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In This Issue:

* COMMENT: A Thanksgiving Proclamation

* OFFSHORE: OECD Hypocrites. Bahamas Unfreeze. Canadian Carps.   Gibraltar Deal. Swiss Non-Bank ML. Manx Money. Irish Back Taxes.  Malta Tax Amnesty. Zimbabwe Crumbles. New Muslim Money Market.

* WEALTH: Envy is Wrong. Radical New Law. Stock Broker Informants.   Impossible Task. Assets Frozen. Latin Peso Exchange Dodge. Barclays   French Arrests. Oil or bin Laden? Tax Protesters Hit. Currency Fraud.

* PRIVACY & FREEDOM: Business Police Spies. US Police State.   Anti-Terror Kills Privacy. Power President. ID Theft Test

The year that is drawing towards its close has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added which are of so extraordinary a nature that they cannot fail to penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever watchful providence of Almighty God. In the midst of a civil war of unequaled magnitude and severity, which has sometimes seemed to invite and provoke the aggression of foreign states, peace has been preserved with all nations, order has been maintained, the laws have been
respected and obeyed, and harmony has prevailed everywhere except in the theater of military conflict...the country, rejoicing in the consciousness of augmented strength and vigor, is permitted to expect a continuance of years, with large increase of freedom.

No human counsel hath devised, nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy.

It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be reverently, solemnly, and gratefully acknowledged, as with one heart and voice, by the whole American people. I do, therefore, invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are
at sea, and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next as a day of thanksgiving and prayer to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the heavens. And I recommend to them that, while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings, they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to His tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners, or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty hand to heal the wounds of the nation, and to restore it, as soon as may be consistent with divine purposes, to the full enjoyment
of peace, harmony, tranquillity, and union.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington, this 3rd day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and of the independence of the United States
the eighty-eighth.  (signed) Abraham Lincoln

LINKS: http://neprimer.com/col-linc.htm
http://www.plimoth.org/Library/Thanksgiving/th1.htm

HAVENS SEE O.E.C.D. AS HYPOCRITES
Haven nations say OECD still is dictatorial and high handed. LINK:
http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT3H2I92AUC
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BAHAMAS BANK FREEZE BLUNDER NASSAU. On Sept. 28, based only on a US government anti-terror list, The Bahamas government froze $20 million because a suspect US citizen
was one of four beneficiaries of a father's trust bank account.
LINK: http://www.tax-news.com/asp/story/story.asp?storyname=5861

Surprise! The trust fund was quietly unfrozen after subsequent investigation showed it was a case of mistaken identity.
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CANADIAN CAPERS 64% of Canadians want a tax cut now, LINK:
http://www.tax-news.com/asp/story/story.asp?storyname=6338

An ex-Canadian denounces Canada as a one-party state doomed to mediocrity by left-wing policies and complacent citizens. LINK: 
http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,597484,00.html
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GIBRALTAR BETRAYAL LOOMS
UK and Spain set a deadline for a deal over Gibraltar's future that may end the Rock's major role as a tax haven for the wealthy. LINK:
http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT31FZZ0AUC

Low-Tax.Net special report on history and status of Gibraltar.
LINK: http://www.lowtax.net/lowtax/html/gibraltar/jgispec.html
Gibraltar Government web site, LINK:
http://www.gibraltar.gov.gi/main_framesets/pol_dev_frameset.htm
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MUST READ ON SWISS BANKING & SECRECY
A new Financial Times survey gives an excellent analysis of where the Swiss banking and financial services industry stands today. LINK:
http://globalarchive.ft.com/globalarchive/article.html?id=011116000639
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SECRET WEAPON: SWISS FIDUCIARY DEPOSITS
They offer foreign clients anonymity and no taxes, attracting the wealthy who may want to evade taxes in their own countries. LINK:
http://globalarchive.ft.com/globalarchive/article.html?id=011116000648
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SWISS NON-BANK MONEY LAUNDERING
Banks get all the publicity, but some dirty cash flows in all business.
LINK: http://www.tax-news.com/asp/story/story.asp?storyname=6324
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MANX MONEY BOOM
DOUGLAS, Isle of Man. Investment funds here saw a 20% growth last
year. LINK: http://www.tax-news.com/asp/story/story.asp?storyname=6328
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IRISH TAX CRACKDOWN BRINGS CASH
DUBLIN. Bogus non-resident account holders yielded over £176 million in unpaid taxes by the Nov. 15th deadline. LINK:
http://www.tax-news.com/asp/story/story.asp?storyname=6337
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MALTA TAX AMNESTY
Billions of offshore Maltese pounds may come home. LINK:
http://globalarchive.ft.com/globalarchive/article.html?id=011119001279
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ZIMBABWE CRUMBLES
Economy in free fall, law and order break down, demagogue rules. LINK:
http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT3T1N1FGQC
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MUSLIM MONEY MARKET
Malaysia, Bahrain, Indonesia and Sudan combine to create a new Islamic financial market. LINK:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,602282,00.html

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RADICAL NEW U.S. ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING LAW
An excellent survey of radical new US banking and anti-money laundering laws and the costs in liberty. LINK:
http://www.miami.com/herald/content/news/local/florida/digdocs/106995.htm
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U.S. SECURITIES DEALERS AS POLICE INFORMANTS
Stock brokers soon must rat on 'suspicious' clients. LINK:
http://money.iwon.com/jsp/nw/nwdt_rt_top.jsp?cat=TOPBIZ&src=202&
feed=bus&section=news&news_id=bus-n21251279&date=20011121&alias=/alias/money/cm/nw
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IMPOSSIBILITY OF BLOCKING DIRTY CASH
Politicians pass laws, then reality bites. LINK:
http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT3EZZOK8UC
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US ASSET FREEZE LIST
A list in pdf file form of those caught in the US terror asset freeze.
LINK: http://www.fsa.gov.uk/pubs/other/fsa125.pdf
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LATIN PESO EXCHANGE PROSPERS
A side effect of the crackdown on terrorist money laundering is possible disruption of illicit drug cash systems. LINK:
http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT3VVZCN8UC
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BARCLAYS STAFF ARRESTED
Barclay's staff in FRANCE arrested for alleged money laundering. LINK:
http://futurevantage.com/en/charlie/getitemz.mv?nrec=u22344&sd=
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PURSUE OIL OR BIN LADEN?
Has the US gone easy on Arab terrorists because of petroleum needs?
LINKS: http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/world/2001/1119/wor8.htm
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/11/19/bush_oil/index.html
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U.S. COURTS HIT TAX PROTESTERS
So-called 'tax protesters' are getting the shaft from US courts. LINK:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50843-2001Nov18.html
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WORLD TRADE CENTER CURRENCY DEALERS ACCUSED
NEW YORK. Currency traders charged with using the World Trade Center attack to cover up a conspiracy to steal $100m from investors in the US, Europe, Australia and New Zealand. LINK:
http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT3GN5IY8UC
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ECONOMISTS & CENTRAL BANKERS LIE
They can't see into the future, no matter what they claim.
LINK: http://www.forbes.com/global/2001/1126/090.html

U.S. BUSINESS DEPUTIZED BY TERROR POLICE
The Bush anti-terrorist law forces business to spy on customers. LINK:
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/322/business/Patriot_Act_would_
make_watchdogs_of_firms+.shtml
And the new law also enormously increases police forfeiture powers.
LINK: http://www.cei.org/remarksreader.asp?ID=1710
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FUNDAMENTAL FREEDOMS LOST
Sweeping powers demanded by the US and UK governments. LINK:
http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT39BXC3AUC
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AMERICAN POLICE STATE
Is the American police state already in place?
LINK: http://www.antiwar.com/orig/ratner1.html
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THE ANTI-TERROR EXCUSE
New technologies can destroy human privacy and government exploits this situation under cover of anti-terrorism. LINK:
http://www.dailytelegraph.co.uk/dt?ac=006617953137641&rtmo=pUlI4Bbe
&atmo=rrrrrrrq&pg=/01/11/20/do02.html
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POWER PRESIDENT
Are terrorism and war making Pres. Bush a virtual dictator? LINK:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55391-2001Nov19.html

The President defends his order creating military tribunals. LINK:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55363-2001Nov19.html

But is it a radical curb on constitutional rights? LINK (subscribers),
http://interactive.wsj.com/articles/SB1006221054996598400.htm
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BELGIAN WARNS OF E.U. POLICE STATE
'Orwellian' tendencies seen in EU-wide police powers. LINK:
http://www.euobserver.com/index.phtml?selected_topic=9&action=view&article_id=4185
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BLAIR'S ANTI-TERROR LAWS ATTACKED
Even Labourites are uneasy over Draconian laws. LINK:
http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT3OM23Q8UC
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IDENTITY THEFT TEST
Worried about identity theft? Try taking these precautions. LINK:
http://www.techtv.com/cybercrime/privacy/story/0,23008,2103957,00.html
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