Friday, September 05, 2025

Australian politicians reveal their housing portfolios, with some owning as many as six homes

 

Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn.
~ Martin Amis



Dozens of politicians are landlords, having also declared rental income from their investment properties




Watchdog report finds overwhelming majority of IRS employees fired by DOGE for performance had no documented issues A new report from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration notes that the termination letters were written for the agency by the OPM and its cuts failed to follow internal IRS procedures.

YOU CAN’T HIDE THIS DECLINE: America’s obsession with British decline


This Labor Day remember, there is no such thing as “being in control.” Life begins and ends without our consent. Birth, love, and death are the only absolutes. None of these great transformations answer to money. Still, the illusion of wealth as power persists. 
The shark in the static, billionaire escape fantasies, and the fragility of control in the polycrisis