http://www.globalnomads.com/blog Catering to the Global Nomad - Offshore Finance, Asset Protection, Privacy Tools Tue, 29 Jul 2008 22:17:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Fancy a holiday in Dubai? It could be an easy way to obtain a legally valid second drivers liencse (driving licence) This is a new policy introduced following a recent change in the law which requires tourists wishing to rent a car to have either a valid International Driving Permit, or ... http://www.globalnomads.com/blog/archives/2008/07/29/dubai-now-issues-drivers-licenses-to-tourists/ A consignment of 3,000 "useless" blank biometric passports has been stolen on its way to British embassies throughout the world. Or at least, the Identity & Passport Service says they're useless. A recent article in The Register shows why nothing could be further from the truth. The passports were stolen from ... http://www.globalnomads.com/blog/archives/2008/07/29/a-nice-little-business-in-british-passports/ As readers of our Caribbean Offshore Contacts Report are aware, there are only two countries in the world offering so-called Economic Citizenship programs - that is, the chance to buy a legal second citizenship and passport within a matter of weeks. Those two countries are The Commonwealth of Dominica (an ... http://www.globalnomads.com/blog/archives/2008/07/26/how-to-obtain-a-legal-second-passport-by-supporting-the-sugar-industry/ Here's a good analysis of the current American attack on Swiss banking secrecy, highlighting why we all need to be thinking about second passports and citizenships. We particularly recommend the Global Nomads Caribbean Offshore Contacts Report for this! The US Department of Justice recently filed papers in a US Court seeking ... http://www.globalnomads.com/blog/archives/2008/07/14/irs-again-attack-switzerland/ Fourteen leading figures in the UK aviation industry have spoken out against the British government's national ID scheme. In a strongly worded open letter to the Home Secretary, they express their "determined opposition" and highlight that enrolment on the National ID Scheme will provide "no additional security" - indeed it risks creating a ... http://www.globalnomads.com/blog/archives/2008/07/05/uk-aviation-industry-attacks-national-id-scheme/ Lt. Cmdr. William Kuebler of the US Army is developing a reputation as something of a whistleblower, not afraid to speak his mind in the cause of pursuing wholesome all-American ideals like freedom and justice, which are being denied wholesale by the Bush regime. Kuebler is the military lawyer assigned to ... http://www.globalnomads.com/blog/archives/2008/06/08/the-strange-tale-of-the-canadian-in-camp-gitmo/ An interesting article in this week's Business Week blows the lid off the background screening business in the US. This has become, warns BW, "a big business, but not always an accurate one." They go on to report that "whatever their motives, employers are becoming more dependent on mass-produced background reports ... http://www.globalnomads.com/blog/archives/2008/06/03/just-plain-scary-choicepoint-makes-big-money-repeating-hearsay/ Britain's Daily Telegraph (May 12th) reports on a new British government scheme, designed to shave a billion pounds off the cost of implementing their new population surveillance program, also known as the National ID card. Originally, the proposal was for people to be fingerprinted at a passport office, but now the ... http://www.globalnomads.com/blog/archives/2008/05/22/uk-biometric-id-capture-outsourced-to-supermarkets/ Most of you reading this will probably be familiar with the PT concept, but it is good to revise and refresh our memories from time to time. This from the UK Democracy Forum. [This is the original P.T. article by Grandpa. It has been in the public domain for around thirty ... http://www.globalnomads.com/blog/archives/2008/05/15/back-to-basics-what-is-a-pt/ One blog we frequently enjoy reading is that of former US congressman Bob Bauman, a privacy activist and tax haven commentator. This week he talks about how 'New Labour' has "gotten very old" by attacking tax havens within the British sphere on influence... The Labour party has aimed their high tax attack ... http://www.globalnomads.com/blog/archives/2008/05/13/british-labour-government-the-caribbean-tax-havens-and-the-dominica-advantage/