Hugh J
@hughjorgensen.bsky.social
Sentient meatsack. Now: battling dirty money from Berlin. Was: diplomat in China, think tank econ nerd. Sometimes: writer of sorts.
“A coalition of the willing to tackle tax havens and increase the transparency of company ownership would continue to keep the pressure up” - @joepowell.bsky.social for @neweconomics.bsky.social on why the UK should do more to clamp down on dirty money when G20 chair neweconomics.org/2026/07/clam...
For years I've tracked billionaire excess. Each year I show students a chart that blows their minds. This year I had to redraw it for a trillionaire: Elon Musk, $1.32T. Depressing that we're here. Silver lining: couldn't have happened to a less deserving person, proof that wealth ≠ merit.
Elon Musk's $1.32 Trillion, to Scale
The first trillionaire's fortune, one pixel per $1,000 — scroll past every dollar, and see what a fraction of it could do instead.
stanford.edu
A beautiful fusion of the chinese red packet 🧧 tradition wrapped in western potato chip culture.
Oliver Rivers@maxrothbarth.bsky.social · last yr.
The 'Russian, Elites, Proxies and Oligarchs' (REPO) Taskforce was one of the more promising G7 initiatives for going after money and assets being stashed offshore by Putin's allies - but it hasn't been mentioned in G7 comms now for over a year. Why?
Transparency International@anticorruption.bsky.social · last yr.Together with our chapters, we are urging G7 Finance Ministers to recommit to and provide updates on their efforts to coordinate targeted sanctions against Russian elites. #G7Kananaskis2025 Read our open letter here ➡️ anticorru.pt/3bG
Relatable: pope signed up for Google+ but had no idea what to do with it web.archive.org/web/20190309...
Robert Prevost - Google+
A Google+ profile for Robert Prevost
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Vatican's own summary of Vatican FC "From the games that the Vatican national football team has played, their performance has not been very good. The team normally plays with other local teams in Rome as friendly matches but winning has always been a problem for it" vatican.com/Vaticans-nat...
Vatican's national football team
The Vatican national football team is the football team that plays for the Vatican and represents it in international matches. As you may know, Vatican City is the smallest independent state in the wo...
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hello!! I know everyone is busy/the news remains bad, but if I may distract for a moment? There's a man named Ander Louis from the Yarra Valley whose sincere passion project is translating War & Peace into Bogan Australian. He's done Books 1 & 2. This is not a spoof. www.amazon.com/dp/108730656...
🔵 GREAT NEWS! In a landmark judgement, the EU Court of Justice just ruled that Malta cannot continue operating its “golden passports” programme, which has allowed foreigners to acquire Maltese (and therefore EU) citizenship. ➡️ Our statement here: anticorru.pt/3b9
I attended a few of these shows - the 3 year project is well worth the 6 minute watch
Pub Choir@pubchoir.bsky.social · last yr.For nearly 3 years I taught Pub Choir audiences single phrases from the hardest song there is and stitched them all together into one performance. So here's 102,974 people performing Bohemian Rhapsody. ENJOY m.youtube.com/watch?v=qtM-...
Who does Spiderman vote for? Who you vote for. In a new paper w/ @markuswagner.bsky.social we show that people engage in motivated projection of political identities. In the absence of explicit info on politics, individuals rely on valence to infer the politics of others doi.org/10.1017/psrm...
President Trump has announced plans to sell US$5m “gold card” resident permits to foreigners. Bad idea. "Selling US citizenship to the highest bidder will attract corrupt actors seeking safe haven for themselves & their dirty money." - @mairamartini.bsky.social, CEO of @anticorruption.bsky.social.
Calling yourself a king doesn't make you a king. A baboon annointing you with gourd juice over an Elton John coronation hymn does.
Emma Evans@trance.bsky.social · 2y agoCalling yourself a king doesn't make you a king. Watery tarts handing out swords does.
Tears falling as I blow out candles on a loaf of bread, butter and sprinkles, while wishing, hoping, to one day taste American cake
Mel Campbell@incrediblemelk.bsky.social · 2y agoAs well as suggesting we don't have birthday cakes in AU & NZ 😒 how did they manage to cock up such a simple technique? You don't fastidiously sprinkle 100s & 1000s over the buttered bread! You fill a plate with 100s & 1000s, then face-plant the bread in it Archived recipe here: archive.md/aOc1O
The FCPA was one of the great achievements of Jimmy Carter's presidency - which enabled, among other things, punishing Goldman Sachs for its role in the 1MDB scandal
Transparency International@anticorruption.bsky.social · 2y agoYesterday, President Trump issued an executive order to pause all enforcement of the FCPA. This is a betrayal of U.S. leadership in global anti-corruption efforts & sends a dangerous signal that bribery is back on the table.
The latest annual Corruption Perceptions Index shows Australia has reversed its decade-long slide, ranking back in the top 10 least corrupt countries.
Australia improves on global corruption rankings, but there is still work to be done
theconversation.com
"Whoever wins (race for artificial general intelligence) has a significant probability of causing human extinction in the process - Cute coda to DeepSeek story in FT on.ft.com/4jD3qWD
Australia closing down its Consulate in Shenyang will not substantively change anything about its relationship with China. Source, me: I worked in that consulate. www-theaustralian-com-au.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.thea...
Amongst everything passed by the Senate last night was world leading corporate tax transparency laws All big multinationals operating in Australia now must publish country-by-country data on the scale of activities, inc profits & tax, in high risk countries taxjustice.net/press/tax-ju... #auspol
Tax Justice Network hails world-leading Australian legislation on corporate tax transparency | Tax Justice Network
PUBLIC COUNTRY BY COUNTRY REPORTING REQUIREMENT WILL REVEAL PROFIT SHIFTING PATTERNS AND CURB TAX ABUSE In the final session before elections, the Australian Senate has voted to pass world-leading le...
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Pleased to also uninstall Threads - anodyne, and Mastodon - bewildering. I welcome the coming Bluesky bubble.
Is World Press Photo of the year team on Bsky yet because I have this pic of Biden waving from the Beast at Rio G20 summit.
Across the G20 countries, financial secrecy, complicit enablers & insufficient cooperation on cross-border cases facilitate the flow of dirty money. Yet, their leaders have been treating corruption as a low-priority problem. Now is the time: #G20TakeAction! ➡ See our campaign: anticorru.pt/36X
Xi Jinping's motorcade about to hit Rio G20 summit - 'fans' waiting along the route with chinese and Brazilian flags, i asked when he was coming and most played dumb (one even pretended he wasn't waiting for Xi while holding a huge 🇨🇳), another: 'i dont know but we were told to wait until 6.30pm'
#G20TakeAction: Yesterday, 48h before the G20 Leaders’ Summit, we filled Rio de Janeiro’s skies with giant dollar bills. Will this finally get leaders to pay attention? There’s more to come. We will release our campaign video on Monday, 18 Nov. Learn more ➡️ transparency.org/g20
48h before the G20 Leaders’ Summit, @anticorruption.bsky.social filled Rio de Janeiro’s skies with giant dollar bills. Will G20 leaders finally get real on preventing dirty money from landing on their shores? 💸 transparency.org/g20
G20: Take action on corruption - Campaigns
It’s time to elevate anti-corruption to the core of the G20 agenda.
transparency.org
Slim hope: There's a kind of insane brain melting charisma to Trump that thrives off symbiosis with edgelords. I'm still worried, but not as worried as I'd be if Dutton actually had the charisma to woo a Joe Rogan listener.
Greg Jericho@grogsgamut.bsky.social · 2y agoGet ready Australia. You know what is coming for the next 6 months.
