A friend pointed me towards this podcast in which Tim Ferriss interviews Mr. Money Moustache (MMM), a man who retired from work in his 30s to live on the interest from his investments and then got a significant following as a blogger. The podcast describes the kind of life I’ve
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Things Are Good: Use a Bot to Make Ethical Investments
money A new company, OpenInvest, wants you to use its bots to make your monetary life more ethical. A very popular way to invest in the market is to use index funds, which are a smorgasbord of stocks which will hopefully rise with the stock market as a whole. Most
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: The new Canadian $10 Bill
Canada is finally putting a woman on the front of a bank note (other than the Queen, of course). The first will be Viola Desmond, who will replace Sir John A. MacDonald. Extraordinary bravery of Viola Desmond who will now appear on Canada's $10 bill. Via Heritage Minutes. https://t.co/GF4gyCWj8W #MakeItRight
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: Sorry, but You’ve Been Duped into Denial
In the U.S., about 70% believe climate change is real, 35% believe it’s caused by humans, and 16% are worried about it. The 30-minute film, “The Doubt Machine: Inside the Koch Brothers’ War on Climate Science” explains how you’ve been tricked into false belief. It features Michael Mann, who was
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Wall Took Money From Who?
Who has the Saskatchewan Party accepted donations from? The UofR, City of Regina, Regina Public Library, etc. Most of the cash came from oil companies such as Crescent Point, Cenovus, Encana and PennWest, though the Canadian Energy Pipeline Association, the Canadian Western Bank and construction company PCL also contributed. …The NDP last
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – Abolishing Satan Should Be Easy.
Of course, there might be other factors at play. Filed under: Religion Tagged: Christianity, god, Money, Satan, The DWR Sunday Religious Diservice
Things Are Good: What Will We Think of the Banks in Years to Come?
IN this TED talk, Michael Metcalfe wonders how will we look back on banks in the future. Will we think of the banks as an unethical industry that contributed greatly to climate change or as a tool that can be used to help the environment. Will we do whatever it takes to fight climate change? […]
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Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: A Fine Bigger Than Most Crimes – #PanamaPapers
Canada’s rich and powerful do not fear the media, and they do not have their names in the newspapers (some owned by foreign investment funds) when fined more than a million dollars for a crime much larger than that. FINTRAC won't name bank fined $1.1 million for suspicious transactions?! We are still a banana republic. […]
Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Wealthy Implicated in #PanamaPapers will not #FeelTheBern
What is #PanamaPapers? Over 2TB of leaked bank communications exposing shell companies and tax avoidance and money laundering by HSBC, UBS, and others. CBC and Toronto Star have the names of the Canadians, but will not be releasing them since they’d face libel suits for doing so without other supporting evidence (and probably even then […]
A Puff of Absurdity: The Panama Papers
From Woodward and Bernstein to Edward Snowden, breaking stories from the 5th Estate are always exciting. This one is the biggest story yet to blow open millions of files linking dirty money to high-powered officials.
After a leak of over 11 million d…
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From Woodward and Bernstein to Edward Snowden, breaking stories from the 5th Estate are always exciting. This one is the biggest story yet to blow open millions of files linking dirty money to high-powered officials.
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After a leak of over 11 million documents compiled from the 1970s to today, and offered up to the Munich paper, Süddeutsche Zeitung, 350 journalists have taken about a year to read, assemble, research, and connect data through one corporation: Mossack Fonseca, a Panama law firm that’s helped elite clients to launder money, evade taxes, dodge sanctions…. It’s been guarding the data of the word’s most powerful people including 240,000 companies, sports organizations, and political leaders.
The first journalists got the ICIJ, Guardian, BBC, and Le Monde involved. They all met in Washington to figure out how to file through all the information and turn it into well researched, verifiable, and readable stories about undisclosed financial transactions, weapons, drugs and pedophilia rings, and offshore tax havens linked to war crimes and other illegal activity around the world.
The 10 minute video at this page explains their process they went through to begin to tell these stories.
But the video below gets at the heart of why the story is so important:
Take a look at “who did what and how”at the official Panama Papers website. Prepare to lose a few days reading through it all. It’s the kind of thing you always suspected, but now there’s proof of all the connections.
Like this one:
ETA: Here’s a good primer on Offshore investments and more on the Panama Papers. And Truthdig has more to say, including an Edward Snowden tweet: “Courage is contagious.” And the BBC has a Q&A.
Things Are Good: Ontario to Test Basic Income
Basic income is the idea that people will have enough money to live (food and shelter) regardless of their employment status. Manitoba tried this decades ago and it worked, but was cancelled for political reasons. A basic income is needed now more than ever since robots are going to take all the jobs. Plus, inequality […]
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Continue readingThings Are Good: A Way to Think About Digital Currency Replacing Cash
Bitcoin, Dogecoin, and other digital currencies are shaking up how the internet thinks about money. In turn, this has forced countries and large institutions to rethink how money works and who claims to have control over it. Perhaps it’s time for the decentralized blockchain-systems to replaced by a robot-controlled centrally-backed system. Or, at the very […]
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Continue readingThings Are Good: It’s Not Environment Versus Economic Prosperity
Amazingly, there are people who think that environmental protection will cause economic calamity (bankers seem to be good at causing economic collapse all on their own). This old way of thinking still impacts policy and other decisions made around the world. In order to put this archaic notion away, the Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation’s […]
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Continue readingThings Are Good: Increase Your Happiness by Prioritizing Time Over Money
Modern capitalism as informed us that greed is good and we should only work for money. However, if your goal is to live life then working might not be the best use of your time. If you’re looking to be happy in your life then you should definitely value your time over how much money […]
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Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: Truth is Like Poetry
… and people fucking hate poetry.
It’s a line from the excellent film The Big Short, which is brought to us by Adam McKay, the director known for goofball comedies like Anchorman and Step-Brothers. But it’s nothing like that. At all.
It’s listed o…
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: On Those Statues Again
There are dueling petitions out to continue (which curiously disappeared) and stop statues of all 22 prime ministers being planted on the grounds of Wilfrid Laurier University, my old school that I loved all to bits. I wrote about this statue project on its inception two years ago. The statues
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: Going Off-Grid
Off-grid, self-reliant living is a rapidly growing phenomenon and popular movement – so popular that there is now a cable TV show devoted to it, called something like, Off-Grid House Hunters, on HGTV. It only makes sense. Cut your expenses and improve your quality of life, while lowering stress and
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: CNN lies, distorts, while its own polls tell the truth: Bernie won the debate
CNN’s own polls show Bernie Sanders won the Democratic presidential debate last night, Tuesday, October 13, 2015, hands down. When CNN polled, and asked “Who won the debate?” 83% of people said Bernie Sanders. 83%. Yet, CNN headlines are splashing the big, bold message, Hillary wins debate by landslide. Can
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Shared Knowledge Conference – Regina
These videos are from the second day of the Shared Knowledge Conference at the Core Ritchie Centre, the second weekend of June. Jim Elliott with many interesting (and terrifying) facts about Regina’s watershed system. We are on the Plaza @MarketRegina today. Find us beside @TrogiFoods #honey #salsa pic.twitter.com/wGd2bYiBVB — Zee-Bee
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