Google shelters profits in tax free Bermuda account, saves $2 billion
Google has avoided about $2 billion in worldwide income taxes for 2011 by moving $9.8 billion in revenues into a Bermuda company (a shell company) which doesn’t have a corporate income tax. Legalling funneling More...
Belgium officials set to ban Christmas trees, promoting the ‘electric winter tree’
Government officials in Brussels, Belgium are banning the Christmas tree exhibit out of concerns that the local Muslim population found it “offensive,” The Right Perspective said, citing Brussels News. An “electronic More...
US troops are operating in Jordan, near Syrian border
US troops are operating in Jordan near the Syrian border in the biggest fixed deployment of American force in the region since the end of operations in Libya last year, officials have confirmed. Photo/Freedom House The More...
New tax on wealthy in France is driving away the rich, hundreds of homes go up for sale
France’s luxury property market has hit a selling ‘panic’ as millionaires rush to flee the socialist government’s looming tax hikes on the “wealthy”, a leading estate agent has More...
US Embassy in Yemen stormed by ‘protesters,’ Iranians chant ‘Death to America’
Protesters claiming to be angry from an anti-Islam film have stormed the US Embassy compound in Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, as demonstrations seem to be spreading to many countries across the Middle East. The More...
EU will prop up failing banks
After tough all-night bargaining, European leaders appear to be set to funnel monies to struggling banks after a summit in Brussels. donkeyhotey donkeyhotey.wordpress.com Germany had yielded a bit on its insistence More...
Jean Claude Van Damme will be the villain in ‘Expendables 2’
Jean Claude Van Damme will “one of the villains” in “Expendables 2” – reports say. Sylvester Stallone has long toyed with having Jean-Claude Van Damme come aboard for this follow-up More...
Scientology boasts record number of church openings in 2010
In 2010, major Churches of Scientology opened across Europe, North America and Africa. These new Churches are the realization of Scientology Founder L. Ron Hubbard’s vision, where he prescribed the standard More...
