Horst D. Deckert

Meine Kunden kommen fast alle aus Deutschland, obwohl ich mich schon vor 48 Jahren auf eine lange Abenteuerreise begeben habe.

So hat alles angefangen:

Am 1.8.1966 begann ich meine Ausbildung, 1969 mein berufsbegleitendes Studium im Öffentlichen Recht und Steuerrecht.

Seit dem 1.8.1971 bin ich selbständig und als Spezialist für vermeintlich unlösbare Probleme von Unternehmern tätig.

Im Oktober 1977 bin ich nach Griechenland umgezogen und habe von dort aus mit einer Reiseschreibmaschine und einem Bakelit-Telefon gearbeitet. Alle paar Monate fuhr oder flog ich zu meinen Mandanten nach Deutschland. Griechenland interessierte sich damals nicht für Steuern.

Bis 2008 habe ich mit Unterbrechungen die meiste Zeit in Griechenland verbracht. Von 1995 bis 2000 hatte ich meinen steuerlichen Wohnsitz in Belgien und seit 2001 in Paraguay.

Von 2000 bis 2011 hatte ich einen weiteren steuerfreien Wohnsitz auf Mallorca. Seit 2011 lebe ich das ganze Jahr über nur noch in Paraguay.

Mein eigenes Haus habe ich erst mit 62 Jahren gebaut, als ich es bar bezahlen konnte. Hätte ich es früher gebaut, wäre das nur mit einer Bankfinanzierung möglich gewesen. Dann wäre ich an einen Ort gebunden gewesen und hätte mich einschränken müssen. Das wollte ich nicht.

Mein Leben lang habe ich das Angenehme mit dem Nützlichen verbunden. Seit 2014 war ich nicht mehr in Europa. Viele meiner Kunden kommen nach Paraguay, um sich von mir unter vier Augen beraten zu lassen, etwa 200 Investoren und Unternehmer pro Jahr.

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The Sifter With John Ferreira

This is a bit niche and a departure from my usual content. In this discussion with John Ferreira I discuss my approach to research and some of the problems involved. If that sound interesting to you then please watch the video.

John Ferreira has a very interesting decentralised project under development. John’s SifterNews mission is to help investigative journalist and researchers more broadly with their daily workflow and hopefully give them new access to income streams from their raw research.

Sifter, is an open-source intelligence tool (OSINT) that empowers any investigator to collect, analyse and report their findings visually.

John recognises that investigative research is hard and time-consuming, which makes it costly. The Sifter project aims to radically reduced the time of investigations, by uncovering hidden patterns sooner. Whilst also providing a new crowdsourced income stream for investigative researchers.

The SifterNews project is intended to provide investigative researchers a simple way to collect and search through sources, and then we have an amazing user experience for analysing their findings.

John’s objective is to build a SAAS [Software as a service] product that combines private and publicly sourced data sets, with user-generated notes. which is complemented with a browser extension to directly reference inline statements. All data points will be visually collated in a user-friendly node-based graph, from which reports can be crafted, and subscribed to by internal or external audiences.

The envisaged typical users are investigators, initially investigative journalists, then broadening out to researchers, and business analysts. The business model is based upon user subscriptions but, as I understand it, the plan is to monetise investigative research enabling independent researchers to share their research with others, either on a fee paid basis or freely.

Again, as I understand it, John hopes to enable groups of investigative researchers to form their own collectives whose research can be shared only among themselves but who can then provide the product of their investigative research to others, who may be willing to pay for access.

John Kindly wrote a handy summary of the discussion:

Iain Davis, a blogger and researcher, discusses his journey into research and journalism investigation, as well as his approach to critical thinking. He emphasizes the importance of questioning information from all sources and using the Trivium method to analyze and understand events. Davis also shares his process of collecting and organizing information, including unlocking paywalled studies and searching for primary sources. He highlights the challenges of accessing and analysing government reports and documents. Overall, his work focuses on uncovering the truth and promoting independent thinking. The conversation explores the importance of maintaining access to information and the censorship agenda that aims to control our access to information. It discusses the need for collaboration and collective research to counter censorship and archive valuable information. The conversation also delves into the concept of critical thinking and the ability to analyse information from different perspectives. It emphasizes the common ground between people with different political ideologies and the importance of working together to uncover the truth. The conversation concludes with a discussion on how to follow and support the speaker’s work.

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