I remember, as a young boy, the first Porn I ever saw. A naked woman
with most of her "exciting" parts covered with hands or legs, but
sitting there without a stitch on her beautiful body. Man!
But as time passed, and with it many more such tantalizing pictures,
the thrill wore off and I could care less. This is how I react to one
more Spectacular Exposee like the Panama Papers. "Just toss them on
the pile over there in the corner", I say. After we all go about
gasping and gushing, we'll be off and running on some other exciting
discovery, and absolutely nothing will come of any of it. We might as
well tune on the TV "News" and watch some giggling media personality
tell us of the rescue of another kitten from the top of the roof.
Yup, it's gotten so that even Porn is starting to look good to me
again.
Carl Jarvis
On 5/12/16, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Escobar writes: "So this is the way the Panama Papers end. Not with a bang,
but with a whimper."
A police officer stands outside the headquarters of Mossack Fonseca while
prosecutors raid the offices in Panama City on April 12, 2016. (photo:
Carlos Jasso/Reuters)
The Real Target of the Panama Papers
By Pepe Escobar, teleSUR
11 May 16
Pepe Escobar connects the dots.
So this is the way the Panama Papers end. Not with a bang—as in “Putin
hiding $2 billion”; you all remember the original headlines. But with a
whimper; everyone lining up to duly access a prosaic database and find out
the names of nearly 320,000 entities/offshore companies/trusts/foundations
engaged in beautifying the finances of the rich and powerful.
The Soros-financed International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
(ICIJ) has not exactly fulfilled its mandate of heaping dirt on selected
BRICS nations and the odd enemy of imperial interests/values – based on a
NSA-style hack of Mossack Fonseca.
So what’s left is for everyone to freely peruse names and addresses of
companies in 21 jurisdictions—including Hong Kong and Nevada in the U.S.
Yet
don't expect to see bank account numbers, phone numbers or compromising
emails.
Panama—where no one can flush a toilet without the U.S. government knowing
about it—is for suckers; the real elite, connected (or profiting) even
indirectly from the real Masters of the Universe and the liquid modernity
enablers of top of the line turbo-capitalism use hack-proof Luxembourg,
Virgin Islands or Cayman Islands connections – not to mention secure,
Empire-based Delaware and Nevada loopholes.
Fictional scenarios, anyway, will continue to prosper, such as the myth the
Panama Papers leak came from one John Doe—an “anonymous” whistleblower who
allegedly contacted the Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper and the ICIJ with a
mini-manifesto titled “The revolution will be digitized”.
John Doe justified his alleged leak by arguing that tax evasion was one of
the great issues of our time, and governments must do more to prevent it.
Thus his pledge—"I want to make these crimes public" – as he unloaded 11.5
million files (2.6 terabytes of data), which took over a year to be perused
by ICIJ hacks, in absolute secrecy, with no leaks whatsoever.
John Doe is no Daniel Ellsberg or Edward Snowden. Apart from the
resignation
of Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson, Prime Minister of Iceland, and the
offshore
trust set up by David Cameron’s Dad, the Panama Papers did not yield
anything really groundbreaking, as much as the bombastic headlines in the
first four days insisted to demonize powerful players in Russia and China,
especially Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Everyone familiar with the inner mechanisms of turbo-capitalism knows how
wealthy tax-evading players across the spectrum – in this case helped by
Mossack Fonseca—go legally offshore. Of course, this carries the
possibility
of countless open roads for fraud and/or illicit money laundering.
The G-20 has already agreed that the government of each member nation
should
know who are the real owners of legally registered offshore companies. But
implementation, so far, has been negligible. Turbo-finance always trumps
parliamentary politics.
Mossack Fonseca insists the whole Panama Papers saga is “based on the theft
of confidential information." The ICIJ for its part insists the disclosure
is “in the public interest” as “a careful release of basic corporate
information”, and not a “data dump”.
Nonsense. It is a data dump. As for the “basic corporate information”, in
does not prove anything; the ICIJ itself—in the preface to the latest
release—observes that the appearance of particular names and companies on
the list does not imply wrongdoing.
ICIJ hacks used Nuix—an Australian computer forensics and IT investigation
software—to sift through the data. But, crucially, the decisions by
mainstream media organs on what to publish first, and how to edit the
information, were purely political.
Public opinion in the global South immediately noted the absence of
Americans. Of course; Americans in the know use the Caymans and the Virgin
Islands, as well as Delaware and Nevada, not Panama. Still, the ICIJ now
has
to resort to lame excuses, such as “Mossack Fonseca’s working relationships
with dozens of Americans tied to financial misconduct raises questions
about
how well the firm keeps its commitment to following international standards
for preventing money laundering and keeping offshore companies out of the
hands of criminal elements.”
This has absolutely nothing to do with “international standards for
preventing money laundering." If you know how to it—ask HSBC—or if you have
the right connections, you get away with it.
What this is all about is one more chapter in an intra-system hardcore
financial war. To have the ICIJ remote-controlled by Soros, the Ford
Foundation, the CIA itself, is a beauty. And obfuscation—as in informative
selectiveness—works wonders; remember the initial emphasis on “axis of
evil”
characters, old—as in connected to former Iranian President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad—and new (Putin, relatives of Xi Jinping).
The heart of the matter is that the Panama Papers disclosure didn’t disturb
the global financial casino one bit, because the (transnational) system
badly needs fiscal paradises to evade national laws. What the Panama Papers
may succeed in is to eliminate competition. From now on, your fiscal
paradise of choice must be in US, UK and Dutch jurisdictions. We control
every global financial flow—legal or otherwise. Defy us—or else.
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valid.
A police officer stands outside the headquarters of Mossack Fonseca while
prosecutors raid the offices in Panama City on April 12, 2016. (photo:
Carlos Jasso/Reuters)
http://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/The-Real-Target-of-the-Panama-Paper
s-20160510-0044.htmlhttp://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/The-Real-Target
-of-the-Panama-Papers-20160510-0044.html
The Real Target of the Panama Papers
By Pepe Escobar, teleSUR
11 May 16
Pepe Escobar connects the dots.
o this is the way the Panama Papers end. Not with a bang—as in “Putin
hiding $2 billion”; you all remember the original headlines. But with a
whimper; everyone lining up to duly access a prosaic database and find out
the names of nearly 320,000 entities/offshore companies/trusts/foundations
engaged in beautifying the finances of the rich and powerful.
The Soros-financed International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
(ICIJ) has not exactly fulfilled its mandate of heaping dirt on selected
BRICS nations and the odd enemy of imperial interests/values – based on a
NSA-style hack of Mossack Fonseca.
So what’s left is for everyone to freely peruse names and addresses of
companies in 21 jurisdictions—including Hong Kong and Nevada in the U.S.
Yet
don't expect to see bank account numbers, phone numbers or compromising
emails.
Panama—where no one can flush a toilet without the U.S. government knowing
about it—is for suckers; the real elite, connected (or profiting) even
indirectly from the real Masters of the Universe and the liquid modernity
enablers of top of the line turbo-capitalism use hack-proof Luxembourg,
Virgin Islands or Cayman Islands connections – not to mention secure,
Empire-based Delaware and Nevada loopholes.
Fictional scenarios, anyway, will continue to prosper, such as the myth the
Panama Papers leak came from one John Doe—an “anonymous” whistleblower who
allegedly contacted the Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper and the ICIJ with a
mini-manifesto titled “The revolution will be digitized”.
John Doe justified his alleged leak by arguing that tax evasion was one of
the great issues of our time, and governments must do more to prevent it.
Thus his pledge—"I want to make these crimes public" – as he unloaded 11.5
million files (2.6 terabytes of data), which took over a year to be perused
by ICIJ hacks, in absolute secrecy, with no leaks whatsoever.
John Doe is no Daniel Ellsberg or Edward Snowden. Apart from the
resignation
of Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson, Prime Minister of Iceland, and the
offshore
trust set up by David Cameron’s Dad, the Panama Papers did not yield
anything really groundbreaking, as much as the bombastic headlines in the
first four days insisted to demonize powerful players in Russia and China,
especially Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Everyone familiar with the inner mechanisms of turbo-capitalism knows how
wealthy tax-evading players across the spectrum – in this case helped by
Mossack Fonseca—go legally offshore. Of course, this carries the
possibility
of countless open roads for fraud and/or illicit money laundering.
The G-20 has already agreed that the government of each member nation
should
know who are the real owners of legally registered offshore companies. But
implementation, so far, has been negligible. Turbo-finance always trumps
parliamentary politics.
Mossack Fonseca insists the whole Panama Papers saga is “based on the theft
of confidential information." The ICIJ for its part insists the disclosure
is “in the public interest” as “a careful release of basic corporate
information”, and not a “data dump”.
Nonsense. It is a data dump. As for the “basic corporate information”, in
does not prove anything; the ICIJ itself—in the preface to the latest
release—observes that the appearance of particular names and companies on
the list does not imply wrongdoing.
ICIJ hacks used Nuix—an Australian computer forensics and IT investigation
software—to sift through the data. But, crucially, the decisions by
mainstream media organs on what to publish first, and how to edit the
information, were purely political.
Public opinion in the global South immediately noted the absence of
Americans. Of course; Americans in the know use the Caymans and the Virgin
Islands, as well as Delaware and Nevada, not Panama. Still, the ICIJ now
has
to resort to lame excuses, such as “Mossack Fonseca’s working relationships
with dozens of Americans tied to financial misconduct raises questions
about
how well the firm keeps its commitment to following international standards
for preventing money laundering and keeping offshore companies out of the
hands of criminal elements.”
This has absolutely nothing to do with “international standards for
preventing money laundering." If you know how to it—ask HSBC—or if you have
the right connections, you get away with it.
What this is all about is one more chapter in an intra-system hardcore
financial war. To have the ICIJ remote-controlled by Soros, the Ford
Foundation, the CIA itself, is a beauty. And obfuscation—as in informative
selectiveness—works wonders; remember the initial emphasis on “axis of
evil”
characters, old—as in connected to former Iranian President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad—and new (Putin, relatives of Xi Jinping).
The heart of the matter is that the Panama Papers disclosure didn’t disturb
the global financial casino one bit, because the (transnational) system
badly needs fiscal paradises to evade national laws. What the Panama Papers
may succeed in is to eliminate competition. From now on, your fiscal
paradise of choice must be in US, UK and Dutch jurisdictions. We control
every global financial flow—legal or otherwise. Defy us—or else.
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