The Panama Papers Unplugged

Christof Lehmann (nsnbc) : International State and corporate media are engaged in a mudslinging contest after the revelations about the so-called Panama Papers. The irony is, that corporate greed may have caused the leak at Mossack Fonseca’s website. An irony, considering that the Panama-based firm specializes in helping clients invest billions in offshore bank accounts and companies. Here they are,  the Panama Papers – unplugged.

Courtesy Wordfence

Courtesy Wordfence – Click to on the image to enlage – Click HERE to read the full report

Hiding money in offshore bank accounts or investing money in tax havens is about as normal for those who are a little bit better off than most as dabbling in drugs is in Colombia. It’s like, “everybody does its and nobody likes to talk about it”. In fact, anyone with a few million to spare would have to have an extraordinarily unprofessional bookie not to invest money in tax havens. So unprofessional that one would be well-advised to use Donald Trump’s favorite phrase “You’re fired”.

There are a few amusing facts about the release of the Panama Papers. For one the fact that the “International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.” didn’t release all the papers but focused selectively on Vladimir Putin. O.K. that may be explainable with the fact that the consortium’s journalistic ethics are influenced by U.S.A’s Center for Public Integrity, which includes sponsors such as the Ford Foundation, Carnegie Endowment, Rockefeller Family Fund, W. K., the Kellogg Foundation, and the Open Society Foundation,  which is owned by George Soros, among others.

Even though, one must admit that foundation money or any money isn’t inherently “evil” or “unethical”, it’s what you are doing with it that counts.

Karakterschwein_Guardian_PigMost amusing was “the guardian”. The British paper’s biased coverage warranted the question “whom is the guardian a guardian for”? Putin, Putin, Putin, and not much about Prime Minister Cameron’s daddy? But retaliatory mud-slinging in Russia Today was almost as amusing.

Why not simply state the fact that tax havens are normal, in most cases not even illegal, that U.S. corporations which are registered at the New York Stock Exchange NYSE can legally launder drug money,  that everybody is doing it, and that Panama is  not the only tax haven. Try Lichtenstein, Switzerland, the British Virgin Islands….

Looking at the mudslinging contest among journalists, allow me to quote something that I wrote in a previous article:

Many have become journalists because they are curious and love to dig up dirt. The problem for the vast majority of journalists is that they neither have a sufficient measure of backbone and courage, nor a sufficient measure of integrity. Consequently, they become “Character Pigs” or “Karakterschweine” as a German would call them. Being an intelligent and easily trainable animal, the character pig quickly figures out why exactly it is, that good old farmer “Editor” uses the electric rod to punish fellow pigs. Seeing Editor use the electric rod on a fellow character pig, after it wallowed in dirt which Editor designated as “taboo”, is enough to condition it so much that it runs away squealing, if it only suspects that Editor would raise his eyebrow. Character pigs. You find them everywhere, in every country. Wherever you see journalists, rest assured, they have the absolute majority among their peers.

Let’s Unplug How the Panama Papers Probably Were Leaked – Hacked

There are a few funny facts about the “security breach” and the leaking of the Panama Papers. Count one, any reasonably savvy hacker could have managed to access and download them. Count two, and that from Mossack Fonseca who earns millions on stashing billions offshore while probably being too greedy or ignorant to update a simple plugin. Yes, that’s right.

Wordfence has run a check of Mossack Fonseca’s website from which the 2.6 terabites and 11.5 million documents were “misappropriated”. The largest “known” data breech in history. The NSA and GCHQ not counted. The Wordfence team paid attention to the fact that Forbes reported that Mossack Fonseca was giving their customers access to data via a web portal that was running a vulnerable and outdated version of Drupal.

The Wordfence team decided to run an analysis of the company’s website and noted that the Mossack Fonseca website runs on WordPress and that it is currently running a version of the “Revolution Slider” plugin that is vulnerable to attack and will grant a remote attacker a shell on the web server. Viewing a link on the current MF website to a Revolution Slider file revealed the version of revslider they are running is 2.1.7. Versions of Revslider all the way up to 3.0.95 are vulnerable to attack. Moreover, Wordfence reports that it appears that MF have now put their site behind a firewall which would protect against this vulnerability being exploited. This is a recent change within the last month.

The LEAK was, in other words, most probably caused because the company that handles billions may have been too obsessed with corporate greed to hire a webmaster who would update a PLUGin in due time. The irony.

CH/L – nsnbc 08.04.2016

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