The last time I mentioned "Mister DAX" he was blaming the Volkswagen diesel emissions scandal on the US. Volkswagen management eventually admitted that they had engineered false emissions data which affected hundreds of thousands of vehicles sold globally. As far as I know Müller never apologized for or walked back his false accusations against the US.
Now Dirk Müller has uncovered another American conspiracy – namely the vast trove of names leaked in the Panama Papers. The leak from the law firm Mossack Fonseca reveals the names of thousands of individuals behind off-shore shell companies who presumably are hiding assets from tax authorities. In his video Müller says that what is more important than then names that were leaked are the names that were NOT leaked: there were very few US names on the list; ergo the US engineered the entire scandal to punish its adversaries Russia and China. Also, a plot this diabolical must have been dreamed up by – George Soros!
George Soros appears regularly in myriad anti-Semitic conspiracy theories (see, for example, this hit piece on Soros by Evelyn Hecht-Galinski).
But there is a good reason why -up to now – not that many US names in the Panama Papers: Americans don't have to go to Panama to set up shell companies to conceal assets.
"This firm (Mossack Fonseca) is one of thousands in the world and there are hundreds or thousands just like it in the U.S.," said Ana Owens, a tax and budget advocate at U.S. Public Interest Research Group (PIRG), a federation of state-level consumer advocacy organizations. "If a company in the U.S. can do the exact thing for you as this company in Panama, then you might as well do it right here in the U.S. And its perfectly legal, which is the issue."
Two states, Delaware or Nevada, along with the U.S. Virgin Islands, are known in particular for loose regulations and low taxes, making them attractive for people to hide their activities and assets behind a corporate facade.
The British-based Tax Justice Network released a "Financial Secrecy Index" of popular tax havens last fall that ranked the United States third, behind Switzerland and Hong Kong, and far higher than Panama, at 13th.
Where the US, CIA and Soros are active, can Israel and Mossad be far behind? The German blogosphere has uncovered the "truth":
Ja, es klingt wie reine Fantasie, ja, es sieht aus wie ein Märchen und ja, es schmeckt nach Träumerei: Kann es sein, dass der israelische Geheimdienst Mossad der Drahtzieher hinter den Panama Papers ist?
„Schon der Name machte mich stutzig. Mossack Fonseca“, so ein anerkannter Welt-online-Kommentator, der unter dem Pseudonym „aprilfrisch“ tickert: „Mossack, Mossad – bis auf zwei Buchstaben sind die beiden Namen fast vollständig identisch.“
Why not? After all, the Mossad is behind so many other terrible events – ranging from the 9/11 attacks on the Twin Towers to the "suspicious death" of Guido Westerwelle:
Allein in der letzten Woche wurden dem Mossad unter anderem illegale Wetterkontrolle, Geisterbeschwörung, Pferdewetten, die Ermordung Guido Westerwelles und die weitläufige Kontrolle des militärisch-industriellen Komplexes vorgeworfen – eine Reaktion blieb aus. „Die verheimlichen uns was“, folgerte der Twitterer @fallenangelstar, „für mich gilt der alte Rechtsgrundsatz: Kein Rauch ohne Feuer!“
Where there's smoke, there's fire!

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Ana Owens got it perfectly right, countries like the USA or Germany offer so much opportunities to avoid or reduce taxes that only stupids or criminals would go for exotic tax havens. Which makes me wonder why truthers don’t realize the real dimension of the Panama Papers: Political corruption. But of course, this would be a rare issue in the leading industrial nations, if there is any at all. Again, the truthers would find their political idols leading the ranks. So there’s nothing to see here, move along? Not for the real truther 😛
I hope the Panama Papers provide enough details on drug and arms dealers, terrorist organisations and their financial transactions. On the other side, I’m quite surprised that this scoop was made by journalists and not by secret services like the NSA. A huge chunk of the 11 million documents is emails. One might think, the NSA already knows them.
Koogleschreiber, maybe US officials were simply as “keen” as the German ministry of finance to uncover it all? 🙂