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Mr. Perfect wrote:.

Azari, starting to think you don't like Joe.

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Mr. Perfect wrote:

Typhoon wrote:
Who needs the country of Panama, when one has the State of Delaware.

Democrat State.

Mr. Perfect wrote:

Typhoon wrote:
Who needs the country of Panama, when one has the State of Delaware.

Democrat State.

Typhoon wrote:

Mr. Perfect wrote:

Typhoon wrote:
Who needs the country of Panama, when one has the State of Delaware.

Democrat State.

All living in your head, rent free.

Zack Morris wrote:I've said everyone's salaries should be public information. I think that should be extended to all legal contracts. Harmless Panopticon, so long as everyone were required to participate. The labor market would become dramatically more efficient overnight, the field of economics would take a great leap forward, and politics would slowly become more attuned to reality.

Zack Morris wrote:

Mr. Perfect wrote:

Typhoon wrote:
Who needs the country of Panama, when one has the State of Delaware.

Democrat State.

What about Nevada, Wyoming, and South Dakota? They Democrat states, too?

Heracleum Persicum wrote:

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Intelligence agencies from several countries, including CIA intermediaries, have abundantly used the services of Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca to "conceal" their activities, German newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung (SZ) says ..

Both "secret agents and their informants have used the company's services," wrote the newspaper, which earlier this month published online materials based on 11.5 million documents from the Panamanian law firm. It has been called the largest leak on corruption in journalistic history.

"Agents have set up shell companies to conceal their activities," the Munich-based newspaper reported, adding that there are CIA mediators among them.

According to SZ, Mossack Fonseca's clients also included some of those involved in the so-called Iran-Contra affair, in which several Reagan administration officials secretly facilitated arms sales to Iran in the 1980s in order to secure the release of US hostages and fund Nicaragua's Contra rebels.

The Panama Papers also claim to reveal that some "former high-ranking officials of the intelligence services of Saudi Arabia, Colombia and Rwanda" are listed amongst the company's clients. Among them was Sheikh Kamal Adham, the former Saudi intelligence chief, who according to SZ, was "one of the CIA's key intermediaries in the 1970s" in the Middle East region.

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With high-profile figures on the menu, the majority of the international media rushed to accuse Vladimir Putin of corruption, even though neither he nor any members of his family were mentioned in the Panama Papers leak.

Last week WikiLeaks tweeted that the US government and American hedge-fund billionaire George Soros allegedly funded the Papers to attack Putin. According to the international whistleblowing organization, the US government's funding of such an attack appeared to be a serious blow to its integrity.

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“Everyone in corporate press is controlled by corporations that profit on wars and have an interest in creating tensions – all these people in the Western press, like the Guardian, are blackening Putin [for being] a designated villain here. Curiously, his name is not in these documents,” Ray McGovern said, adding that it was “a major mistake made by the leaker” to hand the documents over to the corporate media, instead of leaking them to trusted independent journalists.

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" The very fact that we see all these names surface that are the direct quote-unquote enemies of the United States, Russia, China, Pakistan, Argentina and we don't see one U.S. name. Why is that ? " Birkenfeld said.

" Quite frankly, my feeling is that this is certainly an intelligence agency operation. "

The world’s biggest businesses, heads of state and global figures in politics, entertainment and sport who have sheltered their wealth in secretive tax havens are being revealed this week in a major new investigation into Britain’s offshore empires.

The details come from a leak of 13.4m files that expose the global environments in which tax abuses can thrive – and the complex and seemingly artificial ways the wealthiest corporations can legally protect their wealth.

The material, which has come from two offshore service providers and the company registries of 19 tax havens, was obtained by the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung and shared by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists with partners including the Guardian, the BBC and the New York Times.

The project has been called the Paradise Papers. It reveals: . . .