Liberty Links 9/22/18 – Former Raytheon Lobbyist Pushed Mike Pompeo to Support Yemen War for Arms Sales

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1. As I look through these links, I have to remind myself that ‘their’ desperation is showing…. it is embrassingly obvious. And I have to believe it is a ‘good’ sign. ‘They’ are very afraid…. and, as Shelley said, ‘we are many, they are few’. (As deluded as many of ‘us are… ) Thanks.

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2. Saturday, September 22, 2018
   Popeulism Bono Style

   Columnist Fareed Zakaria wrote:

   I wanted to understand Europe’s populism. So I talked to Bono.

   Economist Andy Xie wrote:

   The world needs a new generation of policymakers who don’t hobnob with billionaire speculators and who understand workers’ concerns. Unfortunately, the change will not come smoothly. Political turmoil in the West is very much about this. A heavy price has to be paid to bring about the change

   In 2008, Beijing and Washington pumped in massive amounts of money to bail out speculators in the name of saving the economy and helping workers. The reality is that they used workers’ money to enrich parasites.

   Parasites include private equity underwriters (PEU) who buy companies, load them with debt, milk them for cash and flip them for huge returns. Bono is a PEU with Elevation Partners. Bono hobnobs with fellow rich speculators at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

   Private equity underwrites get preferred carried interest taxation. Loading up affiliates with debt reduces their tax burden as do various tax avoidance schemes.

   Irish Bono may be familiar with this one.

   The double Irish with a Dutch sandwich is a tax avoidance technique employed by certain large corporations, involving the use of a combination of Irish and Dutch subsidiary companies to shift profits to low or no tax jurisdictions. The scheme involves sending profits first through one Irish company, then to a Dutch company, and finally to a second Irish company headquartered in a tax haven. This technique has made it possible for certain corporations to reduce their overall corporate tax rates dramatically.

   The double Irish with a Dutch sandwich is generally considered to be a very aggressive tax planning strategy. It is, however, famously used by some of the world’s largest corporations, such as Google, Apple and Microsoft. In 2014, it came under heavy scrutiny, especially from the United States and the European Union, when it was discovered that this technique facilitated the transfer of several billion dollars annually tax-free to tax havens.

   Workers with stagnant wages are tired of executives and boards getting outsized compensation off their backs. How do workers at Elevation Partners affiliates feel about their PEU owners?

   Zacharia lobbed softball questions at Carlyle Group co-founder David Rubenstein. Fareed is part of system that maintains the current political and power structure. He should talk to real Europeans/Americans and ask why seven times to get at root causes of citizen dismay. He might arrive in the same place as Andy Xie.

   Posted by PEU Report/State of the Division at 11:40 PM

   http://peureport.blogspot.com/2018/09/popeulism-bono-style.html

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3. Zakaria is clearly a clearly a bought-and-paid for PTP puppet… as is all of corporate-owned MSM. To consider it anything other than bread-and-circus soap opera entertainment, is to pay for your own brainwashing. But, the wake up call is coming… let’s hope that secession in some form or other can offer options.

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