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Edited the thread title for clarity.
edit 2: dialing back the rhetoric a little until i have actual sources confirming b/c im a sissywimp
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Edward Smowdem, Renowned Master of Leaking, said it's the biggest leak ever.

It also seems to be the most polished leak ever, since there's already a nice interactive website for it and everything.

https://projects.icij.org/panama-papers/power-players/?lang=en

i wonder what this all means.

Over a year ago, an anonymous source contacted the Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ) and submitted encrypted internal documents from Mossack Fonseca, a Panamanian law firm that sells anonymous offshore companies around the world. These shell firms enable their owners to cover up their business dealings, no matter how shady.



i've never really seen this concerted of an effort before to leak such a massive amount of incriminating documents by multiple news agencies so I guess that's kind of off putting and makes me think there's some other narrative-driving purpose for this leak, other than the information found within the leak itself.

whatever. I thought this was a big enough thing to make a thread about.

leak.

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Dont Mess With Sucess
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It turns out Americans and Israelis don't like to hide their money... this really affects my world view
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someone give that webmaster an account
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it looks like it's angled to tattle on specific people, i see a lot of shit about putin in there lol
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now i need to pee
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people on twitter have already discovered some of the journalists involved in this are funded by USAID and openly advertise it on their site so.

https://twitter.com/adamjohnsonNYC/status/716722983176380418
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hi
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BCCI and Nugan Hand never existed and sunglasses wearin oil sheikhs are laundering public funds to buy yachts because they are greedy Ayrabs. please ignore the entire global context of US imperialism rampaging the world and sabotaging every effort at economic equality in the first place.
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PRESIDENT: You think, you think we want to, want to go this route now? And the--let it hang out, so to speak?
DEAN: Well, it's, it isn't really that--
HALDEMAN: It's a limited hang out.
DEAN: It's a limited hang out.
EHRLICHMAN: It's a modified limited hang out.
PRESIDENT: Well, it's only the questions of the thing hanging out publicly or privately.

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god damn it, it turned out to be even stupider and more transparent than that in the time it took for me to look for the perfect nixon picture ;_;
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lol
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hi
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i like that the PA is included but Israel isn't. like, okay dudes.
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hi
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someone make an image of bart writing "WE AREN'T ON THE WRONG SIDE, WE ARE THE WRONG SIDE!" over and over on the chalkboard.
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it's really cool that imperialist organizations can just dox people now and call it a "leak" so a bunch of internet nerds get excited about it instead of horrified by it.
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400 journalists poured over this for a whole year and the best they could get was a friend of putin

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they have a list of putins childhood friends. i think this might be big....
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hi
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there probably is a lot of stuff about US covert ops and CIA money laundering among the papers which are not really being "dumped" but just selectively released by establishment and NGO journos some of which are literally getting funding from USAID. so yeah.
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lol

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please don't use the term 'journos', it triggers lykourgos flashbacks
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tears your sig is A-1
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HenryKrinkle posted:

people on twitter have already discovered some of the journalists involved in this are funded by USAID and openly advertise it on their site so.

https://twitter.com/adamjohnsonNYC/status/716722983176380418


Sorry, that page doesn’t exist!

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hi
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glomper_stomper reposted the essential image in the post below mine. i wonder why adam deleted that tweet. he's getting some push-back from people for being cynical about this.
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HenryKrinkle posted:

glomper_stomper reposted the essential image in the post below mine. i wonder why adam deleted that tweet. he's getting some push-back from people for being cynical about this.



it's from a whole bunch of internet reactionary nerd types (r e d d i t) who are super vigilant about a whole bunch of people in countries they have nothing to do with and know nothing about being "brought to justice" and anyone who has any issues with this legitimate or otherwise is labeled as a terrorist sympathizer and supporter of censorship.


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i lopve the way this is spreading across the fb pages of old friends/acquaintances like, wow, can you believe that putin has moiney, and also friend?? something about fifa!!!!!!!!! groundraking news. wrap it up journos your work is done
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if ive learned anything from being immersed in nerd culture all my life it's that nerds really really love fascism.
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this whole thing was prolly a giant honeypot in the first place
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http://www.moonofalabama.org/2016/04/selected-leak-of-the-panamapapers-creates-huge-blackmail-potential.html
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aerdil posted:

this whole thing was prolly a giant honeypot in the first place


Actually it's about ethics in money laundering

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swampman posted:

http://www.moonofalabama.org/2016/04/selected-leak-of-the-panamapapers-creates-huge-blackmail-potential.html



The journalists compiled lists of important politicians, international criminals, and well-known professional athletes, among others. The digital processing made it possible to then search the leak for the names on these lists. The "party donations scandal" list contained 130 names, and the UN sanctions list more than 600. In just a few minutes, the powerful search algorithm compared the lists with the 11.5 million documents.
For each name found, a detailed research process was initiated that posed the following questions: what is this person’s role in the network of companies? Where does the money come from? Where is it going? Is this structure legal?



It's like listening to someone describe their PhD in Advanced Applications of Chomsky, a whole field created by misinterpreting his criticisms as a set of instructions.

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stegosaurus posted:

tears your sig is A-1



very kind, ty

here's another beautifully fucked up picture of america.jpg demonstrating why im communist:



e: i changed it to one i like better



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GOod flag
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im detecting some bias here:

F6XnH_OnpO0
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Mike Nelson here.
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tears posted:

im detecting some bias here:

F6XnH_OnpO0

amazing

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"Jpg." - Hank Hill
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this article is intensely critical of capitalism but not specifically critical of america enough, and i therefore find it suspicious
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Mike Nelson here.
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i don't find it suspicious, it just demonstrates their worldviews, where they think the best way to motivate action is by focusing on 'enemies'. i've seen a lot of people also focusing on how this 'lowers tax revenue', and how that robs us of programs, as if programs are really tied to 'tax revenue' and not deliberately underfunded. like why are mines in uganda even developed for private profit anyway?
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Soviet_Salami posted:

swampman posted:

http://www.moonofalabama.org/2016/04/selected-leak-of-the-panamapapers-creates-huge-blackmail-potential.html

The journalists compiled lists of important politicians, international criminals, and well-known professional athletes, among others. The digital processing made it possible to then search the leak for the names on these lists. The "party donations scandal" list contained 130 names, and the UN sanctions list more than 600. In just a few minutes, the powerful search algorithm compared the lists with the 11.5 million documents.
For each name found, a detailed research process was initiated that posed the following questions: what is this person’s role in the network of companies? Where does the money come from? Where is it going? Is this structure legal?



It's like listening to someone describe their PhD in Advanced Applications of Chomsky, a whole field created by misinterpreting his criticisms as a set of instructions.



they made a list of who they wanted to look for, before actually searching for them? lmao what is this transparent shit