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Christine Anderson MEP ( Germany), she was joined on the rostrum with (l-r) Ivan Cincic MEP (Croatia), Mislav Kolakusic MEP (Croatia), Cristian Terheș MEP (Romania), Francesca Donato MEP (Italy) and Joachim Kuhs MEP (Germany).
4.6.21, Italy, 29 years old Italy: 29-year-old ex-professional Giuseppe Perrino collapses and dies during a charity match for his dead brother.
7.6.21, Germany 38 years Professional table tennis player Michael Schneider dies suddenly and unexpectedly.
6/12/21, Denmark 29 years old Soccer player Christian Eriksen collapses lifeless during a European Championship match – he can be revived, but needs a pacemaker for the rest of his life.
22.6.21, Hungary, 18 years old Footballer Viktor Marcell Hegedüs dies while warming up for training in Hungary.
7/14/21, Netherlands, 31 yrs. Olympic speed skating champion Kjelt Nuis seriously ill after vaccination, hospitalized with heart problems.
07/16/21, Egypt Footballer Imad Bayumi died during a friendly match in Egypt.
22.07.21, Germany, 36 years old On July 22, SV Olympia Schlanstedt and Germania from Kroppenstedt met each other. During the match, Schlanstedt’s player Nicky Dalibor collapsed and had to be resuscitated on the pitch.
23.07.21, Germany, age 27 Tim B. of SV Hamberge (Schleswig-Holstein) collapses and dies after returning from a soccer tournament.
07/24/21, Germany A player of TuS Hoberge-Uerentrup (Bielefeld) collapses on the pitch with cardiac arrest.
07/31/21, Netherlands, 19 years old. Whitnée Abriska, a 19-year-old handball player, died of cardiac arrest just before a flight.
02.08.21, Belgium, 18 years old Rune Coghe (18) of Eendracht Hoglede (Belgium) suffers heart attack during match
02.08.21, Austria, 18 years old Chronicle: 18-year-old unnamed player in Burgenland (Austria) collapses on pitch and can be saved thanks to helicopter intervention.
06.08.21, Germany Kreisliga player of SpVgg. Oelde II has to be resuscitated by his opponent.
14.08.21, Belgium, 37 years old Former French professional soccer player Franck Berrier, only 37 years old, died of several heart attacks while playing tennis.
08/15/21 Germany Goalkeeper coach of SV Niederpöring suffers heart attack after training.
08/16/21 France 24 years Bordeaux professional Samuel Kalu collapses with cardiac arrest during a Ligue 1 match.
08/18/21 Belgium 25 yrs. Belgian soccer player Jente Van Genechten (25) suffers cardiac arrest in the early stages of a cup match.
21.08.21, Turkey, 31 years old Fabrice N’Sakala (31) of Besiktas Istanbul collapses on the field without the intervention of an opponent and has to be taken to hospital
22.08.21, Italy, 29 years old Pedro Obiang of Italian first division club Sassuolo Calcio hospitalized with myocarditis after Covid vaccination.
08/22/21, Venezuela, 30 yrs. Venezuelan marathon national champion Alexaida Guedez dies of a heart attack during a 5,000-meter race.
08/24/21, Luxembourg, 29 yrs. José dos Reis, a Red Black Pfaffenthal (Luxembourg) player collapses on the field and has to be resuscitated.
08/29/21, Germany In the C-Liga Dillenburg (Central Hesse), a player from Hirzenhain collapses and the game is stopped.
05.09.21, France, 16 years old Diego Ferchaud (16 years) from ASPTT Caen suffers a cardiac arrest in an U-18 league match in Saint-Lô.
06.09.21, Austria Player of ASV Baden (Lower Austria) collapses on the pitch and has to be resuscitated.
06.09.21, Italy, 16 years old 16-year-old unnamed soccer player in Bergamo suffers cardiac arrest
06.09.21, Belgium, 27 yrs. Belgian amateur soccer player Jens De Smet (27) from Maldegem suffers heart attack during game and dies in hospital.
06.09.21, Italy, 13 years old 13-year-old soccer player of Janus Nova club from Saccolongo (Italy) collapses on the pitch with cardiac arrest
07.09.21,Great Britain, 17 years old 17-year-old soccer player Dylan Rich dies of double heart attack during a match in England.
09.09.21, Germany Player from Birati Club Münster suffers Eriksen fate in a Kreisliga match against FC Nordkirchen II: collapse with cardiac arrest. Match is abandoned
10.09.21, Germany, 24 years old Lucas Surek (24) of BFC Chemie Leipzig is diagnosed with myocarditis.
09/11/21, France, 49 yrs. Ain/France: Frédéric Lartillot succumbs to heart attack in locker room after friendly match
11.09.21, Italy, 45 years old Andrea Astolfi, sporting director of Calcio Orsago (Italy), suffers a fulminant heart attack after returning from training and dies without prior illness at the age of 45
11.09.21, Denmark, 22 years old Abou Ali (22) collapses in cardiac arrest during a two-league match in Denmark
09/11/21, Netherlands, age 19 Ice hockey player Sebastiaan Bos died suddenly and unexpectedly.
09/13/21, Germany Anil Usta of VfB Schwelm (Ennepetal) collapses on the field with heart problems
13.09.21, France 33 years Dimitri Liénard of FC Strasbourg collapses in a Ligue 1 match with heart problems
14.09.21, USA 37 years Ex-NFL pro Parys Haralson dies suddenly and unexpectedly at age 37.
18.09.21, Germany 25 years Kingsley Coman (25) of FC Bayern Munich undergoes heart surgery after cardiac arrhythmia.
09/18/21, Canada 25 years Canadian university football player Francis Perron died shortly after a match.
09/19/21, France 19 years 19-year-old FC Nantes soccer player suffers cardiac arrest in training session
19.09.21, Germany Volleyball coach Dirk Splisteser of SG Traktor Divitz collapses dead on sidelines of match
21.09.21, Augsburg Assistant referee of a Kreisliga Augsburg game in Emersacker, collapses with heart problems
21.09.21, Germany During the women’s World Cup qualifying match between Germany and Serbia in Chemnitz, the English lineswoman Helen Byrne has to be carried off the pitch with heart problems
27.09.21, Germany Match abandoned due to cardiac arrest of the referee in a match of Lauber SV (Donauwörth district)
27.09.21, Italy, 20 years old Young rider suffers a heart attack after the end of a tournament.
09/28/21, Germany, 17 yrs. 17-year-old soccer player of JSG Hoher Hagen has to be resuscitated during game in Hannoversch Münden
28.09.21, Italy, 53 years 53-year-old soccer coach Antonello Campus collapses dead in Sicily while training with his youth team
09/28/21, USA, 16 yrs. Twice-vaccinated teen collapses while playing soccer and dies a short time later.
09/29/21, Germany Team manager Dietmar Gladow from Thalheim (Bitterfeld) suffers fatal heart attack before match
09/29/21, USA A high school football player collapsed during practice and died at the hospital.
09/30/21, Germany A player collapsed during the Kreisliga A 2 match between SV Hoßkirch and TSV Sigmaringendorf. He suffered a cardiac arrest and had to be resuscitated.
1.10.21, Germany, 15 years old Junior goalkeeper Bruno Stein of FC An der Fahner Höhe in Gräfentonna, Thuringia, died at the age of 15.
3.10.21, Austria, 64 years Ex-goalkeeper coach and most recently talent scout Ernst Scherr died suddenly and unexpectedly.
10/4/21, Germany, age 42 Alexander Siegfried of VfB Moschendorf suddenly and unexpectedly collapsed and died.
7.10.21, Italy, 17 years old A 17-year-old track and field athlete from Colverde collapses with cardiac arrest during training.
10/8/21, France, 49 yrs. SC Massay player suffers fatal heart attack during game.
9.10.21, Mexico Caddie Alberto Olguin collapses dead at golf course after heart attack. It is believed to be the second such death in a short time.
9.10.21, England, 29 yrs. Shrewsbury professional striker Ryan Bowman has to leave the field after half an hour of play with extreme heart problems and be treated with a defibrillator.
10.10.21, Italy, 18 yrs. Soccer player suddenly faints on the field, is resuscitated by teammates.
10.10.21, France, 40 years old After warming up, a Saint James player suffers a heart attack.
10.10.21, Italy, 59 years old A long-distance runner from Biella dies of heart failure during a race.
10.10.2021, Germany In the Women’s Westphalia League match between Wacker Mecklenbeck and Fortuna Freudenberg, a player collapses shortly before the end of the match without being affected by an opponent.
12.10.21 Germany, 25 years Goalkeeper of HC TuRa Bergkamen, Lukas Bommer, dies suddenly and unexpectedly.
10/13/21 Mexico, 16 years old Student Hector Manuel Mendoza dies of a heart attack during training.
10/14/21, Brazil, age 18 Young professional soccer player Fellipe de Jesus Moreira suffers a double heart attack and fights for his life.
10/14/21, Italy, 27 yrs. Multiple cycling champion Gianni Moscon requires surgery for severe cardiac arrhythmia.
14.10.21, Italy, 53 years old An AH soccer player suffers a heart attack during training.
10/15/21, USA, 14 years. 14-year-old soccer player Ava Azzopardi collapsed on the field and is now fighting for her life in an induced coma.
10/16/21, France, 54 yrs. AH player Christophe Ramassamy died of a heart attack during a match.
10/17/21, France, 41 yrs. A soccer player collapsed on the field and died, apparently due to cardiac arrest.
10/28/21, Germany, 48 yrs. Hertha BSC co-trainer Selim Levent dies suddenly and unexpectedly while on vacation.
A Chinese town has made a rare plea to Xi Jinping to end coronavirus restrictions as it faces economic turmoil from the disruptions. Dai Rongli, the former vice mayor of Ruili, in the province of Yunnan, has penned a letter to the Chinese leader. The town has reportedly faced some of the toughest curbs in the country under Beijing’s zero-tolerance policy.
The Government of the Russian Federation and the World Economic Forum (WEF, Davos) recently signed a memorandum on the creation of a “Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution”, it has already been opened. The center is intended to facilitate the implementation of WEF global projects in Russia. Russia today is proactively building a digital economy that encompasses all industrial sectors, the social sphere and public administration, said Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko, who signed the memorandum with WEF President Borge Brende.
Russia thus becomes part of the global network of the Centers for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, which was established by the WEF in 2018. It is an international cooperation platform for managing new technologies and digital transformation. President Vladimir Putin declared the latter to be one of the most important national goals for Russia. In general, cooperation with the WEF will take place in data policy, urban mobility, export support and promotion of Russian IT technologies in foreign markets, Chernyshenko said.
In the coming year, Russia, together with the WEF, plans to launch projects on experimental legal frameworks, artificial intelligence (AI) and the Internet of Things, he said. The first projects will be launched this year and include autonomous transport, medicine and data processing. Particularly visible, and watched with concern by many citizens, is the already active payment by facial recognition when entering many subway stations or shopping malls. The system is also already being used on some buses in Kazakhstan.
Russia has been actively implementing AI technology in recent years, he said. He said, there are more than 800 projects of this kind, and some have already become visible on international markets. Another goal is to move public services to the Internet and switch to an electronic document flow – to “make life easier” for people. This is because rapid technological development is “disrupting our economic and social systems,” Chernyshenko said. Therefore, “coordinated and effective measures are needed” so that “no one is left behind.”
The cooperation with the WEF should not come as a surprise: Vladimir Putin was once a member of the WEF’s apron organization of “Young Global Leaders,” a cadre school where many of today’s heads of government, captains of industry and acting greats grew up. It was founded in 2004 by the gray WEF eminence Klaus Schwab. In an interview, Schwab himself listed prominent former members such as Putin, Tony Blair and Angela Merkel.
The EU Commission plans to overturn all existing IT security measures. The plan: automatic scans of all content on the Internet and the use of “artificial intelligence” are to fight crime. The regulation was announced by EU Commissioner Ylva Johansson for the beginning of December. A group of academic experts called the goals of the EU Commission’s monitoring plans simply “illusory”.
New escalation level In fact, the EU is thereby establishing a “police state regime”. In addition, one creates a gateway for secret services and cyber gangs, warn the experts in the study entitled “Bugs in our pockets”.
Facebook and Apple soon abandoned the voluntary field test. Scanning all images before uploading resulted in a large number of incorrect hits. The EU’s plans also include scanning text messages and chats. In July 2020, EU plans were also announced to lift end-to-end encryption. This advance also caused outrage. The new regulation is “far more insidious than all previous approaches such as key deposit”. Preventive mass scans are even more violent than monitoring individual telephones. Everything should be scanned around the clock, without specific suspicion and without a court order. This means that a “red line” has been crossed.
Snowden warns Edward Snowden, who is in exile in Russia, is certain: “If you weaken encryption, people die,” the former secret agent wrote in a statement.
“I learned firsthand how governments can abuse their power to access innocent people’s personal information in the name of national security,” said Snowden. “Weak encryption would be a colossal mistake that could endanger thousands of lives.”
Even if politicians rightly claim that criminals use encryption, so would suppressed demonstrators or people who are discriminated against. Politicians who wanted to put Snowden in jail would also use encryption, as would journalists, to protect their sources. “Encryption makes us all safer,” says Snowden.
The Lexington Institute was founded in 1998 by former U.S. Representative James Courter (R-NJ), former congressional aide Merrick “Mac” Carey, and former Georgetown University professor Loren B. Thompson, who are the chairman, chief executive officer and chief operating officer of the Institute, respectively.[2]
The think tank is based in Arlington, Virginia[3] and focuses on defense policy.[4] It is sometimes described as conservative.[5]
The Lexington Institute is funded in part by military contractors.[6]Harper’s Magazine called the organization the “defense industry’s pay-to-play ad agency” because of its funding from the industry and its issuance of a stream of reports, usually favorable, about the performance and status of weapons programs.[7] In addition to his role as chief operating officer of the Lexington institute, Loren B. Thompson is a consultant to military contractors.[8] Thompson stated, “I’m not going to work on a project unless somebody, somewhere, is willing to pay. This is a business. My bottom line is that if what I write and say is true, it doesn’t really matter what my motives are.”[7]
In 2011, Thompson said that the current rate of U.S. defense spending was not sustainable.[9] He has also called for a shift in American defense spending towards items such as the Littoral Combat Ship and the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II that can be exported to allies.[10]
BIRD FLU cases in China have escalated, causing concern among virologists who warn the world could be facing a mutated variant of the deadly pathogen. China has reported 21 human infections with the H5N6 subtype of avian influenza in 2021 to the World Health Organization (WHO). This is a jump in infections because in 2020 there were only five cases reported.
FDA document admits that the “Covid” PCR test was developed with no isolated samples for test calibration, thereby admitting that it tests something else.
A document just released by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) openly admitted that the infamous PCR test for the Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19) was not developed using real samples, but using genetic material that seems to come from a cold virus.
The FDA document clearly states that common seasonal flu genetic material was used as a test marker in the PCR test kits because authorities knew that many people would test “positive” for it, so they could use these results to to make the “Covid” claim.
It is a bit of a tedious read to read, but see for yourself and spot the obvious fraud. There is no reliable test that exactly determines the presence of SARS-CoV-2.
From the document: “Since no quantified virus isolates of the 2019-nCoV were available for the CDC at the time the test was developed and this study was carried out, tests for the detection of the 2019-nCoV RNA with characterized stocks of in vitro transcribed full-length RNA (N- Gen; GenBank access: MN908947.2) with a known titer (RNA copies / µL) which was added to a diluent consisting of a suspension of human A549 cells and a viral transport medium (VTM) in order to mimic a clinical sample. “
Another revelation in the document is the FDA’s admission that test results are “pooled” to get inaccurate numbers.
Today there was a major protest in London, United Kingdom, to stop the extradition to the United States for journalist Julian Assange. In this video his fiancee Stella Morris speaks out against the horrible treatment of this innocent journalist who is currently in jail and facing a lifetime in prison. Video shot by EFF Press.
Jeffrey Zients (White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator since 2021, selected in 2003), Jeremy Howard (co-founder of lobby group “masks for all”, selected in 2013), California Governor Gavin Newsom (selected in 2005), Pete Buttigieg (selected in 2019, candidate for US President in 2020, US secretary of transportation since 2021), Chelsea Clinton (Clinton Foundation board member), Huma Abedin (Hillary Clinton aide, selected in 2012), Nikki Haley (US ambassador to the UN, 2017-2018), Samantha Power (US ambassador to the UN, 2013-2017, USAID Administrator since 2021), Ian Bremmer (founder of Eurasia Group), Bill Browder (initiator of the Magnitsky Act), Jonathan Soros (son of George Soros), Kenneth Roth (director of “Human Rights Watch” since 1993), Paul Krugman (economist, selected in 1995), Lawrence Summers (former World Bank Chief Economist, former US Treasury Secretary, former Harvard University President, selected in 1993), Alicia Garza (co-founder of Black Lives Matter, selected in 2020), Stéphane Bancel (Moderna CEO).
Media
CNN medical analyst Leana Wen (selected in 2018), CNN chief medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta, Covid Twitter personality Eric Feigl-Ding (a ‘WEF Global Shaper‘ since 2013), Andrew Ross Sorkin (New York Times financial columnist), Thomas Friedman (New York Times columnist, selected in 1995), George Stephanopoulos (ABC News, 1993), Lachlan Murdoch (CEO of Fox Corporation).
Technology and Social Media
Microsoft founder Bill Gates (1993), former Microsoft CEO Steven Ballmer (2000-2014, selected in 1995), Amazon founder Jeff Bezos (1998), Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page (2002/2005), former Google CEO Eric Schmidt (2001-2017, selected in 1997), Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales (2007), PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel (2007), eBay co-founder Pierre Omidyar (1999), Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg (2009), Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg (2007).
Great Britain, Canada, New Zealand
Professor Devi Sridhar (a leading ‘zero covid’ proponent, selected in 2020/21), former British Prime Ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown (both selected in 1993), BBC World Service journalist Dawood Azami, Lynn Forester de Rothschild (co-owner of The Economist), Nathaniel Rothschild (son of Lord Rothschild), historian Niall Ferguson (selected in 2005), William Hague (Foreign Secretary, 2010-2014), Charles Allen (CEO of ITV, 2004-2007; Chairman of EMI, 2008-2010).
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern (since 2017, selected in 2014), Canadian Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland (selected in 2001; former managing director of Reuters). Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is a WEF participant, but is not a confirmed Young Global Leader.
Germany
Chancellor Angela Merkel (selected in 1993, 12 years before becoming Chancellor), current Health Minister Jens Spahn and former Health Ministers Philipp Roesler and Daniel Bahr, current co-chair of the Green Party and failed Chancellor candidate Annalena Baerbock (selected in 2020), former co-chair of the Green Party Cem Özdemir (selected in 2002), media mogul and Axel Springer CEO Mathias Doepfner (selected in 2001), talk show host Sandra Maischberger, late Foreign Minister and Vice Chancellor Guido Westerwelle (1997), former German President Christian Wulff (selected in 1995, 15 years before becoming President), Reto Francioni (former CEO of Deutsche Boerse).
European Union
EU Commission Presidents Jose Manuel Barroso (2004-2014, selected in 1993) and Jean-Claude Juncker (2014-2019, selected in 1995), French President Emanuel Macron (since 2017, selected in 2016), former French President Nicolas Sakozy (2007-2012, selected in 1993), Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, former Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi (2014-2016, selected in 2012), former Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar (1996-2004, selected in 1993), Klaus Regling (CEO of the European Financial Stability Mechanism since 2012), Guy Verhofstadt (former Belgian Prime Minister, Chair of the Brexit Steering Group), Danish Minister for the Environment Lea Wermelin, Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin, former Finnish Prime Minister Alexander Stubb, and Mark Leonard (founding director of the Soros-funded European Council on Foreign Relations).
Switzerland
Natalie Rickli (Director of Health of the Canton of Zurich, selected in 2012), former Presidents of the Swiss National Council Christa Markwalder (selected in 2011) and Pascale Bruderer-Wyss (selected in 2009), Geneva politician Pierre Maudet (selected in 2013), NZZ media group CEO Felix R. Graf (selected in 2007), former Swiss Justice Minister Ruth Metzler (selected in 2002), former Swiss television CEO Roger de Weck (2011-2017, selected in 1994), former UBS CEOs Peter Wuffli (selected in 1994) and Marcel Rohner (selected in 2003), former Credit Suisse CEO Tidjane Tiam (1998).
CHINA has unveiled a ‘four-phase military campaign’ to invade and take over Taiwan, as the threat of all-out conflict “grows every day”. China has developed a ‘four-phase’ military plan to invade and take over Taiwan. Indian broadcaster WION showed a copy of the Chinese “invasion playbook” which details the breakdown of a potential military confrontation.
There you can get the document as a downloadable secure file
This Pfizer patent application was approved August 31st, 2021, and is the very first patent that shows up in a list of over 18500 for the purpose of remote contact tracing of all vaccinated humans worldwide who will be or are now connected to the “internet of things” by a quantum link of pulsating microwave frequencies of 2.4 gHz or higher from cell towers and satellites directly to the graphene oxide held in the fatty tissues of all persons who’ve had the shot.
Fox News host Tucker Carlson reported on the contents of emails found in the laptop believed to have belonged to Hunter Biden, raising questions about whether a former top CNBC executive improperly directed his wife to make donations to political organizations.
The report focuses on Brian Steel, the former senior vice president of communications at CNBC, and an email sent in Sept. 2016 to the son of President Joe Biden.
CHINA is developing ‘War Hunter’ ships capable of firing torpedoes, satellite images suggest. A new model of Unscrewed Surface Vessels, also known as USVs were seen docked at the piers on the north-China coast just miles from the Xiaopingdao naval base.
Corruption and inequalities have led to the failure of democracy in many parts of the world, in particular the Middle East, creating anger and frustration throughout the region. This film focuses on Beirut, Lebanon – where the corruption of the governing class has destroyed many Lebanese dreams. Fatima recounts the tragic story of her son’s death, killed while trying to flee Lebanon for Cyprus. We hear from Myra Saade, a lawyer and political activist and daughter of a prominent Lebanese politician who participated in the October Revolution. Through their experiences, we revisit the Arab Spring 10 years later and explore how hope for new democracies has given way to disappointment and even greater authoritarianism. American academic Sheri Berman explains how this discontent is borne from leaders’ failure to deal with economic challenges that have led to growing inequality, and political scientist Larry Diamond explains how the very basic tenets of democracy have been compromised to serve specific and influential interests. In this series, we explore how democracy and inequality coexist in almost all global capitalist societies.
Corruption and inequalities have led to the failure of democracy in many parts of the world, in particular the Middle East, creating anger and frustration throughout the region. This film focuses on Beirut, Lebanon – where the corruption of the governing class has destroyed many Lebanese dreams. Fatima recounts the tragic story of her son’s death, killed while trying to flee Lebanon for Cyprus. We hear from Myra Saade, a lawyer and political activist and daughter of a prominent Lebanese politician who participated in the October Revolution. Through their experiences, we revisit the Arab Spring 10 years later and explore how hope for new democracies has given way to disappointment and even greater authoritarianism. American academic Sheri Berman explains how this discontent is borne from leaders’ failure to deal with economic challenges that have led to growing inequality, and political scientist Larry Diamond explains how the very basic tenets of democracy have been compromised to serve specific and influential interests. In this series, we explore how democracy and inequality coexist in almost all global capitalist societies.
The Chinese government has rejected calls by the World Health Organisation to investigate bat caves and breeding farms, reports claim. The World Health Organisation (WHO) had called on Beijing to grant access to hundreds of bat caves and wildlife breeding farms in the nation’s Hubei province.
Documents produced by the city of Philadelphia under a federal court order show millions of dollars in nonprofit grant money donated by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is being used to quadruple the number of voting places and massively grow the number of ballots cast in the Democratic stronghold on Nov. 3.
North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un is on a mission to build what he called an “invincible military”. Kim’s move comes in the face of what Pyongyang terms hostile US policies towards North Korea. However, Kim clarified that his military vision is for the sake of self-defence and is not to incite a war. Watch the video to know more. #NorthKorea#KimJongUn
PETER SELLERS AS WEIRD NAZI SCIENTIST “DR STRANGELOVE” IN THE STANLEY KUBRICK MOVIE Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
The UK has announced plans to create a “Commonwealth network” in its drive to become a “science superpower”‘ with breakthrough space research and state-of-the-art satellites set to put Britain ahead in the space race. The Government has already invested half a billion pounds into Britain’s space industry this year as part of the new National Space Strategy (NSS).
Today we have the incredible true story from the first-hand account of a real-life assassin. This trained killer was a top assassin for the Soviet Union’s KGB and would go on undercover mission to take out high-profile targets, before vanishing into thin air. This Soviet Union spy took out major hits and in today’s incredible video he is going to share his insane story with you!
The Australian Strategic Policy Institute’s Michael Shoebridge says President Xi Jinping has “brought nothing but struggle to China” and the reunification of Taiwan is a focus of the nationalism he is trying to push to unite the country. Mr Shoebridge said Mr Xi was facing a range of domestic and political problems including blackouts across the country as the result of an energy crisis. “He’s got the financial sector and Evergrande property development in a whole lot of trouble, and he’s put a whole bunch of the corporate world in China offside with his assertion of party power over wealthy corporate leaders,” Mr Shoebridge told Sky News Australia. “So he’s got a lot of reasons to want to play a nationalist card. “We got told not so long ago here in Australia that the business-to-business connections were the way back to a beautiful relationship with the Chinese government. “Now it turns out those same businesspeople are fearful of their own relationship with the Chinese government, let alone helping Australia out through our corporate elites. “The CCP has always struggled to control China, and building a bunch of wealthy people that are outside their control has now become too big a risk to the party, so Xi is re-centring control away from wealthy corporate people. “They’re all fearful for their own families and their own life and security – they could end up in a Chinese jail.” Mr Shoebridge said a similar situation was taking place in the CCP where Mr Xi was “purging” party members for “too much ambition” or “daring to have different views”.
Senators (Cecily Strong, Mikey Day, Kyle Mooney, Aidy Bryant, Chris Redd, James Austin Johnson) on Capitol Hill question the Facebook whistleblower (Heidi Gardner), Mark Zuckerberg (Alex Moffat) and Tom from Myspace (Pete Davidson) during a hearing. Saturday Night Live. Stream now on Peacock: https://bit.ly/3j1IRUk Subscribe to SNL: https://goo.gl/tUsXwM Stream Current Full Episodes: http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live
Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen says her government will not bow down to pressure from China and will continue to bolster the island’s defences in order to protect its democratic way of life. Tsai’s strong riposte on Sunday comes a day after Chinese President Xi Jinping promised once again to realise “peaceful reunification” with the self-ruled territory. Claimed by China as its own territory, Taiwan has come under growing military and political pressure to accept Beijing’s rule. This includes repeated Chinese air force incursions into Taiwan’s air defence identification zone. During the first week of October alone, Beijing sent some 149 military planes near the island, forcing Taiwan to scramble its fighter jets and sparking international concern.
CHINA will be ready for a full-scale invasion of Taiwan by 2025 as the communist state wants to be at full power. Asia politics expert Helen Davidson reflected on the ominous predictions by Taiwan’s Defence Minister as World War 3 fears have been sparked. While speaking to ABC News, she said Taiwan Defence Minister Chiu Kuo-Cheng believes China is capable of invading Taiwan.
During the First World War, different countries used spies and espionage to gain the upper hand on their enemies. One of the most famous spies of World War One was Mata Hari, an exotic dancer who made a name for herself in Paris. She became famous across the world for her work, and thousands would flock to see her dance in shows. Mata Hari had a difficult earlier life, but her fame was almost overnight. However as her career came to an end, she was approached by first the French to spy, however ended up becoming a spy for the Germans. She did not pass on quality information to the German Army, and because of this she was then outed as a spy, and the French then arrested her. They placed her on trial accusing her of passing important secrets to the Germans during the war, and they blamed 50,000 soldiers deaths at the fact she passed over intel.
However whether Mata Hari passed information of worth is debatable, and many deem her to infact have been innocent. Regardless she was sentenced to death, and was shortly after the verdict taken to her place of execution. She faced a firing squad made up of French soldiers and officers who were armed with rifles. As they aimed their guns at Mata Hari, she allegedly blew them a kiss before she was shot dead.
So join us today as we look at, ‘The RUTHLESS Execution Of Mata Hari – The Exotic Dancer Shot During WW1.’
Russia has designated more than 150 news outlets, NGOs and charities as foreign agents. Authorities say the law is no different from rules in other countries, aimed at organisations that get support from abroad. But critics say the law is being used to silence Russian independent media that refuse to tow the Kremlin’s line.
The Philippines journalist Maria Ressa co-founded news website Rappler in 2012, she is known for her critical coverage of Philippine President Duterte’s war on drugs.
Journalists Maria Ressa, of the Philippines, and Dmitry Muratov, of Russia, have won this year’s Nobel Peace Prize “for their efforts to safeguard freedom of expression, which is a precondition for democracy and lasting peace”. The announcement for the award, one of the world’s top accolades, was made on Friday by the Norwegian Nobel Committee in Oslo, Norway.
Chancellor actress Angela Merkel, apparently completely drunk, with a glass of wine in her hand and totally disheveled on the balcony of the Federal Chancellery. The physical decline of the Uckermarker stands pars pro toto for the decline of the republic
To all the corrupt powers within governments: I bear you personally ill will. You are merely a product of the system within which you are ensnared. You had a chance to get out but you stayed – Remember there is not a single misdeed in your life that I will not uncover and make public. Doubt me at your risk.
The weapon of choice for the forces of light is the TRUTH. For the forces of darkness it is LIES. Truth always wins because the support structures necessary for maintaining a lie always collapse, and the truth is it’s own support. .
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New documents called Pandora Papers, have been released to reveal that the rich live by different rules to the public. Hugely wealthy figures & politicians have had their money secrets revealed… #PandoraPapers#Tax#Billionaires
The Pentagon announced the US Army had awarded Pfizer a $3.5 billion contract to manufacture 500 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine by the end of next year for distribution around the world.
The order matches the number of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine doses purchased by the US government under an agreement announced last year by the Trump administration. Last month, Pfizer announced that the latest batch of 200 million doses would be delivered between October of this year and April of 2022.
In June, Pfizer and Germany-based BioNTech announced that they would provide 500 million doses “at a not-for-profit price” to the feds for distribution to more than 100 countries around the world, most of them in Africa.
“Our partnership with the U.S. government will help bring hundreds of millions of doses of our vaccine to the poorest countries around the world as quickly as possible,” Pfizer Chairman and CEO Albert Bourla said at the time. “COVID-19 has impacted everyone, everywhere, and to win the battle against this pandemic, we must ensure expedited access to vaccines for all.”
SCIENTISTS at the Wuhan Institute of Virology were plotting to create new coronaviruses before the Covid pandemic struck, newly released documents appear to show. Since the outbreak of Covid in late 2019, the Wuhan lab has been at the heart of a raging debate about a suspected leak of pathogens from the secretive facility.
European gas prices are fast, hitting levels on Wednesday not seen in more than 10 years. Sharply rising prices over the last week have caused fears of soaring bills as winter approaches. Norway and Russia are boosting supplies to the European Union, which is heavily dependent on imports.
The global outage that saw Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp go dark for billions of users came just hours after Frances Haugen leaked a series of damning revelations about the company…. just a coincidence? #facebook#outage#whistleblower#FrancesHaugen
At today’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) grilled Lucy Koh, nominee to be United States Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit, on COVID-19 restrictions in California for places of worship but not strip clubs.
A FORMER police officer in China has revealed the disturbing secrets of the Chinese regime against the Uyghur Muslims living in the country. Why are the Uyghurs being persecuted? The officer, who has remained anonymous, claimed forces in China were hanging prisoners from cell ceilings, torturing them with electric batons, and ordering for them to be raped by officers.
During the Second World War, the Nazis established a huge network of concentration camps within their occupied lands. The largest camp was Auschwitz, and to create new camps they often used slave labour to do so. One camp which was created in a month was Krakow-Plaszow, and today the Commandant of Krakow-Plaszow is remembered as one of the most evil Nazis. Amon Göth had a long career within the SS, and was a rather shady figure however as the Second World War continued he found himself running a concentration camp. Whilst he was overseeing Krakow-Plaszow, he ruled over with a reign of terror and he was regularly seen beating and murdering prisoners and inmates in cold blood.
At his trial after World War 2, horror stories emerged that showed Göth to have been a truly evil member of the SS. He was famous also for shooting prisoners from the balcony of his villa inside the camp, and today his evil is shown in Schindler’s List. He continued to murder and beat prisoners, all whilst he himself was living a life of luxury. However he was eventually sacked as the Commandant as he was caught stealing property from prisoners, however he never was placed on trial for this. After World War 2 he was arrested and placed on trial in Krakow for his brutal crimes. It was estimated that he was responsible for the deaths of thousands, and for his crimes he was sentenced to death and was executed.
So join us today as we look at, ‘The JUSTIFIED Execution Of Amon Göth, The Butcher Of Krakow.’
Police used a water cannon at a protest against COVID restrictions, ahead of a major European Union summit in Slovenia. Riot police also fired tear gas to disperse the crowd. A protest leader was reportedly detained. The demonstration was not directly linked to the EU summit, but protesters used it as an opportunity to denounce the government’s COVID measures. Slovenia has introduced strict steps to curb the virus. Vaccination or proof of recovery is now mandatory for government workers. A health pass is required to access most services, including hospitals, restaurants and, petrol stations. #Slovenia#protest#covid19
CIA has admitted that a number of its informants recruited in China & Iran have either been executed or compromised. A breach of the CIA’s classified communication system had reportedly exposed the identity of the US spies. Former CIA officials say that the agency focused only on the mission and not on security which lead to such consequences. #CIA#US
US President Joe Biden made the “worst political decision in our lifetimes” by withdrawing all American troops from Afghanistan, according to Former EA to US President Reagan Peggy Grande. Ms Grande discussed the advice given by Biden’s military advisory team, who testified at a Senate hearing they had advised Biden not to withdraw all American troops ahead of the evacuation. “How could President Biden listen to this and still proceed with his zero-troop sum game?” Ms Grande questioned. “He either was not telling us the truth about what he was told or doesn’t recall the truth – both of which are terrifying options.”
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As the US site Privacy Affairs, which specializes in security, announced, hackers have just offered the data of 1.5 billion Facebook users for sale. Including the names, email addresses, places of residence and telephone numbers of those affected. A first data check showed that it is probably real user data from the social network. The Facebook, Messenger, Instagram and Whatsapp pages have been offline for hours for unknown reasons.
“A 2.94 terabyte data trove exposes the offshore secrets of wealthy elites from more than 200 countries and territories. These are people who use tax and secrecy havens to buy property and hide assets; many avoid taxes and worse. They include more than 330 politicians and 130 Forbes billionaires, as well as celebrities, fraudsters, drug dealers, royal family members and leaders of religious groups around the world.
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists spent more than a year structuring, researching and analyzing the more than 11.9 million records in the Pandora Papers leak. The task involved three main elements: journalists, technology and time.
What is the Pandora Papers?
The Pandora Papers investigation is the world’s largest-ever journalistic collaboration, involving more than 600 journalists from 150 media outlets in 117 countries.
The investigation is based on a leak of confidential records of 14 offshore service providers that give professional services to wealthy individuals and corporations seeking to incorporate shell companies, trusts, foundations and other entities in low- or no-tax jurisdictions. The entities enable owners to conceal their identities from the public and sometimes from regulators. Often, the providers help them open bank accounts in countries with light financial regulation.
The 2.94 terabytes of data, leaked to ICIJ and shared with media partners around the world, arrived in various formats: as documents, images, emails, spreadsheets, and more.
The records include an unprecedented amount of information on so-called beneficial owners of entities registered in the British Virgin Islands, Seychelles, Hong Kong, Belize, Panama, South Dakota and other secrecy jurisdictions. They also contain information on the shareholders, directors and officers. In addition to the rich, the famous and the infamous, those exposed by the leak include people who don’t represent a public interest and who don’t appear in our reporting, such as small business owners, doctors and other, usually affluent, individuals away from the public spotlight.
While some of the files date to the 1970s, most of those reviewed by ICIJ were created between 1996 and 2020. They cover a wide range of matters: the creation of shell companies, foundations and trusts; the use of such entities to purchase real estate, yachts, jets and life insurance; their use to make investments and to move money between bank accounts; estate planning and other inheritance issues; and the avoidance of taxes through complex financial schemes. Some documents are tied to financial crimes, including money laundering.
What’s in the Pandora Papers?
The more than 330 politicians exposed by the leak were from more than 90 countries and territories. They used entities in secrecy jurisdictions to buy real estate, hold money in trust, own other companies and other assets, sometimes anonymously.
The Pandora Papers investigation also reveals how banks and law firms work closely with offshore service providers to design complex corporate structures. The files show that providers don’t always know their customers, despite their legal obligation to take care not to do business with people who engage in questionable dealings.
The investigation also reports on how U.S. trust providers have taken advantage of some states’ laws that promote secrecy and help wealthy overseas clients hide wealth to avoid taxes in their home countries.
What form did the data come in?
The 11.9 million-plus records were largely unstructured. More than half of the files (6.4 million) were text documents, including more than 4 million PDFs, some of which ran to more than 10,000-pages. The documents included passports, bank statements, tax declarations, company incorporation records, real estate contracts and due diligence questionnaires. There were also more than 4.1 million images and emails in the leak.
Spreadsheets made up 4% of the documents, or more than 467,000. The records also included slide shows and audio and video files.
What’s in the Pandora Papers leak?
What’s different about this leak from others we’ve heard about?
The Pandora Papers information – the 2.94 terabytes in more than 11.9 million records – comes from 14 providers that offer services in at least 38 jurisdictions. The 2016 Panama Papers investigation was based on 2.6 terabytes of data in 11.5 million documents from a single provider, the now-defunct Mossack Fonseca law firm. The 2017 Paradise Papers investigation was based on a leak of 1.4 terabytes in more than 13.4 million files from one offshore law firm, Appleby, as well as Asiaciti Trust, a Singapore-based provider, and government corporate registries in 19 secrecy jurisdictions.
The Pandora Papers presented a new challenge because the 14 providers had different ways of presenting and organizing information. Some organized documents by client, some by various offices, and others had no apparent system at all. A single document sometimes contained years’ worth of emails and attachments. Some providers digitized their records and structured them in spreadsheets; others kept paper files that were scanned. Some PDFs contained spreadsheets that had to be reconstructed into spreadsheets. The documents arrived in English, Spanish, Russian, French, Arabic, Korean and other languages, requiring extensive coordination among ICIJ partners.
The Pandora Papers gathered information on more than 27,000 companies and 29,000 so-called ultimate beneficial owners from 11 of the providers, or more than twice the number of beneficial owners identified in the Panama Papers.
The Pandora Papers connected offshore activity to more than twice as many politicians and public officials as did the Panama Papers. And the Pandora Papers’ more than 330 politicians and public officials, from more than 90 countries and territories , included 35 current and former country leaders.
The new leak also includes information on jurisdictions not explored in previous ICIJ projects or for which there was little data, such as Belize, Cyprus and South Dakota.
The legal entities in the files of six providers – the companies, foundations and trusts – were all registered between 1971 and 2018. The records show providers and clients shifting their business from one jurisdiction to another after investigations and resulting rule changes.
How did you explore the files?
Only 4% of the files were structured, with data organized in tables (spreadsheets, csv files and a few “dbf files”).
To explore and analyze the information in the Pandora Papers, ICIJ identified files that contained beneficial ownership information by company and jurisdiction and structured it accordingly. Each provider’s data required a different process.
In cases where information came in spreadsheet form, ICIJ removed duplicates and combined it into a master spreadsheet. For PDF or document files, ICIJ used programming languages such as Python to automate data extraction and structuring as much as possible.
In more complex cases, ICIJ used machine learning and other tools, including the Fonduer and Scikit-learn softwares, to identify and separate specific forms from longer documents.
Some provider forms were handwritten, requiring ICIJ to extract information manually.
Once information was extracted and structured, ICIJ generated lists that linked beneficial owners to the companies they owned in specific jurisdictions. In some cases, information about where or when a company was registered wasn’t available. In others, information was missing about when a person or an entity had become the owner of the company, among other details.
After structuring the data, ICIJ used graphic platforms (Neo4J and Linkurious) to generate visualizations and make them searchable. This allowed reporters to explore connections between people and companies across providers.
A2.94 terabyte data trove exposes the offshore secrets of wealthy elites from more than 200 countries and territories. These are people who use tax and secrecy havens to buy property and hide assets; many avoid taxes and worse. They include more than 330 politicians and 130 Forbes billionaires, as well as celebrities, fraudsters, drug dealers, royal family members and leaders of religious groups around the world.
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists spent more than a year structuring, researching and analyzing the more than 11.9 million records in the Pandora Papers leak. The task involved three main elements: journalists, technology and time.
What is the Pandora Papers?
The Pandora Papers investigation is the world’s largest-ever journalistic collaboration, involving more than 600 journalists from 150 media outlets in 117 countries.
The investigation is based on a leak of confidential records of 14 offshore service providers that give professional services to wealthy individuals and corporations seeking to incorporate shell companies, trusts, foundations and other entities in low- or no-tax jurisdictions. The entities enable owners to conceal their identities from the public and sometimes from regulators. Often, the providers help them open bank accounts in countries with light financial regulation.
The 2.94 terabytes of data, leaked to ICIJ and shared with media partners around the world, arrived in various formats: as documents, images, emails, spreadsheets, and more.
The records include an unprecedented amount of information on so-called beneficial owners of entities registered in the British Virgin Islands, Seychelles, Hong Kong, Belize, Panama, South Dakota and other secrecy jurisdictions. They also contain information on the shareholders, directors and officers. In addition to the rich, the famous and the infamous, those exposed by the leak include people who don’t represent a public interest and who don’t appear in our reporting, such as small business owners, doctors and other, usually affluent, individuals away from the public spotlight.
While some of the files date to the 1970s, most of those reviewed by ICIJ were created between 1996 and 2020. They cover a wide range of matters: the creation of shell companies, foundations and trusts; the use of such entities to purchase real estate, yachts, jets and life insurance; their use to make investments and to move money between bank accounts; estate planning and other inheritance issues; and the avoidance of taxes through complex financial schemes. Some documents are tied to financial crimes, including money laundering.
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What’s in the Pandora Papers?
The more than 330 politicians exposed by the leak were from more than 90 countries and territories. They used entities in secrecy jurisdictions to buy real estate, hold money in trust, own other companies and other assets, sometimes anonymously.
The Pandora Papers investigation also reveals how banks and law firms work closely with offshore service providers to design complex corporate structures. The files show that providers don’t always know their customers, despite their legal obligation to take care not to do business with people who engage in questionable dealings.
The investigation also reports on how U.S. trust providers have taken advantage of some states’ laws that promote secrecy and help wealthy overseas clients hide wealth to avoid taxes in their home countries.
What form did the data come in?
The 11.9 million-plus records were largely unstructured. More than half of the files (6.4 million) were text documents, including more than 4 million PDFs, some of which ran to more than 10,000-pages. The documents included passports, bank statements, tax declarations, company incorporation records, real estate contracts and due diligence questionnaires. There were also more than 4.1 million images and emails in the leak.
What’s different about this leak from others we’ve heard about?
The Pandora Papers information – the 2.94 terabytes in more than 11.9 million records – comes from 14 providers that offer services in at least 38 jurisdictions. The 2016 Panama Papers investigation was based on 2.6 terabytes of data in 11.5 million documents from a single provider, the now-defunct Mossack Fonseca law firm. The 2017 Paradise Papers investigation was based on a leak of 1.4 terabytes in more than 13.4 million files from one offshore law firm, Appleby, as well as Asiaciti Trust, a Singapore-based provider, and government corporate registries in 19 secrecy jurisdictions.
The Pandora Papers presented a new challenge because the 14 providers had different ways of presenting and organizing information. Some organized documents by client, some by various offices, and others had no apparent system at all. A single document sometimes contained years’ worth of emails and attachments. Some providers digitized their records and structured them in spreadsheets; others kept paper files that were scanned. Some PDFs contained spreadsheets that had to be reconstructed into spreadsheets. The documents arrived in English, Spanish, Russian, French, Arabic, Korean and other languages, requiring extensive coordination among ICIJ partners.
The Pandora Papers gathered information on more than 27,000 companies and 29,000 so-called ultimate beneficial owners from 11 of the providers, or more than twice the number of beneficial owners identified in the Panama Papers.
The new leak also includes information on jurisdictions not explored in previous ICIJ projects or for which there was little data, such as Belize, Cyprus and South Dakota.
The legal entities in the files of six providers – the companies, foundations and trusts – were all registered between 1971 and 2018. The records show providers and clients shifting their business from one jurisdiction to another after investigations and resulting rule changes.
How did you explore the files?
Only 4% of the files were structured, with data organized in tables (spreadsheets, csv files and a few “dbf files”).
To explore and analyze the information in the Pandora Papers, ICIJ identified files that contained beneficial ownership information by company and jurisdiction and structured it accordingly. Each provider’s data required a different process.
In cases where information came in spreadsheet form, ICIJ removed duplicates and combined it into a master spreadsheet. For PDF or document files, ICIJ used programming languages such as Python to automate data extraction and structuring as much as possible.
In more complex cases, ICIJ used machine learning and other tools, including the Fonduer and Scikit-learn softwares, to identify and separate specific forms from longer documents.
Some provider forms were handwritten, requiring ICIJ to extract information manually.
Once information was extracted and structured, ICIJ generated lists that linked beneficial owners to the companies they owned in specific jurisdictions. In some cases, information about where or when a company was registered wasn’t available. In others, information was missing about when a person or an entity had become the owner of the company, among other details.
After structuring the data, ICIJ used graphic platforms (Neo4J and Linkurious) to generate visualizations and make them searchable. This allowed reporters to explore connections between people and companies across providers.
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To identify potential story subjects in the data, ICIJ matched information in the leak against other data sets: sanctions lists, previous leaks, public corporate records, media lists of billionaires and public lists of political leaders.
ICIJ’s partner in Sweden, SVT, generated spreadsheets containing data extracted from passports found in the Pandora Papers.
ICIJ shared records with media partners using Datashare, a secure research and analytical tool developed by ICIJ’s technical team. Datashare’s batch-search function helped reporters match some public figures with the data.
The leak contains routine documents that service providers gather for due diligence – news articles, Wikipedia entries, information from financial data provider World-Check – that don’t necessarily confirm whether a person is hiding wealth in a secrecy jurisdiction. ICIJ used machine learning to tag such files in Datashare, enabling reporters to exclude them from their searches.
Our 150 media partners shared tips, leads and other information of interest using ICIJ’s global I-Hub, a secure social media and messaging platform. Throughout the project, ICIJ held extensive training sessions for partners on the use of ICIJ technology to explore, mine and better understand the files.
What did you research and how did you organize it?
Having identified documents that contained information on the owners of offshore entities and structured the information by provider, ICIJ unified the data in a centralized database.
This provided ICIJ and its media partners with a unique data set of beneficial owners of companies in secrecy jurisdictions.
ICIJ eliminated duplications in the data and identified key elements, such as nationality of the owner, country of residence and place of birth. This enabled us to find, for instance, nearly 3,700 companies with more than 4,400 beneficiaries who were Russian nationals – the most among all nationalities in the data. The figure includes 46 Russian oligarchs.
ICIJ also researched and analyzed the use of U.S. trusts, using keyword searches and matches with public data, among other methods.
As a result, ICIJ identified more than 200 trusts settled, or created, in the U.S from 2000 to 2019, with the largest number registered in South Dakota. The trusts were connected with people from 40 countries (not including the U.S.). ICIJ identified assets in single trusts worth between $67,000 and $165 million held between 2000 and 2019. The data shows that U.S. trusts held assets worth a total of more than $1 billion. Those included U.S. real estate and bank accounts in Panama, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Puerto Rico, the Bahamas and elsewhere.
To perform the analysis of U.S.-based trusts, ICIJ manually gathered information on the creators, known as settlors; the beneficiaries, and the assets held by the trusts. ICIJ was able to identify and gather data on trusts from 15 U.S. states and the District of Columbia.
ICIJ and its media partners used keyword searches to identify politicians in the data, using passport information to help with the identification.
ICIJ used public records to verify details related to the companies and to be sure the people named in the data were actually the political leaders identified with those names. We found some false positives and discarded them. Among sources used in the research were the Dow Jones Risk and Compliance database, Sayari, Nexis, OpenCorporates, property records in the U.S and U.K., and public corporate records. More than 330 politicians and high level public officials, including 35 country leaders were confirmed.
ICIJ structured the information in a spreadsheet and put it through two rounds of fact-checking. Data gathered on politicians was also visualized in the profiles in our Power Players feature.
ICIJ matched Forbes’s billionaires lists against the Pandora Papers to find more than 130 who had entities in secrecy jurisdictions. More than 100 of them had a combined fortune valued at more than $600 billion in 2021.
ICIJ analyzed 109 so-called suspicious activity reports to financial authorities filed by the Panamanian law firm Alemán, Cordero, Galindo & Lee, or Alcogal, and learned that 87 of the anti-money-laundering forms were written only after authorities or journalists had publicly identified the firm’s clients as involved in alleged wrongdoing.
ICIJ also read through several thousand publicly available employees’ profiles and found out that more than 220 lawyers associated with the giant law firm Baker McKenzie in 35 countries had previously held government posts in agencies including justice departments, tax offices, the EU Commission, and offices of heads of state.
ICIJ also did research and analysis to explore the role offshore finance plays in hiding looted art and ancient relics that authorities and communities seek to reclaim.
Finally, the Pandora Papers investigation identified more than 500 BVI companies that had been clients of Mossack Fonseca, the law firm at the center of the Panama Papers scandal, and moved their business to other BVI providers in the aftermath whom we found in the data.
ICIJ also matched Panamanian companies from the Panama Papers data against data available for the Panama corporate registry on OpenCorporates, and found out that at least 113 companies had changed registered agents and simply moved to Alcogal between April 3, 2016 and 2020. Together with The Miami Herald data team, ICIJ also counted 759 BVI companies that specifically considered moving to Trident Trust as part of the provider’s so-called “Mossfon Project”.
How big a slice of all offshore provider data in the world does the Pandora Papers leak represent?
The Pandora Papers probe offers a broad look at secrecy jurisdictions and offshore service providers, but the data came incomplete.
The quality of the data varied by provider. In some cases, the data tied to companies didn’t offer information about the jurisdiction where they were registered, the period during which an individual was linked to an entity, or about intermediaries. The data still offered important information about owners and, in some cases, transactions and other financial details.
The 14 providers, which offered services in at least 38 jurisdictions, are part of a larger industry of offshore services operating around the world. It’s hard to say how much of the universe of provider data we have, a small fraction, probably.
For example, in the BVI, where six, or nearly half, of the providers found in the Pandora Papers have acted as registered agents, they are among at least 101 firms acting in that capacity, according to the BVI Financial Services Commission. In March 2021, there were more than 370,000 active companies, about a dozen for each of the tiny island nation’s inhabitants.
Anguilla, Bahamas, Belize, British Virgin Islands, Costa Rica, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Panama, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Seychelles, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates, Uruguay
Anguilla, Bahamas, Belize, British Virgin Islands, Canada, Cayman Islands, Cyprus, Delaware, Florida, Gibraltar, Hong Kong, Latvia, St Lucia, Malta, Marshall Islands, Netherlands, Nevis, Mauritius, Panama, Ras Al Khaimah, Samoa, Seychelles, Singapore, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Vanuatu, St Vincent
Why so many more ‘ultimate beneficial owners’ – UBOs – here than in previous leaks?
A significant proportion of the beneficial ownership information in the Pandora Papers comes from reports generated by providers for the BVI’s Beneficial Ownership Secure Search System, or BOSS, established in the wake of the 2016 publication of the Panama Papers. This information is not available to the public.
A 2017 BVI law requires providers to report to BVI authorities the names of the real owners of the companies registered there. The leak identified many documents containing such information.
Why so many world leaders and politicians in the data?
Alcogal and Trident Trust was where we found a large number of current and former politicians and public officials as clients. Most of their companies were registered in the BVI and Panama. Alcogal clients include nearly half of the politicians and public officials identified in the Pandora Papers. In the beneficial ownership data that ICIJ was able to structure, nearly half of the companies were linked to Alcogal. Alcogal, headquartered in Panama, has among its founders several politicians, one of whom served as Panama’s ambassador to the United States.
Why so many beneficial owners from Russia and Latin America?
Some of the providers, based on their location and the jurisdictions where they do business, such as Cyprus, have a large proportion of Russian clients, the largest group by nationality in the Pandora Papers data.
In the Pandora Papers, more than 30% of the companies that received services from Demetrios A. Demetriades LLC, or DadLaw, a provider headquartered in Cyprus, had one or more Russians as beneficial owners. Similarly, more than 40% of the companies that received services from Seychelles-based Alpha Consulting Group, also had one or more Russians as beneficial owners. Alcogal and Fidelity Corporate Services Limited were also among the providers with the largest number of Russian clients.
A large proportion of beneficial owners appearing in the data are from Latin America. More than 90 of the more 330 politicians and public officials in the data are from Latin America. Argentina, Brazil and Venezuela are among the countries with the largest representation of beneficial owners. In the leaked data, Alcogal headquartered in Panama, has the largest group of Latin American clients.
Where are the U.S. citizens and multinational corporations?
When it comes to creating offshore companies, foundations and trusts, parties from different parts of the world and with different needs select different providers and jurisdictions for their shell companies.
Pandora Papers documents cover a large number of providers, but obviously not all, or even most, of them, and many jurisdictions are not represented in the data.
In previous ICIJ investigations, including 2017’s Paradise Papers, the leak came from a prestigious law firm with a larger corporate practice, Appleby. As a result, the data included more documents about multinationals. Bermuda and the Cayman Islands, which are popular havens for corporations, were among the jurisdictions with a large presence in that leak.
As for U.S. nationals, ICIJ identified more than 700 companies with beneficial owners connected to the U.S. in the Pandora Papers; Americans were also among the top 20 nationalities represented in the data. In the Pandora Papers, Russia, the United Kingdom, Argentina, China and Brazil, are among the countries with the largest representation of beneficial owners.
In the Paradise Papers, U.S. citizens had a larger relative presence.
Is ICIJ going to release the Pandora Papers data?
With today’s publication, ICIJ is sharing data and details about the use of companies in secrecy jurisdictions by more than 50 politicians, through the Power Players feature. ICIJ is planning to incorporate data from the Pandora Papers into the Offshore Leaks database. To learn more about ICIJ’s data releases, subscribe to ICIJ’s email newsletter.”
A massive data leak has revealed the secret financial dealings of some of the world’s richest and most powerful people. The “Pandora Papers” show how politicians, business tycoons and celebrities hide their wealth using off-shore tax havens. The investigation was carried out by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, with global media partners including DW.
RUSSIA said on Monday it had successfully test-launched a hypersonic cruise missile from a submarine for the first time – days after the USA confirmed it had tested a weapon of its own. The Zircon, or Tsirkon, missile has been touted by Russian President Vladimir Putin as part of his arsenal of supposedly unrivalled arms systems.
In 2004, Clinton Foundation Changed Its Method Of Accounting, As Described Below Under “Investment Definitions And Values.”
Year
Total Investments
Equity securities
Certificates of deposit
Endowment funds
Programmatic investments
Other
Investment Return / Income
2004
648,723
648,723
0
0
-275,316
2003
227,095
227,095
2002
191,410
191,410
INVESTMENT DEFINITIONS AND VALUES
2013-2012:“Cash Equivalents Consisted Primarily Of Money Market Accounts With Brokers.” “The Clinton Foundation considers all liquid investments with original maturities of three months or less to be cash equivalents. At December 31, 2013 and 2012, cash equivalents consisted primarily of money market accounts with brokers.” [Clinton Foundation, IRS Form 990, 11/19/14]
2012-2011: “Cash Equivalents Consisted Of Money Market Accounts Held With Brokers And A Repurchase Agreement With A Financial Institution.”[Clinton Foundation, IRS Form 990, 9/10/13]
Clinton Foundation Investments In Securities Were Calculated At Fair Value Or Cost. “Investments in equity securities having a readily determinable fair value and in all debt securities are carried at fair value. Other investments are valued at the lower of cost (or fair value at time of donation, if acquired by contribution) or fair value.” [Clinton Foundation, IRS Form 990, 11/19/14]
Clinton Foundation: “Investment Return Includes Dividend, Interest And Other Investment Income; Realized And Unrealized Gains And Losses On Investments Carried At Fair Value; And Realized Gains And Losses On Other Investments.”[Clinton Foundation, IRS Form 990, 11/19/14]
Clinton Foundation: All Securities Held By The Clinton Foundation As Of 2013 Were “Money Market Funds, Equity Securities And Mutual Funds.” “Where quoted market prices are available in an active market, securities are classified within Level 1 of the valuation hierarchy. Level 1 securities include money market funds, equity securities and mutual funds. If quoted market prices are not available, then fair values are estimated by using pricing models, quoted prices of securities with similar characteristics or discounted cash flows. In certain cases where Level 1 or Level 2 inputs are not available, securities are classified within Level 3 of the hierarchy. The Clinton Foundation did not have any Level 2 or Level 3 measurements at December 31, 2013 or 2012.” [Clinton Foundation, IRS Form 990, 11/19/14]
ENDOWMENT AND 2013 UPTICK
CLINTON FOUNDATION RECONSOLIDATED WITH CLINTON GLOBAL INITIATIVE IN 2013, BOOSTING REVENUE AND EXPENSES
Clinton Foundation Chief Financial Officer Andrew Kessel: “In 2013 The Foundation Reconsolidated The Clinton Global Initiative Into Its Operations…Tax Document Shows A Corresponding Increase In Both Revenue And Expenses.”[Associated Press, 11/19/14]
CLINTON FOUNDATION BEGAN ITS ENDOWMENT DRIVE IN FY2013
Clinton Foundation: “The Clinton Foundation Endowment Was Created During The 2013 Fiscal Year.”[Clinton Foundation, IRS Form 990, 11/19/14]
Associated Press: Clinton Foundation “In 2013 Began Raising Money For An Endowment To Benefit Current Programs And Expand Into New Areas.” “‘In 2013 the Foundation reconsolidated the Clinton Global Initiative into its operations. As such, the … tax document shows a corresponding increase in both revenue and expenses,’ the foundation’s chief financial officer, Andrew Kessel, said in a statement. Kessel also said the foundation in 2013 began raising money for an endowment to benefit current programs and expand into new areas.” [Associated Press, 11/19/14]
Clinton Foundation:Through 2013, The Clinton Foundation Had Not “Used Or Invested Any Of The Endowment Funds Received” Because An Investment Committee Had Not Yet Adopted Policies And Procedures. “During 2014, the Foundation’s newly formed Investment Committee will approve and adopt investment policies and procedures to ensure that endowment funds and their related returns are spent in accordance with UPMIFA and donor’s intent and maintain the appropriate amount of risk and return for the Foundation’s purposes. The Foundation has not used or invested any of the endowment funds received (or any net appreciation from these funds classified in temporarily restricted net assets) during 2013 and will not do so until the Investment Committee approves and adopts the appropriate investment policies. For this reason, all endowment funds received during 2013 are held in cash and cash equivalents.” [Clinton Foundation, IRS Form 990, 11/19/14]
CLINTON FOUNDATION HAD RAISED $248 MILLION FOR ITS ENDOWMENT AS OF FEBRUARY 2015
CNN: Between 2011-2015, “Cheng Has Raised $248 Million For The Foundation Endowment.” “Since joining in 2011, Cheng has raised $248 million for the foundation endowment and worked diversify the group’s priorities. Foundation Spokesman Craig Minassian said ‘Dennis… expanded our ability to support programs that are strengthening health systems and improving access to lifesaving medicines in the developing world, helping communities confront the effects of climate change, creating economic opportunity, empowering women and girls and reducing childhood obesity and other preventable diseases in the United States.’” [CNN, 2/9/15]
February 2015: Clinton Foundation Chief Development Officer Dennis Cheng Left The Foundation And Was Expected To Become Hillary Clinton’s Finance Director Ahead Of A 2016 Presidential Campaign. “Dennis Cheng, the Clinton Foundation’s chief development officer, is leaving the philanthropic organization this week to join Hillary Clinton’s nascent pre-campaign.Cheng, who is expected to serve as Clinton’s finance director once the campaign officially kicks off, is currently pulling double duty for the Clintons by finishing his role at the foundation and starting to build a 2016 campaign fundraising team, according to a source.” [CNN, 2/9/15]
Bloomberg: Clinton Foundation “Raised $200 Million In 10 Months For Their Foundation’s Endowment.” “Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton raised $200 million in 10 months for their foundation’s endowment, positioning the nonprofit to survive even if its cash-collecting namesakes engage in a 2016 presidential run.” [Bloomberg, 6/6/14]
2012: Clinton Foundation Endowment Was $292,000.“Bill Clinton, advised by longtime aide Doug Band, created the Clinton Foundation shortly after leaving the White House in 2001. In 2012, it took in $54.7 million in revenue and ended the year with $183.6 million in assets. Its endowment, though, was just $292,000.” [Bloomberg, 6/6/14]
CLINTON FOUNDATION RELIED ON LARGE DONORS FOR MOST OF ITS ENDOWMENT DRIVE
Bloomberg: “With Four-Fifths Of Their $250-Million Target In The Bank” The Clintons Changed “Fundraising Strategies To Include Small Donors.” “With four-fifths of their $250-million target in the bank, they are also changing fundraising strategies to include small donors — a tactic that would create a list that could be politically useful, as well.” [Bloomberg, 6/6/14]
Bloomberg: In Building The Endowment, “The Clintons’ Initial Appeals For Foundation Money Were To Contributors Who Could Give $1 Million Or More.” “The Clintons’ initial appeals for foundation money were to contributors who could give $1 million or more. Those answering that call included Irish cell phone billionaire Denis O’Brien, and Bill Austin, owner of Minnesota’s Starkey Laboratories. Others were charities founded by Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim Helu — the world’s second richest man — and one run by Chicago venture capitalist J.B. Pritzker and his wife.” [Bloomberg, 6/6/14]
Those Who Contributed At Least $1 Million To The Clinton Foundation Endowment Included Denis O’Brien, Bill Austin, Carlos Slim Helu’s Charity, And J.B. Pritzker’s Charity. “The Clintons’ initial appeals for foundation money were to contributors who could give $1 million or more. Those answering that call included Irish cell phone billionaire Denis O’Brien, and Bill Austin, owner of Minnesota’s Starkey Laboratories. Others were charities founded by Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim Helu — the world’s second richest man — and one run by Chicago venture capitalist J.B. Pritzker and his wife.” [Bloomberg, 6/6/14]
2014: Clinton Foundation Officials Were “Compiling A List Of Investment Management Firms To Maintain The [Endowment] Fund” And Getting Ready To “Put Out A Request For Proposals.” “The foundation’s officials are compiling a list of investment management firms to maintain the fund, and will soon put out a request for proposals, a foundation official familiar with the strategy said.” [Bloomberg, 6/6/14]
CLINTON FOUNDATION PLANNED TO INCLUDE ENDOWMENT SUPPORTERS IN ANNUAL PUBLIC DISCLOSURES
Bloomberg: “The Backers Of The Endowment Will Be Listed Along With Other Supporters In Annual Public Disclosures Going Forward.”[Bloomberg, 6/6/14]
FEDERALLY INSURED LIMITS
2012-2013: “Clinton Foundation’s Cash And Assets Limited As To Use Accounts Exceeded Federally Insured Limits By Approximately $166 Million.”[Clinton Foundation, IRS Form 990, 11/19/14]
2011-2012: “Clinton Foundation’s Cash Accounts Did Not Exceed Federally Insured Limits.” [Clinton Foundation, IRS Form 990, 9/10/13]
2009: “The [Clinton] Foundation’s Cash Accounts Exceeded Federally Insured Limits By Approximately $32 Million.”[Clinton Foundation, IRS Form 990, 11/10/10]
2008: “The [Clinton] Foundation’s Cash Accounts Exceeded Federally Insured Limits By Approximately $25 Million.” [Clinton Foundation, IRS Form 11/16/09]
2007: Clinton Foundation’s “Cash Deposits In U.S. Banks Exceeded Federally Issued Limits By Approximately $87 Million.”“At December 31, 2007 and 2006, the Foundation’s cash deposits in U.S. banks exceeded federally issued limits by approximately $87 million and $21 million, respectively.” [Clinton Foundation, IRS Form 990, 12/12/08]
2006:Clinton Foundation’s “Cash Deposits In U.S. Banks Exceeded Federally Issued Limits By Approximately…$21 Million.”“At December 31, 2007 And 2006, The Foundation’s Cash Deposits In U.S. Banks Exceeded Federally Issued Limits By Approximately $87 Million And $21 Million, Respectively.” [Clinton Foundation, IRS Form 990, 12/12/08]
2005: Clinton Foundation’s “Cash Deposits In U.S. Banks Exceeded Federally Issued Limits By Approximately…$32 Million.” “At December 31, 2006 and 2005, the Foundation’s cash deposits in U.S. banks exceeded federally issued limits by approximately $21 million and $32 million, respectively.” [Clinton Foundation, IRS Form 990, 11/14/07]
PROGRAMMATIC INVESTMENTS
Clinton Foundation: Programmatic Investments Do Not “Focus On Production Of Income Or The Appreciation Of The Asset,” But Instead Act “Like Grants…[And] Have As Their Primary Purpose The Achievement Of The Clinton Foundation’s Programmatic Mission.” “The primary purpose of the programmatic investments is to further the tax exempt objectives of the Clinton Foundation and not focus on production of income or the appreciation of the asset. Like grants, these financial instruments have as their primary purpose the achievement of the Clinton Foundation’s programmatic mission.” [Clinton Foundation, IRS Form 990, 11/19/14]
Clinton Foundation: Programmatic Investments “Represent Ownership Interests In Other Organizations.” “These investments, which represent ownership interests in other organizations, are accounted for using the equity method of accounting, and are not subject to the fair value measurement requirements in ASC 958-320 due to these investments not meeting the definition of an equity security with readily determinable fair value. Investment return for the years ended December 31, 2013 and December 31, 2012 is comprised primarily of realized gains on programmatic investments.” [Clinton Foundation, IRS Form 990, 11/19/14]
2013: Clinton Foundation Lumped Programmatic Investments And Endowment Funds Under “Mutual Funds.” [Clinton Foundation, IRS Form 990, 11/19/14]
2013: Clinton Foundation Reported A $1,175,250 “Program-Related Investment” In FondoAcceso SAS. [Clinton Foundation, IRS Form 990, 11/19/14]
2013: Clinton Foundation Board Chairman Bruce Lindsey Was The Director Of FondoAcceso SAS. [Clinton Foundation, IRS Form 990, 11/19/14]
Clinton Foundation: “No Directors Of FondoAcceso Are Paid Or Receive Any Share Of Profits.” [Clinton Foundation, IRS Form 990, 11/19/14]
2013: Clinton Foundation Reported A Loss Of $26,348 On Program Investments. [Clinton Foundation, IRS Form 990, 11/19/14]
2012: “As Of December 31, 2012, The Clinton Foundation Recorded Impairment Losses Of Approximately $345,000 On Programmatic Investments.” [Clinton Foundation, IRS Form 990, 9/10/13]
DONOR INPUT
Clinton Foundation Did Not Maintain Any Donor-Advised Funds. “Did the organization maintain any donor advised funds or any similar funds or accounts for which donors have the right to provide advice on the distribution or investment of amounts in such funds or accounts?…No” [Clinton Foundation, IRS Form 990, 11/19/14]
Clinton Foundation Planned On Adopting Policies To “Ensure That Endowment Funds And Their Related Returns Are Spent In Accordance With UPMIFA And Donor’s Intent.”“During 2014, the Foundation’s newly formed Investment Committee will approve and adopt investment policies and procedures to ensure that endowment funds and their related returns are spent in accordance with UPMIFA and donor’s intent and maintain the appropriate amount of risk and return for the Foundation’s purposes. The Foundation has not used or invested any of the endowment funds received (or any net appreciation from these funds classified in temporarily restricted net assets) during 2013 and will not do so until the Investment Committee approves and adopts the appropriate investment policies. For this reason, all endowment funds received during 2013 are held in cash and cash equivalents.” [Clinton Foundation, IRS Form 990, 11/19/14]
INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT
2013: Clinton Foundation Reported $0 Spent On Investment Management.[Clinton Foundation, IRS Form 990, 11/19/14]
DONATED INVESTMENTS
Donated stocks do not appear to be included in total investments as listed in annual IRS 990 forms, but they are listed as noncash property contributions.
2007: Clinton Foundation Received Approximately $1.19 Million In Donated Stocks. [Clinton Foundation, IRS Form 990, 12/12/08]
2006: Clinton Foundation Received $530,668 In Donated Stocks. [Clinton Foundation, IRS Form 990, 11/14/07]
2005: Clinton Foundation Received Approximately $10.03 Million In Donated Stocks. [Clinton Foundation, IRS Form 990, 6/9/06]
2004: Clinton Foundation Received Approximately $6.28 Million In Donated Stocks. [Clinton Foundation, IRS Form 990, 9/23/05]
Above: Statement 9, 2007. [Clinton Foundation, IRS Form 990, 12/12/08]
Below: Statement 5, 2006. [Clinton Foundation, IRS Form 990, 11/14/07]
Above: Statement 4, 2005. [Clinton Foundation, IRS Form 990, 6/9/06]
Below: Schedule B, Part II, Noncash Property Given, 2004. [Clinton Foundation, IRS Form 990, 9/23/05]
John McAfee, the outspoken critic died several months ago under suspicious circumstances in a prison in Spain – officially labeled as “suicide”.
Before his death he declared that he would never commit suicide and was according to his lawyer in a “good spirit. McAfee has now – post mortem – a telegram channel with 310.000 subscribers which publishes personal messages from him and documents.
McAfee’s death ignited speculation and conspiracy theories about the possibility that he was murdered. McAfee’s death drew comparisons to the circumstances of the death of American financier Jeffrey Epstein, who was found dead in August 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.[129][130] Several times, McAfee claimed if he were ever found dead by hanging, it would mean he was murdered.[131] Minutes after the report of his death, an image of the letter Q was posted to his Instagram feed (his account was subsequently taken down), apparently in reference to QAnon conspiracy theories.[132][133][134] These theories have been referred to by some journalists as speculative, “bizarre,” and “baseless,” primarily based on McAfee’s own statements.[132][133][134] The day after his death, his lawyer told reporters that while he regularly maintained contact with McAfee in prison, there were no signs of suicidal intent.[135] McAfee’s widow reaffirmed this position in her first public remarks since her husband’s death, and also called for a “thorough” investigation.[136][137]“
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