In the end, it left the impression on me that Putin is just a player or a puppet who owes a lot of people.
The influence of the Koch's or Adelson is largely hinged on the fact that Americans don't use critical thinking when consuming their media. Rather than trying to find a way to wiggle around the first ammendment when it comes to spending on speech, why not try to build an electorate capable of critical thinking? If you don't think that's possible, then what's the point of any of this?
> Get rid of them! You can do that here
No you cannot, the US has gerrymandering which makes it very difficult to get rid of politicians in local/state races.
I work in the same kind of company and Im baffled, I wouldnt dare say the name of a client on whatsapp and sometimes the regulated chat system is so inconvenient I have to use some personal device but we usually do it to "ping" people so they then go to the recorded system.
And that they seem to have used it for decision taking, not just random discussion at the bar, means every low level employee who ever gave a formal report or raised a formal question without resending by email is wrong. Every.low.level.employee, yes.
Burn the top all you want, but at this point maybe the SEC should directly go to our companies fucking explain people that we must record all steps in decision making, not just for discovering fraud but to protect ourselves and our clients from suspicion in the first place.
Shocked that it happened at JPM. The SEC is also wrong to say: "Indeed, supervisors, including managing directors and other senior supervisors – the very people responsible for implementing and ensuring compliance with JPMS’s policies and procedures "!! No, EVEYONE is responsible, from the dimwit intern making coffee to the ferrari driving MD, record keeping is bank 101, this makes me boil for some reason. I d be such a pain in the ass of a big boss if I saw that where I work.
And you were born knowing this, or did someone have to model the proper behavior for you first?
So putting the blame at the top is easy, but there were lots of little hands in between who should face some reckoning imho. And I bet you the top will do nothing else than just say "dudes, for the nth time, please please please disobey orders that clearly contravene normal practice".
Talking business on whatsapp like the Mafia, what is this honestly.
So because the bosses have a rule written down somewhere, that absolves them of the responsibility to make sure their employees are actually following it?