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Originally Posted by Thor

Watching him squirm (our PM) and stand up and walk out was something. Icelands version of CBC had this investigative report at 6pm Sunday and the majority of the country watched this live, the roads were nearly empty while the show was on.

The size and reaction to this news has been similar to how the country reacted after the news by then PM that our banks are failing.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...collapsed.html

Funnily enough, you're one of the few countries that has actually published any names.

Unfortunately the leaker has made the dreadful mistake of turning to the western corporate media to publicise the results. In consequence the first major story, published today by the Guardian, is all about Vladimir Putin and a cellist on the fiddle.

The Suddeutsche Zeitung, which received the leak, gives a detailed explanation of the methodology the corporate media used to search the files. The main search they have done is for names associated with breaking UN sanctions regimes. The Guardian reports this too and helpfully lists those countries as Zimbabwe, North Korea, Russia and Syria. The filtering of this Mossack Fonseca information by the corporate media follows a direct western governmental agenda. There is no mention at all of use of Mossack Fonseca by massive western corporations or western billionaires – the main customers. And the Guardian is quick to reassure that “much of the leaked material will remain private.”

Expect hits at Russia, Iran and Syria and some tiny “balancing” western country like Iceland. A superannuated UK peer or two will be sacrificed – someone already with dementia.

Also, funny how Icelands prime minister is the one that gets his name released out of probably thousands of politicians. You know, the country that famously pissed off a lot of foreign investor interests.