People often wonder who they should believe.
It is not a question of belief but rather how plausible and how likely.
If there is any underlying truth we are certainly never going to know it in its entirety. As with Quantum Theory we only need a way to accurately handle the phenomena. And, as with Quantum Theory, working out the sum of all possible "truths" gives a net result which predicts events most accurately.
So ...
• Panama Papers: 2.6 terabytes of data, containing 11.5 million documents from one law firm in one tax haven. This is only a drop in the proverbial ocean.
• Süddeutsche Zeitung, The Guardian and ICFJ have had this data for 8 months. It has been stated that some of the material will remain secret.
• Top of the news is an Icelandic Prime Minister and Putin. This accounts for a minute proportion of the information and although more information is available it is clear that a large majority of the data remains a black hole.
• Given who is handling this data it is reasonable to suppose that they would avoid releasing information damaging to themselves (or their masters). Unless they release all the data it is not unreasonable to assume that the vast majority of the data implicates the Western governments in serious corruption and malpractice.
There is an ongoing issue of the NSA and GSCHQ tracking all communications via the internet to the point of serious concerns about "privacy". The data collected by these organisations obviously dwarfs the Panama Papers like a mountain dwarfs a grain of sand. So the Western governments already know far more than these papers reveal. For brevity it is clear that the "West" has selected this 2.6 terabytes for the purpose of distraction for their own malicious ends.
Maybe they are in the process of shooting themselves in the foot (big time) if the public keep up the pressure.
Useful links:
Wikipedia: Panama Papers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Papers
World Economic Forum: Just how big was the Panama Papers leak?
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/04/the-scale-of-the-panama-papers
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