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'Panama Papers' Group Strikes Again with 'Paradise Papers' (theguardian.com)
Long-time Slashdot reader Freshly Exhumed tipped us off to a new document leak that's just revealed massive tax havens used by the world's most wealthy and powerful people. An anonymous reader quotes the Guardian:
The material, which has come from two offshore service providers and the company registries of 19 tax havens, was obtained by the German newspaper Suddeutsche 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's the same group responsible for the Panama Papers, and the Guardian reports that in these 13.4 million new files, journalists have discovered:
It's the same group responsible for the Panama Papers, and the Guardian reports that in these 13.4 million new files, journalists have discovered:
- "How Twitter and Facebook received hundreds of millions of dollars in investments that can be traced back to Russian state financial institutions."
- "Aggressive tax avoidance by multinational corporations, including Nike and Apple."
- "Extensive offshore dealings by Donald Trump's cabinet members, advisers and donors, including substantial payments from a firm co-owned by Vladimir Putin's son-in-law to the shipping group of the US commerce secretary, Wilbur Ross."
- "The tax-avoiding Cayman Islands trust managed by the Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau's chief moneyman."
"The publication of this investigation, for which more than 380 journalists have spent a year combing through data that stretches back 70 years, comes at a time of growing global income inequality," reports the Guardian. "Meanwhile, multinational companies are shifting a growing share of profits offshore -- €600 billion in the last year alone -- the leading economist Gabriel Zucman will reveal in a study to be published later this week. "Tax havens are one of the key engines of the rise in global inequality," he said."
Of course he dealt with taxes, why is this even news.
This stupid site has turned into a snowflake feeding bullshit propaganda outlet.
So tell us again, please, how Hillary Clinton ties into a story documenting Russia's financial strings on current high-ranking members of the US government.
We'll wait...
I've calculated my velocity with such exquisite precision that I have no idea where I am.
Hmm. I wonder why you'd want to look at the proven liar wielding power over the the person without power he keeps pointing to as a distraction?
Are you Russian or stupid?
No it fucking wasn't. It wasn't unwelcomed by Lewinsky. It was concensual between two adults behind closed doors and was no one's fucking business besides theirs. "Maureen Dowd has it right when she tells us, "It is Ms. Lewinsky who comes across as the red-blooded predator, wailing to her girl friends that the President wouldn't go all the way. It is Mr. Clinton who behaves more like a teen-age girl trying to protect her virginity, insisting on holding back, reluctant to even remove any clothes, even pushing Ms. Lewinsky away and pushing up her slipping bra strap...emotionally upset about it...(saying) I'm trying to be good..." "
The logic is actually pretty simple. US isn't run by top level leadership. It's run by the more local ones. And those are far easier to pressure with media and activists - two parts that are solidly left and far left in the current age in US.
The ship analogy is pretty good here. As an individual part of the ship, it's not the captain or the XO that runs you. It's the engineering crewman, followed by his head. And their decisions can often be in direct opposition to what captain would want them to do. And in case of ships, this is often a good thing as captains tend to be fairly clueless in specific details of mechanical quirks of certain sections of the ship for example, but also an awful one as it's often easy to take shortcuts top people don't know about and cause catastrophic damage as people above don't know about specific issues before making orders that assume that rank and file engineering crewman did exactly as was instructed).
I recommend the recently released report on Fitzgerald's and McCain's collision as a good example of Officer of the Deck and his officers and crewmen being ignorant of each others specific orders and expected procedures leading to outcome that is the diametric opposite of what OOD (and Captain who stands over him) intended.
Fuck you, and every other looter. Taxation is theft.
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."