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Government Pests: An Infestation Of Accountants

by Clio

19 July 2023 1 yr

It is time to call in the exterminators, according to the Senate review into consultancy firms preying on governments in Australia. These bloodsucking accountants and management consultants have managed to extract some $20 billion over the last 10 years. This is a direct result of the neoliberal push to privatise governments and their services. The public service has been gutted by a decade of conservative LNP government providing wealth to their mates via outsourcing to these multinational consultancy firms. Government pests: An infestation of accountants sucking the life and wealth out of Australia.

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by Clio

8 December 2024 20 hrs

Rapacious Health Fund CEO Gunned Down

Only in America, the land of unchecked greed and guns, do you half expect these sort of things. Rapacious health fund CEO gunned down in New York city. The assassin had marked his bullets with the words ‘deny’, ‘defend’ and ‘depose’. These are the insurer’s mantra when refusing payouts to policy holders. Brian Thompson was the CEO of United Healthcare a company on target to make $450 billion revenue this financial year. This is America where healthcare is first and foremost about profitability for investors and executives. I suspect that this way of doing business has made the company plenty of enemies.

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Placard - 'Sell the Commonwealth Bank?', circa 1990

by Clio

7 December 2024 2 dys

The Commonwealth Bank Fleecing Australians

The Commonwealth Bank (CBA) regularly makes billions of dollars profit every year. The share price of CBA is one of the highest for any bank in the world. $157.06 as of the 6th of December 2024. Despite this someone at the bank felt that it was a good move to charge many poorer Australians $3 every time that they withdrew cash from their own CBA bank accounts. This is the world we live in. The Commonwealth Bank fleecing Australians to extract even more profit out them during a cost of living crisis.

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Prince Regent presenting political ministers

by Clio

20 November 2024 3 weeks

The History Of Tax Dodgers

The French Revolution was one of the bloodiest chapters in human history. The device of Dr Guillotine took so many heads that bigger baskets had to be made to gather up those dismembered and rolling free during the frenzy of executions. Did you know that […]

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Episode 12: The Politics of Grievance - Robert Sudha Hamilton's Podcast

America is the great democratic experiment. Although, this is getting on for some 250 years now. This nation is in the grip of the politics of grievance. Partisan politics in America is more about hating the other side than particularly loving the side you are voting for. Americans have been encouraged to focus their attention upon their grievances via decades of negative campaigning and attack ads. Demonizing ‘the other’ is the favoured political pastime in the 21C. Identity politics and social values are the main game these days. Economic issues are now seen through this ideological filter.Murdoch, Fox & Stirring Grievance In AmericaRupert Murdoch and his Fox News are merchants of toxic polarization. This network is spewing out lies and fake news 24/7. Every presentation is top heavy in anti-woke content and a right wing bias. Regular viewers are sucked into a spin cycle of libertarian anti-government GOP grievance stoking. Old white men upset at their changing worlds, where heaven forbid minorities are now getting a say. OMG the sky is going to fall in. In this partisan realm complaints about there being too many coloured faces on TV and LGBTQIA folk making too much noise are legion. Uppity women talking about sexual harassment and such like make their viewer’s blood boil – which is the whole idea for Fox. Getting their audience riled up keeps eyeballs on them and advertising rates going up for their revenue.Popularizing Poisonous Issues For Political GainThe politics of grievance is all about popularizing these causes for the benefit of candidates and the party. The party promoting these grievances doesn’t need positive policies. They just bang on about how the other side is to blame for the problem.

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Midas Word @midasword ·

7 Dec

The rentier economy is everywhere. Have a look at your bank account statements if you doubt my appraisal of the situation. You cannot scratch yourself without incurring a charge.

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Midas Word @midasword ·

7 Dec

There is no freedom left in Australia, as cash money was the last bastion. It is a land of bankers, corporate bastards and complicit politicians.

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Midas Word @midasword ·

6 Dec

Each one of these were told when they rang the Horizon IT helpline that nobody else was experiencing these issues. They were blatantly lied to, as a company line – which must have been a scripted response

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Midas Word @midasword ·

23 Nov

As much as we like to focus on how wonderfully advanced we are by sending rockets to the moon etc. The truth is many of us remain violently rooted in the simian behaviour of our ancestors at times during our lives.