Wednesday, August 03, 2022

Sleepless in Taiwan and Canberra: DOJ investigating Trump’s actions in Jan. 6 criminal probe

If we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them.
— Karl Popper, born in 1902


It is ridiculous that you have to take more identification to get a library card to borrow a book than you do to create a limited liability company, which potentially is a cost to the taxpayer if you go bust, it is bonkers and it should stop”

Canberra: ScoMo and Co: Where are they now?

'Prime Minister, I can see that you're in The Lodge, have you managed to get that Morrison smell out yet?' Kavalee joked.

Mr Albanese humorously responded: 'The exorcism has taken place.'


FREE AGENT PELOSI POKES THE DRAGON 🐉 : Nancy Pelosi Arrives In Taiwan Despite Strong Warnings From China


Anonymous welcomes Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan on hacked Chinese government website


Deutsche Bank broke its own rules in enabling tax fraud, internal probe finds Inquiry reveals lender’s exposure to ‘cum-ex’ scandal involving banks across Europe


 DOJ investigating Trump’s actions in Jan. 6 criminal probe - Washington Post: “The Justice Department is investigating President Donald Trump’s actions as part of its criminal probe of efforts to overturn the 2020 election results, according to four people familiar with the matter. Prosecutors who are questioning witnesses before a grand jury — including two top aides to Vice President Mike Pence — have asked in recent days about conversations with Trump, his lawyers, and others in his inner circle who sought to substitute Trump allies for certified electors from some states Joe Biden won, according to two people familiar with the matter. Both spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation. 

The prosecutors have asked hours of detailed questions about meetings Trump led in December 2020 and January 2021; his pressure campaign on Pence to overturn the election; and what instructions Trump gave his lawyers and advisers about fake electors and sending electors back to the states, the people said. Some of the questions focused directly on the extent of Trump’s involvement in the fake-elector effort led by his outside lawyers, including John Eastman and Rudy Giuliani, these people said…”

See also The New York Times –‘Kind of Wild/Creative’: Emails Shed Light on Trump Fake Electors Plan – Previously undisclosed communications among Trump campaign aides and outside advisers provide new insight into their efforts to overturn the election in the weeks leading to Jan. 6…”


An Australian University Threatens To Sue Its Own Faculty And Staff

RMIT University in Melbourne let the employment contract with its faculty/staff union expire last year and refuses to start negotiations until 2023.  To get management to the table, the union has threatened a no-off-hours-work action which includes boycotting the biggest student recruitment event; management calls that illegal. - The...




Do We Overrate Human Intelligence?

We humans are besotted by intelligence, especially our own. And yet “intelligence is not the miracle of evolution we like to think it is. - The Wall Street Journal

The Trap Of Being Over-Informed


Jacob Wayne John Keen, 24, was arrested for allegedly selling a trojan virus named Imminent Monitor to cyber criminals, domestic violence perpetrators, among others from as many as 128 different countries. The tool allowed users to target unsuspecting victims to steal their personal data, track information entered into documents, and spy on them using the target's webcams and microphones.


In 1976 the cost of living crisis was blamed on the power of trade unions.

In 2022 the cost of living crisis is the fault of large corporates screwing consumers into the ground, using the power of their corporate brands and ability to circumnavigate regulations to extract profit for the benefit of a few at extraordinary cost to society as a whole.

forecast this earlier this year: I said then that it was the state's job to reduce the extent of profiteering to protect ordinary people.

Oh to be a big corporation in 2022

These are a selection of Guardian stories from this morning: What we have are big corporates, operating either as oligopolies or as effective monopolies behind
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