The Executive's immunity theory for former advisers is as brazen as it is wrong: it places the President above the law and, by blocking testimony from a former official in the best position to condemn him, potentially renders the President unaccountable for misconduct while in office," the House's lawyers argued in a brief filed in late August.
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Elizabeth WarrenElizabeth Ann WarrenTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Eight Democratic presidential hopefuls to appear in CNN climate town hall In shift, top CEOs say shareholder value not top goal MORE creates an unaccountable agency (CFPB) and now that it's headed by Mick Mulvaney, she's suddenly concerned that he's not accountable to her?
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That is especially true when one thinks about what can and does go wrong when unaccountable and nontransparent intermediaries can freely interfere with competition and market forces; intercept private communications, inside information, and trade secrets; inject biases, discrimination, and self-dealing; influence mass choices, behaviors, views, and cultural norms; and intervene whenever they want as self-appointed censor, arbiter, and regulator.
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At present, we have the worst of both worlds, a secretive and worryingly unaccountable intelligence establishment that at the same time simply does not have the manpower or the technical capacity needed to keep close tabs on the thousands — if not tens of thousands — of terrorist sympathizers in Europe and in North America who have been radicalized through social media.
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Conservative columnist Cal Thomas criticized some Christian leaders in an op-ed on Tuesday for their "unaccountable devotion" to President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE.
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For me, that means that we need a Supreme Court that will stand up on behalf of women's rights, on behalf of the rights of the LGBT community, that will stand up and say no to Citizens United, a decision that has undermined the election system in our country because of the way it permits dark, unaccountable money to come into our electoral system.
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This includes not only the unaccountable tournament organizers and shady managers, but the cottage industry of lecherous betting sites and ELO boosters (where people pay more skilled players to improve their matchmaking rank on their account) that exist like leeches on Dota 2's professional scene—and it's worth acknowledging that SmAsH has been accused of taking part in ELO-boosting schemes as well.
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There are plenty of reasons for cynicism when it comes to the political process: Our country's history—and present practice—of disenfranchising voters through racist voter identification laws and gerrymandering; the 2010 Citizens United ruling that turned elections into shopping sprees for the rich; and decades of wildly unaccountable politics that have left many voters feeling, rightly, that the system does not actually serve them.
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For me, that means that we need a Supreme Court that will stand up on behalf of women's rights, on behalf of the rights of the LGBT community, that will stand up and say no to Citizens United, a decision that has undermined the election system in the country because of the way it permits dark, unaccountable money to come into our electoral system.
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So while I understand that describing the Brexit victory as Magna Carta 2.0 is inexact, I think it makes a key point: Britain will regain its political freedom, its autonomous self-government, and its independence from an European Union that is spinning out of control under the power of establishment elites, unelected and unaccountable socialist bureaucrats, and a court that is increasingly making legal decisions that replace Britain's powerful common law.
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Gorka's resignation letter, quoted by Hemingway, tells the president he can better serve his America First agenda from the outside: "[I]t is clear to me that forces that do not support the MAGA promise are – for now – ascendant within the White House..." His resignation is both a fallout from Steve Bannon's departure, and a sign of Chief of Staff John Kelly's tightening control of the White House's sprawling, unaccountable fiefdoms.
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Now the threat to the political solidity of the West is coming partly from the inside, from a fractured political consensus that makes it impossible to address vital questions like Britain's relations with Europe and immigration in the US. Supporters of Trump in the US and Brexit in Britain see their revolts as uprisings against distant or unaccountable leaders who no longer represent them or share their values.
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But I have to say that Bebchuk paper, which is coauthored by Roberto Tallarita, the associate director of Harvard's program on corporate governance, argues quite persuasively that the purported new stakeholder paradigm is little more than feel-good corporate P.R. that will enable unaccountable decision-making by CEOs and corporate board members whose economic incentives are aligned almost entirely with those of shareholders – not workers or community members.
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Her book is a look at the secretive and largely unaccountable processes by which campus sexual assault allegations are investigated and adjudicated, using a handful of real incidents to illustrate her broader argument that complex interpersonal relationships and dumb drunken mistakes are now the quasilegal purview of well-paid administrators more interested in protecting a university's reputation — even if it means ruining a few men's lives — than seeking either truth or justice.
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Yet, when America pours millions into militarizing our police force, first to combat drug crime then to arm ourselves against terror, we wind up with an unaccountable and poorly trained paramilitary that winds up using their new toys to disastrous effect on civilians—whether it's Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicles being used to suppress protests in Ferguson or no-knock drug raids that cause massive amounts damage, terror and even death in poor communities around the country.
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A strong private sector as the engine of economic growth and job creation: This includes encouraging private-sector growth, especially small business, but accompanied by reasonable regulations; ensuring that no bank or corporation is too big to fail with executives who are too powerful to go to jail; and a constitutional amendment overturning the Supreme Court decision in Citizens United, explicitly preventing powerful corporate interests and the super-wealthy from corrupting our political process with secret, unaccountable campaign donations.
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Trump has done more than anyone else to bring the fringe conspiracy concept of a "deep state" into the mainstream, with the help of his son Donald Jr. Through his attacks on the legitimacy of the FBI, the intelligence agencies and Mueller, he has been able to popularize the notion that certain people in the federal government, who are unaccountable to anyone, are working to push their own agenda and, in this case, subvert the outcome of a democratic election.
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Moreover, just this week fresh concerns have been raised about how platforms like Facebook are still enabling dark ads to target political messages at citizens — without it being transparently clear who is actually behind and paying for such campaigns… New 'Dark Ads' pro-Brexit Facebook campaign may have reached over 10M people, say researchers In turn triggering calls from opposition MPs for updates to UK election law… Organisations like Mainstream Network are an unaccountable cancer on our democracy, and other democracies around the world.
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" It was a view shared by the pro-Brexit deputy editor of London's Daily Telegraph, Allister Heath, who felt the appointment did no credit to the bank: "If Goldman was trying to reinforce the view that it, and other big banks, are at the heart of a corporatist, unaccountable nexus that connects business, finance and politics – and whose elite members all end up working for each other and doing backroom deals with one another – then it hired the right person, in the right way and at the right time.
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Maxine Waters is the Wall Street sheriff the people deserve Ex-GOP congressman heads to investment bank MORE (R-Texas), Wall Street Journal op-eds penned by highly paid industry lobbyists and disgruntled former CFPB employees that want jobs in the Trump administration: The CFPB is an unaccountable bureaucratic government monster that didn't sue Wells Fargo fast enough or for enough money — but sued everyone else for too much money — and is preventing banks from giving more money at better rates to more consumers even though those banks really really want to.
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And so that we can place the idea of disaster in its proper context, recall that the baseline of 21st century America involves a sort of constitutional police state with unprecedented incarceration rates, increasingly militarized law enforcement, an unaccountable intelligence community with a long history of unconstitutional behavior, and a judicial and legislative culture that, all told, has officially rendered tens of millions of Americans criminals via prohibitions on drugs, prostitution, and gambling; meanwhile, due to unchecked growth in federal statutes of extraordinary broadness, it has been convincingly estimated that the average American unwittingly commits three felonies a day.
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