Switzerland flags 'safe passage' for Edward Snowden to spying inquiry
Former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden could be granted safe passage in Switzerland if he helped a potential criminal inquiry into US spying there, the Swiss public prosecutor's office said. He would probably not be extradited to the United States ...
Mindblowing: What: Ikea Files Taxes As A Non-Profit Company
Image via Getty Harboring overseas operations to evade high corporate tax rates is a surprisingly widespread practice, but Ikea plays on a whole different level of tax evasion. According to Fast Company, the world's largest furniture retailer files taxes as a non-profit organization. Ikea pulls in a ...
Introducing The Habring2 Felix, Celebrating 10 Years Of Business With An In-House Movement (Live Pics & Pricing)
Ten years ago, Richard and Maria Habring first presented their Habring² brand to the public with a simple three-hander called the “Time-Only.” Since then, the Austria-based couple have built a robust collection of both simple and complicated watches, including the GPHG award winning Jumping Second P ...
OECD unveils new global plans to crack down on corporate tax dodgers
LONDON — Plans for a major rewriting of international tax rules unveiled on Tuesday could eliminate structures that have allowed companies like Google Inc and Amazon.com Inc to shave billions of dollars off their tax bills. The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) announced ...
Benefit Concert for the Library Music Committee
The Columbia Chamber Players will perform a benefit concert to raise funds for the maintenance of the Library’s donated Mason & Hamlin piano. Karen Bogardus, flute, Ellen Katz Willner, oboe, and Wenhan Anderson, piano, will play trios by Mathias, Dring, and Jacobs, and Gaubert’s Nocturne and Allegro ...
Bankers prep credit markets for mega deal
One year after pulling off the largest bond offering ever, Wall Street debt underwriters are pitching their clients on the possibility of something even bigger. With investors clamoring for higher-yielding assets and companies on the biggest acquisition spree since 2007, bankers are talking up the a ...
Human Rights NGOs, Including the UN, Refuse to Adopt Anti-Bias Standards
The United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. There has been a long history of international standards on fact-finding missions dating back to at least 1907. While nearly all of the standards pay lip service to the idea of impartiality, only recent attempt ...
16/9/2014: More of a Risk, Less of a Bubble: Irish Property Prices in Q1 2014
An interesting BIS paper on House Prices data across a number of advanced economies (http://www.bis.org/publ/qtrpdf/r_qt1409h.htm). A key chart: Data is through Q1 2014 and is based on the aggregate of 8 data sets for Ireland. It is worth noting that data is for Ireland overall, not Dublin. In the n ...
Upcoming: HIGH STRANGENESS PHENOMENA: Individual Interlinking Strands of Ectoplasm Provided by Two Mediums - by O. Gross, Chairman 'Experimental Circle Thun', Switzerland
Olivier Gross is a Suisse medium with many years experience. Besides a highly responsible profession he founded Paramatma Thun together with his wife Daniela who plays a significant role in the mediumistic activities around them. Like the renowned couple 'the Bennets', that were once causing the fam ...
Piss-gate! Fans urinate into a drinking bottle of a rival Swiss goalie, he drinks it TWICE
An incredibly disgusting story has come out of the lower leagues in Switzerland over the weekend in a prank that could well result in criminal charges. Down in the fourth tier of Swiss football, last Saturday saw a local battle between FC Baden and Muri FC, which the Muri goalie, Reto Felder, came o ...
Lucky Cat Survives 70 MPH Car Crash in Switzerland
As if being able to survive being dropped from a building wasn't enough, cats are apparently able to withstand high-speed car crashes that would kill us furless bipeds. This lucky cat that's been nicknamed Quasimodo recently survived being hit by a Peugeot on a highway in Switzerland. Cue the "nine ...
