@EUinBarbados So please, @EUinBarbados, ask yourself why a rich entitled Frenchman is using the company he owns (West Indies Rum Distillery Ltd.) to sabotage a Geographical Indication for Barbados Rum…
@PADbarbados This ‘explanation’ is condescending and misleading. Why doesn’t the Barbados government listen to bona fide experts in information security?
Really Oxfam? The world’s largest financial secrecy jurisdictions are the USA, Switzerland, Singapore, Hong Kong, Luxembourg, Japan and Germany, with a total weight of ~59%.
For example, Oxfam further stated that “countries face significant challenges in taxing wealth, and there is a need for concrete proposals on how to do so, especially for developing countries. There are very real constraints that revenue authorities face.”
It is immoral for oil & gas companies to be making record profits from the current energy crisis on the backs of the poorest, at a massive cost to the climate.
I urge all governments to tax these excessive profits & use the funds to support the most vulnerable people.
Yes, we must eliminate the “indigenous” corruption of the Black political elite so that we can perpetuate the much larger colonial corruption of money laundering and tax evasion that is so important to the British.
“… choice serves as the central totem of consumer capitalism, and those who present choices to us appear as handmaidens to our own freedom.”
—Mathew B. Crawford
The term comes to us from the world of #NFTs, which have blown up into a massive, fraud-ridden speculative bubble that is blazing through whole rain-forests' worth of carbon while transfering billions from suckers to con-artists. A bezzle, in other words. 5/