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Press TV: British people are struggling with their biggest squeeze on living standards at a time of austerity while many high-profile individuals, including the Royal family and giant corporations, are earning billions of pounds through the so-called legal tax avoidance. Tax avoidance by definition is generally the legal exploitation of the tax regime to one’s [...]
Independent: Bill Oddie, the naturalist and BBC television presenter, has made a provocative protest film intended to embarrass the global bank HSBC over its links to logging companies blamed for the destruction of the rainforest in Malaysia. The presenter of programmes including Springwatch and Wild in Your Garden was evicted from HSBC’s London headquarters while [...]
Court controls huge sums of money for 16,000 vulnerable people Low interest rate produces an income impossible for loved ones to live on Court takes control of assets when people suffer sudden mental impairment Last year court jailed Wanda Maddocks for taking father out of care home By Sue Reid Mail Online: A secret court [...]
DW: Police and protesters have clashed at an anti-government demo in the Spanish capital, Madrid, with bottles thrown and officers making baton charges. The government is set to reveal a new plan to turn the economy around. There were violent scenes close to the Spanish national parliament on Thursday, as unrest broke out at a [...]
Investement watch: ‘I believe that we as Americans are about to see a major, major collapse in our national monetary system, and our normal way of life. Our government has been borrowing so much money (very often using short-term loans), that very soon, we will no longer be able to afford even the interest on [...]
Stephen Morgan was medical director at Basildon Hospital, Essex, According to accounts he received two £50,000 payments There thought to have been 2,452 ‘excess deaths’ at the hospital in ten years Hospital: ‘Payments were for his ‘exceptional work’ establishing renal centre’ By Amanda Williams Mail Online: A former health boss was paid £100,000 in ‘bonuses’ [...]
By Felicity Morse Huffington Post A man took his own life after worrying about how he would survive after his benefits were stopped, a coroner has said. Nicholas Barker, a former farm labourer from Yorkshire, was already paralysed down the left side of his body after a brain haemorrhage more than a decade before. He [...]
UK Column: Insight On November 6, 2012 UK Column live Interviewed Watcyn Richards, a welsh farmer who had been defrauded of nearly £200,000 by Barclays bank by way of fraudulently copying his wife’s signature. Following this interview, Guy Taylor, a landlord in Hereford, contacted us after Barclays had tried a similar stunt with him, this [...]
By Nikolaj Nielsen EU Observer: Hungarian authorities will pass on the cost of EU fines through a tax on its own citizens whenever it breaches EU law. Giving details of the new Hungarian initiative, EU justice commissioner for justice Vivian Reding told euro-deputies at the Strasbourg plenary session on Wednesday (17 April) that: “in practice [...]
AOL: The Government wants to start securing people’s homes against their tax bill. And that’s a bad thing. Tucked away in the Budget was a proposal that could leave some people fearing house repossession. HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) plan to increase the use of charging orders on people with outstanding tax bills. This’ll mean [...]
By Agence France-Presse Raw Story: US hospitals face a disincentive to improve care because they make drastically more money when surgery goes wrong than when a patient is discharged with no complications, a study published Tuesday found. “We found clear evidence that reducing harm and improving quality is perversely penalized in our current health care [...]
By Ruth Lythe This Is Money: Millions of current account customers with NatWest and RBS face new charges of £72 a year plus interest simply for dipping more than £10 into their arranged overdrafts. From July, the state-backed bank will force its current account customers to pay the extra charges on top of the interest [...]
Patrick Henningsen 21st Century Wire The whole concept of avoiding ‘conflicts of interest’ is a virtue now consigned to history in the United States. Remember the good old days, when the good men and women of America got into politics to help serve their country, and not for the money? Imagine if you were able [...]
German-owned firm joins under-fire Amazon, Google and Starbucks £766million profits could have generated tax bill of £200million Chief executive says company put wind farm costs against tax liability Labour MP says public are ‘sick and tired’ of firms not paying ‘fair share’ By Matt Chorley & Sean Poulter Mail Online: Energy giant nPower has admitted [...]
By J D Heyes Natural News: Most presidents in modern history have been profligate spenders when left to their own devices, but none so profligate as President Barack Obama, who has managed to blow through a mind-boggling $4 trillion in one year alone. Forget all of the talk about you may have heard about past [...]
Guardian: That would be mistake. The serving of “poison” to Cyprus, as the country’s parliamentary president put it this week, amounts to another statement by Germany that the hard way is the right way. There will be no slackening in the austerity message ahead of September’s election, and thus no meaningful debate on how creditors [...]
Terry Macalister The Guardian The big six energy suppliers have been accused of “cold-blooded profiteering” after official figures showed they had more than doubled their retail profit margins over the last 18 months and were now earning an average of £95 profit per household on dual-fuel bills. The industry regulator Ofgem, which produced the estimates, [...]
Before Its News: Four pages with the names of some 132 companies and individuals who withdrew the bulk of their deposits in euros, dollars and rubles kept in local banks reveals a publication of the first issue. Read also: Anastasiadis: “Never gave privileged information” Money transfers made within 15 days, namely from 1 until March [...]
By J D Heyes Natural News: The seizure of privately held savings accounts by the government of Cyprus, in order to finance a European Union-led bailout, is having reverberations far beyond the shores of that bankrupt nation. In fact, they are being felt as far away as Texas, where lawmakers there are increasingly concerned that [...]
The real targets of the “haircut” are businesses, entrepreneurs and the middle class Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com News that the Cypriot President’s family moved 21 million euros to London days before the bank accounts of his people were looted as part of the bailout deal serves as another reminder that while the media portrays the [...]
Investment Watch: Just found this… very interesting. I am trying to verify the post from a govt source. http://dinarvets.com/forums/index.php?/topic/52464-do-not-use-safety-deposit-boxes/ According to in-house memos now circulating, the DHS has issued orders to banks across America which announce to them that “under the Patriot Act” the DHS has the absolute right to seize, without any warrant whatsoever, any [...]
By Michael The Economic Collapse: The politicians of the western world are coming after your bank accounts. In fact, Cyprus-style “bail-ins” are actually proposed in the new Canadian government budget. When I first heard about this I was quite skeptical, so I went and looked it up for myself. And guess what? It is right [...]
Press TV: A company belonging to the relatives of Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades has reportedly moved millions of euros out of the country a few days before a controversial levy proposal by the Eurogroup was declared. According to a recent report by the Cypriot newspaper Haravgi, the company A.Loutsios & Sons Ltd. co-owned by the [...]
Joseph T. Salerno lewrockwell.com The “Cyprus deal” as it has been widely referred to in the media may mark the next to last act in the the slow motion collapse of fractional-reserve banking that began with the implosion of the savings-and-loan industry in the U.S. in the late 1980s. This trend continued with the currency [...]
Eurogroup head Jeroen Dijsselbloem has sent the euro tumbling by declaring that the Cyprus rescue should be seen as a template for the rest of the eurozone. In an interview with reporters in Brussels after the Cyprus plan was agreed, Dijsselbloem argued that Europe could now take a new approach to tackling struggling banks. Read [...]
Is the financial rape of Cyprus another IMF riot waiting to happen? Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com News that the International Monetary Fund initially demanded to loot a shocking 40% of savings from the private bank accounts of Cypriots underscores how residents of the Mediterranean country could be the latest victims of the infamous “IMF [...]
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