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Lies & The Santa Claus Syndrome

December 25, 2014 By Ethan Indigo Smith 6 Comments

The Santa Clause: Lying is OK, so long as everyone else is doing it. The “Santa Claus Syndrome” is the effect of societal complicity in, and/or complacency to, lies and the belief that’s ok. Take a moment to imagine yourself an outsider and visitor to a new culture. Imagine if you will an annual global […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: capitalism, Christianity, Christmas, Coca-Cola, consumerism, honesty, mythology, Neo-Paganism, Paganism, religion, ritual, Santa Claus, truth

Haven And Hell: A Closer Look At Tax Havens

November 14, 2014 By Simon Wood 2 Comments

On hearing the term ‘tax haven,’ many will picture idyllic locales with long beaches, palm trees and yachts belonging to multi-millionaires like the Cayman Islands, a British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean Sea. The more mundane reality, however, is laid out in the ‘financial secrecy index’ compiled by the Tax Justice Network in 2013.

Unimaginably vast sums of financial wealth sit in the 82 jurisdictions listed. European countries like Greece, Italy and Portugal have been brought to their knees by decades of secrecy and tax evasion.

A global industry has developed involving the world’s biggest banks, law practices and accounting firms which not only provide secretive offshore structures to their tax- and law-dodging clients, but aggressively market them. ‘Competition’ between jurisdictions to provide secrecy facilities has, particularly since the era of financial globalisation took off in the 1980s, become a central feature of global financial markets.

Filed Under: Foreign Affairs, National News Tagged With: Africa, American Airlines, austerity, Beppe Grillo, Beppe Grillo's Five Star movement, Brazil, Cayman Islands, City of London, Coca-Cola, Corporate America, corporate media, Delaware, democracy, European Union, Eva Joly, food banks, George Monbiot, GM, Google, Greece, Human Rights, hunger, Indignados, Italy, Jeffrey Sachs, journalism, KFC, Leona Helmsley, London Stock Exchange, Luxembourg, mainstream media, National Health Service, New York Stock Exchange, NHS, Occupy, Occupy London, Occupy Wall Street, oligarchy, OWS, plutocracy, Podemas, Portugal, right to food, Russell Brand, Spain, Tackle Tax Havens, tax evasion, tax havens, Tax Justice Network, taxes, The Daily Mail, The Guardian, United Kingdom, Verizon, Wall Street, Westminster, Wilmington

Ask Not For Whom The Wall Falls

November 11, 2014 By David Seaton 1 Comment

We are now in the midst of commemorating the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall, which was followed in short order by the collapse of the Soviet Union and its entire international system.

I say “commemorate,” but when it comes to the collapse of the wall and enormous Soviet system, the word most people use is “celebrate.” But here I would interject an ancient Spanish folk proverb which goes, “when you see your neighbor’s beard on fire, put your beard to soak;” or the not so ancient but equally valid American saying, “what goes around, comes around.”

In my opinion the most unbiased, irrefutable, undeniable take-away from the collapse of the USSR and its entire ideological superstructure is that huge, powerful, complex and historically successful systems, which have embodied the hopes and dreams of several generations of people all around the world, can just up and die with little or no warning … Soon to be playing in theaters near you.

Filed Under: Foreign Affairs, Media & Culture, National News Tagged With: Berlin Wall, Branko Milanovic, Buckley v. Valeo, capitalism, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, Citizen’s United, Coca-Cola, Coke, Cold War, Dani Rodrik, democracy, Der Spiegel, Edward Bernays, France, French Revolution, history, IMF, International Monetary Fund, karma, marketing, NAFTA, Napoleon, NATO, New World Order, oligarchy, plutocracy, propaganda, Russia, SCOTUS, Sigmund Freud, Supreme Court, Supreme Court of The United States, The Century of the Self, The Globalist, USSR, Waterloo, William Pfaff, World Bank, World War I, WTO, Zhou Enlai

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