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Putin Says Panama Papers Part of US Plot to Weaken Russia (go.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Russia President Vladimir Putin says he has no links to offshore accounts unveiled in the Panama Papers. Moreover, Putin believes that these leaks are part of Western efforts to weaken Russia. As ABC News reports, Putin criticised Western media for involving his name in offshore business even though his name didn't feature in any of the leaked documents. Speaking in St Petersburg, Putin added that it certainly seems like a US-led disinformation campaign waged against Russia. Putin also defended a cellist friend who was named as the alleged owner of an offshore company, noting that his friend is a philanthropist.People in Russia, sadly, don't seem to care much about Panama Papers. As Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reports, most Russians haven't heard of -- or don't care about -- the Panama Papers. The media house interviewed 30 people on the street, of which it found only
1 person thought it was wrong. (video).
Panama papers leak you!
"People in Russia, sadly, don't seem to care much about Panama Papers. As Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reports, most Russians haven't heard of -- or don't care about -- the Panama Papers. The media house interviewed 30 people on the street, of which it found only 1 person thought it was wrong. (video)."
Does not follow. You mean to say: only one person was willing to speak out against it. Polls have little to do with what people think. They only tell you what they are willing to admit.
The only thing worse than a Democrat is a Republican.
can not be found for follow up interviews. It is official, now nobody cares about the panama papers in Russia.
I live in the US and I barely care about the Panama Papers either.
Actually... the first thing I think of when I see "Panama Papers" is David Lee Roth for some reason...
My eyes reflect the stars and a smile lights up my face.
In fairness, USAID did bankroll the entire investigation, and American politicians were rather conspicuous by their absence.
The US is also confusingly quiet on the question of whether or not the documents should be called 'stolen'.
To catch a fish, to catch a fish, to catch a fucking fissssssssh
Because modern fish fishers know that only fishy fish can catch fish, not luddite non-fish shit.
Fish!
"Legitimate criticism of my wrongdoing, backed up by objectively verifiable facts, is in fact harassment and will not be tolerated."
Just give him some neon hair, a side-shave and some problem glasses and have him write blogposts about how objects in C++ are oppressive toward womxn.
It's a plot to make sure Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson's enduring legacy is not the shoe incident, which would have been embarrassing.
I applaud those who evade taxes, since I believe we need less government, not more. In the case of the US, we are talking about the largest and most powerful government in world history. Clearly, any problems we have with government -- any conceivable problem you can name -- can't possibly be due to a shortage of government power or revenue. To claim that would be to imply that the largest and most powerful government in world history still isn't enough, and that's absurd.
(No, I'm not a tax evader myself, earning less than $40,000/year. I'm just a nobody with slightly more than average common sense.)
Hell, in the USA you just need to establish a charitable foundation like the Clintons.
The conspiracy theorists are playing right along by saying there are no Americans mentioned in the Panama Papers so it must have been scrubbed, despite (1) hundreds of Americans being named in them, and (2) you don't have to go offshore to hide money. The US works just fine for hiding money.
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
So the papers have nothing to do with Putin, lets throw in a jab about the political ignorance of the average Russian.
In an effort to maintain fair and balanced reporting perhaps they should have asked the average American to explain what exactly the Panama papers are? Just because people have heard the name and have been told that it's bad, it doesn't mean they're politically literate.
https://twitter.com/wikileaks/...
"US govt funded #PanamaPapers attack story on Putin via USAID. Some good journalists but no model for integrity."
https://twitter.com/wikileaks/...
"#PanamaPapers: If you censor more than 99% of the documents you are engaged 1% journalism by definition."
https://twitter.com/wikileaks/...
"In total, Guardian has released, 2 #PanamaPapers documents. Süddeutsche Zeitung, 0 documents."
https://twitter.com/wikileaks/...
"3 days to go: With 86,987 votes counted over 95% demand full disclosure of #PanamaPapers"
WikiLeaks @wikileaks
Should we release all 11 million #PanamaPapers so everyone can search through them like our other publications?
Don't forget, Panama Papers is just a subset of data that was released. Heavily edited. Conveniently, not a single US politician mentioned in the released data. Also, Putin's name isn't there either, just his "childhood friend". Yet in all the newspapers it was reported that Putin was directly implicated. So, what else would you expect him to claim? Also, he actually wasn't the first to come to the same conclusion:
https://twitter.com/wikileaks/...
My first guess is that the people of Russia have more important things to think about. Based on the past actions of Putin, this probably doesn't even rank in the top 100 things to care about politically/legally.
Also, do we even know if this is illegal under Russian tax code? Even if it were, I'm guessing Russia would follow the legal maxim of rex non potest peccare (the king can do no wrong).
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Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers while Putin proposes Panama Papers potentially part of political plot
It's just a Republican scam to attack Russia and back them into a corner to start a war. Those Republicans want war. War is so profitable. War is the way of their kind.
The thug in the Kremlin is nothing but a remnant from the Cold War. He's pathetic and obsolete, and he does not even know it.
RFE RL is a 501c 3 corporation that receives U.S. government funding and is supervised by the Broadcasting Board of Governors, an agency overseeing all U.S. federal government international broadcasting services. The Russian Federation is subject to sanctions by the US government over the legitimacy of the people of Crimea's vote to declare themselves as a the Russian Autonomous Region of Crimea. Who do you trust, what can you verify with your own eyes, and who has an agenda here?
The purpose of existence is to make money.
People in Russia, sadly, don't seem to care much about Panama Papers.
Yeah, I really don't care. The people of Russia clearly aren't terribly interested in a free press, an uncorrupt government or any semblance of a modern open democratic state. If that's what they want, that's what they get and I'm not going to get too worked up about their choices.
The Russian people don't need the Panama papers to see the obvious corruption and political nepotism. The Olympics should have provided more than enough proof and most people didn't care. If they don't care, I don't care.
New Tzar just like the old Tzar..
Organization? You must be joking..
are doltish and born to be exploited.
Because they know, without the slightest doubt in their minds, that if the money came back to government, it would merely be used to expand the powers of government for the benefit of the ruling class.
You know what? I tend to agree.
I'm not surprised esp. when hearing 83% of Russian approve Putin https://www.washingtonpost.com.... If the citizens feel that the way of life in Russia is good, they're ok with high up people accumulating wealth and hide them. Let them be. They deserve it.
They are Russian. They cannot read or understand English or German, or the Latin alphabet. So how the hell does anyone think that the common Ruskie would know anything about it?
Excuse me, but please get off my Pennisetum Clandestinum, eh!
At least Hillary and Putin agree on the vast right wing conspiracy idea. Tim S.
I don't expect a big mess, because as with every other case of fraud and tax evasion the more likely outcome will be silence and no action. There are some high profile American's on the list, and if you look at their associations I'm sure you could implicate many many other people. The Prime Minister of the UK has cried "private matter, don't look" from day one. All of the names of people in the Middle East, including many supported by the US and UK (and their best allies). One politician has left over the matter, from a Government who went through a soft revolt not very long ago. That is actually much more than I would expect, and more than we would have seen 20 years ago.
There are 15,600 companies that exist on paper simply to hide money, with hundreds of people from the largest economies in the world involved. What do we hear about it? "That bad ole Putin, he's so bad."
Hypocrisy comes to mind, as well as disgust...
Wake me up when these people are actually held accountable for their actions.
-The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.
Putin should look in the mirror. His government is half the reason the world doesn't like Russia.
The Russian people know that caring bout those principles is a joke and complete waste of time. No matter the government they've had, they've been screwed over, be it the Tzar, the commies, the capitalists, and everyone in between. No matter the party, no matter the message, the end result has been a few people at the top stealing whatever they can get their hands on.
When have the rich people of the US, or anywhere, been ethical in their wealth? Not individual people here and there, but the whole lot? When have they not influenced politics, pushed out competition, etc?
When was the last time the super rich haven't tried to hide their wealth from governments/taxation? Because I can guarantee you even our half-human half-monkey ancestors would hide their sharpened stones and sticks or hunted animals from one another.
The embargo against the west regarding food and other stuff we have to import in order to live, because of their sanctions against Russia for the war in Ukraine, is a western plot to weaken Russia.
I'm sure they would have cut the gas supply, but that's where the money is. So there's savings to make by starving the people.
"Oh. You won't mind, then, if we seize all these accounts in your, amd your lieutenants', names?"
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Big deal! People in the US, sadly, don't seem to care about the Snowden or Manning "papers", except to denigrate the leakers instead of the revealed acts. And they're not going to care about the Panama Papers during the election either, just like they don't care about the already well known quid pro quo of the Clinton Foundation. Panama was a honeypot set up by the state department. That's why you don't see any important Americans in there. Their money is still in Switzerland.
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
Putin is doing that just fine on his own.
The Panama Papers are part of US plot to weaken FIFA
Just because Putin is paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get him.
We're just trying to drag the world down to our level. It's the bucket of crabs mentality.
Have gnu, will travel.
I need some reading material for the john while I wipe my ase.
Putin is a thief, but he is our own thief... so between him and some liberas-pederast thief prop'd by the West the choice naturally is obvious
I was excited to read this until I noticed the highlighted people were a effectively a laundry list of people the US gov't has on their shit list. Zero names of Americans or anyone of interest you would hope to see.
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Nobody needs to do anything to Russia to weaken it other than allow the existing corporations and leaders to run it into the ground. You have one of the best pieces of land on the planet for making money and yet the Russian GDP is a tiny 2 trillion dollars. Russia has always been good with using less money to do more, but a 2 trillion dollar economy from the world largest and most resource filled nation is pathetic and embarrassing. Russia should be the worlds 2nd largest economy, not 33% below Brazil. Russia economy is effectively Globally insignificant. The only thing they currently do that matters is add some fossil fuels, lumber and metals to the market, but really not enough to matter one way or another. I guess Russia is playing the long game. Waiting for it's resources to be worth more, but that's not going to happen. Once automated mining hits the scene the value of resources is going to plummet because the available resources to mine cost effectively will go way way up. There is also the fact that we have tons of resources trapped in the mantle and that's going to be easier and probably safer to mine than mining in space. The point is.. there is no resource shortage. The world will hit it's capacity for fresh water and farmable land long before it runs out of necessary resources. Most of the existing resources are infinitely recyclable. We will easily be able to build vertical farming in the future as labor costs go way down due to automation. There is no reason to think the world won't have robots fully capable of most human labor in 100 years. As long as we can make it 100 years or so most of our problems today can be engineered away with cheap 24 hour labor. Most of our visions of the world are completely wrong because they don't allow for the major breakthroughs like the Industrial Revolution and the coming Automation Revolution. It's going to reshape everything about economics, commodities and labor. One thing we can't avoid though will be rising land prices.. but most other things will lose value because everything in the industrial process will be automated.. from mining to transport to manufacturing to shipping back to retail and for that matter retail is almost highly automated via websites. We will all have robot assistants in a couple decades and they will just get more and more complex. Things like Amazon's Echo are just the start. Soon these things will follow you around and get you stuff and the start doing complex tasks like cleaning, laundry and cooking. I suspect making a humanoid robot will be most idea vs making many highly specialized robots. At first specialization seems most ideal, but not in this situation where the world is full of tools and appliances made to be used by bi-peds ranging from 4-6 feet tall. To leverage all that existing infrastructure, to make people more comfortable and to ensure we don't fully depreciate ourselves, it will be best to make robots that work like humans eventually.
I don't get the "sadly" there.
There is the little detail that (as usual) basically everything Putin said is the literal truth, not that you would know that listening to NPR.
One little question you all may want to ask yourselves is: Why did the CIA .. I mean the ICIJ ... uhm whatsthedifference .. release these documents When They Did? It important to notice that IT TOOK ONE YEAR AND ONE MONTH from the point in time where they received the documents to the point in the they actually published some minor pieces (It's interesting to note that they will not be publishing the entire dataset). Why the timing?
9/11: Never forget it was a false-flag operation
Better to give future stories to the world's media in full. Then every blogger, member of the press, historian, database expert, document expert, linguist, author, NGO with any interest can just work on or search for what they want or are expert in.
No selected press, well funded groups with very regional stories to sell, waiting times.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
He would step down like the PM of Iceland did. It would the right thing to do.
But since, like Assad, he thinks himself being in power is more important than his own people, I doubt he gives more than a couple of fucks.
...New York can come up with "richest man" "thought".
They hate him because he stopped their relatives looting Russia's resources while Jelzin was drunk and millions of Russians sold their last items for food.
He can do nothing without of hundreds of thousands of well-educated and hard working officers in the military, the police and the civil administration. Do you think he built all these top notch weapons which smoked out ISIS by his own hands ?
No, he coached Russia to be great again. And that irks the One World Maniacs of NY and D.C.
In America, the elite is the pay of the Saudi Wahabists, whose avowed aim is to eliminate ANY OTHER religion AND ethical system. Like the communists, the Mohammedists want TOTAL RULE. Over the entire planet.
The Saudis are not stupid brutes, their are very Smart Brutes. So they use their thousands of billions of oil dollars in order to compromise the Bushes, the Battenbergs, the Clintons. And all the useless lefty idiots in the west who want political power. Saud has dollar bills for every Useful Idiot. Never mind that the lefties will be on the Mohammedist's chopping block as soon as they rule an area.
What does Britain do ? They send more weapons to the Saudis, so that they can do their nasty work of killing Christians, Alewites, Shiites JUST FOR NOT BEING A SUNNI !
Proofs:
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/video/2014/feb/19/prince-charles-sword-dance-saudi-arabia-video
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Bush,_House_of_Saud
http://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/statements/2015/apr/20/reince-priebus/hillary-clinton-took-money-kings-four-countries-go/
Putin is the last powerful defender of Europe, while the rest of the European (and US-European) elite have decided that the sweet Saudi money has won.
More power to Putin !
...is to claim "cleptocracy" while supporting super-corrupt and super-evil folks like Jelzin and the Saud tyranny.
Go fuck yourself.
...your lies are.
Jelzin was the corrupt drinker in the pay of New York And Relatives.
Compared to Jelzin, Putin is a brilliant example of a prince discharging his duties relative to his people.
And I venture to say, compared to "our" elite, he is brilliant, too. Our elite claims they fight ISIS while covertly sending weapons to the Saudis, who are in FACT the sponsors of ISIS.
...that Charles Battenberg, future king of Britain and (supposedly) head of the Church of England, WILL SOON CONVERT TO MOHAMMEDISM:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLJAKp1pUO0
Europe is royally fucked, our culture will be extinct and replaced by Mohammedism. The elite and the lefties made sure.
Only people like Putin and Orban are fighting a last stand against the Mohammedists. We betray the great Karl Martell, Defender Of Europe for a few shekels.
Your house — and the local tax on it — may be "much" by your standards. But not by those of the cited billionaires. Their wealth is primarily in stocks and cash — real estates taxes hardly move a needle on their dashboards.
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
Unfortunately I suspect its our multipolar hero who might be the Control-ee in this operation. The ''friends of Putin'' were the warning to Putin. Throwing Iceland under the bus is the perfect warning to nations so uppity as to actually jail banksters.
Ever country should have its own https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FATCA
Casteism