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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe POTUS is on the TeeVee right now - opening a can of whoopass on anonymous offshore tax cheats
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The POTUS is on the TeeVee right now - opening a can of whoopass on anonymous offshore tax cheats (Original Post)
jpak
May 2016
OP
Thanks Bernie and minions for getting us to this point. At least we were able to convince
Ed Suspicious
May 2016
#9
elehhhhna
(32,076 posts)1. they're not anonymous to the us government
Theatrical bullshit episode 1,000,000.
Kittycat
(10,493 posts)3. Or the Clinton's
And I believe I read that on May 9th, Panama Papers is releasing the full database, which will include more US companies and individuals.
https://panamapapers.icij.org/20160426-database-coming-soon.html
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists will release on May 9 a searchable database with information on more than 200,000 offshore entities that are part of the Panama Papers investigation.
The database will likely be the largest ever release of secret offshore companies and the people behind them.
The database will likely be the largest ever release of secret offshore companies and the people behind them.
Here's a bit from the source that released the data to ICIJ: http://www.theguardian.com/news/2016/may/06/panama-papers-source-breaks-silence-over-scale-of-injustices
Shell companies are often associated with the crime of tax evasion. But the Panama Papers show beyond a shadow of a doubt that although shell companies are not illegal, by definition they are used to carry out a wide array of serious crimes, the source wrote. Income inequality is one of the defining issues of our time.
*snip*
The whistleblower was generally underwhelmed by official reaction to the leak. In New Zealand, the prime minister, John Key, had been curiously quiet about his countrys role in enabling financial fraud in the Cook Islands. In the US, tax evasion could not be fixed, the source argued, while politicians relied on the super-rich for campaign funding.
The source concluded on an optimistic note. In an age of inexpensive, limitless digital storage and internet connections that transcend national boundaries the next revolution will be digitised.
Or perhaps it has already begun, the source said.
*snip*
The whistleblower was generally underwhelmed by official reaction to the leak. In New Zealand, the prime minister, John Key, had been curiously quiet about his countrys role in enabling financial fraud in the Cook Islands. In the US, tax evasion could not be fixed, the source argued, while politicians relied on the super-rich for campaign funding.
The source concluded on an optimistic note. In an age of inexpensive, limitless digital storage and internet connections that transcend national boundaries the next revolution will be digitised.
Or perhaps it has already begun, the source said.
We already know about many High profile individuals like Hillary and Bill's good friend Frank Giustra, who sits on the Clinton Foundation board. And it should be noted that while she was SoS, she failed to act on Human Rights abuses in Columbia involving labor rights that should have been intervened on.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/election/article72215012.html
https://www.rt.com/usa/340480-clinton-donors-panama-papers/
As Oil Money Flowed, Clinton Turned Back on Rights Abuses in Colombia: Report
'This much is clear: After millions of dollars were pledged by the oil company to the Clinton Foundation, Secretary Clinton abruptly changed her position on the controversial U.S.-Colombia trade pact.'
http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/04/09/oil-money-flowed-clinton-turned-back-rights-abuses-colombia-report
A new investigative look at the ties between big business interests in Colombia, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and her family's charitable foundation are raising troubling questions about the role that corporate trade deals and big oil may have played in softening the powerful Democrat's position on human rights in the South American country.
During her time heading the State Department, presumptive 2016 presidential nominee Clinton stayed silent on reports of violence and threats against labor activists in Colombia, even as her family's "global philanthropic empire" was developingand benefiting fromprivate business ties with a major oil corporation accused of worker-intimidation in the country, according to new reporting published Thursday by International Business Times.
In addition, the IBT investigation shows that after millions of dollars were pledged by the oil company to the Clinton Foundation, Clinton reversed her position on a U.S.-Colombia trade pact she had previously opposed on the grounds that it was bad for labor rights.
*snip*
Just this week, justifying its opposition to the looming Trans-Pacific Partnership and Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, the AFL-CIO pointed out that four years after the U.S. and Colombia signed the Labor Action Plan (LAP) to address entrenched labor rights violationspushed by Clinton's State Department in order to diffuse unions' criticism of the Colombia trade agreementColombian workers have suffered over 1,933 threats and acts of violence against unionists. These include 105 alleged assassinations of union activists and 1,337 death threats.
Noting that that there has been virtually no progress over the past year in compliance with the LAP, the labor organization declared:
As the U.S. government negotiates broad trade agreements with Europe and the Pacific Rim, it must look back at the LAP's continued failure in protecting workers rights in Colombia, and not commit the same mistakes. It must ensure that these agreements deliver on the promises made for over twenty years about the broader benefits of expanding trade. Investors and companies have received these benefits. Workers in the U.S. and countries that are our trading partners have not. We deserve it.
Pointing to remarks she delivered in Hong Kong in 2011, IBT notes that Clinton has previously "championed" the TPP.
abelenkpe
(9,933 posts)6. + 1000 nt
MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)2. Better late than never!
packman
(16,296 posts)4. Full of sound and fury, signifying nothing
What will come of it - little, I would wager for the game is fixed from the beginning.
jpak
(41,758 posts)8. Obama said he was going to issue executive orders to deal with this
yup
bahrbearian
(13,466 posts)5. Well at least there video of him saying "Cut it Out"
So what exactly is going to be done about it?
Ed Suspicious
(8,879 posts)9. Thanks Bernie and minions for getting us to this point. At least we were able to convince
Able to convince somebody not to allow it to be swept under the rug.
fbc
(1,668 posts)10. It only took him 7.5 years
Octafish
(55,745 posts)11. Statute of Limitations.
"You folks all can contribute to my successor."
Note that Bernie voted against the trade agreement with Panama.
kimbutgar
(21,167 posts)13. I am hoping there are prominent republican congress critters on that list
Especially Clarence Thomas and Mitch Mc Connell. Can you imagine the outrage when Fox doesn't report this. And imagine if trump the entertainer's name is on this list? It could be delish!