Showing posts with label best banks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label best banks. Show all posts

Friday, July 10, 2015

IT'S STARTED...

>>> The first countries to ban Islam: See how the world is
>> acting fast on the threat posed by Islam.
>>>
>>> Cuba rejects plans for
>> first mosque.
>>>
>>> The African nation of Angola has officially become
>> the first country to ban Islam.
>>>
>>> Record number of Muslims
>> deported from Norway at last as a way of fighting crime.
>>>
>>> Japan is
>> the only nation that does not give citizenship to Muslims.
>>>
>>> In
>> Germany alone in the last year there were 81 attacks targeting
>> mosques.
>>>
>>> Austrian police arrested 13 men targeting suspected
>> jihad recruiters.
>>>
>>> A Chinese court sends 22 Muslim Imams to jail
>> for 5 to 16 years for Spreading hatred.
>>> China has executed eight
>> Jihadists; China campaigns against Separatism (ie disallowing
>> islamists to have their own separate state). Muslim prayers banned in
>> government buildings and schools in Xinjiang (Western China).
>>
>>> British
>> Home Secretary prepares to introduce 'Anti-social Behavior Order' for
>> extremists and strip dual nationals of their
>>> Citizenship.
>>>
>> Czech Republic doesn't want Islam in their country.
>>>
>>> Alabama - A
>> new controversial amendment that will ban the recognition of "foreign
>> laws which would include sharia law".
>>>
>>> The Polish Defense League
>> issues a warning to Muslims. 16 States Have All Introduced
>> Legislation to Ban Shariah Law.
>>>
>>> Some Muslims in Northern Ireland
>> have announced plans to leave the Country to avoid anti-Islamic
>> violence.The announcement comes after an attack on Muslims in the
>> city of Belfast, when crazed rioters were provoked.
>>>
>>> North
>> Carolina Bans Islamic "Sharia Law" in the State.
>>>
>>> Dutch MP calls
>> for removal of all mosques in Netherlands.Member of Dutch Parliament:
>> "We want to clean Netherlands of Islam".
>>> Dutch MP Machiel De Graaf
>> spoke on behalf of the Party for Freedom when he said, "All mosques
>> in the Netherlands should be shut down. Without Islam, The Netherlands
>> would be a wonderful country."
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BANKS IN TROUBLE !!!

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July 1, 2015
Singapore


Yesterday over coffee, a friend of mine leaked the news that JP Morgan’s private banking division here in Singapore is going to start charging negative interest rates.

I almost fell out of my chair.


He’s a successful hedge fund manager and one of their best customers. So when he received the notice, he rang up his private banker and demanded to know why.

Between ridiculously low interest rates (banks are closing loans here for 0.9% or lower) and the increasing costs of compliance, “we can’t make money anymore...” was the response.


It certainly paints a clear picture of how screwed up the entire financial system is.

Compliance is a major component in this. Bankers around the world are buried up to their eyeballs in paperwork and regulations now.


They can’t make a move or approve a single transaction without first doing anti-money laundering, terrorist financing, and tax evasion due diligence.


Imagine it like this: your banker rings you up tomorrow and says, “The government of China requires us to have all of our depositors fill out this paperwork. So I need you to send this form back to me ASAP…”


You’d probably think it was a joke.



Or at a minimum think, “Wait, what? I’m not Chinese. You’re not a Chinese bank. Who cares about some stupid Chinese regulation?”



And you’d be right.



Except that’s precisely what the United States is doing right now.



All over the world, bankers are contacting their customers and forcing them to fill out paperwork to comply with idiotic US government regulations. Even when there’s no connection to the US.


Here in Singapore, the bankers are completely miserable about it.



They’re so angry for having to call customers and say, “Yes I know you’re in India, and I know we’re in Singapore, and I know you’ve been a customer for 10 years. But you still have to fill out this US government form or else we’ll close your account.”



It’s ridiculous-- all of this because the US government is bankrupt.



A few years ago they passed the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA)-- a major part of their crusade to stamp out tax evasion and bring in more tax revenue.

FATCA is now in full force. Banks all over the world have been forced to enter into information sharing agreements with the IRS, meaning that they have to report on all of their customers and force them to fill out meaningless forms.



Needless to say, this costs a lot of money.



If you own a business, you can just imagine how frustrating and expensive it would be to have your employees toil away on senseless paperwork instead of... you know, doing real business.



The US government tells us that all of these disclosure programs have brought in about $6.5 billion in tax revenue.



Yet the costs of compliance are estimated to cost at least $8 billion, with some estimates over 10x higher.



Now that’s a neat trick. Uncle Sam gets the money and passes off the costs to everyone else.



And those who don’t comply with America’s rules are destroyed.



The most blatant example of this was last year, when a French bank was fined $9 billion for doing business with countries that Uncle Sam didn’t like.



Bear in mind, this was a French bank, not an American bank.



They violated no French laws. Yet they had to pay the US government $9 billion for doing business with places like Cuba.



(Ironically, Cuba is now BFFs with the United States, but it’s not like the bank is going to get a refund.)



More recently, the US government destroyed an Andorran bank that was accused of weak anti-money laundering controls.



And a few years ago they took down the oldest private bank in Switzerland.

Every bank in the world has seen these incidents, and they’re scared. They could be next.



And that’s why you can’t get a single financial transaction done anymore without first submitting a mountain of paperwork to prove that you’re not a terrorist. Or financing terrorists. Or laundering money. Or doing business with the Axis of Evil.



Even outside of banking it has become utterly ridiculous.



A friend of mine here runs one of the largest bullion depositories in Singapore; he wanted to buy some raw gold and have it made into bars, so he contacted a refiner.



The refiner said, “Sure no problem. I just need you to send us some compliance documentation before we get started.”



Then he sent a list of no fewer than 22 items that he needed to submit-- copies of licenses, passports, certificates, etc.



22 items. Just to have a refiner make some gold bars. Ridiculous.



So obviously they’re not going to waste their time. Which means there’s some business that could have been done, but won’t, simply because of the compliance costs.



The US government has really screwed the world on this. Paperwork is the priority. Not business.



And all because America is bankrupt.



This trip to Singapore has been very eye-opening for me as I’m just now starting to understand how much people within the financial system despise the US government.



They feel like they’re being forced at gunpoint to be volunteer spies and tax collectors, simply because US politicians have been financially irresponsible.



And to me, it’s the biggest sign yet that America’s financial dominance is coming to an end. They’ve essentially engineered it themselves by alienating the whole world.



The transition isn’t going to be smooth. And it won’t happen overnight. But there will come a time, and likely soon, when the United States gets displaced.



And the rest of the world can hardly wait.


Until tomorrow, 
Signature 
Simon Black 
Founder, SovereignMan.com
 
 
"Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made 
and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings."


                                                                                             - Nelson Mandela 
 

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Friday, May 8, 2015

GREAT TRUTHS

1. In my many years I have come to a
   conclusion that one useless man

    is a shame, two is a law firm,
    and three or more is a congress.
    -- John Adams
 
2. If you don't read the newspaper
    you are uninformed, if you do
    read the newspaper you are
    misinformed. -- Mark Twain
 
3. Suppose you were an idiot. And
    suppose you were a member of
    Congress. But then I repeat
    myself. -- Mark Twain
 
4. I contend that for a nation to try to
    tax itself into prosperity is like a
    man standing in a bucket and
    trying to lift himself up by the
    handle. --Winston Churchill
 
5. A government which robs Peter to
    pay Paul can always depend on
    the support of Paul. -- George
    Bernard Shaw
 
6. A liberal is someone who feels a
    great debt to his fellow man,
    which debt he proposes to pay off
    with your money. -- G. Gordon
    Liddy
 
7. Democracy must be something
    more than two wolves and a sheep
    voting on what to have for
    dinner. --James BovardCivil
    Libertarian (1994)
 
8. Foreign aid might be defined as a
    transfer of money from poor
    people in rich countries to rich
    people in poor countries.
    -- Douglas Case,
    Classmate of Bill Clinton at Georgetown University.
 
9. Giving money and power to
    government is like giving whiskey
    and car keys to teenage boys.
    -- P.J. O'RourkeCivil Libertarian
 
10. Government is the great fiction,
      through which everybody
      endeavors to live at the expense
      of everybody else. -- Frederic
      Bastiat French economist(1801-1850)
 
11. Government's view of the
      economy could be summed up
      in a few short phrases: If it
      moves, tax it.  If it keeps
      moving, regulate it. And if it
      stops moving, subsidize it.
      --Ronald Reagan (1986)
 
12. I don't make jokes. I just watch
      the government and report the
      facts. -- Will Rogers
 
13. If you think health care is
      expensive now, wait until you
      see what it costs when it's free!
      -- P. J. O'Rourke
 
14. In general, the art of government
      consists of taking as much
      money as possible from one
      party of the citizens to give to
      the other. --Voltaire (1764)
 
15. Just because you do not take an
      interest in politics doesn't mean
      politics won't take an interest
      in you! -- Pericles (430 B.C.)
 
16. No man's life, liberty, or
      property is safe while the
      legislature is in session.
      -- Mark Twain (1866)
 
17. Talk is cheap, except when
      Congress does it. -- Anonymous
 
18. The government is like a baby's
      alimentary canal, with a happy
      appetite at one end and no
      responsibility at the other.
      -- Ronald Reagan
 
19. The inherent vice of capitalism is
      the unequal sharing of the
      blessings. The inherent blessing
      of socialism is the equal sharing
      of misery. -- Winston Churchill
 
20. The only difference between a
      tax man and a taxidermist is that
      the taxidermist leaves the skin.
      -- Mark Twain
 
21. The ultimate result of shielding
      men from the effects of folly is
      to fill the world with fools.
      -- Herbert Spencer, English
           Philosopher (1820-1903)

 
22. There is no distinctly Native
      American criminal class, save
      Congress. -- Mark Twain
 
23. What this country needs are
      more unemployed politicians
      --Edward Langley,
           Artist (1928-1995)

 
24. A government big enough to give
      you everything you want, is
      strong enough to take everything
      you have.  -- Thomas Jefferson
 
25. We hang the petty thieves and
      appoint the great ones to public
     office. -- Aesop 

 
26.   A sinking lifeboat, with no help in sight and filled with politicians, lawyers and realtors, could be adequately described as A BLOODY GOOD START.
...........Jim Jervis            
 
FIVE BEST SENTENCES
 
1. You cannot legislate the poor into
    prosperity, by legislating the
    wealthy out of prosperity.
 
2. What one person receives without
    working for, another person must
    work for without receiving.
 
3. The government cannot give to
    anybody anything that the
    government does not first take
    from somebody else.
 
4. You cannot multiply wealth by
    dividing it.
 
5. When half of the people get the
    idea that they do not have to
    work, because the other half is
    going to take care of them, and
    when the other half gets the idea
    that it does no good to work
    because somebody else is going to
    get what they work for, that is the
    beginning of the end of any nation!
 
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Saturday, April 25, 2015

SOME OF THE BOOKS I WROTE:



Alaska Frontier Nurse

Autobiography of Lois Kroll, Henry's mother
While working for the Frontier Nursing Service in Kentucky and as Public Health Nurse in Alaska, Lois delivered more than 200 babies.
Lois first came to Alaska in 1937 after answering a small newspaper ad requesting a Public Health Nurse in Seldovia, Alaska. She applied for the position and to her surprise was accepted. When the Alaska Steamship Company ship, Aleutian arrived in Seldovia she remarked in her diary, "I met the outgoing nurse and inherited her cat and the boyfriend."
Upon arriving in Seldovia, Lois discovered that the landscape was dotted with outhouses. The people had no running water and were drinking polluted well water. Influenza, colds, and dysentery ran rapidly through the population. She immediately petitioned the Town Council to raise money for a pipeline and organized a group of men to install the water line from a makeshift dam at Fish Creek. Her job consisted of inoculating the population against typhoid, diphtheria, and smallpox and generally improve the living conditions and health of the people. Her territory was Seldovia, Homer, Kenai, Anchor Point, Port Graham and English Bay. The city of Soldotna didn't exist yet.
Having babies is a life and death matter. The stress of this occupation can wear heavy on a person after a few years. Here in her own words is her story titled, Frontier Living written for the Seattle, Ballard Senior Center 1990.
Send Check or Money Order to:
Henry Kroll
513 Peninsula Avenue
KenaiAlaska   99611
Phone: (907) 740-0386
Author - Lois Kroll
Published 2014
85 pages with illustrations
$20 Paperback + $5 postage



Mad Trapper of Alaska

Legendary pioneer and bush pilot.
This is the story of Henry Kroll I, who ran away from home at age eight and was raised by the Nez Perce Indians, learning their language and culture. He later became a circus strongman, chopper pilot, commercial fisherman, and deputy US Marshall. Henry was a constant source of invention and excelled at everything he did. He was fluent in seven languages. As a musician, he played every instrument. Every day was an adventure. From trapping live wolverines to defending himself from a bear with an axe, there was nothing he couldn't do. Read about the adventures of this fascinating man.
Send Check or Money Order to:
Henry Kroll
513 Peninsula Avenue
KenaiAlaska   99611
Phone: (907) 740-0386
Factual accounts by various authors, Henry Kroll
Published 2014
100 pages, well-illustrated
$20 Paperback + $5 postage



Die with the Most Toys: Stuff you didn't learn in school

A Self-Help Guide
This amazing self-help guide provides the reader with an abundance of sensible, hands-on, and usable information. The author has put together IRS regulations, and tax tips for the financially affluent, proven business ventures for the middle class, and tips on how to get ahead, for the less affluent. This book contains powerful information on how to shop for second-hand furniture, appliances, bargain food, and other household items, as well as suggestions for reducing the cost of utilities. Very enlightening!
Author - Henry Kroll
Published 2008
107 pages, well-illustrated
$15.99 Paperback - ISBN: 1436300746 and ISBN-13: 9781436300742
$24.99 Hardback - ISBN: 1436300754 and ISBN-13: 9781436300759
eBooks available at Barnes and Noble Amazon.com Xlibris.com

Cosmological Ice Ages

Light years ahead of our present level of science the Authors, Brad Guth and Henry Kroll plotted our sun's course from Orion to Hercules to discover that we are in a 105,000-year elliptical orbit around a white dwarf star. At our closest point of one-tenth light year this star doubles the incoming invisible, ultraviolet light striking Earth creating the many layers of coal, oil and limestone laid down between ice ages. These are carbon-based, resources taken out of our atmosphere by plant growth using an invisible ultraviolet light from space. The same process that made the gypsum sheet rock on the wall of your house also made the oxygen you are currently breathing. You can't drive a car without a neutron star!
Send Check or Money Order to:
Henry Kroll Phone: (907) 740-0386
Author - Henry Kroll
Published 2006
387 pages with illustrations
$31.35 Large Paperback ISBN-10: 1425170625 and ISBN-13: 978-1425170622
eBooks available at Barnes and Noble Amazon.com Trafford.com

Cosmological Ice Ages Book Two

Ice ages can come on in as little as ten to twenty years and last over 90,000 years. Most arable land is covered with mile-high sheets of ice. People can't grow food and have to move south or starve to death and freeze. We have less than fifteen-thousand, years between ages to develop technology to get off the planet to live in space, colonize other worlds, leave a record of our existence and we are screwing it up again. It is crucial for humanity to do this. Once humanity becomes conscious of these facts then it will eliminates religious wars, and corporate monopolies that lock up resources for world domination. Most of the world's population now lives in a religious manifestation of reality that must be brought back to reality in order to inherit the stars. This book is about raising consciousness for survival. To quote Dr. Steven Greer: "The inner development of consciousness eventually overtakes technology, simply because it must in order for the species to survive..."
Send Check or Money Order to:
Henry Kroll
513 Peninsula Avenue
KenaiAlaska   99611
Phone: (907) 740-0386
Author - Henry Kroll
Published 2006


Philosopher's Stone: Immortality Discovered

Inside We Reveal the Substance Within the Ark of the Covenant!
This book is about an alien science so advanced that it is indistinguishable from magic and it may be the greatest discovery of the human race since fire. This technology has been locked up by secret societies for personal gain. Now for the first time in three thousand years it is available to you. This book contains 4 recipes to make manna in your kitchen!
Send Check or Money Order to:
Henry Kroll Phone: (907) 740-0386
Author - Henry Kroll
Published 2004
208 pages
$16.95 Paperback - ISBN: 1932672230
$24.95 Hardcover - ISBN: 1932672249
Click Here or call (877) BUY-BOOK
eBooks available at Barnes and Noble Amazon.com

The Frog Is Cooked: Why you have to work two jobs to make ends meet

A Constitutional Petition for Redress of Grievance
Includes the report from Iron Mountain, Mad Cow, HAARP, Echelon, Taking back your Constitutional rights, Suing the Government and much more.
Author - Henry Kroll
Published 2003
204 pages
$16.95 Paperback - ISBN-13: 9781425796907
eBooks available at Barnes and Noble Amazon.com Xlibris.com

Home of the Angels

NASA's Tether Experiment
This book is about NASA's long wire tether experiment. NASA astronauts filmed the experiment from the space shuttle Columbia with a hand-held video camera that contained a wide spectrum chip enabling the camera to pick up high ultraviolet images that ordinarily would be invisible to the human eye. The long wire tether satellite contained a reel with a 12-mile-lorig cable and instruments to measure voltage in the upper atmosphere. The satellite measured a voltage ranging from 12 to 14 million volts. While the astronauts were filming the experiment from a distance of fifty miles a sudden surge of over three million volts burnt the cable in half. After NASA retrieved the satellite switches were thrown and a CO2 tank valve had been opened.
Author - Henry Kroll
Published 2003
174 pages
$16.95 Paperback - ISBN-13: 9781467850094
eBooks available at Barnes and Noble Amazon.com Buy.com

Sand Pirates

Foreign Affairs, Middle East History, and Contemporary Politics
An informative book of little known facts concerning U.S. involvement in the Middle East. The author examines the "follow the money" international foreign policy of the United States and its allies. This chronological account presents a concise overview of government misinformation to further an agenda of world domination through problem, reaction, solution, scenario. The author believes it is your civic duty to question government on all levels. To do otherwise is to forfeit your constitutional rights.
Author - Henry Kroll
Published 2003
76 pages
$15.99 Paperback - ISBN: 1-4257-9691-5 and ISBN13: 978-1-4257-9691-4
eBooks available at Barnes and Noble Amazon.com Xlibris.com

Space Ships of the Gods

UFO and Extraterrestrial Handbook
This is a wonderful collection of documented UFO, and extraterrestrial activity, formatted in one comprehensive volume. The author takes you into the secretive world of the World War II era, German Third Reich space vehicle, rocket, and ballistic missile programs. He also narrates the post war catch-up space programs of the United States and Russia. Some of the this stuff has been around for awhile, but much of the new information will make your hair stand on end! The thorough, and detailed accounts of the 1999 Russian archeology find of ancient glass and porcelain coated Dolomite relief map segments, is reason enough to read this book.
Send Check or Money Order to:
Henry Kroll
513 Peninsula Avenue
KenaiAlaska   99611
Phone: (907) 740-0386
Author - Henry Kroll
Published 2002
180 pages
$16.95 Paperback


Gold of the Gods

A 30 Year Search for the Philosopher Stone
Carried in the Ark of the Covenant this Anti-Gravity Superconductor was used by God's Angels to create man. Later it was used by the priests to talk to God. The gifts that go with the Manna are perfect telepathy. You will know good and evil when it is in the room with you. You can project your thoughts, levitate, walk on water, and live forever. This is an intriguing manuscript, which examines ancient Egyptian historical events, ancient Hebrew history, the artifacts, and the Israelite Ark of the Covenant, life extension, levitation. and many other ancient secrets of life. The author's research is a very comprehensive integrated study of ancient history, theological legends, and their relation to paranormal phenomena. Part adventure story, part legend, and part wilderness novel, the information compiled in this work is so richly evocative it defies definition.
Author - Henry Kroll
Published 2003
219 pages
$19.95 Paperback - ISBN: 1412004691
eBooks available at Xlibris.com Barnes & Noble

Tuesday, April 7, 2015

Democrats...

My Mommy The  Dancer.
  
One day a  fourth-grade teacher asked the children what their mothers did for a  living.
All the  typical answers came up -- teacher, nurse, businesswoman, saleswoman, doctor,  lawyer, and so forth.
However,  little Johnny was being uncharacteristically quiet, so when the  teacher  
prodded him about his mother, he replied, "Well  my mother's an exotic dancer in a cabaret and takes off all her clothes in front  of men and they put money in her under-wear. Sometimes, if the offer is really  good, she will go home with some guy and stay with him all night for  money."
The teacher,  obviously shaken by this statement, hurriedly set the other children to work on  some exercises and then took little Johnny aside to ask him, "Is that really  true about your mother?"
No," the boy  said, "She works for the Democratic National Committee and is helping to get  Hillary Clinton to be our next President, but I was too embarrassed to say that  in front of the other kids."