Panama Papers

[Cerveza mas fina]

The blowout of this will be epic

[VomKriege]

To correct what I said in the other thread, Le Monde (one of the newspaper involved) said that not all papers have been yet made public and that the public database for those will be progressively updated. Not all documents have been analysed but there's already 9 months of investigations going into that week's articles.

Overall I think this kind of effort is a good way for newspaper to stay relevant on top of it being a good thing overall.

[Cerveza mas fina]

Can't wait for a lot of politicians to get into shit over this, as well as other motherfuckers.

The 99% gonna east

[Am_I_Anonymous]

Meh, it'll blow over. Don't get too excited

[Cerveza mas fina]

Not so sure about it, obviously I don't see people like Putin taking a hit but more excited about a purge in Europe.

[Madrun Badrun]

more excited about a purge in Europe.

 

[Tasty]

more excited about a purge in Europe.

 

[Syph]

so apparently the ever-honourable Putin is involved somehow? I for one am shocked 

[VomKriege]

So without too much surprise, there's mentions of :

- Bribe money for Algerian oil and gas.
- Assad's regime extended family and local tycoons had offshore companies that may have helped going around the embargo.
- Morocco's monarchy has a lot of offshore assets.
- A collection of dignitaries from Africa (including Kabila's twin sister).

The map I was mentioning earlier :
https://briankilmartin.cartodb.com/viz/54ddb5c0-f80e-11e5-9a9c-0e5db1731f59/embed_map

[Trent Dole]

Meh, it'll blow over. Don't get too excited

The upper crust doing the shell game thing isn't a secret at all, that's true. Maybe people will flip out at the exact details? Probably not.

[CatsCatsCats]

"Man, that's fucked up. Can't wait until I'm rich and can get away with that!" - everyone

[seagrams hotsauce]

Nine months of research and the big news is that such moral paragons as Assad and Putin are up to some shady shit? Yawn, at least the diplomatic cables had some funny shit

[Steve Contra]

Apparently the juiciest stuff is set to come out later this week (or month).  They led with the biggest names for headlines that no one cares about.

[curly]

Meh, it'll blow over. Don't get too excited

The upper crust doing the shell game thing isn't a secret at all, that's true. Maybe people will flip out at the exact details? Probably not.

Well Wikileaks cables detailing regime corruption were one of the precipitating causes of the Tunisian revolution, and later the whole Arab spring. So there's definitely a historical precedent to people flipping out because of stuff like this.

[Steve Contra]

Well it looks like this is going to take down Iceland's government so there's that.

[brawndolicious]

Well it looks like this is going to take down Iceland's government so there's that.

It seems like a small enough/flexible enough country to mosey along after a government reshuffle considering how quick they snapped out of the default/inflation shit just 8 years ago.

[brob]

I knew the icelandic people were unhappy with their government and looking to replace them, but I did not know it was headed up by someone who looks like a large wrinkly baby.

[VomKriege]

HSBC is the champion of creating offshore companies via Panama, according to the papers (With Swiss coming second and the French Société Générale). Too bad I'm not a millionnaire, I would probably be more happy with the service I get.

[Am_I_Anonymous]

I find it ironic that people who literally eat off the money these rich people have acquired by business,  have the nuts to complain about it, actually.

[Rufus]

Mh, yes, they've clearly earned their tax evasion.

[Am_I_Anonymous]

Mh, yes, they've clearly earned their tax evasion.

This world is chock full of haters who sat on a couch while others succeeded. I have no pity for them, especially when it comes to shit like this.

Don't like it? Be better.

[Madrun Badrun]

Ya that's a disgusting sentiment. 

[VomKriege]

Also on the French front, Le Monde is a partner in the Panama Papers operation. There's a number of french usual suspects in there :

- Mr. Cahuzac, former socialist secretary of state for budget (and thus in charge of tax evasion hunting  ) who had to step down a few years ago for suspicion of tax evasion.
- Patrick Balkany, right wing mayor of rich Levallois Perret (city on the outskirts of Paris), implicated in a couple decades in various embezzlement affairs (but still voted in by his constituency ) a long time associate of the cabal of right wing politicians in the Hauts de Seine (richest county in France) which included Pasqua and former president Sarkozy.
- Mr. Guérini, biggest socialist politican in Marseille, himself considered pretty bad for years even for the most whack city in France.
- The Le Pen family and some of their associates in the Front National far right party. Not too surprising as Le Pen senior built his own personal fortune in part in "confusing" the destination of some of the successions left by rich faithful in their will (for the party).
- André Guelfi aka "Dédé the sardine" former shadow broker for french oil (in the ex-USSR) and Bernard Tapie which is a sort of french equivalent to Donald Trump (millionaire "self made man" who made every company he touched shit, including the large Crédit Lyonnais bank and Adidas, brief stint as minister of the city and urban development, famous for being loud and obnoxious). Apparently after sharing a cell in the nineties they had an offshore venture together...

[Am_I_Anonymous]

Ya that's a disgusting sentiment.

I apologize for not appreciating the finer points of failure.

[CatsCatsCats]

So where's your tax haven AiA, or are you a failure?

[Am_I_Anonymous]

So where's your tax haven AiA, or are you a failure?

We go,
way back
like some ganja and pelequo

[Am_I_Anonymous]

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35966412?ns_mchannel=social&ns_campaign=bbc_breaking&ns_source=twitter&ns_linkname=news_central


Welp, boy was I wrong. Looks like this one has some teeth.

[Fifstar]

Apparently the juiciest stuff is set to come out later this week (or month).  They led with the biggest names for headlines that no one cares about.

We'll see. So far the statement of the Süddeutsche Zeitung is that no names of US or german politicans have been found in the documents.

[Steve Contra]

Apparently the juiciest stuff is set to come out later this week (or month).  They led with the biggest names for headlines that no one cares about.

We'll see. So far the statement of the Süddeutsche Zeitung is that no names of US or german politicans have been found in the documents.

Damnit.

[brob]

The ruling coalition, however, is trying to avoid fresh elections at all costs, no doubt because it already trailed the insurgent Pirate Party in opinion polls before the revelation that the prime minister, and other senior members of his government, held secret offshore accounts.

https://theintercept.com/2016/04/05/icelands-prime-minister-resigns-first-casualty-panamapapers/

I hope they win so they can one up Greece's one TF2 hat guy with at least half a cabinet of EVE developers   

[Phoenix Dark]

Apparently the juiciest stuff is set to come out later this week (or month).  They led with the biggest names for headlines that no one cares about.

We'll see. So far the statement of the Süddeutsche Zeitung is that no names of US or german politicans have been found in the documents.

least corrupt administration in recent memory keeps on truckin'

[seagrams hotsauce]

I find it ironic that people who literally eat off the money these rich people have acquired by business,  have the nuts to complain about it, actually.

Amen! I mean, so what if that business is tax evasion, drug dealing, human trafficking etc?

[Phoenix Dark]

I find it ironic that people who literally eat off the money these rich people have acquired by business,  have the nuts to complain about it, actually.

And you wonder why your party is about to nominate a fascist.

[Cerveza mas fina]

AiA seriously though 

[I'm a Puppy!]

AiA: That's some nice food you got there. It'd be a shame if something were to happen to it.

[Am_I_Anonymous]

AiA: That's some nice food you got there. It'd be a shame if something were to happen to it.

I'd say the same thing about your nose, cracker.  Don't ever mess with a black man's food.

[Trent Dole]

[helios]

I keep reading the title as banana peppers

[Cerveza mas fina]

Chinese censors have stepped up their censorship of websites, ordering all content related to the Panama Papers to be scrubbed as new revelations emerged of how relatives of some of the country’s top leaders had used secretive offshore companies to store their wealth.

Documents from the leaked Mossack Fonseca database showed the relations of three of the seven members of the Communist party’s elite ruling council, the politburo standing committee, had companies that were clients of the offshore law firm. They included relatives of Chinese president Xi Jinping.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/07/china-ramps-up-panama-papers-censorship-after-leaders-relatives-named

[Cerveza mas fina]

More than £170bn of UK property is now held overseas. Much of that is in London, where unprecedented house price inflation has transformed homes into highly profitable investments for asset speculators. Nearly one in 10 of the 31,000 tax haven companies that own British property are linked to Mossack Fonseca.

[Great Rumbler]

Just days after dismissing the revelation that his late father managed an offshore fund, calling it a "private matter," British Prime Minister David Cameron on Thursday admitted to having profited from the very same fund. According to Cameron, he sold his investments for £31,500 (around $44,300) before becoming Prime Minister.

Oops!

[TakingBackSunday]

damn daniel

[VomKriege]

Meanwhile, at the ecuadorian embassy in London.

"So when is he leaving...?"

[Madrun Badrun]

https://twitter.com/lewiswake/status/718411497161039873

[Joe Molotov]

lawl, remember when people thought this was gonna be a thing? Bubububu...the Icelandic PM stepped down, omg!

Meh, it'll blow over. Don't get too excited

AIA, vindicated. Rich people win again.
 

[Kara]

The structures in this case aren't incredibly useful to American taxpayers due to the taxation of worldwide income so you really shouldn't expect much fallout here. There's a push to increase reporting requirements as a result of the revelations, which doesn't sound sexy, but things like that are really important to catch unreported income.

In countries that are dumb and tax territorially? Well they're already enthralled to international capital, hence their territorial tax regimes.

[chronovore]

"Man, that's fucked up. Can't wait until I'm rich and can get away with that!" - everyone

"Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires."

[benjipwns]

http://www.temporarilyembarrassedmillionaires.org/

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Funnily enough, Wikipedia says the quote is a likely paraphrase of this actual Steinbeck quote:

Except for the field organizers of strikes, who were pretty tough monkeys and devoted, most of the so-called Communists I met were middle-class, middle-aged people playing a game of dreams. I remember a woman in easy circumstances saying to another even more affluent: 'After the revolution even we will have more, won't we, dear?' Then there was another lover of proletarians who used to raise hell with Sunday picknickers on her property.

I guess the trouble was that we didn't have any self-admitted proletarians. Everyone was a temporarily embarrassed capitalist. Maybe the Communists so closely questioned by the investigation committees were a danger to America, but the ones I knew—at least they claimed to be Communists—couldn't have disrupted a Sunday-school picnic. Besides they were too busy fighting among themselves.

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[Kara]

 

Emma Watson got outed.

Feminism annihilated.

Social justice warriors in retreat.

Joe with major egg on his face.

Harry Potter fans still excited for that prequel or whatever.

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Her response is that she operates offshore to protect her personal privacy due to shareholder reporting requirements in the UK.

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[Joe Molotov]

I hope she goes to sexy Women's Prison.

[Madrun Badrun]

None of this is illegal.  Just immoral.   

[TVC15]

I hope she goes to sexy Women's Prison.

Like that one from Black Mama, White Mama.

[TVC15]

None of this is illegal.  Just immoral.   

Eh, this thoroughly discredits her. She can't pretend to be an issues person anymore now that we know she's bourgeois slime. She should just own it and go full Kardashian. She already had at least one upskirt pic iirc.

[Kara]

None of this is illegal.  Just immoral.

It's illegal if you're an American citizen and don't report the income.

[Cerveza mas fina]

This will keep rolling for a long time

She already had at least one upskirt pic iirc.

don't pretend you just iirc

[Cerveza mas fina]

"Man, that's fucked up. Can't wait until I'm rich and can get away with that!" - everyone

"Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires."

Seriously though the rich are laughing their asses off every time some poor schmuck votes for more deregulation and "freedom"

People need to wake the fuck up

[Huff]

Lol

[TVC15]

This will keep rolling for a long time

She already had at least one upskirt pic iirc.

don't pretend you just iirc

https://www.google.com/search?safe=off&site=&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1414&bih=769&q=emma+watson+up+skirt&oq=emma+watson+up+skirt&gs_l=img.3...274.5315.0.5460.22.15.1.6.3.0.144.1543.4j10.14.0....0...1ac.1.64.img..1.16.1342...0j0i30j0i24j0i10j0i8i10i30j0i8i30.kBIr25jVKj4#imgrc=1Mh_WDSLO2WlfM%3A

She's basically Lindsay Bluth. Wiki on Lindsay Bluth:

believing herself to be a dedicated left-wing activist, though she is actually greedy, selfish and materialistic, mainly supporting current trendy causes for the social status

[Cerveza mas fina]

oh sorry I was actually implying you remember that upakirt a lot better then a vague iirc

we all recall that upskirt

[TVC15]

oh sorry I was actually implying you remember that upakirt a lot better then a vague iirc

we all recall that upskirt

I do remember a specific one, but I didn't look for it. If MAF is around, he probably remembers it, too. It was from her 18th or 21st birthday or something, and she was getting out of a car or limo, and it looked like there was a big jizz stain on the inside of one of her legs.