L6 APS6 - Pacific Gambit: Inside the Chinese Communist Party and Triad Push into Palau

THERE’S ALWAYS SOMEONE WHO SEES IT COMING:  A Marine Predicted All of World War II in the Pacific 20 Years Before Pearl Harbor

PwC tax leak ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ chance for crackdown: former ATO exec

Edmund Tadros and Neil Chenoweth

Jan 30, 2023 Share

The man who led the Tax Office’s crackdown on multinational profit shifting says revelations about the PwC tax leak offer a “once-in-a-lifetime” opportunity for the agency to “get rid of the drivers of tax planning” by targeting accounting firms that provide aggressive taxation advice.

WHITE COLLAR CRIME RISK ZONES The New Inquiry 

Earth’s inner core may have ‘paused’ its rotation and reversed, new study suggests The Hill. See, there’s your problem.

The Economic Secret Hidden in a Tiny, Discontinued Pasta The Bulwark

There’s an anecdote from former U.S. Chief Technology Officer and Assistant to the President, Todd Park, that talks about how you can usually find the solution to a problem way down the organisational chart… not from the “important people” at the top. He refers to this person at the L6 (as in, level 6). They’re never in the crisis meetings, they’re not consulted by the L1’s or the CEO. In fact, the L1 probably doesn’t even know this person exists. But they’re the people closest to the problem, the client issue, the code, the product line. They understand the problem in detail, know what’s been tried in the past and what’s really needed to solve it.”

The L6 - Organisations Bury The People With Answers

Pacific Gambit: Inside the Chinese Communist Party and Triad Push into Palau C

by Bernadette Carreon (OCCRP), Aubrey Belford (OCCRP), and Martin Young (OCCRP) 

12 December 2022

The tiny Pacific nation of Palau is a key hotspot in the growing rivalry between China and the West. Organized criminals with links to the Chinese Communist Party are trying to find a way in — and many in the local elite have welcomed them.

Germany to send Leopard tanks to Kyiv, allow others to do so – sources Reuter

U.S. Poised to Provide Abrams Tanks to UkraineWSJ. Commentary

‘Kremlin would love it’: Finland wants to join NATO with Sweden but could go soloEuronews. From earlier in the week, still germane. Kevin W: “Finland cutting Sweden loose after that idiotic Koran burning demonstration.”

The War in Ukraine Proves Polish NATO-Skeptics Were Right by Mike Krupa Larry Johnson