Archive for July 22nd, 2009
Trade union treachery
Posted by Bill, July 22nd, 2009 - under Rank and file unionists, Rudd Government, Rudd Labor, Strikes.
Tags: ABCC, ACTU, ALP, Ark Tribe, Australian Building and Construction Commission, Australian Council of Trade Unions, Australian Labor Party, Australian politics, Building industry, Building unions, Building workers, CFMEU
Comments: none
Those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make union officials. The latest in this descent into madness is the cancellation of a union demonstration against the Labor Government’s Australian Building and Construction Commission which was planned for the Labor Party National Conference opening in Sydney on 30 July. The ABCC has draconian powers to […]
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US States as tax havens
Posted by Bill, July 22nd, 2009 - under Tax, Tax avoidance, Tax evasion, Tax havens, Tax Office, United States.
Comments: 3
Here is part of what the Australian Tax Office wrote to Senator Carl Levin, the Chair of the US Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs. ‘In our opinion, entities established in some states of the US, for example some US incorporated companies, have some of these same attributes as entities established in secrecy havens.’ These […]
Banning the burqa: when ‘anti-sexism’ is Islamophobia
Posted by Leonie, July 22nd, 2009 - under Islam, Islamophobia, Racism, Sarkozy.
Tags: Burqa
Comments: 4
There is nothing liberating about being told by the state what you can and cannot wear, nor in being banned from public places dressed however you are comfortable.