What happened to the Australian Strategic Oil Reserve that Gus set up … in the US?
Or the $80m Eastern Australia Agriculture water entitlement rights linked to him via the Caymans?
Seriously, no slush fund should be left lying around anywhere near him or the LNP.
#watergate #auspol #ausvotes2025
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:q6ckvwwrzs4mxx6zou4wp2n4/post/3lmhj25az3c26
Say what you will, the "-gate" suffix has really stuck around since that 'third-rate burglary' happened in the halcyon days of my youth. Never forget!
"The arrests on Monday mark a development in what local media has dubbed as the "Qatargate'' — an investigation probing potential foreign influence, national security breaches and political misconduct."
https://www.dw.com/en/top-advisers-to-netanyahu-arrested-in-corruption-case/a-72100829
In the U.S.A., whenever there is a political scandal with a president, we add "gate" to the end of a word to describe the scandal because of the name of the Watergate hotel where the then President's men committed crimes on his behalf in the early 1970's.
It has been more than 50 years that we have stuck with this odd tradition. I wonder if it will actually ever stop. I wonder how many young people actually get the connection now, and how many think that the Watergate scandal had to do with water.
Words, culture, and metaphors for power
I've long suspected that the Chinese, with a millennia-long history of hydrologic civil engineering projects might have a language of power which borrows from water control structures (dams, gates, levees, bridges, etc.). Some time afterward I realised that Latin certainly does, and retains at least one descriptor in pontifex maximus, that is, "bridge builder in chief*, first applied to Rome's emperors, now its Pope. And I've very recently learnt that Vietnamese language and culture have many words with shared roots in water, including the word for "mother".
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42036781
Listening to another David Runciman lecture again (climate / conspiracy), I'm realising that there's another metaphor which has been lodged in Western political discourse for the past half-century, though it had slipped my awareness and is perhaps a bit of a cheat as it comes from a proper name rather than a description. But still:
Watergate.
The #Watergate -Inspired Law That's Being Used to Fight #DOGE
Here's how the #1974PrivacyAct is being used in legal battles against DOGE—and how you can protect yourself from government #surveillance.
#privacy
https://www.wired.com/story/uncanny-valley-podcast-doge-privacy-act/
6 Americans & a handful of #union orgs sued the Dept of #Treasury, Dept of #Education & #OPM over personally identifiable info in the systems to which #DOGE has gained access.
The challengers claim DOGE’s actions violate the #Privacy Act of 1974, which was passed in response to the #Watergate scandal & provides safeguards against privacy violations. In court filings, they accused the agencies of “abandoning their duties as guardians & gatekeepers” of millions of Americans’ sensitive info.
Elon Musk’s #DOGE Is Being Sued Under the #Privacy Act: What to Know
At least eight ongoing lawsuits related to the so-called Department of Government Efficiency’s alleged access to sensitive data hinge on the Watergate-inspired #PrivacyAct of 1974. But it’s not airtight.
#watergate #security #Musk #ElonMusk
I remember Richard #Nixon's Saturday Night Massacre, which precipitated the #impeachment hearings which triggered his #resignation. Only one person was actually fired — Archibald Cox, the special prosecutor investigating Nixon. Two resigned because they refused to fire Cox — Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus. Total of three gone, and it was a scandal.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday_Night_Massacre
Make America great again.
Saying it’s the most serious #ConstitutionalCrisis since #Watergate is an understatement. #Nixon never removed #GovernmentDepartments or called for the #invasion & #annexation of #allies. Neither did the #CivilWar. A #coup only changes control of the state. #Revolution changes the state itself.
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5135948-trump-murphy-democracy-crisis/amp/
The alpha of the Watergate game has been updated, and now has music and sounds.
Other improvements include copy and paste buttons for codes, game-play fixes, interface improvements and a reduced app size.
You can find all information and download links on BGG here: https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/3397202
#gameDev #boardgames #brettspiele #madewithgodot #indieDev #watergate https://brettspiel.space/@eerko/113837492644950207
A new version of the Watergate game is available now.
You will now receive email notifications when it's your turn and you're not currently online playing the game.
#gameDev #boardgames #brettspiele #madewithgodot #indieDev #watergate https://brettspiel.space/@eerko/113735553451340706
@TonyStark What’s astounding to me is #Reagan was voted in only 6 years after #Watergate when the #GOP appeared to be as dead as the Whigs. Somehow, though, they keep coming back, bamboozling people all the way.
Do you know the Watergate board game, by Matthias Cramer? I've been working on a pretty cool project, creating a digital implementation for it.
The version that is now in Alpha is pretty stable, and I'd love for you to have a look! Any feedback is welcome, and the more testers, the better!
You can find all information and download links on BGG here: https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/3397202/digital-implementation-of-watergate-in-alpha
@davidfrum.bsky.social
We are headed toward a US constitutional crisis vastly bigger than #Watergate
https://x.com/davidfrum/status/1863013092436623768?s=46
( ed : #WeimarRepublics democrats do you get it yet? 
This is not business as usual #bipartisan politics where next 2028 it's your turn #DeconstructTheAdmin)
#OnThisDay in 1973 (51 years ago) Richard Nixon, the 37th president of the United States, and a famous crook, claimed that he was, in fact, not a crook.
"People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I've earned everything I've got."
New post up: The Nomad - A Somewhat Timely Look at Captain America https://brandons-journal.com/the-nomad-a-somewhat-timely-look-at-a-captain-america-new/
