S.O.S. – ARCTIC ICE MELTING

Most of us in the developed world read this week that more of the Arctic sea ice has melted away than ever in human history. I usually shy away from saying "I told you so", but forecasting is one of my roles for clients and flooding of our major cities is about to affect billions of lives - so a plug for my perspicacity is appropriate. Thus, what terrible doomsday does the melting ice portend?

The oceans have a surface area of 335 million square kilometres. Antarctica has an area of 13.8 million square kilometres which is 98% covered in ice, with a depth of up to 5 kilometres. Greenland, in the Arctic, has an area of 2.2 million square kilometres, with an ice cap of up to 2.6 kilometres. Should both the Antarctic and Arctic land based ice caps melt, the sea-level would rise 113 metres, or 370 feet.  Eighty percent of all the people in the world live below 300 feet, on the coastal margins. Greater London is all below 300 feet. Florida’s east coast urban areas are below 30 feet.  Manhattan Island rises just 36 feet above the ocean. The infamous settlement of Monmouth Junction in New Jersey is built at 135 feet above sea-level.  The centre of Oxford, England is 200 feet above sea-level. SW2000 Telework Studies 1994.

The above passage from Out of the Depths is accurate. When the land based ice sitting atop Greenland melts - and the ice on Antarctica melts - the sea level will rise by 300 feet - or 100 metres. This is the Biblical Flood of Noah on a grand scale. WHEN the rising waters will come to a town or coast near you depends on how rapidly ice melts. Try this experiment: put an ice cube on your desk and take bets on how long it will last. For a seemingly long time it just sits there defying the warm air; it seems it will never melt; then suddenly it collapses and within minutes runs to water.

Polar ice is very much colder, harder than steel (think of Titanic), and there is a lot of it to keep the sea and air cool. But, just like the solo ice cube, just like the Arctic Sea ice now, at the North Pole, even the seemingly permanent 3 miles high ice mountains will collapse surprisingly quickly. In my novel, 80% of the human race dies - but that is fiction. To survive, get a boat or migrate to higher ground. It will be chaotic and probably happen in your lifetime. That's the bad news.

The good news is told in AD2516-After Global Warming. The human race recovers and creates a Utopian world of 11 billion souls. Like Out of the Depths, this book is also based on possible and probable scientific and socio-economic advancement. Both books track the process of polar ice melting. The first is now, today, focused on the waters rising district by district in New York and London (will your street be underwater?). The second looks backwards, also at London and New York and the whole planet.

They are both good, very readable yarns, based on real science, and both spell out what we, as individuals and families, ought to do now, as the polar ice melts. Or ...you could wait for government instructions.

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$1 TRILLION STIMULUS – SEND IN THE MARINES!

THE "FREE MARKETS" SIT ON
$21 TRILLION OFF-SHORE
AND WON'T INVEST.

News this week is that the European Central Bank ECB is pumping in $500 billion and Ben Bernanke at the US Treasury is pumping in $40 billion a month “for as long as it takes” or $480 billion this coming year. Call it one trillion US dollars of new money, which might stimulate 28 million new jobs – compared to the EU and USA labour force of about 380 million – or +7% - if well invested.

That is only 5% of the liquidity siphoned off since 1980 by the super-rich to tax havens - and ¼ of the $4 billion “lost” by Wall Street and London in 2008/09 (actually siphoned off-shore via dodgy paperwork) replaced by taxpayers – and it is a fraction of the liquidity removed from the global economy by deleveraging Wall Street and the City of London banks in 2009 from lending/investing 32 times their capital down to 8 times.

Hear the howls of rage from the off-shore “free markets” at major governments “printing” money and diluting their hoarded cash balances. The super-rich have had 4 years of sitting on their tax-free assets, refusing to invest at home, of seeing the global economy starved of liquidity, of destabilising entire national economies – and thus being able to charge extreme interest rates on risk-free Government Bonds and other forced loans. They have been getting richer by the day – by withholding scarce cash, paying no tax and depriving people of jobs and of any hope for the future.

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The economic reality is that the amount of money in circulation MUST keep up with the real-economy. If you cancel money, restrict liquidity, it reduces the paper-economy and thus the real-economy’s contracts, deals and transactions. Money is central government’s permission to work. It is a “medium of exchange and a means of account” it is bookkeeping. Food, houses, energy, clothes, vehicles, electronics, entertainment, health-care etc are the real-economy. There HAS to be enough liquidity in the Money-Economy to enable the transactions we want to effect in the ever growing Real-Economy.

$1 TRILLION is a bit more than a drop in the ocean, it matches the annual amount of tax-evasion-capital-flight, but what is really needed is all the $21 Trillion that is Off-Shore to be brought back On-Shore. The corporate and individual tax dodgers must put the money back they have siphoned out over the past 30 years; if not voluntarily, then via false accounting and Back-Duty-Tax cases – “guilty until proved innocent” – send in the Marines.

NB - Remember that all proficient tax-planners guarantee their schemes in writing. Check your advisors’ guarantee and Professional Indemnity Insurance.

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• LONDON FLOODING
• BRITAIN FLOODS - CALIFORNIA DRYS

• LONDON FLOODS 

• REPUBLICANS AGAINST ARCTIC MELTDOWN 
• MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND 

• SEA-LEVEL AND MELTDOWN 
• ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC WARMING – SEA LEVEL RISES 
• CLIMATE CHANGE and NEW YORK  
• DOOMSDAY – LONDON & NEW YORK FLOOD 

• STORM WARNINGS – HURRICANE SANDY 
• FLOODS, POLAR ICE CAPS - BLOG ARCHIVE

• LONDON FLOODS - 300ft UNDERWATER 
• GLOBAL FLOODS - READ ALL ABOUT IT! 
• S.O.S. – ARCTIC ICE MELTING 
• NOAH'S FLOOD - 2012-25 
• FLOOD ALERT 
• MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND - CLIMATE CHANGE 
• MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND - THE CURSE OF ST. SWITHIN. 
• “MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND & MOVE YOUR MONEY ON-SHORE!... 
• BIRD-FLU AND FLOOD INSURANCE 

GOOD NEWS – NO NEED TO SCOWL.

"YOU TOO WOULD BE CLINICALLY DEPRESSED
IF YOU HAD WEAR THESE CLOTHES"

Sifting through the incoming media this morning, it is dominated by bad memories and bad news – of The Twin Towers 9-11; of the corrupt UK police in The Hillsborough Disaster; of a fire in a clothing factory killing 200; of a family shot in France; - all typified by yet more pictures of glaring, clinically depressed catwalk models presumably being starved and exploited by evil Paris fashion designers. Even Melvyn Bragg’s experts on the human-cell, on the radio show, In Our Time BBC4, described the baffling cellular miracle of life as bacteria, eukaryotes and other free bits and pieces being “…enslaved, forced, trapped, in a factory from which they have no escape”. Hey - What about mutually advantageous cooperation?  Doom. Doom. Doom.

But – hidden away on the inside pages, ignored today by the BBC and other broadcasters, is the news of legal ratification in Germany of an extra €500 billion granted to the European Central Bank – to boost its newly authorised role of buying up national bonds and debts of European Union countries.  This stabilises the Euro, saves Greece, Italy and Spain from meltdown and drives down Bond Yields (interest rates on government loans).  It saves the global economy from the various disasters the financial and popular media endlessly forecast. So the media should celebrate. Or have they been betting the other way?

TAX-IMPACT - As the European states firm up their teamwork and boundaries – the betting must be they will intensify recovery of tax-haven capital; ironically following the recent Greek initiatives, to repatriate their share of the $21 trillion off-shore.  Move your money on-shore – Move to higher ground.

NO TAX FOR NON-DOMS

PSST... YOU DON'T HAVE TO LIVE HERE.
BUT LET'S ALL PRETEND WE DO.

The infamous tax evader, Mrs Trellis of North Wales, who admits to interposing a tax-haven “service company” between her and her £27,000 a year job managing the canteen at BBC Caernarfon, and issuing sham E-invoices, today announced that she is changing her nationality to become a citizen of Andorra and has bought, on a pay-weekly-contract, a grave-plot there to “prove” her tax-domicile. In fact, Mrs Trellis will also keep her UK Passport and have dual nationality. By pretending to spend 90 days a year living in Douglas, Isle of Man – less than 50 miles across the sea from her home in Snowdonia – the UK tax authorities and courts will define her as a non-resident for tax purposes – and, as they do for many thousands of top UK people, will happily classify any money she imports from her Off-Shore company into Wales as non-taxable “CAPITAL”.  Prime Minister David Cameron and Chancellor George Osborne said “Most of our friends have off-shore arrangements; it is perfectly acceptable. Britain and The City must welcome and be a safe haven for overseas investors, like Mrs Trellis”.

Mrs Trellis’s controversial decision to “go Non-Dom” this week coincides with French billionaires, Bernaud Arnault and Baron Edouard de Rothschild, who are considering giving up their French nationalities to become Belgian and Israeli citizens respectively – to live in Monaco tax free. French citizens in Monaco pay French taxes.  

Mrs Trellis issued a statement saying “We entrepreneurial citizens of The Free Markets, who keep the wheels of commerce turning, must act in concert against the creeping evils of socialism. I work hard for my money – and I intend to keep it. Or, you’ll be telling me next to pay for all those so-called disabled Paralympians, lazy students and benefit scroungers …who ATOS has proved are fit to work down the mines – like my Dad did”.     

HOW TO BE NON-TAXABLE

Mrs Trellis and tax-planner  Blodwyn.
Thanks to the internet Mrs Trellis's
Tax affairs are now "Off-Shore"

For as little as $250 you can opt out of being a tax-payer. All it takes is a $100 company in a tax-haven like Delaware, or The Channel Islands, or Cayman and other Pirates of the Caribbean island hideaways - and a few dollars for a dummy director and dummy invoices; and pay no tax. Additionally - if you are not American - buy another citizenship and have dual nationality for tax purposes. Almost all top people do it - and pay hardly any tax. You can do it just as easily. Here is how an ordinary lady resigned from the taxpayer community:

Mrs Trellis of Snowdonia, North Wales, United Kingdom, writes:

We Welsh can teach the Greeks a thing or two about evading avoiding taxes. My nephew’s cousin, Blodwyn, is a really, really, really clever FCA (CPA) in Bangor, in a lovely little house by the Menai Straits, and she bought me a £100 Isle of Man Company for my birthday. My sister-in-law lives in Douglas on the island and we pretend I am tax-resident in the Isle of Man at her address. So, for my £27,000 a year job at BBC Caernarfon, Blodwyn makes up the invoices from my Service Company – Trellis Media Enterprises International (IoM) Ltd – sends them by E-mail to my sister-in-law, who posts them to the BBC “For Services Rendered” and they pay it into my “off-shore” account at Barclays, Douglas with no deductions at all.  I’m much better off. And the nice man at the BBC said it costs them a lot, lot less to employ me hire my services. It’s champion. Fortunately, Blodwyn’s brother-in-law’s second cousin once removed is head of our local tax office – and, nod, nod, wink, wink – he’s partially sighted in his left eye; so he never looks at my clever wheeze.  While only the posh Greeks can get away with it – even ordinary Welsh folk like me are now off-shore, just like the big companies and MPs. I can’t imagine why anyone pays tax these days.  

Mrs Trellis, Trellis Media Enterprises International (IoM) Ltd.
C/O Mrs Serena Kelly, 17 Harbour Road, Isle of Man, Europe.

GREEKS - PAY NO TAXES

ZEUS WANTS HIS MONEY BACK

SOMEWHAT SLIGHTLY IRRITATED GREEKS CROSS THE INTERNATIONAL BORDERS.

The larger the number of people who evade taxes – the sloppier their advisors become, putting their clients at greater risk.  Errors often cost 200% of the original tax-bill, multiplying the original by three; so it is important to get it completely right.

There are plenty of legal manoeuvres to minimise your tax-bills. All reliable professional tax-planners implicitly or explicitly guarantee their advice and mediation. They clearly identify, in writing, the tax savings they are engineering for you, in exchange for fees, and they guarantee, in writing, the outcome.  All professionals carry Professional Indemnity insurance, which they rely on if you are targeted for and lose a Back-Duty-Case. The advisor pays the taxes and costs; then recovers it from the insurers.  Check your guarantees.

In the USA, advisors can be convicted and imprisoned along with their evasive clients, which is a strong motivation to stay sharp and stay legal.

However – when “everybody does it” many tax-payers take no advice and many fly-by-night advisors give no guarantees and evaporate (to their own tax-havens) at the first sign of trouble. This is what is happening in Greece and to Greeks “safely” embedded in tax-havens.  As public anger erupts and starving citizens use their dwindling resources to buy a guillotine for the village square, even the most brass-necked, habitually cheating Greek bureaucrats are organising raids by their Financial Crimes Police in London, New York and tax-havens to claw-back the annual $28 billion evaded by the posh and powerful. When they examine the sloppy bookkeeping and alleged contracts (e.g. selling a $50 million Greek hotel to a London off-shore company for $0.5 million – or, via a back-to-back, borrowing $50 million from a Greek Bank secured on two old donkeys and a sick goat and transferring the $50 million to New York) then even Greek judges will find them guilty and repatriate all the capital – siphoned out over the past 30 years; which at today’s values totals $840 billion or 23 million jobs.  That will balance the books in Athens.  

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THE TROJAN HORSE? If Greece can claw-back $840 billion – calculate how much the EU, UK, USA, Japan, China etc will repatriate; perhaps most of the $21 trillion currently off-shore.  Check your advisor’s guarantees.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/sep/09/greece-tax-evasion-professional-classes

Primary Greek tax evaders are the professional classes - Greece is riddled with corruption, but a study shows that banks, politicians and professional workers are largely to blame (Guardian 10SEP12).

http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/adair.morse/research/AMTTaxEvasion.pdf

TAX EVASION ACROSS INDUSTRIES: SOFT CREDIT EVIDENCE FROM GREECE

NIKOLAOS ARTAVANIS ADAIR MORSE MARGARITA TSOUTSOURA

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University University of Chicago, Booth

School of Business and NBER University of Chicago, Booth School of Business June 25, 2012

YES, WE ARE BEING CONNED.

  

This nine step cycle shows why OECD governments are all claiming “There is no money; we are deep in debt; there are mountains of debt; you must lose your jobs, homes and take pay-cuts”.  They parrot this mantra despite the global economy having the most productive systems ever in human history and, thanks to automation, creating more real-wealth than was dreamed of even fifty years ago.

You know that you keep working hard. You do your bit for the economy. You pay your bills and taxes and pay into a pension fund. So, where does the ever increasing real-wealth go?

Via the international banks, the FREE MARKETS and the Internet – the bankers, lawyers and accountants who we once trusted to keep our money safe have been fiddling the books for themselves and big-business on a global scale. The paper-shufflers have become corrupt. To protect their crooked dealings they recruit anyone who might be a serious threat. They believe they can escape all taxes, gouge capital from Homeland economies and laugh all the way to the funny-money-banks in government approved tax-havens.  They corrupt IRS, HMRC, The Courts, media personnel, celebrities and elected representatives to join the happy throngs of tax-free tapeworms, off-shore.

In 2009, The OECD Paris, estimated there was $18 trillion off-shore. In July 2012, The Observer newspaper (UK) commissioned experts who estimated there is now $21 trillion in tax-havens.  That means that every year, one-trillion US dollars is hidden in tax-havens. Most of that $1 trillion is granted tax-relief by the nations that lose it.  One trillion dollars siphoned from our economies is 28 million jobs lost, every year.  $21 trillion invested back in the homelands would create 588 million jobs – and pay-off every deficit in the World.

It is a triple assault on our economies. “They” not only do not pay tax on income, but we are dumb enough to grant tax relief on sham invoices from potty little islands and protected jurisdictions such as Delaware, where “they” pretend to have major businesses. They are given tax-refunds at home AND they take all the capital offshore. All that really exists are brass-plates, bent lawyers and dummy directors. And THE LAW, the gravity and majesty of the law of our lands, pompously accepts these pantomimes as being real businesses.  They are fakes. They are false accounting. They are fraudulent conspiracies.  

Who are they?  Most major companies now have dozens of sham companies in tax-havens, just like ENRON had. Many wealthy families have sham “Trusts” or “Charities” in tax-havens. High earning celebrities pretend to by employed by companies in tax-havens. Doctors, dentists and plumbers have sham companies in tax havens. All the pretended transactions, the paperwork, that siphon money from the homeland to offshore are illegal. They have been illegal for 100 years. Ask Al Capone; ask Arthur Andersen, ENRON’s now banned auditors.

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It is time this nonsense stopped. The hidden money should all be assumed to be illicit in tax-law, assessed and repatriated. The honest owners will not be penalised by back-duty-tax investigations – but the majority breaks the rules and should be repatriated. It is time to invest the $21 trillion back into Greece, Spain, Italy, Japan, UK, USA and all OECD countries; so that we can move on into the next phase of economic and human development. We must shake loose from the paralysed, terrified “owners” of the offshore hoards, sitting on their hands and stopping the healthy circulation of money – and put the $21 trillion back to work.  

Where are the World Statesmen and Women brave enough to shout “The King has no clothes” and bring an end to these disgraceful con-tricks. In the meantime – the next idiot or complicit banker, economist or politician who bleats “…but there’s no more money”  - throw them into the local duck pond.  

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