Media and Blog Articles Open for Comments – Part 3 of 11 (Year 2016)
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Media and Blog Articles
EmBee suggested that it would be good if there was a thread for new articles, so that people would be aware of where to comment. So, I created this permanent page. You could mention such articles in the comment stream for this page, or if I see one on another thread, I can copy the link to here. I’ll keep adding to the list, but not deleting, so we’ll end up having sort of a “bibliography” of FATCA/CBT articles. [Note: Some articles are not open for comments]
For more articles on FATCA, enter FATCA into Google then click on the link “more news for fatca” just below the most recent featured article.
Note also: JC suggests to see #FATCA on Twitter for latest breaking news. JC finds that is quite a good source and there even are some international articles that one may read using Google Translate.” Others may help certain tweets and articles remain in elevated position by retweeting them.
Be sure to read the comment stream for this thread — there are usually very recent articles mentioned there that aren’t on this list yet.
2016.12.29
Switzerland moves further to end bank secrecy, Financial Times, UK.
2016.12.23
How FATCA Infringes and Trammels our Statehood, Stephen Kangal, Trinidad and Tobago News, Trinidad and Tobago.
Barclay’s chief preparing to take a stand against US regulators over unduly high fines to European banks, James Quinn, The Telegraph, UK.
2016.12.22
Canada refuses to name bank that broke money laundering rules 1225 timtes, Mike De Souze, Robert Cribb & Marco Oved, National Observer.
Financial Intelligence agency gave bankers head up about money laundering disclosure, Mike De Souza, Robert Cribb & Marco Oved, National Observer.
2016.12.21
US citizens may pay double tax on Kahlon’s child savings program, Michael Zeff, Jerusalem Post, Israel.
Applying to be Swiss in the Trump Era, Steve Krump, SwissInfo, Switzerland.
2016.12.20
File That Tax, Boom Chicago, YouTube, Netherlands.
Tijuana City Councilman Faces US Money Laundering Charges, Sandra Dibble and Dana Littlefield, San Diego Union, US.
2016.12.19
Senate Report Finds IRS Agents Living Large on Public’s Dime, Guillermo Jiminez, Tax Revolution Institute, US.
AG to UNC: Come to Parliament first – a Joint Select Committee to deal with FATCA . . ., Ria Taitt, Daily Express, Trinidad.
Rand Paul criticizes framework of tax reform plan, Naomi Jagoda, The Hill, US.
Articles from earlier 2016 are at this link
Articles from 2015 are at this link
Articles from 2014 are at this link
Media and Blog Articles thread, Part 1 of 3, is at this link.
Media and Blog Articles thread, Part 2 of 3 is at this link.
@Whitecat. I really don’t know. I’m new to this commenting thing. Your two comments accepted are good though.
Cheryl, its not about whether or not the two comments they alllowed out of the half dozen or so I posted (mostly to refute inaccurate comments) are good. What is disturbing is my hunch that CBC moderators are purposely ‘disabling content’ in order to help the government hide the truth – the disgusting traitory that the FATCA IGA is, and that no Canadians can be really free if the government of the day (starting with the Conservatives) can do what is systematically being done to a subset of innocent Canadian citizens, while at the same time promoting the popular but uninformed image of us as ‘Americans abiding in Canada’. I would not be surprised at all if the CBC mods are under directive to make the comments look a little more. shall we say, ‘balanced.’ But then, I started commenting on FATCA articles a long time, so maybe I am paranoid and jaded.
@ WhiteKat
CBC tends to hold comments for a few hours and then releases them. I don’t see anything newer there than 2 hours ago. I sometimes wonder if the mod(s) just go home at quitting time too. Anyway, mine (in moderation) was posted within the last hour and I don’t expect to see it for awhile (or maybe not at all since it was snarky).
WhiteCat. I get you. I still have one in moderation and the latest one was accepted straight up. I see 3 from you do I guess three weren’t accepted.
WhiteCat. Try again. They just let me put a second comment in with no moderation!!
Embee, the comment I copied above went from status IN MODERATION several hours ago to status CONTENT DISABLED now, which sounds like it isn’t going to be getting out of moderation.
Another good way to limit viewing of an excessive number of truthful comments to an article that shines a bright light on an exceedingly unethical action by a government, which might upset the masses (should they discern the truth) is to wait a long time to moderate comments, or to move the article to a less viewed page.
Sorry WhiteCat, I guess it took them a bit to moderate it. They’re both in moderation. Can’t see much point to deal with others comments if they don’t show up for 2 hours.
Cheryl, sure yes, they do accept comments, just not ALL the comments.
@ WhiteKat
I agree that this type of moderation appears to be suspiciously subversive.
@Embee, LOL. Thank God! I knew it wasn’t just me.
Just looked back and I see a lot of comments for the ‘other side.’ The usual drivel. I’ve refuted several….doubt I will see my comments just like I still don’t see the others still after 4+ hours now. Mods seem to be doing a good job of keeping the debate looking ‘balanced’. Hope I am proved wrong later.
I’d take Dean on, but since most of my comments are either in moderation or diabled I won’t bother. In response to one of my comments that did get posted, to balance things out Dean says:
“@WhiteKat
Individuals are responsible for paying their taxes…if a person is an American citizen, where that person lives is of no consequence, they HAVE TO PAY THEIR TAXES….it’s no problem to help the Yanks out, they’ll reciprocate and each country will have fewer tax cheats….win/win IMO. “
Am really identifying with my avatar today, “Despite all my rage. I am still just a rat in a cage.”
Cheryl, eds111 writes this in response to your comment:
“@ I’m Canadian The reporting is on US citizens only although some of them may have dual Canadian citizenship. If you want to hold US citizenship then that’s too bad for you when the US tax collector comes knocking at your door. “
Whitecat, I missed that. Not much point in responding if it takes 2-4 hrs to get posted. I will though.
What the Hell is up with CBC?
Every single one of my comments are moderated and only a FEW, very FEW have gotten in. Two were “content disabled”, whatever THAT means. I have never, ever seen such a disaster and rediculous control of commenting. CBC MUST be taken to task for this colossal mess. (I also had a few comments that were in moderation and now they are totally gone, didn’t even deserve the status of “content disabled”). Damn, this just isn’t right. Nothing any of us ever says deserves this level of censorship!
I am very curious as to their criteria for allowing comments to clear moderation. Their guidelines state: “As for external web addresses, we allow no more than three links per post”. (I thought that was the reason for my first “content disabled”, a link to the Jatras video but links are allowed). Maybe it is: “Threats or suggesting committing a criminal act”. Maybe they view disagreeing with CBT/FATCA the committing of a criminal act? None of it makes one drop of sense. It is beyond frustrating and simply wrong.
Sigh. How come in this US presidential campaign, the candidates seem to drop out in order of how favourable they are to expats? First Rand Paul, then Marco Rubio. Well, there’s still Ted Cruz. Sorta.
He calls for a Simple Flat Tax (does that mean RBT? He won’t say) and eliminating the IRS (yes!!!)
https://www.tedcruz.org/five-for-freedom/
On the other hand, he’s ready to revoke passports far beyond what the IRS is already authorized to do.
http://reason.com/archives/2016/02/23/ted-cruzs-assault-on-the-citizenship-rig
Then I look at Hillary Clinton and think how likely she’ll become president, and will be like Obama on steroids (or estrogen supplements) in persecuting the traitorous diaspora (except her rich banker friends, of course).
I’m depressed today.
@Charl- I find the same. All the tax cheat comments get through. Here is a very simple one of mine in moderation:
In response to:
I’m Canadian
@cb4cbc The problem here is these are mostly >1million Canadian citizens, living in Canada, working in Canada whose detailed Canadian accounts are being reported to the U.S. The U.S. Has no right to this information.
This comment is awaiting moderation by the site administrators.
@I’m Canadian Which the US government will use to double tax Canadians.
Perhaps they don’t like the word “double tax” or they have controls against multiple comments.
This comment is awaiting moderation by the site administrators.
Help end this US FATCA attempt to gain information on and double tax Canadians!
There are over 1 million Canadians who are US persons. This impacts them and their Canadian only family members. The Canadian government refuses to protect these Canadians (even the Canadian only family members) against the US extraterritorial overreach. The tax treaty was basically written by the US Treasury Department and in a number of significant instances guarantees double taxation!
Support the legal fight against FATCA. You may contribute at the website of The Alliance for The Defence of Canadian Sovereignty. And find out more at the website of The Isaac Brock Society.
If CBC had let all our well written (cause we have been at this for so damn long) comments go through,we would have crushed the less numerous, uneducated, mistaken, pro-status quo comments, making the government look really, really bad. I think it is obvious what is going on here and we should be prepared for more of the same.
@ WhiteKat
It took 4 hours for my first comment to be released from the CBC holding cell. It’s 2 hours and counting on my second comment. Meanwhile I’m liking yours and others on the right side of this issue as soon as I find them.
@Charl & WhiteKat
Did you guys keep copies of the comments you made that did not get on? Mine took more than 2 hours and they are not inflammatory at all……???????
another great article on ipolitics that mentions the first one:
http://ipolitics.ca/2016/03/16/the-canada-revenue-agency-is-rotten-to-the-core-time-to-clean-house/
My wife keeps going on about stuff in Bill Bryson’s book. I have seen him on PBS I think in the past. I don’t read books (only technical stuff) though. He is a US citizen who lives in the UK. My wife told me about how silly the UK citizenship test sounds from his latest book.
Might be worth contacting the guy to see if he would use his platform to complain about the account reporting crap. It’s possible he is oblivious.
People have said in other posts her that he is not a UK citizen but my wife told me he talks about takign the test in his latest book.
http://isaacbrocksociety.ca/2014/05/12/8-usc-%C2%A7-1185-bites-again-boris-johnson-renewed-his-u-s-passport/comment-page-1/
@Trish, I did keep at least a couple of the ones that got put into ‘content disabled’ status, which were still not showing up last I looked. Did notice however that a few more of my less angry comments finally got posted after four+ hours being in moderation.
Trish, here is one of mine that still shows as CONTENT DISABLED:
@WTF, actually, USA always did tax income made outside of its borders by those it deems ‘US persons’ (born in USA, a parent born in USA, a green card holder even if expired), but the vast majority of those so-called US taxpayers did not know they were US taxpayers on their Canadian income, as this was never enforced and never made well known by the US government.
It was not until FATCA that the world really even heard about USA’s unique, counter-intuitive, byzantine ‘citizenship based taxation’, as it is often referred to. FATCA gives USA the tool to sniff out the ‘US persons’ who are citizens and residents of other countries and to assess penalties on their made in Canadian assets because Canadians who are ‘US persons’ are required not only to file US tax returns, but to report on Foreign Bank Account Reports (FBAR) to the FINANCIAL CRIMES ENFORCEMENT NETWORK every year the details of their Canadian bank account balances. The vast majority of Canadians deemed ‘US persons’, even the minority who were in the know and were actually filing US tax returns for their Canadian income, had no clue about the Foreign Bank Account Reporting requirement. The penalties are outrageous as they were designed for resident Americans hiding untaxed, illegally earned money off shore. With FATCA, the USA will be able to match up the unreported FBARS with the bank account balances. It is a big ‘GOTTCHA!’ for the US government. Meanwhile the Liberals facilitate the thievery.
Trish, here is another one still with CONTENT DISABLED:
@FromPatriotToExpatriate
Re: “Understand that this is NOT about U.S. citizens in Canada. ”
Hear, here. I am so tired of being referred to as an ‘American living in Canada’ ever since the Canadian government decided to throw 1 million Canadians with US clinging nationality under the bus. If I had known when I was 18 years of age that being born in USA was such a curse and that I am a second class Canadian living in Canada, I would have formally ditched US citizenship decades ago. Joke was on me I guess, as I always thought I was sort of lucky that my Canadian parents were living in USA when I was born. Little did I know how my past would come back to haunt me. My crime: born in the USA and not letting the FINANCIAL CRIMES ENFORCEMENT NETWORK in USA know how much legally earned, already highly taxed money I have in my Canadian savings accounts. Oh well, I am sure that Canadian taxpayers won’t mind footing my welfare payments when USA collects on the penalties it will assess against me, after the CRA tells USA how much I have saved for my retirement.