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Baked thoughts 💭 🤨✌️ Yes, it is true that in 1719, there was a scheme in Paris where prisoners were offered freedom on the condition that they marry prostitutes and relocate to Louisiana¹[1]. This plan was part of an effort by the economist John Law to populate the French colony of Louisiana, which at the time included areas now part of Mississippi. The colony needed more settlers to exploit its resources and become profitable, so Law devised this plan to attract people who had few other options¹[1]. Those who agreed to this arrangement were shackled together until they boarded a ship for the Gulf Coast¹[1]. It's a fascinating episode from history that highlights the lengths to which colonial powers would go to populate their overseas territories. Source: Conversation with Bing, 5/1/2024 (1) When Parisian Prisoners Were Offered Freedom if they Agreed to Marry .... https://lnkd.in/g2H2x7Qv. (2) Bienville’s Brides: Virgins or Prostitutes? 1719-1721 - JSTOR. https://lnkd.in/gBMW33Qq. (3) In 1719, prisoners in Paris were offered freedom as long as they were .... https://lnkd.in/gevv6wJ2. (4) populate Louisiana prisoners had to marry prostitutes - BillLawrenceOnline. https://lnkd.in/g5Jw-TyV.
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#VantageOnFirstpost London is the World's Biggest Hub for "Dirty Money" Laundering | Vantage with Palki Sharma In a startling revelation, UK's deputy foreign secretary Andrew Mitchell has claimed that nearly 40% of the world's black money is being cleaned by London. The black money in question, according to deputy secretary Mitchell, is stolen from developing countries like Africa. This is often done by corrupt politicians, businessmen and warlords-who then use the stolen money to buy properties in some of London's wealthiest districts. Russians are among the leading buyers of luxury property in London. Since 2017, Russians have bought properties worth $500 million in Westminster alone. While rich Russians have been investing their black money in London for decades, they are not the only ones to use the UK city as their safe haven for laundering. Palki Sharma brings you a detailed report on how black money is often converted into "clean" investments in London. --- London | Money Laundering | Westminster | Luxury Property Investments | Warlords | Businessmen | Politicians | Firstpost | World News | News Live | Vantage | Palki Sharma | News #london #moneylaundering #westminster #luxuryproperties #investments #warlords #businessmen #politicians #corruption #firstpost #vantageonfirstpost #palkisharma #worldnews
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Less than half of one percent of US banks are owned by women, and Caitlin Long is one of those inspiring women. Representing Custodia Bank in its appeal has been a highlight of my time back in private practice. I am so proud of the outstanding brief our Jenner & Block team drafted, and the hard work by Maria LaBella, Emanuel Powell III, Laurel Loomis Rimon, and Ian Gershengorn. The support of seven amicus briefs by some of the most prominent lawyers in the field (including the outstanding perspective of Chris Land) makes the case that much more exciting. Whether you are interested in statutory interpretation, separation of powers, or financial services law, this case raises fascinating issues. #fintech #amicus #crypto #financialservices #appeals #womensempowerment
TORRENTIAL THANKS to the 7 who filed amicus briefs in Custodia Bank's case vs the Fed (link to them is below). I am deeply grateful! 3 ex-US Solicitors General (2 Obama, 1 Bush'45) + an ex-Solicitor General of VA are now involved in our case. 🙏 #Wyoming's Secretary of State asked a good question in his brief: https://lnkd.in/grsieTYJ
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Happy Presidents' Day! Today we celebrate all US Presidents and their many contributions towards helping make the United States "a more perfect union". #presidentsday #americanhistory #USA #happypresidentsday #federalholiday #BankofHope #memberfdic #moneymanagement #moneytalk #bankinglife #smartbanking #millennialmoney #bankingandfinance #moneyonline #wealth #smartspending
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Political parties continue their misinformation campaigns rather than honestly discussing our financial problems. The gravity of the state's perilous fiscal position, as forensically detailed by Saul Eslake in his recent report, was rather predictably matched by the dismissiveness by major parties of the recommendation to raise more revenue from our own sources. No-one has disputed Mr Eslake's analysis of the challenges ahead. Agreeing and implementing solutions is the problem … you can read my opinion piece published in The Mercury Newspaper today online, in the hard copy or on my website at the link here: 👉🏼https://lnkd.in/g4KzKz4d #finance #economy #federalstaterelations #gst #infrastructure #politas #auspol #fiscalpolicy #publicpolicy
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Easter and the freedom we believe in as Christians still comes with other rules we follow. We follow the rules because we believe the freedom is worth it. This is no different from personal and financial choices we make. What freedoms are you choosing? #personalfinance #money #life #freedom #choices #rules #financialliteracy #financialplanning
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Serial Entrepreneur | Legacy Grower/Breeder | Former Practitioner I excel at all human reconstructions of natural law. They say 💵 doesn’t grow on 🌳🌳 They planted the wrong ones! Craft quality, commercially scaled!
This is the reality the government doesn’t want you to see https://lnkd.in/gXjS_Ez9 You don’t owe ANYTHING on your labor according to established legal precedent that the IRS (a body that is NOT owned or elected by the people or congress to my knowledge) has recklessly abandoned from the high courts due to corruption. LABOR TAX IS FOR SLAVES IN OPPRESSED COUNTRIES; YOU ARE NOT A SERF. They rule through fascist fear/intimidation and I’m telling you right now. “We have nothing to fear, but fear itself.” Many men far more noble than me have tried to tell you, even have been assassinated for telling you, that the serpent was purposely put in charge of this country and the monetary system for which it stands. (Eisenhower State of The Union 1954 warned of our materialism), We are no longer and have not been since the 1800’s a nation under God. To say we are a nation under God on our dollar bills (the root of all the world’s evil is BLASPHEMOUS and spitting in the face of God who most of us individually serve) is LUDICROUS. Jimmy Carter and Woodrow Wilson committed high treason by surpassing congress and by enacting the removal of our money from the people’s pockets and acquired gold (gold standard) to a meaningless, worthless piece of globalist paper for which they force upon our Great Nation a MASSIVE labor tax that SOLELY covers our national interest debt. Ever wonder why it keeps ticking up up up, no matter what we do? Because it’s just like when you go to the bank and get a loan for your home and the interest rate just keeps ballooning if you weren’t careful with your terms. Well the people who subjected us to this loan with these banks, didn’t care about the fine print because they profited INDIVIDUALLY for their cooperation. This was the greatest act of treason our nation has ever encountered. We owe these blood suckers NOTHING. We must DEMAND our money be restored to its former glory and all ties severed from globalist bankers IMMEDIATELY! To my fellow cannabis farmers, read these words of Eisenhower and tell me if you can say we still have an honest government when we pay greater than 50% tax from state and local overtaxation on our product, “"The proper role of government, however, is that of partner with the farmer -- never his master. By every possible means we must develop and promote that partnership -- to the end that agriculture may continue to be a sound, enduring foundation for our economy and that farm living may be a profitable and satisfying experience." Special Message to the Congress on Agriculture, 1/9/56” Maybe it’s time we start utilizing many legal loopholes in the same fashion they do when they pay next to nothing on their multi billion dollar fortunes. Maybe it’s time to restructure the pay structures of our companies ALL down to a systemic profit share of varying degrees so no one is paying for products, but the labor it took to make them and thus, the income is non taxable. Just a thought!
America: Freedom to Fascism - Full.
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🌟 Happy to have presented at the 2024 ASN Convention! 🌟 I discussed illiberal memory laws in Southeastern Europe: how these laws shape the narrative of the wars of the 1990s and WWII, and their impact on reconciliation and transitional justice efforts. 🕊️⚖️ #ASNConvention #MemoryLaws #Reconciliation #TransitionalJustice #SoutheasternEurope
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