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Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36829 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
The heads continue to roll at PwC as business declines. Could that be due to a lack of trust? Hundreds of PwC Australia staff have lost their jobs as part of widespread cuts made within the firm. PwC Australia staff have been told 366 jobs will be axed as part of widespread cuts announced within the firm on Wednesday. |
betreger Send message Joined: 29 Jun 99 Posts: 11416 Credit: 29,581,041 RAC: 66 |
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Dr Who Fan Send message Joined: 8 Jan 01 Posts: 3346 Credit: 715,342 RAC: 4 |
He’s no Billy the Kid: Elderly robber allegedly holds up NYC bank — nearly 31 years after last heist A pistol-packing septuagenarian allegedly held up an Upper East Side bank last week — nearly 31 years to the day after his last bank heist. |
Dr Who Fan Send message Joined: 8 Jan 01 Posts: 3346 Credit: 715,342 RAC: 4 |
How could Transit Authority officials let this happen? Lots of questions to ask and be answered. Death Behind The Wheel: How The CTA Failed A Driver In Crisis Note: CTA is the City of Chicago Transit Authority public bus & train system. Antia Lyons passed out on her bus and later died — and no one noticed for nearly an hour. Her death raises questions about the safety of the CTA’s workforce. |
Dr Who Fan Send message Joined: 8 Jan 01 Posts: 3346 Credit: 715,342 RAC: 4 |
AI-powered home security camera system strikes back with paintballs and tear gas A company from Slovenia, called PaintCam, is shaking things up in the security world. They’ve come up with this wild new gadget, the PaintCam Eve. It’s not just another security camera watching over your house. This thing packs a punch with paintball and tear gas projectiles to really give intruders a surprise they won’t soon forget. |
Scrooge McDuck Send message Joined: 26 Nov 99 Posts: 1194 Credit: 1,674,173 RAC: 54 |
I don't know if it is a good idea to fend of intruders with tear gas or paint balls. They may get angry and decide to burn your house down. |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36829 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
This is a bit of a double banger story so I'll stick it here. A sex predator is on the run in Germany while Modi tries to deny that he's turning India into an authoritarian state. Almost 300 sex abuse videos made by Prime Minister’s political ally rocks India. A politician linked to one of the world’s most powerful men has been embroiled in a massive scandal in the middle of the nation’s general elections. |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36829 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
Well it doesn't look like Georgia will be joining the E.U. anytime soon all because of the fallout over its "foreign agents" law which locals refer to at the "Russian Law". Georgian police disperse protesters as parliament approves 'foreign bill' second reading. ....Georgian critics have dubbed the bill "the Russian law", saying it is inspired by laws used to suppress dissent in Vladimir Putin's Russia. Russia is unpopular among many in Georgia, which lost a brief war with Moscow in 2008.I wonder how much PooTin is paying these clowns who're going against the will of the people. |
Scrooge McDuck Send message Joined: 26 Nov 99 Posts: 1194 Credit: 1,674,173 RAC: 54 |
No country will join the EU any time soon. EU accession is mythically exaggerated. It must be the culmination after integrating an entire society; like a naturalization ceremony. Nothing fundamentally broken can be repaired by 'joining'. But the decade(s)-long accession process is a wonderful time to achieve fundamental changes in a country against normally insurmountable force of inertia. Accept it or forget it! There are still some weaknesses, e.g. Hungary's (political) evolution into an absolutist monarchy. Then there are almost hopeless cases: Türkiye, Serbia, Kosovo, Bosnia-Hercegovina. As long as the Sultan reigns or Putin interferes there, nothing will change. Serbia and Bosnia are further away than they were a decade ago. Nationalism and hatred are flourishing. A continuation war of the late 1990s can break out at any time. I have no opinion about Georgians. I don't know any. But the current government seems to be totally infiltrated by Putin. Money or corruption is not sufficient to achieve this degree of appeasement towards Putin. But imagine, what will be possible in the Caucasus if Putin's power wanes... Interesting times ahead... Never forget: Putin also occupied two regions of Georgia. (He's seems addicted to warm, southern lands, never hesitates to get more of it). |
Richard Haselgrove Send message Joined: 4 Jul 99 Posts: 14679 Credit: 200,643,578 RAC: 874 |
This takes things to a whole new level. Neom: Forces 'told to kill’ to clear land for eco-city Saudi authorities have permitted the use of lethal force to clear land for a futuristic desert city being built by dozens of Western companies, an ex-intelligence officer has told the BBC. Col Alenezi ... said the April 2020 order stated the Huwaitat was made up of "many rebels" and "whoever continues to resist [eviction] should be killed, so it licensed the use of lethal force against whoever stayed in their home".And much, much more. It's wrong on so many levels. |
Dr Who Fan Send message Joined: 8 Jan 01 Posts: 3346 Credit: 715,342 RAC: 4 |
18-year-old charged with overturning port-a-potty, trapping a mom and her daughter inside Witnesses told Manchester, New Hampshire police that the man and woman had been arguing near the port-a-potty at Derryfield Park on Wednesday. |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36829 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
I guess that that is what you get for being a PooTin lover while going against your peoples' wishes. European leader shot multiple times, ‘fighting for life’. He has survived, but will this show him the error of his ways? |
Scrooge McDuck Send message Joined: 26 Nov 99 Posts: 1194 Credit: 1,674,173 RAC: 54 |
I guess that that is what you get for being a PooTin lover while going against your peoples' wishes.He's not a convinced Putin lover. More a populist who adapts his opinion to his supporters'. His peoples' whishes? What are their wishes? This country is divided like the U.S. or other Western nations now. There's the progressive, liberal pro-EU faction in the few large (economically growing) cities. And there's the countryside; different problems, different opinions. This PM was elected with the strongest support from the countryside. Many ordinary people are pro-Russian there. Don't ask me why---amnesia? So Fico ordered his government to meet in this small provincial town. I don't like this guy either. He seems to be a corrupt Mafia Don like Orban. But hopefully we can maintain civilized political discourse in Europe without guns. |
ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 21235 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20 |
The difficulties of being a god above others: Starlink internet shutdown in Sudan will punish millions, Elon Musk warned wrote: With a widespread telecoms blackout already in place, emergency help and humanitarian aid at risk if satellite service withdrawn, say NGOs... Reminds me of: Peter Gabriel - Games Without Frontiers Really all 'just' a 'game'?... Be Excellent to All! Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36829 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
Georgina has an image problem and is using wealth and sport sponsorship connections to fix it. Olympian Kyle Chalmers helping campaign to take down Gina Rinehart portraits. Swimming superstar Kyle Chalmers has emerged as one of the figures behind the push to have two portraits of mining magnate Gina Rinehart removed from the National Gallery of Australia (NGA). I reckon that the portraits look pretty good for a woman that steals from her own kids and others. |
Dr Who Fan Send message Joined: 8 Jan 01 Posts: 3346 Credit: 715,342 RAC: 4 |
This sounds a bit too unbelievable - more like science fiction... Watch: World’s First Head Transplant System Leaves Viewers Astonished |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36829 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
Did all that Macca's get him in the end or did karma finally catch up with him? Morgan Spurlock, Super Size Me filmmaker, dead at 53. |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36829 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
Georgina made such a fuss about that everyone wants a looks, but some are sad that there isn't being tea towels with the image on them sold. ‘It oozes out of her’: Gina Rinehart artwork drama goes next level. They missed out on a lucrative merchandising bonanza there. |
Dr Who Fan Send message Joined: 8 Jan 01 Posts: 3346 Credit: 715,342 RAC: 4 |
African bald men have GOLD in their heads? Mozambique police warn bald men after ritual attack. |
Dr Who Fan Send message Joined: 8 Jan 01 Posts: 3346 Credit: 715,342 RAC: 4 |
Woman stole mortuary van, body from JPS hospital ambulance bay, Fort Worth police say A dead person was on Tuesday night taken on a circuitous journey after leaving a Fort Worth hospital when a woman stole the van in which the corpse was being transported, police said. |
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