Journalist Aaron Rupar, who had 789,000 followers and was critical of Elon, just had his Twitter account suspended on the self-entitled billionaire’s behemoth platform — whose fall from the public’s grace seems to be happening at a fast pace. Tesla’s stocks are plummeting, and Elon doesn’t know how to use his new Twitter toy.
Source: Elon Throws A Tantrum, Bans Journalists For Hurting His Feels | Crooks and Liars
this is all general and has nothing to do with the recent brouhaha about the Essendon CEO who lasted less time in the job than your average Tinder date.
When it comes down to it, he should have never got the job for the obvious reason that he was the person in charge of finding the next CEO.
Let’s be clear here: If you tasked me with the job of finding a replacement for Shaun at “Mad As Hell” and I came back a few weeks later and said after due consideration, I think it should be me, you’d have to think that I was far from a disinterested party and that maybe there was the sort of conflict of interest that meant that I should consider becoming the next Liberal leader rather than a comedian…
Tony Abbott has been in power since 7 September 2013. From that moment, he and his government have broken promises and hurt Australians. This post will be regularly updated to keep track of the Abbott Government’s broken promises and everything his Government does to hurt Australians. Each separate item will have a link to…
Source: Tracking Abbott’s Record ”August” Update – » The Australian Independent Media Network
Japan, France and Germany will compete to build Australia’s next submarines as the Federal Government continues its search for a potential partner, the Defence Minister says.
Kevin Andrews said the Defence Department would seek proposals from potential partners looking at options to either design and build overseas, in Australia or a hybrid approach through a “competitive evaluation process”.
But there were no guarantees the submarines would be built or designed in Australia.
Mr Andrews ruled out Swedish defence company Saab, which has a presence in Adelaide and had expressed an interest in building the vessels in South Australia.
But the Minister said he expected significant work would be undertaken in Australia, particularly during the build phase leading to the creation of at least 500 new, high-skilled jobs.
He said many of the 500 jobs would be in South Australia and would focus on significant works ranging from combat-system integration to land-based testing.
It is particularly good news for Australian jobs and can I say to anybody in South Australia who may be listening or watching, this is particularly good news for South Australia.
Defence Minister, Kevin Andrews
“The Government expects that significant work will be undertaken in Australia as part of the build phase of the future submarine including, but not necessarily limited to, combat-system integration, design assurance and land-based testing,” Mr Andrews said.
“This will result in the creation of at least 500 new, high-skilled jobs in Australia for the life of the program, the majority of which will be in South Australia.
“So this is good news for Australian industry, it is good news for the Australian economy, it is particularly good news for Australian jobs and can I say to anybody in South Australia who may be listening or watching, this is particularly good news for South Australia.”
South Australian Premier Jay Weatherill said he believed the Government wanted the submarines built in Japan.
He said he was disappointed Sweden had been ruled out of the “competitive evaluation process”.
“It tells you all you need to know about the process,” Mr Weatherill said.
“Sweden say they can build submarines for the right price, on time, here in South Australia, and they get ruled out of the process.”
The Future Submarine Program is the largest Defence procurement program in Australia’s history and represents an investment in the order of $50 billion, the Government said.
Mr Andrews said France, Germany and Japan had proven submarine design and build capabilities, and currently produce submarines.
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