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Whoever leaked the Mossack Fonseca papers appears motivated by a
genuine desire to expose the system that enables the ultra wealthy to
hide their massive stashes, often corruptly obtained and all involved in
tax avoidance. These Panamanian lawyers hide the wealth of a
significant proportion of the 1%, and the massive leak of their
documents ought to be a wonderful thing.
Unfortunately the leaker has made the dreadful mistake of turning to
the western corporate media to publicise the results. In consequence the
first major story,
published today by the Guardian, is all about Vladimir Putin and a
cellist on the fiddle. As it happens I believe the story and have no
doubt Putin is bent.
But why focus on Russia? Russian wealth is only a tiny minority of
the money hidden away with the aid of Mossack Fonseca. In fact, it soon
becomes obvious that the selective reporting is going to stink.
The Suddeutsche Zeitung, which received the leak, gives a detailed explanation of
the methodology the corporate media used to search the files. The main
search they have done is for names associated with breaking UN sanctions
regimes. The Guardian reports this too and
helpfully lists those countries as Zimbabwe, North Korea, Russia and
Syria. The filtering of this Mossack Fonseca information by the
corporate media follows a direct western governmental agenda. There is
no mention at all of use of Mossack Fonseca by massive
western corporations or western billionaires – the main customers. And
the Guardian is quick to reassure that “much of the leaked material will
remain private.”
What do you expect? 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 include
Ford Foundation
Carnegie Endowment
Rockefeller Family Fund
W K Kellogg Foundation
Open Society Foundation (Soros)
among many others. Do not expect a genuine expose of western
capitalism. The dirty secrets of western corporations will remain
unpublished.
Expect hits at Russia, Iran and Syria and some tiny “balancing”
western country like Iceland. A superannuated UK peer or two will be
sacrificed – someone already with dementia.
The corporate media – the Guardian and BBC in the UK – have exclusive
access to the database which you and I cannot see. They are protecting
themselves from even seeing western corporations’ sensitive information
by only looking at those documents which are brought up by specific
searches such as UN sanctions busters. Never forget the Guardian smashed
its copies of the Snowden files on the instruction of MI6.
What if they did Mossack Fonseca database searches on the owners of
all the corporate media and their companies, and all the editors and
senior corporate media journalists? What if they did Mossack Fonseca
searches on all the most senior people at the BBC? What if they did
Mossack Fonseca searches on every donor to the Center for Public
Integrity and their companies?
What if they did Mossack Fonseca searches on every listed company in
the western stock exchanges, and on every western millionaire they could
trace?
That would be much more interesting. I know Russia and China are
corrupt, you don’t have to tell me that. What if you look at things that
we might, here in the west, be able to rise up and do something about?
And what if you corporate lapdogs let the people see the actual data?
UPDATE
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