Something did happen carbombed the journalist who reported on the corruption
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and then the news dropped the stories after she was killed, they were waiting for a moment to stop talking about the papers. Now they arnt even talking about epstein files.
And then they're was surprisingly (or, in hindsight, not so surprising) little reporting on the carbombed journalist
i think it was ruled a suicide, no foul play
shakira, JACKIE chan was also in the paper, i wonder if this one of his motivations for trying to be part of the CCP.
Didn't the person who leaked that get blown up by a car bomb? That's not nothing.
Not quite. So far as I'm aware the actual leaker remains anonymous, and the journalist they originally gave the documents to is okay. However, two journalists who were involved in picking apart the actual content of the papers and reporting on it were murdered, Daphne Caruana Galizia and Ján Kuciak. Galizia was the one who was killed with a car bomb
Ján Kuciak, murdered together with his wife in their house, in their bed while sleeping. Meanwhile our current (Slovak) government party at that time campaigned and promised to “catch their killer and solve the murder”. You can guess whether they delivered on that promise( spoiler: they didn’t)
Society needs to give billionaires the same treatment. They should feel safe nowhere.
Fucked
It caused mass protests in Iceland and the prime minister resigned over it.
At least Iceland cared?
Same as 2008
Obama did a response to the film The Laundromat (which is excellent), where he said, yes this is one of the keystone problems we have, but there is not going to be a fix for it, because the people that could fix it are benefitting from it. I've never seen him quite that defeated before.
Any chance you have a link or transcript?
I found a related clip, not precisely what the commenter mentioned but it's the same mold - Obama talking about the Panama fraud itself, rather than the movie
There is a fix but it will be bad
Heads or tails
Both.
I vote for both
1 thing happened: a journalist got killed.
One of the funny things about the Panama Papers was how few Americans were in it. This is not a point in America's favor, but an illustration of how loose and flimsy American tax law is in practice. You don't need these elaborate shell companies to avoid taxation, because tax avoidance for folks in the mega-million brackets is baked into the system.
Of course something happened. They started supporting the overthrow of democracy and the installation of fascist regimes in Western countries.
Honestly, this is probably it. Look at who has bankrolled Trump's campaign and (nonexistent) presidential library.
Remember the Epstein files?
The insurrection?
Trump's felonies?
Trump's rapes?
As soon as the government opens, we need to blast about the Epstein files.
Not "nothing" happened. Daphne Galizia, a journalist who worked on the expose, was assassinated with a car bomb. Last year, all former employees of Mossak Fonseca (the Panamanian legal firm that helped create the tax dodge structures for the offending corps) were acquitted.
We need to be fucking shit up
What do you mean nothing happened. Meryl Streep made a movie about it. And THEN nothing happened.
You see, you can't prosecute them, otherwise they won't invest or something.
They'll go hoard all their wealth and not circulate it (something that a capitalist economy needs to "work") in another country
Not literally nothing. A good few people were arrested and over a billion dollars was recovered as a result. Germany issued an arrest warrant, but Panama doesn't have an extradition treaty with Germany, and refused to hand them over because the owners of the law firm that facilitated the tax evasion held Panamanian passports. There was however a few US Citizens who were indicted on tax fraud charges and thrown in prison for it.
The real message was - taxes are for suckers like us. Conclusion - don't be a sucker.
Makes me wonder, how is Snowden doing and why did it take me so long to remember his name
There were people prosecuted for this I believe, but it only happened in countries where the law actually exists so it wasn't the US, UK, or anything like that.
We gave some of them direct or indirect positions in the US government I think.
We are all hamsters, running perpetually in cycles of production and consumption, inching ever closer towards demise.
mitochondria, who do all the hard work
Nah, they stole more and are more blatant about it. Something happened, just nothing good.
They do it in Nevis now. They set up companies there, the government refuses to reveal who owns which company, and the filthy rich hide and launder billions through those companies.
I think about this more often than I like.
Not a good damn thing
Nothing ever happens guy wins again
They made virus to cover it up. Now they're covering virus with AI.