The Lotus Formula 1 Team, Its Embarrassing Partner, Advanced Global Trading of Dubai, and Carbon Neutral Investments
On the Lotus Formula 1 team’s unfortunate entanglement with Advanced Global Trading of Dubai.
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Why is Google Censoring Search Results to Nix Warnings Just Like Ones Issued by a UK Regulator?
Yves here. One of the things on our very long list of important issues we’d like to write about is the way Google, an unregulated information-screener, can dictate companies’ business models and keep information out of the public eye by how they handle search queries. Richard Smith give an example below.
Read more...McLaren F1 & Jenson Button One Minute, Boiler Room Scams the Next: the Remarkable Double Life of Carbon Neutral Investments, Limited, (CNI)
Naked Capitalism notes that Carbon Neutral Investments, subject of a consumer warning by the UK’s FCA, has deals with Formula 1 teams McLaren and Sauber, Lord Heseltine’s publishing firm Haymarket, Newcastle United Football Club, and a host of PR and events companies, and wonders what the hell is going on.
Read more...Robin Hood Tax: How Reformers Sabotage Themselves with Terrible Branding
If I were a still a Wall Street type, I don’t think I could have done a better job of sabotaging an effort to impose transaction taxes on big financial firms than the left has managed to do itself with lousy branding.
Read more...Carbon Neutral Investments’ Trail of Disaster: How Carbon Credit Con Artists use Google Adwords to Work the Recovery Scam
Carbon Neutral Investments and the ‘recovery room’ scam
Read more...The Careless Organizers of Gumball 3000 are Hooked Up with Boiler Room Scam “Servicers” Carbon Neutral Investments (CNI)
The Gumball 3000 event is helping a deeply dodgy British firm with its marketing.
Read more...FBI Raids, Lord Heseltine’s Haymarket Media Group, Financial Regulator “Crackdowns”, “What Car” Magazine…and Carbon Neutral Investments Limited
How two wide boys with shady pasts snared a leading British publisher that has major political connections.
Read more...The Glam and The Scam: Sauber Formula 1 Team and its Partner, Carbon Neutral Investments, Limited
The Sauber F1 team and their dodgy partners, Carbon Neutral Investments
Read more...How Novice Eco-Warrior Michael Bloomberg Ended up Looking as if he Endorses Carbon Credit Scams
Mayor Bloomberg stitched up by Italian Vogue and a dodgy financial firm: his image and words are being exploited to market carbon credit scams
Read more...Glenn Greenwald Starting His Own News Organization
This is major.
Read more...How You Can Tell That Naked Capitalism Threatens Influential People
The last two weeks, including this fundraiser proper, shows how important your contributions are to this site’s independence.
Read more...Glenn Greenwald on the NSA, GCHQ, and Spying
Yves here. This BBC NewsInsight interview is a remarkable little piece. Greenwald confronts a clearly hostile set of questions from the BBC interviewer. He is not amused and comes pretty close to giving her a dressing down. Go Glenn!
Read more...Yanis Varoufakis: No Signal – An Intimate, Personal History of ERT
Yves here. Varoufakis’ post may seem a bit off topic for this blog, but he has provided a history of censorship in Greece as seen through his personal relationship with the recently-shuttered state broadcaster ERT. And that is a more useful reference point for Americans (and likely most Anglo-Saxon readers).
Read more...Bill Black: Not with a Bang but a Whimper – the SEC Enforcement Team’s Propaganda Campaign
The New York Times has one of those “inside” stories that unintentionally demonstrate the collapse of justice and financial reporting. This genre involves the media reporting gravely (and uncritically) the administration’s claims that its failure to prosecute any elite for the largest and most destructive financial frauds in history actually demonstrates the exceptional ethical rectitude of the non-prosecutors and non-enforcers.
Read more...Taking the Rhetorical Bias Out of Economists’ Discussions of Income Taxation and Public Spending
Yves here. Mirabile dictu! A VoxEU article discusses, admittedly in suitably dense economese, how economists create and enforce biases against taxation by using terminology that presupposes that it’s bad. And as Lambert noted after he saw it went up here: “That post got Tyler Cowen really ticked off, so it must be good.”
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