TWO COUNTRIES, ONE SYSTEM: China Imposes ‘Security Law’ on Hong Kong, Bringing in CCP ‘Reign of Terror’ With ‘Secret Police.’
Nice toys but where are the soldiers?
The government is spending $270 billion on new capability, skewing the budget away from spending on servicemen and women.
It is a big number, but the Morrison government's $270 billion commitment over 10 years to build up military capability tells only part of the story.
What the 2020 Defence Force Structure Plan is largely silent on is where the soldiers, sailors and pilots are going to come from to fire these shiny new weapons.
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Samuel Singer (University of Ottawa), Rethinking Privilege for Tax Professionals: A Tax Policy Perspective:
In Canada, information exchanged between an accountant and a client, while confidential under professional codes of conduct, is not privileged unless it falls within limited common law exceptions. Some countries have legislated to extend limited privilege to accountants, but Canada has not yet done so. This paper uses tax policy principles to critically evaluate the differential treatment of lawyer-client and accountant-client relationships under the rules of privilege in Canada.
Nearly 11% of the workforce is out of work with zero chance of getting called back to a prior job Economic Policy Institute
This year’s Global Fact conference will be the largest worldwide gathering of fact-checkers. More than 150 speakers from more than 40 different countries will discuss the state and the future of fact-checking. The week-long virtual gathering kicks off Monday, June 22, 2020 Global Fact 7, an annual conference organized by the International Fact-Checking Network, will be held virtually because of the COVID-19 pandemic. It was originally scheduled to be held in person between June 24-27 in Oslo, Norway after being held in London, Buenos Aires, Madrid, Rome, and Cape Town since 2014 Its pivot to a virtual gathering may have been a blessing in disguise. Join us this year and be a part of the discussion at Global Fact 7 (virtual)!”
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PRIORITIES? The Attorney-General’s Department has made little effort to implement past recommendations related to the government’s lobbying code of conduct, the national auditor-general has found.l Saturday’s good reading and listening for the weekendWhat people in other forums are saying about public policyContinue reading New York Times op-ed: Tax the Rich and Their Heirs, by Lily Batchelder (NYU): A massive transfer of wealth is underway and will accelerate in the coming years. Baby boomers and the generation that preceded them currently own $84 trillion, or 81 percent of all U.S. household wealth — wealth that will before long be inherited by their children and other beneficiaries. Umut Turksen (Coventry) presents The Role of Human Factors in Tax Compliance and Countering Tax Crime today as part of the Indiana/Leeds Summer Zoom Tax Workshop Series hosted by Leandra Lederman (Indiana) and Leopoldo Parada (Leeds): The term ‘human factors’ covers extra-legal, social, psychological, institutional and organisational aspects affecting the behaviour of tax payers and the enforcement of tax laws, including the fight against tax crime by competent authorities. While legal analysis can proceed along abstract criteria, considering consistency, coherence, clarity of legal regulations, research on human factors has to look at empirical evidence of real-world behavior of citizens as tax payers. When investigating tax crimes, the problem is, that no reliable data exist about tax evasion, tax fraud or asset recovery from such crimes. University of Michigan employees can form bargaining units without formal elections, regents decide Michigan Live California City Bans Predictive Policing In US First Reuters Mobilewalla Used Cellphone Data To Estimate the Demographics of ProtestersBuzzFeed Facial Recognition Bill Would Ban Use By Federal Law Enforcement NBC “Free Speech” In The US Empire Is As Illusory As “Free-Range” Eggs Caitlin Johnstone Now I KNOW When It’s OK to Lose Your Head
From the Archives: Liquid Memories: When caterpillars turn into butterflies, they turn into goo along the way. And then they remember their pre-goo experiences.
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