Corporate Media Whores Strike Again: Panama Leak | Mossack Fonseca Papers

Article SOURCE https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2016/04/corporate-media-gatekeepers-protect-western-1-from-panama-leak/ Corporate Media Whores Strike Again:  Panama Leak | Mossack Fonseca Papers SOURCE https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2016/04/corporate-media-gatekeepers-protect-western-1-from-panama-leak/ Corporate Media Gatekeepers Protect Western 1% From Panama Leak 54 3 Apr, 2016 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.  [Comment:  ... LOL] 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? SOURCE https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2016/04/corporate-media-gatekeepers-protect-western-1-from-panama-leak/ ---------------------- ---------------------- COMMENT Wow, another leak ...  Only we don't get to see this one & the controlled media will cherry pick, just using the information to target the ruling Western oligarchy handmaiden-enforcer governments' official, designated enemies. Vlad can do no wrong in my eyes and neither can Russia. Look at what the Western crooks have been up to over the last 70 years:  exploitative capitalist agenda wars; illegal wars; invasions; murder of millions; enforcing crippling, murderous sanctions; dropping depleted uranium bombs; dropping atomic weapons; serial CIA coups;  serial regime change; serial destruction of entire countries; mass surveillance of entire countries, including their own; decades of CIA collusion with corporate media; CIA funding political parties in sovereign countries; non-stop corporate media & CIA propaganda; Western censorship & political policing violations (including rape of activist women by undercover police, Britain);  Western murder of political dissidents (USA); British government refusal  to execute arrest warrants for (alleged) war criminals allied to the West (Israelis), but politically persecuting Aussie journalist-publisher, Assange, held in arbitrary detention in violation of international laws, and held WITHOUT CHARGE for over five and a half years. I left out the Americans unsigning themselves from the Rome Statute, and therefore out of the reach  of the International Criminal Court, so that they cannot be held to account for the WAR CRIMES THEY AND THEIR ALLIES (YES, THEY'RE COVERED, TOO) HAVE COMMITTED & INTEND TO COMMIT IN FUTURE; the Americans blackmailing aid and trade dependent nations to grant Americans immunity from being held accountable for commission of war crimes; the Americans passing into law that they SHALL USE MILITARY FORCE against any nation that seeks to bring their citizens (or allies!  ... hello?) before international courts of law (meanwhile these same war criminal hypocrites and liars target Serbian politicians, in propaganda spectacles to distract from their own illegal bombings and war crimes -- the scum). The Guardian's pathetic, and so is that phony warmonger US oligarchy funded International Consortium of Whore Journalist. What kind of idiot leaks anything to the mainstream media or its representatives? Hello ... anyone remember what happened to Israeli nukes whistleblower:  Mordechai Vanunu? Bet this isn't even a real leak: it's probably a CIA offering to shape public opinion.

InfoSource: Wayne Madsen

ꕤ Wayne Madsen website http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/ details American American mother and a WWII Danish merchant mariner father WA, DC-based investigative journalist television news commentator online editor of Wayne Madsen Report.com author specializing intelligence & international affairs Military service (US Navy) US Navy lieutenant assigned to:  Anti-Submarine Warfare duties Assigned to: National Security Agency (NSA) as a COMSEC analyst COMSEC =  used to protect classified & unclassified traffic =  on military communications networks, incl. voice, video & data Published in various sources television commentator on many programs, incl. 60 Minutes Russia Today Press TV & many others ꕤ

InfoSource: Nafeez Ahmed

ꕤ Nafeez Ahmed website http://www.nafeezahmed.com/ details author investigative journalist international security scholar policy expert film maker strategy & communications consultant change activist developing INSURGE INTELLIGENCE, a crowdfunded public-interest investigative journalism platform Executive Director Institute for Policy Research and Development (IPRD) independent think tank focused on study of violent conflict in the context of global ecological, energy & economic crises Terminated by The Guardian after writing: Israel gas article Guardian Journalist Fired for Reporting on Israeli Gas Interests 6 Dec. 2014  After writing for The Guardian for over a year, my contract was unilaterally terminated because I wrote a piece on Gaza that was beyond the pale. In doing so, The Guardian breached the very editorial freedom the paper was obligated to protect under my contract. I’m speaking out because I believe it is in the public interest to know how a Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper which styles itself as the world’s leading liberal voice, casually engaged in an act of censorship to shut down coverage of issues that undermined Israel’s publicised rationale for going to war. EXTRACT ONLY - FULL AT SOURCE http://earthfirstjournal.org/newswire/2014/12/06/guardian-journalist-fired-for-reporting-on-israeli-gas-interests/ For more on Israeli gas interests & neoliberal collateral damage, see other InfoSource (below):  'Why Murdoch Pushes for War' - Craig Murray Link  |  here more |  Nafeez Ahmed WikiLeaks:  Oil Motivates U.S. Policy More than Fighting Terrorists Nafeez Ahmed Link  |  here Nafeez Ahmed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nafeez_Mosaddeq_Ahmed ꕤ

InfoSource: Jonathan Cook

ꕤ Jonathan Cook website http://www.jonathan-cook.net/ details ward-winning British journalist currently freelance reporter based in Nazareth, Israel, since 2001 author of three books on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict Cook report: “Israel brings Gaza entry restrictions to West Bank” [here] one of the most important stories CENSORED in 2009-10 Southampton University in 1987 degree in philosophy and politics postgraduate diploma in journalism - Cardiff University (1989) masters degree in Middle Eastern studies (distinction), London Uni (2000) ---------------------- ꕤ ----------------------   as above https://electronicintifada.net/content/israel-brings-gaza-entry-restrictions-west-bank/8399 'The dangerous cult of The Guardian' | Jonathan Cooke Link  |  here ꕤ

InfoSource: Colin Todhunter

ꕤ Colin Todhunter website http://www.colintodhunter.com/ http://colintodhunter.blogspot.com details Journalist Northwest of England, origins. Many years in India. Wrote extensively for: Deccan Herald (the Bangalore-based broadsheet) New Indian Express Morning Star (Britain) Articles also in various other newspapers, journals & books. [source:  truth-out] ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- COMMENT Excellent information source. example article: MUST READ: Neoliberal Capitalism - Planned Machinations of Empire & Militarism - Syria, Ukraine, Libya & Beyond  link | here ꕤ

Craig Murray: The Guardian - Disgraceful Neocon Rag

Operation Flavius and the Killer Cameron Exactly twenty years ago the European Court of Human Rights found that the British Government had acted illegally in shooting dead three IRA members in Gibraltar, even though the court accepted that the government had a genuine belief that they were planning a bombing attack. Indeed the court accepted the victims were terrorists, and refused compensation to their families on those grounds. But the court refused to accept there was no possibility of foiling the plot through methods other than summary execution. In the light of the decision that Operation Flavius contravened Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights, it is difficult to understand how the government can claim its killing of British men in Syria, with no trial, is anything other than murder. I personally find it difficult to imagine technically how men journeying in a car in Syria were imminently able to instantly wreak havoc in the UK so that it was impossible to prevent by any method other than their execution without trial. The level of certainty required for that decision would involve sufficient knowledge of what was to happen in the UK to stop it here. If there was vagueness about what was actually to happen in the UK, there cannot have been the certainty about the threat claimed. It is a logical impasse. Frankly in twenty years of experience working with British security services their level of accuracy (remember Iraqi WMD) was never that good. And everybody is fortunately now deeply sceptical about the continual claims by the security services that there are thousands of dedicated Islamic terrorists in the UK conducting hundreds of plots every year, and yet miraculously never actually managing to kill anybody. Just in case anybody had not worked out yet that the Guardian is a disgraceful neo-con rag, it has an article by its “legal correspondent” Joshua Rozenberg, married to the even more rabid Zionist militarist Melanie Phillips (who still believes the Iraqi WMD exist, hidden in the bed of the Euphrates). Rozenberg assures us it is absolutely legal for the British government to kill us without trial if it wants. He even suggests the murdered Mr Khan would not object: “If he was waging war on British troops and civilians, he can hardly complain the UK’s armed forces were one step ahead of him.” Astonishingly for a lawyer, the disgraceful Rozenberg does not seem to notice that the opening “if” is rather important. “If Mr Jones was engaged in insurance fraud, he can hardly complain at being banged up for twenty years”, so according to Mr Rozenberg we can dispense with all that nonsense about trials and evidence and just take the government’s word for it. Not to mention that the government has now instituted summary execution without trial in a country that does not even have the death penalty.  [ ... ] As I have argued, it is not unusual for British people to go to fight abroad. There were British citizens in the Israeli Defence Forces participating in the massacre of Palestinian civilians in Gaza last year. Our neo-con governments of both blue and red Tories have positively encouraged the mercenary companies Executive Outcomes/Sandline/Aegis of Tony Buckingham and Tim Spicer. There are Britons fighting now in the Ukraine. We started by positively encouraging factions in the Syrian civil war, with the Saudis and CIA arming and training them and some of those factions helped constitute ISIL. There is no evidence at all that Islamic State had any interest in attacks in the UK until we started to attack it. (That is not to say it is not a very bad organisation and did not commit actions against UK citizens in its “Caliphate area”. But it did not threaten the UK). For the government to claim the right to kill British people through sci-fi execution, based on highly unreliable secret intelligence and a secret declaration of legality, is so shocking I find it difficult to believe it is happening even as I type the words. Are we so cowed as to accept this? SOURCE https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2015/09/operation-flavius-and-the-killer-cameron/ ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- COMMENT LOL ... I love the remark about The Guardian being a "disgraceful neocon rag". I knew I'd like Craig Murray. ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- Wasn't intending to post anything other the comment re The Guardian, but this is also very interesting. This extra-judicial killing of targets overseas sort of 'complements' the criminal law turned to 'global law' strategy used by the British, as an excuse for the secret drone attacks in Syria (that was mentioned elsewhere). Who is permitted to go overseas to kill depends on who is being killed, perhaps? LOL  ... Saudis and CIA arming al-Qaeda, who then joined ISIS.  Oh, wait a minute ... They're supposed to be funding ISIS, too.  Think they all might answer to CIA and friends. 'Authorities' that fund terrorists can hardly point the finger at other organisations, declaring them 'terrorists.'   I think it really is the law of jungle and it's only a matter of:  might is right and 'do whatever' ... as Mr Crowley, kind of said. Assange Transnational Security Elite, Carving Up the World Using Your Tax Money London  OCT8 Antiwar Mass Assembly (2011) Link  |  here ꕤ

InfoSource: Craig Murray

ꕤ Craig Murray website   https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/ BOOK Murder in Samarkand A British Ambassador's Controversial Defiance of Tyranny in the War on Terror (2006)   former British ambassador to Uzbekistan former Rector - University of Dundee (2007-10) 2002 - Uzbekistan boiling to death of 2 members Hizb ut-Tahrir "not an isolated incident" Murray said re Uzbekistan speech 2003 - Re:  George W Bush speech Wrote to FCO re: Karimov regime systematic torture & rape treated as peccadilloes / ie overlooked by interl players for Uzbek relationship / sought FCO address concerns w/ US senior level 2004 complained that intel linking Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan to al-Qaeda =  obtained under torture, immoral, illegal & unreliable 2004 Removed shortly after LEAKED report in Financial Times quoted him as claiming: MI6 used intelligence  obtained by Uzbek authorities through torture 2006 Alex Jones interview - Murray claimed: false intelligence on al-Qaeda plots obtained by torture done by CIA proxies intelligence gained = used as a propaganda tool Other Awarded for: campaigning work on torture and human rights SOURCE https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Murray ARTICLES Legal Advice Extra-judiciary Assassinations How the British Establishment Works Link  |  here Craig Murray: The Guardian - Disgraceful Neocon Rag Operation Flavious & the Killer Cameron Extra-judicial Syria British Govt Assassinations BETHLEHEM DOCTRINE Link  |  here Feminism A Neo-Con Tool LINK | Post Corporate Media Whores Strike Again: Panama Leak | Mossack Fonseca Papers LINK | here ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- COMMENT I like the sound of this guy.  He sounds interesting. Uzbekistan is mind-blowing. CIA sound like gangsters to me. So are we really ruled by gangsters (like the mafia or something)? If so, just beneath the everyday veneer of order and civilisation that we take for granted as being our reality, it's really a jungle and the only order and certainty is all manner of state criminality? ꕤ