Trade and tension at Europe's troubled African borders
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Trade and tension at Europe's troubled African borders
By Ingrid Bazinet, Roland Lloyd Parry | AFP – 8 hours ago
Corporations reached secret deals with Luxembourg to avoid tax payments
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By Jean Shaoul
22 December 2014
More leaked documents relating to tax avoidance schemes involving Luxembourg’s government under the leadership of Jean-Claude Juncker, now President of the European Union (EU) Commission, have intensified the political crisis surrounding the EU.
It comes at a time of growing opposition to the pro-business EU and the vicious austerity cuts it has imposed in Greece, Ireland, Spain, Portugal and elsewhere.
The documents confirm that giant corporations negotiated secret deals with the Grand Duchy during the nearly two decades when Juncker was Luxembourg’s minister of finance, an office he later held jointly for some years with that of the premiership.
The corporations set up their headquarters or subsidiary offices in the tiny city-state for the express purpose of
The largest vessel the world has ever seen
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Climbing onto the largest vessel the world has ever seen brings you into a realm where everything is on a bewilderingly vast scale and ambition knows no bounds.
Prelude is a staggering 488m long and the best way to grasp what this means is by
Man Spends $15 Million Developing a ‘Revolutionary’
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Man Spends $15 Million Developing a ‘Revolutionary’ Vessel ‘Not Even the Navy’ Has Ever Built
Gregory Sancoff spent $15 million on an ocean vessel prototype to sell to the U.S. Navy, but the Navy doesn’t want it.
“It’s a revolutionary program,” Sancoff, founder and CEO of Juliet Marine Systems near Portsmouth, New Hampshire, said. “Nothing like this has ever been built by anybody, not even the Navy.”
But perhaps the reason the Navy has never built is simply because it doesn’t want it – or doesn’t need it. But after hearing about how terrorists attacked the U.S.S. Cole in 2000, Sancoff is convinced the military will come around.
