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Strong rec marcusjt · 2019-10 · on “The Isle of Man is not in the UK”

This is an incredible documentary about British tax havens and the influence of the City of London in the running of UK government & foreign policy [this video]

Strong rec arminiusreturns · 2019-11 · on “Hacker Publishes 2TB of Data from Cayman National Bank”

For those interested in this subject, I can't recommend the documentary "The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire" [1] highly enough. The guy who behind it not only did an excellent job, but did it for a tiny fraction of what a bigger studio would have spent for a much more inferior end result. [1] [this video]

Strong rec arminiusreturns · 2020-09 · on “How to Hide a Billion Dollars: Three Techniques the Ultrarich Use to Dodge Ex-Sp”

If are interested in this topic and you haven't seen the independent documentary "The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire", you owe it to yourself. It's a superbly done documentary on a budget of ~4k£. [this video]

Strong rec arminiusreturns · 2024-07 · on “Pharma firms stash profits in Europe's tax havens”

Anybody who is interested in this topic really needs to go see this awesome documentary: The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire | The Secret World of Finance [this video] It was even done on a 4klb budget!!! The reality is that the brits realized they could no longer maintain hard power and Lionel Curtis was the primary pusher of the psyop transition to "commonwealth" soft power while maintaining all the real vestiges of empire under a false name.

Recommends patrickk · 2019-09 · on “Review of Moneyland by Oliver Bullough (2018)”

If this is a topic of interest, I can recommend this independently created documentary 'The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire'. It's the story of how Britain's elite created a financial web spanning the globe, replacing the old empire with a new financial one, running from the Commonwealth countries back to London. That's why so many overseas British territories are associated with money laundering and tax evasion. Free to watch on YouTube: [this video]

Recommends zaro · 2019-11 · on “Hacker Publishes 2TB of Data from Cayman National Bank”

> Although I will always be curious why countries are letting those small, insignificant islands and countries manage all this wealth This is easy, after all hiding cash is needed by everybody. And when it comes to finance , there are no countries only financial interest. Of course nothing bad will happen to these financial heavens, because they are protected by the richest and most powerful people and organisations. "The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire"[1] gives a good overview of how this started. [1] [this video]

Recommends atweiden · 2021-03 · on “Ask HN: NFTs legit or mania?”

Kind of off-topic, but there's an excellent documentary called The Spider’s Web [1] that explores how society reached this point of valuing increasingly ridiculous displays of paper wealth and the financialization of everything through the lens of British offshore wealth secrecy schemes. [1]: [this video]

Recommends olivermarks · 2022-06 · on “Low economic growth is a slow-burning crisis for Britain”

The challenge for the UK is that the flywheel of the City of London corporation and its offshore wormholes were at the core of globalization. Ironically the nation state the CoL coexists with (the UK) is as large a casualty of this as the many colonial nation states ravaged by globalization. This was compounded by the globalists - which the Economist exists to promote - forcing the merger of the UK into the european union. The vote to leave by the proletariat demonstrated massive dissatisfaction, but sadly there are subsequently no credible political parties or leadership that are not closely aligned with the CoL and/or the EU, resulting in a becalming. The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Emp