Originally published at: http://boingboing.net/2017/05/27/maltese-fuckin.html
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“We have been doing it all the time. If it is wrong, then why didn’t we get caught?”
One of the great classics among defenses.
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By policy, the company in the Panama Papers leak had few domestic American customers. Malta probably has few as well.
Looks like American 1%ers dodged a bullet, again.
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Malta has been fishy for centuries, ever since the Knights Templar set up shop there.
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No need to be above the law when all the advantageous exemptions you could want are right there in the law.
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It’s almost as if the people writing the laws have a vested interest in making sure they don’t inconvenience them or their wealthy friends.
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“Vengeance on the murderers of Jacques Molay” doesn’t sound so good if he was effectively a large scale loan shark.
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At this point, it seems like “fake news” is only used to describe real news… Up really is down these days.
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Damned disappointed about the ludicrous lack of appropriate alliteration. Harbouring hopes for the upcoming leaks of the Cyprus Cables. (Still annoyed that the Luxemburg Leaks were shrugged off by Jean-Claude Junker.)
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“Prime Minister Joseph Muscat insisted that everything Malta does is legal”
This is
- quite probably true in a technical sense
- the actual problem
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Inb4 “how much more taxes do you pay than you have to?”
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An awful lot of venerable institutions began just that way. It was only a generation from bootlegger Joe Kennedy to president Jack Kennedy.
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The Malta Memoranda?
The Malta Materials?
The Malta Materiel?
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was all ready to make a (convoluted) maltese falcon joke, but then I noticed the ‘maltese-fuckin’ in the post URL already beat me to it.
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It’s time for “unauthorized news” to enter the lexicon.
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That implies there’s some authority deciding what’s news. Can’t we just go back to “lies”?
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The Malta Memoranda
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I am seriously lost with this article. What’s the problem? No one is breaking any laws here.
Well, that seems to be the problem right there - that it is legal when it shouldn’t be.
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You need the Delaware Documents.
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