The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire | The Secret World of Finance

The challenge for the UK is that the flywheel of the City of London corporation and its offshore wormholes were at the core of globalization. Ironically the nation state the CoL coexists with (the UK) is as large a casualty of this as the many colonial nation states ravaged by globalization. This was compounded by the globalists - which the Economist exists to promote - forcing the merger of the UK into the european union. The vote to leave by the proletariat demonstrated massive dissatisfaction, but sadly there are subsequently no credible political parties or leadership that are not closely aligned with the CoL and/or the EU, resulting in a becalming. The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire | Documentary Film [this video] 'Michael Oswald's film The Spider's Web reveals how at the demise of empire, City of London financial interests created a web of secrecy jurisdictions that captured wealth from across the globe and hid it in a web of offshore islands. Today, up to half of global offshore wealth is hidden in British jurisdictions and Britain and its dependencies are the largest global players in the world of international finance'. 80 minutes, well worth watching imo

There is a massive 'fear campaign' drip dripping dire news in the UK every day if the people don't reconsider leaving a federated europe. The EU is well past its sell-buy date, won't reform and globalization has taken full advantage of its undemocratic structure for offshore commercial gain. The divide and rule aspects of the UK EU referendum results are being exploited to the full. Like the last US election there is no good result for the English people - remaining or leaving are both going to have an ugly side. The City of London rules the financial world and enables incredible sums to float offshore via trusts and opaque corporate setups. What we are seeing is a further divide between the haves and have nots. [this video] < spiders web documentary 'At the demise of empire, City of London financial interests created a web of secrecy jurisdictions that captured wealth from across the globe and hid it in a web of offshore islands. Today, up to half of global offshore wealth is hidden in British jurisdictions and Britain and its dependencies are the largest global players in the world of international finance.' This makes the consumer banks and FS firms shuffling fiat currencies around europe a tiny drop in the ocean

>It seems strange to me that so many people are onboard with privacy most of the time, but when it comes to financial privacy anybody who doesn't want the government to know which books they buy is somehow a villain. This is a failure of government to protect it's peoples from supra-nationalist oligarchs who abuse various economic shell and tax avoidance friendly nations systems in order to abuse their country of origin (or country of profit origin). This is not at all about "what books they buy" and to say so is poor form and intellectually disingenuous. That said, you may be right that some innocents may get wrapped up in this, but I would venture this example you've pulled out of your hat is an extremely small percentage of who would be revealed. To be honest the biggest problem I have is that we've become so normalized to this kind of shit that hardly anything happens from the revelations. Just look at the Panama papers for example, besides a journalist or two getting assassinated because of it, nobody was held to account. Combine that with things like Epstein's lack of prosecution and later assassination and what I see is the overton window moving to normalize corruption as a required pragmatic approach to power such that most people will openly admit the rule of law simply doesn't apply to the elite. This, therefor, is hacktivism of the finest kind imho. The people standing up for themselves when even their own governments won't. Any potential fallout relating to innoce

It is a little bit of both influencing each other, but the system in London is definitely the killer app. My understanding of the history is that there are systems that have been entrenched in the London financial industry going back centuries due to the unique history of the City of London and how it administrates itself separately from the rest of England/ GB. It was the global hub during pax brittania, and remained the financial hub of the world after the war thanks to the Eurodollar. It was at this point that tax systems were devised involving their crown dependencies to obfuscate everything which made it a popular place to launder money. A lot of the opulence has developed along side over all these years. So it was the case that London was the city of the world during the empire which made it the candidate for running the Eurodollar system to rebuild Europe which cemented its place as the financial capital of the world up until America financialized their economy in the late 70s, its colonies allowed for unique tax systems which made it even more popular. I got most of this from the book entitled Treasure Islands: Tax Havens and the Men Who Stole the World by Nicholas Shaxson, and the documentary [this video] that was inspired by it.

Bengali cuisine today is a living testament to these times. We have dishes that use jute leaves (a waste product from the jute being produced), tree barks, mango/jackfruit seeds, even just water leftover from cooking rice (people would beg at the doors of richer houses for the rice water). We have separate dishes for ripe/unripe/overripe fruits and vegetables. Nothing could be wasted. My friends would joke in school that “God you bengalis eat everything,” but there is a grim history behind it. — source, am bengali, grew up listening to grandparents’ stories. A number of reasons but primarily British Colonia policy. When the Japanese invaded Burma in 1942 there was a huge influx of refugees into Bengal, approximately 500,000 people which strained the local economy. Additionally the British Raj government had laws which forced local suppliers of goods such as food and textiles to sell to the military at a fixed low price but no price controls for the civilian market so any goods making it to the civilian market were already hugely inflated in price. What really kicked off the famine that killed over 3 million people though was the British decision to enact a scorched earth policy in bengal in anticipation of a Japanese invasion, burning crops in the fields and destroying stockpiled food supplies. Several members of the British government in India did in fact plead to Churchills cabinet during this period for relief shipments of food to stave off the growing famine from 1942-194