#panama papers
I hope we never find out who leaked the Panama papers
I want that person to be safe and not get the Snowden treatment
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Bits from today
I’ll be posting more next week. Those able to travel to London next Saturday, should. See you there.
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That’s not quite true. The reporter behind the story, Daphne Caruana Galizia, was murdered.
- After mass protests, the Prime Minister of Iceland was forced to resign, along with many other members of the ruling party.
- After mass protests, the President of Pakistan was forced to resign, along with many other members of the ruling party.
- Worldwide, hundreds of people – many rich and powerful – were arrested.
- Billions in stolen assets were returned to the people.
- And 82 countries changed their laws to crack down on the wealth hoarding the papers revealed.
To say the Panama Papers accomplished nothing is an insult to Daphne Galizia’s memory. Her work, and the work of the hundreds of other journalists who contributed to the Papers, changed the world.
Disinformation like this is designed to discourage you, to make you feel you’re powerless against the monsters of the world. They want you to feel that way, because they are terrified of your power to make change.
Take your power back. Demand better. Keep fighting for a better world, because a better world is possible.
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“The eight members of China’s Communist party elite whose family members used offshore companies are revealed in the Panama Papers.The documents show the granddaughter of a powerful Chinese leader became the sole shareholder in two British Virgin Islands companies while still a teenager. Jasmine Li had just begun studying at Stanford University in the US when the companies were registered in her name in December 2010. Her grandfather Jia Qinglin was at that time the fourth-ranked politician in China.
Other prominent figures who have taken advantage of offshore companies include the brother-in-law of the president, Xi Jinping, and the son-in-law of Zhang Gaoli, another member of China’s top political body, the politburo standing committee.”
For more, see Juliette Garside and David Pegg, “Panama Papers Reveal Offshore Secrets of China’s Red Nobility,”The Guardian (6 April 2016)
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