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9/30/22
Ukraine war: Putin announces annexation of Donesk region after Russia's scam referendum
Putin and leaders of the four regions signed treaties to annex Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhia – a move which has been denounced as illegal by Ukraine and Western powers.
6/30/21
Investigation – Web of bogus firms covertly using real company addresses -by John Mulligan
There’s now growing evidence of an organised fraud network that is exploiting glaring gaps in enforcement here to create legal entities in Ireland that can then be used for criminal activity anywhere in the world.
Investigation – Web of bogus firms covertly using real company addresses - Independent.ie
Investigation – Web of bogus firms covertly using real company addresses - Independent.ie
1/1/21
The Netherlands : Passengers out of Schiphol airport need to produce a useless certificate costing € 180 they have been tested Coronavirus negative
Need to travel somewhere by plane? On top of your ticket cost, also count on dishing out an additional € 180.00, to do a coronavirus test at a KLM approved Healthcare Services Center.
Inquiries, however, made with Government authorities (RIVM) show it is completely pointless to undergo a corona test if you have no symptoms. There is no proven validity to be linked to the result of these tests, because the results can vary from day to day.
The GGD -"Dutch Government municipal health organisation for preventive healthcare", will perform this Coronavirus test for free at local municipality health centers in the Netherlands,in case a local resident believes he or she has the symptoms of the virus. Unfortunately this free test is not considered acceptable by the KLM ticketing services at Schiphol.
Hopefully the government authorities will be looking at this absurd procedure, which looks more like a money making scam by the KLM Schiphol authorities.
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Inquiries, however, made with Government authorities (RIVM) show it is completely pointless to undergo a corona test if you have no symptoms. There is no proven validity to be linked to the result of these tests, because the results can vary from day to day.
The GGD -"Dutch Government municipal health organisation for preventive healthcare", will perform this Coronavirus test for free at local municipality health centers in the Netherlands,in case a local resident believes he or she has the symptoms of the virus. Unfortunately this free test is not considered acceptable by the KLM ticketing services at Schiphol.
Hopefully the government authorities will be looking at this absurd procedure, which looks more like a money making scam by the KLM Schiphol authorities.
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6/23/19
Middle East: EU must counter Kushner's so-called 'peace' plan considered a scam- by Wadih Al-Asmar
The Donald Trump administration is set to unveil its long-awaited "peace plan" for the Middle East later this year.
This so-called "Deal of the Century" is likely to be no more than a big sham, and the US-led 25 and 26 June economic peace workshop in Bahrain will hardly change this perception.
The US-launched "economic peace" workshop conference in Bahrain is a new step in a series of unilateral measures to pressure the Palestinian Authority, undermine Palestinian refugee rights and rule out the international status of Jerusalem.
In Bahrain, the EU should reject anything departing from international law principles and any attempt to diminish Palestinian self-determination and fundamental rights.
EU must counter Kushner's so-called 'peace' plan
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This so-called "Deal of the Century" is likely to be no more than a big sham, and the US-led 25 and 26 June economic peace workshop in Bahrain will hardly change this perception.
As Federica Mogherini confirmed on Monday, the EU is participating: it's time for the EU to make its voice heard.
Despite the countless delays and ambiguities as to what its 'peace plan' may entail, the US administration has made no effort to hide what's in store.
Despite the countless delays and ambiguities as to what its 'peace plan' may entail, the US administration has made no effort to hide what's in store.
The US-launched "economic peace" workshop conference in Bahrain is a new step in a series of unilateral measures to pressure the Palestinian Authority, undermine Palestinian refugee rights and rule out the international status of Jerusalem.
In Bahrain, the EU should reject anything departing from international law principles and any attempt to diminish Palestinian self-determination and fundamental rights.
EU must counter Kushner's so-called 'peace' plan
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6/25/18
Turkey - the Presidential elections: Erdogan wins following a rigged election and can now rule Turkey with very little opposition
Neutvoom says that a lot of investors "don't agree with his position
on the central bank." Erdogan said last month from London that he wants
greater control of monetary policy and suggested he wanted to control
interest rates. This worries investors as it could mean a loss of
independence at the central bank.Turkey's
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan won sweeping new executive powers after
his so called "victory" in landmark elections on Sunday.But Erdogan was not the only person to claim a victory. His Islamist-rooted AK Party and its nationalist allies also secured a parliamentary majority
.
But what do the election results mean for Turkey and the rest of the world?
Turkey's currency has fallen some 20% this year against the dollar. Erdogan has repeatedly called on Turks to convert their euro and dollar savings into lira to help bolster the ailing currency.
While Erdogan's victory is likely to be positive for the lira in the short term, Nora Neutrvoom, an economist at ABN Amro told Euronews that the "Turkish economy will face a severe slowdown."
Turkey has long been vying for full EU membership. Last month, Erdogan said getting a fully fledged membership was a "strategic goal" for Turkey. But that looks unlikely after widespread criticism following the mass arrests and crack down on civil rights since the aborted coup of July 2016.
Note EU-Digest: Unfortunately no one in his right mind believes that these election results represent an accurate reflection of the facts .
It is nearly impossible, as was reported by the government controlled media, that 59 million votes were counted by hand in only a little over three hours.
Another first for Turkey was that Erdogan announced he had won, before the official Turkish election board did.
Erdogan called this election, which in reality was a total scam, a "celebration of Democracy", regardless of the fact that he had shut-down all the opposition's access to the media.
In this context, one should also not forget that Turkey presently has more journalists in prison than any other country in the world.
Bottom line: Erdogan can now rule Turkey without opposition as Turkey's economy slowly disintegrates.
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12/5/17
Tax Havens: EU blacklist of tax havens is a sham says EPSU
The second list includes countries like EU candidates Turkey, Serbia and Montenegro, as well as Switzerland, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Morocco, Thailand, Vietnam and Hong Kong.
It also includes entities that are considered as being among the main tax havens but which have promised to change their legislation: Bermuda, the Cayman Islands as well as UK-associated Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man.
Eight countries and territories recently hit by hurricanes - Antigua and Barbuda, Anguilla, Bahamas, British Virgin Islands, Dominica, St Kitts and Nevis, Turks and Caicos, US Virgin Islands - were given a grace period until February to come up with commitments.
The list
excludes the most active harmful tax countries or jurisdictions
including Benelux, Ireland, Malta, Cyprus, Switzerland, British channel
islands, US Delaware, Singapore or Hong-Kong. Even Bermuda, that hosts
the Paradise’s offshore services firm Appleby, did not make it to the
list.
Jan Willem Goudriaan, General Secretary of EPSU, said “This
tax havens list is a big sham. EU Finance Ministers have failed to
agree a coherent and transparent blacklist with deterring sanctions to
make it effective. Coupled with the cuts in corporate taxes in many EU
countries, today’s decision means that tax competition in and outside
Europe will continue to run the show at the expense of workers’ wages
and quality public services.
It also means that
trade unions, NGOs, investigative journalists and whistleblowers will
need to continue to do the transparency job that governments are not
willing to do.”
Nick Crook, head of international for the UK's largest public services trade union UNISON said: “It’s
disappointing that this list fails to name some of the world’s biggest
tax haven offenders. The international community needs to do much more
to tackle tax avoidance, and offshore tax scams that are happening on a
grand scale. The richest individuals in our society should be making the
biggest contribution to our public services – not hiding money abroad,
and shirking their obligations”
On the international scene,
as tax rules for the digital economy are being discussed, this list is a
sign that the EU is losing its credibility on fair tax.
EPSU is the European Federation of Public Service Unions.
It is the largest federation of the ETUC and comprises 8 million public
service workers from over 260 trade unions; EPSU organises workers in
the energy, water and waste sectors, health and social services and
local, regional and central government, in all European countries
including the EU’s Eastern Neighborhood. EPSU is the recognized regional organization of Public Services International (PSI). For more information please go to: http://www.epsu.org
4/1/11
Chinese 'euro coin scam' leads to arrests in Germany
Police in Germany have arrested six people - four of them ethnic Chinese - suspected of cashing in invalid euro coins worth about 6m euros.Broken coins are believed to have been sold to buyers in China as scrap metal, then welded back together, flown back to Germany and exchanged for banknotes at the Bundesbank - the central bank.
For more: BBC News - Chinese 'euro coin scam' leads to arrests in Germany
10/20/08
EU-Digest: Airlines scamming passengers on fuel surcharges: Surcharges paying the bulk of airline fuel bills
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Airlines scamming passengers on fuel surcharges: Surcharges paying the bulk of airline fuel bills
The cost of jet fuel for a transatlantic flight on British Airways can now be paid by the airline company almost completely by surcharges that are levied on passengers, according to a recent report. Beginning in May, BA added fuel surcharges to its ticket prices, with passengers paying from euro 100 to 130 additional on long-haul services of less than nine hours’ duration. These charges bring in euro 14.000 to the carrier on a 224-seat Boeing 777 London-New York flight. The same is true for flights on Virgin Atlantic. For some time, airlines have complained about the cost of fuel. Manufacturer testing shows that a Boeing 777 carrying 305 passengers typically requires 44 tons of fuel on a London-New York run. The estimate includes cargo and luggage in the calculation. At current oil prices of euro 600.85 a ton, the cost to the carrier would be euro 15.021.00, which would be nearly covered by fuel surcharges. Only very few airline companies reduced the fuel charges as fuel cost dropped dramatically during the past two months.
Many other airlines including KLM/Airfrance are involved in this "extra fuel surcharges" scam and several consumer organizations are not only looking into these charges, but are also planning to take legal action. In the meantime the European Parliament has been requested by representatives of European political parties to look into the matter. It was disclosed on Dutch TV this evening that there is also no transparency as to how these surcharges are calculated by the airline companies.
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