Damn it! I forgot to erase the hard drive when I sent that used laptop - the one sold on E-Bay - to that address in North Korea. What the Hell does the Big Man of Pyongyang sould like to you? Would that be official-sounding????
So, what you're saying is that North Korea controls the United Kingdom?
Damn, I always thought that was the case - that would explain all their animosity towards the Irish -- after all, the North Koreans have always been jealous of Guinness.
Now I understand everything........except why do dogs turn their heads away when you blow lightly in their faces, yet will always hang their heads out of an auto window when the car is going over 100 miles per hour?
You make some excellent points and rebuttals, Good Citizen Bill_the_Engineer, and I would like to add one more subtle one.
Many people project their own thoughts on wishes upon Bill Gates, but those who are familiar with him and the Gates family aren't so fantasy-prone. Gates' driving urge has never been design elegance but amassing a fortune and authoritarian control. Period!
There is a fairly new exchange, the IFEX (Insurance Futures Exchange), based upon catastrophe event-linked futures (hurricanes, tornadoes, etc.). This exchange is owned by Climate Exchange Plc, which is owned by Goldman Sachs and InterContinental Exchange (which in turn is owned by Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and the oil companies). The potential for market manipulation is extraordinary - and ever since a Rockefeller complained about conspiracy (Senator Jay Rockefeller and the insurance companies) - believe....believe....believe.....
"I can't imagine a commercial bank NOT using a secure crypto system with an air gap."
Dood, remember, this is Kentucky we're talking about here. The same place where an anonymous caller's commands to disrobe and be spanked (and perform other various sexual acts) was enough for a young adult Kentucky female to obey (recall that McDonald's episode?).
Also, isn't that the same state that moron senator McConnell is from?
"..is it possible he completely hobbled GS to please his new employer?
The problem with making suggestions, without the proper background information, renders said suggestions nonsensical! GS can now be fully exposed with the mass speculation they are guilty of when there exists duplicate trading platform code out there - period - end of story!
No, you don't get it, guy, it's about the code for the mass speculation they've been doing. It's not about trading fraud - although speculation and naket short selling is supposed to be against the law (as if they exist in this plutocracy???). Thieves are ripping off the super-thieves.
What if having the code allowed you to analyse it for ways to game the system?
Dood, don't you get it?? The system has been gamed for some time and is ever increasing in being gamed! Goldman Sachs (and other members of the bankster cartel) does mass speculation on the oil/energy futures market through the exchange they founded with Morgan Stanley and the oil cartel: ICE (InterContinental Exchange), as well as the precious metals market (along with JPMorgan Chase & Morgan Stanley, et al.), soft commodities market and on and on.....
With the new so-called "cap-and-trade" being gamed for expanding the derivatives and securitication market for futures in carbon offsets and carbon dioxide emissions allowances, the GS code is the final alchemy. (And the possibilities for entirely new forms of speculation between emissions/carbon offsets AND oil/energy futures is simply mind boggling!)
As far as gaming, one need only look at the outline for this anti-global warming legislation (cap-and-trade) and how it's being handled: via ICE US Trust (which is owned by ICE and Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase along with other banksters) and the Chicago Climate Exchange (which is owned by ICE) and utilizing the DTCC (majority owned by Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley & JPMorgan Chase). And those derivatives and swaps will be "priced" by ICE Trust and Markit Group (which was originally financed by Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup and BofA). And to review, ICE is owned by Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and the oil cartel.
"Who the fuck though it would be a good idea to automatically execute the content of a message you have no control over whatsoever?"
Master control? The Illuminati? World Domination Society? Those Free Mason chaps? Hank Paulson, wherever the f**k he is? Goldman Sachs? JPMorgan Chase? Morgan Stanley? InterContinental Exchange? ICE US Trust? DTCC?
And perhaps even scarier, Pres. Obama's appointment of Diana Farrell to the Deputy Director post of the National Economic Council. Who is Diana Farrell? She comes from the position as a director at the McKinsey Global Institute (research affiliate of McKensey and Company, which earns most of their money from their offshoring practice), where she authored that phony "study" on the advantages of offshoring all jobs (the study started off with the ASSUMPTION that offshoring of jobs is profitable, and ended up the the RESULT that the offshoring of jobs is profitable!!!!). She also edited the pile of garbage titled: OFFSHORING.
I thought Geithner, Summers and Locke were bad enough (when Locke - Secy. of Commerce - was governor of the state of Washington - he offshored state jobs in 49 of 51 state agencies).
Interesting aside: the cap & trade is supposed to be a semi-stealth way of reviving the process of securitization of securitization (transforming of debt into securities - using those securities as collateral for more securities, and again and again and again....) - which will continue and expand the economic meltdown we are presently experiencing.
In all the years in IT (formerly known as data processing), I've seldom - perhaps once - come in contact with an intelligent interviewer. And those triple-Ph.D.s from India (at least that's why they claimed on there CVs) could never seem to compile any of their programs. (And the only, I repeat ONLY, individual in an office setting I've ever witnessed break, actually break, that glass platen on a Xerox copy machine, was....from India!!!!!
American companies seldom hire intelligently in the past, and today virtually never. The only things they know how to do are:
offshore jobs, inshore foreign scab workers, issue junk paper, and do leveraged buyouts ("pump and dumps") which destroy the target companies and employment.
Thank you, Good Citizen PinchDuck, for your higher intelligence level. Invariably, someone will post that the article is right, and there are just too many dumb f**ks who don't comprehend software engineering or computer sci --- I can't speak to that at this very time, but am aware of far too many pioneer types, such as myself, who have long ago given up on getting hired by any Americanski outfit - so we work for ourselves, or hack for our own pleasure. In the state I divide part of my time in, Washington, the Greater Seattle Chamber of Commerce (together with their Trade Alliance) gave seminars to local corporations - in the early '00s - on how to smoothly offshore American jobs and realize the most labor and tax savings. Predictably, tax revenues have been falling over the past years, and now dramatically so with the most recent wave of offshoring.
Not too though, the brilliant pols have another SOLUTION to this situation.
Americans will soon be realizing (even the blithering idiots who voted for Nixon, Reagan, Bush, etc.) that we have finally reached critical mass in the offshoring of American jobs - from this point on we'll be experiencing cascading unemployment of local, shrinking consumer-type employment (the type which requires citizens with jobs).
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Sorry for the extremely late response, but it appears you obviously have more specific information on the matter than I possess.
Still, the situation doesn't excuse those people from the Carter and Reagan Administrations from the guilt of all those secularist types in Afghanistant (teachers and other academics, middle-class, intelligentsia, etc.) who were murdered by those elements of the mujahadeen who received American funds and arms - even before those elements of the mujahadeen fought against the Sovs. A little known and less explained aspect of the Afghanistani involvement by America.....
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"..it was the Pakistanis that funnelled the majority of the weapons and supplies to the more radical Mujahadeen during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan."
No, the weapons were funnelled through Pakistan - but bought and paid for, and under the direction of the CIA & Pentagon - that is such an accepted fact of history no effort should be wasted on even recounting that.
Sufi Islam was the norm along the Afghani border prior to Brzezinksi, along with funding and the help of the Saudis, importing extremist elements along the Afghani northern border. The history of military funding by the US to Pakistan predates the Soviet invasion, with Pakistan ostensibly serving as the bulwark against Communist Chinese expansionism, while antipathy existed between India and the US due to India's ties with the Sovs. (At that time 20 families controlled Pakistan; today the number is 22 families - I guess that's called progress!)
And "al Qaeda" means "the base" and it first appeared in a Washington Post news article - in the early '80s - during an interview with a CIA field operations officer who was describing their database of Mujahadeen fighters.
Was that KL restaurant the really nifty-looking one situated at the bottom of a waterfall?
My Good Citizen, spun, you indeed have my deep and abiding respect as those are truly righteous outfits you cited. Unfortunately, far too many "rights" organizations today are simply time-wasters (and by design, of course) and add to dissipating the donations of the concerned citizenry. There is, as you probably are aware, only one existing party today in the USA - the Davos Party. The American equation of 50,000 foundations + 35,000 lobbyists + 5 media-controlled corporations = our coporate fascist state (and no, it ain't an "empathetic fascism" as some nutjob recently mentioned -- sheeesh!).
I have done thousands of unpaid, volunteer hours of the years and observed that it has been pretty much for nothing. The super-rich control everything, and that which many aren't aware they control, that's the way the do even deeper control......
They use Mexicans here illegally to do jobs that Americans would do if they were paid appropriately.
First, millions of Americans who, unlike you, have a bunch of neurons to rub together, take offense at an obvious nonsensical and ignorant remark: plent of Americans have been laid off (ever hear of Hormel) and had undocumented or illegal workers hired in their place (this also has occurred in dramatic proportions in the construction industry over the preceding 10 to 20 years). Also, many Americans work side-by-side illegals every day of the year - so cut this foundation-sponsored bullcrap already!
Having a real free world market is the rich's wet dream, and they've effectively accomplished it.
While I agree with your sentiment, you are once again completely wrong as there has NEVER BEEN a free market - it has always been a RIGGED MARKET - with labor arbitrage and the monopolization of land AND capital (which, unfortunately, the vast majority of Americans cannot comprehend due to the propagandized manner in which they are raised, and the fact that so much "media" is controlled and socially engineered by those 50,000? foundations extant across the land).
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On the positive side, we could finally end up with a "robotic lone gunman" but for some reason those "lone gunmen" always seem to take out the good guys, not the psycho-creeps (does Cheney design robots???)
Gee, mcgrew, as an Air Force veteran myself (and a combat vet and a USMC vet), everytime I hear about a wedding party obliterated and red misted in Afghanistan (and it's happened frequently) I am terribly sickened by any further clowns and their plans & predictions from the Brookings Institute (they've certainly done enough damage during their existence).
It further sickens me to realize few of the blithering idiots who refer to themselves as Americans comprehend that Brzezinksi, the national security advisor under Carter, was responsible for beginning the strategic doctrine which turned a secular Afghanistan into a fundamentalist Islamic enclave (read his memoirs for the details). I browsed the Wired for War - as I refuse to spend money on any senior fellows at any of these 'tutes and foundations which do so much social engineering in the USA, and elsewhere - and wouldn't recommend it.
Huuuuh...high tech-based society? Gee, I could have sworth America has been in a state of free fall regression and retrogression the past thirty years.
Sure, we've had incremental advancement from the PURE R&D generated from the NASA space program, thanks to those Sputnik guys and gals. But this country has been seriously coasting while the banksters regained full control - overturning Roosevelt's New Deal via the Monetary Control Act of 1980, the Telecommunications of 1996, the Financial Services Modernization Act of 1999 (Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act) and the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000.
Wall Street's New Math: an unlimited number of Credit Default Swaps can be written against a single borrower (reverse insurance pool Ponzi scheme to the nth power). And now with the Obama Administration hellbent on doint the exact opposite of what Roosevelt did with the New Deal (re-securitizing the securitization of securitization - which was killed during FDR's administration) we are in all probability doomed to serfdom....
Well, of course they do, Seriousity, after all, the US corporations have invested mightily in tech and manufacturing jobs in China, and R & D jobs in all areas in China (and these remarks include Euro and Japanese corps also). In 2007 or 2008, the wage increase in the 20-year-old to 29-year-old working group decreased in the EXACT SAME PERCENTAGE it increased in that group in China - no mystery there.
My thinking EXACTLY, Good Citizen objekt! Obviously, the kid can't be too smart if he hasn't yet realized that one waits until loooong after the onset of puberty before entering college. After all, the primary purpose of college is chancing up inebriated college babes (my apologies to all the sober, studious college women out there - but just shut the eff up...who asked you anyways.....)
Would you kindly try to think independently for once in your life, FooRat???? This legislation - not LOOPHOLE - has been purposely written into law by the same corrupt corporations/foundations/banksters, etc., which bought and paid for it.
Which was why Teddy Roosevelt made it agains the law for corporations to donate to congressional critters to begin with - I realize FoosRat is repeated the same tired mantra or talking points she/he/it has heard on countless foundation-sponsored TV, or foundation-sponsored "news" shows, or foundation-sponsored "journalists," or foundation-sponsored articles, ad nauseum, an infinitum, but this crapola goes back to the '60s, when Marshall Langer, tax attorney, first structured the original tax havens in Bermuda, then in the Caymans.
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Damn it! I forgot to erase the hard drive when I sent that used laptop - the one sold on E-Bay - to that address in North Korea. What the Hell does the Big Man of Pyongyang sould like to you? Would that be official-sounding????
Brilliant remark, Sherlock.....
So, what you're saying is that North Korea controls the United Kingdom?
Damn, I always thought that was the case - that would explain all their animosity towards the Irish -- after all, the North Koreans have always been jealous of Guinness.
Now I understand everything........except why do dogs turn their heads away when you blow lightly in their faces, yet will always hang their heads out of an auto window when the car is going over 100 miles per hour?
I dare you to try to explain that one.....
You make some excellent points and rebuttals, Good Citizen Bill_the_Engineer, and I would like to add one more subtle one.
Many people project their own thoughts on wishes upon Bill Gates, but those who are familiar with him and the Gates family aren't so fantasy-prone. Gates' driving urge has never been design elegance but amassing a fortune and authoritarian control. Period!
There is a fairly new exchange, the IFEX (Insurance Futures Exchange), based upon catastrophe event-linked futures (hurricanes, tornadoes, etc.). This exchange is owned by Climate Exchange Plc, which is owned by Goldman Sachs and InterContinental Exchange (which in turn is owned by Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and the oil companies). The potential for market manipulation is extraordinary - and ever since a Rockefeller complained about conspiracy (Senator Jay Rockefeller and the insurance companies) - believe....believe....believe.....
"I can't imagine a commercial bank NOT using a secure crypto system with an air gap."
Dood, remember, this is Kentucky we're talking about here. The same place where an anonymous caller's commands to disrobe and be spanked (and perform other various sexual acts) was enough for a young adult Kentucky female to obey (recall that McDonald's episode?).
Also, isn't that the same state that moron senator McConnell is from?
The problem with making suggestions, without the proper background information, renders said suggestions nonsensical! GS can now be fully exposed with the mass speculation they are guilty of when there exists duplicate trading platform code out there - period - end of story!
No, you don't get it, guy, it's about the code for the mass speculation they've been doing. It's not about trading fraud - although speculation and naket short selling is supposed to be against the law (as if they exist in this plutocracy???). Thieves are ripping off the super-thieves.
What if having the code allowed you to analyse it for ways to game the system?
Dood, don't you get it?? The system has been gamed for some time and is ever increasing in being gamed! Goldman Sachs (and other members of the bankster cartel) does mass speculation on the oil/energy futures market through the exchange they founded with Morgan Stanley and the oil cartel: ICE (InterContinental Exchange), as well as the precious metals market (along with JPMorgan Chase & Morgan Stanley, et al.), soft commodities market and on and on.....
With the new so-called "cap-and-trade" being gamed for expanding the derivatives and securitication market for futures in carbon offsets and carbon dioxide emissions allowances, the GS code is the final alchemy. (And the possibilities for entirely new forms of speculation between emissions/carbon offsets AND oil/energy futures is simply mind boggling!)
As far as gaming, one need only look at the outline for this anti-global warming legislation (cap-and-trade) and how it's being handled: via ICE US Trust (which is owned by ICE and Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase along with other banksters) and the Chicago Climate Exchange (which is owned by ICE) and utilizing the DTCC (majority owned by Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley & JPMorgan Chase). And those derivatives and swaps will be "priced" by ICE Trust and Markit Group (which was originally financed by Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup and BofA). And to review, ICE is owned by Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and the oil cartel.
Beginning to see the big picture??????
"Who the fuck though it would be a good idea to automatically execute the content of a message you have no control over whatsoever?"
Master control? The Illuminati? World Domination Society? Those Free Mason chaps? Hank Paulson, wherever the f**k he is? Goldman Sachs? JPMorgan Chase? Morgan Stanley? InterContinental Exchange? ICE US Trust? DTCC?
You nailed it exactly, Good Citizen FriendlyLurker - one cannot improve upon your excellent and spot on post.
And perhaps even scarier, Pres. Obama's appointment of Diana Farrell to the Deputy Director post of the National Economic Council. Who is Diana Farrell? She comes from the position as a director at the McKinsey Global Institute (research affiliate of McKensey and Company, which earns most of their money from their offshoring practice), where she authored that phony "study" on the advantages of offshoring all jobs (the study started off with the ASSUMPTION that offshoring of jobs is profitable, and ended up the the RESULT that the offshoring of jobs is profitable!!!!). She also edited the pile of garbage titled: OFFSHORING.
I thought Geithner, Summers and Locke were bad enough (when Locke - Secy. of Commerce - was governor of the state of Washington - he offshored state jobs in 49 of 51 state agencies).
Interesting aside: the cap & trade is supposed to be a semi-stealth way of reviving the process of securitization of securitization (transforming of debt into securities - using those securities as collateral for more securities, and again and again and again....) - which will continue and expand the economic meltdown we are presently experiencing.
Today the MainStreamMedia once more reported that: "Don't worry about unemployment, it's a lagging indicator."
2010: Don't worry about all those dead CEOs, lying dead in the streets after being brutally slain, that's just a lagging indicator of the economy.
American companies seldom hire intelligently in the past, and today virtually never. The only things they know how to do are:
offshore jobs, inshore foreign scab workers, issue junk paper, and do leveraged buyouts ("pump and dumps") which destroy the target companies and employment.
Thank you, Good Citizen PinchDuck, for your higher intelligence level. Invariably, someone will post that the article is right, and there are just too many dumb f**ks who don't comprehend software engineering or computer sci --- I can't speak to that at this very time, but am aware of far too many pioneer types, such as myself, who have long ago given up on getting hired by any Americanski outfit - so we work for ourselves, or hack for our own pleasure. In the state I divide part of my time in, Washington, the Greater Seattle Chamber of Commerce (together with their Trade Alliance) gave seminars to local corporations - in the early '00s - on how to smoothly offshore American jobs and realize the most labor and tax savings. Predictably, tax revenues have been falling over the past years, and now dramatically so with the most recent wave of offshoring.
Not too though, the brilliant pols have another SOLUTION to this situation.
Americans will soon be realizing (even the blithering idiots who voted for Nixon, Reagan, Bush, etc.) that we have finally reached critical mass in the offshoring of American jobs - from this point on we'll be experiencing cascading unemployment of local, shrinking consumer-type employment (the type which requires citizens with jobs).
Sorry for the extremely late response, but it appears you obviously have more specific information on the matter than I possess.
Still, the situation doesn't excuse those people from the Carter and Reagan Administrations from the guilt of all those secularist types in Afghanistant (teachers and other academics, middle-class, intelligentsia, etc.) who were murdered by those elements of the mujahadeen who received American funds and arms - even before those elements of the mujahadeen fought against the Sovs. A little known and less explained aspect of the Afghanistani involvement by America.....
"..it was the Pakistanis that funnelled the majority of the weapons and supplies to the more radical Mujahadeen during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan."
No, the weapons were funnelled through Pakistan - but bought and paid for, and under the direction of the CIA & Pentagon - that is such an accepted fact of history no effort should be wasted on even recounting that.
Sufi Islam was the norm along the Afghani border prior to Brzezinksi, along with funding and the help of the Saudis, importing extremist elements along the Afghani northern border. The history of military funding by the US to Pakistan predates the Soviet invasion, with Pakistan ostensibly serving as the bulwark against Communist Chinese expansionism, while antipathy existed between India and the US due to India's ties with the Sovs. (At that time 20 families controlled Pakistan; today the number is 22 families - I guess that's called progress!)
And "al Qaeda" means "the base" and it first appeared in a Washington Post news article - in the early '80s - during an interview with a CIA field operations officer who was describing their database of Mujahadeen fighters.
Was that KL restaurant the really nifty-looking one situated at the bottom of a waterfall?
I have done thousands of unpaid, volunteer hours of the years and observed that it has been pretty much for nothing. The super-rich control everything, and that which many aren't aware they control, that's the way the do even deeper control......
They use Mexicans here illegally to do jobs that Americans would do if they were paid appropriately.
First, millions of Americans who, unlike you, have a bunch of neurons to rub together, take offense at an obvious nonsensical and ignorant remark: plent of Americans have been laid off (ever hear of Hormel) and had undocumented or illegal workers hired in their place (this also has occurred in dramatic proportions in the construction industry over the preceding 10 to 20 years). Also, many Americans work side-by-side illegals every day of the year - so cut this foundation-sponsored bullcrap already!
Having a real free world market is the rich's wet dream, and they've effectively accomplished it.
While I agree with your sentiment, you are once again completely wrong as there has NEVER BEEN a free market - it has always been a RIGGED MARKET - with labor arbitrage and the monopolization of land AND capital (which, unfortunately, the vast majority of Americans cannot comprehend due to the propagandized manner in which they are raised, and the fact that so much "media" is controlled and socially engineered by those 50,000? foundations extant across the land).
Humbly suggest you bone up on real economcy democracy, my good fellow.
On the positive side, we could finally end up with a "robotic lone gunman" but for some reason those "lone gunmen" always seem to take out the good guys, not the psycho-creeps (does Cheney design robots???)
Gee, mcgrew, as an Air Force veteran myself (and a combat vet and a USMC vet), everytime I hear about a wedding party obliterated and red misted in Afghanistan (and it's happened frequently) I am terribly sickened by any further clowns and their plans & predictions from the Brookings Institute (they've certainly done enough damage during their existence).
It further sickens me to realize few of the blithering idiots who refer to themselves as Americans comprehend that Brzezinksi, the national security advisor under Carter, was responsible for beginning the strategic doctrine which turned a secular Afghanistan into a fundamentalist Islamic enclave (read his memoirs for the details). I browsed the Wired for War - as I refuse to spend money on any senior fellows at any of these 'tutes and foundations which do so much social engineering in the USA, and elsewhere - and wouldn't recommend it.
Sure, we've had incremental advancement from the PURE R&D generated from the NASA space program, thanks to those Sputnik guys and gals. But this country has been seriously coasting while the banksters regained full control - overturning Roosevelt's New Deal via the Monetary Control Act of 1980, the Telecommunications of 1996, the Financial Services Modernization Act of 1999 (Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act) and the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000.
Wall Street's New Math: an unlimited number of Credit Default Swaps can be written against a single borrower (reverse insurance pool Ponzi scheme to the nth power). And now with the Obama Administration hellbent on doint the exact opposite of what Roosevelt did with the New Deal (re-securitizing the securitization of securitization - which was killed during FDR's administration) we are in all probability doomed to serfdom....
Well, of course they do, Seriousity, after all, the US corporations have invested mightily in tech and manufacturing jobs in China, and R & D jobs in all areas in China (and these remarks include Euro and Japanese corps also). In 2007 or 2008, the wage increase in the 20-year-old to 29-year-old working group decreased in the EXACT SAME PERCENTAGE it increased in that group in China - no mystery there.
Now hold on, didn't those Euro-voters just vote the other day in favor of right-wing neocon-types?
Oops! As you were..you're right...he's an asshole!
My thinking EXACTLY, Good Citizen objekt! Obviously, the kid can't be too smart if he hasn't yet realized that one waits until loooong after the onset of puberty before entering college. After all, the primary purpose of college is chancing up inebriated college babes (my apologies to all the sober, studious college women out there - but just shut the eff up...who asked you anyways.....)
"Using a legal loophole is NOT against the law"
Would you kindly try to think independently for once in your life, FooRat???? This legislation - not LOOPHOLE - has been purposely written into law by the same corrupt corporations/foundations/banksters, etc., which bought and paid for it.
Which was why Teddy Roosevelt made it agains the law for corporations to donate to congressional critters to begin with - I realize FoosRat is repeated the same tired mantra or talking points she/he/it has heard on countless foundation-sponsored TV, or foundation-sponsored "news" shows, or foundation-sponsored "journalists," or foundation-sponsored articles, ad nauseum, an infinitum, but this crapola goes back to the '60s, when Marshall Langer, tax attorney, first structured the original tax havens in Bermuda, then in the Caymans.
It's time to read Jeff Faux's Global Class War, dood.