RaymondPierreL3<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://aus.social/@Ex_spurt" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Ex_spurt</span></a></span> <br>Yes, I’m with you here.</p><p>There was no way I was going to get into the subject to any depth via toots, right? I mean, even the Conversation authors baulked at that. If I had time (meaning putting aside all of the things I want to do on a day to day basis) I’d write a book on the subject and even that wouldn’t be enough. There are so many rabbit holes to explore here. <br> <br>But what can be discussed publicly are things like: <br>- should we be more self-reliant in <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Defence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Defence</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/logistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>logistics</span></a><br>- should we build our own <a href="https://aus.social/tags/arms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>arms</span></a> (squad weapons and up)?<br>- should we rely on powerful <a href="https://aus.social/tags/allies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>allies</span></a> to keep Australia safe from invasion? <br>- should we pour money in <a href="https://aus.social/tags/dual" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dual</span></a>-use manufacturing?<br>- should we incentivise <a href="https://aus.social/tags/MilitaryService" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MilitaryService</span></a> ?<br>- should all manufactures specifically related to defence equipment be publicly owned? <br>- should we have a <a href="https://aus.social/tags/ForwardDefence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ForwardDefence</span></a> strategy or a more limited projection? <br>- should we build and launch sovereign <a href="https://aus.social/tags/satellites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>satellites</span></a> on sovereign <a href="https://aus.social/tags/launchers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>launchers</span></a> and should these be produced domestically?<br>- should we develop a continental <a href="https://aus.social/tags/AirDefence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AirDefence</span></a> system? <br>- should we keep all <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Australian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Australian</span></a> personnel on Australian soil (or platform)?<br>- should we change our <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Constitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Constitution</span></a> to make our <a href="https://aus.social/tags/ADF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ADF</span></a> “defence’ only?<br>- what form/characteristics should our national <a href="https://aus.social/tags/deterence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>deterence</span></a> take? </p><p>And jezzz, there are so many other questions that can be discussed in the public forum without giving up any ‘classified’ information (such as capability, capacity, mission, etc).</p>
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Hacker News<p>America Is Watching the Rise of a Dual State</p><p><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/05/trump-executive-order-lawlessness-constitutional-crisis/682112/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theatlantic.com/magazine/archi</span><span class="invisible">ve/2025/05/trump-executive-order-lawlessness-constitutional-crisis/682112/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HackerNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HackerNews</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/America" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>America</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Dual" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dual</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/State" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>State</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Rise" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rise</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Lawlessness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lawlessness</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Constitutional" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Constitutional</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Crisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Crisis</span></a></p>
Carol Chen<p>Watched <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/Dual" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dual</span></a> (starring Karen Gillan & Aaron Paul) mainly coz it was shot in <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/Tampere" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tampere</span></a> during the pandemic, but turns out to be a pretty interesting movie. At first I was all about identifying the locations in Tampere, but soon became absorbed in the storyline, although it was somewhat unevenly executed. This last scene is at a <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/roundabout" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>roundabout</span></a> about 1km from our place.</p><p>The sign on the right exit is supposed to say "Rauma, Vaasa, Tampella" but instead displays "Bristol, Salem, Fairview".</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/Dualmovie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dualmovie</span></a></p>
EVSHIFT<p><a href="https://www.evshift.com/321586/renault5-turbo3e-the-myth-reinvented-with-a-dual-100-electric-motor-for-intense-sensations/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">evshift.com/321586/renault5-tu</span><span class="invisible">rbo3e-the-myth-reinvented-with-a-dual-100-electric-motor-for-intense-sensations/</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/Renault5" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Renault5</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/Turbo3E" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Turbo3E</span></a> the myth reinvented with a dual 100% electric motor for intense sensations <a href="https://channels.im/tags/Dual" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dual</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/ELECTRIC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ELECTRIC</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/ElectricCars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElectricCars</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/ElectricVehicles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElectricVehicles</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/EV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EV</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/Intense" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Intense</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/motor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>motor</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/Myth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Myth</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/Reinvented" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Reinvented</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/renault" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>renault</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/RenaultUK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RenaultUK</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/Renault5" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Renault5</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/sensations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sensations</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/Turbo3E" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Turbo3E</span></a></p>
swanksalot<p>Is it my imagination or is renewing my (regrettably lapsed) Canadian passport more challenging than it once was?<br><a href="https://toot.community/tags/bureaucracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bureaucracy</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Canada</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/dual" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dual</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/citizen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>citizen</span></a></p>
vermaden<p>New 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗕𝗦𝗗 𝗔𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗴𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝗪𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗼𝘄𝘀 (FreeBSD Alongside Windows) article on <a href="https://vermaden.wordpress.com/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">vermaden.wordpress.com/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> blog.</p><p><a href="https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/02/02/freebsd-alongside-windows/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/02</span><span class="invisible">/02/freebsd-alongside-windows/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/verblog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>verblog</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/boot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>boot</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/bootloader" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bootloader</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/desktop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>desktop</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/dual" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dual</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/freebsd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>freebsd</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/install" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>install</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/laptop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>laptop</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/windows" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>windows</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/zfs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>zfs</span></a></p>
AlignedGames<p>Need a handy binocular for your adventure, military, horror or survival FPS game? Check out this asset! </p><p><a href="https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/templates/systems/dynamic-binoculars-system-306267" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">assetstore.unity.com/packages/</span><span class="invisible">templates/systems/dynamic-binoculars-system-306267</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fps</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/horror" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>horror</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/indie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>indie</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/asset" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>asset</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/assetpack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>assetpack</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/system" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>system</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/template" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>template</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/alignedgames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>alignedgames</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/binocular" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>binocular</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/binoc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>binoc</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dual" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dual</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/gaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gaming</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/assetunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>assetunity</span></a></p>
KilleansRow 🇺🇲 🇺🇦🍀<p>Path Intervals on the Way to Things That Remain To Be Seen Dept: Let’s say that <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/BlackHole" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackHole</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Wormhole" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wormhole</span></a> topologies lie at the liminal boundary of the difference between <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/TimeSpace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TimeSpace</span></a> traversal and <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/InterDimensional" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InterDimensional</span></a> traversal. Sufficiently advanced <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/NHI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NHI</span></a> would recognize the threshold at which these become <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Dual" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dual</span></a>. This is a functional <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/PhaseTransition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PhaseTransition</span></a> at which the material abundance of <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Intergalactic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Intergalactic</span></a> space becomes available…and it’s close enough to the <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Interstellar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Interstellar</span></a> interval to render the notion of…</p>
Raurquiz<p><a href="https://c.im/tags/happybirthday" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>happybirthday</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/theojames" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>theojames</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/actor" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>actor</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Divergent" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Divergent</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Insurgent" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Insurgent</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Allegiant" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Allegiant</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Underworld" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Underworld</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Awakening" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Awakening</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/BloodWars" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BloodWars</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Archive" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Archive</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/MrMalcolmsList" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MrMalcolmsList</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Dual" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Dual</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/TheWitcher" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TheWitcher</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/NightmareoftheWolf" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NightmareoftheWolf</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/GoldenBoy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GoldenBoy</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Castlevania" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Castlevania</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/TheTimeTravelersWife" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TheTimeTravelersWife</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/TheWhiteLotus" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TheWhiteLotus</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/TheGentlemen" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TheGentlemen</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/XMen97" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>XMen97</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/LyingandStealing" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LyingandStealing</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/LondonFields" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LondonFields</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/HowItEnds" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>HowItEnds</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Zoe" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Zoe</span></a></p>
Pinewood Pete<p>My son asked for a turntable for his 17th birthday. Luckily I had my late father's <a href="https://c.im/tags/Dual" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Dual</span></a> 606 in the garage. Gave it a good clean and checked the lubrication. It's direct drive and is still working smoothly. Will set it up for him with some 90s Acoustic Energy Aegis One speakers and a Fosi Audio mini amp. Then to decide whether to let him loose with my <a href="https://c.im/tags/vinyl" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>vinyl</span></a> or not.</p>
Chuck Darwin<p>(3/3)</p><p>As the Murdoch <a href="https://c.im/tags/succession" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>succession</span></a> battle plays out in a US court, <br />a separate fight is brewing over control of <a href="https://c.im/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>News</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Corp" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Corp</span></a></p><p>Australian and US investment groups take aim at <a href="https://c.im/tags/dual" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>dual</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/voting" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>voting</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/rights" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>rights</span></a> system that <br />⚠️gives family a dominant voice over how empire is run</p><p>Australian pension funds and governance groups have criticised the share voting powers that allow Rupert Murdoch to control News Corp, <br />-- as a secret legal case over the future control of the company is heard in the US state of Nevada.</p><p>The push to untangle News Corp’s structure, <br />which allocates different voting rights according to share type, <br />⭐️is being driven by agitators trying to loosen the billionaire’s grip over the media empire <br />🔸and stop that influence being passed to his heirs.</p><p>Murdoch has been in Nevada for hearings this week, <br />after seeking to 🔹change the terms of a family trust to ensure that his eldest son, <br />Lachlan, remains in charge of the company’s stack of newspapers and television networks, including the Wall Street Journal and Fox News.</p><p>The proceedings prompted the US hedge fund Starboard Value to propose a resolution to eliminate News Corp’s dual class share structure, <br />-- arguing that the political disagreement in the family <br />“could be paralyzing to the strategic direction” of News Corp, <br />according to The New York Times.</p><p>Dual structures are commonly used by company founders to retain control of a business even when they have a minority shareholding, <br />with Murdoch holding 40% of voting rights via a 14% shareholding.</p><p>Debby Blakey, the chief executive of the A$86bn Hesta superannuation fund, told Guardian Australia that <br />“one share, one vote” was fundamental to good corporate governance.</p><p>She said the fund’s “engagement, voting and advocacy activities continue to reflect this belief”.</p><p>“Hesta remains committed to engaging with companies and using our shareholder votes to drive change that helps create long-term investment value for our members,” Blakey told Guardian Australia.</p><p>The Australian Council of Superannuation Investors said it also supported a “one share, one vote” capital structure.</p><p>“Voting is a fundamental shareholder right and one of the key ways for shareholders to ensure accountability at listed companies,” ACSI said.</p><p> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Rupert" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Rupert</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Murdoch" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Murdoch</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/dual" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>dual</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/class" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>class</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/accountability" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>accountability</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Michael" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Michael</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Wolff" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Wolff</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Roger" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Roger</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Ailes" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Ailes</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Starboard" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Starboard</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Value" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Value</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Jeffrey" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Jeffrey</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Smith" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Smith</span></a></p>
Chuck Darwin<p>(2/3)</p><p>For example, <a href="https://c.im/tags/Rupert" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Rupert</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Murdoch" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Murdoch</span></a> owns 17% of equity in the media empire 👉 and 39% of the voting power.</p><p>“The fight for control of the Murdoch empire is only magnified by the <a href="https://c.im/tags/dual" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>dual</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/class" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>class</span></a> structure,” says Charles Elson, a leading authority on US corporate governance issues. </p><p>“The idea is I am the smartest person in the world and I should run the company as its king. </p><p>Other shareholders can say we believe you. If that’s a condition of investing, so be it.”</p><p>❌But critics of unequal dual-class voting say the structure weakens executive accountability. </p><p>“That’s the problem – it basically destroys <a href="https://c.im/tags/accountability" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>accountability</span></a>,” says Elson.</p><p>Passing that power on generationally, he adds, only makes it worse. </p><p>“How do you know the talent is genetic? <br />Simply because they’re the children doesn’t mean they have the same business acumen as the father <br />and it’s not how you pick the leader of a company or a country.”</p><p>The Murdoch biographer and antagonist <a href="https://c.im/tags/Michael" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Michael</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Wolff" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Wolff</span></a> wrote recently that the late Fox News chair and CEO <a href="https://c.im/tags/Roger" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Roger</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Ailes" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Ailes</span></a> told him that the Murdoch sons, <br />Lachlan and James, <br />“are both wannabe little kings”. </p><p>But that was before open warfare broke out.</p><p>“I think they both really believe they were put on earth to show up their father, rather than the reality, <br />which is that they would be mid-level media executives making a quarter million a year and grateful for it, without their old man.”</p><p>Earlier this month, the hedge fund <a href="https://c.im/tags/Starboard" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Starboard</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Value" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Value</span></a> sent a letter to shareholders of News Corp, the parent company of the Wall Street Journal and New York Post, calling for the company to eliminate its dual-class share structure.</p><p>In the letter, the Starboard CEO, <a href="https://c.im/tags/Jeffrey" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Jeffrey</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Smith" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Smith</span></a>, argued: <br />“This transition of power from Rupert Murdoch to his children has allowed for complicated family dynamics to potentially impact the stability and strategic direction of News Corp.”</p><p>Four Murdoch children with voting rights, Smith added, <br />“could be paralyzing to the strategic direction” <br />and, more importantly: <br />“We are not sure why their perspectives should carry greater weight than the views of other shareholders.”</p><p>News Corp said it believed its dual-class capital structure <br />“promotes stability and has facilitated the successful implementation of News Corp’s transformational strategy and long-term outperformance for all News Corp stockholders”.</p><p>The outcome of the Nevada court battle will not immediately affect the family’s control of the Murdoch empire <br />but could in the fullness of time if Murdoch dies or becomes incapacitated. </p><p>“If the stock is split up and the family doesn’t get along, the company could face real challenges and it becomes a very bumpy road for the other investors who are not part of the drama.”</p><p>But as the caravan of Black SUVs ferried warring Murdochs in and out of court last week, there was at least one certainty, Elson says. </p><p>While Rupert Murdoch still lives, the company remains firmly under his thumb.</p><p>“Rupert Murdoch calls the shots and when he’s gone he really doesn’t have that worry any more. -- He’s done.”</p>
Chuck Darwin<p>(1/3)</p><p>Murdoch family drama plays out in court with fate of Fox News at stake</p><p>If <a href="https://c.im/tags/Rupert" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Rupert</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Murdoch" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Murdoch</span></a>, 93, prevails in his legal effort to change voting rights of the <a href="https://c.im/tags/family" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>family</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/trust" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>trust</span></a> <br />to ensure that his chosen successor and conservative-leaning eldest son, <a href="https://c.im/tags/Lachlan" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Lachlan</span></a> Murdoch, 53, runs the company after his death, little may change.</p><p>♦️The proceedings pit Murdoch, 93, and his chosen successor, Lachlan, against his three more liberal-leaning siblings, Prudence, Elizabeth and James, <br />over future control of Murdoch’s <a href="https://c.im/tags/Fox" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Fox</span></a> Corp and <a href="https://c.im/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>News</span></a> Corp through the family’s control of the global empire’s share structure via an irrevocable trust set up in 1999.</p><p>According to the Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journal, Murdoch is arguing that <br />“shifting voting control of the trust to Lachlan should be allowed because it is in the best interest of all the beneficiaries, including his other children”.</p><p>⭐️But if the patriarch loses, the younger brother <a href="https://c.im/tags/James" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>James</span></a> Murdoch, in concert with his sisters <a href="https://c.im/tags/Prudence" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Prudence</span></a> and <a href="https://c.im/tags/Elizabeth" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Elizabeth</span></a>, could force Fox News to move away from the conservative news alignments of their father and brother.</p><p>🧨That would be an earthquake in American politics. </p><p>➡️ No other media power in the US has the impact that Fox News has had in the last two decades. </p><p>It has become a driving force of American conservatism, feared for its power by both Republicans and Democrats. </p><p>And condemned by many for its conservative bias and numerous show hosts who have become darlings of the US right and powerful players on their own.</p><p>Figures such as Sean <a href="https://c.im/tags/Hannity" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Hannity</span></a> are hugely powerful within the Maga world, while the former host Tucker <a href="https://c.im/tags/Carlson" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Carlson</span></a> <br />– now exiled from the station where he rose to power <br />– has withered outside it and been largely unable to recreate the influence he had while broadcasting to Fox’s viewers.</p><p>Gaming out the different scenarios at stake in Reno is water cooler talk at Fox News’s midtown New York headquarters, <br />with TV hosts discussing a reposition of their own personal brands if liberal-leaning James wins <br />and opening back-channel communications with him if his father and rival brother prevail.</p><p>But despite their immense importance the legal arguments over the Murdoch Family Trust presented within the impenetrable walls of a 1960’s annex court extension in Reno last week are known only to the judge and court staff, Rupert Murdoch, his first and second set of children and an army of lawyers, including Trump’s attorney general William Barr.</p><p>“A family trust like the one at issue in this case … is essentially a private legal arrangement,” <br />the Washoe county probate commissioner Edmund J Gorman Jr, wrote in an 18-page recommendation before the parties convened.</p><p>❇️ James, Elisabeth and Prudence, want the trust to be maintained and oppose Murdoch’s proposed change giving Lachlan control because they would stand to lose voting power.</p><p>Yet while Lachlan’s politics are comfortably rightwing and match his father’s, <br />the opposing other siblings have a different world view. </p><p>James Murdoch even hosted Joe <a href="https://c.im/tags/Biden" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Biden</span></a> in his home for a fundraiser in 2022 and🔥 has endorsed <a href="https://c.im/tags/Kamala" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Kamala</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Harris" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Harris</span></a> to beat Trump in 2024.</p><p>But it won’t be Fox politics under discussion so much in Reno. <br />Instead, much of that argument will be couched in an examination of US corporate governance conventions that allow for a family to control a business they do not majority own by a so-called <a href="https://c.im/tags/dual" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>dual</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/class" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>class</span></a> structure of shares <br />– in effect the family shares have more power than others.<br /><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/sep/22/murdoch-family-fox-news-court?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/media/2024/sep</span><span class="invisible">/22/murdoch-family-fox-news-court?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other</span></a></p>
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