New Econoparody: “Oil to the World”
Readers have enjoyed past productions by Versus. Here’s their latest holiday release:
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NC’s Guess About a Sean Quinn-GT Group Connection Just Got a Bit More Solid (But a Bit More Ho-Hum, Too)
More about a possible link between bankrupt Irish ex-billionaire Sean Quinn’s asset hiding activities and the Taylor family’s company registration businesses (GT Group and successors)
Read more...At Least Half of the 21,500 Companies Revealed by the Guardian/ICIJ Offshore Investigation Have Connections With Rogue Agent GT Group
The GT Global sham company network may be far bigger than you ever imagined.
Read more...Harry Shearer’s Grand Bargain Barn!
Bill Black will insist this needs to be rebranded as the Great Betrayal Barn….but I am sure you will enjoy it nevertheless! A must listen!
Read more...Hugging a Chicken via the Internet
I’m normally try not to go overboard on videos on NC, but this one features two of our pet interests at once: geekery and being nice to animals.
Read more...Romney Exhibits Symptoms of MBA Derangement Syndrome
Marcy Wheeler wrote up an astonishing little episode from the Romster’s campaign.
Read more...52 Shades of Greed: Occupy Wall Street Playing Card Deck
Yves here. You too can get your own set of Occupy Wall Street Alternative Banking limited edition playing cards prominently featuring many of the people you’ve learned to love to hate, like Timothy Geithner, Jamie Dimon, Angelo Mozilo, and Dick Fuld.
This is the overview:
Read more...New Zealand’s Company Register: Even More Out of Control Than You Thought
My last post on this little mess implied that there was pretty slack official monitoring of the NZ Company Register for obviously false or impermissible registration information. But one or two other sightings invite the question: does anyone in New Zealand take Para 1, Section 377 of the Companies Act seriously, any more? 377 False statements […]
Read more...New Zealand’s Savings & Loans Companies: Not Like Any Banking Industry You’ve Ever Seen Before
Yet more gems from New Zealand’s Company Register: the companies that specialize in scamming Americans
Read more...New Zealand: Not Another Rogue Company Incorporator, Surely? No: Two, Actually
The trolls are multiplying in New Zealand’s Company Register
Read more...New Zealand Reserve Bank Gesticulates at Pseudobanks Run by Offshore Directors (and Registered by Offshore Company Agents)
More perfumed offerings from the New Zealand Company Register
Read more...New Zealand Company Register Facilitates Arms Dealing With Iran, Massive Money Laundering, But Will the Minders Beat the Perps?
Cleaning up New Zealand’s register of companies: how’s it going?
Read more...Belated European Report and Elite Disconnect
While I’m a bit late in reporting on my trip to Europe (coastal Spain, Portugal, and France), I had thought not to say anything at all, given that I learned vastly less about the economic state of play than I expected. But that in and of itself is a data point of sorts.
Read more...Lynn Parramore: Why the Rich Are Sending Pets on a Diamond-Studded Trip to the Afterlife
I live in Manhattan, where signs of the New Gilded Age scream from the windows of deluxe pet spas and boutiques hawking crystal-studded dog collars. The biggest emerging trend of all? That would be giving dead pets the star treatment.
Read more...Robert Cowley, 2nd Baron Ardwhallan: an Unauthorized Web Biography (II)
By Richard Smith, spelunker of the Web. We started Robert Cowley’s web bio here and this is the second installment. We will be in Mayfair, London, or on the Gold Coast of Australia, and the story involves a dead Daily Mail journalist, a great racing driver, and a bad racing driver: a very bad one, […]
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