28/05/15

[Maik]

New measure to benefit tax dodgers

The government is offering amnesty to all tax dodgers, even those under investigation by prosecuting authorities, therefore writing off very serious tax crimes that normally get punished with huge fines and jail terms between 10 and 20 years.

The new bill provides for immunity from any legal action over illegal incomes that will be declared. Foreign bank account holders who legalize their funds in that fashion will not even have to repatriate their capital.

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite2_1_27/05/2015_550462

[Maik]

Greek-British Arrested in FIFA Scandal

Greek-British Costas Takkas is one of the FIFA officials who were arrested on Wednesday in Switzerland on charges of corruption.

Takkas is a former general secretary of the Cayman Islands football association and has worked as an advisor to CONCACAF president Jeffrey Webb. According to the US Department of Justice, the 58-year-old is a British citizen.

Fourteen people were arrested in total, not all FIFA officials.

http://greece.greekreporter.com/2015/05/28/greek-british-arrested-in-fifa-scandal/

[Maik]

Don't drink more than four coffees a day, EU warns
The EU food safety agency says that drinking more than four cups of coffee a day could be harmful to health

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/foodanddrinknews/11634163/Dont-drink-more-than-four-coffees-a-day-EU-warns.html

[Aristarches]

Don't drink more than four coffees a day, EU warns
The EU food safety agency says that drinking more than four cups of coffee a day could be harmful to health

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/foodanddrinknews/11634163/Dont-drink-more-than-four-coffees-a-day-EU-warns.html

Is there anything you CAN eat or drink that doesn't seriously damage your  health? I bet if you could think of something now the medical mafia would bring out a warning within the week.

[Maik]

Almost cracking the flags here! In Poros that's due to the sun and heat, in Skala it's the rain hammering down. Hey ho!

[Maik]

James Bond: Pussy Galore returns in new novel

Pussy Galore is to be reunited with James Bond in the superspy's latest literary outing.

Ian Fleming's famous leading lady is back in Anthony Horowitz's new official Bond novel, Trigger Mortis.

Horowitz's prolific output includes the teen spy series, Alex Rider, which has sold more than 19 million copies.

He has written two official Sherlock Holmes novels - The House of Silk and Moriarty - and as a TV screenwriter he created Midsomer Murders, Foyle's War and Crime Traveller.

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-32899911

[TonyKath]

Greek-British Arrested in FIFA Scandal

Greek-British Costas Takkas is one of the FIFA officials who were arrested on Wednesday in Switzerland on charges of corruption.

Takkas is a former general secretary of the Cayman Islands football association and has worked as an advisor to CONCACAF president Jeffrey Webb. According to the US Department of Justice, the 58-year-old is a British citizen.

Fourteen people were arrested in total, not all FIFA officials.

http://greece.greekreporter.com/2015/05/28/greek-british-arrested-in-fifa-scandal/

Ah, the Cayman Islands Football Association.  Could there be an organisation more devoted to financial rectitude, tax transparency and currency honesty??! 

Tony

[TonyKath]

Don't drink more than four coffees a day, EU warns
The EU food safety agency says that drinking more than four cups of coffee a day could be harmful to health

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/foodanddrinknews/11634163/Dont-drink-more-than-four-coffees-a-day-EU-warns.html

Is there anything you CAN eat or drink that doesn't seriously damage your  health? I bet if you could think of something now the medical mafia would bring out a warning within the week.

This comes under the Daily Mail heading "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger but then probably kills you after all".  The paper regularly but especially in its Tuesday health pages lists food or drink that is likely to cause one or more of the following: cancer, stroke, heart attacks, dementia, and death generally.  It also publishes lists of products that prevent all these ailments.  The lists are essentially the same: red wine, coffee, sugar, honey, blueberries, pasta, cheese, chocolate etc. etc.  Very occasionally the same item will occur on both the fatal and and the curative list on the same day.  So for example coffee was reported yesterday as protecting from skin cancer. 

Salt is also reportedly dangerous but a pinch of it comes in handy now and again.   

Tony

[Maik]

Ah, the Cayman Islands Football Association.  Could there be an organisation more devoted to financial rectitude, tax transparency and currency honesty??! 

Well, when you hear the Cayman Islands mentioned you don't immediately think of its national football team... I didn't know they had a team.

[Maik]

Salt is also reportedly dangerous but a pinch of it comes in handy now and again.   

Yes, and add a splash of vinegar - newspapers are great for wrapping round a portion of fish 'n' chips but I don't believe everything I read in them.

Although there was a clue in the title: ..."EU warns" 

[TonyKath]

Ah, the Cayman Islands Football Association.  Could there be an organisation more devoted to financial rectitude, tax transparency and currency honesty??! 

Well, when you hear the Cayman Islands mentioned you don't immediately think of its national football team... I didn't know they had a team.

They probably don't!  Or on the other hand they may have 56,000, one per head of population! 

Tony