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"The Lichtenstein Deal" was made by an ex employee of the bank and the BND = "german CIA". German justice judged that this information can be legal used. The problem for Germany is..Switzerland, Luxembourg and Lichtenstein are safe harbours for the illegal transfered german capital..there are up to €500 billions on such money....and the authorities of these 3 countries refuse any cooperation with germans. so..such actions I described... are an act of self-defence for german state.

I think that generally if police purchase information then that may make the information suspect but if it turns out to hold up then I don't think the fact that it was purchased makes it unusable in court. But then usually purchased information is on a small scale, like from a stoolie. I guess the cited case is really large scale stool pigeoning and maybe scale matters. Or not. If the guy trying to sell this info is still alive, I'm impressed. In the real case in Germany, somebody offers 1500 files with accounts data from the swiss UBS bank....all germans customers....the price for the deal = 2,5 mill € The finance authorities checked for example 5 of these files...they mean each of these 5 germans should pay about €1 million on taxes etc... The experts mean the whole deal will bring german state about 100-200 mill ....if the minister of finance decide to buy it. Two years ago they bought stolen data in Lichtenstein...it brought more then 100 mill on taxes till now.

Hypothetical case: Somebody has a CD with swiss bank account-data of 1500 US-citiziens and want to sell it for 1 mill bucks US authorities (IRS?) The question is: Is US treasury authorities allowed to buy such stolen material and use it legal to investigate trespasses.??? There is a real, similar case in Germany at the moment.

doesn't matter...if you stand between 3nt and 4d bid in offside.

Greek fast food rocks. With the Gyros Pita all along the fishermen's pier in Naxos, eaten with a little help of Ouzo on the rocks. :)

just two words.. cholesterol grade :unsure:

Three voices? But, are they tenors? :lol: Unfortunately no...they are more like Bee Gees :)

what about vanilla ice cream with sautéed pears and dark rum :(

Steel boxes are the only way out. Toledo Steel!!! :)

More than the half of the new german parliement belives this nonsense at the moment. Shall be a kind of "excuse" for the tax gifts they made for their clients...like hotel owners etc..

[oft] All you need.... is to stop fight against yourself inside the dutch team, this cost you 2-3 WC titles till now...but its a completely different problem then we discuss here [oft] :(

These things equal sooner or later. Germany lost WC 1966 by a not existing goal but won twice by dubios penalties 1974 and 1990 vs Argentina...this one was a real joke penaltie! And Argentina was maybe in favor in the final 1978...1990 in Rome they were clear wronged....etc etc. I am sure French team will meet this fate...sooner or later...

Yes, but in 1966 there was no computer program that could tell you exactly which player was offside and by how much at the time of player X kicking the ball. Just like we have to tell some bridge federations again and again that the 21st century has started since they didn't seem to have noticed, the same ist true for the FIFA. you are right but... if FIFA allow to proof all these unclear situations, do you know what happen? The match will be interrupted in 1000 pieces, protest by protest, call...recall by video referee...the game will be like in american football 15 seconds action and 2 minutes for clearing such a things. If only "score-or-not-score" situations...I would appreciate it.

These stories are so old as a "Wembley Goal" 1966, it happens every weekend around the football world...so long the FIFA will not change generally the rules of judgement. A monster word in german for it: "Tatsachenentscheidung"!

There are voices, you know! voices, voices voices :)

I have to complain about significant decrease of conspiracy themes in WC

huh..in the old wild college times we saved a lot of zloty's ordering usualy orange juice and drinking vodka-orange, mea culpa :(

Rumors say, friends of cricket prepare invasion of this thread, take care.

lets talk about aggressive ice sweeping then

you mean, this thing will be much more boring as usual? :angry:

many times? If we include all competitions, there play up to 70 teams in WC every day, + all these coaches, officials etc + up to 150 teams in Transnationals. ( only a part of them coming from open, women and senior events) Robert

The Second Death of George Mallory, by Reinhold Messner

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According to the General Conditions of the Contest, Appendix 7...the host country may send a team to all 3 championships ex-quota of the zonal distribution. It means 7 spots for Europe...same like in Estoril 2005. There is another regulation... Does it mean there is a chance for the 8th spot for Europe? Robert

back to the topic>>>> Do you belive that....GW think about GW this evening? :)