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Google accounts show 11 billion euros moved via low tax ‘Dutch sandwich’ in 2014

Google moved 10.7 billion euros ($12 billion) through the Netherlands to Bermuda in 2014, as part of a structure which allows it to earn most of its foreign income tax free. Accounts for Google Netherlands Holdings BV published on Thursday show the unit transferred almost all its revenue, mainly royalties...
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Google boss claims he does not know his salary in Commons grilling

Google’s executives have been accused of being out of touch with reality after the company’s most senior UK-based executive was unable to tell MPs how much he earned. Matt Brittin appeared before the public accounts committee on Thursday to be questioned alongside senior tax officials about £130m in back taxes...
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How Do You Stop the Biggest Gas Leak Ever?

Steve Conley got the call early on Nov. 5. A natural gas storage well was leaking methane into the air at Aliso Canyon, near a Los Angeles suburb, and no one knew just how bad it was—could he get a read on it? Conley, an atmospheric scientist and a...
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Google Ireland staff paid much less than London colleagues

Google Ireland staff paid much less than London colleagues Average wage of £72,000 compares with London staff average salary of £160,000 – despite booking £5bn sales from UK advertisers in 2015 Workers at Google Ireland, the search group’s European sales hub, earn less than half the £160,000 average wage of colleagues...
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Who wins from (British ) Google tax?

Perhaps what's most interesting about the government's planned new Diverted Profits Tax, AKA the "Google" tax, is how much noise and debate it has generated, for precious little potential revenue. The Treasury estimates it will raise £360m a year by 2017/18, which isn't even really a drop in the ocean...
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Has Canada proved to be a fertile political space for deliberation?

NEWS
Peter MacLeod Published on Sun Aug 16 2015 Here's a good news story for anyone exhausted at the prospect of our federal election and curious about the health of Canadian democracy. You might never know it watching the endless reels of political advertising, but very quietly and far from...
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POLITICIANS RELY TOO HEAVILY ON CLOISTERED EXPERTS

BUSINESS
In pockets around the world, democracy is being reinvented as it was conceived in ancient Athens – not modern Greece, I hasten to add! Luca Belgiorno-Nettis In pockets around the world, democracy is being reinvented as it was conceived in ancient Athens - not modern Greece, I hasten to add! Elections and...
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Unprecedented concentration of corporate influence

Labor senator Sam Dastyari has warned there is something "fundamentally wrong and rotten" with Australia's entire political system, claiming there are 10 huge companies with so much power and influence they have killed proper democratic process at the federal level in this country. In a firebrand speech in Canberra this...
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Canon announces flagship EOS-1DX Mark 11 full frame digital DSLR

Canon has announced its new flagship DSLR, the full-frame EOS-1D X Mark II. It features a new 20.2MP CMOS sensor with Dual Pixel AF, and uses a pair of Dual DIGIC 6+ processors to capture 4K video and shoot continuously at up to 16 fps. The camera has a native ISO of 100-51200,...
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Larger Than Life Murals

Aniekan Udofia Painter/illustrator/muralist It only took one man, Aniekan Udofia (@aniekanreloaded), to paint this larger-than-life mural of music legend and activist Marvin Gaye, but an entire community came together to make it a lasting image in Washington, DC’s cityscape. The wall Aniekan originally painted his commissioned mural on was torn down,...
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