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No more Caches for Fiscal Evaders in selected Islands?
Bye Bye Launderers and white washers of plundered wealth?
Since 2009, many nations were trying to find ways to close loopholes in fiscal laws that permitted the rich people to transfer wealth to foreign caches in order to escape paying their due taxes.
In 2020, Lebanon pseudo State has Not even contemplated preventing the militia/mafia leaders from draining our accounts in banks in hard currencies from vacating our territory.
The financial havoc has generated another capital consequence. in every nation around the world.
All these tiny islands and tiny States that were the havens of offshore companies where money were stashed away to avoid taxes are no longer safe havens.
The safe havens were pressured to enact laws that permit any State government to investigate accounts that were immune under “banking secrecy regulations“.
There are five main regions were these safe heavens concentrated their activities.
First, the Caribbean islands of about 14 of them, singly or set of smaller islands, such as: Caicos, Turks, Anguilla, and Montserrat (controlled by Britain), the Virgin Islands (controlled by the USA, the Aruba and Antilles (controlled by the Netherlands), the Bahamas, Caimans, Antigua and Barbuda, Dominic, Sainte Lucie, Saint Vincent and Grenadines, Saint Christopher and Nevis, Grenada, Panama City, and Belize.
Second, in Europe we got the city of Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Isle of Man, Isles of Guernsey and Jersey, Gibraltar, Monaco, Saint Marin, Liechtenstein, Luxemburg, Cyprus, and Switzerland.
Third, in the Far East we have: Tonga, Vanuatu, Cook Islands, Niue, Samoa, Nauru, Marshall Islands, Hong Kong, and Singapore.
Fourth, in the Arab Gulf we have: Dubai and Bahrain.
Fifth, in East Africa we have: Maurice, Seychelles Republic, Maldives, and then Liberia in West Africa.
For example, the Caribbean islands and particularly the Caimans has residency for 70% of hedge funds and manage about $ 2 trillion or 2,000 billions;
Jersey Island is the prime British offshore center and managing 300 billions;
Liechtenstein with 165 billions;
Switzerland with $2 trillions of offshore money or the third of the world’s caches and which generate a third of the State’s income.
The safe havens in the Virgin Islands are mostly invested by China.
Now most of these safe havens are in the process of regulating their financial activities because most States want the money of their citizens repatriated in order to be taxed.
The problem is that the fiscal laws in most States are so exorbitant and complicated that it is Not worth repatriating any money.
People are just waiting for lenient and simple fiscal laws to be enacted before they get the courage to transfer their money to their home states.
For example, taking into account penalties on bad faith (40%), interests in arrears, tax on revenue, social contribution and other rights and penalties, a French citizen having one million dollars in Switzerland should expect to pay 1,300,000 dollars, far more than what he has saved in the safe haven.
France has evaluated to 20 billions dollars of lost revenue is fiscal fraud, which amount to the total budget for the department of Research and higher Education.
The case of Switzerland banking secrecy laws started in 1934.
In 1932, France confiscated from the Commercial Bank of Bale ten books containing 2000 French clients; the socialist deputy Fabien Albertin divulged the names of the clients representing a wide spectrum of influential personalities from magistrates, to ministers, to deputies, and to bishops.
The State of Switzerland reacted.
Only in 1998 did the wall of banking secrecy fall in Switzerland when the US exercised pressures to recoup 1.25 billions dollars saved by Jewish families during the Nazi period.
There are four criteria to categorize a State as a fiscal paradise:
First, absence or lack of fiscal laws;
second, lack of transparency;
third, the economy cannot support that much funds (basically, a post office State); and
fourth, refusal to exchange judicial and fiscal information.
WikiLeaks documents on Lebanon: What’s going on with our pitiful “leaders”?
Posted on March 22, 2011
You won’t believe it. Can you imagine a government demanding from the enemy to invade its land, kill its citizens, destroy its infrastructure, and expand the bombing in intensity and duration?
That’s what happened in Lebanon: Not once, but several times since 2005 and since its independence, in pre-emptive attacks by Israel, though tacitly for lack of transparency.
In 2006, Israel launched a devastating war on Lebanon and the government of Lebanon, headed by Seniora PM, demanded from the US that Israel extends its war destruction of Lebanon’s infrastructure beyond 33 days, on the guise of finishing off the military power of Hezbollah. (Finally, it was Israel that had to beg Bush Jr. to arrange for a cease fire)
Seniora PM, the current PM Saad Hariri, the defense minister Elias Murr, the ex-president Amine Gemayel, the warlord of the civil war Samir Geagea, the deputies Boutros Harb, Naela Muawad, Walid Jumblatt, Marwan Hamadi…demanded that Israel continue its war on Lebanon until Hezbollah is severely weakened.
Hell, Israel killed over 1,600 Lebanese civilians, injured over 5,000, displaced half a million from south Lebanon, dropped two million cluster bombs (dozens are killed and injured every year from these bombs), all Lebanon’s infrastructure was destroyed, the sea polluted after bombing oil tanks…
It took Lebanon billions in foreign aid and six years to reconstruct devastated towns, villages, highways, bridges…just to satisfy short-term interests of midget Lebanese political leaders.
The common people in Lebanon know about these systematic treacheries committed by the successive governments, but now there are documents, black on white.
Hezbollah is assembling a legal file to bring to trial all these traitors of first degree.
These official traitors should be packing now; they should be praying to die before they are brought to justice. (Wrong. these militia/mafia “leaders” are still in total control of Lebanon and brought the State to total bankruptcy at all levels)
The infamy didn’t stop after 2006: It resumed unabashedly.
On May 7, 2007, the official traitors masterminded a civil war against Hezbollah as the best strategy to weaken this party that defended Lebanon’s dignity and security from frequent Israeli incursions into Lebanon.
The “official traitors” had a plan that was coordinated with the US and Israel.
Hezbollah was continuing his program of securing land fiber-optic communication lines. That was the excuse to starting the civil war. The US Cole was offshore waiting, and Israel intelligence agents were hunkered in many secret places around Beirut.
Hezbollah managed to dismantle the plan within 3 hours and the official traitors had no time to carry on their nasty program.
Seniora governed Lebanon as sole dictator for four years, with a reduced cabinet since the third of the ministered had resigned., meaning 60% of the population was not represented in the government, and sit in around the government palace lasted months under tents.
Seniora was unphased: He had orders not to seek the opinion of the Lebanese citizens.
Tents were erected around the Prime Minister Palace for three months, but Seniora felt that the US support is good enough to remain in power.
The official traitors want the army to be the sole defender of the Motherland. How?
Our army didn’t have a working single helicopter when battling the terrorists Jund Islam in Nahr Bared camp. The Muslim Sunni salafists, financed by Saudi Arabia monarchy and via the Lebanese government of Seniora, had far more sophisticated weapons than the Lebanese army.
Funny. The army is refusing free military hardware from donor States in order Not to antagonize the US Administration!
Are these official traitors serious about defending the fatherland from Israeli incursions? Most probably, they never considered south Lebanon as part of Lebanon?
In the 2009 Parliamentary election, Saudi Arabia allocated $ One billion to finance the Lebanese election for the benefit of Saad Hariri, a Saudi citizen. The US presidential election process didn’t cost that much!
What kind of an army the defense minister is envisaging? The WikiLeaks documents stated the following:
First, since the Christian Maronites and Greek Orthodox are not applying to join the army, the best way to encourage them is by establishing special regiments, quasi-independent from army hierarchy, trained to fighting “terrorism” and equipped with assault helicopter.
Yes, Christian youth prefer to join “elite assault brigades”. Why? That’s how the “Christian” defense minister Elias Murr feels.
Second, the Muslim Shia youth, constituting half the population, should have a restricted quota of 25% in the army. The minister feels proud that he managed to reduce the ratio of Shia soldiers in the army that the official traitors want to fight Israel with. The Sunni, barely representing 30% of the population have increased their ratio in the army and internal security forces to over 50%. Do the official traitors want to fight enemies with that kind of obscurantist mentality?
Well, not any longer: Saad Hariri and company were fired, and a new government representing the enlightened resistance forces should shoulder the difficult problems plaguing our society.
Efficiency of the human cognitive power or mind
Written in March 6, 2006
Cognitively, human is excellent in simple detection tasks or null indicator such as whether a sensation exist or not;.
The mind is fairly good in differentiating the direction of strength of a sensation such as bigger or smaller than a standard, but he is bad in evaluating whether a sensation is twice or three times stronger, and he is worst as a meter for exact measurements.
Human is more accurate in feeling than when relying on his mind. That is why a subject is forced to make a choice between two stimuli rather than responding that the sensation between a standard and a variable stimulus is equally strong.
Man is Not a good observer of complex events;.
Even when viewers are forewarned that they are to see a movie about a crime and that they are to answer questions about details later on, the accuracy of the observers are very low.
The mind is unable to be an objective recorder of the events that transpire because he gets involved in the scene actions.
The mind has a very narrow range of attention and barely can satisfactorily attend to a couple of stimuli.
This observation deficiency is compounded by our sensory differences and illusions. For example, one in sixteen subjects is color blind, many suffer from tone deafness, taste blindness and so on.
The mind does Not think of himself objectively but rather has convictions, feelings, and explanations based on very restricted experiences, hearsays, memories and he tends to generalize and develop a set of beliefs concerning the operation of the mind.
The human usually expects to see and then see what he wants to see and hardly deviates from his beliefs, and sometimes, even when faced with facts.
Many scientists have overlooked obvious data because they clanged to their hypotheses and theories.
Human has to generate an abundance of reliable information and assimilate them before he could eliminate a few systematic biases that he acquired from previous generations and his personal experiences.
This lack of objectivity in human is referred to by the term “common sense”.
The fact is common sense ideas change and are undergoing continual revision, mainly because of the results of research and controlled experimentations and paradigm shifts. away from traditional knowledge
For example, common sense says heavy objects cannot fly until airplanes are common realities.
Common sense says that human cannot see in the dark until infrared goggles have been tested.
Common sense says that it is laughable to use earplugs in order to hear people talking in very noisy backgrounds, until it is experimented and proven to be correct.
The fact that your father or forerunners have always done something in a particular way does not prove that this is the best way of doing it.
The fact that famous people purchase a product from the best known firm does not permit the manufacturer to state that there cannot be very much wrong with the product since the famous people have bought it.
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