Well the world is watching to see what will happen as Donald Trump signs the US tax reform bill into law. The bill slashes some corporate taxes by almost Fifty percent with the expectation that the tax cuts will bring businesses back to US soil, improve wages, stimulate spending and grow the US economy. Trump also slyly slipped in a clause in the bill that eliminated the law in Obamacare that requires all Americans to have health insurance. This is after many efforts to repeal Obamacare failed. And Trump paid no attention to the EU in his efforts to rewrite the US’s tax law after 31 years. Nor did he mind China and Japan who says Trump’s actions will start a trade war. But will Trumps TAx Cut Pllan be effectual in doing what it set out to do or is it just an exercise to pander to his friends and colleagues who own big businesses? For one, many American and International companies already have huge amounts of capital already on their books. And they are not investing these funds in America or anywhere else for that matter. And they are not improving salaries or wages in no big way. And neither do workers expect significant increases in pay. And despite unemployment in the US being at its lowest in 19 years, consumer spending is still lagging. Even though consumer confidence is up, shoppers are cautious and reserved in their spending. And if Trump cannot change this to compensate for his massive tax cuts, one may be around to see the total collapse of the US economy.
It is interesting to watch the crowding out effect in the fast food business. Ass more and more players enter, competition becomes keen and failure to deliver up to customers expectations will send a franchise quickly the way of Carl’s Jr. Customers are the better off because not only are they getting a variety of foods but the prices will also come down. But there still seem to be a shortage of full service restaurants that serve quality and wholesome food. The boil fish, sheep tongue and stew conch has become too expensive for many restaurants so has grouper cutlets and steam lobster. (Swanks use to sell conch and lobster pizzas). And with the alert being sounded that both lobster and conch are under threat of becoming extinct, Bahamian restaurants, many of them may also follow in the tracks of Carl’s Jr.
So then will also have to be two types of marriages. Holy matrimony and pagan marriage. The Bible admonishes a man to love and cherish his wife and that doesn’t sound like someone who will sleep with her ‘no matter what.’ Much less rape her!
This whole argument begs the same question again: Can a marriage survive after either spouse has the other criminally charged with rape? So the laws pertaining to marriage already encompass the matter of spousal abuse (and so called rape) vis a vis legal separation and/or divorce. The fact that the majority of marriages that end in divorce do so with bitter trauma this whole spousal rape is one that is both dangerous and unnecessary. It is the agenda of feminist women who seek to further emasculate and depower the male. And many of them never intended to submit in the first instance.
l Campaigners want to know why Brussels bureaucrats are refusing to release a report on fighting corruption.
EU chiefs had promised to report every two years on how well countries in the bloc were battling graft.
But, after its first report in 2014, there has been nothing.
There had been an update scheduled for 2016, but this was scrapped suddenly in January this year by European Commission vice president Frans Timmermans.
Transparency campaigners say it was such a last-minute move the data would have already have been compiled.
They have asked for the reports via freedom of information requests but the European Commission has so far refused their demands, saying it would have a chilling effect on people talking to them about corruption.
“The whole point of these reports [in the first place] was that they are going to be made public, so it doesn’t make sense for them to say that these people didn’t know what they would say would be made public,” said Andreas Pavlou, a campaigner and researcher at Access Info.
“Supposedly this was information that was going to be published anyway so to suddenly say they are not going to raises questions about why and how and what information they do have.
“In Europe there are huge questions around the rule of law and whether there is greater corruption than there was before.
“So these reports would be hugely useful and hugely important for civil society.
“The massive effort to collect comparative information about the state of anti-corruption measures in 28 EU member states has been thrown in the bin by the European Commission, having abruptly decided not to publish them, and refusing to publish them following requests for access. Given the present-day challenges to European democracies, the Commission’s decision to shelve the publishing of these anti-corruption reports makes it ever more difficult for citizens and civil society to hold public officials to account and tackle corruption.” hree years ago, the EC said corruption cost the European economy 120 billion euros annually and more should be done to “punish and prevent it”.
A number of corruption scandals have erupted in Europe so far this year, most notably in Romania and French presidential candidate Francois Fillon.
A spokeswoman for the European Commission said: “When we took the decision on the way forward at the end of 2016 there was no draft report, nor anything that resembled a draft report. Our work on anti-corruption did however continue. The Commission decided to mainstream its anti-corruption policies in the European Semester and embed it in the DNA of its economic policy dialogue between the Member States and EU institutions. All preparatory work has fed into that process.”
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Italians Charged in EU Fraud Scandal | Europe | DW | 28.03.2007 www.dw.com/en/italians-charged-in-eu-fr… Mar 28, 2007 - Europe. Italians Charged in EU Fraud Scandal. Three Italian nationals have been charged and are being held in custody in Brussels as part of a corruption probe into tenders ... Prosecutors in Munich have arrested a top management board member at Siemens in an investigation into alleged bribery. Corruption in the European Union: Scandals in Banking, Fraud and ... https://www.globalresearch.ca/corruptio… Sep 4, 2016 - EU corruption has historically taken a wide range of forms demonstrated so vividly with successive scandals in banking, tax avoidance, a host of malpractice and fraud ... Cecelia Malmstrom, the European Commissioner for Trade and lead negotiator in the biggest trade deal in the history of humanity TTIP. The 5 Biggest Corporate Scandals of 2015 | Fortune fortune.com › Leadership › Best of the Year in Business Dec 27, 2015 - No list of corporate screw-ups would be complete without a good old-fashioned accounting scandal. In September, electronics conglomerate Toshiba admitted that it had overstated its earnings by nearly $2 billion over seven years, more than four times its initial estimate in April. CEO and President Hisao ... The Brussels Times - 5 of the largest EU scandals in our history www.brusselstimes.com/magazine2/2907/5-… May 1, 2015 - The recent "cash for questions" furore in the UK has once again put the spotlight on cases of alleged fraud at the highest levels of the political eli... EU tax scandal: Investigators open fraud probe into top ... - Daily Express https://www.express.co.uk › News › Politics Jun 7, 2017 - FRAUD investigators are probing a number of high-ranking EU officials over allegations that they used offshore bank accounts to avoid paying tax, it emerged today. Our Take On The 10 Biggest Frauds In Recent U.S. History - Forbes https://www.forbes.com/.../our-take-on-… We looked at investor losses, Securities & Exchange Commission and Department of Justice enforcement actions and private lawsuits, as well as societal impact, to come up with our picks for the ten biggest frauds in the U.S. of the past quarter century. Egg contamination scandal widens as 15 EU states, Switzerland and ... https://www.theguardian.com › World › Food safety
John says...
Well the world is watching to see what will happen as Donald Trump signs the US tax reform bill into law. The bill slashes some corporate taxes by almost Fifty percent with the expectation that the tax cuts will bring businesses back to US soil, improve wages, stimulate spending and grow the US economy. Trump also slyly slipped in a clause in the bill that eliminated the law in Obamacare that requires all Americans to have health insurance. This is after many efforts to repeal Obamacare failed. And Trump paid no attention to the EU in his efforts to rewrite the US’s tax law after 31 years. Nor did he mind China and Japan who says Trump’s actions will start a trade war. But will Trumps TAx Cut Pllan be effectual in doing what it set out to do or is it just an exercise to pander to his friends and colleagues who own big businesses? For one, many American and International companies already have huge amounts of capital already on their books. And they are not investing these funds in America or anywhere else for that matter. And they are not improving salaries or wages in no big way. And neither do workers expect significant increases in pay. And despite unemployment in the US being at its lowest in 19 years, consumer spending is still lagging. Even though consumer confidence is up, shoppers are cautious and reserved in their spending. And if Trump cannot change this to compensate for his massive tax cuts, one may be around to see the total collapse of the US economy.
On Gov’t ‘modelling what if’ impacts from tax reform
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John says...
BTW Is Popeyes on Robinson Road trying to be open for the holidays?
On Papa John’s return to create 100 jobs
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John says...
It is interesting to watch the crowding out effect in the fast food business. Ass more and more players enter, competition becomes keen and failure to deliver up to customers expectations will send a franchise quickly the way of Carl’s Jr. Customers are the better off because not only are they getting a variety of foods but the prices will also come down. But there still seem to be a shortage of full service restaurants that serve quality and wholesome food. The boil fish, sheep tongue and stew conch has become too expensive for many restaurants so has grouper cutlets and steam lobster. (Swanks use to sell conch and lobster pizzas). And with the alert being sounded that both lobster and conch are under threat of becoming extinct, Bahamian restaurants, many of them may also follow in the tracks of Carl’s Jr.
On Papa John’s return to create 100 jobs
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John says...
So what is Marion Bethel ‘s husband’s last name again ‘ OR just in case you forget!
On Bethel: Minister’s comments fly in the face of decency
Posted 21 December 2017, 2:09 p.m. Suggest removal
John says...
So then will also have to be two types of marriages. Holy matrimony and pagan marriage. The Bible admonishes a man to love and cherish his wife and that doesn’t sound like someone who will sleep with her ‘no matter what.’ Much less rape her!
On Rolle rape stand sparks backlash
Posted 21 December 2017, 2:06 p.m. Suggest removal
John says...
This whole argument begs the same question again: Can a marriage survive after either spouse has the other criminally charged with rape? So the laws pertaining to marriage already encompass the matter of spousal abuse (and so called rape) vis a vis legal separation and/or divorce. The fact that the majority of marriages that end in divorce do so with bitter trauma this whole spousal rape is one that is both dangerous and unnecessary. It is the agenda of feminist women who seek to further emasculate and depower the male. And many of them never intended to submit in the first instance.
On Rolle rape stand sparks backlash
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John says...
So what are the benefits of rushing to become a part of this cesspool
On Bahamas 'too eager to be led to slaughter'
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John says...
Why is The EU so corrupt?
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Campaigners want to know why Brussels bureaucrats are refusing to release a report on fighting corruption.
EU chiefs had promised to report every two years on how well countries in the bloc were battling graft.
But, after its first report in 2014, there has been nothing.
There had been an update scheduled for 2016, but this was scrapped suddenly in January this year by European Commission vice president Frans Timmermans.
Transparency campaigners say it was such a last-minute move the data would have already have been compiled.
They have asked for the reports via freedom of information requests but the European Commission has so far refused their demands, saying it would have a chilling effect on people talking to them about corruption.
“The whole point of these reports [in the first place] was that they are going to be made public, so it doesn’t make sense for them to say that these people didn’t know what they would say would be made public,” said Andreas Pavlou, a campaigner and researcher at Access Info.
“Supposedly this was information that was going to be published anyway so to suddenly say they are not going to raises questions about why and how and what information they do have.
“In Europe there are huge questions around the rule of law and whether there is greater corruption than there was before.
“So these reports would be hugely useful and hugely important for civil society.
“The massive effort to collect comparative information about the state of anti-corruption measures in 28 EU member states has been thrown in the bin by the European Commission, having abruptly decided not to publish them, and refusing to publish them following requests for access. Given the present-day challenges to European democracies, the Commission’s decision to shelve the publishing of these anti-corruption reports makes it ever more difficult for citizens and civil society to hold public officials to account and tackle corruption.” hree years ago, the EC said corruption cost the European economy 120 billion euros annually and more should be done to “punish and prevent it”.
A number of corruption scandals have erupted in Europe so far this year, most notably in Romania and French presidential candidate Francois Fillon.
A spokeswoman for the European Commission said: “When we took the decision on the way forward at the end of 2016 there was no draft report, nor anything that resembled a draft report. Our work on anti-corruption did however continue. The Commission decided to mainstream its anti-corruption policies in the European Semester and embed it in the DNA of its economic policy dialogue between the Member States and EU institutions. All preparatory work has fed into that process.”
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continued:Aug 11, 2017 - A spokeswoman in Brussels said the situation was “evolving by the day”, as criminal investigators continued to hold two men arrested on Thursday for fraud following a series of raids in Belgium and the Netherlands. The EU countries known to be affected by the scandal are Belgium, the Netherlands, ...
The 7 Biggest Financial Scandals of All-Time - Wall Street Survivor Blog
blog.wallstreetsurvivor.com › Finance
Feb 21, 2017 - What's the biggest financial scandal of all-time? ... finacial The biggest bankruptcy case in European history belongs to Parmalat. ... In what is one of the largest accounting fraud scandals of all time, Enron would go bust in 2001 after it was found to be inflating its earnings by several hundred million dollars.
Corruption in the European Union | The European Financial Review ...
www.europeanfinancialreview.com/?p=7757
EU corruption has historically taken a wide range of forms demonstrated so vividly with successive scandals in banking, tax avoidance, a host of malpractice and fraud cases to secretive TTIP negotiations that circumvents public interest needs. The result is that public support for the EU has been seriously undermined with ...
Fraud behind tainted-eggs scandal began in 2016: EU - Medical Xpress
https://medicalxpress.com › Health
Aug 31, 2017 - The fraud that caused the contamination of millions of eggs with the insecticide fipronil began in September 2016 and has now affected 34 countries, the EU said on Thursday.
On Bahamas 'too eager to be led to slaughter'
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John says...
Italians Charged in EU Fraud Scandal | Europe | DW | 28.03.2007
www.dw.com/en/italians-charged-in-eu-fr…
Mar 28, 2007 - Europe. Italians Charged in EU Fraud Scandal. Three Italian nationals have been charged and are being held in custody in Brussels as part of a corruption probe into tenders ... Prosecutors in Munich have arrested a top management board member at Siemens in an investigation into alleged bribery.
Corruption in the European Union: Scandals in Banking, Fraud and ...
https://www.globalresearch.ca/corruptio…
Sep 4, 2016 - EU corruption has historically taken a wide range of forms demonstrated so vividly with successive scandals in banking, tax avoidance, a host of malpractice and fraud ... Cecelia Malmstrom, the European Commissioner for Trade and lead negotiator in the biggest trade deal in the history of humanity TTIP.
The 5 Biggest Corporate Scandals of 2015 | Fortune
fortune.com › Leadership › Best of the Year in Business
Dec 27, 2015 - No list of corporate screw-ups would be complete without a good old-fashioned accounting scandal. In September, electronics conglomerate Toshiba admitted that it had overstated its earnings by nearly $2 billion over seven years, more than four times its initial estimate in April. CEO and President Hisao ...
The Brussels Times - 5 of the largest EU scandals in our history
www.brusselstimes.com/magazine2/2907/5-…
May 1, 2015 - The recent "cash for questions" furore in the UK has once again put the spotlight on cases of alleged fraud at the highest levels of the political eli...
EU tax scandal: Investigators open fraud probe into top ... - Daily Express
https://www.express.co.uk › News › Politics
Jun 7, 2017 - FRAUD investigators are probing a number of high-ranking EU officials over allegations that they used offshore bank accounts to avoid paying tax, it emerged today.
Our Take On The 10 Biggest Frauds In Recent U.S. History - Forbes
https://www.forbes.com/.../our-take-on-…
We looked at investor losses, Securities & Exchange Commission and Department of Justice enforcement actions and private lawsuits, as well as societal impact, to come up with our picks for the ten biggest frauds in the U.S. of the past quarter century.
Egg contamination scandal widens as 15 EU states, Switzerland and ...
https://www.theguardian.com › World › Food safety
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