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Friday, October 04, 2024

Crypto founder paid LA cops to help extort victims for crypto, FBI alleges

It doesn’t start with Kristallnacht. It doesn’t start with gas chambers. It doesn’t start with concentration camps. It starts with saying immigrants eat your pets.


Dear Lord, you've taken my favorite comedian, Martin Mull, my favorite actor, Donald Sutherland, and my favorite singer, Kris Kristofferson. I just wanted to let you know my favorite politician is Donald Trump


Tax Whistleblowers Receive $74m Of $263m Recovery; IRS Plans 170% Increase In Whistleblower Office Staff



Anti-corruption officers raid Parliament House but remain tight-lipped on target of ‘ongoing investigation’


This is the way to go! Not EVs 🚗

China unveiled its hydrogen-powered train at a trade fair in Germany. The zero-emission train generates electricity through a hydrogen-oxygen reaction, producing only water as a byproduct。

China property shares jump as major cities ease buying curbs Channel News Asia


ExxonMobil Accused of “Deceptively” Promoting Chemical Recycling as a Solution for the Plastics Crisis ProPublica


Revealed: The top 10 companies claiming the most R&D tax expenditure in Australia

The top 10 list

  1. Atlassian Australia 1 Pty Ltd: $200,460,127
  2. CSL Limited: $129,243,465
  3. Cochlear Limited: $115,602,553 (amended to $120,376,749)
  4. Resmed Holdings Pty Ltd: $78,600,592
  5. Fortescue Ltd: $77,885,564
  6. Cleanaway Waste Management Ltd: $56,309,397
  7. Tassal Group Limited: $55,821,520
  8. Technology One Limited: $54,201,233
  9. Grinding Media Pty Ltd: $51,676,649
  10. Firmus Grid Pty Ltd: $50,889,715

Millions to take home more cash as Tipping laws come into force


Poison PR Lighthouse Reports. The deck: “US taxpayers funded a covert campaign to downplay the risks of pesticides and discredit environmentalists in Africa, Europe, and North America.”


MARK JUDGE: “At different points in my life, I have both worked for Amazon and been a regular writer for The Washington Post. Jeff Bezos owns both companies and both places have major issues. . . . Having experience at both companies, I feel confident in suggesting that both could be fixed with one simple trick: Jeff Bezos needs to treat Amazon employees the way he does Post employees, and Post employees the way Amazon workers are treated.”


Bank of America is down: Users report their accounts showing empty balance during widespread outage. A friend says his account shows the correct balance, but he’s locked out of doing anything.

Related:  Bank of America app glitch zeroes out people’s balances.


Monopoly Round-Up: Corporate Slumlords and Housing Cartels BIG by Matt Stoller


Tenants vote for rent strike at Independence Towers, Quality Hills if demands aren’t met Kansas City Star

Tenants Rise Up The Baffler




Crypto founder paid LA cops to help extort victims for crypto, FBI alleges Coin Telegraph


Overview of the Cryptocurrency Regulations in Australia


Austria: Right-Wing FPÖ Achieves Historic VictoryThe European Conservative


Sahra Wagenknecht wants to coordinate BSW negotiations and break them off if there is no willingness to compromise Die Sachsen. “Wagenknecht reiterated in the RND that the state governments must take a clear position on the deployment of US medium-range missiles.”


Sahra Wagenknecht’s Party Is a Bad Example for the Left Jacobin


First Week of German Border Controls Had Little Effect on Immigration European Conservative


Sweden’s spreading crime epidemic alarms its neighbors Politico


War in Lebanon could fuel another European migration crisis Unherd