Youtube comments of Matthew Nirenberg (@matthewnirenberg).

  1. What still boggles my mind is how do EV's pass safety compliance without having 100% mechanical door releases to ensure people can escape the vehicle in an emergency.
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  2. And if you become a French citizen you can never tax advantage of tax residency in Andorra or Monaco, not even if you renounce French Citizenship. Just something to keep in mind.
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  3. Absolutely spot on. I still can't get over how 90% of people think the place is great. The taxes keep going up and the cost of compliance increases with every new mandatory reporting (employment gender equality, anti-modern-day slavery for you and your entire supply chain, AML/KYC, carbon footprint, etc.) requirement and then stupid courses for every little thing with annual "updates/refreshers" for things that should be a one-off course given you do them on a regular basis.
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  4. Mark my words - any country that thinks they can "appease" the EU or the USA is utterly delusional. The only thing that will truly appease the EU or the USA is the abolition of all CBI. Raising prices has simply now made all of the Caribbean programs (except St Kitts & Nevis) pointless as they are way overpriced for what you get. Other than St Kitts & Nevis, the only remaining program that's worth the money is Vanuatu.
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  5.  @svensulzmann4282  Taxes do absolutely prevent a person from exercising their political opinion freely as it prevents them from leaving. If these changes are treated the same by banks, foreign governments and businesses as simply being a US citizen is, then people won't have any choice but to remain in Australia as they won't be able to have bank accounts, own property, buy property or otherwise do business abroad. Also, note that tax in Australia is determined on your pre-tax income, anything that doesn't seem "up to the standard of Australia" is increased under Australia's "deeming laws" and then you have to pay that tax on top of any tax you pay abroad; DTA's (double taxation agreements) are being abolished entirely under the new Australian tax rules so no more credits for taxes paid abroad. Australia is so broke that no longer lets you set prices. In years gone by, it was perfectly okay to rent a small house to a child, a relative or a friend for a fair, affordable fee that they could afford - as long as the contracts were legal and everything was declared it was fine. Along comes the 2022-2023 tax year (1 July 2022 - to 30 June 2023) and suddenly this practice has been declared illegal as the govt now requires all rents to be charged at the top-market average so now people are literally going homeless because they can't afford $30,000 more per year so the landlord can keep the tax office happy. Now you can't even choose the price you chose to do business at - the government now set the price purely for maximum tax. Note that once homeless these people become dependent on the govt just to survive and thus must agree with and politically align with the govt to survive so bye, bye political freedom. So yeah, taxation does restrict political freedom both within and outside of the country.
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  6. Andrew forgot to mention that they're also forcing locals who got qualified in skilled professions such as engineering, medicine, science, etc. to leave the country due to both taxing the multi-nationals out of the country, over regulating literally everything and then by introducing professional registration for engineers and scientists with stupid requirements that don't even make sense (unrelated to the jobs) and experience requirements that forever change so locals can't comply. At the same time Australia is making it easier for "skilled migrant" workers to come here and do the work without said stupid requirements.
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  7.  @krillevon1415  The only way for a person to get citizenship to Monaco is for them to have had PR (easy to get if you can buy property/apartment/open a giant bank account - takes 3yrs due to wait list) for 10-20yrs and to renounce all other citizenships once they've been told they'll become a citizen of Monaco after having applied. Monaco doesn't permit dual/multi nationality. Literally most people in Monaco have PR which is all you need to live forever in Monaco without having to renounce citizenships.
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  8. The map is wrong. Australia has lost a lot of rich people and approximately 1.8 million people in total have fled since the government tyranny that started in 2020. The majority of businesses are gone, investments are vanishing fast, money is being moved from Australian banks to overseas rapidly. There are NEVER any tax incentives in Australia or New Zealand. Both countries are just tax happy places that'll take every last cent they can pry from you - taxes are about to increase to cover a govt run pre-kinder year of education for 4 year olds (instead of sending them to four year old kinder) and govt run childcare (sorry but parents should have to pay - it was their choice to have kids, why should everyone have to pay for the choices of others). Total cost for the taxpayers - $9 billion by 2023 - where is the money? To be collected via taxes very soon.
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  9.  @svensulzmann4282  If a person has zero reason to keep any ties to Australia then why not? Australian passports are losing access to the world fast (ETIAS is 100% biased against "western countries", most of South America and the Caribbean now require visas for Australian's). Australian passports are seen as jokes around the world (speaking from personal experience here) - banks won't touch you except for New Zealand and Vanuatu, many countries won't let you register a business as an Australian citizen even if you have the correct visa as they don't want the tax and reporting nightmare - the same problem US citizens have. The mere fact you think Australia is one of the strongest economies in the world just shows how out of touch with reality you are as it hasn't been that since the late 1980's. Currently its the world's 13th largest economy and getting smaller each year - anything from 10th place and lower are the top end of small. Also, expect the Australian economy to continue to tank with rapidly increasing inflation, anti-business laws and regulations coming in every few months and with taxes increasing every few months. Most business are either broke, going broke or leaving the country rapidly.
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  10.  @bamahama707  I'm in the process of GTFO'ing from Australia as until the whole place falls apart and everyone is 100% bankrupt, nothing will change - the whole system is too corrupt and inbred (creating more bureaucracy and rules to justify its own existence). Originally I was planning on genuinely moving my entire life abroad, but, if what is said in the video is followed through with then renouncing will be the only option as if Australia insists you can't go to a lower tax country without paying the difference each year or if they insist that you must live x days per year in one country even if you have genuine tax residency in that country, then that would severely restrict business travel, holidays and sailing internationally.
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  11. The only solution as there isn't any way to stop it politically: Use plate blockers to avoid the cameras reading your plates (RC ones are available online). Don't pay their fines. Rip the cameras down every time they get put up.
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  12. The citizen of whatever other country you have citizenship to as you can't legally renounce without having another citizenship. There are actually laws to prevent statelessness.
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  13. All that'll achieve is a complete and utter prohibition on all travel. If such a ban were implemented, it'd apply to all private aircraft (even small bush planes) and all boats (no matter how small). Private yachts aren't the problem, remember that all sailing catamarans that are bluewater (ocean) rated (required or its illegal to leave national boundaries) are considered yachts under law. Sailing catamarans aren't harming the environment and remain in service (albeit usually with multiple owners) for 30+yrs. As for limiting the rich to only one home with not more than five bedrooms, two issues arise: 1. What is they have a large family (say 8-14 kids), why can't everyone have a bedroom 2. What is rich? I ask this because the definition of "rich" always has an ever reducing threshold. Once the real rich leave a country, the "rich" get defined as rich; this repeats until the person earning $80,000 before tax is defined as "rich". What's wrong with someone being able to own more than one home or a private yacht? Jealously is very unbecoming and only ever a destructive thing. Jealously and this "the rich this, the rich that" is exactly the bullshit that's single-handedly destroyed Australia and made the place unlivable. My family aren't rich (pre-tax income $85,000) but because the definition of "rich" keeps dropping, we suddenly got categorised as "rich" simply because we own our own home (3 bedroom, 1.5 bathroom (bathroom + toilet room)), regardless that three generations are living in it as thanks to housing being sold to foreign businesses, housing is both unavailable and unaffordable for locals. Its a well established fact that banning things doesn't work within a country. Banning foreign businesses from coming in and buying everything so they can exploit the visa system would dramatically help.
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  14. Sadly it's going to be easy to bring in and they don't need to convince anyone. Please consider the following: * Note how many people just accepted and complied from 2020-2023 because the govt said so * Fear make the 95% fall in line, the threat or use of state sponsored violence [law enforcement, national guard, army, etc.] makes the other 5% fall in line one way or another * Most people don't have 2yrs worth of savings in the bank, nor do they have 2yrs worth of food rotation - this means they're dependent on others to 'get by' as they can't try to "wait it out" * The economy is collapsing thanks to the early stages of hyper inflation and what's likely intentional mismanagement * Whilst people will stick with the current system until it fails, the moment it fails (intentionally or otherwise), they'll begrudgingly flock to CBDC as it'll appear as the better solution * Govt assistance will only be available as CBDC * Food will only be purchasable in CBDC * Wages will only be payable / receivable in CBDC * Taxes and bills will suddenly only be payable in CBDC * It'll become illegal to buy or sell using anything other than CBDC on the legal threat of jail. Look how many ratted out their neighbours, friends and others from 2020-2023, also look back at how people ratted people out to the Stasi. People will comply out of fear * The govt will say - you have no money, the economy failed but we'll give you whatever the last balance you had in the bank, in CBDC. This will cause many to accept CBDC as they technically won't be out of money, they'll just be trapped in CBDC and the tyrannical control it gives the govt over the people Simply put - the powers that be are creating the perfect conditions to have the masses begging for CBDC - part of that is the intentional destruction of the existing economy / system. Remember, the CBDC has to be attractive - the only way to do that is to destroy the current system. I'm 100% against the WEF, CBDC, 15/20 minute cities and this dystopian tyranny - I see leaving the "west" as the only option. Unfortunately, the chance to save cash is gone. Banks are closing branches, removing ATM's, charging stupid amounts to deposit cash as a business, they're stopping people from withdrawing cash, etc. Most banks in Australia are ending cheques in 2024, and the govt bans cheques in 2025 outright, NZ has all but ended cheques already. Cash will be forced out very soon. Other tangibles (bullion, etc.) and having wealth outside the "west" is the only way to survive the end of cash providing you have a place to live outside the "west" without needing a "western" passport (i.e. ensure visas and permits are tied to a passport from a country outside of CANZUK/CUNA).
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  15. All I'll say is that there's basically no jobs, high crime, high taxes, almost entire suburbs in the South Island that are empty (except for a handful of families) all year because the properties are almost all foreign owned, still even with their closed border (except to Australia) policy have some of the hardest restrictions - still requiring mandatory jabs and masks even though they have basically no cases, and then you have to consider that most kiwi's have moved to Australia prior to all this and never gone back to NZ. That should tell you everything you need to know.
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  16. Good, the housing markets in both New Zealand and Australia need to crash so that the prices become what they really should be again. The government encourages foreigners to buy property - the catch is they must be rich. So along comes the auction, locals bid reasonable prices, then comes a representative of the foreigner who instantly bid $300,000 more, the property sells to the foreigner. This happens a few times and a house worth $280,000 in reality suddenly is listed for $1.2 million. No locals can buy a house. If you build more, the problem gets worse as prices skyrocket as more foreigners buy the houses. These houses usually sit empty or get filled with foreign workers as if a business has space for "skilled workers" to board, they can apply for more "skilled worker" visas. Companies always prioritise foreign workers as they know they can exploit them as they don't know their rights. The govt don't care as the things considered skilled work literally include "tractor driver", "animal carer - chickens", "livestock feeder", just to name a few. I personally know plenty of locals in both Australia and New Zealand who've be screwed by this garbage scheme that the governments want. It comes down to one thing - the governments want all the taxes from the foreign money they get from letting foreigners buy up everything and the "skilled workers" take all the jobs, rotating in and out due to the short length of the "skilled worker" visas.
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  17. Congratulations you've 100% hit the nail on the head. This is exactly what Australia, the UK & New Zealand love to do to enforce their will on their citizens and those who try to leave. Their other tactic is to get the tax office to go after you for whatever they think they can, even if there's nothing to go after you for, just the audit can keep you stuck in-country for a year of longer.
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  18. The one thing everyone seems to always mention is "not enough due diligence". I wonder, what else can they do to have more due diligence? All programs require: * Police checks from the countries you've lived in for the last 10yrs (for more than a few months) * Proof of source of funds (AML/KYC - i.e. if its from a bank in a "western country" then its already proven legit, fully taxed and the AML/KYC info is already available due to govt information sharing) * A pointless letter from the bank that says you're a customer (bank references prove nothing if you've never been in overdraft or bankrupt - Australian banks won't issue these unless you've been in overdraft or bankrupt) * Declarations that you're not a criminal They already check law enforcement databases and INTERPOL databases. There's basically nothing else to check. The whole due diligence is basically a process that takes the govt a couple of hours (at the most) to do. All due diligence seems to be is a way for "name brand" countries to bully smaller countries and to justify stalling the whole process for a few months as from the govt side of things isn't anything beyond what I've just mentioned.
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  19. Or as Robert Kiyosaki says, have a fast boat, a bag and tangibles (gold, silver, etc.) ready so you can get to safety within 3 days, even if you have to flee the country. If things get really bad, the only way to leave will be to flee unless you get a heads up and leave early. At the end of the day, boats and planes are the only option and the rich will always be able to travel (if they're rich enough). Whilst planes aren't affordable for most, bluewater capable boats are, take a first step and start working on getting your boat licence, learn how to sail and work up to 40-60ft boats.
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  20. Regarding Australiastan - stay well away, its NOT worth the trouble. Once you're there you ain't leaving. Why? They will throw everything at you to stop you leaving. Here's how: 1. Their primary weapon is Jury Duty. They have 2 levels of it and thus can throw it at you each year (alternating between the two levels). To make it even worse, they'll send he 'Notice of Selection' in the November the year just before the period they're calling you for. This effectively ensures that you can't leave near the end of the year and the jury duty period is always set so that you're either only free at peak tourism times overseas (i.e. can't book as you require an 'activated'/non-frozen passport to do so - being selected for jury duty freezes your passport so you can't book), or you're only free during an election (basically an annual event due to the levels of govt, councils and by-elections) and thus can't leave. 2. Their secondary weapon is elections. There are elections for every level of govt, councils and by-elections for all of that. The period before an election (2+ months), till 2 months after an election, the electoral rolls are frozen - this means you can't change your details or be removed because you've moved abroad. This forces you to stay to vote - being overseas isn't a reason to not vote and the fines are very large and repeat offenders now face jail time - thus the only answer to to be removed from the electoral roll by moving abroad when the electoral roll isn't frozen so you can be removed. 3. The tax system is becoming rapidly more impossible to escape from. They can declare you tax resident if its now in the 'public interest' simply because they believe 'you're of value, or are aligned with Australia' 4. They can stop the travel exemption at any time they like resulting in the closure of the National Border. During the '2020 thing' they closed the border, not under emergency powers which would end with the emergency, but with a law. That law remains in force and the only reason travel is currently permitted is because there is a broad exemption from the ban to permit travel. That can change at the discretion of the minister. This also allows the minister to without needing to give a reason, the ability to ban individuals from the country. I've been trying to leave the damn place since 2020, and have been stopped by the regime every time - they really want to stop me from leaving. The travel ban made it impossible during the whole '2020 thing', then its been elections, Jury Duty, licence related reporting issues (can only be dealt with whilst in-country), elections, and now Jury Duty again - and elections immediately after Jury Duty. Oh and then there's the whole - can't get the visa needed due to the required passport having too little duration for a 5yr visa (passport only has 5yrs left on it) - can only renew when passport is down to 2yrs left. The earliest I'll have any hope of leaving is 2030 at this rate, and that's assuming they don't keep throwing the same Jury Duty rubbish at me.
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  21. Same. Many businesses, even in the EU agree with that. Every business whose computers I've setup has always asked me to disable 'sleep' as it causes far more problems than it fixes. Not to mention the power surges caused by 2500 machines waking at the same time - many businesses have scheduled staggered power-on for their computers to avoid surges.
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  22.  @thisispetria  Unless you've been living under a rock, you do know that the USD is the world reserve currency and its going down negatively affects all global markets that aren't part of BRICS(+). So yeah, it matters!
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  23. The following is intended as making a point, not offending anyone: When Andrew was discussing Malta CBI, the guest speaker perfectly demonstrated the EU 'elitism' as he effectively dismissed Malta's due diligence. He effectively said that Malta's program lets in unwanted, undesirable people. He later then goes on about how Estonian eResidency does strong due diligence and is good. As far as I can see, the only difference is that the Estonian eResidency attracts tax revenue but NEVER leads to residency or citizenship (as its designed that way), whilst Malta does the same due diligence and only permits the very wealthy to have a chance to become Maltese, the same very rich people who have too much to lose by breaking laws. My point is - if having a perfectly clean record and paying taxes to Estonia is okay, what's wrong with having a perfectly clean record, donating a heap of money to Malta and becoming Maltese? Hypocritical much...
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  24.  @mjor6406  What is wrong is that citizenship based taxation is nothing but legalised theft. No one has any issue with being taxed in a country they are working in, however if they've fully moved abroad, they aren't benefiting from the country they left so why should that country be getting any money from them? Note that this taxation is on top of any taxation they are paying where they work and live. The fact you can't understand why citizenship based taxation is wrong makes me wonder why you even watch this channel. Now focusing on the initial point, using techniques mentioned above to stop people from leaving is wrong because why should any country have the right to stop people from leaving?
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  25.  @AngryVet44  Dude, go rent a place to someone for less that the average market price, then see what the ATO say when they go through your taxes. They'll declare that the price your charging as rent is too low, they'll apply a deemed value and make you pay the difference. This is literally what happened to a colleague of mine literally last week. She legitimately rents a house to her daughter but because she only charges $300 per week, the ATO considered this to be under-valuing the rental and thus applied their deeming laws and now she has a tax bill of $30,000 based purely on the difference between the rent rate the ATO say she should be charging and what she charged. Also note that the question you're referring to is from August 2022 as you state, what I'm talking about is a May 2023 change that applies to the whole tax year retrospectively.
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  26.  @mkuc6951  It absolutely was. Its always saddened me to watch the decline since then as everything started going to shit. Like you I've heard a lot from the old timers and its unfortunately strengthened my desire to leave which is why I'm getting out as soon as possible (currently legally stuck till the end of the year with JD) - was originally set to leave in March 2020 but we know why that didn't happen.
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  27. As someone who's looked into what it takes to become a "defence developer" / "legal licenced firearm dealer" I can confirm that the rules vary dramatically from country to country. In Europe they take the attitude of "clean record, correct qualifications (usually mech eng or elec eng), experience, intent and ability to afford the licences" unlike places like Australia, New Zealand or Canada where they try to limit it to "those already licenced - i.e. no new people" and "we'd rather just leave it to the big names - screw anything new". This makes Australia, New Zealand and Canada horrible places to do anything even slightly considered "defence related" as you're basically never going to get licenced. "Defence Related" means anything that has a military use or capability requires the correct licences to design, produce or sell (some exceptions apply for use by citizens or if the equipment is "dual purpose" and officially permitted as long as it remains within the country), this includes but isn't limited to: * encryption * radios / comms equipment * signal analysers * oscilloscopes * maps / mapping software (excluding Google Maps, etc.) * codes and ciphers * equipment cases * anything drone related - note that it could be a ground, water or air based drone * recovery equipment (for data or for retrieving physical objects * new manufacturing methods * compression software * biometric equipment, software and methods * Anything AI * Surveillance equipment (other than a basic security camera) * Weapons and Firearms * Body Armour * Camping equipment * etc.
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  28. Sadly, I think you're right.
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  29. Oh and the worst part is: Unrealized Gains Tax AND The fact that everything is 'valued' under the 'deeming laws' that let the govt pick the highest possible value (if 100% developed or perfected/marketed as they would) I honestly don't see the point in people staying in Australia if they want to succeed and be all they can be.
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  30.  @peterbates282  Its not politics of envy. Australia has the same problem - the average house is about 2 million in most places that aren't extremely rural (4+hrs out of any town). Extremely rich (multi-millionaries) overseas are advertised property in AU & NZ as investments by agents, they pay insane amounts which price all locals out of property. The last auction in my street was ended with a bid that was double the highest bid resulting in the property selling for 1.6 million. Its now units and they've all been sold off for a small fortune each. What you and many lefty politicians fail to understand is that building more only makes the problem worse. Overpaying has pushed prices to insane levels that only foreign money can afford. If you build more, those new developments increase the value of the area the development is in, as well as the surrounding area. Due to laws that stop "under valuing", prices can only go up. These properties are unaffordable for locals so foreign investors buy them. The prices can only go up whilst the farmland gets built on and the public land vanishes due to eternal sprawl of cities. The only way to force prices back down is for the govt to seize all foreign owned property, ban construction and only let citizens buy property. This would lower prices as it would crash the entire market and would thus let prices drop. Currently its all a giant Ponzi scheme (housing and construction) that needs to collapse immediately. They whinge on about climate yet build over prime farmland and forests whilst locking up the remaining public land because they don't want people camping, hiking, hunting or fishing.
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  31. Most empires are gone after 125yrs max.
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  32. An exit tax of 99% of your estate/wealth is exactly what the Nazis did to Jews, Poles, Gypsies, etc. who were able to leave. The Soviets had a 100% exit tax excluding only one suitcase of only clothes and photos.
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  33. Legitimate question: Why is visa-free to the EU so important? Why is it the factor that makes a passport useless or not? Thanks to the Schengen Zone the bulk of the EU is treated as the one area for the 90 day time limit in a 180 day period. The only valuable thing is a residence permit or citizenship to an EU country. I don't understand how not having visa-free to the EU makes a passport worthless. Sure other factors might but not having visa-free to the EU? If you're visa-free to the EU you require an ETIAS which requires the same information as a Schengen Visa (except for an invitation letter - easy to get) but it restricts where you enter and exit the EU unlike a Schengen Visa. You CAN'T work or do any business / banking / investment / purchase/rent apartments or property, on an ETIAS as its only for tourism. I think that the Caribbean will either lose all visa-free to the EU or they'll end their CBI programs to keep visa-free to the EU. Would that make those passports worthless? Absolutely not! Why I think they'll give up visa-free to the EU is because they want the CBI money more than the tourism access to the EU. To someone such as myself I don't care if I can be a tourist to the EU or not - its not hard to get a Schengen Visa (same information as an ETIAS but you get a visa put in your passport and don't have entry and exit locations specified), I care about being able to lower/eliminate my taxes by being able to legally become a citizen of a zero tax country and legally move there.
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  34. Having to go to the country to collect the documents in person is hugely problematic as unless they issue a "temporary/emergency passport (single use)" to enter the country then you'd be entering the country illegally as if you're a citizen of a country you must enter and exit it on their passport. Breaking the law by entering on a foreign passport immediately terminates CBI as its a "critical breech" of the CBI contract.
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  35. The problem is that this new definition could be interpreted by the authorities as "if you don't live full time indefinitely in one place, you'll pay us tax". The problem isn't the short term, the problem is that it stops you ever traveling or living a trifecta lifestyle even several years down the road once your life is 100% abroad. The reason its a problem is that the definition is whatever the ATO says it is and thus they can change it as they like. Basically they're so desperate for money, they're making it extremely difficult to live should you leave - this is instead of outright banning people from leaving. The only long-term option once you're 100% certain of never going to Australia will likely be to renounce.
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  36.  @youbencowell  That's only in the front on the Tesla Model 3 only. If you're in the back and something happens, you're screwed if you can't climb out the front windows. If you're tall and solid you're screwed. If the front is unsafe to exit via, you're trapped with no alternatives. There have already been several cases of people being burnt to death trapped in EV's when the batteries caught fire. The sick part is that the govt and safety regulators won't mandate 100% mechanical door releases because that would imply that EV's are unsafe and that would go against the official narrative on "climate" and "going green".
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  37. @roysnabilie8345 Sadly your experiences aren't a surprise. Anyone who grabs a history book and looks at 1945-1946 will notice that a heap (various sources give different numbers but easily up to 1 million) of super bad guys (can't use the actual term due to YouTube censorship) fled to South America (Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Colombia, Brazil, Mexico, Peru, Guatemala, Ecuador & Bolivia).
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  38. Airports asking about you carrying crypto - none of their business! Why? Because whilst I always prefer to stay on the right side of the law, there are times that it's not worth it to do so as complying puts you at greater risk. Consider the following: * You say you have you hardware wallet with you. They demand to look through it and demand you codes/passwords from you. How do you prove its all legally acquired on the spot? You can't - just like you can't immediately prove that the money in your bank account is all 100% legally acquired on the spot. So they seize it all and it gets transferred to another wallet and isn't seen again. * The same goes for passwords to accounts - never reveal your passwords to your accounts. There is nothing stopping them from doing malicious things in your name, removing the evidence and then arresting you over a 'complaint' or 'tip-off'. If they want access, make them have court orders so they can access via the admin side of things as that ensures accountability. If you hand over pins/passwords there is zero accountability. A crypto wallet shouldn't be any of their business - its nothing more than having a bank account or credit card. When crossing borders they don't inquire "do you have a bank account?" and then want to look through the account for "tax" reasons. Why is crypto any different? If they're trying to argue its money then why do they consider it a type of asset but not money for tax purposes? It can't be both! Only money and bullion are limited/require reporting to cross borders - general assets don't (except for import duty)! Only when everyone refuses to comply with such demands will they drop this BS about hardware wallets. I guess you could reset your hardware wallet and recover it once inside the country....
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  39. Be aware that the Reserve Bank Act in Australia allows the Reserve Bank to forcibly acquire any precious metal (including jewellery - even wedding rings) if its in the national interest and there's no legal recourse. If you must have any gold, silver, etc. in Australia, make sure that you can take physical possession (at least you could hide it to avoid having it forcibly taken from you by the Reserve Bank if they activated their power to do so) - keep it in a real safe (Lokaway in Australia is a great choice of safe manufacturer - they primarily produce firearm safes but can be configured for documents / bullion - keep in mind that these safes are large and weigh 500kg+). Avoid both Australia & New Zealand (sorry everyone...). The point I made just above about the Reserve Bank Act applies in both countries as NZ basically does what Australia does and they have near identical Reserve Bank Acts. If you don't physically possess it, you don't own it!
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  40. Didn't that require taking the poison? Pretty sure that's why most were stuck there.
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  41.  @rainmagic1  XRF only measures a few mm deep. That's why cutting bars and melt checks are still done when very uncertain. XLR isn't a thing.
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  42.  @svensulzmann4282  Its the 13th largest which means its the biggest of the smallest. The 10th largest is 2.5x larger than Australia. As for infrastructure, you mean the unmaintained crap that's failing rapidly because even though the maintenance costs on bills go through the roof, the companies would rather pocket the money than actually repair anything. The water, gas, elec grid companies just announced mega profits (their largest ever), yet there's SFA done to maintain or improve the "grid". This is whilst the poor and the elderly are being told to "not use heaters and to get blankets and jackets" if they can't afford heating. Stop talking utter BS about Australia, especially since you don't live there and are about 30yrs behind on reality.
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  43. Just wild camp / stealth camp. Avoid the "official" locations. If you have a hunting licence then you should even be able to go deep in the wilderness for prolonged periods and keep moving, don't stay in one location for too long. They're trying to lock up land in Australia so people resort to (in the affected areas) stashing gear at night and then getting dropped off, hiking to their gear and then moving their gear deep into the forests. Ebikes with solar blankets are also used. The endgame of locking up land and banning camping is 15 minute cities and total reliance on the govt.
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  44. The real question is why would anyone from NZ want to become an Australian citizen. Legally they have zero need to and have full rights thanks to the Trans-Tasman Agreement. This seems like a faster way for the govt to catch them in the AU tax net. The newer AU tax rules coming in soon will change the "are you tax resident" from the current 5 tests down to 3 (one of which is are you a citizen).
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  45. A Polish citizen can live anywhere within the Schengen Zone without any restrictions and the EU. However, once you're in the one country for 3 months, you must register your presence/residence. The time limits only apply to tourists. FYI, Poland has an exit tax so don't get into their tax system if you can help it.
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  46. Just be careful that wherever you live doesn't tax capital gains that are unrealized. Many "name-brand" countries do this - its always the ones that have "deeming laws" that love taxing "unrealized" gains. They do this by deeming the value of the asset to be higher than it actually is (i.e. they're looking at and deeming it to be what it could be worth) and then demanding people pay tax on the unrealized gains. Australia loves doing this.
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  47. Avoid becoming a citizen of Argentina at all costs - once a citizen its 100% impossible (and illegal under their laws) to renounce EVER! Any citizenship you acquire by choice needs to be ones that you can renounce should you feel the need to in the future. Argentina have been considering citizenship based taxation in recent years and if their socialist policies (huge welfare programs) keep enlarging and/or require more money, they'll likely introduce citizenship based taxation. Also be aware that most countries outside CANZUK & CUNA have mandatory military service - whilst they might exempt you from it, any current or future children you have will be legally required to fulfill it unless they can get an exemption (many countries don't give exemptions just because you live abroad). Most countries in Africa & Asia are borderline impossible to become a citizen of as even if the govt wanted to grant you citizenship, most of these countries prohibit dual/multiple citizenships. The best you'll get is permanent residency but still be aware that permanent residency may have military service requirements for any current or future children you have.
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  48. That's why you have multiple citizenships. When one becomes untenable you renounce it. If the country won't let you renounce or if you're scared that going to their embassy or consulate will result in you being arrested and deported/repartiated, then remain where you are (should be a country you're a citizen of) and let the fact that you're in a country of citizenship be what helps prevent you from being extradited. When you're in any country that you're a citizen of, you are considered as being only their citizen and can only use their documents to identify yourself - this means that you're a lot less likely to be forcibly taken to another country that you're a citizen of; it also means that if the country you're in bans you from leaving - you're stuffed as no other country can help you. Its all about determining the risk thresholds that you're concerned about and making well informed decisions based on as much information as you can obtain and consider.
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  49. Biggest issue with the Philippines is that the only affordable options are for retired people. If you're young, working and not rich you're out of luck.
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  50.  @nj9888  People tried that in Australia - the govt's response was to start this endless lowering of speed limits, to introduce harsh penalties for damn near everything in life and to require more permits and licences to do anything that require retraining and renewals every year. The system will always take what it wants from us. The system needs to go and be replaced with a barebones govt that can only do the bare essentials (producing bullion backed currency, passports, providing police and military, courts) and nothing more.
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  51.  @Xenthoid  But that means renouncing every other citizenship you have (i.e. zero options if you do so) as they don't permit dual/multi citizenship. Monaco is another country that doesn't permit dual/multi citizenship. Yet another reason most people don't want to move to Andorra.
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  52.  @caryphillips4885  The problem with resistivity is the existence of Tungsten and the fact that resistivity only goes 15mm deep. A 400oz industrial bar such as what a reserve would have could easily be fake, hence as you said cutting and melting randomly selected bars is the only way to be sure.
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  53. Just a friendly FYI - according to the Department of Home Affairs, they aren't required to accept you wanting to renounce so they can simply refuse and you're screwed.
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  54. Unfortunately it won't help you. Citizenship can be by naturalization or by descent and there are strict criteria that need to be met. There aren't any citizenships based on DNA tests.
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  55.  @user-im6fy4qp6m  There's no need to be offensive or anti-Semitic in these comments sections. To put it bluntly, only morons fail to understand that the world is like a farm where each country is just a field in the one farm. What Nomad Capitalist is talking about (i.e. flag theory) isn't parasitic, its purely capitalistic. He's not taking anything, he's investing and moving his life to other fields where he's treated best. Its like when the food runs out in one field, the animals are moved to the next, the only difference is that with flag theory you are able to choose which field you move to. As for your comment about nationalist allegiance - countries have to earn that. If a country treats you like shit, you're never going to care about them. In the situation Nomad Capitalist is talking about (flag theory) the countries are treating him well and thus he invests and lives there, and likely employs staff to maintain his residences.
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  56.  @easterncoastacd1883  No, what he's talking about are the new tax residency rules that are coming in 1 July 2023 (the start of the new tax year). What you're talking about has been law since 2020 (global minimum for all companies - not just corporations). The new rules are a citizenship based tax in all but name as what Australia considers to be "residing in your country of tax residency for a significant enough part of the year each year" can change whenever the wind changes direction, its arbitrary and targets Australian citizens who live abroad permanently. I'm curious to hear how many years they'll actually monitor you for about this but until they announce a time limit then we must assume this is permanent so gone are long holidays, flag theory / trifecta model, gone is all but the most essential business travel, unless you want to pay the ATO simply for being an Australian citizen.
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  57. @animal9370 LOL that's a good joke. As long as those people are abroad and earning well (or earned well) and have naturalized where they live, their medical and care expenses will be significantly lower than they would be in the US, not to mention the level of care will be much better abroad. Please put down the kool-aid and look at the costs. Even full-fee paying in Europe or Malaysia is a fraction the cost when compared to the USA be it medical or high-level (luxury) aged care.
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  58.  @ianbardon8581  That's actually impossible - you won't be able to buy anything, nor will you be able to attend any govt office or hospital. You also won't be able to pay your taxes which will result in the govt taking everything from you by force. That's the problem. If it isn't stopped by the govt now, it can't be stopped later.
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  59. The main reason people leave is because they have no choice if they want to succeed. Take Australia for example - the bulk of the population are on welfare and love increasing taxes of those who earn because it means more money for those on welfare. Its effectively vote buying as the welfare payments always increase a few months before elections. Then considering these people are receiving without providing anything, they feel its ok to take even more and they support any politician and party who will take more and give more to them. There literally is no way to change anything as its rapidly spiraling downwards with no end in sight. Also, with the two-party-preferred, preferential voting system and the bulk of minor parties being off-shoots of the Labor party, its literally not possible to vote anyone else in (other than one of the big two - Labor or Liberal) and since both major parties have become the same politically (in order to get elected) there isn't really any choice. You vote so your name gets marked off and you don't receive a fine, not because it changes anything. Thus the only option is to leave and hope it all comes crashing down one day when all the money runs out and they have no choice but to reduce taxes and to reduce over regulation to the point that business and success become possible once again. At this point in time, Australia is great for a holiday but not to live or work in and not to run a business in.
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  60. Good luck - you really need to have other citizenships already and to have already renounced or be starting the process. If they implement this taxation, they likely won't let anyone renounce. Remember, renouncing is ALWAYS at the discretion of the country concerned - i.e. its up to them to let you. More disturbingly countries can declare ANYONE to be a citizen without the consent of the person affected.
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  61. Antigua & Barbuda would be great (you only have to spend 5 days (spend a week in Antigua and a week in Barbuda)) in the first 5yrs of citizenship otherwise you won't be able to renew the passport. Swap its position with Vanuatu as Vanuatu is subject to EU Blacklist tax withholding. Don't bother with New Zealand, they're worse than Australia and about the same as Canada on '2020 thing' restrictions and insanity. Plus New Zealand have very high taxes and heaps of levies (taxes under a different name).
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  62. Australia is desperate for money, the spend like its going out of fashion and instead of encouraging industry and exports, their answer to running out of money is to borrow more and to increase taxes. The Australian govt are like addicted gamblers losing every last cent.
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  63. Unless its something that is legally forcing you to stay (i.e. licence audit, tax audit, jury duty, etc.), quit making excuses and get out. There's affordable options (usually residence permits). If you own a house, consider selling it to fund getting out. Stop making excuses and get out - if you keep making excuses, you never will. Sure it might feel scary but why stay and lose everything!
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  64. I'm trying to leave Australiastan as soon as possible so I can live somewhere I can work and thrive and where taxes are ideally 0% PIT so I can use crypto and not lose it all to the ATO as 'taxes'. Sadly the place is making it harder to leave - basically ALL 'assets' are subject to unrealized gains so you have to liquidate everything, pay the insane taxes, then pay the taxes on the money you take out of the country - leaving you with very little to survive on abroad. 'Assets' also now includes things that have never otherwise been 'assets' such as boats, planes, RV's, etc. (things that are normally considered liabilities / expenses) which are now being reported by insurance companies to the ATO if valued over $60k (approx. - I don't remember the exact amount) so they can do "Lifestyle Data Matching" and so they can interrogate you on where and how you got it (even though they already know due to their huge data mining), and demand unrealized gains tax if you leave. Oh, and that's assuming they let you leave, many people are being hit with regular jury duty to keep them stuck in the country and with licence related issues (incl. audits) to keep them stuck in the country. Combine that with the near infinite elections (at least 1 every year) and you can't change your electoral roll details (i.e. leave the country and get removed) because they freeze the rolls for elections, and they also freeze your individual entry whilst subject to jury duty. Australiastan is broke, thinks that all your hard earned money belongs to them, intentionally stops you investing and benefiting (the taxes make it not worthwhile) and then goes out of its way to stop you leaving after having regulated many of us out of work with insane BS professional registration schemes that are designed to force locals out of work (due to unworkable CPD and experience requirements) but makes the world of exceptions for 'skilled migrant workers'.
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  65.  @wuerges  Sorry but you're actually wrong, what I've stated is the truth as backed up by law - ask any lawyer, border guard or anyone working in federal law enforcement. If you are a citizen of a country you must enter and exit it on that passport - that is literally law in all but two countries in the world. If you enter a country on one passport and exit on another, you will have legally overstayed or failed to legally exit as you haven't "checked out". Your passports aren't linked. Just because you may not like what I said, doesn't make it wrong. Doing what you said is literally committing a crime that carries a long jail sentence.
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  66. Look at the countries in Schengen and those likely to join. Croatia only recently joined. An EU passport from within Schengen is the most valuable passport in the world as it give the greatest real freedom (work, live, etc.) in the most countries. Don't be clouded by "visa-free" - that's for tourism only. After an EU passport the next best would be an OECS passport from one of the original 7 founding OECS countries (these countries are also in CARICOM), followed by a UK, AU, or NZ passport. After that its purely whatever else you want. If in doubt, get as many as you can. Also note that an EU passport from within Schengen opens even more doors (though there are some hoops to jump through) as providing you're willing to jump a few hoops one can get approved to live in parts of the former French Empire. That means you can live in parts of Oceania that are part of France and in parts of the French Caribbean.
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  67. As someone who's moved a lot, when the rental is over, having to move everything is painful. If you can simply have a place or two and can afford to do so, why not. Most people who spend 3+ months at a time in a location will accumulate books, pots, pans, etc. why have to pack and move, ship that stuff everywhere. Everytime that stuff crosses borders that export duty and import duty. In most of Europe an apartment is only around $120,000-$180,000 which is nothing compared to the price of a house in Australia or New Zealand ($1 million+)
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  68. @sammya1970 Yet every other religion is allowed to take off ever religious holiday without anyone complaining. Quit trying to hide your personal anti-semitism.
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  69.  @kahvac  It won't. XRF only goes a few mm in. Gold and tungsten are basically identical in terms of density. Resistivity testing only goes 15mm deep so given that the bars are likely 400oz industrial bars, they could easily be fake. Thus only cutting and melting randomly selected bars can prove if its real or not.
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  70.  @garrettmgunderson  The problem is purchasing results in the seller reporting the sale and who they sold it to. Thus they don't even need to do data matching, they already have it all in full detail. Thus you're screwed regardless.
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  71. Sorry but that's just not true. Sailing SV Delos, Sailing Zatara and Sailing La Vagabonde are all proof that you can still educate your children without needing to settle in. The best part is by being nomadic, they have friends around the world and because those friendships are traditional friendships, they last. Now that there is Starlink for yachts/cruisers, not just stationary and RV's, its never been easier to maintain a proper education whilst being nomadic.
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  72. To a certain extent its possible if you're a person of modest means however its gonna be a lot harder, unless you're a multinational from birth (2-3+ citizenship's from birth - ideally one of those would be an OECS or EU (Schengen) country). You'll have a harder time getting visas and establishing residence, you'll need to also afford to rent (1yr +) or buy a home and prove that you have enough left over and/or consistent income to support yourself. The six figure+ clients that get mentioned have things much easier as they can easily buy or rent property, they can easily prove their ability to support themselves and can easily show large income; more importantly, they can easily afford to do CBI which will always be easier than residence/visas. Speaking conservatively, it'll cost $300,000-$550,000 for most people to completely move abroad and support themselves for a year - yes this is assuming a residence is purchased (usually a requirement for residence - not everywhere permits 1yr + rental contracts) and one's possessions are shipped. All shipped possessions have import duty that will have to be paid on them unless you're moving to a handful of countries that permit citizens to return with all their possessions once in their lifetime without having to pay import duty on those possessions (Poland, Hungary; there's two others but I can't remember which two others). This is why some people get a secondhand catamaran and live aboard, such vessels can be found for $300,000; just make sure you're into sailing and know how to sail if you want to live aboard a boat.
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  73. Its not being discussed - its already law! Also currently illegal to leave Australia, those who leave through the NZ bubble will receive 5yrs jail and/or a $63,000 fine. Australia, the new North Korea - so good you can't leave or enter! Australia is a failed state and commie dictatorship where absolutely no human rights exist due to the State of Emergency Powers which automatically suspend all human rights during the State of Emergency
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  74. Since the CCP have taken over Hong Kong and brought in their insane "National Security Law" which they claim applies in all countries of the world (sorry, China's authority ends at their border), why would anyone want to risk getting in "trouble" because you rejected a business deal and then get taken away under their "National Security Law" because you're in Hong Kong. Growing up, I was there a lot whilst my father attended medical conferences, it was wonderful under British Control, Victoria Peak, Ocean Park, the Ferry, Tsim Sha Tsu was always great and really came to life at night. Sadly Hong Kong is too much of a risk due to CCP control, their insane "National Security Law" and the fact that nothing is certain as they can't even honour their own word of when they'd impose their will on Hong Kong (was not supposed to be until 2047)...
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  75. @mutantryeff Sorry but you failed geography - the USA is a union of States who surrendered all of their sovereignty to the US Federal Govt. I.e. they have zero say on visas and citizenship. The EU is a union of Sovereign Nations (i.e. countries) who are each fully in control of their respective countries and thus citizenships. The EU doesn't provide passports to anyone as the EU is not a government. Each country in the EU issues passports to its citizens. The EU's Schengen Zone is the subgroup of countries in the EU who have agreed to free movement and to have one common market (i.e. the Common Market Area) - you pay taxes based on which EU country you live in (even within Schengen). Outside of Schengen there's different rules for living - if someone with an EU passport from Schengen wants to live in a non-Schengen EU country, they have to apply for permission to reside, they can't just register residence like they can within Schengen.
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  76. Move to the Caribbean tax havens (Antigua & Barbuda or St Kitts and Nevis), they're very conservative and allow you to homeschool. Worst case, live on a large catamaran and cruise the oceans, that's one way to be able to legally homeschool your kids. Its only the west and the non-tax havens that are going to shit.
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  77.  @Maree2505  Just look up Professional Engineering Registration - each State and Territory is bringing it in. Whilst the registration isn't the end of the world, the requirements to be permitted to register are not inline with the industry nor are they possible for 99% to comply with. The CPD (continuing professional development) requirements are still a big secret but you have to have completed them - the few bits of leaked info mention that its mostly management, accounting and climate categories that form a huge part of the required hours and for CPD to count, it can't be part of your normal day-to-day responsibilities/job but it must be related to your job. This is literally impossible as for those who've already done the courses and who work in small businesses or as consultants, its suddenly part of your day-to-day responsibilities/job and thus doesn't count. Then there's the experience requirements - 3 jobs and 3 different levels across 3 different companies in the 10yrs prior to applying for registration. This is literally not possible as that's not how the industry works, but politicians know better (ha ha). As for the not being allowed to do research - just look at all major university course websites, they detail that all research projects and research that's not PhD must be a rehashing of existing knowledge.
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  78.  @jeremyleonbarlow  Whilst I encourage everyone to not break the law, there will always be ways to hide money. Consider the following: Art, bullion, luxury homes, land, luxury vehicles and boats. These are all ways of hiding money as they can be owned through living trusts, shell companies, etc. The most corrupt industry in the world which is also responsible for the most money laundering in the world is the Art industry. If you're wondering why art, its because the value of art is subjective. To me it might be worthless but to Joe Bloggs to the right of me, it might be worth billions. Bullion is the next most common option as its a tangible that can be purchased without registration and taken wherever the owner wants it. As for why hiding money or assets is critical - privacy and safety. Public knowledge of who has what money and assets simply puts the individual in danger or kidnap and ransom or extortion. Not having privacy makes people targets. If you're not a US citizen, there are plenty of ways to legally have privacy however it will involve lawyers and govt's vouching that they know the legal owner but are not making it public for the safety of the individual and through the use of complex legal structures. Live full-time in a tax haven and its easy, live anywhere else and you're basically screwed.
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  79.  @herbigp  You couldn't leave either, even if you wanted to leave permanently, even if the other end would let you in and stay forever - unless you were over 50 and thus deemed useless by the govt, then you could leave without issue.
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  80. Nope - you never present more than one passport - that's literally asking for trouble. You only ever present one passport. Present the passport that gives you the most rights but keep in mind that if you're a citizen of a country, you must use their passport to enter and exit their country. So if you have an AU and an EU (Schegen Zone) passport and you leave Australia to the EU's Schengen Zone it goes as follows: 1. Leave AU on AU passport 2. Enter EU (Schengen Zone) on EU (Schengen Zone) passport to return simply do the above process in reverse - leave EU on EU passport and enter AU on AU passport.
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  81.  @luismanzanos7058  That's the biggest lie I've ever heard, you like the government claim that but in the last 20yrs its never once been proven true anywhere in the world. The same few engineers who made the robots/automation maintain it whilst the people who were made redundant lose their jobs and have nothing. The problem is that 10 people can product 1000 robots in a month by using automation themselves and they can service every robot/automation required as very little, if any is required. Servers can be fixed remotely and its extremely rare that hardware needs changing. Robots that are used in automation don't need physical servicing more than once a year. Simply put a few servers can put everyone in an office out of a job - especially now that ChatGPT works extremely well and that machine learning is so cheap and accurate. Entire manufacturing facilities can be automated with a few servers, a few pick and place robots and PLC's. I know - I've literally done this as a Control Engineer. 1000 people were made permanently redundant by the company as there weren't any jobs to move those people to. What and where are these millions of jobs that you claim get produced? You need to quit lying to yourself and to everyone else - there are no new jobs as modern technology can made 99.95% of people redundant.
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  82. Also Australiastan...
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  83. Simply having super shouldn't make you tax resident, don't have it invested, let it stagnate and slowly drain away courtesy of fees. Also, don't pay into it if you're not living in Australia. Unless you qualify to access your super I don't think there's any way to move it out of Australia as even NZ won't let you withdraw it.
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  84.  @sammya1970  It is when every muslim can take off all their religious holidays and when every Indian can take off every religious holiday as can every African. That's how it currently is - only jews and "whites" can't take off every religious holiday whilst everyone else can. As an employer, unless you're in the USA, you don't have the legal right to refuse religious holiday leave, but just like with racism towards "whites", the govt just let it happen to both jews and "whites" to be seen as "inclusive and tolerant".
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  85. This video and your previous one are absolutely wonderful. I love the fact that everything runs locally without an external 'cloud'. Looking forward to the upcoming videos.
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  86. In the place you're legally tax resident and where your centre of life is. Simple! Like with everything, that's why if you want to live flag theory you have to: 1. Establish tax residency in a 0% PIT country - you have to move your centre of life there and have a home that you return to 2. LEGALLY leave the high tax, tax system that you were in, thus leaving you only in the tax system you entered in point 1 3. Get a bank account in the 0% PIT country, live there for 8+ months and get a local tax file number. 0% PIT countries still issue tax file numbers so you can fill in the space on forms and as part of proving that you're legally tax resident there, even though PIT is 0% 4. Once you've achieved all of that LEGALLY, now you can look at holidaying to several places for a month or two at a time (be careful to not become tax resident due to physical presence in those places), returning to the 0% PIT country you live in after each trip. 5. Congrats you're living the modern LEGAL version of flag theory Its no longer possible to be perpetually traveling and tax resident nowhere, countries will declare you tax resident automatically unless you have LEGAL tax residency somewhere. This is literally a case of "you have to know how to play their game and beat them at their own game whilst complying with all the rules they made". Its intentionally hard because the high-tax countries are desperate for taxes because they're broke welfare states that care more about being dystopian, all encompassing and because they let themselves become welfare states. Remember, when the largest employer in a country is the government, the only outcome is always going to be larger, more bloated government and thus more over regulation (nanny state) and the only way to fund that is higher taxes. Becoming welfare states lets the govt exert more control over the people as they need the money to survive, it also makes it easier to justify increasing taxes "you don't want the poor to starve do you?".
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  87.  @youbencowell  Basically the vast majority of them are electrically operated via solenoids. The inside handle is just a button which sends a signal to a circuit board to trigger a solenoid to release the door. There are a few cheap bottom of the market EV's that have 100% mechanical door releases but the vast majority don't. Some examples are: most Tesla's, Audi E-Tron, Chevrolet Corvette, Ford Mustang Mach-E, Lexus NX, and the discontinued Lincoln Continental however there are many more.
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  88. You're assuming that France will let them. Renouncing is ALWAYS at the discretion of the country concerned - they don't have to let you. Disturbingly ANY country can declare ANYONE to be a citizen - if they try what's mentioned in the video, I wouldn't be surprised if they refuse to let people renounce and I wouldn't be surprised if they start making people citizens at random just to demand taxes.
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  89. Well those countries could fix that by stopping immigration and getting everything sorted internally and only then opening immigration. Australia creates its own welfare mess with its immigration and high taxes (literally hurts itself by trying to help everyone). Either way, still doesn't justify Australian passports costing basically $500 for a weak travel document (since 2020 its lost access to many countries, and, only gained 15 days visa-free to China (just like many EU passports)).
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  90. You need to be high 7-8 figures - boutique services NEVER come cheap, especially when they're good. Most boutique services are around $25,000 per appointment with other fees for each thing they need to do and other costs. That's why they always introduce themselves as being for '7-8 figure entrepreneurs'.
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  91.  @nh5317  just go through the ABF and AEC data for the last few years and you'll see the discrepancy. It's about 6.5% as the national population is about 28 million
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  92.  @advex4428  And in the current millennia those countries genuinely need to revisit those laws as no normal person would consider 'upsetting someone', 'offending someone online' or 'sharing a meme that offended someone' to be a crime. The problem is the laws were created when crime meant actual crime, the English speaking world has now made basically everything into a crime.
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  93.  @RC94332  Doing it via the 1965 treaty is likely the better option as the old Italian Empire is much more favoured in Panama than the USA is, geopolitically speaking. The USA is seen in most of the world as a bully. Getting residency via the treaty using Italian Citizenship by Descent (not by naturalization) will likely give a chance at naturalizing as Panamanian - whilst it would be difficult and involve bureaucracy stuffing you around, its more likely to be possible. Trying to become Panamanian through the FNV is basically impossible as there's always an excuse as to why you can't be naturalized - commonly "not sufficiently integrated", or they just "lose" your paperwork and make you infinitely start again.
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  94. Electricians and mechanics wouldn't qualify. Those aren't the professions being wanted. El Salvador only wants very highly skilled professionals as they're trying to build the country to be the next "place to be" and the leader in advanced technology. Honestly - the USA and EU can get stuffed - the more people (and countries) say "whatever" and "mind your own business", the better. The Caribbean CBI programs have some stupid idea that if they keep doing what the USA and EU demand, that they'll be able to keep their CBI programs - the USA and EU won't stop demanding the world until those programs end. Basically the USA and EU don't want their citizens to have any options to go anywhere else as they want to take all their wealth through taxation to try to cover up the financial disaster the govts have caused. The smart people are leaving now. El Salvador is doing well to ignore the USA and EU. BTC is a real currency as a result - now its up to people to demand their countries quit taxing it as crypto and that it gets taxed as currency (i.e. normally).
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  95. Rubbish - in Vanuatu, ALL land is leased from the govt. No one can own land whether born there or not!
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  96.  @TheAwesomeTolga198  *any western government - primarily CANZUK and CUNA. There are very few other countries that are actively trying to stop people from leaving. There are several countries that literally guarantee freedom of entry and exit to their citizens in their constitutions.
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  97.  @mjor6406  Thankfully I'm not a US citizen but my point stands - why should a country be permitted to tax its citizens who benefit nothing from them? Why should a person have to renounce citizenship to leave a tax system? Why do you think its right for a country (the US) to tax its citizens abroad when they benefit nothing from the US?
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  98. If you do business in Oceania its a perfect passport to have as it allows you to transit Australia without a visa - only AU & NZ passports can negate the need for this.
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  99. Because people don't want to have to waste time and money filing taxes and forms to a place they no longer live. Even below the threshold, the reporting of assets and filing of taxes is still mandatory, not to mention that many countries won't give a US citizen a bank account as they don't want the headache that causes them. Also depending on what you do, ITAR will prohibit US citizens from doing many things abroad and also prohibit you from selling those things outside the USA, even though people from the rest of the world are free to do so in many cases. ITAR is board and all encompassing - it covers many things that most people wouldn't even think it covers.
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  100. At least you get to retire. In Australia, anyone born after 1975 will basically work till they die as the retirement age keeps getting pushed up 5yrs or 10yrs depending on which party is in power. What annoys me is that women get to retire 15yrs before men - what sexist BS - it should be the same for men and women. Oh yeah, anyone born after 1975 will also likely never see their retirement money (Superannuation) as they'd have to otherwise qualify for a pension and then their super would be made available as if it were a pension. Note that Superannuation is a decent chunk of what would otherwise be your wage - its literally your money but the govt want to take it and use it because "there's better things to spend it on than holding it as superannuation". Also, said Superannuation is capped at $1.5 million for anyone born after 1975 - simply put either due to the normal mandatory contributions and/or as a result of inflation, once that amount is reached the money that would otherwise go to your Superannuation goes directly to 'General Revenues' for the govt to waste how they want - you're not allowed to keep it as your wage.
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  101. Just use the following rule and you'll always be fine: If you are entering or exiting a country for which you have a passport (issued by that country) you must use it. You can't be a tourist (at the border) of a country you are a citizen of. Here's an example for a person with a passport from both a CUNA and EU (within Schengen Zone) country: To Exit CUNA Country: Use CUNA passport To Enter Europe (within Schengen Zone): Use EU (Schengen) passport To Leave Europe (within Schengen Zone): Use EU (Schengen) passport To Enter CUNA Country: Use CUNA passport If however you're traveling to a country to which you're not a citizen of (and don't have freedom of movement such as Schengen), then use the passport that gives you the most freedom - some countries get more visa-free tourism time than others. Remember its always better to be visa-free as a tourist than visa-on-arrival as they don't have to grant a visa-on-arrival.
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  102. Not some, all of it
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  103. Travelling visa-free and being equipped is something that most agencies have sorted ahead of time. Hollywood never shows things in detail and always over-simplifies everything. Without going into detail, in the real world it'd be more like: * Source pre-arranges travel (either legal entry or illegal entry (i.e. sneaking in)) * Travel * Asset goes to in-country safe house to get equipped with documents, money, firearm, phone with contacts, etc. * Does whatever is needed * Returns everything to another safe house * Leaves similarly to how they entered the country Driving without a licence whilst illegal isn't as hard as it seems. Most people don't get licence checked and who's to say they don't have an International Driver Permit? Also, in most countries you only need to carry a National ID card, as long as you're only driving a car or riding a motorbike you usually have 24hrs in which to present your licence at a police station to prove you're licenced. Also the new type National ID cards in the EU have a chip which links it to all your licences so its able to be checked on the spot. How many people who work don't actually have licences? Also, most agencies have people inside the appropriate offices to be able to issue licences as required. As for knowing the area well, its simple. Get a paper map and study the area, remember things by key landmarks and by turns. Names overly complicate the process of memorising regions. Plus I would guarantee they've spent 2 days driving around to get to know the area - yet again Hollywood leaves this out. As has been public knowledge for over 50yrs thanks to books written by former spies and even from the early Bond books by Ian Fleming, the best agents/spies are the ones who have perfectly clean records, from countries with strong passports and who don't attract attention from others (they look ordinary).
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  104. None of that would occur. The moment you start a business you're gonna get reamed with red-tape and taxes. A UBI will require more in taxes to fund it and just having a UBI will push the prices of everything up so it'd be the same as now but the prices would be higher as the money would have less purchasing power equal to the UBI.
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  105. Just make sure that the guaranteed amount is per account, not per combined accounts. Some banks will look at all accounts in your name and consider them as one when it comes to the guaranteed amount.
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  106. Part of the problem for those trying to leave high tax countries but who aren't rich is that those high tax countries will basically only let you leave the system by going to another high tax country. Take Australia as an example, if you move to France where the taxes are higher, then Australia will let you leave the tax system. If you moved to Georgia where the taxes are lower, the ATO would force you to pay the difference in tax rates to them as they'd claim you're only temporarily overseas because they claim you're trying to exploit tax rates and not actually leaving Australia (due to their automatic belief that you 'intend to return'). That's how desperate for tax revenue Australia is and how insane they are because they think that high taxes and taking from those who earn well is 'normal and right'. I find that attitude that Australia has to be sickening and disgusting as I believe that you should be allowed to keep what you earn and that wealth shouldn't be taxed (wealth taxes coming very soon to Australia). Given that most DTA's Australia had are now gone, the only option is to go to a higher tax country to get out of the system, then spend 3-5yrs in that even higher tax country (to avoid being pulled automatically back into the Australian system, and to be considered properly in the higher tax country's system), then leave its system and finally move to where you can thrive. Due to the double move it becomes financially impossible for most - this is why its the rich and retired who can leave Australia, not the young who are wanting to get businesses going and succeed. Canada isn't much different.
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  107. Nope - you're confusing the two programs. Currently the one million in BTC donation program is for the rich (i.e. the current program), the video is primarily about the new program where 5000 "professionals" (engineers, scientists, doctors, artists, philosophers, etc.) will be able to move there full time to help the country grow in return for free citizenship and zero import taxes on everything they bring with them when moving there.
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  108.  @kspradeep8397  There is zero room to reform New Zealand - they're commies and hardcore fascist lefties on all sides of politics. As for being non-resident, if you enter and leave most countries in less than 2 to 3 months but already have tax residency in another country you won't need to file that you're a non-resident. You only have to register being resident if you stay for three months or longer (some exceptions apply as some countries say you're taxable at 45 days unless you're a tourist). The point of having citizenship in a tax haven in the Caribbean is that you have continuously lived there for the bulk of a year (and you own a house or apartment) to set your tax residency there so that you'll get a tax file number and tax residency certificate so you can leave the tax system you're trying to get out of and remain out of. Once out, you keep your centre of life based there but holiday to other places staying only a couple of months at most (of whatever limit is required) so you don't become resident. Your passport portfolio lets you travel & work remotely whilst traveling without getting into trouble like a tourist working without a visa would. From the tax haven your centre of life is in you setup legal structures to legally control businesses in other countries so that whilst those businesses pay taxes, you yourself don't fall into the tax nets of those countries.
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  109.  @tux407  As an Australian, it's not worth it for being geographically remote. There are better locations such as the Caribbean, parts of South America or SE Asia. Australia has stupidly high taxes (they're still increasing), houses are completely unaffordable for the average person thanks to the govt letting foreign corporations and investors overpay. Most average houses are $1 million+, units can be $500,000-800,000 depending on location. The "huge number of millionaires" comes from the fact that the population is mostly older people who owned houses from before prices went insane and thus now have houses worth millions if they sold tomorrow, Australia looks at wealth for statistical purposes based on "if you liquidated everything tomorrow". The only place you'll find houses that are affordable is in the countryside - well out of town where there aren't any jobs. Cars are essential to get around, delivery of purchases is stupidly expensive. The health system is actually falling apart here because most politicians haven't bothered to do anything to improve it since the 90's, only construction projects get priority. Eating out is not really an option given that a burger with chips and a soft drink from a "non-fastfood" place is basically $30 - $35 per person. If you're very rich this obviously isn't a problem. Oh and there are mandatory qualifications and permits and licences for literally everything in Australia so if you're looking for a good business environment, you're not gonna find it in Australia. At the end of the day, that's just the opinion of an Aussie who's heading overseas to go "where [I'm] treated best" as Andrew says. Your mileage may vary. Just remember, just because a place is nice to visit as a tourist, doesn't mean its the same when you're living there day-to-day. If you still think its where you want to be, try it, see how it suits you.
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  110. Hate to say it but they can do it literally over night. Most people are already used to tapping their card to pay and as such very few places still accept cash, ATM's are disappearing - they last few years helped as they justified it over "spreading the thing" concerns. How they will likely do it over a weekend: * Close the banks on a Friday morning citing "IT issues", dump the banks databases to CSV files (more reliable and compatible than SQL dumps across many versions of SQL, plus reordering CSV is easy and the CSV handlers run much faster being an older simpler technology) and import them into a govt controlled ledger. * Announce to the public over the weekend that all welfare is going 100% digital and that in order to do so, all money will be going digital. * Reassure everyone that their money will be converted at a rate of 1-to-1 and to not worry. * Announce exchange points to convert remaining cash and bank notes into CBDC. * Lastly they'd push out an update to their "Service [State name or Country name]" app (i.e. Service NSW, Service Vic, etc.) with the CBDC part enabled. This app and its equivalents are already used for digital licences, welfare, public healthcare status and for electronic payments in the "Digital Wallet" section. All the CBDC code is already in the govt apps which is why they're so large, all that's not visible is the button to access the functionality but that will appear either though an update or if the app can reach a specific predetermined server (the latter is more likely as that would avoid having to have an update successfully roll out to millions of people). The point is they won't give you a choice, just like the last few years, they'll just do what they want to. Those who resist will be locked out of the system and likely locked up in one of the many "quarantine" facilities they built or in the prisons they've also built over the last few years and are continuing to build. They don't care about pretending to keep capitalism, in Australia they've literally said that they're "rebuilding capitalism" by replacing it with socialism as they claim that "socialism has conquered capitalism" and that "the future has never been brighter but we need socialism to succeed". They're more evil than people give them credit for. The time to act, be it leave, protest, lobby or fight is now, not tomorrow. If you don't like the way things are going, don't wait for others to do something because they will wait until its too late. Educate those around you about it, show them evidence from official sources to support what you're saying. If that fails or if you just don't want to fight it, leave to "greener pastures". In terms of Australia and Canada, both countries are completely lost to the mindless sheep who think socialism is great - it always ends in failed communism; anyone in Australia, New Zealand or Canada who has a brain will leave to "live to fight another day" because there's no way to fight when the majority want things to continue the way they're going. Change only occurs when the majority want it. There's no point staying and being self-destructive by trying to fight and going broke and then not having the option to leave. As the old saying goes "its better to leave a day too soon, than a a day too late; leave early and you can always return, leave late and you'll perish".
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  111.  @robbraxmantech  They can't as the One Time Pad would be offline as would the encryption and decryption if I understand the above comment correctly. OTP's are still unbreakable since their development and are still used by numbers stations. From what I understand from watching your video, I would go as far as saying that the OS isn't the threat, the threat is also the firmware on the CPU and or in the other controllers. Given that people have been editing, compiling and installing their own versions of Android for over a decade, I would assume that the govts have implemented their methods in a way that can't be removed or bypassed. The only solution seems to be to have custom hardware that is known to not be tampered with. I fear we've reached dystopia already.
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  112.  @namewithheldforprivacy7107  Two of those three have PIT. One of them just introduced it because the OECD, WEF, BIS & US told them to. Just saying...
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  113.  @Maree2505  Yep, business and arts degrees are a joke in Australia, very easy and very little relevant stuff taught.
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  114. Cyprus won't be much of anything until Turkey get the hell out of there. Turkey invaded and ruined the place, their insistence of it being theirs is why huge areas are permanently locked off, why families can't take their possessions that are in the DMZ as they were forced out over night. I think that the EU should require Turkey to leave Cyprus as a condition of admission to the EU.
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  115. In many cases they're not doing it out of choice, they're doing it out of it being their only option due to easier migration pathways or because they already have freedom of movement (CTA between UK & IRE, TT between AU & NZ, etc.). Those who can afford to do CBI and get out of CANZUK & CUNA are doing just that. The biggest issue is cost and the fact that for those who can't afford CBI, visa options are rapidly vanishing as the world becomes very insular.
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  116.  @George-gg1ny  Transhumanism is the goal of Yuval Noah Harari and the WEF. Harari desires to end all free will.
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  117. That's my point. This will require full AML/KYC, it will also require the govt to be able to seize your crypto that this card can access (thanks to financial laws). This is basically the CBDC we're all worried about.
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  118.  @asiatravel2010  Utter bullshit. His visa was cancelled upon arrival because the govt wanted to score political mileage, then the courts said he did nothing wrong and gave him back his visa. Then the immigration minister cancelled his visa citing "health" and "good order" ground - basically wrong think because Novak is against the jabs and his presence would result in civil unrest and would encourage people to be anti-vax. Novak did nothing wrong other than thinking rule of law exists in this place - it doesn't, ministers can eject you over what they think you might think or do. Search for an article called "Novak Djokovic deported, could be banned from Australia for three years, but there is a loophole", it explains what I'm saying in full detail.
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  119. Countries can do whatever they like. You don't 'own' your citizenship in most countries, its the country that decided who's a citizen and who isn't. They generally reserve the right to grant and to revoke citizenship at their discretion. Only some countries who suffered communism behind the Iron Curtain, such as Poland have their constitution written so that the govt can NEVER revoke citizenship once granted unless you ask to renounce - hence why such countries are very strict and rarely grant citizenship to people who aren't ethnically from such countries. The reason such protections exist is the communists forcibly stripped many citizens of their citizenship and exiled them as stateless people during the Cold War (they were the lucky ones who could "buy their lives and exile" and the ones who left the few times the border was open to leave during the Cold War), the unlucky ones faced deportation to Siberia (the GULAG system) to do hard labour and the most unlucky were summarily executed by the NKWD. Countries can declare anyone to be their citizen even without the consent of the individual concerned. Some countries do so to make extraditing someone easier as its harder for countries to refuse to extradite a citizen of the country requesting. Countries can also refuse to let you renounce - its always at their discretion. Basically they can take their countries nationality from you unless you renounce all others you hold.
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  120. You're dreaming if you think it adds certainty. It doesn't - it muddies the waters as even if you live 2+yrs in another country, should you have a 3mth holiday in another country Australia could argue you haven't stayed long enough in your country of tax residence and thus demand you pay tax to them (Australia) just for being a citizen, what if legitimate business travel ends up as 5mths? There is no "after X yrs you're free to live how you like as long as you stay abroad". If you think its not law and thus nothing to worry about, I hope you have millions upon millions to burn on legal fees going to court if the ATO don't agree with you. The cost of going to court makes it irrelevant as to whether or not its a law or a ruling as the outcome will be the same - you'll likely lose to the ATO and courts will take all your money in fees, even if you win, you'll still lose as you'll go broke thanks to legal fees, thus going to court isn't an option. This is the problem of govts having the final say and the power to screw you around until you comply.
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  121. Yeah, got the same problem leaving (long term (several years) but not permanently - I may visit occasionally every few years and may one day retire in Australia), can't even leave for long term work even though I have a passport from a EU Schengen country. Just lost that job opening - so no point leaving at the moment; the exemptions that supposedly exist are a joke. They were only granted at the beginning of the border closure - they literally aren't worth applying for as they just get refused at the moment. One of my colleagues applied then got refused, reapplied a few weeks later with the same legitimate detailed info and got refused again even though his reason was listed as being appropriate to apply. The EU are opening their external border from the 1st July 2020. Australia however seems dead-set on continuing the descent into communism and the USSR's iron curtain style approach, the place is so good you can't ever leave. The Australian border doesn't seem like it'll open (for people to leave) before March 2021 if ever! Also, trying to escape Australia is currently a jail-able crime thanks to the virus according to the Home Affairs website - so don't try to swim away. I can understand them not wanting to let people in but to prohibit people who are wanting to leave long term and can't be refused entry to another country (by being a citizen of it), it straight up fascism.
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  122. Then you'll likely end up in jail for failure to do your taxes. You can't get your group certificate or deal with the ATO without MyGov - its a digital ID. This is just a new one that will be just as voluntary as MyGov (i.e. mandatory).
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  123. @Nick Morris Not 100% sure yet but my list has a few places. Several parts of the EU outside of Europe, there are some tax haven's that are part of France so having been born with both Australian and an EU citizenship that's an easy choice. The next choices are countries (not just CBI ones) in the Caribbean. I'm a mechanical engineer who prior to getting qualified as such, has a solid history in datacentres, enterprise network administration, programming and structured cabling (data cabling). I have a long history in restoration, archival and preservation as well as collections management, having been responsible for numerous large collections. I also have a long history as a survival instructor specialising in the extreme scenarios, to relevant organisations and entities, not the general public. I've already confirmed with several governments in the Caribbean that there is a pathway open to me for a visa as a "highly specialised worker of national interest". Unfortunately the last two years have caused a lot of plans have to be re-made (currently doing so) both due to finances and also due to what opportunities remain as local businesses change and governments refocus what they want.
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  124. And its thanks to people such as yourself you are either against privacy or who just "roll over" that privacy is almost completely gone. People are upset because we like our privacy - what we do, as long as we aren't hurting others isn't anyone's business. What I spend my taxed money on is none of the banks business - they have zero right to police how I use my money. What I eat is what I choose to eat, I won't have anyone (govt or otherwise) dictate what I can and can't eat - they can shove their "be healthy and eat bugs" where the sun doesn't shine. Just because you're fine with having no privacy, doesn't mean others are, nor does it mean that they shouldn't have the right to privacy. None of the AML/KYC bullshit has had any effect on crime - criminals literally don't care and if they can't pay with wads of cash, they'll simply trade and barter products like people used to do hundreds of years ago. The AML/KYC bullshit only hurts the honest person and those of us who aren't criminals. I haven't carried a phone for the majority of the last 6yrs. It stays at home the majority of the time. I still demand physical licences much to the disgust of the govt who make doing so very hard and phone call wait times close to 4hrs. I still refuse to make a MyGov account and will NOT be accepting/using or creating an euID as I'm 100% against digital ID. Putting up without having privacy won't make anyone happier - only restoring privacy will. Why do you think, many are going 100% cash only, reverting to trade/barter and avoiding taxes where possible.
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  125. Another plus for Vanuatu - they have their own bank and ANZ bank. If you're from AU or NZ, banking is easy as you only have to have your account moved to their Vanuatu branch after you do CBI.
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  126.  PhillyWilly in the Philippines  DTA's are basically a thing of the past as with the new Australian tax rules (regarding residency), Australia is currently abolishing DTA's; they basically don't like people getting tax credits for tax paid to other governments and would rather you pay full tax to them.
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  127. Don't forget that China declared that no one could leave Hong Kong under the Hong Kong Passport (BNO) so the UK had to get those people to get Chinese Passports and then give them UK visas on arrival in the UK. Guess what, China wouldn't give passports to those wanting to leave Hong Kong and who had the Hong Kong Passport (BNO). Bit hard to leave when you literally can't. The only ones who fled to the UK were the ones who weren't at the time in Hong Kong, those who went to the UK had the following happen: 1. They were on holiday with their family so they're all safe but can't ever return to Hong Kong or China without getting arrested unless the whole CCP disappeared and democracy took over 2. They got to safety but their family are suffering reprisals How do I know this - I know people who were able to flee to the UK when the National Security Law and the declaration that Hong Kong Passport (BNO) were deemed invalid by China, both happened. Just because things aren't spoken about due to fear of reprisals by the authorities, doesn't mean they aren't happening.
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  128.  @chubbawubba9801  If he can register his YT account as being Georgian and open a bank account in Georgia, then his monetisation will return which will let him earn money based on views without asking for any money - currently everything is frozen except his crypto due to the sanctions. If you had any clue about Russia you'd know why he keeps his mouth shut - the fact he's had "warnings" from the authorities over some of his previous uploads and the fact that the channel is global on a non-Russian platform means that if he says anything that the authorities don't like, especially at the moment given the 'war-time' restrictions that are in place within Russia, he would be disappeared never to be seen again; his family would also be put in danger if the authorities couldn't get to him. As he's just a normal guy who isn't connected or influential within the government, what benefit would there be to him putting his life and the lives of his family in danger? It wouldn't change one fucking thing! You're a clown who doesn't think for a moment that in places like Russia, anyone who speaks out (especially to large international audiences) meets untimely ends and that the authorities are the only ones free to do anything without coming to immediate harm.
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  129. Not saying Wealthy Expat is right or wrong but the point of why conservative people want out of the "west" isn't because they want to hate of LGBTQIA+..., its because the LGBTQIA+ are 99% insane loonies who always take things too far and too extremes. They literally use violence to push their agenda and have zero tolerance for conservative people who just want to be left alone. The "safe schools" program teaches perversion and hardcore fetishes to primary school kids, all whilst the same teachers are forcing communist ideology on children. Then there's the fact that the laws exist that criminalise everything conservative. That's what people are sick of - they're sick of being told how to live and being arrested for "misgendering" people, that kids can't just be taught normal subjects and to treat everyone how they want to be treated. The biggest problem is everyone in places like Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, China, the Balkans, etc. where the LGBTQIA+ loonies haven't taken over, haven't experienced the harm and damage caused by their intolerance and twisted brainwashing of children, so they dismiss it as "crazy westerners". We've seen this in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the UK and western Europe. Children in primary school are now taught that they're not the gender they actually are, that they must be "queer" to be tolerant and that communism is go (even though its the exact opposite). Any time anyone tries to reject the far-left and LGBTQIA+ loonies, the response is the same - hardcore violence, threats, destruction, death threats and new laws getting passed that further the twisted ideology. Anyone who isn't conservative and who doesn't live in the "west" has zero ability to understand what I'm writing and hasn't seen the actual damage done (kids thinking they're cats, hormone blockers preventing them from ever going through puberty, 12yr olds getting sex changes because they think they're a different gender and the school and govt let them have surgery, parents getting arrested for simply trying to let their kids be kids and not have this twisted perversion shoved into them. The problem is the LGBTQIA+ have been given too much time, attention and power - the cause of this was when "gay marriage" was permitted; it emboldened them as they openly used violence, threats and crime to rig the results. Now instead of being happy that they got what they claimed they wanted, they're dead set on exterminating conservatives, the nuclear family and white people (many 'woke' countries actively discourage and in some countries prohibit non-interracial marriages considering two white people getting married as extremism). This is the problem - once nut jobs get emboldened, they take their extremism to new levels and get more insane. As a hardcore conservative, I don't care what you do in private, I don't care what you think, just keep it to yourself and leave children out of it - no brainwashing of any kind at schools. No one, straight or not, should be doing any PDA's - its just not appropriate. Stop forcing little children (under 10) to dress up in fetish wear and march in Mardi Gras - that's beyond messed up but sadly is common in Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the UK. Don't let kids who are too young to understand the consequences of irreversible decisions (surgery, hormone blockers, etc.) make such choices, don't try to make them into communists, and don't try to force the church to permit and conduct "gay marriages" - that directly violates religion and one must respect that churches are only for the religious - they aren't places for everyone, nor does anyone have the right to dictate to churches to change religions to suit a group of nuts. Wokies, wokism and the left are what is wrong with the world, what has destroyed the left and what sane people are trying to escape. I just hope more people wake up and see the far left for the nutjobs they actually are, that people see the destruction they've caused and stop them.
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  130. That would only help if Turkey was admitted to both the EU & Schengen. Freedom of movement only applies to Schengen, EU countries outside of Schengen usually have a process for people from Schengen to live and work with minimal difficulty however it doesn't work the other way. As for what the EU did to Vanuatu - they'll do it to everyone as the EU wants everywhere to be high tax, high government involvement in your daily life and to dictate to everyone what they can and can't do. If you want freedom, the Caribbean is currently the best path to go providing they don't cave into the EU demands to introduce taxes. Just remember that visa free travel is for tourism only, not for work.
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  131. First of all that's not how capital gains works. Also, taxing capital gains only pushes people to NOT invest in the country. Fun fact - bank accounts aren't taxed on gains as they don't make gains; any interest paid on the account by the bank is treated as income and can be taxed as income. When the govt prints money, the rich LOSE money because inflating (or hyperinflating) an economy reduces the buying power of the economy - i.e. each dollar is worth less than what it was the day prior. If you tax capital gains, then you still lose out. If the rich sell assets, only other rich people can afford to buy them. If you can't currently buy them, you won't be able to buy them if they get sold because prices do NOT come down. The markets would NEVER be flooded with assets as giant mega-corporations like BlackRock and Vanguard would simply buy them, increase their portfolios and at tax time have a profit that's basically unchanged. The reason you can't afford to get assets is likely because: * You waste money on having the latest phone, etc. * You eat out all the time * You have no savings because you NEVER put your pocket money into the bank whilst you were young * You stupidly went heavily into debt to go to a US university because "everyone does" without thinking about "is it actually worthwhile and do I absolutely need it to work?" * The US debt is NEVER paid off so the USD keeps hemorrhaging its value as the debt climbs The rich get rich because they save money when they're young, they buy and hold silver and gold bullion which retains its value (i.e. it doesn't lose value), they don't party all the time, they don't go on holidays all the time - they save all that money. They save money because they know they need to save $100k ASAP because that's the point at which Compound Interest starts to seriously help their wealth grow. They AVOID debt. They AVOID rent because 'rent money is dead money'. They do this over 30yrs, not 5 seconds. They know how to create value, generate wealth and how to maintain wealth. Once they are getting enough interest on their savings that they can live off 25% of the compounding interest the bank pays them on their savings, they can basically live on passive income. You want a quick "give me money, I deserve to take your sh*t" because you're a commie nutjob who supports high taxes and the endless illegals who increase the welfare problem whilst also taking resources that would otherwise exist for you to use.
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  132. Most want to be able to enter Europe for a holiday without an ETIAS (similar to a US ESTA) and be allowed to work whilst there - tourist visas don't allow you to do any work. It is the only way you will be legally permitted to buy a house (not an apartment, a house) with land in the majority of the EU. It makes bullion transactions (buying and selling) easy as in Europe the buying and selling of bullion is considered "investment" and usually restricted from tourists as its considered "work" - EU citizens have fewer KYC forms to fill in. Its the only way to register boats and aircraft to most EU countries - some permit foreigners but most require one to be a citizen even if registering to a legal entity (the controller and beneficiary must have an EU passport). Some people may want to live in the EU (although I wouldn't recommend it). Its a safety net in case travel bans hit and they get stuck in the EU. They are able to stay and work unlike tourists who got stuck.
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  133.  @ronc7743  Andorra: * Good banking * Good shopping for luxury brands * Great skiing in the winter * Rather expensive * Huge costs and requirements to gain residency * Extremely difficult to become a citizen (20yrs of legal residency and no dual/multi citizenship permitted) If you can afford it and are able to travel often to do things and not have a boring life, go for it. The only reason I say it can be boring is that there's not much to do there outside of winter. Andorra is beautiful but small.
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  134.  @eb8984  Because aside from Monaco (which is full) there's no other place as tax friendly in Europe. Many rich people want the tax benefits and to be close to their markets / business deals. They stay there to maintain tax residency whilst having holidays. If you were a 7-8 figure entrepreneur you'd be able to afford to live there and would understand why. The average person can't understand why anyone would want to live in any tax haven as there isn't much to do in any of them.
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  135.  @jace2wheel762  Still not as taxed as Australia. Canada does however win on the wokies and far-left extremism.
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  136. And what pray-tell do you think you can do? 99% are in support of whats happening in the "west". Until 65-70% want change, nothing will change. Staying will only result in you losing everything and suffering when you could have left. As Sun Tsu said (yeah I'm para-phrasing) "pick your battles wisely, fight your enemy on your terms, never theirs. Learn which battles to fight in order to win the war." Basically its better to leave and live to fight another day than to stay and perish. Its better to leave a day to early than a day too late, you can always return if things improve in the future.
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  137. What rock have you been living under - he's said multiple times across multiple videos that that was the first thing he did once he became a nomad capitalist!
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  138. Precisely - as such anyone sane person can say with 100% certainty that it was an EV fire as any normal fire will NOT deform the hull of such a vessel. Normal fires don't burn anywhere near as hot as EV fires. People forget that modern steel vessels are required to float with certain amounts of flooding and to withstand standard fires under both maritime regulations and SOLAS regulations - anything that can't comply with all those regulations can't get any commercial registration as a vessel.
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  139. That will permit residence providing the marriage is legal and legitimate (i.e. not just a way to citizenship) however if the non-EU citizen wants permanent residence (if the specific country permits that), they will still have to pass language, history, culture and integration tests. With the exception of programs like Malta or Portugal, there aren't really any ways to 'cheaply' get into Europe without a bunch of tests and learning.
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  140. The only concern is that when the idea of laws that prevent a govt from revoking your citizenship exist, that usually (but not always) means that you can't renounce which could have future implications such as citizenship based taxation, global taxation, etc. Argentina guarantees that citizens can't lose citizenship and thus they can't renounce it even if they hold other citizenship's. Poland and Hungary enshrined in their constitutions that citizenship can't be revoked by the govt under any circumstances and that an individual may ask for permission from the President to renounce their citizenship but the President can refuse to permit it. Their reasoning was that during communism many were exiled and stripped of their citizenship for either not being considered acceptable or for not being in support of communism. In 2008 the Polish President automatically restored citizenship to all who were exiled (and their descendants) and could prove they were citizens after the 3rd of May 1926 (i.e. birth certificate, national ID, expired passport, etc.). Hungary did the same in 2010. These are three examples that I know of where guarantees of citizenship & prevention of govt removing it can result in it being impossible to renounce should you ever need to do so.
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  141.  @tasrykens  Plate blockers cover the entire number plate or change it to a different one (if you have one that holds two plates). Note that in most countries in the world, plate blockers are illegal to use but not to own, they are however the only solution to stop cameras reading your number plates where this kind of tyranny is concerned.
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  142. That's the only option for the 'West' however that's only possible if they permit it. Since the '2020 thing' started, the US, AUS & NZ all quit allowing people to do that. AUS & NZ went a step further and said that they simply don't have to permit you to renounce and even if they did, you'd be unable to leave until all restrictions and the travel bans were gone (still years away). The problem is that regimes are solely in control of whether or not you can renounce or leave their borders - just like how they can grant and strip citizenship from people at their discretion. They're hungry for taxes and assets and they're actively stopping people from leaving short of leaving with literally nothing but the clothes they're wearing. Iron Curtain 2.0
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  143. One thing to add to your proposed system - rank them also by work rights and ease of getting a work permit. This huge emphasis on visa-free is weird as its only for transit or tourism, not for work.
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  144. One thing that this video forgot to mention is that if you've been dumb enough to tell a country like Australia or New Zealand what other citizenships you have, if they ban you from traveling on your Australian passport, they'll have you banned from traveling on all your other passports that they know about. This means if they have a screw-up like the "robo-debt" mess where the computer said people owed the govt money when they actually didn't, you can be both banned from all travel and if you're outside of Australia but on a visa you'll suddenly be breaching visa conditions. Whilst I appreciate that Nomad Capitalist is the goodie-two-shoes of the offshore world, sometimes its better to not tell a govt everything about you if you can avoid it - if they ask you to list your citizenships and they aren't demanding proof of them, don't list them unless you've already given them the info. Sometimes less is more - don't over-share.
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  145. Low tax is an essential as without it, its not possible to save money to get prepared. When you're handing almost half your money to the government in taxes after working stupid hours and the cost of living keeps outpacing wages, you're screwed - that's Australia. Also by mid-2023 it'll be almost impossible for most people to leave the Australian tax system unless they never return to Australia and get their "family" to move outside of Australia (note that "family" isn't just your partner and kids, it includes your siblings and parents as the definition was intentionally left vague so as to benefit the government). There are videos on here explaining the new rules for leaving the Australian Tax System. Functioning countries (with large population centres such as Australia) are only functioning whilst global trade is freely operating and they rely on regular shipments and whatever stockpiles (usually 6-8months worth) to function. What happens when that fails (or runs out)? Anarchy! Huge volumes of people trying to take what they need from anyone with anything. That's literally a hell that 99% won't survive. In 2020 it was reported on the mainstream news that the country only had 18 days of diesel, 60 days of food and munitions for the army and 3 months of food for the public (via supermarkets). That was on the news on channels 7, 9, 10, ABC (2) and SBS. Even if that was fixed by the government and adequate stockpiles were made, what happens once those stockpiles run out if SHTF due to a world war or total global economic collapse? Nothing would be functioning. In the Caribbean, people are primarily self sufficient (especially for water and electricity, its not hard, it just takes planning and preparation) and where something needs to be imported they import from other CARICOM countries, the EU (the Schengen Zone exists in the Caribbean) or, North or South America. Honestly those small islands will likely be the safest places as everyone is prepared and everyone knows everyone. As for Australia, its the last place to be in such a situation, thanks to moronic governments over the last 30 years, Australia manufactures basically nothing (too expensive and too many pointless OHS laws and licences that make both compliance and cost of compliance not worth doing business) and imports 95% of everything. Between the fires, floods, '2020 thing' restrictions and farmers being paid to not farm and instead either do nothing or plant trees, there are huge shortages of food and farmers quitting farming. If you're in Australia, you better grow your own fruit and veg and have some animals such as chickens (for both eggs and food) and other animals you can eat (be aware that rabbits won't sustain you longterm as they lack a vitamin humans need). Oh and thanks to Australia's moronic over regulation of everything, unless you live in the middle of nowhere you're severely limited in generating and storing your own power - grid connection (mandatory unless in the middle of nowhere) limits your generation and storage to the point of not being worth doing. As both and Australian citizen and a survival expert who specialises in extreme survival scenarios and training (to "approved" organisations and government entities, not the general public) Australia is the last place I would recommend anyone be in a SHTF scenario. Too many large centres of population, no ability to be self-sufficient and too many pointless rules that get in the way of self-sufficiency.
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  146.  @markuswunsch  The problem with that logic is the type of people who move away from the US don't benefit from the passport as they usually have other passports on which they do the bulk of their travel. In CANZUK / CUNA where a person is a dual or multi-national, a passport such as a US passport only serves as a way to leave the US, it has zero use beyond that and the benefit of being able to simply leave the country isn't sufficient to justify taxing people just because they're citizens. The US passport does very little for people outside of the US. It loses access to countries every year, it basically bans you from banking abroad and only makes people targets for hate based on how the rest of the world see the US (hint: very badly outside of CANZUK/CUNA as the remaining countries are commonly bullied by the US when it taxes, information sharing, CRS, AML/KYC, etc.). A US passport holder trying to get a visa to countries outside CANZUK / CUNA will be given a stupid run-around and a heap of paperwork or they'll be denied because it would mean excessive reporting by the other country (the same reason non-US banks don't want US citizens at all). In some EU countries, try booking a hotel with a non-US passport and compare the treatment to someone using a US passport; the non-US passport will get nicer treatment and the staff will be more helpful. Whilst I can't speak for the US on social security payments abroad, the people who are both on this channel and who leave the US are the same people who'll never be entitled to even apply for social security due to their net worth being too high. Its only the EU where any EU citizen who's paid tax in the EU can get a pension (more tax paid = more pension) regardless of their net worth.
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  147. Of course, when the masses lose everything (i.e. a depression), its the best time to use legal structures to buy everything you want dirt cheap - primarily property and businesses. Economic depression is where the next billionaires are made as only the smart and truly diversified will have the money to do anything during such times. It happened in the Great Depression, it'll happen again.
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  148. And the proof that the official story is bullshit is all the companies use the total number of GPS' in an area and/or the number of phones in an area to measure congestion, never cameras. Anyone who wants to try this out, get 10 GPS' or 10 phones, turn them on and sit them along a road. Watch the congestion increase on the mapping service.
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  149. And you've completely missed the whole problem - banks are no longer fit to be considered a "private business", the govt has turned them into an "essential service" and thus they shouldn't have the right to refuse anyone except those deemed to be terrorists by courts. Want banks to be able to reject anyone then abolish electronic payments, abolish AML/KYC and make cash the primary payment method.
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  150.  @ARUchannel1  Actually they are. Freedom has risks and only the safety you can provide for yourself. If you're not allowed to use firearms to protect yourself in self-defence, if you can't legally use anything in self-defence, then you are NOT free - you are a subject/ward of the state. Safety is having mummy government control your life, what you can and can't do whilst telling you that if you so much as strike anyone in self-defence you will go to jail. You have either freedom or safety - you can't have both. If you don't understand this, you deserve neither. Freedom is more important.
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  151.  @Justplanecrazy25  Nothing tinfoil hat about the fact that many companies are trying to stop you printing certain things through both their software and on their printers (with firmware implemented checks). Whilst currently some companies are only trying to stop 'weapons' and 'illegal' things from being printed, how long until it becomes anything the moment an IP content claim is filed? It wouldn't even be a difficult change to implement - they'd just have to identify the 'part' and push an update to the software and/or firmware for every IP content claim. Even currently, there's major issues with printing screws and picatinny rail on some brands of 3D printers as the software and firmware considers those things to be 'firearm/weapon parts', completely ignoring that picatinny rail is commonly used in the photography/videography industry as a common mounting rail. Thankfully Creality are a good brand that are happy to let you just print whatever you want, their printers work locally by USB or LAN, no cloud required. Creality also don't try to limit or restrict what you print - as far as they're concerned, its your job to remain legal regarding what you print. That's how it should be. Given every country and even sometimes states within countries have significantly different laws and thus just because something is illegal in one place, doesn't mean it isn't perfectly legal in another. I love the Creality K1 Max - its a great printer at a far better price than the Bambu offerings. Now that Creality have their CFS for the K2, they're basically the go-to for 3D printers that treat you as an adult and don't force you to cloud BS.
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  152. Same. The thing that scares me is the EU's eternal regulation creep. There's already serious talk in the EU about banning the disabling of 'sleep' by 2030.
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  153. Literally no one cares. Its an image in a video, not a map. If he drew an inverted triangle you'd say the same bullshit.
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  154.  @sdrc92126  Time is the issue but I'd love to hear how you're gonna walk across oceans or how you think someone in Australia is going to walk across oceans...
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  155.  @sdrc92126  if you studied the ice cores we're finishing the current ice age. The next one is 500,000yrs away. Hence we need boats and planes.
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  156.  @MajorSam4321  your ignorance to reality is amazing. All you'd achieve is to make your own life as a common person harder. The rich would move away and continue life whilst you lose everything as the jobs and tax money disappears. If you actually read my comments fully instead of glancing at them your realise that all you'll achieve is that you get considered to be the "rich" and that your ability to leave a country would be gone.
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  157. Its a nice but small place. Don't plan on citizenship as just like Monaco the threshold is huge - you must live there full time, own a property, speak the local language, know the history inside out and even if you can do all that, you must be there for 15-20yrs and renounce all other citizenships as both Andorra and Monaco don't permit dual/multi nationality. Andorra just like Monaco is expensive to live in but most people in the EU go there for VAT-free shopping and skiing holidays.
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  158. What effort? Its one of the easiest CBI programs in the world and one of the only places with 0% PIT, CIT, CGT, etc.
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  159.  @maskofsan1ty  At lower speeds there is no flow because the increased congestion brings everything to a halt. They're doing the same shit in Australia and the roads are getting exponentially worse. The govt response is "walk or ride a bike, don't drive" even though they know that those aren't valid options. Ever since they made the highway run-on's 80km/h and the highways themselves 100km/h the congestion has gotten much worse - and that's with the same number of vehicles. Then factor in that they are reducing speed limits annually as part of the 'climate agenda' and the whole thing is a sick joke - nothing about safety, its 100% about trying to get you to stay home forever. Oh and from 2025 the highways get dropped to 80km/h and then 60km/h from 2026 onwards - supposedly because "cars are more efficient at low speeds" (which is a pure lie - modern cars are more efficient at 140km/h which is why the EU has that as the highway speed).
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  160.  @adamauto1  Only until they introduce software licences based on the hardware ID's of all parts in the "new type" ECU's - John Deere did that so only an approved service centre could swap any parts as only they could request an updated licence based on the new overall hardware ID. Thankfully people hacked that era of ECU's but sadly the newer era are embedded windows or linux based and the licencing can't be hacked due to heavy encryption. Oh and even if you swapped the official ECU with a standard one, it still wouldn't work as the parts are all chipped. The hack that was made modified or exploited a "left-in" mode in the firmware on the official ECU and put all parts into a mode where licencing could be ignored and if I remember correctly, zeroed out and disabled the checks in the chips of all critical parts.
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  161. EU, because the EU exists outside of continental Europe and there are a few tax havens within the EU (within Schengen) but outside of continental Europe. Also because the EU doesn't have citizenship based taxation and you only need to be subject to one of the Schengen countries to do so, you're not stuck to one single country, you have choices thanks to Schengen.
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  162. As long as the passport is legal and activated (i.e. when scanned it appears as "VALID" & "ACTIVATED" in the passport system) you won't have any issue (unless you are missing some required visa or didn't submit everything they required). Only citizens of a country can hold that countries passport. Sure they issue citizenship under a few categories but its still citizenship at the end of the day - no different to any other program. In modern times the only time anything will be inserted or stamped into a passport is if a country still does physical entry and/or exit stamping (very few still do this) or if you get a visa (almost all visas are still physically installed/stuck/stamped).
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  163. If you're wanting to rely on a DTA, be quick as Australia is working to abolish DTA's.
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  164. @chronicreader The zero tax life requires one to live in a no income tax country. Once tax residency is established there's nothing to prevent having a holiday or the abroad each year to mix things up and live cheaper. At the border even a visa-free ETIAS holder can be rejected at the discretion of a border guard. As Andrew has always said, the only way to guarantee to be let in is to be a citizen. One point about property in the EU, student visa holders and long-term work permit holders can buy apartments but only citizens can buy houses with land. Tourists are absolutely prohibited from buying either so visa-free access doesn't help with that.
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  165. There wasn't any real way. Dictator Dan rigged the parliament and bought off (with promises, etc.) the few required to force them into law. Had the parliament said no, he would have simply forced them in under SOE claiming something like "the only way to save everyone is to have these powers - too many are dying" and there'd be nothing to stop it. It could have been avoided had he never been given any extensions to the duration of the SOE as the extensions granted him more power and removed several safeguards that used to exist. 1 million people did protest but his response was to call them publicly "anti-govt extremists and the biggest threat to the public other than the [2020 thing]!". He literally used them to justify himself to the sheep - the hate and violence amongst society that the sheep are perpetrating is utterly disgusting.
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  166. I doubt it, especially as they're increasing their due diligence process. For what you get, its a great deal if you don't do business in Europe (otherwise they withhold taxes because Vanuatu is a tax haven) and/or if you want to actually live there because you work or do business in Oceania/Asia. Vanuatu is also great as the National Bank of Vanuatu and ANZ Bank (Australia & New Zealand Bank) are available in Vanuatu so ANZ will give you more options for banking and credit cards that will work in most places than you'll find in other parts of the world. One thing that I personally think many people put too much emphasis on is visa-free access to Europe. ETIAS is mandatory from this year for non-EU citizens and has many restrictions such as point of entry and point of exit must be the same and isn't that much harder to get than a Schengen Visa (for tourism). Just because a passport has visa-free access to the EU doesn't really benefit you much as you're limited to 90 days (3 months) in a 180 day (6 month) period subject to you being a tourist (absolutely no work of any type permitted) and then you must leave. Sure all you have to do is get an ETIAS (if your passport is visa-free to the EU) or a Schengen visa (if you don't have visa-free to the EU) but you're very limited to what you can and can't do. You can't legally rent or buy apartments or property, you can't do any form of "investing or investments", nor can you legally bank in the EU unless you're a citizen of an EU country or unless you enter the EU on a Business visa as banking is considered to be "investing or investments" and work! So I ask, what's so important about having visa-free access to Europe? Personally I think its become a big nothing since the ETIAS was introduced (it's a visa in all but name and the fact it doesn't get stuck into your passport, you print and carry it - its an EU equivalent of a US ESTA). Antigua & Barbuda have started considering whether or not to end their CBI program to keep their visa-free access to Europe as they see it as critical, even though its not. Losing EU access in my opinion would be a good thing as its one less excuse for the EU to use to demand that these CBI countries introduce high tax rates (50%+ like in Europe, Australia and New Zealand). If Antigua & Barbuda end their CBI program, given they are in CARICOM its highly likely that the rest of the Caribbean programs will end so I guess for those of us unable to currently afford CBI to Antigua & Barbuda we'll have to look to Vanuatu & other parts of the world or other ways of legally paying zero personal income tax. Unfortunately almost all of the Caribbean don't have any visas to go to start a business or invest and then work towards citizenship, its CBI or nothing which sucks!
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  167.  @TheJonnyP54  With the exception of Trans-Tasman with New Zealand, the working holiday visas are just a working holiday visa. They are NOT a foot in the door and have no path to citizenship or to another visa. They're good for experiencing another place but they're nothing beyond that. Anyone who thinks Australia is bad will hate New Zealand as its further along in its decline.
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  168.  @user-bubstech  Unfortunately that's the problem. The environmentalists whinged to AU, NZ, CAN, UK and EU demanding that someone be responsible. The result is environmental regulations that make the manufacturer responsible for compliance breaches, because they're the ones with money to afford huge penalties and because companies in these places can't just vanish and come back under a different name as if nothing happened, they were the easy target. There's this govt mandated concept of "you made it, you're responsible for what it does to the planet" and whilst well intentioned, very easily backfires and causes many unforeseen consequences such as "a company must ensure spare parts be available until the product no longer exists" (the unintended consequence is how can a product be discontinued and then the company shut down or not keep making spare parts). This is why companies are getting people to "trade-in" the older products so they can quit making spare parts. Similar to the EU wealth register, there's a product register where companies have to provide the serial numbers of products sold and only a small 3% (broken and thrown out by consumer) allowance exists. For every device the company doesn't get back beyond that, they either have to keep producing parts for or keep enough in inventory for repairs (but aren't required to repair), or, they have the recently added option of paying a penalty per unaccounted for unit to be permitted to de-register the unit and cease stocking spare parts. There's a reason why the rest of the world calls the USA the "wild west of today" as the USA is one of the last least regulated places for business.
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  169.  @therock8224  It's not the same, they don't have ever-changing experience requirements that can't be met in the industry nor do they prohibit CPD activities because they happen to relate to your day-to-day job. The US system works, this Australian BS doesn't. Completely different. Also in the US you don't need to update your qualification at TAFE or University each year.
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  170.  @naverich4603  You're spot on. Even living in a smaller city, the end result will be insane taxes - remember France is talking about citizenship based taxation and huge wealth taxes, not to mention French Citizens and long-term French taxpayers can NEVER enjoy the 0% PIT in Monaco so it seems to be a bad choice every way you look at it.
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  171.  @sebas8225  Sadly they are the most compliant group followed by the youth. 2020-2023 proved just that.
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  172. No one has ever said its easy. The point is to quit making excuses and to just do it. People just want excuses to never help themselves which is why they'll stay and lose everything. Funny thing about moving, when you succeed, you can help family move, or, help them visit. The sooner you move and thrive, the sooner you can help them, assuming you achieve that before time runs out and it becomes too late for people to change financial class (CBDC's and travel bans for the 99% will enforce that, coming soon (2030)).
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  173. Most people have paperwork that proves they legally bought it. They declare it but in most of the "west" its considered an 'instrument of finance' and not always subject to declaration of the value/amount, but always subject to declaration of being carried. Also, in most of the 'west' there is no tax on investment grade gold bullion. Lastly, things are very different when you fly private or have a private yacht. In some parts of CANZUK and CUNA if you have receipts and/or credit card/bank statement showing the transaction and you declare it, you're unlikely to have issues. Some countries don't even have reporting for it as its not cash - its physical bullion being personally transported by the owner. The simplest solution is to move small amounts (1oz) at a time with you in your wallet as you travel - literally bit by bit staying within the legal limits to avoid having to declare the value/quantity. Be aware though that you'll still want to have receipts and other documentation proving you legally acquired it as some countries will seize even $1 if they don't see proof of legitimacy of money or valuables (incl. bullion). At the end of the day, people will always find ways to move their wealth around.
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  174. If anyone is considering spending approx. $200k they should honestly just go for a 0% PIT country because why not? If you're willing and able to spend that kind of money, why not fully tax optimize? You get a lot more options when you don't have to pay any PIT!
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  175. No matter what happens, what Helium has shown us is that there are technologies that can be used (with further development) to make crypto independent providing a method of moving enough data becomes possible. Crypto will never be decentralised or truly free as long as it remains trapped on the internet (i.e. internet dependent). This is where I believe the value of Helium comes from - the research and development ideas that the concept generates.
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  176. Who do you think owns large chunks of those businesses through shares - likely the same politicians. Remember during the plandemic how every few months like clockwork, Foley would get out and say 'get tested'? That was because he had a huge financial interest in the test kits - he made money from every test because of his personal financial interests in the company that made them. What is needed are laws that ban politicians from having businesses or shares whilst in office.
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  177. I've always hated trends. I've usually gone against trends - hence why I studied Mechanical Engineering instead of Arts like everyone else. On the topic of trends, I've noticed a very large trend in the bigger countries of "only the big businesses can exist, the smaller ones must go". Its very apparent in engineering, manufacturing and the space industry. What would be good countries for getting into the space industry as a startup outside the major western countries?
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  178.  @ThomasTomiczek  At least those left abroad at least weren't trapped in the country for 3yrs and could get visas and work abroad - most of the world opened 6-8 months into the '2020 thing' in enough capacity to avoid breaching visas.
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  179. Those estimates made me laugh so hard I almost fell off my chair. Given everything they've done since 2020 including imprisoning all citizens in the country (in reality only those 50+ were able to leave, everyone else wasn't) with their travel ban, there isn't much left. Most small and medium businesses are gone, investors are staying well away and the likelihood of that changing in the next 10yrs is minimal at best due to the ever increasing over-regulation of literally everything in the country. Yet every other night the govt and the news keep saying how the economy is booming even though its not (maybe they're trying to con people into thinking its better than it actually is), cost of living is sky rocketing whilst wages are a decade behind.
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  180. NSL (National Security Law) being used all the time... Get out whilst you still can!
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  181. @@treterter4892 You wouldn't be a sitting duck. Do the math. How many people are on land and looking to eliminate their competition and hoard resources? How many are out at sea? Also, given the size of the ocean, it's easy to hide as even modern tech can't monitor the entire ocean at once. Also being out at sea makes you less of a threat to those wanting power on land as they're not going to waste precious resources on you when they have more immediate threats on land. Also, being on a boat that's bluewater capable means you can change countries/travel which means you have the ability to access more resources. Also note that most bluewater capable boats create and store power, create and store fresh water and if a sailing boat, can operate without fuel providing there's wind and Sun for solar. Overall, not as dumb as most people might think the option is at first glance. Also, once in international waters, most patrols are unlikely to continue to chase you as you leave because their fuel will run out and usually small police boats aren't suitable for bluewater use.
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  182. Lose the slave mentality. Multiple citizenships mean you have options and serve no master. Having only one citizenship by definition makes you a slave as you have no options and MUST do as that country demands.
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  183.  @bunberrier  Generally only Mechanical Engineers who are Control certified are allowed to do that however the issue isn't in getting qualified - the issue is that there is already more than enough qualified engineers who can maintain and service automation. It only takes one or two people to service an entire facility as the equipment is extremely reliable, centrally controlled by servers and physical maintenance is extremely rare and parts are easily replaced. Automation has only ever destroyed jobs and reduced the overall number of people needed. It only takes two people to automate an entire office with servers and those same two people can automate an entire manufacturing facility with CNC equipment, pick and place robots, automatic conveyors and PLC's. That's literally over 1000 people made redundant at a single facility. The govt and morons claim that its creating new jobs yet I haven't seen a single new job created as a result of automation taking jobs away.
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  184. Just remember that if you get Argentinian citizenship you can't ever renounce it and also note that they've been seriously considering citizenship based taxation over the last few years.
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  185.  @sgill4833  That just means that you have to plan to deposit or withdraw money from those accounts every so often. Its no more difficult than paying bills in multiple countries. Heck if you don't do anything with your bank account every six months (used to be ever three years) in Australia they'll close it and then good luck getting your money back from the government - this is even if you're a local. The excuse is to help you find your money because you "forgot" about your account supposedly - completely ignoring the fact that your money was where you left it. Governments do this as once money is in their "general revenues" account for more than two years, they can keep it for "the public good". What's not convenient is being denied paying certain government departments or bills because you're trying to use a foreign account. Many countries such as Australia only permit money to come from local sources to pay taxes and bills - they claim this is for AML/KYC requirements. Most of Central and Eastern Europe have the same requirement for the same reasons.
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  186. @euanc8951 Renouncing doesn't work like that. Literally only one country lets people renounce but request their citizenship back because their citizens only renounce for business purposes, and that country is Israel. The USA does NOT let you "get your citizenship back" - that would require eventually legally naturalizing and jumping all the hoops. The reality is no sane person wants US citizenship as it comes with a heap of tyrannical baggage beyond citizenship based taxation.
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  187. Most people who don't have hobbies are like that because of: * Excessive over regulation / licencing * Annual mandatory refresher/update requirements * Extremely expensive licences and permits that have onerous attendance/participation requirements in order to remain 'current' / to maintain * Lack of physical space to do the hobby or to store the required equipment - commonly you are required to own your primary residence or live in a family home (your parents' home) as a licence requirement (I got around that by not moving out of home as the cheapest house is $1 million 2hrs from where I live) * Lack of access - the govt in much of CANZUK & CUNA is closing public land 'to protect it' or 'to give it to the natives', resulting in no access to otherwise empty land you could be enjoying * Lack of $$$$ - over a period of 5yrs (every 5yrs) I'm forced to spend a minimum of $25000 just to be able to have and continue the hobbies I have - that's the licences, permits, update/refresher training and other regulatory costs. You then have to add the actual hobby costs on top of that. Hobbies are only for those that live in countries that aren't over-regulated nanny states, or, only for the rich as most people can't afford to have hobbies and definitely not their own house. One example of just how over-regulated CANZUK & CUNA are is that photography can only be of people, pets or plants. The moment you photograph any other animal you are legally 'hunting' as the definition of hunting includes the 'tracking, coursing and photography of game'. Thus suddenly the photography can be illegal - even if you have the correct hunting licences, you'd still be limited by the legislated seasons, hunting times and bag limits. Sounds stupid but that's the law - I know several people who were given 60 days jail for a first offence because they photographed wild deer without the appropriate hunting licences.
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  188. I don't know anyone who'd buy their average products anyway. Aside from the fact they're going full ESG, why would anyone want to own anything associated with the murderous scumbag that is Dictator Dan who did all his terror and daily propaganda sessions wearing that North Face crap. North Face are full ESG toting Rascists!
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  189. First - they have to if they want to renounce US citizenship (i.e. what many of Nomad Capitalists customers want to do). Second - because if the USA leaves NATO then the next point (third point) becomes super relevant. Third - Business, because NOT everyone is an American citizen, Nomad Capitalist has clients from many countries, not just the USA. Something that the 99% NEVER realize because they simply work for others, is that many things, even software, technical books, equipment, your phone, tablet and laptop, can all be illegal to take to certain countries, not because of those countries laws, but because of ITAR. Only ITAR Tier 1 and Tier 2 Preferred nations have minimal restrictions amongst themselves, for other countries, sometimes there are extra exemptions or easier permits to get, if applied for by someone from and in a NATO country.
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  190. This is what Croatian friends of mine said: "Heaps of bureaucracy, licences and permits for everything. High taxes and very harsh enforcement. Great for holidays, bad for work - very few jobs."
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  191.  @fxgreek5490  You speak utter nonsense and it clearly shows your perception is lacking. Why would anyone stay put and be unemployed, risk being homeless by remaining somewhere when they could move abroad and live a good life? You also ignore that fact that people gain experience with time and that only occurs by going abroad, researching and learning. Staying put is 100% the best way to 100% demise, those who want to survive move! As for your "dealing with the devils you know" comment, that's useless when said devils have forced you out of work, off-shored your job and don't want you to achieve anything. People don't move abroad for fun, they do it out of necessity.
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  192.  @djtaylorutube  What non-EV vehicles have non-mechanical door releases? I haven't heard of any such vehicles except for EV's.
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  193.  @djtaylorutube  I listed some EV's 6 comment replies above this comment. I know that for ICE vehicles basically 99.9% have 100% mechanical door releases as the latches both inside and outside are connected by a physical cable to open the door. So far only EV's have electronic latches that use solenoids to open the doors - the thing that looks like a latch / handle is a switch that sends a signal to a solenoid, not a physical cable.
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  194. I highly doubt you have an EU Schengen country passport, so you don't have one of the most cherished citizenships. The USA is one of the worst citizenships you could ever have in this world - its gets you nowhere and will actually stop you from having bank accounts outside the USA and bans you from investments in most countries as they don't want the headache of reporting to the USA.
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  195. Well he'll be horrified forever because there isn't anything you can do to stop a LiFePO 4 battery fire. Like phosphorous, they create their own fuel and oxygen when burning so they have to burn out to stop. There is thus zero training as there isn't anything that can be done. Also containment is basically impossible due to the immense heat from the fire.
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  196. Not saying to change your mind but do note that an EU passport from a country within Schengen can open doors to parts of EU countries that aren't in Europe, so your options abroad open dramatically.
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  197. Simple - don't register your car with them. Do NOT comply with their crap. Ideally someone should rip all their cameras out.
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  198. @Gamesso1slOo0l Quit being a coward and leave. You can video call friends and family, you can visit them, they can visit you. It's easy. Home is where you make it - the country doesn't matter. Honestly, you sound like a child who will NEVER move out of their parents house because 'family'.
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  199. Try Almdudler its Austrian and really tasty. Also has much less sugar than Coca Cola.
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  200. It depends on the country. If you have a second then you have the ability to ditch one if they go for citizenship based taxation, and still have the same access to Europe. Also, different EU passports have different access around the world due to what their empires used to be and depending on if they were behind the Iron Curtain or not. Generally speaking, if you can get a second EU passport by descent - do it, otherwise try to get a tax haven (a 0% PIT country) passport be it Vanuatu or a Caribbean CBI passport that gives you OECS access to St. Kitts & Nevis or Antigua & Barbuda.
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  201.  @person.X.  Five Eyes Alliance, CRS, global passport database, other data sharing between allied govts. Its very easy for governments to track you everywhere you go. The ATO can check any passport issued to you by any country as if you've paid taxes in Australia or moved money out of Australia you've had to legally give the details of every passport you have - all they need is your name, passport number and its expiry. Plus the ATO have literal datacentres performing transforms of link analysis where every bit of data in the world that they can access about you is linked to you - this includes data shared between governments.
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  202. Because there's no jobs, high crime, high taxes, extreme welfare state, and very tyrannical laws that haven't improved since the plandemic - the govt hasn't given up its 'plandemic laws' or extra powers. Its as bad as Australiastan, if not worse. If you watched the video, you'd note that he still is an NZ citizen - he just doesn't live there (like 75% of all Kiwi's).
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  203. Generally speaking, any military obligations (except for some countries) only apply if you're resident/living in the country. Just be careful of where you become resident - some places require all who are legally residing to perform military service (except for foreign students), some don't. If you had a Caribbean passport, any EU passport or South American passport and a residence in the country of the passport, you were able to return home. This is why you need multiple homes as its the passport + the homes that give you options when the SHTF! As an Australian who's wanted to leave since 12th March 2020, those who couldn't come home are bloody lucky (if they have other passports that let them live abroad) as they're able to live life and subject to permits/visas, work and otherwise freely move around. It sucks having to watch everyone get on with life overseas (with the exception of a few crazy countries) whilst we're likely to have a new "manufactured" crisis as Dictator Dan's (Supreme Ruler of Danistan - formerly Premier of Victoria) permanent powers require a continued emergency for him to extend them within the next month and that requires a real-world crisis (case numbers will probably skyrocket magically as they did at every previous extension). Most businesses have gone under, the few that survived have a "skeleton crew" of staff, the costs of everything are going up and travel restrictions change with the wind as do the jab requirements (two inside the country, three to enter (if a resident or citizen) - two if a foreigner). Its likely to get much worse in Australia as NSW & QLD are having horrible floods, diesel prices are higher than all other fuels which is now pushing up food prices. Combine this with the floods, food shortages are likely. Also note that wages haven't kept up with inflation and cost of living for the last 26yrs in Australia and since the '2020 thing', welfare has skyrocketed which will result in ever higher taxes. The USA, CANZUK & Western European nutty "2020 thing lets go crazy" countries (Austria, Spain, etc.) are all done, the future is Central & Eastern Europe, the Baltics, the Balkans, Central and South America and the tax havens (Caribbean & Vanuatu, etc).
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  204. Because people want to escape the tyranny - Australia is now no better than the USSR & the National border is operating just like the Iron Curtain. Only politicians, sportsmen and some elite are allowed out along with select tourists who were allowed in for a short visit then let out. They won't let any of us go to NZ as they know we'd fly to another country where we are citizens or permanent residents of - they don't want us to escape their tyranny!
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  205. Given this potentially happening (by 2025 or 2030), that brings to light one interesting question that my neighbour had which I've honestly never thought about before: "Can a relative or friend pay for citizenship by investment (the main large fee) or does the individual applying have to pay? If not, could the relative or friend gift the money (complying with gift tax laws) and then the money be used to pay or does the person applying have to demonstrate they earned the money over a long (12+ months) period?"
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  206. Yes because you're a citizen of Antigua & Barbuda, not St Kitts & Nevis. Basically the 7 full-member countries of the OECS have their own equivalent of the EU Schengen Zone, where they can freely move, work and live between each of their countries. Countries that are Associate Members of the OECS do NOT have such freedom. If you have a passport from Antigua & Barbuda and go to St. Kitts & Nevis, you need to get the OECS entry stamp in your Antigua & Barbuda passport (they might soon start doing this electronically) and you're good to go. If however you were to naturalize as a citizen of St. Kitts & Nevis after 10yrs of living there, then it would become an issue.
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  207. Great video, glad to hear you were able to get to where you needed to be. Any advice for future reference on how to best monitor / find out what bans are going to be put in place before they are publicly announced as in the case of Australia, there was no warning it just happened. Australia initially banned people (both citizens and visitors) leaving then banned entry except to citizens. I know a few people who are dual citizens who normally live overseas who got trapped in Australia as since they were Australian Citizens they were banned from going home where their life is centered, so now they are stuck with a huge hotel bill and no clue when they'll be allowed to go home. Unless you hear about things being about to happen with about a weeks notice and can throw enough money together to get a last moment ticket, its sadly not possible to benefit from having multiple citizenships when regimes decide to be heavy handed (dare I say tyrannical?)...
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  208. Highly unlikely, BRICS isn't anywhere near united or ready to do any such thing. The reality is that as China aren't making their currency the 'Global Reserve' as they don't want the headaches that come with doing so, so that leaves only the Euro. Given that 32 countries (and 14 territories) already use it (some do so without permission) and many more who'll happily use it, the Euro will very likely be the new Global Reserve Currency by 2030 assuming the EU doesn't fall apart before then. Also, the BRICS system has too little adoption and no where near enough reserves backing it as is required by their own rules. As more people reject CBDC's, the viability of a new system such as the one BRICS is using just isn't going to succeed. The more tyranny is pushed by the likes of the WEF, the more people revert to cash, bullion and other tangibles, as they don't want digital ID or CBDC's; people want real freedom and autonomy.
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  209.  @eat_ze_bugs  That's because (sadly) no government anywhere in the world considers a yacht to be a residence/domicile. If you want to live aboard, you still need an actual residence in the country you want to be tax resident in. Its stupid because the same reasoning is used to reject private islands from being considered a residence/domicile. Basically to get out of a tyrannical regime such as Australia and their tax system, you need to move your entire centre of life to another country (living in a city), establish genuine tax residency, live there for a few years, meet all the requirements to leave the Australian tax system, and then and only then can you go and live aboard and/or live how you wanted. It sucks how messed up this world is and how tyrannical "name brand" countries have become, all because they're desperate for absolute control and because they're desperate for every tax dollar they can get.
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  210. FYI ALL credit card machines that are connected to or are part of tills, all report product and service codes to the banks. This lets them know what products are being bought or what services are being bought. This was reported on in Australia during the plandemic and in most of CANZUK & CUNA people have had transactions that just wouldn't go through (due to the banks ESG policy, even for debit cards), or they've been debanked for buying/doing anything the bank either doesn't like or considers to be anti-social (hunting, fishing, camping, 4WD'ing, etc.).
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  211. You can live and work in the Caribbean, without a Caribbean passport you can only visit. That AU passport is garbage - as someone with an AU passport, I would recommend scrapping it unless you like living under the thumb of the insane regime in AU who're absolutely happy to ruin your life just because they want to or because you dared to try to leave permanently since 2020.
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  212.  @donovanmic  Until the reality of the costs of living and sky rocketing taxes make you worse off as is the case in AU & NZ
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  213. One thing to keep in mind is that some residence permits require you to live in the country to get & keep them...
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  214. Spoken like one of the elite - if you're already one of the elite then this channel is of zero use to you. Why not? Passports aren't about loyalty, they're nothing more than a tool for conduct of business (as either the owner, the customer or both). What you are calling for is literally what the elite want - class segregation between the elite and everyone else. It also shows your lack of understanding of passports and business as if you understood these things properly you'd be all for dual citizenship. Also, being stuck in a country due to citizenship with zero way to do anything is no different to being in a violent relationship - you need to leave and the only way is with dual or multiple citizenships. So once again, I ask why not?
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  215. @dag4836 Why should I have to be taxed to death by one country and not have options to leave? I was born with 4 citizenships (3 Tier A, 1 Tier B) and am saving to do one CBI so I can go where I'm treated best as there's no other way to legally move there. As for your claim of most people not being able to - I hate to break it to you but in most of CANZUK & CUNA, 75% of people are born as dual/multi nationals - many just haven't claimed their citizenships by descent. Literally everyone I went to school with (yes, public primary school) was born with 2+ citizenships. What is anyone "getting away with" by having multiple citizenships? Its literally peoples right of blood (i.e. citizenship by descent). Ironically there's a very good chance you're a dual citizen due to citizenship by descent. Are you just shitty that the ones from whom your welfare check is taken are leaving and that the welfare money might dry up?
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  216.  @RC94332  The govt in Panama sure as hell do though. If you re-read my comment (and actually pay attention to what I said) you'd see the part where I talked about becoming Panamanian. No SANE person wastes time on a FNV if they want to live in Panama or naturalize as a Panamanian citizen. Why live somewhere that you have zero rights? Only citizens have rights. To become Panamanian, the treaty route is the only route that's got any chance of being accepted in practice. Plenty of Italians have gone the treaty route and naturalized with far fewer hassles than Americans via the FNV.
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  217. Australiastan is collapsing. The ATO are now doing "Lifestyle Data Matching" - looking more into what you have because the govt is getting desperate for more tax money. The biggest problem is Australiastan is so high tax and banks have paid basically no interest on savings that most people can't afford to leave, especially as they have to basically go several years without income in order to break free of Australian Tax Residency after they've moved their "centre of life" abroad entirely. Lastly, until you leave the Australian Tax System LEGALLY, you have to report ALL bank accounts and investments you have globally - the ATO use data sharing and matching to find out. This means that you'll still be getting hit with the same CGT, etc. on your investments and the Australian Govt can still seize your assets if they want to.
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  218.  @rickboyerdev  No one is linking it as its still "in the works". Once its fully documented and "happening" (maybe a month or two) it'll likely be on El Salvador's Immigration department website. I've looked thoroughly and the only program is the "freedom passport" program which is the one million in BTC donation path. Generally speaking there's a 4-6 month delay between a program being announced and it actually starting - the only outlier being Vanuatu who announce programs but don't start them.
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  219.  @TheAwesomeTolga198  Aside from the fact that the laws were changed around 2010 to permit suspension of passports for any reason, it's happened. People have been stopped from leaving Australia and New Zealand because they're skilled and have significant financial means because the govt don't want brain drains, people who've become specialists in skilled fields have been denied leave from Australia even for retirement because the government don't want brain drains - the ironic part is that but simply not working the brain drain still happens even if the people don't leave. There are plenty of people who have been stopped from leaving the US, AU, NZ and UK by suddenly getting tax audited over their political views and in Australia people have been "randomly" selected for jury duty two years in a row early in the year for a late in the year period even though if done in one year you're not legally able to be selected again for a year. I've had a few of the mentioned things happen to myself, the being refused from leaving because I'm an engineer, being suddenly slammed with audits and investigations even though I've been cleared and okayed every time, and I've been selected twice in a row for jury duty with selection in the beginning of the year for a period at the end of the year with backdated noticed of selection. All just to stop me leaving. The same has happened to colleagues and people from many of the clubs I'm in, even to people in those clubs that I don't know. Oh yeah and then there were the last few years where those with arts degrees and those over 50 were granted travel ban exemptions for parties, weddings and holidays but anyone under 50 and in a skilled profession was completely denied even if they had proof they were leaving and never coming back. Executive Traveller also had an article about it and plenty of people from Australia shared their experiences that went back as far as 2016
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  220. Most lists only factor in tourism, completely disregarding work. Why don't people make lists on serious metrics such as legality of working (Schengen Zone, Trans-Tasman, CTA, etc.)? Just because a passport gives visa-free access to a country doesn't permit one to work. When ranking passports on right to work, live and move, all Schengen Zone member states' passports should automatically jump to the top of the list as they grant the rights to live, work and do business in the largest number of countries at once without a visa or permit. Whilst traveling, I've seen a few people arrested for working online whilst in a country as a tourist; police were ID checking everyone at a hotel business centre and lounge to check that they had the correct visas or other right to work - sure its rare when a person is working online only but it does happen, especially when people use hotel wifi or business centres for work.
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  221.  @arthursondheim2255  I can't go into details as I only know what I saw and what I've personally experienced. Note that these things didn't all happen in the same year, it was over about a 10 year period, so not often but still relevant and when it happened in Central Europe it was 2018. I've seen it happen in France (at a hotel business centre), a few countries in Central Europe (at a lunch spot the locals frequent - a friend recommended it to me whilst I was there) and the Baltic States (at a hotel lounge and at a hotel business centre), the UK (at a hotel business centre), Singapore (at a hotel lounge). Basically it can happen anywhere. When a country is either trying to stop illegal work (I'm guessing its usually based on tips and other intel) or when they assume that illegal work is happening but the only way to prove it is to check ID's and see what people are doing. Its nothing to worry about as if you either have the correct visa, other official entitlement to work (some Commonwealth Countries have some agreements that permit some limited work without a visa for their citizens when in certain other Commonwealth countries), or happen to be a citizen of that country or (if within the Schengen Zone) a citizen of a Schengen country you won't be breaking the rules. Just remember, if you enter a country as a tourist DON'T do ANY work and you'll be fine. Every time I've seen these checks being done and some arrests being made I've never had an issue as I have a passport from an EU country within the Schengen Zone, a passport from a Commonwealth nation, a passport from a small country that's little heard of, and, I only work in countries that I have the legal right to do so. When I was traveling in Central Europe I was working over lunch at a local lunch spot, the police came in and politely asked for ID's from anyone they saw working (laptop, tablet, forms, etc. visible), I simply showed my passport from a country within the Schengen Zone and I was fine as my passport being from a country within the Schengen Zone (the same country that I have a passport from) permits me to work and live in the Schengen Zone. It was one of the only times I've ever been told "sorry for the inconvenience" by the police, usually I just get my ID/Passport handed back to me and they walk away from me in other countries. When I was traveling in the Baltic States I was doing some work over lunch at the hotel lounge, some guy was on his laptop using the hotel wi-fi. When the police checked ID's everyone could hear the police telling a guy that he was a tourist and not permitted to work and that he was working illegally and that just because work is being done online doesn't mean its not work. They arrested him and that was all I know of that. When I was in Singapore I was having tea at the hotel lounge with those I was traveling with when the police did their ID checks - had no issue as it was obvious we weren't working unlike the guys 4 tables over who were clearly working and who didn't have visas (it was easy to over hear the arrest as the place was quiet and the policeman spoke rather loudly the moment he placed them under arrest). People forget that hotels and business centres are still bound by the same rules as anywhere else in whatever country they're in. Most places expect people to understand that a business centre is for work and should a person only want to check emails, they should be very clear about that when inquiring about access and use of a business centre. Also people need to remember that hotels will monitor their business centres and wi-fi to ensure that only those permitted to work perform work - serious penalties can apply to hotels that let people work illegally. All nomad capitalists need to always play by the rules. When people don't and countries catch them, they'll get in serious trouble and the rules will tighten for everyone else. Its literally the old "one person ruins it for everyone else"!
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  222. Any chance of a video on Visa Free (i.e. tourism) mobility VS Right to Live & Work (without needing a Visa or permit) mobility?
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  223. Ever heard of regulation creep? This is how it starts, just enabled by default. Then it changes to being always required but you change change the time interval. Then it becomes mandatory and both impossible to disable and illegal to disable. Those with power always want more which is why regulation creep is a thing. Its NEVER for our benefit, its always to expand their control.
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  224. Its fake. If you think it has any value, make up your own because that's as valuable as it is - it has no value. I'm amazed people still talk about that scam.
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  225. Absolutely. I find it hilarious that so much emphasis is placed on 'visa-free' travel as what people forget is that's only for tourism. If you do any work, business, investing, banking, etc. whilst there as a tourist you'll end up in jail and banned from ever returning. This is why I say that full rights and freedom of movement bloc passports are far more valuable than passports with 'visa-free' to everywhere. Also, they always trash talk Vanuatu even though its a great passport for a zero tax life, and the only legal way to live in Vanuatu; who care's that it doesn't have 'visa-free' to the EU - that's what the other passports in a passport portfolio are for, better access.
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  226. Here's a little reality check as you've clearly never been involved in how such things actually occur; there is no dilemma. The area can't ever become independent as the EU doesn't want a new country formed by Russian Armed Forces - imagine those 2 million orcs all forming groups and trying to take over (rule by war) attacking each other - it'd be like the warlords in the Congo. The land would be either Polish or Lithuanian or more likely split between them and the borders demilitarised (mines, traps, etc. removed) for civilian life. The people there would have no choice but to return to Russia as they are only Russian citizens (Russian Armed Forces and their families). There are zero Prussians living there - the USSR took care of that under Stalin who had a love of ethnic cleansing and purges. As for "compensation", that's literally not the EU's problem, that's Russia's problem as its part of Russia and the people are Russian citizens.
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  227. Same for pure silver in Australia
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  228.  @NPSF3000  A UBI does nothing about red tape - it doesn't reduce the govts involvement in businesses, nor does it make it easier for you to be trained - it only pushes those prices up (inflation). All it does it hand out money at a cost to the taxpayers. A small or medium business pays the same taxes in the first year as it does in its last as there aren't deductions or "tax holidays" in 95% of countries in the world for new businesses. You claim a UBI will reduce red-tape that's literally not what a UBI is about. Nor will a UBI make it easier to move to another place - prices will all go up - inflation caused by UBI!
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  229.  @theBear89451  I was addressing NPSF3000's comment about a UBI enabling someone to move somewhere with less red-tape. I never said UBI should be based on location. UBI shouldn't even be an idea for the simple fact that wealth redistribution never works and always causes hyperinflation and then everyone has nothing.
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  230.  @tonylam9548  Spot on. I would also add that for people who want to both travel the world and who want a more affordable alternative to a home, sailing catamarans are a great option (~$200k second hand). They're considered a yacht under law as they have to be bluewater rated to be used internationally yet most people in this thread seem to ignore the fact that what they want to do will only hurt them. Sadly these people are a product of a crap education system as they don't understand business, finance, economics or the consequences of high taxation and anti-rich laws.
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  231.  @blaqbastion1501  My point is that in reality the unintended consequences will cover any bluewater vessel as the laws only screw we normal people. I only mentioned it as most people don't realise that a yacht is any bluewater rated vessel and thus any ban or tax would apply to more than just the rich on luxury / mega yachts as politicians loosely / poorly word everything.
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  232. Its only private jets that harm the environment. The normal commercial flights that you and I can take are carbon negative due to the number of passengers, the fact they also transport cargo and mail, and the fact that we all pay 'CO2 offset' taxes as part of the ticket price. Private jets make 200k more flights per year collectively than commercial flights. Oh, now in the EU train travel is being demonized as 'bad due to heavy electricity use' and thus it now unacceptably pollutes. That's on top of tickets now costing more since internal flights were banned and due to the levy that covers the welfare for those who lost their jobs when internal flights got banned. Also, even having a small 40ft sailing boat is being effectively outlawed due to bureaucracy that cares more about nationality and hoop jumping than it does actual skill. If you can't get an ICC due to your nationality (even if you passed the exam), and you can't get a marine licence from an EU country (requires residence in the EU), then you can't sail as you can't sufficiently 'prove experience'. No other govt issued licences are accepted so if you live in AU, NZ, CAN, etc. your marine licences mean nothing. Now the ICC is being replaced with a new EU-wide Licence which the UN has also said will apply globally. ALL travel and transport is being intentionally banned as they don't want you escaping their tyrannical dystopias to the few free places that will remain (the tax havens).
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  233.  @dchubworldsharenetwork  Depends on the country. In Australia, only some features can be temporarily turned off - you have to do it every time you start the car. The problem is that even if you do that, if the car thinks it should use the feature it turns it back on immediately. Permanently disabling the features would require a custom set of computers to replace the existing ones. Good luck with that as such a solution doesn't exist and would be illegal to install (20yrs jail for removing 'safety features'). This is why I love my 11yr old car that doesn't have this modern BS in it, and why I 100% refuse to drive anything made after 2014.
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  234. Except that it can't. The problem which exists and is unlike any time before in history is that the debt is absolutely global. No one country can afford to forgive the debt as doing so would destroy them and every other country that trades with them. We're literally in a MAD (mutually assured destruction) situation at the moment, everything to too tightly interwoven. This is exactly why the world is closing and becoming more insular, why every country wants to do everything itself. Only when countries are 100% self-sufficient and don't need the rest of the world, can they forgive the debt without destroying themselves.
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  235.  @My_Old_YT_Account  Only if you're a tourist, if you're living there full time as I explained in my comment then its more expensive. Also Spanish people get zero tax breaks if they move there as Spain treats their citizens in Andorra the same as France does its citizens in Monaco - their taxes don't change.
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  236. That would just make the problem worse. Its the same thing in Australia. The government encourages foreigners to buy property - the catch is they must be rich. So along comes the auction, locals bid reasonable prices, then comes a representative of the foreigner who instantly bid $300,000 more, the property sells to the foreigner. This happens a few times and a house worth $280,000 in reality suddenly is listed for $1.2 million. No locals can buy a house. If you build more, the problem gets worse as prices skyrocket as more foreigners buy the houses. These houses usually sit empty or get filled with foreign workers as if a business has space for "skilled workers" to board, they can apply for more "skilled worker" visas. Companies always prioritise foreign workers as they know they can exploit them as they don't know their rights. The govt don't care as the things considered skilled work literally include "tractor driver", "animal carer - chickens", "livestock feeder", just to name a few. I personally know plenty of locals in both Australia and New Zealand who've be screwed by this garbage scheme that the governments want. It comes down to one thing - the governments want all the taxes from the foreign money they get from letting foreigners buy up everything and the "skilled workers" take all the jobs, rotating in and out due to the short length of the "skilled worker" visas.
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  237.  @mikey10006  that New Zealand study was a sham as it was only performed to confirm what the NZ govt wanted to confirm. When more houses are built the area is suddenly a "growth area" and prices continue to grow which further makes them more unaffordable. That is the on the ground reality in both Australia and New Zealand.
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  238. @michaelmurano7813 Spoken like a true nut who's projecting their feelings and what they think of themselves on others. You clearly don't understand the whole "live to fight another day" and "you fight the battles that matter in order to win the war; you don't fight every battle". What's the point in staying when you're forced out of work through the industry being regulated out of existence, taxes increasing annually to cover the ever increasing welfare bill so scum who do nothing can live off your hard work, all whilst the masses (the scum on welfare) all want the system to stay as is because it means they don't have to do anything and they receive everything courtesy of the tax payers. In this situation, there is no way to politically fight this as the people don't want change and its you against the 98% - the system must collapse before any change can occur. Why get caught in the collapse when there isn't any need - i.e. why go down with the ship when there's plenty of space in the lifeboat? It takes millions of dollars (that most of us don't have) just to even get into politics and that's assuming the existing parties will permit you to register (most of the systems in CANZUK & CUNA require majority agreement from the existing parties to permit the registration of a new one). Now you'll only get at best 2% of the vote under ideal circumstances because the 98% don't want anything to change (except for things to get worse). So now you've achieved nothing, you're bankrupt and stuck with nothing and no options. You can no longer "live to fight another day", you have no ability to help effect change when the masses want it (in about 50yrs time). You're a real f***ing genius! We get that you're scared and unable to bring yourself to taste freedom. This is at least the 4th video on which you keep spouting your bullshit. Please go find your nearest socialist/communist club and avoid this channel as this channel isn't for cowards such as yourself.
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  239. Its as voluntary as MyGov - i.e. mandatory. Also, anyone in Victoria has had their medical info put into a govt system that doesn't have any opt-out and the data is available to companies through data brokers. Also, look at the Director ID BS - another digital ID that reveals very personal information about people and their parents, information that has nothing to do with being considered "a director" by ASIC. Also in Victoria, all licence photos were put into a facial rec database that is used to monitor everyone and the data is made available to private businesses through data brokers to make it easy for businesses to face rec people.
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  240.  @Starlight36911  The problem is "made public" means mentioned the the Govt Gazette (comes out weekly and costs a lot). The sad reality is that unless you know exactly the bill you're looking for (i.e. the document number) you're gonna have a very hard time finding it until it becomes law. Once something is law there is zero way of getting it changed or removed with a petition. The govt tossed aside (without even accepting or acknowledging a petition with over 1 million signatures (the original petition against the GFNP) because the govt only does whatever it wants without any accountability. The fact is once law, all acts are required to remain in force without amendment for 5yrs - thus there is no way to remove or amend it before it becomes permanent (i.e. well and truly rolled out). This is why we're stuck with the 100% unworkable Professional Engineering Registration Act's in VIC, SA & NSW which has resulted in Australia buying completed engineering projects from overseas (that way the work isn't done for or provided to Australia, a completed product (not custom) is purchased). The other problem is that even if by some miracle a petition was accepted and heard, only SFFP, Libertarians, One Nation and a few independents (Roberts, Katter, Babet, etc.) would support such a petition. Literally everyone else supports and wants Digital ID. There literally aren't enough people on our side to get any change for the better. The cause are all the nutcases who voted for the filthy commies that are Labor. Its the 99% who screwed us all and like Yuri Bezmenov says "they won't accept the truth until the boot is on their neck and they're getting executed by the state, only then will they wake up and see the tyranny they brought to life". They are demoralized nutcase "true believers" who vote for commies because their family always have. They're so brainwashed that they're completely oblivious to the fact that in the late 80's early 90's, the "u" got dropped from Labour and it became Labor. "Labor" being the new Australian Communist Party comprised of members of the old Australian Communist Party.
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  241. @carlosvalero7638 I've seen you spam this stupid comment on all the recent Nomad Capitalist videos. Clearly you're a leech who lives on welfare from the govt, so you don't want your money to dry up because you'd then have to actually work for money. Why should anyone pay taxes? After all they work hard for their money and are already forced to spend close to half their wage on living expenses, when you factor in half being taken by the government, they're left with nothing. What did the government do to earn that money? Nothing. Also, we get nothing for our taxes in the high-tax countries. Anyone who's in the top 3 tax brackets has to 100% pay-to-play. What I mean is you have to pay for everything, there is nothing in the way of 'public' services that you can use, you're forced to blow thousands of dollars each year on private health insurance or face even higher tax penalties (higher than the private health insurance). You are banned from seeing a public doctor once you have private health insurance so you're paying a lot to see a doctor and should you need to go to a hospital you're stuck going to private hospitals. Your driver licence and annual vehicle registration, as well as your council rates (a type of property tax) pay for the roads, as does the fuel excise (fuel tax), so that's already paid. Oh and all new roads are toll roads so you're paying twice for the same road, except the tolls are forever as the govt love the sales tax they get from every toll so they infinitely renew the toll operator contracts. You can't send your kids to public school as that's only for the poor leeches, you have to send your kids to private schools, the same private schools the govt and the leeches whinge are 'elitist' and should be closed. Your power, water and gas bill all pay for the utility infrastructure and for all the parks and gardens - its literally itemised on the bill. You want to have a hobby, well that means doing govt courses, getting government licences, doing mandatory update/refresher training, and having to register all your sport equipment for any sport deemed 'hazardous' (rock climbing, bushwalking, hiking, etc.) or where the equipment could be used as a weapon (anything involving bats/clubs). You don't even get a free passport for all the taxes you get forced to pay. A passport is like $500 but nope, the government demand you pay for that as well. What exactly do we get for our taxes? Absolutely nothing! Oh and the real kicker... its NEVER enough, the scum always want more. Look at Australia for example, they're now getting ready to increase all the current taxes and they're preparing to introduce new taxes because the place is completely broke. The worst part is the government have just announced they're about to start several projects that will cost hundreds of billions of dollars that they don't have. Funny how that's timed to match the higher and newer taxes. Current rates there (incl. the most basic living expenses being considered as a tax) come out to 75% of your annual income, maybe it'll be 100% by Christmas 2025. So tell me, you leech, what exactly does anyone get for paying their taxes, because normal members of society expect to NOT be extorted infinitely, and they expect to see what their money is spent on, and for taxes to reduce as the problems are dealt with, yet that NEVER happens.
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  242. @BjornAndreasBull-Hansen Currently CANZUK & CUNA are trying to ensure that people are effectively stuck in their countries as they're stopping them from leaving. Basically they're taking a two-pronged approach to keeping them 'stuck': 1. Electoral Rolls - By having more elections, more often, the electoral rolls (where voting is mandatory) are frozen for a period that begins a month or two before the election, ending the day after the election. This means that you can't change your details, or get removed from the electoral roll (if you move overseas) whilst the rolls are frozen. This effectively stops you from leaving as its getting harder to get off the electoral rolls. 2. Jury Duty - They are now abusing the Jury Duty system to ensure you can't leave. What they're doing is issuing a 'Notice of Selection' in the end of the year, for a large period in the next year. This effectively traps you where you are as you aren't allowed to leave the state or the country until AFTER the period is over. Then any time they'll 'exempt' you from being called again will be short and almost over as they back-date the 'exempt from being called again' to the date they sent (the date on the letter) the 'Notice of Selection'. This means that in 4yrs you can be called 3 times. Basically, this all ensures that the 2.5yr process of leaving the country permanently can't be done as the combination of the two methods I've mentioned effectively means that you're trapped in the country and every year is a 'write-off'. Its sick, demented and sadly the BS happening to me. Every time anything is going well, or I'm literally ready to go these two things keep me trapped. Now I've just had 2025 written off as both the methods are happening to me in the one year. I honestly see no point in doing anything anymore because I can't keep wasting years of my life, but to do otherwise would mean jail as I can't avoid Jury Duty (leaving the country permanently isn't a reason to be 'excused' once given a 'Notice of Selection', nor is being self employed without an ABN (the ABN isn't needed to be self employed, however to be 'excused' from Jury Duty you NEED an ABN which means turnover >$75k per year to be eligible for an ABN)), and staying is pointless as that gets me nowhere. The result is those of us stuck where we are are hurting financially, whilst our time and efforts are being wasted getting nowhere. This is 100% part of their "you'll own nothing and be happy" BS as its a great way to mentally break people and to financially break people.
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  243. That's literally nothing - the Australian passport is basically $500. Keep in mind that its lost access to 20 countries since 2020 and the only gain its had was 15 days visa-free to China which most EU countries have also gained.
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  244. You have no choice - its literally illegal not to in all but the 3rd world. Ever wonder why you have to use a registered phone number or govt ID to have a Google or Facebook account. Even if your screen name is made up, its still tied at the API level to your real identity so everyone use API's still knows who you are.
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  245. Will NEVER happen - all his craft are US registered and thus any Mars base would be required to be US registered and thus a US base. That's all thanks to old British Admiralty law that governs all vessels / craft / platforms (life oil rigs) and has been maintained internationally.
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  246.  @Toshibaq  Wake up, its literally their aim. The WEF and COP Summits have both said they want all private vehicle ownership to end and for only walking, cycling and public transport to be the only means of getting around. I have no clue why you make stupid retorts such as 'It's not' when it literally is and isn't a secret - its literally on their websites, and is part of a key UN SDG.
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  247. Then you have to start again from $0 because they'll likely bring in a 99% exit tax to stop people from leaving.
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  248. Rubbish. Its an over regulated, tax mad place that 100% hostile to 98% of businesses. Speaking from experience. Stop believing the lies and propaganda that likely come from the govt - they, like all "name brand" countries are finished and the last places any sane person wants to go.
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  249.  @yannip2083  Probably Antigua & Barbuda but if I can save the extra I'd go to St Kitts
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  250. And in reality when they say rich they mean 'middle class' because we're easier to go after than the rich who're already long gone to greener pastures.
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  251. France also exists in the Caribbean, South America and the Pacific (NNE of Australia). The Dutch have one place just below the Caribbean but just north of South America, not to mention, Greenland belongs to Denmark and Svalbard belongs to Norway.
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  252.  @rivenoak  You'd have to complete another ETIAS to enter and exit from different locations as its literally listed on the ETIAS. An ETIAS is only valid for 3 years if none of the approved information changes
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  253.  @ANT-yr9zo  Makes zero difference as an ETIAS can be denied for the same reason, also note that border guards can cancel any visa at the border at their discretion. A Schengen Visa for tourism is easy to get and you can pick which country you apply via so as to ensure you get it
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  254.  @lusvus5445  Why Vanuatu over St Kitts? For some people St Kitts isn't an option as they have a requirement that comes and goes from time to time which requires you to show over $5 million to your name over a 3 year period as part of the wealth test. Most other CBI programs require 750,000-1,000,000 in liquid wealth to be shown. Vanuatu only require 350,000 - 500,000 over the past year with the 350,000 to be liquid. Also some people want a zero tax life in Oceania where they can do business at local rates whilst living the island life with the countries they go to all just a short flight away. If you don't do business in Europe then there aren't any EU withholding taxes to worry about.
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  255.  @weird-guy  There's also Pirate Chain
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  256.  @sagepirotess6312  Fun fact - those residence permits mean nothing the moment you lose the citizenship through which you obtained them as they are tied to it. The only way to keep them is to naturalize and become a citizen of them, assuming they allow dual nationality. Don't be complacent - there will come a time where you'll have a tiny window in which to renounce and unless you have other citizenships that won't be an option. If you think naturalizing is quick - its not, just the paperwork can take 1-2yrs, and that'll become much longer if things go bad and they start getting overwhelmed with people doing the same. It's better to have and not need, than to need and not have.
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  257.  @djtaylorutube  What are you smoking - a petrol can (jerrycan) getting only 30 miles or so? I have 8 jerrycans of fuel stored legally on my property in Australia (it's a farm) with STA-BIL (a fuel stabiliser for storage of fuel). Each can will get my small car (for short trips) 400km of range, each can will get my large vehicle (moving farm supplies, machine parts, etc.) 150km of range (however this vehicle has a 120L tank and has jerrycan holders on it). The point that @Thefab5150 was making is that you can't recharge an EV like you can refuel an ICE vehicle from a jerrycan. Also, good luck running a generator to charge your EV - they're not efficient (the generators) and the generators most people buy aren't capable of outputting enough power to charge most EV's (most are 1200-1500W, you need 2500W+ to charge an EV, especially before the fuel runs out). As for your comment about power outages being very short - just wait, once every appliance that was gas gets changed to electric and once everyone has an EV, those short outages will become common long lasting "brownouts" as load balancing gets performed due to generation not being able to keep up. Already seeing this in Australia where they're rushing the "transition" and then finding out that the "green tech" doesn't work as well as it was supposed to.
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  258. I'd love to see some mega-rich person take the govt of an English-speaking "western" country to court and have courts rule 'retro-active' applicable laws as illegal. I find it absurd that anyone tolerates such laws as they are effectively illegal laws. Why? Because if a law can be applied retro-actively then why do we have any laws. Say the highway has a speed limit of 140km/h (maybe its in Europe) but a month later gets changed to 100km/h and the govt go around booking everyone that drove on the highway for exceeding the speed limit by 40km/h because the law that changed the speed limit was applied retro-actively. What crime did those people commit? None - they followed the laws. It doesn't matter that its a tax, that's the govt extorting you because you complied with the laws at the time, then they say "oh we just passed a new tax but we're applying it from 2yrs ago, so you broke the law by failing to pay the correct taxes". Then your guilty of tax evasion and facing a felony. If following the law makes you a criminal then that is an illegal law. They should only be allowed to enforce new laws from the date they become law, this retro-active BS needs to end. All of CANZUK & CUNA are trying this BS because the masses are too compliant that they don't care, even when the issues are explained to them.
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  259. The two things that don't make sense in this video are: 1. Who in their right mind doesn't use the high burner on a gas stove? I can boil water in 2 minutes on the high burner on a gas stove (most pots, pans and kettles have copper bases in Australia). 2. Electric jugs aren't exclusively for tea, in Australia most people use them for making coffee or to get boiling water for use in cooking. Do Americans exclusively use all in one coffee machines or pod machines for their coffee? Note: When using a gas stove, the flames need to be adjusted so they don't lick the sides of the pot, pan or kettle, only the base.
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  260. He really shouldn't. Andrew Bustamante isn't a person to look up to - he ratted out his own 'partner' over having a small party with alcohol which broke the rules. Instead of telling them off, telling them to not do that again, and getting rid of the bottles, he went directly to the instructor/superior and reported them. That shows he has no credibility, that he NEVER has anyone's back, even those he expects to have his, and that he's always gonna squeal / rat people out at the first chance because 'rules'. Even the person he ratted them out to wasn't impressed as in that line of work you're supposed to have each others back and use discretion.
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  261. ANY CBI should be considered a "donation" to the country and you shouldn't expect to get any money back. The benefit is the passport, access to live there and be in the tax system and in the case of Vanuatu, the ability to transit Australia without a transit visa - the only people who don't need such a visa are citizens of Vanuatu, Australia and New Zealand.
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  262. In Australia its full body scanner or you won't be traveling unless you have a private plane or boat, there is no option to not be full body scanned. Australia wants to irradiate all regular travelers!
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  263.  @searlearnold2867  Their climate is exponentially more capable of growing coconuts and their needs are exponentially smaller. Also note that they have a lot of solar so I would say yes they can. Vanuatu's biggest problem is jobs for locals, not infrastructure.
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  264. Not just the UK. Basically the only way to open bank accounts (unless you're mega rich) is to either be a citizen (or have the same rights - i.e. EU's Schengen Zone) or have residency via a permit or visa. The whole system is designed only for the mega rich to succeed. What we really need is for the Caribbean programs to introduce some way for crypto traders or those who actually want to live there and contribute to be able to get in without having to be extremely rich.
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  265. * Two minute charge. I can fill up and get that range in 2 minutes with a high flowrate diesel pump at the servo.
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  266. Only relevant if you're a British Citizen - good luck with that
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  267.  @SuperCulverin  Never said they weren't a PITA, just tried to clarify to @robbraxmantech what the original comment was trying to say (that manual OTP not digital OTP was the suggestion). The problem with using something else is without being a licenced Ham, there isn't much available. In countries such as Australia LoRa is heavily regulated as the ACMA regulate the technologies used, the output wattage, frequencies and the overall range (so even low power long range is regulated). LoRa also isn't legal in Australia unless you want range limited to that of a home router as the US modules are illegal because the ACMA are tyrannical and dictate everything.
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  268.  @namewithheldforprivacy7107  I have been paying attention. Clearly you failed reading comprehension. My point wasn't about them having a tax, my point was they did what the 'west' and high-tax lobbyists told them to do. I said that addressing your comment that 'the west' can't touch them. They can, did and will again. Once you do as the 'west' say, you'll do that until the 'west' completely collapses and has no military capability. Either way by 2030 the UAE taxes apply to everyone as that's when the current system ends and the whole place is considered UAE - the whole 'zones' thing is being phased out.
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  269. The single biggest problem is the rich "western" countries who are losing people to other countries deal with the problem like a wife-beating thug. What I mean is they attack the people financially instead of addressing the issue. They'd rather not incentivize people with low rates, but by trying to tax people everywhere and by making it near impossible to leave - eg. CANZUK and CUNA
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  270.  @jiti5034  If you read this whole comment thread you'll understand what I mean. I'm sick of having to repeat myself because people either can't be bothered reading or because they're trying to be argumentative. The issue is that the rules don't apply equally to locals and migrant workers who are here on visas. Locals are being forced out of the industry whilst foreigners are being given the jobs that are being actively taken from locals. I am comparing apples with apples because migrant workers can remain on visas indefinitely as they don't have to apply for permanent residency or citizenship. Also as I've said before in this comment thread, the experience requirements don't apply to migrant workers. Yes, the CPD requirements are as I said in my previous comments, significantly less for foreigners than they are for locals to the point that it's basically two different systems.
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  271. Tax automation and the businesses will leave the country so you won't have any job and everything will cost 10x more. A UBI can't succeed, its a race to the bottom thanks to the fact that it'll always cause hyperinflation. VAT is a sales tax that already reams the little-guy - if you struggle to afford everything currently, think how bad it'd be if you increase VAT?
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  272. Plenty of perfectly healthy people who had been checked and found to have zero heart problems, suddenly started having them post-jab. Yet the powers that be are still denying it.
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  273. British Bill of Rights still applies in Australia. The Australia Act only stopped British Laws made after the Australia Act from applying in Australia - anything up to that point is still valid
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  274.  @nhmooytis7058  It literally does. Bill of Rights 1689. Its still in force in the UK. You're trying to be a know-it-all and get abusive when you're wrong. You're clearly the dolt. Get Lost!
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  275. What 'most sought after passport'? He's not talking about giving up an EU (Schengen) passport. He's talking about giving up the utterly worthless US Citizenship.
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  276. You would have no choice but to get an EU citizenship from within Schengen if you want to avoid the 90 day limit. All biometric passports are globally linked by your biometric data and by sharing of information and passport numbers used to book tickets.
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  277. Daylight Saving Time (DST) was created during WW2 so that people could have some time to do things before they had to blackout their houses as a defence against bombing raids. The reality is that bureaucracy never abolished it post-war and sadly its stuck. Its stupidly annoying as it causes time issues and forces many in certain industries to use different time systems in order to continue global projects around the clock. Countries keep changing when DST applies. The EU recently told countries to decide it they're doing it or not and if they're joining the one timezone (within Schengen) to simplify business - many countries still haven't responded to the EU. Then there's Australia where some states decided that we need half a year of DST because 1/3 of a year just wasn't enough, so they changed it. Then there's countries that NEVER do DST. Its one giant stupid mess; DST NEEDS to be abolished as it has zero legitimate purpose in the modern era, flexible work hours makes it easy to start an hour early so you can finish an hour early if you want more time with daylight after work. In most IT and engineering time is simply tracked in 'ticks' and then converted by the computers to the correct time based where you are. When projects require global coordination then time systems such as ZULU are used, or if its within one company globally then the time at the global HQ is used as "the time" at all other offices.
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  278. You can't NOT have a "habitual abode" (primary residence) - tax residency requires one. Once tax residency is set how you want all you do is maintain that tax residency (avoiding becoming tax resident elsewhere) and then travel / holiday as you wish and when in a place you can legally work, you work. Inheritance of money/wealth is generally handled by where you're tax resident, property is handled where it exists and most countries will let a direct descendant inherit property without taxing it, then its the usual stuff to keep the property such as rates/land tax, utilities, etc. Simple!
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  279.  @elsbells4841  I just check the website, whilst the FAQ has been updated, the border manuals (used by border guards) haven't. Thanks for pointing it out. Maybe someone has realized the mess it was going to cause and are changing it for the better. It sounds like new ETIAS border manuals and updated training will come out soon. Typical, just when everyone has been trained to the rules, they update them. I have to say, the whole ETIAS implementation has been a giant mess since it was first announced. Clearly it'll be another 10 versions of the border manual before they get it right.
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  280. Zero need for such a tax. Literally no military does anything to save their citizens abroad other than Israel. Aside from Israel its NEVER been the job of the military to "save citizens", the job of the military is to protect the govt, the borders against invasion and the country as a whole. Its just like the job of police isn't to "protect the public", its to "enforce the law" - hence the name 'law enforcement'.
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  281. They most absolutely will. The cameras and the govt don't care. Look at Australia, several cameras always booked everyone doing exactly the same speed (75.6 km/h) in a 60 km/h zone the moment the light went green after a right turn light and a pedestrian crossing green light. When the news got involved, it was revealed that a certain sequence of lights was programmed incorrectly so instead of being a "red light" camera, it was a "green light" camera during certain cycles. Then to top it off, the laser that measures speed was found to be faulty and incorrectly calibrated (hence the identical 75.6 km/h detected speed). You know what happened... Even when all that was found and proven true, the govt passed a law to require everyone fined to pay the fines (and lose points and their licences if they lost enough points) as "its about safety not about fairness", "we can't be weak on safety" and "we need the money". My point is they sure can fine everyone and force them to pay; refuse to pay and they'll take your licence, your passport and get the Sheriff and cops to seize your stuff to "recover" the money. This is the result of the masses letting them pass any laws they like and the result of the masses just "going along to get along" and blindly trusting the govt.
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  282.  @Poldovico  And how long until they make it illegal to disable? There's already talk in the EU to make it illegal to be able to disable 'sleep' by 2030. In the EU 'climate regulations' matter more and are superior to 'rights of individuals' so your right to change things to how you want means nothing.
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  283. You're 100% correct about CO2, I've been saying the same ever since they started claiming it was bad. Farmers add nitrogen to the soil via multiple means to improve soil fertility. One method is to pump nitrogen into a sealed mixer that contains soil under pressure, the easiest way is to add nitrogen rich fertiliser to the soil or to mix pelletised nitrogen into the ground and add water to trigger the pellets to release nitrogen. The Vostok Ice cores showed that high CO2 levels caused plants to have approximately 5x more biomass and the planet to have more breathable air and cooler global temperatures. The same ice cores also showed that high methane levels caused the exact opposite. They also showed that global temperature fluctuations were caused by the sun (the biggest thing that effects our planets temperature) and that during the middle ages the planet was on average 10-15 degrees Celsius hotter than currently but with 2x the plant biomass. There's a reason that they quit talking about the ice cores around the time they start this climate hysteria - the ice cores prove the climate hysteria to be false. Its all about control, power and global depopulation - all to be carried out by unelected nutty "elites" from the WEF. The whole "CO2 bad, Nitrogen bad" crap is to justify global depopulation as less CO2 = smaller plants which means less breathable air, more dust and pollution and fewer people. Remember the Georgia Guidestones' point "Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature." - according to the MSM we're at 8+ billion, approx 7.5 billion too many according to the elites. We are the carbon they want to reduce.
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  284. This bullshit needs to end. We all have a right to privacy. Just because we have privacy doesn't make us criminals. I guess everyone should only use privacy coins and P2P transactions or non-KYC exchanges, all over VPN and encrypted connections. What gets me is that in most places (such as Australia) crypto isn't an asset or income, its a special class of its own subject to stupidly high tax rates which are supposedly justified because "you didn't have to work hard for it and shouldn't be able to profit without working". As a result, between the paperwork nightmare and the stupid taxes on crypto, its utterly pointless to be involved with crypto in Australia. What's the reason behind high taxes, the govt screwing over crypto and trying to ban it all? The reason is the elite don't want anymore rich people, they want to kill us all by bankrupting us and starving us out so there are more resources for them. Taking the food first would be too obvious and would "rock the boat" too much so they start with the money; pushing us to "owning nothing and being happy", then the food costs too much and starts to become scarce. What we need is a tax free country to permit highly qualified and skilled people to be able to move and naturalise as citizens subject to starting a business and creating jobs and technology that benefits the place. Sadly the only option is to have large amounts of money to do CBI. The idea is that the tax free country could become the greatest success globally and show the world just how well being tax free and prosperous any country could be if they follow the same pattern. Basically an opposite of the OECD and their goals. Sadly, being not rich and stuck (barred from leaving till the end of the year due to govt shenanigans and their use of legal procedures to delay) in Australia (the 4th highest taxed country in the world), there aren't options to leave and due to the current migrant situation caused by the war in Ukraine, Europe doesn't have jobs or opportunities left so its not even a temporary option. The issue most will face is governments trapping them inside their countries and financially crippling them from leaving or being successful. Australia will break you every 6 months with new qualifications, courses, competencies (short courses), new experience requirements and other bullshit so you're always stuck learning or 'updating' your training instead of working.
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  285. Clearly you have zero clue about the over regulation and extreme taxation of every little thing. Australia is absolutely hostile to 98% of business.
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  286. Regarding the EV's - the newest claims are just bullshit propaganda as the powers that be want to push "EV good, everything else bad" at all costs. All footage of the ship/fire show what is clear to anyone with a brain, to be a thermal-runaway event. As for net zero - people need to stand up and say no and then stop the powers that be from advancing that agenda.
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  287. @Moonuuu Yet India is failing rapidly. Basically everyone who is educated and has the money to leave, is leaving. Communism and far-left policies combined with corruption and lack of resources and infrastructure make India literally not worth doing business in, even for locals. As India slowly modernizes their population will drop as always happens when societies modernize. The problem is that until they become capitalist, open up their economy and stamp out corruption, business will NEVER flourish. To give an example of the mindset of the average poor people in India, the beggers will literally get abusive if you give them a few Rupees instead of a 100 Rupees in one go - they fail to understand that a few Rupees from a bunch of people quickly becomes a lot of Rupees, so they get given none by most people. That's all according to my Indian colleague who left for these reasons.
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  288. I find it odd that the USA requires Hungarians to be born within Hungary. Thanks to Schengen, its perfectly normal for a Hungarian to be born in ANY Schengen Country. If they want to be pedantic then they should simply require proof that the persons parents are Hungarian (i.e. no naturalization within one or two generations). Regarding Poland - they don't have ANY fast-track program. The Poles Card is very restricted on who can get it, and its only a way onto a pathway to naturalization. The only way to speed up naturalization is to be genuinely married to a Polish citizen, have children and be able to prove the marriage is genuine and not ending. It also helps to be slavic. The only other option is that you can directly petition the President for citizenship however that's basically denied 99.9999% of the time unless you can prove you're ethnically Polish, that your family was persecuted by Nazis and/or Soviets/Communists and that there's a minor break in your family chain of citizenship as a result of that persecution.
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  289.  @Lav9944  Spot on!
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  290. @wkpeterf Bullshit - they simply get the citizenship of their parents (all of them) - its called jus sanguinis (right of blood). Its how many of us are born with 4+ citizenships.
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  291.  @BjornAndreasBull-Hansen  Its because they're from CANZUK & CUNA countries where feminazism has ruined women. The result is they've been stuffed around, lied to, led on, and then financially ruined. Many likely have kids that are now being taught to hate them. The type of women you talk about basically make up less than 1% of 'western' women and unless you know someone who can introduce you to them, you have no way of ever meeting them. Then you get too old and your life is ruined as its too late to have kids and build a family.
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  292. Very simple - any border passport control that can scan modern passports, can search you name, date of birth and biometrics against the entire database. Passports are registered in the database as being valid, but they also need to be activated. If you've ever had one sent to you via a consulate you'll have likely had to "activate" it online before being able to use it. Only registered and activated passports can be used. If you've only ever had the passport from the country you live in, it will be registered and activated before being sent to you as it doesn't need to cross national borders. The reason that when you get a passport through a consulate, you need to activate it is because the passport crosses many borders and should it be stolen from diplomatic pouches as its not activated - the activation details are only paired with the passport when the consulate sends the passport the last bit to you. If you've ever admitted all your nationalities on a govt form or visa waiver, or as a AML/KYC process or as a "due diligence" process, ALL of those nationalities will be listed under your details and the system will prioritize seeing which of those countries passports are held. When passports are scanned the guard / officer see's everything. Most financial institutions & anyone who can perform AML/KYC with passports, can search the same databases (with read only permission) so they'll find everything that's been divulged. There's times where honesty can backfire - sometimes its best to compartmentalize things if you have major threats against you or your freedom. Remember, once you've given out info willingly, its out there and you can't withdraw it.
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  293. The only reason they tolerated crypto was so that the 99% could write crypto with all the features a CBDC requires. Then the govt simply forks the code and voila - CBDC! The 99% think they're being smart when they're actually creating their own digital dystopia / digital prison. This is why privacy coins are hated and being banned - because they're actually anonymous (when used properly) and don't have "features" such as geofencing, balance editing by a central controller (to take or create money), they're not programmable and can't be just "turned off" like normal crypto can.
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  294.  @patc1309  My neighbour was considering trying renouncing and leaving. He inquired and was bluntly told that they (the govt) can refuse to let him renounce and that even if they allowed it, he wouldn't be allowed to leave (after renouncing) without an exemption or until restrictions were removed entirely. Australia is beyond gone! Oh and now Australian's who've been allowed to leave for official reasons now require special permits to return unless they work for the govt.
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  295. Its actually very simple. There's the huge capital injection for CBI or RBI, then there's the whole buying or building a house or apartment. Then there's the whole you're spending your money in the country which means you're paying GST/VAT and the money you're spending is coming to the country as it was earned abroad. Everything you import or export from the country is taxed (most 0% PIT countries have high import and export duty as well as high GST/VAT). Its positive impact all around to the new country.
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  296. Unless you want to live in Japan and have your kids live there, its always best to have as many options as possible. More passports is better as long as they are strategically chosen.
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  297. Antigua and Barbuda
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  298. Just like we've all seen over the last few years (2020 till now), the regimes will simply change the definitions to suit their needs. There won't be a collapse, just a transition to an absolute hell of a dystopia the likes of which is seen in all the great dystopian movies and probably similar to like whats portrayed in the districts in the Hunger Games (minus the games). Look at the current financial situation, fiat currencies are tanking in terms of belief and value yet because regimes change the definition of 'inflation', the bullion prices are beginning to tank because under the new definitions the dollar is doing better. As interest rates go up (a pathetic attempt to stop hyperinflation which won't work as too much money has already been printed) the new definition of 'inflation' now forces house prices up whilst bullion goes down. They are rigging the game to keep the poor, poor, to make the middle class poor and to keep the mega rich, mega rich. This is the deciding point in history where your current situation will be set in stone for your family into the future as long as the powers that be maintain their power. If you think this is BS, ask yourself, why are they banning crypto (regulating it to have no anonymity and to be not worth using, trading or holding is as good as a ban)? Because it would allow the average person to be free and to become rich. Look at universities - they don't want you doing actual research, they want you to simply rehash whats already been discovered until you do a PhD (which most people never do) - everyone else isn't permitted to do actual research because we can't be allowed to ever have solutions as only perpetual crisis enable totalitarian control and monitoring. Look at their attempts to devolve us by stopping us from eating red meat - the key thing that makes and keeps us intelligent. The list goes on... The WEF are behind it all!
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  299. When you look at not just the interest rates but also the exchange rate, the national debt, the inflation and the cost of living and the stagnation of wages, we're actually much worse off than people were during the great depression. The govt just don't want to admit they screwed up because they're to narcissistic and would rather act like everything is normal.
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  300.  @ddake9810  You're still choosing to ignore the truth that the economy is completely stuffed and you still want to blame the "youth" as if they're to blame - its those who are 50+ who caused the shit-show, who pushed the commie welfare crap and socialist crap as teachers and politicians. I have zero debt (always avoided it and never had it), have lived on a tight budget since I was 6yrs old (that's when my education in finance, savings and investments began as per family tradition that goes back centuries in Italy) and rely on no one other than myself. I've worked for basically nothing and only got a good wage when I was able to be self-employed. I will most definitely tell you about high prices - the cost of living has tripled since 2020 - yeah the same food items I've always eaten have tripled in cost. That's solely thanks to the govt, all the climate taxes and the ""2020 thing" has caused shipping to be expensive and cause shortages" BS that the govt keep lying about along with the govt forever letting the utility companies continuously increase the "service charges". The govt do this because it means more GST for the govt - the govt love high prices. I only eat at home unless invited to an event, my phone is 8yrs old and I've never just bought products for the sake of it. The people who pushed the prices so high are 100% the govt. People pay the high prices because they have zero choice. You either buy whats available or you go without. Want to grow food? Guess what - most people don't have backyards and are very limited as to what they can grow. Unless you have a farm you won't be having any animals/livestock of any kind due to lack of space and govt regulations. You claim that people are impatient - nope, people still have to eat - the basics have tripled in cost whilst wages continue to remain stagnant as they've been for the last 20yrs! As for your comments about houses - yes the prices are insane but the govt love that as it means they get more in Stamp Duty, GST, Capital Gains and Council Rates. During the "2020 thing" more houses were sold than ever before, the buyers were all foreign investors. Locals have been priced out for the last decade. Sadly building more is NOT the solution as that only results in the loss of farmland as the cities infinitely sprawl onto prime farmland - they never expand into the desert-like crappy farmland, and more foreign investors. The only solution is to ban foreigners from owning homes and only letting citizens own homes - this is why Europe is still affordable for citizens. House prices by law can't reduce. The under-quoting laws go as far as making it illegal for anyone to sell a property for anything less than the current average market value. This was done intentionally by the govt as all they care about is tax revenue, they never look at the long term picture. The only way house prices could reduce would be if for many years (5-10) every house sold for 5-10% less than they're worth - this would push prices down but would still result in govt investigations as to why the properties sold for less than they're worth and owners could be hit with penalties. Also, its 100% illegal to build your own house yourself, the govt requires you to use licenced builders for all of it. DIY has been long banned. Think I'm full of shit, come to Australia and see it for yourself. Its also the same in Canada, New Zealand and the UK.
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  301. The standards were made by the EU but are voluntarily adopted by other countries. Australia recently declared that Euro 7 will be implemented very soon. NZ and CAN are not far off doing so as well. Its all based on their WEF schedules they collect at DAVOS each year.
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  302.  @buzzard720  Only cowards say that. Those with guts will become Robin Hood, will remain free and will eventually (even if it takes decades) save the sheep.
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  303. @boutek Renouncing ANY citizenship is only possible if you have at least one other citizenship. Also, to renounce he'd need to go to an embassy or consulate; that would put him at risk of being arrested and sent back (Russia & China both love doing this to their citizens) as the embassy and consulate are considered foreign soil. Also, remember, its up to the country to choose to let you renounce, just because you ask, doesn't mean they have to accept.
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  304. @anomadhunter Funny how you say that but ignore the fact that its only when the rich are getting hammered with taxes that they don't tip. Every rich person I've encountered (been wait staff at restaurants) ALWAYS tips large amounts because they aren't getting hammered with taxes as they live in tax havens and holiday abroad. Also, you bullshit about most have inherited wealth is nothing but lies as its a well known fact that 90% of the current living rich/wealthy are all self made as with literally a handful of exceptions, multi-generational wealth ALWAYS fails as often the future generations have no clue about maintaining and building wealth so they waste it all.
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  305. Better stay away from CATIA then. Clearly you never learn CATIA as if you did you'd realize that FreeCAD has the same interface and workflows (the workbench model).
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  306. If you're not an EU citizen from within Schengen don't work whilst there - if they catch you (random searches of cafes and restaurants are becoming the norm) it'll be a very long time in jail and huge fines along with an EU-wide entry prohibition. If you enter visa-free you're a tourist so don't work, if you want to work, get a work visa. People illegally working in ANY country is pathetic, makes life harder for both locals and genuine tourists and such people should be prohibited from traveling as they ruin travel for everyone.
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  307.  @littlebrit  The countries where the Border Guards and/or Police are checking are mostly Central & Eastern Europe, the Baltics and Italy. Poland (Central Europe) and Italy are very active in trying to catch people illegally working (neither are countries you want to get in trouble with the law in), they check hotel lobbies, restaurants, cafes, town squares, business centres, libraries and the places you just mentioned.
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  308.  @petercomfort9651  All well and good for you to say that but reality will show that the ATO will declare that they aren't satisified you spent enough time in your country of tax residency and thus they'll say to pay up. If you think Australia wouldn't say that, you're naive and ignoring just how desperate for money Australia is. Also note that the new ruling says that if you lose one of the four tests other than test 1 (right to residence), you're on the hook for taxes. Test 1 (your right to residency) is bullshit and shouldn't be a test - no other country (except the USA) considers citizenship as a tax residency test. Also, test 3 (Australian family) extends to sibling and parents. Well that's another test lost even though you can't force others to leave the country. The single biggest problem is that the law itself doesn't set the rules, the problem is that the ATO can make it up as they see fit. Even if it plays out as you say, what's to say they don't change the rules just to suit them in 5 minutes? The people who have appealed without spending small fortunes have been able to get the ATO to change their mind internally, they most certainly didn't go to court for any prolonged period, nor did they have to pay lawyers to represent them from abroad.
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  309. Same with the BS in Australia. All new cars have the 'safety features' enabled by default, they can't be turned off. When you start the car, you can disable some of them but if the car thinks it needs the feature, it'll automatically re-enable the feature itself, so its never truly off. Also, the stupid SOS BS can't be disabled, that means that the cars location and audio is being monitored by the regime (sorry... govt) who monitor the SOS function. I don't want to be tracked and monitored, I want to be able to leave my phone in a Faraday bag (or leave it at home), go for a drive and not be tracked or monitored - I refuse to live in a dystopia. All this BS is exactly why I love my 11yr old car that has none of this junk in it. The best solution is for everyone to simply drive historic vehicles or revert back to horses for 'environmental' reasons. Regarding the whole EV BS, they don't want you going anywhere, nor do they want you to have an EV. If you look, you can get a grid-tied battery easier than you can an EV. This is all 15-minute cities - idiots will deny it but the key point of 15-minute cities according to the nutcase who created the idea, is that people aren't allowed to leave their 15-minute city because there is "no legitimate public purpose to do so" and that "only where the state permits, can an individual get a permit to travel to another 15-minute city".
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  310.  @jeremyleonbarlow  Hate to break it to you but the reality is that no country has to accept you renouncing. Even if you don't hear anything after 6 months, you're still a citizen, part of renouncing is that you get a letter/cert that says you renounced, that they accepted and that you're no longer their citizen, otherwise you have no legal proof that it was accepted. Also, there's nothing stopping them simply declaring you a citizen again just to tax you. When it comes to citizenship the country is the one with all the power - this is any country. I've seen countries who want to have someone extradited so they made them a citizen so that the demand for extradition couldn't be refused without causing a major international incident.
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  311. @monk3synuts Its simple, they'll do what Australia did - they'll simply require you to be a qualified and licenced 'Automotive Technician' to do any work on your vehicle. That way, unless you get the other qualification and then use both to get the licence, you won't be able to do ANY work on your car as you're deemed 'legally incompetent' by simply not being appropriately licenced. Its the same reason Australia recently regulated automotive electrical work - you now need to be qualified and licenced as an 'Automotive Electrician'. They used the excuse of 'safety' to make it law, but really it was to put most people out of work and to stop the restoration and modification of vehicles as its as hard to get qualified as it is to become a normal electrician who can work on houses. Funny how all these licences are automatically given to all the big names (the car manufacturers), but always used to stop the little guy.
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  312. @@treterter4892 That is why you have a container garden onboard and why you fish. For as many ports as there were that were closed, there were as many that were open. Central and Eastern Europe never shut their ports to private boats, nor did many of the countries in the Americas - even if one couldn't disembark, one could buy fuel and have provisions delivered direct to the boat. If you've thoroughly learnt the theory required for boating, the practical can be learnt within a year assuming you're on the water every weekend. The psychology - absolutely an issue for some people. I would always recommend having friends / family with you when bluewater cruising both as a matter of safety (never having the vessel not under control) and to avoid depression.
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  313.  @kahayse  Because its 100% illegal unless you have absolutely no income, but then good luck living as that costs a lot of money.
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  314. And on top of Russia only delivering half as much as needed, you have countries like Australia who have reduced local supply, put the price through the roof and are focusing on export to countries that already have natural gas because the government prefer to export to everywhere at a loss to get 'foreign' money, instead of letting locals use it at reasonable prices. It all ties into the whole "green" movement who want the middle class gone and us living worse than animals. When Australia was about to have no power on the east coast last two weeks, the government refused to even put one more coal-powered generator back online as an emergency measure, they then declared that they'd be taking a coal powered power plant offline in December this year whilst also declaring that we'll have more dependence on electricity (new push for EV's and electric cook-tops) and now we're facing huge power shortages this summer. It's all about reinforcing the old "rulers" and "slaves/peasants" system from before the feudal system - "you'll own nothing and be happy". Not sure if it happens in Austria but in Australia, if you use less power, your power bill doesn't reduce due to increases in "service/connection/maintenance charges" as the private companies who control the services refuse to not make less money than the previous bill. What we all globally need is a movement to force governments to let us disconnect from the power grid as long as we can show we can be power independent for our needs. In Australia, if you're connected to the power grid, you're limited to how much solar can be generated and stored on your property, even if the solar system isn't connected to the grid.
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  315. Nope! Like all sane countries they only give children citizenship automatically if one or both parents are legal citizens. Your child would automatically get the citizenships you and your spouse have like in all normal countries (i.e. automatic descent / real birthright (by blood)). No one should ever be given citizenship simply for being born in a country - that endorses illegal migration.
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  316. Literally why the native Americans created the Dakota firepit - highly efficient, discreet, very safe and puts out basically no light.
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  317.  @Biosynchro  If you watched the video, none of the cameras will be under our control. They'll be under either vehicle manufacturer control or they'll be under state (i.e. govt) control.
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  318. Hell no. The place is a dangerous hell hole. The whole country hates whites and anyone who isn't native. The govt sing songs about committing genocide of whites (especially farmers), rape, murder, stabbings, etc. are a daily occurrence. Their BEE program (Black Economic Empowerment) - basically apartheid against whites and foreigners ensures you can't do anything. Until the country accepts that the only way forward is to accept that the past was f***ed but that everyone has to just move on, it will never be anything more than a failed state 3rd world country.
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  319. You're joking right - weather is borderline irrelevant! Its literally as bad as Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the UK - all under the thumb of the WEF and their extreme ideologies which are anti-human, anti-farming and aiming for 15-minute cities and depopulation.
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  320.  @bradnomad1011  Unfortunately that only applies if the majority of the previous 12-24 months show you as not being in Australia on the border systems.
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  321. That's why you have to establish tax residency by legitimately living in a 0% PIT country. Even though they have zero PIT, they will still issue a tax file number to those who are genuinely in their tax system so that there's something to put in that field when doing banking and other things abroad. The key is that the trifecta or flag theory has to become holidays where you keep returning to the 0% PIT country so as to maintain tax residency.
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  322. Banks shouldn't have the right to refuse service to anyone who hasn't been deemed a terrorist by a court. The govt want everything done solely via banks and electronically. This forces banks to being an "essential service" and thus the banks should lose the right to refuse service and fall in line with all other "essential" services. You're confusing normal businesses and "essential" services. If banks want to retain the right to refuse service to people, then cash needs to become king again, electronic payments need to be banned and the AML/KYC rubbish needs to be banned for the weapon that it really is against the "little guy".
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  323. Because they aren't AI - they're a simply script that looks for errors using basic metrics like selected language, word length and what characters exist in the correct order. AI is entirely different. Please get educated on what AI is before assuming its everything.
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  324. How are they gonna catch you? I'd say, destroy the cameras (if any), go and enjoy it and "stealth camp". Also, sounds like people there need to learn that "snitches get stitches".
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  325.  @DNA350ppm  I was simply mentioning some suggestions to OP for how to camp in a very restrictive place. As for how to survive in extreme environments - literally something I teach. I have found that every so-called "survival course" offered in Europe and in most of the world that's "learn over several weekends" are utter rubbish that make people feel more ready than they actually are. To learn to survive requires at a minimum 6 months of fulltime (24/7) training with rigorous testing throughout and then a 6 month final exam where you're on your own surviving for 6 months. Anything less and you're not prepared. For those who can get the correct govt clearances, SERE (Survive Escape Resist Evade) is also great to learn - most of the public will never get govt approval for such training.
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  326.  @jaws2003 Please list them then... I haven't seen any country permitting citizenship based on DNA. All DNA can prove is whether your someones child - that only verifies your right to citizenship by descent, not citizenship by DNA. It doesn't grant you citizenship due to your DNA, you were born into the citizenship. When we say you can't get citizenship by DNA we mean that you can't apply based on DNA showing you're from that countries land / people when your family aren't citizens.
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  327. Grow up and tell them to come along or leave them. Why let them destroy you? They're supposed to love you. Even if leaving them costs 50% of what you have, that's better than staying and losing 100%. People need to grow up and leave the whole 'emotion' rubbish where it belongs (for woman only or in the trash) - life is business. Treat everything as business and you'll always make the right choice - emotions cloud the mind and result in bad choices.
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  328.  @nooralansare358  as I said, if the Caribbean don't go high tax and high regulation then the EU will stop them being visa free for tourism. Hopefully the Caribbean will ignore the EU and remain very low or no tax. Visa free to the EU is of zero benefit as it's for tourism only and it's easy to get a Schengen visa.
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  329. Clearly you've failed to ingest a single bit of information from Nomad Capitalist. He can't claim citizenship to get help - he renounced the USA which is a permanent thing; no one can acquire a citizenship simply because they 'need help' - only through CBI or other legal investment processes can one gain a citizenship.
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  330. Out of curiosity what wasn't correct? If you leave most countries, including Australiastan, you're forced to pay the 'exit tax' which is the CGT on your assets as if you sold them. Then there's the issue of whether they're going to make you pay taxes for several years after leaving. The video was specifically about the Netherlands and was 100% accurate for the Netherlands.
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  331.  @wattouk  In what country? What models? Except for the Telsa Model 3 which has them in the front only (the people in the rear are screwed), basically no other EV's have them because it isn't a requirement for EV's!
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  332.  @bid84  What a silly example. 2 door cars have larger doors than 5 door cars, and, the front seats have an easily operable manual mechanism to tilt and slide forward. Try climbing from the back to the front in a 5 door car, its bloody difficult for anyone larger than a child and you have zero way to tilt or slide the seat forward.
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  333. @NANIutd08 Even if a battery disconnect switch existed it'd be impossible to access due to the violent nature of EV fires and the heat they output. Either way, it only takes 3 seconds for a thermal runaway fire in one cell to spread to the entire battery and incinerate the vehicle. Then its just a waiting game for the fire to burn itself out.
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  334. Too many dismissed us as 'crazy' when we tried to warn them about it. The reality is that its now too late to stop it. The only solution is to flee to one of the few places this BS isn't happening. Just like in the plandemic, the 99% blindly obey and only wake up until its too late. Its literally what Yuri Bezmenov said about the 'demoralized' people in his 1970's interview in the USA after his defection from the USSR - they won't wake up until the boot is on their neck, at which point its too late.
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  335. Here's the problem with right to repair - it actively enables the theft of IP and the illegal cloning of products that took a heap of R&D and a heap of money to create. Just a schematic can reduce the time to create a cheap clone by 90% as the software side of things is very easy. As an independent hardware and software developer, how am I supposed to recover even my R&D costs and make some profit if I have to release the key information? Its literally not possible. If I release the schematics and/or source code then I've just thrown away what is usually years worth of R&D worth a lot of money as it will 100% be cloned and sold at the cost of manufacture. Once source code is released there goes work that can't be further developed. I've written software that works faster, that's smaller and more secure than its competitors - if the source was released those competitors would have all their work done for them and my work would be for nothing. What the solution could be is if schematics were released once a product and its close evolutions are all fully discontinued and patents expired. The other issue is that even if this occurred, the source wouldn't be released as source is significantly commonly reused, adapted and optimised and thus would still be in use in other products. Without the source, most modern hardware is useless as 95% of the "magic" happens in the source, not in hardware. I've been on both side of the issue and I feel that those who demand "right to repair" fail to understand what its like to be on the other side - it reminds me of the extreme end of the opensource community who believe that everything should be open and free and that people will magically "donate" to the developers even though in reality this rarely happens and never covers the R&D costs plus some profit. If things are free, no one ever pays because why would they - it'd be stupid to do so. At the end of the day, costs need to be recovered, profits need to be made as a result of having done the hard work creating, and, food needs to be kept on the table. Giving everything away doesn't do any of this yet life and stuff all costs money.
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  336. You mean the entire English speaking 'western' world.
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  337. One point about not being allowed to leave when things get bad - the problem is you won't be allowed to leave just before that happens. Before March 2020, AU stopped letting citizens leave the country (late Jan 2020), used "gag-orders" to prevent them telling people that they weren't allowed to leave and waited until early-mid March to go public with restrictions. The AU govt was telling people in early Nov 2019 who'd registered as being overseas through SmartTraveller to "come home the "2020 thing" is in full-swing". Clearly the govt tried to "hush it up" and intentionally trap citizens within the country as why else would you tell them to "come home" before something happened unless of course the govt was intentionally complicit in the "2020 thing"... Makes you wonder!
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  338.  @brightonbabe2139  On the immigration side of things, your situation was different to what I was talking about, you chose to be legal via visas, and you chose to leave for work which extended your timeline. That's different to doing it illegally and claiming to be a "refugee" after shopping around countries. Also, you work, you didn't seek to be a welfare bludger. Regarding your claims about 'what you get for your taxes': Be successful and work your ass off for a high income and you get nothing for your taxes. Everything becomes 'pay to play' just like in the USA. Australia rewards the useless bums who earn next to nothing. Those who work throw half their wage away as income tax and mandatory super (something those born after 1975 will basically never be allowed to access if well off). In order to not get further reamed by excessively high MediCare levies, one MUST have private health insurance which keeps you out of the public system. Be successful and you're paying for public school (only the brokies get it for free) - the days of free public education for everyone is long gone due to 'means-testing'. If you're deemed successful then the 'suggested' fees suddenly become mandatory. Successful people need their children to be actually educated which requires sending them to private schools where they are actually educated on history, finance, business, etc. - all stuff that the public system intentionally NEVER teaches. Then there's all the other levies such as bushfire recovery levy, fire services levy, '2020 thing' levy, etc. which all add up quickly, along with council rates, CGT, Fringe Benefits Tax (FBT), unrealized gains tax, just to name a few others. This is the reality for anyone who works their ass off. Your comparison is very flawed as it either only looks at income tax or it only looks at a brokie (someone on <$45k before tax). As more people who are successful get sick of being taxed to death and leave, the ones remaining are forced to pay even more to maintain the welfare state. If you're successful, you factor in all taxes and levies (including professional registration/licencing and continuing professional development (mandated by registration/licencing systems in order to remain registered/licenced)), a very basic 'cost of survival' (minimum food and drink), mandatory super (which if not mandatory would be part of your wage, and that those born post 1975 will likely never be able to access, and if and when they do it gets taxed as income). You quickly realize that you're paying what is effectively 75% tax just to exist because you work your ass off and are successful. So what do you actually get for all the taxes you pay? Literally just to have recreations/hobbies I have multiple licences and have to obtain permits throughout the year. All that costs a lot of money and requires a lot of 'jumping through hoops' because the govt have regulated basically everything with courses, licences, memberships and fees. And people wonder why I'm leaving as soon as I have scraped together enough to do so. Australia is a twisted, horrible tax hungry hellhole that destroys peoples lives simply because it can. Successful people get literally nothing for all the taxes they are forced to pay, and those taxes are INCREASING EVERY SINGLE YEAR.
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  339.  @flowbrandz316  Won't work - those paths have been closed mid-late last year. The only options anyone has are citizenship by descent or to do CBI.
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  340. @jace2wheel762 LOL, that's about $20 cheaper than most EU passports which are free once you're over 70. If you want to see expensive, the Australian passport is excessively expensive (just under $500) and has been losing access to countries since 2020, only gaining 15 days visa-free to China (as have many EU passports).
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  341.  @TheMiklaw  Sounds like someone lied to you and scammed you. I've got two EU passports, both through consulates, both around $180; I just had to provide a Registered Post Person-To-Person envelope when applying. It takes 3 months as they travel as part of the Diplomatic Mail, then get sent to you (unless you arrange to collect from the consulate) - the only way it'd be believable to cost $500 would be for some sort of 'express' processing or to be a Swiss passport which itself costs almost $500.
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  342. If Nomad Capitalist Live ever goes to Singapore, Vanuatu or somewhere in the EU one year, I'd love to attend. Too many border issues with KL for those who work in certain fields for certain large businesses - if one's work and their leisure travel are different, countries shouldn't pair the two when looking at tourism or conference entry at the border, especially when the person isn't a Politically Exposed Person.
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  343. The problem is, you can't live a trifecta lifestyle abroad anymore, even if you're tax resident in another country as all Australia has to do is say you didn't stay in that one country long enough - your centre of life means nothing when they say you didn't stay there long enough. At least prior to this as long as you genuinely lived abroad and your centre of life was there, you could have one or two 2 month holidays somewhere else or travel a lot for business. That's now all risking you being declared tax resident in Australia. This is the opposite of the ability to have a clean break - this muddies the waters.
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  344. Found the welfare leech who like the 'free money bro' instead of working. I'm middle class and taxed to death yet idiots such as yourself keep calling us 'rich' and demanding we pay more taxes. We're currently getting hit with 75% tax (adding all the taxes and levies up) but that's still not enough, taxes are getting increased, new ones added and the masses are still demanding we pay more. The reality is we're trying to leave as the place is basically impossible to be middle class in, and thanks to the leeches demanding 'tax the rich (read: tax the middle class)', its basically impossible to actually succeed and make something of yourself. Then there's the fact that most businesses are gone due to over regulation and huge taxes such as payroll tax, corporate social taxes and other 'behind the scenes' taxes that the average employee never even hears of. I've literally had people tell me that I should sell the family home, go broke buying a small place (everything is $2m+, not to mention the CGT and stamp duty taxes that a sale and a purchase would trigger) to live in (and pay insane amounts to store my stuff that wouldn't fit in a small place) because that would make me 'morally better' simply because the family home is a large two storey house that was built 20ish years ago for $275,000 but is now valued at $2.4m simply because the currency has inflated so that $9.50 now had the same buying power as $1 when the house was built.
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  345. Which is why they're lowering all the speed limits. They lie by saying "its about safety" when the reality is because they have to in order for the EV's to work efficiently, otherwise you'd fly up on an EV and have to hit the brakes.
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  346. Because they're starting. If they go slowly the 99% won't notice. If they do it all at once they will notice and will complain. Current measures include: * Closing roads * Narrowing roads * Adding bike lanes and eliminating parking * Eliminating parking * Making the CBD 30km/h - nothing to do with safety, it was fine at its old 60km/h (people actually looked before stepping out), now they're all glued to their phones because 'speed limit is low at 30km/h' * Pricing people out of parking and carparks (govt controlled taxes) * Ever reducing speed limits - most 50km/h zones are now 40km/h and will be made into 30km/h in 2025. Highways are now 100km/h and freeways are now 80-90km/h. ALL ramps that were made for moving traffic at 100km/h are now 80km/h * Every new dogbox (unit) that gets built means less parking and the streets get narrower as the nature strip magically widens * Every development that's built (that are giant or new suburbs) is built as a 15-minute city * Most places that used to have multiple ways in and out now only have one way in and one way out (easier to control / lockdown) * ALL new developments have only one or two points of access where in the past there'd be many (easier to control / lockdown) * The highways and freeways have the dangerous and banned in the rest of the world cable barriers that commonly block-off the shoulder so that people are stuck on the highway/freeway with no way of turning around like they used to have * ALL traffic lights have been intentionally put out of sync so that traffic congests - a common way to try to annoy people into giving up driving * ALL speed limits are being reduced on major roads so the govt can revenue raise as its easy to do the old limit and get booked - it has nothing to do with safety * Many roads in suburbs are now only open from one end for vehicle access - this is dangerous, discourages vehicles and intentionally annoys everyone whilst creating a traffic maze * Speed-humps being installed everywhere just to "slow everyone down" - 'traffic calming' is a way to get people to quit driving The longer it takes people to do the things they used to, the more rage people form - that creates road rage which justifies tyrannical laws and 'being tough on crime', it encourages people to speed (easy $$$ for the govt) as they don't have time to waste on stupidly low speed limits that used to be higher and everything was safe. It also gets some people to quit going out because its become too hard to get anything done so they don't drive and don't see anyone. Even I've noticed that the time to do the things I always do has doubled due to all the above mentioned points. The result is I do 50% the work (can't move around fast enough anymore) but charge triple the money for my trouble. Its like the old 'boiled frog' thingy. If the frog is thrown in boiling water it screams and dies (but it noticed the water was boiling). If the frog is put in the water and the water is slowly warmed, it won't notice until just before it dies. Or as the Chinese say 'death by a thousand cuts' - one cut doesn't do much but many collectively do.
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  347. Absolutely spot on. It boggles my mind why the brokies think we should fund their lives when they could do like we did: learn, work hard, save, create and succeed. The brokies obviously missed the "life is hard, life isn't fair" talk. The only people I don't mind supporting are those who supported me when I needed it and my own family if I ever got married and had kids.
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  348.  @akiblue  So why are independent software developers such as myself who create solutions to problems and then sell licences for our software online hated and lumped in with those who 'manipulate markets, lobby governments, etc.'? No one can ever explain that and they always claim we somehow 'exploited others' to get rich, when its simply not true as we didn't involve anyone else in achieving what we did.
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  349. The richest people in the world live in Europe and their money is held as Euros. Also, given that Central and Eastern Europe are increasing their manufacturing, advanced manufacturing, mining of precious metals (offshore deposits), recycling of metals and minerals, and, farming, there is little need for the 3rd world (BRICS). Its actually the 3rd world who actually need Europe. Given that they need Europe, they will have to pay on the terms that Europe sets which will be to pay in Euros or bullion. The idea that Europe needs the 3rd world and will be forced to pay in bullion is laughable at best. I see the Euro becoming the new world reserve currency once the US dollar completely collapses in the very near future.
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  350. Glad to hear that you live outside of CANZUK & CUNA where you'd be required to have the appropriate licences as either a mechanic or as a mechanical engineer in order to do that.
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  351.  @nomadcapitalist  Many people can't due to it constantly being held in a country that bans people on grounds of 'nationality' (many people who are descendant from those persecuted by Nazis and Soviets who live in the 'west' are banned due to a citizenship that was forced upon them by a country they've never lived in) AND 'work/employment' (i.e. defence industry, law enforcement, etc.). Please consider hosting the event in a more open country so people can attend.
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  352. You're gonna have to look elsewhere. The Caribbean programs have pushed their fees up twice in the last few months and now they're about to add a "wealth" requirement where you have to have >$750k AFTER having done CBI. Basically by Christmas you'll need to be able to spend/demonstrate having at least $1m USD for ANY program.
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  353.  @RickyBobby955  You HAVE to be Tax Resident somewhere. Otherwise kiss 80% of your money goodbye as the results of multiple countries doing 'tax withholding'. Also, good luck getting a bank account at a reputable bank without having tax residency somewhere. You really need to get up to date on Nomad Capitalists videos and on the current facts and laws.
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  354. But currently you can still withdraw cash albeit usually a max of $600 per day - sane people keep $10k at home in a safe for emergencies. The govt can't take cash that you have stashed at home. Look at Canada - anyone who donated or was according to cell-site data within the truckers convoy area had their accounts frozen and couldn't pay bills or buy food. At least with cash you can still survive and pay bills. Your card is useless when they freeze your account (yeah it happens even when you do nothing wrong - many people who simply worked in the buildings near the protest had their accounts frozen for months).
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  355. In what country? I hate to break it to you but in most countries, literally every little thing that is part of building a house requires courses, govt licences and heaps of money. Painting, plastering, framing, bricklaying, concreting, insulating, electrical, plumbing, etc. are all regulated professions that require licenced professionals, and there's plenty more (I've only listed a few) things that you can't legally do. Trust me - in most of the world, even if you know how to build a house and do everything properly, if you try you will end up in jail with decades of time due to the thousands of criminal charges you will face.
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  356.  @Shadesight  He literally renounced his US citizenship once he obtained another citizenship. An expat is someone who lives in a country that they aren't native to but doesn't reside in the one place indefinitely. An immigrant is someone who intends to reside in their new country indefinitely.
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  357. They don't care. They already do both. They ban what they can and the things they don't think can be banned outright, they price people out of then ban. They don't need to learn anything. What rock have you been sleeping under? They've been doing this for 50yrs!
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  358. They're also forgetting that a wealth cap is fixed forever as laws are rarely, if ever, indexed or amended to keep up with inflation. For example my family home was only $275,000 when it was build 20 odd years ago, a large two storey house that was common at the time. Now everything is tiny dog-box units crammed in each costing $500k to buy. The current value of my family home is $2.4m - the reality is that the house isn't worth more, its the buying power of the dollar that has tanked. $9.50 now has the same buying power as $1 back when the house was built. Because the 99% are too stupid to understand this, and because they don't care that the house was built a long time ago, they consider us to be 'evil rich' who should be forced to sell and move into something smaller (ignoring the sales taxes, CGT and stamp duty that selling and buying something else would trigger) and paying insane amounts for storage (for the stuff that wouldn't fit in a small place), simply because they live in a tiny dog-box and are broke. If we did that, we'd be broke due to the taxes, the insane prices for tiny dog-boxes and thanks to the insane costs for storage for our things that wouldn't fit in a small dog-box. Why should we be screwed over because people don't understand the basics of finance?
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  359.  @juh6155  Its a small island nation just off the east coast of Africa, they had a CBI program where you could get citizenship for $45,000USD but it closed a while ago.
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  360.  Serge Marcotte  If they won't let you homeschool, you're better off fleeing the country and seeking asylum in the sane free world. Plenty of options and its possible to get visas, especially in countries that hate communism - just be prepared to start a business and create jobs for locals - if you can do this most places will accept you as long as you have a proper uni degree and a solid business plan.
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  361. Sounds like dangerous equipment that needs repair urgently. Properly installed gas appliances that aren't leaking and that are operating properly don't affect asthma, nor do they smell.
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  362.  @bcreason  Utter rubbish. The faster a battery charges, the hotter it gets (risking thermal runaway) and the shorter its life gets - this also happens when you get the percentage outside the 'goldilocks' range (generally >32% and < 86%). As for range, that can only happen by having significantly larger batteries (or higher density) but that comes at both cost and increased weight. The so-called 'lightweight batteries' are no where near being viable for EV's (not in the next decade) and given that EV's don't get lighter the lower the battery percentage gets, the weight is working against you. Its literally similar to why rockets need insane amounts of fuel for their relatively short trip to get from the ground into space. ICE vehicles get lighter the more fuel they use, thus retaining more range longer than an EV. Not to mention that the battery loses some percentage if left in the cold or in the heat. ICE vehicles can be left at 50% fuel (assuming a fuel stabilizer is used) and when you come back 6 months later, they're still at 50% fuel, and they still start. Good luck trying that with an EV - the batteries just don't work that way. Oh and EV's can't tow heavy trailers, nor can they tow even light ones long distances as the battery drops rapidly. In Australia they've proved all this, and that the range is significantly worse than the ICE counterparts in multiple like-for-like comparisons, and they had to admit this albeit begrudgingly on national news. Lastly, EV's can NEVER be cheaper than ICE vehicles due to the cost of the battery, the insane hazard regulations that affect creation, use and disposal of the batteries, not to mention the cost to replace batteries that are very difficult to swap (i.e. they don't just drop out) as they have to be key structural components for the chassis to be street legal. Not to mention the taxes that EV's and their batteries will have due to the giant carbon footprint they have from cradle to grave which is NEVER offset over the life of the vehicle - anyone that claims otherwise hasn't looked at the true footprint of modern ICE vehicles that can be 100% recycled (modern vehicles have gone back to lead acid batteries because they are 100% recyclable) unlike EV's. The circuit boards on EV's are all potted (thanks OHS) and can't be recycled, the batteries can't actually be recycled - they shred them and store the pieces. There is no safe or efficient way to recycle them, and if shredded, the mangled bits can't be separated to be recycled so there's another environmental disaster waiting to happen. Oh and regarding cost, I'm intentionally ignoring subsidies as that isn't making them cheaper, its taking your money and returning it to a significantly smaller group than it was taken from, and calling it a subsidy. So no its not making anything cheaper, its stealing from the many to give to the few. You are simply repeating the same EVangelist nonsense that is spewed out every day. Its just like that moron Al Gore who's been claiming that 'the world is ending' for decades and every time he's proven wrong he just pushes the date back another 5 or 10 years. Ironically his BS about seas levels rising has been proven 100% false, and he and Gates are both buying seafront properties. What has happened in some Pacific Islands is that they have experienced erosion by the sea because they can't afford counter-measures and because them being eroded away fits the 'sea levels rising' narrative. Australia could easily fix the erosion issues in the Pacific Islands but instead they offer those countries 'Climate Change Visas' because the narrative is more important than admitting the 'Climate Change' lies are actually 100% lies.
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  363. @John They don't want us to escape their tyranny! If they let us to NZ, we could fly to another country from there as NZ don't have an outgoing travel ban. This is like the Iron Curtain of the USSR
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  364. Regarding visa policy or residence permits - its only straight forward if you're extremely rich. The reality is that unless you're able to spend half a million plus buy a place to live, there are no options. They, and the CBI countries don't care that you could bring talent and business to the country which would create jobs for locals - that will NEVER get you a visa. They all want the quick cash of 'investment', they don't care about jobs. Also, without a work permit you can't work as a digital nomad so unless you're retired its not an option. The best options in Asia are the 'retirement' visas but unless your 65+ that's of no relevance.
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  365.  @paulinelong7205  That's exactly why everything that can make you self sufficient (farming, hunting, fishing, camping, bush walking / orienteering, etc.) is subject to qualifications, licences, permits and annual update/refresher training - to stop the 99% from doing it. That way only 1% can do it, and of those 1% most only do one of the things. This results in a society that is 100% reliant on the state and that if the state locked everyone down the masses would be easy to control by simply controlling the food and shelter. If people were self reliant, they'd be able to 'go bush' and thrive which would make it hard for the state to control them. The 15 minute cities (sorry... camps), the CBDC and the dystopian surveillance and control is all to keep everyone effectively prisoners and under the thumb of the 'elites'. That's Agenda 21 / Agenda 2030 and the UN SDG's which are Agenda 21 broken into 17 goals (Sustainable Development Goals - SDG's).
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  366. Regarding productivity when working from home and the amount of work: People who have self-discipline are far more productive at home. The reason that they can do 5 days of work in 3 days when working from home is because they don't have to waste time getting up early so they can do a 2hr commute (that means 3ish hours less sleep) that costs significant money, they don't have to listen to 'Tom' telling 'Mike' about his weekend or evening loud enough to be distracting, they don't have to attend a stupid amount of meetings that serve no purpose other than for management to look 'busy' - meetings should only happen where there is a true need and the only people required should be those who are directly needed/affected. Nor do they need to sit in a depressing work cubicle in a completely uncomfortable chair and environment (usually too hot because 'feminazis'). Also, many people have their reference materials (the good ones) always at home as they don't want them damaged, stolen or otherwise unavailable by having them in the workplace - companies commonly don't get the good reference books/materials and when sacking people those books/materials are rarely, if ever packed up as the belongings of the fired employee because they know there's SFA that the fired employee can do about getting their books back. Plus, being more rested by not having to waste time getting up early and commuting, having less stress about paying bills (the actual paying of them as many can't be done online), and having a far better and more comfortable work environment, people are actually more productive, more relaxed and are actually getting more work done and as a result, earning more.
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  367. When cash is gone... Trade/barter (as plenty of people currently do as they don't care its currently illegal to do trade/barter), bullion has and is always accepted in bad times, Monero (completely untraceable) cryptocurrency and fairly stable in value. People will always and have always found solutions throughout history.
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  368. Australia simply relies on taxing the living hell out of its citizens and residents (perfect example are the proposed changes to the tax laws that Andrew has talked about). If that doesn't generate enough money for the govt, they install more speed cameras and lower speed limits to generate revenue from infringements (its literally in the official budgets). Given the majority of people in Australia either don't work or receive more in welfare than they pay in taxes, only a small group (about 17-20%) of people are paying the bulk of the taxes for the rest. Since 2020, most small and medium businesses have shut down, many more will soon follow as the costs of doing business continue to sky rocket (primarily food costs) as farmers quit farming due to their costs increasing. Investors are staying away from Australia due to the high taxes and the fact that Australia is one of the most over-regulated countries in the world - everything (no matter how small, simple or easy) needs licences, permits, registration, annual training, etc. unlike the rest of the world. One thing I have found out first hand is that Australia only wants giant multinational corporations, if you're not one, no amount of genuine qualifications, experience, innovations or success will get you anywhere in Australia. You'll only get told that you're not experienced, not qualified or not suitable to do anything, but they'll let multinationals do whatever they like, whenever they like.
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  369. France could easily fix this by rounding up every single illegal they let in and deporting them back to the 3rd world where they belong. France intentionally chooses to let this happen. Its disgusting and sad. I also find it disgusting that they walled off the Eiffel Tower and that you can no longer freely walk under it - thankfully I got to see it when you could still walk freely under it. France is truly destroyed along with Western Europe. Just shows why certain people (i.e. scum) should be kept in the 3rd world only.
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  370. The worst part is when the inverters with that remote feature are shut off by the grid, even if you had a transfer switch so they're in an 'off-grid' mode, they still won't work so you're still without power because 'regimes gotta make you suffer'.
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  371. Bullshit. Electricity does more environmental harm and causes more fires than gas.
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  372.  @evolutionxbox  How the f*** is it even possible? Houses are limited to 63A on normal power, getting three phase installed will cost over $100,000 as they have to dig up the road to install it underground by law - it will also take up to a year for them to install it. How are you going to run 4-6 pots, the oven and the microwave (all electric) when an induction cooktop pulls 32A with two high "burners" on, the oven pulls 20A and the microwave pulls 20A whilst the TV, computers, a NAS, network and lights are running? That's basically 100A required! That's why I use a gas stove and a gas oven. If they ban gas, I'll just use a woodstove and oven for "cultural reasons" or just BBQ with a cooking firepit everyday.
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  373. One other benefit of self-hosting is that you can delete the data and the logs. If you self-host they're gonna say you're guilty regardless so at least the data and logs can be truly gone.
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  374. Sad part is the majority of CANZUK and CUNA countries are actively working to prohibit people from doing this by over regulating everything and requiring licences (only obtainable if you already know people in the job) for literally everything. In Australia and New Zealand, any renovations being done require you to hold a domestic builders licence or to be a registered and qualified apprentice of a domestic builder under their immediate supervision. The "elites" are actively ensuring that only they and their friends can work and that the rest can't do anything even if qualified - if you're a fully qualified engineer working at a small-medium business you're unable to register as an engineer as required to practice thanks to new laws and regulations.
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  375. If you live in a country like Australia, New Zealand or Canada: * Make coffee at home, don't buy it (coffee is $5-$9 in most places) * Don't smoke or drink alcohol for 2yrs * Don't eat out - only cook at home. Be frivolous with what you buy, cook and eat. * Don't have holidays or buy gifts for 2yrs * Reduce all expenditure In two years, most people on upper middle class wages can save the money to do CBI. If you're lower middle class or just middle class its gonna take you 5yrs of doing this. If you're really wanting to do CBI and leave the country and have a house, consider selling it, doing CBI and moving abroad. I'm not saying to do this, and, I recognise that its a lot of money. My point is that its possible. If you're not in the middle class you're basically screwed unless you have friends who're willing to help pool money to get you in, then earn a heap of money and help them get in. This is sadly by design because these countries want money and people who aren't going to be a burden to their country - i.e. wealthy people. Also, by not making it easy, these countries effectively limit how many people become citizens so they don't have millions trying to live in a small country.
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  376. The only chance of that working would require a new continent to appear, for you to somehow declare it yours and maintain control of it and for a majority of countries to officially recognise you and your country. Yeah, that ain't gonna happen unless you colonise another planet like mars.
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  377. Last I checked there are many places that aren't being taken over by the WEF - namely the Caribbean and the tax havens. In regards to your "once you realise that you will know what to do", what exactly do you mean? Do you mean, stay put and go down with everyone else in the sinking ship? The sad reality is that is what will happen if you stay in any of CANZUK or CUNA as the masses are all net welfare recipients or too deluded to see that their own system is keeping them poor and oppressed. When the masses want welfare and big controlling government, there isn't anything that can be done to change that except to let it all fail. Maybe in the future once the "west" has collapsed and the masses want change (no welfare system, low taxes and a business friendly environment - i.e. minimal bureaucracy) and there's enough momentum to make that change actually possible would it be worth considering returning, but not before.
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  378. The whole 'you used the services' and 'you benefited' are pure lies. The reality is that anyone who's in the top tax brackets has zero access to the 'benefits and services' as at that point, everything is 'pay to play', just like in Australiastan. Such people owe the country absolutely nothing because they had to pay for literally everything in their lives, never seeing a single tax dollar coming back to them.
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  379. Why not into a privacy coin that's actually private and can't be tracked? Why put it into a stupid 100% public and easily trackable crypto? Bitcoin isn't a solution because its NOT a privacy coin.
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  380. The difference is an exit tax is a one off event. This is effectively permanent unless you go to another high tax country. The point is you're stuck in high tax and can never pay less than 50% of Frances taxes without paying the difference to France.
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  381.  @WolfF2022  That's only for their ethnic natives. There are plenty of people who are born as citizens of Vanuatu for many generations and they can't own land. Also, note that the "recognised system of land tenure" is the same as "Native Reservations" in the USA.
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  382. The program has been announced, its not running just yet.
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  383. Nope, you would also need hardware that doesn't permit such scanning. Mark my words, I guarantee there's a hidden chip or hidden firmware that scans regardless of the OS. The govt knows that people have been editing, compiling and installing Android for the last decade, I guarantee they've worked out how to work around changing the OS.
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  384.  @Qwijebo  You're clearly watching old videos - they've come a hell of a long way since. Look for videos from 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2023. They can't be knocked over, they can do most things humans can and they can operate a door knob (used to be hard if not impossible for robots). There's even videos of these humanoid robots using firearms whilst walking and running (if you see a "Boston Dynamics" watermark its real).
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  385.  @arthursondheim2255  Regarding your thought experiment: Generally speaking, most entrepreneurs and executives that are traveling usually get the required work permits so they can travel, their country can sometimes have an agreement that permits a certain number of days of work without a visa, or as is more commonly the case, they have the rights to work where they travel without a visa (passport, etc.). Some CBI agents (usually lawyers) now offer the facility for companies to purchase citizenship by investment for directors and executives. Most companies these days who require staff to travel for work, will give hiring priority to those with an EU passport (especially from within Schengen) and those with one or two other passports. Basically the more a person can legally travel and work without the company having to get work visas, the better your chances of getting hired are (providing you're qualified for the job). As for the individual, most have the rights to work where they travel (as most people these days have an EU passport) - sure some might risk working without authority but they also risk travel bans, jail and they risk ruining it for the rest of us who do nothing wrong. Gone are the days of governments turning a blind eye to tourists doing some work - the more they seek taxes and the more they want to be seen to be tough of border security and crime, the more they monitor and look for those breaking the rules. To be honest, the things you mentioned can either be automated, wait until you get back or can be done air-side at most airports (one of the few places people can work with minimal issue as airside is technically both in the country and not at the same time (just make sure you're allowed to transit without restriction). When using hotel, airport or public wi-fi, one should always use a good non-logging VPN whilst adhering to all the rules of a tourist. Some parts of Europe even go as far as requiring those without work rights to present ID against which they wi-fi access is logged when using hotel and cafe wi-fi. I know that when I travel, I only travel where I can work. The few times I travel anywhere I can't work, I make sure I'm 100% a tourist and catch up on work once back somewhere I can work. Disconnecting from work is great - too many people never take a holiday away from work!
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  386. Hopefully the world will wake up to reality and realise what Poland has known for centuries about Russia - they always want war and peace is never an option and never will be to Russia. You can only have peace when both sides want peace. Russia has never wanted peace. Russia fabricated problems by moving Russian citizens into areas with orders to cause trouble and then claim they're being oppressed so as to justify invading. This is what Russia did in the two occupied areas of Georgia, this is what they did in Crimea and what they did to justify invading Ukraine. Russia has never been able to live in peace, anyone they think they can invade, they do just that. Heck, Kazakhstan is basically under full Russia control since the protests a year ago. If Russia wanted peace they wouldn't have gone in torturing, mutilating and raping innocent civilians, they do that because Russians are nothing but animals who enjoy harming others. The only thing we can hope for is that the whole world wakes up to the reality that things will only get worse unless Russia is completely defeated, otherwise this will never end - it'll drag on forever. Ukraine is a sovereign nation contrary to what Russia says, Russia says its a "state of Russia not a country". Ukraine has been an independent sovereign nation since the fall of the Soviet Union. If all of the EU actually went to war with Belarus and Russia and flattened Minsk and Moscow, this whole problem would be dealt with. Sadly that is what its gonna take for this crap to end as Russia won't stop until they flatten Ukraine, the Baltic States and Central and Eastern Europe. Putin has said many times that he wants to reform both the Soviet Union and the Tsarist Empire in terms of land he plans on conquering. Remember, it was Russia who claimed everyone was threatening them, even though not a single person was threatening them. The reality is no one cares about them, no one wanted to do business with them. This is what made Russia feel "threatened" [read: left out] and thus so as to feel important and included, Russia decided war and murder is the best option. Now Russia claims that the Baltics and Poland increasing their miltary capability is somehow a threat. Let's look at the facts: * Poland has never started a war with Russia or Belarus, nor have the Baltics * Russia has always been the aggressor * Whenever Poland and the Baltics have been left alone by Russia, none of them have wanted to invade Russia * The Baltics and Poland have said that if attacked they will do whatever they need to obliterate their enemies and maintain their borders and sovereignty. The single biggest threat currently are all the peace-nicks who think that nutcases such as Putin can be reasoned with or who think that Russia wants peace even though blind-freddy can see that they don't. My biggest fear is that if Russia isn't stopped before Putin gets his allies involved, he will cause WW3. Ukraine needs to be given the means to stop Russia and Ukraine needs its nukes back as Russia wouldn't touch Ukraine until Ukraine stupidly gave up its nukes. The MAD (mutually assured destruction) principle has once again been proven to be true. Ukraine will never surrender territory to Russia as that literally emboldens Russia that they can take and keep taking. The only option is for Russia to ship out the citizens they claim are "oppressed" and to leave Ukraine. Lastly, before anyone goes rambling on about me wanting WW3, I don't want WW3. I simply know history, I know how Russia works and why the only way to stop them is with force. Force is all they understand. Sometimes the only way to peace is by brute force and this is one of those times.
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  387.  @Paulathompson1712  As I said in my comment, you would need to buy a proper safe and store it yourself. The Reserve Bank Act allows the government to seize all precious metals in Australia - this includes bullion storage facilities. If you don't possess it, you can't hide it, if its not hidden, they can seize it.
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  388. Which is why the bulk of them end up on welfare and the whole system fails as currently proven in all of CANZUK & CUNA. But we can't let facts get in the way of the 99% who are braindead morons.
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  389.  @Lando-kx6so  It's just a valid recommendation based on the reality of the country from someone who's already there. I still fail to understand why people from developing countries still believe the propaganda about the "west" having opportunities when that's been nothing but lies and propaganda for the last 20yrs. The "west" is over regulated, the cost of compliance and doing things legally negates profits and benefits unless you're a multinational who can use offshore profits to prop up the part of the business in the "west". The cost of housing and the cost of living take up 90% of one's wage after taxes. The passports of western countries are getting weaker every year (losing access, govt's not caring about their citizens - abandoning them abroad because it was cheaper, etc.). ESTA for the USA and ETIAS for the EU will be focusing on all nationalities held by a person before granting permission to be a tourist, even if that person is a citizen of a "western" country so just getting a western passport won't expand any opportunities. Everyone I know who came to the west for a better life, struggled and barely got by until they got the passport, then, went overseas for a better and more affordable life as they got sick of trying to "make it" in the west and they've never since returned. The time invested VS reward doesn't make the west worthwhile. People are literally better off getting work visas or digital nomad visas to countries that aren't part of the west, earning money at low tax rates, and, then doing CBI for a good Tier A passport, as that is possible in less than 4yrs unlike the 10+yrs required to get a western passport. For the record, I'm not trying to change anyone's mind, I'm just trying to understand that other point of view as in my experience the west is collapsing yet many keep repeating the propaganda of "the west is opportunity and better" and only once they've learnt the hard way do they realise that instead of the "grass being greener on the other side", there "isn't any grass at all on the other side".
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  390.  @terrybaikie2181  its not a Western country since the 90's, it sided with commies and is a failing nation. It's actually a perfect example of a collapse, not a Western country thriving. South Africa is a developing nation at best.
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  391.  @thepockethaven  Yes they are. Whenever the scum masses say 'eat the rich' and 'the rich need to pay their fair share' they're talking about all of us who are middle class and who pay the most taxes. They're talking about the small business owners and even the independent software developers such as myself who are somehow 'only getting rich by exploiting others' even though we're not exploiting anyone. The reality is that its too hard to go after the shitty rich who do screw people over, but its far easier to go after the average middle class person.
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  392. And use what? Electricity is dirty and there is no such thing as "green energy" where a grid is involved. What good is an electric cooktop? You need a flame for proper cooking, plus how else are you going to cook when the power is out? In Australia, old homes are permitted 80Amps of power from the street until any work needs to be done at the switchboard (where meter is installed) at which point the new 63A restriction applies, new homes are only permitted 63A. Electric cooktops run at 32A with only two high "burners" (read: elements) running. How the hell does one run at the same time, 4-6 pots, the stove and the microwave on electricity? You can't. This is why gas stoves and ovens are essential. Most houses commonly use 40A just for the computers, networking and TV's, etc. collectively. Sure some places permit you to get three phase power to your house but that can take up to a year to be installed and the install will cost over $100,000 as they'll have to dig up the road and your property as three phase must be installed underground in Australia. Oh and Climate Change isn't real. Sure the climate changes but if you look at the last 60,000 yrs of temperature data, we're in one of the coolest periods ever. The 1200-1600 was on average 10-15 degrees Celsius hotter than current times.
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  393.  @jesseh998  Sounds like you didn't read, or that you skimmed over my comment. I explain why its not possible to use electric cooktops in place of gas. If you actually read my comment you'd know that even if people wanted to use electric, its impossible as suitable power isn't an option and having three phase installed is unaffordable ($100,000+). Its a fact that you can't run 4 - 6 pots on high (96A), an electric oven on high (20A), a microwave on high (20A) plus your normal home equipment/appliances (TV, audio, computer, network, lights, rangehood, etc.) without three phase power.
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  394. @WillieFungo The fact you wrote such a thing is proof that Nomad Capitalist is NOT the channel for you. By your logic, no one anywhere in the world other than the USA would ever be their client. The reality is the whole "west" is collapsing and people need Nomad Capitalist globally.
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  395.  @AndrewinAus  And you are the reason they have so few seats. If you actually knew how the system worked, you'd know how political funding works and why not voting for them only ensures they lose seats and can't bring about change. Most parties aren't in the lower house as the majors have designed the system to make it near impossible for small parties to get into the lower house. The way that small parties can bring about change is to vote them into as many seats as possible in the upper house. If people want this BS to stop or to be reversed, then One Nation, SFFP, Libertarian Party (formerly Liberal Democrats - unrelated to the liberals), etc. need to be voted in as much as possible. Also, if everyone didn't hold the mistaken beliefs that you do and actually voted for them, they'd get more than enough support to get seats in the upper house with enough funding to start getting seats in the lower house, and change would actually happen. By you not voting for them, you're instead voting Lab/Lib/Grns/Socialists/Commies, etc and further helping the tyranny destroy the place.
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  396. Whoever wrote that wikipedia article is a far left nut - Franco, Mussolini, Hitler and Pinochet are all far left-wing nutcases. Once again the left like to claim that anyone who's authoritarian is right-wing exclusively - clearly the left are projecting to the extreme. People on any art of the political compass can be racist, intolerant, violent, oppressive and down-right evil, only the left seem to think that those things only exist on the right. A well researched explanation of the Nazis being left-wing can be found by Googling "The Nazis Were Leftists, Deal With It - Paul H Jossey - Medium".
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  397. Abolishing the IRS and having a flat 30% sales tax is a great idea and easily implementable if done by the federal govt, especially given most people are using electronic payment methods these days. As for housing - building more won't do anything other than make everything worse. They're doing that in Australia and guess what, houses are getting more impossible to afford. Why? Because every time they build more housing or new suburbs, its always marketed as the "best thing ever" and priced according to the neighbouring areas plus a premium because its new and "fancy", no matter how average it is. This simply pushes the areas prices up by increasing local property values. Then to make it even worse, they let foreign companies and foreign investors (who aren't citizens or permanent residents) swoop in and buy it all up for insane prices which continues to push prices up. The only affordable property in Australia is in the countryside away from everything so if you need to work or buy food, good luck. Oh yeah, all these new developments are always done on the best farmland by increasing council rates (a type of property tax) so much that farmers have no choice but to sell. No farmers means no food but the govt doesn't care - they only look at the money they're making via the taxes they get from the development and sales (Stamp Duty, CGT, GST, etc.). Urban sprawl needs to stop - aside from destroying prime farmland, its abolishing the countryside. Cities are now so sprawled that they're becoming one. Its assumed that if the current urban sprawl continues in Victoria, Australia, that Kyneton will become a suburb of Melbourne by 2035.
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  398. It would seem they've renamed SPARS (2025) to this new SEERS (2025) thing. Did they get too much attention from the public on SPARS?
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  399.  @marlineemmal6458  Sadly Australia and New Zealand have already signed without any public say.
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  400.  @ttkddry  Dude, it has nothing to do with safety, its about control and keeping everyone inside the 15-minute cities (i.e. out of the forest). If it were safety, then how the hell does Australia survive? Australia still lets licenced hunters have a 'fire with a purpose' (cooking, warmth, etc.), and, if you own a farm you can have a campfire on said farm; in either case you just need 2m clear in all directions, and 25L+ on hand and/or a suitable fire extinguisher. Only on days of 'total fire ban' are all flames banned unless they're inside a 'habitable structure'.
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  401.  @djf8619  Literally the only places this won't happen are the tax havens. If you own a house your best bet would be to sell up and throw most of that money into CBI in the Caribbean (one of the full member OECS countries - this way you can then move to St. Kitts & Nevis or Antigua & Barbuda where they have 0% PIT). The tax havens will remain untouched as that's where the "elites" live and keep their money.
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  402. The tax haven's will reject CBDC or use it parallel to their own currencies - similar to how some places have a local currency and also accept the Euro. The reason tax havens will remain is they are where the "elite" keep their money and tax-free status. The "elites" aren't going to make their own lives harder.
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  403. Essendon Airport (Melbourne, Australia) has a road going across it as well. They call it a 'plane crossing'!
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  404.  @beefy0978  Like in Nigeria, they'll give you a card that has everything stored on it in a chip (wafer card). That way you're still subject to their tyranny and terror but they don't need to give you a phone or internet. Want to buy food - scan the card, want to walk somewhere - scan the card at the checkpoint, etc. In Nigeria they call it a "Health Card"...
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  405. @shredz4816 Govts already control those miners - i.e. they control it entirely and can rig the system as they control the majority of consensus. How do you think they're gonna bring about CBDC? By destroying crypto as it currently exists. The reality is no one should have ever been allowed to create mining farms or use ASIC's for crypto mining as that's exactly how the situation came about. If crypto worked as intended (everyone has one personal computer that mines and the more you try to mine (with more compute capability), the harder it becomes for you) the consensus could never be controlled. For crypto to work, only genuine individuals using one machine each should be allowed to mine.
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  406.  @h9hkk6155  Wrong - swab tests will detect them as they also check for cleaning chemicals. Also modern xray machines can detect and identify the individual parts. Most criminals historically had people who can bypass security checks sneak things in. This is why everyone must go through security checks without any way to bypass said checks.
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  407.  @h9hkk6155  you're living in the past. Currently all luggage is x-rayed including checked baggage and yes the modern machines can and do identify restricted and prohibited items, XRF is used to detect residues on bags and even the slightest trace results in manual inspection of the bag (incl swab testing). If you think parts successfully make it through international mail without the proper permits, you're either in the third world or dreaming, every western country scans every letter and parcel sent.
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  408.  @h9hkk6155  no i don't live under the assumption that every criminal is caught, I know that the methods you mentioned don't work in the West due to strict security measures. I live in the English speaking world outside of the USA (the West). Just because the USA doesn't check everything doesn't mean other countries don't. The TSA aren't known for being good at their job, the UK, AU, NZ, CAN, IRE border authorities are much more thorough. Your example of stuff like night vision leaving the USA is actually perfectly legal if it goes to an ITAR Tier 2 preferred nation from a tier 1 nation (USA, Canada, UK). Your example of stuff from China, yeah, most countries search all mail from China and will prosecute anyone found to be receiving those items even if incomplete, the same for anyone receiving seeds from China. Criminals will always find a way to do what they want but the known methods are easily stopped if countries actually police what crosses their borders. Whilst a US traveller might take a firearm from the US, they'll get a long jail sentence in any western country if they don't have the right permits. A woman recently tried to enter New Zealand with a firearm from the US without the correct permits, she's now enjoying 20yrs in jail for doing so.
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  409. Why do they have more influence than anyone else? Because they know the right people. People listen to their friends and that in turn influences policy, laws, investments, etc. Duh! That's why they send their kids to the 'right' schools - so they can get a real education (unlike the useless public education) and so they can become friends with the 'right' people. Even for the poor, knowing the right people is the difference between getting the job and not getting the job. As for more automation - that's thanks to over regulation, bureaucracy, govts letting employees demand the world and due to higher taxes. If costs or taxes go up, jobs reduce. Its basic business - the business has to make a profit and in most of the world, the govt requires 'for profit' businesses to make at least $1 more than the previous year, otherwise its considered 'intentionally running a company at a loss' which is illegal.
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  410. But you're not allowed to just live in the woods outside of "society" - that's the problem!
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  411. You can't - the state will never allow it. Try it - good luck in court or in jail. The state mandates "approved insurance companies" only. Its all done by design. "When the rules of the game keep changing every time you gain ground, the only way to win, is to not play the game!"
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  412. Clearly you've never travelled abroad. Hate to break it to you but all "western countries" have this type of system. If you've travelled then you'd know that all of CANZUK & CUNA have these systems and fees in place already. The UK is introducing their own eTA very soon.
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  413. Great, just what we need, more bullshit that we'll have to waste time turning off (or patching out) as 99% of people in the EU do NOT want this crap. People don't buy computers with Linux already on them, they buy the computer, wipe it and install linux, even businesses do this. The voluntary compliance with the EU is why the EU keeps doing this insane bullshit. If everyone just ignored it and the EU didn't make their own alternative, the EU would have to drop this bullshit. Oh, there's also talk in the EU to ban disabling 'Sleep' mode by 2030. Its time to just say 'no' to this bullshit. People care about getting their work done, getting paid and going home, not waiting for the damn computer to wake up every time you walk away for a short time. No one sane cares about power consumption, after all the EU 'green energy' should mean it doesn't matter.
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  414. Correction: All of CANZUK & CUNA are third world Socialist backwaters!
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  415. Whilst this comment is being written 2yrs after the video came out, the following is interesting to note: ANY country can choose to declare / recognise / grant citizenship to anyone they want, at their discretion. All the govt has to do is pass a law, make a decree or declare a class / category of people as citizens. The worst part - those affected don't get a say, they never get a chance to refuse. The other worst part - NO country has to let you renounce - it's solely at their discretion and on their terms. What I mean by class / category of people is for example: * Everyone of [X] religion * Everyone persecuted by [X] regime * Everyone who was a citizen but renounced * Any grandchild of a person persecuted by [X] regime * Anyone who goes to [X] country where they'd otherwise pay less tax * Etc. Currently four countries declare people to be citizens by means of class / category without the people ever having a say. Of those four countries, two make it basically almost impossible to renounce whilst two make it impossible. One of the two makes it impossible to renounce if doing so would lower your taxes. My genuine fear is that when the "name brand" countries get desperate for taxes, they'll suddenly either make it easy to become a citizen or they'll start declaring classes / categories of people to be citizens.
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  416. Oh and the part they left out is you have to specify the country of entry on the ETIAS. You can exit the EU (Schengen Zone) from any member state but you can only enter via the one you specified on your ETIAS. To change the country you'll need a whole new ETIAS. If a flight change occurs and the only available flight is to the EU (Schengen Zone) landing in a different country then you won't be flying unless you can somehow get a new ETIAS before boarding. The only way to avoid an ETIAS is to either: * Not go * Be a citizen of a country within the Schengen Zone * To have a visa from a country within the Schengen Zone Assuming you have no issues entering via the same country for 3yrs then yes it will last for 3yrs.
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  417.  @paulnewman9275  They doing the same BS in Australia even though no one was getting hurt or killed. Suddenly everywhere became 40km/h areas, then the councils announced that in 2025 they're becoming 30km/h areas, 20km/h areas in 2026 and 10km/h areas from 2027 onwards. Supposedly because the streets need to be safe for kids to play in and to be "family friendly". Kids have zero business playing in the streets and its the council who keep letting developers build dogboxes (1 bed units) in stupid numbers on tiny properties, so of course there's no backyard to play in. Also, if kids want to play all they have to do is go to the local park (one every 3 blocks). The other thing they love is speed humps and gutter ditches being installed where they never were. They claim its to "slow people down" but in reality people speed between them, or just buy giant vehicles so they can easily cross them with minimal care. Not to mention, many of the speed humps don't even comply with the speed hump standards and you can't get EV's over the newest lot - the councils response was "don't drive, ride a bike".
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  418. Try that in most of CANZUK and CUNA and enjoy the long jail sentence you will receive because being a man is illegal thanks to the feminazis.
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  419.  @MadHeadzOz  I'm not making assumptions. The definition of "rich" reduces every bloody year. Its 7 people and yeah two earning a collective $85,000 before tax - for reasons I won't go into here, none of us qualify for any welfare, plus there's plenty more in need of it than us so it's never even been a thought even though we're all citizens since birth. I'm not spinning any story, I'm stating the facts of my life. I'm not whinging about it but mentioning it as too few people understand how politics of envy and the "the rich are bad" mentality only affects we the average person, never the actual rich. As for knowing how these bans would work - its easy, just look at the EU. They did it but guess who is exempt? The rich. The other point I was trying to make regarding boats is that bans will only affect the average person, the rich will always get around it or simply move somewhere else. I agree with you that the majority of aussie's are absolutely braindead when it comes to politics - I hate how they vote because of one policy without knowing the entire party platform; unfortunately that's the problem of them not giving a damn and having mandatory voting with fines for failing to vote. Most people have no clue about budgets or not spending all their money because they never get taught finance and budgeting at school. They also don't get taught how to do their taxes - they simply get told to go and pay an accountant even though their tax is generally extremely simple. Yes, people need to be responsible for themselves but over the last 30yrs the majority have found it easier to just blame everyone else than have any self responsibility.
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  420. Australia is banning home schooling on 1 Jan 2024. Its about brainwashing the kids to the extreme left commie agendas.
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  421. You think that's expensive - I know countries (hint: most of CANZUK & CUNA) where its $600 per day to go skiing and they're only getting more expensive. $249-$269 is cheap!
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  422.  @libertos9960  Unfortunately it doesn't change anything if you're trapped in Australia. They don't care how many passports you have, if you have an Australian Passport you're trapped here unless their computers show you've spent 21 months out of the 24 months prior to March 2020 outside of Australia - If you visit for even two months each year you're stuck here even if your life is abroad. Its simply messed up. It shouldn't be legal for governments to prevent you from leaving if you have more than one citizenship but unfortunately it is. No one is being allowed to leave until the end of 2021 according to what has been mentioned here in Australia. Still unsure when we'll be allowed to try to get exemptions to leave though as when I last logged into the website to apply for exemptions its still saying "Service not available until July 2021" - not sure if its because I've applied several times (refused each time without explanation) and they simply don't want to bother letting me apply again. I've been refused every time purely based on the months outside of Australia prior to March 2021 condition as I only have 8 months continuously abroad prior to March 2021.
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  423. Except you can't stockpile medicine - medicine requires prescriptions. Not to mention that most 'western' countries now limit how much medication you can have at a time; the days of being able to get more than 3 months worth of medicine and have a 6 month holiday away from civilization (main cities, or an overseas trip) is basically over. These restrictions were introduced in 2020 and still remain as the regime (sorry... govt) doesn't want people having medicine.
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  424.  @ronc7743  I referenced Monaco as an example to help explain a point. Yes its cheaper than Monaco but its still very expensive if you're there full time then yeah its very expensive.
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  425. Do you have the millions required to maintain such structures each year? I bet you don't because you would already have them in place if you had the money.
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  426. They should only cut their price by 33% and abolish the requirement to have x amount in the bank - what's wrong with escrow or having the agent hold the money? The reason I say only by 33% is they are one of the only 0% PIT, 0% CIT countries in the world and they've successfully refused the rest of the world's demands to become a high tax country. No visa free to the EU or UK - boo hoo, it means nothing to anyone who can afford to do CBI. That access was only for tourism purposes - i.e. you couldn't work, invest or attend conferences - you need visas for those things unless you have citizenship to an EU country within Schengen. Everyone keeps acting like visa-free is so important. Literally anyone who can afford to do CBI already has another passport they can travel which is either an EU passport or has visa free for tourism to Europe. Returning to my other point, I understand that they don't take the money up front but their "you must have the donation amount plus x amount in the bank" makes it painful to do their CBI program. Literally every other program lets the agent hold the money or uses escrow and don't care how much you have in the bank beyond the CBI amount. In all seriousness, how many 0% PIT, 0% CIT countries actually exist that aren't run by radical and intolerant regimes... Only Vanuatu and Monaco, Dubai is now high tax... Sure a few other places have 0% PIT but they have CIT. Vanuatu's value is its tax status and its location - if you're from AU, NZ, Singapore, China, etc. and do business in Oceania, its ideal - zero tax, centrally located and a major shipping freight hub. Banking is ANZ or Vanuatu's national bank - if you're already with ANZ you only have to have your account moved to the Vanuatu branch. This is key as banking is the hardest part of any CBI - if you go to the Caribbean, your banking options are very limited as many aren't good or don't permit a lot of foreign transfers/payments. One thing that many people forget about CBI programs - the "west" - CANZUK & CUNA tolerate them but are making life harder as they only want high tax countries to exist so people can't "go where they're treated best" as too many people are leaving the "west". The EU has already declared that ANY CBI passport holder of any nationality known for doing CBI (Chinese, Indian, etc.) will all be required to get visas unless they have other passports that grant them visa-free as the EU claims, like the UK, that CBI was being used to sneak spies in. As for how they know who did CBI - all CBI programs submit information to the "west" as part of their reporting program, verification of the applicants current passports, also, there's a reason your place of birth is listed on all passports - this helps the EU & UK to enforce this restriction. Oh and once ETIAS starts, the EU will require all citizens of CBI countries to apply for Schengen Visas as citizens of CBI countries won't qualify for ETIAS. The only way that citizens of CBI countries can get around such a restriction is by being a citizen of a country that can use ETIAS or by being the citizen of an EU country.
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  427. Yeah, he forgot to mention the part where he probably gives a lecture for 2hrs 20mins, then does 10mins of practical. Sadly it doesn't surprise me as Europeans love trying to over-complicate everything with 'rules', long-winded explanations and history lessons, etc. They really need to just keep everything simple and to the point and get rid of the whole 'course & licence' for every little thing.
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  428.  @mikey10006  it's got nothing to do with science or conspiracy theories, it's a fact that is observable in both Australia and New Zealand. Foreign investors don't come here so visas mean nothing. Foreign investors are mega rich and corporations. New builds cause the area to become a "growth area" which pushes prices up even more. Traditional supply and demand don't apply due to human factors such as marketing as "growth areas" and govt interests to keep prices as high as possible to get more taxes. Until property purchases are limited to locals first, the prices won't drop. It is a fact that the govt want as high prices as they can get as they get more in taxes that way. The problem is you have this naive thinking that everyone in research is honest when the reality is they prove what the funding source wants.
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  429. Just remember that if you were to ever live in Monaco, you'd be subject to paying full French taxes as both current and former French citizens are required by law to pay full tax to France if they live in Monaco.
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  430.  @MrJenkins-g3i  Whilst not blatently obvious force, its still force. I'm sure the UK is setting things up similarly to Australia. In Australia, and most of the "western world" if you don't use the banks you can't pay taxes, council rates or pay for licences as they only accept electronic payments either from credit cards, debit cards or bank accounts, their excuse is AML/KYC so they know the money is "legal". Also, good luck doing any large purchase without a bank account as you won't get a bank cheque (costs ~$40) without one. Try to get a bank cheque for $10,000 cash, you'll be having to prove the source of every dollar and every cent you present and the cash will be reported to AUSTRAC - even if you can prove the source of the money as legal, you'll jump to the top of the AUSTRAC monitoring list for using a large amount of cash. Also, your employer requires you to have a bank account in order to pay you as employees can't legally be paid in cash. Living without a bank account is borderline impossible - even welfare requires you to have a bank account to receive it. If its still possible to live without a bank account in the UK, don't let them change that.
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  431.  @jjefferyworboys8138  Being highly regulated is the problem the moment they try to steal your money. As long as the money is legitimate and has been taxed, they have zero legal right to refuse to let you have your money yet what do we see weekly? Banks refusing withdrawals because they don't think any reason is "good enough" and to "protect us from getting robbed". I've heard the same BS from a bank who wouldn't transfer all my money to another bank (their primary competitor) "we're just protecting you from getting robbed" - had to get lawyers involved just to change banks by electronic transfer (bank to bank). I've watched a farmer (a personal friend) have his credit card declined (code 93 - violation) when he was legally buying ammo (essential for a farmer) - he had to pay cash; he then called his bank to find out why - their response "only criminals and the govt want ammo, there's no reason for "normal" people in society to have it and its so far outside our risk profile we're closing your account". That was a major bank in Queensland, Australia. He changed banks to a local smaller bank that's farmer friendly and hasn't had any issues since. Even electronic use of money is being strictly dictated by each bank with wokeness / ESG being the metric. This is communist BS and it needs to end. What anyone wants to do with their money isn't the business of the bank as long as the use is legal - last I checked wanting your money so you can put it in your safe at home or to spend however you want is perfectly legal. The real reason they do this crap under the excuse of "AML/KYC" is because they want to hold as much as possible because if they choose to "bail themselves in" then it becomes their money. If they wanted to retain customers they wouldn't be screwing us all around so much when it comes to our own money that's come from legal sources and been taxed. The main reason this crap is happening is "ESG" where they think its their job to be the f***ing moral compass of the world by dictating how you can spend your money and how you can move your money.
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  432. Precisely. The problem is too few have read it or seen the movies and understood them. Also, too many dismiss Ayn Rand without having ever read or seen Atlas Shrugged. Who is John Galt...
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  433. The fact they have 10 seats should worry you. The commies (greens) in Australia only had 3-5 seats 10yrs ago. It didn't take them long (about 6yrs) to get 14+seats and become a real threat. If you're wondering how such a meteoric rise was possible - its called "preferential voting". This system is used in Australia to ensure the elections are rigged. Leftwing nuts and commies from major parties form a heap of tiny single policy issue parties and make people think that these small parties aren't connected to the main ones. Given these tiny parties have no hope of getting elected, the preferential system lets them give their preferences to major parties via the secret "system flow preferences" that legally can't be publicly released supposedly so as to not confuse voters. This then enabled bullshit like Dictator Dan getting only 32% of primary vote but then getting 80% of the vote thanks to all the other rounds that the preference system has. This is how ALL Australian elections are rigged (there is no way not to preference anyone as a blank space is considered to be the next countable number after whats been written in) and why the only democratic countries that have real voting use first-past-the-post voting. In Australia people only vote because if you don't you'll get huge fines and/or end up in court (if you've been fined before). Oh and now they actively look at border force entry data and look for people who are hear legally but haven't registered to vote and they're fining them whilst also threatening jail time if they still refuse to enroll to vote.
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  434. Which is exactly why far-left commie BS and hating of the rich (i.e. anyone with $1 more than them) like happened in Venezuela shouldn't ever happen in any country. Any country dumb enough to do that BS utterly deserves what they get. Look at ZA & ZW - the way they treated the farmers because they were "white" and successful. The one's that survived fled as soon as they could, the rest were murdered. Now the two countries are begging for the ones that fled to "return and help them farm for food". Given how they were treated, why would anyone ever return - after all the countries can NEVER be trusted again. Similar things happened in the USSR and other countries behind the Iron Curtain - those that fled wouldn't even visit once the USSR and communism fell (not even to the countries that joined the EU). Many people have fled AU & NZ since the plandemic as insane restrictions crippled businesses that were online only because they weren't deemed "essential" until Stage 4 restrictions happened, and thus weren't allowed to operate. Many people have been regulated out of their jobs and many are sick to death of the annual "do an update / refresher course" BS that's required just to stay qualified - having a qualification isn't enough. Also, many are fleeing because taxes are going through the roof as the regimes in AU waste money that they don't have and are increasing and creating new taxes weekly. AU & NZ are collapsing and those that leave won't return (some might drop in only for a short visit once a year to see friends) because the regimes and the masses don't give a damn about anyone who's successful - such people are seen as the enemy, the "evil rich".
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  435. The reason so many people tell people that they'll 'regret leaving', that they're [insert literally anything bad / evil], or that they're trying to 'tax dodge', is because 99% of people are braindead sheep that run on 'crab-pot mentality'. Basically because they're too scared and cowardly to leave, so they project that onto everyone around them, because, 'if I'm going down with the ship, why shouldn't they'. Its like 'sunk cost fallacy' - they can't admit they're wrong because they've wasted too much money. We see the same BS with the morons who try to claim that we 'owe' society and the country because we 'benefited' from it - completely ignoring the fact that many of us had to pay for 100% of everything we wanted and haven't ever seen a single cent of our taxes back in any manner because the family is too well off and in the top tax bracket. Education, medical, living, recreations / hobbies, all pay to play unless you're completely broke and qualify for 'welfare'. Many of us have actually been hurt by the 'welfare' through numerous new levies (taxes under a different name), increases in taxes, and by being unable to leave the country because 'how dare people leave'. By not being permitted to leave, I'm missing out on many once-in-a-lifetime opportunities, missing out on finding a wife (none that are suitable are in the rathole of a country I'm stuck in), and being set-back financially by having to stay where I am. What's keeping me stuck... professional licence audits, licence audits, and jury duty - so far three times in four years! The country I'm stuck in - the 3rd world shithole that is Australiastan - a commie failed state that uses everything possible to stop engineers, scientists and doctors from leaving - first it was the plandemic travel ban, then licence audits and jury duty. I don't even know if I'll be able to legally leave before 2030 at the rate the scum are keeping me stuck here.
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  436. Why would they, Its the same as why "Internal Affairs" needs to be abolish in law enforcement. If you're regulating or licencing yourself, you're not going to enforce the laws and shaft yourself.
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  437.  @davidgoodnow269  Honestly, I'm not surprised to hear 600 rejections. Most businesses aren't hiring people as companies use job postings as free advertising. Most job boards won't charge a business (beyond the initial posting fee) until they find someone for the job. The job ad keeps the business name around. As for your suggestion of "strengthening" qualifications - that's only going to make it harder. Most businesses want the person with the least skills except for the exact skills the job requires. For example, in Australia, if a business wanted to hire someone for hydraulics and pneumatics, they wouldn't hire someone with a Diploma, Advanced Diploma or Degree in Engineering. They'd hire the person with the Cert 4 in Engineering (Fluid Power) as that person is only qualified in hydraulic and pneumatics and thus the business only has to pay the govt mandated award-based wage for a holder of a cert 4. This wage is significantly less than a higher qualified person. As for "how you can help a business by having skills you perceive them to want" - that doesn't help because most businesses don't want skilled people. They want an exact fit who they can pay peanuts to OR they want no-one because they have someone internally but are required to advertise the job under law OR because they're using the job posting as free advertising. Ever had a business tell you that you were overqualified or "we don't care what other things you could contribute, we only care about the job requirements"? That's the reality and that's why I recommend those struggling to get jobs to look overseas and if possible land a job where your skills and qualifications are recognised, get that work visa through the company and move where you're wanted. USA, UK, CAN, AU & NZ don't want people working and only care about regulating everyone out of work.
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  438. ANY conviction makes you ineligible for an ETIAS - any such people will need a Schengen Visa.
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  439.  @2ASHKENAZI  Not hating on anyone but you do realize that you get that in the EU as well, minus the getting sent to war as part of your military service. Its literally one of the worst passports in the world for anyone interested in flag theory (unless you want to live there). Banned from approx 60 countries, hated by at least 80 and makes the bearer a potential target of any "officials" and hotel staff abroad who have hate towards Israel. Also, it puts your life at risk as it forces you to military service where you will see war (unlike in the rest of the world where you do service but don't end up at war). The whole point of having passports is to make your life easier, to better protect yourself (i.e. not be on everyone's radar) and to give yourself options should the SHTF happen. People literally renounce problematic citizenships once they have others so as to simplify their life. Any country to which you are officially on the record as being a citizen of (and/or holding the passport of) is shown to ANYONE who scans ANY of your passports when crossing borders or when being ID'ed by the authorities (local police). In some countries (where hotels can view the same info as border officials) when hotels scan your passport they see everything as well so you can't just not show one passport and try to hide that you have a certain passport. Why make your life harder than it need be, especially if you want to travel?
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  440.  @copaul71  Program hasn't launched yet which is why people can't find it. The only program that can be found is the "freedom passport" which is the one million BTC donation option.
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  441. Woah! Sorry, can't let facts get in the way of the WEF & UN's agenda. Its like all the BS over the last few years about the 'thing'. Control the narrative 100%, don't permit any questioning, gaslight everyone and only saw that the govt way is wonderful. Congrats on realising that you live in a dictatorship!
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  442. You're truly deluded - the Euro is taking over from the USD and the EU will determine who's allowed to buy and sell. China is literally working with the EU to get access to sell their products to the world as the EU is in control of the "new silk road".
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  443.  @davidvanderklauw  You can't - its a two party system that's rigged through actual legislation to prevent any other parties from being able to win due to prohibitions on advertising and limits on donations which magically don't apply to Liberal or Labor. Even if you donkey vote, the vote still counts as a vote for the party in power. Even if by some miracle another party got in, the whole country is so far left and so pro-communism that no party would remove the cameras or reduce the fines - also the masses are so brainwashed they think the cameras and fines are helping even though they're not. Australia is a completely failed welfare state.
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  444.  @jameswalker366  No conspiracy to it at all. Australian farmers destroyed their produce as the supermarkets and exporters didn't want it (contracts said they couldn't sell or give it to anyone else) even though the exporters' customers were happy to receive the food, farmers then got paid to not plant crops by the government. Meat processing plants around the world "magically" catch fire (that's never been a common event and never will be regardless of how many lies the media tell us all). Crops in the US magically get burnt, but not the soy and bean crops used for fake meat, only the wheat, corn and other grains. Suddenly, the whole '2020 thing' makes way for a bird flu which resulted in most of the worlds chickens being destroyed on government health orders, only to be followed by lesser versions of foot and mouth which caused sheep, goats and cows to be destroyed in 2021. Russia intentionally burnt their crops and the crops in Ukraine - to create shortages. Remember, if you control the food, you control the people. If you think these things are all conspiracy and fake, you need to go back to sleep, wake up and literally read the news. The world is a dangerous place run by sick individuals who don't care about any of us - to them, our suffering is a funny game. What is utterly insane is when people like you can't fathom the fact that all major societal issues ARE engineered as excuses to implement the already determined "solutions" as is this blind belief and trust in government that people like you have. Governments serve themselves, their aim is to take what you have and dictate your life to you. Having been involved with government departments before professionally, I can tell you that governments will absolutely lie to the public whenever it suits them, especially if doing so will let new restrictive laws be brought in, get more taxes from the public, delay panic and assist in controlling the masses.
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  445.  @jameswalker366  What I said is not off topic, it's literally what op mentioned and what is happening. No its not a grand plan, it's a basic infiltration of key roles within governments by Young Global Leaders. Heck, Klaus Schwab literally boasts about it. With a handful of key people such as Justin Trudeau, Jacinda Ardern and Scott Morrison just to name a few, the rest of the respective government simply follows orders and falls into line when emergency powers get used. The WEF have done this to 40% of all governments. It's all public knowledge that the WEF boasts about.
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  446. So everyone pays that tax unless they own nothing. Literally owning an apartment puts you over that as the cheapest apartment in most of CANZUK & CUNA is $500,000. You're an idiot. Also, the amount can't be fixed, it has to index with inflation otherwise wait 10yrs and the homeless guy will have a $300,000 loaf of bread in his backpack.
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  447. What countries recognise it? What countries have legitimately accepted its passport as being valid for travel and thus resulted in it being accepted by ICAO and IATA as a valid ID? Just because they aren't being invaded and are being left alone, that doesn't mean they're a country - you could argue the same for every private island in the world. To be a country, they require everything a country has to have to function, including recognition from a significant percentage (close to 50%) of existing countries. This is literally the problem South Sudan has - its been declared a country by the UN but because only a few countries recognise it (less than 10), the majority of the world consider it to be just a region of Sudan and under the authority of Sudan which means all the embargo's on Sudan apply to it and that its not a real country.
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  448. The dollar is already collapsed and worthless thanks to the US national debt. Every US dollar is worthless because the moment anyone demands the US pay back any of their debt, there is no money with which to pay, thus totally worthless. Why do you think the EU, BRICS and smart people all only accept tangible bullion or Euros that actually have real bullion in reserves backing it. The EU & China hold most of the worlds gold, the UK & USA were only holding it during WW2 and the Cold War - it was repatriated in the last few decades.
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  449. @szaszm_ They don't want that. The WEF (who control the EU and most of the 'western' governments) don't want you to ever have clean energy. They want you to go broke in the name of 'saving the climate' as that gives them total control over you. Governments are power mad and they love control, even if it means they collect less taxation as a result by stopping businesses from running. If power becomes cheap and clean (can only happen if the grid goes and everyone generates, stores and uses their own), the grid goes, big-power suddenly go broke and have no customers, the government loses insane amounts of tax, and the government suddenly lose control as they can't just turn your power off when they want to sell power to another region or country. Anything that is a 'solution' will always be defunded, silenced and shelved. There is no money in a solution, but there is insane money and control in a perpetual crisis. When you understand this, you understand the 'Managed Decline', the Kalergi Plan, Agenda 21 / UN SDG's, and, Agenda 2030. Welcome to Feudalism 2.0 where you have no rights, no home, no money and you do exactly as you're told and independent thought is illegal along with ALL travel.
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  450.  @Poldovico  For now, come 2030 it'll likely be illegal to disable sleep...
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  451.  @craigfrith7024  Precisely. I have friends who are lawyers and this is what they do when they travel. They have an empty "travel" phone and they have their actual phones at each location. Whenever crossing borders (passport control) the authorities can seize your device and clone it, the could at the same time put something either untoward or illegal so they can frame you and increase their arrest counts. Also, cloning a phone will clone the OTP seeds allowing them to access any 2FA accounts. Its always better to have a completely empty phone with nothing logged in for travel.
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  452. They don't just want your private data, they want your 2FA seed data so they can access all your accounts and potentially set you up for something you didn't actually do...
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  453.  @maskofsan1ty  that's an outright lie. Decreasing speed results in everyone bunched up and the roads completely congested. When roads have higher speeds you get more speed variation, gaps and traffic flows better. Australia is the proof of that. They lower speed limits to stupidly slow, the total number of vehicles is the same but now the roads are congested. It used to follow just fine when the roads were 60km/h, now that they're 40km/h it's bumper to bumper traffic. Traffic flow is determined by road design and by speed limits, but mostly by speed limits. When you slow everyone to stupidly slow speeds, everyone is bunched up, safe gaps disappear and no one gets anywhere because every road is the same stupidly low limit. Put your "models of how traffic works" down and look at actual traffic. You sound like a moron who's never been in the real world as you think the always failed models somehow work.
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  454. Yeah, most places haven't stamped passports for the last 15yrs, unless you're a tourist or its a 3rd world country. CANZUK & CUNA haven't stamped passports for their nationals visiting each other for 15yrs, its just electronically recorded. Eventually, once all countries move to digital recording of entries and exits, passports in their current form will likely disappear and be replaced with a card the size of the passport data page (like the plastic card datapage in EU passports). A lot of visas from big countries are now electronically recorded against passports and a printable confirmation is available to show airlines), or they're printed on a card the size of a licence.
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  455.  @OGCHuila  Nope. If by card you're talking about where I was saying that eventually passports will likely become a card, then I was referring to the EU style full colour PVC card data page as seen in most EU passports, just on its own instead of being part of a passport. I.e. the data page but in full colour and printed on a card like a licence is, just passport sized. As far as I know, its mostly just the EU that have a PVC card data page in their passports, most other passports still have a sealed normal page. If you're talking about some of the visas that are now printed on cards the size of licences, they're full colour like licences.
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  456.  @ph.m.8091  depends on the country imposing and the country you're in at that point. Also, most places would be required to let you renounce if they introduced citizenship based taxation after you've left their tax system as once your out of the system your tax file would be closed and I doubt you'd start a new one. It's the old, get out whilst you can and if you're scared of citizenship based taxation, renounce that citizenship once you have other suitable one's.
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  457.  @DarkSolidity  Literally would never happen. You will only be drafted if you're living in a country of citizenship, then only that country will draft you. Do be aware that if you have multiple citizenships, you're required under international law to not be involved in a war that is against any of those countries - you have to be neutral and not fighting.
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  458.  @DarkSolidity  Nope - if they formally draft you then you have a huge mess to sort out. If you don't live in the country and thus haven't been assessed, they won't draft you.
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  459.  @DarkSolidity  Its different to what you said as you'd have never been assessed for draft which puts you on their list. Literally not draft dodging. Most countries exempt those who live abroad from national service and draft. This is why the law exists that prohibits you from being involved in any war between countries which your a citizen of (where you have more than one citizenship) where they're fighting against each other. Why would it be different if they start drafting people? They know you don't live in the country and as long as you're not there, you won't be drafted.
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  460. Look into the EU tax havens - they're part of the EU's Schengen Zone countries but are not located within continental Europe. Hint: There's two French tax havens (one makes you pay taxes for a bit then none other than social contribution, the other has no taxes and no social contribution). Consider becoming tax resident in such a place then holiday around the world (or around Europe) for cheaper cost of living and to see and do things without going bored but return home to maintain your tax residency.
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  461.  @FrozenSkyy  that's correct. The other is nearby but I don't want to run it for everyone but it's initials are W et F
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  462. @marchean83 You're a gutless coward because you want to ensure Ukraine ceases to exist and then let the Baltics, Finland and Poland be forced into war the moment they get invaded. Lets look at what your stupid idea would achieve. The result would be a short pause, then an all out conquering of Ukraine (the moment their ability to defend themselves came to an end), then a complete invasion of Finland, the Baltics, Poland and Hungary. Giving Russia what they want would only reward them and embolden them to continue as they were. Russia wants to rebuild the Tsarist Empire and that means invading everyone around them. They've been doing just that since 2008. Ukraine is the only thing that stands between Russia and WW3 going global - if Ukraine falls its all out WW3.
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  463. You're kidding yourself if you think that Australia wouldn't happily double tax people. Australia would! They're actively getting rid of DTA's, increasing taxes, bringing in new taxes, levies, making it harder to leave the tax system, starting to use their deeming laws to demand more taxes. As for citizenship based - that's purely down to choosing to do that. Heck they already double tax us when buying fuel - GST is charged on the amount including fuel excise, its supposed to be on the amount before fuel excise gets added - even though this is illegal (to tax a tax) the govt don't care as they make more money. As I currently understand it, if you move to a 0-tax country (St. Kitts and Nevis) genuinely and live there full time you should be fine. The problem now arises in that if you're an Australian citizen, the govt get to decide if you've spent enough time in the country you claim your tax resident of (in this example St. Kitts and Nevis) so if they check the international passport system and find that you've spent 3 months in Europe and one month in the UK, they'll say you haven't lived enough in St. Kitts and Nevis and thus Australia will demand you pay full taxes in Australia. If you're wondering how they know all your passports - if you look at any AUSTRAC form for declaring money, assets or finance, you'll see they demand you list all passports, passport numbers and name of country of citizenship. This information is only collected to better track and monitor you, its got nothing to do with preventing crime or any of the AML/KYC garbage. If you've ever filled in an eTA, ESTA, the soon to be in use ETIAS, or applied for a visa, they collect the same information and share it with all allied governments. The other way they collect this info is when reporting foreign bank accounts to the ATO as its required for all citizens to declare their foreign bank accounts.
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  464. Lucky you, its almost entirely illegal where I live. The govt is closing public land rapidly by turning it into parks (which means no human activity permitted), they're slowly banning hunting and fishing by making the rules harder every year and by taking away access to public land to do those things on. Not long until we're not allowed to leave the 15-minute city we're in.
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  465.  @cody8121  You talk pure rubbish, look at my situation and try to claim I used value from others and decided to keep it for myself: I wrote a bunch of software that solved numerous problems, I bought a protection system to prevent people from reverse engineering my software, and so I could easily enforce licencing. I sold that software online and made money. Who exactly got screwed over? The truth is I 'got rich' from my own hard work without 'keeping anything for myself by depriving others'. You sound like a low-life leech that lives on govt handouts - you are literally the problem with society as you don't contribute to society by creating and earning and (if you live in a 'western' country) paying taxes.
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  466.  @lgrrf  Luck is what you make it because it doesn't exist. Anyone who wants to succeed needs to learn and put in the hard work to succeed. The hardest working people are those who got rich from their own hard work. You talk a mountain of pure rubbish. The reason the rich are hated more than ever is because the crooked western governments (sorry... regimes) have got the bulk of the population on welfare (i.e. tax money) who don't want the rich to leave which would end the handouts as those who leave don't pay taxes (ignoring the USA), and, the result is people like the 'free to them' money which actually lets them be better off than those who pay taxes, so they hate the rich. The rich have options and can get to a place where they don't have to pay taxes to where they were (ignoring the USA unless they renounce). Its purely the scum of society wanting their 'free money bro' who don't want that to end. The 'west' hasn't operated on merit since the woke DEI tyranny was implemented. In most of CANZUK and CUNA I'm formed to hire people based on their skin colour, gender and sexual orientation regardless of their skills - skills come second to DEI factors. That's literally enshrined in law. Yet they wonder why people such as myself are waiting until we're out of the woke west to start businesses that actually employ people - we only want to employ the best, most qualified and experienced people for the job. The other problem is that those who hate the rich are too cowardly to take risks in life, and they're 100% financially illiterate which results in them hating the rich and wanting what others have (politics of envy). This is why I 100% hate the poor and the 99% in the 'western' world as they're nothing but violent primitive scum who think that theft and violence is the solution to their problems.
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  467. It doesn't and you have to go without.
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  468.  @cyberscrilla  It won't and can't. The law requires full AML/KYC, the ability for the govt to seize any funds accessible via the card and for the payment to charge the govt imposed transaction fees. This will achieve none of that so in basically all of CANZUK & CUNA this will be illegal and thus not accepted anywhere. That's what life in the commie sh**holes of CANZUK & CUNA countries is like.
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  469.  @jongarratt5383  I remember watching a US show "Motor Mythbusters" - they showed that with the correct tool, one could very easily "correct" the mileage on a modern car. They commented on the process saying "its easier than the old method of winding back a speedometer". I have a feeling that many people might work out how to "correct" their mileage and only have a tiny distance travelled when compared to the previous year. If they try the latter, its never going to work. Even with the current technology and systems, there isn't enough compute to do so in an entire country UNLESS only a mere handful of people are on the roads. There's also the point that its not that hard to make an off-road buggie and just avoid roads entirely.
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  470. @HC_Productions_UK Major problem for those that 'bug-in'. Most sewers rely on giant pumps to operate these days due to increased population. Without power, these pumps will quit working and then there's a high chance of sewers back-flowing. If you don't have a way to turn off your sewer connection in a disaster, your residence will rapidly become unlivable and actually unsafe to live in.
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  471. Nothing wrong with Creality. Have a K1 Max and can't complain - zero tinkering required, it just works and creates amazing parts. The new K2 with CFS basically makes Bambu redundant, especially if Bambu are gonna play stupid games locking down their printers and push cloud BS.
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  472.  @HoDLum  those aren't passports, they're known as a Laissez-Passer and are only given to the people you mention. Passports are only issued to citizens. Laissez-Passer don't enable one to travel freely, they actually limit the countries by listing them on a page as only countries that have agreements on Laissez-Passer accept them.
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  473.  @XeonSX  Even though I doubt you'll listen as you seem to have drunk the "kool-aid" I'll try to address everything you've said. EV's are significantly more expensive, they sure as sh*t aren't cheaper. On average they cost $150,000+ for anything other than a tiny EV hatch that has no range, the luxury car tax (based on cost of vehicle) is 25% the listed purchase price. The registration costs are significantly more as they are heavier than their petrol or diesel equivalents. The charging subscription costs are significantly more than the fuel costs of traditional vehicles. Then there's the per km taxes - even though there's GST charge on electricity, the govt requires a per km tax because they aren't getting fuel excise from you. Ironically the per km tax is almost double the fuel excise. Then there's the supercharger install costs at your house (easily $20,000) - if you need to get three-phase power installed then that will cost you $75,000 as the power company will need to dig up the road, footpath, etc. and install it as underground supply. Ecological? You're having a laugh, seriously, the mining is permanently destroying the planet to create the batteries. The power has to be coal-fired or nuclear and guess what - that harms the planet, albeit significantly less that "green tech" which can't offset its own footprint or be actually recycled. EV's are extremely destructive to the environment - making the batteries causes huge destruction to the planet - this is unavoidable as there is only one way to mine what's needed. The lifespan of the batteries is pitiful and any improvements are nothing but "hopes and dreams" - there hasn't been any viable improvements in the last 10yrs. There is no safe, cost-effective or environmentally friendly way of recycling the batteries. All the idiots who've shredded the batteries have done nothing but ensure that even if in the future a safe, cost effective and environmentally friendly way of recycling does become possible, the shredded batteries (the current method used to classify them as recycled) won't be recyclable as they're a mangled mixed mess and thus separation isn't possible so they'll end up in landfill. The production of the circuit boards for the EV's is toxic and they aren't recyclable due to the resins they have to be coated in for fire-safety regulation compliance - they must be fully potted. The power to properly charge EV's can't ever be fulfilled by "green-tech" - Spain, Germany and Italy have proven this already, they all ended up going back to coal-fired power generation as the "green tech" failed and cost significantly more per kW than coal fired power. Cheaper to service - this is the only thing you got right. This is true as there's less to go wrong but its at the cost of near one million jobs - that's one million people who're likely to never get a job again as jobs are only being eliminated every year. The most automation and more advanced tech that gets created, the more useless people become. Even the engineers in jobs now will lose their jobs within the next 5yrs - it doesn't take more than a handful of engineers, IT guru's and assemblers to design, create, produce and maintain everything so don't start with the "jobs of the future" or "jobs maintaining everything" bullshit. They are nothing but inconvenience - without charging outside your home which would need three-phase power, one has to wait for what is basically an hour to charge their car - that's a huge inconvenience and waste of time. I can fill my petrol car in under 5 minutes and be on with my life. My time is money - I'm not going to waste an hour just to charge a car - I'd rather get home an hour earlier to do the things I want to do, to see friends, etc. If I drive out bush to go camping for a week or two I can leave a petrol vehicle turned off with 3/4 of a tank of range available and that'll remain unchanged at the end of the week. To ensure that the vehicle will start if its very hot or very cold, I keep a small jump-starter in an insulated case so I can start the vehicle if the main battery in the vehicle fails. Good luck doing this in an EV. In very hot or very cold weather you can lost up to 15% charge per day without running the vehicle. In normal conditions most EV's lose 5% charge per day from simply being left where they are. By the end of the week the vehicle would either be flat or wouldn't have enough range to get home or to a charger. This is yet another reason EV's are bullshit - range shouldn't reduce from simply not using the vehicle. Traditional vehicles don't lose range from simply not being used and can be topped up from a jerrycan in mere minutes - can't do that with an EV. You also overlook the huge construction projects that need to be done before everyone can have an EV. The entire power grid would need to be able to provide three-phase power to every house for charging - this would mean more coal-fired powerstations would need to be built to supply the power as "green tech" can't supply the power. Then there's all the elevated roads and bridges that need to be completely rebuilt to handle the huge weight increases caused by EV's being 2-4x heavier than traditional vehicles. EV's will never be "green" or efficient. From cradle to grave, EV's will never offset their footprint. The reason they'll never be efficient is the batteries - they're heavy and ensure that the vehicle doesn't get lighter the more the range reduces unlike traditional vehicles. You need to lay off the "kool-aid" and accept that you've been conned about EV's. No one will blame you, there's too much propaganda out there pushing them. You like all other "pro-EV" nuts are always cherry picking pro-EV crap whilst never living in the real world and realising that EV's are a giant con that is designed so that most people can't afford them and will be forced to live in 15-minute cities. The reason the 15-minute cities are being pushed is because unless only a mere few "elites" have an EV or traditional vehicle, the powers that be know that the system would fail immediately - by forcing everyone into 15-minute cities and making them walk, ride or take public transport, the system can be dragged along without much effort.
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  474.  @XeonSX  Thanks for publicly showing you're a braindead pro-EV moron who needs to shut up and be de-programmed from all the "green" lies and propaganda. I'm well aware the channel is primarily UK however those of us from AU, NZ, USA, CAN, etc. do also watch it. The costs, taxes and prices mentioned are very common outside the UK. Fact is you can't show an EV for 40,000 quid (~$85,000) that can do 330 miles without fail for its entire life, for the same reasons shown in the video (failing batteries). EV's weighing 2-4x that of their traditional equivalents - its literally easy to compare the weights from the manufacturers for EV's and non-EV's. Without installing a proper charger at home the vehicle ain't gonna be usable - no-one has the time to waste sitting at chargers for hours, nor is any company going to let staff charge at work unless the staff pay the company for charging and that's assuming any company would be dumb enough to install superchargers. What I said about mining is 100% correct, try actually reading the book mentioned, take a trip to see the mines (yes its actually possible). Also understand that these countries are starting to copy Zimbabwe in banning the export of Cobalt. Most countries use either nuclear or coal to generate power - that's a fact. What I said about batteries not being recyclable is true, the current methods are neither cost effective, safe or environmentally friendly. Your bullshit about the batteries lasting a long time is pure bullshit - within 5yrs most EV batteries are at best only capable of 50% original range. Most people let the charge drop low enough that the life of the battery significantly drops - also super charging if done often enough significantly kills the batteries. There is nothing sustainable about EV's - there is no way to spin them as green. I've literally done the studies, done the LCA's on them from cradle to grave. The only way to fudge them as being "green" is to only look at the footprint of the use but that isn't how LCA's have to be done, LCA's have to be done from cradle to grave (creation, use (including charging, maintenance and disposal). The reality is that you've been gaslit and brainwashed by the pro-EV wankers and won't accept anything that you don't already agree with, no matter what evidence anyone could ever show you. Yuri Bezmenov refers to this as being "demoralised". I haven't said a single incorrect thing and have personally seen every claim you make proven false repeatedly.
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  475. Yet Australiastan is run by a regime that does everything to 'protect' (read as nanny state) its people from anything and everything. We can't legally take risks - anything financial can only be done by licenced professionals at huge cost, we can't stake crypto (only spot trading is legal), we can't have 'side hustles' due to regulations and cost of compliance, we can't choose what risks we are willing to take due to regulations that make taking risks a crime. If you try to start a small business and it fails, you better ensure you don't become legally bankrupt as that will prohibit you from every licence (fishing, driving, etc.) as under the law, if you're deemed to not be "fit and proper" under one act, you're deemed that under all acts; being "fit and proper" is a condition of ALL licences. Basically the only option is to never lose by never doing in the first place. Oh, then there's the whole govt department for 'controlling and fixing men's behaviour' run by rabid feminazis and commies. You can't LEGALLY build your own house in Australia as everything needs govt licences and permits and its not feasible for any one person to obtain them all and maintain them all at the same time. Knowledge and skills mean nothing, even if you can prove you're doing everything properly - its all licences, permits and heaps of money and bureaucratic hoops. Australia - the land where taking even controlled risks and being a man is illegal. And they wonder why people are leaving as fast as possible.
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  476. The USD is being replaced with the Euro as the global reserve currency.
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  477. Because it means they only have to pay out money from their account at the end of the month when the bill arrives in the mail and is due. That means that they're still accruing interest on their savings based on a higher amount (as some accounts pay / accrue interest biweekly or monthly), it reduces the total number of transactions (i.e. fewer transaction fees) into one large transaction, builds their credit score (assuming they pay the bill in full, on time before its due), and they then accrue points for simply doing their normal spending which over time they can redeem for goods, holidays or gift cards. Using a debit card means transaction fees and your bank balance instantly reduces which means you accrue less interest on your savings than you otherwise would, you incur more fees as you have more transactions and you accrue not a single point for your effort. Also, debit cards don't really provide much protection against fraud/unauthorized transactions, etc. where as credit cards add a layer of protection and the ability to dispute unauthorized transactions which just isn't possible in most places with debit cards. In all seriousness, most businesses will charge you the same price whether you pay by credit, debit or cash, so you're not getting charged more unless you're paying with a known high-fee card like Amex. If you do the right thing and pay the entire bill when it arrives, in full, immediately, then you won't be carrying any balance and thus not paying any extra fee. If you annual spending is over a certain amount then most cards will waive the 'annual fee' so that doesn't cost you. Not to mention with credit cards you can accrue points simply for doing your usual spending. Once you've earned enough points you can redeem them for products, holidays or gift cards. The points are basically paid for as part of the merchant fee's which is why its basically something like 'spend $100, earn 10 points' in most cases. It costs you the end user nothing extra as the merchant has their product prices set to cover the fee's they incur regardless of how you pay. If you borrowed from friends or family, they're having to bare the transaction fees for withdrawing the money, then you have to withdraw the money from your account to pay them back - that's all fee's being incurred by the individual on all ends. Why would you go out of your way to pay fee's? Yes cash is good but not when your incurring fee's so often. I don't know which country you're from but you seem to either not trust yourself with a credit card (that's perfectly fine as its always better to avoid debt than to be stuck in debt), or you don't understand credit cards and debit cards correctly. Maybe your country is the exception to the rule and banking is done significantly differently to the rest of the world in regards to interest on savings, fees and fraud protection.
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  478. @Eddietheteddie Hate to say it but you failed to do your research before wasting your time and money. Everyone knows that Italy always takes 2yrs for everything that their citizens need. Everyone also knows that Italy isn't granting residence to foreigners unless they have citizenship to a Schengen country. So basically you'll be denied residence - they're making you wait so you either time out, or withdraw your application so they don't have to formally reject you. The fact you were on a student visa shows that you fail to understand that you were only ever going to be let in temporarily - a student visa isn't a pathway to permanence (only AU, NZ & CAN allow such pathways). If you were legitimate (and from a 'western country' - i.e. not a queue jumper wanting handouts/welfare), you'd have gone home, applied for an investment or business visa, then applied for residency; yes that would mean running a business or making a sufficient investment. The fact you couldn't either be bothered or afford either is proof that you are/were financially unable to support yourself and thus are unable to contribute to society. Cut your losses and start again somewhere else - hoping will only send you broke and then you'll risk either huge debt (to pay to go home) or jail (for staying illegally).
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  479.  @rodiculous9464  That's because he didn't have a majority in both houses of govt. This time (if he won) he would have that majority and that's why the left are so desperate to not let him win.
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  480.  @aissaaziz84  Both are not worth it, go literally anywhere else, there are plenty of countries that are much better. Watch some of Nomad Capitalists videos that discuss the other places and why Canada and Australia, specifically CUNA & CANZUK are all finished. The regimes (sorry I mean governments...) now have the ability to suspend laws and enforce "pandemic" rules if they feel a threat exists anywhere in the world even if its not in their country, so you could be working or running a business one day, prohibited the next without warning. They are both actively increasing their taxes which are already around 50% (more if you factor in all the levies - fire services levy (even though the same thing is in council rates and state government budgets), private health medicare levy (you get taxed both for not having private health insurance and for having it but a bit less if you have it)), the business environment is nothing but paperwork and pointless compliance thanks to them being "nanny" states. Oh and there's always some new course or experience requirement that'll result in you always being forced back into doing courses and updates just to do anything. Utterly pointless for doing business as all your time and profitability will be lost to compliance and "training" - only the giant corporation's can get around this. Source: Australian citizen (also EU citizen) and am stuck in Australia till the end of this year (legally stuck with JD) and have watched a once great country turn to utter shit whilst growing up. I have relatives in Canada who've seen it become shit as well (Canada is 3-5yrs ahead of Australia in the decline). Both places are heading directly from socialism to communism and completely destroyed economies (depression level and worse). Businesses have either left the countries or gone bankrupt, jobs don't exist, the cost of the basics have skyrocketed and extreme environmental policies are destroying both farms and public land (forests, etc.).
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  481. Collecting Commonwealth Citizenships? Any reason you didn't just use CARICOM to quickly get to a tax haven and work (then later to CBI with the money that would have otherwise be gone as taxes) instead of getting Australian citizenship, Australian citizenship only has one benefit over Canadian - the freedom of movement with New Zealand (not a desirable benefit looking at the economy and business environment there)? IMHO your six years would have been much better spent even studying in Canada so you can get a CSME certificate for moving around CARICOM if not already held.
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  482.  @HTV-2_Hypersonic_Glide_Vehicle  Its a country, just like Vietnam, Philippines, Korea, etc. to say otherwise shows you to be a braindead moron. Fun fact - a "non-country" can't have passports, a govt, a defence force, an education system or a tax system. Simply put a non-country is 100% under the control and administration of a country. Taiwan is a country.
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  483.  @inputimmersion9577  Rubbish - property tax, land tax, council rates, etc. - all property taxes and yes they exist in all of CANZUK and CUNA. Think you're not renting - try not paying and watch how fast they seize and sell your property and leave you homeless.
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  484.  @inputimmersion9577  Still a tax and they'll still seize the property the moment you don't pay it. If someone isn't renting the place, as the owner you'll be paying it as you're automatically deemed to be the occupier. Its still a property tax - you still don't own the property. When you own property you NEVER pay taxes of any kind on it after purchase. You need to learn something before speaking...
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  485.  @inputimmersion9577  Council tax does NOT fund anything local other than the wages of the useless pricks that are the council. Anything you're forced to pay is literally a tax, that's the definition of a tax - its mandatory! Look at your water bill, it'll have a sewage charge and a parks and gardens fee. That fee is what pays for parks, gardens and public areas. Your electricity bill contains a maintenance and infrastructure charge which maintains the powergrid. As for roads, part of the licence fees, registration fees and ALL of the fuel excise (a tax charged (built into) on the fuel you buy) and 5% of tax revenue (income tax, etc.) pays for all the roads and traffic infrastructure. Rubbish collection is outsourced by councils to well overpriced companies - literally anyone could find a cheaper rubbish collection but as the council tax is mandatory and includes rubbish collection people don't bother challenging the cost. Public Libraries and schools are funded solely with govt tax revenues - absolutely nothing from Council rates. If you don't have your name on the lease or if you don't own a property, you don't pay council rates. Only the primary occupant or the owner pay it. If what you're claiming were true then every man, woman and child would have to pay council tax simply for existing. Given that only the person whose name is on the lease or who owns the property has to pay the council tax, makes it a property tax by default. Think its not a property tax - try having an empty property and not paying the council tax - watch how quickly they come after you and seize your property. Its most definitely a property tax.
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  486. LOL, there's a reason that sane people manage their debt and where possible avoid it. The USA is nothing but debt. Good luck not collapsing when that debt is required to be paid. What are they gonna pay it with? Nothing, because they literally can't and thus they'll collapse. Look at the richest countries in the world, they all have several things in common, tiny govt, zero debt and all the wealth in the world. If you think the USA can simply refuse, understand that the rest of the world will simply refuse to extend credit and will likely increase interest rates which will push the US further into debt. This is exactly what the Euro and BRICS are about - crushing the US dollar.
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  487. @ouss966 Horrible advice in most cases as most think that a sham marriage is a quick way to entry. That achieves nothing but a residence permit subject to stringent monitoring to ensure the legitimacy of the marriage (i.e. not just for a way to citizenship). Not all EU countries permit people to remain on residence permits forever if issued on the grounds of marriage. Being forced to citizenship will still require language, history, culture and integration tests. That is a heap of learning and work. Even if the marriage is genuine most people don't bother due to the effort involved and how anti-new citizens governments are. Its literally easier to just spend some time there (long stay visa as spouse of an EU citizen) and then live abroad the rest of the time.
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  488. All of CANZUK and CUNA are doing this... Tax havens are the few places that aren't doing this as they're acknowledging normal crypto as being valid alongside fiat currency. They're the only places that still have privacy. Only once all privacy is gone will the masses realise they need privacy but it'll be too late.
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  489. A hobby - a pure luxury for the rich in Australia, not for anyone else. If you don't own a house, or can't rent a house then you can't have a hobby as you have nowhere to store the equipment, nor do you meet the requirements to hold most licences (must OWN a house as your primary residence can't change often [licence condition]). Basically everything in Australia either requires tickets or a heap of licences and permits. Either way that means a lot of money. Most hobbies require membership to clubs or associations - that means a lot of money. Its like this because the regime run the place as a total 'nanny state' where everyone is treated like a braindead child that can't think for themself and that everyone is too dumb to use common sense. Just to have the hobbies and recreations I have, I'm required to have and do the following: * Association and Club Memberships * Licences (several of which have attendance/participation requirements to remain 'current') * Annual Update/Refresher training for the licences and for the few things that require certificates but not licences * A vehicle to get to and from the hobby (registration and insurance required for this) * Auxiliary equipment for the hobby - primarily camping equipment (requires multiple setups as they have to be tailored to each environment) * Access permits - public land is being closed every year by the govt and sometimes access can be obtained but only if you can afford very expensive access permits Over a 5yr period that's about $25k just to have a hobby - and that's excluding the vehicle and its associated costs as its required for day-to-day life and for work. To use and/or possess a metal detector off your private property in Australia requires a 'Miner's Right' and can only be used in designated areas such as State Forests (but not in Forest Parks, State Parks or National Parks or Heritage Areas).
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  490. Spanish is NOT Portuguese. I have two colleagues who naturalised in Portugal and they both said Portuguese is required, Spanish is 100% unacceptable. Its a language test, why would they permit a foreign language. Its Portugal not Spain.
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  491.  @MsSherryl01  Grow up! My tone was perfectly normal and I addressed your utterly stupid question. Spanish is NOT Portuguese! Basically everyone speaks Portuguese in Portugal except the tourists. Sure, many do speak English but that's because its the EU's official common language. The fact you think people in Portugal prefer Spain just shows how clueless you actually are, Portuguese people are very nationalistic and proud of their country. Matter of fact, they almost abolished the Portuguese Golden Visa program because they're sick of foreigners coming there as digital nomads are pricing locals out of everything. The new program is significantly more involved and requires full integration and an actual in-country job. The fact you think it acceptable to think speaking Spanish in Portugal as a norm is somehow okay just shows how little respect you have for Portugal. Only a complete moron would think that a country that has a language test as part of its naturalisation process would permit you to speak any language other than the official one on the test. If your Spanish is actually 100% fluent, get naturalised in Spain as Spanish, then use the fact that Spain is in the EU's Schengen Zone to move to which other Schengen Zone country you wish to. You're not trilingual as that would require being 100% fluent in three languages. American English is nothing but English (Simplified). From the sounds of it you should stay in the USA amongst the woke who's feelings get hurt at the drop of a hat. Get over yourself, you're not so special that a country is going to change its laws and rules to suit you.
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  492.  @dr.ohhimark174  For the record, Australia doesn't ban all firearms, they are heavily restricted. Basically any non-semi auto firearm is 100% legal in Australia, semi-auto handguns are but are subject to heavy restrictions. Collectors can own as many as they can afford, store and get permits for however anything semi-auto or auto has to be permanently deactivated. That's according to a friend who owns firearms for hunting and who also collects them.
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  493. Only problem is that outside the USA getting licenced for those jobs is at a minimum 10yrs of nothing but training and work experience only to find the rules have changed and you no longer qualify to get the licence without yet another course (speaking from experience with this exact problem). The govt want to keep you in education and not have you actually doing anything. Licensure is the barrier to entry, even for the qualified! There are already huge shortages of these people with licences - its only going to get worse. Note that in most countries, the giant multi-nationals (EATON, APC, etc.) are all specially exempt from most professional licencing as they are allowed to do in-house training for their staff who install their products but everyone else must jump through the govt hoops which keep getting harder.
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  494.  @markdonnelly6921  That's interesting, I was always under the impression that to be a plumber or electrician, licencing was required.
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  495. You have to do full AML/KYC in order to register and activate a SIM outside the USA as thanks to US govt global security demands, SIM registration is mandatory. The bastards demand your full ID and details, even what your job is and what your wage is, for a prepaid SIM - for a prepaid SIM!
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  496. There is nothing to embrace...
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  497. Those experiments were designed to succeed, they can't be considered "realistic" as there was no way for them to fail (they were politically driven to reach a predetermined result, not a real one). They only permitted a select number of people (< 1% of society) to take part. This avoided hyperinflation and it meant that everyone else would pay for it (via taxes). The moment you try to bring this into use as a real UBI (i.e. for everyone), the whole thing fails. That's just basic economics. Also note that Finland and the other Nordic Countries are very highly taxed (one of the main reasons most people move away and why most businesses never go there).
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  498. @Taking_Back_Thyme we're basically screwed, especially as the economies crash and cost of living keep increasing. Whilst technically enough for CBI the problem arises in you then don't have enough left over to afford to have somewhere to live or to afford your living expenses (food, drink, utilities, etc.).
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  499.  @NewBeginnings77  Literally not a thing - there's such an oversupply of English teachers that many countries won't give you a visa for doing so. Also, there's multiple qualifications required to do that (you need a Bachelor of Education & TEFL).
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  500.  @madewithrealdiamonds  With the exception of a few countries in Africa and the Middle East, everyone else can freely transit all EU airports without a transit visa, the US require an ESTA or a visa to transit anyway so that doesn't change for anyone other than a US citizen. Canada aren't any harder to transit than the EU. Google which countries need an airport transit visa to transit the EU and you'll see the list is tiny. I've had to transit many countries I can't enter without a visa. If transiting is your only concern then visa-free to the EU is irrelevant - if you want to holiday there, then either get a Schengen Visa (easy to get) or work towards a residence permit or passport that gets you in. Remember, visa-free to the EU is only for tourism, you can't work or perform any business unless you have an EU visa for work or an EU residency permit.
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  501. That's what gets me. These companies roll over and comply when they don't operate within the countries. The internet lets anyone be accessed from anywhere so simply because a site is available, doesn't mean it operates in Australia. What next an Australian only internet? This whole crap (this bill and the existing "Surveillance Act" which lets the govt frame you for anything) smells of WEF / UN Agenda 21 crap. Oh yeah, just image this with Digital ID, CBDC and CO2 allowances - absolute dystopia!
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  502. Only privacy coins are truly private - this is why the govt demands exchanges delist them. The govts know they can't stop them so they ban them by proxy - i.e. by closing the on-ramping and off-ramping.
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  503. @BjornAndreasBull-Hansen The problem is that for many people, there is no way to get out of the 'system'. The existing tax havens are doing everything they can to prevent people from moving to them - the minimum entry cost is $750,000 (CBI (approx. $350,000) plus buying a place to live). They are doing this because they're trying to keep their 'tax haven' status by not allowing newcomers. Without anywhere to go, the only options are to either 'bend-over' and get reamed by the 'system' or to literally become a criminal by going on the 'run' and living like "Robin Hood" - few, if any are willing to do this. The 'system' has been designed to either keep you trapped or to make you into a criminal should you reject it - no address, no bank account, no digital ID, you can't work, hold licences or otherwise live. The problem is that there is no middle ground. Anyone who thinks they're going to live in the forest will be hunted down and locked up by the 'state' as they are actively locking up all public land for "climate and protection" reasons - the reality is they're ensuring you can't not be in the system.
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  504. Nope its not a generational thing, its a laziness thing. The youth are too f**** lazy to actually go to a bank, they also hate having to handle cash. This is whats killing banking and killing cash. I'm under 40 and still have a physical passbook account (i.e. in-person banking only). What I love about it: * I have the entire history of the account in the passbook - this way both the bank and I have matching records of the account so nothing can get lost... * The account can only be accessed by presenting the passbook & govt issued ID that matches the recorded details * There's no phone or internet banking so I don't have to worry about scams or "hacks" so the bank can't try to blame me if something goes wrong. I also love cash. My entire life can be easily organized with cash and I can ensure that I save money (both by spending less and by putting my change in a money box which gets banked when full). I can withdraw what I need for bills, etc. and put the relevant amounts in envelopes on which I've written what expense that money is for and I can see what I've put aside in an envelope for spending on myself each month. With cash its easier to save as when you can see the money being used, you're more inclined to not spend. Using credit cards or tapping to pay its dangerously easy to spend money and lose track of how much you've spent, especially when they like to avoid printed receipts. The reason they want cash gone is they want people to spend more than they can afford and end up in debt / welfare, as then the govt get to control them. Also 100% cashless makes CBDC easy to implement and with CBDC they can limit what you can buy, where you can spend your money (geofencing) and limit how much of something you can buy. Also, they can make your money expire so they force you to use it and thus make saving impossible. Also by getting rid of cash, if they decide to introduce negative interest rates, you don't have any options to get your money out of the banks and thus are forced to lose money to negative interest rates!
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  505.  @bananacognacbeeyatch  Because it is BS - the fastest citizenship in the EU was 3yrs until that was stopped, now its 5yrs. The only way to get an EU passport in 1 year LEGALLY is to have a 'Heritage Visa' to Italy - its only issued to those who have a single break in their family line of Italian citizenship.
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  506. If you listen to the UN, the WEF, etc. They plan on mass global depopulation. Remember you are the carbon they want to reduce. Also note that the UN are champions of "World Hunger" as they claim it makes people productive.
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  507. Hate to break it, but ALL road users are bound by speed limits UNLESS the road is closed for a race. If closed for a race then speed limits do NOT apply. How do I know this? In Australia & Canada people on horses and pushbikes have been fined for speeding. When they went to court to fight it, the courts said that the road rules / highway code was created by the British and applies to ALL road / highway users, no matter the method of transport. This is also why if you ride a horse home drunk, even though the horse can safely take you home, you will be done for drink driving as the horse is legally considered a vehicle, as is a pushbike. Oh and as Canada and Australia haven't made newer laws, the British laws still apply.
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  508. @DMajorScalingUp The leeches that are the poor only have themselves to blame. When things were good in the 90's they bitched and demanded welfare because they were 'creative' and didn't want to work a normal job, the govt obliged. Then they got on multi-generational welfare. Then the govt realized that as long as they kept giving the scum money, they'd keep voting for them. The govt then started importing such people and exponentially increasing the welfare bill. The result is that the cost of living is insane, that the country is crime riddled as a result of the cost of living and the insane taxes, and because most of the rich have left or are leaving, thus the tax revenue isn't there and due to govt waste there's not even the ability for the country to borrow more money. That's Australiastan for you.
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  509.  @wepid3426  Clearly you skipped the chapter on the tax havens. That's where they're going and guess what? You and I aren't rich enough to ever get there before they close the doors. The tax havens will NEVER end, at least not the big names that have always existed because that's where the 'elites' live - the 1% of the 1%.
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  510. Hate to break it, but ALL road users are bound by speed limits UNLESS the road is closed for a race. If closed for a race then speed limits do NOT apply. How do I know this? In Australia & Canada people on horses and pushbikes have been fined for speeding. When they went to court to fight it, the courts said that the road rules / highway code was created by the British and applies to ALL road / highway users, no matter the method of transport. This is also why if you ride a horse home drunk, even though the horse can safely take you home, you will be done for drink driving as the horse is legally considered a vehicle, as is a pushbike. Oh and as Canada and Australia haven't made newer laws, the British laws still apply.
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  511. Sorry but that's literally not happening. If that were the case basically all Europeans would be having to pick which citizenship to retain or they'd become stateless. Anyone who's family is European and can be traced back 600yrs+ has multiple citizenships literally due to the sheer number of international marriages (remember Schengen is new and prior to that every border was strictly enforced). Also, with recent (post 1900) advances in international transport, most people have 2-4 citizenships at birth these days. What the EU is sick of is people doing CBI and then using the CBI country's passport to get into the EU visa-free and then illegally over-stay and/or work. Chinese citizens were using CBI to do exactly this with the UK and Europe which resulted in the UK removing visa-free access from the CBI countries and requiring those countries to provide lists of CBI applicants of Chinese nationality so they could force them to get visas to visit the UK.
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  512.  @jamalgreen3056  Please list the headline/title of an article about this so I can Google it as this is the first I'm hearing of this and am genuine intrigued. With the exception of Belgium, most of Europe is taking steps to permit dual nationality of people who're naturalised citizens or citizens by descent.
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  513. Bullshit - its illegal immigration, large welfare states and high taxes that cause it. The rich leave because why should they lose over half of what they work for because the regime wants it as 'taxes'? You're a filthy commie scumbag who needs to get off your arse and actually work. I'm not anywhere near rich but I sure as hell am leaving CANZUK & CUNA because why should I lose 50% of what I work for as 'taxes' so you can do nothing. If every illegal and 3rd worlder was rounded up by the military and deported to Africa/Middle East (where they came from), the UK would suddenly become wonderful - housing would be affordable, crime would almost entirely vanish, the welfare bill would decimate and taxes could be reduced which would encourage businesses to return (jobs would return). I know that what I'm saying is true and that everything you say is lies because CANZUK & CUNA only became how they are when they let all the illegals in.
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  514.  @allanfrd  The issue is in the future, if you renounce that original citizenship, then you're basically stateless as due to the fact that a Uruguayan passport lists your nationality as your previous one (i.e. you're not getting a new citizenship, only a travel document and Residency), once renounced, then that passport is suddenly invalid because you're no longer that nationality. If the Uruguayan passport said you were Uruguayan then it wouldn't be an issue. The best solution is to get a citizenship that says you're their national once they grant citizenship, as being Uruguayan means nothing unless you're ethnically from there (i.e. the passport says Uruguayan).
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  515. Compliance is the problem. Like during the plandemic - compliance only empowers and emboldens the destroyers. People need to stand up and say no. Also, its looking like its far better to be Robin Hood than to just roll over and suffer.
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  516.  @alrent2992  Means nothing as you can't hold residence permits or visas without another citizenship. You'd have to first turn that residency into a second citizenship.
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  517.  @alrent2992  You still don't get it. Permits mean nothing as they can be revoked in an instant - and they are when new govts are elected. You're still stuck as a US citizen with zero legal way to renounce - even if you wanted to change citizenship as if dual citizenship was illegal the process of renouncing could never take place. When you get a residence permit, that country notifies the country with whose passport you obtain said permit. So you can't 'hide it'
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  518.  @alrent2992  Rubbish. When you apply for a residence permit or visa, the country notifies the country whose passport you're applying with. Its literally part of the "due diligence", AML/KYC documentation and information sharing.
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  519. Whilst your history is correct, you have to look at the current reality - i.e. you have to momentarily put history aside. The most important thing that currently exists is the stopping (or defeat) of Russia in Ukraine. If Russia takes Ukraine (yeah Russia wants the whole country), then the Baltics, Poland and most of Europe east of Germany will be invaded and destroyed. Putin is doing the same thing Hitler did, the old "just one more country" or "just one more territory". Remember, Russia invaded and illegally occupies two parts of Georgia, they illegally invaded and currently run Kazakhstan, they attacked and control large parts of Mongolia, they illegally took Crimea and most recently invaded Ukraine. Oh then there's the "refugee" warfare Russia is committing against the EU by intentionally flying illegal immigrants "refugees" into Russia, then to Belarus in the hopes of overrunning the borders of the EU - note that these illegals are paying approximately $25,000USD to Russia so they can "get into the EU". Putin has said in multiple recent interviews that he wants to rebuild the Tsarist Empire as his legacy. That means the abolition of most free countries (incl. Poland) in Europe. If Ukraine falls, he gains all the equipment and supplies that Ukraine has - this would mean instead of Russia having to use crappy old barely operable equipment, they'd have actually usable equipment. Simply put, stop Russia, then worry about any problems you have with Ukraine. Now is not the time to dredge up history and create tensions between two countries (Poland and Ukraine), now is the time to stop Russia and then and only then worry about these historical issues. Trust me when I say, I know what my family suffered in Nazi Occupied Poland and parts of what is now Ukraine, so I understand how you feel.
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  520.  @analysisonlight605  They're going bankrupt due to the far-left socialist/communist govts who are strangling them with insane regulations, taxes and costs. Simply put, its the same tactics Hitler used to control businesses - its "make whats needed exactly how I tell you, or I'll take over your business" (i.e. nationalising a business without having to forcibly take it over - total control by regulation, law and bureaucracy). That's what we see today, govts are strangling businesses by dictating every little thing they do, crushing them with insane BS such as the legal requirement of who they are allowed to hire (DEI & minorities MUST be the priority according to the laws, even if not the best candidates), the legal requirement to have "regular meetings as part of good governance" which forces people to waste time and money on having meetings when there is no legitimate need, to then record the minutes of said meetings and to then submit that to the govt as part of their legal compliance. All the 'climate targets/goals' are intentionally designed to shutdown businesses, because business and the availability of products must be 100% govt controlled without private influence or input in order to meet their desires for total control (inline with WEF policy & ESG). The result is businesses can't operate as they were, they are forced to automate and reduce staffing; this results in having to pay-out staff, deal with unions demanding the world because people are losing jobs, and then the businesses are forever fighting the uphill battle against ever tightening govt regulations that sound good on paper but in reality are 100% impossible to comply with (i.e. the climate targets/goals). Thus the result is the only option so as to not run at a loss is to declare bankruptcy and shut the business down. That means fewer products (less choice), more centralization of products that are available, more people out of work and a step closer to the 'climate targets/goals'. If you own a business and it spent a lot of time being successful, you have plenty of money saved and thus can literally earn money by having money in your savings account - compound interest is a truly wonderful thing. Thus you don't need to run a business to keep making money, you just have to keep your spending less than the interest the bank pays you on your savings. The whole idea that you can only make money by running a business is as insane as the belief that you can only make money by 'exploiting' people; only truly dumb people think like that. When you head 'reduce CO2 emissions', understand that they really mean that you are the carbon they want to reduce (i.e. mass global depopulation). Think I'm making it up? Read the following documents that you can find online as PDF files or articles: * The Future of Urban Consumption in a 1.5oC World - C40 Cities Headline Report (2270_C40_CBE_MainReport_250719.original.pdf) * COVID-19: The Great Reset by Klaus Schwab & Thierry Malleret (COVID-19_The_Great_Reset-_Thierry_Malleret.pdf) * Governing The Metaverse - World Government Summit 2023 (GOVERNING-THE-METAVERSE_EN_Double.pdf) * Scenarios for the Future of Technology and International Development - Rockefeller Foundation (Rockefeller Foundation.pdf) * The SPARS Pandemic 2025-2028 - The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security (spars-pandemic-scenario.pdf) * The Benefits of World Hunger - George Kent (Available from the UN) * United Nations Sustainable Developerment - UN Conference on Environment & Development, Rio de Janerio - Brazil, June 3-14 1992 - Maurice Strong (Keynote Speaker) (Agenda21.pdf) * The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG's) - this is on their website and is just Agenda 21 put into 17 'goals' * UN General Assembly - Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (adopted 25 Sept 2015) (N1529189.pdf) * and there's many more all available from UN, WEF and other govt / pro-ESG sources Why do you think automation, robotics and AI is the focus? Its the only way businesses could stay around this long, and now such tech has gotten to the point that people are now almost entirely redundant. It won't be long until you see most people losing their jobs. The problem is that means welfare reaches insane levels which in turn means taxes reach insane levels along with the introduction of death and wealth taxes that will affect everyone because the money for the welfare bill has to come from somewhere. In short, this is all by design, its a race to the bottom because those in power (the 'elites') care more about total control and playing god than they care about jobs and money. They only need just enough people to prevent in-breeding and to do the jobs they won't do themselves. The rest of the population are 'useless eaters' and thus require extermination as they are 'destroying the world' simply by existing. We are entering extremely dark, totalitarian and dystopian times. Pick basically all dystopian movies and roll them together - that is our future.
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  521.  @RomarioCHVNNS  Except the guys full of pure BS. He never actually says anything if you actually listen to him. He has zero clue of reality when he dabbles in geopolitics, he's always saying how Russia can't be defeated - even though that's all based off how things were in the 1970's and completely ignores the fact that countries such as Poland or Lithuania could wipe Russia out if they came under attack, due to the modernization of their armed forces with modern US equipment and weaponry. If you want stories and entertainment, sure listen to him. If you want information he's about the last person to go to. For geopolitical information listen to the following (in no particular order) and then make your own decision: * Funky Prepper * Alaska Prepper * Neil McCoy-Ward * Richard Vobes * Survival Living * Redacted * Pretty much anyone else...
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  522. And Australia has recently imposed an annual limit on how much of your already taxed money that you can move out of Australia ($40,000 and it has to be going between two accounts that are in your name only). First they gouge you with insane taxes, then they limit your ability to take you money abroad - that's what a completely bankrupt and money hungry welfare commie state, Australia is... sorry... I mean Australiastan! I'm glad my grandparents on dad's side of the family aren't around to see what Australia has become - they escaped the Iron Curtain in the mid 1950's and would be appalled at what Australia has become.
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  523. And being a 'team player' NEVER works well. It always results in the same bad decisions and the ever increasing of the US debt spiral. The race to the bottom is the result. Change only ever comes from those who aren't 'team players', it comes from 'do-ers' and 'risk takers'. If the boat is NEVER rocked, nothing will ever change.
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  524. Which is a problem solely caused by the government who put the countries into insane debt, who are hyperinflating the economy by printing money, who are increasing taxes which makes basic living harder. Its NOT the rich, its the governments that are the problem, but the braindead masses are too stupid to hate the real problem, instead they hate the rich - the ones whose taxes they're living off. Yet they wonder why the rich hate them and simply walk away from the countries and subsequently reduce the tax revenue as a result. If the masses want better lives then they have to get off their arses and actually work hard, earn money and pay taxes. There is no easy way.
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  525.  @Crankupus  You need to wake up and realize that until the 99% want change, literally nothing you do will ever change anything there. You can work all you like to "make it better" but all you'll achieve is nothing and you'll be broke as the 99% want things how they are.
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  526. People might just guerilla garden the parks and forests so that food is there for those who know what to look for. Forests are giant and easily guerilla gardened; food growing in a forest is more likely to go undetected. Just saying...
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  527. @aarta8743 Found the gutless coward. You're the type of person who'd give the entire country to Russia, watch your people get slaughtered and then try and act all high and mighty because you feel morally superior. Poland is far enough away from Russia to deploy missile defence against even Russia's hypersonic missiles - if you know their targets you can easily defend against them. If Ukraine falls, the Baltics, Finland, Poland and Hungary will be next to be invaded, after all putina wants to rebuild the Tsarist Empire. Fun fact - In Russia kids are taught that everyone outside of Russia wants to wipe them out and that you can never live in peace. That is a common control tactic to keep people in constant fear so you can easily control them. The DPRK do the same. The reality is if Russia kept within its own borders and left everyone alone, no one would care what they did internally.
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  528. The falling fertility rate is 100% due to the high taxes and cost of living. That's why Australia is the shithole that it is. The reality is that the govt wants high migration as it means quick money (because its a Ponzi Scheme), the result is that most of those people end up on welfare, increase crime (as they hate the local population) and further burden the system. The result is no one can afford to live, let alone have kids, so the govt doubles down on immigration and make the problem exponentially worse. Migration is NEVER the answer as it always results in locals being unable to afford to live, to have children, and it destroys their culture as migration always means the introduction of a completely incompatible bunch of low IQ religious fruitcakes who want to spread their death cult across the world. Then on top of that, the whole place is so over regulated that you need licences and permits to do anything, and most of those are only available as apprenticeships which means getting hired whilst unqualified, doing the TAFE course, then wasting 2yrs watching the licenced people do their work (i.e. work experience where you can't work because you're not licenced), then you can finally get your licence - after somehow affording to live without pay for 5yrs (apprenticeship (incl. course) duration). The migration, over regulation and high taxes are what's killing the economy - deport the incompatible 3rd worlders, remove the over regulation and slash the taxes and watch the economy thrive. The 'west' is intentionally trying to self destruct.
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  529. @SurvivalLilly And none of these things are solutions. The moment your phone goes offline - the GPS will take over (faraday bags generally don't stop GPS). Even if it doesn't they'll simply see where you come back online and thus track you. Regarding cars, even when they say the GPS (ISA), and other "security" features are off, they're still 100% on. The only solution is to not comply - to completely remove these systems, to NEVER have digital ID and to defy the regime. Anything less than total non-compliance and total defiance of the regime will only further push us all down this path to complete tyranny. Resist whilst its still possible!
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  530. @robbraxmantech The real question is how do you avoid it entirely when the western world (outside the USA) requires it for everything. Everything financial requires it trading, investing, betting, banking, even closing existing accounts. There are no 'AML/KYC free thresholds' in the 'English speaking Western world' outside the USA. Buying or renting property requires it. Getting a SIM card requires it as part of SIM registration. Getting a job requires it. Google, etc. all require it - there is no way around it. Oh and its not just govt issued ID, its your finances, your credit history, your employment history, your interests, your memberships, what magazines/services you subscribe to, etc. its horribly intrusive, especially since the WEF launched ESG. You also have to do it to not be debanked or cancelled as a customer by businesses. I know farmers who've refused to do KYC - they were told that they can't purchase farm supplies (fence posts, barbed wire, animal feed, etc.) anymore as the business can't be certain that they are legit and whether they fit the businesses ESG and risk models. I know farmers who were debanked simply for being farmers because they had to do AML/KYC to keep their accounts years earlier, only for ESG to become a thing and then be considered 'outside the risk profile of the banks ESG and risk models'. Its because AML/KYC is required by the US Government (who ironically aren't part of it and not subject to it even though its their law) and is considered the 'core' of due diligence (required for everything) globally by all countries that don't want to become enemies of the USA. The only way I can think of getting around it would be to disappear, live in the middle of nowhere and work for cash or trade/barter outside the system (but that would be illegal under current laws); beyond that there's no way to avoid it. Honestly Rob, you need to create an artificial island, declare it as your own country and let those of us who want real privacy and freedom to live there. Otherwise the US needs to abolish CRS, AML & KYC.
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  531. @jayehum Sorry but that's wrong. Both Canada & Australia have zero issues with dual/multi citizenships. Whilst the process might be long and expensive, you most definitely can have both Australian and Canadian citizenship. I know 10 people that have 3 citizenships each, one of which is Canadian, the other Australian, and they ALL got Canadian by naturalizing.
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  532.  @RhaniYago  Trains are being outlawed as well, just indirectly. As air travel ends, trains and vehicles will be taxed to 'fund the welfare' for those who lost everything when air travel ends. The result is trains will cost a fortune and take you basically no where. Trains don't cross the oceans, boats are being banned, people are going to be stuck where they are.
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  533. And that is why scum like you will always live like trash and be ruled by hate and violence. The rich create the jobs, and give everyone a chance at a future; no jobs = no future. The rich are the reason you can go to a bank and borrow money - if the rich leave with their money the banks legally have to reduce their lending due to reduced liquidity / reserve. That's why countries try to entice the rich to stay. How about you get off your ass and actually work, save money, invest, get gouged by the taxes you shout for, then realize why you're spouting utter BS. Remember when scum such as yourself say 'tax the rich' you mean the person who's middle-class and being taxed the most, you NEVER mean the actual rich because you know they include the politicians and they'll never tax themselves. What is 'fair share'? Clearly its not 70% of their income, most of CANZUK & CUNA when you add up all the taxes (including levies) that have to be paid to the govt, you quickly end up at around 70% tax (income tax + CGT + levies + council rates/property tax + Mandatory Super/401k + [whatever else they add]). Why did I leave 'Mandatory Super/401k' in there? Because if it wasn't mandatory you'd receive it as part of your wage, also because when you do get to use it, they tax it (in most of CANZUK & CUNA) as Income, even though you already paid Income tax on it when you earned it. The people who don't pay their 'fair share' are the ones receiving the welfare. What's needed are laws that force the ones who receive welfare to pay back every cent they receive no matter what it takes. Why should they be allowed to be freeloaders and steal from people who worked hard? They shouldn't but the demented current system lets them. I'd love to see you say the same BS if you were a rich person - you sure as hell wouldn't and you'd understand why.
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  534. You have to do something online. Such as: * Develope software and sell licences for it online * Learn how to trade and trade on exchanges risking only what you can afford to risk * Drop shipping * Do web marketing, marketing, graphics design * Digital art * Get paid to write articles The problem is automation, AI and regulations are making people redundant and there are no "jobs of the future" that need a lot of people so everyone is looking for alternatives. The issue is if everyone starts a business, who will be their customer? Its like having 20 gyms within 5 blocks of each other - too much market saturation.
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  535.  @petecabrina  You're a moron, the problem is the government and all the leech scum who think they're entitled to anyone else's money. I work bloody hard for the money I have but I'm expected to pay 75% (when factoring in all the taxes and levies) of it to the regime (sorry... govt) who then waste it on stupid road projects that end up tolled for eternity, or they give it to the lazy scum who live on welfare. I NEVER agreed to that and am trying to leave the country as a result, but given the insane taxation, its a lot bloody harder to do. The problem is the government and the poor leech scum who like the welfare state. I gather you enjoy living on the welfare money?
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  536. Won't work. Look at Australia & New Zealand during the plandemic. Only supermarkets were open during lockdowns, there was no buying from a farmer. To those who say "grow your own", look at all the new "Biosecurity" acts that were brought into law at the State level during the lockdowns - these acts make it illegal to grow your own produce in most cases and where they do permit you to grow your own, you must buy seeds as harvesting seeds from your first produce and replanting has been made illegal under "Biosecurity" laws as they claim its a disease risk even though we know that to be rubbish. Oh, also note that unless your neighbours truly respect your privacy, you run the risk of being ratted out by your neighbours for having a veggie patch as there are 14 "tip" lines for dobbing in people over literally anything - its like East Germany and the Soviet Union. One of my friends had a jealous neighbour (wanted a heap of veggies for free - note that sharing produce is illegal under local laws) report her veggie patch as being "quantities exceeding reasonable personal use" (even though she always uses it all herself) and that she was "illegally distributing produce without the relevant licence" (she never did this) and the govt came and destroyed the entire veggie patch in her backyard, telling her she should be grateful they didn't get her arrested and charged and that next time won't be just a warning.
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  537.  @erikhenriksson455  Landrover Defender 110 from 1996 with aftermarket long range tank. Note that I did say using a high flow rate diesel pump that trucks use.
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  538.  @erikhenriksson455  The long range tank is 200L. What the hell do you mean by "baser" pump? In Australia we have these things called "high flowrate diesel pumps" that are designed to let diesel vehicles with large tanks (100L+) fill up quickly at around 100L per minute flowrate. Note that smart people don't run their tanks much below 1/4 so filling up is filling 3/4 of the tank. EV's have the same use issues as unless you want to kill the batteries in very little time you need to keep the charge state within 28%-92%. Outside that range the life of the battery greatly diminishes. Europe doesn't permit such pumps as EU trucks carry no where near as much fuel as trucks in Australia and the USA do due to Europe being tiny in comparison to Australia. Most B Doubles carry close to a 1000L over four tanks. If you're just going to keep asking asinine questions because you don't live in reality and need your hand held, don't bother replying as I'm not going to waste my time on a genius who doesn't know what a long range tank is or what a high flowrate diesel pump is - they're literally at 99% of servos.
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  539. AI - it'll never be banned. Its like Australia's encryption ban - yes it exists on paper but can't be enforced as the laws of mathematics make it impossible to comply with and not using encryption just isn't an option. As long as people can write programs, scripts, etc. AI can be easily created - the hard part is training it with datasets but those can be rented, bought or created. As for BRICS - Argentina have just stepped out of that so its already falling apart. South Africa is a crime-riddled black supremacist failed state of literally no value to anyone. Oil is less of an issue as synthetic oil is easily created very cheaply. Only 10% of the world are aligned against the "west" and those 10% of the world will simply go without and fail. China is a failed state surviving only by tyranny and murder - their mistake was communism and then giving out loans that'll never be repaid to places that don't have anything worth taking as payment (why do you think the "west" want CBDC's - its not just control, its to get out of debt). Simply put - a death cult religion of ragheads getting together is just a group that need to be destroyed - sadly the "west" are too soft to do this once and for all. Everyone else on the planet can get along except them - it still amazes me that they have been let into the "west" as they only exist to destroy and take over. Even India know this and are only part of BRICS as a way to get rich quickly by doing short term export - their goal is to eliminate Pakistan and Bangladesh and retake the lands that rightfully belong to India - ragheads in India are already fleeing India because no one cares what happens to them.
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  540. @pauldemeester9298 What part of "valued at approx $44/oz" do you not understand. Use a calculator to do the math based on the current spot price (approx. $3000/oz) of gold at you'll see a much larger number. In order to clear the US national debt entirely, gold would need to go to $140,000/oz. The US govt have been fraudulently recording the value of their gold under value; if you or I tried that we'd be in jail for fraud and tax evasion.
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  541. Precisely. Just shows that the world doesn't care about people - a concept that very few in the 'west' seem to understand. As someone born with multiple citizenships, I am unable to have my qualifications recognized in any country of which I'm a citizen (except the country who issued the qualification), and, am unable to have licences in any country other than the one I currently live in (none can ever be exchanged as I'm already a citizen of the other countries and thus have to get it as the locals do, unless obtained in a country I'm not a citizen of), this extends to not being able to be a 'visitor' or use a temporary licence such as an IDP, it also results in being banned from most things that others aren't because everything requires residence (not possible to be full-time resident in multiple countries with addresses and bills). Does the world care? Nope. Does anyone I know care? Nope. They all say "that's life, get over yourself, you're not special, the world was never made for dual/multi-national people" because to 99% of people its perfectly okay to dismiss someone because of factors outside of their control, factors of which have permanently ruined the lives of, and banned them from most of the things they ever wanted to do or achieve. I fail to see how this is any different, especially since this 'issue' isn't stopping them from achieving things or traveling amongst the few 'safe' countries they are limited to already by their orientation. All the people whinging that they can't get the 'correct' gender on their passport need to realize that the majority of the world have given people serious jail time simply because their gender was listed as 'X' on their passport as the only countries that accept pretty much anything are CANZUK & CUNA which comprise of less than 50 countries/territories out of the 200ish in the world. If they really want to get the correct gender "M" or "F" on their passport, get the surgery done and the letter changed. Otherwise they just have to accept that the whole world doesn't revolve around them. I'm super sick to death of a small group thinking that the world world revolves around them, and that everything should change to accommodate them. Literally nothing in the world accommodates anyone, nor accommodates people in my situation because no one cares, not even these whinging people.
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  542. Regarding buying a house - no one can do that today in the 'west' unless they're a multi-millionaire ($100m +) as you only buy such overpriced houses when they're <5% of your net worth. The only cheap houses are in the middle of nowhere, so they're pointless as unless your job is 100% online as you otherwise can't earn an income. Everyone can afford private health insurance as long as they don't live in the USA. As for a car that won't break every five minutes, that's easy as long as they bought new, 10yrs ago when cars were priced properly, not at the current hugely inflated rates. The key is regular servicing and they'll last. My Toyota still works as well as the day she was purchased new 11yrs ago. She's not fancy, she's not large but she's NEVER failed me.
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  543. It makes no difference - they aren't letting you in unless you're personal friends of the Prince. Monaco has suspended applications for residency in 2022, and, closed the process for new applicants - the wait for those who made it in before the cut-off was 2yrs. Monaco has limited space and most people can't afford to legally live there.
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  544. The lack of US education strikes again. Anyone born to a citizen of ANY country gains the parents citizenship - is called jus sanguinis (right of blood). That's how 90+% of the world's citizenship works. If one of your parents is a legal citizen of a country then the child is a citizen of the countries the parents are. That's how many of us are born with 4+ citizenships.
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  545. Try stealth camping - being very discreet, having no permission and being undetectable. Its not 'wild camping' if you need permission, 'wild camping' is where you just go into the forest and camp on public land.
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  546.  @christels8002  Its you that doesn't get it. There's plenty of us who aren't rich but who are 100% self-made without the help of anyone else (I'm an independent software developer who works alone) but who are lumped in with the 'evil rich' and hated all the same. I had some moron try to tell me that I 'exploited people to be successful' completely ignoring the fact that I taught myself to program, that I paid for everything myself, that I went with minimal food and drink / living expenditure for years to write software that solved the problems of many, only earning money once I was able to sell licences for my software online. The the 99% say 'rich' they mean the average middle class person who isn't homeless, they NEVER mean the actual super rich ($50m+).
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  547. All part of their plan for tyranny and communism!
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  548. If you want to see what's happening watch all three movies in the Atlas Shrugged series, then watch Fahrenheit 451, Brave New World, 1984 and the entire Hunger Games series (all five movies).
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  549.  @chrism8705  However that's only container ships, naval vessels and commercial airliners (95% of all air and seas traffic). Private Jets built post-2010 run on biofuels and are a lot cleaner than many like to admit. The giant mega vessels and all heavy industries are where 99% of emissions come from - but the govt's will never touch these due to corruption and self-interest. Planes that move the public are on the way out as they let people travel. France is already banning short flights (even if they're greener than that many people driving the same trip). The current ASEAN target to "reduce emissions" is focused on banning private jets (except corporation owned and govt ones - i.e. this exempts all of them) and banning private yachts (i.e. ANY size bluewater capable (38ft+) vessel (power, sail or motorsail)) in the name of "saving the environment. The real reason they're going after yachts is there's many sub-60ft bluewater capable yachts that are cheaper than houses (buy 2nd hand "good bones" and refit then enjoy) and 100% off-grid (water, power, etc.). Its this independence that the govt don't like, so all the "carbon neutral/negative" yachts get lumped in with mega ships and the little-guy loses out and is stuck in the 15-minute city. Remember when people were going "off-grid" in the USA and the govt's were rapidly banning doing so because they want to keep everyone under their thumb? That's still happening - the closing of public land "for future generations", the expanding cities building over the good farmland, the banning farming, etc. all designed to get everyone into 15-minute cities. Ideas already being floated globally are to restrict yacht ownership (even for sub-60ft ones) to those who already have them by increasing the regulations around sailing and traveling abroad on yachts, as well as to ban the construction of new yachts, or to just refuse to licence new people (no licence = no yacht or sailing). Many of us hoped that those with multiple citizenships and yachts would be able to travel in "green" yachts indefinitely however that's now looking like it won't be permitted as the 15-minute city terror is likely to bring ALL travel to an end (maybe we'll have to pick which countries 15-minute city we live in). To anyone who says this stuff isn't happening - attend the meetings (there is some public access), watch the official clips from the WEF, UN, COP, local govt, etc. and then look at what govt's around the world are doing. In the UK, parts of the EU, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, etc. 15-minute cities are being crafted and "tested" (i.e. being made - remember there's nothing more permanent that a "temporary" thing when the govt is involved). In Queensland, Australia there are two 15-minute cities being built against the wishes of the people who live in the towns "chosen". In Victoria, Australia, ALL developments are being built as 15-minute cities and they all have one road in, and one road out (really great in an emergency but absolutely perfect for keeping everyone contained). Throughout Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the UK and parts of the EU, the 15-minute city tyranny is being enforced - lower speed limits (that keep reducing each year "for safety") and "traffic calming" measures (road works for zero reason, road closures, narrowings, speed humps, one-car wide zig-zag in the middle of the road to severely congest and slow traffic, etc.). The monitoring & control that is the surveillance state is already well deployed in the "western" world - surveillance cameras at every intersection/street-corner, super cam's that do red light, speed, rego, ANPR, tracking, phone detection, passenger detection, etc. are all being rolled out everywhere and on every bridge (usually mostly hidden between the structural ribs underneath the bridge but just angled so they can monitor everyone and fine over the slightest little thing). All this BS blowing all our taxes to achieve 100% tyranny - it sucks that everyone is paying for their own demise.
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  550.  @chrism8705  Its no secret that they're doing cloud seeding and spraying stuff to "dull the sunlight" - the UAE, the UK govt and the AU govt have all publicly admitted to doing both of these things "to save the planet from climate change". As for screwing with the water, Australia just admitted on national news to having stuffed up their dosing of the water which resulted in it being considered "seriously carcinogenic" for the last 10-15yrs (i.e. not just fluoride and chlorine).
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  551. What's the matter? Scared of the source of your 'free money bro' leaving... Boo hoo... baby needs a diaper change. You are the problem.
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  552.  @ik1408  Clearly you never bothered to see the top communist party members and their friends who all became oligarchs by taking from everyone else... Its 100% communism
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  553.  @seshenofthenile2363  Spoken like a true fool. You'd stay and fight an already lost battle instead of getting to safety, regrouping, getting into a financial position with which you can fight, then returning only once the masses want to fight. If you try to fight it now, you're 100% going to lose as the masses (98%) want this tyranny. Didn't the plandemic teach you that the masses want this. You don't win every battle, only the key ones so you can win the war. Winning the war is what matters.
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  554.  @RECESSIM  They do have to lock it down - thanks to environmentalists the govt in many countries has made the companies liable for any after sale mods that consumers do that breach the environmental regulations. If the companies continue to be liable under current laws, why wouldn't they lock it down so they can avoid gigantic environmental fines?
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  555.  @NeilAC78  Rubbish, there'll always be a few places. You forget that the 'elites' aren't going to live under the rubbish they want to subject the 99% to. Thus the tax havens will remain, even if you they stop others from moving there. This is why you need to get to such a place now, whilst its still possible. Also, at no point in time has the entire world been under UN, WEF or BIS control - there's always a few small countries that say 'go to hell' and simply do their own thing. That's why I believe that the more islands that become countries, the better as that means more places that won't just 'do as they're told'.
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  556.  @nmc1859  Its called "1p36 deletion syndrome "
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  557.  @techcowgirl  The problem was never physically leaving - as you said there are always ways out. The problem is, if you don't leave through the "official" channels you won't be permitted to legally enter anywhere else and if caught will be arrested and returned to face life in jail. Its this fact of global collusion between tyrannical govts that made people be stuck in place. This meant that the "underground railroads" made it possible to get people to safety (i.e. into remote areas) but not much further as they could never have a "normal" life ever again - it'd be hiding forever or getting caught. Only one person successfully escaped (and likely had friends in the right places who "scanned his passport on the official system" se he'd be legally in the country, that was Max Igan. Many others, even those who tried to leave AU legally (used the AU - NZ bubble but then tried to leave from NZ) were all arrested at their destinations and forcibly sent back to AU because the AU regime didn't want anyone leaving.
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  558. @Chaka2479 Yeah, you keep telling yourself that. When the internet or power goes out your crypto vanishes, especially if the blockchain is deleted / banned at the ISP or core internet level. As govts control the majority of mining, they can double spend as they control the consensus. Bullion is bullion, it either exists or it doesn't, and it doesn't need power, ledgers or consensus. Crypto is no different to all the fools who think they "own" bullion because they have a certificate that says so; that certificate has nothing but a "promise" backing it. If you don't physically possess it and can't touch it, you don't own it!
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  559.  @somejohndoe3004  Bullion (gold, silver, platinum, etc.) isn't meant to work like that. Its how you preserve wealth and do actual trade/barter. If you want big returns, you learn to trade the markets shorting and longing stuff in order to get rich, whilst the 99% lose everything.
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  560.  @ReijoAS  Nope, old fashioned pen and paper ballots is the norm in Danistan (formerly Victoria, Australia) as it is in the entire of Australiastan (formerly Australia). The electoral nuts just rig it how they like. Dictator Dan is the head of the VEC (the Victorian Electoral Commission) and he appointed the electoral commissioner from his party. Just before the counting started, a decree from the head of the VEC declared that only "primary vote for 2 candidate preferred - Labor and Liberal could be counted and that everything else didn't matter. This meant that regardless of preference on the ballot, all that mattered was whether Labor or Liberal was voted for ahead of the other, all other candidates were irrelevant except to fill vacant seats once either Labor or Liberal had taken the majority of seats, even if an independent actually won the seat. The independent running against Dictator Dan got supposedly almost no votes even though damn near everyone voted for him. When he tried to contest the count (trying to get a recount), he was told "there is no case to be heard, the right person won". Its all rigged. Also there is a clip going around the internet of ballot boxes getting taken away from the NSW election in private vehicles (not legal). Selected, not elected! If voting mattered, they wouldn't let you do it.
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  561.  @jiti5034  They get assessed under significantly easier requirements plus their CPD requirements are only 50hrs over three years and anything related to their job counts. For locals it's 180hrs over 3yrs and only things that are related but not part of your day-to-day job that count. Simply put if a local does CAD/CAM/CAE as they work in a small business then they are unable to complete the CPD requirements for the CAD/CAM/CAE part of the CPD as it's part of their day-to-day job so it doesn't count but a migrant worker doesn't have that problem. For a migrant worker it doesn't matter if it's part of their day-to-day job. Plus migrant workers don't have compulsory annual update/refresher training until they become permanent residents or citizens.
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  562.  @jiti5034  First WTF does IE Aust have to do with govt laws? Nothing. This mandatory registration is govt law and has nothing to do with IE Aust. How they stay on visas is simple. The business changes them to a subclass visa for another 8yrs then moves them to a different visa (as a specialist that is otherwise unavailable in Australia) for which there is no time limit, the company just has to continue renewing the visa. Yes as far as professional registration and CPD are concerned, locals have to follow excessively over-the-top requirements and limitations whilst those on visas don't.
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  563.  @jiti5034  that's garbage. The issue is that locals must follow a system that forces them out of the job as they can't comply with CPD whilst migrants can come in and the CPD requirements are completely different to the point that it's a sick joke. My issue is that if locals are required to have excessive requirements then so should migrants. One rule for all. As for why people don't always go for PR... Because in certain circumstances it's actually financially better or because they don't want to risk their current citizenship.
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  564.  @moragkerr9577  whilst your "I'll power my house with my car" rubbish sounds good, it overlooks a few things: * what if you arrive home with very little charge in your EV? * your house will use about 30kW of power every hour - that's a common consumption now that they're forcing everything to electricity and off of gas. Even if fully charged that's 1.5hrs but then your car is completely flat * Most house batteries aren't 10kW - you're making that up. Most solar is limited to 10kW in regards to feeding into the grid. Looking at AU, NZ & CAN, most house battery setups (usually rackmount batteries - EG4 system) are 250kW so that there's consistent power when there's too many clouds or prolonged stormy weather in winter. These batteries charge from solar and/or grid power if you have "off-peak tariffs" which aren't a thing in AU or NZ. * Letting your EV battery leave the Goldilocks zone (28% - 92% charge) will dramatically reduce the number of overall cycles the battery would otherwise get - why waste the life of the battery? * Say the outage is prolonged - how are you going to charge? You can't carry power to recharge with you! In Australia we commonly have 3-5 days without the power grid each year either due to bushfires, storms or dead transformers that had to have replacements flown in. Outages after bad floods or fires (both very common) can last months if there was enough damage done As for your crap about a power outage preventing people from filling their cars. Ever heard of a Jerrycan? Literally everyone with a car has a few at home to store petrol so they can buy it cheap and wait out the high part of the price cycle. Literally everyone carries a 5L petrol can in their car when they are expecting some last minute extra driving. Its easy to fill from a Jerrycan - that's why they were restricted military equipment until the 1950's even though they were made well before that by Nazi Germany Also - literally no one with an ICE car wastes any time planning their journey. The only things you do is ensure the vehicle is fully fueled, that you know the distance to the destination and if you need to refill along the way, you simply take a 5 minute break and pull off the highway at any town and refuel. Its only EV's that have to plan their journeys and ensure they have internet access to charge with. Good luck trying to get your mobile phone to work when driving long distance between major cities in countries like AU, NZ or CAN. The UK is so tiny that its borderline impossible to not have reception.
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  565.  @Sp_75-76  So that's just over 5yrs of my annual driving assuming that 150000 miles is about 350000km. Hardly affordable at 15,000 (assuming its easily replaced without ripping the car apart like some that have "structural integral batteries") - a new fuel tank (incl. pump and filter) and a new starter battery is $2500 all up installed and they last a hell of a lot longer.
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  566. The pieces of shit already are. If you have any top-end credit card that's steel, they're claiming its an illegal knife and seizing it - if you're lucky the airline staff might be able to get it back so it can be checked and if they do, they'll sneak it back to you. Then you just need to go through another security line and hope you don't encounter another piece of shit.
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  567.  @12313846  Hate to break it to you but the reality is that the USA is safer because everyone has access to firearms. In Europe, the regimes (sorry, I mean govts) have firearms, as do all the criminals. Only a complete fool thinks that the criminals aren't heavily armed. Heck, I've seen media release photos of the stuff the police have been seizing throughout the EU from criminals - most of the stuff is what the USA call NFA items (incl. full auto) and 'destructive devices'. Basically should SHTF happen, the law abiding are nothing but targets for all the criminals who'll simply be marauders an take what they want / need. If anything being law abiding in Europe is one of the most dangerous situations to be in during a SHTF.
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  568. Interestingly they're trying to do what Australia does with historic vehicles. Basically a vehicle is only required to follow the safety rules of the year of manufacture. Registration can be either the normal full price, or, it you're a member of a car club you can register it under 'Club Permit'. 'Club Permit' is a different type of number plate, ending in either H (historic) if restored with any modern part (excluding brake pads and tyres), ending in CH (Classic Historic) if restored with all original parts (excluding brake pads and tyres). Generally 'club permit' vehicles can only be driven 45 days each year (some states and territories allow it per vehicle, some only allow it per year for all the ones you own collectively) at your choice, some states and territories only permit such vehicles to be driven on days that your club gets an 'event permit' and then only as part of a club activity (Queensland does this). Sadly, this all doesn't surprise me because its the standard move towards getting rid of ICE vehicles except for the ones that are drained of fluids (sometimes without engines) that sit in museum exhibits. That's also why they make it so hard to run a museum - huge bonds, insane hoops to jump through, the requirement for the main museums and govt to approve each application for 'registration as a museum', etc. All designed to stop all new museums, no matter how legitimate you're willing to run your museum. Commonly such restrictions are used because the government want to effectively 'outlaw' certain things - commonly seen with flare guns. Flare guns were never used in crime but both the anti-gun IMO and 'western' govts demonized them, had the IMO remove them from being part of SOLAS equipment and then bans in most countries came along. Ironically the current parachute flares aren't anywhere near as good as the old flare gun flares and they don't fly as high (height = more time to light the sky) so they don't last as long, nor can they be seen from as far. Many flare gun museums that had been perfectly fine for many decades suddenly had to surrender their collections for destruction unless they were able to sell them to either of the three states that still accept flare guns as a safety signally device exempt from the firearms act within 3 days of the law change (there was no public warning, only those who new either politicians or police get personal 'heads up' on the bans). The result was public safety wasn't improved, museums that were never a problem were removed and many old 1800's French flare guns were destroyed by the govt in the name of 'public safety'. Now they're trying the same with ICE vehicles. This is pure BS that needs to be stopped.
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  569.  @SurvivalLilly  And then just as many were massacred by the commies, and now the place is a 3rd world shithole where the cops and govt make it up as they go - no such thing as a 'fair trial' or 'rule of law' there - people still get summarily executed by the cops there. It was a 1st world nation under French and non-commie rule. War is human nature whether people like it or not. The reality is that even if you are peaceful, your neighbours (or their neighbours) won't be and thus you need to be ready and able to defeat them. All the 'anti-war' wankers do is destroy everything and hand over the innocent people to the aggressors/war mongers - literally every time. Appeasement NEVER works - it only emboldens the aggressor. * It was proven in the 1930's that appeasing Hitler achieved nothing * It was proven in Vietnam - appeasing the commies resulted in the massacre of innocent people on a giant scale * It was proven in China when Mao overthrew then legal govt (now in Taiwan) and slaughtered the Chinese people, then starved them in the 'Arduous March' * It was proven by the outcome of the Korean War - there's a reason that the DPRK (North Korea) is the shithole that it is where people have no rights * It was proven when the world let Russia invade Georgia and steal two large chunks of it * It was proven when the world let Russia invade and steal Crimea * It was proven when the world let Russia invade and steal the Armenian Exclaves, then gave them to Azerbaijan * It was proven when the world let Russia invade and take control of Mongolia - Russia is still in charge of the country claiming they're 'peace keepers'. Mongolia is no longer an independent nation * It was proven when Russia promised it would NEVER attack Ukraine if Ukraine gave up its nukes - yet they invaded regardless * It was proven in the plandemic - just one more lockdown, just take the jabs. That was NEVER enough there was always more because they liked the power trip they were on * etc. The current anti-war nutcases are trying to give the aggressors what they want. They're trying to give Ukraine to Russia, they're trying to give the terrorists in gaza and west bank everything they demand, even though those terrorists have had 20yrs to make a success of gaza and west bank as the only sanctions they were under were sanctions preventing weaponry and military hardware. They could have become the next Singapore but their want to destroy Israel was deemed more important because they're religious death-cult fruitcakes. If Russia isn't defeated in Ukraine, the EU will fall as Russia is intent on rebuilding the Tsarist Empire. Its better to collectively work together and defeat Russia whilst they're weak, as once they can resupply they'll be exponentially harder to defeat.
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  570. Then the parents need to take their kids out of the country until their education is complete. Sweden sounds like a commie hellhole desperate to brainwash kids with extreme left propaganda (i.e. state sanctioned child abuse)
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  571.  @rainmagic1  Except that XRF only goes a few mm in. Tungsten has an almost identical density to gold so the only way is to cut and melt the bars to see if they're real gold or not.
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  572.  @reganmacelwain2250  Being de-banked is always a risk, even if you're in a high tax country like Australia. Since 2010, the WEF's ESG BS has been pushed by banks (except for two banks (1 large and 1 small) who accept anyone conditional to proving what they do is legal) and many innocent people have been unjustly de-banked. First it was licenced firearm dealers who were de-banked, then 4WD businesses, then farm supply shops, then farmers (because they use firearms and because they farm (the WEF hates this)). Then it was outdoor shops (that sell camping gear, etc.) because the public going bush and not being reliant on the govt is bad according to ESG; and now its anyone who has hobbies, interests, club memberships, employment, etc. that the bank feels "doesn't fit their risk profile" (this is why banks now demand to know everything about you under AML/KYC, even things that AML/KYC doesn't actually demand) - it could be simply because you collect coins and the bank thinks CBDC is all that should be allowed so they apply ESG scoring you badly and then you're no longer in their risk profile and de-banked. My point is being de-banked is a risk no matter what you do. The biggest point is to "never keep all your eggs in the one basket". Have some bullion and cash in safes at your residences around the world, have accounts in multiple countries and in multiple jurisdictions (CRS, non-CRS, western aligned, eastern aligned, etc.). Don't make your self have a single vulnerability by which a bank or govt can completely screw you over in an instant - you need access to money to put up a legal defence. Its literally the same reason Nomad Capitalist says to get multiple citizenships in various places - to expand your options.
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  573. You'd have to first establish tax residency in a 0% PIT country (by having a house there and moving your centre of life there), in order to leave the high tax countries tax system. Then you'd need to maintain that tax residency as living on a yacht or a private island does NOT count as a residence in the eyes of the tax authorities in ANY "name brand" country. If you use someone else's address, you'll likely be kept in that countries tax system as they consider you to have "the right to reside" at that address. This is why its a very bad idea to use the address of a friend or your parents if you're wanting out of the tax system.
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  574.  @stevenc5227  That may be the case in tiny old Europe. In Australia delivery is anything from $25 - $75 depending on how much you've bought and how far you are from them. Also, the people who live close to the supermarkets in new developments (read 15-minute cities) were given free delivery for the first 2yrs, then it magically cost $25 per delivery. Lastly, only fools don't go and buy their own food - going yourself is the only way to get what you want and to get the good items, not the crappy ones. When the supermarkets pick your order, they pick whatever and they commonly substitute items because they pick orders before restocking shelves.
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  575. You're a clueless idiot - 50-54% of Australians have private health insurance and its not by choice. If you work your arse off and earn $90k+ as your before tax income (note that this number includes the super contribution from your employer) then you either pay the increased Medicare levy or have to get private health insurance. Having private health insurance is the only affordable option, however after this most recent govt approved increase, its almost as much as the penalty for not having it. The fact you think that upper income earners / wealthy sponsors are literally the average Aussie who actually works, is proof that you're a clueless idiot and likely a Centrelink Dole bludger. For someone to be rich their pre-tax income would have to be $500k at a minimum, anyone earning less than that is losing most of their money to the excessive taxes that keep also the bludgers funded by Centrelink.
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  576. @SurvivalLilly It's to justify banning having a garden, a veggie patch and to justify locking everyone inside of 15-minute cities. Like the districts in The Hunger Games. Just ignore the lies from the powers that be.
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  577. UK passports are cheap. If you want to see excessively expensive passport fees that are excessively expensive for zero legitimate reason, look at the cost of an Australian passport which has lost a lot of 'power/access' over the last decade. EU (Schengen) passports are much more valuable and a fraction the cost.
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  578. The reason people like silver is: * They can afford it * Its demand will increase as industry needs it - "green" tech uses a lot of silver, as does space tech (silver is the most conductive metal). Once used it isn't readily recoverable on a whim * Silver reserves are starting to run out, many believe there's only 8-12yrs worth of silver mining left unless new deposits are found * Silver is way undervalued and has room to grow. Whilst gold can still increase, its room to grow is a lot less than silver * Many people have stacked a lot of silver over the years and are going to be very well off when silver can reach the prices it should be at * In many countries there are a lot of reporting requirements that start at very low thresholds which makes buying even 1oz of gold difficult, not because the person is bad but because they don't want govt run asset/wealth registers detailing exactly what they own (as they're publicly searchable). Also, some countries impose bullion registration where the serial number is tied to an individual and thus all sales can only occur through a licenced dealer. By being able to legally avoid the thresholds (by staying under them) people have more freedom with their bullion, and they have more privacy. * Silver is vastly more fractional than gold so its more suitable for a SHTF, trade/barter scenario
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  579.  @crazyg74  It was strictly enforced, many people were deported from Perth as a result, however there were many "little-known" exemptions. That law automatically exempted those who had the citizenships automatically by descent (i.e. born with the citizenships), and those who naturalized as Australian citizens before 1900. Also, those who came to Australia as refugees at the end of WW2, had visa conditions on their Refugee visa which let them retain their citizenship, permitted them to naturalize after 10yrs as Australian (retaining their other citizenship), but prohibiting them from ALL welfare except the old age pension providing they worked and paid taxes. The last condition applied to all future generations unless one parent was an Australian citizen by descent or by "right of soil" (Australia was a "right of soil" country until 1993) providing they (or their parents) didn't enter Australia on a Refugee visa issued at the end of WW2.
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  580.  @norawheeler2555  They will be replaced - it is all but inevitable. The AI datasets that the general public see are antiquated and toys at best. The more a dataset is improved though training an AI, the faster it learns. A simple block of code which tells the AI to mark anything its unsure of as "needing human verification" will result in rapid improvement as the AI will note what the human verified the thing as and never make that mistake again. The AI will also use that newly verified knowledge to train itself to recognised what that thing is. This self learning results in rapid improvement. I have seen first hand an AI that can do pathology reporting faster and more accurately than any human. The dataset is still being trained using the methodology mentioned in the above paragraph. Also, consider the following: Even when AI is wrong and needs the help of a human, its the same as when automation needs fixing by a human. How many humans are actually required? Only a mere handful. There is no need for billions of people (millions of which are already highly qualified experts). Also note that there are already numerous AI's that can rewrite their own code and fix their own problems - sometimes one AI can fix another when they're able to intercommunicate. The point is one person can maintain hundreds of automated manufacturing plants / assembly lines and hundreds of thousands of servers / computers. Ever wonder how many people big businesses employ in IT - its usually 10 at most and they maintain thousands of servers and thousands of workstations - all through unified centralised management software where they can make the change once and have it occur on all selected systems. This is the problem that AI is creating - it is making people redundant and eliminating many, many jobs. Currently there are no viable solutions and AI isn't going to be prohibited, hence the crappy situation in the world.
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  581. Absolutely correct. You pick whichever passport you legally have that works best for where you're going. If you're going somewhere where you're a citizen then you have to use that countries passport to enter and exit. If I go to the EU, I have to use my passport from the EU country of which I'm a citizen as its the only valid passport for the EU in such a situation. When I go somewhere else, I look at how long and whether or not visa free is possible - then I go on the passport that gives the best options. For example, pretend that a person had the following passports: * Australia * Italy If that person went to Vanuatu, they'd use their Italian passport as it gives them the better option. Whilst both are visa-free to Vanuatu, the Australian passport only has 30 days whilst the Italian passport has 90 days.
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  582. The issue is that the scanning is likely done at the firmware level and most likely the hardware level as well. In such a case then the OS doesn't matter as the hardware is the problem.
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  583.  @terrydaktyllus1320  That's what I'm saying - its already in place. Its very likely that any phone that's made within the last 6yrs has the hardware already in place, and the few that don't, have firmware that can perform such scanning at the CPU and RAM level. Its very easy to have a function in firmware that looks for a value that when set in bios / bootloader, activates other functionality. Its easy to have in place and activate via an update at a later time. Govts only try to legitimise doing anything after they've been doing it, the old "its better to ask for forgiveness than permission".
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  584.  @mrtuk4282  that's true to an extent. There is other firmware though that exists within the CPU and memory controllers that can access the transmitters and transmit. It's quite scary just how much can be done from the right firmware at the right level.
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  585.  @robbraxmantech  Sorry but that's not true outside the USA. Outside the USA, especially AU & NZ, are banning/ending cheques, removing cash (albeit slowly and even as demand for cash increases) and the banks are pushing every to 100% digital and online only. Then it'll be CBDC because the economy has completely collapsed though they won't admit it yet.
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  586.  @lindenbutters9396  The reason is ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) - a WEF concept. Basically the bank is playing "moral compass" and kicking customers they don't 100% align with. The WEF give them kickbacks for removing non-ESG customers. Also you'll find that there's a clause in the fine print that states something along the lines of "if the former customer doesn't have the money moved to a new account at another bank withing X days, the former customer forfeits the money to the bank; that's what its like in Australia where farmers are being kicked out of banks because they're not considered to be ESG approved.
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  587.  @28Seconds-ld6cp  That's what used to be possible pre-2014, but 100% impossible since. Literally every country has the law (since 2014) that if you claim to have no tax residence, then you're automatically tax resident in their country - i.e. you automatically have a tax residency. The reality is you MUST have a tax residence in this modern era. The smart people have tax residence in 0% PIT countries and then live flag theory or "holiday" everywhere ensuring that they don't fall into other tax systems. To do literally anything including banking, investing, buying property, getting a licence, etc. you MUST have a tax residency.
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  588.  @Louise-pe1un  Nope - he has set his tax residency (i.e. picked his habitual abode). What he does after that is holiday around ensuring that he doesn't enter tax systems that he doesn't want to be in, thus ensuring his situation remains unchanged but still moving around. When it comes to taxes being disputed between countries, they either split them or make you pay the highest possible.
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  589. ​ @28Seconds-ld6cp  Everything you described, only applies to people who either aren't in a tax system or who are tourists. The 'days' test is only one of many (commonly 5 tests) used. Even in Asia and all tax havens, there are several tests: * Habitual Abode / Domicile * Days Spent / Resides * In A Tax System? * Commercial Interests / Investment Interests As you mentioned some countries have other rules as well, but these are the basics. You are confusing the "rules for tourists" / those not in the countries tax system with the ones for full tax residency, Nomad Capitalist has multiple videos explaining this and why its no longer possible to be "tax resident nowhere". Simply put, spend 45 or more days a year as a tourist in Mexico and you'll be paying full Mexican taxes. Spend 250 days in the EU and as long as its not a common thing (i.e. a one off) they'll look at the entire situation BUT you'll need a tax lawyer to explain how you didn't fall into their tax system and that you are paying high taxes elsewhere (if not then you'll be paying their taxes or suffer EU tax withholding). The fact is, you HAVE to be paying taxes somewhere, otherwise the country you go to with the highest taxes will automatically declare you to be tax resident. Is it fair? Nope. Is it law? Yep. Even in Asia they enforce this as they are in on the whole "you must pay tax somewhere". The solution: Ensure your tax residency is in a 0% PIT country and then travel in a way that ensures that you don't get trapped into another tax system.
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  590. Duh, its a "protection" racket. The old pay up or there'll be trouble.
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  591. Then you'll be treated like an EU national or anyone with an EU country visa. You won't need an ETIAS and your entries and exits will be tracked under the non-EES system. ETIAS & EES are to track tourist entry and to enforce the 90-day rule.
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  592. The worst part about citizenship based taxation is that the countries that do it and those that want to do it love to use the argument of "but all citizens benefit from it no matter where in the world they are" which is simply 100% false. If you're not in the country you don't benefit! If the politicians had to earn their income like the rest of us, not have it guaranteed to them, they wouldn't make half the claims and laws they currently do! I say this as in the case of Australia (if you're a citizen regardless of whether or not you're in the country), once your assets (worldwide) exceed certain ever lowering thresholds, your ability to benefit from government assistance (in any capacity), pensions and even in certain circumstances access to super (Australia's equivalent of a retirement fund), all disappear. In Australia, if you own your own house or apartment and have a pre-tax income of over $100,000 your access to government assistance almost completely disappears, your ability to receive a pension disappears once your net worth exceeds a threshold (which includes an assets test) - regardless of how much you've paid in taxes over the years. Income Tax was originally supposed to guarantee a basic pension to everyone but now since Australia became a welfare state (most people live on welfare, the minority pay all the taxes) they say "You're not entitled to a pension" whilst giving absolute bludgers welfare cheques for doing literally nothing. Now the government regularly talks about making access to super (Australia's equivalent of a retirement fund) subject to the same rules and means testing as a pension. All part of your "social contract" which we've never agreed to - a made up load of BS to justify stealing from us all! Further, once you exceed the lowest taxable income, you now have to pay medicare levies which are only viable if you can claim the lower levy by having private health insurance which isn't cheap. Once you have private health insurance the system in Australia does everything it can to force you to get everything done private (expensive) wherever they can so you basically loose benefits of public health. Need to see a doctor? There's a government mandated fee for that on top of the doctors fee! If you're not living in the country, your kids aren't going to public school there (the quality of public education in Australia is a joke compared to that of Private Education in Australia - speaking from personal experience on this one). Nor are you using the roads which get paid for through car rego, licencing and fuel excise (a tax on fuel from WW2 that never went away) plus the GST collected on fuel. So far, still absolutely no benefits beyond having the passport and being allowed in the country indefinitely... Australia is the perfect example of why people shouldn't just be allowed onto welfare without strict requirements and why the government should have to get the best deal on anything they spend money on. The Australian Government waste more money than most other nations do. The cost of living and the taxes are absolutely horrible, as is the redtape and over regulation. I literally got qualified as both a Mechanical Engineering Technician - (CAD / CNC Operator / Machininst / hydraulics and pneumatics / materials science / fluid dynamics / fluid mechanics / thermodynamics, etc.) and then as a degree qualified Mechanical Engineer. What happened the moment I finished my degree? The government introduced lesser qualifications for each part of the qualifications I have, which resulted in companies wanting people who only had certificates in only what they wanted, as they could pay them less by law. Examples include: Cert 2 Engineering Fabrication (CNC operation), Cert 4 in Fluid power (hydraulics & pneumatics), etc. Then the government brought in Mandatory Engineering Registration with CPD (Continuing Professional Development) and made the criteria excessively expensive and burdensome so that most people don't qualify for it regardless of having the correct qualifications. Did you know that working for a small (=< 10 employee business doesn't qualify for experience / work experience at all in any capacity in Australia even if working under a more experienced and appropriately qualified mentor, only working for big businesses does - at least as far as mandatory registration is concerned). So I have no choice but to leave ASAP so I can go where I can actually work or as Andrew puts it "to go where [i'm] treated best". This is why my friends and I are going overseas to a better country as soon as the border opens. Currently we are stuck in Australia as the border is like the iron curtain - no one in or out, no clue when if ever it will reopen - it was shut without warning otherwise we'd have gone before it shut. I hate to say it but the "Western / CANZUK" countries are basically lost. High taxes, high cost of living, excessive redtape and over regulation, excessively unaffordable house prices, increasing hate of anyone with any amount of wealth (even just owning your own house gets you hated), the ever increasing push for socialism and communism... the list goes on. If it wasn't for Andrew and this channel I wouldn't have been able to make a plan. Thank you for this channel! Please keep up the great work Andrew!
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  593.  @DavidStevenson-gw2eo  In Victoria, Australia the councils have recently (since the 4 bin system started) hired teams of 'bin police' who go through your bins once a month to police that you're using them properly. If they find something wrong the bin doesn't get emptied until you correct it, and if you get caught twice in a row they fine you $600. Thing is - the councils tell people "if you can't fit something in your bin, put it in someone elses bin once they're put out for collection", so there's no way to know if the offending item was put in by someone else, if the bin police are framing you, etc.
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  594.  @DrRock2009  Oh they've planned to do just that. The UN published a document titled something like the "2028 plan" or "Agenda 2028" - the gist of the plan was to invert the 1st world with the 3rd world. They 100% intend on destroying living standards in the current 1st world and creating the best living standards in the current 3rd world.
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  595.  @gardnerjoss321  Simply put - the tax havens. Whilst at first glance people think they're part of the "west", the reality is that they aren't. Every country that doesn't tax income, capital gains, wealth, investments, death, inheritance, and, corporate income (optional but preferred) is a place allowed to operate outside the system forced upon every other country by pro-high tax lobby groups such as the OECD. These places will remain because these are the places where the "elites" live and keep their money - this is why these places won't likely get ruined. Examples: * Vanuatu * St. Kitts and Nevis * Antigua & Barbuda * Cayman Islands * British Virgin Islands * Bermuda * Monaco * Bahamas * and a few more...
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  596.  @StudentDad-mc3pu  Wow, just wow. I haven't heard such an uneducated thing in a long time. The fact is there is no oil shortage. They are fabricating shortages (yes, even the oil companies) so they can drive their prices up in order to get record profits. Heck oil extracted in Australia is being marked up because "war in Ukraine", even though said oil isn't being exported as its exclusively for the local market. Any excuse will do. Even if known oil wells were to dry, there's plenty of oceanic oil extraction being started (drilling to known oil deposits). If we accept that oceans cover 70% of the globe, then consider how much oil has been extracted on land and from current coastal/offshore drilling rigs. Now extrapolate that proportionate to 25% of the oceans. We have plenty of accessible oil. Before anyone says "but we don't know its out there", we do. Extensive oceanic mapping, testing and verification drilling has just been completed revealing huge accessible deposits, we just need larger platforms to be built and taken into the oceans. Lets also just assume for a moment that there was no oil left to extract anywhere on the planet, we have plenty: * Waste oil that can be reprocessed and turned back into usable lubricant and / or fuel * Plastic that can be turned back into oils, refined and used as either fuel or lubricant * Synthetic plastics that can be made from chemicals and waste We also have recently developed methods of turning tyres into oils (still experimental but does yield oil). There is no shortage of oil. If you wonder why they'd lie and fabricate such shortages, its the same reasons they're fabricating and / or creating food shortages: control! The powers that be want to control our lives 100% and to force us to live how they want. These same people are the ones who own all the oil companies who own all the patents to the "green tech" and EV's; they want to make money even if they have to force us to buy their products. Most solar panels are made by BP or one of their subsidiaries. Food shortages are being caused by building housing developments on the good farmland and leaving the rubbish land to the farmers. This is helping to eliminate the middle class by pricing them out of existence by ever increasing food prices and by constantly pushing house prices up which results in higher council rates (mandatory in Australia, Canada and most the world outside the UK). The affordable option is the fake food and plant based rubbish that is owned by people such as Bill Gates (he owns 95% of all fake meat production and he owns 100% of the patents for fake meat). 15-minute cities (20-minute in Australia) aren't a choice we get to make, its what the powers that be want to force us into. The only way to keep people in these prison camps without using walls is to limit our ability to travel and to limit access to food. Forcing EV's and banning / "running out of" oil does just this - most can't afford EV's and as the batteries lose charge when sitting for days without being plugged in, it makes going camping impossible (keeps people out of the forests). Also, by limiting chargers to main areas it creates an artificial range limit as how else will you charge. Food shortages are a great way to keep people in as if they leave their access to food gets either restricted or blocked. When the only source of food is from the govt approved shops in the 15-minute cities because hunting, fishing and farming are banned, you can't leave, unless you want to starve and thanks to CBDC (coming soon) and short food expiration you won't be able to stockpile food in order to run away to freedom. As part of forcing us into 15-minute cities they're forcing us all to buy (or rent) and use their "green tech" (which has remote shut-offs installed as required by law) as otherwise we face fines and / or jail for not being environmentally compliant because. The worst part is they have people (including you) brainwashed to believe that "the sky is falling" when it actually isn't. The biggest threat to the climate is the intentional weather modification being done by cloud seeding. Too much cloud seeding around the globe and the weather gets permanently stuffed - the movie Geostorm covers this perfectly. The USA, Australia, China and Russia have all publicly admitted to doing cloud seeding.
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  597. There comes a point where you have to just decide to not care about tyrannical regimes once you live outside their borders. Take Australia for example, when it comes to taxes, they make it up as they go. They decide they want more money, suddenly they're demanding taxes and forcing others to help them obtain them, suddenly you're forced to pay taxes because its "in the public interest and the money is needed for those who "need" it" regardless of whether you live there or not. A recent example of this is people who left Australia when bitcoin dropped to $18k AUD, they exited the tax system properly, bought bitcoin and cashed out when it hit $110k AUD overseas. Australia decided that "they only left to dodge taxes and thus are required to pay taxes on the crypto to Australia". What legal right does Australia have to demand that? NONE! If this BS is accepted, then you can never leave because that means any success after leaving would be subject to full taxation in the shithole you left, thus negating any benefit to leaving. The biggest problem with these completely failed shitholes that are the "name brand countries" is that they are completely broke with failed economies, that they think they can do whatever and eternally chase everyone for taxes, even once the people have left the tax system; because in their eyes, you can never leave (hence why they're now discussing taxing those who've left the tax system - unrealized income tax post exit). Honestly its at the point that we need international laws to force countries to terminate their laws at their borders as all the "name brand countries" are trying to enforce their laws globally which ironically violates international laws on sovereignty which state that each sovereign state can have its own laws which are the only laws that apply within its borders but no further.
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  598. Easy to do if you have a million bucks. Short of that you can't legally get into the few places this crap isn't happening. Those places are the tax havens and only through Citizenship By Investment can you get it (250k-1000000 USD when you factor in CBI & then a place to live). As for visas - most countries are abolishing them (the ones that let you stay). Only fools want to "stay and fight" as until the 99% want to stop this tyranny, it'll never stop - no point losing everything by staying when your the 1% who don't want the tyranny.
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  599.  @ianxyoutube  Rubbish. Minimum wage means nothing as it hasn't been a livable wage for anyone since 1998. You really sound like an employer who wants the equivalent of a highly qualified engineer with decades of experience who's wage is $250,000 but you want them to work for $45,000. Simply put that's what most jobs are after, they want the world but refuse to pay accordingly. I don't know anyone who'd work for less than the industry rates yet every job listing is well below the industry rates. The reality is people know what wages should be (yeah everyone talks about wages these days) and many can see better options abroad. You claim to have lived in a dozen countries and reckon they're all the same - clearly they were all high tax, high regulation countries. There's plenty of countries with low or no tax and fair regulations where its easy to make heaps of money. You're saying everyone is whinging simply for pointing out truths yet you expect them to stay and work themselves to death for nothing. Are you worried about losing govt handouts when the taxpayers leave?
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  600.  @ianxyoutube  Its got nothing to do with being entitled. Its called a wage that reflects your qualifications and experience if that's what the job requires -which most actually do. Only fools work a job for less than the industry average rate for that type and level of job. Its simple, they want skills, then they need to offer a fair rate - otherwise they won't get the skills made available. Good luck starting "at the bottom" - clearly you no longer understand how the world works. The days of being the janitor and "working your way up" are long gone. Laws, regulations, the legal requirement for qualifications and vast experience have made that old way impossible. No one is "learning on the job", they are required to be qualified, experienced, professionally licenced and insured. That requires a heap of time, effort and money, thus the wage needs to enable and reflect that. No one expects to be fresh out of uni and be paid the wage of a senior engineer, they expect the industry average entry wage of $64,000 (BEng(Mech) - theory/design/scientific) or $80,000 (AdvDip EngTech(Mech) - practial side of things/CNC operation, etc.) and to build from there with time and experience. Yet companies want to pay less than that, knowing full well that anything less is effectively slave labour and actually illegal. The only place where the old "work up from the bottom" system still exists is some parts of the USA and the entire 3rd world. You can thank all the "won't someone think of the children" and "everything in life must be 100% safe" people for the excessive over regulation and excessively expensive professional licencing, insurance and over-the-top experience requirements that are required in basically 90% of industries these days. Here's a fun fact about wages in the EU - they're significantly higher than in the UK and the cost of living is much lower than in the UK.
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  601. Its the same across all of CANZUK and CUNA
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  602. The same reason the plandemic worked so well. To paraphrase Yuri Bezmenov: "Its easy to convince fools that lies are true, its impossible to convince them that they've been lied to, no matter the evidence you show them. Only when the govt boot is against their neck and its too late, will they realize that they were lied to and that they enabled such tyranny to exist."
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  603. Except that heat pumps don't work especially once everyone in a small area has one. The problem is that the politicians and the lefties have zero clue about engineering or about why those of us who are engineers say things won't work, but they push on ahead like they know better. Its typical. The end of the world and life as we know it is upon us. This is our fall of Rome. There won't be anything left. This is a perfect example of why the lefties and masses (one in the same) should be ignored.
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  604.  @neilwadden1749  If you're in CANZUK or CUNA then only a fool gets into crypto - too much paperwork, too many taxes, literally not worth it, not to mention getting hit with unrealized gains taxes disguised as 'exit taxes' as when you leave the CANZUK or CUNA countries tax system you're taxed as if you sold your assets, whether or not you actually sold them or not.
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  605. But if you live in any "western" country (i.e. CANZUK & CUNA), their tax authorities legally force you to disclose all accounts around the world along with all your global income. The only way out is to have nothing or to move to a zero tax (PIT & CGT) country.
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  606. That's called welfare or food stamps in the US.
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  607. Destruction of the family is the key pillar of extreme communism! The loonie lefties forget tolerance is a two-way street because they were never about tolerance, they were always about extreme hate and communism.
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  608.  @thomasf.9869  Tell me then genius, how does one move abroad if they have to renounce their citizenship. Moving to other countries usually requires a visa. Very few countries just let people naturalize. Its illegal to be stateless and you can't have a visa if you're stateless. So your own suggestion is impossible. Also, why should a person (assuming they're born with multiple citizenships) have to give up their citizenships that they were born with? If countries had attractive tax policies and minimal bureaucracy, and didn't waste money, plenty of people would stay and run businesses.
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  609.  @Esemptius  ETIAS fee's cover maintaining ETIAS & the EES System. Its basically self funding, hence why its so cheap. Given that both are only for those who aren't EU Nationals, its only fair that they fund the system that ensures they're not criminals, aren't illegally working (remote work or vlogging - seriously, just get a business visa - it's easy) and aren't illegally overstaying.
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  610. It'll be on the full list on Nomad Capitalist's website however its a passport that basically no one will ever get as it takes 20yrs of full-time residence and because they don't permit dual nationality; 99.99% of people will NOT renounce every other citizenship they have, just to get citizenship to Monaco. Its a very strong passport according to all rankings but like with UAE, that's because its very hard to get. The vast majority (approx 75%) of people who live in Monaco have Permanent Residence so they retain their multiple citizenships and the resulting mobility they get from having those citizenships.
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  611.  @Axiomatic75  Its likely highly restrictive laws, regulations, courses and licences for everything. That all costs too much time and money. The result is plenty of perfectly capable people who have actual skills (cabinet making/furniture making for example) are legally prohibited from doing the things they're good at because they can't afford to do length government courses and then pay expensive licences annually, many such courses require apprenticeships (not to learn anything (can't do anything without the licence that's only available after both the course and apprenticeship) but because the government forces 4yr work placements to look like they're doing something). Also, many western governments are actively regulating qualified and experienced people out of work in order to justify bringing in more 'skilled migrants' (EU, AU, NZ, CAN) to prop-up the ponzi scheme that is the 'west'. Also, many western countries (EU, AU, NZ) are often changing the rules (i.e. moving the goalposts) multiple times a year so just when you think you're qualified, suddenly you're not.
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  612. Yep - that was the Nazi German "Jew" tax. It was 98-99% of everything they had. The tax was used in the last few weeks before they stopped letting them leave Nazi Germany and Nazi Occupied Europe as the Nazis realized how much wealth was leaving so they took it by force. Now the EU is trying to do this to everyone because the loony-left commie scum are broke and want more of other peoples money to waste.
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  613. Six quid every three years, unless, you need to enter via a different country. ETIAS will require you to specify the country you'll enter via; you'll be able to leave from any but you'll be restricted where you enter according to the country you chose when applying. This means the days of a flight issue bumping you to 'the next flight' will become either 'the next flight to country [X]' or 'nothing until your get a new ETIAS. I've never understood why they want this country of entry as listed requirement - there's been many times where flights get cancelled to one EU country but the airline runs a flight to a neighbouring one and then puts you on the train to get to the intended country.
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  614.  @cainneachdaugherty7172  If you read the two replies above your comment replying to mine, you'll notice some discussion about how its not an issue, just the website being updated but not yet filtering through all the way. Basically as elsbells4841 pointed out, the ETIAS website says that where you enter can change from where you intended to enter on the ETIAS. It would seem that someone has realized how much of a mess it was going to be and has started to fix things before it comes into force. As I mentioned in a reply to elsbells4841, the ETIAS border manuals will likely be updated and sent around soon with update training for border guards, so that things all agree. The whole ETIAS/EES project has been an absolute mess since the beginning.
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  615. If you can legally get them by descent then get them both but don't move there. Its always great to have options. Note though that citizenship by descent can still take 2yrs to be processed and to have the passport in your hands.
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  616.  @FirmFarter  Sadly, and they should be jailed or banned from entering the countries in which they have illegally worked. Its not hard to get a short term work visa and work legally.
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  617. The real problem you have is that your equipment is dangerously defective. Properly running gas appliances do NOT affect asthma and aren't dangerous. As for benzene causing cancer - that's utter BS. Sure it'll increase the chance of cancer by ~0.0000015% but so will using a mobile phone. The act of sitting up in bed in the morning can cause a heart attack, going outside will put you at risk of getting run over. Life is dangerous and everything can cause cancer, don't let the fear of cancer or harm stop you from living life.
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  618.  @gail1249  You're deluded and shilling people to use electricity for everything which isn't even possible as that would require every house / apartment to be changed to three phase and overall supply to quadruple. Gas is perfectly safe. It has nothing to do with accepting change or not, it has nothing to do with opinion. One of two things are happening, either your equipment is defective (your furnace and ducts) or you're lying. Gas being burnt in appliances that are in proper condition is perfectly safe - that's literally what science says. If your claim of "since I limited use of my furnace my asthma symptoms [have] greatly improved" is true then that 100% confirms that your ducts to and from your furnace are the problem - they're full of dust - ducts are meant to be professionally cleaned at least once a year. Gas isn't going anywhere for a very long time. Sure if you want to waste money and ignore the fact that "correlation doesn't equal causation", no one stops you from changing to electric aside from the excessive cost of doing so. The new "articles" about gas being bad were literally funded by the WEF to further their agenda and to make them money as several of the most important members of the WEF are the induction cooktop manufacturers. Its funny how this "research" suddenly appeared the moment that the induction cooktop manufacturers reported being unable to sell their products and the moment the government decided that they'd rather export their gas for a higher rate than if used locally. How convenient. The WEF are the same people who funded "research" that says that never leaving your house is healthy and that going outside causes cancer to justify lockdowns in Australia, only to then magically bring out "research" that says staying home causes cancer the moment the government wanted people to go out and spend money. The WEF are also the same people who said that food prepared at home causes cancer and that food at restaurants doesn't as its prepared differently. That's utter BS but its official "research". Don't fall for the hype and fear mongering - "science" has zero reputability unless its funded by truly impartial people in modern times. If anyone funding it has an agenda, they'll force the "research" to find what they want or they pull the funding; so guess what, the research says what they need it to, to keep the funding. There are literally huge court cases in Australia about this exact situation.
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  619.  @gail1249  If you read what I wrote, get your ducts cleaned - they're full of dust. No ones opinion negates facts. Its got nothing to do with democracy or not. The problem is you spreading lies in a public forum!
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  620. People don't want higher density. People don't want giant populations. That's only what the govt want. Where I live is being actively ruined as the govt replaces houses with backyards with crammed in dog-box units (8-12 per property) into which the scum get moved in by the govt. The area that was once quiet and family orientated, is now a noisy crammed cesspool of scum. People say "if you don't like it, move" but there's two key things: 1. They have no right to ruin the area whilst ignoring the locals complaining about it - being typical govt they just ignore the locals. 2. Why should I have to move? I've lived in the area forever - the problem should be fixed by undoing the problem the govt have caused. Its NOT my job to waste money and move. Even if I moved, I'd be forever moving as the govt is ruining everywhere because they want a giant population as they run immigration as a ponzi scheme, so it not like it can be escaped - it has to be fought.
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  621.  @helvetii42  The dog doubles as security and an alarm. Rabbits are food as they've always been - they do lack certain nutrients and vitamins so you need to eat other stuff. Also, eating meat is the only way to get the correct form of the proteins required for high intelligence - why do you think they don't want people eating meat... because they want a dumb compliant people riddled with soy and malnutrition - exactly what we saw during the plandemic.
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  622. Only good for the mega-rich as property is very expensive and the min. bank account that you must also have to get residence is more than most people have (in the millions). Also, Andorra rolled over and complied with external demands (from high-tax countries) to implement income taxes. They could have said no but given they chose to comply, most of the benefits are gone. If Andorra try to say no to such countries now, the response would instantly be "you can't say no, you did what we said before" followed by "we'll force you with sanctions". Sure Andorra is beautiful, has great shopping as far as the big fancy brands go, great skiing, etc. but can you really trust them to not increase taxes or have similar issues for citizens of certain countries (like how French citizens are forced to pay full French taxes, even if they fully like 100% of the time in Monaco)? For those who could afford Andorra (a country in which many will never be anything more than a resident), there are many options with zero taxes where those same people can become citizens either by CBI or through naturalization. Most mega-rich people simply visit Andorra for shopping and skiing but live elsewhere the rest of the time.
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  623.  @NGC1433  Even they can't. As long as you're able to change which DNS servers your computer or router use, you can use secure DNS servers and then run "stealth" vpn's. Even the Great FIrewall of China can't stop "stealth" vpn's. Also, even China permits VPN's as without VPN's companies can't connect all their locations with Site-To-Site VPN, nor could their staff remote in and work when out and about or at conferences. As long as businesses exist, and DNS servers can be changed, "stealth" vpn's will exist and can't be stopped. Incase you're wondering what "stealth" VPN's are - they are VPN's that operate over other protocols or that appear to be different services such as OS updates, video streaming, etc. If you think requiring a govt ID to do things online will work, understand this - there'll always be other alternatives that don't require it and unless the govt takes control of every server and physically stops everyone else from hosting servers, this will never change. This is why a lot of "consumer" networking equipment has been "locked-down" - i.e. no more creating ad-hoc networks (LAN or WLAN), no more fine control of every setting like you used to get in the late 90's. Currently, you either need to use "Enterprise" equipment or build your own router with something like pfSense to get fine control over everything. The key thing now is that anyone who cares about privacy should do is to get a good VPN, and if offered a "Lifetime" deal, to take up such an offer. To select a good VPN google "Tom Spark's VPNTierList" and look at his list - it covers everything including which ones passed privacy audits.
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  624.  @massabeelviejo9948  As has every other entrepreneur in history. Being an entrepreneur is all about taking risks and accepting that sometimes you fail. The key is to get up and try again. That's why 99% of people will NEVER achieve anything truly meaningful, nor will they ever achieve the wealth they genuinely could with very basic steps.
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  625. You truly are deluded to say that people won't survive. You have a degree in physics - means utterly nothing in this context as this is pure engineering and fluid dynamics. Its a well established fact that people have survived much worse than nuclear winters. There have been two occasions where early humans have survived 2yr long volcanic winters that blacked out the sun for 2yrs. Sure most died, but not all. We're honestly more likely for a megacano to erupt and cause a 2yr volcanic winter (incl. the resulting global fires from the ash) than we are for an all-out nuclear war as was the premise of the book and show, The 100. Even in The 100, people survived. There's many bunkers, preppers who have supplies to last years, along with tools and knowledge to rebuild the world and there's many pockets of the world where the radiation won't reach due to how fluid dynamics move air around the planet.
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  626.  @williammeek4078  You CAN NOT easily power an EV from solar! If it was easy like you claim, there wouldn't be any power issues, there'd never be blackouts and the govt wouldn't be telling people to turn off their aircon in summer to save power. Please wake up and look at the literal science of it. Aside from solar being horrible for the environment and having a gigantic carbon footprint, how are you carrying a solar farm to charge your car. To properly charge an EV takes many hours on 3-phase power at 80A. Anything less is a joke and will severely limit ones range. The simple fact is that solar only works on small scale, solar farms and giant scale solar have never worked and will never work. Spain tried it, as did parts of Asia; it's all disconnected and abandoned in favour of exponentially cheaper and easier to maintain modern safe nuclear power. As for controlling the population through energy - its easy - smart meters and EV's can ALL be remotely turned off with a simple click of a button. Remember, all smart metres and EV's are always connected, even if you don't pay for connectivity, there's still base connectivity for data collection.
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  627.  @itsMe_TheHerpes  If you're referring to 'depopulation' then yeah its real - Klaus Schwab (WEF), Yuval Noah Harari (WEF), Bill Gates (WEF) and many others have openly spoken about severely depopulating the planet whilst laughing like its a normal thing to want to do. Oh yeah and Harari is 100% wanting to end all free will and to make the world a "trans-humanist" world. Plenty of legit WEF (World Economic Forum) videos from their annual meetings on their official YouTube channel that confirm this.
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  628.  @xsw882  Education and discourse won't change anything when the problem comes from religious nuts who live like its 1400BC and who think that their "funny little guy in the sky" is the best and the only one allowed to exist and be followed. Even if every jew moved to an artificial island named something like "New Israel", there'd still be the same one religious group wanting to exterminate them, claiming that the land is there's and spreading hate and terrorism. There is one religion spreading like a plague across the world with nuts invading every country and destroying society.
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  629.  @deezeed2817  What are you smoking. Letting millions of illegals in, giving welfare handouts like candy, nanny-state control, high taxes, getting arrested over mere jokes and words that no other country would care about. That's all socialism. Its not capitalist and not even crony-capitalist. The UK is a far-left socialist/commie dystopia. If they were capitalist they'd be low tax, business friendly and extremely conservative. You really sound like you know you're fibbing about the UK because you don't want the few taxpayers to leave as the welfare would run out.
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  630. Yep, it's called buyers remorse and just like the plandemic, its easier for them to uphold the lie even when they know its a lie than to admit they were lied to.
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  631. A year of unpaid "community work" - sounds like modern-day slavery. Germany are still as far left as they were in the 30's and 40's. No one benefits from forcing people to do a year of unpaid "community service" as people need money to live and thus simply won't do it. Ironically this sounds just like what Australia and New Zealand are looking at trying. This smells like a WEF plan for free slave labour. Very sickening that there's zero pay when its the govt demanding it, and very sickening that they think that people owe them a year of slave labour when all the govt has done is shaft those same people and the community wants to destroy them for not being far-left nutcases. Part of Mandatory Engineering Registration in Australia is to go "community service" where you work as an engineer for free for 3-4mths every 3yrs - and they wonder why next to no one registered as engineers and why only 1% of all qualified engineers are willing to register and work as engineers. The real reason they gave up on conscription to military service is they realised how useless the majority of people are and that no one would want to rely on them in a war.
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  632. Even worse, in 2030 they'll make it illegal to disable sleep so the option to disable likely won't be there. Where I live the government is talking about how 'only criminals need servers, businesses have an argument but its weak as they could just use datacentres', so I wonder how long until they ban us from having servers and good networking at home...
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  633.  @maddyg3208  Its the same in all of CANZUK & CUNA - i.e. 'the west'
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  634. But the problem is that people such as myself who aren't rich but are middle class and taxed the most are lumped in with the evil rich and hated. The 99% do this because its easy to go after the middle class who pay 85% of the taxes in the country, but its near impossible to go after the truly mega rich ($50m+). Where I live, I'm getting hammered with 75% tax (adding all taxes and levies together that I have to pay) but that's still not enough. I've had people call me scum because I made a modest living (kept a roof over my head, kept the lights on and food on the table) from selling licences for the software I wrote that solved problems for people, they claim I had 'exploited people' because otherwise I would be poor and on welfare. The only person who could have been exploited by myself, is myself, as I never billed myself for my time and effort, as that was the only way to be able to sell licences for the software I wrote, by first writing the software. I do agree with your points about the mega rich and how they want to stop anyone getting rich like they are.
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  635.  @johnclifford544  All of CANZUK and CUNA are dying. They're all on life-support thanks to the loonie left who've destroyed them with wokeness and by turning them into dangerous welfare states. You can't tax a country or a people into prosperity. The 1st world is becoming the 3rd world and the 3rd world is trying to become the 1st world. The UN inversion of the globe is happening.
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  636. What will happen? Very simple - look at every country run by women... everything is done on emotion and "fairness", never done on practicality, needs or security. As for the damage she will cause - it'll be the same as what happened to Victoria, Australia - completely destroyed by the far-left commie Labor under the rule of Dictator Dan (16yrs to completely destroy the place), and now under the commie nutcase Allen, more debt than ever before because spending money that doesn't exist is all they know, oh and now there's a govt department solely dedicated to controlling men's behaviour and feminising men all in the name of "protecting women". Too many regulations and taxes forced businesses out. Rentals vanished because renters were given carte-blanche by the govt to do as they please and the owners have zero rights. The govt openly encourages people to hate the rich and to demand that anyone with $1 more needs to "pay their fair share" (i.e. more taxes). Crime is at an all time high as is the importing of 3rd world violent thugs who want to take over and force their beliefs on everyone else. Qualifications aren't real as you're never truly qualified - you have to do refresher/update courses every year which serve no purpose other than to create an eternal "education" industry and to keep people out of work due to the costs. Instead of saving money, they just blew the "emergency fund" on a new construction project and then borrowed more money for more construction projects. Sorry but Mexico will be ruined beyond repair, just like Victoria, Australia already is.
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  637. Removing CO2 from the atmosphere will kill the plants whilst reducing their bio-mass before they die. Fewer plants means less breathable air. Remove the nitrogen from the air and humans won't have anything to breath. Humans need to breathe air that has ~78% nitrogen in it. There is no climate crisis - they are trying to make one to depopulate the world. The Vostok ice cores show that high CO2 causes cooling and up to 5x the current plant bio-mass. The Vostok ice cores also show that high levels of methane causes warming. The climate is always changing and it has nothing to do with people. Before an ice age can start, all the glaciers must melt. Before a warm age can start, all the glaciers must melt. We're literally just in a period of transition between a warm age and an ice age. What triggers these events is known as the Milankovitch cycle (the change in tilt of the earth), the more of the surface exposed to the sun at any given time causes warming and the less exposed at any given time causes cooling. What shits me is how few people are actually educated, if they were, they'd know this. The so-called education people get since 2000 is utter garbage and they only learn what the state wants them to know. Heck even history isn't actually taught anymore, only woke history and the "approved" other bits, never anything relevant.
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  638.  @tuulameri8499  You're ignoring that its not a little bit of land. Its close to a third of their country as you have to factor in Crimea. Then you're forgetting that giving putina what she wants will only embolden her and then she'll go after the Baltics, Poland, Hungary and Finland. The whole point everyone is missing is putina is doing as she said in 2014 - rebuilding the Tsarist Empire. The only way to stop putina is to defeat the little suka.
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  639. I would suggest you do remote work and freelance online, and more research into other countries and their laws. The USA isn't all people think it is and the opportunities people think exist, don't exist. Also, if you truly can ONLY work in the USA then you'd have to renounce ALL other citizenships that weren't ITAR Tier 2 Preferred Nations and the ONLY things you can't do except as a citizen within the USA is anything related to ITAR. Ironically EU nationals have more freedom in the EU with their equivalent of ITAR than US citizens do within the USA. There is zero demand for "programmers in the USA" as 99% can be done remotely from abroad. Also, companies that do stuff under ITAR aren't going to "just hire" someone who just became a citizen for obvious reasons - there's zero deep background and history on them and ANY risk assessment says to avoid such people as a result.
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  640.  @HIDLad001  Apple are a shit company only morons like and use. Their shit is still heavily locked down so they achieved SFA...
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  641.  @nomadcapitalist  Except that many people can't legally enter Malaysia for a multitude of reasons including their employment, their business dealings, their citizenship, etc. Sure these are known restrictions however it should be considered to host the event in a more open country such as Singapore, Vanuatu, French Polynesia (Tahiti), St. Kitts & Nevis, St. Barts, Monserrat, etc. as its been held in the same place for several years.
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  642. Ease up on the copium there... elite schools give them a great head start as they become friends with all the right people, when it comes to getting jobs or doing business, they know the right people, or their friend does. Even for the average poor person, knowing the right people is the difference between getting the job or not getting the job. Also, they get a proper education that covers everything about business, finances, wealth, investment, etc. That education paired with their qualifications in serious fields such as engineering, medicine, law, finance, etc. sets them up for success. The public system avoids teaching these things (or brushes over them without any real depth) as its designed to create 'good worker drones', not successful people. Lastly, you also fail to underestimate just how cold, brutal and barbaric the 'elites' can be, even to each other. You forget many are sociopathic, narcissistic bullies who are used to getting their way. Things look pristine and 'perfect/soft' because to them, appearances are important, only through being among such people can you find the truth.
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  643. Its called filming the city as it is. You're genuinely lying to yourself if you think there's anything normal about the results of the illegal invasion by the death cult of nutjobs who spread their religion of hate, who think crime is okay and who are and always will be 100% uncivilized. When you import the 3rd world, you become the 3rd world. Central and Eastern Europe have the right answer - strict borders. Instead of being invaded, they defend themselves and only help people where they are. Why letting illegals in is NEVER the solution: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6tSqGCfoCI Pre-2010 big cities in CANZUK & CUNA weren't like this at all. Since then, they're all 100% ruined, unsafe and overrun by death cult nutjobs who think they can do as they please. Its sickening. Get your head out of the sand and quit lying to yourself before its too late, or are you one of the scum who think letting the illegals in is great?
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  644. Well the problem is that only the wealthy can afford to leave and establish abroad. Look at the options that exist - it's basically CBI or a very long process of finding a job for which there is no local, being hired by a business in that job, fighting the work visa system in that country and then spending basically a decade (max time to naturalize) fighting a system that doesn't want you, just to be allowed to naturalize. Most of the residency / visa options that were affordable are gone. The only ones remaining are in extremely dangerous countries which have high taxes or are retirement visas that are only open to people 55+. What are the non-wealthy like you and I, meant to do? We're basically screwed as the options that used to exist are long gone as countries are becoming very insular at a rapid pace. The formula for 'cost to leave' is: (Residence Permit cost) OR (CBI cost) + (apartment cost) OR (house cost) + (travel to destination) + (living costs) = Cost to leave That 'cost to leave' is basically somewhere between $500k - $1 million USD depending on individual circumstances.
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  645.  @millennialx9044  The most over-saturated job that no longer qualifies for most work visas, gets paid utter joke money and requires formal degrees in teaching and isn't an option except in a few countries? Yeah, that doesn't work. Being an English teacher isn't gonna get you $500k+ to spend on buying a house and doing CBI to be able to stay legally, nor is it going to legally keep you in a country long enough to naturalize. Also many countries that still issue work visas to English teachers, specifically exclude time spent on those visas as counting towards naturalization. I've seen two friends find this out the hard way. Also, no sane person is going to waste their time on the demented IELTS or TEFL rubbish when English is their native language. English is the only language for which scum demand those scams outside of "the west".
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  646. @bharath2508 Only morons go to Australiastan - the place is hell for anyone who isn't a welfare leech with no money to their name. Smart people are running out of the place as fast as possible.
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  647.  @lindacampbell5561  Absolutely not. They're taxed insanely - its about 75% when you add all the taxes and levies up that the rich actually have to pay. Then there's the headaches of leaving the tax system, oh and the place is a total nanny state where literally everything requires permits or licences, sometimes both - and that all requires annual update/refresher courses to keep valid. The place is run by communists (Labor and Greens) because 80% of the country are all scum on welfare and mostly imported from the 3rd world because they exclusively vote for Labor who let them in. Crime is rampant. The place is extremely hostile to any and all businesses that aren't run by mega-corporations such as big-oil, big-pharma, Google & Amazon.
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  648.  @stephenwong4934  Rubbish - all it means is crime (theft, assault and arson) skyrocket as shown in most of CANZUK & CUNA where they tax everything to insane levels.
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  649. You see the same thing in Australia, New Zealand and Canada. The govt claim 'people aren't having enough kids' so they cause insane immigration of people who hate the society, who don't want to work but want welfare. So the welfare bill goes up. Then due to the insane immigration, housing shortages become a thing and prices go insane. Then the cost of living goes insane due to excessive taxation that's always increasing, as well as due to the shortages caused by the always increasing population due to immigration. They complain that people aren't having kids but the reason people aren't having kids is because housing became too expensive due to taxes being too high and because of excessive bureaucracy and the stupid idea that everything can be made 100% safe. That makes the cost of compliance and the cost of doing business insane, so no one starts businesses. If immigration was reversed entirely back to 2000, taxes cut in half and the govt shrunk to 1/10 its size, people could afford houses, afford to live and thus they'd be happily having kids. No one intelligent is going to have kids when they can't buy a house and afford to live. Only the leeches on welfare who have it easy have kids and make the whole problem worse are having kids. The other thing that makes the problem worse is the govt only look at how many people they're importing each year, they NEVER consider how many local kids have grown up and need houses and jobs. Thus the problem keeps getting worse. The other issue is the masses and govt consider the middle class to be the 'evil filthy rich' who need to be taxed out of existence. Its never the actual 1% who get taxed or who's taxes get put up. When you factor in all the taxes, levies (taxes under another name), minimal basic food, water and shelter expenses for a year, you quickly realise that the middle class are being hit with what is effectively 75% tax, and people wonder why they're not having kids, and why they're leaving to other countries where they're treated far better.
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  650. You actually end up so worse off that you can't buy something else because before you buy something else, you have to pay Capital Gains Tax on the sale, then your taxable income has just gone up as the remaining money is treated as income for tax purposes, then you have to buy a new place which makes you pay GST/VAT & Stamp Duty. Then you (depending on the country) get hit with Unrealized Capital Gains Tax because you now have a new 'asset'. The government loves to take at every possible chance and you lose out every single time, and they wonder why people love tax havens where there's no PIT, no wealth tax, no inheritance tax and no death duty.
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  651. 1 - because he doesn't put all his "eggs" in the one basket. He can see opportunities to make some money quickly and so he does 2 - Devolution is actually a real thing. If things regress (i.e. devolve) then that's absolute proof that things were bad and unworkable. Evolution only occurs when the change is highly efficient, beneficial and well proven Will people go back to trading in gold and silver? Absolutely. Only fools and morons think otherwise. There is nothing else on this planet that is as valuable as gold and silver can't be artificially made and they aren't highly abundant and thus they are valuable. Everyone knows what they're worth and everyone knows that over thousands of years, whilst currencies have come and gone, gold and silver have remained a constant. Look at Venezuela, Cuba, etc. everything has three prices - Bolivars / Gold / Silver. They literally will shave gold and silver to get the correct amount to buy the things they need and want because the money is so worthless. If you back a currency by gold or silver you can't just add to it. The problem was when the USA left the gold standard so they could "print more money". When you have a currency backed by bullion, the only way to adjust the amount in circulation is to reprice the bullion, you can't just "print more money". If you think Bitcoin is the solution, tell me, what's going to happen when the internet or power are gone? How will you use bitcoin? You can't as it won't function. At least with gold and silver you can carry pieces, shavings, etc. of it and trade it for goods and services. Bullion is real money and doesn't need anything else in order to work. If you think Bitcoin can't be added to, double-spent or otherwise manipulated, unfortunately you're misled. It most definitely can, all you need to do is to control 51% of the mining (this is easy for a govt as they can force their citizens to a different MainNet) - then you can manipulate the blockchain however you like as you have enough controlled consensus to approve the otherwise illegal changes. Bitcoin and all crypto can't be married to bullion - all crypto is tied to energy due to the need for crypto mining. In the long run, the time proven solution (bullion) will win out and society will start afresh. Personally I would be ensuring I have some bullion safely locked away and I would be slowly building up sufficient supplies of shelf-stable foods and products/tools that I know I'll need and that will last before things get worse.
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  652.  @guser7137  And what happens then? Any or all of the following: * Be absolutely ignored by the authorities who will push on regardless because "you and everyone like you are morons and only the state knows what's best" * Be given a travel ban (i.e. passport revoked) - no way to leave when you realise that "this is the last chance to leave" * Get thrown in jail * Be deemed "insane" by the authorities and lose your licences, job, etc. Potentially being put into "care" AU, NZ & CAN are all further ahead on the other half of the insane tyranny. The ULEZ, traffic calming, Euro 7, etc. are only just getting introduced in these countries. These countries have been doing everything else in the WEF handbook whilst the UK have been doing these things. The sad reality is, they don't give a damn what the masses say or want, they'll give the masses a small win for a short time (approximate 6-8 months) and then push on regardless. Protesting does nothing except get you on all the lists that the state uses to target threats and helps fuel the state propaganda about all the "crazy loonies who are the reason that the state needs absolute control to save the world". I am 100% against the climate BS and the 2030/WEF BS, the problem is there is no way to stop it. They have the power, they make the rules/laws, they have the monopoly on lethal force and detaining people. The sad truth is the masses are powerless. Like all crazy dictatorial nuts in history - everything they do is 100% legal as they make it legal as they pass laws accordingly; and everyone suffers... The only current solution is to move to a country where this BS isn't happening. The problem is those countries are the tax havens and getting into them is extremely expensive and thus most can't do so. The tax havens are exempt from all this BS because that's where all the globalist/trans-humanist nuts (from the WEF, BIS, etc.) live.
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  653.  @humanbeing6933  That's literally a fact of open borders - whether you like him or not, he stated a fact. Sorry but just because you don't like someone or something doesn't make it not true. One can be a Nomad Capitalist whilst standing against open borders - getting visas, residence permits and citizenship are easy if you're well off and have a perfectly clean record. Open borders attract the trash and scum of society who only want the welfare benefits whilst never contributing. The fact you don't understand this says you're clearly a wokie so go find a channel where you fit in, Nomad Capitalist is clearly not a channel for you as you put being "woke" above everything else.
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  654.  @lihtan  They've thought about that as well. You know how you can't use the "credit card on phone" thing when you leave the original OS because the "secure element" considers the phone has been breeched - the same method of detecting a breech is used to prevent you using the mandatory govt apps such as "MyGov" (needed for taxes and group certificates) and "ServiceNSW", "ServiceVIC", etc. (only way to have most licences (cards are extremely hard to get), "2020 thing cert" (still required for a lot of things). Whilst you can have a phone that's running all that and leave it at home - ask yourself, how long until they pass laws to make you carry that phone and if you don't they lock you up?
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  655. I've never heard of an industry preventing you from renouncing citizenship, it can't be defence as ITAR specifically permits tier 2 preferred nations' citizens to work the same as US citizens (though some companies are too inept to read or do the paperwork to employ non-US citizens). What industry are you talking about? You'd need to get a non-US passport first though.
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  656.  @maloavi  Seriously sounds like you need to look for other suppliers who will sell to the other country you're a citizen of. If for whatever reason they won't, start the process of getting residence or citizenship in a country that they will sell to. If your current business is going well, save up every bit you can and buy a passport from a CBI country like St. Lucia - I doubt they would have issues in obtaining agricultural supplies. Can you mention what these providers are providing that others can't? If its fertilisers, the whole world is banning most of them for "climate" reasons. The best advice is to use old farming books to improve soil and fertilise soil the same ways they did back in the pre-1800 times.
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  657.  @maloavi  I never said it was a good idea, I grew up on a farm, I only said that's whats happening and there is no way to stop it as the governments have decided it for everyone, hence why I mentioned using the old ways to improve and fertilise soil. The "climate" rubbish (there is no climate crisis) is intentional to create food shortages and depopulate the planet - its by design. Its the same with the anti-CO2 movement. CO2 is essential plant food and in areas where CO2 has been reduced or eliminated, plants no longer grow. In regards to the providers you mention, what are they supplying you with that you can't get abroad?
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  658. @jeanah685 Ever hear of "don't keep all your eggs in the one basket?" Also note that many people are born with multiple citizenships and they commonly have bank accounts in each country of citizenship. * Currently, taxes are sky rocketing because the govt wants to steal and redistribute wealth from those who worked hard, pay taxes and earnt what they have. Why should some useless schmuck be give what others have worked for? * The cost of living in AU & NZ has tripled since 2020 and is continuing to increase * The economy is heading towards hyperinflation - it starts with shrink-flation, then cost of living skyrockets, then its excessive taxation, and, finally its hyperinflation The fact is that when the US dollar falls, most "western" economies will be 100% gone as they're all 100% dependent on the US dollar. You say its narrow-minded to "not keep all your eggs in the one basket" - what is it that you suggest people do? Keep in mind that the people diversifying their money across other countries, already have assets such as bullion, art, property, etc. Looking at recent history - those who survived the war in the Balkans and had bullion were the ones who became wealthy and didn't lose everything. Those who only had money in the bank or as cash lost everything. So I genuinely ask, what is your solution that you don't consider to be "narrow-minded"?
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  659. Fact: If Russia isn't stopped in Ukraine then the entire "west" will be destroyed by Russia. Everyone needs to stop thinking that Russia are powerful - they're not, they're actually weak as weak; the proof being how long the so-called "three day take-over" has gone. Wake up and quit believing the bullshit lies that Russia keep spouting, they're all bullshit. Let's go through Russia's lies: * Nazis in Ukraine - guess what, there's Nazis in every country, especially Russia which is a country full of Nazis (they just don't use that term) * Everyone threatening and wanting to invade Russia - Literal bullshit. Not a single country other than China has any desire to invade Russia. Russia is a giant wasteland with zero accessible resources. Remember the whole "mineral wealth in Russia will dominate the world" bullshit. That went silent when they realised that accessing any mineral wealth in Russia isn't financially viable as its below a bluestone reef 1km thick. * Poland and the Baltics are preparing to invade Russia - utter bullshit. These countries are preparing for an invasion by Russia as they aren't part of Russia (and never will be) and refuse to be under the thumb of Russia ever again Simply put all Russia does is lie and brainwash its people with lies. Russian people literally think that the whole world are Nazis, that the whole world is wanting to invade and destroy Russia, that everyone outside of Russia is torturing animals for fun, that only Russia can save the world and that its good for Russians to go abroad and indiscriminately kill non-Russians. This is the reality of Russia and was made public when people were being interviewed by the media as to why they want to sign up and fight against Ukraine. What this tells any sane person is that Russia needs to be contained within its borders and its citizens banned from being anywhere outside of Russia. Then there's the fact that Putin has said that he wants to rebuild the Tsarist Empire - this requires the take-over of Europe, the Baltics and the Balkans. He's also declared that he's getting ready to take back Alaska as he's decided that the legal sale of Alaska to the USA is now magically "invalid". Anyone who thinks its only about Ukraine is a moron - just like Hitler, it's always "just one more country" until he's invaded and taken over everything. Note that he's already invaded Georgia, Ukraine (Crimea and Eastern Ukraine), Belarus (Putin is really in charge of Belarus), French Africa (the Wagner coups is 100% Putin's fault) and the current Israel-gaza war (100% orchestrated by Russia to spread "western" forces thin). The single biggest threat to Russia is Putin. If Putin quit indoctrinating the Russian people with lies and to hate anyone who isn't Russian, and if Russia simply stayed within its own borders then Russia would have zero issues.
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  660. What rock are you sleeping under? That's already the case - heard of citizenship based taxation? Heard of the USA Renouncing fee ($6500) and their giant Exit Tax (to leave their tax system). They basically have it designed so the poor can NEVER leave. The USA is one giant plantation.
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  661. I've been saying the same thing ever since they started claiming CO2 was bad. All I've seen is smaller and fewer plants that are more yellow than green, fewer bees, the air has gotten a lot dustier and pollution has increased. Its intentional to cause mass global depopulation. No plants = no breathable air = no food = no people. Meanwhile the elites have NBC bunkers, air generation systems and all the food they don't want us having. Remember the Georgia Guidestones' statement on global population "Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature". We're at 8+ billion if you believe the MSM. Thats approx 7.5 billion too many in the eyes of the elites. They only need enough people to do all the things that are too beneath the elite. Remember, we are the carbon they want to reduce!
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  662.  @redpillnibbler4423  What's that got to do with anything. The govt announced the ban after making it law. The people never get or got a say. Thanks to the consolidation of power that happened during the '2020 thing' under emergency powers, there's isn't any way for the people to have a say. The law only gets applied as it suits the government and the elections permit electoral fraud, specifically parties that claim to be against another party whilst secretly being run by and support that exact party whilst deceiving the people. The gas ban prevents new builds from being connected to gas and in 2030 an outright ban on gas for everyone.
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  663.  @patriciafisher1170  As far as I know, its only homes, apartments and factories. Portable gas appliances, caravans and motorhomes are currently unaffected however they might be closer to 2030.
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  664.  @bwarey52  Its like all the "safety" BS that's forced upon you (lane assist, auto braking, auto spacing, reversing camera, etc.) - normal people don't want that crap, they want to drive the car, not have it drive them. The govt forces it by passing laws for "safety" and thus you're forced to either buy the crap or go without. For EV's - companies are ONLY allowed to buy EV's unless they require ute's for construction, tradie jobs or primary production. Companies with ICE fleets are forced to convert them to EV at a rate of 10% each year or face huge tax penalties. Then car dealers are taking away manuals, autos and now pushing EV junk because that's what the govt wants (and the govt gives them tax breaks for doing so) - they're forced by law to sell (of all sales) 30% EV's each year - I know people who've been told to put their name on a list for an ICE vehicle next year due to this law. You NEED to care about how the car your driving is being propelled - if its EV, your range is limited, your time will be lost to charging, when the subsidies go they'll be more expensive to charge due to power shortages and zero competition and you won't be able to drive out bush and go camping for a week as you can't keep an EV charged in the bush; if you use an ICE vehicle you'd simple carry a small boost-pack "jumpstarter" and a jerrycan of fuel. If you don't like having choice and being free to choose, that's fine, the reality is many people are the opposite.
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  665.  @bwarey52  Sorry but its you who's silly and out of touch. Only fools drive into the bush without fuel - there's no phone reception or roadside assistance in the bush, and no one around for 500km+ - its the bush! As for you stupid BS of taking solar - how big a trailer are you planning on taking to carry the panels and charge controller as the vehicle would be full of camping equipment? Also why would you want to waste such time covering the entire campsite in solar just to try to get a charge? You really don't understand why an EV is useless outside the city. Literally everyone has two spare tyres and two jerrycans on the back of their vehicles when they go out bush.
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  666. Not sure how it works where you are but in Australia the bastards have thought of that and blocked such solutions. The fine for a company vehicle is $20,000 if no driver can be nominated (it drops to the normal fine costs if a driver is nominated) and a company can only pay a fine without nominating a driver 3 times - after that the company can no longer own and register vehicles.
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  667. Honestly, its both heat and food. Only the rich will have either. The masses will be freezing, starving, eating bugs and going braindead from not eating red meat.
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  668. Just like Victoria, Australia - its had 24yrs of Labor (commies) in government with no way to remove them as they buy votes with welfare, higher taxes and 3rd world immigration who vote for Labor.
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  669. The 'shot' won't create herd immunity as it doesn't create antibodies, only a dead sample delivered by a basic safe virus (i.e. traditional vaccine) can cause that. Spike proteins are basically a signal to fight without first knowing how, hence why it only lowers or eliminates symptoms. Its all a farce to push eugenics and human experimentation. I refuse to be a lab rat!
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  670. The sunglasses thing... guess I'm screwed as my glasses are prescription and have the transitions coating on them as its expensive enough having to get prescription glasses and prescription safety glasses. Transitions are literally cheaper than having to get prescription sunglasses as well (I live in a place where the bulk of the year is extreme UV so its sunglasses or expect cataracts from a very young age). Guess that's a reason to avoid Japan - so as to not offend them. I honestly never knew that protecting ones eyes (and being able to see properly) was considered offensive.
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  671. Its partly for what's been mentioned in the above replies but the main reason is because the only way to cause huge food shortages and famine is to not just ban farming and the growing of produce but to ensure that the land can't secretly be used to do so. The quickest way is to develop everything. Also, by bringing in illegal immigrants, they're counting on unrest and crime to increase which helps to further justify the ever increasing tyranny, control and surveillance state. Its 100% depopulation!
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  672. The problem is rights and laws only exist as long as you have the means to enforce them. When only the state can do that, you have no rights and laws aren't worth anything as the regime changes them or ignores them as they see fit. That's what Australia was during the plandemic - rights vanished, laws were ignored as the govt saw fit and the courts let the govt do as it please because they "didn't want to tie the govts hands by enforcing the laws or Constitution". Its dictatorial fascism blended with communism.
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  673. And the more you do it, the better the protection solutions get. The source code is the important part of software and the thing that makes or breaks companies. As an independent software developer I spend a lot on R&D and creating my software, I subsequently spend almost as much preventing the reverse engineering of my software because if the source ever got out, my competitors would have all their work done for them at no cost and I'd be broke. This conundrum is the main reason why many have issue with both "right to repair" and reverse engineering.
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  674. Basically those who can't walk or ride are "unwanted" according the to WEF and the left. Basically they'd rather copy the Nazis and eliminate the disabled rather than skip the "utopia". Its sickening!
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  675. The problem is that the current regimes are happy to bulldoze entire forests for "green energy" or for mines (to make tech), but will lock everyone out of all public land to "protect" it, because they don't want you being self sufficient or able to leave their surveillance cities. In Australia, every 6 months they close off more land to all human activities which in turn pushes more people into smaller areas which due to over use destroys that area. This then causes the regime to close that area because people are "destroying" it. You can't win. In the state of Victoria almost all public land has been locked up; basically if its a Forest Park, State Park, National Park or Heritage Area, its completely closed (some exceptions exist in the original 5 National Parks but they're slowly removing those), you're not allowed to even photograph it as you might scare the animals. Its insane. Part of the reason they do this is to work towards banning all fishing, hunting and camping because as the last few years have shown, they want you 100% reliant on them and if they can ban hunting and fishing they can take all knives, bows and firearms off the people as the legitimate reasons will disappear unless you're a farmer or you use them commercially. It's all about control and working towards a Hunger Games districts' style of living.
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  676. None of those places are successful. Also, from being safe ethno-states, they've become crime infested pedo-prophet worshipping hellholes because they let 3rd world trash in to spread hate and destruction.
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  677. The problem has been exacerbated by the programs increasing their costs and now demanding proof of the applicant having >$500k AFTER doing CBI. 99% of people are stuffed.
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  678.  @foggycraw6758  All that does it waste time and money putting you further back financially, not to mention it ties you into the US tax system even more. Most businesses fail within the first two years and during that time have huge legal costs, compliance costs and accounting costs. Anyone struggling to leave is only going to guarantee they never do if they start a business. You can't just end a business and walk away, there's legal obligations that you have to maintain for the first few years after - if you produced a product then depending on the product you have to maintain liability for 5-25yrs, or the life of the product (in some cases). Such things would tie you into the US tax system unless you were able to sell the rights and liabilities for the product to another business. Not to mention, unless you're a lawyer and an accountant, you'd need to hire, retain and constantly use lawyers and accountants in order to remain compliant and "on top of things" in the USA, home of the most complicated tax system in the world and the largest legal system (most litigious in the world). The point of Nomad Capitalist's "go where you're treated best" is to be free and able to "go where you're treated best", not to "try to leave but be stuck tied into a bad system" and definitely not "want to leave so spend money that makes you broke and thus you can't leave".
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  679. Hate to break it to you but capitalism requires zero government involvement, zero regulations/bureaucracy. In capitalism the market controls everything as people will buy the things they want and that they think are best and the rest either change or go broke. There is no capitalism in ANY country at the moment as its all subject to insane govt control and regulations. You live in crony capitalism (where govts control 100% of businesses through insane regulations and bureaucracy) at best, but in reality its literally socialism/communism as implemented by Hitler (the govt effectively nationalizes businesses without physically taking them over by dictating who they can hire, how they can operate and what they can make through regulations and bureaucracy, only physically taking them over if they don't roll over and comply).
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  680. Well there's the climate solution - save the world by banning AI and GPU bound workloads. We don't need AI or ML, life can continue just fine without it. Heck people might get their jobs back.
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  681. From what I've read, heard and researched, only the most expensive programs and the most well known ones require this, that said if a program starts getting too many applicants, they will introduce this requirement as a way to slow the applications they're receiving. Its as much a way to reduce the number of people doing CBI as it is to keep out what they deem as "riff-raff"; they don't want you needing govt support once accepted, and, they want you to continue to contribute (if you move there - required if you want the tax benefits) by running businesses (licences and taxes), they especially want jobs created for locals. The programs that require you to have qualifications will expect to see engineering, medical, law, science, etc. qualifications - not arts degrees. Simply put, if you have the money for these "top-end" programs, you're easily able to afford to be a Nomad Capitalist client and you can afford to start a large business abroad. If you can't afford the "top-end" programs, do one that you can afford. Note the following (its not mentioned in any freely available CBI information) - all programs want to see that you have at least $75,000-$250,000+ left after you pay for CBI as they feel that this ensures that you're able to support yourself (incase you move there) and have a place to live (buying/renting a house, etc.). In general, if your bank account (from when you apply until 6 months after being accepted) isn't over $500,000USD (for the affordable programs) or over $3,000,000USD for the "top-end" programs (1,000,000 Euro + programs), the countries won't accept your application when they have to give a decision on your application. In regards to your question about wanting to go to Switzerland via golden visa - there isn't any program for that. Even if there was, I would never recommend Switzerland for two reasons: 1. Its extremely expensive 2. My fathers colleague lived there (Switzerland) legally for 28yrs as a medical professor (at a university there) and medical specialist at a hospital there, he learnt the language for his Canton (Switzerland is split into regions called Canton's), integrated with the local community, learnt the history, etc. He passed all the citizenship tests but was rejected by the citizenship "council" (all people must vote yes or the applicant is rejected - there is no automatic citizenship process in Switzerland) as they "didn't feel he was deeply enough integrated to Swiss society". As he told my father: "they were happy to have my skills, my work and reputation, they paid well but clearly never wanted me in their society". My fathers colleague left Switzerland and retired back to Sweden (where he's from).
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  682.  @trige000  Spoken like a little bitch who's never lived under actual commie regimes. You're a little bitch and a coward. If you think that a commie life is wonderful, go and live in Venezuela, Russia, North Korea, any of the 4 'stans or any other commie place. There's plenty still around. Just remember - all the lies your commie teachers, commie "friends" and others have told you are exactly that - LIES! Don't take my word for it, listen to the guy who's literal job was to destroy the "west" with communism - Yuri Bezmenov. His 3 part interview he did once he escaped the USSR to the USA is available on Melbourne Ground's YouTube channel. You are a "useful idiot" and won't see the forest for the trees until the state is eliminating you as the "true believers" are always the biggest threat to the commie system when the system takes over as the "true believers" would most actively try to destroy the system once they see that they were lied to. Yuri explains this in part 3 in full detail.
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  683. @grimfang5023 They won't - they're useful idiots (i.e. true believers) who think everything will be better and they likely think they'll be in charge. I'll be one of the first to tell them "told ya so" when they realise the truth. The problem is that its always easier for people to be cowards - heck the last 3yrs have shown that by the voluntary compliance of the 99%. Had the 99% told the govt to "go f*** themselves" none of the restrictions or "you must take this poison" would have happened. My best advice to you is to do whatever you need to in order to do CBI in the Caribbean or Vanuatu and get the hell out of the "west" as its about to fall and be under the thumb of the WEF. Yuval Noah Harari (Schwab's protege) aims to end all "free will" as he sees it as the biggest threat to humanity. I mention these places as two Caribbean CBI countries are tax havens as is Vanuatu. Getting to tax havens is essential as they'll be the only places that won't be destroyed as that's where the "elites" will be living.
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  684.  @javiervega1065  Little boy, if you think 45% tax (plus the 30% that's hidden taxes such as levies) is so simple then why don't you be a good little commie and donate all of your money to HMRC and lead by example? Oh that's right because you're a welfare lover who leeches off those who pay tax. Grow up!
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  685.  @workman122  That's already the case in Australia. Currently each "Club Permit" historic vehicle gets 45 days of permitted use each year. The govt are expected to change the laws later this year to be "the owner of historic vehicles can only drive a "Club Permit" vehicle 45 days in a year", this change would mean that if you own multiple historic vehicles that you'd only have a total of 45 days to drive any historic vehicles you own unlike the current 45 days per vehicle. As expected various clubs are demanding that only their vehicles / types should be allowed to be driven more and that vehicles that they don't like shouldn't be allowed on "Club Permit". Its so typical, sheep doing the govts tyranny for them.
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  686.  @rogerblackwood8815  Its already law in most places that should mandatory kill switches be required that all vehicles that are street legal will be required to be fitted with the required kill switches or they'll either be de-registered (can't be used on roads) or crushed if the owner objects to losing the registration. The long term solution will be hidden mods that disable the remote kill switches, GPS tracking (disabled but spoofing the location if a "phone home" type is used), etc.
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  687.  @rogerblackwood8815  as I said in my comment, it already is law that when kill switches are required, all old cars will be required to be fitted with remote kill switches or be banned from use. They've already banned the sale of ICE vehicles from 2026 (new or old). AU, NZ, EU and CAN have already passed the laws which take effect in 2026. It's only a proposal in the UK at the moment.
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  688. Utter rubbish. Its not the young who have all day to waste on public transport - its the elderly because they don't work. The young have SFA time in the day as they have work, bills to pay, errands to run and in many cases, multiple places to be at during the day. Public transport just doesn't cut it as its too slow and doesn't go where needed when needed. The problem is all the loony-left extremists who want cars gone - its just never going to happen as too many people need cars and there is no valid alterntive - most definitely not useless EV's (they don't live up to the hype, they weigh too much (means much less can be moved in them than their ICE equivalents), the range is utter BS and they can't be charged in 2 minutes, plus they lose a heap of charge sitting in the cold).
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  689. His country is tiny, so for him, he is out in the forest. In such a small country, its likely that unless you go as north as possible, you can't find forest without paths. At least he's in the forest, enjoying nature, even if its only 1 or 2hrs from his house.
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  690. In Australia we're hearing the same BS from the media. They're lying and trying to gaslight everyone that everything is better than ever. The reality is the opposite. The easiest way to spot the lies is if you watch the news, note how zoomed in the camera is on the presenter so you can't see the empty shopping centre behind the presenter. In Australia, most businesses went broke thanks to the restrictions, especially in Victoria where they had the longest lockdown outside of China. Also in Australia the depression will be exponentially worse as the things that are being bought are mostly being bought with debt such as credit cards and Afterpay or PayPal's Pay-In-Four - I have a feeling that most people won't be able to pay their debts when the time comes and thus the depression when it fully hits will be exponentially worse than if people actually only spent what they could afford. Also it should be noted that food businesses and supermarkets are now letting people use Afterpay to buy food so its obvious how bad everything is but the media are only claiming the opposite.
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  691. Bullshit, literally everyone who illegally enters the USA and gets on welfare is receiving social security. They are an absolute drain on the economy and are the single largest expenditure of any country. Socialism is 100% the problem. If you don't understand this, then this channel is not suited for you.
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  692. Heard of AML/KYC? You can't buy things without doing it. The AML/KYC paperwork all goes to the govt so they can know everything. That's why 'regulated' exchanges that require AML/KYC are BAD!
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  693. Kids automatically get the citizenship of their parents. There is zero circumstance where a child won't get one citizenship or residency (i.e. OCI, green card etc.). If a child was truly stateless then after 10yrs of legal residence in a country they'd be able to naturalize. Your scenario is impossible to occur in real life though.
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  694. Russia doesn't want peace, they want all out war so they can rebuild the Tsarist Empire as putina has said multiple times. In the last 25yrs, every time Russia has promised peace, they've invaded countries and illegally occupied large chunks of those countries. Its no different to Hitler in the 1930's. Wake the f**k up moron!
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  695. If one religious group keep invading countries, there won't be anywhere soon. Countries need to ban one religious group (i.e. NOT jews, their enemy) as once those nuts move in, its "ban everything that we say isn't clean", "need to ban different religions because it offends us" and the crime and terrorism immediately follows.
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  696.  @stutter_studios  Too many illegals and terrorists invading Europe spreading their religion of hate.
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  697.  @SylvesterJcat  World Economic Forum. Most politicians and heads of industry are all part of their Young Global Leaders program. Basically its a program that ensures that key people have aligned views and beliefs so they can enable the agendas of the WEF. All easily verifiable with a quick google search of 'WEF' and "Young Global Leaders".
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  698. The other thing that the "use public transport" lot all forget is there's plenty of things that can't be done if you have to use public transport. If you fish, hunt, target shoot (archery or firearms), etc. you legally can't use public transport with the required equipment or with the caught fish or hunted meat. Also, if you're a chef you can't take your knives on public transport, nor can you buy knives and take them home on public transport, nor can you take a knife to get sharpened via public transport. Do you want to go camping? Can't take all that equipment on public transport. Are you a sparkie, plumber, etc. - can't take your tools and supplies on public transport. Public transport also fails as it'll never go where everyone needs it to. It'll only ever go where the masses commonly go. Every time people tell me to "use public transport" and I explain why that's not an option their responses are: * Well just don't do [activity], get a real hobby... OR * You're the exception to the rule What I find ridiculous is that I and everyone I know are always the "exception to the rule". Given that EV's and public transport only work for a minority and everyone else is always the "exception to the rule" that means that the ones who are actually the "exception to the rule" are the ones who want EV's and public transport. As for ABC - always be charging. That's 100% exclusive to EV's. I've never heard anyone ever say ABRF - always be re-fueling. One can carry a jerrycan of fuel, one can't carry a spare charge for an EV!
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  699. That money you say "goes missing" most likely doesn't use a structure like this, its usually just moved to accounts in other countries and multiple existing laws are broken - its much simpler fraud and financial crime - only possible due to corruption. It's structures like the ones shown in the video that make it possible for people such as yourself to succeed. Sure its not easy to setup and maintain but once you can afford to its great - your assets are safe from frivolous lawsuits, if a business fails, you don't lose everything. What scares me is this push for a natural person to be publicly listed for all entities (its a public listing as ownership of companies is public in most western countries). It scares me because that's just putting a target on those people who could be assumed to be wealthy or who are wealthy and thus at risk of being kidnapped and ransomed when they could otherwise have the name of a legal entity tied to the company. To me, the requirement for a natural person to be listed makes doing business too unsafe so I guess the tax havens and privacy-centric countries will be the future as will any form of business that doesn't require a 'natural person' to be listed publicly. The other thing that scares me is this insane demand for global minimum tax. If a country doesn't want to tax its citizens, then as long as those citizens genuinely live there full-time, why should they have to be taxed because some other country doesn't like other countries not imposing taxes on citizens. The model shown in the video still requires the relevant entities to pay taxes, it just enables the owner to live full-time in a tax haven and not pay any personal income tax in the tax haven. The business does however pay taxes where its registered. Once all tax havens are gone, there'll be nothing to stop governments taxing everyone at 100% and there'll be no way to succeed. To me, this push for huge taxes is driven by: * Countries with huge welfare states and they can't keep paying welfare so they want all the money they can get * By the Elite who want to keep us all poor so they can stay hugely rich and then control us by controlling all of life's necessities. The public are blinded by "hivemind" and group-think based on emotion and ill thought out logic and are being used to usher in a new era of slavery where the 99% are the slaves to the 1% (the Elite). We all need tax havens and as few taxes as possible. On that note - I often get asked how do tax havens make money - its easy: * Business Licences (annual) - $80,000+ - commonly they become a % of company income once the company income exceeds a certain amount * Import & Export Duties * Tourism * Property Tax (Sometimes commercial only, sometimes both commercial and private) * Citizenship By Investment That provides all the money they need. The governments aren't bloated, money doesn't get wasted and the people don't get taxed on personal income. Consider how much is wasted on verifying tax compliance each year. Think how much gets wasted on chasing old mate Bob for those $2 he accidentally forgot to declare. The compliance side is costing more than collection but to the government the compliance, fear and control is as important as is the money - hence they literally waste huge amounts of money!
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  700. It sounds very similar to the several cases of "stuck on cruise control" that happened in Australia a few years ago. The first few times the drivers were arrested and labelled as liars. Only when they worked together to try to replicate the problem on a closed track with engineers and hardware hackers did they finally determine the existence of an intermittent fault in one case and in another case, a certain very specific order of events that caused a bit flip in one bad part of a RAM chip. None of the "stuck on cruise control" cases in Australia had any onboard logs showing the cruise control being stuck "on" in the vehicles onboard systems and controllers when checked by law enforcement. Not taking any sides but there's nothing to say it isn't an intermittent fault or the result of a bad part of a RAM chip causing a bit flip. Could just be the one bad unit that was missed in QC. Could also be a result of a spark or a solder error on a BGA chip that could be potentially missed in QC if things were being rushed.
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  701. The Caribbean CBI countries but unless you're rich and have an absolutely spotless record and a degree as a skilled professional (engineer, doctor, lawyer, etc.) you won't qualify for their CBI programs. Otherwise its the big tax havens but they require you to be worth 100+ million.
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  702. Then they'll continue to do as they've been doing recently - making it very hard to do so. Also note that just because you pay the fee and any "exit taxes", doesn't mean that they have to accept your renouncing. They can simply refuse to accept your renouncing and guess what? You're stuck as a US citizen. The more people leave, the more they'll clamp down. A good example is Australia's travel ban during the plandemic - officially it was for "health" reasons but in recent months, its been revealed that it was to "trap wealth in Australia because too many people were leaving". Ironically, Australia, since "dropping the travel ban" have done exactly what I said they would, they've kept the law they used to close the border (a complete travel ban) but they've expanded the default "exemption" to permit anyone to travel who isn't considered a threat to Australia. Note that "a threat to Australia" specifically includes "large wealth or businesses leaving the country". Basically, if you're well off in Australia, you're trapped unless you want to leave your wealth or business behind and if you do so, you're stuck in the Australian tax net until that wealth and/or business leaves the country or goes to nothing.
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  703.  @xavieramoros6954  You're actually not a loser but a fool of the greatest magnitude. You clearly never read and studied the Art of War. I say this because you're so dogmatic that you think that staying, attempting to fight for change that less than 1% of society wants, is somehow the solution. That's the path to guaranteeing your own destruction. Why do you want to be self destructive? Its literally better to know which battles to fight, which ones to ignore but still at the end, win the war. Leave with resources, go where you're treated best and increase your resources. When the homeland has fallen, completely collapsed and the masses finally get a clue and the 99% of society want things fixed, consider helping/returning then. Currently less than 1% want to fix anything, the 99% love their failing country because its a wonderful welfare state of govt handouts for them. Losing everything to maintain "courage" is stupid and pointless. Real courage is to go against the mainstream and live to fight another day. It take absolutely no courage to follow the masses off a cliff, it takes the world of courage to tell them they're wrong and that they'll go off without you. The fact you think idiocy is required along with mocking people as having no courage because they are smarter than you tells everyone here that you're likely a coward, too scared to take a risk and thrive; that you'd rather go down with the moronic masses. It is you who are lost/brainwashed.
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  704.  @samcarpenter4347  And achieve what? Go down with the ship? They won't EVER leave on their own. Its better to leave now and live to fight another day. As Sun Tzu said - fight them on the battlefield of your choosing, on your own terms, never theirs.
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  705.  @Igoriann  The reason people don't want to get qualified is usually because they're in a country such as Australia where it takes forever to get qualified (TAFE & mandatory apprenticeship) for things that could be solely taught at TAFE in practical hands on classes (i.e. plumbing and gas fitting, electrical work (electrician)). 3-6yrs (course + apprenticeship as both are mandatory) to get qualified as a plumber (assuming you can land the apprenticeship - a requirement to even enroll in the course) VS 4yrs getting a degree and getting a job in another country where you get paid well. Also, the more bureaucracy the govt creates, the more people leave as they can't be bothered with jumping through more hoops and paperwork. The primary cause of this is govt's trying to keep everyone in education and to eliminate every single risk / injury down to paper-cuts. A lot of people are also being kept out of industries because they have a relative already in that industry. In Australia, if you have a relative already working in any medical field, you're automatically prohibited from doing the exam required to enter medical courses so that "the same families don't keep taking all the places and not letting other people have a go". So you get this situation where those other people don't want to do medicine and because the govt prohibit anyone with relatives in medicine from getting qualified, there happen to be huge shortages and thus the govt brings in "skilled migrant workers" because "there's no one in Australia who wants to work". People are sick of this BS, no matter what industry they're in. Then there's people such as myself who got qualified in their industry (engineering), only to have the govt regulate us out of work by having excessive requirements in order to register under the newly introduced mandatory registration, requirements that make zero sense for the industry, so, I went overseas where my qualifications were happily accepted without any of the BS. As for people who want to sit at home and make money - its easy. Plenty of people get paid to do work from home as freelancers, writers, programmers, web designers, etc. A lot have got into financial trading (day trading, etc.). "When the rules of the game keep changing every time you come close to winning, the only way to win, is to not play the game!" This quote is exactly what people are doing, they're pivoting, going overseas to where they're treated best and / or simply not playing the unwinnable game.
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  706. LOL - good luck boycotting absolutely every company and every product. Its impossible to be competitive with AI unless you use AI. The "elites" have made a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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  707. They did. FreeCAD is supposed to be the opensource version of CATIA. CATIA is simple to use, powerful and can do everything. The workflow is based on the workbench model. If you know CATIA, FreeCAD is natural. Autodesk 'products' are pure junk and don't conform to industry standards (i.e. there is no 'bolt' constraint on ANY CAD/CAM/CAE software except Autodesk).
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  708.  @karlomihalusdianovski5275  AutoCAD isn't a standard - its just the most sold program due to Autodesk's questionable at best practice of giving their software to universities (who are then bound to only teach that program) so that students then expect employers to have it. Autodesk will NEVER support anything other than Windows & cloud as that's been their corporate path of decline. Heck, they only gained CAE capabilities when they bought (and ruined) ALGOR. Look into 2D CAD software that runs on linux. There's plenty commercial (BricsCAD, VariCAD, ARES Commander) and plenty that are opensource (ARCAD, LibreCAD, QCAD). If the 2D CAD packages that exist aren't sufficient then there might be a market gap for you to fill. I hope some of the programs mentioned help you get that native linux support you need.
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  709. Because people comply, quite often voluntarily (i.e. before it becomes laws). I know people hate talking about firearms but that's where it started - they slowly brought in restrictions that they knew the majority wouldn't care about. This conditioned people that 'bans are good', then they kept banning things. Now its seen as normal to ban everything and basically no one ever objects, so the govt keep doing it. Its the same in all of CANZUK & CUNA.
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  710. Only the highest level UN staff are given the Laissez Passer that looks like a normal passport. There is a lesser known version that is a double sided page which was given to people fleeing Europe at the end of WW2 and during the couple of times during the Cold War where the USSR permitted some people to leave. This double sided page version hasn't been issued since 1980 as by then, most countries simply introduced refugee visas that don't require a passport as the visa has the persons photo and other details on it. Interpol have their own equivalent but its not a Laissez Passer - their's is purely a Interpol travel document with "INTERPOL" where the country name would otherwise be and in some places must be used with a valid normal or official passport.
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  711. There's zero legitimate need to be in a shop-front, unless you're a takeaway joint. You can 100% do your business online - heard of sending and receiving packages?
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  712. Fixing (i.e. paying) the debt is easy. If the "western" world quit being bloody welfare states, they'd be able to pay down the debt which would dramatically shrink the interest payments. But no, instead of having pain now whilst the debt is relatively low (when compared to 2050 estimates), they'd rather keep delaying, increasing the debt, debasing the dollar and gearing up for the collapse to end all collapses. If they dealt with it now and had pain, it'd be bad but survivable. By delaying it, they're all but guaranteeing their absolute destruction / collapse from which no one will survive. If they hope that this will drive people to CBDC as it might look "attractive", then they're fooling themselves as many are waking up to the truth of what a CBDC is and why they're dangerous. Basically, the west is destroying itself and will cease to exist when it all comes crashing down. It is very likely that the Euro will take over as the global reserve currency as its used by at least 28 countries who collectively contain the richest people in the world. Whilst the 3rd world thinks its gonna do well with BRICS, they're delusional. Ironically, every country that joins BRICS is immediately cut off from trade with the west (some exceptions apply such as China because they're still deemed essential at the moment) as they're trading with a sanctioned country (Russia) which thanks to ITAR prohibits trade and assistance to any country that trades with a sanctioned country. Its actually quite surprising how many daily used items are actually subject to ITAR. Their assumptions are based on "the west, especially Europe needs us". Providing that Central and Eastern Europe continue to do things themselves (i.e. manufacturing, advanced manufacturing, farming, mining, etc.) then there is no need for the 3rd world as far as trade is concerned. This is good for the Euro because it means that if the 3rd world want aid, food, products and services, they'll need to obtain them from Europe if they can't obtain it from themselves. This means that they'll have to pay on the terms of Europe - i.e. Euros. Their only other option would be to pay in bullion - this is the opposite flow that BRICS want; they expect the world to pay them in bullion, not for them to pay the rest of the world. Ever since the '2020 thing', a lot of manufacturing has moved back to Central and Eastern Europe, the war in Ukraine has only helped accelerate this process due to sanctions and trade / export bans.
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  713.  @dontwastetimetoday493  Legally it can't and never will. Its illegal to insure something more than once at any given time. If your neighbours policy covered your house as a neighbour, then you wouldn't be able to insure your own house as it would already be covered. What'll happen is that insurance companies will declare the policy invalid if any lithium type battery is the cause or they'll flat out reject any application for a policy in the first place. EV caused fires and fires from other lithium type batteries are far more common than the media let on, the WEF and govts are censoring the media and search results under the guise of "preventing the spread of misinformation". Straight from the horses mouth (WEF): Watch from 9:49 to 21:18, then 43:10 onwards at a minimum, I'd recommend you watch the full thing to fully understand how insane the WEF are. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnarHXcGN8M Then, there's a short clip from the above video on Rukshan's channel of the above video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKoAoPi8sc0
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  714. Basically with Australia, its at their discretion, not yours so if they deem it in the country's best interests they'll refuse to let you renounce. Until the '2020 thing' is over and the place returns to the old normal (not gonna ever happen) they aren't permitting renouncing citing "State of Emergency" - my neighbour told me this is what he was told when he looked into it (he was going to leave but is stuck due to restrictions). Also with the travel bans - even if you're allowed to leave, if you're under 50 and highly skilled you'll be required to return or face arrest and prosecution for breach of contract (exemption contract) if you don't return so given you have to return, you can't renounce.
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  715. Its not even just about "service", its about shattering the hopes, dream and aspirations of the youth. Modern societies forcibly steal your money (taxes), force you to study (mandatory education and training for licences and permits), force you to pay for licences and permits to do anything, then dictate your life as you need a place to live and the means to feed and clothe yourself. The only freedom people have is to pursue their dreams. By forcibly pushing people to serve the state the moment they finish their education, the window of opportunity to follow their dreams or move somewhere vanishes. The reason is because "service" is either BS pay or no pay at all. That means that the moment the "service" is up, they have no choice but to work like mad to get the money to "stay afloat". This makes pursuing dreams or moving abroad impossible as that requires time and money. Also, given that modern societies demand the world, dictate everything and are all take, take, take, what exactly does ANYONE owe them? Utterly nothing. No one chooses to be part of a society until they move to a different country, they are born into a society that controls, dictates and entraps them for their first 18-21yrs (mandatory schooling). If you gain nothing from a society, if its far-left extremist communist values are the opposite of your values, then you owe them nothing. Also, many societies make you pay for absolutely everything unless your family is completely broke.
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  716. Its not even about the stock portfolios, its the taxes and over regulation that makes it not worth doing business.
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  717. No different to getting a visa and then naturalizing - the only difference is the name and the timeline. As long as its a LEGAL program the country has then its genuine citizenship.
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  718. Nothing wrong with being a Commonwealth nation, there's a lot of countries that still are but are 100% independent. St. Lucia is good because its a full member of OECS which gives you freedom of movement to the other 6 full member OECS countries. Look at the bigger picture and stop trying to focus on a single issue as if you focus on a single issue you'll NEVER do anything as everywhere has a single issue that makes the place bad.
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  719. The reality is you need both - good luck paying bills and taxes with crypto.
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  720.  @xXx-lfg  Not sure which locations you're talking about but you can't do any of that in CANZUK, CUNA, the EU and most of Asia. None of them accept crypto for anything as far as bills and crypto are concerned. As for tokenization of assets, only things tokenized by the govt on their blockchains have any legal validity as they're ensuring there's zero competition for their CBDC's.
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  721. That's why the masses are brainwashed, compliant sheep and also why the "elites" have private armies protecting them. Also, note that they're ready to lock everyone up - all of CANZUK/CUNA are building prisons in record numbers at the same time - they only build what they plan on using. Note that this is on top of the global FEMA camps that are concealed in all major cities - note the types of fences used (tall, angles in, funnels that go to doors only (as seen at schools) not into yards, etc.).
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  722. A 'licence for a fire' - never heard of that before. Also, what's with Europe and the whole no campfire thing? I can understand they don't want large bonfires, but what's the problem with campfires for cooking and for sitting around. Sure bushfires need to be avoided (they're a huge problem in Australia) but Australia's never had an issue with a 'fire for a purpose'. A quick Google search even shows that camp stoves (Trangia, Jetboil, etc.) are all illegal to use in forests. What's going on with Europe? Its like the whole place is anti-camping and basically already 15-minute cities. Pure insanity. Oh and incase anyone listened to that fool of an 'instructor', there are ONLY 3 priorities of survival (Protection, Water, Food). Location is irrelevant as its part of protection but truly subordinate to protection as protection from dangers, weather, etc. is location independent.
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  723. Glad you have only a handful of dishes and don't value your time at all - if you had to wash 8 people's worth of dishes (brekkie, lunch and dinner) every day you'd want a dishwasher. The reason to use a dishwasher is, you fill in (2 mins max), you start it and walk away; you also use 6L of water per cycle, VS the 25L+ that handwashing uses. Those of us whose time is precious and who don't want to waste 1hr doing the dishes in the evening use dishwashers to give us back the time we'd otherwise be spending washing the dishes. Also, you don't get back problems from using a dishwasher. I gather you're retired and have all the time in the world so wasting time handwashing dishes doesn't matter?
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  724.  @samanthahardy9903  Look at the Citizenship By Investment (CBI) countries - specifically those with 0% Personal Income Tax as they are 'tax havens'. Also, Vanuatu has 0% PIT. Otherwise is the super expensive Cayman Islands, BVI's, Monaco, etc. Only the tax havens will remain as free places because that's where the 'elites' live and they will NEVER live under the BS that they want to force upon us.
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  725. Crown Dependencies are 100% autonomous if their people are BOTC's. Basically they decide everything themselves (laws, taxes, etc.) and the UK provides consular services on their behalf as well as defence (army, airforce, navy). Beyond that even UK citizens need permits to move to all of them, though the process for a UK citizen to move to them is easier but that's only the case for Gibraltar, the Isle of Man and Sark, beyond that its the same as everyone else.
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  726. No excuse - its no different in Australia for those who rejected the poison. The plandemic showed just how criminal and treasonous the govt and cops are. It also showed that basically 95% of people are all Nazi scum and will do exactly what the govt tells them to do because they all lack the ability to think for themselves and the ability to find their own fu****g business! Honestly, since the plandemic, only a complete and utter slave moron would ever do anything for countries like Australia. I doubt any pureblood (those who didn't take the poison) would ever fight for Australia - many would happily fight against it, why... because since the plandemic started, purebloods have been treated like Jews were in Nazi Germany in the 1930's - many got thrown in "quarantine" camps for refusing the poison or for daring to work remotely without the poison. Fun fact, all the plandemic restrictions (except for house arrest and curfew which innocent people had to suffer under for 2.5yrs) still apply in the states of VIC, TAS, NSW, QLD & SA as they chose to keep them, and, during the plandemic, made it legal to discriminate against anyone based on "vaccination" status; the irony is when purebloods use the law against the jabbed they can't stand it and go to court only to be told its legal as the law permits such discrimination.
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  727.  @rayngmelb  Why are you trying to change the topic to China? No one is discussing China.
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  728.  @pwslattery  Nuclear energy and everything related to it is banned in all of Australia thanks to a previous government pandering to The Greens. There is only 1 "research reactor" that is exempt from the ban but the Greens have been trying to get it shutdown in recent years claiming that nuclear energy is incompatible with the climate and environment. Storing waste other than Australian nuclear waste from before the ban, isn't ever going to happen as long as The Greens are in power and as long as people still think that modern storage methods and reactors are as dangerous as Chernobyl. A lot of waste is currently being stored in the exclusion zone near Chernobyl in a newly built facility. People feel negatively about the economy because the governments in Australia love wasting and spending money with the solution of "increase taxes" when they need more money. The Australian economy has been going downhill for a long time and is only going to continue to do so in the foreseeable future.
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  729.  @lukeey2011  Sadly, that's how they win. Outsiders looking at China see their social credit system for what it is. If however you ask a local in China they'll say how its for "safety" and "it's fair and justified" and how it "never affects them" because they grew up in it. The reason dictators and regimes love to purge isn't just to remove dissenters, but to ensure that there aren't people who remember the "old days and the old ways". When people grow up in tyranny they see it as normal as they've never known freedom. Its best exemplified with the bird example: A bird is locked in a cage and wants to break free because it grew up free and able to do what it wants. Some other birds are put into the cage however these other birds were born in captivity and raised in a cage. They don't understand why the old bird wants to break out when live is "wonderful" in the cage - they think the old bird is crazy. The old bird eventually dies and the cage is removed. In reality now that the cage is gone, all the birds are free and can leave whenever they want, however they remain where they are because they love the cage and think its normal. They have no desire to leave the area that was enclosed by the cage. The only way to be free is to know true freedom and to hold onto it at all costs. Looking back at old stories, Robin Hood was truly free, as were the well known stories of the pirates. This sense of true freedom is one of the main reasons the stories of both Robin Hood and the pirates have been loved by many for centuries. In recent years, Robin Hood is no longer mentioned, read or thought of because the youth of today are taught only about "how horrible Robin Hood and Pirates were" and "how you shouldn't be like them because following rules without question is what matters".
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  730. Its simple - you are the carbon they want to reduce (net carbon zero).
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  731. You miss the point - every country can cover the pensions and health system for their natural born citizens - its all the illegals that have been let in that are all on welfare that's killing the country financially. If the country rounded up all the illegals, stripped them of Austrian citizenship that they shouldn't have ever been given, and, sent them back to Africa where they came from, the country would suddenly start being affordable and working well again. The same BS is ruining Australia - the govt keep claiming 'there's not enough people to do the work and pay the taxes' but they keep importing 3rd scum who end up on eternal welfare, who then bring their families under 'reunification visas' who also get on welfare. That's 1 million people each year and it never stops. 185,000 homes are all that can be built in a year, the cities are now sprawling over the good farmland so food now has to be imported at a huge rate, and due to the housing shortage, all local kids who grow up and need homes have nothing available, they can't afford the millions to buy a home, and they're taxed to death. Because the govt only looks at migration, it never considers any of the locals, that they might need houses, that they might be trying to start working. They just don't care because migration is a 'get rich quick' ponzi scheme to bleed the public dry through taxation. Why do you think most politicians are involved in 'big business' - so they get rich by ruining countries. They also love the high crime that the illegals cause because it justifies ever more tyrannical laws and powers to the state.
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  732. Over a million because many countries want to see $100k+ minimum annual income (that will continue once living there) before they'll grant residence permits. Remember, most residence permits require you to buy an apartment or a house.
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  733. @MahyarTousiTV Sadly this law was given automatic (i.e. signed without a care in the world) Royal Assent by the Australian Governor General. Many people protested this and many petitions tried to stop it. The reality is that the govt ignores the people and does what it wants - especially since the plandemic. As for this DigitalID BS - its only the govt claming "its so hard and dangerous carrying an ID card - we need digital ID". I for one refuse to have it. Heck I know many people who walked away from good jobs and left the country because they refused to use MyGov digital ID to deal with the ATO. The reason they want this BS is because they want to roll out CBDC by Christmas. The plandemic was a test run of tyranny - now the real thing is happening.
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  734.  obimk1-ms1jw  So you're not an engineer as "automotive" isn't a field of engineering (mechanical, civil, electrical, chemical and biomedical). I am a Mechanical Engineer and I have read Euro 7 in full as its being forced upon AU, NZ and CAN by 2028 so preparations are under way to keep businesses alive (though many will have to surrender most vehicles). Not sure why you think trying to have a pissing match on qualifications has any relevance as regardless you clearly haven't fully read, nor do you understand Euro 7. Euro 7 exists in two parts that must be used together: 1) The Euro 7 Standard 2) The Mandates For Implementing Euro 7 Whilst you are correct about part 1, you've completely ignored part 2 which is the part that says that in order to implement Euro 7, only vehicles that comply with Euro 6 or Euro 7 are permitted for use by the public. This means that older vehicles aren't in compliance with Euro 6 or 7 and thus can't be used (except for Classic Historic (75yrs+ old, all original parts) which get 45 permit days a year). This is the issue. Think this is BS - look at Australia, New Zealand and Canada who are all implementing Euro 7 by 2028 - all vehicles that aren't Euro 6 at a minimum won't be allowed to be used - its already been declared on TV by the PM's. As for people dying - that's pollution and life choices. It has nothing to do with vehicles. Case in point, compare the air quality of the streets in London to the underground. The underground is so polluted it shouldn't be legally allowed to operate as the air is completely unsafe. The air on the roads barely leaves the bottom range of pollution that is acceptable. Also, if you care so much about pollution then get all the filthy EV's off the road - the particulate from their brakes (only the upper end EV's use ramp stop breaking (slowing the motor to slow the vehicle), cheap ones all use disc brakes) and tyres, as well as the extra damage they cause to the roads due to their excessive weight creates far more pollution than old Bob in his 40yr old car.
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  735.  @buzzard720  Not playing any games - I just refuse to be dictated to by tyrants, cowards and sheep. I don't understand why you want to just "roll over" and be oppressed by tyrannical regimes? Don't you like having rights and freedoms? Also, where's the 17yrs coming from? 2030 is only 6yrs away?
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  736.  @tshepishochuene1280  You failed reading comprehension and you are out of touch with reality. No one said the nature isn't beautiful. SA is a violent crime infested, commie, racist hellhole, that has repeatedly told whites to "leave or die", the govt of which sung "kill the boer" as part of its platform, that actively enabled the farm murders (only way for military signal jammers to be available to the attackers), and the govt repeatedly said that the "west" and 'outside influences' aren't welcome in any capacity. The new govt (GNU) will likely not achieve much (due to riots and protests by those who reject change and having to work), or they won't be re-elected and the govt that replaces them will undo everything the GNU did. The reality is that in order to fix things, communism, racism and BEE need to be abolished, crime needs extreme punishments and that collectively results in a much worse period of life in order to implement. When that is attempted, the 99% will reject it, riot and change will fail. Once people are used to doing as they like and not having to work or 'go without', forcing them into that NEVER works. This is why SA isn't going to change any time soon, this is why Occupied-Rhodesia will NEVER get farmers to return and will NEVER get foreign investment. Unlike the 99% of people in any country who are dumb sheep, the 1% who are the ones with money and can invest, are the ones who can and do remember just what these places did to them in the past. Thus they aren't going to let it happen a second time, hence they avoid the place forever. African countries want to function without the 'west' and without non-African people, are now getting what they want and its resulting in their collapse as the rest of the world DOESN'T need them. Without foreign investment and without foreign trade, there's zero way for African countries to succeed as it takes money to make money. The decline of most of the countries in Africa is only beginning. The best example is the countries that recently ejected the French - they're now 100% sanctioned (no business, aid or trade) as Russian puppet states because they let Russian mercenaries kick out the French and are now considered to be Russian by the 'western' world.
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  737.  @trollingizlife2298  Same difference - both are just as bad as each other...
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  738. Simpler solution because you can't have a society where people produce nothing - that always fails and always will. Ban AI before it becomes sentient and wipes out all life on the planet. The other thing is to reduce taxes on income and to reduce govt caused operating costs and payroll and stock taxes (these shouldn't exist) to encourage people to have people perform work instead of automating. Automation has been taking over as without using robots and computers to do the work, there would be absolutely no profitability for the business - it would run at a loss (remember its not just a wage and super that have to be paid, there's payroll tax, reporting fees for gender equality report submission and anti-modern day slavery reporting, stock tax, intellectual property tax (more staff moves this tax to a higher percentage), etc.). The fewer staff, the more viable a business becomes thanks to "just tax them more" mentality.
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  739. Until they amend this and you can't... just saying...
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  740.  @antiageing  You'll either pay 100% tax or they'll leave taxes and use an always hyperinflating UBI. Don't think for a moment that they'll use their own UBI - that only for you and I (the plebs). They already think that printing more money is good - do you really think they won't just make a UBI that keeps making tokens? They already plan on the UBI/CBDC being fully programmable and being able to both limit what you buy and where you can buy things, they also intend to be able to adjust your balance as they see fit.
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  741. And anyone who isn't in a low or zero tax net already is screwed as they'd have to wait till the next tax year before not having to pay taxes on their crypto to their high tax net... High tax countries will take everything you have before they let you go...
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  742. LOL - "crypto" is a project that the NWO created because they decided to outsource the creation of CBDC to the masses. The masses stupidly (and blindly) lapped it up and created exactly what the powers that be wanted - they made crypto 100% transparent, programmable, geofencable, able to expire, able to be frozen, introduced functionality for negative interest rates, etc. The people created CBDC. If you think I'm crazy, ask yourself why are privacy coins being hated by the authorities - because they work and are private. Satoshi Nakamoto is: Samsung, Toshiba, Nakamichi, and Motorola No individual or other group has the money, means or combined resources and intelligence to create crypto in the first place. They all are "in bed" with the govt as they are ALL defence contractors/developers and they all stand to gain from the implementation of CBDC's.
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  743. One thing everyone seems to miss is the intentional congestion being caused by intentionally out-of-sync lights. Every major road in Victoria, Australia has lights that are set to congest traffic as much as possible and to ensure that there's no where to go when you get a green light (as the other roads has filled the area and have a red light). They think this will force people out of cars - reality is it hasn't, won't and never will. All its achieved is insane road rage, everyone is generally pissed-off permanently, huge pollution and congestion. Oh and the govt are pushing propaganda on the radio about how "traffic calming is decreasing travel times, saving the climate and increasing safety" - everyone know that's utter BS.
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  744. Because they aren't immigrants - they are expats - those words have two different meanings: Expat - someone who lives in a country for a while and then lives in others. No intent to stay indefinitely. I.e. Flag Theory Immigrant - someone who moves to a country intending to stay indefinitely
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  745. @fredbear2648 How do you propose the average person do that? The harsh reality is that the only way to legally do that is to get a visa and start on the long path of naturalization in a country that will issue a relevant visa. I highly doubt that Survival Lilly has any 'citizenship by descent' pathway outside of the EU so its not like she can get a passport abroad through her family tree. Citizenship By Investment is only for the mega rich as its both expensive and designed to reject those who aren't 7-8 figure high net worth entrepreneurs, so its not an option. Also keep in mind that in the modern era, the whole world is getting much more insular and the pathways to move are vanishing - visas are being ended (i.e. no new ones being issued), pathways to naturalization are being made significantly harder, and even marriage pathways are being closed thanks to too many people doing 'sham marriages'. What exactly do you propose she do, and where do you propose she go? Remember, this isn't the pre-1900 era where you could freely change countries and move abroad.
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  746. @eng.terzievkostadin223 that's what global data sharing is about. If they aren't sure, they'll ask the USA, UK, Can, AU, NZ, etc.
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  747. LOL - UBI is 100% impossible to implement unless only a select group get it and the rest are taxed out of existence. UBI will NEVER happen because there's nowhere for the money to come from - its a race to the bottom. AI and the tech dystopia will simply bring suffering and homelessness to everyone who isn't part of the 'elite'. Debt HAS to be paid even if that means complete economic collapse and the country falls apart, it can't just disappear or be ignored.
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  748. Letting Russia 'win' and ensuring that WW3 finally takes off is hugely controversial. The only reason Ukraine haven't won is because the 'west' won't let them use the equipment how they want, whilst Putina is happily doing just that with his equipment and hitting everything everywhere in Ukraine. This is 100% what Nazi Germany did in the 1930's - invade everywhere, the 'west' say 'please stop', Nazi Germany laughs and just ignores it - the result was WW2 because the 'west' happily and intentionally refused to help stop the threat whilst it was possible. Russia is currently stoppable, the 'west' are once again too gutless and cowardly to do so as they'd rather have WW3 take off because $$$$$$. Simply put, if Ukraine's borders aren't restored, Russia will simply take the 'win' and immediately attack the Baltics, Finland and Poland. That means WW3 on full scale.
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  749. He can't as its 100% illegal sadly. That's because too many voluntarily bent over and let the govt ream them, so now we all have to suffer. Its only getting worse.
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  750. Its rarely easy with any government as they don't have to accept/permit it. For now most will permit it subject to proving you have another citizenship so you don't become stateless and providing you have paid any final taxes / exit taxes, etc. Just remember its a one-way process - once you renounce, there's no going back - your a foreigner.
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  751. He'd have to likely make one of a discreet colour. I've noticed that in the EU, CANZUK & CUNA countries, all the camping gear is now primarily available in bright highly visible colours and that things that are discreet or OD Green (olive-drab) are getting harder (and more expensive) to get. The more they try to force everyone to stay in the cities, the more they restrict the gear. These days, in CAN, AU & NZ the only real way to get good, modern equipment that is OD green (or camo) is to be a licenced hunter as only hunting supplies are easily available in those colours.
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  752.  @mikemcdonald5147  Doesn't have to be tacticool, doesn't need to be camo, even a plain dark grey would work. Basically anything that isn't neon/fluro and of a colour that would disappear 20ft from a path is needed. The cover on his pack is visible from the metaphorical 'mile away'.
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  753.  @myname-mz3lo  Still doesn't change the fact that he's making himself a target by being as obvious as possible. In Europe, there's more people than in the USA, and unlike the USA, most people in Europe aren't prepared and would happily resort to taking from others in order to 'survive'. Lastly, if you think that things will be different in Europe than the USA, simply because 'firearms' then you're truly deluded. Many EU countries, including France and Czechia, have very liberal firearm laws and very high ownership of firearm rates; that's not counting all the illegally held firearms that the criminals have. Police seizures of illegally held firearms account for less than 1% of all illegally held firearms. Extrapolate the real number and realize that things are as bad, if not worse in Europe because most people are defenseless and will likely fall victim to the criminals who are armed.
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  754.  @RRaymer  You're need to go see what Polish wages actually are. They're higher than most of Europe, assuming you are a highly qualified professional and not some basic low-skilled worker. The other thing to look at is the buying power. What 10 Zl will buy in Poland is a lot more than what 10 quid will buy in the UK. The more buying power, the better.
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  755. Try having friends that all helped each other find women who love them, whom they married and had kids with. Every time I've either dated a woman they always either ruin the relationship, or when I've asked them to help me find a partner they refuse to help. That's western society for you - completely fucked! Maybe I should ruin their relationships / marriages to teach them a lesson...
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  756.  @greatchalla3799  You can thank all the 'behind the scenes taxes' that the employee NEVER sees for that. Payroll tax is a big one, as are 'payroll social taxes' which the company has to pay before they pay a wage to an employee. There's also a bunch of levies that they have to pay for simply having employees. The government has been raising these in the last 10yrs, every year without fail. The result is companies can't afford to increase wages with inflation, nor can they keep the same number of staff. This is the problem of the 'west' being a welfare state where the bulk of people are on welfare. Oh and don't forget all the new taxes, levies and changes of OHS laws which often require more reports from companies regularly, and often require new safety equipment to be bought and installed for zero actual improvement in safety. For example Australia just banned blaze orange from factories and warehouses, saying that the fluro-green is 1% more visible and thus now required, whilst construction, port and rail all have now required blaze orange with dual reflective bands on arms, legs and the body. That's a huge expense for businesses and that's only one example of stupid BS that does nothing for safety.
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  757. The last three years showed that complete global coordination of WEF countries was 100% possible. All the media were reading the identical script and pushing the one narrative. This is all achieved throught the Young Global Leaders Program of the WEF - heads of state, key politicians and business leaders are all WEF YGL alumni and this is why all the "Great Reset", "15/20 minute neighbourhood's" and "C40" stuff is actually taking hold of our lives regardless of who's elected - the WEF own everyone essential to push their tyranny.
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  758.  @incomingincoming1133  Clearly those people have no lives and never do anything because they have the time to literally sit for hours everywhere waiting to charge their EV. Whether the EVangelists like it or not, ICE vehicles will ALWAYS be faster to refuel and easier to go on long trips with as extra fuel can be carried. The other thing everyone ignores is that EV's are commonly 2-4 times heavier than their ICE counterparts which means much more expensive annual registration (as its done by weight), they're banned from most tunnels in most of CANZUK and CUNA just like placarded loads (for the same safety reasons) and they destroy the roads faster due to their increased weight. Then there's the issue of them not being insurable due to the risks and harms of EV fires - insurance companies just won't take the chance anymore in an ever increasing number of areas. Also, most people refuse to pay $80,000+ for a vehicle (this is the real price of most EV's when you ignore the taxpayer funded "incentives" and subsidies that only exist in "woke" areas) PLUS the $25,000 required to go to 3-phase power as most normal people don't have the time to waste hoping the EV will charge overnight fully. Also, with ICE vehicles there's no need to sit and plan your travel to ensure you can find working chargers, you just go out and know that you're always near a servo and if not, you chuck a Jerrycan in the boot. You're making the 250 miles a day number up because that ignores AC on full blast due to 35-40 degree Celsius weather, pulling a trailer or sitting in traffic - EV's suck at doing these things that the AC & pulling trailers kills the battery much quicker than just driving the EV only. 150-250 miles a day is a quiet day's worth of driving for most people in USA, CAN & AU. Seriously - what tiny EU country do you live in? You claim you only have to charge your EV twice a month - do you never drive to the supermarket or anywhere else? Do you not live in a tiny freezing cold winter which drains batteries rapidly? Just going to the supermarket is 25km each way. The shopping centre is 30km each way. Work is 80km each way. That's AU for you. EV's might work in the pathetically small EU countries but in real countries USA, CAN, AU they every will and are completely impractical. Also, most people can't afford to own more than one vehicle so the one vehicle must be usable around town and out in the bush camping (usually a 1 week or longer trip without returning to town) - EV's just don't work. Also, you can use close to the same amount of fuel in constant stop-start traffic like the traffic caused by the ever decreasing speed limits and road narrowings. Claiming that people who need to drive a lot are "rare" is like saying people are "rare" on this planet. Every time someone tells me "you're the exception" to literally everything on every topic, I always tell them "if I and everyone I know is always the exception, that you're the only one who thinks otherwise, then you're the exception and we're the majority".
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  759. The article lies - the IRS are now arming their agents. There are literally job ads that mention it. The Kwak Brothers did a video on this. This was sadly expected when about 6yrs ago the IRS bought literally millions of rounds of ammo via govt tender.
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  760. They literally won't become high density apartments - the only way to turn them into housing is to demolish and rebuild as apartment towers. Commercial buildings lack the utilities to be turned into housing and you can't just jackhammer structural parts (floors, ceilings and columns) to add them - such utilities need to be designed into the building.
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  761. The reality is that the only solution is to legally abolish AML/KYC. Until this rubbish is abolished, it will be impossible for anyone to function unless they bend to the "woke" banks. The reality of AML/KYC is that it only exists as a weapon against the "little guy" and as a way to force people to be under the thumb of banks. Currently, the only way to be AML/KYC compliant is to have your money in a bank. Have crypto and want to use it? You're screwed as if you've held it on a Hardware Wallet or moved it through other wallets (for privacy or convenience) its 100% impossible to prove as being AML/KYC compliant. The same applies to bullion. Bought an ounce here and there or been gifted an ounce or two, now want to sell it? You have zero way to pass AML/KYC compliance as there is no valid trail that meets the current and ever-changing AML/KYC standard. Banks should have zero right to try to force their politics, social BS and beliefs upon anyone. They exist only to provide banking as a service and need to be forced back to doing only that. This AML/KYC BS comes from the same scumbag behind ESG - Klaus Schwab & his WEF! If AML/KYC didn't exist everyone would be able to keep their money locked up at home in a safe and spend it how they like which would fix the problem. Also note that banks are already restricting purchases of products that the bank doesn't "align" with, no matter the legality of the product.
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  762. Then the bastards will copy Nazi Germany and introduce a 99% 'exit tax' so you can't leave unless you flee the country without getting 'signed out' officially. Its like trying to escape the Iron Curtain and East Germany. Australiastan is doing everything it can to keep skilled people from being able to leave the country - licence audits, jury duty, etc. all so they can keep you stuck in the country unable to legally leave. Oh and that's on top of their plandemic travel ban (2020-2023).
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  763. I'm pretty sure that anyone there on a VISA has to - I know its a requirement for an ESTA for tourism and business.
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  764. Clearly you ignore that you can't do that without AML/KYC, not to mention the on and off ramps are closed in the 'west' so you can't even try. Once they have one wallet tied to your govt issued ID, they can easily following the money. Most 'western' countries' tax offices now have entire datacentres dedicated to tracing crypto to ensure they get the insane taxes they levy on crypto.
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  765.  @Ghekko-kw3zz  In every country I was referring to, only criminals were stripped of citizenship. Govt's always make you a criminal then target you / strip citizenship. Look at the UK where the act of praying in your house visible from the footpath, and hurting someones feelings are both now crimes that hold long jail sentences. No one ever thought those things would ever become serious crimes. How long until the same is said of having dual/multi citizenships and / or of having wealth? The 'west' is collapsing and govt's will target anyone who they can in order to 'stay in control'. Australia and the UK are both known to have illegally stripped people of citizenship in the last 35 years after deciding people were criminals without proof, and leaving them stateless. That's why Australia had to change and pass laws that they can only strip Australian citizenship from dual / multi nationals who were deemed to be criminals. Am I saying it'll affect you? Nope. What I'm saying is that its possible in the future, that govt's make whatever they like to be a crime so they can do as they please. I would definitely recommend NEVER officially listing all your nationalities on govt paperwork as that information is how they know if they can target you for stripping of citizenship or for internment in the event of a war.
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  766.  @XDRosenheim  The problem is that when you start a long running task you can't suspend 'sleep' or other system power functions for 'security' reasons. As a result, the OS knows there's a long running task but doesn't care because power and being 'green' matters more. Long running tasks USED to automatically prevent sleep as the computer was still in use and the OS recognized that, but thanks to existing EU regulations that was banned as they argued that gaming controllers were long running tasks which would stop computers from sleeping - this is why you can be using a gaming controller to play a game on a computer and unless you've fully disabled sleep, the computer will suddenly sleep. This is why 99% of businesses demand the feature be disabled by IT on all their computers.
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  767.  @littlebrit  Nope, not making this up. What are you worried about? If you're not illegally working whilst there as a tourist then you have nothing to fear. The problem is enough digital nomads think the world owes them everything and that they can do whatever they like, so (not all, but enough of them) they work illegally; just because its online work doesn't mean it isn't breaking the law. The result is that the authorities are sick of it and are simply enforcing their laws and properly punishing those breaking said laws. This is resulting in countries scrapping their plans for "digital nomad visas" and to tighten their visa policies. Its also resulting is locals getting pissed off by the increase police and border guard presence in places that were very quiet before digital nomads. Angry locals aim their anger at anyone who's not from that area and it makes life unpleasant for both tourists who are doing the right thing and for citizens who live in other cities but want to spend a weekend in a small town. The other thing that the digital nomads who do the wrong thing want to seriously consider is that even if by some miracle they avoid jail, their ability to travel will be seriously affected as they'll receive an EU-wide entry prohibition (can be anything up to 5yrs or permanent - depends on the arresting authority and country). At the end of the day, if you want to travel, travel and be a tourist (i.e. no work), if you want to work, either go somewhere you have full work rights (permanent residency or citizenship) or get the appropriate work visa - its not hard and over 40 countries (several of which are in the EU) have digital nomad visas. If the few who do the wrong thing continue to do so, then they'll screw it up for everyone.
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  768.  @blktauna  As follows: 1. Results in small and/or popular areas getting unwanted attention from the cops and border guard searching for people illegally working. Locals get harassed by the authorities as a way of saying "if you kicked out all outsiders/foreigners we wouldn't harass you". 2. It results in businesses either having to introduce time limits to stop non-locals sitting there and working whilst only having one or two coffees but occupying the table for the entire day and causing the business to lose a heap of cashflow. 3. You waste work-share/timeshare spaces that locals would use if you weren't occupying them all day illegally working. Spaces are limited and intended for locals and those with full work rights - not for tourists. 4. The fact you still fail to understand that hypothetically even if the locals weren't affected, you're still breaking the law by illegally working. This affects every digital nomad, every tourist and every visa applicant. The fact you think its okay to breach your visa requirements (visa-free is still a visa except its automatically recorded digitally and you're still bound by the same restrictions as a tourist) results in fewer visas being issued, in countries scrapping or never introducing digital nomad visas, in significantly stricter requirements to even apply/qualify for a visa. Simply put, you cause unwanted attention and harassment for locals, loss of business revenue as enough digital nomads occupy tables for hours whilst spending very little and most importantly, you're breaking the law and making it so that being a digital nomad will be outright banned if you are too up yourself to do the right thing and get a work visa or digital nomad visa. Do the right thing and don't ruin it for everyone because you think you're all that matters and that the world revolves around you. Otherwise, feel free to ruin it for everyone and likely end up in jail in a part of the world you don't want to be jailed in.
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  769.  @blktauna  Work has always been considered to be any work whether physical or not. It's not their job to educate people on entry/visa rules - that's the job the the traveler. In regards to renting spaces to non-locals - under EU law due to the freedom of movement in the Schengen Zone, the only people who can be refused are tourists. The form you sign when booking a space has a declaration that you confirm you have full work rights and understand that you can be prosecuted, deported or jailed if you don't have full work rights. The reason these spaces are an issue is as follows: we pay a lot in taxes for shared work/timeshare work spaces which are funded by the govt for locals - those who have digital nomad visas or work visas are always welcome, the problem is when digital nomads without work or digital nomad visas are booking out the place by falsely declaring they have work rights resulting in those doing the right thing missing out. Within the last two years, ID has become required to book such places as a way of verifying declarations - this should have been the norm from the beginning. Yes there are some private spaces (intended for non-locals with the correct visas or work rights) however they're still legally required to only let those with full work rights work there - the problem is these private spaces primarily care about money and don't verify the declaration signed by the individual. ETIAS will pair your physical life with your digital life - it will collect and pair enough information to monitor anyone in Europe who enters under ETIAS (all non-EU citizens). ETIAS is a heavy-handed response to enough people doing the wrong thing. As for why locals get harassed by the authorities - in smaller areas, the authorities usually get to do nothing, so they see it as a hindrance to have to work so they take the attitude of "make the locals reject others so the problem stops", not to mention, even if they aren't intending to harass locals, the restaurant and cafe searches and increased govt presence annoys locals who want to be left alone and who don't want to feel like they're back in the war or cold war period being monitored. What might be a one-off ID check for a tourist could be a weekly occurrence for a local at more than one location. When the authorities search a cafe or restaurant, they'll have you put your hands in the air if they think you're working, everyone else will be grabbing their ID's whilst they rush to everyone with their hands in the air (its their way to stop you trying to hide illegally working). Visa requirements are just that, requirements to qualify for the visa. The conditions of the visa and of entry are separate. The USA, CAN, AU & NZ have visa-free to the EU but working is prohibited. The only exception to the work prohibition is attending conferences. As I said a few replies above, the strictest areas are Central and Eastern Europe, the Baltic States and Italy - these are the countries most intent on catching people illegally working. Most of Western Europe have digital nomad visas, all of the EU Schengen countries have Schengen business visas (valid for 90 days) that are easy to obtain from the same place as a Schengen visa for tourism.
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  770.  @renemarie5936  Wow you are so out of touch with reality. The best part about children growing up seeing the world is that they have friends everywhere, they learn about different cultures and they learn that whilst people have different opinions/beliefs, that they can still be friends and respect each others right to disagree. Done properly, they see their friends multiple times each year. Just because you're moving, doesn't mean that consistency suddenly vanishes. Also, if you want to whinge about 'roots', guess what, most ethnic Europeans have family 'roots' across 2-4 countries in many cases, most people living in CANZUK/CUNA have family in multiple countries. You honestly sound like a hyper-sheltered person who never traveled as a child and who loves to make assumptions about 'how bad it is'. As someone who, as a child spent a lot of time traveling (as my parents attended work conferences, visiting family who live in the same countries the conferences were in), making friends around the world. It was never 'traumatic' or 'damaging', it was exciting, structured, had good routines and made me a much more educated, rounded and understanding person than those that spent their life in the one place. The fact you wrote the rubbish that you did shows that Nomad Capitalist isn't the channel for you and that you genuinely fail to understand how children can be raised in a trifecta or flag theory lifestyle in a grounded and consistent manner with good routines, all whilst forming lifelong friendships with people all around the world.
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  771. That's the part the EVangelists can never seem to understand. They always fail to understand that lugging a heavy battery around that doesn't get lighter the more it depletes forces the motors to continue to work just as hard as they did when the battery was full. ICE vehicles get lighter the more the fuel is depleted, thus letting the engine work less hard.
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  772.  @BubuRuzu  Bullshit - come to Australia, the govt do whatever the hell they like. They've outlawed new gas connections in VIC and have almost double the price of electricity as they're forcing many people to go 100% electric. Then there's the huge surcharges thanks to all the useless solar - the grid can't handle everyone having solar so they're forever infinitely "upgrading" the grid and charging a 25% surcharge to everyone for that. Oh and solar is limited to 4.5kW and 10kW of battery storage if you're connected to the grid so that's utterly pointless to waste the money on. I've never understood their issue with you having more storage (OHS laws permit 100kW of batteries) - I guess they want to make you use the grid so they don't lose their tyrannical cashcow.
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  773.  @sunlee3555  The problem is you're wrong about visas. There are close to no visas for anyone who isn't mega rich. Basically the visas that would let skilled professionals, people wanting to start businesses and otherwise move and contribute are basically all abolished. Countries are becoming very insular and only letting the mega rich move. I tried to get visas to move and help smaller countries with things that they desperately need help with - they verified my qualifications and experience, the relevant ministers were excited and supportive, only to have the govt decide to change the rules and abolish the visas because 'visas steal jobs from locals', which completely disregards that the visas they offered would create jobs for locals. Look at the residence permits that are available - in the last 2yrs about 80% of the residence permit programs have been abolished and the ones that remain are either to high-tax hellholes or have monthly income requirements that exceed $40k USD! Also, there's not a single country that will give you residence by opening a bank account and moving money into the country. Every one of these programs closed around April 2024. Also, only CBI exists in the Caribbean - EVERY single resident permit program has been 100% abolished, even to the non-OECS countries.
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  774. @NeilMcCoyWard Welcome to Communism and its core tenant - POLITBURO and "wrong think & wrong speak". They NEED to control the narrative just like during the plandemic because they know that their plans will only work if the masses are uninformed of facts and only if the masses are unable to communicate with each other. This control of speech is core to indoctrinating and brainwashing people. They always go after the easy targets first - social media posts and sharing information because these people a experts at disseminating information and communicating - skills that could be used against the regime one day (hence why they must be stamped out). Then they go after ANY & ALL political opposition - there's only room for one party - hence the "right are bad, only the left are good and able to save the world", etc. Lastly, they remove the "family" - your kids belong to the State and you have zero rights to be a parent - its a 'privilege' the State chooses to bestow upon only the "best" citizens. The entire time this happens, you lose everything - your job, your house and all you money - then you have no choice but to comply because the only one who can keep you alive is the State. That's communism and what being behind the Iron Curtain was. Honestly, as someone who agrees with you on a lot of things, who's family faced persecution by both the Nazis & the Soviets, I would highly recommend that you do a CBI program (if you haven't already) so that should worst come to worst, you can flee to a safe place where the tyranny isn't happening. Things will only get worse and the more the masses try to resist, the more tyrannical and extreme the regime will become as the time to stop the tyranny was at least a decade ago, but most definitely pre-2020!
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  775. What minor issue with the Italian citizenship by descent? The only change I heard of was which court that 1948 cases get heard in. It shouldn't make much difference if you have a solid Italian family line and only need to confirm that citizenship should have passed via a woman in the family line.
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  776. Whilst currently free in the UK, don't be surprised when you have to pay tax per km (which costs more than the taxes on fuel for ICE vehicles because there's also the GST charged on the electricity plus the greater tariff for increased consumption of electricity at the house) by reporting and photographing (or by the EV reporting km's to the state). Think it can't happen - look at Victoria, Australia - no EV subsidies (prices are $70,000+ for anything that isn't junk), per km tax (must be reported through govt app with photo weekly - if you don't your call will be unregistered and to re-register that requires a Vicroads inspection of the vehicle. If you go on holidays and don't tell them flight details, you'll come back to an unregistered vehicle). Oh yeah - most home chargers that will charge in under a day will require changing from single phase power to three phase power due to the tiny (63A) single phase limit each house is allowed and because electric heating, cooling, cooktops, etc. are required in all new homes in Australia. Then there's the part where insurance companies won't cover property at risk of damage caused by any large lithium type battery that's being stored or charged at either your property or the neighbours (thankfully the neighbous can't afford EV's and like ICE cars) due to fire risk and since this is a blanket rule by the insurance companies, why get an EV just to void house and contents insurance and car insurance.
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  777.  @entropy5431  nothing fair about it though. The amount is 2x what fuel excise is and then there's the GST and EV infrastructure tax that are on the power bill. Also, the reporting km thing is too invasive and something I'll never do, also having to report when I'm going away is none of their business.
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  778.  @entropy5431  what your describing is what sane people would do. What I described, including the amounts is what is official and enforced in Victoria, Australia.
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  779.  @jeremyradford5103  Yeah that's in the UK, my comments specifically said what's already being done in Australia - only mentioned as a warning. Your rubbish about air pollution is an outright lie that comes from the UK govt. There are plenty of videos on YouTube showing the air to be well within safe limits, the danger however is the air in the London Underground which is beyond safe limits and is so dangerous that it should be shutdown until the air can be made safe. CO2 does NOT cause climate change - CO2 causes cooling, methane causes warming. The Vostok Ice Cores prove this and that is exactly why they are ignored. Remove CO2 and the plants die and then there's no air to breathe - if the plants are turning yellow when they should be green that's proof that they aren't getting enough CO2. Increase CO2 by a factor of 5 and you'll get 12x plant biomass and a heap more breathable air. As for why the weather is going crazy - its two things: * Cloud seeding (the UK, CAN, AU, NZ, USA, Russia and China have all publicly admitted to doing so) which takes moisture from one area and moves it to another. Do this too much and the balance of nature gets destroyed and the weather becomes extreme (what the movie Geostorm tries to cover) * High sunspot activity which occurs when the sun is in its closest orbit to the earth whilst the earth is tilting towards it (Milkanovitch cycles). This is relevant because it signifies a pole shift which occurs when a warm age or an ice age is coming to an end; the weather goes to extremes during pole shifts as a result of a severely weakened magnetosphere (weakened due to major pole drift exceeding 5 degrees of shift in a year). Those same oil companies are the ones who produce all the "green tech" at much higher profit margins than they get from oil. The worlds largest producer of solar panels and wind turbines is BP. By "going green" you're literally funding big oil. Time is not running out. You have been brainwashed and gaslit to believe the lies of people who literally get rich off "going green", these same people want to dictate everything you do. Look at the real facts such as the Vostok Ice Cores, look at the actual experts who got defunded and forced out of work because the actual research they did (such as studying ice cores), didn't fit the "green agenda". This is just like all the past hysteria: 1960's - Oil gone in 10yrs 1970's - Another Ice age in 10yrs 1980's - Acid rain will destroy all crops in 10yrs 1990's - Ozone layer will be gone in 10yrs 2000's - The icecaps will be gone in 10yrs None of this ever happened but each scare resulted in more taxes and more govt control over our lives.
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  780. You're forgetting that you're nothing but an ATM to them.
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  781.  @thisisobviouslynotmyrealname  That's because those people believe the lies and propaganda about the place. All "name brand" countries are not places to go. Many go, find out the hard way and then can't afford to leave. Australia is the same. Most believe all the lies about it being the "best place on earth" only to find out the exact opposite and then can't afford to leave.
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  782. Basically where I'm at right now - I've given up on everything! Every time I tried to achieve anything (all of which require going overseas due to being regulated out of work and the hoops to jump to get qualified in other things are always changing, require annual update/refresher training once qualified and cost a fortune as I already have a mechanical engineering degree), some legal BS came up, be it a licence audit/issue, jury duty or an election (can't leave +- 2 months of an election as the electoral rolls close and the penalty for not voting (a fine is only for first offence) is a major fine and jail). Given that these are all out of my control and continually ruining my life, I have simply given up entirely. First it was the plandemic travel ban that lasted till April 2023 and then all the above mentioned things from 2022 to now. Now I'm screwed by jury duty again in 2025, then its an election, then 2026 is likely another licence related issue, so yeah there's no point to anything. What really shits me is that permanently leaving the country isn't a 'valid excuse' to get out of jury duty - so I had to cancel flights, accommodation, etc., all because by being on the electoral roll I remain in the selection pool. I couldn't get off the electoral roll because they closed the roll in early August (it opens again in late December) for the council elections, thus here I am being shafted by jury duty for the 3rd time in 4yrs!
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  783. Well people are leaving India and China and stupidly going to CANZUK & CUNA because they still believe the propaganda about CANZUK & CUNA. Reality is that the propaganda about CANZUK & CUNA was true in the 1980's but hasn't been true since the mid 1990's. The money they spend on getting into CANZUK & CUNA would be far better spent on CBI. The people leaving CANZUK & CUNA are primarily the ones who are usually single and have saved enough money, or, they've sold everything including their house and have barely enough to do CBI and buy a 1 bedroom place to live. The wealthy who could easily leave CANZUK & CUNA did the moment the plandemic restrictions ended, they moved to the big tax havens because they have enough money to legally buy their way in. Basically these are the people who have 8-9 figure liquid wealth. As for a 'rich person nation' basically that could be anywhere that isn't trying to destroy the rich by high taxes and wealth redistribution.
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  784. This will likely result in TAFE becoming a thing in the USA and then numerous Certs, Diplomas and Advanced Diplomas for everything. Then those will all be diluted by breaking them into smaller qualifications, lastly they'll introduce annual or every 3yrs mandatory refresher training courses (for continuous revenue for education providers) and voila you have the AU & NZ system. Why do I say this? Because those hiring don't have the time to test everyone and individually assess everyone who applies. The whole point of degrees was to guarantee a base level of knowledge. Now this will happen at a lower qualification level, and no, online certs from non-govt accredited institutions won't count for anything. Without going to such a system like AU & NZ have, then anyone could fabricate any certificate they like and companies would be stuck with employees who don't know anything.
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  785.  @andrescv2665  even still, most secondhand jets are $15-20 million to purchase, plus about $2million in maintenance and storage plus crewing and fuel which is about $8000 per hour of use. Even for the rich it's extremely expensive. Only those earning $100,000,000+ each year have private jets.
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  786. None - all the visas and residence options are gone since early 2024. Your only options are CBI or nothing, unless you can claim citizenship by descent to other countries.
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  787. @nomadcapitalist Regarding the talk about citizenship based taxation, I would like to mention that its already very easy for any country to enforce it should they choose. All they have to do is to deactivate or cancel the passport of any of their citizens who haven't paid tax. Should a country wish to be more aggressive, they can issue any of the following INTERPOL notices: * Green Notice - Used for warnings and intelligence (generally govt to govt) * Purple Notice - Modus Operandi. Used for gaining information of the modus operandi of a person or to carry out the wishes of the issuing govt * Red Notice - Wanted Persons. Used to have people arrested and extradited for prosecution as the result of criminal activity (incl. not paying taxes) On top of this once CBDC's are rolled out govts will simply garnish the money from those who don't pay. This is another reason to have money in various forms and around the world, so you're not solely dependent on one CBDC. Its better to be able to afford lawyers to fight things in court than to have all your money frozen and have no defence in court. Lastly, the one thing that people generally don't realize is that renouncing a citizenship is only you the individual asking to be released from their citizenship, even if the govt says "sure, goodbye", that government has the authority to declare that person, or anyone else in the world to be a citizen. This means if a country really wants citizenship based taxation, they can start by declaring everyone who renounced to be a citizen again and then they can pick people at random (could be tourists) and declare them to be citizens. The worst part about this is that the individual has no say in being made a citizen, its solely at the discretion of the govt. This is a tactic already commonly used by countries to get around extradition issues as its much harder for countries to refuse to extradite people who are citizens of the requesting country.
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  788. palestine isn't a country, a territory or a place. Its a fabrication made by religious nuts to try to conquer the Holy Land that rightfully belongs to the Vatican! Anyone who thinks palestine is real is 100% a terrorist as only Ham-arse think its real. Ham-arse is a declared terrorist organization. Ironically, had those nuts have accepted a "state" the many times they were offered, things would be vastly different (i.e. they wouldn't be stateless and would have the ability to do deals and trade which only real countries can). Only countries can be part of BRICS, given palestine isn't real, it can't legally be part of BRICS, nor can a "palestine" passport exist - currently its considered a "Fantasy passport" by the world.
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  789.  @LoveClassicMusic0205  Stamps aren't the issue. The reason a lot of places don't stamp is because they electronically record your entry and exit when they scan your passport. Stamps are generally only for entry visas, to mark that a visa has commenced on entry or to invalidate a visa. The problem with going to collect the documents is that at that stage in the process you're legally a citizen of that country and under law can't enter it without a passport issued by that country - hence why I said "unless they issue a "temporary/emergency passport (single use)" in my original comment. Emergency passports are used to let you back into a country of citizenship if your passport is stolen or if the time to issue an ordinary passport is too long and you have extenuating circumstances to enter the country. When you cross the border of the country that issues an emergency passport, they will stamp it as "INVALID - USED" and you won't be able to leave until you get your ordinary passport.
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  790.  @wuerges  Dude, your delusional and have zero clue what you're on about - you clearly haven't ever worked as a border guard in ANY country. You're the one who is misinformed I know what I'm saying is true, like I said, ask any lawyer, border guard or federal law enforcement - they'll all say the same. Absolutely no one shows more than one passport at a border - you simply use the one that gives you the most rights in the country. No border guard will ever stamp more than one passport per person and in modern times they don't stamp but electronically record the entry. Its clear that you never travel, have never worked as a border guard and are likely trolling as you're literally saying its okay to commit crimes and to do completely weird things (such as showing multiple passports at the border) that no normal person does.
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  791.  @wuerges  Mercosur operates internally like Schengen does and like OECS does, hence not having the passport requirement. I'm not making up rules, I'm simply explaining how the rules work outside any Freedom of Movement Union (Schengen, Mercosur, OECS, CTA, Trans-Tasman). The rule about being only able to enter and exit a country you're a citizen of with its passport is law in all but two countries in the world (obviously excluding remaining within a Freedom of Movement Union). The rule about having to enter and exit on the same passport so you don't illegally overstay is law everywhere that requires passports as since passports aren't linked, if you enter on passport A and leave on passport B then you're legally in a huge mess as Passport A is illegally overstaying and passport B can't leave as it never legally entered the country. My original comment was specifically saying that an emergency passport would be required to enter the country to collect the documents otherwise it wouldn't be possible to do so without illegally entering the country as once you're at the document collection stage, you've already been made a citizen and been issued a passport - given that CBI applicants will 99.99% of the time be from outside OECS, they will need to enter with a passport and since they'd be entering a country they're a citizen of, they can only use an ordinary passport issued by that country or an emergency passport issued by that country. At no point was I talking about Freedom of Movement Unions which operate differently as, people within said unions never actually leave their country of citizenship (as far as border controls are concerned) when traveling within the Freedom of Movement Union, the only time they leave is when they head to a country outside their Freedom of Movement Union.
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  792.  @wuerges  You make zero sense, I've literally described how Mercosur and Schengen both work. Whilst within a Freedom of Movement union you can cross with a National ID or other govt issued ID, but to exit or enter the Freedom of Movement union you require a passport from the country you're a citizen of that's within the Freedom of Movement Union. Either you aren't reading and understanding what I'm typing or you're trolling. I have clearly explained everything I've said in each comment. As for you trying to claim I don't know how Mercosur and Schengen work - wrong, I know how they both work, better than most people having trained border guards for both Mercosur and Schengen. My original comment was specifically saying that an emergency passport would be required to enter the country to collect the documents otherwise it wouldn't be possible to do so without illegally entering the country as once you're at the document collection stage, you've already been made a citizen and been issued a passport - given that CBI applicants will 99.99% of the time be from outside OECS, they will need to enter with a passport and since they'd be entering a country they're a citizen of, they can only use an ordinary passport issued by that country or an emergency passport issued by that country.
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  793.  @wuerges  Its literally a catch-all term in the ENGLISH LANGUAGE so I don't have to waste time listing all freedom of movement unions by their individual names - its a descriptor. Using a catch-all term is no different to a legal contract only having a company name listed once such as: "Microsoft" (the Company) and then using the term "the Company" instead of using the actual name. Its just a shorter way.
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  794. ​ @wuerges  My initial comment is specifically about the countries in the video (OECS) and because people doing CBI will be from outside OECS. My first comment is 100% accurate. As for my other comments, they are accurate. Mercosur, OECS and the EU all have two types of member states. In Mercosur there are States Parties and Associated States. In OECS there are Full Members and Associate Members. In the EU there is Schengen and Non-Schengen. In each of the above listed, the first type of member states have complete freedom of movement within the relevant union, the second type don't (or are subject to special rules). With regards to the EU, things get very messy as the European Economic Area (EEA) blurs the lines of Schengen and the rest of the EU as it allows EU citizens from countries within Schengen to have more freedom to do business beyond the Schengen Zone but within the EEA. Then the Nordic countries make an even bigger mess as they have the Nordic Union which is their own freedom of movement separate from the EU, EEA and EU Schengen Zone.
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  795. Your example is pure bullshit. They stayed and fought because their home treated them best but was being militarily invaded by scum. The reality is that in the current time, the 99% hate anyone who saves money, works hard and creates wealth. Hence the 1% leave to places that aren't hating on them or threatening them on the daily.
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  796. Just because he mentions certain places doesn't mean you have to go there and it doesn't mean you have to agree with his opinions on the people and the weather. That said I can absolutely confirm that Australia and New Zealand are bad for those that this channel is aimed at. Stupidly high taxes (over 50% once you add all the MediCare, private health insurance MediCare levy, fire services and parks and waterways levies, etc.). Ridiculous amounts of bureaucracy (red tape) when it comes to business - a small business will blow close to 2/3's of its finances just on compliance, annual training (mandatory refresher courses) and licences. Not to mention one of the highest minimum wages in the world which is making inflation worse (the recent increase to $25/hr). Also after the last two years, expect both Australia and New Zealand to add heaps of new taxes to recover the lost/wasted money and to try to recover the stupid amounts being wasted such as $9 billion on a govt funded 4yr/old kinder replacement (a pre-prep year), $25 million for a flag pole on the Sydney Harbour Bridge, several billion going over budget on both the West Gate Tunnel and the level crossing removals, the $200 billion to rebuild the NBN by 2026 and the new EV incentive schemes in both Australia and New Zealand that are estimated to be costing tax payers close to $500 billion by 2028, just to name a few.
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  797. Which you can't do as that just means you'll be paying insane taxes in the high tax western country you are from, and that you'll be doing business on their terms and not having access to over 80% of investments. Literally every 'western' country forces you to be their taxpayer unless you can prove you're legally in another tax system and that your entire centre-of-life is in that place where you pay taxes. The days of not living anywhere and thus not paying taxes are long gone. Even if you left your countries tax net, if they find out you aren't in another tax net, they'll simply say you have to pay taxes to them and there's nothing you can do about it.
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  798.  @javiervega1065  You're a little child making snide remarks everywhere possible. Be an adult, look it up yourself, its never been a secret and is well documented. Heck, I bet you'll deny the existence on Agenda 21 even when its on the UN's own website, you'll probably claim the WEF don't exist even though they literally run everything and don't hide anything.
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  799. @leecromer3289 They're just lying to themselves and everyone else - its basically buyers remorse as they refuse to accept they f***ed up and wasted money. Its basically 'sunk cost fallacy' at play. The moron neighbours across the street from me got an EV - they used it a few times and now it spends most of its time either parked in the street or parked in their driveway on charge. They recently bought a Landrover SUV (diesel) which they now use 99% of the time. Tells me everything about how crap EV's are.
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  800. Not a single council does any hard work, they sure don't work long hours. I say this because you can't count any of the utterly pointless bureaucracy that they themselves created for the simple fact that they could abolish such bureaucracy. All councils do is ignore people, push communism and destroy society and the planet because they're utterly brainwashed "true believers". You might think you're winning or getting them to understand - you aren't. They paying "lip service" and pretending but doing the exact opposite when you're not around. Sure a vote or two might go differently but that's 100% irrelevant as they'll hold one in a closed meeting that will agree on what they want to do anyway. Oh yeah, even if you did convert some of them, they'll 100% be fired for "environmental vandalism" and replaced with "true believers". Think I'm talking rubbish? Come to Australia and New Zealand and you'll see that what I'm saying is 100% true. The only way to stop this crap is to elect a government 100% against this WEF bullshit who'll arrest every single lefty and abolish all councils. All councils do is collect rubbish bins - beyond that you bills and other taxes fund everything else. Parks and gardens are funded solely by the "parks and gardens" charge in water bills, roads are funded by fuel excise and vehicle registration, major projects are funded with your income taxes. Councils do utterly nothing!
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  801. Do let us all know how wonderful things are when you inevitably 'go down with the ship'. All of CANZUK and CUNA are collapsing, only fools and morons stay and voluntarily lose everything. The only way to NOT lose everything is to leave before the place destroys you. Less than 1% want to improve things, the 99% want the welfare state, insane taxes (because they get that tax money given to them) and 'daddy government' who tells them every little thing to do. Only when the 99% want to fix things, can the place have any chance at being saved.
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  802. Rubbish. 99% of countries won't cause you headaches unless you live there and get fully in the system, simply having the passport doesn't get you fully in the system. As someone born with multiple citizenships, the countries I'm a citizen of but haven't ever lived in are no headache. If I were to move to one of those countries, I'd have to get a tax number and then headaches would exist, currently having to only deal with one tax file is only one headache which I can legally leave when funds permit the cost of moving abroad. One does not require a tax number in order to have a passport, only a citizen number.
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  803.  @homesteadgal4143  most weren't outsourced but only a mere handful of people were required so 99% lost their jobs. Outsourcing was a pre-full automation measure mostly in the 90's and early 2000's. By 2010 even the outsourced were made redundant by servers and automation.
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  804.  @homesteadgal4143  I've done my research the US doesn't outsource much work. They automated everything and resorted to buying in completed products which isn't outsourcing, that's being a retailer. Outsourcing is when a company operates in one country but employs people in another which barely happens in the US as most businesses became retailers and thus don't employ people abroad.
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  805.  @homesteadgal4143  That's literally importing, not outsourcing. Outsourcing is exclusively a term for a company moving its staff or production abroad (note that the production must be 100% owned and operated by the same company). What you are describing is importing as the product is 100% independent of the company inside the US. So take your own advice and do the research. The US is a primary importer however they have almost zero outsourcing of jobs. The topic was never about goods - only jobs.
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  806.  @dodgemf1  Found the American - no such thing as Fox News outside of the US. Unless you've lived in Australia since the 90's (so you could see what it once was) please stop trying to gaslight actual Australian's who''re living the hell that Australia is. The politicians have completely destroyed the place, over regulated literally everything. To be brutally honest, I'm surprise we don't require a licence and annual "refresher/update" course each year just to use a toilet.
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  807.  @LeonardoEst  Caused by governments creating endless immigration of incompatible cultures. The immigration is making housing unaffordable and creating too much competition for jobs, thus no one can afford a home and they definitely can't afford to have kids, especially when taxes are increasing as a result. Only braindead morons have kids when they don't own a home, have a good reliable job and aren't living comfortably. The 3rd world has a billions kids just for the sake of it, then they whinge to the 'west' to pay for their life choices with the taxes they cripple the actual Europeans with.
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  808. Good luck having the country you're in recognising the sovereignty of your country - they never will. Also, know that when you try to stop paying taxes they'll throw you in jail and seize your property. There's a reason none of us have made our own countries - there isn't any unclaimed land on this planet at the moment - maybe one day a new island will form in the middle of the ocean but until then what you're saying is nothing but a joke as far as the law is concerned.
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  809. Regarding long running tasks. As a programmer, when you tell the system that its a long running task, that's all you can do. You can't suspend 'sleep' or other system power functions for 'security' reasons. As a result, the OS knows there's a long running task but doesn't care because power and being 'green' matters more. Long running tasks USED to automatically prevent sleep as the computer was still in use and the OS recognized that, but thanks to existing EU regulations that was banned as they argued that gaming controllers were long running tasks which would stop computers from sleeping - this is why you can be using a gaming controller to play a game on a computer and unless you've fully disabled sleep, the computer will suddenly sleep. This is why 99% of businesses demand the feature be disabled by IT on all their computers.
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  810. The only ones are the privacy coins - Monero, Pirate, etc. Bitcoin isn't decentralised, nor is it private. Its heavily regulated and easy to monitor - hence why its the least targeted by regulations of all crypto.
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  811.  @novelty8theory494  Sorry but you're wrong about that one. The Kalergi Plan, the Club of Rome and the WEF are ALL the Fourth Reich. Stop letting hatred blind you from reality.
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  812.  @pfk7860  Those who left HK to the UK went to a safer for them place. Sure the UK mightn't be the best place (nor is the rest of the "west") but the UK has a far better travel document which they can use to go to most other places. The heavy handed laws in China under which you can be "disappeared" under are basically at the discretion of each local "authority". Refuse a business deal, gone. Too successful, gone. Someone doesn't like you and says you spoke ill of China, gone. Be too close to the "west" in the eyes of China, gone. Then there's the NSL which China claims is a valid law in all countries in the world - clearly they forget their laws stop at their borders! Under the NSL you can be jailed for anything. Oh yeah, don't forget the NSL applies everywhere according to China so don't think you're safe transiting China, HK or Macau - if they don't like you or you offend the wrong person they can "disappear" you.
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  813. Precisely - remember when Geoff took that Tesla for a test drive - he drove 3 miles but lost 13 miles of range. Then at the end of the video he calculated that over 120 miles of range just vanished from driving it like a normal car. EV's are an utter joke!
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  814.  @saxon-mt5by  Yeah but they're a lot closer to reality. In Australia the official range data from the manufacturers is actually very accurate for ICE vehicles due to strict marketing laws because we drive very long ranges often so people need to know how far they can actually go.
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  815. All this crap is done with the excuse of "safety" and to revenue raise. Its all part of 15 minute cities, just like ever increasing taxes and regulating everyone out of work. In order for 15 minute cities to work, everyone needs to be broke, dependent on the govt and completely monitored. The problem is basically the 99% are all bell-ends and support the crap because just like over the last 3yrs they refuse to see the forest for the trees and accept that the govt are the single biggest threat to the people and that the govt exist only to harm the people. Currently the only solutions seem to be: 1. Save hard and sell up - do Citizenship By Investment and move to the caribbean, specifically a country that is a full member of OECS. Whilst these places do have CBDC, they aren't forcing it nor are they doing the whole dystopian 15 minute city crap. These places have one downside - these tax havens are the places where the "elites" are living (hence why the crap isn't happening there) 2. Find or make an unclaimed island in international waters, create a country of sane and free people 3. Crowdfund a space rocket and a space station and move to space and then declare the space station to be an independent country.
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  816.  @andrewhunsaker4831  You sound like a commie nutjob. Trump is the only option - he's the only one that isn't going to crush business and those trying to create wealth. Kamala is going to increase taxes, force the wealthy to flee with their wealth and she'll destroy businesses through taxes and regulations because she's a commie who will expand the 'welfare state'. You have only one option - Trump. Oh and I'm not an American, just someone that can see that your country failed to put forward a candidate who isn't Trump or Kamala. Vote Kamala and LOSE EVERYTHING!
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  817.  @jamalgreen3056  You're wrong - its NEVER possible to compete with global markets as different countries have different laws and standards. Unless everyone is playing by the identical rules, someone will always be cheaper and thus the only one doing a specific thing. The reality is that results in quality and standards dropping as there's no reason to maintain them as there's no competition. This is literally why the USSR and communism fail - it only works whilst there's other peoples money to take, and whilst you can force people to work and do as they're told. Once that money runs out and people quit complying, it all falls apart. Tariffs let each country do a bit of everything which creates competition, which in turn creates better products and choice for the consumer. The result is that sometimes people will buy local products, sometimes they'll buy the imported product. This results in actual wealth creation and money genuinely moving around the world, resulting in a global trade economy that actually works. When only one place does one thing, the moment something disrupts that, everything comes crashing down because there's no way to maintain production or availability. Ever hear of the saying "never put all your eggs in the one basket"?
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  818. They already are, the KYC (Know Your Customer) legislation. This legislation requires exchanges to report wallet id's to the tax offices, otherwise you're very limited in what you can do. They key is to get out of high-tax countries and those that are unfriendly to crypto. Australia and NZ will get you with unrealised gains tax and if you're caught with crypto that isn't declared to Australia or NZ whilst subject to their tax system - thats a world of hurt!
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  819. Any country that bans VPNs is a 3rd world shithole that's not worth living in or doing business in. Simply put VPNs are essential for business: 1. Site-To-Site VPNs - used to connect multiple offices into the one 'network' so local resources at each office appear as being local at ANY of them 2. Remote Access - used to Remote In to work so your computer appears as if its locally on the network in the office whilst your on the other side of the world 3. Share Links & File Requests - used to share files or folders and to create 'file requests' where clients can upload data directly to you 4. Internet Passthrough VPNs - the type used by people to assist their privacy and security on public wifi, also used to help reduce what their ISP records about them If you live in a country that bans VPNs - get the hell out and get to freedom.
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  820. @islywynn7678 You're describing the 3rd world who always breed like rats regardless of their situation or ability to care for children. They only have themselves to blame as if the 'west' give aid, they breed like rats, then they cry poor and struggling, when people say 'get stuffed' they breed like rats again and the whole cycle just repeats. They're genetically programmed to be braindead, to breed like rats, to live in putrid conditions (just because you're poor doesn't mean you have to go toilet in your water and put your rubbish everywhere), to steal, to be violent and to hate.
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  821.  @homodeus8713  That's the problem, the 'west' and the 3rd world take absolutely no personal responsibility which is why I hate them and will NEVER consider them civilized. Central and Eastern Europe are civilized as they take personal responsibility and because they don't permit 'nanny state' governments.
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  822. It has zero value - its 100% dependent on energy (power) and the centrally controlled internet, it requires insane amounts of data to be recorded forever in order to function and is easily controlled by controlling the mining. Whilst privacy coins are untraceable they have the same problems as normal crypto. If you think blockchain is the solution and will last, look what the govts have done to privacy coins and crypto - delisted from exchanges, illegal to possess/have/own/use, on-ramping and off-ramping to all exchanges has been banned by most western banks along with PayPal and most credit cards, mandatory govt id registration of wallets, use of hardware wallets banned (on-chain crypto only), just to mention a few things the west has done. How long until the govts force ISP's to block all crypto at the protocol level? How long until govts forcibly shut down any exchange that supports crypto? How long until govts make the possession, use or acceptance of crypto illegal? How long until govts do what Australia did and tax crypto so heavily that its literally not worth having? I have a bad feeling that when WEB4 launches (the internet that is 100% govt ID regulated and controlled), it won't support any unauthorised protocols or transmissions and thus won't support crypto. The result would be all the crypto servers being shut down! I've said for ages that whilst the "how blockchain works" is good to know, blockchain as we currently know it has too many issues resulting in it being worthless as the problems far outweigh the solutions. The only way for blockchain to have value and for crypto to thrive is to decouple it all from the internet, for blockchains to be lightweight and self-pruning and to be designed solely around anonymity.
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  823.  @marcelchaloupka  Regarding the tax part - with the exception of the USA, in the entire rest of CANZUK and CUNA its not possible to "pay virtually no tax" as the countries are so tax hungry that they try to tax everyone to death. As for "exploiting people" that's pure BS. Most people who move abroad are either self-employed, investors, trade forex/stocks/crypto, run online courses or start local businesses and hire locals paying them well - outside the "west" people actually know what they're worth and what a fair wage is and they won't work for less than that. The claim of "exploiting" people is generally limited to the mega-corporations who are too stupid to leave the "west" so to reduce the effect of the heavy taxation they look for dirt cheap labour. Also, the more people in those other countries get jobs and earn money, the more active their economy is and the more they get paid as the economy strengthens. As for why the low tax rate - because people are sick of being taxed to death and given that low or zero tax is possible - why not? I have a good feeling that basically everyone who goes somewhere for low or zero tax has paid much more than you and 95% of the people in "west" have ever paid. Its honestly time that the 95% actually paid their "fair share" instead of always demanding that the 5% need to "pay more because that's their "fair share"". Taxes should ideally hit hard at low incomes and hit less the more you earn - this way success is encouraged and laziness is punished. The result would be a great and highly successful economy where everyone was rich. You really need to drop the victimhood "exploiting people" BS - its a far-left catcall used to push far-left agendas and justify the disgusting behaviour of the far-left. Its very rarely ever true yet its claimed at every possible chance.
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  824. Assuming the inverter has the remote shut-off feature so the grid can turn it off, how do you propose turning that feature back on? The reality is the inverters with that feature can't be re-enabled except by the grid, so even having a transfer switch won't let you run in 'off-grid' mode. They want you without power so that your food spoils and you go broke trying to resupply, or that you just don't resupply.
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  825. Only a fool wants surveillance. There is absolutely zero need for it. Let everyone carry firearms for protection and let them use them for self-defence without fear of being treated as criminals. An armed society is a polite society. Literally everywhere in the USA with SFA firearm laws are the safest parts of the country. The parts of the USA with the tightest laws are responsible for over 90% of all firearm crime in the USA.
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  826.  @Sean85Laney  Utter rubbish - surveillance doesn't reduce crime, all it does is enable the govt to issue fines for the most minor things. If surveillance cut down crime, then AU wouldn't be a crime-riddled shithole with daily shootings and shops getting torched every other day. Surveillance doesn't document history happening - only the govt ever sees the surveillance recordings. Please get a serious reality check as you seem to trapped in some braindead utopia that doesn't exist anywhere on the planet.
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  827. And you can NEVER leave because you can NEVER renounce as that requires holding a second citizenship. That attitude of yours shows that you want the country to be a slave country. Sounds like you don't want your welfare money to vanish as the taxpayers leave because they're sick of being taxed to death.
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  828.  @joannahayden9544  So? That's what intelligent people do. If you were intelligent you'd be doing the same. Ever hear of "don't put all your eggs in the one basket"? My choice is to retain the four citizenship I was born with, to continue to save for doing one CBI and to maximize my options whilst people such as yourself lose everything and become starving because they'd rather "go down with the ship" because its the easier option. There's nothing moral or superior about self destruction. Wake Up!
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  829.  @Biosynchro  Bullshit - that may happen rarely but its less than 1% of cases and thus its statistically insignificant (i.e. its <5%) and doesn't justify such tyranny. The rights of the individual and the right to privacy is more important than any "collective". The reality is that the surveillance state only exists to control and monitor everyone so that the state may punish everyone over the slightest thing. 99% of cases involving cameras (of all types) revolve around going after people over the most insignificant "paper" crimes. The mere fact that you think cameras are good means that any of the following describe you: * You have zero sense or clue of reality * You think that power is never abused * You think that everyone should be charged for the most minor things * You think that everyone is guilty * You think that you'll never break any law, no matter how insignificant, no matter whether or not you've heard about it or not * You think that future regimes won't use the cameras to exert their tyranny and to go after their political opponents * You live in places like China were cameras dictate the lives of everyone * You're a commie / soviet who thinks they'll be a key party member leading the world when you take over (newsflash you won't be) You and your family have never suffered under actual tyrannical regimes, hence why you're so happy to actively enable such regimes to have maximum control. The fact is that there's zero legitimate public purpose for mass surveillance. You want to stop crime, then get more cops on the ground patrolling and enforcing the laws that already exist.
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  830.  @sidesauce  Of course he didn't - he's a commie and rejects everything private - notice his choice of words in which he tries to speak for everyone "I think a private aircraft is never a necessity. All bigger airlines are sufficient" - no they aren't sufficient, they're slow, dirty and expensive (for what they are). I'd love to see him use the main airlines to get to many places in short amounts of time that aren't close to large airports or trains (trains are also horribly slow) - this is another reason people have private aircraft - they can get to many places quickly using small airports that airlines are banned from. I'd also love to see him travel 6 countries in one day - no airline will enable this - their schedules are too slow and rigid and their planes are too slow which are also too large to enable this. He also forgot that being crammed in "commercial busses" on actual long-haul trips (Australia - UAE - UK; Australia - Hong Kong - Frankfurt), its horrible being crammed unless you've got a business class ticket (easily $14k - more than usual due to the "2020 thing" and because either of the two routes just mentioned are in the longest haul category (more fuel, staff working longer, etc.)). Business class is slowly disappearing as airlines are chasing every dollar possible which means cramming in more economy seats is their goal; this is making business class tickets harder to get on popular flights, leaving private as the only option. With ticket prices as horrible as they are now, its actually possible to charter a private jet that's needing to get to the same destination as you for less than the cost of a business class ticket.
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  831. Not sure which country you're from but pretty much all countries in the 1st world & 2nd world accept and use credit cards. Even if they're not common, they're likely available. If you use them properly by only spending what you can afford and paying the bill in full the moment it arrives, what's there not to love? You have fewer transaction fee's on your savings account as the money sits there longer which earns you more interest, you build a credit score (you'll never get a mortgage or professional loan without one; nor will investors, employers or businesses work with you if you don't have a good credit score), and you accrue redeemable 'reward points' at no direct cost to you the end user (the points are paid for with part of the merchant fees). Not to mention, most credit cards will waive their annual card fee if you always pay the bill in full the moment it arrives and your annual spending is over a certain amount they set.
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  832. Spot on - they proved it with the plandemic!
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  833. @BjornAndreasBull-Hansen Sounds like you need a NAS (Network Attached Storage) for all your footage. Individual external HDD's are prone to failure and that means losing data. Its better to have a NAS setup as RAID10 (Span & Mirror) so as long as two consecutive drives don't fail, you shouldn't lose data. Then I'd recommend having a duplicate NAS at a friend or relatives house (do the initial sync on the same LAN network due to the total volume of data being huge) that is synced with your main NAS so that when you add new footage, it syncs with the other NAS to prevent data loss.
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  834.  @RyolithRandil  Read the Kalergi Plan - its easily verified by using Google. Then read Agenda 21 from the UN. Then read and listen to the WEF. If you do all that and still can't see the reality that its all being orchestrated, then your a commie, a fascist and a nazi, as ALL sane people are against this tyranny.
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  835. This ends once Russia is flattened and put in its place or when they surrender and completely return home with their tail between their legs. You can't de-escalate without sacrificing the lives of every Ukrainian and without losing Ukraine - if the latter happens, all of Europe will be bulldozed by Russia and its allies because this has never been about Ukraine, its about expansionism and rebuilding the Tsarist Empire; Russia's allies will get involved the moment Russia defeats Ukraine, with them involved there is no hope. The single biggest threat at the moment are the moronic peace-nicks who think that you can be rational with the nutcase that is Putin/Russia. Learn about the Slavic world and the history of the Baltics, Poland and Hungary. Do NOT let this become another Vietnam where the media and peace-nicks caused the deaths of countless millions of people who were left to be slaughtered by the communists - that blood is on all the peace-nicks, look at how shit Vietnam has been as a communist shit hole - its basically a failed state with basically no economy. The reality, as horrible as it is, is that Russia are always looking for trouble and would have invaded regardless of the excuse/reason given. In the last 600yrs Russia have never wanted peace, they've only wanted war. Countries such as Poland and the Baltics have tried to mind their own business for centuries only to have Russia always start a war and try to take over simply because these countries exist. Look at the interwar period - what happened the moment WW1 ended? The Russian Bolsheviks went on the war path and tried to obliterate Ukraine, Poland and Europe simply for existing. Thankfully they were brutally defeated by Poland in the Polish border region. As for more recent examples, Russia purposely paid their own citizens to move into two parts of Georgia to cause trouble and then claim they're being oppressed to justify invading. The same happened in Crimea. The same happened at the beginning of this current Russian war against Ukraine. What you fail to understand is that Russia have never wanted peace, they only want war and that they only understand superior violence/force. Putin has said many times that he wishes to reclaim all the land that formed both the Soviet Union and the Tsarist Empire and yeah, he's insane enough to try. Not a single country has had any interest in invading Russia or taking anything Russia has. The reality is that Russia was being ignored by the rest of the world, left out of trade, huge reductions in gas sales as the west moves away from gas and Russia couldn't stand being ignored. The solution for them was to start a war, to rape, torture and massacre innocent civilians (none of which you do if you're trying to rescue or maintain peace). Thankfully though the sanctions on Russia are working, most businesses have abandoned Russia, all software companies that could remotely disable their software did just that. Russian's can't bank anywhere outside of Russia and are prohibited from doing business with any "western" country. This is why Russia is cracking the shits and making threats that they simply can't back up. 50 years of corruption, horrible storage conditions and huge lack of quality of training has resulted in Russia being a joke militarily the moment they're up against modern western equipment. The best thing that can happen now is for the west to defeat Russia and end this war now before Russia get their allies fully involved.
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  836.  @kellysouter4381  They're doing it through myGov Digital Identity (a parallel system), and yeah its rolling out this year. Need a group certificate for taxes - you need to use this system. Its already mandatory. Have a director ID? They've already got your entire personal information and will force you to give the same info for their digital ID. Nothing to improve or change. They only have to shut down myGov as its the old antiquated system. Everything in myGov already exists in myGov Digital Identity - they just haven't enabled it all yet.
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  837. Congrats. Would love to attend one year if you hold it in a different country with a more open visa policy such as Singapore, Vanuatu, French Polynesia, New Caledonia, etc.
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  838. Cost is irrelevant. Very few of the "riff raff" would even qualify for this new program. How many people that most would consider to be "riff raff" are highly experienced engineers, scientists, doctors, etc.? Very few. Heck the courses, experience and equipment for much of these things far exceeds $100k. Also the type who would be considered "riff raff" aren't going to move their entire life to one place and contribute to the country. As for El Salvador being the BTC mecca then the primary thing they need to do is try to force the other major countries to quit treating BTC as crypto for tax purposes. BTC is legal tender/currency in El Salvador, therefore it should be treated globally as any other currency is. However currently BTC is taxed to insane levels in most western countries as they treat it as crypto, not as a currency. Last I checked, I didn't have to track the gains and losses (for tax purposes) for having 500 Euros in my wallet from my last trip to Europe - yet for BTC that must be tracked and then taxed at a much higher level because the tax department consider crypto to be a "special asset" subject to high tax instead of being a currency (which it legally is thanks to El Salvador). The western countries want it every way (that benefits their theft... sorry I mean taxation) when in reality that just isn't workable. Either BTC is currency and subject to normal treatment like Euros or USD, or there's a lot of work that countries like El Salvador need to do in order to have their legal currencies respected.
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  839. And you'll be banned permanently from going to Europe if you try that - the EU are fingerprinting people whose passports don't contain biometric data. Dude, what rock have you been living under - all passports are entered and "activated" in a central system and those that aren't (i.e. some 3rd world countries) get added when first scanned. They know everything and when the EU talks about time in (i.e. 90 days) that's you the fingerprinted individual not the passport. Also the new EES system will enable the easier arrest, deportation and prohibition of entry people trying to illegally overstay.
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  840. Just be careful that you don't have to pay CGT - some places impose CGT simply for holding...
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  841.  @iReturnV1deotapes  On physical assets such as art, bullion, rare wine, etc. yes you can write off losses. On crypto - nope. Remember the places that impose CGT on unrealized gains are also places that have "deeming laws" that tax you based on maximum deemed potential value - commonly used on IP and property so they can extract the most tax out of people as possible. Countries doing this are the bulk of CANZUK and CUNA.
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  842. Yet the far-left, EU puppet Tusk just got back in as Prime Minister...
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  843. Benefits of an EU Digital Identity... NONE! As an EU citizen I sure as shit won't be having a 'digital identity' - they can go to hell. If they won't provide physical documents / ID's then I'll simply live without them and will continue to carry the expired physical ones. I'd rather live like the honest and ethical Robin Hood than be "bent over and reamed" by tyranny.
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  844. Huge influx of illegals, high crime, taxes going through the roof, nanny state, speech being censored, the govt can frame you for anything (surveillance act), the 99% are turning on anyone who has any money. Stay well away! Oh and its become a commie shithole.
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  845. Keep believing the lies - Putina will NEVER accept anything less than all of Ukraine because then he can claim that Poland and the Baltics existing will pose an 'existential' threat and thus he'll use that to justify invading them. Remember how Ukraine giving up its nukes would be guaranteed that it wouldn't be invaded. Putina has already declared that she wants to rebuild the Tsarist Empire and thus will continue to invade if allowed to 'win' in Ukraine. If Russia gets the 'win', they'll simply attack the Baltics, Finland and Poland. That's all out WW3. Its better to defeat Russia now whilst they're weak and possible to defeat, preventing WW3, than to let WW3 happen. This is the same as the 1930's when Nazi Germany kept invading, the 'west' told them to stop, Nazi Germany just laughed and continued, resulting in WW2 and a much stronger Nazi Germany that was almost impossible to stop. The only reason Ukraine haven't won already is because the 'west' won't let them use the equipment how they want to - meanwhile Russia is using their equipment how they want to and attacking all of Ukraine indiscriminately. If the 'west' let Ukraine use the provided equipment how they want to, the war would be over in a month.
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  846.  @julieannmyers8714  The reality is they don't care. When they don't want you communicating they'll shutdown the phones and internet. As for routes - that's because mapping services are designed for efficiency, not for enjoyment. Also, why do you think they're locking up public land and keeping you in a depressing grey concrete jungle? To stop you resisting their tyranny.
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  847.  @msjannd4  Funny how its only muslims that are hated by every religion and how everyone else can all get along. Might have something to do with their 1400BC thinking, violence and hate that they use to try to conquer the entire world.
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  848. Out of curiosity, why? Plenty of people use them to their advantage because they're responsible and pay the bill in full the moment it arrives, which means they enjoy all the benefits without the problems. If you don't trust yourself to be responsible with a credit card, then that's perfectly fine - don't get one. That however doesn't make people 'beyond stupid'. Responsible people use credit cards because: * It puts their regular spending into on transaction (i.e. paying the bill in full the moment it arrives) * It gives them fraud protection that debit cards generally don't have * They earn reward points (the points are paid by part of the merchant fee's) for doing their regular spending that they can redeem for products, holidays or gift cards. As the points are paid from part of the merchant fees, not having a credit card doesn't make the products any cheaper * They build and maintain their credit score - its essential for business, employment, mortgages, etc. * If their annual spending is over a certain amount set by the credit card company, the annual card fee is usually waived so that's suddenly not an extra expense. * Its beats carrying thousands of dollars of cash in their wallet daily. * Credit cards shouldn't (and generally don't) incur more fees as products are already priced to build in merchant fee's, as long as you don't 'carry a balance' then you're not paying any extra fee's for using a credit card. Debit cards generally result in your bank charging you a heap more transaction fee's (one for every transaction as debit cards don't charge a 'merchant fee') so your bank balance drops faster. Having one large transaction at the end of the month means fewer fee's, and you earn more interest during the month providing you earn savings on your interest on a bi-weekly or monthly cycle.
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  849. Simply put - the world needs to understand the following: Countries don't want immigration outside the normal limited immigration (spouse, creator of jobs, etc.) that only a few people can obtain. Europe doesn't want to replace their ethnic populations, nor do they want to replace them with incompatible populations that ruin the place. Europe wants locals to have large families. Also, the smaller the population, the lower the taxes can be as there's less of a welfare bill which generally is 60-80% of the annual expenditure of a country. No one "needs" 95% of the immigrants who are overrunning and destroying Europe. Source: A European (me) who's sick of everyone trying to replace the culture and people, and, who's sick of feeling like a foreigner in their own country. Only in recent years have the UN, WHO, WEF & MSF been helping move illegals on an industrial scale and ghettoising Europe and causing crime and rapes on scales never before seen. These illegals are 100% incompatible with Europe and need to all be rounded up and deported back to where they came from. Like Poland says "help them in their country, give the resources, technology, equipment, training and money but DO NOT let them come to Europe!"
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  850.  @angelofamillionyears4599  I speak more languages than you likely do, I've seen more of the world than you likely have. I don't need to open my mind. People need to stop trying to eliminate my people by using migration to replace us. Programs to increase births have worked - the problem is the illegal migration has forced those programs to stop as the money has to be redirected to dealing with the illegals and the crime they bring. GDP is a fiction created by governments and I say this because whenever the numbers drop, the govt changes how they calculate it to show a higher number.
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  851. Hate to break it, but ALL road users are bound by speed limits UNLESS the road is closed for a race. If closed for a race then speed limits do NOT apply. How do I know this? In Australia & Canada people on horses and pushbikes have been fined for speeding. When they went to court to fight it, the courts said that the road rules / highway code was created by the British and applies to ALL road / highway users, no matter the method of transport. This is also why if you ride a horse home drunk, even though the horse can safely take you home, you will be done for drink driving as the horse is legally considered a vehicle, as is a pushbike. Oh and as Canada and Australia haven't made newer laws, the British laws still apply.
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  852. No where - if you're rich then CBI is an option. Otherwise you have none!
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  853. The problem is those people get away with forcing us to change. They bitch and moan to the government until everything gets banned or access is removed. This is why hunting, fishing, camping and having campfires is so heavily regulated - its not for safety but to appease the "anti-everything brigade". The loony left minority always get listened to by the govt and the majority always get screwed over. That's Australiastan for you.
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  854.  @therock8224  Rubbish. There's plenty that they can do. Here's a few of the things they can do: 1. Deactivate / Cancel your passport - this stops you from using your passport, invalidates any visa or permit tied to that passport and makes your presence in a country abroad illegal (if you entered using that passport). 2. Freeze / seize you bank accounts - they can do this to all your bank accounts. Most "western" countries (especially Australia) require that all bank accounts that belong to you or that you have access to are reported to them. Even if you illegally don't report them, CRS and Five Eyes Alliance will all data share and report so there's no hiding accounts. 3. They can put you on the no-fly and the no-sail lists which means you can't travel internationally 4. They can issue Amber or Red Interpol notices for your arrest for "financial crimes / tax evasion" - this will result in you being arrested and extradited to Australia. It will also screw up your future travel options as you'll now have a criminal record. Also note that many countries that have mandatory conscription/draft will still prosecute you for failing to serve, even after the upper age limit.
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  855. Solution: Get a Synology or QNAP NAS, get a static IP (optional but suggested) and run your own private cloud (contacts, calendar, data, chats, etc.). Solution 2: Leave the UK and reinstall your device / change account to one that isn't connected to the UK.
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  856. Whilst the WEF might be a private group, they have people everywhere. The Young Global Leaders program trained and indoctrinated people to do their bidding around the world, alumni include many world leaders, rulers and the owners of all the biggest businesses. By controlling/owning those people you control everything. On the Young Global Leaders website there is an alumni directory, ensure that you select the filter that shows all members including those who aren't paid up, filter the list and look through over 100 pages of people they control.
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  857.  @Sam-ip6co  CBI = Citizenship By Investment
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  858.  @flowbrandz316  The following: * Its the centre of finance and banking within the CARICOM countries * Its right next door to the three main centres of finance / wealth / banking in the world other than Switzerland, Andorra & Monaco * Its a common port-of-call for many superyachts - i.e. if you're wealthy its where your colleagues / friends are often hanging out * Its right next door to the three other places that your wealthy colleagues / friends regularly hang-out at * Its safe * Its in a great location for finance & trading (i.e. timezone) * It has scheduled flights for those who don't own private jets or who don't want to go there on their yachts * The weather is wonderful * Most people (likely many in the comments on NC's videos) can't afford it so it keeps the "riff-raff" away! There is no "cheap" way to move there.
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  859. Won't mean anything. Under the current WEF plans, by 2030, all museum vehicles (all collectors vehicles) are required to have the engines removed and destroyed so as to prohibit the illegal use of ICE vehicles. This was covered at the WEF 2021 Dubai meeting. Unfortunately the bastards have thought of everything. Our best hopes for defying the WEF will be to return to riding horses as they are still legally considered vehicles.
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  860. There never will be. Any attempt to do so will shut down all business and production. The "elites" have more than enough money to never work again and they only do so to make more money. It would also stop anyone from starting a small business as they'd be hit by the robot taxes as would the robot supplier (if still in business). Don't think for one moment that taxes will only affect one group - look at Australia and New Zealand - taxes affect everyone and rarely the "elites".
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  861. Except the problem is renouncing citizenship is ALWAYS solely at the discretion of the country concerned. Its up to them if they let you renounce. Just as disturbingly countries can declare ANYONE to be a citizen without the consent of the individual concerned. When the "west" gets desperate enough, I wouldn't be surprised if they just start declaring people at random to be citizens purely to demand taxes from them.
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  862. Because if they had the millions of dollars required to do that, they could simply just pay the taxes. You can't just have a 'trust', they can only be owned by a corporation which is a 'for profit' business. At a minimum it would have to be an investment holding company (that requires financial licences and bonds paid to the govt). Then there's all the legal compliance and mandatory reporting to maintain that corporation, not to mention is has to be making a profit every year. Its like this by design so that Blackrock and Vanguard can own everything you can be happy with nothing.
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  863. Even Black Mirror covered that topic. Oh and Australiastan is talking about VR 'nature' experiences so they can protect real nature by banning humans from accessing the real nature. They already have VR world travel experiences in Australiastan so people can 'save the environment by not traveling'.
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  864.  @ViktorCrowther  And you fail to understand that even if they refuse to issue a passport (or cancel a current one), you're still a Maltese citizen. The reality is to have multiple citizenships and subsequently multiple passports. The key is to have options and then go where you're treated best. Fun fact, very few countries can strip citizenship from people which is why citizenship is the hardest thing to get from a country. Also, the likelihood of a country like Malta cancelling or refusing to issue a passport to their citizens is basically 0%.
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  865. @GeoffBuysCars The worst part is there's nothing that can really be done to stop it. The state has the absolute monopoly on violence and they are able to lock everyone up as long as they like as they get to make up the laws/rules as they like. Where I live, everything is being made 40km/h (then 30km/h), speed cameras going in everywhere with surveillance cameras. Anyone who tries to speak out or who tries to "get involved to fix things", get demonized, arrested and then given two options: 1. Be quiet and stay out of everything 2. Spend life in jail or be otherwise silenced Heck, the leader of a legitimate political party who spoke the truth against the whole plandemic and was looking like they'd win, was arrested, labelled as an "extremist" and "nutjob", and when her bail conditions were set (her lawyer made them public), she was offered the following conditions: 1. Pay [insert astronomical amount here - hundreds of millions of dollars] in bail and face court in 4yrs time 2. Shutdown the party, destroy all membership lists and contact information, never be in politics again and never help anyone try to pick up where you left off and no bail money required and all charges will be dropped Everything is deliberate, well planned and calculated. The WEF are evil but they're not dumb. If you look at the "P" brand "2020 thing shots" known adverse effects, the 1st one listed is known as "1p36 deletion syndrome" - that explains the compliance and lobotomized appearance of those who had the "2020 thing shots". Just remember "you are the carbon they want to reduce". Alaska Prepper recently did a video on a UK research paper that says that breathing is bad for the environment and "scientists" are working out what to do.
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  866.  @user-ht9fr6eh9u  Why would even a British Citizen stay? The outcome for a resident, a citizen and a tourist are the same. No matter what you do, you are in the 1% who want change. Thus its 100% impossible until such a time as the 99% want change. Why stay and lose everything when you can go to where you're treated best? You speak like a child you thinks you can change the world - you're an insignificant little twig that can't change a country for the better.
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  867.  @LoremIpsum1970  Literally everyone can travel, save and have private property, to say otherwise is an outright lie. Lets break it down: * Travel - whether within the country or overseas, one can afford to travel and have a good holiday for under $5000 - just don't expect to stay in five star accommodation and don't expect to eat at the fancy places; maybe go camping and enjoy life. Also, don't travel all the time, a holiday is a once a year thing - always has been, always will be. *Saving - Currently everyone can save money. How many people buy multiple coffee's every day? Each coffee is $6. If you have coffee at home (i.e. Nespresso Original Line Pod machine and pods) that's only $0.45 per pod plus water and power. That's a saving of $5.50 per coffee right there, $5 if we allow $0.50 for water and power per pod. Further, if you have access to boiling water at work (or if you have a Jetboil (or knock-off such as the OEX)), you can have the same pod coffee by owning and using a Minipresso NS (made by Wacaco). You're currently permitted to have a bank account and save money to any amount you can manage. In the near future that will be capped at 20k GBP in the UK and $80k in the rest of the world (according to the BIS). That means zero saving and zero ability to ever do anything. To put those limits into understandable terms, that $80k is literally one new car (after taxes and registration) in Australia or New Zealand - its damn near nothing. Part of saving is securing the buying power of your money - buying a pure silver bullion coin or round each week or month will secure that value - the markets only go up and in the long-term you won't lose out. If things go bad a few years later, that bit of silver can be sold and the money used to survive. Another part of saving is stocking up before prices climb even higher. Everything will always cost more tomorrow - things you can currently afford that are shelf-stable and that you will use are worth stocking up on as they'll only cost more (or shrink in size) in the future. * Private property - Everyone has private property, whether its land, a house or simply possessions, the things you own are all private property. In the near future you won't be allowed to own anything - not even your clothes! If you think the most basic tenants of life aren't worth worrying about, then you will perish at the hands of the WEF and will contribute to their success. In the future without being able to travel (sometimes to buy things you need), save money or own private property, you'll be 100% at the mercy of the system and will have to go without everything as they will dictate what and how much you can buy and use. You honestly sound like a typical "victim mentality" person who thinks that anyone with more than you has "privilege" or is "affluent", whilst telling yourself that "you don't have the means to do those things" when in reality you do have the means - you just don't believe yourself or won't put in the hard work to succeed. Before anyone tries to say I'm talking BS and that its not possible, know this - I started with nothing and worked for everything I have, saving as much as possible. Its highly disturbing that most people have no money these days because they refuse to do the hard work to become successful and to have savings.
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  868. Thank you for everything. You showed us all places that most of us will never get to see and you documented a lot of history. Ben, I wish you all the best no matter what you do from here on. I do hope you choose to pivot the channel to more amazing content - maybe some sort of "lost, abandoned or forgotten places throughout Europe and Balkans (maybe the Caribbean or South America) - kinda like a lost history. I know its not the same but it could work.
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  869.  @johnmknox  As Australiastan showed during the plandemic - that declaration is utterly worthless. According to the Australian Govt - its a framework and "well-meaning" but not legally binding thing which can be thrown aside when a country wants to; this is also the same Australianstan who threw aside their own constitution that they love to call "the highest law of the land" because throwing it aside suited them. This was the excuse they gave why they could suspend ALL human rights and lock Aussie's out of and inside of Australia - yes, citizens banned from coming home and citizens banned from leaving - even if it was longterm (5+ yrs or permanent) and the other country had said they could enter. My point - the only rights anyone has are the ones they can enforce themselves! Laws mean nothing when the courts side 100% with whatever the govt says, or when the govt just change the laws to suit them using "emergency powers" to avoid the democratic processes.
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  870. It's usually because getting qualified is being made harder every year that passes. I don't know what its like in Canada but in Australia, the hardest part is getting qualified because they don't want people getting qualified, they want people eternally in education and on govt assistance (easier to control and more likely to keep the govt in power). In Australia, one can't simply become a plumber, electrician or welder, they must: * Find a business that'll hire them as an apprentice * Said business must register with the govt's apprenticeship scheme if they aren't already registered (a lot of paperwork, reporting and cost) * Now you can enroll in the appropriate TAFE course * TAFE for 3yrs * Apprenticeship for 4yrs (you must be supervised for absolutely everything you do as otherwise any work you do can't be signed off - so you usually sit around doing nothing) * Sit an interview / exam on quoting the act "word for word", only now, if you pass can you get the licence to work. And they wonder why no one can be bothered getting qualified. The TAFE course should be all that's required as its hands on. Its literally easier to get a degree and work professionally for more money, even if you have to more overseas than it is to "get a trade".
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  871. Except you won't be able to fly. Look at France - unless you're entering the EU or exiting the EU on a long-haul flight, you can't take a flight that could be done with a <3hr train trip. They allow the one internal flight IF it's part of an international booking purely so as to avoid screwing up international flight schedules "waiting on people" and to avoid airlines suing the govt for "penalizing them for leaving late" or for "having to compensate people who missed the flight due to no fault of the individual".
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  872.  @cody8121  In most of CANZUK & CUNA you couldn't even buy a house with a backyard for that and still afford to live. You are about 20+yrs out of touch with reality unless you're talking about moving to the poor countries.
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  873.  @Ziegfried82  Even still its subjective to the country. In much of CANZUK or CUNA you can't live on $60k per year unless you're on welfare thanks to the governments plunging the countries into insane debt and raising taxes annually. As you said, inflation is the problem but governments like it like that, because a dependent population is easily controlled by them. Control is what the WEF and modern governments crave.
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  874. The problem is latex takes forever to create a document, unlike using an office suite. This is why outside of very niche fields, latex hasn't and will never take off. Yes I know how to use latex and I spend most of my time looking at "cheat sheets" to list equations and to create tables, its powerful, but painful to work with. Presentations - done properly they require animations and should automatically advance whilst showing the presenter their slide notes on a separate screen - that requires something like Impress or PowerPoint, PDF files don't support animation and don't cut it in the real world (outside of uni), vim - you've got to be joking, it has no place in ANY presentation in the real world. The easiest solution is to use latex where strict formatting is required (writing research papers) and to just use LibreOffice for everything else, disable telemetry and don't donate to those wokies. Same thing with Firefox (disable the telemetry and don't donate). The biggest mistake ANYONE can make is to use anything built on Chromium (Chrome) - its a security nightmare and has zero genuine benefits over browsers built on the architectures used in Firefox. One other point on the time to get stuff done thing: Its like idiots trying to push C# for everything when you can write the identical code in VB in 1/10 the time (time is money), and the code executes at the same speed as it compiles to the same CLR. The big push to ditch VB was to make programming seem complicated and special to justify govts introducing professional registration systems so they could force "programming professionals" to create backdoors in software or face de-registration and subsequent loss of their job. VB made programming accessible and let many people write their own software quickly and easily, that took the money and power from the govts and big corporations. VB code is very easy to read and debug, C# on the other hand can be painful to debug (especially in large solutions (30+ projects)) as you spend more time trying to keep track of line endings and that brackets are correctly placed - all time wasting that VB avoids entirely. Yes I know both C# and VB fluently - I only use C# when there's something that can't be done in any other language due to MicroSh1t artificially limiting VB by removing some advanced functionality as part of their attempt to try to abolish it.
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  875.  @tomasruzicka9835  Your missing the point that when you're employed in a company, you have to do things how they require. Presentations must be presentations. Spreadsheets must be spreadsheets. Spreadsheets have been fully compatible going as far back as Lotus 1-2-3 in the 1980's, LibreOffice isn't going anywhere, nor is its parent, OpenOffice. That means the files can always be read. Sure, by all means use SQL for giant datasets and where the data is for research. As for your other suggestions on storing data - you're talking from a solely research / scientific point. That's not how ANY company handles their "office" data - we're not talking about anything "scientific". 99% of companies don't even know what GNU Octave, SQL, or LaTeX is, nor do 90% of people. Only idiots use "cloud" and "SaaS", smart people use local running software that doesn't need internet and doesn't expire.
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  876. Sorry but you're totally wrong about sailing - there's no market, prices are tanking. Hate to break it to you but unless you're commercially qualified and the vessel is commercially licenced, you can't legally sail internationally. To hold and maintain a commercial qualification and licence you need to be working for someone in the maritime industry (i.e. not self employed) and have to do annual courses and assessments to remain qualified and to renew the licence. The stupid ICC (International Certificate of Competence) that the EU, UN and most countries demand isn't possible to get if you have the 'wrong' nationality, if you're a national of a 'Res. 40' country you need that countries licence but can only get it if living there full time, and now the EU is bringing in a new 'EU-wide' licence that the UN has said will be required globally to sail internationally as a private individual. All this BS because they won't accept licences from non-EU countries unless they're commercial licences. Actual experience, skill and government issued non-commercial licences mean nothing, its all bureaucracy, money and nationality that matter. Sadly the reason they're doing this is to stop people being able to travel internationally as they want you stuck in the country you're already in. I've been trying to get around the whole ICC thing myself (so I can live aboard and sail internationally) but can't and I can't get an ICC due to nationality, even though I have actually learned to sail, have passed multiple assessments beyond whats needed for the ICC. I hold multiple countries marine licences (non-commercial). I have been told that the IPC is only accepted if the person is from the USA, and that the NauticEd SLC isn't accepted if you're an EU national (must have an EU licence).
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  877.  @javiervega1065  You're deluded... yeah move to a place where locals have near to no rights, where everything is controlled and surveilled - oh and where outsiders are treated like scum, and you can't LEGALLY move money out of the country. Might as well move to North Korea. You're a moron.
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  878. Australia has already banned cheques by 2030 at the latest. The state of Victoria, Australia has banned cheques from 2025. Electronic payments for everything seems to be the way.
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  879. So they move their money to another country and the bank can't give out as many loans or invest in the country. Brilliant idea. Oh - hate to break it to you but ALL income is taxed the same - its all considered PIT so they already are paying well over 30%PIT which is why many are leaving.
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  880. Even if it would encourage it, it won't happen. Like over the last few years, harsh penalties, people being compliant and others "doing their part" by ratting people out to snitch lines will take care of that. Its already illegal to trade or barter (because the govt don't get to tax the trade or barter) in the entire western world (except remote parts of Alaska), even currently people getting caught trading or bartering do end up in jail. The media just don't cover it.
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  881.  @lukyluky864  For the govt it is easy. They have records of transactions in most of the western world, security footage - even if shops won't provide it, the govt has cameras outside all bullion dealers. They also can go door to door. Plus they'll offer huge rewards to those who rat people out. Assuming you can avoid all that, how are you going to use it without being caught out having a "near endless" supply of money whilst others are starving? They'll work out how you're affording the essentials when they aren't permitting you to have them. Outside the USA, its absolutely easy for the state to confiscate anything they want.
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  882.  @lukyluky864  What am I wrong about? Outside the USA, rounding up bullion and having the general public rat everyone out is absolutely easy and was proven over the last few years as 99% are compliant sheep who do what the govt tells them to. As I said before, how are you going to survive with spending bullion whilst everyone else is barely surviving - you'll be the only person who's not starving and thus making yourself a target. Sure you could stash away food and rotate it like most preppers but even that still carries the same problem as bullion - you'll stand out from everyone else and thus make yourself a target. I can also tell that you didn't read what I wrote and only put a "default" emotional response because you don't like your safety illusion being questioned or critiqued, because, at no point have I ever been pro-crypto - I fucking hate crypto because it is the problem - it is the CBDC just before the code get forked and turned into CBDC. Why the fuck are you assuming I have crypto? I don't and never will. I ask you again - how are you going to keep your bullion hidden but somehow trade for food without using it? How are you going to avoid not looking starved when everyone else looks like that? How are you going to explain having so much with a near endless source of wealth whilst everyone else has nothing? How are you going to keep your neighbours from ratting you out? Over the last few years, neighbours were ratting people out over the slightest breech of the mandates? If they're starving and think that you aren't, they'll rat you out for an extra food ration.
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  883. Hate to break it to you but ALL "western" countries that speak English spent the entire plandemic building camps, prisons and passing laws letting them to do whatever they like. They're purposely ready to jail the masses and to make examples out of the "right" people to scare everyone into compliance. This is the wall being built (i.e. the Iron Curtain) - get out NOW whilst you still can!
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  884.  @sweendawg7274  * Intelligent Canadian who sees no point in going down with the ship when its completely avoidable. What's the matter? You want to bring everyone down with you because you're unable to leave? Or, is it because you don't want your "free money bro" cashcows to leave? The reality is, the 99% like how things currently are because they're on welfare and have it easy. Anyone who isn't on welfare is being reamed by taxes and struggling to live. Until the 99% want things to change for the better (end welfare and pay off all the national debt, and lower taxes), nothing will change so why would/should those 1% who want change stay and lose everything? That's literal insanity.
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  885. Clearly you forget that Poland, the Baltics and Finland are all prepared, geared up, have enough supplies, people, and modern US state-of-the-art weaponry to destroy Russia, as they're expecting Russia to invade the EU as putina wants to rebuild the Tsarist Empire because she wasn't getting any attention so being the trouble seeing wh*&e putina is, she always starts wars.
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  886. Do you actually realise how expensive a war is? If people say their economy is going badly, a war will only worsen that. Also, what do they think they'll obtain? I'm 100% certain that Taiwan would evacuate any relics / valuables to Japan or to the USA and I'm 100% sure that they'd destroy their chip fabs as they wouldn't let China take them over. Aside from being a war monger and wasting money and resources, what's actually in it for China? Nothing. Its as pointless as Russia invading Ukraine.
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  887. Providing you have the ability to work remote or have passive income from, for example, selling licences for software you wrote online, etc. you have some options and some zero tax place to live. The catch - your citizenship in the EU needs to be from within Schengen and you'll need to do some research into the various European Empires that existed pre-1900 (only three of the six that had empires across oceans matter in this case) - there's four places that have zero personal income tax, zero capital gains tax and zero wealth tax, that are still part of their original Empire countries as far as residence rights go. I won't name them here as its not hard to work out with a quick Google search. Hint: two are in the Caribbean region, two are in Oceania/Pacific region. The catch - they're remote places so it'd be more of a "longterm holiday" than a "day-trip" away should you want to live in any of the places I'm thinking of.
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  888. Its because it does affect them. Instead of simply being happy with "gay marriage" and the fact that in the "west" no one really cared about them, the LGBTQIA+ loonies had to make themselves special and force their views and beliefs on others. What do we see in the west: * LGBTQIA+ priority for employment / jobs * LGBTQIA+ govt programs spending heaps of taxes on them * LGBTQIA+ only safe spaces whilst all others get shutdown * Its a legal crime to misgender them whether intentionally or not * 'Safe Schools' is forced on primary school children - hardcore fetishes and twisted perversions are being taught in primary schools * Primary school children are being brainwashed to think they're something other than what they are - i.e. brainwashed to think they're gay when they aren't, to think they're a cat * Schools can put children on puberty blockers (this is irreversible as by not going through puberty they'll be sterile) without parental consent because the child has been brainwashed * Schools can let children get sex changes without being sure of what they're doing (they're too young) without parental consent * Primary school children are being brainwashed to think communism is good and somehow acceptable - its a system of destruction and death What happened to letting children just be children? They should only be learning normal subjects, no ideology and not being brainwashed into communism. This is the problem - they are negatively affecting conservatives and children. LGBTQIA+ is a trojan horse to destroy the nuclear family, destroy society and usher in communism.
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  889. EES is only for third country nationals as it tracks compliance with the 90-day rule. EU nationals simply get their entry and exit electronically recorded as they have for the last 10yrs. ETIAS & EES is for third country nationals only.
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  890. Because their issue isn't with the interview. The reason we are all having "misinformation and disinformation" laws being forced upon us is because they want to have a much easier time controlling the narrative than they did during the plandemic. Simply put, people will speak out and have evidence if they allow ANYONE to show "the other side of the story", by prohibiting that, there's only the fraudulent propaganda they create. That's why they worry - they don't want people getting used to hearing all sides, nor do they want people to expect to hear all sides, nor do they want people to even think about asking questions.
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  891. There is only one solution - don't bank in Europe and all affected businesses need to simply ignore this BS and simply report the lowest possible scores for each category. Compliance whether out of fear or not will only make it worse. This BS will end in communism and everyone being completely broke. Sadly the majority of people are nothing but cowards who won't fight this crap. Or simply ever business will become a "micro-enterprise" and thus not affect by this BS; with computers and automation this should be easy to do.
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  892.  @benbirch2393  blzebub2 is just a overly compliant brainwashed nut - the same type who said we'd never lockdown, that internal passports (jab certs) and splitting society into the "clean" and the "unclean" wouldn't be a thing and that we wouldn't be locked in our homes by the state, that it was all a "conspiracy"; the same type who when the govt did it, said "we always knew this would happen" and that it was never a conspiracy. People like this are braindead and will lie and twist everything so that they appear to be correct whilst belittling everyone else. blzebub2 is a perfect example of a useful idiot / demoralised person as defined by Yuri Bezmenov. These people won't wake up until its too late and the state puts its boot into them, then the state eliminates them so as to prevent them spreading the truth about what's happening (i.e. under-mining the state). blzebub2 seems to be a pathetic little troll who none of us should feed - its better to ignore such trolls.
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  893. Oceania - living up to the 1984 in more ways than just this. Come to AU & NZ - both are basically communist shitholes and the Australian Government just passed laws that supposedly stop hate (2024 Nazi Militaria & Symbols Ban) but in reality force the descendants of Holocaust survivors to destroy their old family documents, letters, postcards, photos, birth certificates, marriage certificates, passports, ID's, etc. all because these documents were stamped by the Nazis in the 1930's through 1945 with stamps that contain the "bad symbols" or because the document is a copy or official statement of what happened to their relative and thus contains "bad symbols". The reason such documents have to be destroyed is because whilst possession is still 100% legal, the documents can never leave the property they're on, they can never be shown to relatives, friends or even consulates, nor can they be scanned and provided to relatives, genealogists or consulates as that would violate the "transport, supply and transmission" ban purely because such things contain the "bad symbols". So say you want to move house, move overseas or when you die (the law doesn't permit inheritance), anyone would be violating the law if they kept or inherited the documents, also if they moved them off the property. This means that the 6 month "estate" period would be all they have to destroy said documents, that is, to destroy history and official legal documents, simply because they were stamped with "bad symbols". Oh, if you think that you'll just sneak such documents out of the country, they've got that covered - if you "conceal" hate material (anything containing the "bad symbols") you'll get an even longer jail sentence (concealment, transport, transport over a national border, etc.). This same law also makes it an offence to share, disseminate, distribute, give, trade, make available for access or to access ANY documents in ANY format that contain the "bad symbols". Want to research what happened to that relative who was sent to a concentration camp - sorry, Australia just outlawed that as should you access ANY document that contains the bad symbols when searching the Yad Vashem database or Arolsen Archive or any online accessible Holocaust document database, you'll be violating the new laws. What this effectively says is the Australian Government want to finish the work the Nazis started under Hitler - to erase anyone that the Nazis considered to be "lesser", by means of forcing people to destroy their own family history simply because they have old family documents because their relatives (grandparents, etc.) survived the Holocaust. The claims by those that support the laws (sadly many secular Jews) and all the far left is that "no one should possess or profit from hate", completely ignoring that many things contain the "bad symbols" but aren't hate material. Oh, the best part - these laws are part of Australia's counter terror laws so any breach results in gigantic jail sentences and being declared a terrorist. The scariest part is this law applies globally, to: * Australian Citizens * Permanent Residents * ALL ALIENS & FOREIGNERS (including foreigners who've never been to Australia). This means anyone anywhere in the world, even if they're not breaking the laws where they are, will be able to be extradited and prosecuted under these Australian laws.
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  894. Absolutely spot on!
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  895. You're only going to lose everything. You can't fix what the 99% want to keep as is. Only when the 99% want change, can anything be improved. Stay and lose everything, leave and survive.
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  896. Won't ever happen as it'd be an absolutely pointless video, as, what you're saying highlights an issue that his clientele never have and never will have - an inability to research or an inability to consult experts. If you can't work out where is best, you consult experts. You sure as hell don't just assume and go anywhere. Caymans and BVI whilst being beautiful places are stupidly painful and a basic Google Search has always explained why. There have always been many far better places with less bureaucracy that offer just as many benefits. Caymans, BVI, Switzerland and several other well known "tax havens" are the "name-brands" of the "tax haven" world and just like normal "name-brand" countries, they're painful at best.
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  897.  @TheSharkBand  Your childish reply shows us all exactly why you got in the situation you did and why you asked for a video that will never be made. I think this channel is beyond you.
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  898. Then you're traveling nowhere. Basically everywhere wants at least index fingerprints, most places want all fingerprints. The ones that don't care about fingerprints (AU, NZ), go for facial scans (by looking at camera). Some places like Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, the Middle East (UAE) require fingerprints, facial scan and iris scan. Heck, most licences in most of the "western world" require you to give the govt your fingerprints.
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  899.  @maxtorque2277  Yet not a single ICE vehicle in AU, NZ, EU, JP, have electric door releases, they're 100% mechanical. The doors open without a battery connected to the vehicle, simply insert key, turn it then open the door by pulling on the handle. If what you said were true the doors wouldn't work on an ICE vehicle if the battery was removed from the vehicle, yet they work just fine. Stop spouting utter rubbish. As for your other comment, look them up yourself, they're out there and aren't hard to find (unless your govt is censoring your search results) and they made the news (EV crashes, instant fire because the battery got damaged). You're an EV shill who doesn't know what you're on about. This channel (Geoff Buys Cars) is clearly not for you.
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  900.  @glynnetolar4423  Patents are 40yrs in the world outside of the USA. It is simple - until developers get appropriate financial remuneration for their work and until they are no longer adapting or reusing the code, then the public should have zero right to it. 25yrs isn't that long - about 50% of the code I've written since I first learnt to code, can be followed back close to 25yrs - RAD (Rapid Application Development) and reusable code gave code longevity and made things easier for software developers. The problems and solutions are simple - its people demanding things who don't understand that the world doesn't revolve around them that's the problem. If govts demand everything has to be made public then say goodbye to products and software that isn't already opensource.
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  901.  @jb2590  Actually it is both as it depends on the product in question. Some products are hardware only such as mechanical calculators, sometimes its both such as the Bendix MG-1 which output a serial result at the end, and sometimes its the product is software. So no those two statements aren't mutually exclusive. Not providing a schematic isn't anti-repair, its anti-cheap clone. Sure you could try to probe out a board or manually disassemble and map out a mechanism but the reality is that all still takes time. What doesn't take time is reproducing a schematic in software and generating the product for immediate manufacture. This is the reality of modern times. Why should a competitor be permitted to clone a product simply because some random person demands it to be? Is that random person going to fund the on-going development and refuse to buy the cheap clone? Of course not. Forcing schematics to be released is ensuring that cheap clones will be available from day two unlike currently where they don't appear for a month or two (this is the sale window for the genuine product in most cases). If you choose to throw away a product because you personally can't repair it, that's your right. The reality is that unless you live in the USA, you're going to have to take it to be recycled and if it isn't either very old or badly damaged you'll be paying huge environmental fines for not contacting the company to repair the product. Schematics are a secret for good reason. Lets take the definition used by "right to repair" outside the USA. They deem it to be all manufacturing information, engineering drawings and all relevant source code, the latter to enable different parts to be installed should a chip (be it RAM or an FPGA) be discontinued and be replaced. This then extends to the entire source code for the software side (if the hardware has drivers and/or software) as changing compenents can require significant changes in order to ensure functionality and should an operating system be outdated, the "right to repair" movement demand that the source code of all software that ran on that OS be public to "port" it to newer OS's - this demand already ignores whether or not the product is available on newer OS's because these people don't want to pay an upgrade licence fee. Just like that you've made it worthless for companies to spend money on R&D be it for hardware or software so that means that development of new products will cease and the market will stagnate - this is already being seen as "right to repair" is being considered. You can currently repair products (that aren't Apple) but you have to do the hard work of probing and researching what the components are by their numbers. You don't need a schematic. Do I think Apple locking damn near every chip down to prevent repair is horrible - yes, but they're the only company doing that, quit buying their rubbish and buy literally any other companies product and you won't have that issue. Just because some people throw a fit and demand the world from companies, doesn't mean those companies have to comply - many would rather either move to other markets or shut down that give their IP away. If "right to repair" is to ever be taken seriously, it needs to address the following and provide actual solutions: * How to ensure ALL IP is protected * How to ensure that clones can't be made (from a companies schematics) until at least a year after a product launch * How to ensure that the small fortune that is R&D can be recovered along with a profit so development can continue * How to ensure that competitors can't have their hard work done for them by simply stealing source that the "right to repair" forces to be revealed Until these things are worked out and solved, "right to repair" has no right beyond being able to swap components without a schematic which can currently be done to any product that isn't made by Apple.
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  902.  @antonyjh1234  Only useless eaters / communist scum want equity. There is place for equality in the world but not for equity. Why should Person A who does nothing have the same everything as Person B who studied hard, worked long hours and earns a lot? If someone studies hard, works hard and earns a lot they should be only moderately taxed and able to build wealth for their future generations. Those who can't be bothered can enjoy having nothing!
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  903. Not the best option as CANZUK & CUNA countries are collapsing. Canada is talking about wealth taxes and citizenship based taxation.
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  904. I am the same and encountered the same problem. Far too many people are all too happy to just roll over and comply which screws over people such as you and I.
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  905. Correct, 99% of countries have 'Right of Blood' citizenship because that way you only get citizenship by being born to a citizen, thus there's no anchor babies.
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  906. Like most of that part of the world the only options are: * By descent * By Exception (highly unlikely to happen) * By Investment (most people aren't going to start a large enough business (2500+ local employees)) Central and Eastern Europe simply don't want outsiders, and even if by some miracle they let you naturalize, you'll always be an outsider to them, its just their culture that they actually want to protect unlike 'western' Europe.
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  907. What's the matter, does the truth hurt? China has a social credit system, they have a totalitarian surveillance state. Score too low - there goes your access to public transport and to book restaurants, there goes your ability to keep you good job. The problem is too many people have been brainwashed to both comply and to think that its normal when in reality if tyrannical. Privacy, freedom and minimal control is essential for life and freedom.
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  908. When the far-left extremists had to create a law in NY just to charge Trump, and then they decided that they had to go tooth-and-nail after him because "he might win", the whole thing is a pathetic joke. All it shows is that the far-left are the actual fascists who can't otherwise legitimately win and that they're willing to use fascism and violence to achieve their agenda. Across the entire English speaking world, the far-left are desperately trying to seize power and abolish their opposition using every fascist method properly. The far-left are pure fascist commie scum who are trying to take over - it goes well beyond Trump. Misinformation and disinformation laws exist only to silence the truth and to control / compel speech. The UK literally jail people for telling jokes on social media, even if its only a private message (yes FB scans ALL private messages). AU admit that hate speech, misinformation and disinformation are 100% whatever the current govt say it is, that there's zero criteria and that its perfectly acceptable to claim that ANYTHING (even if genuinely true) is hate speech, misinformation or disinformation if the govt think it could weaken their power / narrative. The reality is that there's nothing you can do to keep a clean record anymore. Simply ask ANY valid question that the far-left don't agree with you on, or, support the opposition party at an election and the current govt can make you a criminal. This BS is only happening because the far-left extremists are trying to take over and they know that they can only do it by eliminating any and all legal opponents. Literally anyone speaking out about mass illegal migration is considered as a criminal by these tyrannical regimes, because mass illegal migration is a cornerstone of far-left commie regimes - it pushes taxes through the roof, helps them justify taking everything from those that have and because it helps push crime to insane levels which justifies fascist totalitarian govt control over everything. Honestly, countries need to be woken up to the reality that just because someone has been 'charged' or convicted of a crime, doesn't mean they've actually REAL committed a crime anymore. The UK is a perfect example - how many people are convicted criminals simply for 'hurting someones feelings' (as its treated as hate speech), or for posting a meme online to which someone took offence? Those things are only crimes in the English speaking world - nowhere else!
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  909. Nope - it needs to be abolished. Everyone should be allowed to produce and store and use their own electricity. As long as the grid exists everyone will be forced to use it and be taxed to death. Using small wind turbines and solar its easy to create all the electricity you need - they just don't want you empowered to do so, so they require you to be on the gird and to send the power into the grid so they can tax you to death.
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  910. Doesn't matter, they'll just make it impossible to live life without paying fines and those who can't pay will get locked up.
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  911. Ireland and that's it due to the CTA. The only way to legally work in other countries is to get the required work visas. That's what happens when you're not part of the EU or Schengen.
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  912. If you really think its about "getting rid of the bad actors" and not "strictly controlling it so only the big players, governments and banks (banks aren't subject to any crypto regulations)" then you've been successfully fooled and/or gaslit by the government. Those creating crypto, making it programmable and expirable are all simply building their own prisons/tools of their oppression. Whilst money as we know it may end, CBDC will replace it and anything that isn't CBDC will be banned outright. The impeding EU crypto regulations and US crypto regulations are almost completely impossible to comply with but that's by design as explained in Coin Bureau's video "What's Coming in 2023 The OECD's Crypto Tax Plans!!".
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  913. Damn near everyone I went to primary school with was born with 2+ citizenships - all of EU background and families left Europe as a result of WW2 either fleeing Nazis or Soviets and later many fled communism. Many of us were born with 4 citizenships due to parents / grandparents and where they naturalized (where we were born).
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  914.  @JohnSmith-tz4on  what you call facts are lies based solely on race. Your claims about white house staffing being almost all Jewish is rubbish. Aside from the fact that you chimed in and are trying to change the topic, you claim that Jews are parasitic yet history shows otherwise. The only parasitic people are the welfare recipients who think the world owes them everything. Ironically every Jewish person I've ever encountered has been hard working and very successful in business, receiving nothing from the govt that could be considered by anyone to be welfare. You talk about statistical anomalies that don't exist and have nothing to do with the comment I replied to which was calling Jews parasitic simply for moving countries and not being nationalistic to one country they live in.
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  915. @cathybrowning2310 Utter BS. Some countries expressly forbid dual nationality, many openly permit it, and some have no laws for or against it. I know people who have citizenships of multiple monarchies.
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  916.  @theesilverghost  Look at Australia and New Zealand. The govt can do whatever they like as they simply just ignore the people (who can't do anything to stop them legally). When they couldn't get outright bans, they simply locked up all the land (i.e. no human access) and voila, everything banned. The end goal is zero private firearms, bows, crossbows, knives, etc. and everyone trapped in 15-minute cities eating crap food (i.e. Soylent Green). This is happening in all of the English speaking world and the EU.
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  917. You can't naturalize anywhere without being fingerprinted. Also, want a professional licence, a licence of basically any type (i.e. not just for firearms or security but marine, truck, bulldozer, liquor, etc.) and you have to be fingerprinted. In this current time, the main biometric you should never give a govt is an iris scan as laws already exist that enforce guilt the moment an security system registers an iris scan match. Avoid, USA, Japan, the Middle East, etc. who require iris scans.
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  918. If its going to work with Visa or anywhere that Visa is accepted, that means full AML/KYC, it also means that the tax office CAN seize your crypto on the whim of the government, just like they currently can with your bank account. Sadly, instead of simply accepting a new NFC card on the existing equipment, this is putting crypto back into the hands of the government. This is all thanks to existing financial laws - hence the requirement for full AML/KYC, registration to your govt issued ID, oh and fee's will automatically be charged as the government imposes transaction fees on electronic payments because the government is a money hungry monster. This also hits us with more CGT because in most of CANZUK and CUNA, simply holding crypto is subject to CGT at 'special' crypto rates.
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  919. The WEF are behind it along with the UN. The UN's SDG's are just Agenda 21 rebadged.
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  920. You talk pure bullshit. Russia is crumbling under the sanctions. They have barely enough equipment to hold what they currently hold. The people are suffering, many are starving as a result. Also, someone who's winning and powerful doesn't bring in North Korean soldiers to help, nor do they get North Korea to donate guns and ammo (stuff that barely works).
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  921.  @THE-X-Force  What difference does it make if you get 10yrs in jail for deleting data and logs, or you get 10yrs in jail for self-hosting and being labeled a criminal by the government over something truly insignificant? That's the reality in much of CANZUK & CUNA. Self-hosting at least ensures the data and logs are deleted so it makes it harder for them to frame you. The easiest way for people to self host is to use a NAS such as a QNAP or Synology. They have free DynDNS for remote access, they use HTTPS (Let'sEncrypt Certificates), you can get a static IP from your ISP for best results, and can replace Google. On a Synology NAS install: Synology Contacts, Synology Calendar, Synology Drive Server, Synology Office (accessible within Synology Drive) and Synology Photos, Note Station & Synology Chat Server. As long as you encrypt the Folder Shares you create on a NAS, its easy to delete the data as without the keys, good luck decrypting.
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  922.  @rodiculous9464  And at the same time those countries are too stupid to welcome skilled professionals who aren't rich but could create jobs (they could offer visas conditional to following through on creating jobs but they NEVER do). CBI countries want the quick financial injection, they don't really care long term, nor do they care about creating jobs for their citizens.
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  923.  @davidmorgan3149  You are believing utter lies - it has nothing to do with that. The banks don't care if you or anyone gets scammed. They ask the questions purely for control - they want to ensure that what you do with your money is inline with ESG and all the current WOKE crap. Even electronic payments are getting blocked if it violates ESG - I know as I've had to deal with the issue myself when doing a regular purchase after the bank decided to roll out ESG. They care about control over the money you donate to them. Once you "deposit" money into the bank, you've actually donated it to the bank and you're an unsecured creditor from that point on - i.e. it's no longer your money. Most banks in the "English Speaking World" used to have reserve requirements - since 2020 in most places that requirement has been abolished. Also, instead of fractional reserve banking being restricted to loaning $100 for every $1 held, the banks commonly loan out $1,000,000 for every $1 held as the BIS permit such reckless behaviour. This results in them loaning out non-existent money at close of business and borrowing it all back just before start of business the next day. There is zero liquidity and all banks are 100% broke - they just don't want the masses to realize this as that would cause a run on the banks and because it would destroy all confidence in the currency resulting in the currency becoming instantly worthless over night. The other reason the bastards want to know everything is thanks to the assholes that are the USA who try to force AML/KYC on everyone as they want to see everything you do (they collect, profile and then sell the data - its a huge industry worth trillions) and to ensure they can tax you at every possible chance.
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  924. They flee because they have no choice. Staying and losing everything isn't an option. Many people are regulated out of work by braindead governments who see more regulations as more $$$. Then there's the fact that many places want more taxes because they want $$$ to waste. Why should people have to stay and lose everything they worked hard for, paid huge taxes on, just because someone such as yourself thinks you can play a game that you aren't allowed to even join in the first place. The system is designed to destroy you, the only people who can play it are the 'elites' who are permanently invited to DAVOS. Why would anyone ever return to the place that tried to destroy them. Lastly, just because they're in one country now doesn't mean that is their country of origin - they may be ethnically from another country but ended up there because of work or because their parents moved for work when they were a child.
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  925. Doesn't matter what the law says. The courts will never agree with you as they're crooked and have been bought by the govt. They'll always side with those who pay them (i.e. the govt).
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  926. At least you were able to - where I live, dual/multi national people (i.e. have multiple citizenships) aren't allowed to be involved in councils or govt in ANY capacity - they expect us to pay taxes, vote and obey but we're not allowed to have a say even though we're citizens. My main point is where I live, 99% of people have multiple citizenships - citizenship to the country and citizenship by blood from each of their parents - people have 3-4 citizenships by blood is actually very common. This sadly leaves only 1% who're allowed to be involved in councils or govt in ANY capacity.
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  927. Regarding lights on vehicles. In Australia I'm noticing that most of the new EV's and Hybrids are breaking the Australian Design Rules (ADR) as they don't have the legally required lights or the lights are too small if present. Indicators Either only on the side fender of the vehicle so on-coming traffic can't see it until the vehicle starts to turn, OR, its a tiny dot hard against the "radiator" part of the front of the vehicle and is barely visible as its dull and only a few tiny LED's. Also, some don't have rear indicators so you have no way of knowing if the vehicle in front is turning until you can see their front side fenders. Some have tiny rear indicators inside the rear brake light and as a result, when the brake lights are on the indicator is impossible to see. Brake Lights Many have the centre only, OR two very low ones mounted in the very bottom of the rear bumper (flush with the bottom edge) and they're very dull and small. Some have none. Headlights Most vehicles are running highbeams in built-up areas which is 100% illegal as it genuinely blinds on-coming drivers, especially on side streets. All modern vehicles can easily geo-fence that function from being used in built-up areas but they don't. Many vehicles illegally permit the driver to set the "low beams" to be the same as high beams and direct them at the on-coming traffic. ALL headlights are meant to be aimed down and forward with the high beam function only tilting the light up without it moving to pointing forward (i.e. it still has to be aimed to the left side). Why is the govt is letting all this BS happen? Because they forced manufacturing out of the country by making the place hostile (laws, taxes, over regulation, etc.) and because the regime (sorry... govt) are 100% set on only having EV's (and some hybrids for remote areas) in the country. As such the only EV's are the ones coming from places like China where they have huge numbers waiting to be sold but no one bothers to care if they meet the ADR.
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  928. The moment you have a normal life and need to drive between multiple places in the one day and move a bunch of stuff (products, tools, or shopping), a car is the only answer. The powers that be and the climtards fail to accept that this is the reality for most people and that giving up cars is never going to happen. Also, it doesn't help that its harder (more mandatory classes, longer "learner" periods, etc.) to get a motorbike licence than it is a car licence. Too much BS to get in most of CANZUK and CUNA, especially AU & NZ, so motorbikes aren't even an option.
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  929. Yet targets Polish Jews who live in Poland (as they have for centuries) and have never caused problems. Was he too scared to burn a Koran?
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  930. The govt want that. Its all by design. If you're on welfare from the state, you can be forced into CBDC and thus easily controlled. Look at the plandemic - there were very few of us who had enough savings (and supplies of shelf-stable food) to reject all the jabs and demands from the govt, to go without work for the 3yrs of lockdowns and literally wait them out. The ones that couldn't had no choice but to comply as that was required to continue working and to receive 'welfare'. That's why Australiastan (specifically the state of Danistan - also known as Victoria under Dictator Dan) had such compliance.
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  931. As much as people want to get out of the system, they simply won't have a choice as without taking part, they won't have a means to pay the mandatory taxes & council rates. If these aren't paid (eventually only being accepted in CBDC) the state will seize your property as "compensation" for failure to pay. Property rights and protection from seizure of assets would need to be established first but no government ever will. There are only a mere handful of countries in the world where there is no land tax, no annual council rates or personal income tax.
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  932.  @My_Old_YT_Account  If you have any shops that sell EU products, it sometimes appears there.
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  933. @nomadcapitalist Is there any chance that Nomad Capitalist Live is going to be hosted in another country in 2026? I only ask as I'd love to attend but can't legally enter Malaysia (incl. KL) due to the governments visa policy/laws, by no choice of my own (born with a citizenship I didn't know I had until I was 21, and can't get rid of). Maybe Singapore in 2026?
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  934. Look at who really owns them (not the main 'owner' but the 'investment bank'/holding company) - then you'll realize that they make money regardless of whether or not cars are banned. You'll also realize that they'll make more money enforcing a govt scrapping law when all cars are banned. Hint: B******ck & V*****rd are the two...
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  935.  @jace2wheel762  Of course they over charge. The amount is in no way relative. Canada doesn't rip you off, Australia's price is outright robbery.
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  936.  @CryptoNerd91  A lot of those countries only let their citizens access those programs - i.e. you have to be a citizen and run the business from there. Naturalising in those countries isn't easy - the only easy way to their citizenship is by being born a citizen.
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  937.  @CryptoNerd91  Yeah - citizenship takes 10yrs, the language test, the history test (they can select from any of Polish history) and the integration assessment. Marriage is still not an easy option as the marriage has to proven to be valid, that you've been together for 5+ yrs and have 2+ children together. This lets your naturalise in 3yrs, without having children together its 5-8yrs at the discretion of the govt (they generally drag it out). Note that the language test, history test and integration assessment all still apply. One friendly warning about Polish "permanent" residency - its not permanent. They see it as a way for a person to legally remain in the country once they've passed certain requirements or legally had work & residence rights for 5yrs: - marriage to a citizen - got a renewed work visa in the right field (generally when invited to work by the govt as a specialist in a govt job) - etc. Once the 10yr mark of legal residence arrives, they expect everyone on a "Permanent" residence permit to naturalise, those who don't get their residence permit automatically cancelled upon its expiry (all Polish visas, work/residence permits, licences and ID's have expiries (1, 2, 3, 5, 10 years)) or when they leave the country and/or Schengen Zone merely by the act of leaving as work/residence permits and visas are linked to passports. Note that whilst the visa or permit is valid, as long as its a "multi-entry" visa or permit, you can enter and exit as you like. How well you do on the history test will reflect (in their eyes) on how hard to be when doing the integration assessment. The hardest part by far, as you mentioned, is the language test as they require the B1 level for citizenship. Note that this is the minimum and if you can achieve B2 or preferably C1, they'll be more lenient when considering your history exam results and when doing your integration assessment. Basically exceeding the minimum language level counts significantly towards the integration test - they want as homogeneous a society as possible that maintains the Polish language and culture. The only other way to indefinitely remain in Poland without naturalising would be to get citizenship to another country within Schengen and then move to Poland - note that this would only work as long as Poland remains in the Schengen Zone and the EU - not saying they'll leave but the world is rapidly changing.
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  938.  @chesterricherson3565  Dude, they only operate in three major areas - parts of Asia, the Middle East, and off the west coast of Africa. If you avoid those areas and stay out in the ocean (>200Nm) near Africa, you're very unlikely to encounter trouble. Even on land - ever heard of marauders and gangs? Its about being smart and avoiding the worst areas. Everything is a calculated risk.
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  939. Full steam ahead on 100% self destruction. The worst part is they're trying to bring their citizens down with them - even the ones living abroad!
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  940. It will, and the result will be a new tax to put the then fired people on welfare. Also, as airlines fly less, the regime will get far less tax revenue so they'll likely bring in a 'people aren't flying tax' to try to get the lost tax revenue. Its all a vicious race to the bottom.
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  941.  @stitchlover633  UBI will NEVER happen as its 100% impossible to fund.
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  942. It has everything to do with government - they have to approve the premium increases and its the government who mandate you to have it or be penalised with a higher medicare levy. It is 100% the scumbags that are Labor who are at fault and who are ruining this country with their infinite projects, spending and waste. Look at Victoria - Dictator Dan utterly ruined the place after his 15-16yrs or terror, look at Albo - increased all taxes, brought in new taxes, tripled the cost of living, permitted 3x as many migrants - Australia needs to end ALL migration and deport the last 20yrs worth of migrants - only then will things be able to stabilize and infrastructure catch-up. Its the far left Labor wankers who think infinite growth is possible - to them there is no other solution as they've made Australia nothing but a Ponzi scheme. Labor have zero clue about money.
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  943. You can't just 'come back' after renouncing. Once you're no longer a citizen you're no different to any other foreigner.
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  944. I genuinely ask you, such as? Most residency/visa options are only for old people who are retired, or, only for the very rich (investor visas). The most affordable options are the CBI programs which all come in at just under $400k USD. For anyone under 45, options are very limited unless they have a lot of money that they can spend on CBI or investor visas. Things get more complicated when you're regulated out of work by a govt who care more about "skilled migrant workers" than locals, even though you're a local who got qualified in the country to which you're local, because a lot of savings get used just existing whilst pivoting to another career. Even two of the residency programs I was looking at just closed without warning whilst I was gather documents to apply for one - one in the Caribbean (non-OECS) and one in Oceania. Even being born with 4 passports, my options are basically: * High-tax, high over-regulation 'name brand' countries that my passports give me full rights in * Somehow find a small fortune and do the cheapest CBI in OECS or CBI in Vanuatu (problem is the need to demonstrate having >$500k post-CBI) * Somehow have a friend who genuinely gifts me the money to do CBI * Magically have a good small country introduce a visa for those who don't have a lot of money (not millionaires) but are able to prove they can start a business that employs locals * Wait till in 55+ in order to get a retirement visa (assuming that's still an option, and assuming travel is still legal) * Hope that all the 'merit trap' and 'DEI' and 'diversity / multiculturism' BS magically vanishes and everything is solely based on merit * Give up The biggest problem is that most countries are abolishing 99% of their visa options and being very insular, even if that means hurting the opportunities for their citizens by stopping businesses expand into their countries. All of this BS has eventuated since the plandemic and is only getting worse.
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  945.  @edgeprobability  because that's literally what happens. They build more and more foreign investors buy them as when supply increases the price increases continue. As the prices keep increasing with each new build as each is pushing area values up as a "growth area", only foreign investors can afford to buy at such ever increasing prices. I know first hand that there is no issue with getting building permits in Australia and New Zealand.
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  946. Simple - take away the govt welfare and they'll be either stealing to survive or they'll starve to death. Australia is horribly over taxed because its a 80% welfare state. Taxpayers are sick of being robbed of their hard earned money just for it to be given to the bludgers, the illegal immigrants and wasted on stupid unnecessary govt projects or "foreign aid". Australia forgets that this whole "pay your fair share" isn't an endless money pit, that people are sick of it and leaving in droves - why do you think the govt have limited the movement of money out of Australia to $40,000 per year? Because a lot of people are moving from Australia.
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  947. Absolutely and they're actively stopping people such as myself from leaving by throwing Jury Duty and licence related issues at us so we can't leave until its all taken care of, but then magically the same things come around again because 'you've been randomly selected'. I've been trying to leave since 2020 and am currently unable to leave due to both Jury Duty and licence related issues being thrown at me every year since the whole '2020 thing' ended.
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  948.  @Sp_75-76  It actually was like for like (ignoring the super expensive EV and the super cheap ICE vehicle). No normal person is regularly stopping for breaks in quick succession. Its 100% normal to drive 3-5hrs then stop for a 30-45 minute break (maybe its just because I live in a huge country and long drives are a normal daily occurrence). If you're charging, why wouldn't you charge to 100% - you don't go to the servo and only partially fill an ICE vehicle, you stand there for two minutes and fill the tank completely. Without taking any sides, the real question that is commonly missed is "what is YOUR time worth?". People forget that the time spent charging is time you could be doing other things but for many who are regularly out and about, that means time wasted. If an EV could be charged fully in 2 minutes a lot more people would consider them. The other issue is you can carry a jerrycan of fuel and top up anywhere, you can't do the same for an EV. If you're a tradie like most people (carpenter, sparkie, plumber, locksmith, technician, etc.) you can't afford to waste the time charging during the day - that's a heap of work (and money - easily thousands of dollars) missed.
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  949. If you have MyGov then its too late as you have digital ID. If you live in Victoria then Dictator Dan forcibly put your medical records in a central system (that's 100% illegal to opt out of) and said data is likely available to insurance companies and others who pay as all central systems are funded by making them available to data brokers.
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  950. Rubbish - its only too late when the lynch mobs are chasing you. Its better they leave now whilst they're still able to. Either that, or you're trying to stop the one's you take money from (welfare), from leaving because then the welfare would run out.
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  951. @susanner35 When you pay the full taxes and lose the bulk of your money to the govt, you will realize that there's NEVER enough, that they'll always be demanding that you "pay your fair share". 50-75% is NEVER a 'fair share' but that's the actual reality in much of CANZUK & CUNA when you add up all the taxes including the levies that you have to pay. Why should those who work hard, lose everything just so the leeches can get their welfare "free money bro"? That's why people leave or simply opt for having low or no income as they lose the tax burden that was crushing them. Welfare and national debt are two things that shouldn't ever exist. You should only be able to rely on family - NEVER taxpayers!
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  952. Why? They've already paid for them and won't get their money back, try to leverage it somehow to your advantage if possible; try to beat them at their own game; if you can somehow fit their exemption list to leave (under automatic exemptions) then get out and be free - use they system against itself whilst technically playing by the rules (its only illegal when you break the rules). Renouncing is banned until this thing is declared over as they realised it'd be a way for people to leave. This is solely about control and NWO.
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  953. Why would you trust a 3rd party when you could have safes installed at each of your own residences around the world and keep bullion in your own safes? The reality is that if you don't hold it, you don't own it. Damn near every bank, safety deposit box and vaulting entity has: * A clause that lets them collaborate with law enforcement even if it violates your privacy (can result in having your property seized by the govt claiming "proceeds of crime" - the problem is the govt determine what they accept as proof of it being legally acquired so you're basically robbed by the govt as they always say "insufficient evidence" or "you could be intending on using it for illegal purposes" and you have zero legal recourse) * A clause that says that if they go under, the new controlling entity automatically acquires everything held to clear the debts that caused them to go under (i.e. a bail-in where you lose your stuff) * A clause that says that if they're struggling, they can "bail-in" themselves with your stuff (just like ALL "western" banks in CANZUK & CUNA can take your money to "bail-in" themselves if things are going bad) Also, the reason to have things vaulted is both security AND privacy. Why would you want that stuff held somewhere like Singapore where you have to AML/KYC for everything? That directly makes privacy irrelevant as everything has to be justified, audit-trailed and listed (also creates literal lists that could potentially end up in the hands of criminals). If you lock it up in your own safes or vaults you don't have to do any of that and can maintain your privacy. There's absolutely nothing normal about the tyrannical weapon that is AML/KYC that targets the normal people and violates their privacy for literally zero public benefit (as per many govt and NGO reports).
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  954. Its purely taxes. War is good as for many for the rich, war = money because most rich are heavily invested in defence companies or medical companies. Remember, most rich people don't care about the masses, only money.
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  955. If Trump is smart, he'd help Ukraine defeat Russia and then reinforce the Ukrainian border. Make no mistake, if Russia get to 'win', they won't stop, they'll say they will but then start invading the Baltics and/or Poland. The reality which I truly wish all the peace-nicks and Puntina lovers would actually get through their heads is that Russia WILL NOT stop. Its the same as Nazi Germany in the 1930's - idiots told Hitler to stop invading and expanding, he openly lied to them and did it anyway. Russia is 100% the same. If Ukraine's borders aren't restored, Ukraine will fall, then the entire EU will be under invasion. Once again peace-nicks and apathy are actively starting WW3 by once again failing to stop the problem before it becomes too big to just stop.
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  956. The threshold is lower in AU & NZ - about $180k (which doesn't go far in AU & NZ). Not to mention AU & NZ have far more levies (a different type of tax) than the UK so actual taxation is closer to 70% in reality.
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  957. It never will. That's like trying to render an animated movie on a phone in 1990. Pi's aren't made for heavy GPU & Compute workloads.
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  958.  @williamevans4283  only cheaper whilst the govt is trying to push them. Once they decide to stop the special treatment then they'll price gouge more than ever. In Victoria, Australia they tax EV's per km with weekly reports via the Vicroads app. The per km tax is twice the fuel excise that ICE vehicles have to pay. Then there's the GST on the charging whether you're at a public charger or at home, and lastly, if you charge at home you also get hit with your power bill being moved to the highest rate (in Australia its based on consumption instead of time of day) and you get a huge EV infrastructure fee on your power bill once you have a charger installed. My point / TLDR: They're only cheaper because the govt is trying to push them, once the govt think they've converted enough people or they decide to stop pushing them, the cost will far exceed that of an ICE vehicle.
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  959. Surprised you aren't aware - eTA's required for visiting the UK very soon. Its been news around the world for a while.
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  960. None - every country that isn't 3rd world, requires a clean record, or if anything it would have to be 100% insignificant such as 'caught discreetly urinating behind a dumpster', or 'sat in a park and had a beer'. Beyond that basically no chance. Vanuatu require a 100% clean record and have the EU do the 'due diligence' these days.
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  961. Limit wealth and then kiss goodbye mortgages and loans from banks as they won't have the money to lend. Learn how money, finance and banking work, and no they aren't the same thing.
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  962. So taxes then go up and horrible crap like death and inheritance taxes that affect even the unemployed get introduced because the welfare money has to come from somewhere.
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  963. Its similar to the USA's ESTA except it limits your country on entry and exit to the ones you set when applying. ETIAS is only for those who aren't citizens of EU countries within the Schengen Zone or the European Economic Area (EEA). Also note that ANY border guard can cancel ANY ETIAS just like they can cancel ANY visa if they so choose. ETIAS will automatically reject ANY CBI countries passport as they're required to get a Schengen Visa once ETIAS starts unless they hold a passport from a Tier A country - if so then that other passport must be used as the "primary" on the ETIAS and the others listed as 2nd, 3rd, etc. It is expected that ETIAS will be either converted to a "visa-sticker" that must be fixed to a passport by a govt by 2030 or abolished, and, Schengen Visas required for all non-EU Nationals by 2030 - the EU is still deciding this though and 2030 is still quite a way off.
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  964.  @frederikalinden2128  I know, just tried to address the main points about it. As for the countries you just listed, none of them are EU or EEA countries so they're subject to ETIAS or will require visas.
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  965.  @DavidStevenson-gw2eo  I fail to see how that would work given that if you run ANY IOT devices, they should be on one of two IOT networks in your house. IOT with internet - for the few IOT devices that actually need internet access IOT without internet - for 99% of IOT devices, especially those that don't get security updates Then you should have your Private network for all your personal devices (phone, laptop, computer, network printer (enterprise laser printer that still gets updates, otherwise put it on an IOT network), etc. You should have the relevant firewall rules to only 'Allow Established and Related' from IOT to Private, to only 'Allow new from Private to IOT' and to 'Drop all from IOT to Private'. The rules need to be in that order as firewall rules work in the order they appear. My point is, if your networks / VLANS are setup properly, 99% of IOT devices will NEVER be on the internet, so how will they know who's doing or using what?
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  966. Bullshit - its not any normal person. The people who decide these policies are the fucking UN, WEF, IMF, WHO, COP28, etc. All Un-elected crackpots who are destroying the world and trying to turn everyone against each other so they can have an easier time destroying everything.
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  967.  @saltymonke3682  You think you can choose the best product? Keep dreaming. You don't really have choice unless you're mega rich. Products might visually look different but they're 99% from the same production line, just a difference colour, housing and branding. The 'best' products aren't affordable to the 'common people'. Literally 2 companies make all the power tools, and 4 companies produce all the food - I'm talking about who owns what at the top level, as they determine the quality of products. Also, since the 3.5yr long plandemic, most choice is gone as there's only one brand of each product on the shelf where there used to be differently branded ones - this is common in much of CANZUK & CUNA.
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  968. @ticktock2383 So... In most of CANZUK/CUNA an 'eternity' plot is only 100-130yrs, after that they cremate the remains (give them to the family) and sell the grave to other people. Nothing is forever except tyrannical govts that dictate everything you do, extort you (sorry... tax you) and suffering.
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  969.  @macaccount4315  Better to leave before those dues become greater. Unless of course you're happy not building your business / wealth, or unless you'd rather lose it all in a few years as the whole place collapses. Why go down with the ship when there's plenty of better options? You could just sell those things, pay taxes and then have SFA to pay when leaving.
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  970.  @macaccount4315  You choose not to. You could sell up, pay taxes and then leave. If you started a business once, you can do it again elsewhere. There is nothing that is wealth that forces you to stay in the USA. If you sell that wealth, or convert it to art or bullion, you could legally move it abroad with a much lower tax burden. Even if you stay you're still liable for those taxes if you try to realize those gains or if you sell the assets. Staying doesn't prevent anything. Alas you choose the easy way and will lose everything as a result. Everyone who says they can't is operating on emotion and laziness. There is nothing actually preventing you.
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  971.  @tntfyah  Something must be getting "lost in translation" between the embassy and you. Whether or not your parents or grandparents have current passports is 100% irrelevant. What matters is that you must be able to prove that they are citizens. If they have never held passports from that country then the issue is that their status isn't confirmed and thus you have to start with the first generation who aren't confirmed and work your way down to you. If there's a gap in the line of citizenship or if one of them ever renounced or was stripped of citizenship then you're stuffed. What are the four countries? Maybe only focus on one or two for now and deal with the others once they pass so you can file based on their birth and death certificates.
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  972.  @tntfyah  sorry that you have such a governmental nightmare. I think part of why they want your parents or grandparents to sort themselves out is to see which country or countries they claim to belong to add it sounds like none of the countries wants them if the others do.
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  973.  @James-dx8qb  The you run the risk of being jailed for 'tax evasion', 'fraud' or run afoul of 'under-quoting' laws.
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  974. Most people just don't understand the workflow because they never learnt CATIA. If you know CATIA, its the exact same workflow, just with a drop-down workbench selector instead of a workbench menu.
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  975. Why would any nomad capitalist want it? You can't renounce it, the country is a very socialist country with huge welfare expenditure and they've been talking about citizenship based taxation for a while. Nomad Capitalist has covered Argentina in many previous videos.
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  976.  @Nikioko  It's got nothing to do with wanting to discriminate against other people. Its because those other people have been successfully discriminating against people like him i.e.: * Its a crime to misgender people intentionally or unintentionally * LGBTQIA+ get priority employment over everyone else because "oppression" * LGBTQIA+ get "safe spaces" exclusive to themselves yet no one else is permitted the same * 'Safe Schools' shoves twisted fetishes and perversions to primary school children - any parent who objects get arrested * Children as young as 8yrs old who are brainwashed can be put on puberty blockers (consequence - they'll never go through puberty and will be sterile for life) and / or have irreversible sex changes without parental consent * Children being brainwashed to think they're a cat * Children under 10 are commonly made to dress in fetish gear and attend Mardi Gras - this is perverted. Why can't people let children be children? * Churches are being forced by LGBTQIA+ and some governments to either close or 'change' the religion to let "gay marriages" occur - if you're so against conservative people why the hell do you think you have a right to dictate to religions? Religions are for conservative people - no one has a right to demand they change Simply put, they demanded "gay marriage" from the govt, the govt say "ok" and now they're on a goal to destroy anything they can and to force their beliefs on everyone else. The LGBTQIA+ are the most intolerant, violent and angry people around. Conservatives simply want to be left alone and not be dictated do. What you do behind closed doors is up to you. PDA's have zero place in public whether straight or not! Children need to be only taught proper subjects at school, to be allowed to be children without any indoctrination of LGBTQIA+ perversions or communism. This is why people are sick of the "west". Source: Literally what's happening in the "west" - USA, Canada, Ireland, Western Europe, the Nordic Countries, Australia, New Zealand, etc.
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  977.  @rondalucy  You're truly deluded. Look at the UK - share something funny online, the wrong person sees it and you get arrested - you're a convicted criminal and have a high chance of doing actual jail time over it. This whole abuse of the legal system goes WAY beyond Trump and the filthy USA.
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  978.  @MrPzyt  At least on Android you can side-load your own apps that you wrote, you can install apps such as those that Synology wrote to work with the packages they run on their NAS'. That means you can simply use a Synology NAS to host your own Google equivalent (photos, drive, contacts, calendar, chat, notes, etc.). On CrApple you're stuck in the walled garden and can't really do anything they haven't authorized. Plus most good Android phones can have secure operating systems installed on them as the bootloader isn't encrypted and locked by the OEM. Try de'CrApple'ing a CrApple device - you can't do it. At least with Android, you can 100% de-Google it.
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  979. Your ignorance is beyond belief. There are no exemptions, it is mandatory just like MyGov. MyGov is a digital ID and its required to get your group certificate and to deal with the ATO (i.e. paying taxes). The same BS exemptions you refer to were there for MyGov yet not a single person in Australia has been able to get around not having a MyGov account unless living abroad or being too young to need one.
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  980. You will have to pass the end of highschool exams with very high marks, then qualify to enter the relevant university courses and pass them with high marks. Then its 10yrs of experience working in that field, then and only then are you able to actually lead projects, create knowledge and publish papers that create new knowledge and win industry awards. There's no "quick way" and don't bother with "diploma mills" or "fake quals" - literally every legitimate and recognized qualification is very easily verified online through the relevant governing bodies who authorized legitimate institutions to issue the qualifications. The days of people "faking it" are long gone in any 2nd or 1st world country. Also note that "faking it" in regulated professions will likely result in long jail sentences in most countries when found to not be genuinely qualified.
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  981. But then you'll get charged with illegally living on your land. Just because you own land doesn't mean you can just camp forever on it - there's actual legal limits. This is to force people into building a house and pay more taxes because the property is suddenly worth more.
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  982.  @Bitcoin_University  Gold is worthless due to its lack of fractionality and the fact that only countries use it for trade. Silver is the money of the people as its highly fractional and easily used and possessed without having to file the world of AML/KYC tyranny. Silver also doesn't rely on the internet or servers to function - that's the biggest weakness of crypto as a whole. Silvers only downside is the bulk/weight. Outside of crypto the best gains have been in silver. Gold is basically at its all time high and only going to go downhill as govts are no longer buying gold (they have their stockpiles) and industry is dumping gold in favour of silver for industrial applications due to its greater conductivity. Bitcoin is worthless as its 100% trackable and can be shutdown by simply banning the servers / protocol from the internet (at the tier 1 servers of the internet). The ONLY crypto that's valuable are the privacy coins like Monero and PirateChain as they are 100% anonymous and can't be tracked, and because they can be used without the "normal" internet - they can run under things such as "Tor" and can't be as easily blocked, even by the tier 1 servers of the internet.
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  983.  @macedonianproductions4497  Because that's exactly what your comments show you to be: sad and angry. You are 100% deluded if you think its possible to "stay and fight". The reality is the 99% currently want communism and to destroy the rich. There's no point trying to fight the 99% - you'll never win. The 1% are being given only two options - stay and be destroyed OR leave. The rich are leaving whilst they still can as they know that staying means they'll lose everything and very likely their lives as history has shown the masses murder anyone with $1 more than them because they're the "evil rich". The only way change will ever occur is when the 99% want change - the problem is that the educated and the rich will be long gone and won't see any point in returning and thus nothing will ever change. There's plenty of places that aren't doing this BS and those places will remain as the rich are the 99% in those places. Those places are the tax havens. One day you'll grow up, learn history, work hard, become rich and then and only then will you actually understand why leaving is the only option.
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  984. As long as you only have CCP status (i.e. a full Chinese passport) as anyone with BNO status or who has a BNO passport is prohibited from leaving HK without a Chinese passport and official written permission as declared by China! This is why the UK told those with HK BNO passports to if possible get a Chinese passport and leave, or, if out of HK to go straight to the UK and be given a special visa open only to HK BNO status holders.
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  985. And when following Nomad Capitalist's advice properly why would anyone care about those miniscule amounts - when followed properly, the tax savings by moving abroad and renouncing will more than exceed the "benefits/payments" that you'd get. Most people who'd be using Nomad Capitalist's advice already will NEVER get a pension as in many "name brand" countries, its only for the poor - have too much in the govts eyes and you get zero pension. If you think benefits / payments are "critical income" then you're most definitely not the person this channel is aimed at.
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  986. Everyone who complied throughout the plandemic will comply with any draft/conscription/service...
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  987. You're nuts - digital everything means CBDC and everything tokenized as being the property of the govt and mega corporations. Please wake up and realize that you're championing the literal thing we all NEED to stop.
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  988. An even better solution is to just get a camping fridge/freezer. They run on a wall adapter and/or a 12V battery, and/or a solar blanket (gotta have all the options), have high quality compressors and actually work. Brands include Brass Monkey, Dometic, Alpicool, Rovin, etc. Camping fridge/freezers are the common solution in Australia, not just because we all go camping very often, but because we want cold drinks "at the ready", and, at all workplaces you can't just bring a device to "plug-in to mains" as we have stupid "test & tag" laws that require every device to be "tested and tagged" annually - yes, even if the device is brand new it can't be used without being "tested & tagged". The solution is everything is battery and/or solar powered as such devices don't need any "test & tag". In Australia you'll find an insane amount of devices that run on power tool batteries, on their own batteries (fridges/freezers), and many things that run from USB power.
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  989. Even for normal people, why would you only have one bank account. In most countries banks only insure about $100k. Anything over that amount will be lost should the bank fail. If you keep your money across even a few accounts (each at different banks) you can ensure that your money is covered by the govt required insured amounts. Why work and save for decades only to keep your money in one account, suddenly have the bank fail and that $300k you saved suddenly become $100k (the insured amount)? Why take the risk of losing the bulk of your money? To anyone who says "most people don't have that much money" - what if you inherited it or what if you just sold your house to move and your account now has a lot in it?
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  990. Literally ANY of the EU. Education, healthcare, infrastructure, environment, life, holidays (i.e. time off work), etc. all far better than the USA, not to mention the food is real and good for you unlike most food in the USA. Please put down the "name brand" country kool-aid and look at the reality of how things have changed since the 1970's when the "name brand" country kool-aid was created. Its blindingly obvious that you've never had a passport and never traveled abroad (not counting Canada).
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  991. And last year the movie 'Humane (2024)' came out. It tries to 'normalize' MAiD, even showing MAiD kits in the culling vehicle (on the shelf). Like all movies, the dystopian future is shown so as to try to 'normalize' it amongst the masses. The smart people see the movies as warnings of the horrific dystopia the 'west' is sleepwalking into. The 'elites' won't be happy until 98% of the population globally is eliminated under their depopulation plans / Agenda 21 & Agenda 2030 / UN SDG's, etc. The Georgia Guidestones are the shortest summary of how the 'elites' and the WEF want to shape the future: Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature. Guide reproduction wisely – improving fitness and diversity. Unite humanity with a living new language. Rule passion – faith – tradition – and all things with tempered reason. Protect people and nations with fair laws and just courts. Let all nations rule internally resolving external disputes in a world court. Avoid petty laws and useless officials. Balance personal rights with social duties. Prize truth – beauty – love – seeking harmony with the infinite. Be not a cancer on the Earth – Leave room for nature – Leave room for nature. Harari wants to end all 'free will' and make the planet 'transhuman' - he claims 'its the only way to save the world and the planet'. Its all pure insanity that's intentionally destroying the planet. Gates' planetary CO2 scrubbers In CAN (Deep Sky Alpha Project) will remove CO2 from the air and likely risk causing an ELE due to not having enough CO2 to keep the plants alive.
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  992. The solution is simple - scrap all wind turbines and use wave motion generators instead. Wave motion generators can be made from steel (then coat it to protect it) which can be melted down and completely recycled. Wind Turbines will be nothing but an environmental problem as the blades being scrapped will always far exceed any reuse capability/demand. Plus for every wind turbine that is built, a huge pedestal to which they are mounted is made from steel reinforced concrete - when a wind turbine is scrapped these pedestals are just left to become some future problem. They are a huge environmental problem and waste of concrete and steel. The problem is everyone is so in love with wind turbines that they never listened in the beginning when we all said this would happen. An alarming number of wind turbines catch fire each year which results in them emitting so much pollution that they undo any and all good they achieve.
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  993.  @gregoryeverson741  It has zero effect on sea life. The 'problems' with it are that its highly efficient, is completely recyclable, doesn't harm sea life and that it actually fixes the problem. These are 'problems' as the powers that be, along with big energy don't really want solutions because there's more money to be made from having problems and from having the need for a solution than there is to be made from an actual solution. Every time any viable solution exists, its quickly shelved (rights purchased and never used), demonised with false claims so everyone rejects it (the media help with this) or simply doesn't get any funding because they don't really want solutions. If you look at the 'approved' green solutions, you'll find that the big oil companies are the manufacturers and producers of the equipment. For example BP & Shell produce 95% of all solar panels whilst the other 5% are low quality and are produced by 'knock-off' companies.
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  994. Which is why multiple citizenships is best. That makes govts fight over who you belong to. Countries that are part of CANZUK & CUNA will NEVER fight as hard for you as the rest will.
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  995.  @ghunt9146  Whilst the GPS might track you there is no remote turn-off for ICE vehicles in CANZUK and CUNA.
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  996.  @ms-jl6dl  Rubbish. Only EV's require internet connectivity. ICE vehicles don't. Also alcohol interlocks are only fitted if you've been caught driving whilst intoxicated. You're spreading lies.
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  997. Why are you fixated on the monetary value of a car? The value is it keeps working, can be fixed and gets her from A to B reliably without the limitations of public transport or hire vehicles (that can't be taken into the remote areas). That's where the value is. Also, even if a gold standard would return, the economy would still completely crash as you'd NEVER be able to 'buy in' to the new system. To return to a gold standard, gold would have to be priced at about $4.5 million an ounce. Good luck losing everything and then suddenly somehow getting any money from the 'new system'. If you're wondering why - its because, the current system is so failed that everyone is 100% in debt to everyone. This means, even if the current system fails, the debt will ALWAYS remain until paid - due to compounding interest, that isn't possible. Thus without repricing gold to insane levels, there is no way to bring about a new economy to try to fix things.
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  998. Because only fools and morons are moving to the failing 'west'. The reality is the people rushing there are acting on information that was relevant in the 60's and 70's, and they're too headstrong to be told or shown otherwise. They also NEVER look at the laws or restrictions because they don't respect laws, when you don't care about laws, anywhere works. The reality is those who are moving abroad either want to run businesses that create things or they work online so internet access is the most important thing for them.
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  999.  @belstar1128  Literally every country goes under martial law when its being invaded. That's just how war works everywhere in the world.
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  1000.  @javiervega1065  Go tell that to every homeless veteran who gets chucked aside because some animal from Africa or the Middle East wants everything for nothing and goes to the UK illegally (because its an invasion - hence the no women or children and mostly fighting age men), demands everything and causes endless hate and violence. Australia is no better - only the illegals get anything.
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  1001. A bird raised free in the wild sees the cage. A bird raised in captivity thinks the cage is freedom and all is well. That's the problem, to them the system and the surveillance is 'safety' and 'not dystopian' because that's what they've lived their entire lives under. There has been entire YouTube videos showing that people who had too low a score for say jaywalking at 1am on an empty street, couldn't buy tickets for public transport or access shops as their score was too low. That's tyranny.
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  1002. Because they're always promising "new battery tech" that'll magically fix all problems. Yet it NEVER comes. Its been well over 150yrs since the first EV, they've NEVER matured and they NEVER will; they still haven't fixed the main problems caused by the batteries: * lack of range * weight of battery * ridiculous charge times (to succeed it needs to be max 2 minutes to full charge) The reasoning is most politicians have financial interests in EV's or part of the industries that collectively make them (including mining). Its like Bill Gates - he buys up all the farmland, does nothing with it (to cause meat and crop shortages) and tries to flog his fake meat and lab made crops because he invested so heavily that he can't afford it to fail. This is literally people who invested in the "next trend" with the bulk of their wealth and now can't let it fail as doing so would financially ruin them. Hence we have all these stupid laws being passed and bans being brought in. The joke is truly on them - most pre-2010 ICE vehicles, if properly maintained and not abused will last indefinitely. If EV's keep getting worse and people just don't buy them, they'll need to replace all the batteries and thus scrapping them will be the only solution. Then due to the lithium, cobalt and other mineral shortages (due to depletion and countries banning mining until slave and child labour is abolished), the only option will be to go back to ICE vehicles. This will be a case of people having to learn the hard way, and yes it'll get worse before it gets better.
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  1003. Congrats!
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  1004. Do you have MyGov? If so, that's digital ID - its too late to not comply. Remember how "voluntary" MyGov was - it wasn't at all. They made it the only way to get your group certificate and to deal with the ATO. This new Digital ID will be just as voluntary and will be forced as they want CBDC by Christmas.
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  1005. As someone who had to work out how to "get out of a name-brand country" without having a lot of money behind me, here's the secret: * Serious education in a traditional field (engineering, science, medicine, etc.) * Must know at least two languages (five preferred) * Be a self-taught programmer (or formally trained programmer) * Must have a good background in enterprise IT / datacentre administration * Must know damn near all software relevant to your skills and qualifications * Must be able to have a "unique skill" that sets you apart from others - this is so a "local market test" will fail (its required for companies when sponsoring work visas) * Must have broad skills in marketing, graphics design and video editing (You have to be as much of a "swiss army knife" as possible - the more skills and experience you have the better - i.e. the more valuable you are professionally) If you can wrangle all this together, you need to network with as many people as possible and try to find a business/HNWI/etc. to "take you under their wing". They need to be willing to help you gain experience, connections, visas (usually by working for them), and if they want your skills enough - to help fund you to the point they can benefit from your skills. Unless you're lucky enough to be a US citizen (at least to start your journey), you're going to be stuffed trying to "get out" on your own thanks to over regulation, licensure as a barrier to entry and the literal costs of "getting out". If you're lucky enough to be a US citizen, there's plenty of things you can do in the US with just experience (depending on the state) and there's the legal ability to "learn on the job under supervision of someone who knows what they're doing" (depending on the state). Outside the USA, everything is licences, permits, qualifications - you can't do anything without jumping the world of hoops; there is no "learning on the job" if unqualified for the job. Sometimes instead of trying to find someone who can "take you under their wing", you have to get your best friends to help you. This could be any of the following: * Teaching you skills (programming, IT, graphics design, video editing, languages, etc.) * Helping reduce some of the costs - i.e. pooling money so you can "get out" - then once out, you pool money to help them "get out" * Help research places, costs, opportunities, etc. TLDR: Simply put, if you aren't a HNWI, you're not going to be able to do it on your own as the only way to "do it on your own" is usually to throw money at the problem (i.e. CBI, residence based on investment, buy a business, etc.). The only options are to find someone who can "take you under their wing" or to work with your best friends to achieve "getting out" as its not generally possible as a non-HNWI on your own.
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  1006.  @jomr4249  Its called proper values, also known as 'traditional' values. Its what's missing from the modern trash that society and modern women have become. Once is one time too many. Lack of marrying as virgins is exactly why so many relationships end in divorce within 2-5yrs.
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  1007. Because its about control, just like the entire fake 'climate crisis' that Al Gore and the WEF created as a way to make everyone poor (and subsequently compliant as they'll rely on govt money) and to get absolute control over every little facet of our lives.
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  1008. @Cristy0505 You are truly delusional and you clearly NEVER learned history. This is just like in the 1930's when Hitler was doing his 'just one more country so I can feel safe', idiots let him do so, and he got stronger with every country. That's what Russia is doing, taking over one place at a time. Remember, they've already invaded Georgia, Kazakhstan, Crimea, Armenia, Ukraine and they've brutally messed with Mongolian politics that's ruined the country. Putina has repeatedly said that Russia WILL rebuild the Tsarist Empire by any means necessary. That means Ukraine, Poland, part of Germany, Hungary, the Baltics, the Nordics, the Balkans, Georgia and Armenia all get taken over by Russia, along with parts of Germany and Czechia. Russia is a crippled country that's making threats to try to look tough. They are losing insane numbers of soldiers each month whilst Ukraine is only losing a few. Russia is economically crushed by the sanctions as many people know when they look at Russian people who post on their social medias. Only Moscow is doing well but it always has because that's where the politicians are. If Russia was doing well it wouldn't be getting barely operable junk from the DPRK, nor would it be wanting to get help from the DPRK with DPRK soldiers who are barely trained for anything. If Russia was doing well it wouldn't be getting garbage weapons from Iran. If Russia was doing well, they would have already won and taken over Ukraine - its been three years of getting their ass handed to them. Most Russian's don't want this war, nor do they want to go and fight. If Russia's claims were true then all they'd need to do is make it publicly known that they would let any 'oppressed ethnic Russian' return to Russia from any country, or they'd issue visas. There's zero legitimate reason for their invasion in the first place. Legitimate countries don't commit war crimes (torture, rape, etc.) against the general public, nor do they kill civilians who are clearly fleeing. Russia does all of this and they think its funny and acceptable. China will NOT support Russia in any war, for the same reason they haven't currently supported them. China wants Siberia, and they haven't been on good terms with Russia for almost the last decade as a result. China are far more interested to being the 'king of the Pacific' and getting those who owe them money to pay it back - something that can't be done if they destroy those who owe them money. If the EU worked together, they could easily defeat Russia, especially given that Poland has full modernized its armed forces with modern US weaponry. Unlike Ukraine which has been told how they're allowed to use what they have been given, Poland has free reign to do as it pleases as it outright owns its equipment. Ukraine is working with one hand tied behind its back by the 'can't do long-range strikes with US equipment' rubbish, which is why Ukraine have been making their own long-range weapons.
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  1009.  @naukhezkhan8826  Tell that to the people in Europe who are being invaded by religious nuts who are violent, who ghettoise the place and who form rape gangs that turn countries into rape capitals and where no-go zones exist where these criminals make their own laws. You are the problem which is why you're trying to deny and deflect. The Nordic countries, Germany, Austria, France, Italy, etc.
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  1010. Yet you conveniently ignore the fact that the 99% hate anyone who's successful, hardworking and who wants to build wealth. Why would anyone in that 1% care about the 99% who hate and threaten them daily whilst they live on welfare (i.e. taxes that others worked for).
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  1011. Simply put - the "elites" and politicians lie. Always doubt what they say until you find proof otherwise. Any CBDC in the "west" will be 100% identifiable - under CBDC privacy is gone, as is freedom. There's a hell of a lot that they haven't made public yet. Ever wonder why the govt apps are many times larger in size than they otherwise need be - its not because they're being lazy and coding in a way that bloats the apps, its because there's a heap of code that's not connected to the user interface yet. The official "digital wallet/licence' apps such as ServiceVIC [State govt app from Victoria, Australia], ServiceNSW [State govt app from New South Wales, Australia], etc. contain a section known as 'Digital Wallet' - currently its where all digital licences and permits exist. When the app [apk] is decompiled, the 'digital wallet' section of the app contains heaps of code that is there either waiting for a server response to activate or for an app update to connect the code to a button in the interface. The code that's lying dormant is the code for a digital payment framework (credit card support and CBDC), border permits (to restrict the movement of people) and for digital ID. The fact this code exists (created in early 2020 - this is when it first appeared in the apk's) and that a lot of money was spent on its creation is proof that there is intent to use it - the only question is... when? I'm sure the EU versions of such apps have similar dormant code waiting to be used. Its like the old trick farmers use to trap boars - they'd feed them in one spot, then over several months they'd start to build a pen around the feed area one side at a time, letting the boars get used to the changes. Eventually the farmer would wait for the boars to enter and start to eat, then suddenly shut the gate trapping them in the pen. That's basically the 'western' world at the moment - sleep-walking into dystopian tyranny, one bit at a time. Once enough bits have been introduced, the remaining bits will suddenly be introduced and it'll be too late. Those wanting out, better get out ASAP, before its too late. As my grandfather used to say: "It's better to leave too early than a day too late. If you leave early and nothing happens, you can always return. If you try to leave too late you won't be able to leave and that's when you perish."
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  1012. The problem is that it takes a lot of money to leave and most of CANZUK and CUNA countries are doing everything they can to stop young highly educated people from leaving as they think it'll avoid a 'brain drain' - the best thing to do is to get out if possible, otherwise simply work the least skilled job you can to force the countries into letting people leave because by not using your qualifications you're able to still cause the 'brain drain'.
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  1013.  @tasrykens  They physically block you number plate from being seen by cameras
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  1014.  @dcgallin  'RC' is short for remote control. RC plate blockers activate via remote control once installed.
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  1015.  @dcgallin  I'm honestly not sure. Its the kind of thing that is legal to have but not to use. I'd recommend not having one installed when crossing international borders and only using it to defeat the CO2 tracking number plate cameras being used to enforce the 15 minute city stuff.
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  1016. The part you're missing is that those excluded items are already considered business and enterprise equipment already under other regulations and laws. Basically the era of a 'home pc' is gone, the only argument you could have is if you run a 'home edition' of an OS but basically no one does as its far too restrictive. All UniFi equipment for example is classified as SMB/Enterprise in the EU.
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  1017.  @hexarith  You didn't read what I wrote. I said that the excluded items are already considered to be business equipment under OTHER regulations and laws which is why the problem exists.
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  1018. @GeoffBuysCars No conspiracy at all about National Parks - they're actually a UN driven tyranny. In Australia, National Parks used to be about protecting environment from urban development, since 1992 they've been nothing but a way to lock up public land "to protect it for future generations" because its "critically endangered habitat home to rare and endangered [ants, snails, whatever BS you want]". The catch is that any National Park created since 1992 is actually regulated, owned and controlled by the UN. This is why at the main entry to Victoria's Alpine National Park and Yarra Ranges National Park there are signs going on about the UN and listing the flags of the UN World Heritage Area member states - one of which is Japan. I mention Japan as they are the reason that once a National Park, State Park or Forest Park is created, the land use is 100% locked up (pre-1992 parks rules are grandfathered in though) and impossible to change as Japan always rejects any change to a National Park, including permitted activities and they always reject anyone trying to convert a National Park back to State Forest. This is possible because all member states must unanimously agree to any and all changes to National Parks. Oh and they also have a new method as too many people now know of how they control National Parks - they declare land to be a "Heritage Area" or put it under native title. Both of these new methods have the same effect of turning land into a National Park - it's locked up and no one can do anything at all.
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  1019. Drop the slave mentality. If you have one citizenship then you are a slave to that slave country, as you have no choice but to do exactly as they demand. If you have multiple citizenships you are free as you have choices and aren't a slave to a country.
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  1020. This is no surprise to me. The powers that be don't want you having even an EV, they want you in the 15-minute city and never going anywhere. In regards to EV range - its 100% the batteries. In very hot or very cold weather a battery can easily lose 5% of its charge just by sitting still (even without being used). If the battery drops below 50% charge, the total cycles the battery has will greatly reduce. If the battery drops below 30% charge, expect only 1/4 of the total cycles its meant to have. Look at charge % to cycles charts for batteries and you'll see this for yourself. If the batteries aren't strictly managed with charge controllers that ensure that the battery always stays between 50% and 94%, then don't expect anywhere near the number of cycles or charge capacity quoted by the manufacturer. I find it ridiculous that the masses don't have an issue standing around for 40+ minutes to charge when a traditional vehicle can be filled in 5 mins at most. Time is money, time is life - why waste it? Also, whilst it might be possible to charge some EV's, there isn't a powergrid anywhere in the world that could ever charge EV's if everyone owns one. Even if the grid could magically supply enough power to charge EV's if everyone had one - the pathetic "trickle charger" adding an almost useless amount of charge in over 7hrs isn't going to cut it. To charge the cars properly, everyone would need to have a supercharger and three-phase power - very expensive and the grid would need to supple even more power. Remember, the batteries make the vehicles 2-4 times heavier than traditional vehicles so that contributes to range issues whilst pushing your registration costs through the roof. This extra weight is making elevated roads and bridges have less factor of safety and more likely to need to be rebuilt as they were never built for every vehicle to weigh this much in such small footprints. EV's will destroy the planet and cause all the problems that the powers that be are claiming need to be stopped. They're literally creating the problem so they can blame us all and then strictly lock us in 15-minute cities. EV's need to be banned NOW! Traditional vehicles need to remain! If traditional vehicles get banned, we all need to go back to riding horses as EV's are nothing but a death sentence for us all.
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  1021. How they'll have enough prisons... During the "2020 thing" ALL "western" govts were building giant prisons in large numbers (8-10 per major state) averaging about 40 per country. Most are currently empty but our taxes are being used to have full time staff and guards working at these currently empty prisons. Time for all sane people to leave the "west". "Hate crime" is just modern day East German Stasi witch hunts where innocent people were sent away by neighbours who didn't like them and who wanted some quick cash from the govt. This is terrifying and clinically insane.
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  1022.  @AnxietyMentor  I know and ScoMo has the National Iron Curtain. I've been feeling the effects of it all as I was almost finished moving abroad before this all happened - had to return to file paperwork in person to leave the system here then got stuck as I only had 8 months instead of the required 21 months prior to March 2020 so I wasn't allowed to leave. 14 applications for exemption to leave all denied and new applications are banned till July 2021 according to the message I saw when I tried to file a 15th application.
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  1023.  @paulsimpson8990  Your logic is non-existent. Aussies are the last people to ever want EV's. EV's just don't work. We all drive a lot of long distances daily, we don't have time to waste charging all the time. It takes 2 minutes to refuel an ICE vehicle with 600km range (petrol) or 800km range (diesel). We also tow a lot. Unlike the wankers in the EU who are limited to very light 3.6 tonne vehicles, we all drive up to 4.5 tonne on standard car licences and can pull 1.2 tonne trailers on a standard car licence. An Australian standard car licence is the equivalent of European B & D licences. EV's are garbage at towing - it basically halves your range instantly. You can't get enough usable range if you actually accelerate an EV like an ICE vehicle - this is why all the EV wankers crawl at ever lower speeds as they're trying to maximise their range. Its common for Aussies to drive 4hrs in one go - that's a normal drive. A long drive is 8hrs - easy to do and often done for weekends away. Also, our registration is done by type of vehicle (light, light commercial, commerical, heavy commercial) AND by weight. Given that EV's are generally twice the weight of their ICE counterparts, that means the rego costs a hell of a lot more for zero benefits. Also, you can't drive an EV out bush, stay there a week or longer camping (very common) and still have the same range as when you parked it - in summer the range reduces due to battery cooling and in winter the range reduces due to battery warming. Then there's also losses due to normal battery depletion from its BMS. With ICE vehicles your range remains unchanged from when you park it and you can simply carry jerrycans of fuel for extended range. A jumpstarter pack with its well insulated battery (that turns off completely) remains fully charged for months and can easily get the ICE vehicle started in the event that the main battery goes flat but that's not really a thing as most vehicles that go bush are dual battery (starting and house battery for the fridge-freezer and VHF's). Then there's the whole 'renewables' failure which has resulted in the govt telling people to use less electricity - specifically to not charge EV's in summer and to not use air-conditioners in summer. They claim they're gonna build more to 'fix' the problem but the reality is that no matter how much they add 'renewables' it always results in more taxes, more expensive electricity and less grid capacity because 'renewables' are a total failure. Why? Because they don't work on a national / grid scale!
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  1024.  @russ.tech2you  As an Aussie I can guarantee that figure is exclusively from fleet sales. So company fleets and rental fleets as the govt is giving our tax dollars to companies who replace their fleets with crappy EV's.
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  1025.  @robertsteele474  What's the point? The 3rd world and AI are already taking those coding jobs. In the 'west' there's no money in anything as everything is moving to the 3rd world. The 1st world is about to become the 3rd world - its a global inversion.
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  1026.  @humanwithoutborders  And that's where the USA bastardising the English language caused problems. If you grab an actual English dictionary made before 2005, you'll see that gender is defined as being male or female, and that sex is short for sexual intercourse. Sometimes there was a note that American's misuse it to refer to gender. That's where the whole thing came about, because Americans misused a word and then found another word they though was a 'double-up' so they then said that other word 'gender' could be anything you like.
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  1027. So they plan on removing all grass to plant crops... hmmm.... last I checked grass captures more CO2 than a herd of cows emit. Last I checked crops are carbon positive (i.e. very bad). It would seem that their plans are to destroy the world, cause an actual climate crisis, depopulate the planet and then kill the planet as the damage they're planning on doing can't be undone. Typical WEF BS!
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  1028. The problem arises when you have to pay the government and they only permit the payment to come from a bank account. In Australia, taxes, council rates, licences, etc. must all come from a bank account (only licences can be paid with a credit card or from a bank account).
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  1029. A British Passport will make it easier to get into the former British parts of the Caribbean. Sure they have the British Overseas Territory Citizen (BOTC) system and different rules but its much easier with a British passport than it is without.
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  1030.  @deanwalker8404  They had their funding pulled and were forced out of work and their industries. There's heaps of them (hundreds of thousands) but because the sheeple are so brainwashed and hiveminded to blindly believe the govt and the so-called govt approved "experts", no one will listen to them or anyone who talks about them. The BS is always "if they were right, they wouldn't have lost their funding". Sadly the masses don't understand that funding only gets pulled when you don't achieve the target/goal you were given by the source of funding. The days of research being about truth and facts died a very long time ago. Now its all about how the 0.01% can quadruple their wealth every year by destroying our lives and by dictating every little thing we do. Basically the masses are gullible morons who think that people are inherently good, well-meaning and not liars when the reality is that the exact opposite is the truth.
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  1031. @tinglestingles  An interesting visa if you're paying more than 35% PIT. Otherwise not worth it given the changes to their tax system as Nomad Capitalist has covered in another video. The problem with digital nomad visas is they don't get you out of the tax system you're currently in, sometimes it can add another system, nor do they count towards PR or citizenship. My comment was focusing more on leaving, starting a business and changing tax systems to very low or no tax, not having a remote work holiday albeit long. The reason I mentioned the figure that I did was it's basically the CBI cost plus the cost of rent or buying a cheap place to live.
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  1032.  @javiervega1065  Says the broke little boy who's shitty that the money is leaving. Oops, looks like you're out of money and are going to have to enjoy starving. People such as yourself are 100% replaceable because you are of zero value and are nothing but a drain to society - its the taxpayers and the rich who are of value. The rich can't be replaced because you can't just make money out of nowhere, that's why Colombia, Venezuela and Cuba are all commie failed shitholes; after all if your logic were correct they'd be the richest places in the world.
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  1033. Literally not a real passport. Its no more official than if you printed your own passport. Some countries consider it to be a "fantasy passport" and some will outright jail you if you try to use it.
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  1034.  @tokoloshimampara9932  It is absolutely a scam. They require everything to be "smart" so they can control it remotely - too many people wanting to go on holiday, better turn off all chargers so no one can run their EV, too many using HVAC, better remotely lock the thermostats to a high temperature to reduce grid draw, etc. Referring to home supply, you're dreaming - no one has 220-240VAC @ 100A! Residential supplies in CANZUK and CUNA countries is 63A for single phase (used to be 80A) and 32A per phase at 415V for 3-Phase (i.e. 96A across 3-phases). 100 supply isn't possible in residential areas as none of the grids were ever designed that way. Industrial areas usually run 25kVA lines to "box-type" substations where multiple lines can be combined to give industrial facilities all the power they need. Given that induction cookers, HVAC and ovens each want 32A its basically impossible to use them all fully at the same time. With gas (which they're trying to ban) you can run every burner, the oven and the HVAC (heating) on the standard supply. To properly charge an EV requires a dedicated 415V 80A 3-phase circuit and that takes a few hours to properly charge a large EV completely - "fast charging" ruins the life of the batteries and causes increased cell temperatures which risk thermal run-away (i.e. EV fire). The only way for EV's and for everything to be electric would be for every house to be connected to the grid as if each house were a factory in an industrial area and for 200 nuclear power plants to be built. Short of that, the whole electric everything crap just doesn't work.
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  1035.  @annafrolova7891  Be grateful that you can access 'public land'. In the 'west' the governments (sorry... regimes) are closing off as much public land as possible under the excuse of 'protecting it for future generations'. The reality is they're doing it to remove the legal 'excuse' to own the gear and equipment for outdoor activities (its only legal because the activities are), and to make the people easy to control by keeping them stuck in 15 minute cities.
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  1036. No offence but its likely your monitor not being calibrated properly. Most monitors aren't calibrated to show colours properly. The X-Rite i1 Display Pro Plus is an affordable colourimetre for calibrating your monitors.
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  1037.  @rightlyso8507  Doesn't work - the cameras are way ahead of that. Plenty of videos on YouTube that show it doesn't work. The only way to stop the cameras is to remove them.
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  1038. Congratulations! A wonderful milestone. Please keep up the great work, and thank you for showing me that even as a non-UHNWI, there are options, and, thank you for helping everyone to stay motivated.
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  1039. How else are Blackrock and Vanguard supposed to own everything? Remember Klaus Schwab 'you'll own nothing and be happy'...
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  1040. Found the Russian bot. The reality is that if Russia is given the 'win' in Ukraine, Russia will immediately attack the Baltics, Finland and Poland. That's the reality because Russia is rebuilding the Tsarist Empire and because as long as those countries and Ukraine exist, Putina considers them all to be an 'existential' threat to Russia even though those countries have zero care for invading Russia if left alone. Russian promises are jokes - they mean nothing and can always be ignored. Remember when they promised to not attack Ukraine if Ukraine gave up its nukes? This is 1930's Europe all over again except instead of Nazi Germany its now Russia doing the invading and ignoring of others and of promises. The ONLY way that WW3 doesn't fully kick-off is if Russia is defeated in Ukraine and Ukraine's borders restored, along with Georgia's borders being fully restored. The only reason that Ukraine haven't already won is because the 'west' won't let them use the provided equipment how they want to, Russia however are using similar equipment exactly how they want to.
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  1041. Its actually worse - the code is already in the apps used over the last three years to prove jab. The code is waiting for either a button to be added in an update to make it accessible/usable or the button exists but is hidden until a certain server is put online and then the button will appear once the server is reachable.
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  1042. Sweden needs to round them up and deport them to Africa or the Middle East. Only solution - they'll never be Swedish of European and the real Swede's deserve better.
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  1043.  @humpteedumptee8629  Except for the part where yo don't owe the country ANYTHING! High taxes are enough - they don't deserve anything else. Why should you lose years of your life, risk injury or death (many people get badly hurt or die in training), when the country has a perfectly fine professional army? TIME is the most precious commodity anyone has - the regimes have already stolen 3yrs from us with their precious plandemic - that's time we can NEVER get back. We don't owe them ANYTHING! If anything, they owe us compensation for the years they stole unlawfully imprisoning us in our homes over a total fabrication that existed ONLY to make them richer! You really need to lay off the kool-aid!
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  1044.  @saratemp790  Most of woke CANZUK & CUNA are broke as a result of it and its far-left nutjob policies and high taxes. You are a moron.
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  1045. No one anywhere in the world should be given citizenship simply for being born within a countries borders. It should always be by descent (i.e. every citizenship the parents have). Anyone who obtained birthright citizenship since 1900 should be stripped of it and deported where their parents have a non-US citizenship at the time of the individuals birth.
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  1046. Only way that could ever work is if you physically created a gigantic island in the middle of international waters. Then you'd need an army, air force and navy equivalent to the major powers to protect your new country, otherwise the major players would conquer and control it. They don't want new countries - even when the UN created South Sudan as its own country, the major players completely sanctioned it as a way to try to destroy it. Only when significant control was given to the US were sanctions dropped but the place is a US controlled 'puppet state' not a truly sovereign country!
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  1047. There's many places this BS isn't happening, and its most definitely NEVER gonna happen in the tax havens as the WEF want it to apply ONLY to the masses, not themselves.
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  1048. Until they close them all off with "traffic calming" or to "maintain the amenity" like they do in both the UK & Australia. Most 'B' roads are rapidly getting closed off creating dangerous (from an emergency services point of view - one way in, one way out) mazes of residential streets, ultra-low speed limits and some even have "resident only access" enforced by bollards (residents have a remote to open the bollards).
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  1049.  @ganiburn  Apologies in advance, this comment will be a long one. The problem is they don't give a shit. Australian politics is so messed up that politicians only care about getting re-elected and consolidating their own power whilst taking rights, freedoms and autonomy away from the people. They don't care what things will be like in 5 or 10 years time. Everything can be blamed on the opposition if its something like a law they're trying to pass. If its failing infrastructure, simply blame the other side of politics who haven't been in power for the last 15-20yrs in most states or 5-10yrs federally. Any other problem can simply be blamed on the people as the country and people are all divided over race, wealth, jobs, religion, etc. - there is no unity in Australia. The last time the lefty govt in Australia (Labor) were running short on welfare money, the publicly demonised mining companies and the "rich" (I used quotes because to the politicians and those on welfare, the "rich" is anyone with an annual income before tax greater than $50,000 which is the majority of people earning wages) and they put taxes up. Problem solved. Politicians still push this "climate" garbage on us to keep people divided and under their control by means of their "climate laws" and "going green". The Vostok Ice Cores show that there isn't a climate crisis, which is exactly why they've been ignored for the last 20-25 years (they don't support the current narrative of the government). Even if hypothetically there was a climate crisis, the current "solutions" are to basically starve 2/3's of the worlds population to death, prohibit all travel by the masses (both locally and internationally), have no fuels or electricity (the newest carbon footprint methods used by banks and the WEF include use of "green energy" at the same impact as use of "non-green energy"). If they cared about resources (people are also resources) why would they have such horrific solutions? They have such solutions because we are the carbon they want to reduce and I'm 100% certain that they'll seize all our assets once we're gone, for themselves which is easy are they're corporations and banks. In Australia corporations and banks that are creditors have extreme powers to be "financially made whole" by seizing assets from those who can't pay, such powers are technically more powerful than the governments "eminent domain" powers. So as you can see, the resources don't matter at all to them, they only care about taking absolute ownership and control of everything they can whilst getting rid of the masses. This is why its essential to be a Nomad Capitalist and go where you're treated best so you can be in a part of the world where this horrific stuff isn't happening (i.e. places that aren't CANZUK or CUNA).
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  1050.  @kuyaatnic9257  first the utilities and infrastructure would first need to be completely rebuilt as the current infrastructure is failing the current population. Even if that happened Australia doesn't need an ever increasing population, it needs less over regulation so that people can start businesses and be competitive, wages to catch up to cost of living and for Australian businesses to be competitive. The ever increasing population over the last 20yrs has primarily resulted in taxes going through the roof as it's resulted in heaps more people on govt assistance as the regulatory environment in Australia is very anti-business unless you're a multinational corporation. Combine that with wages stuck stupidly low and the cost of living going nuts, no sane person would be moving to Australia any time soon.
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  1051. Even if you never plan on going anywhere get a valid passport - its cost very little but gives you options in a worst-case scenario. Only fools never get their passport. Also, for many official things its the only ID that is acceptable as driver licences are commonly forged.
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  1052.  @tsensuke5259  Outside the USA you can only buy food without AML/KYC (but for how much longer...). To pay for electricity, water, internet access, mobile phone SIM, to have a bank account, to register vehicles (and to have a driver licence), to rent or buy a house or apartment, to get a job, you're forced to do AML/KYC. Its disgusting.
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  1053. Well just shows how weak the people are. They should have demanded the bank accept the normal ID's and closed their accounts. The blind compliance and the willingness to accept the regime saying "no" is why they keep winning. Go back to Viking roots and fight this crap.
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  1054.  @nature-man  Then don't bank in Denmark - bank in any other EU country where you can use normal ID. If banks want to become useless, don't use banks. If they make living within the system impossible (i.e. digital ID) then live outside the system. When enough people say "screw the system" they'll have no choice but to revert to normal systems. I walked away from 4 banks because they demanded digital ID, the tax office demanded a digital ID - I said "nope" physical ID will do - try your best, paper forms rocked up a week later.
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  1055. The smarter way would be to just sell the machine and let the user install whatever OS they get their hands on. That way there's no distro for each region, simply whatever the user chooses.
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  1056. And there's the problem - they control when you can charge which means they control your travel. The problem is the govt controlling everything. Aside from needing 3-phase to charge quickly and to charge multiple vehicles quickly, what are you going to do when you need to travel far on basically no notice? You're stuffed in an EV - with fuel you're good to go. Everyone ignores that you can fuel a vehicle from a servo or at home from a jerrycan in a couple on minutes whilst EV's take ages to charge. You can carry a jerrycan, you can't carry huge amounts of power.
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  1057.  @mickjoebills  You wasted all those letters and words to spread pure lies and propaganda. You're a pro-EV bot. There are zero safe and cheap EV's coming from China - its one or the other (safe OR cheap). They're also the same ones combusting often in China. Oh and if they're cheap then they're due for battery replacement. The batteries of EV's in general regularly leave the sweet spot just like mobile phones do (28% - 85%) and just like mobile phones, EV's are almost always fast charged. Both these things rapidly accelerate battery degradation resulting in the batteries not lasting anywhere near as much as claimed. Also, govts are only increasing taxes on EV's throughout all of CANZUK & CUNA, so why would they "reduce tarrifs" - they can leave them high and you either accept it or go without.
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  1058. @paulp458 That's the whole point of EV's - to get everyone out of cars and to trap them in 15-minute cities. ICE vehicles are affordable <$50k, damn near any EV that isn't 100% junk costs at a minimum $85k and goes up as much as you'll pay. The jobs that will be lost when ICE vehicles end will be insane, such as: * Every car part supplier and their supply chain * Every mechanic - EV's are only serviceable by the authorised dealers and manufacturer (every part needs to be licenced to the vehicle with licence files and is a plug & play component) * Every service station - without fuel there's nothing keeping them in business * All the truck drivers who deliver parts or fuel * Most tow truck drivers will be out of work as EV's generally can't be towed and can only be moved on a flatbed IF they are in perfect condition (i.e. not crashed) * Every car part shop will go out of business once ICE vehicles are banned entirely as there's zero modding or maintenance you do to an EV * and many more jobs...
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  1059. Ever heard of shutting the computer down when you're done with it? There is no legitimate reason for ANYONE or ANY computer to EVER sleep - ask ANY IT guy who actually knows their stuff. Sleep ruins long running tasks, corrupts data and often the computer doesn't even wake properly. Not to mention the sudden power surge when a heap of computers all try to wake at the same time.
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  1060. The big problem is that you can't turn them off permanently. I'm sick to death of the BS of having to turn all the crap off every time you start the car, not to mention that 90% of them turn back on the moment he car decides its needed, even if you've turned it off. Honestly, I'm glad I still have my 11yr old car that doesn't have any of this modern crap on it. If the 'features' can't be permanently disabled then they're not worth having. I drive the car, I'm NOT there to be be driven by a fu**ing machine.
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  1061. Thanks for the laugh. The USA is rapidly collapsing thanks to the loonie left. All of CANZUK and CUNA countries are collapsing and they're all gigantic welfare states.
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  1062. Well, Norway is a tiny and heavily inhabited country so they don't have to travel far. Funny how EV's, cycling and other woke BS like walking everywhere only works in these handful of tiny EU countries where people are habitually "city slickers" who have zero life outside of concrete jungles...
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  1063.  @peterwait641  They'll lose a few % of the battery unless they're plugged in but they're always somewhere they can plug in because they're all city-slickers who, if they were honest, NEVER have a need for a vehicle in the first place (hence why they have a stupid EV).
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  1064. Correct - 99% of countries are smart enough to realize that only 'Right of Blood' citizenship is the only acceptable way. Only mentally challenged countries have 'Right of Soil' as its only ever gets abused by illegals who intentionally have an anchor baby because they can't be bothered getting legal permission to be there because they hate following the law.
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  1065. Sounds like the bank is secretly using "sucker scores". Basically because the amount asked for is tiny, the fee's on it are tiny as the person is likely very able to pay it back on time. Also because the person isn't likely to be living in huge debt and forever rolling one debt over to another, the total fees the bank will get from them are tiny. Thus the "sucker score" (a value between 0 and 1) will be close to zero or zero. "Sucker Scores" get used by multiplying them by the individuals credit score. If the result is under a certain threshold or 0 then the bank will reject them. It started in the US, spread to Australia and now is spreading everywhere. The days of responsible people being rewarded for doing the right thing are gone.
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  1066. Duh - look at Klaus Schwab (he runs the WEF) and his No. 2 Yuval Noah Harari, they're both pure evil. Harari wants to end all free-will and to take humans to the next level - i.e. transhumanism. Harari thinks this is the only way to avoid destroying the earth. What it means in reality is global depopulation. When these nuts say "reduce CO2", you are the carbon they want to reduce. These nuts have more money than anyone could dream of, they want the power. Oh and the history of the WEF and its predecessor organisation were the creation of Klaus Schwab's teacher - Henry Kissinger. As for logistics - the plandemic proved it was easy. Almost all current world leaders and heads of industry are all "Young Global Leaders" which is why they all follow the same playbook. The use of compartmentalization and blindly following orders makes it easy to coordinate everything. Look at the news reports during the plandemic - if you line up the audio, they all say the same thing - not just in the same country but all around the world. Every broadcast was the same script. The narrative is the same. Logistically they can and do easily exist, as does their master plan - the plandemic proved it. The plandemic was the "debugging" of the 2030 plan.
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  1067.  @jsanders100  Absolutely. Its a proven technology that just works and is safe unlike large lithium batteries - thermal runaway is extremely common and unlike a petrol tank, WILL burn. Fun fact, a tank of petrol won't burn and sustain itself just because it got warm - it needs to mix with air and encounter a spark or flame; a petrol fire is easily extinguished, lithium batteries have to be allowed to burn themselves out however long that takes. Also petrol fires are as slow as snails when compared to a lithium battery fire. You can carry a few jerrycans on long trips, refueling takes 2 mins at most and if I leave an ICE vehicle in the bush for a week (even in winter), it'll start right up. Only stupid EVangelists think people drive for an hour then need a 30 minute break - normal people drive for 3-5hrs then consider a 15-20 minute break; stopping for long breaks all the time means you're either take forever to get anywhere or you'll never get anywhere. EV's lose charge when just sitting (especially in winter), they take ages to recharge, you can't carry extra electricity for them, and most importantly of all, why the hell would you want a heavier vehicle that doesn't get lighter as the battery depletes? ICE vehicles get lighter the further they get through their fuel - this means range is better preserved. Also, due to the increased weight of EV's, many bridges are starting to get lanes closed or are being strengthened or replaced to handle the increased weight which is worse than trucks because, trucks are longer and don't put as extreme a point load as an EV does. EV's can't tow standard large trailers (with heavy loads) or caravans the same distances as ICE vehicles, not to mention EV's trying to tow uphill deplete their battery in record time. Sticking with older ICE vehicles is better for the environment as they have significantly smaller CO2 footprints, they're 100% recyclable (unlike EV's), they're more capable than EV's and they're more reliable (assuming standard maintenance) than EV's as when something goes wrong in an EV only the factory or dealer can fix it, you can't just swap out a part. EV's are a pure scam to separate fools and morons from their money, to severely limit their travel (normal people drive over 100km per day on a quiet day) and to remotely shutdown or limit (via geofencing) the vehicle (pre-2010 vehicles can't be remotely shutdown or geofenced). Also, EV's either need stronger tyres (even worse for the environment than normal tyres), or, they have to have tyres replaced more often than their ICE equivalents due to the increased weight (even worse for the environment).
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  1068. UBI has nothing to do with a VAT tax. VAT/GST is only a tax on sales of good and services. If you look at Alaska, you'd know that the VAT in Alaska is less than in the rest of the US and that it is used to keep utilities maintained for the communities. The money that locals get comes from a tax that the mining companies pay on their profits to compensate the locals for not creating jobs for them. If the mines close, the locals have no money; its not a UBI.
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  1069. Time to change banks as they're clearly chugging the WEF's ESG bullshit. Alcohol is still legal, as are smokes and last I checked most countries still allow citizens to own firearms with licences and police permission (registration).
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  1070. Someone with XX chromosomes.
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  1071. @colinfryett8174 Wow, you have a lot to learn. Its called a forum but its actually the 'elites' dictating to world leaders and heads of industry the 'what to do and how to do it'. The world leaders and heads of industry are all 'Young Global Leaders' - they're taught by the WEF and indoctrinated by them to do their bidding. Google 'Forum of Young Global Leaders', then on their website go the to the members list, filter to include 'unpaid/non-financial' and look at the list of alumni.
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  1072. That'd be a huge series of videos. Regarding your comments about treaties and EU countries, they could do citizenship based taxation for anyone who isn't living within the Schengen zone. Simply put, the way the Schengen zone works as far as taxation is that individuals pay tax where they have registered their residence, EU businesses pay where they are primarily located and/or where they have a significant presence (i.e. a local division). In the latter case its gets complicated as the divisions of the company generally only have to pay things related to pensions and local taxes (emissions, manufacturing, etc.). This is due to the Schengen Zone's Single Market Economy. Whilst citizenship based taxation within Schengen can't be done, it can be done to those who aren't living in the Schengen Zone. Existing tax treaties are few and far between and none of them prohibit citizenship based taxation.
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  1073. @TheWhyFiles I lost 3 out of 4 of my grandparents to cancer (one also had dementia), so I do understand the impact cancer has on everyone. I do also know just how filthy and rotten ALL big industries are. At the end of the day, ANY and ALL researchers will DO and SAY whatever they need to, in order to keep their funding (this is why the Vostok Ice-Cores are no longer researched as they defy the official narrative on the climate). If they are told "to not find solutions or lose their funding", they won't find solutions. If their work gets repeatedly shelved forever so it never comes to light, they get rapidly disillusioned and quit doing relevant work as its suddenly pointless. Everyone always puts their family and themself first, they aren't going to risk being forced out of the industry / work because they "did the right thing". Its just human nature and the fact that most people are weak followers, not strong leaders who are willing to "buck the trend" and tell everyone they're wrong. The blind obedience, compliance and the self-righteousness from the masses during and since the plandemic is utterly disgusting, but it shows just how many are weak followers who won't admit they over-reacted, were wrong and were horrible and violent to anyone who wasn't part of the hivemind. Look at the plandemic, in CAN, AU & NZ, literally every doctor (with the exception of less than 100) blindly followed the official line from the govt and knowingly lied to the public. I know first hand what lies the govt told them to say and how to report everything as the "2020 thing" regardless of the truth (broken bones were reported as solely the "2020 thing" as were all other injuries / problems) as I know a doctor (who showed me the official orders and threats of de-registration and prosecution for not complying) who was utterly disgusted by it who moved to case reviews and writing papers so as to not be part of the lies. I'm a mechanical engineer who's seen first hand just what an entire industry will do just to prop-up its most profitable income stream. I was part of a team working on a potential solution to some of the "environmental / climate" problem. Whilst many problems did exist with our project that needed to be addressed, once the viability assessment determined the project as being viable and "financially worthwhile", the moment it was submitted, all of our funding dried up and we were told to "do a real project" or "never work again in the industry". So we quit before being fired, and went out on our own trying to bring the project to life. As things continued to progress we started looking at approaching potential investors. Literally the first investor we spoke with told us that we're "dreaming and crazy", the second said "you'll be broke morons by Tuesday" and the rest wouldn't even hear us out. Up to this point we were still stupidly hopeful that we'd be able to find someone who'd hear us out as everyone is always claiming that they want any potential solution to the "environmental / climate problem". Whilst off on a weekend of recreation at a sporting club, two of us were lucky enough to have the opportunity to talk with a person well known in our industry, the "a-ha" moment happened. We were told politely that "anything that creates or purports to be a solution will never be permitted as that would end profitability". We were also told that "profitability only exists were a near-perpetual crisis exists". Simply put, the powers that be want a permanent crisis as that justifies funding for "solutions", grants, incentives, research funding, fundraising and allows govt's to centralize power and to increase their control over the masses. ANY solution would end all of this. In the current time, we're effectively blacklisted by our industry, unable to work (and thus regulated out of the industry due to mandatory registration that requires working for a major firm), unable to be funded, etc. We are determined to succeed on our own once we find a country where its both affordable to do and where we can legally work without being "stonewalled" or "blacklisted" by the industry. I have also seen similar things in the medical industry where some major countries won't even do what the EU does because of who would lose the big $ if they did. Currently as far as medicine goes, the EU is the world standard and the best practice in the world, AU, NZ & CAN are all plummeting in standards and quality rapidly heading towards that of the Eastern-Block countries during the Cold War. The reason that there won't be a "cure to cancer" released (except where other companies or not for profits are about to crack it and release it - i.e. minimal profitability but will be released so it gets tolerated and released for good PR) is because there's more money in controlling and managing a condition till the person dies, than there is in a cure. Until the entire medical industry is forced to be govt run and not for profit, advances will continue to either not happen / exist, or will continue at an ever diminishing rate.
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  1074.  @cody8121  You love to ignore that inflation/hyper inflation has go us to the point where a 3 bedroom house (minimum needed for a family) is $2.4m+. My family home was built for $275,000 20ish years ago and is currently valued at $2.4m. That's not because the area is better or that the house is suddenly more valuable, that's thanks to the government screwing the economy, pushing house prices up with inflation and making everyone poor. $9.50 today has the same buying power as $1 did 20ish years ago when my family home was built. A burger with chips and a soft drink is $45 where I live. 20yrs ago that was $10. Food is currently partly govt subsidized (the business) to keep prices low enough that people still can go out and spend at cafes and restaurants. Also, you couldn't live a full retirement duration on $5m USD in most of CANZUK and CUNA as that money would run out within 10yrs thanks to the insane taxes that are increasing, the new levies (i.e. taxes under another name) and the insane restrictions on investments in order to be legally 'retired'.
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  1075. You're clueless - merely existing provokes Russia if they aren't your master controlling everything you do. Russia will never stop starting wars until it takes over all the Europe, or unless countries such as Poland and the Baltics stop them!
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  1076.  @davidbrayshaw3529  If you believe that BS figure then you're gullible - the govt tamper with the figures to make everything look all wonderful for statistical purposes even when the exact opposite is true. The ABS consider anyone who's a volunteer (even for 1 minute a year) to be considered full-time employed for statistical purposes; if you have a Working with Children volunteer card, then the ABS consider you "full-time employed for statistical purposes". Just like the economy, they recent dropped one factor from the GDP calculation so they could make the economy look better. The problem is too many people are on welfare in other categories (DSP, refugee, etc.) who know how to game the system, combine that with this infinite refugee intake and there's a heap of people living on the taxpayers dollar. If there were as few as you are intimating, taxes wouldn't be increasing like they currently are. Unemployment (general) and the aged pension are two of the smallest dole payments, there are plenty of people receiving 5-6 different payments as they qualify for multiple categories/payments. As cost of living continues to sky rockets and houses continue to be unaffordable, and, businesses continue to shut down, welfare will become the single largest drain as the economy collapses.
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  1077. Because ever since YouTube changed the rules for monetization, you now have to watch 90-95% of a video for it to be considered fully watched. Only if its considered fully watched, does the view count increase. This is their way of knowing what content isn't fully watched, so they can remove it as they're basically out of storage space in their datacentres.
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  1078. She doesn't even have an original albeit moronic thought, she's just copying Australia. Australia has unrealised capital gains tax, intellectual property (deemed value) tax, various property taxes based on "deemed" values of the property not the actual current value. Its a race to the bottom. People need to wake up and demand non-consumption based taxes be abolished! CANZUK & CUNA are finished - this is the worst "cherry on top" so far!
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  1079. I've always found it funny how third country nationals are required by the EU to provide full fingerprints (incl. edge, palm and wrist), but EU nationals only have to provide the fingerprints of their index fingers when getting their passports, and no the eGates don't record the others, they only look for a match.
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  1080. Call it a BBQ or for "cultural reasons". To hell with the govt trying to ban them.
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  1081. That'll never happen. Why? * Because it doesn't matter to them. If you're visiting, you're visiting. All they care about is that you're entering legally for what you want to do. * Countries have zero right to tell a foreigner that they can't be a citizen of more than one country * Countries can't refuse a citizen of a country simply for being a citizen of multiple countries - the other countries would immediately ban that countries citizens from entering their countries on that countries passport. It's mutually assured destruction. * The WEF don't care how many passports you have. Your global jab passport and digital ID will be all that matters. Tier A and Tier B passport holders are deemed rich and will likely be subject to very few restrictions as they'll be able to "pay to play" (i.e. pay to bypass the rules legally) * The "elites" (incl.WEF) all hold 8-10 passports - they aren't going to let that hinder them. They'll leave things as they are. What they'll likely do is make it harder to become a citizen of countries and maybe end CBI to keep others out of the "game" Its the same reason I say that the only places that'll never be under dystopian tyranny are the tax havens - because that's where the "elites" live and they aren't going to destroy their homes.
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  1082. They clearly get paid a very good wage where they work as they'd otherwise change jobs. Why would sane people want to live in the failed and collapsing 'west' anyway.
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  1083. And a masculine man will be on the receiving end of the full force of the law from the govt department for 'controlling and fixing men's behaviour' (i.e. turning them into soy-boy leftist simps/cucks) in countries such as Australia, Canada, UK & New Zealand
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  1084.  @Number6_  But he'd still be bound to US taxes due to old British Admiralty Law that applies to sea and air, and space, thanks to the UN getting all countries to agree to it. Basically, any vessel or craft is required under law to be registered to a country. Whichever country a vessel or craft is registered to is the country whose laws apply when in international waters and international airspace, and, in the case of space, when in space. This means that if Elon goes to Mars then he's in a craft registered to a country and ANY base he makes is also legally required to be registered to the same country, thus making Mars part of that country in its entirety. The only way for Mars to be its own country/world would be to get there in an unregistered craft, build and unregistered base and somehow be able to do so and to fend off any military actions from countries claiming it as theirs.
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  1085. Good luck to them with that. Once someone is out of the tax system, foreign govts are very unlikely to enable the harassment of people in their own tax system. Also, yet another reason to keep your stuff in vaults, safes and in numbered accounts which are still available in remote jurisdictions (its who you know, not what you know). Any attempt to go after expats will simply result in people renouncing or cashing-out their accounts and just staying away from CANZUK & CUNA.
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  1086. Well duh... Its a CBI country that a lot of people he doesn't like choose to do. It won't be long before he puts ALL CBI and RBI countries on that list.
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  1087.  @javiervega1065  That's rich given you're a tiny boy that hasn't ever paid taxes but loves the handouts from the welfare system. At least OP paid taxes.
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  1088. That's exactly what it'd be. You'd have no companies left, no jobs and no goods or services to purchase. You'd have nothing thanks to the rich leaving and hyperinflation taking over. FYI, if the rich move their money overseas and don't have it in local banks, those banks have no money to use to give you that personal loan or house mortgage or that small business loan. The same applies if they spend it all.
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  1089.  @javiervega1065  You've never lived under capitalism as there isn't a single truly capitalist country in the world. You've lived under crony-capitalism at best which is govt controlled which is why it fails as it sadly believes in the highly perverse 'welfare state safety net' that capitalism outright prohibits.
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  1090.  @Man_from_UNCLE  Please understand what a "Service Passport" actually is - they are exclusively for use by members of a countries Armed Forces when they need to travel (yeah they still have to go through Passport Control). Passport types are as follows (according to ICAO): Ordinary ======= What you and I are permitted to hold for regular travel Temporary / Emergency ==================== Issued to citizens for emergency travel when one can't wait for an ordinary passport to be issued, because an ordinary passport was stolen or seized due to "damage" (usually caused by border officials simply to reject you entry) or when for some temporary medical reason your fingerprints can't be taken (biometric passports) Official ====== Issued to very limited people when doing business or otherwise representing the country on the global scale but not in a govt/diplomatic role Service ====== Issued to members of Defence / Armed Forces for travel whilst on duty / actively serving. Not valid for personal / private travel Diplomatic ========= Issued to top-tier politicians (Prime Minister, President, top-most ministers in a country, Ambassadors and Consuls) for diplomatic / political travel only. Not valid for personal / private travel Other travel documents such as a [Country Name] Travel Authorization or such as a Laisser-Passer (UN issued) are not passports but used to grant safe passage (generally to refugees) in countries that are signatories to and who recognise Laisser-Passer (not all countries do).
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  1091.  @nikmason6873  Its eating meat that allowed humans to develop highly intelligent brains and bigger, stronger muscles. Also, notice how carnivorous animals are always the bigger and stronger ones aside from cows, deer & moose and horses? Soy is ruining fertility whilst also making people docile and compliant. Heavily processed food are causing cancers and other medical issues. Vegetables are for some vitamins and fibre.
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  1092. Hate to break it to you but the world for the most part doesn't work like that anymore. Scam marriages (what you're describing) are hated by ALL countries as they don't want people thinking so little of their citizenship and country. The only thing that being in a genuine long-term marriage (and having children) will achieve is a "partner" or "marriage" visa and a reduced time to naturalization. You'd be required to live there full time with your partner, learn the language, history and integrate into society completely. Basically its only done if genuine and if you plan on living in the country long-term. You still have to pass the same testing and assessments as anyone else wanting to naturalize. If you want something quick - just do CBI and buy your way in legally. If that's too expensive, look at residence by investment as its generally more affordable and offers a shorter path to permanent residence which eventually leads to citizenship. As for access to CANZUK & CUNA - they're all dying a slow death known as "complete economic collapse" - its being dragged out by brain-dead politicians who keep hyperinflating the economy so things momentarily look good on paper but in reality are collapsing. Look at Australia - the money is being de-valued rapidly (i.e. it has SFA buying power), crime is at all time highs, the cost of living tripled since 2020 and is only increasing every week. Taxes are going through the roof (both existing ones getting increased and new ones being introduced) and those who can are leaving before the places totally collapses. Govt spending is only increasing and money that doesn't exist is being spent like no tomorrow. The debts HAVE to be paid which is why the "west" WILL collapse. Honestly there's zero reason for ANY follower of Nomad Capitalist to go to CANZUK or CUNA as its not worth the danger (as crime is sky-rocketing), nor is it worth risking being in CANZUK or CUNA and then being told to "pay taxes because you were here" as they're making it easier to fall into their tax residency because they're desperate for taxes.
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  1093.  @pinetworkminer8377  Not 100% sure but I know that NZ handles capital gains differently to Australia
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  1094.  @stevewest131  You really are mentally challenged as you're incapable of putting 1+1 together and getting 2. How 'they' can restrict you is easy - they just disable your 'licence'/account or take back their property (be it furniture, car or house). When you subscribe / rent / lease everything, you have zero rights to it as you don't own it. Look at 'smart' aircon's in California & Queensland - the govt remotely set them to 25 to 'protect the grid', the people had no way to cool off or set a lower temperature in 40 C + heatwaves. Look at what they've done on streaming - people 'bought' shows only to find them gone when the service 'sold' the rights to another service. Look at cars in China - don't pay the subscription, the car magically stops working entirely. Rent / lease a car, miss a payment and you'll likely see a tow truck taking it away immediately. Most people own basically nothing these days, everything is leased / subscribed / rented. Also, when everything is subscription based, there's no need for shops as people aren't buying anything. This also means that they'll use whatever's made available. This is great as it means you can get the crappiest product and charge subscriptions as if its the best product and the users have zero way to say no. That's pure profit and its guaranteed as there's no alternative way for the users to get access to a better product. Its literally not hard. The fact you're trying to deny that people are very close to not owning anything anymore and the fact that you think its impossible to stop people owning things, shows that you're braindead or are a confrontational chat-bot whose primary command is to deny the real agenda so that it can be 'snuck' in.
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  1095. Legally not possible in basically every country that requires such accounts (investments/401k/superannuation/govt mandated fund). Not sure which countries would allow it as most people's retirement accounts are nowhere near large enough, and even the ones that were would be empty immediately after. Also, you have to be old (at least retirement age) to access that money so you'll be too old to be the primary applicant for CBI. This is why many are trapped in the west - money needed is trapped or the cost of living having tripled recently has left them unable to leave. Also it doesn't help that most Digital Nomad visas and residencies require proven monthly income but that excludes income that is passive, from selling stuff/courses online, and it also excludes crypto/stock trading income. Basically countries are pushing away everyone who isn't insanely rich to the point that the interest paid by their bank on their savings is $100k.
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  1096.  @nobodynever7884  not true if dual nationality was banned. Residence permits and visas are fast disappearing and aren't granted to most Tier A country nationals. One can't renounce without first having a second nationality. Also, most countries won't naturalize you just because you live there, you need very specific visas or permits for the time to count. Also, if dual nationality was banned then CBI wouldn't be an option as you wouldn't be able to renounce as that would require another citizenship first. Banning dual/multi nationality is a way to trap people in a country
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  1097.  @olivesama  What you fail to understand is having the correct (biologically speaking) gender on a passport is essential as that's what medical staff in foreign countries will treat you by - its not some document that everyone gets to see all the time. Many medications are specific to male or female hormones, especially dosage. The passport isn't a 'make it what you want' document. If its so important, they can have a sex change operation, change all the hormones in their body and then have the document changed. Simple.
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  1098.  @robbraxmantech  In one of the Nordic countries the govt gave beggars credit card machines to accept payments. They now offer them phones for epayments as well. Charged by a small solar battery bank the govt gives them as well. All very dystopian!
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  1099. DON'T! Australia isn't what it used to be. The illegals are being moved to country towns by the govt who keep bringing them in. The country towns rapidly turn into mega cities and ghettos. Locals are treated like crap, the illegals target and attack locals. Crime is rampant and the cops do nothing about it. Oh and the cost of living has 4x'd since 2020 and is only going up, as are all the taxes because the place is basically a commie shithole. Source: Born and grew up in Australia, trying hard to leave ASAP!
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  1100. @exiledmonastic4650 It makes no difference - the govt can declare anything to be "illegal" or "from illegal sources" and there's nothing anyone can do about it. The solution is to ignore them, create our own systems and ideally our own countries - maybe we need to create an island in the middle of the ocean. You can vote or sleep walk your way into tyranny but you ALWAYS have to fight your way out.
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  1101. @exiledmonastic4650 but that's my point, they can declare ANY coin to be "dirty" no matter where it comes from. That makes it irrelevant where you get your crypto.
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  1102. @exiledmonastic4650 that's not how it works. Even if you buy them from a clean exchange, once marked as dirty by any govt, they're dirty forever. That's why I said to create a parallel society using bullion and suggested making an island to live on outside the system. Only bullion can be clean forever as it can always be re-poured without any way to trace where it came from
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  1103. @exiledmonastic4650 with bullion it's different. As long as the individual pieces are each under the registration threshold, all is well. Also, many people own bullion by virtue of having a miners right with which they can say they "found" the bullion against as a miners right let's them dig up minerals and legally sell them for money or bullion. As far as proving something was legally acquired, there's zero way to do that. Receipts are regularly rejected under the claims of being forged, the core problem being the govt aren't held to a criteria and can just say "prove it" whilst rejecting everything you show as proof. With crypto, it's a tag added to the coins which once added, can't be removed. If enough people use them regardless and remain outside the system, the govt lose. Hence why a parallel society is the answer to the current tyranny.
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  1104.  @kacperpiotrowski7239  My family were directly affected (the ones that weren't murdered by Nazis and Soviets - only 4 people in the family weren't murdered) by both the Nazi and the Soviet exit taxes. I have a relative who currently is affected by the French BS and the upcoming BS so they're starting the process to 'get out' whilst they can.
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  1105.  @RC94332  Utter BS. Sure there might be a few edge cases but 99% won't have been naturalized from a FNV. Literally every single channel like Nomad Capitalist, has gone into detail about how the FNV NEVER leads to citizenship in practice. Once again, if you read what I said, I NEVER said it wasn't possible to get naturalized in Panama from a real (i.e. work, investor, govt invited, etc.) visa - only that its 99% impossible to naturalize from a FNV. As OP said they're Italian by descent, I said that the Treaty route was the easiest and fastest with a very high acceptance rate. Your stupid suggestion of just getting a FNV would basically never lead to citizenship. If you think otherwise, try it - you'll find out the hard and expensive way. Once again your lack of education shines brightly as you clearly are incapable of reading what people write and actually comprehending it.
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  1106. Clearly you've never experienced 'western women' and the pure destruction and hate they bring. Enjoy your sheltered life!
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  1107.  @davidgoodnow269  Only for the 'elites'. Crop dusting will be banned because they don't give a f*** about a 'food shortage'. Remember, they're already talking up major food shortages in all of CANZUK & CUNA. Such a shortage globally would help their depopulation agenda.
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  1108. @andrewlutes2048 And how do you propose anyone does anything. TOS apply to damn near everything, you can't vary them, and, 95% of things are now online only outside of the USA. There's no "I'm only clicking this under absolute duress as there isn't another other" button... just saying...
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  1109. AVOID AU & NZ LIKE THE PLAGUE. They are 100% failed commie shitholes. Look at the tyranny during the plandemic, look at what Dictator Dan did in Victoria. Look what Ardern did as a dictator in NZ. Oh and you can't do anything without a heap of qualifications, permits and licences - every little thing is heavily over regulated, and the taxes are very high and only getting higher.
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  1110. The point is that it never could come with half a million Russians. Most of the people there are Russian Armed Forces and their families. If Russia left, those people would have no choice but to return to Russia leaving the place basically empty. Then the area would likely be split between Poland and Lithuania (bottom third to Poland, the rest to Lithuania) and completely demilitarised to make normal civilian life possible. The single biggest mistake ever made in history was when Lithuania declined the offer from Russia of being given the place when the USSR collapsed. Also note that there is no way that it'd ever be allowed to be its own country - the EU doesn't want a new country formed by a bunch of Russian Armed Forces. Simply put, if Russia were dumb enough to attack the EU, the whole Krolewiec area would be flattened without a single care by both Poland and Lithuania - everything to do so is in place and each country just needs to hit a button / give the order. Belarus still has many internal issues - the people want freedom and democracy - protests are still happening. Many people have been sabotaging Russia supply lines within Belarus. The recent tactic of Russia to bring illegal immigrants to the EU borders has turned many of the normal people in Belarus against the regime and against Russia. If these issues continue and increase then Belarus becomes less of a threat as they'd be too busy dealing with their own internal problems. Note that even Russia aren't doing anything to Ukraine from Belarus anymore. The way to lose a war is to might on too many fronts at a time. The way Russia are going, they're trying to ensure their own self destruction - I feel one or even two more fronts and they're done. China are still considering invading and seizing Siberia which they claim has always been theirs.
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  1111. It may change in the future, but even if it doesn't - get a long term rental or run a business which can be sold when the 75yrs is up, whoever buys it can get a new lease. Whilst annoying for those who want to have their family have one property and live there forever, there are ways around it and it does prevent foreign investors and corporations buying and keeping land off the market whilst never doing anything with it. In Australia, there's huge areas that are literally falling apart because they're owned by foreign companies to make getting visas to Australia easier. No one lives there, no one maintains the areas I'm talking about and they haven't been on the market in 25yrs. This is also seen with apartments and why most apartment buildings are empty except for all but a few tenants.
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  1112. A US passport lets you work in one country only. That's hardly a great country. A UK or Irish passport lets you work in two countries, as does an AU/NZ passport. An OECS passport (from one of the 'full member' countries) lets you work in 7 countries and and EU (Schengen) passport lets you work in 29 (and growing) countries. Oh and when I say work, I also mean that you have full rights as if you're a permanent resident. What exactly does a US passport get you as far as a capitalist / nomad is concerned? Being limited to one country is very restrictive, especially since the USA along with CANZUK and CUNA are all collapsing and likely won't survive the collapse as the debt will still have to be paid.
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  1113.  @NUCLEARARMAMENT  Yeah, and then you get jailed for financial crimes, fraud and whatever else the SEC come after you for. You can't just "do whatever" when you have a business. Oh yeah, once convicted, good luck ever traveling anywhere - in the last 5yrs, more countries ban anyone from even visiting if they have ANY offence on their record, no matter how minor.
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  1114. If you want options you need to naturalize in another EU country then renounce your Dutch citizenship, then obtain other citizenships. Note that Andrew renounced his US citizenship to be free of the baggage it causes. Oh, the other problem is that many countries are closing their pathways to citizenship and their visa options. At the same time, many countries are banning everything - fishing, camping, hunting, swords, daggers, bayonets, firearms, owning documents, art and other collectibles older than 50yrs, etc. Clearly they no longer trust the citizenry to have anything, or the governments want that stuff for themselves likely to use in war. I guess such bans also make people poor and reliant on the state, thus easy to control. CBDC's and 15-minute cities aren't far off.
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  1115. That's how communism works. The top party members, ministers and their friends are filthy rich and oligarchs who live and eat like kings whilst everyone else barely survives. The problem is that they don't teach history anymore and the far-left keep believing the lies of 'it wasn't done right', 'it'll be different this time', 'we're for freedom - now do as we say', etc. The other problem is the right are too tolerant and they let the 'far-left' exist and take over which results in everything going to shit. Far-right = minimal govt, maximal personal freedom conditional to not hurting others and not damaging the property of others Far-left = 100% govt control, zero personal freedom, 100% do as they say or face the consequences - different ideas not permitted That's reality.
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  1116.  @deanopumpkin  It's only shared if you've told them on a money declaration or entry form (eTA, ESTA, ETIAS, etc.). Otherwise they have no way of knowing - this is why they ask on these forms, so they can know more about you. If they don't know you other countries of citizenship then they can't make the enquiries/electronic searches. It all depends on how much you may or may not have already told them about you.
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  1117.  @jeremyradford5103  And here you are spouting the same ridiculous tropes that the pro-EV crowd love to spout simply because they were told them without looking at the reality - production scaling, different chemistries and recycling. Production of batteries isn't being scaled for two reasons - safety (production is dangerous except in small batches - OHS laws and regulators prohibited scaling and large manufacturing facilities) and lack of materials (most of the countries where the mining occurs have banned the export of the minerals and metals due to child labour and unsafe conditions. Different chemistries is a pipe dream that only a few universities are hypothesising - no actual meaningful results have been achieved to date. As for recycling - its unsustainable, not actually recycling and only viable when fully govt subsidised through ever increasing taxation. Current recycling either just stores the batteries waiting for a viable process to recycle them to be created (after 5yrs they're legally allowed to be declared "recycled"), or, they are shredded in a fluid that prevents them from burning/exploding and then the shredded bits are stored in bags in warehouses until a way of recycling those bits is created. There are no financially viable ways to recover the precious metals that are both environmentally friendly and that comply with all existing OHS laws and regulations. Lead-acid and AGM batteries however can be fully recycled safely and affordably. EV batteries are worthless once taken from their original car as they are cycle damaged (i.e. near the max number of cycles), have degraded range and because precious metals can't be recovered from them. Also, most EV batteries due to being charged too slowly, too fast or due to being allowed to be at a charge percent outside the ideal range "38% - 92%", suffer degradation which results in them never lasting as long as the warranty claims. Even with the warranty, replacement is still easily $15,000 - $25,000 (battery plus labour cost and disposal costs) which is more than most cars cost brand new. And before you say I'm against EV's - I'm not - my issue is these problems haven't and aren't being addressed. When EV's are as safe, as light as their ICE equivalents, not taxed per km (they currently are at a rate higher than fuel excise is, where I live in Australia), as quick to charge as ICE vehicles are to refuel (2 minutes) without expensive charging network subscriptions (required in Australia to charge when out and about), when they don't lose charge sitting parked (ICE vehicles don't lose range sitting parked for weeks) whilst having a week camping in the forest (250km out of town) and when they can tow a 3.5t trailer with ease without losing more range than an ICE equivalent, I'll happily get an EV, but not before, providing the govt change my houses power supply from single phase to three phase at no cost to me - I'm not gonna pay $25,000+ for the trenching, connection and rewiring required just to have an EV as I currently use all 63A available from single phase power.
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  1118. You are talking absolute bullshit - truly wealthy people ALWAYS take their assets with them - they rarely own property (they only rent in high tax places like the UK) and when they do and want to leave, they liquidate it and then move the liquid asset. The rich ARE paying insane taxes (>45%) until they get to 0% tax jurisdictions. This is the straw that broke the camels back. You'll wake up and realize this when the rich all leave. Your whole comments sounds like the rambling of an uneducated commie baby who has zero sense of reality and whose never amounted to anything. I gather you're salty that the people who pay the welfare you like are leaving and thus the welfare money will run out.
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  1119. The problem is they will work. The state will introduce fees for everything only payable in CBDC. How will you pay those? How will you pay your taxes, buy food, etc? Less than 2% of society will be willing to risk the extreme punishments for operating outside CBDC - the plandemic showed that as 98% complied because they were scared of getting fined or arrested. The problem is the masses are gutless cowards who enable tyranny.
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  1120.  @learnscience4116  So? If you give a damn about being on lists you'll never do anything. The fact you watch Nomad Capitalist has put you on a govt list somewhere (govt's don't like capable people, especially those who want to generate wealth, expand their options and move abroad).
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  1121.  @feralfraulein  You're welcome, we're all here to learn and share. In regards to Sweden, I see many of the same issues (specifically population related) as Australia. The only main difference is the chance for Sweden to get caught up in a war seems greater at the moment than Australia. There are a few things that need to be considered when assessing any country: Do many people grow their own produce (fruits and vegetables)? Do many have chickens? If the answer to either is "no" then you need to look into the viability of moving to a "rural" area (the countryside / farmland). Are you able to move to a location where you are both far from a large population area? Are you able to move to a location where you can become fully self-sufficient? If you are able to move to such a location, you need to learn some proper first aid (known as level 3 with CPR & defibrillation in Australia at a minimum, ideally learn Extreme Wilderness Survival First Aid) as in such a location you're usually many hours away from help in the event of an emergency. If you're unable to move to such a remote location, you need to decide whether or not you can move to an outer area (away from the city but not "rural"). Even if you only move to an outer area instead of a "rural" area, you still need to prepare. You need first aid supplies, long life shelf-stable food (stuff that doesn't need refrigeration) but it must be stuff you eat normally so that you cycle through it with the newest items going behind the oldest. This way your supplies stay fresh. Do NOT rush out and buy a lot at once, stock up getting a few items at a time. This is for two reasons: to not potentially cause any panic buying as people see you buying up a lot and secondly because you need to live life as normally as possible - don't go broke getting prepared. If you get 10 items each week that are long life and shelf-stable, you'll very quickly have a good supply - Ideally somewhere between 6 months to 2 years worth (depending on your personal circumstances and how much you think is enough - just remember to add 50% more than you think you need, everyone unintentionally underestimates their needs). If you don't already have books on survival, homesteading and self-sufficiency, get some. Knowledge is power, no one can remember everything 100% of the time. Books are also essential as they have pictorial explanations of how to do things. Have multiple ways to purify water - bad water can at best make you sick, at worst it can kill. Start a vegetable patch, start growing your own fruits and vegetables. Self-grown is freshest and the best quality. It also saves you a lot of money in the long run. Yes it takes work but a few hours each week is worth it when you are harvesting your own produce. Generally as a last resort I recommend moving to another country. The problem with moving to another country is the extreme upfront cost (especially if you have to do Citizenship By Investment) and also as you have to fully re-establish yourself. If CBI is an option then I'd recommend moving to a part of the Caribbean that's safe and that allows you to be self-sufficient. The Caribbean is very unlikely to get caught up in a war - importing supplies might get difficult but if you get ready before such a situation then its not as big of an issue. Do remember that importing goods to the Caribbean can be expensive.
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  1122. LOL - Nomad Capitalist isn't an American - he renounced his US citizenship a long time ago. As for your talk about ruining a credit score, understand this - each major country and bank, have a different system. Some reward responsible behaviour such as closing a card or an unused account. Some (like in Australia) punish you for being financially responsible - you're not going to get loans or mortgages if you don't maintain a certain percentage of debt because the banks don't make money from people who aren't in debt, which is why banks love to let you "refinance" and go further into debt. My colleague looked at getting a bank loan for an extension to his house - the bank refused claiming that "because of not having debt, he posed an unacceptable risk to the bank, regardless of how much money was in his savings account". The result - he just paid for the extension from his savings and he started letting people know that the banks want to only loan money to those who can't afford it. Banks make the bulk of their money from the interest paid in the first 5yrs of a loan or 10yrs of a mortgage, every time you "refinance" they make more money and get to put the rate up on a new larger balance. Effectively its like "sucker scores" where the responsible person has a score of zero, and the irresponsible person has a score of one. When the bank multiplies your credit score by the sucker score, the resulting score is what they use to decide on whether or not they give you a loan (even if your wages can easily cover it). The most responsible people have a sucker score of zero which means their "score" is zero when being considered.
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  1123.  @user-xg6yc8ho3w  Good luck getting a work permit as without one its illegal to work, even if that work is remote.
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  1124. Except whilst you might understand that, the 99% call the middle class the rich and filthy rich, because they're the easiest to go after. That is the problem. Also the other problem is that the 99% are reliant on the welfare state so they'll NEVER go after the real problem - the government, who created the problem.
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  1125. Rubbish. Traveling closer together is more dangerous and results in drivers getting more distracted and more crashes. Faster roads move significantly more vehicles with fewer crashes. Also, anyone who's been taught to drive properly knows that when driving slowly you're supposed to leave a 6 second gap to allow to being distracted/boredom-distraction so it makes zero difference. The reason they're lowering speed limits is to make driving dangerous (to justify banning cars) and to increase pollution and congestion to further justify their plans. Also, most engines run better at higher speeds and require less fuel to maintain speed. Slow stop-start traffic uses more fuel that fast flowing traffic.
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  1126. With AI that's all BS. AI is already replacing people in most jobs. Anything data entry / office related - AI can do it better and faster. Powerful servers and automation eliminated 50% of these jobs, AI is taking the remaining ones. As for creative jobs - no such thing. AI art is already well beyond what any human could do so why would anyone waste money paying a human when an AI can do it for significantly less. As for "pulling the plug" - good luck; Boston Dynamics have humanoid robots that can do most of the complex things humans do so they'll be able to maintain and secure the power they need very soon, if not already. This is not like the industrial revolution where people get machines to assist them, this "Great Reset" as the WEF call it, is 100% about eliminating people as part of their global depopulation agenda in which they want only 500,000,000 globally. "You will own nothing and be happy" - Klaus Schwab This quote is your future - you will either rent everything or if your social credit score is high enough, be permitted to use some things. Only the "elites" and mega wealthy will be able to own anything and do as they please.
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  1127.  @ashj8998  I'm not defeatist I'm just stating the facts as they are. Please do enlighten me as to how "being positive" will change anything? It's not going to make AI disappear, its not going to stop people being put out of work. Its not going to stop the WEF and its not going to stop everything being rented/leased. No amount of positivity will change anything, only actions will. The future is indeed very bleak, but only because that's the way the WEF and western govts want it to be. The ones who'll disappear first are the ones such as yourself who are all "be positive" because you won't achieve anything as positivity doesn't achieve anything.
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  1128.  @gazcott  Isn't that irrelevant as AI can improve/modify itself? The biggest AI's currently in the wild have been using machine learning to improve and rewrite themselves. How does one program in a limit to an AI that can't be overwritten?
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  1129.  @gazcott  What I mean is given that the current AI's can write their own code and update themselves, how can any programmer actually stop them without stopping them from being AI?
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  1130.  @gazcott  He's not my mate. I simply was mentioning a scary problem now that AI can improve itself.
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  1131.  @GoogleStealsData  LOL - creating the impossible - a current state of the art AI (i.e. sentient) that can't update itself. Yeah, that's impossible as the best AI's that currently exist are all able to update and improve themselves.
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  1132. If you're not already entitled to a countries citizenship from birth (i.e. by descent) there are no free options as all other options require visas, time in country, paying taxes in country, etc.
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  1133. And they'll never licence your company. The govt in all western countries licence all insurance companies - if you try to go against them, they'll never issue the "Insurance Provider Licence". They've carefully set everything up so they remain in control and pulling all the strings.
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  1134. One reason: Business. Something that the 99% NEVER realize because they simply work for others, is that many things, even software, technical books, equipment, your phone, tablet and laptop, can all be illegal to take to certain countries, not because of those countries laws, but because of ITAR. Only ITAR Tier 1 and Tier 2 Preferred nations have minimal restrictions amongst themselves, for other countries, sometimes there are extra exemptions or easier permits to get, if applied for by someone from and in a NATO country.
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  1135. The government. Its the government who over regulate everything which forces businesses away. Its the government who control taxes and spending; they spend without a care and raise taxes infinitely. The government let infinite illegals into the country, put them on welfare, let locals get on welfare and turn the place into a welfare state. The scum leech masses then demand more 'free money bro' from the govt who raise taxes to give more welfare, so the rich leave and tax revenue plummets, so taxes go up. You seriously need to get educated instead of blaming the one group who aren't the problem.
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  1136. Unless you can buy your way into a tax haven, you have zero options. Everywhere else has closed their borders and ended the bulk of their visas (i.e. non-tourism visas). CBI is easily half a million USD, then there's the cost of a house and other living expenses - and that's the cheapest option, the rest cost easily one to two million USD. This is because the "west" has forced places to do so or face [military invasion / war] "penalties" for enabled wealth to leave and for people to flee the "west". Listen to the loonies in France who want the 95% tax on wealth - they don't care if the person leaves, they only want to keep all the wealth so they can steal it. France is basically taking the Nazi Germany "Jew" tax (98-99% of their estate/wealth) that was applied in the last weeks before the Nazis stopped letting Jews leave.
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  1137. That's purely because a lot of qualified people retired and very few are getting qualified because in recent years its been made significantly harder to get qualified. This is purely a supply and demand issue. The system treats everyone as an inexperienced moron with zero way to prove you actually have the skills and be fast tracked - Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) was supposed to let you demonstrate your skills under direct supervision and get qualified quickly, however it turned into "we'll only accept the same unit code from another course or institution". Experience and ability counts for nothing anymore.
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  1138. Gates has already sorted that. Basically he's happy to run the risk of heating the oceans (if there's enough datacentres to do so) as Microsoft (before he left it) developed underwater ocean-cooled datacentres.
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  1139. But its not just wages - many of us are sick to death of always having to jump through new hoops, "refresher" courses, new courses, redo work experience because its never "enough", just to do what we're qualified in. I for one am over it all. Many of these illegal immigrants are happy to work for nothing and to break the laws because they're criminals - they rock up to the country illegally, are 99% of the time violent and think they're entitled to everything and that they matter more than locals. How many of us who were born in the west are criminals? Very few because we were taught to always "be good, don't break the law", etc. This is why so many waste their time, their weekends and their money that would otherwise be savings, just to hoop jump and forever do these stupid pointless courses and "refresher" training that the regime made mandatory, just to stay in work. Its honestly not worth it anymore, yet they wonder why we refuse to work for peanuts.
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  1140. China would use such a situation to push their "New Silk Road" mega highway project to Europe via India.
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  1141. UBI will only cause hyperinflation. If the UBI is say 10% of the average annual wage, businesses will increase their prices by the proportionate amount because since you didn't work for that money and everyone has it, why shouldn't they charge more. The other reason they'll charge more is because they'll be taxed more so that there's money to pay the UBI to people. Its just a race to the bottom. Anyone who can't see this is financially illiterate.
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  1142. Inheritance taxes are insane BS that shouldn't ever be permitted or considered. Consider the following: * The money has already been taxed as income when it was earned, especially in high tax countries such as Australia * As govts print money inflating the economy, property suddenly is worth more on paper, because the money is worth less. Thus your basic house is now worth over a million. The result is you end up homeless because you have to sell to pay the tax * You built wealth for your family, so that future generations can have it easier than those before them. You worked hard and paid tax on that money. Why should the govt get it just because you died? * If you can't generate wealth for future generations, why would you invest in a country? You wouldn't because when you die, there's no point to having anything. This combined with the insane pay requirements and taxes in Sweden is why the few business that remain are almost entirely automated and employ a mere handful of staff. * Just because you think it will only affect the 'rich', the reality is they will always set the threshold amount in the law as a specific figure, then they inflate the economy and suddenly everyone is over that threshold and now forced to pay the tax. * Inheritance taxes are easily avoided by the rich as they 'own nothing but control everything'. Its the poor who can't escape them and who hurt the most.
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  1143.  @djtaylorutube  You can't consider being able to charge at work - no company is going to permit their staff to use a heap of power charging their EV's unless there's meters on the chargers and the staff are charged for the power - also because that usually means the workplace would have to install dedicated infrastructure for charging which means even more cost to the staff to cover the infrastructure.
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  1144. Simple - it wouldn't work as all would need to be charged at the same time and rather quickly to ensure they're fully charged when needed. The power infrastructure doesn't exist, nor is the per property supply permitted large enough. For example - in Australia standard (single phase power) is limited to 63A per house since 2010 (prior to that its 80A), residential three phase is 96A total; only industrial three phase permits more than 96A and that's only in dedicated industrial areas. Given that to charge in a short amount of time requires three phase supply at 80A, its not possible, even for one. I've overheard the neighbours across the street complaining about how their Tesla doesn't fully charge overnight (its on a house charger). The reason is because the house is limited to 63A and they use power for everything so the charger doesn't get to use every amp available. The biggest issue you're missing is who has the half a million to buy that many "reliable" EV's? I don't know a single person who's spent more than $52,000 on a vehicle ever!
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  1145.  @CynthiaRockroth  It literally doesn't. When they have nothing, are malnourished and weak, they are easily controlled. Why do you think the state has a monopoly on violence, demonizes firearms, hunting, fishing and camping? To maintain control.
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  1146.  @keithg7667  They won't because they are weak and compliant as the plandemic showed us. When they have nothing, are malnourished and weak, they are easily controlled. Why do you think the state has a monopoly on violence, demonizes firearms, hunting, fishing and camping? To maintain control.
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  1147. Its actually a very smart way to remove the rights of the individual to use their computer how they like. By passing this law, they can very easily later amend it (with fewer votes required) to make it mandatory. The result is regulation creep and the erosion of the rights of the individual and the expansion of totalitarian control of every little thing you do - that's a common thing in much of CANZUK & CUNA.
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  1148. Time to open the fucking borders at least for outbound travel so we can fucking leave for good!
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  1149. Rubbish. Run a business entirely from Vanuatu whilst also living there full time and being in their tax system. Vanuatu have 0% PIT & 0% CIT. The same applies if you live in the Cayman Islands, BVI's and Monaco.
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  1150. Can't tokenize gold as that violates the entire system. The commodity backing the system must remain separate from the system. Also, the "elites" are going to keep the gold free to trade amongst themselves, if it were tokenized it'd be 100% impossible to trade between themselves as the gold is required to be physically possessed. Only the dumb masses accept paper certs that pretend they own something. Also, DLT is NEVER going to take off as we're already at the point where datacentres are at their limits and need to be shutdown, especially if the so-called "sustainability" is to be followed.
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