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Not exactly true: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/officials-in-switzerland-push-back-at-biden-tax-haven-barb/ar-BB1gdz4E And previously: https://www.justice.gov/tax/swiss-bank-program and for corporate taxes: https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/explainer-what-is-a-global-minimum-tax-and-how-could-it-affect-companies-countries-2021-04

https://www.accounting-degree.org/accounting-tricks/ Actually, the tricks have near zero to do with accounting. The accounting treatment follows the action taken. The methods described do not dodge, ie evade, taxes per se (save for one), as they will defer taxes. True, if a deferral is permanent, it is effectively an avoidance. The only avoidance scheme is the use of off-shore corps, if the taxed person can structure this to avoid being taxed at home base on world-wide income. Taxes are a sinister means to transfer wealth. The US is a plutocracy, and thus the taxation game is to ensure the masses are taxed, but the plutocrats are not. No plutocrat anywhere will accept laws that truly tax all people fairly. Thus we see the plutocrats enticing the poor to join the military as a tool to invade other countries to steal the wealth for and on behalf of the plutocrats. We do not see the US targeting the tax haven countries for the cash wealth kept there. gee, I wonder why? If citizens want fair taxation, then the favourable tools must be eliminated. Those tools are primarily the legal concept that a non-person can be a person in law. Thus, corporations are considered legal persons. Take away the corporation, trust, and other non-persons. and the result will be all wealth and income goes to individuals and thus can be taxed fairly, ie not dodged.

I'm pretty sure vaccine passports, in some form or another, will become the norm for international travel, to visit companies on business, government meetings, etc. Possibly to be allowed to attend state universities and very likely colleges. More than likely, for travel, it will be automatic and your data will be stored and readable from your regular passport's chip, where they could record your temperature upon arrival/departure and any vaccines you've had at any point along the way. It'll get lax and then it'll get strict, rinse and repeat as more panic comes and goes.

Now THAT'S a good one!

Yeah, the 5G theory is just too whacky. Maybe if we all had chips under our skin I might buy that they had some influence on humans? But not a virus. But I could be wrong.....Who the heck knows anymore.

Japan and China both experienced horrible power outages during this past winter, even though they state their "clean energy goals" : 1) China is not slowing down on fossil fuels of any kind, building more new coal plants as well as oil fired plants, they are shutting down old inefficient ones to build new fossil fuel plants. They use it as a propaganda to the rest of the world, we are retiring coal and oil power plants (yet keep building new ones). 2) Japan is building more gas fired power plants and also building newer/replacing oil boilers for oil fired power plants and limiting their emissions for sulphur to 0.1%

Boat - look and your post post, sit down and think.. how much difference would these batteries collectively make at all to the grids they are on? The answer is almost none. As I pointed out they have some balancing and frequency management use, because the grid has been messed up by the use of renewables. As for the rest of your post you've simply made up facts, or confused them. Wind and solar haven't broken even on costs .. what I think you mean is you think they reached some sort of parity in costs with conventional power sources.. they might have on a levelised cost basis (look it up) but not on grids. The problem of using renewables on grids are as bad as they ever were. As for the SA battery if you think its broken even on routine operations you must be psychic. I have yet to see independent figures on it. That said, it made some money last year when South Australia was isolated from the rest of the country and there were too few conventional plants, thanks to all the investment in renewables, to offer stuff like frequency management services (look it up). It was built with government money and the extension was also involved a lot of government grants. I urge you to let some of the air out of your balloon and come back to earth.