"Just a rich guy" is the perfect epithet for Thiel, who, after all, is not an ideologue or an 11-dimensional ( name withheld )chess master. He's just another thin-skinned, greedy bastard who uses his money and power to accumulate more money and power. The rest is just window-dressing.
The property market is a favourite for money launderers, forcing ordinary Australians to compete with organised crime for their dream home, says investigative author Nathan Lynch. He blames the power of lobbyists as a cancer on our democracy. Lynch’s new book is a wake-up call, writes Stephanie Tran.
‘Lucky Laundry’ review: how Australia got caught in a toxic spin cycle
- Workplace surveillance is coming for you: Empricism-washing as a form of wage-theft.
Cyber Crime on the Rise
A Rose Bay man charged with running a dark web business that sold $7 million worth of cocaine, MDMA and prescription drugs in 60,000 different transactions will remain on bail until at least October, after police hit both him and his brother with a raft of new charges.
Brothers Alexander Busse, 39, of Rose Bay, and Ioan Busu, 33, of Chatswood, were arrested in May this year, the culmination of a two-year investigation by NSW Police’s cybercrime squad into a dark web business named Aussiepillimporter…
Sydney brothers facing additional charges over $7 million dark web business
John Mearsheimer’s latest article on Ukraine in “Foreign Affairs” – a critique Gilbert Doctorow Important.
Self-explanatory. Andrei Martyanov Kinzhals in Kaliningrad and other matters.
Companies Are Paying Inflation Busting Dividends at Cost to the Rest of the Economy, Including Their Employees
How companies are paying dividends rather than investing in their business or paying employees better……and often borrow to do so
Montana flagged bugs in cow app exploited in alleged China hack Al JazeeraCows need apps??? Wouldn’t cameras in and outside barns suffice?
A middle class holiday itinerary vs a working class holiday itinerary Daily Mash
Starbucks ordered to reinstate US workers fired amid union campaign Guardian
If Everyone Is King Then No One Is Caitlin Johnstone
The 2028 L.A. Olympics Are Already Creating a Housing Disaster New Republic
MARGARET ATWOOD: If we don’t defend free speech, we live in tyranny.
Neil's article begins by saying:
IF there’s one document you read today make it ‘Surviving 2023' by the acclaimed British economist Richard Murphy. He lays out in stark, almost apocalyptic, language why we’re entering an economic ice age and how our paralysed government and political parties should respond. Failure, he warns, means “people will die”.
Reviews do not get much clearer than that.
'Surviving 2023' is available here.
The Australian Labor Party Embraces the Authoritarianism of a Political System in Crisis
By John McGregor, a translator and political violence researcher Australia is currently lurching from one revelation to another through a constitutional crisis that nobody near power will acknowledge the severity of. As it emerges that the former Liberal Prime Minister Scott Morrison secretly appropriated a number of ministerships for himself, the now-ruling Labor Party is […]
- Your computer is tormented by a wicked god: Bootkits are why we can't have nice things.
- Peter Thiel's evil, but he's not an "evil genius": How to criticize self-mythologizing villains.