The Panama Papers: Hackers Reveal Law Firm's Many Tax Haven Clients

[W|M]

So, as I said before, let's hand over the planet to the Sinaloa cartel Los Zetas and make sure we get enough money off them to terraform Mars.

Los Zetas rule, Sinaloas drool!

 

[Hygro]

3rd Street Saints Grove Street represent!

 

[r16]

classic Barack spineless jerk Hussein . And a re-boot after the Wikileaks which you know started the Arab Spring . Which like resulted in 500 000 deaths or something . If there are American companies laundering money , the Federal Goverment has the Law and stuff on its side . If there are politicans abroad who launder money let's have their heads by all means and not allow this to become a repeat of Americans invading the lawless Afghanistan and nothing ever happening to Opium production ...

 

[Zkribbler]

Plus tax avoidance where it's legal is a ton different from refusing to pay taxes. Look at how like half of US corporations are incorporated in Delaware.

That's not for tax purposes; it's because Delaware grants the most immunity for directors who screw up.

 

[sophie]

Anyone who thinks this leak is going to be the catalyst for any kind of real change.

Who?

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[Takhisis]

I would say aside from. All previous methods to enact change have failed because they treat symptoms, not the actual problem itself. Hell, I would even go so far as to say some methods tried in the past are actually part of the problem (looking at you, revolutions).

So what should we do until we find a new way to do things? We shouldn't apply imperfect solutions until we find the perfect one?

 

[Commodore]

So what should we do until we find a new way to do things? We shouldn't apply imperfect solutions until we find the perfect one?

Oh no, by all means, apply the imperfect solutions. Just don't be surprised or angry when those imperfect solutions don't change anything.

 

[classical_hero]

I wouldn't be surprised if the unrolling scandal over the coming months has quite a strong influence on the Australian elections, too, since the prime minister is a rich businessman known to have accounts in the Caymans, and is currently trying to make union corruption an issue while tax reform is already a significant one. The focus this brings on business corruption is erm, not welcome to the Liberals.

There is a massive difference that I doubt you would realise. Our PM declared this account he has, whereas the Icelandic PM didn't. It seems that most of the problems are the non disclosure of individuals rather than the setting up such accounts or arrangements.

 

[Arwon]

Naaah.

 

[Takhisis]

Oh no, by all means, apply the imperfect solutions. Just don't be surprised or angry when those imperfect solutions don't change anything.

Your earlier posts sounded even more defeatist than that one.

 

[Zkribbler]

after the Wikileaks which you know started the Arab Spring

If I "know" this, I must be badly misinformed.

"In December 2010, a man in Tunisia burned himself to death in protest at his treatment by police."

Snowden "in 2013 without prior authorization...revealed numerous global surveillance programs, many run by the NSA and Five Eyes with the cooperation of telecommunication companies and European governments."

Absent using a time machine, the leaks could not cause the Arab Spring, which was a reaction to inept dictatorships in the Middle East & North Africa.

 

[CavLancer]

If I "know" this, I must be badly misinformed.

Harharhar, Well done Zkrib.

 

[ReindeerThistle]

A surprise to no one...

Dance to the Panama Papers 'Limited Hangout' Leak

And if you believe in the purity of intentions of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) at the center of the leak, I’ve got a made in Shenzhen Panama hat to sell you (disclosure: I never was, and never will be, a member of the ICIJ).

The Washington-based ICIJ gets its cash and its "organizational procedure" via the Exceptionalistan-based, Orwellian-named Center for Public Integrity. The funds flow mostly from the Ford Foundation, the Carnegie Endowment, the Rockefeller Family Fund, the Kellogg Foundation and the George Soros-owned Open Society.

Then there is Eastern Europe-based partner organization OCCRP, an even more Orwellian outfit self-styled as playing some sort of progressive, alternative media role. OCCRP is funded by Soros and USAID.

And finally there’s this fictional land named Panama – a certified U.S. vassal. Absolutely nothing of real substance happens in Panama without a green light by the United States government. Or, as an international tax lawyer told me, “you have to be an idiot to stash money in Panama. You cannot flush a toilet there without the Americans knowing about it.”

This sets the scene for the Panama Papers leak – a massive hoard of 11.5 million documents allegedly leaked from someone inside offshore heavies Mossack Fonseca to the center-left, NATO-friendly Suddeutsche Zeitung newspaper in Munich and then shared by the ICIJ with selected mainstream media partners.

 

[Zkribbler]

The Washington-based ICIJ gets its cash and its "organizational procedure" via the Exceptionalistan-based, Orwellian-named Center for Public Integrity. The funds flow mostly from the Ford Foundation, the Carnegie Endowment, the Rockefeller Family Fund, the Kellogg Foundation and the George Soros-owned Open Society.

Oops ReindeerThistle, you overlooked the vast majority of its scores of institutional supporters and its hundreds of individual supporters.

 

[Takhisis]

China and Russia together again, that's the ticket.

 

[ReindeerThistle]

Oops ReindeerThistle, you overlooked the vast majority of its scores of institutional supporters and its hundreds of individual supporters.

Oops, nothing. The Panama Papers is a scam... As well as a violation of attorney-client privelege. OCCRP's stain on this, notwithstanding, the fact that George Soros is behind this should be cause for pause.

Looks like the CFC OT community got duped.

 

[gay_Aleks]

it was all a grand conspiracy to take down Iceland's PM

 

[Hygro]

the fact that George Soros is behind this should be cause for pause.

Horseshoe theory of opponents.

 

[Takhisis]

I never thought I'd see RT upholding capitalist law.

 

[Zkribbler]

That's not for tax purposes; it's because Delaware grants the most immunity for directors who screw up.

I was thinking of corporate corporations. I should have acknowledged that, yes, Delaware makes it easy to set up anonymous dummy corporations.