The Panama Papers, now with leaks from Paradise

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Shouldn't this be under Panama? Just making the point that there should be a "World" current events forum.

But now that you mention it.

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Statists who evade taxes and seek protected profits. Who would have thought.
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the thing about the corrupt is that they are always there , in good times, bad times and middling times, yet the media only seems to care in the bad times.

i spose this means we are now officially entrenched in bad times and they arent playing the green shoots card no more.

we have left denial and have now moved to anger, woo hoo, progress.
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noddy wrote:the thing about the corrupt is that they are always there , in good times, bad times and middling times, yet the media only seems to care in the bad times.

i spose this means we are now officially entrenched in bad times and they arent playing the green shoots card no more.

we have left denial and have now moved to anger, woo hoo, progress.
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noddy wrote:the thing about the corrupt is that they are always there , in good times, bad times and middling times, yet the media only seems to care in the bad times.

i spose this means we are now officially entrenched in bad times and they arent playing the green shoots card no more.

we have left denial and have now moved to anger, woo hoo, progress.
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You're correct that corruption has and will always be with us, however, matters is the amount and pervasiveness of the corruption.

The bribe aspect is a form of unofficial taxation, so too much is stifling and a gross missallocation of capital.

For example, I recall reading some study that investigated what was the real cost in terms of money and time to open a small one person business in various countries.

In a few, the cost was nominal and the process could be completed within a day or two.

On the other extreme, in other countries the cost was prohibitive to the median person and the time to obtain all the many required permits, i.e., pay all the bribes to all officials, was months if not years.

That's the real cost of corruption: massive barriers preventing people from attempting to improve their lot.
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Grauniad | All mention of Panama Papers banned from Chinese websites
Internet watchdog forbids editors from covering the scandal as names of high-profile Chinese emerge
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Typhoon wrote:.

Grauniad | All mention of Panama Papers banned from Chinese websites
Internet watchdog forbids editors from covering the scandal as names of high-profile Chinese emerge
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Panama is not a sovereign country .. it is a CIA run "Protectorat"

And, this Panama papers are cheap PR, to agitate Russian and Chinese and East European naive Joe

Vancouver, openly AND officially, swimming in dirty money .. mother of all "money laundering" capital

London and NY and Miami all swimming in "dirty" money .. all crooks who steal Russian money run to Tel Aviv or London or NY .. South American CIA cronies all money in Miami.

Waste of time.


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Financial Times :
‘ witch hunt ’
‘ More dirty money in New York and London ’


“I don’t expect this to lead to one single legal case,” Mr Fonseca told the Financial Times by telephone from Panama.

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“I guarantee there is more dirty money in New York and London and Miami than in Panama,” he said.

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Told you, all this cheap PR to fool naive Joe (rich people know this BS)


Putin hiding $ 2 B in Panama :lol: :lol: .. Panama is run by CIA .. would be same as CIA would be Putin's banker :D

Come on, come on

All BullSh*t.

Periodically, NYT and British papers, print List with Bank account #, million/Billions of Dollars in account of Ayatollahs, Son of Ayatollah Khamnei and other Ayatollahs, Bank Name, Account # , and 100s of Millions of Dollars in the accounts :lol: :lol: .. all rubbish .. mad mullahs are corrupt, but they do not have even 1 cent outside Iran .. they own everything inside Iran.

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The Panama stuff re Putin just for (political) illiterates, rubbish.

What does Putin need money for ? ? .. he no ordinary President, he emperor

Like saying " Yekaterina Alexeyevna " or even " Peter Alexeyevich " had secret accounts in Berlin or London.

Putin is savior of Mother Russia, Russian emperor, he owns Russia

Putin is the least corrupt of all world leaders, present and past.

But

This not the real news


This is the real news :


To make it short, British PM, Cameron, not only their fortune is from "slave trading" , but , till today, they have not paid a single penny tax.

Cameron is no alone .. all crooks stealing money from Russia (either flee to Israel :D , or London), or Arab Sheikhs and Sultans and Kings, or Indian running away with poor Indian money .. all .. they end up in London.

Why ? ?

Because, Britian still has "imperial" tax system .. foreign revenues are not taxed

Meaning

A rich Indian, owner of all Indian and many more "Steel mills", living in London, does not pay any taxes .. ZERO

That law was for British Lords, who owned South Africa and Rhodesia the Gold mines and diamond mines and all Africa and Hong Kong and Opium trades etc etc .. they did pay zero tax in Britain.


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Putin and the mad mullahs absolutely need money. They know from personal experience that should successors muscle in, it's best to have something to fall back on, if only for progeny's sake. Putin's daughter already reportedly lives under a shroud of secrecy in Switzerland.
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Zack Morris wrote:.

Putin and the mad mullahs absolutely need money. They know from personal experience that should successors muscle in, it's best to have something to fall back on, if only for progeny's sake. Putin's daughter already reportedly lives under a shroud of secrecy in Switzerland.

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Like saying Lenin, Stalin or Mao needed a bank account in Switzerland to fall back if things go bad. :lol:

Saddam was offered, openly, writen many times in Media, to take a few billion Dollars and leave (to Jordan, where his family now lives) .. he said NO .. same with Qaddafi

Putin is the new Russian Katherine & Peter the great

Ayatollahs come from "within Iranian popular, social, cultural Fabric", that is why pretty much impossible to get rid of them, they same as Persian people .. Ayatollahs don't take power forcefully, they
become Ayatollahs when they gather a substantial followers (they become Marjah).


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Putin is no Mao. He is no revolutionary hero, no movement leader. Many enemies. The Russian klepto-state depends on diverting revenue streams to cronies, else Putin might find himself with his back to a wall. For safekeeping, he needs to lock down asset and move some abroad.

Do you know what they asked Samuel Doe when they were cutting his ears off? They wanted his bank account numbers. Didn't matter that he was "emperor" of Liberia.
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Zack Morris wrote:.

Putin is no Mao. He is no revolutionary hero, no movement leader. Many enemies. The Russian klepto-state depends on diverting revenue streams to cronies, else Putin might find himself with his back to a wall. For safekeeping, he needs to lock down asset and move some abroad.

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Putin saved "Mother Russia" .. after that Drunk Idi*t" Yeltsin was fooled by West and ran Russia into ground, when Russian brain sergeants were prostituting for 50 dollars, when Russia was being fleeced by those who took Russian state assets and ran to Tel Aviv and London, when all this was happening, when Yeltsin realized the game West was playing on Russia, that was when Yeltsin "handpicked" Putin to save mother Russia.

Putin rubbing shoulder with "peter the Great" and some.

Many enemies ? ? ? :lol:

Come on, come on

There is not a single Russian Patriot enemy of Putin.

West, you guys, should be thankful of Putin .. without Putin, all Middle East, Central Asia, KavKas, part of Eastern Europe would be in total chaos, terrorists would have "overrun" Europe.

Present antagonism with Russia shows "communism" was just an excuse .. West used (Russian & Chinese) communism as an excuse to destroy the 3rd world, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Africa, South America, to install and back cronies who tyrannized population and back Islamic terrorist Wahhabies and Ossama .. always using communism as "scare craw" .. Now, there is more Dollar Billionaires & Millionaires in China than in US but suddenly talk is American going to war with China (and Russia).

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Putin as Katherine the Great is an excellent image.
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give it a break azari :)

all those reasons are why many russians wont care that putin stashed some rainy day money.

he is hardly mr goody two shoes, he will have secret stashes, he would be an durian if he didnt!
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Well, now it looks like Putin has taken the assets for himself (certainly ordinary Russians are not benefiting). The more things change, the more they stay the same.

All the smart Russians are here in the US. Especially in New York. Nobody is going back to Russia. No Pomegranates going back to Iran, either. Things so bad in Iran, Pomegranates come here on strict non-reentrant visas and don't see their own mothers for 3+ years at a time. They do anything to stay in the US and escape mad mullahs.

My father is professor at an unremarkable state school nobody has ever heard of. He is flooded by Iranians trying to get accepted into graduate program. They beg and when he says he has no funding for students this year, they even offer to work for free and pay their own way!

Russia, Iran = big disaster.
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Zack Morris wrote:Putin and the mad mullahs absolutely need money. They know from personal experience that should successors muscle in, it's best to have something to fall back on, if only for progeny's sake. Putin's daughter already reportedly lives under a shroud of secrecy in Switzerland.
I saw that series. It was called Smiley's People

Cannot recommend it too highly. Should be watched after Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy,
the BBC TV miniseries production.

Although Putin is certainly no Karla as he is cut from a far inferior cloth.
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Heracleum Persicum wrote:

The Panama stuff re Putin just for (political) illiterates, rubbish.

What does Putin need money for ? ? .. he no ordinary President, he emperor

Like saying " Yekaterina Alexeyevna " or even " Peter Alexeyevich " had secret accounts in Berlin or London.

Putin is savior of Mother Russia, Russian emperor, he owns Russia

Putin is the least corrupt of all world leaders, present and past.
Putin is a buffoon. A dangerous buffoon, but still the stereotypical Russian autocratic + kleptocrat + killer by remote buffoon.

As for Great, so-called, Mother Russia, we've heard it all before

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Nonc Hilaire wrote:Putin as Katherine the Great is an excellent image.
Complete with Katherine the Great collection of dicks.
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From the Europe thread:
Nonc Hilaire wrote:
I looked for American and Western European leaders on the Panama disclosure and found them strangely absent, except for the Icelandic PM who is not exactly a western banker's favorite son.

I look for a more substantial truth bomb coming from the East within the week.
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US government, Soros
funded,“produced”, Panama Papers, to attack Putin
- WikiLeaks



On Wednesday, the international whistleblowing organization said on Twitter that the Panama Papers data leak was produced by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), "which targets Russia and [the] former USSR."

The "Putin attack" was funded by the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and American hedge fund billionaire George Soros, WikiLeaks added, saying that the US government's funding of such an attack is a serious blow to its integrity.


Told you .. all to fool naive Joe


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