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Wednesday, November 27, 2024

Bluesky boom worries Chinese media - Private equity: vampire capital

Bluesky boom worries Chinese media


Private equity: vampire capital Michael Roberts’ Blog






Ten Ways Billionaires Avoid Taxes on an Epic Scale

After a year of reporting on the tax machinations of the ultrawealthy, ProPublica spotlights the top tax-avoidance techniques that provide massive benefits to billionaires.



The great nuclear bunker race: Britons are snapping up Cold War-era lairs for more than 3 times the asking price while fallout shelters are flogged on eBay amid threat of WWIII Daily Mail


Democrats strike deal to get more Biden judges confirmed before Congress adjourns AP

A Legal Showdown Over Press Freedom The Free Press


Opinion | Donald Trump praises a ‘free, fair and open’ press — as long as it falls in line

Trump is a fan of a free and open press as long as he agrees with the coverage. Which, of course, really isn’t a free and open press



Who really benefits from a cashless society?

Many of us rarely use cash these days. And the reach of corporations into our lives via cards and apps has never been greater. But what we're told is inevitable is actually the work of powerful interests: the great battle of our time is for ownership of the digital footprints that make up our lives.

Cloudmoney tells a revelatory story about the fusion of big finance and tech, which requires physical cash to be replaced by digital money or 'cloudmoney'. Diving beneath the surface of the global financial system, Brett Scott uncovers a long-established lobbying infrastructure waging a covert war on cash under the banner of progress but at the cost of our privacy, politics and individual freedom.

Brett Scott



Ellen Aprill Receives Joanne Garvey Award For Lifetime Achievement In Tax


The FBI and DHS leaders won’t testify publicly about national security threats before the SenateAP

 

I Don’t Own a Cellphone. Can This Privacy-Focused Network Change That? 404 Media


It’s all the APS big wigs are talking about this week – the launch of the ‘Government writing handbook’, and who gets their hands on a hardcopy.

The Parliamentary Library played host to an exclusive Canberra soiree on Monday, with some of the most bookish ministers and APS supporters celebrating the launch of a new tome dedicated to writing for the government. 

Deputy commissioners from the APSC, Parliamentary Library top brass and an eager collection of staffers crowded into a conference room to marvel at several neat stacks of the 62-page companion to the free and searchable style manual