Juggling Dynamite

Tax cheating is one of the few booming global businesses and it is helping to magnify the huge disparity between the very rich and everyone else. This is increasing social instability and widening government deficits worldwide. It is also reducing funds available for critical investment needed globally to improve and preserve our water, energy and food systems. It takes accountants, lawyers and bankers to enable this evasion. Individual prosecution, professional sanction and imprisonment in this group,is needed for deterrence.

Tax Justice Network’s James S. Henry says authoritarian regimes account for over $11 trillion of “missing” offshore financial wealth from emerging economies. Here is a direct video link.

It’s everywhere, it’s everywhere…

With the Summer Olympics in Rio less than 100 days away, Russia finds itself embroiled in a doping scandal unseen since the days of the East German sports machine back in the 1970s and 80s. In November, the entire Russian track and field team was suspended after an investigation by the World Anti-Doping Agency found what it called a “culture of cheating.” Here is a direct video link.

Mark Z. Jacobson, PhD, of Stanford, has modeled a transition to 100 percent renewable,carbon free energy, for 138 countries and all 50 US states. Here is a direct video link.

For ongoing updates and enlightenment, follow Mark Jacobson on Twitter here.

Add an intelligent reduction in the consumption of animals and dairy, and we are making huge evolutionary progress.  It’s about time!