“Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.”
—John Adams
Weekly SSRN Tax Article Review And Roundup: Layser Reviews The (Uncertain) Future Of Corporate Tax Shelters By Blank & Glogower
BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP DATA IS CRITICAL IN THE FIGHT AGAINST CORRUPTION
Scientist With Ties to Wuhan Lab Claims Covid was Genetically Engineered, Leaked From Lab.
ELON MUSK AND MATT TAIBBI HAVE THE PERFECT RESPONSE TO LIBERAL MEDIA’S FURY WITH THE TRUTH. Taibbi “said he was ‘looking forward’ to going through all the ‘PR for the richest man on earth’ tweets, ‘and seeing how many of them have run stories for anonymous sources at the FBI, CIA, the Pentagon, and White House.’”
Mexican Prosecutor Who Led Investigations Into Violent Crimes of Romanian Gang is Accused of Being on Their Payroll
A former member of the Riviera Maya gang was stabbed in Mexico by his onetime comrades. The Mexican prosecutor who led the investigation didn’t even look into them as suspects. Now, it turns out, they may have been paying him off.
How Web Platforms Collapse: The Facebook Case Study Ted Gioia, The Honest Broker. A brutal and entertaining stomping of Facebook
SMART: Musk Is Concerned That Saving Free Speech Might Get Him Killed, Won’t Stop to Sign Autographs.
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David French (The Dispatch), How Fundamentalism Fails: Ultimately, The Closed Fist Can’t Overcome the Open Hand:
When fundamentalism arises in your own community, it can be profoundly painful and disorienting. People who were friends will call you enemies. They’ll warn others not to associate with you. ...
In the early stages, fundamentalism can be invigorating. It’s an antidote to a life devoid of purpose and dedicated to selfish pursuits. In free and prosperous nations, it doesn’t take long to understand that consumer goods provide merely momentary pleasure. In libertine cultures, millions soon learn that sex divorced from love and commitment is ultimately a source of profound loneliness and deep pain.
Senior tax officials and unionists are scheduled to take centre stage when the royal commission into the defunct Robodebt scheme resumes.
The commission, sitting in Brisbane, is looking into how the automated Robodebt scheme went ahead despite federal government departments knowing the calculation method was unlawful.
Robodebt inquiry to hear from ATO
We need public sector pay rises to create an economy that works for everyone
I posted this thread on Twitter this morning: I wrote a thread yesterday, and some people have said I did not go far enough in
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