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RainCaster's JournalInside the Secretive World of Irish Limited Partnerships
A fascinating story from Bellingcat No limits, open story for all to read.
ILPs came into existence as part of the United Kingdoms 1907 Limited Partnerships Act. At this time, Ireland was still a part of the UK.
The same act brought into existence Scottish Limited Partnerships (SLPs), a corporate vehicle exclusive to Scotland. Bellingcat has previously produced a number of reports concerning the alleged misuse of SLPs after a series of high-profile money laundering schemes came to light.
These include a fraud that was estimated to have illegally extracted US $1 billion from banks in Moldova in 2014. In 2017, two SLPs were used to funnel billions out of Azerbaijan to be spent on luxury goods and to peddle political influence in Europe. SLPs played a major role in the Russian Laundromat scandal, where $20.8 billion was moved out of Russia through a network of banks worldwide.
SLPs, like ILPs, had limited filing requirements and did not require the ultimate beneficial owner (UBO) of the partnership the person who ultimately controls a business to be named.
Why the U.S. Supreme Court Is Bad for the Jews
Found in an Israeli paper. Copied all 4 paras, but you can go listen to her tell you the story.
After a series of dramatic decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court, the wall between church and state is almost completely eroded, warns our guest Dahlia Lithwick, a senior journalist at Slate and legal commentator for MSNBC.
In a conversation with host Allison Kaplan Sommer, she highlights two recent cases decided by the new conservative court majority that prioritized the religious liberty of school employees and have wiped away the idea that schools, particularly public schools, are meant to be a place where students could not face religious proselytizing.
Lithwick, who lived in Charlottesville during the 2017 Unite the Right march, also discussed the five-year anniversary of that frightening event, saying that the deep unease that American Jews feel with being both the recipients of Christian nationalism while also recognizing that they are white and have the privilege of whiteness even when the Nazis march is a faultline in how American Jews think about themselves and their power.
Lithwick, whose new book "Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America" comes out in September, also discusses why the religious beliefs of justices - from RBGs Judaism to the Catholic judges who have banned abortion - is a third rail for journalists like herself, and the difference between cynical Israelis who have long considered their Supreme Court to be highly politicized, and Americans who have been gobsmacked to discover that the court is a partisan political body.
IMO, SCOTUS is bad for all of us.
'Turning point': Climate change forces early start to Champagne harvest
The Euro is dropping below the dollar
Yep- it really is. Here's the link.
Anti-vax group run by JHFK Jr. finally banned by Facebook & Instagram
At long last, it has really happened.
Desperate remedies
Loathsome anti-vax group run by RFK Jr gets Meta permabanfinally
A Meta spokesperson tells Ars that Meta removed the Instagram and Facebook accounts in question for repeatedly violating our COVID-19 policies.
CHD says the ban came without warning, cutting the anti-vax group off from hundreds of thousands of followers on both social media platforms. Denying allegations that the group spreads misinformation, CHD suggested instead the ban is connected to CHDs lawsuit against Meta that questions the validity of how Facebook and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention label health misinformation. The group's legal counsel in that lawsuit, Roger Teich, suggested that the ban was improper.
Censorship is not only unconstitutional, its un-American, Teich said in the press release.
Censorship is un-american, but spewing bullshit is a god-given right, according to JFK Jr and his band of toadies.
Forum for those who read books?
I would like to have a place where we can share books that we've read. Have discussions about them, etc. Just like we do for movies & TV shows.
Example: I'm reading a book now called 'Tightrope, Americans reaching for hope'. This book speaks to many of us about the fragility of our economic system and the support network that is failing our society.
Earl, if there is enough interest, could you creat this please?
Discuss amongst yourselves...
NC wants to ban free car chargers
Car and Driver: North Carolina Bill Would Mandate Removal of Free EV Chargers.
https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a40543385/north-carolina-wants-remove-free-public-ev-chargers/
No shit, they really want this. At least one republican does anyhow.
Russian op-ed on Putin
Link here[T]here are far fewer people actually out protesting. You have to understand that ordinary people in Russia are scared out of their minds. On the first day of the conflict, almost 1,000 protesters were jailed across Russia for walking outside with as little as a piece of paper that said: I dont want war. According to the independent media source OVD-info, in the first four days of the war more than 5,200 people were arrested.
My friend spent time in jail for walking down the same street as the protesters. A professor of sociology, Grigory Yudin, was arrested in the centre of Moscow and reportedly beaten up in the back of an autozak (police bus).
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Putin, who is so keen on history, is unknowingly digging his own grave. With Russia cut off from Swift and facing sanctions from the EU, the US, and the UK, itll take only a few years before it runs into extremely hard times. And when it does, people will not be afraid any more. If history teaches us anything, its that people even ones as stubborn and patient as the Russians will not tolerate a lack of food. When the money runs out, so will Putins clock.
And we the new generation of Russians will be waiting.
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