tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80245185116488077402024-03-19T07:28:03.797-04:00Egide Thein - LuxembourgEgide Thein comments on financial policies, financial services, offshore centers, bank secrecy, money laundering, terrorist financing, AML / CTF compliance, money transfers, tax evasion, fraud, corruption and on past and current events in Luxembourg and around the world.EGIDE THEINhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00840010103794737721noreply@blogger.comBlogger557125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8024518511648807740.post-48433430579640069902023-08-26T11:40:00.001-04:002023-08-26T11:40:53.041-04:00Russia’s Group Wagner part 2 and 3 of Wallenstein’s trilogy: Wallenstein’s Death Russia’s
Group Wagner part 2 and 3 of Wallenstein’s trilogy: Wallenstein’s Death
The
drama surrounding Yevgeny Prigozhin, the Wagner Group’s owner, took 2 months to
play out. We went through Friedrich Schiller’s trilogy as if the same script
applied to Wallenstein and Prigozhin.
First
there was conflict and an open rebellion against the Czar. And the Czar
got quite angry.EGIDE THEINhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00840010103794737721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8024518511648807740.post-71822566120748390792023-06-25T18:28:00.003-04:002023-08-26T09:19:37.589-04:00Russia’s Group Wagner Rebellion: Wallenstein’s Camp in Rostov-on-Don Orchid Miss CalculationRussia’s Group Wagner
Rebellion: Wallenstein’s Camp in Rostov-on-Don
There is a compelling
parallel between a medieval historic figure, Albrecht von Wallenstein, and
Yevgeny Prigozhin, the owner of the private Russian mercenary army, Group
Wagner.
In the early 17th
century, during the Thirty Years’ War, Albrecht von Wallenstein had assembled a
private army of twentyEGIDE THEINhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00840010103794737721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8024518511648807740.post-55163536330952553952022-08-03T22:03:00.003-04:002022-08-04T06:58:32.707-04:00LuXXXembourg for Porn, LFP. As in Fleites vs Mindgeek and Visa. LuXXXembourg for Porn,
LFP. As in Fleites vs Mindgeek and VisaOver the years Luxembourg
has become a notorious player in the lucrative porn business. This blog
reported as early as 2011 about Luxembourg’s dominant “position” in the
worldwide porn business: https://egidethein.blogspot.com/2011/11/luxembourgs-move-to-exxxtreeme.htmlMindgeek SARL, formerly
known as Manwin is a Luxembourg EGIDE THEINhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00840010103794737721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8024518511648807740.post-64407459691461748872022-05-22T17:20:00.000-04:002022-05-22T17:20:17.188-04:00Sacred Heart University Shuts Down Its Luxembourg CampusSunset for SHU Luxembourg Sacred Heart University Shuts Down Its Luxembourg CampusOn March 14, 1990, while I was Consul General
of Luxembourg in New York, I received two visitors: Dr Pete Fairbough and Dr
Richard Farmer from Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT. They enquired about
the possibility to establish an MBA Program in Luxembourg.
The Luxembourg Government’s official policy at
EGIDE THEINhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00840010103794737721noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8024518511648807740.post-38979575341610994542022-03-14T17:09:00.002-04:002022-03-14T18:47:20.126-04:00Ukraine: When Your Security is Guaranteed by the “Great Powers”.Ukraine: When Your Security
is Guaranteed by the “Great Powers”. When “Great Powers”
give you their solemn assurances that they will protect and defend you against an
aggressor in exchange for giving up nuclear weapons still on your territory since
Soviet times, be suspicious! One of the great powers might become an aggressor
while the others will mostly stand by. Sorry Ukraine!It so EGIDE THEINhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00840010103794737721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8024518511648807740.post-29853599239291336422022-02-23T19:27:00.004-05:002022-02-23T19:27:53.488-05:00Ukraine: From Sitzkrieg to Blitzkrieg, or from Phony War to WW III?My Orchids: Russian Dancer Ukraine: From Sitzkrieg
to Blitzkrieg, or from Phony War to WW III? In the Ukraine, history
repeats itself. The parallels to the European 1930ies are staggering. Russia
plays the old German handbook today. Or Putin plays Hitler. Here it goes, stroke
after stroke and side by side:<!--[if !supportLists]-->1.
<!--[endif]-->At the EGIDE THEINhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00840010103794737721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8024518511648807740.post-79823398387211243102022-02-07T19:55:00.000-05:002022-02-07T19:55:07.955-05:00Xi meets Grand Duke Henri of Luxembourg on deepening tiesChinese President Xi Jinping
meets with Grand Duke Henri of Luxembourg, who came to China for the opening
ceremony of the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games, at the Great Hall of the
People in Beijing, capital of China, Feb. 6, 2022. (Xinhua/Ding Lin)
BEIJING, Feb. 6 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Xi Jinping on
Sunday met with Grand Duke Henri of Luxembourg, who came to China for the
opening EGIDE THEINhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00840010103794737721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8024518511648807740.post-37142935383067234142022-02-05T10:10:00.004-05:002022-02-06T09:45:40.588-05:00Xavier Bettel Copy & Paste, Xavier Bettel Copy & Paste, Xavier Bettel Copy & Paste ...... Een Copy & Paste mat Genehmigung vunn peckvillchen.blogspot.comXavier Bettel Copy & Paste, Xavier Bettel Copy
& Paste, Xavier Bettel Copy & Paste ......
Nanzeg schléisst sech dem Péckvillchen
sengen Conclusiounen unCOPY & PASTE with permission from peckvillchen.blogspot.com
Dëser Deeg huet den Obama dem Péckvillchen gesot,
Hien hätt den Biden iwwert déi Affaire EGIDE THEINhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00840010103794737721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8024518511648807740.post-87319356553056828252022-01-22T16:03:00.005-05:002022-01-22T16:18:08.962-05:00Luxembourg reverse-reverses its Middle East Policies Luxembourg reverse-reverses
its Middle East Policies
Luxembourg’s Minister of Foreign
Affairs, in his job for nearly 2 decades, is known to be a welcome guest in
Tehran. He was even seen in 2014 attending the commemoration of the 25th
anniversary of the death of Ayatollah Khomeini. FARS News even reported that “Luxembourg is against the US led unilateral sanctions against Iran.” Asselborn EGIDE THEINhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00840010103794737721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8024518511648807740.post-88829580298208963362022-01-18T22:43:00.001-05:002022-01-18T22:58:04.928-05:00Luxembourg’s Pornhub: Porn Laundering is the New FrontierLuxembourg’s Pornhub: Porn
Laundering is the New FrontierIn “XXX-Files: WhoTorched the Pornhub Palace?” Adam Gollner in Vanity Fair has the pornographers
speaking in this January 18th edition.He explores the
beginnings, the many iterations of the business idea, some shady characters,
and the newest effort to try distancing the “industry” from criminal activity,
rape, slavery. We are witnessing anEGIDE THEINhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00840010103794737721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8024518511648807740.post-2573343712964404002021-12-17T09:42:00.003-05:002022-02-05T10:12:05.740-05:00Tom Barrett new US Ambassador to Luxembourg Tom Barrett new US
Ambassador to LuxembourgYesterday the US Senate confirmed the nomination of Milwaukee
Mayor Tom Barrett as the new U.S. Ambassador to Luxembourg. Here the Senate
information:“The Senate Cloak
Room:Confirmed by voice
vote: Executive Calendar #622 Thomas Barrett to be Ambassador Extraordinary and
Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Grand Duchy of
EGIDE THEINhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00840010103794737721noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8024518511648807740.post-39254942205226672652021-08-22T09:55:00.002-04:002021-08-22T10:11:30.422-04:00Mission Accomplished
Mission Accomplished:
The Marietta Daily Journal in Georgia reports about the adventures that US Ambassadors go through, when in foreign Lands.Ambassador Evans got his share of adventures in Luxembourg. We learn how he summoned the EGIDE THEINhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00840010103794737721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8024518511648807740.post-568685461275501912021-06-17T21:45:00.001-04:002021-06-18T10:36:08.439-04:00LuXXXembourg's Mindgeek headed for trouble in the US
LuXXXembourg's Mindgeek headed for trouble in the US This sad episode has been brewing for some time. This blog has repeatedly attracted attention to the inherent risks to the kind of product, some clearly very problematic to tolerate within the bounderies of the Luxembourg jurisdiction, without intervention on the part of the Justice Department. It is true that this business is quite EGIDE THEINhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00840010103794737721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8024518511648807740.post-55608183744991462862020-10-19T20:26:00.000-04:002020-10-19T20:26:05.966-04:00Luxembourg’s Huge Diplomatic Success in the US. No, I will not share the glory with Jang. EGIDE THEINhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00840010103794737721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8024518511648807740.post-73048085134825610482020-06-18T10:54:00.008-04:002020-06-18T11:35:11.300-04:00Karachi, Paris, Luxembourg : l’affaire Karachi des sous-marins français se conclue sans faire de vagues.Le soleil se couche sur les sous-marinsKarachi, Paris, Luxembourg : l’affaire Karachi des sous-marins
français se conclue sans faire de vagues.La presse internationale me semble en plongée profonde. Alors que l’affaire
Karachi atteint son point d’ébullition, elle ne dit mot. Pourtant, l’étau s’est
fermé sur le cercle des initiateurs et initiés de ce monument de corruption. Cette
semaine, sixEGIDE THEINhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00840010103794737721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8024518511648807740.post-59585439202722951452020-05-25T14:14:00.001-04:002020-05-26T08:26:32.436-04:00A French Template for a US Scandal: L’Affaire Dreyfus - Flynn.
Ile du Diable - Devil's Island, Photo ET 1988
A French Template
for a US Scandal: L’Affaire Dreyfus Flynn.
“L’affaire Dreyfus” is
named after Alfred Dreyfus, a French Army Captain of Jewish descent. In 1894 Dreyfus
was wrongfully accused of spying for the German Embassy in Paris.
The French
counterintelligence who had planted a spy at the German Embassy EGIDE THEINhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00840010103794737721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8024518511648807740.post-10437238552182940022020-04-06T15:32:00.000-04:002020-04-06T15:35:09.372-04:00Where are the Banks?
We already stop taking applications. Your call is very important to us.
Where are the Banks?
I hear from small businesses the
good and the bad news.
The good news is that the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act, or CARES, Act with its Paycheck Protection Program was conceived to immediately help small employers to keep employees and bridge 8 EGIDE THEINhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00840010103794737721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8024518511648807740.post-42403769790538327002020-04-01T08:01:00.000-04:002020-04-01T08:01:22.800-04:00Luxleaks now even more user-friendly: ICIJ unleashes Datashare
My Orchids: Dendobrium "Datashare"
Luxleaks now even more
user-friendly: ICIJ unleashes Datashare
Soline Ledésert from the
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists ICIJ reports: “Datashare, ICIJ’s open-source document
analysis tool, is now available online via a web browser, complete with more
than 1,000 files from the Luxembourg
Leaks EGIDE THEINhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00840010103794737721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8024518511648807740.post-26841921367659271672020-03-09T19:12:00.001-04:002020-03-09T19:12:29.760-04:00LuXXXembourg Nation Branding: Porn Sites R Us.
This is not it!
LuXXXembourg
Nation Branding: Porn Sites R Us.
Luxembourg has a national program to promote the image of
the country, through an agency in charge of “Nation-Branding”. “Let’s Make it
Happen” slogan summarizes the ambition of Luxembourg’s Nation Branding. It
happened 42,000,0000,000 last year.
That’s 42 billion visits last year to Pornhub ownedEGIDE THEINhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00840010103794737721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8024518511648807740.post-22447392475835219822020-03-04T21:31:00.000-05:002020-03-04T21:31:26.894-05:00Happy 50th Birthday Cargolux
Happy 50th Birthday Cargolux
Fifty years ago, some intrepid founders got together to get
Cargolux off the ground. I remember the visionary founder Johannes Einarsson
and the group Salen which later played the role of the inspiration for the
Luxembourg Shipping Register. I need to write that story.
When Cargolux was still a teenager, I had the unique
experience EGIDE THEINhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00840010103794737721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8024518511648807740.post-36298357211937633082019-08-31T17:16:00.005-04:002019-08-31T17:17:28.489-04:00Why has the European Commission not investigated Lux Leaks tax deals?
My Orchids "Transparency"
By:
Simon
Bowers
Britain
Simon Bowers, Great Britain, is
an ICIJ reporter and Europe partnership coordinator.
The article goes back to February 2019. No, six months later nothing has disturbed the comfortable silence about this story. Though there are still some related legal actions.
One noticeableEGIDE THEINhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00840010103794737721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8024518511648807740.post-72917032332434686562019-05-12T21:50:00.001-04:002019-05-12T21:50:24.574-04:00Noah’s Ark Communities to Provide Residential Living for Adults with Disabilities, focused on Autism
Noah’s Ark Communities to Provide Residential Living
for Adults with Disabilities, focused on Autism
Noah’s Ark Communities is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization providing a safe residential living, learning and work environment to individuals living with developmental disabilities generally, with a focus on the autistic spectrum disorder. The EGIDE THEINhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00840010103794737721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8024518511648807740.post-19086692783809665602018-08-04T16:11:00.000-04:002018-08-04T17:00:08.553-04:00Amazon tax optimization and the UK, and Luxembourg.
My Orchids in the Summer Lull
Amazon tax optimization and the UK, and Luxembourg.
Amazon doesn’t really pay
much in UK tax. Because it pays its taxes in Luxembourg says this article. The
European Commission thinks that Amazon doesn’t pay enough taxes in Luxembourg,
and that it should pay an additional back-tax of € 250 million. That’s almost €
500 per resident in EGIDE THEINhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00840010103794737721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8024518511648807740.post-44762702831193614062017-09-17T09:53:00.000-04:002017-09-17T11:58:57.922-04:00Irma in my neighborhood It is not an everyday experience to dodge a hurricane. As Naples was right in the path of Irma, we moved East to stay with our daughter. Damage in Naples is impressive mostly in areas that are low lying, older homes built before the stringent building codes after hurricane Andrew in 1992, and in communities with manufactured housing.
There are still parts of Naples without power, communications,EGIDE THEINhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00840010103794737721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8024518511648807740.post-31208454616681450712017-03-30T19:15:00.001-04:002017-03-30T19:27:07.344-04:00Jean-Claude Juncker: USEXIT
Texas, as seen from the Florida coast. Photo ET
Jean-Claude Juncker:
USEXIT
It must have been in the
afternoon, after lunch, so around 3 – 4 PM. It was a good lunch I presume. The
President of the European Commission, shortly after the “digestif” finally drew
the day’s conclusion: we’ll split the US. Yep! Ohio, and Austin, Texas. If
President Trump does not stop EGIDE THEINhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00840010103794737721noreply@blogger.com0