Driving in the rain. Could save your life!!!

From: Alfred Clayton <clayalf@msn.com>
Date: Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 5:31 PM 

Gosh knows how much rain we have been getting................. Driving in the rain --  this may save your life GOOD VISION IN A DOWNPOUR How to achieve good vision while  driving during a heavy downpour. We are not sure why it is so effective;  just try this method when it rains  heavily. This method was given me  by a Police friend who had  experienced and confirmed it.  It is useful....even driving at night.  One method used by Canadian Military  Drivers for years. Most of the motorists would turn  on HIGH or FASTEST SPEED of  the wipers during heavy downpour,  yet the visibility in front of the  windshield is still bad...... In the event you face such a situation,  just try your SUN GLASSES  (any model will do), and miracle!  All of a sudden, your visibility in  front of your windshield is perfectly  clear, as if there is no rain. Make sure you always have a  pair of SUN GLASSES in your car,  as you are not only helping yourself  to drive safely with good vision,  but also might save your friend's  life by giving him this idea.. Try it yourself and share it with  your friends! Amazing, you still  see the drops on the windshield,  but not the sheet of rain falling. You can see where the rain  bounces off the road. It works  to eliminate the "blindness" from  passing semi's spraying you too. Or the "kickup" if you are following  a semi or car in the rain. They ought  to teach that little tip in driver's  training. It really does work.. And for a similar reason, why  "Fog" lights must make WHITE light,  or else are useless in FOG. Those YELLOW "FOG"lights are  great in those blinding night  SNOWstorms, and those big  snowflakes become virtually invisible. But YELLOW is useless  in RAIN, FOG. This next warning is a another  good one! I wonder how many  people know about this: A 36 year old female had an  accident several weeks ago  and totaled her car.. A resident  of Kinburn, Ontario was traveling  between Kinburn & Ottawa. It was  raining, though not excessively, when  her car suddenly began to  hydro-plane and literally flew  through the air.. She was not  seriously injured but very  stunned at the sudden occurrence! When she explained to the  OPP Officer what had happened  he told her something that every  driver should know -  NEVER DRIVE IN THE RAIN WITH  YOUR CRUISE CONTROL ON .  She thought she was being  cautious by setting the cruise  control and maintaining a safe  consistent speed in the rain.  But the Officer told her that if  the cruise control is on when  your car begins to hydro-plane  and your tires lose contact with  the pavement, your car will accelerate to a higher rate of  speed making you take off like  an airplane. She told the OPP  Officer that was exactly what  had occurred. The Officer said this warning  should be listed, on the driver's  seat Sun-visor - NEVER USETHE  CRUISE CONTROL WHEN THE  PAVEMENT IS WET OR ICY,  along with the airbag warning.  We tell our teenagers to set the  cruise control and drive a safe  speed - but we don't tell them to  use the cruise control only  when the pavement is dry. http://www.snopes.com/autos/techno/wetroad.asp The only person the accident  victim found, who knew this  (besides the officer), was a man  who had a similar accident,  totaled his car and sustained  severe injuries. NOTE: Some vehicles (like the  Toyota Sienna Limited XLE) will  not allow you to set the cruise  control when the windshield  wipers are on. If you send this  to 15 people and only one of  them doesn't know about this,  then it was all worth it.. You  might have saved a life.

Jury duty scam

From: Alfred Clayton <clayalf@msn.com>
Date: Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 3:30 PM

This has been around before; but you may have missed it. It is real.

Some of us are to old for jury duty but not your kids and grandkids.  Pass this on to your grown children and anyone else you can think of. This has been verified by the FBI (their link is also included below). Please pass this on to everyone in your email address book. It is spreading fast so be prepared should you get this call. Most of us take those summonses for jury duty seriously, but enough people skip out on their civic duty that a new and ominous kind of fraud has surfaced.     The caller claims to be a jury DUTY coordinator. If you protest that you never received a summons for jury duty, the Scammer asks you for your Social Security number and date of birth so he or she can verify the information and cancel the arrest warrant. Give out any of this information and bingo; your identity was just stolen.    The fraud has been reported so far in 11 states, including Oklahoma , Illinois , and Colorado ,AZ and more. This (swindle) is particularly insidious because they use intimidation over the phone to try to bully people into giving information by pretending they are with the court system.    The FBI and the federal court system have issued nationwide alerts on their web sites, warning consumers about the fraud.     Check it out here:    http://www.fbi.gov/page2/june06/jury_scams060206.htm       And here:    http://www.snopes.com/crime/fraud/juryduty.asp       Yep! It's true

Please read this wonderful story

From: Alfred Clayton <clayalf@msn.com>
Date: Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 3:26 PM

Breakfast at McDonald's
This is a good story and is true, please read it all the way through
until the end!:
I am a mother of three (ages 14, 12, 3) and have recently completed my
college degree.
The last class I had to take was Sociology.
The teacher was absolutely inspiring with the qualities that I wish
every human being had been graced with..
Her last project of the term was called, 'Smile.'
The class was asked to go out and smile at three people and document
their reactions.
I am a very friendly person and always smile at everyone and say hello
anyway. So, I thought this would be a piece of cake,
...........Literally.
Soon after we were assigned the project, my husband, youngest son, and
I went out to McDonald's one crisp March morning.
It was just our way of sharing special playtime with our son.
We were standing in line, waiting to be served, when all of a sudden
everyone around us began to back away, and then..........        Even
my husband did..
I did not move an inch... An overwhelming feeling of panic welled up
inside of me as I turned to see why they had moved.
As I turned around I smelled a horrible 'dirty body' smell, and there
standing behind me were two poor homeless men.
As I looked down at the short gentleman, close to me, he was 'smiling'
His beautiful sky blue eyes were full of God's Light as he searched
for acceptance....
He said, 'Good day' as he counted the few coins he had been clutching..
The second man fumbled with his hands as he stood behind his friend. I
realized the second man was mentally challenged and the blue-eyed
gentleman was his salvation.
I held my tears as I stood there with them.
The young lady at the counter asked him what they wanted.
He said, 'Coffee is all Miss' because that was all they could afford.
(If they wanted to sit in the restaurant and warm up, they had to buy
something. He just wanted to be warm).
Then I really felt it - the compulsion was so great I almost reached
out and embraced the little man with the blue eyes..
That is when I noticed all eyes in the   Restaurant were set on me,
judging My every action.
I smiled and asked the young lady behind the counter to give me two
more breakfast meals on a separate tray.
I then walked around the corner to the table that the men had chosen
as a resting spot. I put the tray on the table and laid my hand on the
blue-eyed gentleman's cold hand.
He looked up at me, with tears in his eyes, and said, 'Thank you.'
I leaned over, began to pat his hand and said, 'I did not do this for
you.. God is here working through me to give you hope.'
I started to cry as I walked away to join my husband and son.... When
I sat down my husband smiled at me and said, 'That is why God gave you
to me, Honey, to give me hope..'
We held hands for a moment and at that time, we knew that only because
of the Grace that we had been given were we able to give.
We are not church goers, but we are believers.
That day showed me the pure Light of God's sweet love.
I returned to college, on the last evening of class, with this story in hand.
I turned in 'my project' and the instructor read it.
Then she looked up at me and said, 'Can I share this?'
I slowly nodded as she got the attention of the class.
She began to read and that is when I knew that we as human beings and
being part of God share this need to heal people and to be healed.
In my own way I had touched the people at McDonald's, my son, the
instructor, and every soul that shared the classroom on the last night
I spent as a college student.
I graduated with one of the biggest lessons I would ever learn:

UNCONDITIONAL ACCEPTANCE.
Much love and compassion is sent to each and every person who may read
this and learn how to
LOVE PEOPLE AND USE THINGS - NOT LOVE THINGS AND USE PEOPLE.

Cherokee Legend

From: Alfred Clayton <clayalf@msn.com>
Date: Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 1:01 PM

Cherokee Legend Do you know the legend of the Cherokee Indian youths' rite of Passage? His father takes him into the forest, blindfolds him and leaves him alone. He is required to sit on a stump the whole night and not remove the blindfold until the rays of the morning sun shine through it. He cannot cry out for help to anyone. Once he survives the night, he is a MAN. He cannot tell the other boys of this experience, because each lad must come into manhood on his own. The boy is naturally terrified. He can hear all kinds of noises. Wild beasts must surely be all around him . Maybe even some human might do him harm. The wind blew the grass and earth, and shook his stump, but he sat stoically, never removing the blindfold. It would be the only way he could become a man! Finally, after a horrific night the sun appeared and he removed his blindfold. It was then that he discovered his father sitting on the stump next to him. He had been at watch the entire night, protecting his son from harm. We, too, are never alone. Even when we don't know it, God is watching over us, sitting on the stump beside us. When trouble comes, all we have to do is reach out to Him. If you liked this story, pass it on. If not, you took off your blindfold before dawn. Moral of the story: Just because you can't see God, Doesn't mean He is not there. "For we walk by faith, not by sight." God Bless

--
Antonio L. Buensuceso Jr.

GANGRENED JUSTICES

Impeach them
By: Conrado de Quiros
Philippine Daily Inquirer

10:06 pm | Tuesday, October 11th, 2011
The TRUTH will set you FREE.

SHELL ALWAYS EVADE TAXES_SECOND PUBLICATION_RESEARCH (SHELL IS ABOVE THE LAW)

ROYAL DUTCH SHELL HISTORY OF TAX AVOIDANCE

Oct 1st, 2011

 by John Donovan.

By John Donovan

The oil giant Royal Dutch Shell has a long history as a participant in what the Guardian has aptly described as “the murky world of corporate tax avoidance.”

In February 2009, the Guardian newspaper published an article under the headline: “Offshore – and out of reach to the Revenue“

Extracts

The Anglo-Dutch oil giant Shell, although it is still a British plc operating under UK company law, has shifted its trademarks to Switzerland and its main tax residence to the Netherlands.

Shell, meanwhile, has shifted ownership rights of its iconic scallop-shell roadside sign out of London to a third low-tax regime in Switzerland. It was part of a carefully planned merger of its UK and Dutch arms, which enabled the oil giant to keep many operations from the grip of the British tax authorities. For tax purposes, Royal Dutch Shell plc is now resident in the Netherlands. The company told us that the brand shift to the tax haven canton of Zug was not for tax avoidance, but for “entirely commercial” reasons. “There has been no impact on the Shell brand in the UK,” the company said. It added that there would now be “more effective and consistent management of the Shell trademarks”.

Another article on the same subject was published on the same day by the Guardian under the headline: “TAX GAP“

Extract

Ownership of the iconic scallop sign which appears on thousands of Shell petrol station forecourts has migrated to a Swiss tax haven.

The Anglo-Dutch oil giant which made $50bn (£35bn) in pre-tax profits in 2007, shifted its main tax-residence to the more benign climate of Holland after the merger of its twin UK and Netherlands arms in 2005.

Shell simultaneously moved the ownership of its immensely valuable brands. Legal ownership of the trademarks now belongs to a subsidiary set up in the low-tax canton of Zug, which is entitled to charge royalties for their use to other Shell companies.

The rights were shifted in February 2005 to Shell Brands International AG, a holding company registered in the former Alpine village of Baar, now part of a mini-conurbation joined to Zug itself.

The canton hosts about 18,000 companies, mostly foreign entities set up to take advantage of corporate tax rates as low as 8%, with personal tax for expatriate executives at a similarly enticing level.

This means that, legally speaking, Shell is now simultaneously a British public company, tax-resident in Amsterdam, whose brands are Swiss.

Shell says: “Shell Brands International paid Shell UK Ltd for certain trademarks. This payment was subject to corporation tax on capital gains in the UK. In the future, royalties are payable for the use of the trademark by UK companies”.

In fact, no tax was paid on the sale, because Shell was able to set it against other tax losses.

The Guardian also referred to Shell’s tax avoidance in its subsequent article: “Holding the UK’s major corporations to account“

Extracts

Our innovative online database helped shed light on the murky world of corporate tax avoidance

The series revealed the tax stratagems of many of Britain’s corporate household names. It documented brands shifted offshore by Diageo, Shell, and drug companies AstraZeneca and GlaxoSmithKline.

Royal Dutch Shell was also mentioned in an article published in January 2011 by “This is Money”, under the headline: “Revealed: Tax havens of the top 20 UK companies“

Extract

Shell has 47 offshore subsidiaries, mainly in Bermuda, although the company said that its holding group, Royal Dutch Shell, is based in the Hague and not British tax-resident.

There is nothing new about Shell tax avoidance. The following is an extract from from pages 78 & 79 of the book “Patents for Hitler” by Guenter Reimann published in 1942.

The story of the secret Oil International would not be complete without referring to Liechtenstein, Europe’s mystery state. Liechtenstein, with its capital, Vaduz, is the most remarkable country in war-time Europe. Situated in Central Europe, almost encircled by the Third Reich, it is the only place in the old world where people feel safe, with unprotected frontiers, with only a few policemen maintaining internal order-in short, an idyllic country. How did it escape Hitler’s armies? With a population of only 12,000, it could never have tried to defend its national existence. But we must not forget that the administration of this tiny state offered hospitality to corporations which sought a neutral centre for private empires, free from the struggle of national states and from taxation. This little country in war-torn Europe had been selected by I. G., by Standard Oil, and also by Shell as one of the centres for the super-national world empires. Its only apparent function is to enable private world empires or large corporations to escape from the risks of war and also from taxation.

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Solon accuses Shell of smuggling; calls for inquiry

 Updated September 9, 2011 - 2:21pm

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MANILA, Philippines - A congresswoman today accused Pilipinas Shell of "unabated smuggling activities" and tax evasion.

Zambales Rep. Maria Milagros Magsaysay made the accusation as she urged the House of Representatives' committee on ways and means to investigate the oil company.

In the House Resolution 1643, Magsaysay said that the committee should also probe officials of the Bureau of Customs (BOC) and the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) for their alleged failure to "take action and necessary steps to run after Pilipinas Shell."

"The House Committee on Ways and Means should immediately conduct an investigation in aid of legislation to ferret out the truth and determine the culpability of the culprits," said Magsaysay.

According to Magsaysay, Pilipinas Shell started declaring in 2004 its shipments of Catalyctic Cracked Gasoline (CCCG) and Light Catalyctic Cracked Gasoline (LCCG) that arrived at the Port of Batangas as blending components, which the BOC disagreed to. She said that the bureau had found out that the shipments were not blending components, but rather final products and therefore liable for payment of excise taxes and value added taxes on excise taxes.

She said that the oil company contested the BOC findings and got a reprieve from a BIR Memorandum issued by Deputy Commissioner Jose Mario Bunag stating that indeed CCCG and LCCCG are blending components.

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The BOC did not agree to the BIR Memorandum, and on Nov. 11, 2009, an eight-member Verification Committee of the BOC found Pilipinas Shell to have committed fraud and was therefore liable to pay taxes in the amount of P7,348,767,933.00.

Magsaysay said that in a separate issuance, acting BIR Commissioner Joel Tan Torres reversed Bunag's position and found that CCCG and LCCG are not blending components and therefore Shell is liable to pay the taxes of P7 billion.

However, the Court of Tax Appeals issued an order enjoining the commissioners of the BOC and the BIR and its agents to refrain collecting taxes from Pilipinas Shell by using as basis the company’s very minimal surety bond, and the interference from then Solicitor-General Alberto Agra and purportedly from Malacañang through "a certain Secretary Favila."

The congresswoman said that despite the very clear case against Shell for smuggling and non-payment of taxes, there is great injustice to the government by the solicitor-generla for its inaction of not pursuing a winning case against Shell at the Court of Tax Appeals.

Magsaysay also alleged that Shell continued its "smuggling activity" from the period July 2010 to April 2011 and imported shipments declared as alkylate, which were found by the BOC at the Port of Batangas as misdeclared.

After subjected to thorough tests and evaluation, a composite team of officials at the Port of Batangas found the alkylate as motor gasoline and therefore subject to the imposition of excise taxes and VAT on excise taxes in the amount of P1,578,269,755.00.

After the findings of misdeclaration and smuggling by Shell of motor gasoline declared to be alkylate, the Collector of the Port of Batangas Juan Tan, immediately sent a memorandum to incumbent BOC Commissioner Angelito Alvarez to demand payment from Shell of the taxes due plus the penalties and interests and surcharges, and to file a criminal case.

Magsaysay said that Alvarez refused to take action, and instead relieved Tan and the other Port of Batangas officials "under questionable and mysterious reasons."

Magsaysay said the government stands to lose several billions of pesos in uncollected taxes, and these indicate that certain government officials may have given undue advantage to smugglers.

"It is imperative for the House to conduct an inquiry on these issues that involved transcendental importance," she said.  

COMMITTEE NEWS

* A Publication of the Committee Affairs Department

VOLUME 16 | NO. 41 | 15-APRIL-2009

PROBE:P21B ALLEGED UNPAID EXCISE TAX BY PILIPINAS SHELL

Committee Source: WAYS AND MEANS

THE COMMITTEE on Ways and Means chaired by Antique Representative Exequiel Javier continued its investigation into the alleged non-payment of excise tax on importations of unleaded gasoline by Pilipinas Shell from May 2004 up to 2008.

In the Committee�s third meeting on the issue, the Bureau of Customs (BOC) maintained that Pilipinas Shell owed the government P21billion in unpaid excise taxes and that the company had been misdeclaring its shipments of unleaded gasoline as catalytically cracked gasoline (CCG) to avoid the taxes.

Tax-exempt

The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) has ruled that imported CCG, an ingredient blended with gasoline to produce unleaded gasoline, is exempt from the excise tax.

Both BOC Commissioner Napoleon Morales and Port of Batangas Customs Collector Juan Tan were of the position that Pilipinas Shell has to pay the tax of P21 billion including penalties for the shipments of unleaded gasoline it brought into the country.

The shipments were released without being taxed on the basis of the Authority to Release Imported Goods (ATRIG) issued by the BIR, according to the two customs officials.

Misdeclaration

In a demand letter, Tan asked Pilipinas Shell to pay the excise tax claiming that the oil company has been importing unleaded gasoline as shown in their invoices, but was declaring it as CCG.

AKBAYAN Party-list Rep. Risa Hontiveros questioned the exemption of CCG from the payment of excise tax, referring to Sec. 129 of the National Internal Revenue Code (NIRC), which provides that excise taxes apply to imported goods.

Likewise, Rep. Reno Lim (3rd District, Albay) said that the issue of misdeclaration of shipments should be looked into.

Responding to these comments, Robert Kanapi of Pilipinas Shell said that CCG is a raw material and not a finished product, and only the latter is subject to excise tax.

�Gasoline products are derived from imported crude oil coming from at least a dozen sources around the world. Crude oil � is mixed with CCG at 30-40 percent ratio in compliance with the Clean Air Act. Imported crude oil is levied a three percent import duty,� Kanapi explained.

BIR ruling

Rep. Andres Salvacion Jr. (3rd District, Leyte) noted that the excise tax used to apply to CCG until a ruling was issued by then BIR Deputy Commissioner Jose Bu�ag exempting it from the excise tax. He contended that the BIR cannot issue a ruling contradicting Section 1508 of the Tariff and Customs Code.

This particular section of the Code authorizes the Customs collector to hold the delivery or release of imported articles whenever the importer has an outstanding and demandable account with the BOC.

�BIR should not favor the importers to the detriment of the government,� Rep. Salvacion stressed.

Tan disclosed that the BIR was under pressure to issue the ruling due to an impending oil shortage at that time. He also said that Pilipinas Shell used to pay one billion pesos annually for CCG imports before the tax exemption was granted.

Smuggling

On Rep. Hontiveros� query on whether the alleged misdeclaration can be considered smuggling, Tan said yes. But he refused to comment on Rep. Hontiveros� inquiry as to whether the BIR colluded with Shell.

Explaining how the BIR arrived at the tax exemption ruling, BIR Director Jethro Sabariaga said the Department of Energy (DOE) was consulted on the matter which confirmed that CCG is a raw material and not a finished product.

BOC Deputy Commissioner Alexander Arevalo apprised the Committee that Commissioner Morales has already formed a task force to study the case and to submit its findings as soon as possible.

However, Rep. Abraham Kahlil Mitra (2nd District, Palawan) observed that the BOC�s creation of a task force was rather a late reaction to the issue. He also bewailed the fact that the Committee hearing is now on its third and yet only a little has been accomplished so far due to �delaying tactics.� He suggested giving the BOC task force a deadline to do its task.

The Chair added that the DOE must be included in the task force and that the latter must be supervised by the Department of Finance (DOF).

The BOC Deputy Commissioner assured Rep. Mitra that the task force findings will be submitted within one week.

DOF�s silence

Noting the silence of the DOF on the controversy, Rep. Nicanor Briones (Party-list, AGAP) asked the department to state its position especially since both the BIR and the BOC are under it.

DOF Undersecretary Estela Sales said the department is still waiting for the position papers of the BIR and BOC even as she took cognizance of the BOC�s creation of a task force to investigate the matter.

The Chair acknowledged the jurisdiction of the BIR over the administration of the excise tax. He cited a portion of Section 246 of the NIRC, which reads that �Any revocation, modification, reversal of any of the rules or circulars ... shall not be given retroactive application if the revocation, modification or reversal will be prejudicial to the tax payers, except in the following cases: where the taxpayer deliberately misstates or omits material facts from his return or any document required of him by the BIR; where the facts subsequently gathered by the BIR are materially different from the facts on which the ruling is based; or where the taxpayer acted in bad faith.�

The Committee is set to schedule another meeting on the matter. BIR Director Sabariaga was also requested to submit the excise tax payments of Pilipinas Shell. Representatives from Petron, Chevron and DOE will also be invited to the succeeding hearings of the Committee.

Source: Committee Administrative Support Service, Committee Affairs Department

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