I think this can be most of the people's interest )what? Ben surely goes - Tom - well, can be Rob - it's better to know it's about informal sector and 'formality' of economy and politics view through them when you have a time, there are some neat resources in here. A. -------------------------------------------------------- For 'Tax Haven' Issues+++++++++++++ http://www.tax-news.com/asp/newsjje.asp There can be more other sites of this type, but this one by so far seems not bad - may worth to be remembered. We can map actros like, ATTAC, IMF, OECD JFSC/FSC, While you are back in Jersey, if you can identify personnels and families traditionally involved in those finance secotors and political/island planning sectors, and get 'rumours' and stories, I think that could be very useful too. It's a small place, so it would be easy to collect all those 'inside' stories. ---about ATTAC and protesters Jersey Raises The Drawbridge Against Anti-Globalisation Protesters, by Jeremy Hetherington-Gore, Tax-News.com, London 25/05/2001 (it's on the tax-news site) ---about IMF, OECD and other concerned institutions and Jersey's JFSC/FSC response http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,5-127093,00.html The Times, 'Jersey's days as a tax haven coming to an end'. Thurs, May 10, 2001, James Doran, [OECD's pressure, narcotics monitoring, FSC/JFSC (Jersey Financial Services Commission)] ------------------------------------------------------------ Jersey Wins More Praise For Its Anti-Money Laundering Regime, by Robert Lee, Tax-news.com, London 12 April 2001 http://www.tax-news.com/asp/story/story.asp?storyname=3085 ------------------------------------------------------------ 05/04/2001 IMF Survey On Financial Markets Pulls In Offshore Participants, Robert Lee, Tax-news.com, London http://www.tax-news.com/asp/story/story.asp?storyname=2991 ------------------------------------------------------------- Seems ATTAC (ATTAC/France) is well known organisation in the arena - so it's a kind of shame being 'never-heard-of' (to myself) - it should be equally well known as Tranparency Internantional...why it's not so famous?... these things are basically Ben(Bernard)'s interest too. http://attac.org/ http://attac.org/indexen.htm go to google.com and just type 'attac france' and then, a bunch of information. (Mostly in French.) I tried 'link trace' to check who is putting 'link' to attac's website (type: ' link:http://www.attac.org/ ' into google) and http://www.worldsocialforum.org/ not bad http://www.corpwatch.org/ seems very visual and interesting http://www.ceedweb.org/ one of those kinds etc...