“Bet with mates, start a multi-together!” says Sportsbet. Meanwhile, Australia’s biggest bookie has pulled off a multi of its own. Wally the Chartered Accountant and Michael West reveal how Sportsbet and its accountants KPMG have cooked up a souffle of goodwill to take the Tax Office for a lap around the track and funnel the losses of Australian punters to their corporate maaates overseas.
I knew the gas cartel had been too quiet for too long. Something had to be brewing, and what a doozy it was.
Unique in the world for energy producers, the east coast of Australia has no domestic reservation regime for its gas reserves.
Even now, amid a spaghetti bowl of regulation and price controls, there is still no effective domestic reservation.
Over the past decade, this has allowed China-beholden foreign capital to create a gas export cartel that has:
It’s not like it doesn’t matter or anything. Yet nobody cares, and the mainstream media never writes about it.
As AusSuper plays chicken with Brookfield’s $20b bid for Origin Energy, Origin is quietly putting the chokehold on gas imports too
Source: ‘Gas cartel shoots Australia in the head’ – Origin to control imports too – Michael West
Nevertheless, this man was celebrated as a hero by the LNP with $5+B in subsidies. “Better Money Managers” who the fuck thinks so? Corporate Minders, Caretakers of Capitalism that’s the scam? Morrison’s devotion was to manipulation by media marketing no matter the cost and we paid for the inevitable failures.
Qantas has dropped dramatically from the top five in an annual ranking of the world’s best airlines, falling all the way to 17th.
Source: World Airline Awards 2023: Qantas plummets; Singapore Airlines takes top spot from Qatar Airways
A few things are worth noting in this frothy mix of fantabulation and establishment fire breathing. In the quest to gather such a panel, no effort has been made to consult the expertise of a China hand. That lobby, able to provide a more nuanced, less heavy-footed approach, is being shunned, their advice exorcised in any effort to encourage war.
Source: War over Taiwan: Australia’s Gang of Five – » The Australian Independent Media Network
Decades ago, research conducted by ExxonMobil predicted the global effects of climate change, which was then denied in the name of profit, writes Dr Binoy Kampmark.
Source: ExxonMobil predicted climate change but kept the world burning
Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp says a landmark three-year agreement with Facebook to pay for its Australian content will transform the terms of trade for journalism.
Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp strikes deal as Facebook agrees to pay for Australian content | Australian media | The Guardian
Widespread voter fraud is a fake problem, but some conservative donors say they’re getting scammed out of real money.
Election Denier Groups Accused of Profiting Without Results
Widespread voter fraud is a fake problem, but some conservative donors say they’re getting scammed out of real money.
Election Denier Groups Accused of Profiting Without Results
On Wednesday morning, the New York Post broke the genuinely unbelievable story about a soggy laptop with a hard drive that contains emails suggesting that Joe Biden had a previously unreported meeting with a Ukrainian businessman … and video of Hunter Biden having a crack-laced party with a sex worker. Because, sure, if you’re going to have illegal drugs while engaging in illegal sex, you have to be sure to film it, right after the email that’s a threat to your father.
Details Emerge On Giuliani-Post Story, And The Obvious Frame-up Looks Clearly Like Russian Propaganda | Crooks and Liars
Even by Wall Street standards of gouging customers this was one hell of a skim.
In 2012 and 2013, the Malaysian government was raising $6.5bn (£5bn) from investors to establish a sovereign wealth fund and finance various domestic infrastructure investment projects. And the cut for Goldman Sachs – the most prestigious investment bank in the world – for arranging the fundraising from the global capital markets? Ten per cent, or $600m.
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The Turnbull government has hoovered up more than $2 billion in inactive superannuation accounts and claimed the revenue as its own, saying it does not trust the superannuation industry to reunite the accounts of millions of Australian workers.
via Super accounts used by Turnbull government to boost budget
Donald Trump’s website does not allow its donors to cancel their recurring donation plans without a fight, according to disgruntled supporters.
Source: SCAM: Donald Trump’s Website Won’t Let You Cancel Recurring Donations
Every Federal Liberal MP pays Liberal Party ‘software’ company $2,500, but that doesn’t even come close explaining all its revenue.
Hyper alert wouldn’t have helped a single person in the world trade centre, or the sari club, being constantly on guard hasn’t been an effective defence in places where terrorism occurs frequently. When it has been thwarted it’s generally by normal people who just happened to notice something odd, and responded appropriately. Isn’t this something that the vast majority of us would do automatically, regardless of the government rated “threat level”?
So what is the point of all this talk such rhetoric seems to have is increasing the level of racism directed toward people of middle eastern descent. Statistically speaking we are far more likely to die crossing the road or in bed than a local terrorist.
So why is the Abbott government so intent on ramping up our levels of ambient anxiety? When it has been proven that ramping up the threat levels will not prevent anything? It does however seem to effect the governments standing in the polls. When Tony bangs on about terrorist threats his poll ratings go up. When we turn our attention back to the budget and the broader economy his poll ratings go down. Thank god for ISIS, middle eastern dual nationals, airport security upgrades, ASIO terror alerts, and Murdoch’s unwavering commitment to keeping them in the forefront of the news!
While Abbott and Murdoch seem to revel in their ability to keep us anxious, the fact remains Australia is an extraordinarily safe country. It’s stupid to deny we wont ever have an attack on domestic soil, but I am saying it is a fools errand to be working ourselves into a permanent paranoid lather, or aligning ourselves with some mythical, quasi racist “team Australia” in order to prevent such an attack from happening.
FEAR WILL STOP US ENJOYING OUR LIVES the only perceptible upside is Tony’s position in the polls?
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