“Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.”
– Jim Rohn
Marshmallows,
leadership and moral courage
KRISTY MUIR: Why we need to think about a new type of leadership, and
redistribution of power
Yellowstone TV Show Review: Beautiful Country, Terrible People | ColliderIt sure looks like Border Patrol is using anti-terror passenger databases to track journalists.
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Something as distant from the budget as possible – Bach in Japan, Bach in Hermannsburg. On the ABC’s Spirit of Things Noel Debien is engaged in conversation with Masaaki Suziki, director of the Bach Collegium of Japan, and Morris and Barbara Stewart who have taken the Aboriginal women’s choir to Germany. Hear about Christianity in Japan, the Hermannsburger Missions Gesellschaft, and the adaptation of German liturgical music in different cultures. It ends with a promo for the film The Song Keepers
“Charleston burglar says phone lost at scene was still private; Supreme Court disagrees”: Andrew Knapp of The Charleston (S.C.) Post and Courier has this report on a ruling that the Supreme Court of South Carolina issued on Wednesday.
Yellow Journalism and the New Cold War
RANALD MACDONALD. The threat to public broadcasting in this country becomes more menacing by the day.
Those who say that the ABC will be around for years to come have their heads truly in a world of denial.
On top of the Government’s huge cuts to funding, with 1000 less employed today than four years ago, continual harassment and criticism, now the Federal Liberal Council meeting in Sydney (June 16) has, on a 2 to 1 vote, sought the selling off of the ABC. Continue reading
Mark Roe (Harvard) & Michael Troege (ESCP Europe), Containing Systemic Risk By Taxing Banks Properly, 35 Yale J. on Reg. 181 (2018):
Tax
specialists normally don’t focus on financial stability and financial
regulators and analysts typically do not focus on taxes. This is too bad
because the corporate tax structure affects financial stability and
does so significantly, as we analyze in this article.
MICHAEL THORN. Corporate power unchecked: Time to redress a dangerous imbalance
Are corporate interests too powerful? Are vested interests beyond democratic control? Are our political institutions even concerned to do so? Continue reading → I saw his name and was hoping it was an obituary...
NEW VENUE: Cartoonist Rob Rogers, fired on Thursday by his newspaper in
Pittsburgh after criticizing President Trump, wrote and drew the following day
for The New York Times in a guest op-ed. "The paper may have taken an
eraser to my cartoons,” he wrote. “But I plan to be at my drawing
table every day of this presidency." The story was the most-viewed and
most-emailed on the NYT site for much of Saturday.
This Is What Plutocracy Looks Like! Seattle’s Amazon Tax Is Ejected before a Dime is Collected NonProfit QuarterlyGig Economy Data Cornell University ILR School8 Reasons Young Americans Don’t Fight Back: How the US Crushed Youth Resistance Films for Action. Chuck L” “Bruce Levine’s original essay from 2011. In the background of the photo is the Minnesota state capitol building in St. Paul.”
“Police Use of Driver’s License Databases to Nab Crooks Spurs Privacy Concerns; Thirty-one states now allow law-enforcement officials to access license photos to help identify potential suspects”: Zusha Elinson of The Wall Street Journal has this report.
NSW Treasury begins outcome budgeting
For Treasury this is the beginning of a journey of cultural change: "We’re still really used to thinking about outputs and inputs, because they’re easier."
Australia’s public servants: dedicated, highly trained … and elitist
A research survey of 2000 state and federal public servants across Australia depicts a bureaucratic class convinced of its own brilliance.
John Lloyd code of conduct investigation confirmed
Latest development comes days before former deputy NSW ombudsman Linda Waugh takes up the Merit Protection post responsible for the investigation.
Michelle Guthrie Australians don't want ABC used as a 'punching bag'