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- Finance Documentary in Full Length: The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire - How Britain transformed from an imperial power to a financial power.
The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire (2017)
Director: Michael Oswald
Writers: Michael Oswald(screenplay)
Stars: Joel Benjamin, Peter Cain, John Christensen
Genre: Documentary
Country: United Kingdom, United States
Language: English
Release Date: 5 May 2017 (Mexico)
Duration: 78 min
Storyline:
The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire, is a documentary film that shows how Britain transformed from a colonial power into a global financial power. At the demise of empire, City of London financial interests created a web of offshore secrecy jurisdictions that captured wealth from across the globe and hid it behind obscure financial structures in a web of offshore islands. Today, up to half of global offshore wealth may be hidden in British offshore jurisdictions and Britain and its offshore jurisdictions are the largest global players in the world of international finance. How did this come about, and what impact does it have on the world today? This is what the Spider's Web sets out to investigate. With contributions from leading experts, academics, former insiders and campaigners for social justice, the use of stylized b-roll and archive footage, the Spider's Web reveals how in the world of international finance, corruption and secrecy have prevailed over regulation and transparency, and the UK is right at the heart of this.
Reviews:
"This is a fascinating, compelling and well-made film about how the City of London increased its influence through the use of tax havens after the break up of the British Empire.
The documentary is extremely informative and eye-opening, but be warned, it can also leave you feeling angry and disillusioned about how successive governments, politicians, and the Establishment have combined to legally defraud the tax payer.
Sadly, nothing seems to change, probably because the same people who could actually do something are the very people who are enriching themselves through these tax havens. I really enjoyed this well-made film and I recommend it to anyone who has an interest in current affairs." -Written by tabone on IMDb.com
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This should be mandatory viewing in UK schools. All citizens of this country need to know about this. It explains so much about our political system.
Absolutely. THIS is the reason we are in a terrible economic state and it's been going on for years. Plus, like you mentioned, most of the general population don't know or even want to believe anything like this.
"The Spider's Web" documentary is an eye-opener, revealing the transformation of Britain into a global financial power. It left me with a deep sense of understanding about the impact of offshore secrecy. Thank you for shedding light on this critical issue!
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Very interesting and very difficult to change when the Law Makers are also the Law Breakers.
They never broke the law, only separate laws apply to them.
@@uncommon_name9337 IMHO, not quite right. "Law" doesn't apply to "they" at all, only the "useless eaters" and "deplorables".
the UK has had the same right-wing banker's party in power for over a decade, despite the economic disaster that has caused. the people of Britain are just getting what they keep voting for.
@@perfectallycromulent You think Labour aren't paid off as well? Do you honestly think any politician isn't in the pockets of these people? They wouldn't be allowed any kind of office if they weren't.
@@davidwhite4874 i think if you keep pretending labor is the same as the tories, you are gonna get what you deserve, and it isn't gonna be nice, it's gonna be more tax cuts for rich people.
you suck it up and vote for the lesser evil. and if you would like to improve things, you can surely join in to do your part instead of whining. welcome to politics.
A good film. The next one should be about how the Public bodies (Councils etc..) squander our taxes on vanity projects and excessive earnings.
I think we should be discussing where grants go. And international projects.
The plot thickens. Is the City of London the power behind Brexit, and the desire to ensure EU anti money laundering directives didn't interfere with the offshore gravy train?
The people that control the City of London are the ones who created the EU and globalism as a whole
If you held absolute power that was completely contingent upon the fact that if you held absolute power, you would no longer hold absolute power. Wouldn't you want to hide it? Wouldn't that be the most important thing for you and your family and your crest and your heritage and legacy and kingdom and land, and fortune and imageyour image is your image the second most vital thing
Thank you very much for these documentaries 🙏
Pirates!!! ⚫The lot of them. Such a great InSight. Thank you for sharing ⚪
True it's really 'their' London city, rest of us just live in it and by that logic are rightly charged for it ofcourse!
Yes exactly.
That was so good I pushed the Subscribe button. Brave people to throw rocks at the castles of the wealthy.
This documentary is actually made by @Independent POV, all credit goes to their team.
There is so much corruption in Britain under the guise of a polite and civilized country but these few people who fight and give us proof and truth are the only hope in this country. Thank you for this and every documentary on your channel.
There isn't or merit based Boris not Alex Johnson and rishy rich would do something about it .
Any coincident with Monaco, Vatican city, Washington D.C.....The way is structured? I mean the way operated?
Brilliant documentary. Jersey sounds like Southern Italy minus the drive-by shootings. Thanks for sharing. From Reggio Calabria 🇮🇹
Very good analysis of off shore accounts and jurisdictions secrecy.
Perhaps the problem is that many people believe they should have control over other's capital.
Why do so many believe they should control what others must do with their resources?
Because they are operating outside British law
The real reason why Brexit was boldly pursued by the Conservatives was because EU tax-avoidance regulations were interfering with the British government’s ambitions of being the world’s greatest tax haven. All the fluff in media about saving the fishermen from EU regulations and saving the NHS money was just a smokescreen.
I have another theory, and that is that the proxy war in Ukraine is the result of a long-range plan with London at the helm, and that Brexit was a necessary pre-condition before it was sparked off by massive increase in bombardment of Donbass by Uke artillery. This gave the UK the ability to throw brickbats without having to cleave to night soil extruding from Brussels.
Good job! Congratulations, brave people like you is what our World needs...it means, all of us!!
Excellent documentary 👏👏👏👏👏
I was able to learn things I didn't know. Thank you to everyone who had the courage to share. This world needs to be rewarded for its efforts. It may be a long road, but it takes courage.
Our definition of criminality has to be changed. Utterly disgusting.
Now that's honesty! No doubt it's really 'their' London city, rest of us just live in it and by that logic are rightly charged for it ofcourse!
Wow! How revealing was that! Brave reporting. I liked the 5 points at the end that need to be implimented - Does anyone know WHO will impliment those 5 points?..... and when?
sharing this always !!! Every Brexit voter MUST see this #brexit #rightwing #offshore #ukisover
That was an incredible watch thank you
GeorgeNews (USA) sent me March 6th. Coincidently and 4 days later, we had the 18th largest Bank in USA collapse. 👀 Excellent video. Very well done. 💛✝️
This work is great on both content and presentation and I enjoyed the story line but I think these kind of projects (because there is a lot of work behind it of data research and gathering ) should be presented with a list of reference in virtue of transparency as well to also be able to check the articles or the declarations and follow some cases and divo into it. But still great job I've been referred to by different people from different countries so really insightful
City of London is a private corporation. One thing I always wanted to know who owns it then?
The top financial families?
@@davidwhite4874 do you have names?
@@twisted_void Only the usual suspects......Rothschilds, Goldsmiths, Schiffs, etc. But they are only the ones we know about. I'm sure there are others.
@@davidwhite4874 but that is the thing. Is that official information? Can I go on the official website and see ownership structure? Or is it just a common belief from a reddit page?
@@twisted_void "Can I go on the official website and see ownership structure? " Haha! No! Not one that isn't blindingly complex and obfuscated and, indeed, hidden. You have to study history, I'm afraid.
Excellent analysis.
Does the name Rothchilds ring a bell!!!😊
No doubt they were involved with the creation of offshore banking
Great production and interesting subject. Basically the UK only stays afloat due to "The kindness of strangers"
Great information .... but the background music/sounds are annoying .
I really want to watch this, but I'm afraid it's going to be just too infuriating and depressing.
After the fall of the Roman Empire the Roman Catholic Church maintained control and according to this documentary Britain did the same using finance. If there is another fall of Empire what form of control could we see? It all reminds me of Varys question to Tyrion Lannister.
BTW I think the answer to the question is whomever pays since he is a Sell Sword.
I’ve only just started to watch this video and saw your comment.
If I’m correct the UK still has links with the Roman Catholic Church via our monarchy and our laws . Very complicated to get your head around but if laws / some laws are based around Roman Catholicism/ Vatican the all these laws can be deemed false and illegal.
My point here is that Jesus Christ is actually a fake illusion/ character created to deceive pre Christian cultures that worshipped the sun and where the only law was the law of nature.
They have replaced the sun with Jesus Christ in order to steal and claim land under this illusion and introduced laws that take the right to roam freely in the world.
Any ideas if this is correct what I believe?
Thank you from a 3rd World Country citizen
Good documentary. One thing was forgotten. That every single government institution is a private for-profit corporation. So, sorry - that is what has to be abolished. And term limits. Politics is a calling, not a profession. Govt employees too, should not be allowed to work at "departments" longer than an x number of years.
Every country has to get a new constitution. Take 1776 US as it's blueprint and add one thing to it, prohibit the starting of war. All kingdoms gone, all republic.
The Great Awakening is in full motion. It'll be a messy time until June 2030. After that, 1000 years of peace.
How do you assume that with advent of Digital currency and closure of banks and banking.
*laughs in Canadian* The American constitution is being shredded as we speak. The Electoral College gives the presidency to whomever they please, regardless of who the people voted for. Why would anyone want that? government by the rich, for the rich is exactly how America's always run. No justice, no peace.
Why would anybody want to live like they do in the US. Mutton dressed up as beef. America a third world country, a failed experiment.
Yep criminals dont hold criminals to account.
Quite certain that this was online much longer than 9 months ago and had a far greater number of views before. Bit weird.
It is huge wealth in the hands of just a few. If it wasn't for this situation the whole country (other countries/parts of the world as well) would be in a far better state than it is but total lack of political will from the Tories and "New" Labour. I say New Labour because I think Jeremy Corbyn would have liked to have done something about all this. No wonder the "establishment" got into such a state when they thought there was a chance he could be our prime minister. How Britain transformed from an imperial power - I once asked my father why despite having a vast empire the great majority of people in Britain were NOT well off and he responded that this was because the country's wealth was concentrated in the hands of just a few.
No doubt it's really 'their' London city, rest of us just live in it and by that logic are rightly charged for it ofcourse!
"...the rich are unable to take care of the common poor.." = she should have said that the rich don't care about us at all! George Carlin was so right: they own us!
Excellent and horrific tale of financial fraud/ruin/loss. Have Shaxson or Christiansen covered the Brexit conundrum and The City?
Wow! It was indeed interesting. While the poor suffered including the laborers,the supper rich and the wealthiest of Britain enjoying there riches.
Ban money from offshore British Territories and the entities that bank there will move their money elsewhere. Removing offshore accounts moves less money for the UK government and even less for UK citizens. That's they still exist
And soon Scotland will leave the UK we are fed up being robbed by London.
Yes! F**k greedy Westminster.
The brits are buying up all your lands. You will be a stranger in your lands unless you get them out.
All Scots are fed up? I didn't know. Tell me more.
@MsMissy it could one day, you don't know how the situation can change !
To then join another empire, The European Union of Soviet Socialists 😂
I knew thing were bad here, I just didn't realize HOW bad. The top 1% control 97% of the money.
Thank you.
I like the trust model
Well that was thoroughly depressing...
This world have always been sick, and this … it’s just mad out there, sick societies, well that’s the human behavior in the end, we can’t trust any people, but trust is what we need … see Nefarious, then you will know what a world we are living in 😔
How then we could addressed the problem of finance all over the world.
Sir Walter Raleigh was a pirate.spain Amarda history
good documentary, would like to see the swiss onshore system fully explained too
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@@Moconomy this video is not available
Lived on those islands. A sewer.
For British eyes only!
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Has someone seen the size of Churchill’s childhood home Blenheim! Why would his people allow their wealth to be diminished
Does anyone know the music playing at the start?
Tim hecker Chimeras
For a split second I thought I was hearing the intro music to Tom and Jerry.
It is immoral to vote yourself into someone else’s wallet, and perfectly moral to shield your property from the covetous eyes of the collective.
Found the offshore bank account holder
I fully agree with you.
As an expert, could you recommend a sauce that goes well with boot leather?
42:25, 47:20, 59:00
It's really 'their' London city, rest of us just live in it and by that logic are rightly charged for it ofcourse!
13:55 what's with the jump/edit in the announcement?
Yes! it looks like 3 different clips mashed together to make one sentence 😮
Well, that’s frustrating.
"go and...." thats what my ex said to me... kids all grown up now, so way too late...to... "none of it is real..."
Taxes are for the poor. It's the law.
There you have it. Brexit summed up (anti tax avoidance laws)
In 1066 the City was foreign Territory, William the C was part of the scam. The British Flag is a foreign flag jurisdiction. Its all about Jurisdiction there a loads in this Country.
They say it's secret, and then the same people say the cash flows have increased?
Because not everything is secret, just the enough to keep it going all this stuff
the military didnt leave cyprus in 1960, they wouldnt, and british hold territory on the island of cyprus
The same commercial playing every three minutes makes this video unwatchable.
While this is very interesting, it completely misses the truth. The British empire collapsed on military level and as well as financially with wwii. What it built the new world order upon was ideas, consciousness, true power.
Thoughts without financial backing remain just that. Come on. Do you think 'off shore' banking is a thought experiment.? It is very real creation of Assets in the abscence of gold reserves.
Technically their fourth.
That's how his wife fiddles the tax system in UK. They are all at it.
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It's KNOWN As ... "Plausible Deniability" ... "I say Ol'Chap, have your Gews call my Gews; We'll Do LUNCH; Rather!"... If The World REALLY Wanted This SHIT ENDED, IT Would Be ENDED; Over Night EVEN; But In ALL Honesty; The WORLD (THAT'S US Folks, Yeah that's RIGHT; YOU & ME) REALLY Doesn't Want IT Stopped! ... NUFF Said!
Now that's honesty! 🍷
People are going to have to be willing to suffer through the collapse. It's going to happen anyway.
@@TheJakecakes IT'S No longer a Matter of "IF" ... It's NOW; Just a MATTER of "WHEN" ... Hope Y'all Got you Shit TOGETHER! ... Y'all KNOW WHAT I Mean!
Absolutely scandalous and confirms tax is for the “little” people and benefits nobody apart from the mega rich companies and mega rich people. I just can’t understand why people who have more money than they can ever spend in 10x lifetime. I can understand why millionaires want to protect and pay as little tax as possible but it’s the billionaires greed that angers me as if they paid the tax they should we would all pay less tax, invest more into public services like the NHS and the armed forces. The worlds governments in 2008 had to prop up the banks as the people who would have been hurt the lowest income earners the most but the people who were to blame should of been sent to prison like any other member of the public
if only rich people voted Conservative, the party wouldn't be in power. millions of ordinary Britons want the finance industry to run their country just the way they are doing so. it is clearly not working well for them, but they keep voting for it. it's the same in the USA, where people are like "sure the Republican party is full of racists and crazies, but they're better for the economy, so let's vote for the racists and the crazies!"
American Democratic party is worse. They start more wars and now they support gender changes for children.
@@sonjak8265 yeah, none of that is true.
You don't know anything about the republicans
What should they vote for - the same party you vote for obviously?
@@patrickr9417 that would be illegal, as i live in the USA. but observe how 200 years of solid right-wing politics has failed to make MIssissippi and Alabama anything more than national jokes, while life gets better in more liberal neighbors like Georgia and North Carolina. rich people are not poor people's friends, no matter how much those poor people really wish they were rich.
Language of drug pushers and pimps 👏brilliant and sunak is keeping things going .
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Who's here from the Infrared x Daniel Burke episode where they mention this? 🦍☀️🦍☀️🦍☀️🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻
Infrared watching this live rn
@@abienniela9350 Based, I'm watching him watch it right now 😂. 🦍☀️🇺🇸🇷🇺🇨🇳☦️☪️✝️💪🏻 #MAGACommunism
@@abienniela9350 eating his cheese bread thing and shit 😂
Gone to pieces, all empires come to an end. Britain is sinking following Elizabeth of Windsor.
Nothing change ! Ocult Governement the World !
The British once had the best infrastuctures - financial, legal & Educational etc in the world.
Unless we bin elitism / cronyism & embrace diversity, justice & innovation we will become redundant on a global stage. There are many developing vibrant players worldwide offering social mobility and security not evident in the UK.
We need to change this.
Education in Scotland, yes. England, I doubt it.
Those are well-established finical games working everywhere in the Western world if governments REALLY RESPECT the OPEN MARKET Concept😁. There is a lot more "finical magic" well-known under "the open market"... Those financial games are so popular, common, and widely established in the Western world, or the western-mind eastern world, which makes them become the fundamental rules in the Western-style economy where every government, every political party are actually relied on. So when coming to China, where most of those rules are regulated by the government, the Chinese government became autocratic with centralization in the "open market" view. So became the enemy of the Western-style financial world? so the Chinese government is anti-democracy, anti-freedom, anti-equal, anti-liberty? Humm, kind of makes sense, if democracy = voting = political finical donation, if there is no spider, and there is no voting money; Of course, unequal if criminals can not do money laundry; Definitely no liberty, if the wealthy, powerful, and business can not avoid tax with off-shore service. China is NOT the heaven of finical spiders, I guess most spider legs are cut, maybe never got the opportunity to grow up, and spider networking jobs got badly, rudely interrupted by the government from time to time...
Chinese Spiders would have to go British, US, and any other Western-style country for networking and growing legs...China is NOT friendly to Spider.
I extend the nurses compliment to the policeman interrupting the interview. Pos....
While the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) simplified profit taking from investment; the end result is drastic decrease in domestic treasury income from taxable income. Further pursuit of CGI will result in extended capital escape from domestic economies for the government tax base.
and the 'ethereal' philantrophy that supposedly flows from it translates to very little substance on the ground?
I hate to say it, but you would rather have it done in the UK than somewhere like China with a one party state. Let's see how that works eh.
This empire is dying
The empire has too many trusts
@msmissy6888 ..well every empire die..
Dave Hartnett---Order of the Bath.....Laughable....No bath could Cleanse Him&Family of their SINS.---Avarice!
Are these Bankers English or Jewish British? Bet most of them are Jewish. Perhaps the UK should be just the global financial power and nothing to do with British Industries. Industrial workers should go to Australia and Canada as source of British skilled workers. The British skilled workers would bring the Unions with them to their new domain where they will thrive and go on strikes for higher pay and benefits instead of reliance on State Pension plan the NHS. In the UK it will be a liberal democrats running the UK along the lines in the Scandinavian countries. We will be comfortable with a 60 millions population and a small army for defence. The UK will be a Brave New World where most citizens would have a Master's degree.
Keep yourself blind like this. Keep blaming the Jewish. Keep lapping up the old, now debunked and spat upon anti Semitic manifestos. Keep worshipping your monarchy. Keep worshipping your English politicians. Keep whitewashing your past crimes and colonialist crimes.
Even if your mayor destroyed your house, you'd blame your jewish neighbor you grew up with.
That's how they get you. That's how you're made subservient.
Wasps and Jewish
Anglo American mafia
TH-cam blocking my comments about the truth
just remove that looming music nonsense
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Atmosphere…
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The poor soldiers she thir blood for the rich!
Spooky, ominous music - one ya of telling people hat to think about all this, I suppose. Not that the historical bias stops there
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financial alcahemy
Trusts are a good way to avoid compound taxes. One can still have to pay their taxes on their investments profits. We need rich people. Everyone can’t be poor or just middle class. These rich aren’t claiming any public services. They have their teeth done in the Asia, their have their operations done in Israel and Switzerland. Is that dishonest?
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so you mean that rich people should avoid tax and poor should pay therir taxes, that is not economic democracy
The 2 from the cayman islands looked like they were being held hostage.
these people are corrupt to the core
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Panama Papers ....went nowhere
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Whilst what the square mile is doing isn't right, let's not underestimate the tax evasion carried out on a daily basis by local businesses like the local sweet shop, hairdressers, plumbers, electricians, etc. There are 5.2 million of them in the UK, amounting to the largest percentage in tax gap at 14 billion, but unfortunately no one ever talks about them.
are you kidding me ?
You can hardly compare “joe”the plumber not declaring a job paid in cash compared to billionaires using the Cayman Islands and offshore banking to avoid paying tax in the country they made there money in
@@moynanplayz5379collectively the plumber/hairdresser/sweetshop owner & middle class 'financial planning' can amount to eyewatering figures.