Who really rules Britain?

 All extremes are bad be it left or right 

An architect of Australia’s longest-running corporate bribery scandal has been fined $1000 for covering up the payment of $45 million to corrupt Iraqi politicians, a penalty described as “embarrassing” by corruption experts.

David Savage, former chief operating officer of Australian infrastructure giant Leighton Holdings, pleaded guilty in a Sydney court on Thursday to misleading the company’s board when he sought to conceal the bribes in 2011.

$1000 fine for hiding $45 million in bribes: ‘Embarrassing’ end to landmark corruption case

Lawsuit stems from the disclosure of the US president’s tax documents during his first 

Donald Trump sues the IRS and Treasury for at least $10bn

Eyal Reviews Mazur’s Modernizing the IRS in the Age of AI

Who really rules Britain? Democracy for Sale

Who secretly owns Britain? Map of hidden UK property owners Tax Policy 

Britain's Home Secretary wants AI so "the eyes of the state can be on you at all times"

Michael Parenti (1933-2026) on the ‘free market’: ‘The free market mythology argues that the most ruthless, selfish, opportunistic, greedy, calculating plunderers, applying the most heartless measures in cold blooded pursuit of corporate interests and wealth accumulation, will produce the best results for all of us through something called the invisible hand.’

The Great Lecture Hall in the Sky: Michael Parenti (1933–2026)

“While we’re preparing to challenge the executive committee in 2026, this is a show of good faith that what we really want is reform and change,” a Democracy4CPSU spokesperson said.

Sep 2025 CPSU facing more demands for internal reform and another potential leadership challenge

Activists Say Ring Cameras Are Being Used by ICE

Futurism: “As US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents wreak havoc on American communities, big tech companies have been making themselves indispensable to the increasingly tyrannical state. Among them is Amazon subsidiary Ring, the company behind those AI doorbell cameras that have exploded in popularity over the last few years. 

Back in October, Ring announced that its devices would soon be looped into a network of Flock AI surveillance cameras. That network, an investigation by 404 Media found, has been available to local and federal police and enforcement agencies like ICE — leaving many worried that their Ring doorbell cams are now feeding into a government panopticon. 

Sure enough, as anti-ICE protests ramp up throughout the US, activists are pushing a grassroots campaign to convince Ring users to smash their devices. Doing so, they say, could help deprive the federal government of footage it’s using to enact a campaign of harassment, arrests, and deportation. “Smash your Ring doorbells,” progressive activist Guy Christensen urged his 3.5 million followers on TikTok. 

“You need to smash your Ring doorbells. Amazon owns Ring, and they’ve decided to begin sharing surveillance collected from your front step with ICE and Flock Safety, weaponing surveillance against the American people.” “If you have home surveillance or something, make sure that you know, 100 percent, the footage being recorded of you and your family in your home, or wherever, is only and can only be seen and shared with you,” Christensen implored.

A Ring spokesperson pushed back sharply against the rhetoric, saying that the collaboration with Flock isn’t yet live, and that even when it does get deployed, ICE won’t be able to access it. However, they stopped short of saying that video collected by Ring devices couldn’t be obtained by ICE or other federal agencies through legal means. “Ring has no partnership with ICE, does not give ICE videos, feeds, or back-end access, and does not share video with them,” a spokesperson said. “Like all companies, Ring may receive legally valid and binding demands for information from law enforcement, such as search warrants, subpoenas, or court orders. We do not disclose customer information unless required to do so by law, or in rare emergency situations when there is an imminent danger of death or serious physical injury. Outside of that legal process, customers control which videos are shared with law enforcement.”

Still, safety experts and tech critics have long condemned the Ring devices for security risksand privacy violations, not to mention their role in building the largest civilian surveillance network in US history. Last summer, the Electronic Frontier Foundation warned that Ring was actively eroding civil liberties in the US for profit. 

Those criticisms are seeing renewed urgency amidst ICE’s brutal crackdown on illegal immigration. Though unlawful entry into the United States is only considered a civil violation, ICE enforcement activities under president Donald Trump have resulted in at least 33 deaths — not to mention the unlawful detention of over 170 US citizens. “Your Ring camerais an ICE agent,” urges a poster designed by Kathryn Brewster, a postdoctoral fellow and digital studies institute affiliate at the University of Michigan.

 Brewster’s artwork urges viewers to “unplug ring,” “melt ICE,” and “protect your neighbors!” On Reddit, a flyer declaring that “ICE thanks YOU for YOUR cooperation” alongside a photo of a Ring camera made the rounds on numerous subreddits, earning thousands of upvotes…”