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World Governments Agree To Automatic Information Sharing
Submitted by Simon Black via Sovereign Man blog,
It’s like 34 drunken sailors holding each other up. That’s the best way I can think of to describe the latest product from the good idea factory that is the OECD.
Over the weekend in yet another cushy five-star hotel, representatives from this unelected supranational bureaucracy announced plans for world governments to exchange all their citizens’ tax and financial data with one another.
The 34 members states of the OECD are enthusiastically supporting this measure. And it constitutes the end of whatever remains of financial privacy.
The premise behind the OECD’s destructive pipedream is, as usual, to stamp out ‘tax evasion’. But this is a misnomer to being with.
Just about every multinational company out there employs strategies to reduce their current tax liabilities that are perfectly legitimate based on existing tax laws.
This is why companies like Google and Apple famously earn billions in profits but pay almost no tax. They’re vilified. But it’s legal.
These companies have shareholders from all over the world. And their solemn responsibility is to maximize shareholder value… not maximize the amount of funds that politicians in a single jurisdiction get to blow on wars and welfare.
There are also isolated individuals who are sitting on undeclared income stashed away in an overseas bank somewhere. But the aggregate amount is tiny compared to the $60+ billion that Microsoft alone has stashed away overseas, untaxed.
You’d think they’d get at the root cause of the problem and try becoming more competitive… lowering tax rates and streamlining government operations (shocker!)
But no. Instead they resort to even more Draconian tactics to lord over private citizens’ financial records and unilaterally set aside long-standing international treaties.
It’s a pathetic display of exactly the sort of tactics that governments embrace when they go broke. And most of these OECD countries ARE broke– Italy, Japan, the US, Spain, Greece, etc.
So what we have now are a bunch of bankrupt member states who think that they are helping the other bankrupt member states raise revenue by terrorizing citizens (rather than actually fixing the problem).
It’s genius. But what else can one expect from the OECD?
This is the same organization which said, in the same meeting over the weekend, that Germany should accept higher inflation so that the rest of Europe wouldn’t suffer from deflation.
The arrogance is astounding.
This is the same logic as borrowing your way out of debt and spending your way out of recession… brought to you by the same guys who completely missed all the warning signs of the Global Financial Crisis. Along with the IMF. The Federal Reserve (and every other central bank in the world). And every government out there.
Yet these are the rocket scientists who pull the levers that control the system.
It behooves anyone who can see the big picture to distance yourself as much as possible from this system.
This means, for example, keeping a portion of your savings in real assets that they cannot control, as opposed to paper assets that they conjure and manipulate.
Most importantly, it means not having all of your eggs in one basket. Bankrupt governments will resort to any measure they feel is necessary to maintain the status quo.
And if you live, work, invest, bank, run a business, own real estate, etc. all in one of these bankrupt countries, you are really taking on tremendous risk.
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Cue NWO outrage....
Now!
I am seriously worried about you, man.
It's okay if they agree to global information sharing. Citizens of the world have global P2P and Bitcoin.
SATOSHI YOU ARE THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD.
Holy shit.
To make sure of an oft-repeated phrase - "NEVER go Full Retard!". Either someone else is using the fonestar account, you've suffered some severe mental or physical trauma, or you've just decided to go absolutely crazy and start ranting like a lunatic.
No, this ISN'T a slight against BitCoin, Satoshi, P2P or whatever - this is an observation of the content of your posts.
In an act of supreme faith fonestar sold everything he owned over a year ago (minus one IBM laptop) and went full retard into Bitcoin. So far it has been working great for him. Everything fonestar does, he only does in the name of Satoshi Nakamoto.
MY BOSS IS A JAPANESE CRYPTOGRAPHER.
Lunatic. Check. ;)
At least you're good for a laugh.
Slaves are made in such ways.....
We are slaves of freedom. We are slaves of passion. We are shackled to the blockchain gang.
SATOSHI TOOK ONE BYTE FROM THE BLOCKCHAIN AND BROKE IT INTO MANY BITS. THE PEOPLE REJOICED!
You can't eat code, foney....
No, but you can always fone for takeout and delivery.
But if your code is good, you can be well paid for it.
SATOSHI IS CODING FOR US WHAT WE COULD NOT CODE FOR OURSELVES.
If your Bitcoin is worth 500 bucks, if i finish my sudoku can i get enough for a pizza?
Honestly, it's just a little humor at foney's expense. I sincerely wish the BitCoiners all of the luck in the world....it's another middle-finger to the cartel and I hope it succeeds.
Personally, it's not for me.
Dear world governments:
My name is General Keith Alexander, current director of the NSA.
As you know, my administration (and the government of the United States, Incorporated) has come under fire recently for our ability and implementation of OUR ability to compile all types of information from all sectors of everyone's personal, medical, communication, and financial data around the world. I know you think we were 'invading your privacy' here, but let me explain. I'm sure you'll understand, and, in fact, thank us for taking these first bold new steps in to a better tomorrow.
As I see, you are now seeing the benefits of inclusion of every human on the earth in this new paradigm of command and control (we only did what we did to demonstrate our power to do so). Our new facility in Utah, USA, is being equipped with the finest state-of-the-art computers, in order that you may avail yourselves of this ability to track those pesky humans (oops, I mean, so-called 'scofflaws') in your individual countries' borders, and render whatever it is that you render. Im MY nation, we like to call this 'rendition' and 'waterboarding' (of course, again, these are simply examples).
As to the pesky insect called 'BitCoin' (which seeks to replace the fedscrips worldwide), well, we already have a plan in order to deal with this threat, as well. You see, these fools actually think that we will LET THEM USE OUR INTERNET AND POWER GRIDS, but it is a given that WE also control access to these things, as well.
AGAIN, thank you for listening. If you need further information, please avail yourselves of the ability to contact one of many of our public/private corporate sponsors.
Keith
(666)
Geezus and all you people out there used to bitch and moan about Trav hijacking every thread. Instead now we get this shit all the time...
REJOICE FOR SATOSHI HAS COME TO FREE THE FIAT SLAVES!
If this is the communication style that works best for u then fine... Just try to throw in some freaking CONTENT once in a while, a stale joke.. There's no reward for being the Donald trump of space around here... You can begin this exercise by occasionally using DIFFERENT words.
The media is the massage.
Happy ending.
I like it. And efficient to boot. + 1 trillion.
phone shit, stop ruining the articles I want to use .. you,re done ,, just to stupid to know ..
I had something to say about offshore accounts, but you fucking ruined it, you almost make me puke every morning you tard.
Take anything out of context lately?
Never.....
We will see who the lunatics are when Bitcoin goes into five, six and seven figures! Satoshi is invincible! Bitcoin is the deflationary tiger who stalks the Earth!
For that to happen, bitcoin would actually have to be adopted and used by a significant number of the world population. I don't see a reality where that happens. I think it's silly for you to tell people to buy and hold bitcoin becuase it is going to 7 figures. It's better to tell people to buy bitcoin and actually buy goods/services with it. However, it really doesn't matter because people who accept bitcoin transfer it right back to fiat. Bitcoin is a service to be used with extreme caution.
fonestar will tell all the people that he sees!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFlCD5CYAcU
"MY BOSS IS A JAPANESE CRYPTOGRAPHER."
Dear fonestar,
Yes, of course, we all know about it.
But tell us please, what room number in the hospital, where undergoing treatment your boss and also who is his doctor?
So, the only way to be safe is to be a roadside bum without any family or money. LoL. The great western civilization... I hereby renounce all my plans to be of value. Because if there is something valuable here, the thugs will come for me. But if I am bum, I will be safe.
Not even then because after all those measures of disinvestment, you appear as a "black hole" on the screen of existance, identified not by what you have, but what you don't have. Indeed, this is alarming to those whose job it is to look at the screen.
The man who has everything has everything to lose!
WHAT HAVETH A MAN WHO SELLS HIS BITS ONLY TO FIND THERE IS NOTHING GREATER THAN BITCOIN?
##++¥£^%#}{{{{
M F
la concha de tu Hermana , puto de mierda.
Me tenes la bolas llenas con tu shitcoin.
So, the only way to be safe is to be a roadside bum without any family or money who reliably votes democrat.
There fixed it for you.
that approach is not working out that well for the homeless in Japan who are now temporarily skimming Plutonium for slave wages in the Fuk
Just be careful with that shirt.
well, at least until the grid goes down.
We can only hope...
that the grid goes down.
....all around the world. All at once.
Oh, and hope that everyone doesn't see a point in fixing that.
The entire electrical or telecommunications grid doesn't need to go down. Localised outages work just as well. Consider a list of the typical pieces of hardware that your request passes through just to present you with the ZeroHedge page:
1. You -> PC Device -> Network Interface -> [Router/Firewall] -> Modem -> Cell Tower/Telephony Exchange -> Telephony Exchange -> ISP
2. ISP -> DNS Servers -> Router -> Router -> Router -> Router -> Router -> Network Interface -> Destination
2.1. [Network Interface -> Router/Firewall -> ISP -> DNS Server -> Router -> Router -> Router -> Network Interface -> Destination
2.1.1 [Network Interface -> Router/Firewall -> ISP -> DNS Server -> Router -> Router -> Router -> Network Interface -> Destination]]
3. Network Interface -> Router -> Router -> Router -> Router -> Router -> DNS Server -> ISP
4. ISP -> Telephony Exchange -> Cell Tower/Telephony Exchange -> Modem -> [Router/Firewall] -> Network Interface -> PC Device -> You
(Step 2 could have hundreds of sub steps thanks to one site connecting to multiple distributed services)
Thanks to the proliferation of Software as a Service products running within a virtual machine as one of perhaps one hundred virtual machines on a single server, the number of points of failure increases exponentially as people become more dependant on being connected to the Internet and demand more services become available via the Internet.
Than, factor in traffic disruptions caused by 400Gbps DDoS attacks that are starting to occur, and will increase in regularity, and you're going to find that there's going to be more outages in the future. One DDoS attack could, in theory, bring down entire data centres (and thousands of sites affecting millions of users) if they are directed well enough.
To understand the physical links, go here: http://submarinecablemap.com - these are only the major international links, and there's a lot of points of failure just there. It's just like a fractal image - the more you zoom in, the more and more links that are available for tampering with.
Hmmmm. I wonder who is behind those DDOS attacks?
Kids. No, seriously - kids. Brian Krebs at http://krebsonsecurity.com has a detailed article about it, and he gave a presentation about it recently which is available via Youtube.
If there's someone else telling the kids to do it, that's another matter.
Here's the specific article with links to other articles within it: http://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/02/the-new-normal-200-400-gbps-ddos-atta...
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Seriously, it's a literal miracle that the US grid hasn't gone down already. Something as small as a five-year-old's bedtime prayer that the grid go down might be all it takes to tip the balance.
Message to self......make this part of 6 yr old's bedtime prayer. Oh, and that I have the sense to keep a cool head if it happens.
Tell your six year old Satoshi has come!
LoP, note that Nazi Germany, the GDR's Statis and Stalin's KGB did just fine w/o the Grid.
We may "have guns", but their populace did not buy into the Propaganda of their Media -- the way ours does. And so a "freedom fighter" or "libertarian" can simply be relabeled as a DT (Domestic 'Terrarist'). Our populace would not bat an eye with reports of "another DT captured".
MaxCoin if you like to eat crypto try some of that sucker.
Well then, how much do you make Flak? ;-)
If I close my eyes, put my hands over my ears, and say " there is no NWO agenda" three times it makes all this NWO stuff go away..
NWO ..backwards... OWN
What we are talking about is a Bit World Order. Good and evil. Right and wrong.
Don't forget to click your heels...
There's certain established procedures, you know.
Probably not much. Such a poor statist shill can't cost a lot.
In addition to the physical....
CENTRAL FUND OF CANADA CLASS A NPV NON-VTG ISIN #CA153501101 10,000.000 $15.070 $0.20 $150,700.00 $2,000.001.34%
Think of me as a director of some kind of surreal real-time play. I was merely providing an entrance for the posts that are sure to follow...
As for my income, alas, not enough to attract any untoward attention... I think there is still a couple of Swiss accounts but they probably already confiscated whatever was there via "service fees"....
lol...fair enough.
I only got one left hangin out there but they know all about that one and agreed on the low profile.
"And they could neither buy or sell without the Mark of the Beast."
What about the drunken sailor outrage! ?
Oh wait, you might be right
Snowden.. Effect - meanwhile the Spooz reclaimed the old all time high after a half-life of 2 hours -
http://hedge.ly/1cIMFn9
Ugh. Coming to even Peru soon enough I imagine.
- 1 to ya world governments!
Oh no, this is going to be hilarious. It'll be beyond anything any one has ever seen in terms of diplomatic fuck ups in the galactic history of diplomatic fuckups but from this side it'll be pretty funny.
The one thing that governments really suck at is information classification as it relates to cultural bias and financial classification. Cultural bias being the obvious one. Financial classification, the accounting industry loves acronyms and standards as much as engineering. "Lots of standards" to pick from, sprinkle in another culture, various acronyms from the local professional guilds that define the cultural process of accounting to a local professional dialect and tax code.
So watch the news in those countries as FOIA's are launched all over the place. Then something slips, because these guys still operate under a beggar thy neighbour but some good comes from it...
What they will understand real quick though is they are all beyond broke and it was only a lie that kept the cheques from bouncing for the past 13 years. What they won't understand is how they've been harpooning each other with materials pricing, manipulation and how the banks have been fucking them all in the ass for a long time.
Either they'll cry or laugh their asses off once they review everything and learn the important lesson of the role of what a government is supposed to be by it's people. You know, that crazy idea that governance happens and the role of a government is to manage common elements everyone wants in a society to make it run well by examining the noted requests.
In IT we use ITIL to manage this stuff, it's ugly doing it the first time, gets easier the second time. 500 ft view, Service desk obtains the request from their users then it goes in the sausage maker and at the other end a delivered widget/process/service.
After a while of doing that, the IT delivery people understand what common elements need more attention than other things. It takes a bit of time to do, but once it's done no one should have much to complain about on how well things run. Right now though that won't happen until they wake up by seeing how hosed they are and that they've all been taken for a ride. Then hopefully...for the first time in 100 years they'll listen with their ears and not their mouths.
And just maybe...they'll see the Truman show they've created for themselves and break out by turning the tables with their own processes. If they needs to hedge and create buffer time while sorting things out there is one thing government does excel at.
And that would be waiting. While it appears to be a major annoyance externally, it serves as an amazing defensive position to re-prioritize direction without having anyone to blame. Throw in a reorg on top of that and nothing is going to get done.
"I'm so sorry. It's in the system, department is going through a reorg and half of everyone is off on stress leave/sick/pregnant/sex change/whatever/at pub/tree planting."
See how well that works at buying time? Otherwise keep an eye on the news papers it's going to get so weird.
best post of the day, week, year?
you even said shit was going to get weird last summer, and you were quite right i'd have to admit...
are we getting close to the liminal experience?
capitalism and schizophrenia - worth a revisit
trader1 - - - - the short version - - -
'We're screwed'
no links he stinks
Is it such a crime to be sublime?
I thought it was two in the pink, one in the stink?
Or do I have that backwards?
pods
shockingly correct
And don't forget the "windshield wiper" - the thumb back and forth across the clit.
I apologize.
(you know you're doing it right now)
Ha, that was a goodun man!
i broke the story first on ZH if anyone happenned to notice earlier today:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-02-23/g-20-agrees-grow-global-economy...
Given the information sharing, it seems as if Simon's diversification recommendations are mooted. Same logic that the only reason for gun registration is to facilitate confiscation.
I recommend buying unsalted crackers. Hundreds and hundreds of thousands of unsalted crackers.
oh wow, im so glad i have followed simon blacks advice and have become a global vagabond.............except for my home in the chilean paramo that i bought from simon. he did i tell you that my casita in chile came with free chilean inflation protection bonds. wow, am i lucky!!!!
Nice! But how did you get all the dried blood out of those carpets?
moral of the story: burying your cash in the back yard is safer than in the bank.
Easy, take small amount of junk silver, put in metal box (fancy one with a lock). Bury that a foot or two above your stash about 4 inches deep. Put a couple of rusty nails below the throw away box as well.
There are a thousand ways one can think about hiding valuables in plain sight.
You don't have to fly halfway across the world to do so.
pods
Moar!
So my gold bars held in trust by a blind third party fiduciary in Sinapore might be at risk?
Well hell, now I have to get anal probed, fly over there, exchange them using some blind BTC custodian, then get it transferred to my secret proxy wallet and make it back. Then cash in my BTC and go to my LCS, buy back my gold, and then just store it in my house among my kids legos and dog's chew toys?
Or I could have just avoided the 007 route and bought the PMs from my LCS with cash and skipped the anal probe and spy stuff?
pods
What's your address again, pods?
I actually have a vial of gold (that I myself mined) on my window sill above my kitchen sink. Fun to look at and good memories.
pods
Prices are back down and supply is good... Acquire MOAR ammo Pods.
If this is the type of info in Simon Black's subscription service, then I'd rather spend the money taking a lady to dinner
That's no lady. It's a man, man.
Simon! You down arrowed me. I didn't believe you'd be so cruel!
And exactly WHO gave MY government permission to agree to this policy without consultation??
World governments are OUT OF CONTROL.
They need to be brought to heel.
Well, if you have been determined to have no expectation of privacy, what's to stop your government from sharing you with the world?
Absolutely nothing.
Yes, we need to stop this now...
Tax evasion to be redefined as a crime against humanity.
...for the cheeeldren.
Fuck off Simon.
Somewhat off topic, but if I remember correctly, only Russia, China, and Iran don't have a Central bank that is part of the larger western cartel. Is this still the case?
In addition, you don't hear much about Brazil anymore. What happened to the "BRIC" countries leading the world out of recession. Will it simply be the "RIC" countries now?
Yes, a tad bit of sarcasm, still wondering what happened to Brazil? If they go the way of Argentina, it would seem like the dollar might have more problems keeping the hedgemony going.
You forgot North Korea, other than that you have it right.
Libya used to be on the list, but they got nobbled.
Bank Melli (Iran) used to have good relations with the Fed, until the FRBNY stole Iran's gold in a freezing manoeuvre (after the Shah), and had to do a gold swap with the Brits in early 1981 during the hostage crisis to give the Iranian gold back, since the US gold by then was inferior coin bar shit that had been confiscated in the 1930s and melted down. Kit McMahon of the Bank of England flew out to Algeria to make sure the Iranians were not too pissed..
Headshot or cash!! Lol
What is happening in Brazil LoP ?
Can't seem to find out much.Any sites you might suggest ?
Nothing much is happening in Brazil except same old same old...corruption.... but fun as usual...always fun in Brazil
Please keep it that way (since you're never going to get rid of the corruption), and don't sign any agreements with devil up north.
Well, for one thing, they do keep dollars pretty safe. Reals, not so much.
Let's all play Pin The Debt On The Turkey, Greece, Frank, Yank, Brit, Kraut, Jap, etc.
Lets play "in debt we trust".
So basically what you're saying Simon is that this is world wide and all your advice about escaping to Chile, Switzerland, Peru,________ (insert country of choice here) is bullshit.
again i say--gov'ts are obsolete---
Not going quietly into the long goodnight without trying the Pol Pot solution first.
Bullish paper and brain wallets (its a BTC thing), PM, geocaches, MOAR ammo, and Asian / South American banks.
simon black is a damn fear monger.
he's beginning to remind me of the cheney-rumsfeld-bush trio.
how did anyone with an IQ over 100 not see this coming?
Who is Simon Black?
I can't tell you or they'd kill me. All I can say is that Simon Black is an anagram for Scam Bilk On, and also Snack Limbo.
Got the message? God's speed!
well, the say a few things about the chap, such as:
and, so why is he charging people for information for which can be googled at will?
http://www.sovereignman.com/solutions/
Ouch....
Looks like Simon is down arrowing everybody. Like a cornered rat
What's the best Non-OECD country to live in?
I'd say Croatia, untill they adopt the Euro.
Beautiful coastline, insanely good truffles, improving wine industry and great rock climbing.
And the summer yachet scene rivals Cote Azur.
Thay can try. This is going on:
http://www.thewarningsecondcoming.com/second-seal-world-war-3/
Most ZH-ers scream constantly for government protection from labour competition, for strong government borders, for worship of a big military, for more cops, against free trade.
No wonder they like other people to pay their taxes to support a big government...
Most ZH'ers believe in the U.S. Constitution as written, the enfrocment of the rule-of-law, and sound money.
Since those three have been shredded and forgotten by TPTB there are a lot of diverget paths about "what should be done"; however, most would lead you back to those three.
Nothing wrong with sound money.. But I have difficulty with the many commenters lately on ZH demanding protectionism. They want tough border control to keep cheaper, more efficient labour out. They want neither true free trade nor today's "managed trade" agreements. They want foreign goods kept out. They support government-enforced "minimum wages". They want consumers to pay more. They want to prohibit outsourcing. They hate "tax evaders" and "evil corporations".
But they love their governments!
"They want tough border control to keep cheaper, more efficient labour out. "-
Hey dipshit, you get what you pay for. Germany has some of the toughest borders and the most efficient skilled labor around.
Good luck building an advanced economy cooking burritos moron.
There already is a legal path to citizenship and paying taxes.
The fucking wetbacks should try it.
The reason labour is not competitive IS government. You cannot have the government impose regulations on you and the open the border and tell you to compete with countries with a completely different set of regulations. Also note the inconsistency: They tell you to compete on the open market but playing by their rules, but when it comes to them THEM competing based on tax rules NOOOOO. Then we have to "level the playing field", then we start talking about "social justice".
They make you uncompetitive. They are the reason you lose your job, they are the ones who have created the debt, they are the reason you cannot even plant a fucking carrot in your garden without risking arrest. They have gone this far. You tell them to stop debasing the currency and they ignore you. You tell them to stop bailing out useless entities with YOUR money and they ignore you. You tell them that you cannot take it anymore and they ignore you. And when they cannot ignore the consequences of you running away from them as best as you can they aggressively attack you as if you owed them something.
And a strong military is one thing, a fucking expeditionary force out there fighting colonial war in Iraq and Afganistan, with bases in places I cannot find on the map let alone whose names I cannot even pronounce, is not something I want to do.
I demand a fucking itemized tax bill God damit, I want to know and choose what I pay for. Otherwise.. I have decided to limit my economic activity to the bare minimum standard of living I want. Anything more I make will one way or another be taken away from me. So fuck you. I hope more people start acting like that. Atlas must shrug. It is his only way out of this. Otherwise he will be chained on a rock like Prometheus. \rant
When will these governments do anything for the people ? Oh silly me, never.
One word describes what this is all about: FASCISM
I suggest you look up the tax rates under Hitler and Mussolini before you call this Fascism. This is Marxism. Fascism is when the Globalists of the OECD and other organizations that actualy undermine national sovereignty get a jackboot in the teeth.
OECD = Organization for Economic Cooperation and Developemnt.
In other words, bankster front men. Truly pitiful.
http://www.oecd.org/about/
I wonder what the reaction will be when Google, Apple and the rest move their bases of operations in Russia, pay 12% flat and tell everyone to fuck off. I mean can you imagine the self righteous outrage and endless waffle for our politicians?
The OECD nations have shared budgets. The FED will send bailout money to member nations and member nations will buy US Bonds and so on. The citizens taxes of each member country are thus shared among OECD nations.
It is taxation without representation and represents treason by the bankers within each of their respective nations. Unfortunately the banksters have so far been able to control the armies of the nations so there is no way to bring the bankstes to justice at that time.
But things change and not because of fantasy or hope.
"The citizens taxes of each member country are thus shared among OECD nations."
I was not aware of that. Do you have any documentation on how the system works? Because whoever put his signature under that agreement is certainly guilty of high treason.
If my government give my info to a another nation I consider it treason-
We need more Ed Snowdens to let the people know what their governments are hiding.
Time to end the NWO. This is not the way I want to live.
Has anyone else seen this about Italian capital controls? http://faneros.wordpress.com/2014/02/22/capital-controls-in-italy-not-wo...
OT/
RIP Harold Ramis
Seems Mr. Black doesn't heed his own advice.
Doesn't he claim to own a farm in Chile? They became an OECD member in 2010.
You packing your bags Simon?
They say that Simon's farm rears Vicuñas to make soft scarves and hats for Christine Lagarde and the Chilean and Argentine elites.. But I can't bring myself to believe it! That would be so shocking
i nominate CDO for anti-Simon champion of the day. Or, +1
All your money are belong to us.
You have no chance to survive make your time.
cue the "let's enjoy our 2 minutes of hate the bankers for being greedy capitalists" meme
Are you suggesting that bankers earn their interest (for loans created out of thin air- not derived from savings/capital).
What do these paper-pushers actually risk (with Uncle Sam BAILING them out)?
What item of real fucking value do they actually create again (other than financial "products" of mass destruction)?
Get long rope, beat the rush.
i applaud the rhetoric, but seriously. you aren't going to catch me part of some delusional mob of bloodthirsty fanatics. i'm sorry, but i try to live by the words of jesus, even though i don't consider myself religious or christian...
I love Pre emptive back burning in the morning, It smells like, desperation.
ZEROHERO EMERGENCY! ZEROHERO EMERGENCY!
Where are all the comments blaming the banksters, the jews, lobbyists, corps, the wealthy? Everyone knows that politicians and bureaucrats are either corrupt lackeys or well meaning manipulated boobs who have no power.
Neat new list of countries for Expats with money to boycott:
AUSTRALIA
AUSTRIA
BELGIUM
CANADA
CHILE
CZECH REPUBLIC
DENMARK
ESTONIA
FINLAND
FRANCE
GERMANY
GREECE
HUNGARY
ICELAND
IRELAND
ISRAEL
ITALY
JAPAN
KOREA
LUXEMBOURG
MEXICO
NETHERLANDS
NEW ZEALAND
NORWAY
POLAND
PORTUGAL
SLOVAK REPUBLIC
SLOVENIA
SPAIN
SWEDEN
SWITZERLAND
TURKEY
UNITED KINGDOM
UNITED STATES
Silver For The People
Thailand and Brazil = good to go.
Thailand has a bit of a civil war festering and waiting. Standard situation really. Government makes policy good for the rural areas, not as good for the cities, city folk (despite being the minority) scream bitch and moan and get all bloody with their protests. If you do it the opposite way, you start getting "terrorism" wherein the rural areas start getting getting very sympathetic to anti-government causes. No real easy fix to this and it's eventually going to boil over much worse than it has previously given an excuse.
Brazil: Massive drought, shit's fucked, I sure as fuck wouldn't pull the trigger on that, also far too close for comfort as it's traditional stomping grounds of the US for when the public needs a distraction.
I'd vote Laos if you just want to escape. Because no matter what happens in the rest of the world, no matter how things develop, Laos will always be Laos.
2 Observations, upon looking at the List of 34 OECD Members:
1. Simon's CHILE is on that list. Simon, count the days that you'll have "privacy" in Chile. Look, having visited Chile (nice country!), if I were as "freedom & privacy" conscious as is Simon, I'd avoid the OECD countries entirely. Especially I had a Plan B, where push came to shove and I wanted to have a stash of cash and a place to live outside the "Uncle Sam hot zone".
2. We know what and how much information is going into Israel, but exactly what type and amount of "information" will come out? Besides a list of "Palestinians abroad" that we are to observe on their behalf and on our dime?
Maybe Simon isn't that bad after all.
This is like when the states started exchanging criminal records and DMV records ~20 years ago, only 100 times worse.
"I thought it was two in the pink, one in the stink?
Or do I have that backwards?"
It's 5 in the pink, 5 in the stink. This move is called "the IRS"
Sharing data would fall under a treaty, and need to be approved by Congress.
Call me when they decide to do a Switzerland on the Caymans.
Forget the exchange of information. Just go for the tax havens. That is where the real money is.
If tax havens are not part of the tax sharing deal then the whole exercise is just a farce.
"These companies have shareholders from all over the world. And their solemn responsibility is to maximize shareholder value… not maximize the amount of funds that politicians in a single jurisdiction get to blow on wars and welfare."
Ah globilism, gobbleism, gobble-you-up-foolism, go gault, yo gaulty, you're guilty, you won't be needing this in jail, jail in bail-in.