No Shock.

        Pandora's Papers, the media would have us all shocked and astounded at these revelations, but anybody who has an inkling to how this system of greed driven capitalism works, is well aware of the tax dodging, wealth concealment and corruption of the rich and powerful, they are the foundation stones of the exploitative system that grinds the ordinary people down. You don't accumulate millions and billions of pounds by simply working hard, you have to shaft the general public day and daily. If wealth accumulation was all due to hard work, I would be a very rich person, as my father was a miner all his life and I don't know of anyone who worked harder than he did. However we never got rich. I was born in the slum of Garngad and struggled all my life to keep a roof over my head and feed my family.
        The Pandora Papers are just a page from the diary of the normal workings of this capitalist system, a system to all who open their eyes, that is rotten to the core, stinks of greed and corruption from top to bottom, it is insanity accepted as normal. However it is only those ordinary people who are shafted on a daily basis that can pull it down and rebuild a society that sees to the needs of all our people. We need to pull the plug and flush all these stinking parasites down the toilet, where they belong. 

Nicked this image from a Facebook page.

 The capitalist trickle down system explained.

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Tommorow?

 

WALK WITH THE POETS.

My head has had enough of you,
you doomsday sooth-sayers, and
rationalists, that trap us in the world that is.
Go weave your tales of “can't be done”
to the dead, and those of no imagination.
I want to walk with the utopian,
the dreamer and the poet,
laugh with the child and sing with the wind.
Run with the deer, not with “the market trend”
Enough of, “this is the way it has to be”,
a world of poverty, wars and inequality.
Now, I'll create the world I want to see,
A world of sharing, peace and liberty.
I want the children to plan tomorrow,
the adult help them get there,
trees and flowers our treasured possessions,
with birds and animals their keepers.
Who wants a world that chains us to mortgages,
binds us to a labouring day, just to eat bread?
Who wants to spend their life, feeding fat-cats
while their own children go hungry?
No, this is not the world that has to be,
in our foolishness and misplaced trust,
this is a world that has slithered over us,
poisoning our mind, putrefying our spirit.
Let's call on the poet, let's welcome the dreamer,
let's take council with the utopian,
They'll help us create a better world for all.

          The shortest day and longest night of the year have past, the year is running to an end, how will we shape the new year? Will we crave to get back to the "old ways" the so called "normal", or will we seize this opportunity to sever the shackles of consumerism, break free from the deadening hand of the luxury yacht owning planet plunderers with their private little tax havens? There has never been a more opportune moment to make the change, shift our direction away from the exploiting profit seekers and look towards our communities, allow the corporate beasts to rot in the wilderness. We can create a world of mutual aid, co-operatives, skill sharing, DIY and swap-shops, etc., all built on sustainability, equality, dignity, freedom from the profit motive, and respect for all our people. In so doing we see an end to wars, deprivation and escape the pending ecological disaster that awaits us if we continue with the profit mongers greed driven plan for ever expanding consumerism. A plan that only feeds the pampered privileged parasite class and leads to a devastated ecosystem, unfit for habitation.
       The two roads are diametrically opposite each other, the choice of which we choose is up to us, if we continue to follow the state/corporate/consumerism path, we will deserve all we get, and I doubt our grandchildren will thank us for that tainted bitter heritage. We have to make that choice sooner rather than later, the egg timer is running out.

 

 IT'S TIME TO STORM HEAVEN.

Under the yoke of servitude we dragged our existence forward
For generations have fertilised the earth with our blood
Oiled the machinery of wealth with our sweat
We have produce bountiful harvests
A mountain of luxury
Yet
All we know is
Penury pain and poverty
Struggle laced with bitter anguish
Our hands have fashioned a pleasure palace
Feasts abundance frivolity and a sea of fetishes
For a merciless army that feeds on selfishness and greed
And though we dwell under the shadow of hell
We will shall never relinquish our dreams
In our hearts we nurture a better future
A softer world for all our children
Where poverty's claws
And war's ire
die
One day
Our righteous anger
Will smoulder and rumble
And cause the old world to tremble
Before exploding in a blast of social justice
We the people will storm the gates of an earthly heaven.

 

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The World Of Millionaire/Billionaire parasites.

        I never usually pay any attention when the parasites of the establishment start to carve up one of their own. However reading our babbling brook of bullshit, the mainstream media, you would imagine that the Manafort trial in America was a case of one naughty rogue millionaire who broke the rules. He is charged with tax avoidance, fiddling loan applications and secret bank accounts. The reality of course is that this sort of behaviour among our millionaire/billionaire parasite class is par for the course. It doesn't take much research to find out that the tax haven financial racket is not in recession, it is in fact booming. As the millionaire/billionaire plunderers grow in wealth, their accountants and lawyers seek ever new ways to conceal their wealth and to avoid paying their due taxes, it is a thriving industry.  

      So why is Manafort being taken to task for doing what they are all up to? You can rest assured it is not moral indignation at his behaviour. It is just the usual power struggle among the millionaire/billionaire parasite class. They always play legal games to gain power for one plundering group and/or to undermine the power of another plundering group. Wealthy powerful groups don't make good bedfellows, driven by greed they all want more and see the other group as a threat to their power and wealth.

       So fry Manafort, and even send him to prison, it will not in any way clean up the system of greed, corruption and exploitaion that controls all aspects of our lives. The system is built on greed, corrution and exploitation, and there are plenty more "Manaforts" beavering away at plundering and stashing their ill gotten gains in tax havens and secret bank accounts. It is the system, we need to fry and dismantle, to rid ourselves of the cancer that is the Manafort culture, but don't expect the millionaire/billionaire parasite class do do that for you, that task is up to us, the ordinary people of this world.

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Disabled Workers Responsible For Sluggish Economy!!!!

         Doesn't it get right up your nose, how our political ballerinas sitting in their plush offices, banking their fat salaries, and other little earners, not open to the rest of us, can without a blush of shame, blame the disabled for our "sluggish" economy? What these greedy parasites refuse to admit, is that every nut and bolt produced, every office cleaned, every lorry driven, every car that rolls of the assembly line, is there by the efforts of the ordinary people, is what produces the wealth of this country, and pays their fat salaries for sitting on their arses criticising the disabled. "Sluggish" economy is just another way of saying that our army of over paid CEOs want us to work harder for less, so that we can make their business able to compete with the sweatshops across the globe, allowing them to stuff more of their bank accounts into lucrative off-shore tax havens.

      Another fact that they are blind to, or wish to conceal, is that far from being responsible for our "sluggish" economy, the workers, disabled and otherwise, are carrying them and the rest of the parasites on their backs, perhaps that might have something to do with our "sluggish" economy. 

        We don't need the Hammonds and the rest of his parasite army, we are capable of producing enough for everybody, it is just a matter of distribution. We allow far, far too much of what we produce to go the greedy, surplus to requirements, CEOs and political ballerinas. If we sort that out by getting rid of capitalism, we will not need to worry about our "sluggish" economy, there will be plenty for us all.

Guardian News

Published on Dec 7, 2017

    The chancellor appears in front of the Treasury select committee to answer questions on the November budget and says 'high levels of engagement in the workforce, for example of disabled people' may be one of the factors keeping down UK productivity levels

The Sleazy Slush Fund For Millionaires.

        Talk of tax avoidance/evasion is all over the news at the moment, as if it was something special and out of the ordinary, and only done by dodgy foreigners. However, you and I know that it is common practice among our home grown millionaire pampered parasites., they are all members of the same club, the Millionaires' Exploiting Club, and are always looking for ways and means to grow their loot without paying anything towards the social fabric of our society. Corporations, and millionaires/billionaires, don't like prying eyes seeing the extent of their ill-gotten gains, so with the aid of over paid lawyers and accountants, through a web of complex fabricated trust funds and mock companies, it is all stashed away in tax havens, well hidden from tax officials.
       According to recent research by Oxfam, the amount of this stashed loot is staggering, the true figure world wide will never be know but they state that 50 of the biggest US companies, including such names as Coca-Cola, Walt Disney, Alphabet, (Google)and Goldman Sachs have booty of approximately $1.3 trillion stashed away in cubby holes in these tax havens. This whopping cesspool of ill gotten gains is greater than the GDP of Spain, Mexico or Australia.
        We would be naive to believe that it is only large American corporations that are at it with their filthy loot, it is the way the game is played in the world of greed driven capitalism. All the supposed legislation to “clamp down” on such practices, is just a charade, to appease the peasants. It looks good on the politicians CV. They are not likely to do anything to upset their corporate masters, after all they are there to protect that sleazy world of of their corporate masters. 

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As We See It.

Plain truth in plain language.

Post by John Couzin.

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THE ILLUSION THAT CAPITALISM IS FAIR.

       Most of the debate on the present capitalist system and its current problems, that we get on that babbling brook of bullshit, the mainstream media, is about how to modify the anomalies and glitches in the system. What is never on there radar is the fact that the system is inherently corrupt and beyond correction. All their debate and arguments seem to flow from the illusionary point of view that there was a time when capitalism was a fair and just system, and all we have to do is get back to those good old days and everything will be just fine. It never was a fair and just system, it never can be, it is based on someone useing others to get richer than them. It has nothing to do with providing a service, that may be, but not necessarily so, a bye product, but it is not the aim.

This from A World to Win:

The biggest loophole is capitalism itself

      As austerity deepens, with spending cuts stretching into the far horizon, there is a renewed focus on the tax that corporations pay, or rather don’t pay. Some argue that if they paid their “fair share”, cuts in services like health and care would not be so severe.
    Others like Richard Murphy of Tax Research UK, go further, claiming that "if only more had been done to tackle rampant tax evasion, Europe would not be facing a crisis today." It’s an attractive – but ultimately misleading – theory that would seem to solve the problem of public finances and the economic crisis at a stroke.
     Tax avoidance by the major corporations is an obvious target, so much so that MPs last week called names like Starbucks and Amazon to explain themselves before the Commons public accounts committee.
Chancellor George Osborne has even dedicated some funding to allow Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs to chase the worst abusers and close loopholes. He even described tax evasion as “morally repugnant”. But it’s making no impact.
       While individuals and small firms are hounded by HMRC with some success, the major transnational corporations continue to run rings around the government, as the PAC found out.

Read the full article HERE:

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OUR ECONOMIC SYSTEM, GREED AND CORRUPTION.

       According to a recent Reuters report the rich parasites of this world have as much as $32 trillion, (£20 trillion) of financial assets stashed away in offshore tax havens, which translate into approximately $280 billion in lost tax revenue. This pot of their secret money does not include their other toys, such as non financial assets, for example, yachts, racehorses, gold and real estate. The report also states that the richest citizens in 139 developing countries have from 1970 to 2010, amassed between $7.3 to $9.3 trillion in unrecorded offshore wealth. What was that you said about austere times?

 Why should I pay taxes, they'll only spend it on things I don't need.

         While the worlds parasitical leeches, as individuals, are robbing the people blind, the fine institutions of this corporate capitalist system are grabbing their share of all the dirty money in the world. HSBC, Europe's biggest bank, has just had it wrist slapped for laundering truck loads of drug money and helping to fund Al Qaeda and other such organisation. In case you don't know HSBC is also one of the best at screwing its customers, for example, it has the highest overdraft rate of any bank, it raises over £5 billion in overdraft fees in the UK in a year. Which of course helped it to £13.8 billion profit in 2011, and helped it hand its CEO over £7 million for his piggy bank. Of course HSBC does not stand alone in the fiddlers club, last week the offices of UBS Bordeaux and Strasbourg were raided on suspicion of money laundering and approximately 5,000 German clients of Credit Suisse are being investigated on suspicion of tax evasion. We can add to that the recent, but now not mentioned massive Westminster expenses exposure and you come up with a picture of a system that well and truly screws the public in favour of the parasites. Yes, we're all in this together.

          There is talk of climate change because of pollutants produced by us humans, perhaps the real culprit is the foul stench that emanates from our economic system that is choking all life on the planet.

 

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RICH SCROUNGERS, EVERY ONE OF THEM.

        The Disability Living Allowance claimants who are having to go through the process of re-assessment are having to face a much flawed system. As far as I am aware, Atos the company responsible for the assessments, does not require staff to have any training in or understanding of mental illness. And as anybody who has any knowledge of mental illness is aware, the condition can vary considerably from day to day. So it is difficult to understand how a one of, one day visit can adequately assess someone as fit for work. Of course the very fact that you are facing a short one of meeting that could affect the rest of your life, only adds stress and can aggravate the condition. There are lots of people on Disability Living Allowance who have physical conditions that fluctuate wildly from one day feeling not too bad, to other days when they are completely incapacitated. How does a short meeting assess this accurately? The Guardian has an excellent article on this subject HERE.

          The whole philosophy behind this unfair, stressful re-assessment system is based on an ideology that all those on benefit are scroungers, and the self righteous pampered millionaire parasites, that is our government, is intent on weeding them out. Who are the scroungers? Those pampered millionaires who have grown up in a cloistered world of unearned wealth and excess, or those on benefit struggling day to day to make ends meet? I have no doubt that a few do work the system and get a meagre living out of it, but the vast majority by far are legitimate claims and those on benefits do not lead a life of luxury, they struggle from day to day. Compare this with the abuse of the system by the over paid MPs with their expenses fiddles, those massive fat bonuses paid to grossly over paid bankers, the abuse of the system by the tax dodging corporations, and the millionaires with their wealth tucked away in some tax haven while prancing about in this country giving advice to their millionaire friends in government.

        This attack on those on benefit is an attack on the working class and they should not have to face it alone. On benefit or not, we have to stand side by side with those who are on benefits. These benefit cuts are only one aspect of a general attack on our class by the pampered parasite class. Deficit my arse, it is all about privatising everything and grabbing public assets into private hands.

 

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