Friday, September 28, 2018
'Moneyland: why thieves and crooks now rule the world, and how to take it back'
True then. True now. True always ...Officials told to keep public in the dark on Great Barrier Reef splurge
ABC chairman Justin Milne's tangled corporate web
South Indian Telemarketer hit with record $285,000 'Do Not Call' penalty after complaints
Artificial Intelligence: The Robots Are Now Hiring
See how new data-science tools are determining who gets hired, in this episode of Moving Upstream: “Hiring is undergoing a profound revolution. Nearly all Fortune 500 companies now use some form of automation — from robot avatars interviewing job candidates to computers weeding out potential employees by scanning keywords in resumes. And more and more companies are using artificial intelligence and machine learning tools to assess possible employees. DeepSense, based in San Francisco and India, helps hiring managers scan people’s social media accounts to surface underlying personality traits. The company says it uses a scientifically based personality test, and it can be done with or without a potential candidate’s knowledge. The practice is part of a general trend of some hiring companies to move away from assessing candidates based on their resumes and skills, towards making hiring decisions based on people’s personalities…”
Google Search – Deep Learning Revives the Neural Net Revolution
Moneyland: plutocracy, contagion and crisis In the September 2018 Tax Justice Network monthly podcast/radio show, the Taxcast:
Bureaucrats planned how to avoid revealing the $10 million cost of a PR push and a $100 million reef resilience package was also to be kept quiet
ABC chairman Justin Milne's tangled corporate web
This interim report of the Financial Services Royal Commission was tabled in Parliament on 28 September 2018. The report covers policy related issues arising from the first four rounds of hearings.
Climbing the stairway to disconnection
This interim report of the Financial Services Royal Commission was tabled in Parliament on 28 September 2018. The report covers policy related issues arising from the first four rounds of hearings.
True leaders understand their place is neither at the top of the stairs or the bottom.
Sydney couple's alleged identity fraud and cryptocurrency web unravels
Two people have been arrested after they allegedly used stolen credit card details, while laundering more than $300,000 into offshore cryptocurrency accounts.
Low pay, poor prospects, and psychological toll: The perils of microtask work Ars Technica
The Epidemic of Gay Loneliness Huffington Post Phone scammers robbing Australians of millions in Australian Tax Office fraud
Low pay, poor prospects, and psychological toll: The perils of microtask work Ars Technica
South Indian Telemarketer hit with record $285,000 'Do Not Call' penalty after complaints
Further evidence that the tax cuts have not led to widespread bonuses, wage or compensation growthEconomic Policy InstituteToo Hot for Work? The Nation
The Printed Word in Peril Harpers
What ‘The Big Lebowski’ taught me about style FT. “Hey, nice marmot!”
Artificial Intelligence: The Robots Are Now Hiring
See how new data-science tools are determining who gets hired, in this episode of Moving Upstream: “Hiring is undergoing a profound revolution. Nearly all Fortune 500 companies now use some form of automation — from robot avatars interviewing job candidates to computers weeding out potential employees by scanning keywords in resumes. And more and more companies are using artificial intelligence and machine learning tools to assess possible employees. DeepSense, based in San Francisco and India, helps hiring managers scan people’s social media accounts to surface underlying personality traits. The company says it uses a scientifically based personality test, and it can be done with or without a potential candidate’s knowledge. The practice is part of a general trend of some hiring companies to move away from assessing candidates based on their resumes and skills, towards making hiring decisions based on people’s personalities…”
Google Search – Deep Learning Revives the Neural Net Revolution
Moneyland: plutocracy, contagion and crisis In the September 2018 Tax Justice Network monthly podcast/radio show, the Taxcast:
- we talk to journalist Oliver Bullough about his new book, just out 'Moneyland: why thieves and crooks now rule the world, and how to take it back' We discuss the transnational elite that have broken free of democratic control and corruption contagion.
- Also, 10 years after the financial crash, the risks are as high as before, if not more severe – how do we tackle the next crisis?
- Plus, the fifth aide of US President Trump has now been convicted of, or admitted criminal charges: what does Paul Manafort's case tell us about the spread of plutocracy and oligarchy?
"politics is increasingly dominated by this very tight
elite class and it is all about Moneyland...dark money is the enemy of
democracy, there is a battle between money and democracy and right now
money is winning. And it’s a very worrying thought that we aren’t more
aware of this as a society and we really need to think about it because
a trillion dollars a year is a lot of money and that's being stolen every
year, which means all of that money is stacked up against us. And the
longer we don’t act, the more money there will be essentially fighting back
and they have been fighting back very successfully."
~ Oliver
Bullough, author of Moneyland:
why thieves and crooks now rule the world, and how to take it back
Featuring:
journalist and author Oliver
Bullough and John
Christensen of the Tax Justice Network. Produced and presented
by Naomi
Fowler.
Full
blog post with further reading available here.
SCRAPING THE WEB
Journalism and technology
have become intrinsically linked. Come behind the scenes as we explain how
reporters (and their developers!) are accessing large sets of data on the
internet and turning them
into useful information.
We have a (pretty) easy way
to scrape the web, assuming you have a basic understanding of HTML, so you can
get started today! And… if you’re more technologically savvy, we’ve got the
inside word from our own developer who scrapes the web on a much larger scale.
Undercover reporters expose ‘bogus’ scientific conferences
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Thursday, September 27, 2018
Taxing Times
Tax Justice Network responds to UK Shadow Chancellor’s Fair Tax Mark announcement
Danske Bank chief quits over money laundering scandal Financial Times. This is huge. $250 billion of money laundering. Total failure of supervision and ethics. And this is still, as our Richard Smith points out, only <5 limited="" of="" partnerships="" scottish="" span="">
Drug companies cheating countries out of billions in tax revenues Oxfam International
The report, ‘Prescription for Poverty,’ analyzes the financial disclosures from Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, Abbott, and Merck & Co (also known as MSD) between 2013 and 2015
Ireland’s corporate tax rate hurting emerging economies – Oxfam The Irish Times
Revealing Big Pharma’s tax dodging: The story behind the numbers Oxfam New Zealand
Oxfam is right. Big Pharma are shockers on tax Michael West
The Human Cost of Tax Avoidance: India Oxfam America
Corruption, vanity and greed: the story of 1MDB The Financial Times
See also – 1MDB Scandal: Bookshops threatened with legal action over book about Malaysian ‘playboy banker’ The Guardian
‘The book – Billion Dollar Whale by the Wall Street Journal reporters Bradley Hope and Tom Wright – describes how the Malaysian financier Jho Low is accused by the US government of masterminding the theft of billions of dollars from the Malaysian state-owned investment fund 1MDB, which was sent to bank accounts in Switzerland, Singapore and the Virgin Islands.’
See also – 1MDB Scandal: Bookshops threatened with legal action over book about Malaysian ‘playboy banker’ The Guardian
‘The book – Billion Dollar Whale by the Wall Street Journal reporters Bradley Hope and Tom Wright – describes how the Malaysian financier Jho Low is accused by the US government of masterminding the theft of billions of dollars from the Malaysian state-owned investment fund 1MDB, which was sent to bank accounts in Switzerland, Singapore and the Virgin Islands.’
Credit Suisse found lacking in fight against money laundering swissinfo
See also: Credit Suisse Scolded for Failing to Rein in Rogue Banker Bloomberg
See also: Credit Suisse Scolded for Failing to Rein in Rogue Banker Bloomberg
UK: Senior tax official admits wealthy and famous given Special Treatment over financial crime The Express
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