Orwell’s Icare: Corporate Insiders Pocket $1 Billion in Rush for Coronavirus Vaccine

THEY LAUGHED AT ROBERT CONQUEST, BUT NOW THERE’S THIS:  How to Prepare for a Communist Coup. In terms of responding, you kill commies, especially the ones at the top, before they get all forted up

CYBERSECURITY: Chinese-made drone app in Google Play spooks security researchers. “The Android version of DJI Go 4—an app that lets users control drones—has until recently been covertly collecting sensitive user data and can download and execute code of the developers’ choice, researchers said in two reports that question the security and trustworthiness of a program with more than 1 million Google Play downloads.”

Don’t install software from Communist China

Lord Rabinder's uncle Kuldeep is reading this story. His proud uncle lives in Mascot.

MI6 tried to intervene in independent court by stopping judge seeing legal papers – but they said sorry, so it's OK

The UK's Secret Intelligence Service, aka MI6, has been accused of trying to tamper with a court that is supposed to oversee and regulate it after an extraordinary tale emerged yesterday.

Two spies from the secretive agency attempted to prevent Lord Justice Rabinder Singh, president of the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT), from reading a secret investigation report from spy agency auditor the Investigatory Powers Commissioner's Office (IPCO).

The revelations came during a hearing in an ongoing case before the tribunal yesterday, over exactly what crimes MI6 informants are allowed to commit before the state investigates and punishes those crimes. Last year an IPT case established that spies and informants can break the law with impunity.

 

Corporate Insiders Pocket $1 Billion in Rush for Coronavirus Vaccine NYT

The Atlantic – So much hope is riding on a breakthrough, but a vaccine is only the beginning of the end: “Nearly five months into the pandemic, all hopes of extinguishing COVID-19 are riding on a still-hypothetical vaccine. And so a refrain has caught on: We might have to stay home—until we have a vaccine. Close schools—until we have a vaccine. Wear masks—but only until we have a vaccine.

In 2015, Liberal Treasurer Dominic Perrottet created iCare – the agency responsible for NSW’s workers’ compensation scheme. iCare’s executive inherited a $4 billion surplus, which has disappeared in just 4 years, at the same time they are cutting off compensation for injured workers.

Top bureaucrat warned NSW government about looming icare 'crisis'

Statement on Four Corners and other reports | icare

 icare was created in 2015 to overcome many of the same issues ...

An investigation into Australia's $60 billion workers compensation system has revealed the two biggest schemes are losing hundreds of millions of dollars a year in what has been described as "immoral and unethical practices" by an industry ombudsman

   

Australia's biggest workers compensation system icare faces ...

A joint Four Corners investigation with The Age and Sydney Morning Herald has found

'Hit them in the pocket': Disturbing conversation between employer ...

The KPMG draft report, handed to icare in April 

The Key to Defeating COVID-19 Already Exists. We Need to Start Using It | Opinion Newsweek. Harvey A Risch. Important

Early Outpatient Treatment of Symptomatic, High-Risk Covid-19 Patients that Should be Ramped-Up Immediately as Key to the Pandemic Crisis American Journal of Epidemiology. Paper by  Harvey A. Risch 

Confusion spreads over system to determine priority access to Covid-19 vaccines Stat

Major’ breakthrough in Covid-19 drug makes UK professors millionairesGuardian Important

Chinese scientist at the center of COVID-19 origin theories speaks out Science 

Millionaires who pay no tax and Australia’s richest and poorest postcodes revealed (ABC 18.7.20)

By MICHAEL JANDA and NASSIM KHADEM | On 26 July 2020

Seventy-three millionaires paid no tax in 2017-18, while Australia’s richest people live in Sydney’s Double Bay, on average earning more than 13 times the nation’s poorest, who live in central-west Queensland.

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Parasitic infection linked to bagged salad spreads to 641

HM Treasury - Economic crime levy: Funding new government action to tackle money laundering 

US Hedge Funds Being Used for Money Laundering 

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