@BasilTheGreat I don’t think that’s really the issue. The issue is that the party members don’t align. You have Pauline saying one think then you have another ON MP saying something else. That’s chaos.
We've seen the power of vested interests over public policy on full display over the past few weeks.
Clearly it's in the community's interest to close the revolving door between govt & industry and tighten up our lobbying laws.
It makes no sense that so many lobbyists don't even have to be on the federal lobbying register 🤯
I spoke to ABC’s Four Corners airing tonight about the reforms we need.
https://t.co/74WhQomGI9
Johannesburg has achieved total urban collapse.
It is a disaster when a complete breakdown in municipal governance intersects perfectly with a total absence of civic responsibility.
Smashing municipal infrastructure and breaking water mains to access a basic utility is not a survival mechanism; it is the active, accelerated destruction of the entire city's life-support system.
When you break a pipe to get a bucket of water today, you ensure that the entire neighborhood has zero water tomorrow, while the city hemorrhages millions of liters into the dirt.
This crisis is a direct consequence of a municipality that has completely surrendered its authority. City officials have allowed lawlessness to become the status quo, turning a blind eye to overcrowded, illegally occupied tenements. Furthermore, the city council fails to enforce basic bylaws, fails to maintain the infrastructure, and fails to police the city center, only to express shock when the area reverts to a state of nature.
When a population adapts to disorder instead of demanding accountability, and a government chooses passive neglect over strict enforcement, a metropolis inevitably crumbles from the inside out.
You simply cannot build a modern African city when the leaders refuse to enforce the law and the residents only know how to tear it down.
“Every public school in America is now on notice that if they tell a child that they are trapped in the wrong body, they are committing child abuse!” ~President Trump
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New job scam taking place in America
Scammers are posting fake jobs on Indeed. They are using real companies and conducting real webcam interviews
Once they “hire you” they ask for your information like your social security number, personal information and bank info. They also send you a list of items you need to purchase for the new job. Things like cloud storage and software licenses
One woman fell for it, provided all her information and her social security number. The real company never posted the job on Indeed and doesn’t even have a United States office
The woman who fell for it even left her old job and now can’t get her job back
Norway's gross debt is 55% of GDP.
Australia's is 51% of GDP.
This is how all capitalist economies work.
However, Australia's net debt is 20%, and Norway's is negative.
Do you know why? They own stuff.
The Australian government needs to start owning stuff again. No investment or bailouts without public equity.
Tax gas, own gas.
Let capitalism reign, and government own assets in the national interest.
“Mehdi Hasan Claims Islam Is Peaceful - Then This British politician has A BRUTAL Response”
Speaker: My side of the argument is regularly told that we are demonising Islam and whipping up fear of Islam.
But let me tell you what actually whips up fears of Islam.
9/11. The London bombings. Madrid. Mumbai. Bali. Death for apostasy. Death for blasphemy. Death for adultery. Death for homosexuality. Gender discrimination. Child marriage. Beheadings. Imprisonment for being raped.
The murder of Theo van Gogh. Death threats. Sharia patrols. Polygamous marriages.
This is what causes fear of Islam. It is not me.
We'll be told this is just the extreme fringe of Islam.
Well, look at Saudi Arabia the birthplace of Islam and custodian of its holy sites.
People are executed for blasphemy and apostasy.
But apparently, that's the extreme fringe?
Calling Saudi Arabia the extreme fringe of Islam is like calling the Vatican the extreme fringe of Catholicism. Sorry, it just doesn't work.
Then we're told violent Muslims have misunderstood Islam.
Saudi Arabia has misunderstood. Iran has misunderstood. Yemen has misunderstood.
Has there ever been a more spectacularly misunderstood religion than Islam?
I'm constantly told that I need to respect Islam. But I'm under no greater obligation to respect Islam than any other belief.
I am under no obligation to make compromises with an ideology I simply don't see as peaceful.
Why don't I see it as peaceful? Because of the evidence.
If I look around the world and see the countries where Islam calls the shots, all I see is brutality and violence imposed by the state.
Gestern haben islamistische Terroristen 51 koordinierte Angriffe, darunter Bomben- und Brandanschläge, im Süden Thailands 🇹🇭 verübt, um das Land zu destabilisieren. Ich hoffe, dass die Verantwortlichen zur Rechenschaft gezogen werden und endlich Frieden 🕊️ einkehrt. 🙏 #Thailand
@Dshoopy0 Energy drives GDP. if energy is cheap and abundant, innovation follows. Living becomes cheaper and more money can be used to generate more money.
The immigration policy Australia desperately needs is a five year pause. During the pause we will then have a sober debate what’s best for next half century.
There’ll be a few exceptions around the edges during the pause but very few.
I’m pretty sure the 28M people here already can manage the economy just fine without being dependent on foreign workers.
If, during the pause, an employer really desperately needs to employ someone from overseas then they can pay a big fee.
Germany spent over $500 billion trying to become the green energy leader of the world. Today it has the highest electricity prices in the developed world.
Its factories are shutting down. Its biggest companies are leaving. Its carbon emissions are the lowest in 70 years, not because of wind turbines but because the factories stopped running.
Germany hit its climate targets by destroying its economy.
This is the most expensive energy mistake in modern history.
Samsung and Micron INVENTED the memory shortage.
Samsung has already pleaded guilty to running this exact scheme once before.
Every phone, laptop, console and car got more expensive over the last 18 months because of one component.
You were told AI ate the supply.
But a lawsuit filed in California reveals the AI story is just the cover:
In 2002 a federal grand jury opened an investigation into the price of computer memory, and it found a cartel.
Samsung pleaded guilty and paid $300 million, at the time the second largest criminal antitrust fine in American history. Hynix paid $185 million. Infineon paid $160 million. Elpida paid $84 million. More than a dozen executives went to federal prison.
Micron paid nothing because it walked into the Justice Department first and informed on everyone else.
Then the grand jury subpoenaed Micron for documents showing competitor pricing.
A regional sales manager named Alfred Censullo altered them and concealed them. He pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice.
That is the industry. Now here is the new accusation:
17 plaintiffs sued on June 25 in the Northern District of California. 14 of them are ordinary consumers. 3 are small computer repair shops.
They say Samsung, SK Hynix and Micron, who together control roughly 90% of the world's memory, cut production in 2022 and never restarted it, then used the pivot toward AI memory as cover to strangle the ordinary chips everything else runs on.
They put the price increase at 697%.
And one chip in particular makes that number very hard to explain:
DDR4 is 12 year old technology. AI accelerators do not use it. Nobody is building new factories for it. Its price is supposed to fall forever.
But in April a mainstream DDR4 chip traded near $16. By late July it hit $42.08.
A 64GB memory kit that cost $191 last August now runs $1,118.
In December, Micron shut down Crucial, the memory brand it had sold to ordinary people for 29 years, at the most profitable moment that brand ever had. The company said it was leaving to serve its larger customers better.
That same quarter, Micron booked $21.75 billion in revenue. SK Hynix booked $27.98 billion. Industry revenue jumped 81% in ninety days.
They walked away from the retail market at the exact moment retail became the most lucrative it had ever been.
Then the bill reached the company everyone had been blaming:
Bloomberg reported on Friday that Nvidia's biggest customers were told prices on its AI systems will rise more than 15% starting early next year. The reason given was memory costs.
Nvidia spent three years as the company that ate the world's memory and it just became the company being charged for it.
Apple raised prices on Macs and iPads. Microsoft raised Xbox prices. Valve promised a machine under $1,000 and shipped it at $1,049.
Wanting higher margins is not a crime in itself. But three companies looking at the same market and reaching the same answer is not a conspiracy, and judges have confirmed it.
An almost identical lawsuit over the 2016 price spike was thrown out, and the appeals court agreed. Micron denies all of it and says it will fight.
Proving a cartel takes a grand jury, a whistleblower, or someone careless enough to leak it.
The last time, it took years.
The three companies that make the memory inside everything you own have done this before, paid the fine, kept the factories, and are now the most profitable they have ever been.
They're literally doing it again, and it's even harder to stop them.
I keep hearing the same defense.
“The system is working. Medicine is advancing. People are living longer.”
I pulled 40 years of data. Every metabolic disease. Every major condition. Indexed to 1985.
Diabetes: up 515 percent.
Alzheimer’s: up 360 percent.
Obesity: up 180 percent.
Heart disease deaths: flat. Still number one. 700,000 Americans every year.
Now look at the green line.
Global pharmaceutical revenue: up 1,550 percent. From $100 billion to $1.65 trillion.
Every disease line goes up. The revenue line goes up faster.
Not a single metabolic disease has been reversed, reduced, or solved. In 40 years. With trillions spent.
The system is not failing. It is performing exactly as designed.
A cured patient is a cancelled subscription.
BREAKING NEWS: We just released our third NDIS video investigation, exposing a taxpayer funded $15 million West Sydney business empire which employs open jihadist extremists as disability support workers.
@PeteZogoulas and I spent 7 months investigating Mona Salem's Hope and Care business.
Salem faced a compulsory court debt examination in 2018 for tens of thousands of dollars in unpaid debts to contractors. Now, just a few short years later, she boasts a $15 million property empire alongside a fleet of luxury cars worth half a million dollars.
One of my buddy’s sons skipped college and became an electrician at 18.
He was told either college or military were his only two options.
His parents weren’t exactly excited when he went to trade school. Actually they were a little embarrassed.
Most of their friends’ kids were going off to universities. Their son was showing up to job sites at 6am.
By 21 he was making $90k
By 24 he had his master electrician license making over $120k
At 27 he started taking his own jobs on the side for a total of $200k
Last year at 29 his little “electrician business” did $1.8M with 4 vans.
Funny how that works.
His parents used to explain why he didn’t go to college.
Now they tell everyone he owns an electrical company.
We need more 18-year-olds to know this path exists.
Day 229 tagging @mikeroweworks until more parents start bragging about trade school too.
Consider to RT if you agree.