A report from the Australia Institute’s Democracy & Accountability Program represents the largest and most comprehensive domestic study of the practice of cronyism in relation to appointments to a government agency ever conducted in Australia. This was recorded on Wednesday 12th October 2022 and things may have changed since recording. The Australia Institute // @theausinstitute
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Join us Thursday, December 15 at 1pm ET / 10am PT, for a special edition of our monthly call. (Convert to your local time zone.)
Our usual informal get-together will be even more so, as we gather to celebrate the season with friends old and new. We may end up talking shop -- since that's what happens when you get any two Drupalists in a room together -- but no specific topics are on the agenda this month. (That said, if you've got something specific on your mind, feel free to share ahead of time in our collaborative Google doc: https://nten.org/drupal/notes!)
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Up against fierce competition, NBN Co needs to improve its quality and pricing structure in order to remain economically viable. read now...The corporate takeover of American politics started with a man and a memo you’ve probably never heard of.
In 1971, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce asked Lewis Powell, a corporate attorney who would go on to become a Supreme Court justice, to draft a memo on the state of the country.
Powell’s memo argued that the American economic system was “under broad attack” from consumer, labor, and environmental groups.
Despite the accumulation of serious and unsolvable problems, the Consumer Welfare Standard survives and continues to be taught to students for reasons unrelated to theoretical consistency and empirical confirmation.
The Consumer Welfare Standard is severely limited or defective, preventing it from being an appropriate standard for modern antitrust.
More than 100 economists and tax experts have published an open letter calling on Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to reconsider the Stage 3 tax cuts for high income earners, labelling the tax cuts as economically unaffordable and unfair. The open letter appears as a full-page advert in the SMH & The Age today. High profile
The post 100+ Economists, Tax Experts Call for Stage 3 Overhaul in Full-Page Adverts appeared first on The Australia Institute.
A visual development concept art ☔
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Entretien avec Gilles Yabi, directeur exécutif du Think Tank ouest-africain WATHI, sur la sécurité alimentaire en Afrique
Gilles Yabi est le fondateur et directeur exécutif de WATHI. Il oriente et supervise les activités du think tank dont l'équipe permanente est basée à Dakar (Sénégal). WATHI est une plateforme ouverte de production et de dissémination de connaissances et de propositions sur toutes les questions cruciales pour le présent et le futur de l’Afrique de l’Ouest et des autres régions du continent. Gilles Yabi est régulièrement invité à partager ses réflexions sur les questions politiques, économiques, d'éducation et de sécurité avec diverses organisations africaines et internationales. Il a également une longue expérience de l’interaction avec les médias, publie depuis une quinzaine d’années des tribunes sur les questions politiques et économiques africaines. Il anime la chronique hebdomadaire « Ça fait débat avec WATHI » diffusée sur Radio France Internationale (RFI).
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Reportando desde la corte federal donde Estados Unidos está procesando al diplomático venezolano Alex Saab, The Grayzone descubre actos perturbadores de espionaje diplomático. La defensa de Saab insiste que está encarclado por violar el bloqueo económico de Washington. Luego del arresto del diplomático venezolano Alex Saab en junio de 2020, las autoridades de Cabo Verde abrieron comunicaciones oficiales del gobierno de Venezuela destinadas a Irán, incluyendo una carta sellada que el presidente venezolano Nicolás Maduro le envió al Líder Supremo […]
The post Juicio en Estados Unidos al diplomático venezolano Alex Saab revela espionaje diplomático appeared first on The Grayzone.
CEPR is one of the very few organizations closely monitoring the harmful impact of economic sanctions.
The post CEPR Spotlight: Sanctions appeared first on Center for Economic and Policy Research.
Mike Savala’s boots scuffed the edge of a singed patch of forest littered with skinny fingers of burnt ponderosa pine needles. Nearby, an oak seedling sizzled as a yellow-shirted firefighter hit it with a stream of water. Spurts of smoke rose from blackened ground the size of a hockey rink. A 100-foot Ponderosa pine towered overhead. “Third response today,” said Savala, shaking his head. This hillside in my own backyard in California’s northern Sierra Nevada mountains hadn’t seen lightning for months and yet it had still burst into flames. All summer long, it had baked in heat that extended into an unseasonably hot autumn. Now, in late October, it was charred by a fire of mysterious origin. A spark from... Read more
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- by Aeon Video
The Underdeck bridge project could be a pioneer of reparative planning. Or it could lead to further displacement in this once-thriving Black neighborhood.
- by Costica Bradatan
- by Christine Lehnen
