So what did Clemson's football team learn from Texas A&M's opener?
Aggies' running back Trayveon Williams and tight end Jace Sternberger flashed big playmaking ability in Texas A&M's season-opening rout.
So what can Clemson glean from Texas A&M's 59-7 romp against FCS opponent Northwestern State Thursday night?
Not much, considering the opponent – the Demons are tabbed for an eighth-place finish in the Southland Conference this season.
Still, the Tigers and defensive coordinator Brent Venables had to be impressed by the production of A&M running back Trayveon Williams, who rushed for 240 yards and three touchdowns.
A 5-foot-9, 200-pound ball of explosiveness, Williams dashed 73 yards for a score on the Aggies' third play from scrimmage, jump-starting a strong team effort on the ground. A&M averaged 8.2 yards per carry.
First-year coach Jimbo Fisher wasted little time in reintroducing the tight end to the Aggies' offense. Junior college transfer Jace Sternberger had a big game, with five receptions for 56 yards and two touchdowns. It was quite a showing from a position that had produced only nine total receptions over the past two seasons.
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The Aggies had two players ejected from the game after targeting calls – senior linebacker Otaro Alaka and defensive back Donovan Wilson. The plays provided testament to the fact that A&M may be intent on boosting its physicality this season, but were such hits really necessary against Northwestern State? The loss of even one player for such a hit will be considerably tougher to overcome against Clemson.


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To kick off the evening, the birthday girl ordered a sangria pitcher and crispy calamari for everyone. Meanwhile I checked the menu at Pio Pio Restaurant to figure out what Peruvian food really was.
I love birthday celebrations! This time was my roommate's bday and she decided to have dinner at a Peruvian restaurant in the Upper West Side. She always talked about Pio Pio, but I never had the chance to visit the place.
Actually, I was dreaming of it because of all the good things she and her friends kept telling me. I knew in advance Pio Pio had the best Salchipapas in town. Or, sausage with fries, and I was ready to try it out!
We were in a big group of friends so we made a reservation. I do recommend it, if you are with a big party, as well.
Strategically located on a street corner with a green façade and red signs with their name, the restaurant definitely surprised me! The venue was infinitely more beautiful and elegant than I had imagined.
I saw people from all around the world enjoying great Peruvian food and the place was so charming!
We sat right across a gorgeous brick wall with countless colorful paintings. Every art work was truly spectacular. They portrayed a Peruvian kids in the country side and really called my attention! And, amongst the kids, was a huge vertical painting of Our Lady, Mary.
So, to kick off the evening, the birthday girl ordered sangria pitchers and crispy calamari for everyone. Meanwhile, I checked the menu to figure out what Peruvian food actually looked like. Well, I found plenty of dishes made out of pollo – chicken and seafood.
After chatting a lot while drinking sangria, it was time to eat. Yayyy, my favorite time!! I shared a dish named Matador combo (Killer combo) with a friend, and it really was to die for. It was a preparation of rotisserie chicken served with yellow rice, avocado salad, red beans, tostones and the highly anticipated, salchipapas.
OMG, I loved it! I actually felt at home, since it was like comfort food to me. Other people ordered seafood dishes which all looked and smelled terrific!
The experience I had at Pio Pio was really fantastic. And you can experience it too! Oh! And you can find at least one Pio Pio in each NYC borough.
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PORTLAND, Ore. — Thirty years ago, in 1988, there were a mere seven craft breweries in Oregon, and only 128 in America. All were invited to take part in the inaugural Oregon Brewers Festival, a two-day event billed as "the first gathering and exhibit of independent brewers in the United States." This summer, the Oregon Brewers Festival will celebrate its 30th annual event; now a five-day affair, the festival will run from July 26 through July 30 at Tom McCall Waterfront Park in downtown Portland.
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Flickr's in hot water again
Yesterday Flickr released localization for their service in German, Spanish, French and a few other languages. Which would be a good thing, if they wouldn't in return censor search results for certain users of these localizations. Images that are flagged by Flickr as "moderate" or "restricted" will not show up in search results for German users for example. And you can't turn this so-called "safe search" off either.
Considering that only last week famed blogger Violet Blue had her account more or less turned off, this doesn't seem like coincidence anymore. While Violet Blue has had her account restored (with a personal apology by Stewart Butterfield, co-founder of Flickr), the issue with the safe-search result is still unresolved.
In a Flickr group discussing the drama, Stewart replies too, but what he says really is too vague to mean anything:
We really apologize for the delay in responding to these threads. The whole Flickr team has been in ongoing discussions, trying to hammer out a solution.
We have absolutely no intention of censoring the content on the community's behalf. It is always been our intention that Flickr members participate to whatever extent they want and are as free as possible create their own experience. Currently, switching the SafeSearch function off is not available for German members. It is a really complex situation — we have been in deliberation on this for a while, and we had to make the decision whether or not to leave Germany and the German language out of the international launch.
The decision came down to the wire, but we decided to include Germany. We're still hoping that that was the right decision. It definitely was not a decision that was made lightly and there is no intention to annoy, frustrate or inconvenience Flickr members in Germany. Rest assured, we do hear you loud and clearly (painfully loud, even) and are doing our best. We hope to have more to say soon.
And about seven hours and hundreds of still furious Flickr-users later, this comment:
Unfortunately I can't give a more detailed update yet or any concrete good news, but please don't take our silence to mean that nothing is happening. We are doing our best to make the situation better as quickly as possible. I'm sure it doesn't make a lot of sense from the outside, and we would prefer to be able to share all the context — believe me, this is extremely uncomfortable and we'd strongly prefer not to be in this position — but we don't have a choice at this time.
Again, we will post more as soon as we can — in the meantime, all we can do is apologize.
While I do sense honest discomfort on Stewart's side, I just can't help but feel that there are things in the universe a lot more complicated than the fact that some people display their tits in public. Enraging your loyal fanbase because somehow you've turned the issue of potentially offending images into rocket-science, really looks ridiculous from where I'm standing. And considering that many of those fans actually pay good money to use the service, it's just not ridiculous, it's downright bad business-sense.
Take that from me, the man who's as much a business man as Donald Trump is a sensitive singer-songwriter. Which I'm not either, by the way.

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Thread: What opera have you been listening to, lately?
March 6th, 2014, 03:35 AM #2371
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Originally Posted by Clayton
Washington National Opera: Moby-Dick
Very impressive production with a very capable cast. I don't get the 'achingly beautiful score' part, though.
March 6th, 2014, 04:00 PM #2372
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Northern territories, Japan
Berlioz: Les Troyens
Ben Heppner (Enée), Michelle DeYoung (Didon), Petra Lang (Cassandre), Sara Mingardo (Anna), Peter Mattei (Chorèbe), Stephen Milling (Narbal), Kenneth Tarver (Iopas), Toby Spence (Hylas), Alan Ewing (Priam), Guang Yang (Hécube), Isabelle Cals (Ascagne), Tigran Martirossian (Panthée), Bülent Bezdüz (Helenus), Mark Stone (Un chef grec), Leigh Melrose (Un soldat troyen/Mercure), Orlin Annastassov (L'Ombre d'Hector), Andrew Greenan (Premiere Sentinelle), Roderick Earle (Deuxieme Sentinelle)
London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus,
Recorded at the Barbican 3, 6, 7 & 9 December 2000
This came as a complete surprise: a thrilling and compelling recording
Conductor: Franz Konwitschny
Chor der Deutschen Staatsoper Berlin
Staatskapelle Berlin
Daland: Gottlob Frick
Senta: Marianne Schech
Erik: Rudolf Schock
Mary: Sieglinde Wagner
Steuermann: Fritz Wunderlich
Holländer: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Excellent sound (digitally remastered) for having been recorded in 1960.
Also available on Brilliant label.
Senior Member Involved Member
Handel: Belshazzar
Allan Clayton (Belshazzar, King of Babylon), Rosemary Joshua (Nitocris), Iestyn Davies (Daniel, Hebrew Prophet), Caitlin Hulcup (Cyrus: Persian Prince), Jonathan Lemalu (Gobrias, Assyrian Nobleman), Jean-Yves Ravoux (Arioch, Babylonian Lord), Geoffroy Buffière, Thibaut Lenaerts, Michael-Loughlin Smith, Damian Witheley.
Orchestra: Les Arts Florissants, conductor: William Christie
Never try to teach a pig to sing. You will waste your time and you will annoy the pig.
Ann Lander (sospiro)
Opera Lively Media Consultant Top Contributor Member
Lovely voices and makes a nice change
Review from the BBC
"Every theatre is an insane asylum, but an opera theatre is the ward for the incurables."
FRANZ SCHALK, attributed, Losing the Plot in Opera: Myths and Secrets of the World's Great Operas
Originally Posted by sospiro
Now that sounds interesting. Just as I was listening to Les Troyens! ...(Hector Berlioz, who regarded him as "a composer to be reckoned with")...
Add to that being championed by Richard Bonynge and I am very keen.
"...delicate and pretty melodic palette in use, and a big-boned flourish, underpinned by Teutonic winds and brass..."
lemme try! lemme try!
Rossini: Guillaume Tell
Gerald Finley (Guillaume Tell), John Osborn (Arnaud), Malin Byström (Mathilde), Marie-Nicole Lemieux (Hedwige), Matthew Rose (Walter Furst), Frédéric Caton (Melchtal), Elena Xanthoudakis (Jemmy), Carlo Cigni (Gesler), Carlo Bosi (Rodolphe), Celso Albelo (Ruodi), Dawid Kimberg (Leuthold), Davide Malvestio (Un Chasseur)
Orchestra e coro dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia,
Recorded in concert Oct & Dec 2010 Sala Santa Cecilia, Rome
Oh I like this opera. Finley and Osborn are wonderful. Scrap that. The whole opera is pukka.
Except for the cover design, that is.
Soave_Fanciulla
Opera Lively Moderator Top Contributor Member
The whole opera is pukka.
Channelling your inner Jamie?
Originally Posted by Soave_Fanciulla
Going back a few more years.
We just discovered a channel on the picture box called Gold. Watching for the first time in many years, episodes of Only fools and horses.
They are showing all the best ones with Roger Lloyd-Packer (Trigger), who passed away last month.
Conductor: Nickolaus Harnoncourt
w/Concentus musicus Wien
Armida: Cecilia Bartoli
Rinaldo: Christoph Pregardien
Zelmira: Patricia Petibon
Idreno: Oliver Widmer
Ubaldo: Scot Weir
Clotarco: Markus Schäfer
Originally Posted by Hoffmann
Only fools and horses was one of the best, if not the best, selling comedy shows of the eighties in England. I don't think there are many people in England over the age of 30 who have not seen an episode. Unfortunately as English culture was the core of the show, I don't think it was any good for export...
Donizetti: Dom Sébastien, Roi de Portugal
Vesselina Kasarova (Zaida), Giuseppe Filianoti (Dom Sébastien), Alastair Miles (Dom Juan de Silva), Simon Keenlyside (Abayaldos), Carmelo Corrado Caruso (Camoëns), Robert Gleadow (Dom Henrique), John Upperton (Dom Antonio), Andrew Slater (Ben-Selim)
Orchestra & Chorus of the Royal Opera House,
Mark Elder
Concert performance recorded live 10 and 13 September 2005
How does this compare to Opera Rara's recording of Belisario?
Verdi: Macbeth
Piero Cappuccilli (Macbeth), Shirley Verrett (Lady Macbeth), Nicolai Ghiaurov (Banco), Plácido Domingo (Macduff), Stefania Malagú (Lady in Waiting), Antonio Savastano (Malcolm), Carlo Zardo (Medico), Giovanni Foiani (Servo di Macbeth), Alfredo Mariotti (Sicario), Sergio Fontana (Araldo)
Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala,
Aaaaargh! Shirley Verrett! I need some more.
What vocal music have you been listening to, lately?
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Last Post: Yesterday, 02:08 AM
Current Symphonic Listening
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As a college shaped by the distinctive perspectives of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), Earlham College's governance processes are unusually open and participatory. The college encourages contributions from teaching and administrative faculty, from students and from hourly staff.
When an individual is responsible for making a decision, s/he is expected to consult broadly – to listen carefully and weigh what others say. When a committee or other group is responsible for making a decision or recommendation, we expect them to reach their conclusion via consensus. The practices of consultation and consensus make the college's governance processes unlike those in use at most other colleges or universities.
Earlham College also values knowledge and expertise, and this leads us to place particular responsibility and authority on those with recognized capabilities with regard to various matters.
These two principles – of broad participation via consultation and consensus, and of expertise – inform our distinctive governance process. The college's Governance Manual provides authoritative guidance on how we make various kinds of decisions, and on how members of the community can find significant and appropriate ways to participate in governance. Paper copies of the Governance Manual can be obtained from the Office of the President and the Office of the Dean of Student Development.
The Earlham Board of Trustees bears final and ultimate responsibility for the operations, activities and property of the college. The assignment of particular responsibilities to the Faculty and to the President, and through the Faculty and the President to others flows initially from the Earlham By-Laws, for which the Board of Trustees bears responsibility. The Governance Manual thus includes the following documents:
The By-laws of Earlham College, which provide the foundation for governance;
The Faculty Governance Document, which outlines how the faculty exercises its responsibilities, how it shapes regular channels for consultation, and how it invites students to participate in governance;
The Administration of Earlham, by which the President lays out how administrative responsibilities are delegated to others and coordinated one with another;
The Student Constitution, which describes how students organize themselves to participate in governance; and
The Employee Council document, which establishes a mechanism for communication with hourly staff and provides an avenue for hourly staff participation in governance.
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Information about Illegally Imprisoned Falun Dafa Practitioners in Anhui Province
(Clearwisdom.net) Mr. Meng Jie (Meng Fanhai), 69, from Xiao County, Anhui Province, is a retired employee of a machinery factory in Shanghai. In late November 2004 he was illegally arrested in Xiao County and sentenced to ten years in prison. Presently he is imprisoned in the Third Prison of Suzhou City, Anhui Province.
Mr. Meng Xiangmin, 60, is from Mengyao Village, Dulou Town, Xiao County, Anhui Province. Presently he is imprisoned in the Third Prison of Suzhou City, Anhui Province.
Mr. Meng Fanhui, in his 50s, is from Mengyao Village, Dulou Town, Xiao County, Anhui Province. Presently he is imprisoned in the Third Prison of Suzhou City, Anhui Province.
Mr. Meng Fanzhuo, in his 50s, is from Mengyao Village, Dulou Town, Xiao County, Anhui Province. Presently he is imprisoned in the Third Prison of Suzhou City, Anhui Province
Mr. Chen Xingling, in his 40s, is from Mengyao Village, Dulou Town, Xiao County, Anhui Province. Presently he is illegally imprisoned in the Third Prison of Suzhou City, Anhui Province.
Ms. Meng Fanrong, 60, from Xiao County, Anhui Province, is a family member accompanying an army member in Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province. Presently she is illegally imprisoned in the Third Prison of Suzhou City, Anhui Province.
Mr. Wang Qinli, 30, from Lizhuang Town, Dangshan County, Anhui Province, is a college graduate. In November 2004, he was illegally arrested by police in Taihe County, Anhui Province. He was sentenced to eight years in prison by the Dangshan County Court. Presently he is imprisoned in the Third Prison of Suzhou City, Annuli Province.
Mr. Wei Shezhang, 50, is an employee of a subordinate unit of the water bureau in Dangshan County, Anhui Province. He was illegally detained and sent to a forced labor camp and sentenced to prison several times. Presently he is imprisoned in the Third Prison of Suzhou City, Anhui Province. (It has been reported that he was seen in the Nanhu Forced Labor Camp in Xuancheng, Anhui Province.)
Mr. Meng Han, 30, from Chengou Village, Longcheng Town, Xiao County, Anhui Province, is an employee of the railroad bureau in Taihe County, Anhui Province. In the spring of 2003, he was illegally arrested by police in Yongcheng County, Henan Province and later sentenced to eight years in prison. Presently he is imprisoned in the Xinmi City Prison in Zhengzhou City, Henan Province. (At least 100 Dafa practitioners were imprisoned in this prison in the fall of 2003.)
Ms. Zhang Yulian, 58, is a retired teacher from the Xiaocheng First Middle School in Xiao County, Anhui Province. Presently she is illegally imprisoned in a women's forced labor camp in Hefei City, Anhui Province.
Other practitioners from Xiao County, Anhui Province, who were also once illegally put into a forced labor camp: Li Xipai (a teacher from the Xiaocheng First Middle School), Xue Chaoyang (staff of Xiao County Animal-breeding Center), Zheng Yunfei (staff of Xiao County Civil Administration Bureau), Ms. Xu Xiaoxia (staff of Xiao County Brewery), Ms. Zhao Li (a teacher from the Xiaocheng First Middle School), and others.
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Q: Overflow a list inside a div of which overflow:hidden I have a div and that div has a height of 200px. Inside the div there is text and I don't want the div to have scrollbars therefore I've set overflow:hidden.
Now, inside that div there is a also a list, acting as a dropdown box. When you click on the list/dropdown box, I want it to come on TOP of the main div.
Here is an example with the main div to overflow:hidden:

And this is an example without overflow:hidden. So I want the following but the text not overflowing.

jsFiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/w8kQA/

A: You could set the overflow:hidden on the element inside the box, instead of on the box itself:
http://jsfiddle.net/w8kQA/1/

A: In the comments above, you mention that you have 20 boxes inside a div.
If that is the case then I would wrap the #box and the .list inside of a holder div. That way you can achive your layout and still have multiple boxes in a div.
JSFiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/w8kQA/2/

A: You can also reduce the max-height of your list to fit into the div.
http://jsfiddle.net/etienne_carre/w8kQA/4/

A: You can do it like this: http://jsfiddle.net/w8kQA/7/


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GRABBITZ "Play This Game" Single & Music Video Directed By Nikko Lamere Out Now
Posted on April 21, 2017 by Charlotte Horton
DT: APRIL 21, 2017
FR: ALEXANDRA GREENBERG/CHARLOTTE HORTON
GRABBITZ
NEW SINGLE AND OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO DIRECTED BY NIKKO LAMERE
DEBUT FULL LENGTH ALBUM
'THINGS CHANGE'
DUE OUT MAY 19
"I'm putting myself out there in my music and with my live performance.
My vision is set high, but in order to win or lose, you have to play." – GRABBITZ
VIEW "PLAY THIS GAME" VIDEO: https://youtu.be/Gf42kap_jCk
GRABBITZ "Play This Game" video directed by Nikko Lamere
"My favorite parts about this song are the bassline, the simplicity and the cockiness," says singer/songwriter and producer GRABBITZ. Today (April 21) the Los Angeles/Buffalo-based artist releases his new single and official music video for "Play This Game" from his upcoming debut full-length album THINGS CHANGE (out May 19 on West Blood Records). "'Play This Game' is about the industry. For a true artist, it seems like no one wants to take risks anymore, and only see monetary value. What is cool? What is not? What's a trend? What is timeless? You have to risk losing in order to win. I have to play."
GRABBITZ worked with visual artist Nikko Lamere who has created content for artists like Khelani, Noah Cyrus and Sky Ferreira for the video which captures the artist bearing his skin as much as his soul for the industry. "You won't be able to get the bass-heavy hooks and seductive beat out of your mind anytime soon," shared Idobi who premiered the video today. "'Play This Game' is a whole new brand of entertainment tailor-made to mess with your head in the best way possible."
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EVERYBODY'S OUT HERE FOR THEMSELVES
THEY DON'T GIVE A DAMN 'BOUT NO ONE ELSE
PEOPLE ONLY WANT YOU FOR YOUR NAME
STILL I CHOOSE TO PLAY THIS GAME
I CHOOSE TO PLAY THIS GAME
THIS IS SOMETHING I CHOOSE
NOW I'VE LEARNED TO HOLD MY GUARD
I'M WORKING ON A BRAND NEW KIND OF HARD
WE'LL STAY FRIENDS AND I'LL STAY TAME
BUT I'LL STILL CRUSH YOU IN THIS GAME
I CAN F***** THROW AN ALL NIGHTER
I'M ALMIGHTY, NEW PANTS AND NEW NIKES
A NEW PSYCHE, NEW THERAPIST, YOU'D LIKE HER
I TELL HER I'M A SINGER AND A F****** SONGWRITER
About GRABBITZ:
With over 20 million Spotify streams on his catalogue overall, GRABBITZ (aka Nick Chiari) combines elements of pop, rock, and hip-hop–all of which are being glued together by a rhythmic, electronic heartbeat. The debut GRABBITZ album Things Change is an alchemic and visceral reaction to the loss of the most important person in his life, a trip into the belly of the beast on his personal hero's journey. He's the sort of artist who's creating all the time, so the temptation to stay in the woods of his native Buffalo in western New York and make music just for himself was great. GRABBITZ-who calls downtown Los Angeles home–made the choice to "Play This Game." You can hear his frustration in the grindy guitar riff and fat bassline that opens the track and his desperation to cling to love of any sort on the hybrid pulsating drumstep ballad "Don't Let Me Go." He finally loosens his grip on reality and surrenders to the certainty of a pop progression on "i think that i might be going crazy" – and those are just the first few songs of his twelve track album. It's a good thing music is therapy for GRABBITZ because he's responsible for every single aspect of his songs, from writing to production to performance. He's probably the only artist to ever be compared to both Trent Reznor and Eminem in the same breath (by Billboard). Meanwhile, GRABBITZ is featured on deadmau5's hit single "Let Go," which has over 10 million Youtube views and reached #11 on Billboard's Hot Dance/Electronic Chart. Keep a look out for GRABBITZ this summer as he will be debuting his live show which will highlight his talents as a performer.
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Australian media giants demand an end to curbs on press freedom
Byron Kaye
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's national broadcaster and two biggest newspaper publishers called on the government on Wednesday to protect press freedom, declaring media laws outdated, inconsistent and used by the powerful to keep embarrassing information secret.
News Corp Executive Chairman Michael Miller (right) speaks while Managing Director ABC David Anderson (centre) and Nine Chief Executive Officer Hugh Marks look on during a National Press Club panel discussion in Canberra, Australia, June 26, 2019. AAP Image/Rohan Thomson/via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVE. AUSTRALIA OUT. NEW ZEALAND OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN NEW ZEALAND. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN AUSTRALIA.
The state-funded Australian Broadcasting Corp (ABC), News Corp's Australian arm, and broadcaster and newspaper publisher Nine Entertainment Co Holdings Ltd made the demand after a series of police raids, adverse court rulings and criminal prosecutions of journalists.
The rare show of unity by Australia's usually tribal media industry underscored concern about a lack of legal protection for journalists. The issue grabbed international attention earlier this month when police raided the ABC's head office in Sydney and a News Corp editor's home over separate reports.
"Something has shifted," said Michael Miller, News Corp executive chairman for Australia and New Zealand.
"The raids ... were intimidation, not investigation," he said in a joint speech by the media bosses in Canberra.
ABC managing director David Anderson said government rhetoric about the importance of a free press was "not being matched by the reality".
"Our journalists have too many impediments in their path including the unacceptable risk of being treated as criminals," Anderson said.
He said the raid on the ABC office was based on a World War One-era Crimes Act.
The ABC and News Corp plan to challenge the legality of the raids, although Miller said that would not address concerns about how warrants for the raids were issued.
Global attention turned to press freedom in Australia after a court order prevented media outlets reporting on a guilty verdict on child sex abuse charges against Catholic Cardinal George Pell.
Some Australian outlets reported that an unidentified person had been convicted but some foreign media companies identified Pell because they were outside Australia's jurisdiction.
Prosecutors are now seeking fines and jail time for three dozen Australian journalists and publishers for their coverage of the trial. Pell is appealing against his guilty verdict.
Oscar-winning actor Geoffrey Rush was awarded a A$2.8 million ($2 million) defamation payment in May against News Corp, the largest defamation payout in Australian history, after it published reports accusing him of inappropriate behavior. News Corp is appealing against that finding.
A court found this week three media companies, including News Corp and Nine-owned newspaper publisher Fairfax, were liable for defamatory comments posted below articles on their Facebook pages despite being unable to edit the comments by members of the public.
"The growth of costly judgments based on Facebook posts or Google reviews show the law has ... failed to keep step with the way the world has changed," said Nine CEO Hugh Marks.
Reporting by Byron Kaye; Editing by Paul Tait


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Top 1% Has 65 Times More Wealth Than The Bottom Half And The Global Elite Like It That Way
Did you know that the 85 richest people in the world have about as much wealth as the poorest 50% of the entire global population does? In other words, 85 extremely wealthy individuals have about as much wealth as the poorest 3,500,000,000 do. This shocking statistic comes from a new report on global poverty by Oxfam. And actually Oxfam's report probably significantly underestimates the true scope of the problem, because Oxfam relies on publicly reported numbers. At the very top of the food chain, the global elite are masters at hiding their wealth. In fact, as I have written about previously, the global elite have approximately 32 trillion dollars (that we know about) stashed in offshore banks around the world. That would be about enough to pay off the entire U.S. national debt and buy every good and service produced in the United States for an entire year. These elitists live on an entirely different planet than the rest of us do. In fact, according to Oxfam, the richest one percent of the global population has 65 times more wealth than the bottom half of the global population combined.
There is certainly nothing wrong with making money. In fact, the founders of the United States intended for this nation to be a place where free markets thrived and where everyone could pursue their dreams. Unfortunately, this country (along with the rest of the world) has moved very much in the opposite direction. Today, we have a debt-based global financial system which is dominated by gigantic predator corporations and big banks. Working together with national governments, these corporations and banks have constructed a system that I like to call "Corporatism" in which the percentage of all global wealth that is being funneled to the very top of the pyramid steadily grows over time.
The Founding Fathers were very correct to be very suspicious of large concentrations of power. In the early days of the United States, the federal government was very small and the size and scope of corporations was greatly limited. Our nation thrived and a huge middle class blossomed.
Sadly, over the past several decades the pendulum has completely swung in the other direction. Today, our society is completely and totally dominated by big banks, big corporations and big government.
And of course this is also happening in virtually every other nation on the face of the planet. The global elite have rigged the game to send just about all of the rewards their way, and it is working. The following are facts taken directly from Oxfam's latest report…
•Almost half of the world's wealth is now owned by just one percent of the population.
•The wealth of the one percent richest people in the world amounts to $110 trillion. That's 65 times the total wealth of the bottom half of the world's population.
•The bottom half of the world's population owns the same as the richest 85 people in the world.
•Seven out of ten people live in countries where economic inequality has increased in the last 30 years.
•The richest one percent increased their share of income in 24 out of 26 countries for which we have data between 1980 and 2012.
•In the US, the wealthiest one percent captured 95 percent of post-financial crisis growth since 2009, while the bottom 90 percent became poorer.
Starting on Wednesday, several thousand members of the global elite will gather for the World Economic Forum meetings in Davos, Switzerland. The following is how USA Today described this conference.
For several days at the end of January, presidents, prime ministers, monarchs and corporate titans jostle with actors, rock stars and major influencers for top billing at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum. The confab takes place in the Alpine village of Davos, about 90 miles southeast of Zurich, and for a brief spell each year the pristine ski resort half-sheds its Graubünden roots and becomes a ground zero for the political and business elite.
Unless you are independently wealthy, you can forget about going to this conference. A ticket to Davos is going to cost you about $30,000, and that is on top of the $55,000 that it costs to join the organization.
Needless to say, it is an organization of the elite, by the elite and for the elite.
This year, the theme of the meeting is "The Reshaping of the World: Consequences for Society, Politics and Business". And the founder of the World Economic Forum says that the time has come to press the "reset" button for the global economy…
It's time to press the "reset" button on the world, the founder of the World Economic Forum said Wednesday, addressing media ahead of the WEF's much ballyhooed annual meeting in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland, that gets underway in a week's time.
"The world is complex, it's fast-moving, it's interconnected, and we in Davos want to provide a mirror to the world as it is. It is not a meeting devoted to one set of issues. It's a meeting that address the complexity of our world," said Klaus Schwab, the WEF's founder and executive chairman.
At first glance, that sounds pretty good.
Personally, I would love to hit a "reset" button for the global economy.
But what the elite mean by "reset" is much different from what most of the rest of us would mean.
The following is an excerpt from the executive summary for the agenda for the 2014 World Economic Forum…
"At an international level, the formal architecture for global governance was not designed for the interdisciplinary challenges and collective action problems of today. As a result, international cooperation has yet to fully enter the information age and capture its associated productivity gains."
For the global elite, the answers to our problems always involve more centralization and more "global governance". In other words, the answers to our problems always involve giving them more control and more power.
The elite never actually want the pendulum to swing back in the direction of the "little guy". The elite are generally pleased with how the game is being played because they are winning.
Most people don't even realize that they are participants in a debt-based neo-feudalist system in which money is being used as a form of social control.
As I have written about previously, there is about 190 trillion dollars of debt in the world, but global GDP is only about 70 trillion dollars.
There is no way that all of this debt could ever be paid off at one time. It is mathematically impossible. Over time, all of this debt transfers the wealth of the planet away from us and to the global elite. If this game was allowed to go on long enough, eventually they would have nearly all of it.
And some would argue that we are already getting close to that point. A study by the World Institute for Development Economics Research discovered that the bottom half of the global population only owns approximately 1 percent of all wealth, and at this point about a billion people throughout the world go to bed hungry every night.
This is one of the reasons why I am so adamant about the fact that the Federal Reserve needs to be shut down. It is at the very heart of the debt-based system that we have in the United States, and over the past 100 years it has brought us to the brink of economic Armageddon.
Sadly, most Americans do not understand any of these things. They just assume that the debt-fueled prosperity that we have been enjoying will be able to go on indefinitely.
So is there any hope for the "little guy"?
Well, you could try to win the one billion dollar NCAA tournament bracket contest that Warren Buffett is backing.
Or you could go out and try to win the lottery or try to date a famous professional athlete.
But the odds of any of those things actually happening are so low that they aren't even worth mentioning.
Personally, I would rather spend my time trying to wake people up and help them understand how our global system really works.
I believe that a "great awakening" is coming.
I believe that millions of people are going to start breaking out of the "matrix of control" that has such a tight grip on their lives and are going to start thinking for themselves.
I believe that as the darkness gets even darker that the light is going to get even brighter. I believe that we are going to see "renewal" on a whole bunch of different levels.
Yes, a great economic collapse is coming.
Yes, there is going to be a tremendous amount of pain.
But it won't all be bad news.
The times ahead are going to be full of adventure and excitement for those who are willing to embrace it.
So what do you think about what is coming in the years ahead? Please feel free to share your thoughts by posting a comment below…
Categories Banksters, Commentary, The Next Great DepressionTags Debt, Dirt Poor, Elitists, Extremely Wealthy, Global Elite, Global Poverty, Hiding Wealth, Michael T. Snyder, More Wealth, Offshore Banks, Richest People In The World, Wealth, Wealthy, Wealthy Individuals, Wealthy People, World Population289 Comments
Who Runs The World? Solid Proof That A Core Group Of Wealthy Elitists Is Pulling The Strings
Does a shadowy group of obscenely wealthy elitists control the world? Do men and women with enormous amounts of money really run the world from behind the scenes? The answer might surprise you. Most of us tend to think of money as a convenient way to conduct transactions, but the truth is that it also represents power and control. And today we live in a neo-fuedalist system in which the super rich pull all the strings. When I am talking about the ultra-wealthy, I am not just talking about people that have a few million dollars. As you will see later in this article, the ultra-wealthy have enough money sitting in offshore banks to buy all of the goods and services produced in the United States during the course of an entire year and still be able to pay off the entire U.S. national debt. That is an amount of money so large that it is almost incomprehensible. Under this ne0-feudalist system, all the rest of us are debt slaves, including our own governments. Just look around – everyone is drowning in debt, and all of that debt is making the ultra-wealthy even wealthier. But the ultra-wealthy don't just sit on all of that wealth. They use some of it to dominate the affairs of the nations. The ultra-wealthy own virtually every major bank and every major corporation on the planet. They use a vast network of secret societies, think tanks and charitable organizations to advance their agendas and to keep their members in line. They control how we view the world through their ownership of the media and their dominance over our education system. They fund the campaigns of most of our politicians and they exert a tremendous amount of influence over international organizations such as the United Nations, the IMF, the World Bank and the WTO. When you step back and take a look at the big picture, there is little doubt about who runs the world. It is just that most people don't want to admit the truth.
The ultra-wealthy don't run down and put their money in the local bank like you and I do. Instead, they tend to stash their assets in places where they won't be taxed such as the Cayman Islands. According to a report that was released last summer, the global elite have up to 32 TRILLION dollars stashed in offshore banks around the globe.
U.S. GDP for 2011 was about 15 trillion dollars, and the U.S. national debt is sitting at about 16 trillion dollars, so you could add them both together and you still wouldn't hit 32 trillion dollars.
And of course that does not even count the money that is stashed in other locations that the study did not account for, and it does not count all of the wealth that the global elite have in hard assets such as real estate, precious metals, art, yachts, etc.
The global elite have really hoarded an incredible amount of wealth in these troubled times. The following is from an article on the Huffington Post website…
Rich individuals and their families have as much as $32 trillion of hidden financial assets in offshore tax havens, representing up to $280 billion in lost income tax revenues, according to research published on Sunday.
The study estimating the extent of global private financial wealth held in offshore accounts – excluding non-financial assets such as real estate, gold, yachts and racehorses – puts the sum at between $21 and $32 trillion.
The research was carried out for pressure group Tax Justice Network, which campaigns against tax havens, by James Henry, former chief economist at consultants McKinsey & Co.
He used data from the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, United Nations and central banks.
But as I mentioned previously, the global elite just don't have a lot of money. They also basically own just about every major bank and every major corporation on the entire planet.
According to an outstanding NewScientist article, a study of more than 40,000 transnational corporations conducted by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich discovered that a very small core group of huge banks and giant predator corporations dominate the entire global economic system…
An analysis of the relationships between 43,000 transnational corporations has identified a relatively small group of companies, mainly banks, with disproportionate power over the global economy.
The researchers found that this core group consists of just 147 very tightly knit companies…
When the team further untangled the web of ownership, it found much of it tracked back to a "super-entity" of 147 even more tightly knit companies – all of their ownership was held by other members of the super-entity – that controlled 40 per cent of the total wealth in the network. "In effect, less than 1 per cent of the companies were able to control 40 per cent of the entire network," says Glattfelder. Most were financial institutions. The top 20 included Barclays Bank, JPMorgan Chase & Co, and The Goldman Sachs Group.
The following are the top 25 banks and corporations at the heart of this "super-entity". You will recognize many of the names on the list…
1. Barclays plc
2. Capital Group Companies Inc
3. FMR Corporation
4. AXA
5. State Street Corporation
6. JP Morgan Chase & Co
7. Legal & General Group plc
8. Vanguard Group Inc
9. UBS AG
10. Merrill Lynch & Co Inc
11. Wellington Management Co LLP
12. Deutsche Bank AG
13. Franklin Resources Inc
14. Credit Suisse Group
15. Walton Enterprises LLC
16. Bank of New York Mellon Corp
17. Natixis
18. Goldman Sachs Group Inc
19. T Rowe Price Group Inc
20. Legg Mason Inc
21. Morgan Stanley
22. Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc
23. Northern Trust Corporation
24. Société Générale
25. Bank of America Corporation
The ultra-wealthy elite often hide behind layers and layers of ownership, but the truth is that thanks to interlocking corporate relationships, the elite basically control almost every Fortune 500 corporation.
The amount of power and control that this gives them is hard to describe.
Unfortunately, this same group of people have been running things for a very long time. For example, New York City Mayor John F. Hylan said the following during a speech all the way back in 1922…
The real menace of our Republic is the invisible government, which like a giant octopus sprawls its slimy legs over our cities, states and nation. To depart from mere generalizations, let me say that at the head of this octopus are the Rockefeller-Standard Oil interests and a small group of powerful banking houses generally referred to as the international bankers. The little coterie of powerful international bankers virtually run the United States government for their own selfish purposes.
They practically control both parties, write political platforms, make catspaws of party leaders, use the leading men of private organizations, and resort to every device to place in nomination for high public office only such candidates as will be amenable to the dictates of corrupt big business.
These international bankers and Rockefeller-Standard Oil interests control the majority of the newspapers and magazines in this country. They use the columns of these papers to club into submission or drive out of office public officials who refuse to do the bidding of the powerful corrupt cliques which compose the invisible government. It operates under cover of a self-created screen [and] seizes our executive officers, legislative bodies, schools, courts, newspapers and every agency created for the public protection.
These international bankers created the central banks of the world (including the Federal Reserve), and they use those central banks to get the governments of the world ensnared in endless cycles of debt from which there is no escape. Government debt is a way to "legitimately" take money from all of us, transfer it to the government, and then transfer it into the pockets of the ultra-wealthy.
Today, Barack Obama and almost all members of Congress absolutely refuse to criticize the Fed, but in the past there have been some brave members of Congress that have been willing to take a stand. For example, the following quote is from a speech that Congressman Louis T. McFadden delivered to the U.S. House of Representatives on June 10, 1932…
Mr. Chairman, we have in this country one of the most corrupt institutions the world has ever known. I refer to the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve Banks. The Federal Reserve Board, a Government board, has cheated the Government of the United States and the people of the United States out of enough money to pay the national debt. The depredations and iniquities of the Federal Reserve Board has cost this country enough money to pay the national debt several times over. This evil institution has impoverished and ruined the people of the United States, has bankrupted itself, and has practically bankrupted our Government. It has done this through the defects of the law under which it operates, through the maladministration of that law by the Federal Reserve Board, and through the corrupt practices of the moneyed vultures who control it.
Sadly, most Americans still believe that the Federal Reserve is a "federal agency", but that is simply not correct. The following comes from factcheck.org…
The stockholders in the 12 regional Federal Reserve Banks are the privately owned banks that fall under the Federal Reserve System. These include all national banks (chartered by the federal government) and those state-chartered banks that wish to join and meet certain requirements. About 38 percent of the nation's more than 8,000 banks are members of the system, and thus own the Fed banks.
According to researchers that have looked into the ownership of the big Wall Street banks that dominate the Fed, the same names keep coming up over and over: the Rockefellers, the Rothschilds, the Warburgs, the Lazards, the Schiffs and the royal families of Europe.
But ultra-wealthy international bankers have not just done this kind of thing in the United States. Their goal was to create a global financial system that they would dominate and control. Just check out what Georgetown University history professor Carroll Quigley once wrote…
[T]he powers of financial capitalism had another far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements arrived at in frequent private meetings and conferences. The apex of the system was to be the Bank for International Settlements in Basle, Switzerland, a private bank owned and controlled by the world's central banks which were themselves private corporations.
Sadly, most Americans have never even heard of the Bank for International Settlements, but it is at the very heart of the global financial system. The following is from Wikipedia…
As an organization of central banks, the BIS seeks to make monetary policy more predictable and transparent among its 58 member central banks. While monetary policy is determined by each sovereign nation, it is subject to central and private banking scrutiny and potentially to speculation that affects foreign exchange rates and especially the fate of export economies. Failures to keep monetary policy in line with reality and make monetary reforms in time, preferably as a simultaneous policy among all 58 member banks and also involving the International Monetary Fund, have historically led to losses in the billions as banks try to maintain a policy using open market methods that have proven to be based on unrealistic assumptions.
The ultra-wealthy have also played a major role in establishing other important international institutions such as the United Nations, the IMF, the World Bank and the WTO. In fact, the land for the United Nations headquarters in New York City was purchased and donated by John D. Rockefeller.
The international bankers are "internationalists" and they are very proud of that fact.
The elite also dominate the education system in the United States. Over the years, the Rockefeller Foundation and other elitist organizations have poured massive amounts of money into Ivy League schools. Today, Ivy League schools are considered to be the standard against which all other colleges and universities in America are measured, and the last four U.S. presidents were educated at Ivy League schools.
The elite also exert a tremendous amount of influence through various secret societies (Skull and Bones, the Freemasons, etc.), through some very powerful think tanks and social clubs (the Council on Foreign Relations, the Trilateral Commission, the Bilderberg Group, the Bohemian Grove, Chatham House, etc.), and through a vast network of charities and non-governmental organizations (the Rockefeller Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the World Wildlife Fund, etc.).
But for a moment, I want to focus on the power the elite have over the media. In a previous article, I detailed how just six monolithic corporate giants control most of what we watch, hear and read every single day. These giant corporations own television networks, cable channels, movie studios, newspapers, magazines, publishing houses, music labels and even many of our favorite websites.
Considering the fact that the average American watches 153 hours of television a month, the influence of these six giant corporations should not be underestimated. The following are just some of the media companies that these corporate giants own…
Home Box Office (HBO)
Time Inc.
Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.
CW Network (partial ownership)
America Online
ABC Television Network
Disney Publishing
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Buena Vista Theatrical Productions
Buena Vista Records
Disney Records
Buena Vista Games
Hyperion Books
Black Entertainment Television (BET)
Country Music Television (CMT)
MTV Canada
Nick Magazine
Noggin
Spike TV
The Movie Channel
Dow Jones & Company, Inc.
Fox Television Stations
Fox Business Network
Fox Kids Europe
Fox Sports Net
News Limited News
Phoenix InfoNews Channel
Phoenix Movies Channel
Sky PerfecTV
Speed Channel
STAR TV India
STAR TV Taiwan
Times Higher Education Supplement Magazine
Times Literary Supplement Magazine
20th Century Fox International
20th Century Fox Studios
Fox Interactive Media
The National Geographic Channel
News Interactive
ReganBooks
Sky Radio Denmark
Sky Radio Germany
Sky Radio Netherlands
CBS Corporation
CBS Television Network
CBS Radio Inc. (130 stations)
CBS Consumer Products
CBS Outdoor
CW Network (50% ownership)
Infinity Broadcasting
Simon & Schuster (Pocket Books, Scribner)
Westwood One Radio Network
NBC Television Network
SciFi Magazine
Syfy (Sci Fi Channel)
NBC Universal Television Distribution
NBC Universal Television Studio
Paxson Communications (partial ownership)
Universal Parks & Resorts
Universal Studio Home Video
And of course the elite own most of our politicians as well. The following is a quote from journalist Lewis Lapham…
"The shaping of the will of Congress and the choosing of the American president has become a privilege reserved to the country's equestrian classes, a.k.a. the 20% of the population that holds 93% of the wealth, the happy few who run the corporations and the banks, own and operate the news and entertainment media, compose the laws and govern the universities, control the philanthropic foundations, the policy institutes, the casinos, and the sports arenas."
Have you ever wondered why things never seem to change in Washington D.C. no matter who we vote for?
Well, it is because both parties are owned by the establishment.
It would be nice to think that the American people are in control of who runs things in the U.S., but that is not how it works in the real world.
In the real world, the politician that raises more money wins more than 80 percent of the time in national races.
Our politicians are not stupid – they are going to be very good to the people that can give them the giant piles of money that they need for their campaigns. And the people that can do that are the ultra-wealthy and the giant corporations that the ultra-wealthy control.
There is a reason why the ultra-wealthy are referred to as "the establishment". They have set up a system that greatly benefits them and that allows them to pull the strings.
So who runs the world?
They do. In fact, they even admit as much.
David Rockefeller wrote the following in his 2003 book entitled "Memoirs"…
"For more than a century, ideological extremists at either end of the political spectrum have seized upon well-publicized incidents such as my encounter with Castro to attack the Rockefeller family for the inordinate influence they claim we wield over American political and economic institutions. Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as 'internationalists' and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure — one world, if you will. If that is the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it."
There is so much more that could be said about all of this. In fact, an entire library of books could be written about the power and the influence of the ultra-wealthy international bankers that run the world.
But hopefully this is enough to at least get some conversations started.
So what do you think about all of this? Please feel free to post a comment with your thoughts below…
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The Global Elite Are Hiding 18 Trillion Dollars In Offshore Banks
In recent days, the fact that Mitt Romney has millions of dollars parked down in the Cayman Islands has made headlines all over the world. But when it comes to offshore banking, what Mitt Romney is doing is small potatoes. The truth is that the global elite are hiding an almost unbelievable amount of money in offshore banks. According to shocking research done by the IMF, the global elite are holding a total of 18 trillion dollars in offshore banks. And that figure does not even count any money being held in Switzerland. That is a staggering amount of money. Keep in mind that U.S. GDP in 2010 was only 14.58 trillion dollars. So why do the global elite go to such trouble to hide their money in offshore banks? Well, there are two main reasons. One is privacy and the other is low taxation. Privacy is a big issue for those that are involved in illegal enterprises such as drug running, but the biggest reason why people move money into offshore banks is in order to avoid taxes. Some set up bank accounts in foreign nations because they want to legally minimize their taxes and others set up bank accounts in foreign nations because they want to illegally avoid taxes. You would be absolutely amazed at what some large corporations and wealthy individuals do to get out of paying taxes. Unfortunately, the vast majority of the rest of us don't have the resources or the knowledge to play these games, so we get taxed into oblivion.
So why do they call it "offshore banking"?
Well, the term originally developed because the banks on the Channel Islands were "offshore" from the United Kingdom. Most "offshore banks" are still located on islands today. The Cayman Islands, Bermuda, the Bahamas, and the Isle of Man are examples of this. Other "offshore banking centers" such as Monaco are actually not "offshore" at all, but the term applies to them anyway.
Traditionally, these offshore banking centers have been very attractive to both criminals and to the global elite because they would not tell anyone (including governments) about the money that anyone had parked there.
These days some governments (particularly the U.S. government) are trying to change this, but we certainly will not see the end of offshore banking any time soon.
The amount of money that goes through these offshore banks is absolutely astounding.
It has been estimated that 80 percent of all international banking transactions take place through these offshore banks. $1.4 trillion is being held in offshore banks in the Cayman Islands alone.
One article in the Guardian estimated that a third of all the wealth on the entire globe is being held in offshore banks, and others believe that as much as half of all the capital in the world flows through offshore banks at some point.
Obviously, all of this tax avoidance means that governments around the world are missing out on a whole lot of money.
It has been estimated that the U.S. government is missing out on $100 billion a year because of these offshore banks. Others would put that figure significantly higher.
Avoiding taxes is a game that the global elite have mastered. They are playing a whole different ballgame than you and I are. They don't just sit there like idiots and get blasted with taxes. Instead, they hire the best experts and they employ every trick in the book to hold on to as much money as they possibly can.
These days, taking advantage of offshore tax havens is not that complicated to do. The following is from a recent Politico article….
A plausible scenario plays out like this: I hire an accountant. Doing her job, my accountant tells me that if I sign a few legal documents and route my money through a small Caribbean island, I could keep more of my paycheck and pay a lower tax rate. I may have earned my money in the United States, but legally I can claim that it was, in fact, earned in a tax haven.
If it is legal, perhaps more of us should look into this.
After all, if playing these kinds of games is good enough for Mitt Romney, then why isn't it good enough for all the rest of us?
During a campaign stop recently, Romney said the following….
"I can tell you we follow the tax laws"
I certainly believe him when he says that. But it is what he said next that is troubling….
"And if there's an opportunity to save taxes, we like anybody else in this country will follow that opportunity."
I certainly believe him when he says that too.
ABC News recently revealed that Bain Capital has established an astounding 138 different offshore funds in the Cayman Islands.
Something has got to work pretty well to want to do it 138 times.
But Bain Capital was also very busy over in other offshore banking centers as well.
One of the largest shell companies that Bain set up down in the Caribbean was called Sankaty High Yield Asset Investors Ltd. It did not have an office in Bermuda and it had no staff in Bermuda. But it helped clients of Bain Capital avoid a whole lot of taxes.
The following comes from a 2007 Los Angeles Times article….
In Bermuda, Romney served as president and sole shareholder for four years of Sankaty High Yield Asset Investors Ltd. It funneled money into Bain Capital's Sankaty family of hedge funds, which invest in bonds and other debt issued by corporations, as well as bank loans.
Like thousands of similar financial entities, Sankaty maintains no office or staff in Bermuda. Its only presence consists of a nameplate at a lawyer's office in downtown Hamilton, capital of the British island territory.
"It's just a mail drop, essentially," said Marc B. Wolpow, who worked with Romney for nine years at Bain Capital and who set up Sankaty Ltd. in October 1997 without ever visiting Bermuda. "There's no one doing any work down there other than lawyers."
The amount of money being funneled through Sankaty today is absolutely stunning….
Today, Bain Capital manages $60 billion in assets, according to a spokesman. The total includes $23 billion in Sankaty debt and credit funds. Half a dozen Sankaty affiliates now are active in Bermuda, corporate registry records show.
The Sankaty debt hedge funds are organized as partnerships in Delaware that produce taxable business income by investing in fixed-income bonds and other debt instruments. Under tax law, even tax-exempt U.S. institutions may face a 35% tax if they invest directly in such hedge funds. By investing instead through a Bermuda corporation, the taxes are legally blocked, experts say.
Of course all of this is perfectly legal.
So nobody gets into trouble for any of this.
By keeping money offshore, even those managing these kinds of funds can avoid being taxed.
Victor Fleischer, a tax professor at the University of Colorado Law School, recently explained how this works….
"The idea behind some of the Cayman Island strategies was that the income that the fund managers receive for managing the money would be kept offshore in the Cayman Island — and the chief benefit is that you can defer when you recognize that income until a later date and you can reinvest the money from the Cayman islands and none of those reinvested funds get taxed until you bring them back either"
So was Romney doing this?
We may never know unless he shows us his tax returns.
What we do know is that Romney has millions of dollars of his own personal wealth invested in offshore tax havens.
The following comes from ABC News….
In addition to paying the lower tax rate on his investment income, Romney has as much as $8 million invested in at least 12 funds listed on a Cayman Islands registry. Another investment, which Romney reports as being worth between $5 million and $25 million, shows up on securities records as having been domiciled in the Caymans.
But Romney does not just have money invested down in the Cayman Islands. Apparently his money is invested in a whole host of offshore tax havens.
The following quote comes from a Reuters article….
Bain funds in which Romney is invested are scattered from Delaware to the Cayman Islands and Bermuda, Ireland and Hong Kong, according to a Reuters analysis of securities filings.
So is there anything wrong with this?
Well, it depends on how you define "wrong".
What Romney is doing is perfectly legal.
But it also stinks. Washington lawyer Jack Blum recently told ABC News the following about Romney's finances….
"His personal finances are a poster child of what's wrong with the American tax system"
So now we may have a few hints as to why Romney may not want to release his old tax returns.
But as noted above, what Romney is doing is just small potatoes compared to what the ultra-wealthy do.
The U.S. Congress has been trying to clamp down on offshore banking, but the ultra-wealthy are always two or three steps ahead of them.
The ultra-wealthy will go to just about any extreme in order to avoid paying taxes.
In fact, the Washington Post has reported that an increasing number of wealthy individuals are actually deciding to renounce their citizenship rather than face the wrath of the IRS.
The ultra-wealthy aren't really concerned that much with national citizenship anyway. If they want to influence an election, they can have far more influence by donating a few million bucks to a "Super PAC" than they can by casting the few votes that they have.
In a previous article, I described how the ultra-wealthy use offshore banks as a "shadow banking system" that plays by rules that most people don't even know exist….
It is a shadow banking system that most Americans don't know anything about. Most Americans don't have the resources to be able to set up shell companies in half a dozen different countries so that they can "filter" their profits. Most Americans don't know a thing about complicated tax avoidance plans that tax lawyers use such as the "Double Irish" and the "Dutch Sandwich". Most Americans would have no idea how to eventually have most of the money that they make end up in Bermuda so that it can avoid taxes.
Most among the global elite simply do not care that U.S. debt is climbing into the stratosphere. All they care about is keeping as much of their own money in their pockets as they possibly can.
Of course there are always exceptions to this rule. Warren Buffett recently wrote a check to the U.S. Treasury for a little more than $49,000 to help pay off the national debt.
But considering the fact that the U.S. national debt is increasing by more than 100 million dollars an hour, that didn't exactly do much to help.
Our system is deeply broken and the global elite are getting away with bloody murder. Over the decades, they have carefully crafted the rules so that as much wealth as possible is funneled into their pockets, and they have carefully crafted the rules so that as much wealth as possible stays in their pockets.
Of course if we got rid of the personal income tax and the corporate income tax entirely and replaced them with a completely new system we could get rid of all of this game playing once and for all.
But what do you think the odds are of that happening?
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Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical InstituteLINDA A. CICERO/STANFORD NEWS SERVICEI was one of three girls, and when we were asked in school what we wanted to be when we grew up, and other kids said doctor or fireman, we each said 'medium-energy nuclear physicist,'" laughs Carolyn Bertozzi, whose father was a professor of applied physics at MIT in Boston. "As early as I remember, he would talk about how, when we grew up, we were going to be nuclear physicists," recalls the Stanford University chemistry professor. As little kids, she and her sisters donned MIT T-shirts and attended summer day camp there. "That was the difference between us and the other kids, especially the girls. I was born in the mid-1960s at a time when women were catastrophically underrepresented in science and actively discouraged from higher education," she says. Bertozzi's own mother had put herself through secretarial school instead of attending college because "her parents were not supportive, thinking [college] was a waste of money." Bertozzi's parents sent her and her sisters—a younger sister is an occupational therapist, and an older sister, Andrea, is an applied math professor at UCLA—a clear message: "Go to college, get a PhD in science, have your own career, be independent," Bertozzi recounts.
Bertozzi enjoyed high school biology, but was not particularly drawn to other sciences. She entered Harvard University in 1984, initially majoring in biology. She had been recruited to play soccer and originally wanted to major in music. "I played keyboard in jazz and heavy metal bands." But Bertozzi had also followed in her older sister's footsteps, joining math teams in junior high and high school. "I mostly did whatever my sister did, because I didn't have a better idea," she says.
Thinking she might go to medical school, Bertozzi took the required organic chemistry course as a sophomore and something clicked: "Organic chemistry turned out to be my thing. I loved how you could see the three-dimensional molecules—their shapes and behaviors—and that there were just simple, beautiful core principles that let you rationalize really complicated sequences of events. I loved that you could look at molecules and predict what would happen, and when your predictions were good, you could engineer and make new molecules no one had made before." Bertozzi switched to a major in chemistry and has never looked back.
Here, she talks about how to get over a fear of technology, how she made cold calls to learn biology from experts, and the gut feeling that helped her avoid bad career advice.
No fear. At Harvard, Bertozzi did undergraduate research in a physical chemistry lab, where she constructed a photoacoustic calorimeter—an instrument that measures heat deposition into a solution following the photoexcitation of molecules. She was accepted into a graduate research program for women at Bell Labs in New Jersey that included a pregraduate internship there and a PhD fellowship award to pursue a graduate degree at an institution of her choice. At Bell, Bertozzi studied the kinetics of electron transfer on various surfaces with Christopher Chidsey, now her colleague at Stanford. "I learned that you didn't need to be intimidated by instruments. I became fearless about taking a wrench to a back panel and digging in the electronics. I also learned the fundamental way instruments work, no matter the instrument: how you set it up to initiate a process, collect a readout, digitize it into data you can analyze," she says.
Going out west. Bertozzi grew up in Lexington, Massachusetts, and had never been on an airplane until her West Coast tour of schools—Caltech, Stanford, and the University of California, Berkeley—after she had already been accepted into all three graduate chemistry programs. The trip won her over to the Golden State: "It seemed so foreign to me: the landscape where you can see for miles, the smells, the weather, the architecture. My student host [at Berkeley] picked me up from my hotel on a motorcycle and we drove over the Bay Bridge to a club in San Francisco. That really wowed me." As she began her graduate career at Berkeley in 1988, Bertozzi finally got to pursue research in organic chemistry, the subject she had fallen in love with in college. The chemistry department at Berkeley was just beginning to develop the field that is now called chemical biology, then known as bio-organic chemistry.
Biology 101. As she was wrapping up her PhD, Bertozzi reasoned that, to have an impact on the field of biology, she needed to be at the leading edge of biology, "not just reading about it from a distance." At the time, in 1992, researchers had just discovered the selectin family of adhesion receptors, molecules found on the surface of endothelial cells and lymphocytes that direct immune cells to sites of tissue damage to generate inflammation. The finding had pushed glycobiology from a small, niche research topic into the mainstream, says Bertozzi, as the selectins were host targets for developing anti-inflammatory drugs. Bertozzi seized the opportunity to sell her chemistry skills to a selectin researcher as an entrée into a biology laboratory. In the 1990s, chemists joining biology labs were still a rare phenomenon. "To have a carbohydrate synthesis chemist apply for a postdoctoral position in a cell biology lab was considered truly bizarre," she says. Bertozzi joined the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), lab of Steven Rosen, one of the few biologists who even granted her an interview.
Bootleg research. Bertozzi proposed synthesizing putative glycans that could bind to L-selectin to help identify the molecule's natural ligands. Rosen's lab knew a few generalities about ligands that could bind to the receptor. Using radiolabeling, the lab had figured out that the L-selectin–interacting glycoprotein was sulfated, had sialic acid side chains, and also fucose. But the details of the carbohydrate structures were still beyond their reach and "it was clear that the carbohydrate was the business part of this glycoprotein," Bertozzi explains. It was a race to figure out what the exact sugar molecules were. "I didn't realize how competitive the field was." Rosen wanted her to get started right away, so she began to make potential carbohydrate ligands while still completing her PhD. In 1994, after joining Rosen's lab, Bertozzi published a paper identifying GlyCAM-1 as one of the ligands for L-selectin.
Quick transition. Only one year into her postdoc, Chidsey, Bertozzi's former Bell advisor who had recently joined the chemistry faculty at Stanford University, convinced her to apply there for a faculty position as a chemical biologist. She found out Berkeley was also looking to hire and applied there as well. "I think Steve [Rosen] thought I was out of my mind. In immunology, a postdoc is often a six year commitment and there I was, a year into it, with no papers, talking about faculty jobs! It was unusual for biology but not for chemistry," says Bertozzi, who received offers from both universities and chose to return to Berkeley.
Building new tools. At Berkeley, Bertozzi's research took many new directions while continuing to focus on enzymes that produce L-selectin ligands. But her lab became most known for figuring out how to image cell-surface glycans using what is now called bio-orthogonal chemistry—a term coined by Bertozzi to describe chemical reactions that neither interact nor interfere with the biological system under study. The idea to build tools to visualize cell-surface glycans came to her while in Rosen's lab. Studying glycosylation on the surface of cells, the lab had no way to know whether certain glycans were expressed or changed their abundance under different conditions. "Meanwhile, there were genetic reporter systems like GFP fusions that enabled imaging of proteins in cells. I remember thinking it would be so great to image sugars like that," says Bertozzi.
Bertozzi's lab went on to develop such methods. First her team demonstrated the ability to engineer sialic acids on cell-surface glycans with chemical handles that allowed the addition of affinity probes such as biotin or fluorescent probes for imaging, and also held promise for such applications as cancer-drug targeting. Then the lab developed the first truly bio-orthogonal reaction: the Staudinger ligation, which incorporated azides—functional groups that are biologically inert—into cells in living mice. Because the initial reaction was rather slow under physiological conditions, the lab then developed a biocompatible copper-free azide-alkyne cycloaddition chemistry, a reaction now often referred to as copper-free click chemistry. The inspiration for the reaction came to her while she was on a plane writing a lecture for a sophomore organic chemistry class, says Bertozzi. The lab has since used the technology to visualize the expression and trafficking of cell surface glycans in vivo during zebrafish embryonic development.
Clinical applications. Bertozzi's lab also works on Mycobacterium tuberculosis, and has shown that the bacterium produces sulfated molecules that modulate its interaction with human host cells. "This tuberculosis project crossed paths with a sugar-imaging study. We figured out that we could use metabolic labeling as a potential point-of-care diagnostic for detection of tuberculosis in patient sputum samples. One of my students is going to Africa to do field testing of the method we developed." The lab has also begun to study how glycans and glycoproteins are perturbed in tumors. In 2014, in collaboration with Valerie Weaver's lab at UCSF, Bertozzi's group showed that the glycoprotein and polysaccharide coating on epithelial cells—called the glycocalyx—increases in thickness and stiffness as a tumor evolves, and that this physical alteration enhances cancer cell fitness.
A recent move. After 19 years at Berkeley, Bertozzi moved to Stanford in 2015 to help create an institute named ChEM-H which denotes Chemistry, Engineering, and Medicine for Human Health. Bertozzi is one of 20 new faculty who will ultimately be hired for the integrated, interdisciplinary center. "I am now equally comfortable at tuberculosis and immunology conferences as at chemistry ones. I love the human health–centered environment here," she says.