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Lauren Johnson Wrote:I'm looking at it is a competitor for Wikileaks. Here ya' are. Wikileaks nails it.

.....The reason I raised that flag about who leaked these documents was because I discovered that there are 4 states in the US that already act as de facto offshore states where the US wealthy can stash their money out of sight and away from the taxman. And then when I saw that map with only two small red dots in the US of those nations with Panama Papers names on them, it seemed pretty obvious that the US was behind the dump (probably the NSA, I would think).

And wouldn't it be good if the rest of the world's offshore tax havens got eradicated but the US's 4 states remain in situ. Thus forcing the world's tax-evading wealthy to pour all their ill gotten wealth into the US in the future which would, I suppose? ensure that the US foreign debt was supported in perpetuity and allow the US to retain the dollar as a reserve currency. Because that's where the future battle between the US, Russia and China is set: it's the reserve currency war to end all currency wars.

Quote:"We are the Borg. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile."

Lauren Johnson Wrote:So, in other words, it's about making sure all the stash houses are under the control of The Empire.

The message:

Quote:"We are the Borg. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile."

Who benefits from the Panama Papers Leak?

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1. The IMF needing "an event" to leverage Germany into taking a haircut on Greek debt;
   
2. The hubris of the Hillary Clinton campaign funding. The Clinton Foundation's tax re-filings, tainted donations, diplomatic favors, curious State department approvals (Clinton business as usual), and
   
3. The Rich and Famous Financial Asset Obfuscation Network exposed.
   

• Adessium (partly funded by George Soros)
  

• Open Society Foundations (George Soros foundations, a top contributor to Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, and guilty of a sordid past)
  

• Sigrid Rausing Trust (based in the U.K.)
  
• Fritt Ord Foundation (based in Norway)
  
• Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting (based in the U.S.)
  
• The Ford Foundation (Based in the U.S. and a key funder of Israeli NGOs)
  
• David and Lucile Packard Foundation (based in the U.S.)
  
• Pew Charitable Trusts (based in the U.S.)
  
• Waterloo Foundation (based in the U.K. (Wales))
  
• The "Panama Papers" were also supported (funded) by USAID, the United States Government agency which is primarily responsible for administering civilian foreign aid.
  
• USAID estimated its budget for "media strengthening programs in over 30 countries" at $40 million annually, including aiding "independent media organizations and bloggers in over a dozen countries," In Ukraine before the coup, USAID offered training in "mobile phone and website security," which sounds a bit like an operation to thwart the local government's intelligence gathering, an ironic position for the U.S. with its surveillance obsession, including prosecuting whistleblowers based on evidence that they talked to journalists.
  
  
• USAID, working with billionaire George Soros's Open Society, also funds the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, which engages in "investigative journalism" that usually goes after governments that have fallen into disfavor with the United States and then are singled out for accusations of corruption. The USAID-funded OCCRP also collaborates with Bellingcat, an online investigative website founded by blogger Eliot Higgins.
  

• The convenient timing of a data "leak" is meant to maximize the damage. Why now?
  
• The data dump consisted of 2.6 terabytes of data, 11.5 millions documents, and 214,000 shell companies. Who would have the access and technical ability to isolate and remove the largest data leak in history?
  
• The primary targets: Vladimir Putin, Bashar Al-Assad, Iceland's Prime Minister Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson, the Argentine leader Mauricio Macri, the King of Saudi Arabia, and a sister of the former King of Spain. Why them?
  
• Another target is the Russian Sberbank, whose U.S. investment banking branch recently enlisted the services of the Podesta Group. According to its lobbying registration form, the firm will work on banking, trade, and foreign relations issues. One of the three lobbyists working on the account is Tony Podesta, a bundler for the Clinton campaign and the brother of campaign chairman John Podesta, who co-founded the firm.
  
  
• Mossack Fonseca had at least 441 US clients, 3,072 US companies, 211 US beneficiaries and 3,467 U.S.-based shareholders. Who are they?
  

Magda Hassan Wrote:I keep asking myself about Noriega's role in all this. Being forcibly removed to make way for it.