Privatised Utilities

Overseas investors bought into the principle of tied profits, little risk, massive dividends (either directly or by siphoning off money through loans from overseas vultures, whoops investors) and no down side.

theguardian.com/business/2024/…

Thatcher must be proud. Now the great extrication.

#UkPolitics #Water #Privatisation #Utilities #Theft #Greed #Corruption

Thames Water supply ‘on knife-edge’ with £23bn repairs needed

Exclusive: Company has failed to tackle serious safety concerns or upgrade vital IT systems, Guardian investigation reveals

^{Anna Isaac (The Guardian)}

Oklahoma's Ryan Walters quietly cancels plan to buy Trump bibles with taxpayer dollars

friendlyatheist.com/p/oklahoma…

#news #politics #uspol #uspolitics #Okalohoma #Bible #trumpbible #corruption #trump

Oklahoma's Ryan Walters quietly cancels plan to buy Trump bibles with taxpayer dollars

A non-Trump bidder was told his offer to provide the books wouldn't matter

^{Friendly Atheist}

just wow

Spanish police arrest ex-fraud chief after €20m found in walls of his house

Investigation into country’s largest cocaine bust reveals cash in home of former head of anti-money laundering

#spain#moneylaundering#corruption#cocaine
theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/12/spanish-police-arrest-ex-fraud-chief-after-20m-found-in-walls-of-his-house

Spanish police arrest ex-fraud chief after €20m found in walls of his house

^{Guardian staff reporter (The Guardian)}