“The skies above your head shall be copper, and the earth under you iron.”
~ Deuteronomy 28:23
Earth to be hit by asteroid 'sooner or later'
Grenfell company Harley Curtain Wall invested in a tax avoidance scheme
Managers to the Super-Rich Undermine Society and What We Can Do About It
Google Guys and Gals redesigned its news. Among the changes to the layout is a new dedicated box for fact-checking articles...
O and M sniffing
out falsehoods - May God Bless Meek Souls ;-) ...
Here's Pico, keeping morale high at Full Fact's offices on #BringYourDogToWorkDay
Elite Australian Defence Force unit tackles cyber crime
Elite Predictors - China Needs Room To Expand: 4 million, 5 million, 8 million: How big is too big for liveable Melbourne?
Look at the size of us! Melbourne, a city on steroids. Burgeoning population, booming economy, bulging outline. Every day more than 300 people added, a Ballarat-sized city each year
US/Chinese? private equity giant KKR has bought into Australia's gastro pub boom, taking a majority stake in Melbourne-based industry consolidator Dixon Hospitality in a deal valuing the company at about $190 million.
Xi Jinping gives Hong Kongers a glimpse of the rule of iron
How standover tactics brought a Sydney underworld figure and carpet seller together
While Assaad had no stake in the business, as business records show, police sources believed he worked at the tyre shop at some point before he started providing protection.
The idea was that, if local criminals knew H was protecting the Lewins' business interests, they wouldn't try to extort them.
Police say the practice is common in south-west Sydney where criminals use a feared family or gang name to stand over business people.
"They will see an opportunity to move in and stand over that particular person, their business, and start demanding money," Middle Eastern Organised Crime Squad (MEOCS) commander Detective Superintendent Peter McErlain said.
"A lot of that goes unreported because of the fear factor."
“The skies above your head shall be copper, and the earth under you iron.”
~ Deuteronomy 28:23
Earth to be hit by asteroid 'sooner or later'
Managers to the Super-Rich Undermine Society and What We Can Do About It
Google Guys and Gals redesigned its news. Among the changes to the layout is a new dedicated box for fact-checking articles...
O and M sniffing out falsehoods - May God Bless Meek Souls ;-) ...
Here's Pico, keeping morale high at Full Fact's offices on #BringYourDogToWorkDay
Elite Australian Defence Force unit tackles cyber crime
Elite Predictors - China Needs Room To Expand: 4 million, 5 million, 8 million: How big is too big for liveable Melbourne?
Look at the size of us! Melbourne, a city on steroids. Burgeoning population, booming economy, bulging outline. Every day more than 300 people added, a Ballarat-sized city each year
US/Chinese? private equity giant KKR has bought into Australia's gastro pub boom, taking a majority stake in Melbourne-based industry consolidator Dixon Hospitality in a deal valuing the company at about $190 million.
Xi Jinping gives Hong Kongers a glimpse of the rule of iron
How standover tactics brought a Sydney underworld figure and carpet seller together
While Assaad had no stake in the business, as business records show, police sources believed he worked at the tyre shop at some point before he started providing protection.
The idea was that, if local criminals knew H was protecting the Lewins' business interests, they wouldn't try to extort them.
Police say the practice is common in south-west Sydney where criminals use a feared family or gang name to stand over business people.
"They will see an opportunity to move in and stand over that particular person, their business, and start demanding money," Middle Eastern Organised Crime Squad (MEOCS) commander Detective Superintendent Peter McErlain said.
"A lot of that goes unreported because of the fear factor."
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New research: Writing a better fact czech
The number of fact-checking stories produced by journalists has increased dramatically over the last decade, but only recently have we truly explored how those stories could be better at attacking misinformation. Leslie Caughell, a political science professor at Virginia Wesleyan University, discusses what reporters might do (or not do) to make their fact-checks more effective.|
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