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Selective Leaks Of The #PanamaPapers Create Huge Blackmail Potential
A real leak of data from a law firm in Panama would be very interesting. Many rich people and/or politicians hide money in shell companies that such firms in Panama provide. But the current heavily promoted "leak" of such data to several NATO supporting news organization and a US government financed "Non Government Organization" is just a lame attempt to smear some people the U.S. empire dislikes. It also creates a huge blackmail opportunity by NOT publishing certain data in return for this or that desired favor.
Already some 16 month ago Ken Silverstein reported for Vice on a big shady shell company provider, Mossak Fonseca in Panama. (Pierre Omidyar's Intercept, for which Silverstein was then working, refused to publish the piece.) Yves Smith published several big stories about the Mossak Fonseca money laundering business. Silverstein also repeated the well known fact that Rami Makhlouf, a rich cousin of the Syrian president Assad, had some money hidden in Mossak Fonseca shell companies. He explains:
To conduct business, shell companies like Drex need a registered agent, sometimes an attorney, who files the required incorporation papers and whose office usually serves as the shell's address. This process creates a layer between the shell and its owner, especially if the dummy company is filed in a secrecy haven where ownership information is guarded behind an impenetrable wall of laws and regulations. In Makhlouf's case—and, I discovered, in the case of various other crooked businessmen and international gangsters—the organization that helped incorporate his shell company and shield it from international scrutiny was a law firm called Mossack Fonseca, which had served as Drex's registered agent from July 4, 2000, to late 2011.
A year ago someone provided tons of data from Mossak Fonseca to a German newpaper, the Sueddeutsche Zeitung. The Munich daily is politically on the center right and staunchly pro NATO. It cooperates with the Guardian, the BBC, Le Monde, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and some other news organization who are all known supporters of the establishment.
The Sueddeutsche claims that the "leaked" data is about some 214,000 shell companies and 14,000 Mossak Fonseca clients. There is surely a lot of hidden dirt in there. How many U.S. Senators are involved in such companies? Which European Union politicians? What are the big Wall Street banks and hedge funds hiding in Panama? Oh, sorry. The Sueddeutsche and its partners will not answer those questions. Here is how they "analyzed" the data:
The journalists compiled lists of important politicians, international criminals, and well-known professional athletes, among others. The digital processing made it possible to then search the leak for the names on these lists. The "party donations scandal" list contained 130 names, and the UN sanctions list more than 600. In just a few minutes, the powerful search algorithm compared the lists with the 11.5 million documents.
For each name found, a detailed research process was initiated that posed the following questions: what is this person’s role in the network of companies? Where does the money come from? Where is it going? Is this structure legal?
Essentially the Sueddeutsche compiled a list of known criminals and people and organizations the U.S. dislikes and cross checked them with the "leaked" database. Selected hits were then further evaluated. The outcome are stories like the annual attempt to smear the Russian president Putin, who is not even mentioned in the Mossak Fonseca data, accusations against various people of the soccer association FIFA, much disliked by the U.S., and a few mentions of other miscreants of minor relevancy.
There is no story about any U.S. person, none at all, nor about any important NATO politician. The highest political "casualty" so far is the irrelevant Prime Minister of Iceland Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson who, together with his wife, owned one of the shell companies. There is no evidence that the ownership or the money held by that company were illegal.
So where is the beef?
As former UK ambassador Craig Murray writes, the beef (if there is any at all) is in what is hidden by the organizations that manage the "leak":
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)
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) is part of the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) which is financed by the U.S. government through USAID.
The "leak" is of data selected by U.S. friendly organization out of a database, likely obtained by U.S. secret services, which can be assumed to include much dirt about "western" persons and organizations.
To only publish very selected data from the "leaked" data has two purposes:
- It smears various "enemies of the empire" even if only by association like the presidents Putin and Assad.
- It lets other important people, those mentioned in the database but not yet published about, know that the U.S. or its "media partner" can, at any time, expose their dirty laundry to the public. It is thereby a perfect blackmailing instrument.
The engineered "leak" of the "Panama Papers" is a limited hangout designed to incriminate a few people and organization the U.S. dislikes. It is also a demonstration of the "torture tools" to the people who did business with Mossak Fonseca but have not (yet) been published about. They are now in the hands of those who control the database. They will have to do as demanded or else …
@146, some of the sources/assertions made in what I call ‘other’ informations appears to be as equally misguided as a fox news broadcast. However, I fully agree, pre-Putin, there was a mess and during most of Putin’s time, the rise of gas prices from $19 (I think around there) to $130+ kinda helped things no? Still in the overall conspiracy/NWO/government controls the message – isn’t modern day Russia literally 1984? Should everyone who appeals to less government influence, increases information freedom etc, be fundamentally morally opposed to Russia’s current stance on literally (not ‘hypothetically’ but literally) owning the media and controlling the message?
@147, I get it, you believe that the fed used up $700 billion with no oversight and possibly for ‘evil’ reasoning. I don’t get how that is relevant to argument – do you think Eastern Europe, Africa, Middle East, South America or Asia actually have stronger controls in place to prevent fraud/collusion/political owage? It appears, based on my knowledge of, at the very least, accounting and audit controls and growing up in Russia, that they lag horribly behind.
@148 dude, consortiumnews, whatreallyhappend, globalresearch, along with dozens of other similar sites, have near zero credibility. I am not saying that MSNBC or CNN are ‘much’ better, they suck, I think their accuracy of information is like <60%. But these 'other' sites are even lower than fox news in logical deductive reasoning. They aim for your biases with no backup evidence.
About Putin - put-in (hehe) his face on anything brings clicks, media must get clicks for survival. It does not have to get complicated, ppl love clicking on his face and arguing about it. Also Russia has done an excellent job on troll farms (so good that I think everyone will be/should copying the model).
Journalism, in the way you want it, had been dead since blogs became popular. Information now requires strong critical thinking.
Putin's pals, including ppl who on record said I earn only 'x', end up showing with money thats 100 times 'x'. Making the connection to Putin's control is significantly easier or at the very least equal to many of the conjectures you guys make on this site lol.
Anyway, again, if you truly believe government control is bad, you must not like Saudis, Russia, Azerbaijan, the rest of the middle east, most of eastern europe, along with a nice chunk of south america and def China (I love their media blackout on these papers and "western propaganda!!"
That would only make sense given the premise. So you should all be celebrating the news and vote Bernie, cause he seems to have talked about this in 2011.
This is great for everyone, enjoy the months of awesome information, and you get conjure all kinds of juicy conspiracy theories for years to come!
Win-win!
Posted by: FunnyPeople | Apr 5 2016 22:42 utc | 152
I get it. This leak/hack wasn’t done by an Edward Snowden type. This was done by a CIA type.
And not the KGB, then running the country CIA type, cause those are ok under the cognitive dissonance.
No, this was done by some Jew CIA type (the worst kind, especially if they worked for Mossad prior and are hardcore Zionists, the worst of the worst!).
So the world elite got tired of getting tax scammed (except their own scamming which is ok) and hacked this 4th largest firm (not the top 3 cause they use those, but this one didn’t play the Jew-CIA mafia-lizard game).
They shared this ‘leak’ with a small organization, one which preferred not to work with key MSM media types like NYT and a few others. This has no explanation, or possibly because the elite own those media outlets and so they did not need money ‘wasted’ on ‘useless’ investigations when was all clear.
Now, the little agency shared information with BBC (for some reason unknown, maybe they stepped out of line), some German news, those Jew loving Germans! And a few others.
Also fuck that Ukrainian Porky, he didn’t play the rules and took too long to join the evil J-EU system, so he is under the bus too, and Iceland, those fuckers hit the banks. And London property owners, fuck em. Also FIFA, we don’t watch that bullshit, football is played with a pigskin bullet looking thing that is held in your hand not kicked! And South America, those slow-to-capitalism moving bastard, fuck em also. Pretty much fuck everyone but the Jews and the US elite. Especially Azerbaijan, whose actually been way to friendly to the US and not Russia, what kind of soviet bs is that, those hoes ain’t loyal! fuck em also.
The selected details clearly were meant be to state sponsored propaganda, but not the Russia or China type state sponsored propaganda; those are ok, because they have 7 political parties (or 4 or actually really one for 14 years but who is counting, right!) and one, respectively.
Plus China has lots of labour movements so they are ok also. They run good, open countries; they don’t align themselves to the uni-polar version of the elite-Jew-crocodile-CIA-Monster.
I get it. Now we may want to qualify here that when we say ‘state sponsored’ in the context of the US we mean ‘corporate sponsored’ and since corporations own the state this is why the distinction is unnecessary. We are all owned by corporations, where in China or Russia, the people are free since they are not owned by anyone but their open governments.
It is ok to bring complex corporate ownership of the US state down to a small group of ‘most-likely’ Jew owners, but don’t you dare say that about complex China or Russia, that is not possible.
Now there is an over-arching reason for this, the world elite want to implement a global tax system and build a special tracking system to know to the penny how much each person has in their bank accounts.
Once this is accomplished people will have nowhere to hide, so they will have to go to open countries like China and Russia to store their cash. However, unbeknownst to them, the world elite actually already own Russia and China and have simply setup a façade. Once all the cash flows into Russia and China, they steal that shit and blame it on ‘communism’.
This actually a conspiracy inside a conspiracy, everyone actually is owned and the world elite just play a game with you peons.
Good thing we figured this one out just in time!
Clay Davis says – shieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet
Posted by: FunnyPeople | Apr 6 2016 14:26 utc | 196
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