Selective Leaks Of The #Panama Papers Create Huge Blackmail Potential: Smear People the U.S. Dislikes

Written on April 12th, 2016 in politics Comments Off

Published on Global Research.ca (first on Moon of Alabama), April 4, 2016.

Graph: the scale of the leak

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… The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) is part of the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) which is financed by the U.S. government through USAID.

The “leak” is of data selected by U.S. friendly organization out of a database, likely obtained by U.S. secret services, which can be assumed to include much dirt about “western” persons and organizations.

To only publish very selected data from the “leaked” data has two purposes:

  • It smears various “enemies of the empire” even if only by association like the presidents Putin and Assad.
  • It lets other important people, those mentioned in the database but not yet published about, know that the U.S. or its “media partner” can, at any time, expose their dirty laundry to the public. It is thereby a perfect blackmailing instrument.

The engineered “leak” of the “Panama Papers” is a limited hangout designed to incriminate a few people and organization the U.S. dislikes. It is also a demonstration of the “torture tools” to the people who did business with Mossak Fonseca but have not (yet) been published about. They are now in the hands of those who control the database. They will have to do as demanded or else …

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Panama Papers related:

Links:

Hundreds pro-Erdogan & pro-Kurdish demonstrators clash across Germany (3 VIDEOS), on RT, April 11, 2016;

Suisse: Petites votations entre amis le 5 juin prochain, dans Tribune de Genève, par Judith Mayencourt, le 8 avril 2016;

When work isn’t working – Brian Fallow, on New Zealand Herald.co.nz, April 8, 2016: technology and foreign competition are consuming jobs, but a universal income is too crude and costly a solution;

Plus de 200 personnes ont passé une seconde “Nuit debout” à Bruxelles, dans RTL.info, le 8 avril 2016;

France – OPINION: EELV, les Nuits Debout et les violences policières, dans Creusot Infos, le 7 avril 2016;

Sovereign Wealth And Pension Funds Eye Bigger Bet On Asia And Alternatives, on China Money Network, by Jillian Yue, April 7, 2016;

Canada: City, Brant eye pilot program, on Brantford Expositor.ca, by Michael-Allan Marion, April 7, 2016;

Council shrinks away from poverty debate, on The Peter Borough Examiner.ca, by David Goyette, April 7, 2016;

Opinion: America’s Election Shame, on Spiegel Online International, by Markus Feldenkirchen, April 6, 2016: US political culture long served as an example to others. But the political culture on display in the Republican primaries has been a mixture of primary school, mafia and porn industry;

Here’s Why Some of the Market’s Biggest Players Are Sweating Bullets Right Now, on Money Morning, by Peter Krauth, April 6, 2016;

Namibia – SONA2016: Solidarity Tax and Income Grant explained, on New Era, April 6, 2016;

Blockchains and virtual bridging currencies, on Financial Times Alphaville, by Izabella Kaminska, April 6, 2016;

Back to basics: how do we eliminate pay inequality? on The National, by Rashmee Roshan Lall, April 6, 2016;

Canada: Changes required for families to live better – Larry Harrison MLA Report, on Truro Daily News, April 6, 2016;

Greece and German WWII Reparations, die Anstalt March 31, 2015 - english subtitled, 9.35 min, uploaded by Sprachprofi: a viral video by a German satire show educates people about the true situation of the Greek reparations claim. Here with English subtitles, which are my own translation. Check out my blog Understanding Germany.de;

The Great Ponzi Scheme of the Global Economy, on Counterpunch, by MICHAEL HUDSON and CHRIS HEDGES, March 25, 2016;
on en.wikipedia: a Ponzi scheme is a fraudulent investment operation where the operator, an individual or organization, pays returns to its investors from new capital paid to the operators by new investors, rather than from profit earned through legitimate sources. Operators of Ponzi schemes usually entice new investors by offering higher returns than other investments, in the form of short-term returns that are either abnormally high or unusually consistent …;

Der faschistische Franzose – Volker Pispers, 10.06 min, uploaded by GOHWEST;

EU – TURKEY, on Spiegel Online International:

  • Uncertain Future: Weaknesses Emerge in EU-Turkey Refugee Deal, by Giorgos Christides, Katrin Kuntz and Maximilian Popp, April 8, 2016 (Photo Gallery – The Autocrat on the Bosporus): the EU is praising the first deportations this week from Greece to Turkey as a breakthrough for the recent refugee agreement with Ankara. But it was little more than a show. Many believe the deal will fail to survive the expected legal challenges;
  • Erdogan’s Tightrope Walk: How Turkey’s Reform Project Ended in Isolation, an Essay by Michael Werz, April 8, 2016: When he first came to power, Turkish President Erdogan embarked on a path of modernization. But the growth of a new elite withered those reforms and now, an autocracy is taking hold. It is time for the West to rethink its relations with Turkey;
  • Turkey – special page on Spiegel Online International with related articles, background features and opinions about this topic;

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