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Saturday, March 27, 2021

The Surveillance Legislation Amendment (Identify and Disrupt) Bill 2020

I recently fired my accountant after I found out he spent time in jail for tax fraud. Didn’t mind the fraud, but that he got caught. I can’t have that level of incompetence on my team


Cops are the only ones being lawful on the dark web, AFP declares

Commissioner says the new 'hacking Bill' that's before Parliament will help the Federal Police take down those acting unlawfully


Rare Photo Shows Elon Musk And Jeff Bezos Having Dinner 17 Years Ago, Before Their Long-Standing Feud IgnitedRare Photo Shows Elon Musk And Jeff Bezos Having Dinner 17 Years Ago, Before 


PARAGLIDING PLUS SKIINGWatch: Speedrider takes a thrilling ride while trying out new tricksRichest Americans Hide 20% Of Income, Costing You $175 Billion Annually Heisenberger Report (resilc). My world-recognized tax expert (lectures around the world and was calling for closing the carried interest loophole long before it was fashionable) is skeptical that the #s are this high. The US is better at identifying income of the super rich (taxing it is another matter, the IRS pretty much always loses big $ tax litigation cases, and that’s with trying to focus resources on winners). Says a most money that goes though the Caymans does not stay there, and so suspects double counting in Zucman’s numbers.


Camera Google Arts & Culture. Resilc: “Great scam.” Moi: Can’t prove it , but highly confident this is at least in part to enable Google to have a good face shot for snooping purposes.



Six Minutes to Midnight Review: A Finishing School for the girls Nazi Elite


Jason Hickel introduces Degrowth – book reviewMonthly Review 


New study shows microplastics turn into ‘hubs’ for pathogens, antibiotic-resistant bacteria PhysOrg 


Scared of school? Bolivian girl takes her virtual classes in a cemetery Reuters


The Haunted Imagination of Alfred Hitchcock New Republic 


Unpresidented by Jon Sopel review: How not to be a foreign correspondent Times Literary Supplement 


 

Beware of Books! Persuasion 


Millionaires and Corporate Giants Escape IRS Audits Again in FY 2020 TracIRS


NFTs are a dangerous trap Seth’s Blog (UserFriendly)


CalPERS whittles CIO pool to 3 before calling off search Pensions & Investments (Kevin W). Smacks of what we reported before, that the search committee is hostile to white men.


Statement From CEO Marcie Frost CalPERS To Launch New Search For CIO Mondovisione


Covid-19 Supercharged the Advertising ‘Triopoly’ of Google, Facebook and Amazon Wall Street Journal 


The government’s lawyers saw a Google monopoly coming. Their bosses refused to sue. Politico  From earlier in the week, still germane.


Former BlackRock sustainability executive says Wall Street green funds are ‘PR spin’ Independent


Oil Extends Losses After Massive Sell-Off OilPrice


E-bike suspected cause of huge Australia house fireBBC (resilc). In Darlinghurst, a Sydney suburb (“suburb” in Oz-speak is a residential neighborhood and so can be pretty urban).


Amazon Union Solidarity Events in Every Major City Tom – 1,000 Union Contacts at Amazon Nationwide Mike Elk

 

Philadelphia’s Skid Row: Video shows city’s homeless crisis with dozens camped around trash bin fire Daily Mail (

 

The Original Karen The Drift