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[–] 113 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

I don't want to diminish Daphne Caruana Galizia's legacy, but she did not break the story of the Panama papers. While Galizia played an important role in uncovering the corruption of politicians from her home country, Malta; the story of the Panama Papers broke after an anonymous whistleblower leaked the files to a German journalist who then got the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists involved who broke the story collectively. Galizia's previous independent investigations were confirmed by the Panama Papers.

Let me be clear: Galizia was an extremely courageous journalist who paid with her life for the investigations she did and deserves to be remembered as such. She did not break the story of the Panama Papers though.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    Also, things have been done about it. The offices were shut down in 2018 and there have been multiple criminal trials over the whole fiasco.

    It's also been talked a lot about in various parliaments and congresses as room for improvement such as requiring a real and exclusive physical address, as a way to prevent 200,000+ businesses from operating out of a small building.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    prevent 200,000+ businesses from operating out of a small building.

    That must be one big building!

    Or not...

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    There's one in Delaware that's got like 10,000. Delaware is super easy to open a company in, and you don't have to be a resident to do so.

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    • [–] 42 points 1 month ago

    Well, the billionaire owned media told me there was nothing to see here, and that I should move along.

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    [–] 36 points 1 month ago (23 children)

    The whole Bill Burr perspective that corporations and such are legalized mafia that are still going to occasionally whack people for real instead of with lawyers is more than a joke.

    How many people were hardcore assassinated by these people in 2024?

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

    There were those 2 Boeing whistleblowers that suddenly became terminally suicidal, and a Tesla whistleblower suddenly found his brake lines cut. Idk if those happened in 2024 (I don't think so), but they definitely keep happening.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 child)

    I really wish people would stop claiming suicides are secret murders. It minimizes suicide, and you shouldn't.

    It also paints a vastly different picture of what John Barnet was going through. (I can't find any mentions of a second boing whistleblower dying)

    and Christina Balan is alive, and if not well, at least she's currently winning.

    The brakes thing wasn't someone cutting her brakes, it was her getting fired for reporting the issues with brakes on early Teslas.

    https://www.europesays.com/2012653/

    Edit Okay, found the other boeing whistleblower,

    Joshua Dean, a former quality inspector for the contractor Spirit AeroSystems, a 2005 Boeing spin-off, checked himself into the hospital after experiencing difficulty breathing from contracting influenza B and Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). He died two weeks later (May 1, 2024) after developing pneumonia and suffering a stroke. Dean and other workers at the Wichita, Kansas factory testified that they had been instructed to downplay or hide production defects on the 737 Max, which had a door plug blow off mid-flight in January 2024.[44]

    I doubt that boeing controls the flu virus.

    Especially since this then happened.

    The deaths of Barnett and Dean prompted more than 10 new whistleblowers from Boeing and Spirit to come forward with similar allegations.[50] Santiago Paredes, another Spirit whistleblower, dismissed the conspiracy theories.[47]

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    Pneumonia from illness, especially when you molder flat on your back in bed (which makes it worse, by a lot) is a legit disease progression. Also common in elderly/fragile found down on the floor after a couple days.

    Unhealthy lungs don’t like being horizontal.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    Basically none.

    See, killing someone makes them a martyr Sueing them into the ground or just buying the newspaper and firing the journalist generally does not.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago (4 children)

    They control the media, the search engines, the algorithms, the llms, they choose who becomes a martyr and who you won't hear about

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago* (3 children)

    Yes and no.

    There are still too many channels available people. Because people still care.

    Also, governments don't like it when corporations murder people. It's that whole monopoly on violence thing. They tend to take that seriously. The only rich asshole so far to face prison over the Panama Papers, was arrested for ordering the murder of a journalist.

    Which is why governments give non-lethal ways for corporations and the rich to ruin someone's life. It's cheaper and a living example is more of a deterrent than a martyr. There are also dozens of creative ways to ruin a life through the courts.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago* (2 children)

    Yeah... here in the third world, activists trying to stop power plants that are being built in the middle of forest preservation areas though governmental corruption just to supply multinational mining companies are just murdered and have always been like that, even though their names and legacies are carried through other projects (here we even have a governmental agency called Instituto Chico Mendes, in homage to one of them) the general population have no idea who they are and that this is happening https://insideclimatenews.org/news/15092026/at-least-124-environmental-defenders-killed-in-2025/

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    That includes a series of laws used to restrict the rights and funding of environmental and Indigenous organizations and leaders. The “Social Transparency Law,” for example, allows the government to freeze defenders’ bank accounts, which has happened to prominent anti-mining activists in the country, inhibiting their work and ability to make basic transactions to buy food and support their families.

    Ecuadorian anti-mining activists told Inside Climate News they’ve had terrorism and money laundering investigations pending against them for nearly a year, and fear the government could decide to arrest them at any time, even without filing formal charges.

    Last fall, Noboa deployed the military to suppress nationwide protests against his policies, including oil and mining expansion. Two Indigenous defenders were killed during the demonstrations. One was Efraín Fueres, 46, who was gunned down during a protest march. Military officers then approached Fueres, who was lying in the street with a companion kneeling over his body. Armed officers surrounded the men and began repeatedly kicking the companion, video posted to social media shows.

    Seems like it's the government doing the killing, or sanctioning the killing.

    Which is the point I was making. The government is making a fuck load of martyrs, which gets more people to fight back, because that's their only choice.

    Whereas in the first world countries, the government violence wielded against the people on behalf of the corporations, is more nuanced and less immediately lethal, and often more effective because of it.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 weeks ago

    Seeing the other comments I find it very cute how determined you are to believe people with absolute power play by the rules and shit and there's nothing shady going on and they aren't misusing that power to hide it.
    There's actually plenty of activists, journalists and whistleblowers with convenient mysterious deaths surrounding them but you believe the content of every ruling of suicide and stuff, like they can't possibly corrupt the whole system they fund, and people exposing powerful people just like to kill themselves. You are very useful citizen.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 month ago (12 children)

    Bill Burr is kind of a piece of shit, idk if leaning on him is a good look.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (6 children)

    Is he? That’s a shame. Why is he kind of a piece of shit?

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago

    He fell from grace along with a lot of other comedians who went to Riyadh Comedy Festival in 2025. Apparently it was really well-paid so a lot of famous comedians went. Reddit went apeshit and branded them fascist sellouts.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    He did a comedy show in Saudi Arabia (I think?) or somewhere in the middle east. That's it. Ol' Billy Boob has always walked that line imo. He's got some good takes and some bad ones. Don't think he nazi saluted or said trans people should die or anything like that, that I know of.

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  • [–] -4 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    If only there were a sort of "search algorithm" capable of searching a catalogue of interner sites...

    He's fascist-lite. Claims to be anticapitalist but he claims liberals are idiots and he takes money from Saudi Arabia.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (2 children)

    If only there were a sort of "search algorithm" capable of searching a catalogue of interner sites...

    Hey man, you’re the one who made the claim, I was just asking for some support for that claim. /shrug

    He’s fascist-lite. Claims to be anticapitalist but he claims liberals are idiots

    He’d fit right in over on Lemmy.ml! 😉 Honestly though, if he’s anti-capitalist that doesn’t seem like a contradiction, since liberalism is a capitalist ideology.

    and he takes money from Saudi Arabia

    Oof. That one sucks. That said, there is an argument that I’ve seen about the role of comedy in helping to modernize a culture. Whether that’s possible when following strict censorship however, I’m not sure. The whole Riyad comedy thing certainly does feel gross.

    Regardless, “fascist” has a specific definition and I don’t think I’d agree that Bill Barr falls into that category, even “lite.” But I only have a passing familiarity with his work, so I could very well be wrong.

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    • [–] 25 points 1 month ago

    Remember the way bitcoin exploded right after?

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    [–] 17 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    But movies told me that exposing the bad things to the public is supposed to end the bad things

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago

    They sort of did?

    There have been a bunch of trials, and several countries changed their laws to prevent this exact form of money laundering.

    The rich assholes then moved to different forms of money laundering.

    Except the rich asshole who ordered the hit on Daphne Galizia, he's currently on trial for her murder, and for money laundering.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    There was a movie about this, with Meryl Streep, and there was a real feel of outcry from it, and a real sense that they knew nothing would actually happen.

    Campaign finance reform prevents serious reform from happening that could target the rich.

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    • [–] 11 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Allegedly murdered with a car bomb!!!!

    Who knows it might have been suicide, or a martial dispute, or an unpaid parking fine.

    Some countries can be really strict about the no parking zone. Especially after you piss off a bunch of murderous unethical billionaires.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago

    Well, since the rich asshole who ordered the hit is currently on trial for it, and a laundry list if other crimes, including money laundering and bribing the head of the anti-money laundering investigative unit, we can say that it happened.

    The guy also spent 5 years in jail awaiting trial for murder before he was granted bail.

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    • [–] 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    It's a a slow march to justice but it is still moving (slowly).

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    • [–] 6 points 1 month ago

    Macri from argentina, piñeira from chile and lasso from ecuador had 10+ billion dollars no one ever know where they came from, who's money is that and what to do with this information, no one ever was hold accountable. The closest thing was Lasso tearing down the congress and calling to emergency elections but no one persecute him or anyone.

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    [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    I'm white, but i feel that terrorist dawg deep inside of me. Just one trigger and it is unleashed

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