Category: Conspiracy

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Is PWC Australia a criminal organisation? – Pearls and Irritations

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Conspiracy Up Close and Political was seen to be applied by Abbott and Hockey when their Opposition Budgets were “verified” by “private audit” even before the 2013 election and it continued thereon after. It was a puzzling LNP challenge to our Democracy to cut the Treasury our Public Service out from being independent scrutineers of the political party budget numbers. Yet they got away with it.

Secrecy and the need to ensure natural justice for Peter Collins & other PWC Australia staff who received or used confidential information, prevents disclosure of the specific offences being investigated by the Australian Federal Police (AFP). But there will be no shortage of possible offences to investigate. They range from a breach of tax secrecy laws, making false or misleading statements, obtaining a financial advantage by deception, general dishonesty, to conspiracy to defraud the Commonwealth, and money laundering.

Source: Is PWC Australia a criminal organisation? – Pearls and Irritations

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Anatomy of a Cover-Up: whistleblower warned PwC and Lendlease of $1b tax scam – Michael West

PwC, Lendlease, whistleblower

Conspiracies do exist and their organized generally at the top of societies economic ladder

PwC advised Lendlease on the billion-dollar tax scam which is now subject to Australian Tax Office audit. As Lendlease whistleblower Tony Watson fights the giant in court over his dismissal as a tax lawyer, documents obtained by MWM show Watson warned a PwC tax partner and group finance chief Tarun Gupta the tax scheme was a rort. Michael West reports.

Source: Anatomy of a Cover-Up: whistleblower warned PwC and Lendlease of $1b tax scam – Michael West

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Managerialist and consultancy deceits: PWC and others – Pearls and Irritations

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Ever since the British East India Company was established, and declared the best systemic model for doing business for joint profit, corporations have been acting as pirates knighted and blessed by governments to operate at will. In fact today Corporations have grown so large they manipulate governments in a way that brings the relationship nearer to Mussolini’s Fascist dream.

Occasionally however reality bites and their criminality reveals itself as we saw with the Pandora Papers and now consultancies and PwC. The pity of it all is the system has never really changed. Back in the day the British MPs and the Crown were all corporate investors. Today MPs flock to get jobs after politics in these mega-corporations which is a return for favors past.

A few individuals may or may not be singled out as rogues and left unpaid too hot to handle. An enormous PR push will be bought, set in place, and like after the Pandora Papers everything will settle and go back to normal

Sudden political excitement about the unethical, almost certainly illegal conduct of a large, too big to disappear, accountancy company, deflects attention from the primary site of a cancerous managerialist disease. That site was infected with the idea that individuals labelled managers, usually but not always accountants, could be trusted to decide how government departments, universities, hospitals and other public institutions, could be more cost effective.

Source: Managerialist and consultancy deceits: PWC and others – Pearls and Irritations

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Inside the “Private and Confidential” Conservative Group That Promises to “Crush Liberal Dominance”

Andy Kroll and Andrea Bernstein, ProPublica, and Nick Surgey, Documented Co-published with Documented ( ProPublica ) – A few months ago, Leonard Leo laid out his next audacious project.Ever since the longtime Federalist Society leader helped create a conservative supermajority on the Supreme Court, and then received more than a billion dollars from a wealthy Chicago business owner to disburse to conservative causes, Leo’s next moves had been the subject of speculation. Now, Leo declared in a slick but private video to potential donors, he planned to “crush liberal dominance” across American life. The country was plagued by “woke-ism”

Leo declared in a slick but private video to potential donors, he planned to “crush liberal dominance” across American life. The country was plagued by “woke-ism” in corporations and education, “one-sided journalism” and “entertainment that’s really corrupting our youth,” said Leo amid snippets of cheery music and shots of sunsets and American flags.

Sitting tucked into a couch, with wire-rimmed glasses and hair gone to gray, Leo conveyed his inspiration and intentions: “I just said to myself, ‘Well, if this can work for law, why can’t it work for lots of other areas of American culture and American life where things are really messed up right now?’”

Leo revealed his latest battle plan in the previously unreported video for the Teneo Network, a little-known group he called “a tremendously important resource for the future of our country.”

Teneo is building what Leo called in the video “networks of conservatives that can roll back” liberal influence in Wall Street and Silicon Valley, among authors and academics, with pro athletes and Hollywood producers. A Federalist Society for everything.

 

Source: Inside the “Private and Confidential” Conservative Group That Promises to “Crush Liberal Dominance”

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The contagion of conspiracy theories – » The Australian Independent Media Network

The world is awash with conspiracies, ranging from the downright weird – QAnon comes to mind – to subtle, reasonably sounding counter arguments mounted by so called libertarians. The main enabler of both brands is – you guessed it – the hydra headed global entity known as News Corp. At the QAnon end of the spectrum is Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingraham, Jeanine Pirro and others on the Fox News network in the USA. In Australia it is Paul Murray, Chris Kenny, Alan Jones et al, on Sky After Dark. Some Fox News lunacy All of the above are highly paid entertainers masquerading as journalists. It’s pointless enumerating their collective idiocy other than stating the obvious danger of their prognostications. Craig Kelly spruiking Hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for Covid-19 on Sky After Dark, is a prime example. Let’s hope NSW Police knock on Kelly’s door and serve him with a warrant under the current NSW Health regulations. Sadly, this will never happen.

Source: The contagion of conspiracy theories – » The Australian Independent Media Network

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Unraveling the mystery behind the QAnon cult

Never run after a bus, a lover or a conspiracy theory — there’ll be another one along soon. When a new conspiracy, say QAnon, comes along, don’t bother asking why. In the touted sapientia (wisdom) of Homo sapiens, it’s just a thing we do. So instead of asking why, ask who’s running it and to what end. That’s my enquiry here.

Source: Unraveling the mystery behind the QAnon cult

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10 Of The Wildest And Wackiest Conspiracy Theories Pushed By Trump This Week | HuffPost Australia
‘This is not the way an Attorney General should behave.’

President Donald Trump is no stranger to conspiracy-mongering. He’s pushed wild birther theories about his predecessor, Barack Obama, suggested windmills cause cancer and claimed climate change is a hoax manufactured by the Chinese, among other bizarre assertions.

10 Of The Wildest And Wackiest Conspiracy Theories Pushed By Trump This Week | HuffPost Australia
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Treason: Obama Iran Deal Officials targeted by Trump via Israeli Black Cube

Making policy by destroying the reputations of middle management in the government is of course highly destructive to the democratic process.

Ronan Farrow of The New Yorker now reports that the Trump aides who targeted former Obama administration officials Ben Rhodes and Colin Kahl used the Israeli Black Cube agency, the same one deployed by Harvey Weinstein to keep his many victims of sexual harassment in line. It advertises itself as being able to provide the best former Mossad agents for the job (but if they are the best why are they former?)

I mind this behavior quite a lot and fear it won’t get the traction it deserves among the press and the public.

via Treason: Obama Iran Deal Officials targeted by Trump via Israeli Black Cube

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Investigators Unable To Find Michaelia Cash’s Ex-Staffer To Serve Him A Federal Court Subpoena

Minister Michaelia Cash.

via Investigators Unable To Find Michaelia Cash’s Ex-Staffer To Serve Him A Federal Court Subpoena

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How to Avoid Being Labeled a Conspiracy Theorist

Here’s a news flash: Some Americans are not very bright. They’re easily influenced. They believe that The New York Times and The Washington Post, two eminent newspapers of record, are purveyors of fake news because the president says so. The conversation ought not to be fake news. It ought to be about how we ended up with a fake president.With that said, we can all guard against unfounded conspiracy theories. Just do your own research. Sure, there will always be incorrect stories that make their way into the media. But we have to question everything and do the research. Seek out experts. Look for competing theories, follow the facts and reach your conclusions based on the facts, not on what you read on Facebook or on some fringe message board.But whatever you do, try not to believe anything this president says.

Source: How to Avoid Being Labeled a Conspiracy Theorist

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Tony Abbott: The man who would be PM — again

David Tyler takes a look at Tony Abbott’s slow and steady behind-the-scenes moves to be reinstated as Australia’s PM.

Source: Tony Abbott: The man who would be PM — again

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Compare and contrast: Sussan Ley and Centrelink punters – » The Australian Independent Media Network| Bronwyn Bishop’s Socialist Conspiracy

Such is politics in these interesting times that it’s impossible when alerted to one scandal, to refrain from speculating if it has been confected to distract your attention from another. So it is with Health Minister Sussan Ley’s current imbroglio which seems, at first blush, a nice little “look over here not there” moment arriving right…

Source: Compare and contrast: Sussan Ley and Centrelink punters – » The Australian Independent Media Network

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Choice and Truth: In 2013 a Rothschild Insider Warned of an Elite Planned Race War in America [Video]

Source: Choice and Truth: In 2013 a Rothschild Insider Warned of an Elite Planned Race War in America [Video]