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The media is missing the overarching backstory. For years the US administration has put up a dam lot of pressure on countries like swiss, luxemberg, panama and other tax havens. They practically eliminated for example the swiss bank secret. Also more than a 100 countries signed a treaty in 2011 I think giving access to financial informations of US citizens all around the world that are trying to dodge taxes to the USA, while at the same time 4 US states (nevada, wyoming, delaware and south dakota) have become pretty much international tax havens, outcompeting other tax havens.
Mossack Fonseca has for example an office in nevada. The media are focusing completely on "villain states" and foreign companies/VIPs in other parts of the world. Although some vague information about US adresses are included in some reports about the panama papers, there are no concrete names, no american banks, superrich or corporations. This is a selective leak.
According to an interview I`ve read the involved "International Consortium for Investigative Journalism" (ICIJ), that provided help to get through the ocean of data, is located in Washington DC and is part of the "Center for Public Intergrity" (CPI).
The CPI is funded by the Rockefeller-Family-Fund, the Ford-Foundation, the Carnegie-Endowment, the Kellog-Foundation and the Open-Society-Foundation of the Magnate George Soros. This is Wallstreet.
By leaking those panama papers the international tax refugees are facing an increasing amount of pressure to search for safer tax havens. Like the US.
And having a substantial amount of money brought onto US soil gives the crumbling US dollar additional strength. Which is quite impotant since its forced role as the main energy-currency (so called petrodollar) is in decline thanks to new energies, the american industry in total decline/ruins and the US more than ever depending on foreign loans (china) and having a record depth the dollar as the dominating worldcurrency is not in a good shape.
Also the US financial world is preparing itself for the next crash that is already on the horizon, and that additional money comes in handy.

I needed 10-15 minutes to research this. Unfortunately TYT is just reporting the same stuff as other media about the "panama leak". Which is kind of depressing since I uphold TYT to higher standards than "corporate media".

PS I have links, but they are non-english, sry
Already discussing this:
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/panama_papers_admire_journalism

For the record, this was a selective leak. The group responsible has already stated the US side of the equation will be released soon.

EDIT - also, you need to work on your research a bit more. Those groups funding CPI are not Wall Street, they are philanthropic charities set up by those families as an ethical way to lessen their tax burden, instead of resorting to less than ethical off-shore tax shelters.
Post edited April 06, 2016 by cogadh
Putin says this is ridiculous and irrelevant. The panama papers, of course, or at least him being (one of) the central figure(s). I know where to put my money and what upon to bet. The balls of steel never disappoint and have always spoken with hard evidence. In wait for more details!

Also, Messi went already to court aggressively. Case stinks of fabrication!

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/vladimir-putin-says-the-panama-papers-leak-is-part-of-western-efforts-to-weaken-russia-a6972761.html

http://www.goal.com/en/news/722/la-liga/2016/04/04/22017252/breaking-news-messi-family-dismisses-panama-papers
Post edited April 07, 2016 by KiNgBrAdLeY7