Berto Jongman: Charlie Hebdo False Flag as Basis for Outlawing Encryption to Achieve Total Surveillance with Total Taxation Efficiency

Economist: World Leaders Will Exploit Charlie Hebdo to Eliminate Encryption Economist Martin Armstrong warns that the twin attacks in France will be used by world leaders to push for restrictions on Internet privacy and the total elimination of encrypted communications. Armstrong, who correctly predicted the 1987 Black Monday crash as well as the 1998 Russian …

Earth Week in Review — End of Year Donations Sought, Tax-Deductible for US Donors

In 2008 Winston Maiki, our most treasured Australian analyst and the Latin scholar who corrected our first motto (E Veritate Potens) died and with him to the grave went his servers and our invesment in the automated rolling headlines database and weekly curated documents known as GLOBAL REALITY: THE WEEK IN REVIEW Destabilizing Threats, Stabilizing …

SchwartzReport: USA Negatives – Legalized Corporate Tax Avoidance, Not Free, Banking Culture of Dishonesty

If there was any doubt our government is structured to support the corporate oligarchy, and not the citizens of the U.S. this should dispel it. These seven corporations make billions in profit — and have tax rate of negative 2.5 percent United States is No Longer Perceived to Be ‘the land of the free’ Banking …

Hal Bergel: Cloud Insecurity — Companies Cut Corners on Taxes, Regulations, AND Security…

Why Clouds Give Me a Case of the Vapors IEEE Computer, 1 November 2014 EXTRACT In my personal life I build trusted relationships one tax-avoiding, jurisdiction-shopping multinational corporation at a time. Show me a company that engages in labor arbitraging and offshore production in third-world countries paying starvation wages3 and that avoids taxes through shadow …

Berto Jongman: Hungary Internet Tax Cancelled After Mass Protests

Hungary internet tax cancelled after mass protests The draft law – condemned by the EU – would levy a fee on each gigabyte of internet data transferred. The protesters objected to the financial burden but also feared the move would restrict free expression and access to information. Phi Beta Iota: The industrial-era top-down rule by …

SchwartzReport: Joseph Stiglitz on Corporate Tax Dodging

It’s perfectly clear that the cuddling of the uber-rich must stop. Nobel Laureate economist Joseph Stiglitz makes the point as well as anyone could. Joseph E. Stiglitz: Let’s Stop Subsidizing Tax Dodgers BILL MOYERS – Moyers & Company A new report by Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz for the Roosevelt Institute suggests that paying …

Berto Jongman: $1.9 Trillion Held Overseas to Avoid US Taxes

The Trillions of Dollars U.S. Companies Are Hoarding Overseas And a tax repatriation holiday is no way to get them to bring it all back home. Matthew O’Brien The Atlantic Monthly, Mar 31 2014 There’s a lot of cash on the sidelines, but those sidelines aren’t in the U.S. They’re overseas—in tax shelters. According to …