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Interesting watching this Pandora leak. For years, the global north has policed "corruption" in the global south, using at reasons to

Posted by tattoo daddy (aka colinski) Oct 4 '21, 06:23

withhold aid, start wars, sanction countries. We've always known that the biggest sources of corruption are the global north countries, using invoicing schemes to sock away untold trillions into offshore bank accounts.

This is good to expose the massive hypocrisy in anyone who supports this rhetoric. It will make little difference to the wealthy, they're far too cynical to ever have believed any of it, but politicians and everyday folks who still talk about "corrupt third world countries" need to check themselves.

The US is the most corrupt country on the planet. But we make the rules so we get to call it 10 other things besides corruption.

Panama papers took the past 4 years to see any meaningful change and it's barely started, here's hoping this keeps momentum up on financial overhaul in progress.

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I'm a bit surprised, unless there's more to drop, that I'm not seeing a bunch of US names on the list. -- nm - ty97 Oct 4, 06:24 6
- "The Pandora Papers include documents from 206 U.S. trusts in 15 states and Washington, D.C., and 22 U.S. trustee companies," the ICIJ points out. - tattoo daddy Oct 4, 06:28 5
  - What I meant was US individual names - ty97 Oct 4, 06:29 4
    - the first thing I wondered when I saw the Post was in the group that released the story was if Bezos was on the list -- nm - prayformojo Oct 4, 06:33
    - true, yes, not many there. -- nm - tattoo daddy Oct 4, 06:33 2
      - I just read that to mean they use the places that are better at hiding their records -- nm - ty97 Oct 4, 06:34 1
        
        they've "got a guy" -- nm - tattoo daddy Oct 4, 06:38

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