@Deja

One is Queen Elizabeth.
One Trump.
Okay, three: Putin.

I was hoping for a Clinton or someone in her (their) criminal circles.

@Not Henry Kissinger Did you follow the responses to that tweet?

was a USAID/Soros operation according to wikileaks:

#PanamaPapers Putin attack was produced by OCCRP which targets Russia & former USSR and was funded by USAID & Soros. pic.twitter.com/tgeKfLuROn

— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) April 5, 2016

Is this round II?

@smiley7 marines who came back from war and discovered the Hudson River a mess and made it their mission to right things.

opium for guns or Cypress accounts in Afghanistan? We need a big shovel. Not particularly fond of Chris Mathews, but on occasions, he gets it right and, he knows, or is in position to know, with his deep background in the politic.

Looking forward to his new book about Kennedy, which brings me to thinking about the lost art of growing patricians, children born into the wealthy class raised and educated to serve the public good--and not self promote as their forefather's most certainly did in becoming so rich; what happened to that public responsibility to pay back a little for the gotten gains, the wealth?

Now, it's hell in a handbasket, pure unadulterated greed rallying the masses in overwhelming propaganda.

We've so much to undo, i've deep fears our ship, society, may not be righted.

Not to say, give up, just to double-down on these thoughts of your good essay.

Thanks, d.o.!

@emorej a hong kong a chance to profit?

Thanks for that info.

Researching Wikileaks database of US Diplomatic cables
flagged dirt that caused law firm to reject one money laundering project:

Appleby checked the WikiLeaks database of U.S. diplomatic cables and learned that one of the U.S. Embassy’s contacts referred to Khangah as the “frontman” for a former politician who headed what the U.S. cables called “one of the most corrupt operations in Azerbaijan.” Appleby declined the work. Source: https://www.icij.org/investigations/paradise-papers/appleby-offshore-mag...

... but much other dirt was overlooked or ignored, according to the law firm's internal discussions and training materials quoted and copied in the above article.

@janis b

To certain extent living my dream and do’n’it well.

Still pining for peace and justice though.

Thanks for that beauty!

the dreams that you dream really do come true ...

[video:https://youtu.be/2BtxUrDJxHg]

@lotlizard Wonder why? /s

knowledge. Result so far: Epstein was investigated and charged in one incident of soliciting a minor for prostitution. All he got was 13 months.

Flight logs show Bill Clinton flew on the “Lolita Express” 26 times.

The same goes for many other elite figures, Hollywood names, and celebrities.

None of this seems to interest the authorities.

If the authorities can ignore possible trafficking and sexual abuse of minors in Epstein’s circle — even in the face of all the fallout from Kevin Spacey and #MeToo — what chance is there of them investigating mere financial crimes?

Would LOVE it if the investigation and findings would lead to arrests and prosecutions and changes in regulations.

@eyo

from the guardian link:

Oxfam said the “stunning disclosures” meant Ross and other Trump allies named in the files, including chief economic adviser Gary Cohn and secretary of state Rex Tillerson, must recuse themselves from involvement in the president’s effort to overhaul the US tax code.

“Make no mistake, this is not just another salacious leak, this is a wake-up call,” said Gawain Kripke, Oxfam America’s policy director. “The vast and real human costs of this story must not be ignored. Billions of dollars are being stashed away in paradise instead of being invested in roads, schools, and hospitals.”

Focus in the US immediately fell on Ross, whose extensive links to Russian business had already raised questions about his choice for the cabinet. Congressman Eric Swallwell, a California Democrat who sits on the House intelligence committee the Ranking Member of the CIA Subcommittee of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, said on Sunday: “This Putin connection was likely an asset for getting hired, not [a] liability.”

russia russia russia
Gary Cohn Can’t Quit Trump. Literally. He’s Tried More Than Once.

Gary Cohn, Donald Trump’s national economic adviser, made his bones at Goldman Sachs by proving to be an exceptional risk manager. Famously, he was part of the small group of Goldman traders and senior executives who figured out in 2006 that a meltdown was looming in the housing market and who positioned Goldman, through a series of clever trades that became known inside the firm as “the big short,” to benefit mightily nearly two years later when the financial crisis hit with a vengeance. In 2007, while much of the rest of Wall Street was reeling from the crisis’s first shockwaves, Goldman was cleaning up, thanks to its decision to bet against the mortgage market. That year, the firm made nearly $18 billion in pre-tax earnings—a number it has never seen again—and the top five Goldman executives, Cohn included, split a whopping $322 million. Cohn’s personal take from that honeypot? $72.5 million

omfg ... ~shrug~
http://www.businessinsider.com/gary-cohn-donations-dodd-frank-2017-4

Prior to 2009, Cohn, the former Goldman Sachs president and COO, donated for more than a decade to Democratic candidates and groups, according to a database from the Center for Responsive Politics.

Among the Democratic recipients were Sen. Chuck Schumer, now the Senate minority leader, in 1997; a $10,000 donation to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in 1998; donations to three different campaigns for Hillary Clinton in 2000, 2005, and 2007; a competing donation to Barack Obama in 2007; and two donations of $28,500 and $27,000 to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee in 2007 and 2008, respectively.

okie dokie
what a cesspool

@studentofearth @studentofearth to educate for reform in those countries, thanks for that info!
After reading your comment did a search in Google News and found that the Guardian has covered Apple and Nike!

Revealed: how #Nike stays one step ahead of the taxman https://t.co/WaRNqKZ3n3 pic.twitter.com/G7SfWvvQR5

— Dr. Alberto Testa (@DrATesta) November 6, 2017

Edited spelling

Major financial centers are being identified with metadata analysis.

We found that a handful of big countries – the Netherlands, the UK, Switzerland, Singapore and Ireland – serve as the world’s conduit OFCs. Together, these five conduits channel 47% of corporate offshore investment from tax havens, according to the data we analyzed.

The Netherlands leads the pack with 23%, followed by the UK (14%), Switzerland (6%), Singapore (2%) and Ireland (1%).

Each conduit jurisdiction is specialized both geographically and in industrial sectors. The Netherlands excels in holding companies, for example, while Luxembourg favors “administrative services”. Hong Kong’s geographic speciality lies in connecting to the British Virgin Islands and Taiwan.

Of 24 sink OFCs, 18 have a current or past dependence to the UK, including major tax havens such as the Cayman Islands, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands and Jersey. New territories with low or no corporate taxes are continuously emerging as sink OFCs, but, as our study shows, there are just a handful of conduit OFCs.

As long as the conduits remain in place the activities in financial sinks identified in Panama Papers, Bermuda Leaks and Paradise Papers will continue to shift around the globe.