Panama Papers Simply Confirmed Nations' Inklings On Thiefs In Power.

This is among toughest and most complex of media look and analysis of Panama Papers, more truths of it yet to emerge. This may take years. And more years than that for leaders and nations to act on - BUT NOT FOR CIVILIZED COUNTRIES 'AS ICELAND PRIME MINISTER RESIGNED' 11.5 MILLION documents of world's biggest leaked database now known as The Panama Papers from secretive shell companies, files and operations of the law firm Mossack Fonseca revealed details on rich, famous and powerful people who used offshore tax havens and stashed billions and trillions of illegitimate income, public funds, and deposits not properly accounted.

It included big leaders and politicians of many countries, including Pakistan too where such corruption is so strong and widespread nationwide that its big corrupt leaders may never be caught, tried or punished after everything is said and done, unless some leader becomes a risk to this world of corruption itself. Hundreds and thousands of world media giants and smaller news organizations prided themselves on this biggest financial scam of political elite and class with expressions of varying viewpoints.

And we'll have a look on it here though books may be written and films may be later made on this earthquake leak that has shaken both the politicians, their families and friends as well as the nations throughout the world. The 'Panama Papers' are being called the largest ever leak of secret data.

Articles based on those documents - developed by a global consortium of journalists - began appearing Sunday afternoon. Exposing the offshore bank accounts of bigwigs worldwide, the articles burst into the Sunday afternoon news lull, getting huge play in media outlets around the world and in the United States. This is a great trove of documents - certainly interesting and valuable - and it takes a while to know what to make of them. Hundreds of reporters were working on it for a long time, though, but those documents are complex to analyse immediately for what they're. Also, the revelations raise the distinct possibility 'that every political system in the world - even the nakedly authoritarian ones - is hopelessly rigged, and that the marvellous new world of the miraculous global economy is an even bigger thieves 'paradise than you, me, or anyone else can think about.

Contrariwise, the temptation to conclude that all those names found in the papers are equivalent and rotten to the core is strong. But it is a temptation to...

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