Any links to the 1MDB scandal?
The son of Najib is connected to the scandals, but no direct connection to 1MDB (yet).
Panama Papers: Mossack Fonseca leak reveals elite's tax havens
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#242Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm not critiquing the website, it looks great to be honest. It's comes across a little odd when you target just a small amount of people, it almost seems like a sales pitch. The journalists need to be more transparent about the data and why these individuals were picked first, and how the data release is going to work. I hope for your sake you don't have to vectorize everyone mentioned in the data.
Worth pointing out: this is, in no way, done by a single media organization. This is a collaborative effort of ~107 news organizations from all over the world, and you can be sure that behind each of them there's a small dedicated tech team that worked tirelessly on making this thing look pretty. Because this is such a huge collaborative effort involving over 300 journalists from god knows how many countries, we bare…
So, how much popcorn should i buy?
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#243I'm sick of this nonsense; if it's illegal it's illegal, and if it's not it's not.
If you think it's wrong, convince people that it should be illegal.
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#244Selected quote: "The ICIJ findings include evidence that: - Offshore companies linked to the family of China's top leader, Xi Jinping, as well as Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, who has positioned himself as a reformer in a country shaken by corruption scandals - 29 billionaires featured in Forbes Magazine's list of the world's 500 richest people - Icelandic Prime Minister Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson and his w…
For what it's worth, being featured in these documents is not in and of itself evidence of any wrongdoing. There are entirely lawful and legitimate reasons for making use of offshore company structures.
There's a lot of noise being made over the number of documents, but I'm not seeing anything actually interesting about this. Offshore banking has been extremely common for a very long time and isn't illegal in and of itself. The hidden funds need to be provably originating from from an illicit source.
Re: Panama Papers: Mossack Fonseca leak reveals elite's tax havens
#245Earlier quoted context omitted.
Worth pointing out: this is, in no way, done by a single media organization. This is a collaborative effort of ~107 news organizations from all over the world, and you can be sure that behind each of them there's a small dedicated tech team that worked tirelessly on making this thing look pretty. Because this is such a huge collaborative effort involving over 300 journalists from god knows how many countries, we bare…
So, how much popcorn should i buy?
In the next 14 days, a lot. After that, have one bag per day ready until the end of the month.
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#246Earlier quoted context omitted.
It is remarkable that this breaking story focuses on Russia, Iceland and unfriendly/anti-Western dictators (Mubarak, Gaddafi, al-Assad). And apart from Cameron's father: - Pamela Sharples, member of the House of Lords - Michael Ashcroft, former Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party and former member of the House of Lords - Michael Mates, former Member of Parliament And in the EU: - Giuseppe Donaldo Nicosia, busin…
> Miguel Arias Cañete, wife of a current Spanish minister and European Commissioner Nope. It's the man himself, not his wife.
Nope. His wife is the only one mentioned in the data according to the reporters:
> The third Spaniard to appear in the giant leak is the wife of former Spanish Agriculture Minister Miguel Arias Cañete, Micaela Domecq Solís-Beaumont, who was "empowered to approve transactions of Rinconada Investments Group SA, a Panama company registered in 2005 which was in existence while her husband Miguel Arias Cañete held public positions in Spain and the European Union.
https://www.thespainreport.com/articles/704-160403213534-ped...
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#247Editor of Süddeutsche Zeitung responded to the lack of U.S. individuals in the documents, saying "Just wait for what is coming next"
https://twitter.com/mathewi/status/716771686482202625
My money is on a current presidential candidate being connected to this, though I'm not 100% on which one.
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#248Re: Panama Papers: Mossack Fonseca leak reveals elite's tax havens
#249Panama just passed compliance with FATF (February 2016) and it's a message that their political leader/law firm owner/world's largest money launderer (his name is in the OP's title) is no longer open for business after decades of being the go-to place for hidden $$$. http://www.fatf-gafi.org/countries/#Panama "The FATF recognised that Algeria, Angola and Panama have made significant progress in improving their regime…
> Real leaks don't have fancy websites with responsive vectorized portraits and a full on content /social media structure. Yes they do and you're welcome. Sincerely, somebody who worked on this for way too long and practically hasn't left the office this entire weekend.
Looks great! Small visual bug here: https://panamapapers.icij.org/stairway_tax_heaven_game/
The zoom effect blurs the image.
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#250Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is it remarkable, or is it completely expected for propaganda? I've been visiting the US for 6 months now, and the only time I hear anything about the outside world is when (China/Russia/NorthKorea) are doing something bad, or their citizens lives suck, or rarely when a social program in a developed country (UK, Europe) goes a little wrong (over budget or whatever). Interestingly, the fact that hundreds of millions o…
Have you tried watching or reading the news at all while you're here? This comment reads like someone imagining what American media might be like.
I was wondering the same. Whenever I'm in the states, I don't find the media to be particularly different...read a NYT or a WSJ paper and you'll get a lot of international news, positive and negative. As always, if you want news, you have to go looking for it. It just isn't going to be hand fed into your mouth.
I do not for the life of me get CNN and the 24 hour news cycle, though. It just seems to be all noise for news on cable TV. Anyways, still better than what I can get in the country I currently live in (China), but there is always the Internet (even with the GFW in place).