Selective Leaks Of The #PanamaPapers Create Huge Blackmail Potential
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Source: Moon of Alabama
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.
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.
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.
Read more: http://www.moonofalabama.org/2016/04/selected-leak-of-the-panamapapers-creates-huge-blackmail-potential.html
When I saw all the "six degrees of separation" BS "links" that managed to target only people that are already on the US's shit list, I started to smell a rat. And, surprise, surprise - just like the Car Wash "investigation" in Brazil, only people whom we don't like now, or whom we intend to blackmail later should worry.
NOT saying there isn't massive tax avoidance. But, this War on Some Tax Dodgers has the same screenplay as the War on Some Drug Dealers. As with drugs, connected folks need not worry; only "rogue" shops or competition will be targeted.
It will be really interesting to see if we ever find out who actually got their hands on the data, and how connected they might be to US/Israeli spooks.
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