OECD ? report: Multinational companies pay almost no taxes ...

The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) released a report on the 12^th of February in which they reveal that big, multinational companies only pay a marginal amount of taxes. Google for instance paid only 3.2% taxes in 2011, General Electric even paid no taxes at all, despite the fact that in the same year these companies earned 10 and 14 Billion dollars in profits. According to the Secretary-General of the OECD, Angel Gurria, this result is devastating and reveals the deficiency of international tax laws, as even if the results may seem absurd, they are still absolutely legal and in accordance with the law.

Gurria urged for more co-operation on the international level in order to secure the lost taxes for states in the future, as the enormous budget deficits that are created in the national budgets would eventually have to be carried by citizens and middle-class companies.

On the webpage of the OECD it says: ?These gaps, which enable multinationals to eliminate or reduce their taxation on income, give them an unfair competitive advantage over smaller businesses. They hurt investment, growth and employment and can leave average citizens footing a larger chunk of the tax bill.?

Continue reading about the report of the OECD here.

Source: http://www.facing-finance.org/en/2013/02/oecd-report-multinational-companies-pay-almost-no-taxesoecd-bericht-multinationale-konzerne-zahlen-so-gut-wie-keine-steuern/

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Dictionary Print: - "Mr & Mrs Octopus Love" - upcycled book page, nautical, Valentines Day Gift, steampunk, Wedding gift by ArtOfThePage

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This print is from an original artwork by Chris Brown.
Whimsical print of "Octopus Love" printed on an antique "Encyclopedia Britannica" dictionary page. For those who want to show their eternal love for each other, it gives tying the knot a new meaning.
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The pages are carefully removed and the illustration is printed directly onto the antique page approximately 8"x11" in size. It will fit nicely in an 8"x 10"frame (20.32 cm x 25.4 cm)

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Rally Software Buys Flowdock, A Real-Time Social Collaboration Hub For Developers

Rally Software has acquired Flowdock, a real-time collaboration service designed for developers. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Flowdock received $650,000 in seed funding in October 2011 from investors that included IDG Ventures, CrunchFund and a number of individuals including Eucalyptus CEO Marten Mickos.

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FIFA bans Canada's Olivier Occean for 6 games

FIFA has ordered Canada forward Olivier Occean to serve a six-match ban after being sent off and then insulting the referee during a World Cup qualifier against Cuba.

Occean was sent off after a scuffle during Canada's 3-0 victory in Toronto last Oct. 12. Occean then was involved in "several acts of unsporting behaviour and using offensive language toward match officials," FIFA said in a statement.

FIFA also ordered the 31-year-old Eintracht Frankfurt player to pay a total of 8,500 Swiss francs ($9,310) to cover a fine and costs of the proceedings. He can appeal the sanctions.

Occean served the first of his six-match sanction days after the incident, when Canada lost 8-1 against Honduras and was eliminated from the 2014 World Cup.

Occean is the second Canadian player to be slapped with a lengthy suspension in recent months. Canada's women's captain Christine Sinclair received a four-game ban from FIFA for an incident following Canada's overtime loss to the United States in the Olympic semifinals.

Sinclair led Canada to an Olympic bronze medal before being suspended. She served three games during the Four Nations tournament last month in China.

Occean must serve his ban at competitive matches, starting with the Gold Cup tournament in July.

The Canada-Cuba qualifier previously attracted headlines as three visiting players defected, leaving a squad of just 11 for the match.

Source: http://www.cbc.ca/sports/soccer/story/2013/02/11/sp-fifa-canada-olivier-oceann-banned-world-cup-qualifier.html?cmp=rss

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US Military Casualty Statistics And The Main Concern For Senators

US Military

Written by Ludwig Watzal

February 10, 2013

The moral of the U. S. troops is not in good shape. And the follow-up costs of the so-called Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF), which was the attack on Afghanistan, Operation New Dawn (OND) and Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF), like these attacks on Iraq were euphemistically called, are skyrocketing. Not to speak of the dramatically increasing suicides among military personnel, the social costs such as broken families, disabled, maimed, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), traumatic brain injury (TBI), amputations, evacuations, and the demographics of casualties. A Congressional Research Service Report written by Hannah Fischer1 reveals the enormous human and financial costs the Afghan and Iraqi adventure that was brought upon the American people by a highly irresponsible government.

From 2001 to today, George W. Bush?s adventurism and President Obama?s continuation has cost the lives of 6 656 soldiers, and over 50 000 were partly severely wounded. Over the same period, almost 130 000 have been diagnosed with PTSD. From the year 2000 to 2012, 253 330 have been experienced TBI. At 1 715 soldiers with battle-injuries, amputations were performed, most of them were limb amputations; 800 service men had their leg amputated.

This sad statistics did not seem to interest the Senators. They could have asked the likely new Defense Secretary what he thought about these depressing facts. They only asked silly and irrelevant questions such as whether Hagel will be more subservient to the Israeli government in the future. Mainly, they were so obsessed with Hagel?s position on Israel and Iran as if both countries were the hub of the world. They performed like grand inquisitors. They asked Chuck Hagel to repent and to revoke his earlier statements about the ?Israel Lobby?, its intimidation of Congress and his other realistic political judgments about U. S. American foreign policy towards its client state Israel. And Hagel behaved like a poor sinner. Lindsey Graham, John McCain and their ilk proofed by their inquisitorial behavior on whose orders they were acting. Their script was written by the Lobby and their neoconservative think tanks that dominate inside the Belt way.

In an article on MWC news, M. J. Rosenberg characterized the difference between John Brennan?s Senate hearing and the Hagel charade with a John Lennon song: ?Imagine there?s no lobby/ it?s easy if you try/ No memorized talking points/ No need to lie.? The later ?hearing? was a competition for the best hypocrite and the best sycophant of the lobby?s election campaign support.

The dramatic figures of this report indicate that the Obama administration has more important things to do than planning the next war against Iran. Besides paying compensation for the suffering and the ravages the U. S. Empire inflicted on the people of Afghanistan and Iraq, the Obama administration or one of the concerned parties should charge George W. Bush and his neoconservative monsters with crimes against humanity and war crimes before the International Criminal Court in The Hague. The new book about ?Genocide in Iraq? published by Clarity Press sets out the case for prosecution involved in the Iraqi genocide during the sanction period from 1990 to the attack on Iraq in 2003.

According to the UN Genocide Convention of 1948, this defines genocide as ?acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group?, the former U. S. administration can also be charged with genocide, too. The imposed sanctions against Iraq are as heinous as the sanction against the Iranian people. None of the so-called moral authorities of the world have so far addressed the immorality and illegality of these criminal undertakings. Perhaps through an indictment of the people responsible, further deadly U. S. sanctions can be prevented.

Source: http://www.albanytribune.com/10022013-u-s-military-casualty-statistics-and-the-main-concern-for-senators-oped/

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NH lesbian mom who sought military benefits dies

CONCORD, New Hampshire ? Charlie Morgan, a chief warrant officer in the New Hampshire Army National Guard who fought to repeal the federal law barring her wife from receiving benefits to help care for their daughter, has died. She was 48.

Morgan died Sunday at a hospice in Dover after a battle with breast cancer, a spokesman for Gov. Maggie Hassan said.

Morgan, of New Durham, was a nationally recognized advocate in the effort to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act. She was a plaintiff in a federal lawsuit in 2011 saying the act violated her constitutional rights.

Under the federal act, the Pentagon is required to ignore same-sex marriages, which are legal in several states including New Hampshire. Morgan, after finding out she had cancer, was worried her spouse and their daughter would be unable to receive military, Social Security and other benefits if she died.

"She deserves the same benefits as any other spouse," Morgan said in 2011 at the first national convention of gay military personnel on active duty. "She went through the same stress, fear and concern during my deployment as any other spouse."

Shortly before that, Morgan came out on national television on the day the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy was repealed.

On Monday, a Department of Defense memo detailed a number of benefits that will be extended to same-sex partners of service members, including identification cards that will provide access to commissaries and other services but not some housing benefits. It appears the additional benefits don't apply in Morgan's case because they would not be retroactive.

In February 2012, Morgan visited Capitol Hill to meet with the staff of House Speaker John Boehner to tell her story.

She said her breast cancer was diagnosed in 2008, and she underwent a double mastectomy and chemotherapy. She was declared cancer-free in 2010 and was deployed to Kuwait for one year. She returned home to her wife, Karen Morgan, and then-4-year-old daughter. But she also learned that the cancer had returned and was incurable.

In August 2012, the Morgans traveled to Minneapolis to testify before the Democratic Party's platform committee in support of the freedom to marry, following a video released by the groups OutServe-SLDN and Freedom to Marry detailing their story.

Morgan led attendees in the Pledge of Allegiance at Hassan's inauguration on Jan. 3. Hassan said Morgan's fight for equality will outlive her fight against cancer.

"We can and should honor Charlie's legacy by continuing her fight to ensure that all families are treated equally by the state of New Hampshire and by the federal government," Hassan said in a statement.

Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, of New Hampshire, said Morgan "epitomized courage in her military service, her fight for LGBT equality and her battle with cancer."

A service has been scheduled for Thursday at South Church in Portsmouth.

Source: http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/c1d9148767d44c168b8d23f379a84f67/US--Obit-Morgan

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