Things Noticeable this week

[otokonomidori]

Originally Posted by Devius

A huge new leak of financial documents has revealed how the powerful and ultra-wealthy, including the Queen's private estate, secretly invest vast amounts of cash in offshore tax havens.

The vast majority of the transactions involve no legal wrongdoing.

[Devius]

Originally Posted by otokonomidori

The vast majority of the transactions involve no legal wrongdoing.

True no law has been broken, but while legal tax avoidance operates within the law - it doesn't exactly follow the spirit of the law. Also Tax avoidance was said to cost the taxpayer £4bn a year, according to figures produced by HMRC in 2014:



Anyway after several days reading about "Pestminster" my opinion about the "ruling class" is unprintable.

[otokonomidori]

Originally Posted by Devius

True no law has been broken, but while legal tax avoidance operates within the law - it doesn't exactly follow the spirit of the law. Also Tax avoidance was said to cost the taxpayer £4bn a year, according to figures produced by HMRC in 2014:

I find it difficult to criticise anyone for trying to reduce their tax bill - it just seems like common sense to me - I do it so why shouldn't rich folk?

[chris chunt]

Bono from UB40 is wound up in a tax avoidance scandal right now .
Ha ha ha ha ha ha !

Preaching at the rest of us while hiding millions away for himself .
I hope his pop record sales suffer in the future .

Still like Bono and UB40 ?
Watch the BBC4 series inside Claridges and see how they let slip how they're preparing a very opulent welcoming to the band after a wembley gig .

Save the rain forest / polar bear / African indeed and all the other shite he comes out with .
Put money in it yourself then you cnut

[Brecht]

Originally Posted by chris chunt

Bono from UB40

You mean U2.

[Devius]

Originally Posted by otokonomidori

I find it difficult to criticise anyone for trying to reduce their tax bill - it just seems like common sense to me - I do it so why shouldn't rich folk?

I should say that governments must do more about these Tax havens - but since we're talking about "Pestminster" I might as well just shut up and go to sleep instead...

[chris chunt]

Originally Posted by Brecht

You mean U2.

Hopefully he'll be given his UB40 as a smart arse I can save the world rock star .

UB40 indeed
An in joke us Brit's might get

[otokonomidori]

Originally Posted by chris chunt

Hopefully he'll be given his UB40 as a smart arse I can save the world rock star .

UB40 indeed
An in joke us Brit's might get

I saw that sod Boner with U2 in Glasgow [ I got a free ticket] about 15 years ago.

The little gobshite was ranting on about how no bugger in the 3rd World had a pot to piss in or a volt of electricity to their name and how we should give generously to help them.

I counted 18 container trucks with the band's gear, they were using enough current to light up a decent sized town.

[Roubignol]

Oxford University teacher and Islamic thinker Tariq Ramadan abused his underage students

The Tribune de Genève has now discovered that he unsuccessfully tried to seduce one of his 14-year-old students.

The investigation states that he even got his way with three others, aged between 15 and 18 years.

These incidents go back to the 80s and 90s, when the professor of French and Philosophy worked at the Cycle of Coudriers and then at the College de Saussure.

Islamologist Tariq Ramadan accused of having sex with minors in Switzerland

The Islamologist, already targeted by two complaints of rape in France, reportedly approached these women while the latter were aged 14 to 18 at the time.

The youngest says she refused to have sex with Tariq Ramadan. "He put his hand on my thigh, telling me that he knew I was thinking about him in the evening before going to sleep ... It was manipulation, he said he was thinking of me but that he was married. I felt bad, but I could not say anything, he was my teacher, " she tells the Swiss daily. The teenager resists and describes a "possessive and jealous (...) man, twisted, intimidating, who used relational and perverse tactics and abused the confidence of the students".

"It was agreed, but very violent"

Another student, aged 18 at the time, claims she was "abused and abused" by Tariq Ramadan. "It happened three times, especially in his car, it was agreed but very violent, I had bruises all over my body, he always made me believe that I had looked for him."

"I was fascinated, under his control, he took me, threw me, started a relationship of dependence," says another woman.

[Roubignol]

Originally Posted by Devius

I should say that governments must do more about these Tax havens - but since we're talking about "Pestminster" I might as well just shut up and go to sleep instead...

Governments don't want to do anything, because politicians are the first who do not declare their wealth.

There are no solution apart the self destruction of the Capitalism.