World is Falling Apart Thread (Locked forever)

[Pulsar_t]

Panama Papers summary: the financial secrets of the global elite

http://www.euronews.com/2016/04/04/pana ... bal-elite/

You can have your toys and your month-to-month paychecks but little changes from century to century. It's always the haves and have-nots.

[Blu]

That's a good interview for context, Pulsar. Good god he's sweating bullets in the later parts of this interview.

[J T]

That's a good interview for context, Pulsar. Good god he's sweating bullets in the later parts of this interview.

Wow! That was awesome to see. He totally got baited, outed, and then panicked so hard it may as well have been a confession.

That is ballsy journalism and it is a pleasure to watch a bastard caught in his own mess.

But what is he so worried about, eh? They're "only numbers" right? Just "air" without the value they allegedly symbolizes.

[Ack]

That's a good interview for context, Pulsar. Good god he's sweating bullets in the later parts of this interview.

Wow! That was awesome to see. He totally got baited, outed, and then panicked so hard it may as well have been a confession.

That is ballsy journalism and it is a pleasure to watch a bastard caught in his own mess.

But what is he so worried about, eh? They're "only numbers" right? Just "air" without the value they allegedly symbolizes.

It actually gets more interesting when you hear the timeline.

Iceland was one of the few nations that let their banks fail in the 2008 financial crisis and instead chose to forgive the mortgage debt of their population. The current Icelandic Prime Minister, Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson, became party chairman of the Progressive Party in 2009 but didn't disclose his 50% ownership of a British Virgin Islands company, Wintris, which he sold eight months later to his wife for a dollar. In 2015 he made agreements with the creditors of failed banks, resulting in his wife making a ton of money. In the meantime, Iceland's overall economy is considered to have recovered, but many Icelanders work 60-70 hour weeks at multiple jobs to get things done.

[Ack]

Well, Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson has officially resigned as the Prime Minister of Iceland, though he remains chairman of the Progressive Party. Sigurdur Ingi Johannsson, the deputy chair of Gunnlaugsson's Progressive Party, is taking over as interim Prime Minister, though protesters are apparently also already protesting this power transition since Johannsson was not elected.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/05/europe/pa ... index.html

[darsparx]

Paypal has now stepped away from NC with the 400 jobs it was supposed to bring, and states are urging BoA to withdraw all because of HB-2. I completely understand the concerns of the LGBT community but this is also the concern of those who be preyed upon legally because of the ordinance if it was allowed to stand. This is why you have those all gender restrooms or if you are a tran who has already had most of the work done why don't you go into the bathroom of your identity anyways without the need for the ordinance? It's really pathetic that these states and businesses are so worried about HB-2 instead of helping to fix the country's broken economy and to possibly end lifetime politicians in the federal government. If I had a say in it we'd forgive and forget HB-2 and let it stand and fix other more glaring issues(like a economy that rewards the rich and doesn't seek out those who avoid taxes by sending money out of country but taxes the crap out of the poor)

[prfsnl_gmr]

Paypal has now stepped away from NC with the 400 jobs it was supposed to bring, and states are urging BoA to withdraw all because of HB-2. I completely understand the concerns of the LGBT community but this is also the concern of those who be preyed upon legally because of the ordinance if it was allowed to stand. This is why you have those all gender restrooms or if you are a tran who has already had most of the work done why don't you go into the bathroom of your identity anyways without the need for the ordinance? It's really pathetic that these states and businesses are so worried about HB-2 instead of helping to fix the country's broken economy and to possibly end lifetime politicians in the federal government. If I had a say in it we'd forgive and forget HB-2 and let it stand and fix other more glaring issues(like a economy that rewards the rich and doesn't seek out those who avoid taxes by sending money out of country but taxes the crap out of the poor)

Please. HB2 is, as predicted, an unmitigated disaster, and I don't blame businesses one bit for not investing in NC since its passage. Our Republican legislators - and, particularly, the most politically ambitious - thought that they could use the specter of (I kid you not) straight men pretending to identify as women so that they could sneak into women's locker rooms and restroom to molest and rape to their heart's content as political cover to pass one of the most discriminatory and mean-spirited laws in the country. That is something that has never happened, however, and it would not have happened under Charlotte's ordinance either since anyone with something other than the most basic understanding of the law knows the measures in place to prevent it. Nonetheless, our Republican legislators just could not resist an opportunity to pull a political stunt by calling a "special session" to pass an extremely hurtful law and score points with their most bigoted, ignorant, and fearful voters.

The laws passage was shameful and pathetic; it is a black mark on our state; and businesses are well within their rights not to invest here.

I would keep writing, but I have to go to work, earn money, and pay the taxes that keep those buffoons in office...

[darsparx]

Say what you will but I really do see it as overreaction....I mean i have a little sister(and as much as I loathe her sometimes) I do kinda fear for her safety especially since charlotte especially in the seedy parts of town and such scares me a bit. Plus it seems to be more on the side of "you have freedom of speech and religion as long as it doesn't offend <insert growing list of races, and groups>".

[Ack]

Has anybody been following the crazy situation in Brazil? I'd like to hear folks' thoughts on that.

[samsonlonghair]

Has anybody been following the crazy situation in Brazil? I'd like to hear folks' thoughts on that.

Reminds me of the Teapot Dome scandal.