'Panama Papers' - CIA PsyOp

'Panama Papers' - CIA PsyOp http://www.cnbc.com/2016/04/12/swiss-banker-whistleblower-cia-behind-panama-papers.html Swiss banker whistleblower: CIA behind Panama Papers Eamon Javers    | @EamonJavers Tuesday, 12 Apr 2016 | 12:11 PM ET Bradley Birkenfeld is the most significant financial whistleblower of all time, so you might think he'd be cheering on the disclosures in the new Panama Papers leaks. But today, Birkenfeld is raising questions about the source of the information that is shaking political regimes around the world. Birkenfeld, an American citizen, was a banker working at UBS in Switzerland when he approached the U.S. government with information on massive amounts of tax evasion by Americans with secret accounts in Switzerland. By the end of his whistleblowing career, Birkenfeld had served more than two years in a U.S. federal prison, been awarded $104 million by the IRS for his information and shattered the foundations of more than a century of Swiss banking secrecy. In an exclusive interview Tuesday from Munich, Birkenfeld said he doesn't think the source of the 11 million documents stolen from a Panamanian law firm should automatically be considered a whistleblower like himself. Instead, he said, the hacking of the Panama City-based firm, called Mossack Fonseca, could have been done by a U.S. intelligence agency. "The CIA I'm sure is behind this, in my opinion," Birkenfeld said. Birkenfeld pointed to the fact that the political uproar created by the disclosures have mainly impacted countries with tense relationships with the United States. "The very fact that we see all these names surface that are the direct quote-unquote enemies of the United States, Russia, China, Pakistan, Argentina and we don't see one U.S. name. Why is that?" Birkenfeld said. "Quite frankly, my feeling is that this is certainly an intelligence agency operation." Asked why the U.S. would leak information that has also been damaging to U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron, a major American ally, Birkenfeld said the British leader was likely collateral damage in a larger intelligence operation. "If you've got NSA and CIA spying on foreign governments they can certainly get into a law firm like this," Birkenfeld said. "But they selectively bring the information to the public domain that doesn't hurt the U.S. in any shape or form. That's wrong. And there's something seriously sinister here behind this." The public relations office for the CIA did not immediately return a message for comment. Birkenfeld also said that during his time as a Swiss banker, Mossack Fonseca was known as one piece of the vast offshore maze used by bankers and lawyers to hide money from tax authorities. But he also said that the firm that is at the center of the global scandal was also seen as a relatively small player in the overall offshore tax evasion business. "We knew that firm very well in Switzerland. I certainly knew of it," Birkenfeld said. But Mossack Fonseca was just one of a number of firms in Panama offering such services, he said. "The cost of doing business there was quite low, relatively speaking," he said. "So what you would have is Panama operating as a conduit to the Swiss banks and the trust companies to set up these facilities for clients around the world." Eamon Javers CNBC Washington Reporter http://www.cnbc.com/2016/04/12/swiss-banker-whistleblower-cia-behind-panama-papers.html COMMENT I'm not the only one that thinks this reeks of USG.

Panama Papers, George Soros, Web of European Entities, US Projection of Influence & History of CIA Propaganda in Europe

SPUTNIK http://sputniknews.com/world/20160407/1037656138/occrp-icij-panama-mariani.html USAID, Soros Funding Explains Lack of US Banks, Citizens in Panama Leaks World 19:46 07.04.2016 French lawmaker Thierry Mariani said that the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), is explicit in receiving Soros’ Open Society Foundations (OSF) and USAID funding and it explains why in fact so-called Panama Papers leak has absolutely nothing about US banks or German, American citizens involved in schemes. MOSCOW (Sputnik), Svetlana Alexandrova – US Agency for International Development (USAID) and billionaire investor George Soros funding explains the absence of US banks and citizens implicated in the Panama Papers leak for running offshore schemes, French lawmaker Thierry Mariani told Sputnik on Thursday. Germany’s Suddeutsche Zeitung published materials on Sunday it claimed to come from the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca, exposing a number of world leaders and their circles’ alleged involvement in tax haven schemes. One of the newspaper’s project partners, the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), is explicit in receiving Soros’ Open Society Foundations (OSF) and USAID funding. "It explains why in fact so-called Panama Papers leak has absolutely nothing about US banks or German, American citizens involved in schemes," Mariani said. The WikiLeaks editorial team drew attention to OCCRP’s funding on Wednesday, saying the Eastern Europe and Central Asia-oriented organization waged a smear campaign against Russian President Vladimir Putin. 'Panama Papers’ report has revealed no new information. We should be mindful of the information on who supports and directly funds the Panama Papers’ report. On the lower portion of the OCCRP’s website it is said that Reporting Project is made possible by a Soros-funded organization and USAID," Mariani echoed WikiLeaks' reminder. Mossack Fonseca earlier responded to media reports by refusing to validate the information contained in the leaks and accused reporters of gaining unauthorized access to its proprietary documents. It warned that using unlawfully-obtained data was a crime that it would not hesitate to punish by legal means. http://sputniknews.com/world/20160407/1037656138/occrp-icij-panama-mariani.html BellingCrap https://www.journalism.co.uk/news/new-bellingcat-project-to-investigate-cross-border-corruption/s2/a562610/ New Bellingcat project to investigate cross-border corruption Collaboration between Bellingcat, Hacks/Hackers London and the Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) will share information on the latest open-source investigative tools and techniques Posted: 29 September 2014 By: Abigail Edge Open-source investigations site Bellingcat today launched a new project to investigate global networks of crime and corruption. The London Project Investigathon is a collaboration between Bellingcat, Hacks/Hackers London and the Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP). It will bring together journalists, investigators and researchers to share knowledge on the latest open-source tools and techniques required to carry out investigations, by organising regular events to work on live projects. "Because these are transferable skills, we can set them up doing projects that we're giving them but they'll learn stuff that they can use in their own projects," said Eliot Higgins, founder of Bellingcat and the Brown Moses blog on munitions used in the Syrian conflict. Also involved in the Investigathon are journalists from the Financial Times, members of the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, and Bellingcat contributors Peter Jukes, Chris Brace and Oz Katerji. Their first project will be centred around money laundering and, more specifically, money from Eastern Europe which is suspected of being laundered in the UK property market. Higgins said the project is an "extension" of Google Investigathon, held in July to showcase the OCCRP's Investigative Dashboard. Participants will learn to use tools including the OCCRP's Investigative Dashboard, which scrapes data from business registries around the world and makes it searchable to assist those working on cross-border investigations. ... Bellingcat, which launched in July, regularly shares tips, tools and how-to guides on verifying stories and videos using open-source information alongside its own investigations. Two recent projects include locating an Islamic State training camp in Mosul, Iraq and identifying the Buk missile launcher alleged to have shot down flight MH17 in eastern Ukraine. In a similar fashion, the London Project Investigathon's work, tools and techniques will be written up on Bellingcat "so other people can go and do it themselves and learn from us", said Higgins. ... https://www.journalism.co.uk/news/new-bellingcat-project-to-investigate-cross-border-corruption/s2/a562610/ -------/\/\/ Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) f. 2006 Washington based -- website is reportingproject.net -- founded by: -- Drew Sullivan:  was editor of  Centre for Investigative Reporting (CIN) -- & Paul Radu:  worked with Romanian centre -- paired with regional colleagues re energy traders in region -- project won:  Global Shining Light Award   -- awarded by:  Global Investigative Journalism Network -- OCCRP begun with grant from:  United Nations Democracy Fund -- parent org. is the Journalism Development Network, Maryland-based non-profit org.  /  - formed:  08/21/2007 * OCCRP is partially financed by György Soros * OCCRP is partially fianced by USAid OCCRP consortium of investigative centres, media & journalists operating Eastern Europe, Caucasus, Central Asia, Central America early practitioner of collaborative, cross-border investigative journalism by non-profit journalism orgs -- partners with:     -- Arab reporters for Investigative Journalism (ARIJ) - Jordan     -- Connectas - Colombia     -- InsightCrime -- Colombia     -- International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) - Washington     -- African Network of Centers for Investigative Reporting - South Africa   -- worked with hundreds of news orgs incl.     -- The Guardian     -- Financial Times     -- Le Soir     -- BBC     -- Time Magazine     -- Al Jazeera     -- plus other major media    * is a Kyiv Post partner -------/\/\/ Paul Radu Paul Cristian Radu investigative journalist based in Bucharest, Romania -- director:  Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) -- co-founder:  Romanian Centre for Investigative Journalism -- teaches (Balkans org) -- 2008 - 'Central European Initiative jury' -- 2009 - 48 Hours / sex slavery Central European Initiative (CEI) -- forum of regional cooperation -- formed Budapest 1989 -- HQ Italy since 1996 -- CEI aims at achieving cohesion in areas of mutual interest -- AND ASSISTING NON-EU MEMBER STATES consolidating economic and social development     -- previously mainly  policy dialogue     -- now 'economic growth' & 'human development' pillars of 'cooperation'     -- focus on 'capacity building' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_European_Initiative Central European Initiative "regional forum created with the aim to foster the integration of former Soviet ‘satellites’ in the European and Western European co-operation frameworks" http://www.internationaldemocracywatch.org/index.php/central-european-initiative Central European Initiative projects of CEI funded by:  CEI Cooperation Fund to which all Member States contribute The CEI Fund was established in 1992 when Italy signed an agreement with the EBRD “to assist the Bank’s countries of operations in central and eastern Europe in their economic and social transformation process”. The fund, towards which Italy has made a total contribution of €38.5 million since its establishment, is managed by the Office for the CEI Fund at the EBRD and provides grant-type technical cooperation (TC) assistance for specific components of the Bank’s projects. Since its inception, the fund has provided more than €23 million for funding TC projects. The fund has also contributed a total of €3.3 million to the Know-How Exchange Programme (KEP) and to cooperation activities assignments, both of which are specific CEI programmes. Technical cooperation projects Technical cooperation projects constitute the largest part of the activity funded by the CEI Fund at the EBRD. CEI technical cooperation is traditionally offered in the form of grant- type assistance. Operations include support for feasibility and pre-feasibility studies, project implementation, management training, capacity building and pre-loan audits. These activities target a number of priority areas including agribusiness, business and finance, energy, institutional development, municipal infrastructure and services, small and medium-sized enterprise support and transport. ... April 2014 Total investments made by the EBRD linked to CEI grants €2.9 billion Funding provided for TC projects €23 million Italian contribution €38.5 million Member states 18 http://www.ebrd.com/downloads/research/factsheets/cei.pdf EBRD - European Bank for Reconstruction & Development established Jan. 1993, funded by the Italians CEI permanent working group on minorities & a contact committee. Participation in CEI & working groups seen as way of bringing east European states closer to EU. CEI aims to coordinate Western assistance to post-communist countries in central & eastern Europe.  That is the purpose of the project secretariat in the EBRD. CEI provides institutional framework for multilateral dialogue & cooperation & conssensus-bulding. CEI described as an important 'political coordination club' in Europe. CEI kicked off the 'Europe of the Regions' concept in terms of an EU which is styled as a 'Committtee of Regions' Buzzwords:     -- evolving European architecture     -- European institutions     -- European integration     -- European unification   source:  The International Politics of East Central Europe By Adrian G. V. Hyde-Price The Central European Initiative began life in November 1989, when Italy, Austria, Hungary and Yugoslavia got together to form a body called Quadragonal Co-operation. It was described then as a "platform for mutual political, economic, scientific and cultural co-operation". One of the CEI's main tasks at present is helping the ten non-members of the EU learn from the seven EU members, or in the CEI's jargon "facilitating and co-financing the transfer of know-how on 'fresh' transition and negotiation experience."    http://www.radio.cz/en/section/curraffrs/pm-paroubek-to-attend-cei-meeting-in-piestany Paul Radu Paul Cristian Radu stepped down as member of RCIJ  -  2013 RCIJ established 2001 in Romania -- RCIJ:  a founding member of OCCRP in 2006 -- chairman:  Stefan Candea   -- executive committee:                  Sorin Ozon             Catalin Prisacariu             Adrian Mogos             Petru Zoltan             + 2 future appointments             Vlad Ursulean -- reported for Kamikaze weekly & Romania Liberia -- working on transnational investigation re shale gas extraction's impact on locals -- journalist to spend 3 months:  -- New England Center for Investigative Reporting (NECIR) - Boston University -- it appears that journalist is:  Vlad Ursulean, as NECIR dirctor (Joe Bergantino) excited re opportunity to work with 'talented young journalist like Vlad Ursulean" & looks forward to jointly producing an in-depth investigative report on crucial issue for both Europe & the US." 12-WEEK RESIDENCY FUNDED BY A GRANT FROM OPEN SOCIETY FOUNDATIONS -- Ursulean to receive training & editorial supervision & guidance -- goal:  produce transnational investigative report & return to Romania with skills needed to boost reporting @ RCIJ The following reporter also Boston residency: Emilia Diaz-Struck from Venezuela who is reporting for Connectas Since 2011:  "RCIJ established a collaborative Media Innovation Lab for Eastern Europe, the Sponge" source https://www.crji.org/press.php archive http://archive.is/ADPKp -------/\/\/ Paul Cristian Radu -- former head of investigative dept of Evenimentul Zilei (daily paper Bucharest) -- at 2008:  worked independently - Romanian Centre of Investigative Journalism -- founded with x2 other journalists -- Jun-Dec. 2001:  Alfred Friendly fellow, team at San Antanio Express-News -- 2002:  Milena Jesenska Press fellow:  Institute of Human Sciences, Vienna, Austria http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Paul_Cristian_Radu Alfred Friendly Foundation American nonprofit foundation that awards Alfred Friendly Press Fellowships created in 1984 by Alfred Friendly, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter / former managing editor Washington Post https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Friendly_Foundation ---------------------- ---------------------- Alfred Friendly Ben Bradlee The following year he joined the staff of the Office of U.S. Information and Educational Exchange, the embassy's special propaganda arm. As Deborah Davis has pointed out: "Bradlee's work for USIE, which is now the USIA, was in something called the Regional Publication Center, or the Regional Service Center. It produced films, magazines, research, speeches, and news items for use by the embassies, the Marshall Plan offices, and the CIA throughout Europe. It controlled Voice of America. The Paris Center was controlled from Washington by a man named Edward Ware Barrett, an assistant secretary of state for public affairs and a seventeen-year veteran of Newsweek." (19) It was claimed by Christopher Reed that "During this period, according to a US justice department memo, Bradlee promulgated CIA-directed European propaganda urging the controversial execution of the convicted American spies Ethel and Julius Rosenberg." (20) While at the USIE, Bradlee worked with E. Howard Hunt and Alfred Friendly.  ... In July 1965 Katharine Graham appointed Bradlee as assistant managing editor of the Washington Post under Alfred Friendly, his former colleague at Office of U.S. Information and Educational Exchange. ... Alfred Friendly -- American journalist, editor & writer:  Washington Post -- 1930s:  cover war mobilisation efforts and anti-war strikes -- WWII Air Force, rank of Major / retiring 1945 -- involved in cryptography & intel ops in military -- second in command  at Bletchley Park, highest ranking US officer there -- remained European press aide to W. Averell Harriman, supervisor Marshall Plan -- returned to Washington Post: -- assistant managing editor 1952 -- managing editor 1955 -- associate editor & foreign correspondent London 1966 -- heads to Middle East - Six Day War 1967 (Israel vs Arabs -- retired from Washington Post 1971 -- wrote books after retirement -- on death:  Alfred Friendly foundation established -- administers:  ALFRED FRIENDLY PRESS PARTNERS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Friendly The CIA and the Media How Americas Most Powerful News Media Worked Hand in Glove with the Central Intelligence Agency and Why the Church Committee Covered It Up Carl Bernstein http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28610.htm More on CIA - Europe LINK | Post ---------------------- ---------------------- COMMENT Found the above really interesting. I've read that Carl Bernstein article before, but I don't remember much anything ... so I might have to read that again (later).  It's so crap having a poor memory. Anyway, I thought all these US crossovers, US patronage, the Soros webs of influence, what amounts to American indoctrination and to projection of American influence across Europe is an interesting, many-headed beast. I'm convinced that the 'Panama Papers' 'leak' slash release is an American PsyOps. USAID's position is sort of explained here in this diagram:

Panama Toilet Papers & the Capitalist Bastards With An Eye On Global Markets, Funding Destruction of European Societies

TRANSCRIPT [confirm audio, for quotation purposes] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNvWxZ_bhAI Al-Jazeera English [Qatar state media  / indirect funding also from Thani ruling family via third entity] Julian Assange on the Panama Papers [skip Al-Jazeera introduction] What kind of person would reveal those secrets & why? 1:24 Julian Assange Editor-in-Chief, WikiLeaks Assuming they were an insider, or they were an individual computer hacker coming from the outside, this a technical person.  Or this person had help from a technical person.  I think it's likely that this represents radicalisation of a technical class.  That's something that we've seen, for example, with Snowden. So these are usually young men, who are technically educated, know how to extract material.  But, of course, they have to have the idea and the idea is given to them by successful examples and now there have been a range of successful examples. Al-Jazeera Interviewer It's also to do with hardware, though, isn't it.  Because back in 2010, most journalists at most news organisations wouldn't have had a clue about encryption. Back in 2013 when Snowden came out, most Guardian journalists he was dealing with, he had to school on encryption.  Now so many news outlets are providing these boxes, these (for lack of a better term) 'safe havens' for data, that five years ago only organisations like yours and a few others did.  That's a big change, as well, isn't it? Julian Assange Editor-in-Chief, WikiLeaks Well, I don't believe that  Sueddeutsche [Sueddeutsche Zeitung] got their material that way.  However, their journalists have been educated in the technology. But it's no surprise that it was a German newspaper, because Germany is the centre of technical education of journalists and is also the centre of the political radicalisation of the technical class.  Both of those two things combined. Al-Jazeera Interviewer The head of the ICIJ said ICIJ, the consortium, has no plans to release the full data set.  He said:  "We're not WikiLeaks. We're trying to show that journalism can be done responsibly." Julian Assange Editor-in-Chief, WikiLeaks Yeah, that's a concern.  So we're very pleased about the work that SZ -- Sueddeutsche Zeitung -- did in beginning and developing that source.  We think that's really good work.  The work of the source, of course, is the most impressive and then pulling together that collaboration is also impressive work. Saying that you're going to censor and not release a lot of the material -- in fact, what must be 99% of the material -- that's a big problem. It's fine to have some kind of staggered release because you want to balance the supply and demand curve. But what I want to hear is that there is a path -- a transparent path -- to publishing the vast majority of that data set, because that's what's interesting from a legal perspective, from a historical perspective. One of the fundamental missed lessons from the WikiLeaks experience is about how to deal with scale.  OK, one part of dealing with scale is stitch together a big international collaboration:  get more bodies, more eyeballs on the material.  The other way to deal with scale is that scale is inherent in the material:  when you've got millions of documents, you need to make millions of documents available [and] citable, so it's not just a few hundred journalists, it's all the lawyers in the world, it's all the police in the world. Al-Jazeera Interviewer As someone who pretty much wrote the book on multimedia outlet collaborations, you knew that this stuff was coming. When you saw the first wave -- the first two or three days of reporting  -- what stood out for you and what did you not see that you thought you would in the reporting? Julian Assange Editor-in-Chief, WikiLeaks We've been covering the offshore sector for a long time, since 2007.  In fact, WikiLeaks has used the offshore sector for protection from banking blockades, so we even had to research it for our own purposes. But in terms of the initial angling of the story, that can be a bit strange.  There was clearly a conscious effort to go with the Putin-bashing, North Korea bashing, sanctions-bashing etc. For some reason, some papers, like The Guardian thought that was necessary. Al-Jazeera Interviewer Have we seen any other examples in the parochial reporting media outlets from various countries doing what The Guardian appears to have done, which is point at a distant target while not paying as much attention, proportionally speaking, to a domestic target much closer to home? Julian Assange Editor-in-Chief, WikiLeaks Sure, that was done in Sweden with SVT -- the Swedish state TV -- beating up on Iceland. Iceland's a small Scandinavian neighbour, sort of a -- you know, viewed as quite provincial and fun to beat up on.  But the Swedish trusts were not really examined. Al-Jazeera Interviewer Am I the only one who's surprised that more than 100 news organisations can get involved with a story like this and somehow, in an industry that is famous for rumour-mongering and incurable gossip, they managed to keep a lid on the whole story until it came out. Julian Assange Editor-in-Chief, WikiLeaks I think it is interesting.  We knew. We know other people in other news organisations who knew, but who didn't say anything. I think because no-one knows of the law-firm concerned [Mossack Fonseca]; it doesn't have name recognition. Then the individual details are -- they're quite technical.  You can't tweet this story.  You can't spill the beans with just a small comment.  So I think there just wasn't the market to do it.  It could also be that so many news organisations were involved, so they had incentives to not report. Al-Jazeera Interviewer The item that strikes me about this is that we're sitting in an embassy in London that you are not free to leave, and a lot of politicians -- primarily in the United States, but also elsewhere -- when the leaks came out in 2010, they turned you into the embodiment of the problem and, in a way, it kind of reminds me of that Napster story, the free music service that the music industry went after in a big way, destroyed in a court of law and woke up the next morning and found out that Napster wasn't their problem:  that technology was their problem.   There is no music industry per se, compared to what there was before today, and I'm wondering if you feel like that now would be a good time to point out that you weren't necessarily their problem.  Their problem is the technology and you can't lock that up in an embassy in west London. Julian Assange Editor-in-Chief, WikiLeaks Look, WikiLeaks set an example and the example was the threat, and the example was a threat because the technology, over time, became more available to other people who could then follow the example. Looking forward as to how I think the Panama Papers will go, it's going to be hard to go forward without a bulk publishing effort.  There's just not the mass to deal with the reliance that the establishment of the UK, United States and, in fact, most countries have in the offshore sector. Now, what you have in practice at the moment is basically a two-tiered tax system, where the middle class and the working poor pay income tax and the wealthy essentially don't pay anything. That's a question about the structure of society, and that big picture is not being engaged with in the journalism that it has done.  It is 'Oh, North Korea', 'Oh, Russia', 'Oh, sanctions breaking', 'Oh, --' maybe someone dodging inheritance tax a little bit.  But there is a big picture here as well.  Al-Jazeera Interviewer Stories that we can put a face on.  They like to do the stories that they can put a face on. Julian Assange Editor-in-Chief, WikiLeaks Stories and scandals that you can put a face on can be good for marketing reasons, but what are you marketing in the end? What WikiLeaks does and what I believe should have been done with this story is that the scandals are there to MARKET THE ARCHIVE, because the ARCHIVE that has the SCALE that can deal with the problem. -- end audio:  9:12 --    SOURCE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNvWxZ_bhAI PRIME REASON NOT TO LEAK TO HAMSTRUNG MAINSTREAM PRESS TRADE SECRETS LAWS - USED TO SILENCE PUBLISHERS TRANSCRIPT [confirm audio, for quotation purposes] Video Source https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyQCX05MxLM [where audio unclear gaps left ] Male Because of the activity of WikiLeaks -- [cuts to] 0:04 Julian Assange Editor-in-Chief, WikiLeaks The question is, how much can a cashed up oligarch or company tax people who engage in publishing material about it, by abusing the process, grabbing onto hooks like trade secret law, to force publishers (and in this case service providers and individuals), into very expensive litigation. The experience from the United States has been a disastrous one. Trade secrets law is used to create taxes on publishers who publish quotes, say, from internal e-mails -- like we've seen ... with the Panama Papers. Now, the situation, however, is already bad here in Europe. One of our partner publications, Deutsche [Süddeutsche ?] Zeitungen in Germany (SZ), who was the principal who got hold of the Panama Papers, who developed that source.  How many did they publish? How many Panama Papers did they publish, the principal indy organisation involved?  Zero. They have published zero.  They have published an occasional quote, but they have released zero Panama Papers. So, why is that?  Because of fears of litigation risk. Already we are at the stage, where a fairly strong mainstream press organisation in Germany that is willing at least to take on some of the stories coming from ... feels it's not in a position to be able to publish a single document. Video Source https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyQCX05MxLM Translation "... scandal machinery starts against all enemies of the West from Russia via North Korea to Syria reveals a view of the parties. Both criticized for state near NDR [Norddeutscher Rundfunk / North German Broadcasting], and strictly pro-American media are involved."  "Also interesting are the donors. CPI and ICIJ with which the SZ cooperated for research, "financed by donations, more recently, among other foundations from Australia, Britain, the Netherlands and the US, including the Ford Foundation, the Adessium Foundation, founded by George Soros Open Society Foundation; also. "it says on the by the Pulitzer Center of Crisis Reporting"" http://www.neopresse.com/medien/die-anti-russland-kampagne-hinter-panama-papers/ http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/04/04/panama-papers-mainstream-media-focuses-putin-link-leak-group-funded-pro-open-borders-george-soros/ EXTRACT Questions must be asked of the tactics of the ICIJ, and indeed, their backers. The organisation, which describes itself as “a global network of more than 190 investigative journalists in more than 65 countries who collaborate on in-depth investigative stories” lists as some of its recent financial funders: Adessium Foundation Funds big green, as well as financial industry lobbyists, often in partnership with the George Soros-backed Open Society initiatives or foundations. The group also supports the EUObserver website, which dedicates itself to non-biased European Union reporting, though receives 64 per cent of its funding from predominantly pro-EU foundations. Open Society Foundations Chaired by Hungarian-American billionaire and Hillary Clinton donor George Soros, the Open Society Foundations back hundreds of pro open borders, mass immigration groups across the European Union, United Kingdom, and United States of America. Mr. Soros is a known rival of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, and has recently written about how Mr. Putin is a “greater threat” to the West than Islamic State. The Sigrid Rausing Trust The Sigrid Rausing Trust, similarly to the Open Society Foundations, backs open borders and pro mass migration groups across the United Kingdom, and funds anti-Israel groups in the Middle East. The organisation funds “No Borders” in Ukraine, “Reprieve” in the UK – which defends Guantanamo Bay detainees, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and the radical left group “Southall Black Sisters” in Britain.   Graeme Wood An Australian billionaire who has bankrolled anti coal projects in his home country, as well as supporting the Guardian website – which critics have highlighted the hypocrisy of for their own offshore tax set up. Mr. Wood was responsible for Australia’s “biggest ever political donation of $1.6 million in 2010 to the Greens” and funded the failed Global Mail news website. The Ford Foundation The Ford Foundation is one of the largest funders on the political left, giving out over $560 million just in 2013. The Ford Foundation has funded everything from Sesame Street to the radical TV show Democracy Now. [funding] ... dozens of far left groups with agendas ranging from environmentalism to abortion, the Ford Foundation is one of the premier funders of the open borders movement, beginning with its 1968 grant to create the group MALDEF, or the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund, as helping to create the group National Council of La Raza. MALDEF and La Raza have become to the most influential groups in the US open borders movement. The Ford foundation is also been a significant funder for the ACLU and the National Lawyers guild, both key legal players in the fight for open borders. Additionally, the Ford Foundation laid the intellectual groundwork for the modern open borders movement and its multiculturalist agenda with a series of grants in the 60s and 70s that created Women’s Studies and Black Studies programs at major universities across America. In a 1992 conference that Ford sponsored called “Cultural Diversity Enhancement” the closing speaker was Eve Grossman, a Princeton dean, who made the agenda very clear: “If we want to change the world, we have to change the students.” Pew Charitable Trust Like like The Ford Foundation, the Pew Charitable Trust is a major funder of a wide range of left-wing groups with focuses on arts and culture, environmental issues as well as public research opinion polling through the Pew Research group. In 2014 alone, Pew gave out over $110 million in grants. A quick look at the Pew Charitable Trust’s website includes a number of helpful articles if you’re an illegal alien and you’d like to drive, such as the recent pop quiz Do You Know the Facts About Driver’s Licenses for Unauthorized Immigrants? and Alternative Driver’s Licenses for Unauthorized Immigrants. David and Lucile Packard Foundation Another heavy hitter in the world of left-wing grant writing, the Packard Foundation gave out nearly $300 million in 2013 along. Aside from funding institutional left groups like Human Rights Watch, The Center for Reproductive Rights, And the Environmental Working Group, Packard is also funded open borders groups such as National Council of La Raza, the National Immigration Law Center, and the ACLU. http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/04/04/panama-papers-mainstream-media-focuses-putin-link-leak-group-funded-pro-open-borders-george-soros/ ---------------------- ---------------------- COMMENT   Panama Toilet Papers & the Capitalist Bastards With An Eye On Global Markets, Funding Destruction of European Societies Germany as the 'centre of the political radicalisation of the technical class' I cannot buy ... unless we're talking pussy, SJW, US-Anglo oligarchy serving and new world capitalist oligarchy order nation-destroying, liberalism agenda furthering, 'radicalism'. This 'responsible' journalism refrain is one we've heard before, with the Snowden 'leaks,' amounting to pious proclamations about journalistic 'responsibility', affirmation of the wonders of what's referred to as 'democracy' (ie rule by oligarchy), and ... the withholding of  99% of the information supposedly 'leaked'.  Some 'democracy' and some 'leak' that is. Corporate journalism, government & oligarchy sponsored 'liberty' promoting NGOs, & journalistic 'responsibility' trumpeting figures and ruling establishment sponsored journalistic 'responsibility' advocating NGOs (withholding information), aren't compatible with challenging the system that is also sponsor.  What they're good for is promoting the agenda of the ruling capitalist order, and an order with an eye for dominating the 'global market' capitalist world trade monopoly they seek to establish, the manifestation of which depends on an agenda that is bent on destroying European societies. We're never going to see the bulk of this 'leaked' material, let alone have access to material in full, because these aren't genuine leaks or genuine actors, in my opinion. The leaks are likely intended to damage or eliminate those that stand in the way of establishing global capitalist trade monopoly, which depends on the existence a unipolar US-led world order -- an order pursed by the US oligarchy serving American state that is designer and nurturer of this capitalist agenda, since at least the end of WWII (if not earlier). Oops, I think WikiLeaks is taking the Panama Papers seriously? LEAKER BEWARE I think the moral of this story is:  don't leak to mainstream media.  On the one hand, you have the corporate press that has its benefactors' and government's agenda dictating and restricting output. On the other hand, it looks as though you also have mainstream 'independent' media, but this platform is unable to publish as it is legally hamstrung, in the face of risk of exposure to costly litigation. *I'm still not convinced.  LOL

Project Preposterous - Panama Papers PsyOp

Project Preposterous   Panama Papers PsyOp SOURCE http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/panama-leaks-the-mysterious-message-that-launched-the-panama-papers-scandal-a6972501.html © Washington Post The mysterious message that launched the Panama Papers scandal What followed was almost unimaginable     Paul Farhi It began with a message — anonymous, of course: "Hello. This is John Doe. Interested in data?" The recipient, German newspaper reporter Bastian Obermayer, promptly responded that he was. What followed was almost unimaginable: "Doe" began forwarding files that ultimately contained 11.5 million documents, four decades' worth of digitized records from a Panamanian law firm that specializes in setting up offshore companies for wealthy clients. The Doe data dump to Obermayer and his colleague Frederik Obermaier in 2014 eventually triggered a unique cooperative project among journalists around the world. The effort culminated when, in a coordinated release, dozens of news organizations began publishing stories about the Panama Papers. ... More than a year after Doe first contacted them at their Munich-based newspaper, Suddeutsche Zeitung, Obermayer, 38, and Obermaier, 32, still have no idea who their source is or why he or she (or possibly they) came to them. To protect Doe’s identity and safety, however, they remain purposely guarded about what they do know. "We can’t disclose any numbers or times [of contact], of course, or if we are still in contact," Obermayer said in an exchange of emails on 6 April. "But we have communicated a lot, through different ways, all encrypted. On some days, I chatted more with the source than with my wife. We had a lot to talk about." ... The source never asked for financial compensation, they said. The extent of the material from the law firm, Mossack Fonseca & Co., proved so daunting — it would take more than 38,000 average-sized books to contain 11.5 million pages — that the German reporters turned to the Washington-based International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) for help. ICIJ, an 11-person unit of the nonprofit Center for Public Integrity, had worked with the German newspaper and other news organizations on cross-border investigations before. The organization coordinated reporters in 45 countries last year to investigate leaked files from a Swiss private-banking firm that hid hundreds of millions of dollars from tax authorities. The “Swiss Leaks” project followed one a few months earlier involving the revelation of secret tax deals between hundreds of global companies and officials in Luxembourg. ... Working gradually, region by region, ICIJ assembled a team of 370 journalists from about 100 media organizations spread over 70 countries, according to Michael Hudson and Marina Walker, the ICIJ’s senior editor and project manager, respectively. (The organization’s American media partners were McClatchy Newspapers and Fusion, the website and cable network; The Washington Post and ICIJ were partners on a 2013 investigation of tax havens.) ... The effort, known internally as Project Prometheus, required an unusual degree of cooperation among typically competitive news organizations. The "partners" had to agree to share newsworthy nuggets with the entire group, and not to publish anything ahead of the mass release on Sunday. All of the particulars were spelled out in a series of meetings held in Washington, Munich and Johannesburg last year. The potential for security breaches also required the journalists to remain tight-lipped about the project for months on end. Prometheus LINK | Post ---------------------- ---------------------- COMMENT Project Preposterous, more like it. The series of meetings in Washington, Munich & Johannesburg sounds like a CIA-Mossad partnership to me ... LOL Who'd leak to US-Anglo Prisoner of War Germany ... GERMANY *Not A Sovereign State* https://youtu.be/GlU2HLeGNwQ

Panama 'Leaks' Amigos: Limited Hangout Leak

SOURCE http://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/Dance-to-the-Panama-Papers-Limited-Hangout-Leak-20160405-0036.html Dance to the Panama Papers 'Limited Hangout' Leak By: Pepe Escobar Associates of Russian President Vladimir Putin were revealed to have hundreds of millions of dollars stashed away in offshore accounts. Published 5 April 2016 Pepe Escobar connects the dots. Calling out around the world; time to put on your made in Ecuador Panama hat and frantically start dancing to the ultimate limited hangout leak. And if you believe in the purity of intentions of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) at the center of the leak, I’ve got a made in Shenzhen Panama hat to sell you (disclosure: I never was, and never will be, a member of the ICIJ). The Washington-based ICIJ gets its cash and its "organizational procedure" via the Exceptionalistan-based, Orwellian-named Center for Public Integrity. The funds flow mostly from the Ford Foundation, the Carnegie Endowment, the Rockefeller Family Fund, the Kellogg Foundation and the George Soros-owned Open Society. Then there is Eastern Europe-based partner organization OCCRP, an even more Orwellian outfit self-styled as playing some sort of progressive, alternative media role. OCCRP is funded by Soros and USAID. And finally there’s this fictional land named Panama – a certified U.S. vassal. Absolutely nothing of real substance happens in Panama without a green light by the United States government. Or, as an international tax lawyer told me, “you have to be an idiot to stash money in Panama. You cannot flush a toilet there without the Americans knowing about it.” This sets the scene for the Panama Papers leak – a massive hoard of 11.5 million documents allegedly leaked from someone inside offshore heavies Mossack Fonseca to the center-left, NATO-friendly Suddeutsche Zeitung newspaper in Munich and then shared by the ICIJ with selected mainstream media partners. Even without a smoking gun, a case can be made this alleged most massive leak ever was obtained by – what else – U.S. intel. This is the kind of stuff the NSA excels at. The NSA is able to break into virtually any database and/or archives anywhere; they steal “secrets;” and then selectively destroy/blackmail/protect assets and “enemies,” according to USG interests.     Absolutely nothing of real substance happens in Panama without a green light by the United States government. That’s the essence of a limited hangout sold to public opinion as a serious corruption investigation. And that’s where Western corporate media enters the scene, protecting whatever 0.00000001 percent honcho is caught in the net, as well as sacrificing some disposable pawns. So we have over 300 reporters pouring over hundreds of thousands of document/files for over an interminable year with, miraculously, no leaks whatsoever; just for a bunch of corporate mainstream media hacks meticulously cherry picked stories and decide what is “newsworthy." Western alternative media would have investigated the data without sparing anyone; but it would be out of the question to grant them access. What’s already certain is that the full extent of the Panama leak will never be known. Even the by now exceedingly pathetic The Guardian admitted, on the record, that "much of the leaked material will remain private". Why? Because it may – inadvertently and directly – implicate a gaggle of Western 0.00000001 percent multibillionaires and corporations. All of them play the offshore casino game (although not necessarily in Panama.) So the Panama Papers, stripped to the bone, may reveal themselves essentially as an infowar operation by the NSA – targeted mostly against “enemies” (as in the BRICS nations) and selected disposable pawns; a weaponized psyops posing as an 'activist leak', straight from the Hybrid War playbook. Step on the Monster Truck A who’s who of wealthy/powerful players has been directly targeted in the Panama Papers, from the – demented – King of Saudi Arabia to former Fiat/Ferrari stalwart Luca de Montezemolo, from Lionel Messi to (unnamed) Chinese Communist Party officials and the brother-in-law of Chinese President Xi Jinping. Extra-juicy element is provided by the presence of Alaa Mubarak – the son of the deposed Egyptian snake; Ayad Allawi, the butcher of Fallujah and former U.S. occupation prime minister; Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif (a Saudi protégé, so he must get offshore advice as well); and Dov Weisglass, the butcher of Gaza and former advisor to Israeli Prime Ministers Ariel Sharon and Ehud Olmert (this one already convicted of corruption.) These are all disposable. We find in the list not only Middle Eastern racketeers but also the token “respectable” European – from Iceland’s Prime Minister (already forced to resign) to David Cameron’s father Ian. And some players that might be considered Exceptionalistan’s friends, such as vulture fund-friendly Argentina President Mauricio Macri and chocolate heavyweight cum Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, who has a lot of funds parked in the British Virgin Islands. Predictably, particular emphasis is on BRICS members – from those mysterious Chinese to Indian companies. As far as Brazil is concerned, there may be a healthy counterpoint; the presence of notoriously corrupt leader of the lower house Eduardo Cunha; his Swiss accounts had surfaced after the HSBC leaks, now some more showed up on the Panama Leaks. Still to be explained is a juicy Brazilian-related angle; whether the Panama Leaks are directly related to the fact that Ramon Fonseca, 50 percent of Mossack Fonseca, was dismissed as president of the Panameñista Party last month because of Operation Car Wash – which targets mostly the ruling Workers’ Party in Brazil. The Panama Papers are in fact a Monster Truck, global version of Car Wash. Lula, predictably, is not on the Panama list – to the despair of the Exceptionalistan-supported regime changers in Brazil, many of them (media barons, bankers, businessmen) featured on the previous HSBC leaks. Regime-Changers-in-Chief, the Globo media empire, are also not on the Panama leaks, although they profit from a certified offshore racket. Syria was always bound to be a key target. Much of Western corporate media “newsworthy” stories now focus on “Assad’s fixer” Rami Makhlouf, described in U.S. diplomatic cables as Syria’s “poster boy for corruption” and under U.S. sanctions since February 2008. Such a convenient target. Yet “poster boy” happened to be quite sheltered by HSBC as well. Putin Did It And so we finally get to the key target of Monster Truck (in Brazil’s Car Wash they are Lula and President Rousseff). It’s got the requisite BRICS angle and it’s a dream spin; cue to virtually every major Western corporate media headline blaring that Vladimir Putin has stashed US$2 billion offshore. The problem is he didn’t. Putin is guilty by association because of his “close associates” Arkady and Boris Rotenberg’s alleged ties to money laundering. Yet three “incriminating” emails in the files happen not to “incriminate” them, or Putin. And then there’s cellist Sergey Roldugin, a childhood friend of Putin’s. Here’s the – politically filtered – spin by the ICIJ: “The records show Roldugin is a behind-the-scenes player in a clandestine network operated by Putin associates that has shuffled at least US$2 billion through banks and offshore companies. In the documents, Roldugin is listed as the owner of offshore companies that have obtained payments from other companies worth tens of millions of dollars. … It’s possible Roldugin, who has publicly claimed not to be a businessman, is not the true beneficiary of these riches. Instead, the evidence in the files suggests Roldugin is acting as a front man for a network of Putin loyalists – and perhaps for Putin himself.” What about rephrasing it as, “the evidence in the files suggests Lionel Messi is acting as a frontman for a network of football loyalists trying to evade the rape of Argentina by U.S. hedge fund vultures friendly to new President and offshore account holder Mauricio Macri”? The juiciest bit is that Moscow knew all along another Hybrid War offensive chapter was imminent, days if not weeks before Panama went viral. Make America Great Again Offshore bank accounts are not intrinsically illegal. Quite a few though involve dodgy money, or at least provide the euphemistic “low-tax environment” fundamental to the very wealthy.     OPINION:     The New Silk Roads and the Rise of the 'Chinese Dream'    It’s not an accident that the Panama Papers unveil connections to several dozen firms and individuals who are prominently featured in U.S. sanctions blacklists. That configures the Panama Papers as even more of a limited hangout; the real Papers would be the Cayman Papers or the Virgin Island Papers. That’s where most of the in-the-know park their money (not to mention Luxembourg). Adding to the hilarity factor, David Cameron suddenly woke up to the need to stop British overseas territories – and Crown dependencies – being used by the wealthy to park their untaxed fortune. It’s never going to happen. The so-called international banking/financial system is a demented casino. It’s not only 8 percent; Hong Kong players tell me as much as 50 percent of global wealth may currently be parked, undisturbed, in untaxable offshore havens. If a fraction of these astonishing funds would be taxed, governments right and left would be paying their debts, investing in infrastructure, launching round after round of sustainable growth, and a productive spiral would be in motion. And that leads us to the cherry in the corruption cake; how come there are no Americans in this limited hangout leak? Of course there are none. Panama is for suckers. Too obvious. Too rakish. Too crude. Ergo, forget about The Cayman Papers. As for foreigners in-the-know, we just need to go back a mere three months ago to this Bloomberg piece, where Andrew Penney, Managing Director of Rothschild & Co., spells it all out; the U.S. “is effectively the biggest tax haven in the world.” The circle is finally squared; Panama is revealed as the patsy – mere collateral damage in this limited hangout Monster Truck operation. Domestic tax haven providers, such as Rothschild, are the real deal. Make America great again? It already is – as the top tax shelter for hardcore dodgy money had to be...a monster Panama: Exceptionalistan itself. Now dance, suckers. Pepe Escobar is a columnist for RT. SOURCE http://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/Dance-to-the-Panama-Papers-Limited-Hangout-Leak-20160405-0036.html -------/\/\/ ---------------------- ---------------------- COMMENT Cool article.    Wow, an NSA dunnit?  LOL C'mon, China ... give us real leaks.  ;)