Panama Papers

[cloggypop]

If Messi's not on that list I call shenanigans.

He is.

[Arl arse]

I fully expect to see Donald J Trump in there too.

[Hooch]

Anyone sum this up for me and Liverpool Lad please?

[Anubis]

Anyone sum this up for me and Liverpool Lad please?

Someone shone the light on the cockroaches.

[Ginny]

I really hope something comes of this and we see some high profile toffs like Cameron and his public school boy sociopaths dragged out kicking and screaming. But the fact is it will be forgotten about by the end of the week.

[Arl arse]

Hang on, wasn't Iceland the only country to jail bankers for the huge banking fraud in 2008?

I smell a rat, are any major UK/US banks implicated in this?

[VladimirIlyich]

Who'd have ever imagined stuff like this went on?

 

Sarcasm,obviously.

 

Cue some major news story that will take the focus away from the Cameron family's involvement in this.

[Hooch]

Is this as big as its being made out?

 

11 million documents is a lot to sift through.

[Ginny]

The media will be mentioning Putin a lot more than any UK scammers like Cameron

[Anubis]

About 300 journalists from worldwide outlets have been sifting through it for s while.

[Ginny]

So what's gonna happen now then?

[Guest Pistonbroke]

Wow, a whole fucking 3 minutes summary on the News. 

[TheHowieLama]

So what's gonna happen now then?

 

 

Wow, a whole fucking 3 minutes summary on the News. 

[Guest Pistonbroke]

Putin saying he'll take legal action......= sending out hit men putting dodgy stuff in cups of Tea.

 

Love how the news said there are 3 ex Tories and 20 cabinet ministers from the UK (think they said 20) and then didn't mention names.  

[Gnasher]

the main western government are protected by the media. If you go on Graig Murray twitter page 《I can't paste it) he explains the process being used to point the finger at Russia and the like whilst protecting our leaders.

[Anubis]

the main western government are protected by the media. If you go on Graig Murray twitter page 《I can't paste it) he explains the process being used to point the finger at Russia and the like whilst protecting our leaders.

 

Whoever leaked the Mossack Fonseca papers appears motivated by a genuine desire to expose the system that enables the ultra wealthy to hide their massive stashes, often corruptly obtained and all involved in tax avoidance. These Panamanian lawyers hide the wealth of a significant proportion of the 1%, and the massive leak of their documents ought to be a wonderful thing.

 

Unfortunately the leaker has made the dreadful mistake of turning to the western corporate media to publicise the results. In consequence the first major story, published today by the Guardian, is all about Vladimir Putin and a cellist on the fiddle. As it happens I believe the story and have no doubt Putin is bent.

 

But why focus on Russia? Russian wealth is only a tiny minority of the money hidden away with the aid of Mossack Fonseca. In fact, it soon becomes obvious that the selective reporting is going to stink.

 

The Suddeutsche Zeitung, which received the leak, gives a detailed explanation of the methodology the corporate media used to search the files. The main search they have done is for names associated with breaking UN sanctions regimes. The Guardian reports this too and helpfully lists those countries as Zimbabwe, North Korea, Russia and Syria. The filtering of this Mossack Fonseca information by the corporate media follows a direct western governmental agenda. There is no mention at all of use of Mossack Fonseca by massive western corporations or western billionaires – the main customers. And the Guardian is quick to reassure that “much of the leaked material will remain private.”

 

What do you expect? The leak is being managed by the grandly but laughably named “International Consortium of Investigative Journalists”, which is funded and organised entirely by the USA’s Center for Public Integrity. Their funders include

 

Ford Foundation

Carnegie Endowment

Rockefeller Family Fund

W K Kellogg Foundation

Open Society Foundation (Soros)

 

among many others. Do not expect a genuine expose of western capitalism. The dirty secrets of western corporations will remain unpublished.

 

Expect hits at Russia, Iran and Syria and some tiny “balancing” western country like Iceland. A superannuated UK peer or two will be sacrificed – someone already with dementia.

 

The corporate media – the Guardian and BBC in the UK – have exclusive access to the database which you and I cannot see. They are protecting themselves from even seeing western corporations’ sensitive information by only looking at those documents which are brought up by specific searches such as UN sanctions busters. Never forget the Guardian smashed its copies of the Snowden files on the instruction of MI6.

 

What if they did Mossack Fonseca database searches on the owners of all the corporate media and their companies, and all the editors and senior corporate media journalists? What if they did Mossack Fonseca searches on all the most senior people at the BBC? What if they did Mossack Fonseca searches on every donor to the Center for Public Integrity and their companies?

 

What if they did Mossack Fonseca searches on every listed company in the western stock exchanges, and on every western millionaire they could trace?

 

That would be much more interesting. I know Russia and China are corrupt, you don’t have to tell me that. What if you look at things that we might, here in the west, be able to rise up and do something about?

 

And what if you corporate lapdogs let the people see the actual data?

[Gnasher]

thank you ^

[Anubis]

How to set up an offshore shell company in the UK, on the web, and for €2000.

 

http://blog.transparency.org/2013/04/09/how-to-set-up-an-offshore-company-in-10-minutes/

[General Dryness]

Yep its panamonium

In Russia its polonium.

[Hooch]

We can always hope when they sent the papers to the Guardian Owen Jones happened to be on shift.

[setreal]

the main western government are protected by the media. If you go on Graig Murray twitter page 《I can't paste it) he explains the process being used to point the finger at Russia and the like whilst protecting our leaders.

 

Now, one can be very critical of the first-world-problems/lifestyle output the Süddeutsche have mixed into their journalistic texts on their online platform in the past few years. However, they are still the best daily newspaper in Germany and will not shy away from naming "western" government officials involved in this. They are not exactly "pro Putin", that is true - but should anybody really be? He is nothing but a dictator in a pseudo-democratic plutocracy. (The US are not much better in many regards, of course)

 

 

Anyway, I am shocked by all this. Shocked!

[Spy Bee]

Iceland's PM is in a mood about this. He's Panama ratty!

[stringvest]

It's great, isn't it? The lid is on.

[Bobby Hundreds]

Fuck all will happen about this for fuck sake we had a politician use tax payers money for his moat. No one cares enough they just except it. Either that or something really big and nasty will happen to divert the attention tin foil hat on of course.

[Chairman Meow]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BJEh78MAWc