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thespaceinvader posted:It's in banks which are nominally headquartered there. The Cayman Islands are the stereotypical place because they were the first to offer that sort of offshore company registration to the US (the Channel Islands had been doing it for the UK for longer, and of course Switzerland has been doing it pretty much for its entire existence), so it gets into the culture like through that Simpsons clip. Basically any small country with not many natural resources or anything else to base an economy on does this kind of brass-plate scam to a greater or lesser extent, and it's pretty much the only thing the UK economy has been running on since the late 80s. The UK is more attractive (for now) than, say, the Turks or Caicos Islands, because there are also assets in the UK that can be bought, sold, leased and loaned by your brass plate company to launder your money as well as skipping taxes in your home country, it's a convenient one-stop shop for people who need a new form of guillotine inventing for them.
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Oct 23, 2020 10:48
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goddamnedtwisto posted:people who need a new form of guillotine inventing for them. 
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thespaceinvader posted:I wonder what the new terms chosen for the Axis and the Allies will be this time when we're in the Axis... This does not bode well for us in the long term.
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If you want a sort of gentle primer on offshore banking and the Panama Papers you could watch the Steven Soderbergh movie from last year, The Laundromat. It's pretty much a failed attempt at replicating The Big Short and is kinda  but it's mildly diverting with a good cast
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Oct 23, 2020 11:02
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Payndz posted:History has shown that fascism is not defeated in the marketplace of ideas, but by unrestrained military action smashing its armed forces, its industrial base and its civilian population into rubble. Smashing the British industrial base into rubble could be done by six navvies in an afternoon. It would be a war where the fascists started in the bunker, digging down.
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Oct 23, 2020 11:05
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thanks for all the responses confirming that the Cayman Islands are indeed a huge loving scam perpetrated by the rich upon us. I'll add it to the pile
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Oct 23, 2020 11:11
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happyhippy posted:. For the millionth time in this thread, Murdoch sold Sky almost three years ago. That's why he's starting a new news channel. IMO Sky News is actually pretty alright these days, especially compared to BBC and ITV.
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Oct 23, 2020 11:14
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I just watched a little summary thing of the final US presidential debate on the BBC and if they havent edited it heavily to push the one over the other I think Trump looks pretty good and Biden looks awful.
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Oct 23, 2020 11:26
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Payndz posted:History has shown that fascism is not defeated in the marketplace of ideas, but by unrestrained military action smashing its armed forces, its industrial base and its civilian population into rubble.
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Oct 23, 2020 11:30
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blunt posted:For the millionth time in this thread, Murdoch sold Sky almost three years ago. Yeah if I'm having the news on it'll be either 4 or Sky. I never would've said that a few years ago. BBC News is just bizarre to watch. So often the big stories of the day go either completely unmentioned or they're a footnote after some 'feelgood' "dying boy walks twenty miles to feed his family" poo poo.
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Oct 23, 2020 11:31
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Necrothatcher posted:thanks for all the responses confirming that the Cayman Islands are indeed a huge loving scam perpetrated by the rich upon us. I'll add it to the pile In some ways, it IS the pile. All the other fuckery only really makes sense in the context of having somewhere to stash the loot, and there are literal trillions flowing through these tax havens
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Oct 23, 2020 11:36
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Saw Nicky Morgan on Question Time and got very angry when I remembered she stood down as an MP and was immediately elevated to the Lords, thus ensuring she keeps her career, money, and power but can't be voted out. Just like several of the other utter cunts. How can we claim to be a democracy when you can literally vote out your representative and the government can go "Nah" and allow them to keep their job as a legislator? Labour really need to abolish the lords if they get in.
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Oct 23, 2020 11:40
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Iran is one of only two countries in the world where religious leaders get automatic seats in the upper house. Where's Tommeh on this?
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Oct 23, 2020 11:44
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What a oval office in the Post Office this morning, wandering about looking at the things on the shelves while shouting at his partner on speakerphone (which he had left on the counter) all while one staff member was counting his money and the other was trying to serve me. No mask of course.
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Oct 23, 2020 11:44
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Who will be backing this exciting new movement https://twitter.com/FreeNorthNow/status/1319353669633138693
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Oct 23, 2020 11:45
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peanut- posted:Who will be backing this exciting new movement Me definitely, it is rare to see this kind of thing that doesn't lump me in with known cunts The English. Northern Republic Now!
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Oct 23, 2020 11:47
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I'd prefer Mercian independence but I'll throw in my lot with Northumbria over England. e: Also Northampton don't get to play because they say bath wrong.
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Oct 23, 2020 11:53
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https://twitter.com/ASRomaEN/status/1319532132822323201 Foreign football clubs are cheering an English player on as he tries to feed English kids. 2020 is a wild ride.
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Oct 23, 2020 12:01
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peanut- posted:Who will be backing this exciting new movement I'm glad they're taking norwich.
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Oct 23, 2020 12:01
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blunt posted:For the millionth time in this thread, Murdoch sold Sky almost three years ago. Ok my bad. And Sky imo is getting worse. It's more peoples opinions on the street than actual news facts. All the covid poo poo for example, you get them interviewing a few people all grumbling that they have to suffer, then tacked on at the end are the new rules or whatever is the actual changes.
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Oct 23, 2020 12:02
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NotJustANumber99 posted:I'm glad they're taking norwich. Because it deserves so much better than to be a part of England right?
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Oct 23, 2020 12:03
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stev posted:Because it deserves so much better than to be a part of England right? No. But you're right, if they draw the line a bit straighter I could be northumbrian too.
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Oct 23, 2020 12:05
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peanut- posted:Who will be backing this exciting new movement That map is monstrous. Straighten the Scottish border so it goes to Bamborough. Get rid of the bit of Wales that goes into the Pennines. Straight line across that salient that includes places like Warwick & Northampton. Give Cornwall & Devon & Somerset to Wales.
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Oct 23, 2020 12:13
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peanut- posted:Who will be backing this exciting new movement Big fan of the dramatic expansion of Wales to liberate the marches
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Oct 23, 2020 12:15
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forkboy84 posted:That map is monstrous. Straighten the Scottish border so it goes to Bamborough. Get rid of the bit of Wales that goes into the Pennines. Straight line across that salient that includes places like Warwick & Northampton. Give Cornwall & Devon & Somerset to Wales. i’m assuming this is the map after an extended civil war thou
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Oct 23, 2020 12:15
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Jel Shaker posted:i’m assuming this is the map after an extended civil war thou That's no excuse for not having straight borders
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Oct 23, 2020 12:16
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Jel Shaker posted:i’m assuming this is the map after an extended civil war thou Kind of, it's a map of the Tripartite Indenture, an agreement to divide the Kingdom of England among the three leaders of the rebellion against Henry IV in 1405.
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Oct 23, 2020 12:17
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Reveilled posted:Kind of, it's a map of the Tripartite Indenture, an agreement to divide the Kingdom of England among the three leaders of the rebellion against Henry IV in 1405. I'll bet they were an unbearable bunch of cunts to hang around with
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Oct 23, 2020 12:21
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forkboy84 posted:That's no excuse for not having straight borders Hey. Those borders should be allowed to love anyone they like. Though seriously Boris needs to stop spontaneously making GBS threads himself and get a loving grip.
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Oct 23, 2020 12:23
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Draw two lines below Sheffield but above Warwick, the midlands can be the new DMZ
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Oct 23, 2020 12:23
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the sex ghost posted:Draw two lines below Sheffield but above Warwick, the midlands can be the new DMZ It's not already? how do you explain Stoke?
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Oct 23, 2020 12:30
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forkboy84 posted:That's no excuse for not having straight borders - The Foreign Office, 1919
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Oct 23, 2020 12:31
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Grey Hunter posted:It's not already? how do you explain Stoke? Having been exceptionally, snowblind drunk in a garden in stoke I find it best not to explain stoke at all.
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Oct 23, 2020 12:33
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goddamnedtwisto posted:- The Foreign Office, 1919 any excuse to post this again (you'll need your VPN set to US) cc.com/video-clips/kovgs5/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-sir-archibald-mapsalot-iii
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Oct 23, 2020 12:46
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Sending this to Brussels
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Oct 23, 2020 12:50
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Guavanaut posted:Sending this to Brussels Finally, Anglesey is free
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Oct 23, 2020 12:56
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Well then... Regarde Aduck posted:Finally, Anglesey is free
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Guavanaut posted:Sending this to Brussels Isle of Wight given to London, Portsmouth in Wingland. I approve
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I'm more partial to this:
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