Tuesday, December 06, 2022

St Mikulaš Santa: Tipping Point: The Financial Fragility of the Big Four Global Audit Firms

“Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you are doing, but nobody else does” 

– Steuart Henderson Britt


Love getting lectured by ppl who clearly haven’t watched the royal commission. There is a reason the counsel assisting spent a great deal of today’s evidence methodically building the case for “influencing” the ombudsman. No doubt this is common practice, but that’s the problem.

Amending a lot of the wording in the Ombudsman’s draft and final reports


Violet's actions were anything but selfish. That deep desire to protect the community was motivating Violet that day,

Human rights groups around the world express outrage over ‘disproportionate’ punishment of Deanna ‘Violet’ Coco



Dion Rich: The ultimate gate-crasher reaches the end of the line


James Austin Johnson does Bob Dylan singing Jingle Bells throughout the decades.


Tipping Point: The Financial Fragility of the Big Four Global Audit Firms Francine McKenna


In 1985, Alan Sugar’s Amstrad launched a computer with a non-functioning 8kb memory chip attached to the motherboard in order to get round Spanish taxes





Dollar Dominance is Financial Dominance Institute for New Economic Thinking. Measured but deadly critique of the Fed.



 Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, November 26, 2022 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weisshighlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways technology is used to compromise and diminish our privacy and online security, often without our situational awareness. Four highlights from this week: A Broken Twitter Means Broken Disaster Response; Third-party data brokers give police warrantless access to 250 million devices; House Dems say facial recognition company misrepresented its help to consumers; and Do’s and don’ts of data de-identification.


Western Australian man’s $580k live savings disappears from Ubank account