Brand Hype Has Existed Since the Bronze Age, Scientists Discover 404 Media
Trump made more than 1,000 trades in June totaling millions, financial disclosures revealIndependent
Trump’s Family Joins a Rush to Start New BanksBloomberg
Independent bookstores are struggling to meet customer demands after one of Australia's largest book distributors experienced a cyber attack six weeks ago.
The cyber attack against Alliance Distribution Services (ADS) has left Australian authors unable to provide sufficient stock for events.
What's next?
Hachette Australia, which owns ADS, says restoring full operations securely remains its top priority
Cyber attack targeting Hachette Australia subsidiary hurts bookshops and authors
Francesco Ernest Sartor among all other role was a Clerk to NSW Public Accounts Committee between 1983 and 1986 …
Former Labor heavyweight emerges as surprise figure in Bathla collapse
Former Labor heavyweight Frank Sartor has emerged as a key figure in the collapse of property development giant Bathla, contacting insolvency and communications specialists Teneo weeks before the company collapsed owing more than $3.5 billion and leaving thousands of homes in limbo.
Sartor, a former planning minister and Sydney lord mayor, had been engaged to provide Bathla with “advice and assistance on planning matters” before financial stress pushed the company into administration, according to filings with the corporate regulator late on Wednesday.
DHS said it had “no plans” to send agents to the polls. But they’re already meddling — remotely
Miles Taylor Defiance.org: “…Last night, The Washington Post revealed that hundreds of federal immigration officers at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, including the specialists who vet immigration applications for fraud and security threats, have been pulled off their day jobs and reassigned to monitor voting lists for supposed noncitizen voters.
This places DHS agents directly into a role that was never envisioned when the Department was created and which has ominous implications for the midterms and future elections. Despite this effort being carried out in the dark, the Trump administration expects Americans to trust that they are merely hunting for “illegal” registrants.
Yet the operation raises urgent questions about potential abuse, oversight, and whether DHS agents will play a larger role in unlawfully purging American citizens from voter rolls. The newly disclosed effort adds to an already sweeping undertaking by Trump’s lieutenants to influence the midterm elections. Since returning to office, Trump has converted the Justice Department’s Voting Section from a shield for voters into a weapon against them.
His administration has sued at least 30 states and the District of Columbia to extract voter roll data, ordered federal agencies to build “approved” lists of voters, and as we speak, is still moving ahead with plans to control the delivery of ballots in the mail.
Thousands of DHS agents and a growing number of federal prosecutors are being marshaled away from their actual responsibilities and pointed at America’s elections by a president simultaneously trying to seize control over who is allowed to cast a ballot. Nothing in American history looks like this. At all. Yet there are plenty of examples of regimes around the world mounting election takeovers that look very similar. Students of history would call it authoritarianism.
Again, the Trump administration continues to assert that all of its efforts are focused on the phantom menace of “noncitizen voters.” But the pretext is collapsing under its own weight. Trump and DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin claim they’ve found roughly 278,000 noncitizens are unlawfully registered to vote in the United States.
But when Nevada pressed the department on Mullin’s claim of 16,000 in their state, DHS admitted it had confirmed just 185… then refused to hand over the names so the state could investigate…”
The NACC is refusing to release its investigation into millions of dollars in Meals on Wheels contracts, instead telling the whistleblower she is confused about the outcome.
Exclusive: NACC letters gaslit Meals on Wheels whistleblower
- The Investigation: The watchdog examined almost $9 million in federal contracts tied to the "Future Fit Program", which aimed to overhaul Meals on Wheels services ahead of aged care reforms via consulting firm Miles Morgan Australia.
- The Backtrack: Deputy Commissioner Ben Gauntlett initially wrote to the whistleblower on July 17 stating the corruption investigation was complete. When asked for the final report, the NACC reversed stance, claiming it never actually finished an investigation and had instead abandoned it.
- The "Gaslighting": NACC general manager of legal Rebekah O'Meagher wrote to the referrer implying she was confused and pointing to "pressures" in her personal life. The agency later issued an apology for its "mistake".
- Broader Context: Reported by Rick Morton in The Saturday Paper, this adds to intense scrutiny on the NACC's handling of major investigations and high staff turnover, following earlier criticisms by NACC Inspector Gail Furness.
