number 2 05.08.05
Shop Ship Sails in Unregulated Waters
An American software company plans the
opening a software production facility
staffed by non-American workers three
miles outside of El Segundo, California in
the Pacific Ocean. Sea-Code, a San Diego
based “hybrid-sourcing” software
engineering company, plans to open what
it refers to as a “unique ship-based
engineering facility” on a converted cruise
liner which they plan to purchase from Sun
Cruises.
Sea-Code plans to classify the foreign born
engineering staff working on the vessel as
“seamen” thereby skirting American
immigration laws and visa requirements.
The engineering company will likewise not
be required to render payroll taxes to the
United States Treasury. By anchoring in
international waters just three miles off
the coast of California, Sea-Code will also
be exempt from California labor and
environmental regulations.
Sea-Code plans to pay engineers it hires
from countries such as Russia and India
between $25,000 and $60,000 to work
twelve hour shifts for periods of four
months. The salary for an American
software engineer performing
comparable work ranges between
$65,000 and $125,000 per year.
In addition to the foreign born workers,
the company intends to hire some
Americans. These will be what the
company has characterized as “very high-
end individuals” working as liaisons
between the firm and its American
clients. “We’ll need Americans for that”,
Roger Green, a founding partner of Sea-
Code, told Sourcing Magazine. it's all true
red state rebate
interpreting the constitution
Tax Holiday Just What Doctor Ordered
Mississippi Enacts
New Commandment
A tax break contained in the American
Jobs Creation Act will enable six drug
companies to avoid payment of over $20
billion in taxes on profits they transfer to
the US from international tax havens,
according to an article in Sunday’s New
York Times.
The measure will benefit any company
that has substantial profit in foreign
markets, but the drug industry has been
particularly adept at using avariety of
maneuvers to transfer profit into
countries with attractive tax rates.
Instead of the normal rate of 35
percent, companies have a one year
window to return these profits at a
tax rate of 5.25 per cent.
According to the Times, “the six
major US drug companies- Pfizer,
Johnson and Johnson, Merck, Bristol-
A new Mississippi law permits the
display of certain religious texts in
public places, such as schools,
courthouses, and government
buildings. State Senate Bill 2486,
signed by Governor Haley Barbour,
specifically mentions the Ten
Commandments, the Beatitudes, and
the slogan “In God We Trust.”
The Mississippi American Civil
Liberties Union will await the results
of two cases pending before the US
Supreme Court before moving
forward with a legal challenge to the
new law. The Court is reviewing
similar laws from Kentucky and Texas.
Barbour, a former Chairman of the
Republican Party and a possible 2008
GOP presidential candidate, is widely
reported to have a Ten
Commandments display in his
gubernatorial office.
In recent years Mississippi has been
the scene of several successful
legislative initiatives promoted by
Christian special interest groups.
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Pastor Heeds Legal Counsel
A North Carolina pastor who
drove members from his church
for their political orientation is
practicing a new-found reticence
on the advice of his attorney.
Reverend Chan Chandler, of the
East Waynesville Baptist Church,
told supporters of Senator John
Kerry to leave his congregation
during the 2004 presidential
election campaign. Recently, he
led a move to expel a further
nine members for their lack of
source: Economic Policy Institute
Phillip H. Morse, a minority owner of
the Boston Red Sox, was reportedly
“stunned” when it was recently revealed
that a private jet, which he owns, was
chartered by the Central Intelligence
Agency to ferry terror suspects from
American custody to foreign destinations
where there may be no legal prohibitions
to torture.
Records obtained by the Chicago
Tribune from the Federal Aviation
Administration place Morse’s private
Gulfstream IV luxury jet in Afghanistan,
Morocco, Azerbaijan and Egypt in the
past three years. The US State
Department's 2003 "Country Reports on
Human Rights Practice" found that in
Egypt "there were numerous, credible
reports that security forces tortured and
mistreated detainees". Records also
reveal that More's plane made over 50
trips to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba during
this same time period.
Morse acknowledged publicly that he was
aware that his private jet had been leased
to the CIA stating that they are one of
support for President Bush, causing
a furore that received national
media attention.
A group of the ousted members
have met with attorneys in an effort
to regain their standing in the
church, and possibly even remove
Rev. Chandler himself.
Questions are also being raised as to
whether such overt political activity
by the pastor jeopardizes the
tax-exempt status of the church.
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redstateupdate.net
"Iraqis are sick of foreign people..."
"...coming into their country
and trying to destabilize
their country."
Washington DC, 05.05.04
verbatim
number 1.2
News
Meyers Squibb, Wyeth and Eli Lilly-
collectively pay a federal tax rate of
less than 15 percent on their
worldwide profits, and some
companies pay much less”.
The American Jobs Creation Act was
signed by President Bush in October
2004. it's all true
fun d' mental
Owner Plane Embarrassed Over Revelations
in bed with the red
he received by Syrian Security Forces
after being rendered by the US in 2002.
Morse, who founded North American
Instrument Corporation in 1969, which
developed a manifold that is widely used
in cardiac catheterization procedures,
told the New York Times that the
Gulfstream was in such heavy use by the
CIA that he himself was unable to use
the jet on several occasions for personal
trips. The Gulfstream leases for
approximately $128,000 per day.
Morse told the Boston Red Sox's
hometown paper, the Boston Globe,
that he was “a little embarrassed” over
the revelations that his personal jet had
become involved in the intelligence
agency’s clandestine operations, in so far
as the Boston Red Sox’s “link” to the
affair was concerned.
But he is reported by the Globe to have
assured Boston fans that, “when its
chartered, it never has the logo of the
Red Sox on it. They cover it up”.
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many clients to whom the airplane is
leased. Morse told the Boston Globe that
he “assumed” that the intelligence agency
was using his airplane for legitimate
purposes in furtherance of national
security interests.
It is estimated that, since 2001, under a
program called “extraordinary rendition”,
the CIA has transferred more than 100
suspects from American to foreign
custody. In some cases the suspects have
not been charged with a crime.
Some suspects who have come forward
after being released from the custody of
the country they were rendered to by the
CIA report that their abductors cut off
their cloths, forcibly sedated them with
drug laden suppositories, clothed them in
crude diapers and orange jump suits and
delivered them into the hands of
torturers.
One suspect, Maher Arar, a Canadian
citizen, is currently suing the US
Government for the maltreatment