Friday, April 22, 2016

news April 2016

The leak of some 11 million documents relating to hidden and untaxed bank accounts in Panama has highlighted and electrified the knowledge of such tax-avoidance schemes. People slowly become aware of a practice that's existed for decades.
NPR's Planet Money showed us how easy it was to set up a shell company that could avoid paying taxes some years ago.
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The impeachment of Brazilian President Rousseff has called into question the stability of their government, the state of law and order and the very nature of what corruption is. Christiane Amanpour talks to Glenn Greenwald  to give an international audience a view of what it means.

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War in Aleppo, Syria intensifies.
The Pope and the Orthodox Patriarch visited refugees in Lesbos, Greece. Pope Francis brought three families back to Italy with him.
US Senator Bernie Sanders went to Rome to deliver some remarks on the capture of Washington, DC by big money.


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Child miners in the Democratic Republic of Congo help mine and pick out cobalt meant to be sold for use in cellphone and laptop lithium-ion batteries.

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Today in New York was the signing ceremony at the UN of the climate pact called the Paris Agreement following the agreeement drawn up there late last year.

China is investing in overland trade routes across southern Asia again.

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A series of earthquakes have struck the Pacific Rim. Two in Japan and one in Ecuador and in Peru, as well as Tonga has the entire region on edge scrambling to rescue survivors and pick up the pieces.
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This church in Tulsa, Oklahoma summed up the mood of many after the world learned of the death of the creative whirlwind known as Prince at his home in Minneapolis.

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