This will hit wiki leaks. These news outlets won't be able to keep Anonymous and others out. The world will know.
Raw Snowden data didn't hit wikileaks. Don't bet on it.
Corporate Media Gatekeepers Protect Western 1% from Panama Leak
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#32This guy is impatient... They learned this from wikileaks: 10 huge headlines spread across half a year is more effective than 1 huge headline today.
Actually, Wikileaks released a dump of everything Chelsea Manning sent them, including diplomatic cables that only served to hurt innocents across the globe. That's a great example of what not to do.
The Guardian and Washington Post handled Snowden's leaks very differently, sourcing and verifying each article, then releasing quite a lot more than 10 major headlines over the course of a year or so. I trust the ICIJ will do the same.
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#33I thought so too, it's silly to pretend this is all about putin putin putin and his cellists. Besides i would expect the russians to have moved their money in some offshore corner in middle east rather than panama. The Bloomberg website does not even report it in its frontpage right now (eventhough possibly many of their customers are in the list). However i trust that they are keeping the best bits for the starting…
Tax shelters and hiding money is difficult to explain to the average man on the street, so they're focusing on explaining the very real impact of this sort of corruption, talking about pension funds being drained, people not getting disability checks, and so on.
Corruption has a huge impact. The Putin fortune they talk about is blood money. It came from raping an entire country.
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#34That article is bullshit. Yes, we can't access the raw data - true, but understandable. The editor in-chief of the SZ says they are still working on it and will expose more and more "in waves", often getting statements from the accused before or sharing it with law enforcement agencies. And no, they didn't focus on Russia or Assad, one of the main revelations was that three members of Iceland's government (PM, financ…
Also wasn't this a law firm whose data was leaked? A lot of that information is probably financial and personal records which would be massively irresponsible, not to mention highly illegal, to release in a dump.
A law firm whose sole business is establishing companies on paper in tax havens, so not quite your average firm.
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#35That article is bullshit. Yes, we can't access the raw data - true, but understandable. The editor in-chief of the SZ says they are still working on it and will expose more and more "in waves", often getting statements from the accused before or sharing it with law enforcement agencies. And no, they didn't focus on Russia or Assad, one of the main revelations was that three members of Iceland's government (PM, financ…
>That article is bullshit. I found the article useful actually. I mistakenly assumed, very naively, that these people handling the leaks were wikileaks kind of people and not these other kind of people: >The leak is being managed by the grandly but laughably named “International Consortium of Investigative Journalists”, which is funded and organised entirely by the USA’s Center for Public Integrity. Their funders inc…
Yeah that was some information that was missing earlier.
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#36> someone already with dementia
Translation: someone who can't be put on trial.
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#37I pretty much figured that out from banksy: https://twitter.com/thereaIbanksy/status/716740923615350784
(That's not banksy)
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#38The story was first published 6.5 hours ago. This is premature.
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#39It's only day 1, and the ICIJ has said they have at least 14 days of "major revelations" mapped out in advance. I expect we'll be seeing stories from the Panama Papers for months to come, spaced out for maximum impact, similarly to Snowden's leaks. If a month goes by and not a single story is contrary to american corporate interests, the author's position may be reasonably supportable. But day 1? Not a chance. They w…
I can guarantee you at least two more heads of states tomorrow (European time): Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan.
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#40I pretty much figured that out from banksy: https://twitter.com/thereaIbanksy/status/716740923615350784
That is extremely telling.