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Corporate Media Gatekeepers Protect Western 1% from Panama Leak

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Re: Corporate Media Gatekeepers Protect Western 1% from Panama Leak

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Post by TheOtherHobbes »

smegel wrote: post #36

> someone already with dementia Translation: someone who can't be put on trial.

It's possibly an oblique reference to one Lord Greville Janner, who was accused of child abuse by numerous witnesses, but was spared a trial because of advanced dementia - even though he'd been voting in the House of Lords and attending committee meetings.

Tragically, Janner died not long after he was declared unfit to plead. Even more tragically, it was decided the public interest would not be served by a trial of fact which would put evidence from witnesses and alleged victims on the record without aiming for a conviction.

Wikipedia has more of the story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greville_Janner

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Post by niccaluim »

not_kurt_godel wrote: post #59
ddp wrote: post #16

I pretty much figured that out from banksy: https://twitter.com/thereaIbanksy/status/716740923615350784

Off-topic, but what is going on with the I in "reaI"? When I replace it with L, it resolves to the same account. Odd...

Looks like Twitter fixed an old trick people used to pull to make misleading usernames. Scammers used to take advantage of the fact that lowercase L and uppercase I are indistinguishable in sans serif fonts, so you'd end up with people registering names like TWlTTER or StephenCoIbert to gin up followers for spamming and the like.

(And to reiterate another poster, that's not Banksy in any case.)

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Post by pinaceae »

cui bono, two can play this game.

isn't it strange how this article springs up right after someone implicated a group surrounding Putin?

russia's media strategy using "journalists" and forum trolls is well documented and known, i guess you can add this one to the list.

because everything is a false flag of a false flag.

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Post by force_reboot »

notahacker wrote: post #53
force_reboot wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's hard to characterize this movement that this article is critiquing, because it is diffuse. But I think it's fair to say that events in Syria and Iraq, and the anti-Russian stance taken by the liberal media, show that there is some consensus among liberals and conservatives in the US and UK around ideas that used to be called "neoconservative". The basic idea is that liberals want to spread liberal ideas in Russi…

It's hard to characterise the "movement" the article is critiquing because it isn't a movement, still less a neoconservative conspiracy against Russia. (personally if I wanted to facilitate the spread of liberal ideas in Russia, the very last thing I'd do is boost US power to be a convenient bogeyman for Russians to unite against) The idea that the Guardian is reluctant to publish anything likely to unduly upset mult…

You say "personally if I wanted to facilitate the spread of liberal ideas in Russia, the very last thing I'd do is boost US power to be a convenient bogeyman for Russians to unite against", and characterize my ideas as a "conspiracy", but how else can you explain how the groups I described united to support the Orange Revolution in the Ukraine[1]?

The liberals I'm referring to are certainly not especially critical of US interventionism. I'm not referring to Chomsky or even Bernie Sanders here, I'm talking about George Soros and his camp.

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/nov/26/ukraine.usa

The Democratic party's National Democratic Institute, the Republican party's International Republican Institute, the US state department and USAid are the main agencies involved in these grassroots campaigns as well as the Freedom House NGO and billionaire George Soros's open society institute.

US pollsters and professional consultants are hired to organise focus groups and use psephological data to plot strategy.

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Post by BogusIKnow »

lumberjack wrote: post #28
Quanttek wrote: post #22

That 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…

If you quote these, then why not the more completly:

"CPI reports receiving foundation support from a number of foundations, including the Sunlight Foundation, the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Omidyar Network, the Open Society Foundation, and the Pew Charitable Trusts.[31] The Barbra Streisand Foundation reports that it has funded CPI." -Wikipedia

And from their website: "Recent ICIJ funders include: Adessium Foundation, Open Society Foundations, The Sigrid Rausing Trust, the Fritt Ord Foundation, the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, The Ford Foundation, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation, Pew Charitable Trusts and Waterloo Foundation."

From the reporting:

- Fat Cat Hotel: How Democratic High-Rollers Are Rewarded with Overnight Stays at the White House.

- Windfalls of War, a report arguing that campaign contributions to George W. Bush affected the allocation of reconstruction contracts in Afghanistan and Iraq

- CPI's report, Who’s Behind the Financial Meltdown?,[45] looking at the roots of the global financial crisis

- Tobacco Underground, an ongoing project tracing the global trade in smuggled cigarettes

(All from Wikipedia)

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Post by BogusIKnow »

carterehsmith wrote: post #26
Havoc wrote: post #19

This to me is almost bigger news than the leak itself. Its so obviously and blatantly stacked one can't help but conclude media has been thoroughly "captured".

On CNN, top news is about some soccer star charged with DUI. And nothing about this Panama thing on the home page.

The soccer star is from the Panama leaks.

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Post by lucb1e »

dbcooper wrote: post #55
Quanttek wrote: post #22

That 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…

Standby for Australian news too ... Panama Papers: Tax office investigating 800 Australians identified in financial record leak >You can watch 'The Secrets of the Super Rich' on Four Corners on ABC TV at 8.30pm tonight. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-04-04/tax-office-investigati...

I thought you were joking since Australia gets in the news for surveillance laws and stuff. Then I saw the link.
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