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The First Post: Larry David - Politics on The Huffington Post. Left. Fascism. Racism. Osborne, Mitchell and Hammond accused of tax avoidance. In the week in which the coalition will announce massive cuts to public services three high-ranking cabinet ministers face accusations of tax avoidance. Chancellor George Osborne – the man who on Wednesday will spell out the cutbacks the country must suffer – international development secretary Andrew Mitchell and transport secretary Philip Hammond are all named in tonight’s Dispatches, to be broadcast on Channel Four at 8:00, as having saved millions in taxes. The programme will reveal that Mr Mitchell invested at least £130,000 into offshore investment funds, one of which is based in the Caribbean tax haven of the British Virgin Islands.
A British Virgin Islands company won’t pay corporation tax; if it was a UK company owning the property it would pay corporation tax - so clearly there’s a saving there. Of Mr Hammond, the programme reveals he “did a Philip Green” – i.e. he transferred some of his assets over to his wife, resulting in a much-reduced tax bill for the millionaire.
Exposing the Excretions of the Entitled Class | The Vile Plutocrat. Terrorism. Africans to Bono: 'For God's sake please stop!' — AMERICAN.COM: A Magazine of Ideas, Online. Arusha, Tanzania–Africa is a continent of despair and desperation. Here, eight year-olds toting AK-47s massacre whole villages and eccentric dictators feast on the organs of the opposition, believing it'll boost their mojo. Tsetse flies nibble on the eyelids of starving children who sport distended bellies like it's their birthright, not to mention the fact that by the time you finish reading this article, another six Africans will die from malaria, five from AIDS, and seventeen from poverty and hunger. Also, the wildlife is beautiful and the people like to dance and sing. That's Africa, and it's in desperate need of our help. Luckily, a few enlightened megastars from America and Europe have come to save it. Curiously, not all the natives are grateful. Last month, world leaders and Bono met in Heiligendamm, Germany for the G8 summit to renew their commitment to increase aid to Africa.
Near the front of the darkened auditorium a white man with orange sunglasses stood to object. Top 200 lies of conspiracy theorist and fraud Noam Chomsky. John Pilger - Liar and Fraud. On Tuesday, the door of my institution, Kingston University, was darkened by John Pilger, a virulent denier of the crimes of Slobodan Milosevic’s Serbian regime against the Kosovo Albanians, who had been invited to speak. Pilger is someone who claims that no mass graves of Albanian victims of Milosevic’s regime have ever been found; he puts the term ‘mass graves’ in quote marks when referring to Kosovo.
He even cites Milosevic supporter Neil Clark in support of his position. Pilger’s claim that no mass graves have ever been found in Kosovo is, of course, false. Untrue. I challenged Pilger on his denial, in front of the audience of academics, students and others that he was addressing. Rather than attempt to defend his record, Pilger tried to play the numbers game with me (people like Pilger are under the impression that if the total number of victims in a campaign of mass murder turns out to be lower than some of the earlier estimates, it vindicates the deniers and the apologists).
Graphic: How Class Works. David Aaronovitch - A very modern melodrama and our shrine to Madeleine.