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Going Hot, in gun range lingo, is putting your finger on the trigger.
Going hot, in culture-war lingo, is when ever growing sociopolitical contentious issues finally explode, and a continually building "Cold Civil War" goes hot.
Vic Biorseth, Sunday, October 27, 2019
When the inevitable war starts, and your mortal enemy is inside your city walls, then you have to fight the enemy inside your own city walls.
And once you are desperately fighting the enemy who is already inside your city walls, it is then too late to to ask how you ever allowed your mortal enemy to get inside your city walls, before the war commenced.
In Cold Civil War we described how Marxism, the mortal enemy of America, the Church and all that is good, "came in peace" through the gateway of Cultural Marxism, infiltrated and eventually commandeered our own formal education, news reporting and entertainment industries and began making our own children into our enemies.
In Civilization Jihad we described how Islam, another mortal enemy of America, the Church and all that is good, "came in peace" through the gateway of the Taqiyya "Islam Is Peace" lie, and began emulating the Cultural Marxism movement in infiltrating education, news reporting and entertainment industries, to convert our own children and make them our enemies.
Back then, we didn't think Islam-inside-the-walls was as big a threat to the Constitution and to the nation as was Marxism, because Marxism had been dominating and changing education for the worse for upwards of a hundred years, since Joseph Stalin first sent his evil secret agents out into the outside world, to poison it.
Richard Thomopson video describing sneaky, underhanded "Stealth Jihad"
Now, as we see in the Thomas More Law Center revelations, Islam, too, is conquering and commandeering American education, following in the footsteps of Cultural Marxism.
Marxism and Islam, both, are irreconcilably opposed to every point in our Constitution, every Constitutional Right we enjoy, our Religion, and our Judaeo-Christian Morality. Marxism and Islam are thus opposed to our very way of life; our faith, our freedom, our property, even our very thoughts.
Both Marxism and Islam are, in the end, absolutely and ruthlessly dictatorial. Their histories prove it. Their ultimate aim is global dictatorship.
Marxism has been "popularizing" itself at our expense for upwards of a hundred years, and Islam has been following suite for at least 20 years. Both Marxism and Islam are irreconcilable mortal enemies of America and of Christianity and Judaism.
And they are right here in America, teaching our children. We let them in.
Marxism feeds immorality, disorder, rebellion and social chaos
As a mortal enemy of God and all that is good, Marxism is compelled to attack all proper sense of good order in society.
Everything the Marxocrat Party stands for is opposed to our religion, our Constitution and our own sense of uprightness, and even our natural instinctive sense of right and wrong.
The more ordered a society is, the more distinct and identifiable it is.
Both Marxism and Islam are "distinct" among societies, but they are not good; indeed, they are evil. Their ultimate goal, after all, is domination and dictatorial rule of all other existing societies.
The anti-American Marxocrat Party has already had major successes in weakening the Constitution through applying unconstitutional strategies, involving Marxocrat Party controlled courts, "regulating" agencies and bureaucracies and executive actions to establish immoral "rights" that overpower actual existing Constitutional Rights. They never use actual Legislation to establish immoral law. But in one case, Obamacare, they did indeed use Legislation, made it into law despite having to violate their oaths of office and the Constitution to do it. So the whole Congress cooperated to do that particular blatantly immoral and completely unconstitutional deed.
Other examples abound.
The right to abort people is a direct violation of the absolute Constitutional Right to Life.
The existence of hate-speech laws (regulations, rules, etc.) is a direct violation of the absolute Constitutional Right to Free Speech.
Marxist Redistributionism (graduated income taxes, etc.) is a direct violation of the absolute Constitutional right to Private Property.
The existence of laws prohibiting discrimination against immoral people, sexual perverts and deviates is a direct violation of the absolute Constitutional Right to Liberty, and to freedom of personal association.
Unconstitutionally established Separation of Church and State is a twisting of the Constitutional Right to Freedom of Religion into a socially and morally destructive militant secularization and religious cleansing of America of Christianity.
Protecting Islam under the Freedom of Religion principle is a twisting of the Constitutional Right to admit into America, and even into the American political process, a "religion" that aims to eliminate the Constitutional Right to Freedom of Religion, and all of the rest of the Constitution along with it.
Special rights for minorities, women, perverts and whole classes of immoral behaviors are direct violations of the absolute Constitutional Right to Equal treatment before the law.
We could go on, almost indefinitely. The object of the Marxocrats is a combination of fiscal irresponsibility, economic disaster and social chaos leading to an "emergency" overturning or overruling the Constitution and the electoral process, whether by revolution or any other means.
The establishment of a dictatorship with dictatorial power in America.
The anti-American claim that Constitutional Rights are not absolute rights is a lie. Every right in the Bill Of Rights, and elsewhere in the Constitution, are absolute, so long as they are exercised morally. Shouting "Fire!" in a crowded theater when there is no fire is a lie, and therefore immoral, and an abusive misuse of a right.
What is being destroyed is a common sense of simple morality, which is being replaced by ever growing piles of nonsensical and even immoral laws, rules and regulations. And a lack of respect for and even a near total dismissal of the Constitution itself.
The Marxocrat Party has virtually eliminated any sense of morality in America and especially in American courts of law, along with the near total systematic elimination of Christianity from all political and legal discourse. Establishing and growing an evil social sense of "fairness" toward immorality, evil and ungodliness, which should be shamed, shunned and discriminated against wherever it is not outlawed entirely.
After nearly a hundred years of the unresisted, systematic popularizing of Communism and demonizing of America, we now see blatant hatred of America and favor toward Communism on open display even on American football fields and basketball courts, quite regularly.
All proper sense of distinct American peoplehood and patriotism is buried beneath the rising, stinking pile of Multiculturalism that is acting to destroy all sense of distinction among people. All Marxocrat Party political agenda items feed it. Open borders; no immigration law; no customs law; no institutionalizing the insane; emptying prisons; legalized dope; providing free dope; demonizing cops; opposing rule of law; health care for criminal aliens; citizenship and voting rights for criminal aliens; sanctuary cities; the whole "green new deal"; taxing and behavior-modifying for "climate control" and other such insanities.
Trying to legislate the weather, for crying out loud.
Young Americans today do not even know who they are. They do not even know what America is really about. They are steeped in terrifying falsehoods. They are preoccupied and obsessed with nonsense.
This is massive social chaos on a level never dreamed of, even by the evil ends-justify-the-means inventor, Niccolo Machiavelli himself.
The groundwork has been laid for another American Civil War.
Marxism did the same thing inside the Catholic Clerical Order
With history's first "Pope Emeritus" shuffled aside and the somewhat dubious election of Pope (Anti-Pope?) Francis, we now see everything from
known homosexual priests, bishops and cardinals everywhere;
to serial acts of pedophilia and pederasty by Catholic clerics;
to purposeful secret payoffs and criminal cover-ups of crimes by clerics, to moving them around to protect them and allow them to continue their criminal behavior against newer victims elsewhere;
to scandalous misuses of Church funds and properties;
to homo-friendly Parishes flying the rainbow fag-flag;
to the rise again of formerly condemned liberation theology, Marxist-tinged social justice, attention swinging away from theology and into secular politics, opposition to nations and national governments and favoring of nation-destroying Marxist global frauds such as climate change;
to encouraging of the elimination of national borders and national sovereignty, and the encouragement of illegal mass migrations from the third world to Western nations to cause social chaos;
to a "Pope" not condemning the known homosexuality all around him, and actively promoting and protecting well known homosexual clerics;
to Papal dabbling in old condemned heresies such as Socialism, syncretism and even arianism;
to see-no-evil, hear-no-evil, speak-no-evil cowardly clerics up and down the line, traitors to the faith, traitors to the Church and traitors the Priesthood, who know full well what's going on and never say one single word against any part of it. To us, the victim laity, theirs is the worst sin of all, by far.
All of this sinful activity proves that a majority of the current Catholic clerical order cares less for the souls in their care than they do for maintaining the status quo and pretending all is well, and that if it is not, then they know nothing about any of it.
The McCarrick scandal let the cat out of the bag. Everybody knew all about it and did nothing.
Everybody.
What does a hot civil war look like?
The Revolutionary War was, in fact, a civil war as well as a war for independence from England. The Continental Army fought Loyalists as well as Redcoats, all throughout the war. There were significant numbers of colonial citizens who were loyal to the Crown, and loyal enough to fight and die for it.
It was a rending for families. Brother against brother, and cousin, and father against son. In this respect, it was particularly horrible; it was much worse than going to war against a foreign power. It involved the shedding of our own blood, neighbor against neighbor, family member against family member.
Yet it had to be done.
The Civil War was thus at least a partial repeat of history. It was all over the Equality right, declared among the Equality, Life, Liberty and Property inalienable rights declared in the Declaration. They were all described as individual rights established by God, and therefore impervious to the power of man to take them away.
But, equality of all men before the law meant an end to slavery. And there was a rich and powerful plantation-owning new Planter Class of citizens who would not give up their slaves. These would later coalesce into what would be known as the Democrat Party. At the time of the Declaration, they were powerful enough to keep Jefferson's abolition of slavery point out of the Declaration, by one vote.
That one vote was what would inevitably lead to the Civil War.
Once upon a time, when American history was taught properly and truthfully, the vital importance of even one vote was impressed upon all students, for this reason. No more. Young people today have no clue as to what either the Revolutionary War or the Civil War were all about.
They have been mal-educated, indoctrinated and propagandized.
The idea of Jefferson and the other framers of the Declaration was for all of them, and everyone in the Colonies, to free their slaves all at the same time, so that no one would maintain the economic advantage over everyone else that employing slaves would promise. Otherwise, those who freed their slaves would be driven to abject poverty by those who did not free their slaves, because of the huge economic advantage of slave drivers over non-slave drivers.
If slavery were simply ended, it was entirely possible that some if not most slaves would stay in the paid employment of their former masters for some time, to build up their own fortunes before moving on, preventing an immediate economic catastrophe. But the Planters wouldn't have it, and their Colonies were desperately needed to stay united in the union, to stand against mighty England. To keep all the Colonies united in the effort, immediate abolition was abandoned.
So the rich planters were able to keep the abolition of slavery out of the Declaration, but the Equality right remained in, and that would lead to the eventual end of slavery, although at the cost of another Civil War.
The Planter Class became the Democrat Party, which became the Confederate Party, which seceded from the United States to form the Confederate States of America, which started the Civil War.
It was all over the Equality versus Slavery issue. Teachers who claim otherwise are liars. Each state that joined the Confederacy had to be a slave state, and sign on to an interstate legal agreement opposing abolition, and allowing slave catchers to cross state lines pursuing runaway slaves, the authority to capture them, and return across state lines to deliver the slaves back to their owners, for money.
After the Civil War, the right to Equality was fixed in the Fourteenth Amendment as a Constitutional Right, as it should have been in the Fifth Amendment, along with Life Liberty and Property. The power of the Democrat Party to stop Equality was broken, or so it was thought.
But the Democrat Party was alive and well as a political force to be reckoned with in Washington DC and in the north as well as all across the southland. The post-Civil War Democrat Party gave birth to the KKK, lynching and terrorism of blacks, but also of Catholics, Jews and the northern Carpet-Baggers spoken of in National Existence.
Democrats were responsible for all the Jim-Crow laws, for the "segregation forever" movement and for all the opposition to the Republican supported Martin Luther King equal-rights movement.
And then they went all the way Marxist, and pretended to be the exact opposite of what they were, and the actual champions of black rights. And, with the aid of Marxist education, Marxist news reporting and the whole Marxist entertainment industry, they were wildly successful in winning over the black American vote. And keeping it.
The necessary American social division, peaceful or otherwise
What was the original Christian social division initiated by Christ? From Luke 12, we read this:
I am come to cast fire on the earth; and what will I, but that it be kindled? And I have a baptism wherewith I am to be baptized: and how I am straitened until it be accomplished?
Think ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation. For there shall be from henceforth five in one house divided: three against two, and two against three. The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against his father, the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother, the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
Jesus was a Jew, preaching, first, to the Jews. All would not accept Him, from the very beginning. The Apostles and the Disciples were a minority among the Jews. All the leaders, the political parties of the day, the Pharisees and the Sadducees, preferred to not yield up either their worldly political power or their theological authority to this upstart who claimed to be Son of God.
Jewish households were divided, and breaking up over it. It was a very serious thing, to divide a strong Jewish family, for anyone to ever turn against the father of the household.
And that appears to be the situation we find ourselves in today.
In the Church, we have newer generations virulently opposed to a Catholic Tradition that they never properly learned.
In politics, we have newer generations virulently opposed to a Declaration and a Constitution and an honest history that they never even read.
Bottom line, we have to divide; we have to separate from them.
If they are opposed to the true faith, Catholics need to drive them out of the Church. They seek to displace the authority of God with the authority of mere men and their ever changing opinions.
If they are opposed to the rule of law, i.e., rule by the Constitution, Americans need to drive them out of America. They seek to displace the rule by Constitution with rule by men, as in all other nations, and let mere men compete for dictatorial rule, and the Supreme Law of the Land may be damned.
It doesn't matter if they have been fooled, and if they simply don't know any better. They are still anti-Catholic and/or anti-American. If they will not listen, if they will not accept and embrace Truth, then they must be made to depart from us.
This is what Civil War looks like.
The question is, as it has always been, who are we?
What kind of a person are you, and what kind of a people are we?
Post-election President Donald J. Trump has turned out to be a sign of contradiction, and the cause of the rise and the fall of many. A very real political sword of division, in our time. He has made the differences stark and clear, and put a time of decision for division upon all of us.
The Marxocrat Party directed Deep-State Shadow-Government attempted treasonous coup d'état, being now discovered and uncovered, brings desperation to the whole Marxocrat Party and their News Media. They need to bring Trump down, and somehow fire his Attorney General, quick, before they are all indicted, tried and convicted of their crimes.
Many are the Republicrats and the Never Trumpers who are caught up in this evil web. They are all in the same evil Washington Club. When one of them, say Joe Biden, goes down, he will bring a whole lot more of them with him, because of all the skeletons in all of the closets. What one of them has done to enrich himself or his family or his "foundations" they all have done themselves. They help each other enrich each other at taxpayer expense.
The Washington Swamp Trump is draining is not exclusively a Marxocrat swamp. Nor is is exclusively political. Corporations are in it too, and lobbyists, and news organizations, in partnership with the "intelligence community" traitors.
Desperation breeds real danger. Many a Republicrat criminal would willingly give up his seat in Congress or the Senate by voting to impeach Trump, in order to stay out of prison.
But how do they stop the investigation, even if Trump is impeached?
Assassination is not beyond their evil, nor is actual Civil War.
Many are they who will never admit that the jig is up, and go humbly to their own due justice. Even when it looks like they cannot win a Civil War, they will start one anyway. That's what the cornered rat does.
We don't know how this is going to turn out, but we can hope and pray for the best. Today, in the Latin Mass calendar, is the Feast of Christ The King.
And this is the prayer we prayed at Mass in His honor.
Act of Consecration of the Human Race to the Sacred Heart of Jesus
Most Sweet Jesus, Redeemer of the human race, look down upon us humbly prostrate before Thine altar. We are Thine, and Thine we wish to be; but to be more surely united to Thee, behold each one of us freely consecrates ourselves today to Thy Most Sacred Heart.
Many indeed have never known Thee; Many too, despising Thy precepts, have rejected Thee. Have mercy on them all, most merciful Jesus, and draw them to Thy Sacred Heart. Be Thou King, O Lord, not only of the faithful children, who have never forsaken Thee, but also of the prodigal children, who have abandoned Thee; Grant that they may quickly return to their Father's house lest they die of wretchedness and hunger.
Be Thou King of those who are deceived by erroneous opinions, or whom discord keeps aloof, and call them back to the harbor of truth and unity of faith, so that there may be but one flock and one Shepherd.
Be Thou King of all those who are still involved in the darkness of idolatry or of Islamism, and refuse not to draw them into the light and kingdom of God. Turn Thine eyes of mercy towards the children of the race, once Thy chosen people: of old they called down upon themselves the Blood of the Savior; may it now descend upon them a laver of redemption and of life.
Grant, O Lord, to Thy Church assurance of freedom and immunity from harm; give peace and order to all nations, and make the earth resound from pole to pole with one cry; praise to the Divine Heart that wrought our salvation; To it be glory and honor forever. R. Amen.
May His will be done.


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BIOX announces 2014 first quarter results
BIOX Corporation
TSX symbol: BX
TORONTO, Feb. 12, 2014 /CNW/ - BIOX Corporation (BIOX) (TSX: BX) today announced its fiscal 2014 first quarter (Q1 2014) financial results for the three-month period ended December 31, 2013.
Production of methyl esters was 15.2 million litres in Q1 2014 compared to 3.3 million litres in the first quarter of 2013 (Q1 2013), the lower production in Q1 2013 reflects the temporary shutdown of the Hamilton facility on October 25, 2012
Sales were $17.3 million in Q1 2014, compared to $9.5 million in Q1 2013
Operating loss was $1.8 million in Q1 2014 compared to an operating loss of $4.8 million in Q1 2013
Operating loss prior to non-cash items(1) was $0.5 million in Q1 2014 compared to $3.7 million in Q1 2013
Operating income prior to non-cash items was $0.8 million in Q1 2014 for BIOX's operating segment (BIOX Canada Limited and BIOX USA Limited) compared to an operating loss prior to non-cash items of $1.2 million in Q1 2013
Net loss was $1.9 million Q1 2014 compared to $5.1 million in Q1 2013
Loss per share was $0.04 in Q1 2014 compared to $0.11 Q1 2013
The public consultation period for the proposed Ontario Greener Diesel Mandate closed on December 16, 2013
"The fundamentals of the Canadian biodiesel market are becoming a key component of our addressable market. The inter-terminal pipeline together with the supply agreement with Shell Canada Limited and the proposed 2 percent greener diesel mandate in Ontario provide a greater level of market certainty than the U.S. market," said Kevin Norton, Chief Executive Officer of BIOX. "With the proposed Ontario mandate expected to take effect April 1, 2014 and our established supply agreement with Shell we are in a strong position to take advantage of growing demand in our local market."
Sales were $17.3 million for the three-month period ended December 31, 2013, compared with $9.5 million for the corresponding period last year. The 82 percent increase in sales was primarily the result of the 175 percent increase in litres of biodiesel sold due to the temporary shutdown of the Hamilton facility during the same period last year, partially offset by lower sales of separated RINs during the quarter.
Direct expenses were $16.2 million for the three-month period ended December 31, 2013, compared with $10.5 million for the corresponding period last year. The increase in direct expenses was primarily the result of higher sales volume in Q1 2014 due to the temporary shutdown of the Hamilton facility during the same period last year.
General and administrative expenses were $1.5 million for both the three-month periods ended December 31, 2013 and December 31, 2012.
Operating loss was $1.8 million for the three-month period ended December 31, 2013, compared with $4.8 million for the same period last year. The decrease in operating loss was primarily due to the temporary shutdown of the Hamilton facility during the same period last year.
Operating loss prior to non-cash items(1) was $0.5 million for the three-month period ended December 31, 2013, compared with $3.7 million for the same period last year.
Combined operating income prior to non-cash items(1) for BIOX's operating segment (BIOX Canada Limited and BIOX USA Limited) was $0.8 million for the three-month period ended December 31, 2013, compared with a combined operating loss prior to non-cash items of $1.2 million for the corresponding period last year. This increase was primarily due to the temporary shutdown of the Hamilton facility during the same period last year.
Net loss for the three-month period ended December 31, 2013, was $1.9 million or $0.04 per common share compared with a net loss of $5.1 million or $0.11 per common share in the corresponding period in 2012.
As at December 31, 2013, BIOX's cash balance amounted to $10.9 million, compared with $15.9 million on September 30, 2013. BIOX's working capital balance at December 31, 2013, was $16.0 million compared with $17.5 million at September 30, 2013. BIOX believes that its future cash flow from operations combined with its current financial resources are sufficient to enable BIOX to meet its ongoing working capital requirements.
As at December 31, 2013, BIOX had 45,728,791 common shares outstanding, as well as options to purchase up to 2,775,000 common shares, and share purchase warrants to acquire up to 1,982,143 common shares.
The draft 2014 Renewable Volume Obligation proposal released by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in November 2013 negatively impacted the value of biodiesel and Biomass-based diesel RINs through the end of calendar 2013. 2013 RIN values averaged approximately $0.28 through the month of December. This drop in RIN values was compounded by the expiry of the U.S. biodiesel tax incentive on December 31, 2013. Uncertainty surrounding the renewal of the biodiesel tax incentive could cause continued short term confusion in the market and pricing volatility.
The draft Renewable Volume Obligation proposal maintains the current volume requirement of biomass-based diesel at 1.28 billion U.S. gallons for 2014 and 2015. At this level the 2014 and 2015 volume requirements would actually fall below the 1.8 billion U.S. gallons that the U.S. Biomass-based diesel industry produced in 2013. The proposal has completed a 60-day review period that included public hearings. The EPA has indicated that it will take them a considerable amount of time to review and finalize the proposal. Based on that feedback, BIOX believes the proposal may not be finalized until mid 2014. 2014 RINs traded at approximately $0.60 (or $0.90 per U.S. gallon) as of February 11, 2014.
However, management believes that market conditions are improving in Canada. The full implementation of the biodiesel portion of the Canadian Renewable Fuel Content Regulations, and the Ontario biodiesel mandate proposed to commence in April 2014, are important elements of BIOX's addressable markets. While BIOX has historically sold the majority of its product into the U.S. market, the implementation of these Canadian regulations significantly increases the accessible market for its product in Canada. The implementation of a renewable diesel mandate in Ontario will provide BIOX with market certainty in its local region which supports the significant capital investment that it made in the Hamilton facility
BIOX's inter-terminal pipeline and supply agreement with Shell is an example of how the Company can service primary suppliers with a secure supply of biodiesel under the new Canadian and Ontario regulations. Management believes that, in time, the supply of biodiesel under this agreement has the potential to become a significant portion of BIOX's Hamilton production given the proposed implementation of an Ontario mandate and as the Canadian Renewable Fuel Content Regulations extend eastward into Québec and the Atlantic provinces.
BIOX continues to pursue growth strategies that would expand its business through increasing the volume of biodiesel it produces, controls and distributes in strategic locations throughout North America.
Notice of Conference Call
BIOX will hold a conference call today, February 13, 2014, at 9:00 a.m. ET hosted by Mr. Kevin Norton, Chief Executive Officer, and Mr. Chris Clinning, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, to discuss BIOX's financial results and corporate developments. To access the conference call by telephone, dial (647) 427-7450 or (888) 231-8191. To access the telephone replay, dial (416) 849-0833 or (855) 859-2056 and enter reservation number 53674500. A live audio webcast of the call will be available at www.bioxcorp.com. The webcast will be archived for 90 days.
1) Note: Non-IFRS Measures. Operating income prior to non-cash items is defined as operating income or loss less production facility depreciation and amortization, and less amortization of furniture, equipment and intangibles, and stock-based compensation. Management uses this measurement to monitor the operating cash flow of BIOX's business and believes this information is useful supplemental information to a reader of financial statements. This measurement may not be comparable to similar measures presented by other issuers. Investors are cautioned that operating income (loss) prior to non-cash items should not be construed as an alternative to net income (loss) determined in accordance with IFRS as an indicator of BIOX's performance.
Reconciliation of Non-IRFS Measures
The following table presents a reconciliation of operating income prior to non-cash items to net loss for the three-month periods ended December 31, 2013 and 2012:
(in thousands) Three months ended
Operating loss before non-cash items (508) (3,745)
Deduct: Production facility depreciation and
amortization (1,114) (912)
Depreciation and amortization of
equipment and intangible assets (86) (96)
Share-based compensation (48) (81)
Operating loss (1,756) (4,834)
Other income and expenses (143) (311)
Net loss (1,899) (5,145)
About BIOX Corporation
BIOX is a renewable energy company that owns and operates a 67 million litre per year continuous flow biodiesel production facility in Hamilton, Ontario. BIOX has an innovative, proprietary and patented production process that is capable of producing the highest quality, renewable, clean burning and biodegradable biodiesel fuel utilizing a variety of feedstocks - from pure seed oils to animal fats to recovered vegetable oils with no change to the production process. BIOX's high quality biodiesel fuel meets North American (ASTM D-6751) quality standards.
Certain statements in this press release constitute "forward-looking" statements that involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause the actual results, performance, objectives or achievements of BIOX, or industry results, to be materially different from any future results, performance, objectives or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Such statements relate to, among other things, BIOX's long-term expectations for the biodiesel market in light of current market conditions, the implementation of an Ontario biodiesel mandate and its effect on BIOX, the significance of sales under the supply agreement with Shell, and the ability of BIOX to realize on its cost savings programs. These statements reflect BIOX's current views regarding future events and operating performance, are based on information currently available to BIOX, and speak only as of the date of this press release. These forward-looking statements involve a number of risks, uncertainties and assumptions and should not be read as guarantees of future performance or results, and will not necessarily be accurate indications of whether or not such performance or results will be achieved. Those assumptions and risks include, but are not limited to, the fact that BIOX's results of operations and business outlook are highly dependent on a mix of legislation and producer payment programs and tax credits and upon commodity prices, which are subject to significant volatility and uncertainty. Many factors could cause the actual results, performance or achievements of BIOX to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements that may be expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements, including factors described in this press release and those discussed in BIOX's publicly available disclosure documents, as filed by BIOX on SEDAR (www.sedar.com) except as updated herein. Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or should assumptions underlying the forward-looking statements prove incorrect, actual results may vary materially from those described in this press release as intended, planned, anticipated, believed, estimated or expected. Unless required by applicable securities law, BIOX does not intend and does not assume any obligation to update these forward-looking statements.To the extent any forward-looking statements herein constitute financial outlook, they were approved by management as of the date hereof and have been included to provide an understanding with respect to BIOX's financial performance and are subject to the same risks and assumptions referred to herein. There can be no assurance that the plans, intentions or expectations upon which these forward-looking statements are based will occur and readers are cautioned that any financial outlook information contained in this news release should not be used for purposes other than for which it is disclosed herein.
Financial results included below:
Condensed consolidated interim statements of comprehensive loss
Three month periods ended December 31, 2013 and 2012
(Expressed in thousands of Canadian dollars, except share and per share amounts)
Revenue 17,269 9,475
Direct expenses 16,238 10,451
Production facility depreciation and amortization 1,114 912
Gross margin (83) (1,888)
General and administrative 1,539 1,510
Depreciation and amortization of equipment and intangible assets 86 96
Share-based compensation 48 81
Expansion planning and development - 1,259
Financing cost 320 340
Foreign exchange (gain) loss (151) 1
Net loss before interest income and income taxes (1,925) (5,175)
Income tax expense - (18)
Interest income 26 48
Net loss for the period (1,899) (5,145)
Other comprehensive loss
Foreign currency translation loss (37) (279)
Comprehensive loss (1,936) (5,424)
Loss per common share
Basic (0.04) (0.11)
Diluted (0.04) (0.11)
Weighted average number of common shares outstanding
Basic 45,735,195 45,748,691
Diluted 45,845,195 45,748,691
Condensed consolidated interim statements of changes in equity
Common share capital other
Warrants Equity comprehensive Total
Shares Amount reserve reserve income (loss) Deficit equity
# $ $ $ $ $ $
Balance, September 30, 2012 45,748,691 167,787 3,151 2,559 20 (107,972) 65,545
Share-based compensation - - - 81 - - 81
Net loss - - - - - (5,145) (5,145)
Foreign currency translation loss - - - - (279) - (279)
Balance, December 31, 2012 45,748,691 167,787 3,151 2,640 (259) (113,117) 60,202
Balance, September 30, 2013 45,748,691 167,787 3,151 2,926 (91) (110,813) 62,960
Share cancellation (19,900) (7) - - - - (7)
Repurchased shares
to be cancelled - (4) - - - - (4)
Foreign currency translation loss - - - - (37) - (37)
Condensed consolidated interim statements of financial position
As at December 31, 2013 and September 30, 2013
(Expressed in thousands of Canadian dollars)
December 31, September 30,
Cash and cash equivalents 10,880 15,909
Prepaid expenses 760 839
Inventory 5,317 5,143
Restricted cash 1,800 1,800
Property, plant and equipment 46,186 46,930
Intangible assets 879 912
Deferred income tax assets 10,306 10,276
Accounts payable and other liabilities 3,685 6,300
Current portion of long-term debt 1,500 1,500
Current portion of finance leases 25 31
Current portion of provisions 2,186 2,434
Finance leases 29 34
Long-term debt 10,475 10,849
Provisions 3,620 3,540
Common share capital 167,776 167,787
Warrants reserve 3,151 3,151
Equity reserve 2,974 2,926
Accumulated other comprehensive loss (128) (91)
Deficit (112,712) (110,813)
Condensed consolidated interim statements of cash flows
Add items not involving cash
Financing costs 182 223
Provision for unutilized tank storage (248) -
Income taxes paid - 18
Unrealized foreign exchange gain (222) (265)
Accretion of asset retirement obligation 80 70
(859) (4,010)
Net change in non-cash working capital balances
related to operations (2,948) 3,287
(3,807) (723)
Purchase of property, plant and equipment (828) (2,741)
Decrease in restricted cash - 4,142
Share repurchase (11) -
(839) 1,401
Payments on finance leases (12) (12)
Proceeds from debt financing - 2,415
Repayment of debt financing (375) (375)
Repayment of demand loan - (1,825)
Financing charges - (2)
Interest paid (181) (222)
(568) (21)
Effect of exchange rate changes on cash held in foreign currency 185 (14)
Net (decrease) increase in cash and cash equivalents during the period (5,029) 643
Cash and cash equivalents, beginning of period 15,909 7,543
Cash and cash equivalents, end of period 10,880 8,186
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Extremely Rare Celebration Apple-1 Computer
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The computer that sparked the revolution in home computing! This is the most unique, and quite possibly the first, Apple-1 ever created.
The "Celebration" Apple-1 is an original Apple-1 pre-NTI board that has many unique features, period correct power supply, original Apple-1 ACI cassette board (also populated with Robinson Nugent sockets), early Apple-1 BASIC cassettes, original marketing material, and the most complete documentation set of the known Apple-1 boards.
The "Celebration" Apple-1 is extremely rare not only because of the scarcity of Apple-1 computers, but according to Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple Computer, no known PCB boards of this type were ever sold to the public. At this time, this is the only known Apple-1 to show the signs of starting out as a blank original-run board and not part of the two known production runs, so this board appears to be unique from all other known Apple-1 boards.
The "Celebration" Apple-1 was authenticated by Apple Expert and Historian, Corey Cohen. Mr. Cohen believes The "Celebration" Apple-1 has the potential to be "powered up" with minor restoration, but has recommended against it to maintain the board's unique configuration.
The Apple-1 Computer is considered the origin of the personal computer revolution and was built in Steve Jobs' parents' home on Crist Drive in Los Altos, CA. 200 were hand-built by Steve Wozniak, but it is believed that less than 60 are still in existence.
The Apple-1 board is a not just a piece of history, but a piece of art.
"Celebration" Apple-1 Items Included in Set
Apple-1 Computer, copyright dated 1976 [15.5" X 9"], from the first of the two runs of printed circuit boards
Apple-1 4K Byte RAM Expansion Memory (total of 8K)
Apple-1 Cassette Interface Daughter Board [4" X 2"]
Apple-1 BASIC Program Cassette Tape [4" X 2.5"]
Apple-1 Star Trek and Blackjack Program Cassette Tape [4" X 2.5"]
All original manuals and fliers including:
Original Apple-1 Operation Manual with Schematics dated 3-10-76 and Warranty [8.5" X 11"]
Original Preliminary Apple BASIC User's Manual, dated October 1976 [8.5" X 11"]
Original Apple-1 Cassette Interface Manual [8.5" X 5.5"]
Original two-sided promotional flier on glossy magazine style paper introducing the Apple-1 Computer, described as, "…the first low cost microcomputer system…" [8.5" X 11"]
Schematics on Archival Paper (These are the same as schematics as what appear in the Apple-1 Manual, but on white non-yellowed archival paper. They have been lightly folded, but otherwise are in pristine condition):
Apple-1 Processor Section schematic on archival paper, non-yellowed [17" X 11"]
Apple-1 Terminal Section schematic on archival paper, non-yellowed [17" X 11"]
Apple-1 Cassette Interface Section schematic on archival paper, non-yellowed Original Cassette Interface [17" X 11"]
Sales receipt from previous owner to current owner
Notarized condition summary report for "Celebration" Apple-1 board by Corey Cohen (31 page written and photo authentication documentation of the system)
Video record of Corey performing the authentication and evaluation of the "Celebration" Apple-1
Professional detailed images of the "Celebration" Apple-1
Original owner thought to be an early Apple employee
Acquired by previous owner in 1977
Acquired by current owner on January 8, 2000 (Sales receipt included)
Authenticity and Uniqueness:
The physical PCB board is consistent with the first run of 100 original Apple-1 boards (pre-NTI). It contains the correct watermarks, finish, thickness, and flexibility. The board also has the correct patterning of solder expansion due to the wave soldering of PCBs produced in 1976. The board solder mask and PCB trace patterns are also consistent with an original Apple-1 board. Most of the discrete components are not consistent with other known Apple-1 boards, but are period correct and appear to be originally installed on this board and not replacements. At this time, this is the only known Apple-1 to show the signs of starting out as a blank original-run board and not part of the two production runs.
Aspects of the Celebration Apple-1 board give reason to believe it was an experimental board.
Steve Wozniak has said that he used "one or two boards" to work out issues before boards went into production and that they hand-soldered a few components onto that board or boards, before they were wave-soldered which is what appears to have happened with the Celebration Apple-1.
The heatsink on this board is smaller than all the other Apple-1s. There is evidence that this board was overheating, so that may be why the heatsink was larger when it went into production.
The Celebration Apple-1 has the more expensive Robinson Nugent sockets, but the production runs used the less expensive sockets. Additionally, the Celebration Apple-1 has a larger crystal and a variable capacitor, rather than the fixed one used in the production run. Steve Job's is known to have wanted to keep the cost down again leading us to believe this could be a porotype used to test the configurations of the Apple-1 before they went into the production run.
The unique features include the apparent prototyping of variable memory timing, different on-board power supply components and better quality IC sockets.
All other Apple-1 BASIC Program Cassettes have a different Apple label with printed instructions. The "Celebration" Apple-1 BASIC Program Cassette have been created and labeled by Daniel Kottke, an early Apple employee. Mr. Kottke is well known as a travel companion for Apple co-founder Steve Jobs during the early 1970's and was Apple full-time employee #12. On the cassette Mr. Kottke wrote: "Good Luck" in addition to the instructions on how to load basic on the Apple-1. The last two images above show Kottke with the Apple-1 board and cassette while on view at the Vintage Computer Festival August 6 -7, 2016 in Mountain View, CA.
The archival paper used in schematics is typically only used by manufacturers and leads us to believe it was printed by an Apple employee.
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Excellent condition, has been securely stored for over 20 years and has not been powered on recently.
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Covid, floods and fires mean Australians drove a lot less
The pandemic and its movement restrictions saw passenger vehicle usage drop by more than 26%. Floods and the bushfires hit road travel too.
While Australians drove significantly less over the past year, people living in the Northern Territory unsurprisingly drove the furthest. Image by Flo K from Pixabay
Is there nothing that has not been impacted by the pandemic? The distance travelled by passenger vehicles, motor cycles and buses fell markedly during the natural disasters and Covid-19 pandemic experienced across Australia in 2019/20.
This is according to the latest Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) figures released this week.
"During the periods of floods, bushfires and Covid, passenger vehicle usage across Australia decreased [significantly]," said Rob Walter, Director of Physical Environment Statistical Solutions at the ABS.
We drove 1,500km less this year
"The average distance travelled by Australian passenger vehicles in 2020 was 11,100 km, down from 12,600km in 2018."
In other words, it equates to an average decrease of 1,500km, which is similar to driving from Adelaide to Sydney and then on to Newcastle.
Although the distance travelled by Australia's passenger vehicles fell this year, the estimated number of vehicles registered rose markedly, from 19-million in 2018 to 19.8-million in 2020.
But road freight kept on growing
For the road freight industry, though, the good news is that despite the social and economic challenges that Australians faced this year, road freight remained strong.
"Road freight [grew] to more than 223-billion tonne-kilometres, with Australia's 4-million freight vehicles continuing to criss-cross our nation's highways, even when the rest of us couldn't," Walter noted.
At the state and territory level, New South Wales continues to lead the nation in road kilometres travelled by all vehicles, with over 69-billion kilometres of travel undertaken.
The Northern Territory, with its long distances and relatively light virus restrictions, unsurprisingly led the states and territories for average kilometres per vehicle at 12,500km.
Driving during lockdown fell 26.1%
For the first time, the ABS has also publishing sub-annual data in the Survey of Annual Motor Vehicle Use, allowing a more detailed understanding of how the pandemic has affected vehicle usage.
"When we compare the July to October period of 2019 with the March to June period of 2020, we see an unprecedented 26.1 percent fall in the distance driven by Australians," said Walter.
"Again, the most pronounced falls were seen in passenger vehicles as opposed to freight vehicles."
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Chances Are Your Period App Is BS
Elizabeth Narins
There's almost nothing worse than being surprised by your period: It's why you can't help but respect developers' noble attempts to warn women, "IT'S COMING!" with period-tracking apps, which can also assist in baby-making and prevention by nailing down the most fertile days of your cycle and generally help you understand what TF your body's up to on any given day.
Unfortunately, most of these apps fall short big-time, according to a new paper by researchers from San Francisco, California, and the University of Washington. They recently surveyed 687 people, interviewed dozens, and collected data from 2,000 reviews of nine popular period-tracking apps. Although the goal was to find out just how people track their periods, the data revealed some shoddy news for those who rely on apps rather than pen and paper, digital calendars, symptoms, birth control, or memory.
How People Really Feel About Their Period-Tracking Apps
Of the participants who used period-tracking apps, which comprised nearly half of the women involved in the study (the others used other methods listed above), many gave this method a thumbs-down. Although researchers didn't publish precise failure rates, a common complaint pertained to accuracy, with users alleging the apps didn't consistently nail down their menstrual cycles. After all, many users reported that their apps provided no way to input scenarios known to throw a woman's cycle off, like a particularly stressful month, changing birth-control methods, or hormonal changes surrounding pregnancy and breastfeeding — and if this kind of app can't roll with the punches, it won't do you much good.
After all, the worst-case scenario isn't finding yourself in an inopportune place without a pad or tampon, which royally sucks as it is. If you're using an app to help you prevent pregnancy or increase your chance of conception, its accuracy could determine whether you become a mother — so, yeah, you want yours to work.
Other complaints included an overuse of pink, which subtlety excludes transgender users and promotes heteronormative stereotypes, and general lack of subtlety. (While periods are nothing to be ashamed of, many of those surveyed didn't want people who look at their phones to find their period apps.)
The paper report, which will soon be presented at the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, concludes with suggestions for developers to improve their apps, plus an important takeaway for users: Unless your cycle is already uber-predictable, you *might* not want to trust your app to monitor your menstrual cycle — at least until the next wave of period apps hit the market.
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Published July 4
Trump doubles down on citizenship question for 2020 census, reportedly mulls executive order
By Adam Shaw | Fox News
President Trump still fighting for census citizenship question
Trump dismisses reports that efforts to include a U.S. citizenship question in the 2020 census have been abandoned; Kevin Corke reports from the White House.
President Trump on Thursday doubled down on his push for a citizenship question on the 2020 census, promising that his administration is "working very hard" on the controversial issue -- as reports say he is mulling using an executive order to get the question on the census.
"So important for our Country that the very simple and basic 'Are you a Citizen of the United States?' question be allowed to be asked in the 2020 Census," he tweeted.
TRUMP DECLARES PUSH FOR CENSUS CITIZENSHIP QUESTION NOT OVER, CALLS REPORTS 'FAKE'
He added that the Commerce and Justice Departments are "working very hard on this, even on the 4th of July!"
Earlier this week, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross announced that his department was going ahead with the printing of the census without the citizenship question, apparently indicating that the administration had dropped the controversial issue. That decision came after a Supreme Court ruling last week that blocked the citizenship question for the time being until more reasoning from the administration was provided.
"The Census Bureau has started the process of printing the decennial questionnaires without the question," Ross said in a statement. "My focus and that of the bureau and the entire department is to conduct a complete and accurate census."
The Commerce Department had claimed that the question would help the administration enforce the Voting Rights Act. Opponents of the question fear that by asking people about their citizenship status, immigrants may not want to respond and be counted in the census. This would result in official population numbers that are lower than they truly are, which in turn could yield less federal funding and fewer congressional seats in districts with high immigrant populations. Those districts tend to favor Democrats.
Ross' announcement appeared to mark a significant climbdown for the administration. But Trump on Wednesday said that reports that Commerce had dropped the "quest" to put the question on the census were "fake!"
"We are absolutely moving forward, as we must, because of the importance of the answer to this question," he tweeted.
IN REVERSAL, DOJ SAYS IT IS STILL TRYING TO ADD CITIZENSHIP QUESTION TO CENSUS; JUDGE SETS FRIDAY DEADLINE
Later Wednesday, a high-ranking Justice Department lawyer told a federal judge that the administration had not abandoned efforts to put the question on the census, saying that there may yet be a "legally available path" open to the administration.
On Thursday, multiple outlets reported that Trump is considering using an executive order to move forward with the push. The Washington Post reported that Trump had told lawyers to fix the situation with an executive order and add it to the census later.
"The administration is considering the appropriateness of an executive order that would address the constitutional need for the citizenship question to be included in the 2020 census," a source told Axios.
Such a move would likely face significant legal pushback, and could also fail in the Supreme Court. But one official told Axios that it may allow the administration to shift the blame for the ultimate failure of the push on Supreme Court Justice John Roberts.
"I think that there's a good argument to be made that even though the president may lose in litigation at the end of the day, going through that process ultimately makes it clear that it's the chief justice, and not the Executive Branch, that bears responsibility for that unfortunate outcome," the source with knowledge of discussions told the outlet.
Fox News' Ronn Blitzer and Gregg Re contributed to this report.
Adam Shaw is a reporter covering U.S. and European politics for Fox News.. He can be reached here.


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Home » Base erosion and profit shifting
Base erosion and profit shifting (BEPS): explained in 2023
What is base erosion?
Base erosion is the use of financial measures and tax planning to reduce the size of a company's taxable profits in a country. It is often achieved by structuring income to have more favourable tax treatment or by finding ways to write off certain expenditure against taxable income. This has the effect of reducing a company's tax bill below what it would otherwise be expected to pay.
What is profit shifting?
Profit shifting involves making payments to other group companies in order to move profits from high-tax jurisdictions to low-tax regimes. This serves to increase the overall profits available to group shareholders. Often, these intra-group payments (known as "transfer pricing") take the form of royalties and interest payments, as these expenses can be deducted from pre-tax profits. Another advantage of these payment types is that some jurisdictions have lower tax rates on these kinds of income; Luxembourg, for example, has a very favourable regime on royalty income.
Who uses these techniques?
Multinational groups of companies are best placed to take advantage of these tax avoidance tactics due to the following factors:
Their international operations provide a ready-made network of companies through which group funds can flow;
They have the capital to set up and maintain entities used for tax-reduction purposes; and
Their income tends to be large enough to support the costs of i) taking advice on tax structuring ii) putting in place and maintaining the recommended tax structure and iii) updating the structure with countries' annual changes in tax law.
What techniques are used in base erosion and profit shifting?
Trademark and technology licensing/transfer pricing: Managing the group's trademark, designs and patents through an entity that applies a lower tax rate to intellectual property, then charging group companies royalties on the use of the brand. As royalties are often affected by withholding taxes, it is important to prioritise the IP holding company's tax treaty relationship with the countries where the other group companies are. Coupled with its 80% reduction on the normal tax rate for IP royalties, this is why Luxembourg is so popular as an IP holding company in Europe;
Thin capitalization: By setting up subsidiaries with minimal share capital, groups can use a financing arm to fund the new company's operations with debt. This large debt load attracts interest, which has different treatment in some jurisdictions and can therefore reduce the group's overall tax bill if structured correctly. One aggressive scheme revealed in 2014 involved the use of a Swiss branch of a Luxembourg finance company to lower tax on such interest payments;
Hybrid mismatch arrangements: Different tax rules between countries can sometimes give rise to unintended effects like "double non-taxation", which can be exploited by businesses to reduce their tax burden. This primarily applies to national treatment of certain instruments in such a way that they are treated in the paying country as tax-deductible debt, but seen in the receiving country as a tax-exempt dividend;
Putting assets into entities without substance: Some countries introduce preferential tax regimes as a way to compete for business. However, this is only useful if businesses with substance begin to locate themselves in the country; otherwise, this form of tax competition simply erodes the tax base of the country where the activity takes place. Current rules often allow for business owners to set up paper companies that take advantage of preferential regimes such as patent boxes or Luxembourg's 80% IP holding tax deduction.
What factors are affecting countries' ability to determine the right amount of taxable income for these companies?
The digital economy means that services can be delivered from anywhere, while generating value and making sales everywhere. The EU has handled one part of this with new rules for VAT on digital services, and this the OECD lists similar action as a deliverable for the end of 2015;
Since tax is levied domestically, it is difficult to determine what should be taxed where, and in what manner, without some form of international cooperation. The OECD's BEPS policies are being designed to create a framework that allows this to happen.
What is being done to address base erosion and profit shifting?
As BEPS revolves around arbitrage between domestic taxation rules, the key is to tackling its negative effects is to improve international transparency and cooperation on tax matters. The OECD is coordinating this work and has proposed the following actions:
Addressing the challenges of the digital economy – A plan to "neutralise the effects of hybrid mismatch arrangements and arbitrage", introducing coherence into national tax systems while allowing nations to retain sovereignty over their domestic tax policies;
Neutralising the effects of hybrid mismatch arrangements – Preventing tax exemption on payments that were tax deductible for the payer;
Strengthening controlled foreign company (CFC) rules – These rules impose tax liability on parent companies for their subsidiaries' profits. The OECD is going to develop its own recommendations on implementing these rules. According to the OECD, CFC rules "have positive spillover effects in source countries because taxpayers have no (or much less of an) incentive to shift profits into a third, low-tax jurisdiction)";
Limiting base erosion via interest deductions and other financial payments – Preferential tax regimes are under review, as they drive a race to the bottom and BEPS tactics to reduce taxable income. A core aim of this is to reduce interest deducted for payments to related financing vehicles and this work will be coordinated with Action 3's work on CFC rules;
Countering harmful tax practices more effectively, taking into account transparency and substance – Exchange of information on rulings relating to preferential regimes will be made compulsory, adapting current rules to work better in situations involving more than two countries.
This is necessary to take into account the complexity of the global value chain, while currently tax arrangements are only bilateral. The core of this is to more closely align apportionment of income with the economic activity that generates it, part of which will be cutting down on treaty abuse (a key source of BEPS concerns);
Preventing treaty abuse – Tax treaties will be updated to clarify that they are not intended to be use for double non-taxation. They are intended to prevent double taxation, which hurts businesses, but these same businesses exploit the other side of the coin, taking double exemptions where possible;
Preventing the artificial avoidance of permanent establishment status – This item will redefine permanent establishments to prevent undue avoidance of local taxes. Transfer pricing and arms-length principles are related to this item to reduce shifting of income into low-tax systems;
Transfer pricing of intangibles – Reducing the tax benefits of transferring intangibles within the same group. The OECD will define a broad but clear definition of intangibles, create well-defined valuation rules to apply to transfers of intangibles, find ways to price transfers of hard-to-value intangibles, and examine cost contribution arrangements;
Transfer pricing of risks and capital – Preventing inappropriately large returns being enjoyed by a group entity simply for providing capital or assuming contractual risks. New rules will align value creation with returns under new rules;
Transfer pricing of other high-risk transactions – Intra-group transactions that would not ordinarily take place between third parties suggest that they may not be arms-length transactions. Rules will be developed to clarify the application of transfer pricing methods like profit splits in the face of global value chains, as well as to protect against management fees, head office expenses and other common base eroding payments;
Establishing methodologies to collect and analyse data on BEPS and the actions to address it – Data collection, data analysis and the selection of the appropriate metrics will be key to evaluate the scope of BEPS and the efficacy of countermeasures. Disclosure initiatives and co-operative compliance between taxpayers and tax authorities will increase transparency to drive this forward;
Requiring taxpayers to disclose their aggressive tax planning arrangements – Introducing mandatory disclosure of international tax planning schemes that may fall under the scope of BEPS. This would increase consistency between regimes but be flexible enough to account for country-specific needs and risks. Enforcement bodies can take a "big picture" view and minimise the use of aggressive avoidance schemes by opening up visibility of a taxpayer's global value chain;
Re-examining transfer pricing documentation – Requiring multi-nationals to provide information of their transfer pricing arrangements to all relevant governments in a common template. The common template will help to ensure certainty and predictability for business, so that new rules do not introduce an undue additional reporting burden;
Making dispute resolution systems more effective – Updating tax treaty dispute resolution mechanisms to use arbitration so that disputes can be resolved more efficiently and effectively;
Developing a multilateral instrument – OECD proposes to introduce a multilateral treaty that would amend consenting countries' bilateral tax arrangements in line with the OECD's recommendations.
For more detail on the plans to address base erosion and profit shifting, read the OECD's full BEPS action plan.
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THE SECRETS OF ISIS: THE COMPLETE SERIES
Oh Mighty Isis! Television's First Saturday Morning Live-Action Super-Heroine Is Back!
THE SECRETS OF ISIS
THE COMPLETE SERIES DVD SET
Released by BCI Eclipse / Ink & Paint
In Stores July 24, 2007.
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THE SECRETS OF ISIS includes special features produced by Andy Mangels including TWO HOURS of interviews, plus commentary track, photo galleries. and much more!
"Oh Zephyr Winds Which Blow On High, Lift Me Now So I Can Fly!"
NAVARRE CORPORATION'S BCI ANNOUNCES THE SERIES THAT COMMANDS THE ELEMENTS OF EARTH AND SKY
Soaring Onto DVD For The First Time Ever
Los Angeles, CA – On July 24th, BCI, a Navarre Corporation Company, and media company and underlying rights owner, Entertainment Rights Plc ("ER"), will release on DVD the fan-favorite program that combined Egyptian mythology with super-heroic action: "The Secrets Of Isis". The complete series – 22 episodes in all – will be available on a three-DVD set for the suggested retail price of $29.98. The announcement was made today by Marvin Gleicher, Sr. V.P. Acquisitions and Marketing, BCI.
"We are excited to present the DVD release of one of the defining programs of Saturday morning television: The Secrets of Isis." Gleicher said. "She was the type of super-heroine that inspired kids – and now as adults, they will have the chance to revisit that magic."
A spin-off of the popular 'Shazam!' series (starring Captain Marvel), "The Secrets of Isis" became one of the most popular shows in the all-important block of Saturday morning programming. As a character, Isis herself was revolutionary: she was the first live-action female super-heroine on Saturday mornings.
When science teacher Andrea Thomas (JoAnna Cameron) discovers an amulet on an archaeological dig, she discovers something else: that the amulet can grant her the powers once wielded by the mighty Egyptian Goddess, Isis. Soaring as the falcon soars, running with the speed of gazelles, the transformed Andrea fights crime and rights wrongs in addition to imparting the wisdom of the ages. Her closest friends, fellow teacher Rick Mason (Brian Cutler) and students Cindy Lee (Joanna Pang) and Renee Carrol (Ronalda Douglas) are unaware of her secret identity and mystical powers… the only one who knows the truth is her pet crow, Tut!
Before Wonder Woman, before The Bionic Woman, before Xena, there was the beautiful Isis, the descendant from an ancient Queen whose powers were reborn after thousands of years. In "The Secrets of Isis – The Complete Series" a teacher will uncover these mighty powers, and use them to battle the evil of a modern world. This exciting DVD set will inspire old as well as new viewers to chant television's favorite mantra: 'Oh Mighty Isis!'
"The Secrets of Isis – The Complete Series" is richly endowed with special features:
* Spotlight Interviews (two hours) with cast members and crew from "The Secrets of Isis": Producers Lou Scheimer and Richard M. Rosenbloom, stars Brian Cutler, Joanna Pang and Ronalda Douglas, writers David Dworski, Michael Reaves and David Wise, designer Bob Kline and Assistant Director Henry J. Lange Jr.
* Audio Commentary Track for "Dreams of Flight" with Richard M. Rosenbloom, David Dworski and Henry J. Lange, Jr. Hosted by Andy Mangels
* Rare Footage: Morals, Commercial Bumpers and Alternate Credits
* Isolated Music And Effects Track for some episodes
* Three Extensive Photo Galleries from "The Secrets of Isis": Promotional Photos, Behind the Scenes Photos, Memorabilia Photos
* Bluewater Production's 22 page New "Legend of Isis" Comic Book
* Bonus episode of Freedom Force starring Isis: "The Plant Soldiers"
* DVD ROM – 22 Scripts and more (PC/MAC compatible)
* Booklet with Episode Guide and Trivia
* English and Spanish Language Audio Tacks
* Ink & Paint Trailers
Producing the special features, spotlight interviews and all of the extra content is entertainment writer Andy Mangels, a best-selling novelist, and expert contributor to the encyclopedic The Superhero Book.
This release will be supported with a print campaign and internet exposure including viral video and targeted advertising, including special distribution at Comic-Con 2007.
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C3 glomerulonephritis: Clinicopathological findings, complement abnormalities, glomerular proteomic profile, treatment, and follow-up
Sanjeev Sethi, Fernando C. Fervenza, Yuzhou Zhang, Ladan Zand, Julie A. Vrana, Samih H. Nasr, Jason D. Theis, Ahmet Dogan, Richard J.H. Smith
Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
Nephrology and Hypertension
C3 glomerulonephritis (C3GN) is a recently described disorder that typically results from abnormalities in the alternative pathway (AP) of complement. Here, we describe the clinical features, kidney biopsy findings, AP abnormalities, glomerular proteomic profile, and follow-up in 12 cases of C3GN. This disorder equally affected all ages, both genders, and typically presented with hematuria and proteinuria. In both the short and long term, renal function remained stable in the majority of patients with native kidney disease. In two patients, C3GN recurred within 1 year of transplantation and resulted in a decline in allograft function. Kidney biopsy mainly showed a membranoproliferative pattern, although both mesangial proliferative and diffuse endocapillary proliferative glomerulonephritis were noted. AP abnormalities were heterogeneous, both acquired and genetic. The most common acquired abnormality was the presence of C3 nephritic factors, while the most common genetic finding was the presence of H402 and V62 alleles of Factor H. In addition to these risk factors, other abnormalities included Factor H autoantibodies and mutations in CFH, CFI, and CFHR genes. Laser dissection and mass spectrometry of glomeruli from patients with C3GN showed accumulation of AP and terminal complement complex proteins. Thus, C3GN results from diverse abnormalities of the alternative complement pathway leading to subsequent glomerular injury.
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Sethi, S., Fervenza, F. C., Zhang, Y., Zand, L., Vrana, J. A., Nasr, S. H., Theis, J. D., Dogan, A., & Smith, R. J. H. (2012). C3 glomerulonephritis: Clinicopathological findings, complement abnormalities, glomerular proteomic profile, treatment, and follow-up. Kidney international, 82(4), 465-473. https://doi.org/10.1038/ki.2012.212
C3 glomerulonephritis : Clinicopathological findings, complement abnormalities, glomerular proteomic profile, treatment, and follow-up. / Sethi, Sanjeev; Fervenza, Fernando C.; Zhang, Yuzhou; Zand, Ladan; Vrana, Julie A.; Nasr, Samih H.; Theis, Jason D.; Dogan, Ahmet; Smith, Richard J.H.
In: Kidney international, Vol. 82, No. 4, 02.08.2012, p. 465-473.
Sethi, S, Fervenza, FC, Zhang, Y, Zand, L, Vrana, JA, Nasr, SH, Theis, JD, Dogan, A & Smith, RJH 2012, 'C3 glomerulonephritis: Clinicopathological findings, complement abnormalities, glomerular proteomic profile, treatment, and follow-up', Kidney international, vol. 82, no. 4, pp. 465-473. https://doi.org/10.1038/ki.2012.212
Sethi S, Fervenza FC, Zhang Y, Zand L, Vrana JA, Nasr SH et al. C3 glomerulonephritis: Clinicopathological findings, complement abnormalities, glomerular proteomic profile, treatment, and follow-up. Kidney international. 2012 Aug 2;82(4):465-473. https://doi.org/10.1038/ki.2012.212
Sethi, Sanjeev ; Fervenza, Fernando C. ; Zhang, Yuzhou ; Zand, Ladan ; Vrana, Julie A. ; Nasr, Samih H. ; Theis, Jason D. ; Dogan, Ahmet ; Smith, Richard J.H. / C3 glomerulonephritis : Clinicopathological findings, complement abnormalities, glomerular proteomic profile, treatment, and follow-up. In: Kidney international. 2012 ; Vol. 82, No. 4. pp. 465-473.
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Home Veterans Murdoch's Deeply Hidden Jewish Roots — A Biography
Murdoch's Deeply Hidden Jewish Roots — A Biography
By Christopher Bollyn – American Free Press
Christopher Bollyn is an investigative journalist who has written extensively on the events of September 11, 2001 in the Washington-based American Free Press. He has researched different aspects of the 9/11 attacks and uncovered facts and evidence that challenge the official version of events. tried to smear Bollyn as an "anti-Semite" in order to discredit him and diminish the significance of his work. At the helm of both organizations, the ADL and Fox News, is an Australian-born Zionist named Keith Rupert Murdoch.
Murdoch's Jewish Roots
Murdoch "became an American citizen for business reasons," according to Richard H. Curtiss, editor of the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs. Keith Rupert was born in Melbourne, Australia, on March 11, 1931. "Rupert's father, Sir Keith Murdoch, was a newspaper publisher, and his mother an Orthodox Jew," Curtiss wrote, "although Murdoch never offers that information in his biographies."
Murdoch's father married Elisabeth Joy Greene, daughter of Rupert Greene in 1928. They had one son, Keith Rupert and three daughters. Later in life, Keith Rupert chose to use Rupert, the first name of his Jewish maternal grandfather.
The young Keith Rupert was educated at Australia's fashionable Geelong private school, and went on to the elitist and aristocratic Oxford University in England, according to Candour (UK) magazine.
"Rupert's father Sir Keith Murdoch attained his prominent position in Australian society through a fortuitous marriage to the daughter of a wealthy Jewish family, née Elisabeth Joy Greene. Through his wife's connections, Keith Murdoch was subsequently promoted from reporter to chairman of the British-owned newspaper where he worked. There was enough money to buy himself a knighthood of the British realm, two newspapers in Adelaide, South Australia, and a radio station in a faraway mining town," Candour wrote in 1984. "For some reason, Murdoch has always tried to hide the fact that his pious mother brought him up as a Jew."
While Murdoch may have "tried to hide" his Jewish roots, he has been quite forthright about his support for extreme right-wing Zionists, such as Benjamin Netanyahu and Ariel Sharon.
Netanyahu, who wrote a book entitled The War on Terror: How the West Can Win in 1986, is a frequent commentator on Murdoch's Fox News.
Murdoch's support for Zionism extremists is well known and a matter of record. As New York Governor George Pataki said, "There is no newspaper in the U.S. more supportive of Israel than the [Murdoch's] New York Post."
It is through a network of Zionist organizations, in which Murdoch plays a central role, that Murdoch is connected to the individuals who arranged the privatization – and obtained control of the World Trade Center – shortly before its destruction.
These key individuals are: Larry Silverstein and the former Israeli commando Frank Lowy, the lease holders of dubious repute who gained control of the WTC property six weeks before 9/11, and Port Authority Chairman Lewis M. Eisenberg, who authorized the transfer of the leases.
Murdoch belongs to, and has been honored by, a number of leading Zionist organizations in which Silverstein, Lowy, and Eisenberg all hold senior positions. These organizations include the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), the United Jewish Appeal (UJA), and the New York-based Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust.
Fifty days before 9/11, Silverstein Properties and Lowy's Westfield America secured 99-year leases on the WTC. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey turned control of the World Trade Center over to the private hands of Silverstein and Lowy on July 24, 2001.
Silverstein and Lowy then took control of the 10.6 million-square-foot complex, which included the twin towers office buildings and two nine-story office buildings. Silverstein and the former Israeli commando Lowy then controlled all access to the World Trade Center.
Lowy leased the shopping concourse called the Mall at the World Trade Center, which comprised about 427,000 square feet of retail space.
"Six weeks before the WTC towers were destroyed, the Port Authority completed the process of leasing them for 99 years to Larry Silverstein, the developer who had built 7 World Trade Center [which mysteriously self-demolished at 5:25 p.m. on 9/11].
"Simultaneously, the retail space underneath the complex was leased to Westfield America, the US division of an Australian company that is one of the world's largest operators of shopping malls." Paul Goldberger wrote in New Yorker, May 20, 2002.
"Silverstein and Westfield were given the right to rebuild the structures if they were destroyed, and Westfield has the right to expand the retail space by 30 percent," Goldberger wrote.
Silverstein is suing for some $7.2 billion in insurance money for the loss of the destroyed World Trade Center – and his expected earnings – for property he had leased with a down payment of $100 million – of borrowed funds.
Murdoch the Zionist
"Murdoch is a close friend of Ariel Sharon," Sam Kiley, The Times (UK) veteran journalist on the Middle East wrote about the man who took over the once famous British paper. Kiley said Murdoch's friendship with the Israeli prime minister had caused senior staff at the paper to rewrite important copy.
"Murdoch's executives were so afraid of irritating him that, when I pulled off a little scoop of tracking down and photographing the unit in the Israeli army which killed Mohammed al-Durrah, the 12-year-old boy whose death was captured on film and became the iconic image of the conflict, I was asked to file the piece 'without mentioning the dead kid.'" Kiley wrote. "After that conversation, I was left wordless, so I quit."
Sharon and Murdoch are old friends. On Oct. 15, 1982, a month after the massacres of thousands of Palestinian refugees in the Sabra and Shatila camps of Beirut, war crimes which occurred under Sharon's direct command, the Israeli defense minister held meetings with Rupert Murdoch and others, reportedly in order to advance his "West Bank real estate grab."
The visit with Sharon included a trip for Murdoch and his editors from New York and London that "took them on a bird's-eye tour of Israel aboard a helicopter gunship, flying over the Golan Heights, West Bank and settlements."
"I have always believed in the future of Israel and the goals of the international Jewish community," Murdoch said at a spring fund-raiser for the Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust on April 29, 2001.
From the beginning, News Corp., his global media company, "has been supportive of the Jewish national cause," Murdoch said.
Larry Silverstein, who had not yet acquired the lease on the World Trade Center, attended the fund-raiser with Murdoch and reportedly said about museum chairman Robert Morgenthau's plans to expand the museum: "I'll support you…as long as you keep it under 110 stories."
Murdoch and the ADL
"Henry Kissinger, Rupert Murdoch and Mortimer Zuckerman are on the [ADL] dinner committee," according to a recent New York Times report on the ADL's recent fund-raiser in which the controversial Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi received the ADL's Distinguished Statesman Award.
Silverstein and Eisenberg have both held senior leadership positions with the United Jewish Appeal (UJA), a billion dollar Zionist "charity" organization, to which Murdoch and Lowy generously contribute. In 1997, Henry Kissinger presented Murdoch with the UJA's award for "Humanitarian of the Year."
Silverstein is a former chairman of UJA. This organization raises hundreds of millions of dollars every year for a network of Zionist agencies in the United States and Israel. Eisenberg, who was instrumental in obtaining the lease for Silverstein, is on the Planning Board of UJA.
Eisenberg in his role with the Port Authority was the key person who negotiated the 99-year leases for Silverstein and Frank Lowy's Westfield America, who were in fact the low-bidders for the lease on the 110-story towers and the retail mall.
Murdoch and the Czechoslovakian-born Israeli commando Frank Lowy, a former fighter in Israel's Golani Brigade, who emigrated to Australia in the 1950s, have had a long friendship, which Murdoch recounted during an American Australian Association fund-raising dinner in honor of Frank's son, Peter S. Lowy, in New York on November 20, 2002. Larry Silverstein and his wife also attended the American Australian event.
Some reporters refer to the American Australian Association, whose membership includes James Wolfensohn, the president of the World Bank, who raised cash for Rupert Murdoch when he first expanded into the United States, as "the kangaroo mafia."
"Frank was a brave and determined fighter," Rafi Kocer, Lowy's former commander, said. Lowy has donated some $350,000 to build a memorial museum in Israel for his former brigade.
Today, Lowy and his three sons control Westfield Corporation, one of the largest operators of shopping centers in the United States – and the world.
Insured Against Terrorist Attacks
On September 12, 2001, The Jerusalem Post reported: "Frank Lowy, who emigrated to Australia from Israel in 1952, owns the 99-year lease for the 425,000 square foot retail portion of the destroyed World Trade Center…Westfield said today that it has insurance cover against terrorist attacks and its earnings will not be materially affected."
Lowy, is described by the Sydney Morning Herald as "a self-made man with a strong interest in the Holocaust and Israeli politics."
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